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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
SCHEDULE 13D
Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(Amendment No. . . . .)*
FIRST OF AMERICA BANK CORPORATION
(Name of Issuer)
COMMON STOCK
(Title of Class of Securities)
318906104
(CUSIP Number)
CARLTON E. LANGER,
NATIONAL CITY CORPORATION, LAW DEPT.,
P.O. BOX 5756, CLEVELAND, OHIO 44101-0756
(216) 575-3339
(Name, Address and Telephone Number of
Person Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications)
NOVEMBER 30, 1997
(Date of Event which Requires Filing of this Statement)
If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report
the acquisition which is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this
schedule because of Rule 13d-1(b)(3) or (4), check the following [ ].
Note: Six copies of this statement, including all exhibits, should be filed
with the Commission. See Rule 13d-1(a) for other parties to whom copies are to
be sent.
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*The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting person's
initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and
for any subsequent amendment containing information which would alter
disclosures provided in a prior cover page.
The information required on the remainder of this cover page shall not be
deemed to be "filed" for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 ("Act") or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of
the Act but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act (however, see
the Notes).
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1.) Names of Reporting Persons S. S. or I. R. S. Identification Nos. of Above
Persons:
National City Corporation
340420310
2.) Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group (See Instructions)
(a)
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(b)
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3.) SEC Use Only
4.) Source of Funds (See Instructions) WC
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5.) Check if Disclosure of Legal Proceedings is Required Pursuant to Items 2(d)
or 2(e)
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6.) Citizenship or Place of Organization DELAWARE
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NUMBER OF 7.) Sole Voting Power 529,950
SHARES ---------------------------------
BENEFICIALLY 8.) Shares Voting Power 0
OWNED BY -------------------------------
EACH REPORTING 9.) Sole Dispositive Power 529,950
PERSON WITH ----------------------------
10.) Shares Dispositive Power 0
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11.) Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person 529,950*
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12.) Check if the Aggregate Amount in Row (11) Excludes Certain Shares (See
Instructions) X
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13.) Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11) 0.6%
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14.) Type of Reporting Person (See Instructions) CO
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* National City Corporation disclaims beneficial ownership or control of
16,813,611 shares of FOA Common Stock which are the subject of a Stock Option
Agreement which represents 16.2% (per Rule 13d-3(d)(1)(i)) of the common stock
deemed outstanding for this purpose.
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ITEM 1. SECURITY AND ISSUER
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Common Stock, par value $10.00 per share, of First of America Bank
Corporation ("FOA Common Stock")
211 South Rose Street
Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007
ITEM 2. IDENTITY AND BACKGROUND
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(a) Name: National City Corporation
(b) Residence or business address: National City Corporation
National City Center
1900 East 9th Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
(c) Bank Holding Company
(d) No convictions to report.
(e) No civil proceedings to report.
(f) Incorporated under the laws of the state of Delaware, Principal
offices located in Cleveland, Ohio.
ITEM 3. SOURCE AND AMOUNT OF FUNDS OR OTHER CONSIDERATION
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National City Corporation would use its working capital funds. See also
the cash option provision in the Stock Option Agreement which is attached hereto
as Exhibit 1.1.
ITEM 4. PURPOSE OF TRANSACTION
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National City Corporation ("National City") and First of America Bank
Corporation ("FOA") entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of
November 30, 1997 (the "Merger Agreement") (attached hereto as Exhibit 1.2). As
a condition to National City's entering into the Merger Agreement, and in
consideration therefor, FOA entered into an Option Agreement dated as of
November 30, 1997 (the "Option") (attached hereto as Exhibit 1.1). The Option is
intended to increase the likelihood that the merger will be consummated by
making it more difficult and more expensive for another party to obtain control
of or acquire FOA.
The Option entitles National City to purchase up to 16,813,611 fully
paid and non-assessable shares of FOA Common Stock, representing 19.3% of the
shares of FOA Common issued and outstanding as of November 30, 1997 without
giving any effect to any shares subject or issued pursuant to the option, at a
price of $58.75 per share. The Option provides that National City may exercise
the Option, in whole or in part, if both an initial trigger event and a
subsequent trigger event (both as defined in
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Option) shall have occurred prior to the occurrence of an exercise termination
event.
(a) National City has no other plan to acquire any additional shares of
FOA Common Stock.
(b) National City and FOA have entered into Merger Agreement which is
attached hereto as Exhibit 1.2. The Merger Agreement calls for FOA to merge into
National City or a wholly owned subsidiary of National City.
(c) National City has no plans to sell or transfer a material amount of
assets of FOA or any of FOA's subsidiaries.
(d) National City has no plan to make any change in the present board of
directors or management of the Issuer except that which would result from the
consummation of the merger of FOA into National City as provided by the Merger
Agreement (See Exhibit 1.2).
(e) National City has no plans to make any material change in the present
capitalization of FOA except that which would result from the consummation of
the merger of FOA into National City as provided by the Merger Agreement (See
Exhibit 1.2).
(f) National City has no plans to make any material changes in FOA's
business or corporate structure except those which would result from the
consummation of the merger of FOA into National City as provided by the Merger
Agreement (See Exhibit 1.2).
(g) It is anticipated that FOA will merge into National City with National
City being the surviving corporation. (See Agreement and Plan of Merger, Exhibit
1.2). At the effective time of the merger, National City Corporation's
Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws will control. Also see introduction to
this Item 4.
(h) At the effective time of the merger of FOA into National City, FOA
Common Stock will be delisted form the New York Stock Exchange.
(i) See 4(b), 4(g) and 4(h) above.
(j) Reference is made to the Merger Agreement in Exhibit 1.2.
ITEM 5. INTEREST IN SECURITIES OF THE ISSUER
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(a)-(b) Currently National City Corporation beneficially owns 529,950
shares of FOA Common Stock representing 0.6% of the outstanding shares. National
City Corporation has sole voting and dispositive power over these shares.
National City Corporation also holds the Option
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to purchase 16,813,611 shares of FOA Common Stock, which Option is exercisable
only upon the occurrence of certain initial triggering events and subsequent
triggering events. (See the Option Agreement, Exhibit 1.1). The shares subject
to the Option represent 19.3% of the issued and outstanding shares of FOA
Common Stock. National City hereby specifically disclaims any current beneficial
ownership or control over the shares of FOA Common Stock which are the subject
of the Option or of FOA.
(c) The Option Agreement was entered into on November 30, 1997.
(d) N/A
(e) N/A
ITEM 6. CONTRACTS, ARRANGEMENTS, UNDERSTANDINGS OR
RELATIONSHIPS WITH RESPECT TO SECURITIES OF THE ISSUER
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SEE earlier responses and the Option Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit
1.1.
ITEM 7. MATERIAL TO BE FILED AS EXHIBITS
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Exhibit 1.1 -- Stock Option Agreement
Exhibit 1.2 -- Agreement and Plan of Merger
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I
certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and
correct.
DECEMBER 9, 1997 By: /S/ DAVID L ZOELLER
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Date Signature
David L. Zoeller
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Senior Vice President, General Counsel
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and Secretary
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Name/Title
ATTENTION: Intentional misstatements or omissions of fact constitute
Federal criminal violations (See 18 U.S.C. 1001).
[Adopted in Release No. 34-8370 (Paragraph 77,581), July 30, 1968, 33 F.
R. 11016; and amended by Release No. 34-8392 (Paragraph 77,715), August 30,
1968, 33 F. R. 14110; Release No. 34-13291 (Paragraph 80,980) effective August
31, 1977, 42 F. R. 12352; Release No. 34-13787 (Paragraph 81,256), July 21,
1977, 42 F. R. 38347; effectiveness of amendments in Release No. 34-13291
postponed until April 30, 1978 (Paragraph 81,274), 42 F. R. 12352; amended in
Release No. 34-14692 (Paragraph 81,571), effective May 29, 1978, effective
thirty days after publication in the Federal Register, 43 F.
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R. 55755; amended in Release No. 34-15457 (Paragraph 81,909), effective for
schedules filed on or after February 14, 1979, 44 F. R. 2145; amended in Release
No. 34-16384 (Paragraph 82,373), effective January 7, 1980, 44 F. R. 70326;
amended in Release No. 34-18524 (Paragraph 72,328), effective for all documents
filed on or after May 24, 1982, 47 F. R. 11380.]
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EXHIBIT 2.1
AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER
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THIS AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER, dated as of November 30, 1997
("Agreement"), is made by and between National City Corporation, a Delaware
corporation ("National City") and First of America Bank Corporation , a Michigan
corporation ("Company").
WHEREAS, National City and Company have each determined that it is in
the best interests of their respective stockholders and shareholders for Company
to merge with and into National City upon the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth in this Agreement;
WHEREAS, the respective Boards of Directors of National City and
Company have each approved this Agreement and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby and approved the execution and delivery of this
Agreement;
WHEREAS, for Federal income tax purposes, it is intended that the
merger shall qualify as a reorganization under the provisions of Section 368 of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code");
WHEREAS, for accounting purposes, it is intended that the merger shall
be accounted for as a "pooling-of-interests";
WHEREAS, as a condition to, and contemporaneously with the execution of
this Agreement, the parties have entered into a stock option agreement, with the
Company as issuer and National City as grantee (the "Company Option Agreement")
in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (as hereinafter defined); and
WHEREAS, as a condition to, and contemporaneously with the execution of
this Agreement, the parties have entered into a stock option agreement, with
National City as issuer and the Company as grantee (the "National City Option
Agreement") in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premises and the
representations, warranties and agreements contained herein, the parties hereto
hereby agree as follows:
I. THE MERGER
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1.1 MERGER. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, at
the Effective Time (as defined in Section 1.3), Company will be merged with and
into National City and the separate corporate existence of the Company will
thereupon cease (the "Merger") in accordance
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with the applicable provisions of the Michigan Business Corporation Act ("MBCA")
and the Delaware General Corporation Law ("DGCL").
National City may at any time change the method of effecting the
combination with the Company (including without limitations the provisions of
this Article I) if and to the extent it deems such change to be desirable,
including without limitation to provide for a merger of the Company into a
wholly-owned subsidiary of National City; provided, however, that no such change
shall (A) alter or change the amount or kind of consideration to be issued to
holders of shares of common stock, par value $10.00 per share, of Company
("Company Common Stock") as provided for in this Agreement, (B) adversely affect
the tax treatment of the Company's stockholders as a result of receiving the
Merger Consideration (as hereinafter defined) or (C) materially impede or delay
consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
1.2 EFFECTIVE TIME. As soon as practicable after satisfaction or waiver
of all conditions to the Merger and immediately prior to the Closing which shall
occur at the time set forth in Section 6.1, National City and Company (the
"Constituent Corporations") shall cause a certificate of merger complying with
the requirements of the DGCL (the " Delaware Certificate of Merger") to be filed
with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and the Certificate of
Merger complying with the requirements of the MBCA to be filed with the Michigan
Department of Consumer and Industry Services("Michigan Certificate of Merger").
The Merger will become effective at the time the later of the following to
occur: (a) the filing of the Delaware Certificate of Merger and (b) the filing
of the Michigan Certificate of Merger or such later time as shall be specified
in such filings ("Effective Time").
1.3 EFFECT OF MERGER. The Merger will have the effects specified in
MBCA and DGCL. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, National City
will be the surviving corporation in the Merger (sometimes hereinafter referred
to as the "Surviving Corporation") and will continue to be governed by the laws
of the State of Delaware, and the separate corporate existence of National City
and all of its rights, privileges, powers and franchises, public as well as
private, and all its debts, liabilities and duties as a corporation organized
under the DGCL, will continue unaffected by the Merger.
1.4 CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION AND BY-LAWS. The Certificate of
Incorporation and By-laws of National City in effect immediately prior to the
Effective Time, which shall be in the form set forth in a disclosure letter
executed by National City and dated and delivered by National City to Company as
of the date hereof ("National City Disclosure Letter"), shall be the Certificate
of Incorporation and By-laws of the Surviving Corporation, until amended in
accordance with applicable law.
1.5 DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
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(a) SURVIVING CORPORATION. The directors and officers of
National City immediately prior to the Effective Time will be the
directors and officers, respectively, of the Surviving Corporation,
from and after the Effective Time, until their successors have been
duly elected or appointed and qualified or until their earlier death,
resignation or removal in accordance with the terms of the Surviving
Corporation's Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws and the DGCL.
(b) NATIONAL CITY. Promptly after the Effective Time, in
accordance with the Bylaws of National City, the Board of Directors of
National City shall increase its size to such number as is necessary to
create 5 vacancies and shall elect 5 Company directors to fill such
vacancies. The identity of the Company directors to be elected to
National City's Board of Directors shall be mutually agreed upon by
Company and National City prior to the Effective Time.
1.6 ADDITIONAL ACTIONS. If, at any time after the Effective Time, the
Surviving Corporation shall consider or be advised that any further deeds,
assignments or assurances in law or any other acts are necessary or desirable to
(i) vest, perfect or confirm, of record or otherwise, in the Surviving
Corporation its right, title or interest in, to or under any of the rights,
properties or assets of Company, or (ii) otherwise carry out the purposes of
this Agreement, Company and its officers and directors shall be deemed to have
granted to the Surviving Corporation an irrevocable power of attorney to execute
and deliver all such deeds, assignments or assurances in law or any other acts
as are necessary or desirable to (i) vest, perfect or confirm, of record or
otherwise, in the Surviving Corporation its right, title or interest in, to or
under any of the rights, properties or assets of Company or (ii) otherwise carry
out the purposes of this Agreement, Company and its officers and directors shall
be deemed to have granted to the Surviving Corporation an irrevocable power of
attorney to execute and deliver all such deeds, assignments or assurances in law
and to all acts necessary or proper to vest, perfect or confirm title to and
possession of such rights, properties or assets in the Surviving Corporation and
otherwise to carry out the purposes of this Agreement, and the officers and
directors of the Surviving Corporation are authorized in the name of Company or
otherwise to take any and all such action.
II. CONVERSION OF SHARES
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2.1 CONVERSION OF SHARES. Subject to Section 2.3, at the Effective
Time,
(a) each then-outstanding share of Company Common Stock,
including each attached right issued pursuant to the Rights Agreement
between the Registrant and First of America Bank-Michigan, NA, dated as
of July 18, 1990 (Company Rights Agreement), not owned by National City
or any direct or indirect wholly-owned
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subsidiary of National City (except for any such shares of Company
Common Stock held in trust accounts, managed accounts or in any similar
manner as trustee or in a fiduciary capacity ("Trust Account Shares")
or acquired in satisfaction of debts previously contracted ("DPC
Shares") other than those shares of Company Common Stock held in the
treasury of the Company, will be canceled, retired and converted into
1.2 shares of common stock, par value $4.00 per share, of National City
("National City Common Stock") ( "Conversion Ratio"). The number of
shares of National City Common Stock that each share of Company Common
Stock will be converted into is sometimes referred to herein as the
"Merger Consideration";
(b) each then-outstanding share of Company Common Stock owned
by National City or any direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of
National City (except for any shares that are Trust Account Shares or
DPC Shares) will be canceled and retired;
(c) each share of Company Common Stock issued and held in
Company's treasury will be canceled and retired; and
(d) each share of National City Common Stock issued and
outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall continue to
be an issued and outstanding share of common stock, par value $4.00 per
share, of the Surviving Corporation from and after the Effective Time.
2.2 ASSUMPTION OF EMPLOYEE AND DIRECTOR STOCK OPTIONS. Except as
expressly provided in this Section 2.2, all rights under any stock option
granted by Company or its predecessors pursuant to The Restated First of America
Bank Corporation 1987 Stock Option Plan, First of America Bank Corporation
Director Stock Compensation Plan ("Director Option Plan") and the First of
America Bank Corporation Stock Compensation Plan, (collectively, the "Company
Option Plans") that remain outstanding and unexercised, whether vested or
unvested, immediately prior to the Effective Time ("Unexercised Options") shall
cease to represent a right to acquire shares of Company Common Stock and shall
be converted into the right to acquire that number of shares of National City
Common Stock equal to (a) the number of shares of Company Common Stock subject
to the Unexercised Option, multiplied by (b) the Conversion Ratio(rounded to the
nearest whole share). The exercise price per share of National City Common Stock
under the new option shall be equal to the exercise price per share of the
Company Common Stock which was purchasable under each Unexercised Option divided
by the Conversion Ratio (rounded to the nearest whole cent) necessary to assure
that the rights and benefits of the optionee under such option shall not be
increased or decreased by reason of this Section 2.2, and, in addition, each
option which is an "incentive stock option" as defined in Section 422 of the
Code shall be adjusted as required by section 424 of the Code and the
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regulations promulgated thereunder so as not to constitute a modification,
extension or renewal of the option within the meaning of section 424(h) of the
Code. On or before the Effective Time National City shall file, and maintain the
effectiveness of, a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange
Commission covering such options and the sale of the National City Common Stock
issued upon exercise of such options. At the Effective Time all Company Option
Plans shall be terminated with respect to the granting of any additional options
or option rights. The duration and other terms and conditions of the new options
shall be the same as the original Company options, except that reference to
Company shall be deemed to be references to National City.
2.3 EXCHANGE OF CERTIFICATES.
(a) EXCHANGE AGENT. Prior to the Effective Time, National City
shall designate National City Bank to act as exchange agent (the
"Exchange Agent") and First of America Bank- Michigan NA to act as
forwarding agent in connection with the Merger pursuant to an exchange
agent agreement providing for, among other things, the matters set
forth in this Section 2.3. Except as set forth herein, from and after
the Effective Time each holder of a certificate that immediately prior
to the Effective Time represented outstanding shares of Company Common
Stock ("Certificate") shall be entitled to receive in exchange
therefor, upon surrender thereof to the Exchange Agent, the Merger
Consideration for each share of Company Common Stock so represented by
the Certificate surrendered by such holder thereof. The certificates
representing shares of National City Common Stock which constitute
the Merger Consideration shall be properly issued and countersigned and
executed and authenticated, as appropriate.
(b) NOTICE OF EXCHANGE. Promptly after the Effective Time,
National City and the Surviving Corporation shall cause the Exchange
Agent to mail and/or make available to each record holder of a
Certificate a notice and letter of transmittal (which shall specify
that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to the
Certificate shall pass, only upon proper delivery of the Certificate to
the Exchange Agent or its forwarding agent) advising such holder of the
effectiveness of the Merger and the procedures to be used in effecting
the surrender of the Certificate for exchange therefor. Upon surrender
to the Exchange Agent of a Certificate, together with such letter of
transmittal duly executed and completed in accordance with the
instructions thereon, and such other documents as may reasonably be
requested, the Exchange Agent shall promptly deliver to the person
entitled thereto the appropriate Merger Consideration for each share of
Company Common Stock so represented by the Certificate surrendered by
such holder thereof, and such Certificate shall forthwith be canceled.
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(c) TRANSFER. If delivery of all or part of the Merger
Consideration is to be made to a person other than the person in whose
name a surrendered Certificate is registered, it shall be a condition
to such delivery or exchange that the Certificate surrendered shall be
properly endorsed or shall be otherwise in proper form for transfer and
that the person requesting such delivery or exchange shall have paid
any transfer and other taxes required by reason of such delivery or
exchange in a name other than that of the registered holder of the
Certificate surrendered or shall have established to the reasonable
satisfaction of the Exchange Agent that such tax either has been paid
or is not payable.
(d) RIGHT TO MERGER CONSIDERATION. Subject to Subsection
2.3(e), until surrendered and exchanged in accordance with this Section
2.3, each Certificate shall, after the Effective Time, represent solely
the right to receive the Merger Consideration, multiplied by the number
of shares of Company Common Stock evidenced by such Certificate,
together with any dividends or other distributions as provided in
Sections 2.3(e) and 2.3(f), and shall have no other rights. From and
after the Effective Time, National City and Surviving Corporation shall
be entitled to treat such Certificates that have not yet been
surrendered for exchange as evidencing the ownership of the aggregate
Merger Consideration into which the shares of Company Common Stock
represented by such Certificates may be converted, notwithstanding any
failure to surrender such Certificates. One hundred eighty (180) days
following the Effective Time, the Exchange Agent shall deliver to the
Surviving Corporation any shares of National City Common Stock and
funds (including any interest received with respect thereto) which
National City has made available to the Exchange Agent and which have
not been disbursed to holders of Certificates, and thereafter such
holders shall be entitled to look to the Surviving Corporation (subject
to abandoned property, escheat or other similar laws) with respect to
the shares of National City Common Stock and cash in lieu of fractional
shares deliverable or payable upon due surrender of their Certificates.
Neither Exchange Agent nor any party hereto shall be liable to any
holder of shares of Company Common Stock for any Merger Consideration
(or dividends, distributions or interest with respect thereto)
delivered to a public official pursuant to any applicable abandoned
property, escheat or similar law.
(e) DISTRIBUTION WITH RESPECT TO UNEXCHANGED CERTIFICATES.
Whenever a dividend or other distribution is declared by National City
on the National City Common Stock, the record date for which is at or
after the Effective Time, the declaration shall include dividends or
other distributions on all shares issuable pursuant to this Agreement,
provided that no dividends or other distributions declared or made with
respect to
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National City Common Stock shall be paid to the holder of any
unsurrendered Certificate with respect to the share of National City
Common Stock represented thereby until the holder of such Certificate
shall surrender such Certificate in accordance with this Article II.
The Surviving Corporation shall pay any dividends or make any other
distributions with a record date prior to the Effective Time which may
have been declared or made by the Company on Company Common Stock in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement on or prior to the
Effective Time and which remain unpaid at the Effective Time.
(f) LOST OR DESTROYED EXCHANGED CERTIFICATES. In the event that
any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, the Exchange
Agent shall deliver in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed
certificate, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the holder
thereof in form satisfactory to the Exchange Agent, the Merger
Consideration, as may be required pursuant to this Agreement; provided,
however, that the Exchange Agent may, in its sole discretion and as a
condition precedent to the delivery of the Merger Consideration to
which the holder of such certificate is entitled as a result of the
Merger, require the owner of such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate
to deliver a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any
claim that may be made against Company, National City or the Exchange
Agent or any other party with respect to the certificate alleged to
have been lost, stolen or destroyed.
(g) VOTING WITH RESPECT TO UNEXCHANGED CERTIFICATES. Holders
of unsurrendered Certificates will not be entitled to vote at any
meeting of National City stockholders.
(h) NO FRACTIONAL SHARES. No certificates or scrip
representing fractional shares of National City Common Stock shall be
issued upon the surrender for exchange of a Certificate or
Certificates. No dividends or distributions of National City shall be
payable on or with respect to any fractional share and any such
fractional share interest will not entitle the owner thereof to vote or
to any rights of stockholders of National City. In lieu of any such
fractional shares, holders of Certificates otherwise entitled to
fractional shares shall be entitled to receive promptly from the
Exchange Agent a cash payment in an amount equal to the fraction of
such share of National City Common Stock to which such holder would
otherwise be entitled multiplied by the Market Price (as hereinafter
defined).
2.4 CLOSING OF THE COMPANY'S TRANSFER BOOKS. The stock transfer books
of Company shall be closed at the close of business on the business day
immediately preceding the date of the Effective Time. In the event of a transfer
of ownership of Company Common Stock which is not registered in the transfer
records of Company, the Merger Consideration to be distributed
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pursuant to this Agreement may be delivered to a transferee, if a Certificate
is presented to the Exchange Agent, accompanied by all documents required to
evidence and effect such transfer and by payment of any applicable stock
transfer taxes. National City and The Exchange Agent shall be entitled to rely
upon the stock transfer books of Company to establish the identity of those
persons entitled to receive the Merger Consideration specified in this
Agreement for their shares of Company Common Stock, which books shall be
conclusive with respect to the ownership of such shares. In the event of a
dispute with respect to the ownership of any such shares, the Surviving
Corporation and the Exchange Agent shall be entitled to deposit any Merger
Consideration represented thereby in escrow with an independent party and
thereafter be relieved with respect to any claims to such Merger Consideration.
2.5 CHANGES IN NATIONAL CITY COMMON STOCK. If between the date of this
Agreement and the Effective Time, the shares of National City Common Stock shall
be changed into a different number of shares by reason of any reclassification,
recapitalization, split-up, combination or exchange of shares, or if a stock
dividend thereon shall be declared with a record date within said period, the
Merger Consideration shall be adjusted accordingly.
III. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF NATIONAL CITY
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National City hereby represents and warrants to Company that:
3.1 CORPORATE ORGANIZATION. National City is a corporation duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
Delaware and is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in each
jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of property or the nature of the
business conducted by it makes such qualification necessary, except for such
jurisdictions in which the failure to be so qualified would not have a Material
Adverse Effect. National City is registered as a bank holding company under the
Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended (the "BHCA"). National City has the
requisite corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties
and assets and to carry on its business as it is now being conducted. National
City has heretofore delivered to Company true and complete copies of its
certificate of incorporation and By-laws.
3.2 AUTHORITY. National City has the requisite corporate power and
authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and, except for any required
approval of National City's stockholders, to consummate the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and
the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein have been duly approved
by the Board of Directors of National City and no other corporate proceedings on
the part of National City are necessary to authorize this Agreement or to
consummate the transactions so contemplated, subject only to approval by the
stockholders of National City as
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provided in Subsection 5.15(b) of this Agreement. This Agreement has been duly
executed and delivered by, and constitutes valid and binding obligations of
National City enforceable against National City in accordance with its terms,
except as enforceability thereof may be limited by applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and other similar
laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and except that
the availability of the equitable remedy of specific performance or injunctive
relief is subject to the discretion of the court before which any proceedings
may be brought.
3.3 CAPITALIZATION. As of the date hereof, the authorized capital
stock of National City consists of 700,000,000 shares of National City Common
Stock and 5,000,000 shares of National City preferred stock. As of the close of
business on November 28, 1997 (i) 211,108,844 shares of National City Common
Stock were validly issued and outstanding, fully paid and nonassessable and (ii)
no shares of preferred stock were issued and outstanding. As of the date hereof,
except as set forth in this Section 3.3, pursuant to the exercise of employee
stock options under National City's various stock option plans in effect,
National City's dividend reinvestment plan and stock grants made pursuant to the
National City 1991 Restricted Stock Plan, pursuant to the National City Option
Agreement or set forth in the National City Disclosure Letter, there are no
other shares of capital stock of National City authorized, issued or outstanding
and there are no outstanding subscriptions, options, warrants, rights,
convertible securities or any other agreements or commitments of any character
relating to the issued or unissued capital stock or other securities of National
City obligating National City to issue, deliver or sell, or cause to be issued,
delivered or sold, additional shares of capital stock of National City or
obligating National City to grant, extend or enter into any subscription,
option, warrant, right, convertible security or other similar agreement or
commitment. As of the date hereof, except as provided in this Agreement, there
are no voting trusts or other agreements or understandings to which National
City or any National City subsidiary is a party with respect to the voting of
the capital stock of National City. All of the shares of National City Common
Stock issuable in exchange for the Company Common Stock at the Effective Time in
accordance with this Agreement and all of the shares of National City Common
Stock issuable upon exercise of Unexercised Options will be, when so issued,
duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and will not be
subject to preemptive rights.
3.4 SUBSIDIARIES. The name and state of incorporation of each
significant subsidiary (as defined in Paragraph 8.6(i) hereof) of National City
(collectively, the "Significant Subsidiaries") is set forth in the National City
Disclosure Letter. Each of the Significant Subsidiaries is a bank or a
corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws
of its respective jurisdiction of incorporation or organization and is duly
qualified to do business as a
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foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of
property or the nature of the business conducted by it makes such qualification
necessary, except for such jurisdictions in which the failure to be so qualified
would not have a Material Adverse Effect. Each of the Significant Subsidiaries
has the requisite corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its
properties and assets and to carry on its businesses as they are now being
conducted. Except as set forth in the National City Disclosure Letter, all
outstanding shares of capital stock of each of the Significant Subsidiaries are
owned by National City or another of National City's subsidiaries and are
validly issued, fully paid and (except pursuant to 12 USC Section 55 in the case
of each national bank subsidiary and applicable state law in the case of each
state bank subsidiary) nonassessable, are not subject to preemptive rights and
are owned free and clear of all liens, claims and encumbrances. There are no
outstanding subscriptions, options, warrants, rights, convertible securities or
any other agreements or commitments of any character relating to the issued or
unissued capital stock or other securities of any Significant Subsidiary
obligating any of the Significant Subsidiaries to issue, deliver or sell, or
cause to be issued, delivered or sold additional shares of its capital stock or
obligating any of the Significant Subsidiaries to grant, extend or enter into
any subscription, option, warrant, right, convertible security or other similar
agreement or commitment.
3.5 INFORMATION IN DISCLOSURE DOCUMENTS, REGISTRATION STATEMENT, ETC.
None of the information with respect to National City or any of National City's
subsidiaries provided by National City for inclusion in (i) the Registration
Statement to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") by National City on Form S-4 under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Securities Act"), for the purpose of registering the shares of
National City Common Stock to be issued in the Merger (the "Registration
Statement") and (ii) any joint proxy statement of Company and National City
("Proxy Statement") required to be mailed to Company's shareholders and National
City's stockholders in connection with the Merger will, in the case of the Proxy
Statement or any amendments or supplements thereto, at the time of the mailing
of the Proxy Statement and any amendments or supplements thereto, and at the
time of the Company Meeting and the National City Meeting (as hereinafter
defined), or, in the case of the Registration Statement, at the time it becomes
effective, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not
misleading. The Registration Statement will comply as to form in all material
respects with the provisions of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder. The Proxy Statement will comply as to form in all
material respects with the
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provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange
Act"), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
3.6 CONSENTS AND APPROVALS; NO VIOLATION. Except as set forth in the
National City Disclosure Letter, neither the execution and delivery of this
Agreement by National City nor the consummation by National City of the
transactions contemplated hereby will (a) conflict with or result in any breach
of any provision of its certificate of incorporation or By-laws of National
City, (b) violate, conflict with, constitute a default (or an event which, with
notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute a default) under, or result in
the termination of, or accelerate the performance required by, or result in the
creation of any lien or other encumbrance upon any of the properties or assets
of National City or any of National City's subsidiaries under, any of the terms,
conditions or provisions of any note, bond, mortgage, indenture, deed of trust,
license, lease, agreement or other instrument or obligation to which National
City or any of National City's subsidiaries is a party or to which they or any
of their respective properties or assets are subject, except for such
violations, conflicts, breaches, defaults, terminations, accelerations or
creations of liens or other encumbrances, which will not have a Material Adverse
Effect or (c) require any consent, approval, authorization or permit of or from,
or filing with or notification to, any court, governmental authority or other
regulatory or administrative agency or commission, domestic or foreign
("Governmental Entity"), except (i) pursuant to the Exchange Act and the
Securities Act, (ii) filing the Delaware Certificate of Merger and a designation
pursuant to the DGCL, (iii) filing the Michigan Certificate of Merger, (iv)
filings required under the securities or blue sky laws of the various states,
(v) filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as
amended (the "HSR Act"), (vi) filings with, and approval by, the Federal Reserve
Board (the "FRB"), (vii) filings with and approval by the Office of Thrift
Supervision ("OTS"), (viii) filings with, and approvals by, the Ohio
Superintendent of Banks, the Arizona Director of Insurance and such other state
regulatory agencies as may be required (collectively, the "State Entities"),
(ix) filings and approvals pursuant to any applicable state takeover law, (x)
filings and approvals under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 and the
rules and regulations thereunder ("SBIA") or (xi) consents, approvals,
authorizations, permits, filings or notifications which, if not obtained or made
will not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
3.7 REPORTS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. Since January 1, 1992, National
City and each of National City's subsidiaries have filed all reports,
registrations and statements, together with any required amendments thereto,
that they were required to file with the Commission under Section 12(b), 12(g),
13(a) or 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including, but not
limited to Forms 10-K, Forms 10-Q and proxy statements (the "National City
Reports"). National City has
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previously furnished or will promptly furnish Company with true and complete
copies of each of National City's annual reports on Form 10-K for the years 1992
through 1996 and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for March 31, 1997, June 30,
1997 and September 30, 1997. As of their respective dates, the National City
Reports complied with the requirements of the Commission and did not contain any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to
be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the
circumstance under which they were made, not misleading. The audited
consolidated financial statements and unaudited interim financial statements of
National City included in the National City Reports have been prepared in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent
basis (except as may be indicated therein or in the notes thereto) and fairly
present the consolidated financial position of National City and National City's
subsidiaries as of the dates thereof and the results of their operations and
cash flows for the periods then ended subject, in the case of the unaudited
interim financial statements, to normal year-end and audit adjustments and any
other adjustments described therein. There exist no material liabilities of
National City and its consolidated subsidiaries, contingent or otherwise of a
type required to be disclosed in accordance with generally accepted accounting
practices, except as disclosed in the National City Reports. National City's
reserve for possible loan losses as shown in its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q
for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 1997 was adequate, within the meaning
of generally accepted accounting principles and safe and sound banking
practices.
3.8 TAXES. National City will promptly make available to Company, upon
request by Company, true and correct copies of the federal, state and local
income tax returns, and state and local property and sales tax returns and any
other tax returns filed by National City and any of National City's subsidiaries
for each of the fiscal years that remains open, as of the date hereof, for
examination or assessment of tax. National City and each National City
subsidiary have prepared in good faith and duly and timely filed, or caused to
be duly and timely filed, all federal, state, local and foreign income,
estimated tax, withholding tax, franchise, sales and other tax returns or
reports required to be filed by them on or before the date hereof, except to the
extent that all such failures to file, taken together, would not have a Material
Adverse Effect. National City and each of its subsidiaries have paid, or have
made adequate provision or set up an adequate accrual or reserve for the payment
of, all taxes, shown or required to be shown to be owing on all such returns or
reports, together with any interest, additions or penalties related to any such
taxes or to any open taxable year or period. Except as set forth in the National
City Disclosure Letter, neither National City nor any of National City's
subsidiaries has consented to extend the statute of limitations with respect to
the assessment of any tax. Except as set forth in
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the National City Disclosure Letter, neither National City nor any of National
City's subsidiaries is a party to any action or proceeding, nor to the best of
National City's knowledge is any such action or proceeding threatened, by any
Governmental Entity in connection with the determination, assessment or
collection of any taxes, and no deficiency notices or reports have been received
by National City or any of National City's subsidiaries in respect of any
material deficiencies for any tax, assessment, or government charges.
3.9 EMPLOYEE PLANS. Except as set forth in the National City
Disclosure Letter, all employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation,
pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting,
severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral, and all
trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors,
officers or employees of National City or its subsidiaries ("National City
Employee Plans") have been maintained, operated, and administered in substantial
compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times
complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), the Code,
and any other applicable laws. With respect to each National City Employee Plan
which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) except for
recent amendment(s) to the plans not materially affecting the qualified status
of the plans (which are disclosed in, and copies of which are attached to, the
National City Disclosure Letter), each pension plan as amended (and any trust
relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the
Code either: (i) has been determined by the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") to
be so qualified, (ii) is the subject of a pending application for such
determination that was timely filed, or (iii) will be submitted for such a
determination prior to end of the "remedial amendment period" within the meaning
of Section 401(b) of the Code, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency
(as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not
waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been
requested from the IRS, (c) neither National City nor any of its subsidiaries
has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant
to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of
each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the
value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of
ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year
thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the
actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such
defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in
Section 4043 of ERISA for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been
waived has occurred, (f) except as disclosed in the National City Disclosure
Letter, no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the Pension Benefit
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Guaranty Corporation ("PBGC") instituted proceedings to terminate a defined
benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan,
and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of
ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension
plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a
"multiple employer plan" within the meaning of 413(c) of the Code. Neither
National City nor any of its subsidiaries has incurred any liability to the PBGC
with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section
4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered
one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code,
except for premiums all of which have been paid when due. Neither National City
nor any of its subsidiaries has incurred any withdrawal liability with respect
to a multiemployer plan under Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA. Except as set
forth in the National City Disclosure Letter, there is no basis for any person
to assert that National City or any of its subsidiaries has an obligation to
institute any Employee Plan or any such other arrangement, agreement or plan.
With respect to any insurance policy that heretofore has or currently does
provide funding for benefits under any National City Employee Plan, (A) there is
no liability on the part of National City or any of its subsidiaries in the
nature of a retroactive or retrospective rate adjustment, loss sharing
arrangement, or other actual or contingent liability, nor would there be any
such liability if such insurance policy was terminated, and (B) no insurance
company issuing such policy is in receivership, conservatorship, liquidation or
similar proceeding and, to the knowledge of National City, no such proceeding
with respect to any such insurer is imminent. Except as set forth in the
National City Disclosure Letter, neither the execution of this Agreement, nor
the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby will (A) constitute a
stated triggering event under any National City Employee Plan that will result
in any payment (whether of severance pay or otherwise) becoming due from
National City or any of its subsidiaries to any present or former officer,
employee, director, shareholder, consultant or dependent of any of the foregoing
or (B) accelerate the time of payment or vesting, or increase the amount of
compensation due to any present or former officer, employee, director,
shareholder, consultant, or dependent of any of the foregoing. Neither National
City nor any of its subsidiaries has any obligations for retiree health and life
benefits under any National City Employee Plan, except as set forth in the
National City Disclosure Letter. There are no restrictions on the rights of
National City or its subsidiaries to amend or terminate any such National City
Employee Plan without incurring any liability thereunder.
3.10 MATERIAL CONTRACTS. Except as set forth in the National City
Disclosure Letter or disclosed in the National City Reports, neither National
City nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to, or is bound or affected by, or
receives benefits under (a) any employment, severance,
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termination, consulting or retirement agreement (collectively, "Benefit
Agreements") providing for aggregate payments to any person in any calendar year
in excess of $100,000, (b) any material agreement, indenture or other instrument
relating to the borrowing of money by National City or any of its subsidiaries
or the guarantee by National City or any of its subsidiaries of any such
obligation (other than trade payables and instruments relating to borrowings or
guaranties made in the ordinary course of business) or (c) any other contract or
agreement or amendment thereto that would be required to be filed as an exhibit
to a Form 10-K filed by National City with the Commission as of the date of this
Agreement (collectively, the "National City Contracts"). Neither National City
nor any of National City's subsidiaries is in default under any of the National
City Contracts, which default is reasonably likely to have, either individually
or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect and there has not occurred any
event that with the lapse of time or the giving of notice or both would
constitute such a default. Neither National City nor any of National City's
subsidiaries is a party to, or is bound by, any collective bargaining agreement,
contract, or other agreement or understanding with a labor union or labor
organization, nor is National City or any of National City's subsidiaries the
subject of a proceeding asserting that it or any such subsidiary has committed
an unfair labor practice or seeking to compel it or such subsidiary to bargain
with any labor organization as to wages and conditions of employment, nor is
there any strike or other labor dispute involving it or any of its subsidiaries
pending or threatened.
3.11 ABSENCE OF CERTAIN CHANGES OR EVENTS. Except as set forth in the
National City Disclosure Letter or disclosed in the National City Reports filed
by National City with the Commission prior to the date of this Agreement, since
December 31, 1996, there has not been any change in the financial condition,
results of operations or business of National City and its subsidiaries which
would or in the future will have a Material Adverse Effect.
3.12 LITIGATION. Except as disclosed in the National City Reports
filed by National City with the Commission prior to the date of this Agreement,
there is no suit, action or proceeding pending, or, to the knowledge of National
City, threatened against or affecting National City or any of National City's
subsidiaries which, if decided adversely to National City, would be reasonably
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, nor is there any judgment,
decree, injunction, rule or order of any Governmental Entity or arbitrator,
outstanding against National City or any of National City's subsidiaries having,
or which, insofar as reasonably can be foreseen, in the future would have, a
Material Adverse Effect.
3.13 COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS AND ORDERS. Except as set forth in the
National City Disclosure Letter or disclosed in the National City Reports filed
by National City with the Commission prior to the date of this Agreement, the
businesses of National City and of National
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City's subsidiaries are not being conducted in violation of any law, ordinance,
regulation, judgment, order, decree, license or permit of any Governmental
Entity (including, without limitation, in the case of National City's
subsidiaries that are banks, all statutes, rules and regulations pertaining to
the conduct of the banking business and the exercise of trust powers), except
for violations which individually or in the aggregate do not, and, insofar as
reasonably can be foreseen, in the future will not, have a Material Adverse
Effect. Except as set forth in the National City Disclosure Letter, no
investigation or review by any Governmental Entity with respect to National City
or any of National City's subsidiaries is pending or, to the knowledge of
National City, threatened, nor has any Governmental Entity indicated an
intention to conduct the same in each case other than those the outcome of which
will not have a Material Adverse Effect.
3.14 AGREEMENTS WITH BANK REGULATORS, ETC. Neither National City nor
any National City subsidiary is a party to any written agreement or memorandum
of understanding with, or a party to any commitment letter, board resolution or
similar undertaking to, or is subject to any order or directive by, or is a
recipient of any extraordinary supervisory letter from, any Governmental Entity
which restricts materially the conduct of its business, or in any manner relates
to its capital adequacy, its credit or reserve policies or its management, nor
has National City been advised by any Governmental Entity that it is
contemplating issuing or requesting (or is considering the appropriateness of
issuing or requesting) any such order, decree, agreement, memorandum of
understanding, extraordinary supervisory letter, commitment letter or similar
submission. Neither National City nor any of National City's subsidiaries is
required by Section 32 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act ("FDIA") to give
prior notice to a Federal banking agency of the proposed addition of an
individual to its board of directors or the employment of an individual as a
senior executive officer. National City knows of no reason why the regulatory
approvals referred to in Subsection 3.6(c) should not be obtained.
3.15 NATIONAL CITY OWNERSHIP OF STOCK. As of the date of this
Agreement, neither National City nor any of its affiliates or associates (i)
beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, or (ii) are parties to any agreement,
arrangement or understanding for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting or
disposing of, Company Common Stock (other than DPC Shares or Trust Account
Shares), which in the aggregate, represent 5% or more of the outstanding shares
of Company Common Stock.
3.16 ACCOUNTING TREATMENT; TAX TREATMENT. Neither National City nor,
to its best knowledge, any of its affiliates, has, through the date of this
Agreement, taken or agreed to take any action or knows of any reason that with
respect to National City and its affiliates would prevent National City from
accounting for the business combination to be effected by the Merger
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as a "pooling-of-interests." As of the date hereof, National City is aware of no
reason why the Merger will fail to qualify as a reorganization under Section
368(a) of the Code.
3.17 FEES. Except for the fees paid and payable to UBS Securities LLC
and NationsBank/Montgomery Securities, neither National City nor any of National
City's subsidiaries has paid or will become obligated to pay any fee or
commission to any broker, finder or intermediary in connection with the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
3.18 NATIONAL CITY ACTION. The Board of Directors of National City (at
a meeting duly called, constituted and held) has by the requisite vote of all
directors present (a) determined that the Merger is advisable and in the best
interests of National City and its stockholders and (b) approved this Agreement
and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and (c) has directed that
the Merger be submitted for consideration by National City's stockholders at the
National City Meeting, as herein defined. The Board of Directors of National
City has approved the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the National
City Option Agreement and the Company Option Agreement such that the provisions
of Section 203 of the DGCL and any other applicable state business combination
or anti-takeover provisions of National City Certificate of Incorporation or
By-laws shall not be triggered by the Merger, execution of this Agreement, the
National City Option Agreement or the Company Option Agreement or any
transactions contemplated by such Agreements.
3.19 VOTE REQUIRED. The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority
of the outstanding shares of National City Common Stock entitled to vote thereon
is the only vote of the holders of any class or series of National City capital
stock necessary to approve this Agreement and the transactions contemplated
herein.
3.20 MATERIAL INTERESTS OF CERTAIN PERSONS. Except as disclosed in
National City's Proxy Statement for its 1997 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, no
officer or director of National City, or any "associate" (as such term is
defined in Rule 14a-1 under the 1934 Act) of any such officer or director, has
any material interest in any material contract or property (real or personal),
tangible or intangible, used in or pertaining to the business of National City
or any of its subsidiaries.
3.21 ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS. For purposes of this Agreement, the
following terms shall have the indicated meanings:
"ENVIRONMENTAL LAW" means any federal, state or local law,
statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, code, license, permit,
authorization, approval, consent, order, determination, judgment,
decree, injunction or agreement with any governmental entity relating
to (1) the health, protection, preservation, containment or restoration
of the environment including, without limitation, air, water vapor,
surface water, groundwater, drinking water
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supply, surface soil, subsurface soil, wetlands, plant and animal life
or any other natural resource, conservation, and/or (2) the use,
storage, recycling, treatment, generation, transportation, processing,
handling, labeling, production, release or disposal of Hazardous
Substances. The term Environmental Law includes without limitation (1)
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability
Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. Section 9601, ET SEQ.; the Superfund
Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. 9601(2)(D); the
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. Section
6901, ET SEQ.; the Clean Air Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. Section 7401,
ET SEQ.; the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended by the
Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. Section 1251, ET SEQ.; the Toxic Substances
Control Act, as amended, 15 U.S.C. Section 9601, ET SEQ.; the Emergency
Planning and Community Right to Know Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 11001, ET
SEQ.; the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 300f, ET SEQ.; and
all comparable state and local laws, ordinances, rules, regulations
respecting the interpretation or enforcement of same and (2) any common
law (including without limitation common law that may impose strict
liability) that may impose liability for injuries or damages due to the
release of any Hazardous Substance.
"HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE" means (i) any hazardous wastes, toxic
chemicals, materials, substances or wastes as defined by or for the
purposes of any Environmental Law; (ii) any "oil", as defined by the
Clean Water Act, as amended from time to time, and regulations
promulgated thereunder (including crude oil or any fraction thereof and
any petroleum products or derivatives thereof); (iii) any substance,
the presence of which is prohibited, regulated or controlled by any
applicable federal, state or local laws, regulations, statutes or
ordinances now in force or hereafter enacted relating to waste disposal
or environmental protection with respect to the exposure to, or
manufacture, possession, presence, use, generation, storage,
transportation, treatment, release, emission, discharge, disposal,
abatement, cleanup, removal, remediation or handling of any such
substance; (iv) any asbestos or asbestos-containing materials,
polychlorinated biphenyls ("PCBs") in the form of electrical equipment,
fluorescent light fixtures with ballasts, cooling oils or any other
form, urea formaldehyde, atmospheric radon; (v) any solid, liquid,
gaseous or thermal irritant or contaminant, such as smoke, vapor, soot,
fumes, alkalis, acids, chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, sewage,
industrial sludge or other similar wastes; (vi) industrial, nuclear or
medical by-products; (vii) any lead based paint or coating and (viii)
any underground storage tank(s).
"LOAN PORTFOLIO PROPERTIES, TRUST PROPERTIES AND OTHER
PROPERTIES" means any real property, interest in real property,
improvements, appurtenances, rights and personal
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property attendant thereto, which is owned, leased as a landlord or a
tenant, licensed as a licensor or licensee, managed or operated or upon
which is held a mortgage, deed of trust, deed to secure debt or other
security interest by National City or Company, as the case may be, or
any of their subsidiaries whether directly, as an agent, as trustee or
other fiduciary or otherwise.
Except as set forth in the National City Disclosure Letter, (i)
to the best of National City's knowledge, neither National City nor any
of its subsidiaries is in violation of or has any liability, absolute
or contingent, in connection with or under any Environmental Law,
except any such violations or liabilities which would not reasonably be
expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse
Effect; (ii) to the best of National City's knowledge, none of the Loan
Portfolio Properties, Trust Properties and Other Properties of National
City or its subsidiaries is in violation of or has any liability,
absolute or contingent, under any Environmental Law, except any such
violations or liabilities which, individually or in the aggregate would
not have a Material Adverse Effect; and (iii) to the best of National
City's knowledge, there are no actions, suits, demands, notices,
claims, investigations or proceedings pending or threatened relating to
any Loan Portfolio Properties, Trust Properties and Other Properties
including, without limitation any notices, demand letters or requests
for information from any federal or state environmental agency relating
to any such liability under or violation of Environmental Law, which
would impose a liability upon National City or its subsidiaries
pursuant to any Environmental Law, except such as would not,
individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect.
IV. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF COMPANY
Company hereby represents and warrants to National City that:
4.1 CORPORATE ORGANIZATION. Company is a corporation duly organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Michigan
and is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in each
jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of property or the nature of the
business conducted by it makes such qualification necessary, except for such
jurisdictions in which the failure to be so qualified would not have a Material
Adverse Effect. Company is registered as a bank holding company under the BHCA
and a savings association holding company under the Federal Homeowners Loan Act
of 1933, as Amended ("HOLA"). Company has the requisite corporate power and
authority to own, lease and operate its properties and assets and to carry on
its business as it is now being conducted. Company has heretofore delivered to
National City true and complete copies of its Articles of Incorporation and
Bylaws.
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4.2 AUTHORITY. Company has the requisite corporate power and authority
to execute and deliver this Agreement and, except for any required approval of
Company's shareholders, to consummate the transactions contemplated by such. The
execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated herein have been duly approved by the Board of
Directors of Company and no other corporate proceedings on the part of Company
are necessary to authorize this Agreement or to consummate the transactions so
contemplated, subject only to approval by the shareholders of Company as
provided in Section 5.15 (a) of this Agreement. This Agreement has been duly
executed and delivered by, and constitute valid and binding obligations of
Company, enforceable against Company in accordance with its terms, except as the
enforceability thereof may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, fraudulent transfer, moratorium and other similar laws affecting
the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and except that the availability
of the equitable remedy of specific performance or injunctive relief is subject
to the discretion of the court before which any proceedings may be brought.
4.3 CAPITALIZATION. As of the date hereof, the authorized capital
stock of Company consists of 200,000,000 shares of Company Common Stock and
10,000,000 shares of Company preferred stock. As of the close of business on
November 28, 1997, 87,153,571 shares of Company Common Stock were validly issued
and outstanding, fully paid and nonassessable and no shares of preferred stock
were issued or outstanding. As of the date of this Agreement except as set forth
in this Section 4.3, pursuant to Company's Option Plans, pursuant to the Company
Option Agreement or set forth in a disclosure letter executed by Company and
dated and delivered by Company to National City as of the date hereof ("Company
Disclosure Letter"), there are no shares of capital stock of Company authorized,
issued or outstanding and there are no outstanding subscriptions, options,
warrants, rights, convertible securities or any other agreements or commitments
of any character relating to the issued or unissued capital stock or other
securities of Company obligating Company to issue, deliver or sell, or cause to
be issued, delivered or sold, additional shares of capital stock of Company or
obligating Company to grant, extend or enter into any subscription, option,
warrant, right, convertible security or other similar agreement or commitment.
Except as set forth in the Company Disclosure Letter, there are no voting trusts
or other agreements or understandings to which Company or any of Company's
subsidiaries is a party with respect to the voting of the capital stock of
Company. As of the date of this Agreement, there were outstanding under the
Company Option Plans options to purchase 2,968,618 shares of Company Common
Stock, which Company stock options had a weighted average exercise price of
$33.78 and for which adequate shares of Company Common Stock have been reserved
for issuance under the Company Option Plans.
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4.4 SUBSIDIARIES. The Company Disclosure Letter sets forth the name
and state of incorporation of each subsidiary of Company (collectively, "Company
Subsidiaries"). Each of Company Subsidiaries is a bank, a corporation or other
business entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the
laws of its respective jurisdiction of incorporation or organization and is duly
qualified to do business as a foreign corporation or foreign business entity in
each jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of property or the nature of
the business conducted by it makes such qualification necessary, except for such
jurisdictions in which the failure to be so qualified would not have a Material
Adverse Effect. Each of Company Subsidiaries has the requisite corporate power
and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and assets and to carry
on its businesses as they are now being conducted. Except as set forth in the
Company Disclosure Letter, all outstanding shares of capital stock of each
Company Subsidiary is owned by Company or another Company Subsidiary and are
validly issued, fully paid and (except pursuant to 12 USC Section 55 in the case
of each national bank subsidiary and applicable state law in the case of each
state bank subsidiary) nonassessable, are not subject to preemptive rights and
are owned free and clear of all liens, claims and encumbrances. There are no
outstanding subscriptions, options, warrants, rights, convertible securities or
any other agreements or commitments of any character relating to the issued or
unissued capital stock or other securities of any Company Subsidiary obligating
any Company Subsidiary to issue, deliver or sell, or cause to be issued,
delivered or sold additional shares of its capital stock or obligating any
Company Subsidiary to grant, extend or enter into any subscription, option,
warrant, right, convertible security or other similar agreement or commitment.
4.5 INFORMATION IN DISCLOSURE DOCUMENTS, REGISTRATION STATEMENT, ETC.
None of the information with respect to Company or any Company Subsidiary
provided by Company for inclusion in the Proxy Statement or the Registration
Statement will, in the case of the Proxy Statement or any amendments or
supplements thereto, at the time of the mailing of the Proxy Statement and any
amendments or supplements thereto, and at the time of the Company Meeting (as
hereinafter defined) and the National City Meeting, or, in the case of the
Registration Statement, at the time it becomes effective, contain any untrue
statement of material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of
the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading. The Proxy Statement
will comply as to form in all material respects with the provisions of the
Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
4.6 CONSENT AND APPROVALS; NO VIOLATION. Except as set forth in the
Company Disclosure Letter neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement
by Company nor the
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consummation by Company of the transactions contemplated hereby will (a)
conflict with or result in any breach of any provision of its articles of
incorporation or Bylaws of Company, (b) violate, conflict with, constitute a
default (or an event which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would
constitute a default) under, or result in the termination of, or accelerate the
performance required by, or result in the creation of any lien or other
encumbrance upon any of the properties or assets of Company or any of Company
Subsidiaries under, any of the terms, conditions or provisions of any note,
bond, mortgage, indenture, deed of trust, license, lease, agreement or other
instrument or obligation to which Company or any Company Subsidiary is a party
or to which they or any of their respective properties or assets are subject,
except for such violations, conflicts, breaches, defaults, terminations,
accelerations or creations of liens or other encumbrances, which will not have a
Material Adverse Effect or (c) require any consent, approval, authorization or
permit of or from, or filing with or notification to, any Governmental Entity,
except (i) pursuant to the Exchange Act and the Securities Act, (ii) filing the
Delaware Certificate of Merger, (iii) filing the Michigan Certificate of Merger,
(iv) filings required under the securities or blue sky laws of the various
states, (v) filing under the HSR Act, (vi) filings with, and approval by, the
FRB, (vii) filings with, and approval by, the OTS, (viii) filings with, and
approvals by, the State Entities, (ix) filings and approvals pursuant to any
applicable state takeover law, (x) filings and approvals under the SBIA or (xi)
consents, approvals, authorizations, permits, filings or notifications which, if
not obtained or made will not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material
Adverse Effect.
4.7 REPORTS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. Since January 1, 1992, Company
and each Company Subsidiary have filed all reports, registrations and
statements, together with any required amendments thereto, that they were
required to file with the Commission under Sections 12(b), 12(g), 13(a) or 14(a)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including, but not limited to Forms
10-K, Forms 10-Q and proxy statements (the "Company Reports"). Company has
previously furnished or will promptly furnish National City with true and
complete copies of each of Company's annual reports on Form 10-K for the years
1992 through 1996 and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for March 31, 1997,
June 30, 1997 and September 30, 1997. As of their respective dates, Company
Reports complied with the requirements of the Commission and did not contain any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to
be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the
circumstance under which they were made, not misleading. The audited
consolidated financial statements and unaudited interim financial statements of
Company included in the Company Reports have been prepared in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis (except
as may be indicated therein or in the notes thereto) and fairly
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present the financial position of Company and Company Subsidiaries taken as a
whole as at the dates thereof and the consolidated results of their operations
and cash flows for the periods then ended subject, in the case of the unaudited
interim financial statements, to normal year-end and audit adjustments and any
other adjustments described therein. There exist no material liabilities of
Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, contingent or otherwise of a type
required to be disclosed in accordance with generally accepted accounting
practices, except as disclosed in the Company Reports. Company's reserve for
possible loan losses as shown in its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
fiscal quarter ended September 30, 1997 was adequate, within the meaning of
generally accepted accounting principles and safe and sound banking practices.
4.8 TAXES. Company will promptly make available to National City, upon
request by National City, true and correct copies of the federal, state and
local income tax returns, and state and local property and sales tax returns
filed by Company and Company Subsidiaries for each of the fiscal years that
remains open, as of the date hereof, for examination or assessment of tax.
Company and each Company Subsidiary have prepared in good faith and duly and
timely filed, or caused to be duly and timely filed, all federal, state, local
and foreign income, franchise, sales and other tax returns or reports required
to be filed by them on or before the date hereof, except to the extent that all
failures to file, taken together, would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
Company and each Company Subsidiary have paid, or have made adequate provision
or set up an adequate accrual or reserve for the payment of, all taxes shown or
required to be shown to be owing on all such returns or reports, together with
any interest, additions or penalties related to any such taxes or to any open
taxable year or period. Except as set forth in the Company Disclosure Letter,
neither Company nor any Company Subsidiary has consented to extend the statute
of limitations with respect to the assessment of any tax. Except as set forth in
the Company Disclosure Letter, neither Company nor any of Company Subsidiaries
is a party to any action or proceeding, nor to the best of Company's knowledge
is any such action or proceeding threatened, by any Governmental Entity in
connection with the determination, assessment or collection of any taxes, and no
deficiency notices or reports have been received by Company or any of Company
Subsidiaries in respect of any material deficiencies for any tax, assessment, or
government charge.
4.9 EMPLOYEE PLANS. Except as set forth in the Company Disclosure
Letter, all employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension,
profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance,
or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust
agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors,
officers or employees of Company or Company Subsidiaries ("Company Employee
Plans") have been maintained, operated, and administered in substantial
compliance with their terms and currently
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comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with
the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws.
Except as set forth in the Company Disclosure Letter, with respect to each
Company Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of
ERISA): (a) except for recent amendment(s) to the plans not materially affecting
the qualified status of the plans (which are disclosed in the Company Disclosure
Letter, and copies of which were previously made available to National City),
each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a
qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by
the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such
determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding
deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code),
whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such
sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Company nor any of the
Company Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any
pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market
value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of
ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of
Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of
the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on
the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial
valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable
event described in Section 4043 of ERISA for which the 30 day reporting
requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has
been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined
benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan,
and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of
ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension
plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a
"multiple employer plan" within the meaning of 413(c) of the Code. Neither
Company nor any Company Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with
respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of action 4001(a)(15)
of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer
with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for
premiums all of which have been paid when due. Neither Company nor any of its
subsidiaries has incurred any withdrawal liability with respect to a
multiemployer plan under Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA. Except as set forth in
the Company Disclosure Letter, there is no basis for any person to assert that
Company or any of its subsidiaries has an obligation to institute any Employee
Plan or any such other arrangement, agreement or plan. With respect to any
insurance policy that heretofore has or currently does provide funding for
benefits under any Company Employee Plan, (A) there is no
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liability on the part of Company or any of its subsidiaries in the nature of a
retroactive or retrospective rate adjustment, loss sharing arrangement, or other
actual or contingent liability, not would there be any such liability if such
insurance policy was terminated, and (B) no insurance company issuing such
policy is in receivership, conservatorship, liquidation or similar proceeding
and, to the knowledge of Company, no such proceeding with respect to any such
insurer is imminent. Except as set forth in the Company Disclosure Letter,
neither the execution of this Agreement, nor the consummation of the
transactions contemplated thereby will (A) constitute a stated triggering event
under any Company Employee Plan that will result in any payment (whether of
severance pay or otherwise) becoming due from Company or any of its subsidiaries
to any present or former officer, employee, director, shareholder, consultant or
dependent of any of the foregoing or (B) accelerate the time of payment or
vesting, or increase the amount of compensation due to any present or former
officer, employee, director, shareholder, consultant, or dependent of any of the
foregoing. Neither Company nor any Company Subsidiary has any obligations for
retiree health and life benefits under any Company Employee Plan, except as set
forth in the Company Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Company
Disclosure Letter, there are no restrictions on the rights of Company or Company
Subsidiaries to amend or terminate any such Company Employee Plan without
incurring any liability thereunder.
4.10 MATERIAL CONTRACTS. Except as set forth in the Company Disclosure
Letter or disclosed in the Company Reports, neither Company nor any Company
Subsidiary is a party to, or is bound or affected by, or receives benefits under
(a) any Benefit Agreements providing for aggregate payments to any person in any
calendar year in excess of $100,000, (b) any material agreement, indenture or
other instrument relating to the borrowing of money by Company or any Company
Subsidiary or the guarantee by Company or any Company Subsidiary of any such
obligation (other than trade payables and instruments relating to transactions
entered into in the ordinary course of business) or (c) any other contract or
agreement or amendment thereto that would be required to be filed as an exhibit
to a Form 10-K filed by Company with the Commission as of the date of this
Agreement (collectively, the "Company Contracts"). Neither Company nor any
Company Subsidiary is in default under any Company Contract, which default is
reasonably likely to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material
Adverse Effect, and there has not occurred any event that with the lapse of time
or the giving of notice or both would constitute such a default. Except as set
forth in the Company Disclosure Letter, neither Company nor any of Company
Subsidiary is a party to, or is bound by, any collective bargaining agreement,
contract, or other agreement or understanding with a labor union or labor
organization, nor is Company or any Company Subsidiary the subject of a
proceeding asserting
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that is or any Company Subsidiary has committed an unfair labor practice or
seeking to compel it or such subsidiary to bargain with any labor organization
as to wages and conditions of employment, nor is there any strike or other labor
dispute involving it or any Company Subsidiary pending or threatened.
4.11 ABSENCE OF CERTAIN CHANGES OR EVENTS. Except as set forth in the
Company Disclosure Letter or disclosed in Company Reports filed by Company with
the Commission prior to the date of this Agreement, since December 31, 1996,
there has not been any change in the financial condition, results of operations
or business of Company and Company Subsidiaries which would or in the future
will have a Material Adverse Effect.
4.12 LITIGATION. Except as disclosed in Company Reports filed by
Company with the Commission prior to the date of this Agreement, there is no
suit, action or proceeding pending, or, to the knowledge of Company, threatened
against or affecting Company or any Company Subsidiary which, if determined
adversely to Company, would be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect, nor is there any judgment, decree, injunction, rule or order of any
Governmental Entity or arbitrator, outstanding against Company or any Company
Subsidiary having, or which, insofar as reasonably can be foreseen, in the
future would have, a Material Adverse Effect.
4.13 COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS AND ORDERS. Except as set forth in the
Company Disclosure Letter or as disclosed in Company Reports filed by Company
with the Commission prior to the date of this Agreement, the businesses of
Company and Company Subsidiaries are not being conducted in violation of any
law, ordinance, regulation, judgment, order, decree, license or permit of any
Governmental Entity (including, without limitation, in the case of Company
Subsidiaries that are banks, all statutes, rules and regulations pertaining to
the conduct of the banking business and the exercise of trust powers), except
for violations which individually or in the aggregate do not, and, insofar as
reasonably can be foreseen, in the future will not, have a Material Adverse
Effect. Except as set forth in the Company Disclosure Letter, no investigation
or review by any Governmental Entity with respect to Company or any Company
Subsidiary is pending or, to the knowledge of Company threatened, nor has any
Governmental Entity indicated an intention to conduct the same in each case
other than those the outcome of which will not have a Material Adverse Effect.
4.14 AGREEMENTS WITH BANK REGULATORS, ETC. Neither Company nor any
Company Subsidiary is a party to any written agreement or memorandum of
understanding with, or a party to any commitment letter, board resolution or
similar undertaking to, or is subject to any order or directive by, or is a
recipient of any extraordinary supervisory letter from, any Governmental Entity
which restricts materially the conduct of its business, or in any manner relates
to its capital
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adequacy, its credit or reserve policies or its management, except for those the
existence of which has been disclosed in the Company Disclosure Letter, nor has
Company been advised by any Governmental Entity that it is contemplating issuing
or requesting (or is considering the appropriateness of issuing or requesting)
any such order, decree, agreement, memorandum of understanding, extraordinary
supervisory letter, commitment letter or similar submission, except as set forth
in the Company Disclosure Letter. Neither Company nor any Company Subsidiary is
required by Section 32 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to give prior notice
to a Federal banking agency of the proposed addition of an individual to its
board of directors or the employment of an individual as a senior or executive
officer. Company knows of no reason why the regulatory approvals referred to in
Subsections 4.6(c) should not be obtained.
4.15 ACCOUNTING TREATMENT; TAX TREATMENT. Neither Company nor, to its
best knowledge, any of its affiliates, has, through the date of this Agreement,
taken or agreed to take any action or knows of any reason that with respect to
Company and its affiliates would prevent National City from accounting for the
business combination to be effected by the Merger as a "pooling-of-interests."
As of the date hereof, Company is aware of no reason why the Merger will fail to
qualify as a reorganization under Section 368(a) of the Code.
4.16 FEES. Except for fees paid and payable to Merrill Lynch & Co.,
neither Company nor any Company Subsidiary has paid or will become obligated to
pay any fee or commission to any broker, finder or intermediary in connection
with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
4.17 COMPANY ACTION. The Board of Directors of Company (at a meeting
duly called, constituted and held) has by the requisite vote of all directors
present (a) determined that the Merger is advisable and in the best interests of
Company and its shareholders, (b) approved this Agreement and the transactions
contemplated hereby, including the Merger, and (c) has directed that the Merger
be submitted for consideration by the Company's shareholders at the Company
Meeting. The Company has taken all steps necessary to exempt (i) the execution
of this Agreement, the National City Stock Option and the Company Stock Option,
(ii) the Merger and (iii) the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby from,
(x) any statute of the State of Michigan that purports to limit or restrict
business combinations or the ability to acquire or to vote shares, (y) the
Company Rights Agreement dated as of July 18, 1990 by and between First of
America Bank Corporation and First of America Bank - Michigan, NA as rights
agent and (z) any applicable provision of the Company's restated articles of
incorporation containing change of control or anti-takeover provisions. The
Company has (A) duly entered into an appropriate amendment to the Company Rights
Agreement and (B) taken all other action necessary or appropriate so that the
execution of this Agreement, and the consummation of the transactions
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contemplated hereby (including, without limitation, the Merger) do not and will
not result in the ability of any person to exercise any rights under the Company
Rights Agreement or enable or require the rights to separate from the shares of
the Company Common Stock to which they are attached or to be triggered or become
exercisable.
4.18 VOTE REQUIRED. The affirmative votes of a majority of the
outstanding shares of Company Common Stock entitled to vote thereon are the only
votes of the holders of any class or series of Company capital stock necessary
to approve this Agreement and the transactions contemplated by the Agreement.
4.19 MATERIAL INTERESTS OF CERTAIN PERSONS. Except as disclosed in
Company's Proxy Statement for its 1997 Annual Meeting of Shareholders or as set
forth in the Company Disclosure Letter, no officer or director of Company, or
any "associate" (as such term is defined in Rule 14a-1 under the 1934 Act) of
any such officer or director, has any material interest in any material
contracts or property (real or personal), tangible or intangible, used in or
pertaining to the business of Company or any Company Subsidiaries.
4.20 ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS. (i) To the best of Company's knowledge,
neither Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of or has any
liability, absolute or contingent, in connection with or under any Environmental
Law, except any such violations or liabilities which would not reasonably be
expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(ii) to the best of Company's knowledge, none of the Loan Portfolio Properties,
Trust Properties and Other Properties of Company or its subsidiaries is in
violation of or has any liability, absolute or contingent, under any
Environmental Law, except any such violations or liabilities which, individually
or in the aggregate would not have a Material Adverse Effect; and (iii) to the
best of Company's knowledge, there are no actions, suits, demands, notices,
claims, investigations or proceedings pending or threatened relating to any Loan
Portfolio Properties, Trust Properties and Other Properties including, without
limitation any notices, demand letters or requests for information from any
federal or state environmental agency relating to any such liability under or
violation of Environmental Law, which would impose a liability upon Company or
its subsidiaries pursuant to any Environmental Law, except such as would not,
individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect.
V. COVENANTS
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5.1 ACQUISITION PROPOSALS. Each of Company and Company Subsidiaries
shall not, directly or indirectly, and shall instruct and otherwise use its best
efforts to cause their respective officers, directors, employees, agents or
advisors or other representatives or consultants not to, directly or indirectly,
(i) solicit or initiate any proposals or offers from any person relating to any
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acquisition or purchase of all or a material amount of the assets of, or any
securities of, or any merger, consolidation or business combination with,
Company or any of Company Subsidiaries (such transactions are referred to herein
as "Acquisition Transactions") or (ii) except to the extent that the Board is
required, in a written opinion of counsel to the Board, in the exercise of its
fiduciary duties in accordance with applicable law, to participate in any
discussions or negotiation regarding, or furnish to any other person any
information with respect to, an Acquisition Transaction; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that
nothing contained in this Section 5.1 shall restrict or prohibit any disclosure
by Company that is required in any document to be filed with the Commission
after the date of this Agreement or any disclosure that, in the written opinion
of counsel to the Board of Directors of the Company, is otherwise required under
applicable law. Company will immediately cease and cause to be terminated any
existing activities, discussions or negotiations with any parties conducted
heretofore with respect to any of the foregoing. Company will notify National
City immediately if any such inquiries or proposals are received by, any such
information is requested from, or any such negotiations or discussions are
sought to be initiated or continued with Company.
5.2 INTERIM OPERATIONS OF COMPANY. During the period from the date of
this Agreement to the Effective Time, except as specifically contemplated by
this Agreement, set forth in the Company Disclosure Letter or as otherwise
approved expressly in writing by National City (which approval will not be
unreasonably withheld or delayed):
(a) CONDUCT OF BUSINESS. Company shall, and shall cause each
of Company Subsidiaries to, conduct their respective businesses only
in, and not take any action except in, the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practice. Company shall use reasonable efforts to
preserve intact the business organization of Company and each of
Company Subsidiaries, to keep available the services of its and their
present key officers and employees and to preserve the goodwill of
those having business relationships with Company or Company
Subsidiaries. Other than in the ordinary course of business consistent
with past practice, Company shall not (i) incur any indebtedness for
borrowed money (it being understood and agreed that incurrence of
indebtedness in the ordinary course of business shall include, without
limitation, the creation of deposit liabilities, purchases of federal
funds, borrowings pursuant to existing lines of credit, sales of
certificates of deposit and entering into repurchase agreements), (ii)
assume, guarantee, endorse or otherwise as an accommodation become
responsible for the obligations of any other individual, corporation or
other entity, or (iii) make any loan or advance other than in the
ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;
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(b) ARTICLES AND BYLAWS. Company shall not and shall not permit
any Company Subsidiary to make any change or amendment to their
respective articles of incorporation or Bylaws (or comparable governing
instruments) in a manner that would materially and adversely effect
either party's ability to consummate the Merger or the economic
benefits of the Merger to either party.
(c) CAPITAL STOCK. Company shall not, and shall not permit any
Company Subsidiary to, issue or sell any shares of capital stock or any
other securities of any of them (other than pursuant to outstanding
exercisable stock options granted pursuant to one of the Company Option
Plans, pursuant to the Director Option Plan or the Company's
Shareholders Investment Plan) or issue any securities convertible into
or exchangeable for, or options, warrants to purchase, scrip, rights to
subscribe for, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever
relating to, or enter into any contract, understanding or arrangement
with respect to the issuance of, any shares of capital stock or any
other securities of any of them (other than pursuant to the Company
Option Plans or the Company's dividend reinvestment plan) or enter into
any arrangement or contract with respect to the purchase or voting of
shares of their capital stock, or adjust, split, combine or reclassify
any of their capital stock or other securities or make any other
changes in their capital structures. Neither Company nor any Company
Subsidiaries shall grant any additional stock options, except for stock
option grants made in accordance with existing elections by
participants in the Director Option Plan under any Company Option
Plans.
(d) DIVIDENDS. Company shall not and shall not permit any
Company Subsidiary to, declare, set aside, pay or make any dividend or
other distribution or payment (whether in cash, stock or property) with
respect to, or purchase or redeem, any shares of the capital stock of
any of them other than (a) regular quarterly cash dividends in an
amount not to exceed $.35 per share of Company Common Stock payable on
the regular historical payment dates and (b) dividends paid by any
Company Subsidiary to Company or another Company Subsidiary with
respect to its capital stock between the date hereof and the Effective
Time. It is agreed by the parties hereto that they will cooperate to
assure that, during any quarter, there shall not be a duplication of
nor omission of payment of dividends to shareholders of Company.
(e) EMPLOYEE PLANS, COMPENSATION, ETC. Except as otherwise
provided in this Agreement, Company shall not, and shall not permit any
Company Subsidiary to, adopt or amend (except as required by law or
other contractual obligations existing on the date hereof) any bonus,
profit sharing, compensation, severance, termination, stock option,
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pension, retirement, deferred compensation, employment or other
employee benefit agreements, trusts, plans, funds or other arrangements
for the benefit or welfare of any director, officer or employee, or
(except for normal merit increases in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practice) increase the compensation or fringe
benefits of any director, officer or employee or pay any benefit not
required by any existing plan, agreement or arrangement (including,
without limitation, the granting of stock options or stock appreciation
rights) or take any action or grant any benefit not required under the
terms of any existing agreements, trusts, plans, funds or other such
arrangements or enter into any contract, agreement, commitment or
arrangement to do any of the foregoing. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the Company may amend the Company's Employees' Health Care Plan to
adopt the amendments to the plan previously approved by Company's
management and communicated to Company's employees.
(f) CERTAIN POLICIES. Company will modify and change its loan,
litigation, real estate valuation asset, liquidity and investment
portfolio policies and practices (including loan classifications and
level of reserves) prior to the Effective Time so as to be consistent
on a mutually satisfactory basis with those of National City and
generally accepted accounting principles, at the earlier of (i) such
time as National City acknowledges that all conditions to its
obligations to consummate the Merger set forth in Sections 7.1 and 7.3
have been waived or satisfied or (ii) immediately prior to the
Effective Time. Company's representations, warranties or covenants
contained in this Agreement shall not be deemed to be untrue or
breached in any respect for any purpose as a consequence of any such
modifications or changes.
5.3 INTERIM OPERATIONS OF NATIONAL CITY. During the period from the
date of this Agreement to the Effective Time, without the prior written consent
of Company, National City will not declare or pay any extraordinary or special
dividend on the National City Common Stock or take any action that would (a)
materially delay or adversely affect the ability of National City to obtain any
approvals of Governmental Authorities required to permit consummation of the
Merger or (b) materially adversely affect its ability to perform its obligations
under this Agreement or to consummate the transaction contemplated hereby.
5.4 EMPLOYEE MATTERS.
(a) BENEFIT AGREEMENTS. Surviving Corporation and National
City shall honor, maintain and perform on and after the Effective Time,
without deduction, counterclaims, interruptions or deferment (other
than withholding under applicable law), all vested benefits of any
person under all plans or agreements.
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(b) RETIREMENT AND BENEFIT PLANS. For purposes of all employee
benefit plans, programs or arrangements maintained or contributed to by
National City or Surviving Corporation National City shall credit or
shall cause Surviving Corporation to credit employees of Company and
Company Subsidiaries who become employees of National City or Surviving
Corporation as a result of the Merger with all service with Company or
any Company Subsidiaries for purposes of eligibility and vesting as if
such service, and compensation from, had been performed for National
City but not for purposes of benefit accrual, provided, however, that
this provision shall not change the treatment under the National City
Non-Contributory Retirement Plan and Trust of service with National
City or any of National City's subsidiaries prior to the Closing Date.
From and after the Effective Time, National City shall, or shall cause
Surviving Corporation to, cause any and all pre-existing condition
limitations under any health plans to be waived with respect to Company
Employees and their eligible dependents to the extent that such
conditions were covered by Company's health plans. To the extent that
any Company Employees and their eligible dependents have, before the
Effective Time, satisfied in whole or in part any annual deductible or
paid any out of pocket or co-payment expenses under the applicable plan
of the Company, such individual shall be credited therefor under the
corresponding plan of National City or Surviving Corporation in which
such individual participates after the Effective Time.
(c) TRANSITION. Upon and after the Merger, Company Employees
shall have benefits that in the aggregate are no less favorable than
the benefits enjoyed generally by National City employees working in
similar business lines.
(d) GENERAL. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
in this Agreement, Company and National City shall take all actions
necessary to enact the items set forth on Schedule 5.4 of the Company
Disclosure Letter, and Schedule 5.4 of the Company Disclosure Letter
shall be deemed incorporated into this Section 5.4(d)
5.5 ACCESS AND INFORMATION. Upon reasonable notice, each of the parties
shall (and shall cause each of the parties' subsidiaries to) afford to the other
parties and their representatives (including, without limitation, directors,
officers and employees of the parties and their affiliates, and counsel,
accountants and other professionals retained) such access during normal business
hours throughout the period prior to the Effective Time to the books, records
(including, without limitation, tax returns and work papers of independent
auditors), properties, personnel and to such other information as any party may
reasonably request; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no party shall be required to
provide access to any such information if the providing of such access (i) would
be reasonably likely, in the written opinion of counsel, to result in the loss
or impairment
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of any privilege generally recognized under law with respect to such information
or (ii) would be precluded by any law, ordinance, regulation, judgment, order,
decree, license or permit of any Governmental Entity. All information furnished
by one party to any of the others in connection with this Agreement or the
transactions contemplated hereby shall be kept confidential by such other party
(and shall be used by it only in connection with this Agreement and the
transactions contemplated hereby) except to the extent that such information (i)
already is known to such other party when received from a source not known by
the receiving party to be under an obligation of confidentiality, (ii)
thereafter becomes lawfully obtainable from other sources or (iii) is required
to be disclosed in any non-confidential document filed with the Commission, the
FRB, the Department of Justice or any other agency or any government. In the
event that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall fail to
consummate, each party shall promptly cause all copies of documents or extracts
thereof containing information and data as to another party hereto to be
returned to the party which furnished the same or destroyed.
5.6 CERTAIN FILINGS, CONSENTS AND ARRANGEMENTS. National City and
Company shall (a) as soon as practicable make any required filings and
applications required to be filed with Governmental Authorities between the date
of this Agreement and the Effective Time, (b) cooperate with one another (i) in
promptly determining whether any other filings are required to be made or
consents, approvals, permits or authorizations are required to be obtained under
any other relevant federal, state or foreign law or regulation and (ii) in
promptly making any such filings, furnishing information required in connection
therewith and seeking timely to obtain any such consents, approvals, permits or
authorizations and (c) deliver to the other parties to this Agreement copies of
the publicly available portions of all such reports promptly after they are
filed.
5.7 STATE TAKEOVER STATUTES. Company shall take all reasonable steps
to (i) exempt Company and the Merger from the requirements of any state takeover
law by action of the Company's Board of Directors or otherwise and (ii), upon
the request of National City, assist in any challenge by National City to the
applicability to the Merger of any state takeover law.
5.8 INDEMNIFICATION AND INSURANCE.
(a) Indemnification. From and after the Effective Time,
National City will assume and honor any obligation as provided for and
permitted by applicable federal and state law Company had immediately
prior to the Effective Time with respect to the indemnification of each
person who is now, or has been at any time prior to the date hereof or
who becomes prior to the Effective Time, a director or officer of
Company or any Company Subsidiary or was serving at the request of
Company as a director, officer of any domestic or foreign corporation
joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other
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enterprise (collectively, the "Indemnitees") arising out of Company's
Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws or any indemnification (to the
maximum extent available thereunder and permitted by applicable law or
regulation) against any and all Losses in connection with or arising
out of any claim which is based upon, arises out of or in any way
relates to any actual or alleged act or omission occurring at or prior
to the Effective Time, including any actions taken to approve and
implement this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, in
the Indemnitee's capacity as a director or officer (whether elected or
appointed), of Company or any Company Subsidiary. This Section 5.8 will
be construed as an agreement, as to which the Indemnitees are intended
to be third-party beneficiaries.
(b) INSURANCE. For a period of six years after the Effective
Time, National City shall use all reasonable efforts to maintain in
effect current directors' and officers' liability insurance in an
aggregate limit at least equal to the aggregate limit of Company's
insurance that is in place on the date of this Agreement, which will
insure Company's directors and officers for events which occurred prior
to the Effective Time but were undiscovered at the Effective Time
provided, however, that in no event shall National City be obligated to
expend, in order to maintain or provide insurance coverage pursuant to
this Subsection 5.8(b), any amount per annum in excess of 200% of the
amount of the annual premium paid as of the date hereof by National
City for its current director's and officers' liability insurance.
5.9 ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS. Subject to the terms and conditions herein
provided, each of the parties hereto agrees to use its reasonable efforts to
take promptly, or cause to be taken promptly, all actions and to do promptly, or
cause to be done promptly, all things necessary, proper or advisable under
applicable laws and regulations to consummate and make effective as promptly as
practicable the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including using its
best efforts to obtain all necessary actions or non-actions, extensions,
waivers, consents and approvals from all applicable Governmental Entities,
effecting all necessary registrations, applications and filings (including,
without limitation, filings under any applicable state securities laws) and
obtaining any required contractual consents and regulatory approvals.
5.10 PUBLICITY. The initial press release announcing this Agreement
shall be a joint press release and thereafter Company and National City shall
consult with each other in issuing any press releases or otherwise making public
statements with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby and in making
any filings with any Governmental Entity or with any national securities
exchange with respect thereto.
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5.11 REGISTRATION STATEMENT. National City shall prepare and file the
Registration Statement with the Commission as soon as is reasonably practicable
following receipt of final comments from the Staff of the Commission on the
Proxy Statement (or advice that such Staff will not review such filing) and
shall use all reasonable efforts to have the Registration Statement declared
effective by the Commission as promptly as practicable and to maintain the
effectiveness of such Registration Statement. National City shall also take any
action required to be taken under state blue sky or securities laws in
connection with the issuance of the National City Common Stock pursuant to the
Merger, and Company shall furnish National City all information concerning
Company and the holders of its capital stock and shall take any action as
National City may reasonably request in connection with any such action.
5.12 SECURITIES ACT; POOLING-OF-INTERESTS.
(a) Prior to the Effective Time, Company shall identify to
National City all persons who were, at the time of the Company Meeting
(as herein later defined), possible "affiliates" of Company as that
term is used in paragraphs (c) and (d) of Rule 145 under the Securities
Act (at the minimum, all those persons subject to the reporting
requirements of Rule 16(a) under the Exchange Act) and for purposes of
qualifying for "pooling-of-interests" accounting treatment (the
"Affiliates").
(b) Company shall use its best efforts to obtain a written
agreement from each person who is identified as a possible Affiliate
pursuant to clause (a) above providing that such person will not sell,
pledge, transfer or otherwise dispose of any shares of Company Common
Stock held by such "affiliate" and the Merger Consideration to be
received by such "affiliate" in the Merger: (1) in the case of shares
of National City Common Stock only, except in compliance with the
applicable provisions of the Securities Act and the rules and
regulations thereunder; and (2) during the periods during which any
such sale, pledge, transfer or other disposition would, under generally
accepted accounting principles or the rules, regulations or
interpretations of the Commission, disqualify the Merger for
"pooling-of-interests" accounting treatment. The parties understand
that such periods in general encompass the period commencing thirty
(30) days prior to the Merger and ending at the time of the publication
of financial results covering at least 30 days of combined operations
of National City and Company within the meaning of Section 201.01 of
the Commission's Codification of Financial Reporting Policies. National
City shall file such financial results within 90 days of the Effective
Time. Company shall deliver such written agreements to National City at
or prior to the Effective Time.
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5.13 STOCK EXCHANGE LISTINGS. National City shall use its best efforts
to list on the New York Stock Exchange,upon official notice of issuance, the
National City Common Stock to be issued pursuant to the Merger.
5.14 PROXY. As soon as practicable after the date hereof, Company and
National City shall prepare the Proxy Statement, file it with the Commission,
respond to comments of the Staff of the Commission, clear the Proxy Statement
with the Staff of the Commission and promptly thereafter mail the Proxy
Statement to all holders of shares of Company Common Stock and National City
Common Stock. National City and Company shall cooperate with each other in the
preparation of the Proxy Statement.
5.15 SHAREHOLDERS' AND STOCKHOLDERS' MEETINGS.
(a) Company shall take all action necessary, in accordance with
applicable law and its Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws, to convene
a special meeting of the holders of Company Common Stock (the "Company
Meeting") as promptly as practicable for the purpose of considering and
taking action upon this Agreement. Unless the Board of Directors of
Company shall have received the written advice of counsel, reasonably
acceptable to National City, to the effect that making such a
recommendation would cause the Board of Directors of Company to violate
its fiduciary duty under applicable law and provided that such advice
is not predicated solely upon the price of National City Common Stock,
the Board of Directors of Company shall recommend that the holders of
the Company Common Stock vote in favor of and approve the Merger and
adopt this Agreement at the Company Meeting.
(b) National City shall take all action necessary, in
accordance with applicable law and its certificate of incorporation and
By-laws, to convene a meeting of the holders of National City Common
Stock (the "National City Meeting") for the purpose of considering and
taking action upon this Agreement. The Board of Directors of National
City shall recommend that holders of National City Common Stock vote in
favor of and approve the Merger and adopt this Agreement at the
National City Meeting.
5.16 POOLING-OF-INTERESTS AND TAX-FREE REORGANIZATION TREATMENT.
Neither National City nor Company shall intentionally take or cause to be taken
any action, whether before or after the Effective Time, which would disqualify
the Merger as a "pooling of interests" for accounting purposes or as a
"reorganization" within the meaning of Section 368 of the Code.
5.17 PROVISION OF SHARES. National City shall issue and provide the
shares of National City Common Stock deliverable upon the conversion of the
Company Common Stock pursuant to this Agreement, and will provide the cash to be
paid in lieu of fractional shares of National City Common Stock as provided in
Subsection 2.3(f). The shares of National City Common
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Stock to be issued and exchanged for shares of Company Common Stock pursuant to
this Agreement will, at the Effective Time, be duly authorized, validly issued,
fully paid and nonassessable and subject to no preemptive rights.
5.18 ADVERSE ACTION. From the date hereof until the Effective Time,
except as expressly contemplated by the Agreement neither party will, without
the written consent of the other party (which consent will not be unreasonably
withheld or delayed) knowingly take any action that would, or would be
reasonably likely to result in (a) any of its representations and warranties set
forth in the Agreement being or becoming untrue in any material respect, (b) any
of the conditions to the Merger set forth in Article VII not being satisfied or
(c) a material violation of any provision of the Agreement except, in each case,
as may be required by applicable law.
VI. CLOSING MATTERS
6.1 THE CLOSING. Subject to satisfaction or waiver of all conditions
precedent set forth in Article VII of this Agreement, the closing ("Closing") at
such location mutually agreeable to the parties and on a date ("Closing Date")
which is on (1) the third business day after the later of:
(a) the first date on which the Merger may be consummated in
accordance with the approvals of any Governmental Entities or
(b) the date the required approvals of Company's shareholders
and National City's stockholders have been obtained or
(2) such other date to which the parties agree in writing.
If all conditions are determined to be satisfied in all material respects (or
are duly waived) at the Closing, the Closing shall be consummated by the making
of all necessary filing required by all Governmental Entities.
6.2 DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES. National City and Company shall use
their respective best efforts, on or prior to Closing, to execute and deliver
all such instruments, documents or certificates as may be necessary or
advisable, on the advice of counsel, for the consummation at the Closing of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement to occur as soon as practicable.
VII. CONDITIONS
7.1 CONDITIONS TO EACH PARTY'S OBLIGATIONS TO EFFECT THE MERGER. The
respective obligations of each party to effect the Merger shall be subject to
the fulfillment at or prior to the Effective Time of the following conditions:
(a) The Merger shall have been approved and adopted by the
requisite vote of the holders of Company Common Stock and by the
requisite vote of the holders of National City Common Stock.
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(b) The National City Common Stock issuable in the Merger shall
have been authorized for listing on the New York Stock Exchange, upon
official notice of issuance.
(c) All authorizations, consents, orders or approvals of, and
all expirations of waiting periods imposed by, any Governmental Entity
(collectively, "Consents") which are necessary for the consummation of
the Merger, (other than immaterial Consents, the failure to obtain
which would not be materially adverse to the combined businesses of
National City, Company, National City's subsidiaries and Company
Subsidiaries taken as a whole) shall have been obtained or shall have
occurred and shall be in full force and effect at the Effective Time.
(d) The Registration Statement shall have become effective in
accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act. No stop order
suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have
been issued by the Commission and remain in effect.
(e) National City and Company shall have received a letter,
dated the date of the Closing, from Ernst and Young or its successor,
National City's independent accountants, to the effect that, for
financial reporting purposes, the Merger qualifies for
pooling-of-interests accounting treatment under generally accepted
accounting principles if consummated in accordance with this Agreement.
(f) No temporary restraining order, preliminary or permanent
injunction or other order by any federal or state court in the United
States which prevents the consummation of the Merger shall have been
issued and remain in effect.
(g) Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz counsel to Company, shall
have delivered to Company and National City their opinion, dated the
day of the Effective Time, substantially to the effect that, on the
basis of facts, representations and assumptions set forth in such
opinion which are consistent with the state of facts existing at the
Effective Time, the Merger will be treated for federal income tax
purposes as a reorganization within the meaning of Section 368(a) of
the Code and that, accordingly: (i) no gain or loss will be recognized
by National City or Company as a result of the Merger; (ii) no gain or
loss will be recognized by the shareholders of Company who exchange
their shares of the Company Common Stock solely for shares of National
City Common Stock pursuant to the Merger (except with respect to cash
received in lieu of a fractional share interest in National City Common
Stock); (iii) the tax basis of the shares of National City Common Stock
received by shareholders who exchange all of their shares of Company
Common Stock solely for shares of National City Common Stock in the
Merger will be the same as the tax basis of the shares of Company
Common Stock surrendered in exchange therefor (reduced by any amount
allocable to a fractional share interest for
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which cash is received); and (iv) the holding period of the shares of
National City Common Stock received in the Merger will include the
period during which the shares of Company Common Stock surrendered in
exchange therefor were held, provided such shares of Company Common
Stock were held as capital assets at the Effective Time. In rendering
such opinion, counsel may require and rely upon representations
contained in certificates of officers of Company, National City, and
others.
7.2 CONDITIONS TO OBLIGATION OF COMPANY TO EFFECT THE MERGER. The
obligation of Company to effect the Merger shall be subject to the fulfillment
or waiver at or prior to the Effective Time of the additional following
conditions:
(a) National City shall have performed in all material respects
its covenants contained in this Agreement required to be performed at
or prior to the Effective Time.
(b) The representations and warranties of National City
contained in this Agreement shall be true and correct when made and the
representations and warranties set forth in Article 3 shall be true and
correct as of the Effective Time as if made at and as of such time,
except as expressly contemplated or permitted by this Agreement, except
for representations and warranties relating to a time or times other
than the Effective Time which were or will be true and correct at such
time or times and except where the failure or failures of such
representations and warranties to be so true and correct, individually
or in the aggregate, does not result or would not result in a Material
Adverse Effect.
(c) National City shall have furnished Company a Certificate
dated the date of the Closing, signed by the Chief Executive Officer
and Chief Financial Officer of National City that, to the best of their
knowledge and belief after due inquiry, the conditions set forth in
Subsections 7.2(a) and 7.2(b) have been satisfied.
7.3 CONDITIONS TO OBLIGATION OF NATIONAL CITY TO EFFECT THE MERGER. The
obligation of National City to effect the Merger shall be subject to the
fulfillment or waiver at or prior to the Effective Time of the additional
following conditions:
(a) Company shall have performed in all material respects its
covenants contained in this Agreement required to be performed at or
prior to the Effective Time.
(b) The representations and warranties of Company contained in
this Agreement shall be true and correct when made and the
representations and warranties set forth in Article 4 shall be true and
correct as of the Effective Time as if made on and as of such time,
except as expressly contemplated or permitted by this Agreement, except
for representations and warranties relating to a time or times other
than the Effective Time which were or will be true and correct at such
time or times and except where the failure
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or failures of such representations and warranties to be so true and
correct, individually or in the aggregate, does not result or would not
result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) Company shall have furnished National City a Certificate
dated the date of the Closing signed by the Chief Executive Officer and
Chief Financial Officer of Company that, to the best of their knowledge
and belief after due inquiry, the conditions set forth in subsections
7.3(a) and 7.3(b) have been satisfied.
VIII. MISCELLANEOUS
8.1 TERMINATION. This Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to
the Effective Time, whether before or after approval by the shareholders of
Company and/or the stockholders of National City:
(a) by mutual consent of the Board of Directors of National
City and the Board of Directors of Company;
(b) by either National City or Company if the Merger shall not
have been consummated on or before June 30, 1998 or if this Agreement
was not approved at either the Company Meeting or the National City
Meeting (provided the terminating party is not otherwise in material
breach of its obligations under this Agreement);
(c) by Company if any of the conditions specified in Sections
7.1 and 7.2 have not been met or waived by Company at such time as such
condition can no longer be satisfied;
(d) by National City if any of the conditions specified in
Sections 7.1 and 7.3 have not been met or waived by National City at
such time as such condition can no longer be satisfied;
(e) by Company, during the 15-day period commencing on the Fed
Approval Date, if both of the following conditions are satisfactory:
(i) the average of the daily closing prices on the New
York Stock Exchange of a share of National City Common Stock for the 20
consecutive trading days ending at the end of the third trading day
immediately preceding the Fed Approval is less than $53.375; and
(ii) the number obtained by dividing the average of the
daily closing prices on the New York Stock Exchange of a share of
National City Common Stock for the 20 consecutive trading days ending
at the end of the third trading day immediately preceding the Fed
Approval Date by the closing price of National City Common Stock on the
trading day immediately preceding the public announcement of this
Agreement is less than the number obtained by dividing the Final Index
Price (as defined below) by the
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Initial Index Price (as defined below) and subtracting.20 from the
quotient.
For purposes of this Subsection 8.1(e):
The "Index Group" shall mean all those companies listed
in the National City Disclosure Letter the common stock of which is
publicly traded and as to which there has not been a publicly announced
proposal at any time for such company to be acquired. In the event that
any such company or companies are so removed from the Index Group, the
weights attributed to the remaining companies shall be adjusted
proportionately for purposes of determining both the Initial Index
Price and the Final Index Price;
The "Initial Index Price" shall mean the weighted
average (weighted in accordance with the factors listed in the National
City Disclosure Letter) of the closing prices on the trading day
immediately preceding the public announcement of this Agreement of the
common stock of the companies comprising the Index Group;
The "Final Price" of any company belonging to the Index
Group shall mean the average of the daily closing sale prices of a
share of the common stock of such company, as reported in the
consolidated transaction reporting system for the market or exchange on
which such common stock is principally traded, during the period of 20
consecutive trading days ending at the end of the third trading day
immediately preceding the Fed Approval Date; and
The "Final Index Price" shall mean the weighted average
(weighted in accordance with the factors listed in the National City
Disclosure Letter) of the Final Prices for all of the companies
comprising the Index Group.
If National City or any company belonging to the Index Group
declares a stock dividend or effects a reclassification,
recapitalization, split-up, combination, exchange or shares or similar
transaction between the date of this Agreement and the Fed Approval
Date, the closing prices for the common stock of such company shall be
appropriately adjusted for the purposes of the definitions above so as
to be comparable to the price on the date of this Agreement.
8.2 NON-SURVIVAL OF REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND AGREEMENTS. The
representations and warranties or covenants in this Agreement will terminate at
the Effective Time or the earlier termination of this Agreement pursuant to
Section 7.1, as the case may be; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if the Merger is
consummated, Sections 1.6, 2.1 through 2.4, 5.4, 5.5, 5.8, 5.17 and 8.2 hereof
will survive the Effective Time to the extent contemplated by such Sections;
PROVIDED, FURTHER, that the last sentence of Section 5.5 and all of Section 8.10
hereof will in all events survive any termination of this Agreement.
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8.3 WAIVER AND AMENDMENT. Subject to applicable provisions of the DGCL
and MBCA, any provision of this Agreement may be waived at any time by the party
which is, or whose stockholders or shareholders are, entitled to the benefits
thereof, and this Agreement may be amended or supplemented at any time, provided
that no amendment will be made after any stockholder or shareholder approval of
the Merger which reduces or changes the form of the Merger Consideration without
further stockholder or shareholder approval. No such waiver, amendment or
supplement will be effective unless in a writing which makes express reference
to this Section 8.3 and is signed by the party or parties sought to be bound
thereby.
8.4 ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement together with the Option
Agreement contain the entire agreement among National City and Company with
respect to the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby, and supersedes all prior agreements among the parties with respect to
such matters.
8.5 APPLICABLE LAW; CONSENT TO JURISDICTION. This Agreement will be
governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Michigan
except to the extent laws of the state of Delaware govern the merger. National
City and Company consent to personal jurisdiction in any action brought in any
federal or state court within the State of Michigan having subject matter
jurisdiction in the matter for purposes of any action arising out of this
Agreement.
8.6 CERTAIN DEFINITIONS; HEADLINES. (a) For purposes of this Agreement,
the term:
(i) "affiliate", "associate" and "significant
subsidiary" shall have the respective meanings ascribed to such terms
in Rule 12b-2 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange
Act, as in effect on the date hereof.
(ii) "control" (including the terms "controlled by" and
"under common control with") means the possession, directly or
indirectly or as trustee or executor, of the power to direct or cause
the direction of the management or policies of a person, whether
through the ownership of stock, as trustee or executor, by contract or
credit arrangement or otherwise;
(iii) "Fed Approval Date" means the day the FRB issues
an order approving consummation of the Merger.
(iv) "Market Price" means the average of the per share
closing prices on the New York Stock Exchange of National City Common
Stock for the 20 consecutive trading days ending at the end of the
third trading day immediately preceding the Effective Time.
(v) "Material Adverse Effect" means an event, change or
occurrence which has a material negative impact on the financial
condition, businesses or results of
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operations of Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or
National City and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as the case may
be, or the ability of Company or National City, as the case may be, to
consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. The effect of any
action taken by Company solely pursuant to Subsection 5.2(f) shall not
be taken into consideration in determining whether any Material Adverse
Effect has occurred.
(vi) "person" means an individual, corporation,
partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization; and
(vii) "subsidiary" of Company, National City or any
other person means, except where the context otherwise requires, any
corporation, partnership, trust or similar association of which
Company, National City or any other person, as the case may be (either
alone or through or together with any other subsidiary), owns, directly
or indirectly, more than 50% of the stock or other equity interests,
the holders of which are generally entitled to vote for the election of
the board of directors or other governing body of such corporation.
(b) The descriptive headings contained in this Agreement are
for convenience and reference only and will not affect in any way the
meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.
(c) Unless the context of this Agreement expressly indicates
otherwise, (i) any singular term in this Agreement will include the
plural and any plural term will include the singular and (ii) the term
section or schedule will mean a section or schedule of or to this
Agreement.
8.7 NOTICES. All notices, consents, requests, demands and other
communications hereunder will be in writing and will be deemed to have been duly
given or delivered if delivered personally, telexed with receipt acknowledged,
mailed by registered or certified mail return receipt requested, sent by
facsimile with confirmation of receipt, or delivered by a recognized commercial
courier addressed as follows:
If to Company to:
First of America Bank Corporation
211 South Rose Street
Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007
Attention :Richard F. Chormann, Chairman, President and
Chief Executive Officer
Fax No. (616) 376-7273
With copies to:
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
51 West 52nd Street
New York, New York 10019
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Attention: Edward Herlihy, Esq.
Fax No. (212) 403-2000
and
Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.
107 W. Michigan Avenue
Suit 400
Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007
Attention: Joseph B. Hemker
Fax No. (616) 382-1568
If to National City to:
National City Corporation
P. O. Box 5756
Cleveland, Ohio 44101-0756
Attention: Chairman of the Board
Fax No. (216) 575-3332
With a copy to:
National City Corporation
Law Department
P. O. Box 5756
Cleveland, Ohio 44101-0756
Attention: General Counsel
Fax No. (216) 575-3332
or to such other address as any party may have furnished to the other parties in
writing in accordance with this Section 8.7.
8.8 COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which will be deemed to be an original but all of which
together will constitute but one agreement.
8.9 PARTIES IN INTEREST; ASSIGNMENT. Except for Section 2.2, (which is
intended to be for the benefit of the holders of Outstanding Options under the
Company Option Plans to the extent contemplated thereby and their beneficiaries,
and may be enforced by such persons) and Sections 5.4 and 5.8 hereof (which are
intended to be for the benefit of directors, officers or employees to the extent
contemplated thereby and their beneficiaries, and may be enforced by such
persons), this Agreement is not intended to nor will it confer upon any other
person (other than the parties hereto) any rights or remedies. Without the prior
written consent of the other parties to this Agreement neither National City nor
Company shall assign any rights or delegate any obligations under this
Agreement. Any such purported assignment or delegation made without prior
consent of the other parties hereto shall be null and void.
8.10 EXPENSES. Each party will bear all expenses incurred by it in
connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, except
that printing expenses and
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Commission filing and registration fees shall be shared equally between Company
and National City.
8.11 ENFORCEMENT OF THE AGREEMENT. The parties hereto agree that
irreparable damage would occur in the event that any of the provisions of this
Agreement were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were
otherwise breached. It is accordingly agreed that the parties hereto will be
entitled to an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches of this Agreement
and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions hereof in any court of the
United States or any state having jurisdiction, this being in addition to any
other remedy to which they are entitled at law or in equity.
8.12 SEVERABILITY. If any term or other provision of this Agreement is
invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced by any rule of law or public
policy, all other terms and provisions of this Agreement will nevertheless
remain in full force and effect so long as the economic or legal substance of
the transactions contemplated hereby is not affected in any manner adverse to
any party hereto. Upon any such determination that any term or other provision
is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced, the parties hereto will
negotiate in good faith to modify this Agreement so as to effect the original
intent of the parties as closely as possible in an acceptable manner to the end
that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are consummated to the
extent possible.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused their duly
authorized representatives to execute this Agreement as of the date first above
written.
FIRST OF AMERICA BANK CORPORATION
By: /S/ RICHARD F. CHORMANN
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Richard F. Chormann
Chairman, President and
Chief Executive Officer
NATIONAL CITY CORPORATION
By: /S/ VINCENT A. DIGIROLAMO
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Vincent A. DiGirolamo
Vice Chairman
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Exhibit 2.2
STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT, dated as of November 30, 1997, between
National City Corporation, a Delaware corporation ("Grantee"), and First of
America Bank Corporation, a Michigan corporation ("Issuer").
W I T N E S S E T H:
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WHEREAS, as a condition to, and contemporaneous with the
execution of this Stock Option Agreement the parties are entering into an
Agreement and Plan of Merger dated November 30, 1997 ("Agreement") and in
consideration therefor, Issuer has agreed to grant Grantee the Option (as
hereinafter defined):
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the
mutual covenants and agreements set forth herein and in the Agreement, the
parties hereto agree as follows:
1. (a) Issuer hereby grants to Grantee an unconditional,
irrevocable option (the "Option") to purchase, subject to the terms hereof, up
to 16,813,611 fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock, par value
$10.00 ("Common Stock"), of Issuer at a price of $58.75 share; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that in the event Issuer issues or agrees to issue any shares of Common
Stock at a price less than $58.75 per share (as adjusted pursuant to subsection
5(b)), such price shall be equal to such lesser price (such price, as adjusted
if applicable, the "Option Price"); PROVIDED FURTHER that in no event shall the
number of shares for which this Option is exercisable together with the number
of shares owned by Grantee other than Trust Account Shares (as defined in the
Agreement) exceed 19.9% of the Issuer's issued and outstanding common shares
without giving effect to any shares subject or issued pursuant to the Option.
The number of shares of Common Stock that may be received upon the exercise of
the Option and the Option Price are subject to adjustment as herein set forth.
(b) In the event that any additional shares of Common Stock
are issued or otherwise become outstanding after the date of this Stock Option
Agreement, the number of shares of Common Stock subject to the Option shall be
increased so that, after such issuance, together with the number of shares owned
by Grantee other than Trust Account Shares equals 19.9% of the number of shares
of Common Stock then issued and outstanding without giving effect to any shares
subject or issued pursuant to the Option. Nothing contained in this Section 1(b)
or elsewhere in this Stock Option Agreement shall be deemed to authorize Issuer
or Grantee to breach any provision of the Agreement.
2. (a) The Holder (as hereinafter defined) may exercise the
Option, in whole or part, if, but only if, both an Initial Triggering Event (as
hereinafter defined) and a Subsequent Triggering Event (as hereinafter defined)
shall have occurred prior to the occurrence of an Exercise Termination Event (as
hereinafter defined), PROVIDED that the Holder shall have sent the written
notice of such exercise (as provided in subsection (e) of this Section 2) within
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following such Subsequent Triggering Event (or such later date as provided in
Section 10). Each of the following shall be an Exercise Termination Event: (i)
immediately prior to the Effective Time of the Merger; (ii) termination of the
Agreement in accordance with the provisions thereof (other than a termination
resulting from a willful breach by Issuer of a provision of the Agreement) if
such termination occurs prior to the occurrence of an Initial Triggering Event;
or (iii) the passage of twelve months after termination of the Agreement if such
termination follows the occurrence of an Initial Triggering Event (PROVIDED that
if an Initial Triggering Event continues or another Initial Triggering Event
occurs beyond such termination, the Exercise Termination Event shall be twelve
months from the expiration of the Last Triggering Event but in no event more
than 18 months after such termination). The "Last Triggering Event" shall mean
the last Initial Triggering Event to occur. The term "Holder" shall mean the
holder or holders of the Option.
(b) The term "Initial Triggering Event" shall mean any of the
following events or transactions occurring after the date hereof:
(i) Issuer or any of its subsidiaries (each an
"Issuer Subsidiary"), without having received Grantee's prior written
consent, shall have entered into an agreement to engage in, or the
Issuer's board of directors recommends that shareholders of the Issuer
approve or accept, an Acquisition Transaction (as hereinafter defined)
with any person (the term "person" for purposes of this Stock Option
Agreement having the meaning assigned thereto in Sections 3(a)(9) and
13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "1934 Act"), and
the rules and regulations thereunder) other than Grantee or any of its
subsidiaries (each a "Grantee Subsidiary") or the board of directors of
Issuer shall have recommended that the shareholders of Issuer approve
or accept any Acquisition Transaction other than as contemplated by the
Agreement. For purposes of this Stock Option Agreement, "Acquisition
Transaction" shall mean (a) a merger or consolidation, or any similar
transaction, involving Issuer or any Issuer Subsidiary, (b) a purchase,
lease or other acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets of
Issuer or any Subsidiary, (c) a purchase or other acquisition
(including by way of merger, consolidation, share exchange or
otherwise) of securities representing 10% or more of the voting power
of Issuer or Subsidiary or (d) any substantially similar transaction;
(The term Acquisition Transaction specifically does not include any
merger or consolidation among Issuer and/or Issuer Subsidiaries.)
(ii) The Board of Directors of Issuer does not
recommend that the shareholders of Issuer approve the Agreement or
publicly withdraws or modifies, or publicly announces its intention to
withdraw or modify, in any manner adverse to the Grantee, its
recommendation that its shareholders approve the Agreement in
anticipation of engaging in an Acquisition Transaction;
(iii) Any person other than Grantee or any Grantee
Subsidiary or any Issuer Subsidiary acting in a fiduciary capacity
shall have acquired beneficial ownership or the right to acquire
beneficial ownership of 10% or more of the outstanding shares of
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Common Stock (the term "beneficial ownership" for purposes of this
Stock Option Agreement having the meaning assigned thereto in Section
13(d) of the 1934 Act, and the rules and regulations thereunder);
(iv) Any person other than Grantee or any Grantee
Subsidiary shall have made a BONA FIDE proposal to Issuer or its
shareholders by public announcement or written communication that is or
becomes the subject of public disclosure to engage in an Acquisition
Transaction;
(v) After a proposal is made by a third party to
Issuer or its shareholders to engage in an Acquisition Transaction,
Issuer shall have breached any covenant or obligation contained in the
Agreement and such breach (x) would entitle Grantee to terminate the
Agreement and (y) shall not have been cured prior to the Notice Date
(as defined below); or
(vi) Any person other than Grantee or any Grantee
Subsidiary, other than in connection with a transaction to which
Grantee has given its prior written consent, shall have filed an
application or notice with The Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System (the "FRB"), the Office of Thrift Supervision ("OTS") or
other governmental authority or regulatory or administrative agency or
commission, domestic or foreign (each, a "Government Entity"), for
approval to engage in an Acquisition Transaction.
(c) The term "Subsequent Triggering Event" shall mean either
of the following events or transactions occurring after the date hereof:
(i) The acquisition by any person, other than any Grantee
Subsidiary or any Issuer Subsidiary acting in a fiduciary capacity, of
beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the then outstanding Common
Stock; or
(ii) The occurrence of the Initial Triggering Event described
in clause (i) of subsection 2(b), except that the percentage referred
to in clause (c) shall be 15%.
(d) Issuer shall notify Grantee promptly in writing of the
occurrence of any Initial Triggering Event or Subsequent Triggering Event
(together, a "Triggering Event"), it being understood that the giving of such
notice by Issuer shall not be a condition to the right of the Holder to exercise
the Option.
(e) In the event the Holder is entitled to and wishes to
exercise the Option, it shall send to Issuer a written notice (the date of which
being herein referred to as the "Notice Date") specifying (i) the total number
of shares it will purchase pursuant to such exercise and (ii) a place and date
not earlier than three business days nor later than 60 business days from the
Notice Date for the closing of such purchase (the "Closing Date"); PROVIDED that
if prior notification to or approval of the FRB, OTS or any other Governmental
Entity is required in connection with such
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purchase, the Holder shall promptly file the required notice or application for
approval and shall expeditiously process the same and the period of time that
otherwise would run pursuant to this sentence shall run from the later of (x)
the date on which any required notification periods have expired or been
terminated and (y) the date on which such approvals have been obtained and any
requisite waiting period or periods shall have passed. Any exercise of the
option shall be deemed to occur on the Notice Date relating thereto.
(f) At the closing referred to in subsection (e) of this
Section 2, the Holder shall pay to Issuer the aggregate purchase price for the
shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to the exercise of the Option in
immediately available funds by wire transfer to a bank account designated by
Issuer, PROVIDED that failure or refusal of Issuer to designate such a bank
account shall not preclude the Holder from exercising the Option.
(g) At such closing, simultaneously with the delivery of
immediately available funds as provided in subsection (f) of this Section 2,
Issuer shall deliver to the Holder a certificate or certificates representing
the number of shares of Common Stock purchased by the Holder and, if the Option
should be exercised in part only, a new Option evidencing the rights of the
Holder thereof to purchase the balance of the shares purchasable hereunder, and
the Holder shall deliver to Issuer a copy of this Stock Option Agreement and a
letter agreeing that the Holder will not offer to sell or otherwise dispose of
such shares in violation of applicable law or the provisions of this Stock
Option Agreement.
(h) Certificates for Common Stock delivered at a closing
hereunder shall be endorsed with a restrictive legend that shall read
substantially as follows:
"The transfer of the shares represented by this certificate is subject
to certain provisions of an agreement between the registered holder
hereof and Issuer and to resale restrictions arising under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended. A copy of such agreement is on file
at the principal office of Issuer and will be provided to the holder
hereof without charge upon receipt by Issuer of a written request
therefor."
It is understood and agreed that: (i) the reference to the resale restrictions
of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act") in the above legend
shall be removed by delivery of substitute certificate(s) without such reference
if the Holder shall have delivered to Issuer a copy of a letter from the staff
of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), or an opinion of counsel,
in form and substance satisfactory to Issuer, to the effect that such legend is
not required for purposes of the 1933 Act; (ii) the reference to the provisions
of this Stock Option Agreement in the above legend shall be removed by delivery
of substitute certificate(s) without such reference if the shares have been sold
or transferred in compliance with the provisions of this Stock Option Agreement
and under circumstances that do not require the retention of such reference; and
(iii) the legend shall be removed in its entirety if the conditions in the
preceding clauses (i) and (ii) are both satisfied. In addition, such
certificates shall bear any other legend as may be required by law.
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(i) Upon the giving by the Holder to Issuer of the written
notice of exercise of the Option provided for under subsection (e) of this
Section 2 and the tender of the applicable purchase price in immediately
available funds, the Holder shall be deemed to be the holder of record of the
shares of Common Stock issuable upon such exercise, notwithstanding that the
stock transfer books of Issuer shall then be closed or that certificates
representing such shares of Common Stock shall not then be actually delivered to
the Holder. Issuer shall pay all expenses, and any and all United States
Federal, state and local taxes and other charges that may be payable in
connection with the preparation, issue and delivery of stock certificates under
this Section 2 in the name of the Holder or its assignee, transferee or
designee.
3. Issuer agrees: (i) that it shall at all times maintain,
free from preemptive rights, sufficient authorized but unissued or treasury
shares of Common Stock so that the Option may be exercised without additional
authorization of Common Stock after giving effect to all other options,
warrants, convertible securities and other rights to purchase Common Stock; (ii)
that it will not, by charter amendment or through reorganization, consolidation,
merger, dissolution or sale of assets, or by any other voluntary act, avoid or
seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the covenants,
stipulations or conditions to be observed or performed hereunder by Issuer;
(iii) promptly to take all action as may from time to time be required
(including (x) complying with all premerger notification, reporting and waiting
period requirements specified in 15 U.S.C. Sec. l8a and regulations promulgated
thereunder and (y) in the event, under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as
amended, or the Change in Bank Control Act of 1978, as amended, or any state
banking law, prior approval of or notice to the FRB, OTS or to any other
Governmental Entity is necessary before the Option may be exercised, cooperating
fully with the Holder in preparing such applications or notices and providing
such information to each such Governmental Entity as they may require) in order
to permit the Holder to exercise the Option and Issuer duly and effectively to
issue shares of Common Stock pursuant hereto; and (iv) promptly to take all
action provided herein to protect the rights of the Holder against dilution.
4. This Stock Option Agreement (and the Option granted hereby)
are exchangeable, without expense, at the option of the Holder, upon
presentation and surrender of this Stock Option Agreement at the principal
office of Issuer, for other agreements providing for Options of different
denominations entitling the holder thereof to purchase, on the same terms and
subject to the same conditions as are set forth herein, in the aggregate the
same number of shares of Common Stock purchasable hereunder. The terms "Stock
Option Agreement" and "Option" as used herein include any Stock Option
Agreements and related options for which this Stock Option Agreement (and the
Option granted hereby) may be exchanged. Upon receipt by Issuer of evidence
reasonably satisfactory to it of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of
this Stock Option Agreement, and (in the case of loss, theft or destruction) of
reasonably satisfactory indemnification, and upon surrender and cancellation of
this Stock Option Agreement, if mutilated, Issuer will execute and deliver a new
Stock Option Agreement of like tenor and date. Any such new Stock Option
Agreement executed and delivered shall constitute an additional contractual
obligation on the part of Issuer, whether or not the Stock Option Agreement so
lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated shall at any time be enforceable by anyone.
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5. In addition to the adjustment in the number of shares of
Common Stock that are purchasable upon exercise of the Option pursuant to
Section 1 of this Stock Option Agreement, the number of shares of Common Stock
purchasable upon the exercise of the Option shall be subject to adjustment from
time to time as provided in this Section 5.
(a) In the event of any change in Common Stock by
reason of stock dividends, split-ups, mergers, recapitalizations, combinations,
subdivisions, conversions, exchanges of shares or the like, the type and number
of shares of Common Stock purchasable upon exercise hereof shall be
appropriately adjusted.
(b) Whenever the number of shares of Common Stock
purchasable upon exercise hereof is adjusted as provided in this Section 5, the
Option Price shall be adjusted by multiplying the Option Price by a fraction,
the numerator of which shall be equal to the number of shares of Common Stock
purchasable prior to the adjustment and the denominator of which shall be equal
to the number of shares of Common Stock purchasable after the adjustment.
6. Upon the occurrence of a Subsequent Triggering Event that
occurs prior to an Exercise Termination Event, Issuer shall, at the request of
Grantee delivered within 30 days (or such later date as may be provided pursuant
to Section 10) of such Subsequent Triggering Event (whether on its own behalf or
on behalf of any subsequent holder of this Option (or part thereof) or any of
the shares of Common Stock issued pursuant hereto), promptly prepare, file and
keep current a shelf registration statement under the 1933 Act covering any
shares issued and issuable pursuant to this Option and shall use its best
efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective and remain
current in order to permit the sale or other disposition of any shares of Common
Stock issued upon total or partial exercise of this option ("Option Shares") in
accordance with any plan of disposition requested by Grantee; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that Issuer may postpone filing a registration statement relating to a
registration request by Grantee under this Section 6 for a period of time (not
in excess of 180 days) if in its judgment such filing would require the
disclosure of material information that Issuer has a BONA FIDE business purpose
for preserving as confidential. Issuer will use its best efforts to cause such
registration statement first to become effective and then to remain effective
for such period not in excess of 180 days from the day such registration
statement first becomes effective or such shorter time as may be reasonably
necessary to effect such sales or other dispositions. Grantee shall have the
right to demand two such registrations. If requested by any such Holder in
connection with such registration, Issuer shall become a party to any
underwriting agreement relating to the sale of such shares, but only to the
extent of obligating itself in respect of representations, warranties,
indemnities and other agreements customarily included in such underwriting
agreements. The foregoing notwithstanding, if, at the time of any request by
Grantee for registration of Option Shares as provided above, Issuer is in the
process of registration with respect to an underwritten public offering of
shares of Common Stock, and if in the good faith judgment of the managing
underwriter or managing underwriters, or, if none, the sole underwriter or
underwriters, of such offering the offering or inclusion of the Holder's Option
or Option Shares would interfere with the successful marketing of the shares of
Common Stock offered by Issuer, the number of Option
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Shares otherwise to be covered in the registration statement contemplated hereby
may be reduced; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that after any such required reduction the
number of Option Shares to be included in such offering for the account of the
Holder shall constitute at least 25% of the total number of shares to be issued
by the Holder and Issuer in the aggregate; PROVIDED FURTHER, however, that if
such reduction occurs, then the Issuer shall file a registration statement for
the balance as promptly as practical and no reduction shall thereafter occur.
Each such Holder shall provide all information reasonably requested by Issuer
for inclusion in any registration statement to be filed hereunder. Upon
receiving any request under this Section 6 from any Holder, Issuer agrees to
send a copy thereof to any other person known to Issuer to be entitled to
registration rights under this Section 6, in each case by promptly mailing the
same, postage prepaid, to the address of record of the persons entitled to
receive such copies.
7. (a) Upon the occurrence of a Subsequent Triggering Event
that occurs prior to an Exercise Termination Event, (i) at the request of the
Holder, delivered within 30 days of the Subsequent Trigger Event (or such later
period as may be provided pursuant to Section 10), Issuer shall repurchase the
Option from the Holder at a price (the "Option Repurchase Price") equal to (x)
the amount by which (A) the market/offer price (as defined below) exceeds (B)
the Option Price, multiplied by the number of shares for which this Option may
then be exercised plus (y) Grantee's Out-of-Pocket Expenses (as defined below)
(to the extent not previously reimbursed) and (ii) at the request of the owner
of Option Shares from time to time (the "Owner"), delivered within 30 days of a
Subsequent Trigger Event (or such later period as may be provided pursuant to
Section 10), Issuer shall repurchase such number of the Option Shares from the
Owner as the Owner shall designate at a price (the "Option Share Repurchase
Price") equal to (x) the market/ offer price multiplied by the number of Option
Shares so designated plus (y) Grantee's Out-of-Pocket Expenses (to the extent
not previously reimbursed). The term "Out-of-Pocket Expenses" shall mean
Grantee's reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with the
transactions contemplated by the Agreement, including, without limitation,
legal, accounting and investment banking fees. The term "market/offer price"
shall mean the highest of (i) the price per share of Common Stock at which a
tender offer or exchange offer therefor has been made after the date hereof,
(ii) the price per share of Common Stock to be paid by any third party pursuant
to an agreement with Issuer, (iii) the highest closing price for shares of
Common Stock within the 30-day period immediately preceding the date the Holder
gives notice of the required repurchase of this Option or the Owner gives notice
of the required repurchase of Option Shares, as the case may be, or (iv) in the
event of a sale of all or substantially all of Issuer's assets, the sum of the
price paid in such sale for such assets and the current market value of the
remaining assets of Issuer as determined by a nationally recognized investment
banking firm selected by the Holder or the Owner, as the case may be, divided by
the number of shares of Common Stock of Issuer outstanding at the time of such
sale. In determining the market/offer price, the value of consideration other
than cash shall be determined by a nationally recognized investment banking firm
selected by the Holder or Owner, as the case may be, whose determination shall
be conclusive and binding on all parties.
(b) The Holder or the Owner, as the case may be, may exercise
its right to require Issuer to repurchase the Option and any Option Shares
pursuant to this Section 7 by surrendering
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for such purpose to Issuer, at its principal office, a copy of this Stock Option
Agreement or certificates for Option Shares, as applicable, accompanied by a
written notice or notices stating that the Holder or the Owner, as the case may
be, elects to require Issuer to repurchase this Option and/or the Option Shares
in accordance with the provisions of this Section 7. As promptly as practicable,
and in any event within five business days after the surrender of the Option
and/or certificates representing Option Shares and the receipt of such notice or
notices relating thereto, Issuer shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the
Holder the Option Repurchase Price and/or to the Owner the Option Share
Repurchase Price therefor or the portion thereof that Issuer is not then
prohibited under applicable law and regulation from so delivering.
(c) To the extent that Issuer is prohibited under applicable
law or regulation, or as a consequence of administrative policy, from
repurchasing the Option and/or the Option Shares in full, Issuer shall
immediately so notify the Holder and/or the Owner and thereafter deliver or
cause to be delivered, from time to time, to the Holder and/or the Owner, as
appropriate, the portion of the Option Repurchase Price and the Option Share
Repurchase Price, respectively, that it is no longer prohibited from delivering,
within five business days after the date on which Issuer is no longer so
prohibited; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if Issuer at any time after delivery of a
notice of repurchase pursuant to subsection (b) of this Section 7 is prohibited
under applicable law or regulation, or as a consequence of administrative
policy, from delivering to the Holder and/or the Owner, as appropriate, the
Option Repurchase Price and the Option Share Repurchase Price, respectively, in
full (and Issuer hereby undertakes to use its best efforts to obtain all
required regulatory and legal approvals and to file any required notices as
promptly as practicable in order to accomplish such repurchase), the Holder or
Owner may revoke its notice of repurchase of the Option or the Option Shares
either in whole or to the extent of the prohibition, whereupon, in the latter
case, Issuer shall promptly (i) deliver to the Holder and/or the Owner, as
appropriate, that portion of the Option Purchase Price or the Option Share
Repurchase Price that Issuer is not prohibited from delivering; and (ii)
deliver, as appropriate, either (A) to the Holder, a new Stock Option Agreement
evidencing the right of the Holder to purchase that number of shares of Common
Stock obtained by multiplying the number of shares of Common Stock for which the
surrendered Stock Option Agreement was exercisable at the time of delivery of
the notice of repurchase by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Option
Repurchase Price less the sum of (x) the portion thereof theretofore delivered
to the Holder and (y) Out-of-Pocket Expenses and the denominator of which is the
Option Repurchase Price less Out-of-Pocket Expenses, or (B) to the Owner, a
certificate for the Option Shares it is then so prohibited from repurchasing,
assuming that the portion of the Option Share Repurchase Price theretofore
delivered is first applied to the payment of Out-of-Pocket Expenses and then to
the repurchase of Option Shares.
8. (a) In the event that prior to an Exercise Termination
Event, Issuer shall enter into an agreement (i) to consolidate or merge with any
person, other than Grantee or one of its subsidiaries, and shall not be the
continuing or surviving corporation of such consolidation or merger, (ii) to
permit any person, other than Grantee or one of its subsidiaries, to merge into
Issuer and Issuer shall be the continuing or surviving corporation, but, in
connection with such merger, the then outstanding shares of Common Stock shall
be changed into or exchanged for stock or other securities of any other person
or cash or any other property or the then outstanding
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shares of Common Stock shall after such merger represent less than 50% of the
outstanding shares and share equivalents of the merged company, or (iii) to sell
or otherwise transfer all or substantially all of its assets to any person,
other than Grantee or one of its subsidiaries, then, and in each such case, the
agreement governing such transaction shall make proper provision so that the
Option shall, upon the consummation of any such transaction and upon the terms
and conditions set forth herein, be converted into, or exchanged for, an option
(the "Substitute Option"), at the election of the Holder, of either (x) the
Acquiring Corporation (as hereinafter defined) or (y) any person that controls
the Acquiring Corporation.
(b) The following terms have the meanings indicated:
(1) "Acquiring Corporation" shall mean (i) the
continuing or surviving corporation of a consolidation or merger with
Issuer (if other than Issuer), (ii) Issuer in a merger in which Issuer
is the continuing or surviving person, and (iii) the transferee of all
or substantially all of Issuer's assets.
(2) "Substitute Common Stock" shall mean the common
stock to be issued by the issuer of the Substitute Option upon exercise
of the Substitute Option.
(3) "Assigned Value" shall mean the market/offer
price, as defined in Section 7.
(4) "Average Price" shall mean the average closing
price of a share of the Substitute Common Stock for the one year
immediately preceding the consolidation, merger or sale in question,
but in no event higher than the closing price of the shares of
Substitute Common Stock on the day preceding such consolidation, merger
or sale; PROVIDED, that if Issuer is the issuer of the Substitute
Option, the Average Price shall be computed with respect to a share of
common stock issued by the person merging into Issuer or by any company
which controls or is controlled by such person, as the Holder may
elect.
(c) The Substitute Option shall have the same terms as the
Option, provided, that if the terms of the Substitute Option cannot, for legal
reasons, be the same as the Option, such terms shall be as similar as possible
and in no event less advantageous to the Holder. The issuer of the Substitute
Option shall also enter into an agreement with the then Holder or Holders of the
Substitute Option in substantially the same form as this Stock Option Agreement,
which shall be applicable to the Substitute Option.
(d) The Substitute Option shall be exercisable for such number
of shares of Substitute Common Stock as is equal to the Assigned Value
multiplied by the number of shares of Common Stock for which the Option is then
exercisable, divided by the Average Price. The exercise price of the Substitute
Option per share of Substitute Common Stock shall then be equal to the Option
Price multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the number of
shares of Common Stock for which the Option is then exercisable and the
denominator of which shall
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be the number of shares of Substitute Common Stock for which the Substitute
Option is exercisable.
(e) In no event, pursuant to any of the foregoing paragraphs,
shall the Substitute Option be exercisable for a number of shares that together
with the number of shares owned by Grantee, other than Trust Account Shares, is
more than 19.9% of the shares of Substitute Common Stock outstanding prior to
exercise of the Substitute Option. In the event that the Substitute Option would
be exercisable for more than 19.9% of the shares of Substitute Common Stock
outstanding prior to exercise but for this clause (e), the issuer of the
Substitute Option (the "Substitute Option Issuer") shall make a cash payment to
the Holder equal to the excess of (i) the value of the Substitute Option without
giving effect to the limitation in this clause (e) over (ii) the value of the
Substitute Option after giving effect to the limitation in this clause (e). This
difference in value shall be determined by a nationally recognized investment
banking firm selected by the Holder.
(f) Issuer shall not enter into any transaction described in
subsection (a) of this Section 8 unless the Acquiring Corporation and any person
that controls the Acquiring Corporation assume in writing all the obligations of
Issuer hereunder.
9. (a) At the request of the holder of the Substitute Option
(the "Substitute Option Holder"), the issuer of the Substitute Option (the
"Substitute Option Issuer") shall repurchase the Substitute Option from the
Substitute Option Holder at a price (the "Substitute Option Repurchase Price")
equal to (x) the amount by which (i) the Highest Closing Price (as hereinafter
defined) exceeds (ii) the exercise price of the Substitute Option, multiplied by
the number of shares of Substitute Common Stock for which the Substitute Option
may then be exercised plus (y) Grantee's Out-of-Pocket Expenses (to the extent
not previously reimbursed), and at the request of the owner (the "Substitute
Share Owner") of shares of Substitute Common Stock (the "Substitute Shares"),
the Substitute Option issuer shall repurchase the Substitute Shares at a price
(the "Substitute Share Repurchase Price") equal to (x) the Highest Closing Price
multiplied by the number of Substitute Shares so designated plus (y) Grantee's
Out-of-Pocket Expenses (to the extent not previously reimbursed). The term
"Highest Closing Price" shall mean the highest closing price for shares of
Substitute Common Stock within the 30-day period immediately preceding the date
the Substitute Option Holder gives notice of the required repurchase of the
Substitute Option or the Substitute Share Owner gives notice of the required
repurchase of the Substitute Shares, as applicable.
(b) The Substitute Option Holder or the Substitute Share
Owner, as the case may be, may exercise its respective right to require the
Substitute Option Issuer to repurchase the Substitute Option and the Substitute
Shares pursuant to this Section 9 by surrendering for such purpose to the
Substitute Option Issuer, at its principal office, the agreement for such
Substitute Option (or, in the absence of such an agreement, a copy of this Stock
Option Agreement) and certificates for Substitute Shares accompanied by a
written notice or notices stating that the Substitute Option Holder or the
Substitute Share Owner, as the case may be, elects to require the Substitute
Option Issuer to repurchase the Substitute Option and/or the Substitute Shares
in
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accordance with the provisions of this Section 9. As promptly as practicable,
and in any event within five business days after the surrender of the Substitute
Option and/or certificates representing Substitute Shares and the receipt of
such notice or notices relating thereto, the Substitute Option Issuer shall
deliver or cause to be delivered to the Substitute Option Holder the Substitute
Option Repurchase Price and/or to the Substitute Share Owner the Substitute
Share Repurchase Price therefor or the portion thereof which the Substitute
Option Issuer is not then prohibited under applicable law and regulation from so
delivering.
(c) To the extent that the Substitute Option Issuer is
prohibited under applicable law or regulation, or as a consequence of
administrative policy, from repurchasing the Substitute Option and/or the
Substitute Shares in part or in full, the Substitute Option Issuer shall
immediately so notify the Substitute Option Holder and/or the Substitute Share
Owner and thereafter deliver or cause to be delivered, from time to time, to the
Substitute Option Holder and/or the Substitute Share Owner, as appropriate, the
portion of the Substitute Share Repurchase Price, respectively, which it is no
longer prohibited from delivering, within five business days after the date on
which the Substitute Option Issuer is no longer so prohibited; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that if the Substitute Option Issuer is at any time after delivery of a
notice of repurchase pursuant to subsection (b) of this Section 9 prohibited
under applicable law or regulation, or as a consequence of administrative
policy, from delivering to the Substitute Option Holder and/or the Substitute
Share Owner, as appropriate, the Substitute Option Repurchase Price and the
Substitute Share Repurchase Price, respectively, in full (and the Substitute
Option Issuer shall use its best efforts to receive all required regulatory and
legal approvals as promptly as practicable in order to accomplish such
repurchase), the Substitute Option Holder or Substitute Share Owner may revoke
its notice of repurchase of the Substitute Option or the Substitute Shares
either in whole or to the extent of the prohibition, whereupon, in the latter
case, the Substitute Option Issuer shall promptly (i) deliver to the Substitute
Option Holder or Substitute Share Owner, as appropriate, that portion of the
Substitute Option Repurchase Price or the Substitute Share Repurchase Price that
the Substitute Option Issuer is not prohibited from delivering; and (ii)
deliver, as appropriate, either (A) to the Substitute Option Holder, a new
Substitute Option evidencing the right of the Substitute Option Holder to
purchase that number of shares of the Substitute Common Stock obtained by
multiplying the number of shares of the Substitute Common Stock for which the
surrendered Substitute Option was exercisable at the time of delivery of the
notice of repurchase by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Substitute
Option Repurchase Price less the sum of (x) the portion thereof theretofore
delivered to the Substitute Option Holder and (y) Out-of-Pocket Expenses and the
denominator of which is the Substitute Option Repurchase Price less
Out-of-Pocket Expenses, or (B) to the Substitute Share Owner, a certificate for
the Substitute Option Shares it is then so prohibited from repurchasing,
assuming that the portion of the Substitute Share Repurchase Price theretofore
delivered is first applied to the payment of Out-of-Pocket Expenses and then to
the repurchase of Substitute Shares.
10. The 30-day period for exercise of certain rights under
Sections 2, 6, 7 and 12 shall be extended: (i) to the extent necessary to obtain
all regulatory approvals for the exercise of such rights, and for the expiration
of all statutory waiting periods; (ii) during the pendency of any
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temporary restraining order, injunction or other legal ban to the exercise of
such rights and (iii) to the extent necessary to avoid liability under Section
16(b) of the 1934 Act by reason of such exercise.
11. Issuer hereby represents and warrants to Grantee as
follows:
(a) Issuer has full corporate power and authority to execute
and deliver this Stock Option Agreement and to consummate the transactions
contemplated hereby. The execution and delivery of this Stock Option Agreement
and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly and
validly authorized by the Board of Directors of Issuer and no other corporate
proceedings on the part of Issuer are necessary to authorize this Stock Option
Agreement or to consummate the transactions so contemplated. This Stock Option
Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by Issuer. This Stock
Option Agreement is the valid and legally binding obligation of Issuer.
(b) Issuer has taken all necessary corporate action to
authorize and reserve and to permit it to issue, and at all times from the date
hereof through the termination of this Stock Option Agreement in accordance with
its terms will have reserved for issuance upon the exercise of the Option, that
number of shares of Common Stock equal to the maximum number of shares of Common
Stock at any time and from time to time issuable hereunder, and all such shares,
upon issuance pursuant hereto, will be duly authorized, validly issued, fully
paid, nonassessable, and will be delivered free and clear of all claims, liens,
encumbrances and security interests and not subject to any preemptive rights.
12. Neither of the parties hereto may assign any of its rights
and obligations under this Stock Option Agreement or the Option created
hereunder to any other person, without the express written consent of the other
party, except that in the event a Subsequent Triggering Event shall have
occurred prior to an Exercise Termination Event, Grantee, subject to the express
provisions hereof, may assign in whole or in part its rights and obligations
hereunder within 30 days following such Subsequent Triggering Event (or such
later period as may be provided pursuant to Section 10); PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that
until the date 30 days following the date of any required approvals of the FRB
under the Bank Holding Company Act and the OTS under the Federal Home Owners
Loan Act of 1933, as amended to acquire the shares of Common Stock subject to
the Option are received by the Grantee, Grantee may not assign its rights under
the Option except in (i) a widely dispersed public distribution, (ii) a private
placement in which no one party acquires the right to purchase in excess of 2%
of the voting shares of Issuer, (iii) an assignment to a single party (E.Q., a
broker or investment banker) for the purpose of conducting a widely dispersed
public distribution on Grantee's behalf, or (iv) any other manner approved by
the FRB and OTS.
13. Each of Grantee and Issuer will use its best efforts to
make all filings with, and to obtain consents of, all third parties and
Governmental Entities necessary to the consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Stock Option Agreement, including without limitation making
application to list the shares of Common Stock issuable hereunder on
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the New York Stock Exchange upon official notice of issuance and making any
necessary applications to the FRB under the Bank Holding Company Act and the OTS
under the Federal Home Owners Loan Act of 1933, as amended for approval to
acquire the shares issuable hereunder.
14. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in the
event that the Holder or Owner or any affiliate (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the
rules and regulations under the 1934 Act) thereof is a person making an offer or
proposal to engage in an Acquisition Transaction (other than the Merger), then
(i) in the case of a Holder or any affiliate thereof, the Option held by it
shall immediately terminate and be of no further force or effect, and (ii) in
the case of an Owner or any affiliate thereof, the Option Shares held by it
shall be immediately repurchasable by Issuer at the Option Price.
15. The parties hereto acknowledge that damages would be an
inadequate remedy for a breach of this Stock Option Agreement by either party
hereto and that the obligations of the parties shall hereto be enforceable by
either party hereto through injunctive or other equitable relief.
16. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction contained
in this Stock Option Agreement is held by a court or a federal or state
regulatory agency of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void or
unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions and covenants and
restrictions contained in this Stock Option Agreement shall remain in full force
and effect, and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated. If for any
reason such court or regulatory agency determines that the Holder is not
permitted to acquire, or Issuer is not permitted to repurchase pursuant to
Section 7, the full number of shares of Common Stock provided in Section 1(a)
hereof (as adjusted pursuant to Section 1(b) or 5 hereof), it is the express
intention of Issuer to allow the Holder to acquire or to require Issuer to
repurchase such lesser number of shares as may be permissible, without any
amendment or modification hereof.
17. All notices, requests, claims, demands and other
communications hereunder shall be deemed to have been duly given when delivered
in person, by cable, telegram, telecopy or telex, or by registered or certified
mail (postage prepaid, return receipt requested) at the respective addresses of
the parties set forth in the Agreement.
18. This Stock Option Agreement shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Michigan, regardless of
the laws that might otherwise govern under applicable principles of conflicts of
laws thereof.
19. This Stock Option Agreement may be executed in two or more
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which
shall constitute one and the same agreement.
20. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, each of the
parties hereto shall bear and pay all costs and expenses incurred by it or on
its behalf in connection with the
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transactions contemplated hereunder, including fees and expenses of its own
financial consultants, investment bankers, accountants and counsel.
21. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein or in the
Agreement, this Stock Option Agreement contains the entire agreement between the
parties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereunder and supersedes
all prior arrangements or understandings with respect thereof, written or oral.
The terms and conditions of this Stock Option Agreement shall inure to the
benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective
successors and permitted assigns. Nothing in this Stock Option Agreement,
expressed or implied, is intended to confer upon any party, other than the
parties hereto, and their respective successors except as assigns, any rights,
remedies, obligations or liabilities under or by reason of this Stock Option
Agreement, except as expressly provided herein.
22. Terms used in this Stock Option Agreement and not defined
herein but defined in the Agreement shall have the meanings assigned thereto in
the Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties has caused this Stock Option
Agreement to be executed on its behalf by their officers thereunto duly
authorized, all as of the date first above written.
NATIONAL CITY CORPORATION
By: /S/ VINCENT A, DIGIROLAMO
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Vincent A. DiGirolamo
Vice Chairman
FIRST OF AMERICA BANK CORPORATION
By: /S/ RICHARD F. CHORMANN
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Richard F. Chormann
Chairman, President and
Chief Executive Officer
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