SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
SCHEDULE 13D
Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
PROVIDENT COMPANIES, INC.
(Name of Issuer)
Common Stock, Par Value $1.00 per share
(Title of Class and Securities)
743862 10 4
(CUSIP Number of Class of Securities)
Wayne W. Juchatz
Executive Vice President
and General Counsel
Textron Inc.
40 Westminster Street
Providence, RI 02903-2596
(401) 421-2800
(Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person Authorized
to Receive Notices and Communications)
April 29, 1996
(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 Statement because of Rule 13d-1(b)(3) or
(4), check the following:
( )
Check the following box if a fee is being paid with this
Statement: (X)
SCHEDULE 13D
CUSIP No. 743862 10 4
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(1) NAMES OF REPORTING PERSONS
S.S. OR I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS
Textron Inc.
I.R.S. Identification No. - 05-0315468
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(2) CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP:
(a) (X)
(b) ( )
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(3) SEC USE ONLY
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(4) SOURCE OF FUNDS
Not applicable
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(5) CHECK BOX 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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(7) SOLE VOTING POWER
NUMBER OF None
SHARES ___________________________________
BENEFICIALLY (8) SHARED VOTING POWER
OWNED BY 18,240,903
EACH ___________________________________
REPORTING (9) SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER
PERSON None
WITH ___________________________________
(10) SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER
18,240,903
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(11) AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON
18,240,903
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(12) CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW 11 EXCLUDES CERTAIN
SHARES ( )
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(13) PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW 11
40.14%
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(14) TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON
CO
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SCHEDULE 13D
CUSIP No. 743862 10 4
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(1) NAMES OF REPORTING PERSONS
S.S. OR I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS
The Paul Revere Corporation
I.R.S. Identification No. - 04-3176707
_________________________________________________________________
(2) CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP:
(a) (X)
(b) ( )
_________________________________________________________________
(3) SEC USE ONLY
_________________________________________________________________
(4) SOURCE OF FUNDS
Not applicable
_________________________________________________________________
(5) CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IS REQUIRED
PURSUANT TO ITEMS 2(d) or 2(e) ( )
_________________________________________________________________
(6) CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION
Massachusetts
_________________________________________________________________
(7) SOLE VOTING POWER
NUMBER OF None
SHARES ___________________________________
BENEFICIALLY (8) SHARED VOTING POWER
OWNED BY 18,240,903
EACH ___________________________________
REPORTING (9) SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER
PERSON None
WITH ___________________________________
(10) SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER
18,240,903
_________________________________________________________________
(11) AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON
18,240,903
_________________________________________________________________
(12) CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW 11 EXCLUDES CERTAIN
SHARES ( )
_________________________________________________________________
(13) PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW 11
40.14%
_________________________________________________________________
(14) TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON
CO
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Item 1. Security and Issuer.
The class of equity securities to which this Statement
relates is the Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share (the
"Shares"), of Provident Companies, Inc. (the "Company"). The
principal executive offices of the Company are located at 1
Fountain Square, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402.
Item 2. Identity and Background.
(a), (b), (c) and (f) Pursuant to Rule 13d-1(f) of
Regulation 13D of the General Rules and Regulations under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Act"), this
Statement is being filed by the undersigned on behalf of Textron
Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Textron"), and The Paul Revere
Corporation, a Massachusetts corporation ("Paul Revere").
Textron and Paul Revere are hereinafter sometimes referred to as
the "Reporting Persons". The Reporting Persons are making this
single joint filing because the Reporting Persons may be deemed
to constitute a "group" within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of
the Act.
Textron
Textron is a Delaware corporation with its principal
executive offices located at 40 Westminster Street, Providence,
Rhode Island 02903. Textron is a global multi-industry company
with operations in five business segments--Aircraft, Automotive,
Industrial, Systems and Components and Finance. Textron's
businesses include Bell Helicopter, Cessna Aircraft, Avco
Financial Services, E-Z-GO golf cars, Textron Fastening Systems
and Textron Automotive Company.
The name, citizenship, residence or business address
and present principal occupation or employment, and the name,
principal business and address of any corporation or other
organization in which such employment is conducted, of each
executive officer and director of Textron are set forth on
Schedule A hereto, which schedule is hereby incorporated herein
by reference in its entirety.
Paul Revere
Paul Revere is a Massachusetts corporation organized as
an insurance holding company with its principal executive offices
at 18 Chestnut Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. Paul Revere's
principal operations in the United States and Canada are
conducted through its wholly owned subsidiary, The Paul Revere
Life Insurance Company ("PRL"), a Massachusetts-domiciled life
insurance company licensed in all 50 states and Canada. PRL has
two wholly-owned subsidiaries, The Paul Revere Variable Annuity
Insurance Company, also a Massachusetts-domiciled life insurance
company licensed in 48 states and The Paul Revere Protective Life
Insurance Company, a Delaware-domiciled life insurance company
licensed in 40 states.
The name, citizenship, residence or business address
and present principal occupation or employment, and the name,
principal business and address of any corporation or other
organization in which such employment is conducted, of each
executive officer and director of Paul Revere are set forth in
Exhibit B hereto, which schedule is hereby incorporated herein by
reference in its entirety.
(d) and (e) None of the Reporting Persons and, to the
best knowledge of the Reporting Persons, none of their respective
executive officers or directors identified in Schedules A and B
hereto, has, during the last five years, (i) been convicted in a
criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar
misdemeanors) or (ii) been a party to a civil proceeding of a
judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and as
a result of such proceeding was or is subject to a judgment,
decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or
prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, federal or state
securities laws or finding any violation with respect to such
laws.
Item 3. Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration.
The Provident Voting Agreement described in Item 4 of
this Statement was entered into by the stockholders of the
Company parties thereto (the "Stockholders") as an inducement to
Paul Revere to enter into the Merger Agreement and to Textron to
enter into the Textron Voting Agreement, as described in Item 4.
Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, neither of Textron
nor Paul Revere has paid any consideration in connection with
entering into the Provident Voting Agreement.
Item 4. Purpose of Transaction.
Pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as
of April 29, 1996 (the "Merger Agreement"), by and among Paul
Revere, the Company and Patriot Acquisition Corporation, a
Massachusetts corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of the
Company ("Sub"), the Company will acquire Paul Revere in a one-
step merger transaction in which Sub will merge with and into
Paul Revere (the "Merger"), with Paul Revere being the surviving
corporation.
In order to induce Paul Revere to enter into the Merger
Agreement and Textron to enter into the Textron Voting Agreement
described herein, each of the Stockholders entered into the
Voting Agreement dated as of April 29, 1996 with Textron and Paul
Revere (the "Provident Voting Agreement"). The Provident Voting
Agreement is attached to this Statement as Exhibit 2 and the
description of the Provident Voting Agreement contained herein is
qualified in its entirety by reference to such Exhibit, which is
hereby incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
Pursuant to the Provident Voting Agreement, each
Stockholder has agreed during the term thereof to vote the Shares
as to which it has voting power or control, in person or by
proxy, in favor of approval of (i) the issuance of Shares in the
Merger pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement and (ii) the
amendment to the Company's Certificate of Incorporation to
increase the Shares which the Company is authorized to issue to
the extent necessary to effect the transactions contemplated by
the Merger Agreement, at every meeting of the stockholders of the
Company at which such matters are considered and at every
adjournment thereof. The number of Shares held by the
Stockholders aggregates 18,240,903, or approximately 40.14% of
the Shares reported by the Company in its proxy statement for its
1996 annual meeting of stockholders as outstanding as of March 4,
1996. Each of the Stockholders also agreed not to sell, assign,
pledge, transfer or otherwise dispose of (each, a "Transfer"), or
grant any proxies with respect to (except for a proxy which is
not inconsistent with the Provident Voting Agreement) any of such
Stockholder's Shares, provided, however, that (i) each
Stockholder that is an individual may Transfer up to 200,000 of
such Stockholder's Shares, and additional Shares in excess of
such 200,000 if each transferee of such additional Shares agrees
to be bound by the terms of the Provident Voting Agreement and
(ii) each Stockholder that is a trust or a foundation may
Transfer up to the number of such Stockholder's Shares as would
be saleable by such Stockholder in compliance with the volume
limitations of Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and additional Shares in excess of such number if each
transferee of such additional Shares agrees to be bound by the
terms of the Provident Voting Agreement.
In order to induce the Company to enter into the Merger
Agreement, Textron entered into a Voting Agreement and Election
dated as of April 29, 1996 with the Company (the "Textron Voting
Agreement") pursuant to which Textron agreed to vote the
37,500,000 shares of the common stock, $1.00 par value, of Paul
Revere (the "Paul Revere Common Stock") owned by Textron,
representing approximately 83.3% of the shares of Paul Revere
Common Stock outstanding, in favor of approval of the Merger
Agreement at every meeting of the stockholders of Paul Revere at
which such matters are considered and at every adjournment
thereof and against an "Alternative Proposal" (as such term is
defined in the Merger Agreement). Textron also has agreed not to
sell, assign, pledge, transfer or otherwise dispose of, or grant
any proxies with respect to (except for a proxy which is not
inconsistent with the terms of the Textron Voting Agreement) any
of its shares of Paul Revere Common Stock. The Textron Voting
Agreement is attached to this Statement as Exhibit 3 and the
description of the Textron Voting Agreement contained herein is
qualified in its entirety by reference to such Exhibit which is
hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
Each of the Provident Voting Agreement and the Textron
Voting Agreement will terminate upon the earliest to occur of (i)
the effective time of the Merger, (ii) the date on which the
Merger Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms,
(iii) the date on which the Board of Directors of Paul Revere
withdraws or materially modifies or changes its recommendation of
the Merger Agreement if such Board of Directors after
consultation with its counsel determines that the failure to take
such action could reasonably be deemed a breach of its fiduciary
duties to Paul Revere's stockholders under applicable law, or
(iv) October 31, 1996.
A copy of the Merger Agreement is attached to this
Statement as Exhibit 4 and the description of the Merger
Agreement contained herein is qualified in its entirety by
reference to such Exhibit, which is hereby incorporated herein by
reference in its entirety.
The Merger Agreement provides that, subject to the
satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions, the Merger will
occur and Sub will be merged into Paul Revere, with Paul Revere
as the surviving corporation in the Merger. At the effective
time of the Merger (the "Effective Date"), each outstanding share
(other than Shares held by the Company, Sub or any wholly owned
subsidiary of any of them or by any wholly owned subsidiary of
Paul Revere (except in a custodial or fiduciary capacity) or Paul
Revere, which Shares shall be cancelled, and except for Shares as
to which dissenter's rights shall have been properly exercised)
will be converted into the right to receive any one of the
following, at the election of the holder: (i) $26.00 in cash,
(ii) a number of Shares equal to the product of 26 and the
Exchange Ratio (as defined below) or (iii) $20.00 in cash and a
number of Shares equal to 6 and the Exchange Ratio. The
"Exchange Ratio" shall be determined by dividing $1.00 by the
average of the closing prices of the Shares as reported in the
New York Stock Exchange, Inc. Composite Transactions for the
twenty trading days ending on the fifth trading day prior to the
effective time of the Merger, except that the Exchange Ratio
shall under no circumstances be higher than .0343 or lower than
.0295. Pursuant to the Textron Voting Agreement, Textron has
elected to receive the Merger consideration set forth in clause
(iii) above.
Except as set forth in this Item 4, none of the
Reporting Persons and, to the best knowledge of each of the
Reporting Persons, none of their respective executive officers or
directors identified on Schedules A and B hereto, has any plans
or proposals which relate to or would result in any of the
actions specified in clauses (a) through (j) of Item 4 of
Schedule 13D.
Item 5. Interest in Securities of the Issuer.
Based on the Company's Proxy Statement for its 1996
Annual Meeting of Stockholders, on March 4, 1996, there were
45,446,016 Shares outstanding. The share ownership percentages
set forth below are based on that number of Shares outstanding.
(a) Each of the Reporting Persons may be deemed to
beneficially own 18,240,903 Shares, representing the total of the
Shares held by the Stockholders (the "Voting Shares"), which
constitute approximately 40.14% of the Shares outstanding. In
accordance with Rule 13d-3 of the General Rules and Regulations
of the Act, each of the Reporting Persons may be deemed to
beneficially own the Voting Shares because, as more fully
described in Item 4, under the Provident Voting Agreement the
Stockholders have granted Textron and Paul Revere the right to
specifically enforce the Stockholders' obligations pursuant to
the Provident Voting Agreement, including obligations with regard
to the voting and disposition of the Voting Shares.
By virtue of the Provident Voting Agreement, each of
the Reporting Persons may be deemed to beneficially own the
Voting Shares with shared power to vote and to direct the vote of
such Voting Shares and shared power to dispose and to direct the
disposition of such Voting Shares. The Reporting Persons
expressly disclaim beneficial ownership of the Voting Shares.
(c), (d) and (e) Not applicable.
Except as set forth in this Item 5, none of the
Reporting Persons and, to the best knowledge of each of the
Reporting Persons, none of their respective executive officers
and directors identified on Schedules A and B hereto,
beneficially own any Shares or has effected any transaction in
Shares during the past 60 days.
Item 6. Contracts, Arrangements, Understandings or
Relationships With Respect to Securities of the Issuer
In connection with the Shares to be received by Textron
in the Merger, Textron has entered into a Standstill Agreement
with the Company dated as of April 29, 1996 (the "Standstill
Agreement") which sets forth restrictions on Textron's beneficial
ownership of more than 15% of the Shares outstanding from time to
time. The Standstill Agreement also requires Textron to vote
Shares held by it, subject to certain limitations and exceptions,
on all matters to be voted on by holders of Shares, in the same
proportion as the votes cast by the other holders of Shares. A
copy of the Standstill Agreement is attached to this Statement as
Exhibit 5, and the description of the Standstill Agreement
contained herein is qualified in its entirety by reference to
such Exhibit, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference in
its entirety.
Also in connection with the Shares to be received by
Textron in the Merger, Textron has entered into a Registration
Rights Agreement with the Company dated as of April 29, 1996
("Registration Rights Agreement"), entitling Textron to certain
registration rights from the Company with respect to such Shares.
A copy of the Registration Rights Agreement is attached to this
Statement as Exhibit 5 and the description of the Registration
Rights Agreement contained herein is qualified in its entirety by
reference to such Exhibit, which is hereby incorporated herein by
reference in its entirety.
Other than as set forth in this Statement, none of the
Reporting Persons and, to the best knowledge of each of the
Reporting Persons, none of their respective executive officers
and directors identified on Schedules A and B hereto, has any
contracts, arrangements, understandings or relationships (legal
or otherwise) with each other or with any other person with
respect to any securities of the Company, finder's fees, joint
ventures, loan or option arrangements, puts or calls, guarantees
of profits, division of profits or loss, or the giving or
withholding of proxies.
Item 7. Material to be Filed as Exhibits.
The Index of Exhibits attached to this Statement is
hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
SIGNATURES
After reasonable inquiry and to be best of my knowledge
and belief, I certify that the Information set forth in this
Statement is true, complete and correct.
Dated: May 8, 1996
TEXTRON INC.
By: /s/ Arnold M. Friedman
Name: Arnold M. Friedman
Title: Vice President and
Deputy General Counsel
SIGNATURES
After reasonable inquiry and to be best of my knowledge
and belief, I certify that the Information set forth in this
Statement is true, complete and correct.
Dated: May 8, 1996
THE PAUL REVERE CORPORATION
By: /s/ John Budd
Name: John Budd
Title: Senior Vice President/
General Counsel/
Secretary
SCHEDULE A
A. Directors. Each of the persons named below is a citizen of
the United States of America.
Principal Occupation or
Name and residence or Employment; Principal
business address Business of Employer
H. Jesse Arnelle Senior Partner in law firm of
400 Urbano Drive Arnelle, Hastie, McGee, Willis
San Francisco, CA 94127 & Green
Brian H. Rowe Consultant of G.E. Aircraft
900 Adams Crossing Engines, General Electric
Suite 13200 Company
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Sam F. Segnar Retired; formerly Chairman and
#9 Deerberry Court chief executive officer of
The Woodlands, TX 77380 Enron Corporation
Jean Head Sisco Partner in the international
2517 Massachusetts Avenue, trade consulting firm of Sisco
N.W. Associates
Washington, DC 20008
Martin D. Walker Chairman, chief executive
23487 Quail Hollow officer and a director of M.A.
Westlake, OH 44145 Hanna Company, an
international specialty
chemicals company
Lewis B. Campbell* President and chief operating
office of Textron*
R. Stuart Dickson Chairman of the Ruddick
2235 Pinewood Circle Executive Committee of Ruddick
Charlotte, NC 28211 Corporation, a diversified
holding company with interests
in industrial sewing thread,
regional supermarkets,
business firms and venture
capital businesses
John D. Macomber Principal of JDM Investment
2806 N Street, N.W. Group, a private investment
Washington, D.C. 20007 firm.
John W. Snow Chairman, chief executive
122 Tempsford Lane officer and a director of CSX
Richmond, VA 23226 Corporation, an international
transportation company that
offers a variety of rail,
container-shipping, trucking
and barge services
Paul E. Gagne President and chief executive
13 Senneville Road officer of Avenor Inc., a
Sennevile, Quebec forest products company
Canada H9X 1B4 formerly known as Canadian
Pacific Forest Products Ltd.
James F. Hardymon* Chairman and chief executive
officer of Textron*
Principal Occupation or
Name and residence or Employment; Principal
business address Business of Employer
Barbara Scott Preiskel Director of the American
20 East 74th Street Stores Company, General
New York, NY 10021 Electric Company,
Massachusetts Mutual Life
Insurance Company and The
Washington Post Company;
Chairman of New York Community
Trust; Trustee of Wellesley
College and Tougaloo College
Thomas B. Wheeler President, chief executive
288 Park Drive officer and a director of
Springfield, MA 01106 Massachusetts Mutual Life
Insurance Company
* The address and principal business of Textron is set forth
under Item 2 to the Statement to which this Schedule A is
attached
B. Executive Officers. Each of the persons named below is a
citizen of the United States of America and an employee of
Textron. The address and principal business of Textron is
set forth under Item 2 to the Statement to which this
Schedule A is attached
Name and residence or Principal Occupation or
business address Employment
James F. Hardymon Chairman, Chief Executive
Officer and Director
Lewis B. Campbell President, Chief Operating
Officer and Director
Harold K. McCard Senior Vice President -
Operations
Herbert L. Henkel President, Textron Industrial
Products
Derek Plummer Chairman, Textron Automotive
Company
Terry D. Stinson President, Textron Systems and
Components
Mary L. Howell Executive Vice President,
Government and International
Wayne W. Juchatz Executive Vice President and
General Counsel
Stephen L. Key Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
Richard A. McWhirter Executive Vice President and
Corporate Secretary
William F. Wayland Executive Vice President -
Administration and Chief Human
Resources Officer
Richard A. Watson Senior Vice President and
Treasurer
Carl D. Burtner Vice President - Human
Resources
Peter B.S. Ellis Vice President Strategic
Planning
Douglas A. Fahlbeck Vice President - Mergers and
Acquisitions
Arnold M. Friedman Vice President and Deputy
General Counsel
William B. Gauld Vice President - Corporate
Information Management and
Chief Information Officer
Gregory E. Hudson Vice President - Taxes
William P. Janovitz Vice President - Financial
Reporting
Mary F. Lovejoy Vice President - Investor
Relations
Frank W. McNally Vice President - Employee
Relations and Benefits
Gero K.H. Meyersiek Vice President - International
Daniel L. Shaffer Vice President Audit and
Business Ethics
Richard F. Smith Vice President - Government
Affairs
Richard L. Yates Vice President and Controller
John F. Zugschwert Vice President - Government
Marketing
SCHEDULE B
Each of the persons named below is a citizen of the
United States of America. For each person whose principal
employment is with Textron or Paul Revere, the principal business
of their employer is described under Item 2 above.
Name and Residence Principal employment and
or business address principal business of employer
DIRECTORS OF PAUL REVERE:
Roger E. Brinner Executive Director and Chief
24 Hartwell Avenue Economist of DRI/McGraw-Hill
Lexington, MA 02173 (consulting firm)
Katherine D. Ortega Director of various public
800 25th Street, N.W. companies
Washington, D.C. 20037
Donald B. Reed President and Group Executive
185 Franklin St., 18th Floor of NYNEX (communications)
Boston, MA 02110
James F. Hardymon Chairman and Chief Executive
40 Westminster Street Officer of Textron
Providence, RI 02903
Lewis B. Campbell President and Chief Operating
40 Westminster Street Officer of Textron
Providence, RI 02903
Charles E. Soule President and Chief Executive
18 Chestnut Street Officer of Paul Revere
Worcester, MA 01608
Wayne W. Juchatz Executive Vice President and
40 Westminster Street General Counsel of Textron
Providence, RI 02903
Richard A. McWhirter Executive Vice President and
40 Westminster Street Corporate Secretary of Textron
Providence, RI 02903
Stephen L. Key Executive Vice President and
40 Westminster Street Chief Financial Officer of
Providence, RI 02903 Textron
Richard A. Watson Senior Vice President and
40 Westminster Street Treasurer of Textron
Providence, RI 02903
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF
PAUL REVERE:
Charles E. Soule President of Paul Revere and
18 Chestnut Street each of its insurance
Worcester, MA 01608 subsidiaries, Chief Executive
Officer of Paul Revere
Donald E. Boggs Executive Vice President of
18 Chestnut Street Paul Revere and each of its
Worcester, MA 01608 insurance subsidiaries
John H. Budd Senior Vice President, General
18 Chestnut Street Counsel and Clerk of Paul
Worcester, MA 01608 Revere and Senior Vice
President, General Counsel and
secretary of each of Paul
Revere's insurance subsidiaries
Jean-Pierre Charlebois Vice President of Paul Revere
18 Chestnut Street and Vice President and General
Worcester, MA 01608 Manager for Canada, and
Assistant Secretary of The Paul
Revere Life Insurance Company
Gerald M. Gates Senior Vice President of Paul
18 Chestnut Street Revere and each of its
Worcester, MA 01608 insurance subsidiaries
M. Katherine Hessel Vice President of Paul Revere
18 Chestnut Street and each of its insurance
Worcester, MA 01608 subsidiaries
J. Andrew Hilbert Senior Vice President, Chief
18 Chestnut Street Financial Officer and Treasurer
Worcester, MA 01608 of Paul Revere and each of its
insurance subsidiaries
John D. Lemery Senior Vice President and Chief
18 Chestnut Street Investment Officer of Paul
Worcester, MA 01608 Revere and each of its
insurance subsidiaries and
Executive Vice President of The
Paul Revere Investment
Management Corporation
Barry E. Lundquist Senior Vice President of Paul
18 Chestnut Street Revere and each of its
Worcester, MA 01608 insurance subsidiaries
Gary W. MacConnell Vice President of Paul Revere
18 Chestnut Street and Vice President and Chief
Worcester, MA 01608 information Officer of each of
Paul Revere's insurance
subsidiaries
Richard L. Mucci Executive Vice President and
18 Chestnut Street Chief Operating Officer of Paul
Worcester, MA 01608 Revere and each of its
insurance subsidiaries
Bruce A. Richards Senior Vice President and Chief
18 Chestnut Street Actuary of Paul Revere and each
Worcester, MA 01608 of its insurance subsidiaries
INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Number Description Page
Exhibit 1 Agreement by and among the Reporting
Persons that this Statement on
Schedule 13D and any amendment hereto
are filed on behalf of each of them
Exhibit 2 Voting Agreement, dated as of April
29, 1996 among Textron Inc., The Paul
Revere Corporation and the
stockholders of Provident Companies,
Inc. listed on Schedule A thereto
Exhibit 3 Voting Agreement and election dated as of
April 29, 1996 between Textron Inc. and
Provident Companies, Inc.
Exhibit 4 Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as
of April 29, 1996 by and among
Provident Companies, Inc., Patriot
Acquisition Corporation and The Paul
Revere Corporation
Exhibit 5 Standstill Agreement dated as of April
29, 1996 between Provident Companies,
Inc. and Textron Inc.
Exhibit 6 Registration Rights Agreement dated as
of April 29, 1996 between Textron Inc.
and Provident Companies, Inc.
AGREEMENT
Pursuant to Rule 13d-1(f)(1), the undersigned
agrees that this Schedule 13D, to which this Agreement is
attached as Exhibit 1, and any amendments thereto, are
filed on behalf of each of us. This Agreement may be
executed in several counterparts, each of which will be
deemed an original, but all of which together will
constitute one and the same instrument.
TEXTRON INC.
By: /s/ Arnold M. Friedman
Name: Arnold M. Friedman
Title: Vice President and
Deputy General
Counsel
THE PAUL REVERE CORPORATION
By: /s/ John Budd
Name: John Budd
Title: Senior Vice President/
General Counsel/
Secretary
CONFORMED COPY
EXHIBIT E
VOTING AGREEMENT
VOTING AGREEMENT (this "Agreement"), dated as
of April 29, 1996, among Textron Inc., a Delaware
corporation ("Textron"), The Paul Revere Corporation, a
Massachusetts corporation (the "Company"), and the
stockholders of Provident Companies, Inc., a Delaware
corporation ("Parent"), listed on Schedule A hereto (the
"Stockholders").
WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution of
this Agreement, the Company, Parent and Patriot
Acquisition Corporation, a Massachusetts corporation and
a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent ("Newco"), have
entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as the same
may be amended from time to time, the "Merger
Agreement"), providing for the merger (the "Merger") of
Newco with and into the Company pursuant to the terms and
conditions of the Merger Agreement; and
WHEREAS, the Stockholders own of record and
beneficially the shares (the "Shares") of the common
stock, $1.00 par value, of Parent (the "Parent Common
Stock") set forth opposite their respective names on
Schedule A hereto and wish to enter into this Agreement
with respect to the Shares; and
WHEREAS, in order to induce the Company to
enter into the Merger Agreement and to induce Textron to
enter into the Voting Agreement and Election dated as of
the date hereof with Parent, the Stockholders have
agreed, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set
forth herein, to vote the Shares at a meeting of Parent's
stockholders in favor of approval of each of the issuance
of shares of Parent Common Stock in the Merger pursuant
to the terms of the Merger Agreement (the "Stock
Issuance") and the Charter Amendment (as defined in the
Merger Agreement);
NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable
consideration, the receipt, sufficiency and adequacy of
which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as
follows:
1. Agreement to Vote Shares.
(a) Subject to Section 1(b) hereof, each
of the Stockholders agrees during the term of this
Agreement to vote the Shares as to which it has voting
power or control, in person or by proxy, in favor of
approval of each of the Stock Issuance and the Charter
Amendment at every meeting of the stockholders of Parent
at which such matters are considered and at every
adjournment thereof (each, a "Stockholder Meeting").
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained herein, the obligations of the
Stockholders pursuant to Section 1(a) hereof with respect
to matters to be considered at any Stockholder Meeting
are subject to the following conditions:
(i) the Company shall have
performed in all material respects all of its respective
material obligations under the Merger Agreement to have
been performed at or prior to the date of such
Stockholder Meeting;
(ii) all representations and
warranties of the Company set forth in the Merger
Agreement shall be true and correct in all material
respects as of the date of such Stockholder Meeting as
though made on and as of such date (except for changes
permitted by the Merger Agreement and that those
representations which address matters only as of a
particular date shall remain true and correct as of such
date), except in any case for such failures to be true
and correct which would not have a Company Material
Adverse Effect (as defined in the Merger Agreement);
(iii) there shall not be in effect
on the date of such Stockholder Meeting any statute,
rule, regulation, executive order, decree, ruling or
injunction or other order of a court or governmental or
regulatory agency of competent jurisdiction directing
that the transactions contemplated by the Merger
Agreement not be consummated;
(iv) the Registration Statement
(as defined in the Merger Agreement) to be filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") by Parent
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act")
to register the shares of Parent Common Stock to be
issued in the Merger shall have become effective under
the Act and shall not be the subject of any stop order or
proceeding by the SEC seeking a stop order.
2. No Voting Trusts. Each of the
Stockholders agrees that such Stockholder will not, nor
will such Stockholder permit any entity under such
Stockholder's control to, deposit any of such
Stockholder's Shares in a voting trust or subject any of
its Shares to any arrangement with respect to the voting
of the Shares inconsistent with this Agreement.
3. Limitation on Dispositions and Proxies.
(a) During the term of this Agreement,
each of the Stockholders agrees not to sell, assign,
pledge, transfer or otherwise dispose of (each a
"Transfer"), or grant any proxies with respect to (except
for a proxy which is not inconsistent with the terms of
this Agreement) any of such Stockholder's Shares;
provided, however, that (i) each Stockholder (but not a
Stockholder who is not an original signatory to this
Agreement and who receives Shares in a Transfer made
under this Section 3(a)) that is an individual may
Transfer during the term of this Agreement up to 200,000
of such Stockholder's Shares, and additional Shares in
excess of such 200,000 if each transferee of such
additional Shares agrees to be bound by the terms of this
Agreement (and thereby becomes a Stockholder under this
Agreement for all purposes) and (ii) each Stockholder
that is a trust or a foundation may Transfer during the
term of this Agreement up to the number of such
Stockholder's Shares as would be saleable by such
Stockholder in compliance with the volume limitations of
Rule 144 under the Act, and additional Shares in excess
of such number if each transferee of such additional
Shares agrees to be bound by the terms of this Agreement.
4. Specific Performance. Each party hereto
acknowledges that it will be impossible to measure in
money the damage to the other party if a party hereto
fails to comply with the obligations imposed by this
Agreement, and that, in the event of any such failure,
the other party will not have an adequate remedy at law
or in damages. Accordingly, each party hereto agrees
that injunctive relief or other equitable remedy, in
addition to remedies at law or damages, is the
appropriate remedy for any such failure and will not
oppose the granting of such relief on the basis that the
other party has an adequate remedy at law. Each party
hereto agrees that it will not seek, and agrees to waive
any requirement for, the securing or posting of a bond in
connection with any other party's seeking or obtaining
such equitable relief.
5. Term of Agreement; Termination. Subject
to Section 8(f), the term of this Agreement shall
commence on the date hereof, and such term and this
Agreement shall terminate upon the earliest to occur of
(i) the Effective Time; (ii) the date on which the Merger
Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms;
(iii) the date on which the Board of Directors of the
Company withdraws or materially modifies or changes its
recommendation of the Merger Agreement if the Board of
Directors of the Company after consultation with its
counsel determines that the failure to take such action
could reasonably be deemed a breach of its fiduciary
duties to the Company's stockholders under applicable
law; and (iv) October 31, 1996. Upon such termination,
no party shall have any further obligations or
liabilities hereunder; provided, however, that such
termination shall not relieve any party from liability
for any breach of this Agreement prior to such
termination.
6. Entire Agreement. This Agreement
supersedes all prior agreements, written or oral, among
the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter
hereof and contains the entire agreement among the
parties with respect to the subject matter hereof. This
Agreement may not be amended, supplemented or modified,
and no provisions hereof may be modified or waived,
except by an instrument in writing signed by all parties
hereto. No waiver of any provisions hereof by any party
shall be deemed a waiver of any other provisions hereof
by any such party, nor shall any such waiver be deemed a
continuing waiver of any provision hereof by such party.
7. Notices. All notices, consents, requests,
instructions, approvals and other communications provided
for herein shall be in writing and shall be deemed to
have been duly given if mailed, by first class or
registered mail, three (3) business days after deposit in
the United States Mail, or if telexed or telecopied, sent
by telegram, or delivered by hand or reputable overnight
courier, when confirmation is received, in each case as
follows:
If to the Stockholders, to the addresses
listed on Schedule A hereto.
With a copy to:
King & Spalding
191 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30303-1763
Attention: E. William Bates, II, Esq.
Telecopy: (404) 572-5100
If to Textron Inc.:
Textron Inc.
40 Westminster Street
Providence, RI 02903-2596
Attention: Executive Vice President
and General Counsel
Telecopy: (401) 457-2418
With a copy to:
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
One Beacon Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02108
Attention: Margaret A. Brown, Esq.
Telecopy: (617) 573-4822
If to the Company:
Provident Companies, Inc.
1 Fountain Square
Chattanooga, TN 37402
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
Telecopy: (423) 755-1755
With a copy to:
Alston & Bird
1201 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309
Attention: Dean Copeland, Esq.
Telecopy: (404) 881-7777
or to such other persons or addresses as may be
designated in writing by the party to receive such
notice. Nothing in this Section 7 shall be deemed to
constitute consent to the manner and address for service
of process in connection with any legal proceeding
(including litigation arising out of or in connection
with this Agreement), which service shall be effected as
required by applicable law.
8. Miscellaneous.
(a) Nothing contained in this Agreement
shall be construed as creating any liability on the part
of Textron under the Merger Agreement.
(b) This Agreement shall be deemed a
contract made under, and for all purposes shall be
construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of
Delaware, without reference to its conflicts of law
principles.
(c) If any provision of this Agreement or
the application of such provision to any person or
circumstances shall be held invalid or unenforceable by a
court of competent jurisdiction, such provision or
application shall be unenforceable only to the extent of
such invalidity or unenforceability, and the remainder of
the provision held invalid or unenforceable and the
application of such provision to persons or
circumstances, other than the party as to which it is
held invalid, and the remainder of this Agreement, shall
not be affected.
(d) This Agreement may be executed in one
or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be
an original but all of which together shall constitute
one and the same instrument.
(e) All Section headings herein are for
convenience of reference only and are not part of this
Agreement, and no construction or reference shall be
derived therefrom.
(f) The obligations of the Stockholders
set forth in this Agreement shall not be effective or
binding upon the Stockholders until after such time as
the Merger Agreement is executed and delivered by the
Company, Parent and Newco.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have
executed and delivered this Agreement as of the date
first written above.
THE PAUL REVERE CORPORATION
By:/s/ Charles E. Soule
Name: Charles E. Soule
Title: President and Chief
Executive Officer
TEXTRON INC.
By:/s/ Stephen L. Key
Name: Stephen L. Key
Title: President and Chief
Financial Officer
STOCKHOLDERS:
/s/ Hugh O. Maclellan
Hugh O. Maclellan
/s/ Kathrina H. Maclellan
Kathrina H. Maclellan
/s/ Charlotte M. Heffner
Charlotte M. Heffner
THE MACLELLAN FOUNDATION, INC.
By:/s/ Hugh O. Maclellan, Jr.
Name: Hugh O. Maclellan, Jr.
Title: President
THE R.J. MACLELLAN TRUST FOR THE
MACLELLAN FOUNDATION, INC.
By:/s/ Hugh O. Maclellan, Jr.
Name: Hugh O. Maclellan, Jr.
Title: Trustee
THE HELEN M. TIPTON FOUNDATION,
INC.
By:/s/ Hugh O. Maclellan, Jr.
Name: Hugh O. Maclellan, Jr.
Title: President
THE R.J. MACLELLAN TRUST FOR THE
R.L. MACLELLAN FAMILY
By:/s/ Hugh O. Maclellan, Jr.
Name: Hugh O. Maclellan, Jr.
Title: (None)
THE CORA L. MACLELLAN TRUST FOR
THE R.L. MACLELLAN FAMILY
By:/s/ Hugh O. Maclellan, Jr.
Name: Hugh O. Maclellan, Jr.
Title: (None)
THE R.J. MACLELLAN TRUST FOR THE
HUGH O. MACLELLAN, SR. FAMILY
By:/s/ Hugh O. Maclellan, Jr.
Name: Hugh O. Maclellan, Jr.
Title: Trustee
THE CORA L. MACLELLAN TRUST FOR
THE HUGH O. MACLELLAN, SR.
FAMILY
By:/s/ Hugh O. Maclellan, Jr.
Name: Hugh O. Maclellan, Jr.
Title: Trustee
SCHEDULE A
Percentage
Number of of Voting
Outstanding Power of
Stockholder Shares Owned Parent(1)
Hugh O. Maclellan, 827,150 1.82
Jr.
Katherina H. 1,389,344 3.06
Maclellan
Charlotte M. 757,455 1.67
Heffner
The Maclellan 8,115,514 17.86
Foundation, Inc.
The R.J. Maclellan 3,470,123 7.64
Trust For The
Maclellan
Foundation, Inc.
The Helen M. Tipton 1,565,842 3.45
Foundation, Inc.
The R.J. Maclellan 538,345 1.18
Trust For The R.L.
Maclellan Family
The Cora L. 535,820 1.18
Maclellan Trust For
The R.L. Maclellan
Family
The R.J. Maclellan 522,615 1.15
Trust For The Hugh
O. Maclellan, Sr.
Family
The Cora L. 518,695 1.14
Maclellan Trust For
The Hugh O.
Maclellan, Sr.
Family
(1) Based on total shares outstanding as of March 4, 1996.
CONFORMED COPY
EXHIBIT A
VOTING AGREEMENT AND ELECTION
VOTING AGREEMENT AND ELECTION (this
"Agreement"), dated as of April 29, 1996, between Textron
Inc., a Delaware corporation and a stockholder (the
"Stockholder") of The Paul Revere Corporation, a
Massachusetts corporation (the "Company"), and Provident
Companies, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Parent").
WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution of
this Agreement, the Company, Parent and Patriot
Acquisition Corporation, a Massachusetts corporation and
a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent ("Newco"), have
entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as the same
may be amended from time to time, the "Merger
Agreement"), providing for the merger (the "Merger") of
Newco with and into the Company pursuant to the terms and
conditions of the Merger Agreement; and
WHEREAS, the Stockholder owns of record and
beneficially 37,500,000 shares (the "Shares") of common
stock, par value $1.00 per share, of the Company (the
"Common Stock") and wishes to enter into this Agreement
with respect to the Shares; and
WHEREAS, in order to induce Parent to enter
into the Merger Agreement, the Stockholder has agreed,
upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth
herein, to vote the Shares at a meeting of the Company's
stockholders in favor of approval of the Merger
Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable
consideration, the receipt, sufficiency and adequacy of
which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as
follows:
1. Agreement to Vote Shares.
(a) Subject to Section 1(b) hereof, the
Stockholder agrees during the term of this Agreement to
vote the Shares, in person or by proxy, (i) in favor of
approval of the Merger Agreement at every meeting of the
stockholders of the Company at which such matters are
considered and at every adjournment thereof (each, a
"Stockholder Meeting") and (ii) against an Alternative
Proposal (as such term is defined in the Merger
Agreement).
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained herein, the obligations of the
Stockholder pursuant to Section 1(a) hereof with respect
to matters to be considered at any Stockholder Meeting
are subject to the following conditions:
(i) Parent and Newco shall have
performed in all material respects all of their
respective material obligations under the Merger
Agreement to have been performed at or prior to the date
of such Stockholder Meeting;
(ii) all representations and
warranties of Parent and Newco set forth in the Merger
Agreement shall be true and correct in all material
respects as of the date of such Stockholder Meeting as
though made on and as of such date (except for changes
permitted by the Merger Agreement and that those
representations which address matters only as of a
particular date shall remain true and correct as of such
date), except in any case for such failures to be true
and correct which would not have a Parent Material
Adverse Effect (as defined in the Merger Agreement);
(iii) there shall not be in effect
on the date of such Stockholder Meeting any statute,
rule, regulation, executive order, decree, ruling or
injunction or other order of a court or governmental or
regulatory agency of competent jurisdiction directing
that the transactions contemplated by the Merger
Agreement not be consummated; provided, however, that,
subject to the terms and provisions provided in the
Merger Agreement (including but not limited to Section
6.8 thereof), prior to invoking this condition each party
shall use its reasonable efforts to have any such decree,
ruling, injunction or order vacated; and
(iv) the Registration Statement
(as such term is defined in the Merger Agreement) to be
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"SEC") by Parent under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Act") to register the shares of Parent
Common Stock (as such term is defined in the Merger
Agreement) to be issued in the Merger shall have become
effective under the Act and shall not be the subject of
any stop order or proceeding by the SEC seeking a stop
order.
2. No Voting Trusts. The Stockholder agrees
that the Stockholder will not, nor will the Stockholder
permit any entity under the Stockholder's control to,
deposit any of the Stockholder's Shares in a voting trust
or subject any of its Shares to any arrangement with
respect to the voting of the Shares inconsistent with
this Agreement.
3. Limitation on Dispositions and Proxies.
During the term of this Agreement, the Stockholder agrees
not to sell, assign, pledge, transfer or otherwise
dispose of, or grant any proxies with respect to (except
for a proxy which is not inconsistent with the terms of
this Agreement) any of the Stockholder's Shares.
4. Specific Performance. Each party hereto
acknowledges that it will be impossible to measure in
money the damage to the other party if a party hereto
fails to comply with the obligations imposed by this
Agreement, and that, in the event of any such failure,
the other party will not have an adequate remedy at law
or in damages. Accordingly, each party hereto agrees
that injunctive relief or other equitable remedy, in
addition to remedies at law or damages, is the
appropriate remedy for any such failure and will not
oppose the granting of such relief on the basis that the
other party has an adequate remedy at law. Each party
hereto agrees that it will not seek, and agrees to waive
any requirement for, the securing or posting of a bond in
connection with any other party's seeking or obtaining
such equitable relief.
5. Term of Agreement; Termination.
(a) Subject to Section 9(f), the term of
this Agreement shall commence on the date hereof, and
such term and this Agreement shall terminate upon the
earliest to occur of (i) the Effective Time; (ii) the
date on which the Merger Agreement is terminated in
accordance with its terms; (iii) the date on which the
Board of Directors of the Company withdraws or materially
modifies or changes its recommendation of the Merger
Agreement if the Board of Directors of the Company after
consultation with its counsel determines that the failure
to take such action could reasonably be deemed a breach
of its fiduciary duties to the Company's stockholders
under applicable law; and (iv) October 31, 1996. Upon
such termination, no party shall have any further
obligations or liabilities hereunder; provided, however,
that such termination shall not relieve any party from
liability for any breach of this Agreement prior to such
termination.
(b) If (i) an Alternative Proposal (as
such term is defined in the Merger Agreement) which
provides that the Company's stockholders will receive in
excess of $26.00 per share of Common Stock is then
outstanding, and (ii) at a meeting of stockholders of the
Company held for the purpose of voting on a proposal to
approve the Merger Agreement, the Stockholder shall have
failed to vote the Shares in favor of such proposal then,
unless Parent shall be entitled to receive the
Termination Fee (as defined in the Merger Agreement)
pursuant to Section 8.5(b) of the Merger Agreement and
provided that Parent shall not be in material breach of
its obligations hereunder or under the Merger Agreement,
the Stockholder will pay Parent the sum of $22,500,000 as
promptly as practicable, but not later than three
business days following such meeting, and such payment
will be made by wire transfer of immediately available
funds to an account designed by Parent. Notwithstanding
anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the fee which
may become payable under this Section 5(b) shall be the
sole and exclusive remedy available to Parent for the
Stockholder's failure to vote the Shares in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement.
6. Entire Agreement. This Agreement
supersedes all prior agreements, written or oral, among
the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter
hereof and contains the entire agreement among the
parties with respect to the subject matter hereof. This
Agreement may not be amended, supplemented or modified,
and no provisions hereof may be modified or waived,
except by an instrument in writing signed by all parties
hereto. No waiver of any provisions hereof by any party
shall be deemed a waiver of any other provisions hereof
by any such party, nor shall any such waiver be deemed a
continuing waiver of any provision hereof by such party.
7. Notices. All notices, consents, requests,
instructions, approvals and other communications provided
for herein shall be in writing and shall be deemed to
have been duly given if mailed, by first class or
registered mail, three (3) business days after deposit in
the United States Mail, or if telexed or telecopied, sent
by telegram, or delivered by hand or reputable overnight
courier, when confirmation is received, in each case as
follows:
If to Stockholder:
Textron Inc.
40 Westminster Street
Providence, RI 02903-2596
Attention: Executive Vice President
and General Counsel
Telecopy: (401) 457-2418
With a copy to:
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
One Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
Attention: Margaret A. Brown, Esq.
Telecopy: (617) 573-4822
If to Parent:
Provident Companies, Inc.
1 Fountain Square
Chattanooga, TN 37402
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
Telecopy: (423) 755-1755
With a copy to:
Alston & Bird
1201 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
Attention: Dean Copeland, Esq.
Telecopy: (404) 881-7777
or to such other persons or addresses as may be
designated in writing by the party to receive such
notice. Nothing in this Section 7 shall be deemed to
constitute consent to the manner and address for service
of process in connection with any legal proceeding
(including litigation arising out of or in connection
with this Agreement), which service shall be effected as
required by applicable law.
8. Election. Notwithstanding any rights with
respect to the election of Merger Consideration (as such
term is defined in the Merger Agreement) which may be
available to the Stockholder under the Merger Agreement,
the Stockholder shall make a Mixed Election (as such term
is defined in the Merger Agreement).
9. Miscellaneous.
(a) Nothing contained in this Agreement
shall be construed as creating any liability on the part
of the Stockholder under the Merger Agreement.
(b) This Agreement shall be deemed a
contract made under, and for all purposes shall be
construed in accordance with, the laws of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without reference to its
conflicts of law principles.
(c) If any provision of this Agreement or
the application of such provision to any person or
circumstances shall be held invalid or unenforceable by a
court of competent jurisdiction, such provision or
application shall be unenforceable only to the extent of
such invalidity or unenforceability, and the remainder of
the provision held invalid or unenforceable and the
application of such provision to persons or
circumstances, other than the party as to which it is
held invalid, and the remainder of this Agreement, shall
not be affected.
(d) This Agreement may be executed in one
or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be
an original but all of which together shall constitute
one and the same instrument.
(e) All Section headings herein are for
convenience of reference only and are not part of this
Agreement, and no construction or reference shall be
derived therefrom.
(f) The obligations of the Stockholder
set forth in this Agreement shall not be effective or
binding upon the Stockholder until after such time as the
Merger Agreement is executed and delivered by the
Company, Parent and Newco.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have
executed and delivered this Agreement as of the date
first written above.
PROVIDENT COMPANIES, INC.
By:/s/ J. Harold Chandler
Name: J. Harold Chanler
Title: President
TEXTRON INC.
By:/s/ Stephen L. Key
Name: Stephen L. Key
Title: Executive Vice
President and Chief
Financial Officer
CONFORMED COPY
AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER
BY AND AMONG
PROVIDENT COMPANIES, INC.,
PATRIOT ACQUISITION CORPORATION
and
THE PAUL REVERE CORPORATION
As of April 29, 1996
TABLE OF CONTENTS
RECITALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
ARTICLE I
THE MERGER; EFFECTIVE TIME; CLOSING
1.1 The Merger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Effective Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.3 Closing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
ARTICLE II
SURVIVING CORPORATION
2.1 Articles of Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2 By-Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.3 Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.4 Officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
ARTICLE III
MERGER CONSIDERATION; ELECTION; CONVERSION OR
CANCELLATION OF SHARES IN THE MERGER; OTHER PAYMENT
3.1 Merger Consideration; Election; Conversion or
Cancellation of Shares, SARs and Performance
Share Units in the Merger . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2 Election Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.3 Payment for Shares in the Merger . . . . . . . . . 8
3.4 Dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.5 No Fractional Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.6 Transfer of Shares After the Effective Time . . . 11
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY
4.1 Corporate Organization and Qualification . . . . . 11
4.2 Capitalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.3 Authority Relative to This Agreement . . . . . . . . 13
4.4 Consents and Approvals; No Violation . . . . . . . 15
4.5 SEC Reports; Financial Statements . . . . . . . . . 16
4.6 Statutory Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.7 Absence of Certain Changes or Events . . . . . . . . 17
4.8 Litigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.9 No Regulatory Disqualifications . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.10 Joint Proxy Statement-Prospectus . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.11 Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.12 Employee Benefit Plans; Labor Matters . . . . . . . 20
4.13 Environmental Laws and Regulations . . . . . . . . . 22
4.14 Company Intellectual Property . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.15 Brokers and Finders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.16 Opinion of Financial Advisors . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.17 Title to Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.18 Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.19 No Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.20 Noncompliance with Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
ARTICLE V
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PARENT AND NEWCO
5.1 Corporate Organization and Qualification . . . . . . 27
5.2 Capitalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.3 Authority Relative to This Agreement . . . . . . . . 29
5.4 Consents and Approvals; No Violation . . . . . . . . 30
5.5 Financing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
5.6 SEC Reports; Financial Statements . . . . . . . . . 31
5.7 Statutory Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
5.8 Absence of Certain Changes or Events . . . . . . . . 32
5.9 Interim Operations of Newco . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.10 Litigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.11 No Regulatory Disqualifications . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.12 Joint Proxy Statement-Prospectus . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.13 Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.14 Employee Benefit Plans; Labor Matters . . . . . . . 34
5.15 Environmental Laws and Regulations . . . . . . . . . 37
5.16 Parent Intellectual Property . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
5.17 Title to Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5.18 Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
5.19 Ownership of Shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
5.20 Brokers and Finders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
5.21 No Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
5.22 Noncompliance with Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
ARTICLE VI
ADDITIONAL COVENANTS AND AGREEMENTS
6.1 Conduct of Business of the Company . . . . . . . . . 42
6.2 Conduct of Business of Parent . . . . . . . . . . . 47
6.3 Alternative Proposals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
6.4 Joint Proxy Statement-Prospectus; Registration
Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
6.5 Stock Exchange Listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
6.6 Letters of Accountants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
6.7 Stockholders' Approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
6.8 Satisfaction of Conditions, Receipt of Necessary
Approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
6.9 Access to Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
6.10 Publicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
6.11 Indemnification of Directors and Officers . . . . . 56
6.12 Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
6.13 Conduct of Business of Newco . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
6.14 Rights Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
6.15 Compliance with the Securities Act . . . . . . . . . 59
ARTICLE VII
CONDITIONS TO CONSUMMATION OF THE MERGER
7.1 Conditions to Each Party's Obligations to Effect
the Merger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
7.2 Additional Conditions to the Obligations of Parent
and Newco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
7.3 Additional Conditions to the Obligations of the
Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
ARTICLE VIII
TERMINATION
8.1 Termination by Mutual Consent . . . . . . . . . . 63
8.2 Termination by Either Parent or the Company . . . 63
8.3 Termination by Parent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
8.4 Termination by the Company . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
8.5 Effect of Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL
9.1 Payment of Expenses and Other Payments . . . . . . 66
9.2 Survival of Representations and Covenants;
Survival of Confidentiality Agreement . . . . . 67
9.3 Modification or Amendment . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
9.4 Waiver and Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
9.5 Counterparts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
9.6 Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
9.7 Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
9.8 Entire Agreement; Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . 70
9.9 Parties in Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
9.10 Certain Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
9.11 Obligation of Parent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
9.12 Validity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
9.13 Captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
EXHIBIT A -- Textron Voting Agreement and Election
EXHIBIT B -- Separation Agreement
EXHIBIT C -- Standstill Agreement
EXHIBIT D -- Registration Rights Agreement
EXHIBIT E -- Provident Voting Agreement
AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER
AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER (this
"Agreement"), dated as of April 29, 1996, by and among
Provident Companies, Inc., a Delaware corporation
("Parent"), Patriot Acquisition Corporation, a
Massachusetts corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary
of Parent ("Newco"), and The Paul Revere Corporation, a
Massachusetts corporation (the "Company").
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the respective Boards of Directors of
Parent, Newco and the Company have, subject to the
conditions of this Agreement, determined that the Merger
(as defined in Section 1.1) is in the best interests of
their respective stockholders and approved this Agreement
and the transactions contemplated hereby; and
WHEREAS, in consideration of the transactions
contemplated hereby and in order to induce Parent and
Newco to enter into this Agreement, Textron Inc.
("Textron") has agreed to (i) execute and deliver to
Parent a Voting Agreement and Election (the "Textron
Voting Agreement") in the form attached hereto as Exhibit
A, (ii) execute and deliver to Parent and the Company a
Separation Agreement (the "Separation Agreement") in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit B and (iii) execute and
deliver to Parent a Standstill Agreement in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit C; and
WHEREAS, in connection with and in
consideration of the transactions contemplated hereby
Parent and Textron are entering into a Registration
Rights Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit
D; and
WHEREAS, in consideration of the transactions
contemplated hereby and in order to induce the Company to
enter into this Agreement and Textron to enter into the
Textron Voting Agreement, certain stockholders of Parent
have agreed to execute and deliver to Textron and the
Company a Voting Agreement in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit E; and
WHEREAS, Parent, Newco and the Company desire
to make certain representations, warranties, covenants
and agreements in connection with the Merger;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the
foregoing and the mutual representations, warranties,
covenants and agreements set forth herein, Parent, Newco
and the Company hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
THE MERGER; EFFECTIVE TIME; CLOSING
1.1 The Merger. Subject to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement, at the Effective Time (as
defined in Section 1.2), the Company and Newco shall
consummate a merger (the "Merger") pursuant to which (a)
Newco shall be merged with and into the Company and the
separate corporate existence of Newco shall thereupon
cease, (b) the Company shall be the successor or
surviving corporation in the Merger and shall continue to
be governed by the Laws (as defined in Section 9.10) of
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and (c) the separate
corporate existence of the Company with all its rights,
privileges, immunities, powers and franchises shall
continue unaffected by the Merger. The corporation
surviving the Merger is sometimes hereinafter referred to
as the "Surviving Corporation." The Merger shall have
the effects set forth in the Massachusetts Business
Corporation Law (the "MBCL").
1.2 Effective Time. Parent, Newco and the
Company will cause appropriate Articles of Merger (the
"Articles of Merger") to be executed and filed on the
date of the Closing (as defined in Section 1.3) (or on
such other date as Parent and the Company may agree) with
the Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts as provided in the MBCL. The Merger shall
become effective at the time at which the Articles of
Merger have been duly filed with the Secretary of State
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or such time as is
agreed upon by the parties and specified in the Articles
of Merger, and such time is hereinafter referred to as
the "Effective Time."
1.3 Closing. The Company shall as promptly as
practicable notify Parent, and Parent and Newco shall as
promptly as practicable notify the Company, when the
conditions to such party's or parties' obligation to
effect the Merger contained in Section 7.1 have been
satisfied or waived. The closing of the Merger (the
"Closing") shall take place (a) at the offices of
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, One Beacon Street,
Boston, Massachusetts, at 10:00 a.m., Boston time, on the
sixth business day after the later of these notices has
been given (the "Closing Date") or (b) at such other
place, time and date as Parent and the Company may agree.
ARTICLE II
SURVIVING CORPORATION
2.1 Articles of Organization. The Articles of
Organization of the Company, as in effect immediately
prior to the Effective Time, shall be the Articles of
Organization of the Surviving Corporation until
thereafter amended as provided by Law and such Articles
of Organization.
2.2 By-Laws. The By-Laws of the Company, as
in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, shall
be the By-Laws of the Surviving Corporation until
thereafter amended as provided by Law, the Articles of
Organization of the Surviving Corporation and such By-
Laws.
2.3 Directors. The directors of Newco at the
Effective Time shall, from and after the Effective Time,
be the directors of the Surviving Corporation until their
successors have been duly elected or appointed and
qualified or until their earlier death, resignation or
removal in accordance with the Surviving Corporation's
Articles of Organization and By-Laws.
2.4 Officers. The officers of the Company at
the Effective Time shall, from and after the Effective
Time, be the initial officers of the Surviving
Corporation until their successors have been duly elected
or appointed and qualified or until their earlier death,
resignation or removal in accordance with the Surviving
Corporation's Articles of Organization and By-Laws.
ARTICLE III
MERGER CONSIDERATION; ELECTION; CONVERSION OR
CANCELLATION OF SHARES IN THE MERGER; OTHER PAYMENT
3.1 Merger Consideration; Election; Conversion
or Cancellation of Shares, SARs and Performance Share
Units in the Merger.
(a) At the Effective Time, each share of
the Company's common stock, par value $1.00 per share,
issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective
Time (collectively, the "Shares"), other than Dissenting
Shares (as defined in Section 3.1(g)) and Shares to be
cancelled and retired pursuant to Section 3.1(b), shall,
by virtue of the Merger and without any action on the
part of Parent, Newco, the Company or the holder thereof,
be cancelled and extinguished and converted into the
right to receive, pursuant to Section 3.2, any one of the
following, payable to the holder of such Share without
interest thereon, less any required withholding of taxes,
upon surrender of the certificate formerly representing
such Share (a "Certificate") in accordance with Section
3.2(b)), in each case as such holder shall elect in
accordance with this Section 3.2(a):
(i) $26.00 in cash (the "Cash Price"),
without interest thereon (the "Cash Consideration");
(ii) a number of shares of common stock, par
value $1.00 per share, of Parent (the "Parent Common
Stock") equal to the product of 26 and the Exchange
Ratio (as defined below) (the "Stock
Consideration"); or
(iii) $20.00 in cash plus a number of shares
of Parent Common Stock equal to the product of 6 and
the Exchange Ratio (the "Mixed Consideration").
Any such form of consideration elected by a holder of
Shares is referred to herein as the "Merger
Consideration," and the aggregate of all Merger
Consideration to be paid to holders of shares in
connection with the Merger is referred to hereinafter as
the "Aggregate Merger Consideration." The exchange ratio
for determining the number of shares of Parent Common
Stock to be issued in exchange for each Share to the
holder thereof who elects to receive the Stock
Consideration and/or the Mixed Consideration, as the case
may be (the "Exchange Ratio"), shall be determined by
dividing $1.00 by the average of closing prices for the
Parent Common Stock as reported in the New York Stock
Exchange, Inc. ("NYSE") Composite Transactions for the
twenty Trading Days (as defined herein) ending on the
fifth Trading Day prior to the Effective Time as reported
in The Wall Street Journal, except that the Exchange
Ratio shall under no circumstances be higher than 0.0343
or lower than 0.0295. As used in this Agreement,
"Trading Day" means a day on which the NYSE is open for
trading. All Shares converted or exchanged into the
Merger Consideration shall no longer be outstanding and
shall automatically be cancelled and retired and shall
cease to exist, and each Certificate shall thereafter
represent the right to receive, upon the surrender of
such Certificate in accordance with the provisions of
Sections 3.2(b) and 3.3, only the applicable Merger
Consideration. The holders of such Certificates shall
cease to have any rights with respect to Shares except as
otherwise provided herein or by law.
(b) At the Effective Time, each Share, if
any, issued and outstanding and owned by any of Parent,
Newco, any direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary of
Parent or any direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary
of the Company (except in a custodial or fiduciary
capacity) and any authorized but unissued shares of
common stock of the Company held by the Company
immediately prior to the Effective Time shall cease to be
outstanding, be cancelled and retired without payment of
any consideration therefor and cease to exist.
(c) At the Effective Time, each share of
common stock of Newco issued and outstanding immediately
prior to the Effective Time shall be converted into one
validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable share of
common stock of the Surviving Corporation.
(d) Each stock appreciation right ("SAR")
granted pursuant to the Company's 1993 Long-Term
Incentive Plan (the "Plan") which is outstanding
immediately prior to the Effective Time, whether or not
such SAR is then vested or exercisable, shall, by virtue
of the Merger and without any action on the part of the
holder thereof, be cancelled and converted into the right
to receive in cash an amount equal to (i) the difference
(if positive) between (A) the Cash Price and (B) the
exercise price of such SAR multiplied by (ii) the number
of Shares subject to such SAR. If the difference between
(A) the Cash Price and (B) the exercise price of a SAR is
zero or less, such SAR shall, by virtue of the Merger,
and without any action on the part of the holder thereof,
be canceled and no consideration shall be issued in
exchange therefor.
(e) Each performance share unit
("Performance Share Unit") granted pursuant to the Plan
for which the applicable Award Period (as defined in the
Plan) has not yet expired as of the time immediately
prior to the Effective Time, whether or not the
applicable Performance Targets or Performance Measures
(as such terms are defined in the Plan) are accomplished
as of such time, shall, by virtue of the Merger and
without any action on the part of the holder thereof, be
cancelled and converted into the right to receive in cash
an amount equal to the Cash Price.
(f) At the Effective Time, each SAR and
Performance Share Unit shall no longer represent the
right to acquire Shares, but in lieu thereof shall
represent only the nontransferable right to receive the
payments referred to in Sections 3.1(d) and (e). Prior
to the Effective Time, the Company shall (i) use its
reasonable efforts to obtain any consents from holders of
SARs and Performance Share Units granted pursuant to the
Plan and (ii) make any amendments to the terms of the
Plan that, in the case of either clauses (i) or (ii), are
necessary to give effect to the conversions contemplated
by Section 3.1(d) and (e). Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Section 3.1, payment may be withheld in
respect of any SAR or Performance Share Unit until any
necessary consents are obtained.
(g) Notwithstanding anything in this
Agreement to the contrary, any issued and outstanding
Shares held by a stockholder who objects to the Merger
(a "Dissenting Stockholder") and complies with the
provisions of the MBCL concerning the rights of holders
of Shares to dissent from the Merger and require
appraisal of such Shares ("Dissenting Shares") shall not
be converted as described in this Section 3.1 but shall
become the right to receive such consideration as may be
determined to be due to such Dissenting Stockholder
pursuant to the MBCL. If, after the Effective Time, such
Dissenting Stockholder withdraws his demand for appraisal
or fails to perfect or otherwise loses his right of
appraisal, in any case pursuant to the MBCL, or if Parent
otherwise consents thereto, each of such stockholder's
Dissenting Shares shall be treated as a Non-Election
Share (as defined in Section 3.2) for purposes of Section
3.2 and shall, accordingly, be deemed to be converted as
of the Effective Time into the right to receive the Cash
Consideration. The Company shall give Parent (i) prompt
notice of any demands received by the Company for
appraisals of Shares and (ii) the opportunity to
participate in and direct all negotiations and
proceedings with respect to any such demands. The
Company shall not, without the prior written consent of
Parent, make any payment with respect to, or settle,
offer to settle or otherwise negotiate, any such demands.
3.2 Election Procedures.
(a) Each record holder of Shares (other
than Dissenting Shares, if any, and shares to be
cancelled in accordance with Section 3.1(b)) issued and
outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall
be entitled to submit a request specifying the portion of
such record holder's Shares which such record holder
desires to have converted into (i) the Cash Consideration
(a "Cash Election"), (ii) the Stock Consideration (a
"Stock Election") or (iii) the Mixed Consideration (a
"Mixed Election"), or to indicate that such record holder
has no preference as to the receipt of Cash
Consideration, Stock Consideration or Mixed Consideration
for such Shares (a "Non-Election"). Shares in respect of
which a Non-Election is made (including Shares in respect
of which such an election is deemed to have been made
pursuant to this Section 3.2(a) and Section 3.1(g))
(collectively, "Non-Election Shares") shall be deemed to
be Shares in respect of which a Cash Election has been
made.
(b) Elections pursuant to Section 3.2(a)
shall be made on the form of letter of transmittal and
form of election (the "Letter of Transmittal and Form of
Election") to be provided by the Paying Agent (as defined
in Section 3.3(a)) to holders of record of Shares,
together with instructions for use in effecting the
surrender of the Certificates for payment therefor, as
soon as practicable following the Effective Time. The
Letter of Transmittal and Form of Election shall specify
that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and
title to the Certificates transmitted therewith shall
pass, only upon proper delivery of the Certificates to
the Paying Agent. Elections shall be made by mailing to
the Paying Agent a duly completed Letter of Transmittal
and Form of Election in accordance with Section 3.3(b).
To be effective, a Letter of Transmittal and Form of
Election must be (i) properly completed, signed and
submitted to the Paying Agent at its designated office
and (ii) accompanied by the Certificates representing the
Shares as to which the election is being made (or by an
appropriate guarantee of delivery of such Certificates by
a commercial bank or trust company in the United States
or a member of a registered national security exchange or
of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.,
provided such Certificates are in fact delivered to the
Paying Agent within eight Trading Days after the date of
execution of such guarantee of delivery). The Company
shall determine, in its sole and absolute discretion,
which authority it may delegate in whole or in part to
the Paying Agent, whether any Letter of Transmittal and
Form of Election has been properly completed, signed and
submitted or revoked. The decision of the Company (or
the Paying Agent, as the case may be) in such matters
shall be conclusive and binding. Neither the Company nor
the Paying Agent will be under any obligation to notify
any person of any defect in a Letter of Transmittal and
Form of Election submitted to the Paying Agent.
3.3 Payment for Shares in the Merger.
(a) At the Effective Time, Parent shall
deposit or cause to be deposited with First Chicago Trust
Company of New York or another bank or trust company
located in the United States with assets in excess of
$500,000,000 selected by Parent after consultation with
the Company (the "Paying Agent"), for the benefit of
holders of Shares the Aggregate Merger Consideration
plus cash in an amount sufficient to make cash payments
in lieu of fractional shares pursuant to Section 3.5 and
any applicable dividends or distributions pursuant to
Section 3.4. The cash amounts referred to in the
immediately preceding sentence shall consist of
immediately available funds (such funds hereinafter
referred to as the "Exchange Fund"). The Paying Agent
shall, pursuant to irrevocable instructions, (x) deliver
to each holder of Shares, in accordance with this Section
3.3, the cash portion of such holder's Merger
Consideration out of the Exchange Fund, and the Exchange
Fund, other than any interest thereon (which shall be
retained by Parent), shall not be used for any other
purpose, and (y) deliver the Parent Common Stock portion
of such holder's Merger Consideration (if any) out of the
shares of Parent Common Stock deposited with the Paying
Agent by Parent for the benefit of holders of Shares.
The Exchange Fund shall be invested by the Paying Agent,
as directed by Parent, provided that such investments
shall be limited to (i) direct obligations of the United
States of America, (ii) obligations for which the full
faith and credit of the United States of America is
pledged to provide for the payment of principal and
interest, (iii) commercial paper rated of the highest
quality by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's") or
Standard & Poor's Ratings Group, a division of McGraw-
Hill Inc. ("S&P"), and (iv) certificates of deposit
issued by a commercial bank whose long-term debt
obligations are rated at least A2 by Moody's or at least
A by S&P, in each case having a maturity not in excess of
one year; provided, that nothing herein shall affect the
obligation of Parent to pay the full cash portion of the
Merger Consideration and any other cash amounts due to a
holder hereunder.
(b) Upon surrender of Certificates for
cancellation to the Paying Agent, together with such
Letter of Transmittal and Form of Election duly completed
and executed and any other documents required by such
instructions, the holder of such Certificates shall be
entitled to receive for each of the Shares formerly
represented by such Certificates (x) the Merger
Consideration elected by such holder pursuant to Section
3.2(b), (y) cash in lieu of any fractional shares of
Parent Common Stock to which such holder is entitled
pursuant to Section 3.5, and (z) any dividends or
distributions to which such holder may be entitled
pursuant to Section 3.4, in each such case without any
interest thereon and less any required withholding of
taxes, and the Certificates so surrendered shall
forthwith be cancelled. If payment is to be made to a
person other than the person in whose name a Certificate
so surrendered is registered on the stock transfer books
of the Company, it shall be a condition of payment that
the Certificate so surrendered shall be properly endorsed
and otherwise in proper form for transfer and that the
person requesting such payment shall pay to the Paying
Agent any transfer or other taxes required by reason of
the payment to a person other than the registered holder
of the Certificate surrendered, or shall establish to the
satisfaction of the Paying Agent that such tax has been
paid or is not applicable. Until surrendered in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 3.3(b),
each Certificate (other than Certificates representing
Shares held in the Company's treasury or by Parent,
Newco, any direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary of
Parent or any direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary
of the Company) shall represent for all purposes only the
right to receive for each Share represented thereby the
applicable Merger Consideration.
(c) At any time following the sixth month
after the Effective Time, Parent shall be entitled to
require the Paying Agent to deliver to it any portion of
the Exchange Fund and all shares of Parent Common Stock
deposited with the Paying Agent pursuant to Section
3.3(a) which had not been disbursed to holders of
Certificates (including, without limitation, all interest
and other income received by the Paying Agent in respect
of all funds made available to it), and thereafter such
holders shall be entitled to look only to Parent (subject
to abandoned property, escheat and other similar laws) as
general creditors thereof with respect to any Merger
Consideration that may be payable upon due surrender of
the Certificates held by them. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, neither Parent, the Surviving Corporation nor
the Paying Agent shall be liable to any holder of a
Certificate for any Merger Consideration delivered in
respect of such Certificate or the Shares formerly
represented thereby to a public official pursuant to any
abandoned property, escheat or other similar Law.
(d) Cash payments made pursuant to
Section 3.1 for SARs and Performance Share Units shall be
made by the Company at the Effective Time.
3.4 Dividends. No dividends or distributions
that are declared on shares of Parent Common Stock will
be paid to persons entitled to receive certificates
representing shares of Parent Common Stock until such
persons surrender their Certificates. Upon such
surrender, there shall be paid to the person in whose
name the certificates representing such shares of Parent
Common Stock shall be issued, any dividends or
distributions with respect to such shares of Parent
Common Stock which have a record date on or after the
Effective Time and shall have become payable between the
Effective Time and the time of such surrender. In no
event shall the person entitled to receive such dividends
or distributions be entitled to receive interest thereon.
3.5 No Fractional Securities. No certificates
or scrip representing fractional shares of Parent Common
Stock shall be issued upon the surrender for exchange of
Certificates, and such fractional interests shall not
entitle the owner thereof to vote or to any rights of a
security holder. In lieu of any such fractional
securities, each holder of Shares who would otherwise
have been entitled to a fraction of a share of Parent
Common Stock upon surrender of such holder's Certificates
will be entitled to receive a cash payment (without
interest) determined by multiplying (i) the fractional
interest to which such holder would otherwise be entitled
(after taking into account all Shares then held of record
by such holder) and (ii) the average of the per share
closing prices for the Parent Common Stock as reported in
the NYSE Composite Transactions for the ten Trading Days
immediately preceding the Effective Time as reported in
The Wall Street Journal.
3.6 Transfer of Shares After the Effective
Time. No transfers of Shares shall be made on the stock
transfer books of the Company after the close of business
on the day prior to the date of the Effective Time.
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
OF THE COMPANY
The Company represents and warrants to Parent
and Newco that:
4.1 Corporate Organization and Qualification.
(a) Each of the Company and each
subsidiary of the Company (collectively, the "Company
Subsidiaries") is a corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the Laws of its
jurisdiction of incorporation and is qualified and in
good standing as a foreign corporation in each
jurisdiction where the properties owned, leased or
operated, or the business conducted, by it require such
qualification, except where the failure to so qualify or
be in good standing is not reasonably likely to have a
Company Material Adverse Effect (as defined in Section
9.10). Each of the Company and each of the Company
Subsidiaries has all requisite corporate power and
authority and all necessary governmental Consents (as
defined in Section 9.10) to own, lease and operate its
properties and to carry on its business as it is now
being conducted, except where the failure to have such
power and authority is not reasonably likely to have a
Company Material Adverse Effect. The Company has
heretofore made available to Parent complete and correct
copies of the Articles of Organization or Articles of or
Certificate of Incorporation, as the case may be, and By-
Laws of it and each Company Subsidiary as in effect as of
the date hereof.
(b) The Company conducts its insurance
operations through The Paul Revere Life Insurance
Company, The Paul Revere Protective Life Insurance
Company and The Paul Revere Variable Annuity Insurance
Company (collectively, the "Company Insurance
Subsidiaries"). Except as disclosed in Section 4.1(b) of
the disclosure schedule being delivered to Parent by the
Company with this Agreement (the "Company Disclosure
Schedule"), each of the Company Insurance Subsidiaries is
(i) duly licensed or authorized as an insurance company
in its jurisdiction of incorporation, (ii) duly licensed
or authorized as an insurance company in each other
jurisdiction where it is required to be so licensed or
authorized, and (iii) duly authorized in its jurisdiction
of incorporation and each other applicable jurisdiction
to write each line of business reported as being written
in the Company SAP Statements (as hereinafter defined),
except, in any such case, where the failure to be so
licensed or authorized is not reasonably likely to result
in a Company Material Adverse Effect.
(c) Except for the Company Subsidiaries
and as set forth in the Company 1995 SAP Statements (as
defined in Section 4.6) or in Section 4.1(c) of the
Company Disclosure Schedule, the Company does not
directly or indirectly own any equity or similar interest
in, or any interest convertible into or exchangeable or
exercisable for any equity or similar interest in, any
corporation, partnership, joint venture or other business
association or entity that directly or indirectly
conducts any activity which is material to the Company.
4.2 Capitalization. The authorized capital
stock of the Company consists of: (i) 100,000,000 Shares,
of which, as of the date of the Agreement, 45,000,000
shares were issued and outstanding, of which 37,500,000
Shares were owned by Textron free and clear of all Liens
(as defined in Section 9.10), and (ii) 5,000,000 shares
of preferred stock, no par value per share, none of
which, as of the date of this Agreement, were issued and
outstanding. All of the outstanding Shares have been
duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and
nonassessable. Except as set forth on Section 4.2 of the
Company Disclosure Schedule, as of the date hereof all
outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company
Subsidiaries are owned by the Company or a direct or
indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, free and
clear of all Liens. Except as set forth on Section 4.2
of the Company Disclosure Schedule, there are not as of
the date hereof any outstanding or authorized options,
warrants, calls, rights (including preemptive rights),
commitments or any other agreements of any character to
which the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries is a
party or may be bound by, requiring it to issue,
transfer, sell, purchase, redeem or acquire any shares of
capital stock or any securities or rights convertible
into, exchangeable for, or evidencing the right to
subscribe for, any shares of capital stock of the Company
or any of the Company Subsidiaries.
4.3 Authority Relative to This Agreement. The
Company has the requisite corporate power and authority
to execute and deliver this Agreement and, subject to
approval of this Agreement by the holders of two-thirds
of the outstanding Shares in accordance with the MBCL, to
consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. This
Agreement and the consummation by the Company of the
transactions contemplated hereby have been duly and
validly authorized by the Board of Directors of the
Company and no other corporate proceedings on the part of
the Company are necessary to authorize this Agreement or
to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby (other
than, with respect to the Merger, the approval of this
Agreement by the holders of two-thirds of the outstanding
Shares in accordance with the MBCL). This Agreement has
been duly and validly executed and delivered by the
Company and, assuming this Agreement constitutes the
valid and binding agreement of Parent and Newco,
constitutes the valid and binding agreement of the
Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance
with its terms, except that the enforcement hereof may be
limited by (a) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium or other similar Laws now or hereafter in
effect relating to creditors' rights generally and (b)
general principles of equity (regardless of whether
enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or
at law). The Company has taken, or will take in
accordance with Section 6.14, all action necessary to
ensure that, so long as this Agreement shall not have
been terminated pursuant to Article VIII hereof, no
"Rights" (as that term is defined in that certain Rights
Agreement dated as of September 23, 1993 (the "Rights
Agreement"), between the Company and First Chicago Trust
Company of New York, a New York corporation) are issued
or required to be issued to the stockholders of the
Company by virtue of the execution and delivery of this
Agreement or the Textron Voting Agreement. The Company
and each Company Subsidiary have taken all necessary
action to exempt the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and the Textron Voting Agreement from, or if
necessary to challenge the validity or applicability of,
any applicable "moratorium," "fair price," "business
combination," "control share" or other state anti-
takeover Laws (collectively, "Takeover Laws"), including,
without limitation, Chapters 110C, 110D, 110E and 110F of
the Massachusetts General Laws. Each of the Company and
each Company Subsidiary has taken all action so that the
entering into of this Agreement and the Textron Voting
Agreement and the consummation of the Merger and the
other transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the
Textron Voting Agreement do not and will not result in
the grant of any rights to any person under the Articles
of Organization or Articles or Certificate of
Incorporation, By-Laws or other governing instruments of
the Company or any Company Subsidiary or restrict or
impair the ability of Parent or any of its subsidiaries
to vote, or otherwise to exercise the rights of a
shareholder with respect to, shares of the Company or any
Company Subsidiary that may be directly or indirectly
acquired or controlled by it or to otherwise engage in
transactions with the Company or any Company Subsidiary.
4.4 Consents and Approvals; No Violation.
Neither the execution, delivery or performance of this
Agreement by the Company nor the consummation by the
Company of the transactions contemplated hereby nor
compliance by the Company with any of the provisions
hereof will (a) conflict with or result in any breach of
any provision of the respective Articles of Organization
or Certificate of Incorporation, as the case may be, or
respective By-Laws of the Company or any of the Company
Subsidiaries; (b) except as set forth in Section 4.4 of
the Company Disclosure Schedule, require any Consent of
any governmental or regulatory authority, except (i) in
connection with the applicable requirements of the Hart-
Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as
amended (the "HSR Act"), (ii) pursuant to the applicable
requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder (the "Exchange Act"), (iii) the filing of the
Articles of Merger pursuant to the MBCL and appropriate
documents with the relevant authorities of other states
in which the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries
is authorized to do business, (iv) as may be required by
any applicable state securities or "blue sky" laws or
state takeover laws, (v) the filing of appropriate
documents with, and approval of, the respective
Commissioners of Insurance of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts and the States of Delaware and New York and
such Consents as may be required under the insurance laws
of any state in which the Company or any of the Company
Subsidiaries is domiciled or does business or in which
Parent or any of the Parent Subsidiaries is domiciled or
does business, (vi) such Consents as may be required
under the Laws of Canada or any of the provinces thereof
or (vii) where the failure to obtain such Consents is not
reasonably likely to have a Company Material Adverse
Effect; (c) except as set forth in Section 4.4 of the
Company Disclosure Schedule, result in a Default (as
defined in Section 9.10) under any of the terms,
conditions or provisions of any Contract (as defined in
Section 9.10) or Permit (as defined in Section 9.10) to
which the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries or
any of their respective assets may be bound, except for
such Defaults as to which requisite waivers or consents
have been obtained or which are not reasonably likely to
have a Company Material Adverse Effect; or (d) assuming
the Consents and Permits referred to in this Section 4.4
are duly and timely obtained or made and the approval of
this Agreement by the Company's stockholders has been
obtained, violate any Order (as defined in Section 9.10)
or Law applicable to the Company or any of the Company
Subsidiaries or any of their respective assets, except
for violations which are not reasonably likely to have a
Company Material Adverse Effect.
4.5 SEC Reports; Financial Statements.
(a) The Company has timely filed all
reports required to be filed by it with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") since January 1, 1994
pursuant to the federal securities laws and the SEC rules
and regulations thereunder, all of which as of their
respective dates, complied in all material respects with
applicable requirements of the Exchange Act
(collectively, the "Company SEC Reports"). None of the
Company SEC Reports, including, without limitation, any
financial statements or schedules included therein, as of
their respective dates contained any untrue statement of
a material fact or omitted to state a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary in order to
make the statements therein, in light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(b) The consolidated statements of
financial position and the related consolidated
statements of operations, stockholders' equity and cash
flows (including the related notes thereto) of the
Company included in the Company SEC Reports complied in
all material respects with applicable accounting
requirements and the published rules and regulations of
the SEC with respect thereto, have been prepared in
conformity with generally accepted accounting principles
("GAAP") applied on a basis consistent with prior periods
(except as otherwise noted therein), and present fairly
the consolidated financial position of the Company as of
their respective dates, and the consolidated results of
its operations and its cash flows for the periods
presented therein (subject, in the case of the unaudited
interim financial statements, to normal year-end
adjustments).
4.6 Statutory Statements. Each of the Company
Insurance Subsidiaries has filed all annual or quarterly
statements, together with all exhibits and schedules
thereto, required to be filed with or submitted to the
appropriate regulatory authorities of the jurisdiction in
which it is domiciled on forms prescribed or permitted by
such authority (collectively, the "Company SAP
Statements"). Except as set forth in Section 4.6 of the
Company Disclosure Schedule, financial statements
included in the Company SAP Statements and prepared on a
statutory basis, including the notes thereto, have been
prepared in all material respects in accordance with
accounting practices prescribed or permitted by
applicable state regulatory authorities in effect as of
the date of the respective statements and such accounting
practices have been applied on a substantially consistent
basis throughout the periods involved, except as
expressly set forth in the notes or schedules thereto,
and such financial statements present fairly the
respective statutory financial positions and results of
operation of each of the Company Insurance Subsidiaries
as of their respective dates and for the respective
periods presented therein. The Company SAP Statements
for the year ended December 31, 1995 are referred to
herein as the "Company 1995 SAP Statements."
4.7 Absence of Certain Changes or Events.
Except as disclosed in the Company SEC Reports filed
prior to the date of this Agreement, or as set forth in
Section 4.7 of the Company Disclosure Schedule or as a
consequence of, or as contemplated by this Agreement,
since December 31, 1995, the business of the Company has
been carried on only in the ordinary and usual course,
and other than in the ordinary course of business, there
has not occurred any change which has resulted or is
reasonably likely to result in a Company Material Adverse
Effect. Since December 31, 1995, neither the Company nor
any of the Company Subsidiaries has, other than in the
ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice, incurred any material indebtedness for borrowed
money or guaranteed any such indebtedness or made any
material loans, advances or capital contributions to, or
material investments in, any other person other than the
Company or any Company Subsidiary.
4.8 Litigation. Except as set forth in
Section 4.8 of the Company Disclosure Schedule, the
Company SEC Reports filed prior to the date of this
Agreement accurately disclose in all material respects
all Litigation (as defined in Section 9.10) pending or,
to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, the outcome
of which is reasonably likely to have a Company Material
Adverse Effect.
4.9 No Regulatory Disqualifications. To the
knowledge of the Company, no event has occurred or
condition exists or, to the extent it is within the
reasonable control of the Company, will occur or exist
with respect to the Company that, in connection with
obtaining any regulatory Consents required for the
Merger, would cause the Company to fail to satisfy on its
face any applicable statute or written regulation of any
applicable insurance regulatory authority, which is
reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company's
ability to consummate the transactions contemplated
hereby.
4.10 Joint Proxy Statement-Prospectus. None
of the information to be supplied by and relating to the
Company for inclusion or incorporation by reference in
(i) the Registration Statement to be filed with the SEC
by Parent on Form S-4 under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended (the "Securities Act"), for the purpose of
registering the shares of Parent Common Stock to be
issued in connection with the Merger (the "Registration
Statement") or (ii) the Joint Proxy Statement-Prospectus
(as defined in Section 6.4) will, 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 not
misleading, or, in the case of the Joint Proxy Statement-
Prospectus, at the time of the mailing of the Joint Proxy
Statement-Prospectus to the Company's and Parent's
respective stockholders (or, in the case of any amendment
or supplement thereto, at the time of mailing of such
amendment or supplement, as the case may be) and at the
time of the stockholder meeting of the Company
contemplated by Section 6.7(a) and at the Effective Time,
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. If at any time prior to the Effective Time
any event with respect to the Company or any of its
subsidiaries should occur which is required to be
described in a supplement to the Joint Proxy Statement-
Prospectus, such event shall be so described, and such
supplement shall be promptly filed with the SEC and, as
required by Law, disseminated to the stockholders of the
Company. With respect to the information relating to the
Company, the Joint Proxy Statement-Prospectus will comply
as to form in all material respects with the requirements
of the Exchange Act.
4.11 Taxes. Except as set forth on Section
4.11 of the Company Disclosure Schedule, (a) the Company
and the Company Subsidiaries have filed on or before the
date hereof (i) all federal, state, local and foreign
income Tax Returns (as defined below) required to be
filed after January 1, 1992 except for such Tax Returns
the failure of which to file is not reasonably likely to
have a Company Material Adverse Effect, individually or
in the aggregate, and (ii) all other Tax Returns required
to be filed except for such Tax Returns the failure of
which to file is not reasonably likely to have a Company
Material Adverse Effect, individually or in the
aggregate; (b) all Taxes (as defined below) shown to be
due on the Tax Returns referred to in clause (a) have
been timely paid; (c) the Company and the Company
Subsidiaries have joined in the filing of a consolidated
United States federal income Tax Return of Textron and
its subsidiaries, and since 1986, neither the Company nor
the Company Subsidiaries have joined in a consolidated
income Tax Return with any other group of corporations,
except for a group consisting solely of the Company and
the Company Subsidiaries; (d) the Company and the Company
Subsidiaries have entered into a Tax sharing agreement
with Textron, dated January 1, 1993, as amended,
governing the allocation of Taxes between them, and no
other Tax sharing agreement exists among the parties; (e)
neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has waived
in writing any statute of limitations in respect of Taxes
of the Company or such Company Subsidiary, except for
waivers relating to Taxes which are not reasonably likely
to have a Company Material Adverse Effect, individually
or in the aggregate; (f) all deficiencies asserted or
assessments made as a result of examination of the Tax
Returns referred to in clause (a) by a taxing authority
have been paid in full; (g) no proposed assessments have
been raised in writing by the relevant taxing authority
in connection with the examination of Tax Returns
referred to in clause (a); (h) no taxing authority has
requested in writing that the Company or any Company
Subsidiary file a Tax Return in a jurisdiction where it
has not previously filed a Tax Return; and (i) as a
result of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, none of the Company or any Company Subsidiary
will be required to make a "parachute payment" to a
"disqualified individual" pursuant to section 280G of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code").
As of the date hereof, the Company has made available to
Parent true and complete copies of its separate "pro-
forma" United States federal income Tax Returns for each
of the four tax years ended December 31, 1991 through
1994. For purposes of this Agreement, "Tax" (and, with
correlative meaning, "Taxes") shall mean all federal,
state, local and foreign income, premium, payroll,
withholding, excise, sales, use, gain, transfer, real and
personal property, use and occupation, capital stock,
franchise and other taxes, including interest and
penalties thereon, imposed by a taxing authority. For
purposes of this Agreement, "Tax Return" shall mean all
reports, returns (including information returns and
similar returns or reports), statements, declarations, or
forms, including accompanying schedules, in each case
with respect to Taxes.
4.12 Employee Benefit Plans; Labor Matters.
(a) General Compliance with Law. Except
as disclosed in Section 4.12(a) of the Company Disclosure
Schedule, each Company Plan (as defined in Section 9.10)
has been operated in accordance with its terms and the
requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security
Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), the Code, and all
other applicable Laws, except where the failure to have
been so operated is not reasonably likely to result in a
Company Material Adverse Effect. All reports and
disclosures relating to the Company Plans required to be
filed or furnished to any governmental entity,
participants or beneficiaries prior to the Closing have
been or will be filed in a timely manner and in
accordance in all material respects with applicable Law
except where the failure to be so filed or furnished is
not reasonably likely to have a Company Material Adverse
Effect.
(b) ERISA Title IV Liability; Defined
Benefit Plans. Except as set forth in Section 4.12(b) of
the Company Disclosure Schedule or as is not reasonably
likely to result in a Company Material Adverse Effect,
(i) neither the Company, nor any Company Subsidiary, nor
any ERISA Affiliate (as defined in Section 9.10) of the
Company has incurred any direct or indirect liability
under, arising out of, or by operation of Title IV of
ERISA that has not been satisfied in full, and no fact or
event exists that could reasonably be expected to give
rise to any such liability, other than liability for
premiums due the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
("PBGC") (which premiums have been paid when due);
(ii) for each Company Plan which is subject to Title IV
of ERISA, the aggregate accumulated benefit obligation
(as determined under Statement of Financial Accounting
Services No. 87) of such Company Plan does not exceed the
fair market value of the assets of such Company Plan;
(iii) no Company Plan or any trust established thereunder
that is subject to Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412
of the Code has incurred any "accumulated funding
deficiency" (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and
Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived; (iv) all
contributions required to be made with respect thereto
(whether pursuant to the terms of any Company Plan or
otherwise) have been timely made; (v) no Lien exists
under Section 412(n) of the Code or Section 4068 of ERISA
with respect to any assets of the Company or any Company
Subsidiary; (vi) no tax under Section 4971 of the Code
has been incurred with respect to any Company Plan; and
(vii) neither the Company nor any of the Company
Subsidiaries sponsors, maintains, contributes to, or is
required to contribute to a "multiemployer pension plan,"
as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA, or a plan described
in Section 4063(a) of ERISA.
(c) Prohibited Transactions; Fiduciary
Duties. Except as set forth in Section 4.12(c) of the
Company Disclosure Schedule or as is not reasonably
likely to result in a Company Material Adverse Effect,
(i) neither the Company, nor any Company Subsidiary, nor
any Company Plan, nor any trust created thereunder and
any trustee or administrator thereof has engaged in a
transaction in connection with which the Company or any
ERISA Affiliate, any Company Plan, any such trust, or any
trustee or administrator thereof, or any party dealing
with any Company Plan or any such trust, which could
result in a civil penalty assessed pursuant to Section
409 or 502(i) of ERISA or a tax imposed pursuant to
Section 4975 of the Code; and (ii) the Company, the
Company Subsidiaries, and all fiduciaries (as defined in
Section 3(21) of ERISA) with respect to the Company
Plans, have complied in all respects with Section 404 of
ERISA.
(d) Determination Letters. Except as set
forth in Section 4.12(d) of the Company Disclosure
Schedule or as is not reasonably likely to result in a
Company Material Adverse Effect, (i) each Company Plan
intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code
has received a favorable determination letter from the
Internal Revenue Service with respect to the Tax Reform
Act of 1986 and other applicable Laws, or an application
was filed for such determination letter on a timely
basis, and (ii) nothing has occurred from the date of
such letter or such filing that could reasonably be
expected to affect the qualified status of such Company
Plan.
(e) No Acceleration of Liability. Except
as set forth in Section 4.12(e) of the Company Disclosure
Schedule or as is not reasonably likely to result in a
Company Material Adverse Effect, the consummation of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not
(i) entitle any current or former employee, director or
officer of the Company or any Company Subsidiary to
severance pay, unemployment compensation or any other
payment, except as expressly provided in this Agreement
or (ii) accelerate the time of payment or vesting, or
increase the amount of compensation or benefit due any
such employee, director or officer.
(f) Ability to Terminate Plans. Except
as set forth in Section 4.12(f) of the Company Disclosure
Schedule or as is not reasonably likely to result in a
Company Material Adverse Effect, each Company Plan is
terminable in accordance with the terms expressly set
forth therein, except as may be limited by applicable
Law.
(g) The Company is not subject to any
collective bargaining or other labor union contracts
applicable to persons employed by the Company or the
Company Subsidiaries. There is no pending or threatened
in writing labor dispute, strike or work stoppage against
the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries which may
interfere with the respective business activities of the
Company or the Company Subsidiaries, except where such
dispute, strike or work stoppage is not reasonably likely
to have a Company Material Adverse Effect.
4.13 Environmental Laws and Regulations.
Except as disclosed in Section 4.13 of the Company
Disclosure Schedule, or except as is not reasonably
likely to result in a Company Material Adverse Effect:
(a) the Company, each of the Company Subsidiaries and
each of the Company Properties (as defined in Section
9.10) is in compliance with all applicable Environmental
Laws (as defined in Section 9.10); (b) the Company and
each of the Company Subsidiaries has obtained all Permits
required for their operations and the Company Properties
by any applicable Environmental Law; (c) neither the
Company nor any Company Subsidiary has, and the Company
has no knowledge of any other person who has, caused any
release, threatened release or disposal of any Hazardous
Material (as defined in Section 9.10) at the Company
Properties; (d) the Company has no knowledge that the
Company Properties are adversely affected by any release,
threatened release or disposal of a Hazardous Material
originating or emanating from any other property; (e)
neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has
manufactured, used, generated, stored, treated,
transported, disposed of, released, or otherwise managed
any Hazardous Material at the Company Properties, (f)
neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary: (i) has
any material liability for response or corrective action,
natural resources damage, or any other harm pursuant to
any Environmental Law at the Company Properties or at any
other property, (ii) is subject to, has notice or
knowledge of, or is required to give any notice of any
Environmental Claim (as defined in Section 9.10)
involving the Company, any of the Company Subsidiaries or
any of the Company Properties, or (iii) has knowledge of
any condition or occurrence at the Company, any of the
Company Subsidiaries or any of the Company Properties
which could form the basis of an Environmental Claim
against the Company, any of the Company Subsidiaries or
any of the Company Properties; (g) the Company Properties
are not subject to any, and the Company has no knowledge
of any imminent, restriction on the ownership, occupancy,
use or transferability of the Company Properties in
connection with any (i) Environmental Law or (ii)
release, threatened release or disposal of any Hazardous
Material; and (h) there are no conditions or
circumstances at the Company Properties that pose a risk
to the environment or the health and safety of any
person.
4.14 Company Intellectual Property. Except as
set forth in Section 4.14 of the Company Disclosure
Schedule, or except as is not reasonably likely to result
in a Company Material Adverse Effect: (a) either the
Company or one of the Company Subsidiaries is the owner
of, or a licensee under a valid license for, all items of
intellectual property which are material to the business
of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries as currently
conducted, including, without limitation, (i) copyrights,
patents, trademarks, logos, service marks, trade names,
service names, all applications therefor and all
registrations thereof, and (ii) technology rights and
licenses, computer software, trade secrets, know-how,
inventions, processes, formulae and other intellectual
property rights (collectively, the "Company Intellectual
Property"); (b) with respect to all Company Intellectual
Property owned by the Company or any Company Subsidiary,
the Company or such Company Subsidiary, as the case may
be, is the sole owner and has the exclusive right to use
such Company Intellectual Property, and such owned
Company Intellectual Property is not subject to any
Liens, including, without limitation, any rights retained
by Textron or any of its affiliates other than the
Company or the Company Subsidiaries; (c) there is no
infringement or other adverse claim against the rights of
the Company or any Company Subsidiary with respect to any
of the Company Intellectual Property; and (d) neither the
Company nor any Company Subsidiary has been charged with,
nor to the Company's knowledge is the Company or any
Company Subsidiary threatened to be charged with nor is
there any basis for any such charge of, infringement or
other violation of, nor has the Company or any Company
Subsidiary infringed, nor is it infringing, any unexpired
rights of any third party in any of the Company
Intellectual Property.
4.15 Brokers and Finders. Other than Morgan
Stanley & Co. Incorporated which has been retained by the
independent committee of the Board of Directors, the
Company has not employed any investment banker, broker,
finder, consultant or intermediary in connection with the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement which would
be entitled to any investment banking, brokerage,
finder's or similar fee or commission in connection with
this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
4.16 Opinion of Financial Advisors. The
independent committee of the Board of Directors has
received the opinion of Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated
dated April 28, 1996, to the effect that, as of such
date, the Merger Consideration to be received by the
stockholders of the Company in the Merger is fair to the
minority stockholders of the Company from a financial
point of view.
4.17 Title to Property.
(a) Except as set forth in Section
4.17(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, each of the
Company and the Company Subsidiaries (i) has good, valid
and marketable title to all of its properties, assets and
other rights that do not constitute real property, free
and clear of all Liens, except for such Liens that are
not reasonably likely to have a Company Material Adverse
Effect, and (ii) owns, or has valid leasehold interests
in or valid contractual rights to use, all of the assets,
tangible and intangible, used by, or necessary for the
conduct of, its business, except where the failure to
have such valid leasehold interests or such valid
contractual rights is not reasonably likely to have a
Company Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Except as set forth in Section
4.17(b) of the Company Disclosure Schedule or except as
is not reasonably likely to result in a Company Material
Adverse Effect, each of the Company and the Company
Subsidiaries:
(i) owns and has good, valid
and marketable title in fee simple to the real
property owned by such party, free and clear of
Liens, except for (A) minor imperfections of
title, easements and rights of way, none of
which, individually or in the aggregate,
materially detracts from the value of or
impairs the use of the affected property or
impairs the operations of the Company or any of
the Company Subsidiaries and (B) Liens for
current Taxes not yet due and payable ((A) and
(B) are collectively referred to as "Permitted
Company Liens");
(ii) is in peaceful and
undisturbed possession of the space and/or
estate under each lease under which it is a
tenant, and there are no material defaults by
it as tenant thereunder; and
(iii) has good and valid rights
of ingress and egress to and from all the real
property owned or leased by such party from and
to the public street systems for all usual
street, road and utility purposes.
4.18 Insurance. Except as set forth in
Section 4.18 of the Company Disclosure Schedule, each of
the Company and each of the Company Subsidiaries is, and
has been continuously since January 1, 1995, insured with
financially responsible insurers in such amounts and
against such risks and losses as are customary in all
material respects for companies conducting the business
as conducted by the Company and the Company Subsidiaries
during such time period. Except as set forth in Section
4.18 of the Company Disclosure Schedule, neither the
Company nor any of the Company Subsidiaries is in Default
under, or has received any notice of cancellation or
termination with respect to, any material insurance
policy of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries.
The insurance policies of the Company and each of the
Company Subsidiaries are valid and enforceable policies
in all material respects.
4.19 No Default. Except as set forth in
Section 4.19 of the Company Disclosure Schedule, neither
the Company nor any of the Company Subsidiaries is in
Default under any term, condition or provision of (a) its
Articles of Organization or Articles or Certificate of
Incorporation, as the case may be, or By-Laws, (b) any
Contract or other instrument or obligation to which the
Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries is a party or
by which they or any of their properties or assets may be
bound or affected, except for any such Defaults that are
not reasonably likely to have a Company Material Adverse
Effect; (c) any Order applicable to the Company or any of
the Company Subsidiaries or any of their properties or
assets, except for any such Defaults that are not
reasonably likely to have a Company Material Adverse
Effect; or (d) any Permit necessary for the Company or
any of the Company Subsidiaries to conduct their
respective businesses as currently conducted, except for
Defaults that are not reasonably likely to have a Company
Material Adverse Effect.
4.20 Noncompliance with Laws. The business of
the Company and each of the Company Subsidiaries is being
conducted in compliance with all applicable Laws except
for instances of noncompliance that are listed in Section
4.20 of the Company Disclosure Schedule or which are not
reasonably likely to have a Company Material Adverse
Effect. Since January 1, 1995, neither the Company nor
any of the Company Subsidiaries has received any written
notification or written communication from any agency or
department of federal, state, or local government
(a) asserting that the Company or any Company Subsidiary
is not in compliance with any of the Laws, Orders or
Permits of any governmental agency or authority or that
any such agency or authority enforces, except such
instances of noncompliance that are not reasonably likely
to have a Company Material Adverse Effect, or
(b) requiring the Company or any Company Subsidiary to
enter into or consent to the issuance of a cease and
desist order, formal agreement, directive or commitment
which restricts materially the conduct of its business or
which materially affects its capital, its credit or
reserve policies, its management, or the payment of
dividends.
ARTICLE V
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PARENT
AND NEWCO
Each of Parent and Newco represents and
warrants jointly and severally to the Company that:
5.1 Corporate Organization and Qualification.
(a) Each of Parent and each subsidiary of
Parent (including Newco) (collectively, the "Parent
Subsidiaries") is a corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the Laws of its
jurisdiction of incorporation and is qualified and in
good standing as a foreign corporation in each
jurisdiction where the properties owned, leased or
operated, or the business conducted, by it require such
qualification, except where the failure to so qualify or
be in good standing is not reasonably likely to have a
Parent Material Adverse Effect (as defined in Section
9.10). Each of Parent and each of the Parent
Subsidiaries has all requisite corporate power and
authority and all necessary governmental Consents to own,
lease and operate its properties and to carry on its
business as it is now being conducted, except where the
failure to have such power and authority is not
reasonably likely to have a Parent Material Adverse
Effect. Parent has heretofore made available to the
Company complete and correct copies of the Certificate of
Incorporation or Articles of Organization or
Incorporation, as the case may be, and By-Laws of it and
each Parent Subsidiary as in effect as of the date
hereof.
(b) Parent conducts its insurance
operations through Provident Life and Accident Insurance
Company, Provident National Assurance Company and
Provident Life and Casualty Insurance Company
(collectively, the "Parent Insurance Subsidiaries").
Except as disclosed in Section 5.1(b) of the disclosure
schedule being delivered to the Company by Parent with
this Agreement (the "Parent Disclosure Schedule"), each
of the Parent Insurance Subsidiaries is (i) duly licensed
or authorized as an insurance company in its jurisdiction
of incorporation, (ii) duty licensed or authorized as an
insurance company in each other jurisdiction where it is
required to be so licensed or authorized, and (iii) duly
authorized in its jurisdiction of incorporation and each
other applicable jurisdiction to write each line of
business reported as being written in the Parent SAP
Statements (as hereinafter defined), except, in any such
case, where the failure to be so licensed or authorized
is not reasonably likely to result in a Parent Material
Adverse Effect.
(c) Except for the Parent Subsidiaries
and as set forth in the Parent 1995 SAP Statements (as
defined in Section 5.7) or in Section 5.1(c) of the
Parent Disclosure Schedule, Parent does not directly or
indirectly own any equity or similar interest in, or any
interest convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable
for any equity or similar interest in, any corporation,
partnership, joint venture or other business association
or entity that directly or indirectly conducts any
activity which is material to Parent.
5.2 Capitalization. The authorized capital
stock of Parent consists of: (i) 65,000,000 shares of
Parent Common Stock, of which, as of the date of the
Agreement, 45,465,135 shares were issued and outstanding,
and (ii) 25,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value
$1.00 per share, 1,041,667 of which, as of the date of
this Agreement, were issued and outstanding. All of the
outstanding shares of Parent Common Stock have been duly
authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and
nonassessable. Except as set forth on Section 5.2 of the
Parent Disclosure Schedule, as of the date hereof all
outstanding shares of capital stock of the Parent
Subsidiaries are owned by Parent or a direct or indirect
wholly owned subsidiary of Parent, free and clear of all
Liens. Except as set forth on Section 5.2 of the Parent
Disclosure Schedule, there are not as of the date hereof
any outstanding or authorized options, warrants, calls,
rights (including preemptive rights), commitments or any
other agreements of any character to which Parent or any
of the Parent Subsidiaries is a party or may be bound by,
requiring it to issue, transfer, sell, purchase, redeem
or acquire any shares of capital stock or any securities
or rights convertible into, exchangeable for, or
evidencing the right to subscribe for, any shares of
capital stock of Parent or any of the Parent
Subsidiaries.
5.3 Authority Relative to This Agreement.
Each of Parent and Newco has the requisite corporate
power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement
and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby.
This Agreement and the consummation by Parent and Newco
of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly
and validly authorized by the respective Boards of
Directors of Parent and Newco and by Parent as the sole
stockholder of Newco, and, except for (i) the affirmative
vote of a majority of the votes represented by shares of
Parent Common Stock cast (whether in person or by proxy)
at the stockholders meeting of Parent contemplated by
Section 6.7(b) of this Agreement (provided that the total
vote cast on the proposal to approve the issuance of
shares of Parent Common Stock in the Merger and the other
transactions contemplated by this Agreement represents a
majority in interest of all securities of Parent entitled
to vote on such proposal) and (ii) the affirmative vote
of the holders of a majority of the shares of Parent
Common Stock outstanding with respect to a proposal to
amend Parent's Certificate of Incorporation to increase
the number of shares of Parent Common Stock which Parent
is authorized to issue to the extent necessary to effect
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (such
amendment is referred to hereinafter as the "Charter
Amendment"), no other corporate proceedings on the part
of Parent and Newco are necessary to authorize this
Agreement or to consummate the transactions contemplated
hereby. This Agreement has been duly and validly
executed and delivered by each of Parent and Newco and,
assuming this Agreement constitutes the valid and binding
agreement of the Company, constitutes the valid and
binding agreement of each of Parent and Newco,
enforceable against each of them in accordance with its
terms, except that the enforcement hereof may be limited
by (a) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium
or other similar Laws now or hereafter in effect relating
to creditors' rights generally and (b) general principles
of equity (regardless of whether enforceability is
considered in a proceeding at law or in equity).
5.4 Consents and Approvals; No Violation.
Neither the execution, delivery or performance of this
Agreement by Parent or Newco nor the consummation by
Parent and Newco of the transactions contemplated hereby
nor compliance by Parent or Newco with any of the
provisions hereof will (a) conflict with or result in any
breach of any provision of the respective Certificate of
Incorporation or Articles of Organization, as the case
may be, or respective By-Laws, of Parent or any of the
Parent Subsidiaries; (b) require any Consent of any
governmental or regulatory authority, except (i) in
connection with the applicable requirements of the HSR
Act, (ii) pursuant to the applicable requirements of the
Exchange Act, (iii) the filing of the Articles of Merger
pursuant to the MBCL and appropriate documents with the
relevant authorities of other states in which Parent or
any of the Parent Subsidiaries is authorized to do
business, (iv) as may be required by any applicable state
securities or "blue sky" laws or state takeover laws, (v)
the filing of appropriate documents with, and approval
of, the respective Commissioners of Insurance of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the States of Delaware
and Tennessee and such filings and consents as may be
required under the insurance laws of any state in which
the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries is
domiciled or does business or in which Parent or any of
the Parent Subsidiaries is domiciled or does business,
(vi) such Consents as may be required under the Laws of
Canada or any of the provinces thereof, or (vii) where
the failure to obtain such Consents is not reasonably
likely to have a Parent Material Adverse Effect; (c)
result in a Default under any of the terms, conditions or
provisions of any Contract to which Parent or any of the
Parent Subsidiaries or any of their respective assets may
be bound, except for such Defaults as to which requisite
waivers or consents have been obtained or which are not
reasonably likely to have a Parent Material Adverse
Effect; or (d) assuming the Consents referred to in this
Section 5.4 are duly and timely obtained or made, violate
any Order or Law applicable to Parent or any of the
Parent Subsidiaries or to any of their respective assets,
except for violations which are not reasonably likely to
have a Parent Material Adverse Effect.
5.5 Financing. Parent has or will have on the
date of the Closing sufficient funds available to pay the
aggregate Cash Consideration for all of the Shares
outstanding on a fully diluted basis other than Shares
held by Textron, to pay the aggregate cash component of
the Mixed Consideration to be paid for all Shares
outstanding held by Textron and to pay all fees and
expenses related to the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement. To the extent that Parent or Newco will be
required to finance any part of the Merger Consideration,
Parent has received commitment letters with respect
thereto, complete and correct copies of which have
heretofore been furnished to the Company and Textron.
5.6 SEC Reports; Financial Statements.
(a) Parent has timely filed all reports
required to be filed by it with the SEC since January 1,
1994 pursuant to the federal securities laws and the SEC
rules and regulations thereunder, all of which as of
their respective dates, complied in all material respects
with applicable requirements of the Exchange Act
(collectively, the "Parent SEC Reports"). None of the
Parent SEC Reports, including, without limitation, any
financial statements or schedules included therein, as of
their respective dates contained any untrue statement of
a material fact or omitted to state a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary in order to
make the statements therein, in light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(b) The consolidated statements of
financial position and the related consolidated
statements of operations, stockholders' equity and cash
flows (including the related notes thereto) of Parent
included in the Parent SEC Reports complied in all
material respects with applicable accounting requirements
and the published rules and regulations of the SEC with
respect thereto, have been prepared in conformity with
GAAP applied on a basis consistent with prior periods
(except as otherwise noted therein), and present fairly
the consolidated financial position of Parent as of their
respective dates, and the consolidated results of its
operations and its cash flows for the periods presented
therein (subject, in the case of the unaudited interim
financial statements, to normal year-end adjustments).
5.7 Statutory Statements. Each of the Parent
Insurance Subsidiaries has filed all annual or quarterly
statements, together with all exhibits and schedules
thereto, required to be filed with or submitted to the
appropriate regulatory authorities of the jurisdiction in
which it is domiciled on forms prescribed or permitted by
such authority (collectively, the "Parent SAP
Statements"). Except as set forth in Section 5.7 of the
Parent Disclosure Schedule, financial statements included
in the Parent SAP Statements and prepared on a statutory
basis, including the notes thereto, have been prepared in
all material respects in accordance with accounting
practices prescribed or permitted by applicable state
regulatory authorities in effect as of the date of the
respective statements and such accounting practices have
been applied on a substantially consistent basis
throughout the periods involved, except as expressly set
forth in the notes or schedules thereto, and such
financial statements present fairly the respective
statutory financial positions and results of operation of
each of the Parent Insurance Subsidiaries as of their
respective dates and for the respective periods presented
therein. The Parent SAP Statements for the year ended
December 31, 1995 are referred to herein as the "Parent
1995 SAP Statements."
5.8 Absence of Certain Changes or Events.
Except as disclosed in the Parent SEC Reports filed
prior to the date of this Agreement, or as set forth in
Section 5.8 of the Parent Disclosure Schedule or as a
consequence of, or as contemplated by this Agreement,
since December 31, 1995, the business of Parent has been
carried on only in the ordinary and usual course, and
other than in the ordinary course of business, there has
not occurred any change which has resulted or is
reasonably likely to result in a Parent Material Adverse
Effect.
5.9 Interim Operations of Newco. Newco was
formed solely for the purpose of engaging in the
transactions contemplated hereby and has not engaged in
any business activities or conducted any operations other
than in connection with the transactions contemplated
hereby.
5.10 Litigation. There is no Litigation,
pending against Parent or Newco, or, to the knowledge of
Parent, threatened, the outcome of which is reasonably
likely to have a Parent Material Adverse Effect.
5.11 No Regulatory Disqualifications. To the
knowledge of Parent, no event has occurred or condition
exists or, to the extent it is within the reasonable
control of Parent, will occur or exist with respect to
Parent that, in connection with obtaining any regulatory
Consents required for the Merger, would cause Parent or
Newco to fail to satisfy on its face any applicable
statute or written regulation of any applicable insurance
regulatory authority, which is reasonably likely to
adversely affect Parent's or Newco's ability to
consummate the transactions contemplated hereby.
5.12 Joint Proxy Statement-Prospectus. None
of the information supplied by Parent, Newco or their
representatives for inclusion in (i) the Registration
Statement or (ii) the Joint Proxy Statement-Prospectus
will, 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 not misleading, or, in the
case of the Joint Proxy Statement-Prospectus, at the time
of the mailing of the Joint Proxy Statement-Prospectus to
the Company's and Parent's respective stockholders (or,
in the case of any amendment or supplement thereto, at
the time of mailing of such amendment or supplement, as
the case may be) and at the time of the stockholder
meeting of Parent contemplated by Section 6.7(b) and at
the Effective Time, 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 were made, not misleading. If at any time
prior to the Effective Time any event with respect to
Parent or any of the Parent Subsidiaries should occur
which is required to be described in a supplement to the
Joint Proxy Statement-Prospectus, such event shall be so
described, and such supplement shall be promptly filed
with the SEC and, as required by Law, disseminated to the
stockholders of Parent. With respect to the information
relating to Parent, the Joint Proxy Statement-Prospectus
will comply as to form in all material respects with the
requirements of the Exchange Act.
5.13 Taxes. Except as set forth in Section
5.13 of the Parent Disclosure Schedule, (a) Parent and
the Parent Subsidiaries have filed on or before the date
hereof (i) all federal, state, local and foreign income
Tax Returns required to be filed after January 1, 1992
except for such Tax Returns the failure of which to file
is not reasonably likely to have a Parent Material
Adverse Effect, individually or in the aggregate, and
(ii) all other Tax Returns required to be filed except
for such Tax Returns the failure of which to file is not
reasonably likely to have a Parent Material Adverse
Effect, individually or in the aggregate; (b) all Taxes
shown to be due on the Tax Returns referred to in clause
(a) have been timely paid; (c) neither Parent nor any
Parent Subsidiary has waived in writing any statute of
limitations in respect of Taxes of Parent or such Parent
Subsidiary, except for waivers relating to Taxes which
would are not reasonably likely to have a Parent Material
Adverse Effect, individually or in the aggregate; (d) all
deficiencies asserted or assessments made as a result of
examination of the Tax Returns referred to in clause (a)
by a taxing authority have been paid in full; (e) no
proposed assessments have been raised in writing by the
relevant taxing authority in connection with the
examination of Tax Returns referred to in clause (a); and
(f) no taxing authority has requested in writing that
Parent or any Parent Subsidiary file a Tax Return in a
jurisdiction where it has not previously filed a Tax
Return.
5.14 Employee Benefit Plans; Labor Matters.
(a) General Compliance with Law. Except
as disclosed in Section 5.14(a) of the Parent Disclosure
Schedule, each Parent Plan (as defined in Section 9.10)
has been operated in accordance with its terms and the
requirements of ERISA, the Code, and all other applicable
Laws, except where the failure to have been so operated
would not be reasonably likely to result in a Parent
Material Adverse Effect. All reports and disclosures
relating to Parent Plans required to be filed or
furnished to any governmental entity, participants or
beneficiaries prior to the Closing have been or will be
filed in a timely manner and in accordance in all
material respects with applicable Law except where the
failure to be so filed or furnished is not reasonably
likely to have a Parent Material Adverse Effect.
(b) ERISA Title IV Liability; Defined
Benefit Plans. Except as set forth in Section 5.14(b) of
the Parent Disclosure Schedule or as is not reasonably
likely to result in a Parent Material Adverse Effect,
(i) neither Parent, nor any Parent Subsidiary, nor any
ERISA Affiliate of Parent has incurred any direct or
indirect liability under, arising out of, or by operation
of Title IV of ERISA that has not been satisfied in full,
and no fact or event exists that could reasonably be
expected to give rise to any such liability, other than
liability for premiums due the PBGC (which premiums have
been paid when due); (ii) for each Parent Plan which is
subject to Title IV of ERISA, the aggregate accumulated
benefit obligation (as determined under Statement of
Financial Accounting Services No. 87) of such Parent Plan
does not exceed the fair market value of the assets of
such Parent Plan; (iii) no Parent Plan or any trust
established thereunder that is subject to Section 302 of
ERISA and Section 412 of the Code has incurred any
"accumulated funding deficiency" (as defined in Section
302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not
waived; (iv) all contributions required to be made with
respect thereto (whether pursuant to the terms of any
Parent Plan or otherwise) have been timely made; (v) no
Lien exists under Section 412(n) of the Code or Section
4068 of ERISA with respect to any assets of Parent or any
Parent Subsidiary; (vi) no tax under Section 4971 of the
Code has been incurred with respect to any Parent Plan;
and (vii) neither Parent nor any of Parent Subsidiaries
sponsors, maintains, contributes to, or is required to
contribute to a "multiemployer pension plan," as defined
in Section 3(37) of ERISA, or a plan described in Section
4063(a) of ERISA.
(c) Prohibited Transactions; Fiduciary
Duties. Except as set forth in Section 5.14(c) of the
Parent Disclosure Schedule or as would not be reasonably
likely to result in a Parent Material Adverse Effect,
(i) neither Parent, nor any Parent Subsidiary, nor any
Parent Plan, nor any trust created thereunder and any
trustee or administrator thereof has engaged in a
transaction in connection with which Parent or any ERISA
Affiliate, any Parent Plan, any such trust, or any
trustee or administrator thereof, or any party dealing
with any Parent Plan or any such trust, which could
result in a civil penalty assessed pursuant to Section
409 or 502(i) of ERISA or a tax imposed pursuant to
Section 4975 of the Code; and (ii) Parent, Parent
Subsidiaries, and all fiduciaries (as defined in Section
3(21) of ERISA) with respect to Parent Plans, have
complied in all respects with Section 404 of ERISA.
(d) Determination Letters. Except as set
forth in Section 5.14(d) of the Parent Disclosure
Schedule or as would not be reasonably likely to result
in a Parent Material Adverse Effect, (i) each Parent Plan
intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code
has received a favorable determination letter from the
Internal Revenue Service with respect to the Tax Reform
Act of 1986 and other applicable Laws, or an application
was filed for such determination letter on a timely
basis, and (ii) nothing has occurred from the date of
such letter or such filing that could reasonably be
expected to affect the qualified status of such Parent
Plan.
(e) No Acceleration of Liability. Except
as set forth in Section 5.14(e) of the Parent Disclosure
Schedule or as would not be reasonably likely to result
in a Parent Material Adverse Effect, the consummation of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not
(i) entitle any current or former employee, director or
officer of Parent or any Parent Subsidiary to severance
pay, unemployment compensation or any other payment,
except as expressly provided in this Agreement or
(ii) accelerate the time of payment or vesting, or
increase the amount of compensation or benefit due any
such employee, director or officer.
(f) Ability to Terminate Plans. Except
as set forth in Section 5.14(f) of the Parent Disclosure
Schedule or as would not be reasonably likely to result
in a Parent Material Adverse Effect, each Parent Plan is
terminable in accordance with the terms expressly set
forth therein, except as may be limited by applicable
Law.
(g) Parent is not subject to any
collective bargaining or other labor union contracts
applicable to persons employed by Parent or the Parent
Subsidiaries. There is no pending or threatened in
writing labor dispute, strike or work stoppage against
Parent or any of the Parent Subsidiaries which may
interfere with the respective business activities of
Parent or the Parent Subsidiaries, except where such
dispute, strike or work stoppage would not be reasonably
likely to have a Parent Material Adverse Effect.
5.15 Environmental Laws and Regulations.
Except as disclosed in Section 5.15 of the Parent
Disclosure Schedule, or except as is not reasonably
likely to result in a Parent Material Adverse Effect: (a)
Parent, each of the Parent Subsidiaries and each of the
Parent Properties (as defined in Section 9.10) is in
compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws; (b)
Parent and each of the Parent Subsidiaries has obtained
all Permits required for their operations and the Parent
Properties by any applicable Environmental Law; (c)
neither Parent nor any Parent Subsidiary has, and Parent
has no knowledge of any other person who has, caused any
release, threatened release or disposal of any Hazardous
Material at the Parent Properties; (d) Parent has no
knowledge that the Parent Properties are adversely
affected by any release, threatened release or disposal
of a Hazardous Material originating or emanating from any
other property; (e) neither Parent nor any Parent
Subsidiary has manufactured, used, generated, stored,
treated, transported, disposed of, released, or otherwise
managed any Hazardous Material at the Parent Properties;
(f) neither Parent nor any Parent Subsidiary: (i) has any
material liability for response or corrective action,
natural resources damage, or any other harm pursuant to
any Environmental Law at the Parent Properties or at any
other property, (ii) is subject to, has notice or
knowledge of, or is required to give any notice of any
Environmental Claim involving Parent, any of the Parent
Subsidiaries or any of the Parent Properties, or (iii)
has knowledge of any condition or occurrence at Parent,
any of the Parent Subsidiaries or any of the Parent
Properties which could form the basis of an Environmental
Claim against Parent, any of the Parent Subsidiaries or
any of the Parent Properties; (g) the Parent Properties
are not subject to any, and Parent has no knowledge of
any imminent, restriction on the ownership, occupancy,
use or transferability of the Parent Properties in
connection with any (i) Environmental Law or (ii)
release, threatened release or disposal of any Hazardous
Material; and (h) there are no conditions or
circumstances at the Parent Properties that pose a risk
to the environment or the health and safety of any
person.
5.16 Parent Intellectual Property. Except as
set forth in Section 5.16 of the Parent Disclosure
Schedule, or except as would not be reasonably likely to
result in a Parent Material Adverse Effect: (a) either
Parent or one of the Parent Subsidiaries is the owner of,
or a licensee under a valid license for, all items of
intellectual property which are material to the business
of Parent and the Parent Subsidiaries as currently
conducted, including, without limitation, (i) copyrights,
patents, trademarks, logos, service marks, trade names,
service names, all applications therefor and all
registrations thereof, and (ii) technology rights and
licenses, computer software, trade secrets, know-how,
inventions, processes, formulae and other intellectual
property rights (collectively, the "Parent Intellectual
Property"); (b) with respect to all Parent Intellectual
Property owned by Parent or any Parent Subsidiary, Parent
or such Parent Subsidiary, as the case may be, is the
sole owner and has the exclusive right to use such Parent
Intellectual Property, and such owned Parent Intellectual
Property is not subject to any Liens; (c) there is no
infringement or other adverse claim against the rights of
Parent or any Parent Subsidiary with respect to any of
the Parent Intellectual Property; and (d) neither Parent
nor any Parent Subsidiary has been charged with, nor to
Parent's knowledge is Parent or any Parent Subsidiary
threatened to be charged with nor is there any basis for
any such charge of, infringement or other violation of,
nor has Parent or any Parent Subsidiary infringed, nor is
it infringing, any unexpired rights of any third party in
any of the Parent Intellectual Property.
5.17 Title to Property.
(a) Except as set forth in Section
5.17(a) of the Parent Disclosure Schedule, each of Parent
and the Parent Subsidiaries (i) has good, valid and
marketable title to all of its properties, assets and
other rights that do not constitute real property, free
and clear of all Liens, except for such Liens that are
not reasonably likely to have a Parent Material Adverse
Effect, and (ii) owns, or has valid leasehold interests
in or valid contractual rights to use, all of the assets,
tangible and intangible, used by, or necessary for the
conduct of, its business, except where the failure to
have such valid leasehold interests or such valid
contractual rights is not reasonably likely to have a
Parent Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Except as set forth in Section
5.17(b) of the Parent Disclosure Schedule or except as is
not reasonably likely to result in a Parent Material
Adverse Effect, each of Parent and the Parent Subsidiaries:
(i) owns and has good, valid
and marketable title in fee simple to the real
property owned by such party, free and clear of
Liens, except for (A) minor imperfections of
title, easements and rights of way, none of
which, individually or in the aggregate,
materially detracts from the value of or
impairs the use of the affected property or
impairs the operations of Parent or any of the
Parent Subsidiaries and (B) Liens for current
Taxes not yet due and payable ((A) and (B) are
collectively referred to as "Permitted Parent
Liens");
(ii) is in peaceful and
undisturbed possession of the space and/or
estate under each lease under which it is a
tenant, and there are no material defaults by
it as tenant thereunder; and
(iii) has good and valid rights
of ingress and egress to and from all the real
property owned or leased by such party from and
to the public street systems for all usual
street, road and utility purposes.
5.18 Insurance. Except as set forth in
Section 5.18 of the Parent Disclosure Schedule, Parent
and each of the Parent Subsidiaries is, and has been
continuously since January 1, 1995, insured with
financially responsible insurers in such amounts and
against such risks and losses as are customary in all
material respects for companies conducting the business
as conducted by Parent and the Parent Subsidiaries during
such time period. Except as set forth in Section 5.18 of
the Parent Disclosure Schedule, neither Parent nor any of
the Parent Subsidiaries is in Default under, or has
received any notice of cancellation or termination with
respect to, any material insurance policy of Parent or
any of the Parent Subsidiaries. The insurance policies
of Parent and each of the Parent Subsidiaries are valid
and enforceable policies in all material respects.
5.19 Ownership of Shares. As of the time
immediately prior to the Effective Time, neither Parent
nor any Parent Subsidiary will beneficially own any
Shares. Other than pursuant to the Textron Voting
Agreement, Parent does not "own" and has not within the
past three years "owned" (as such terms are defined in
Section 3 of Chapter 110F of the Massachusetts General
Laws) and does not "beneficially own" (as defined in the
Rights Agreement) ten percent or more of the outstanding
Shares.
5.20 Brokers and Finders. Other than Goldman,
Sachs & Co., Parent has not employed any investment
banker, broker, finder, or intermediary in connection
with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
which would be entitled to any investment banking,
brokerage, finder's or similar fee or commission in
connection with this Agreement or the transactions
contemplated hereby.
5.21 No Default. Except as set forth in
Section 5.21 of the Parent Disclosure Schedule, neither
the Parent nor any of the Parent Subsidiaries is in
Default under any term, condition or provision of (a) its
Certificate of Incorporation or Articles of Organization
or Incorporation, as the case may be, or By-Laws, (b) any
Contract or other instrument or obligation to which
Parent or any of the Parent Subsidiaries is a party or by
which they or any of their properties or assets may be
bound or affected, except for any such Defaults that are
not reasonably likely to have a Parent Material Adverse
Effect; (c) any Order applicable to Parent or any of the
Parent Subsidiaries or any of their properties or assets,
except for any such Defaults that are not reasonably
likely to have a Parent Material Adverse Effect; or (d)
any Permit necessary for Parent or any of the Parent
Subsidiaries to conduct their respective businesses as
currently conducted, except for Defaults that are not
reasonably likely to have a Parent Material Adverse
Effect.
5.22 Noncompliance with Laws. The business of
Parent and each of the Parent Subsidiaries is being
conducted in compliance with all applicable Laws except
for instances of noncompliance that are not reasonably
likely to have a Parent Material Adverse Effect. Since
January 1, 1995, neither Parent nor any of the Parent
Subsidiaries has received any written notification or
communication from any agency or department of federal,
state, or local government (a) asserting that Parent or
any Parent Subsidiary is not in compliance with any of
the Laws, Orders or Permits of any governmental agency or
authority or that any such agency or authority enforces,
except such instances of noncompliance that are not
reasonably likely to have a Parent Material Adverse
Effect, or (b) requiring Parent or any Parent Subsidiary
to enter into or consent to the issuance of a cease and
desist order, formal agreement, directive or commitment
which restricts materially the conduct of its business or
which materially affects its capital, its credit or
reserve policies, its management, or the payment of
dividends.
ARTICLE VI
ADDITIONAL COVENANTS AND AGREEMENTS
6.1 Conduct of Business of the Company.
Except as set forth in Section 6.1 of the Company
Disclosure Schedule, during the period from the date of
this Agreement to the Effective Time (unless Parent shall
otherwise agree in writing and except as otherwise
contemplated by this Agreement), the Company will conduct
its operations according to its ordinary and usual course
of business consistent with past practice and shall use
all reasonable efforts to preserve intact its current
business organizations, keep available the service of its
current officers and employees, maintain its material
Permits and Contracts and preserve its relationships
with customers, suppliers and others having business
dealings with it. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, and except as otherwise contemplated by this
Agreement or as set forth in Section 6.1 of the Company
Disclosure Schedule, the Company will not, without the
prior written consent of Parent (which consent shall not
be unreasonably withheld):
(i) issue, sell, grant, dispose
of, pledge or otherwise encumber, or authorize
or propose the issuance, sale, disposition or
pledge or other encumbrance of (A) any
additional shares of capital stock of any class
(including the Shares), or any securities or
rights convertible into, exchangeable for, or
evidencing the right to subscribe for any
shares of capital stock, or any rights,
warrants, options, calls, commitments or any
other agreements of any character to purchase
or acquire any shares of capital stock or any
securities or rights convertible into,
exchangeable for, or evidencing the right to
subscribe for, any shares of capital stock or
(B) any other securities in respect of, in lieu
of, or in substitution for, Shares outstanding
on the date hereof;
(ii) redeem, purchase or
otherwise acquire, or propose to redeem,
purchase or otherwise acquire, any of its
outstanding Shares;
(iii) split, combine, subdivide
or reclassify any Shares or declare, set aside
for payment or pay any dividend, or make any
other actual, constructive or deemed
distribution in respect of any capital stock of
the Company or otherwise make any payments to
stockholders in their capacity as such, other
than the declaration and payment of regular
quarterly cash dividends on the Shares in an
amount no greater than $.06 per share and in
accordance with past dividend policy and except
for dividends by a direct or indirect wholly
owned subsidiary of the Company;
(iv) adopt a plan of complete
or partial liquidation, dissolution, merger,
consolidation, restructuring, recapitalization
or other reorganization of the Company or any
of the Company Subsidiaries (other than the
Merger);
(v) adopt any amendments to its
Articles of Organization or By-Laws or to the
Articles or Certificate of Incorporation, as
the case may be, or By-Laws of any Company
Subsidiary or alter through merger,
liquidation, reorganization, restructuring or
in any other fashion the corporate structure or
ownership of any direct or indirect subsidiary
of the Company or, except in connection with
the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, amend the Rights Agreement;
(vi) make, or permit any
Company Subsidiary to make, any material
acquisition, by means of merger, consolidation
or otherwise, or material disposition, of
assets or securities;
(vii) other than in the
ordinary course of business consistent with
past practice, incur, or permit any Company
Subsidiary to incur, any indebtedness for
borrowed money or guarantee any such
indebtedness or make any loans, advances or
capital contributions to, or investments in,
any other person other than the Company or any
Company Subsidiary;
(viii) grant, or permit any
Company Subsidiary to grant, any increases in
the compensation of any of its directors or,
except in the ordinary course of business and
in accordance with past practice, any increases
in the compensation of any of its officers,
employees or agents; provided, that no
individual's increase may exceed 8% of such
individual's compensation and, provided
further, that all increases in the aggregate
may not exceed 4% of the total compensation
paid to officers, employees and agents;
(ix) enter, or permit any
Company Subsidiary to enter, into any new or
amend any existing employment agreement or,
except as may be consistent with Company
policies in effect as of the date of this
Agreement, enter, or permit any Company
Subsidiary to enter, into any new or amend any
existing severance or termination agreement
with any officer or employee of the Company or
a Company Subsidiary;
(x) except as may be required
to comply with applicable Law, become obligated
under any new written pension plan, welfare
plan, multiemployer plan, employee benefit
plan, severance plan or similar plan, which was
not in existence on the date hereof, or amend
any Company Plan;
(xi) amend, or permit any
Company Subsidiary to take such action, to
increase, accelerate the payment or vesting of
the amount payable or to become payable under
or fail to make any required contribution to,
any benefit plan or materially increase any
non-salary benefits payable to any employee or
former employee, except in the ordinary course
of business consistent with past practice;
(xii) change any method of
accounting or accounting practice by the
Company or any Company Subsidiary, except for
any such required change in GAAP or applicable
statutory accounting principles;
(xiii) permit any Company
Insurance Subsidiary to change its investment
guidelines or policies or conduct transactions
in investments except in material compliance
with the investment guidelines and policies and
approved programs or transactions of such
Company Insurance Subsidiary and all applicable
insurance Laws;
(xiv) enter, or permit any
Company Subsidiary to enter, into any Contract
to purchase, or to lease for a term in excess
of one year, any real property, provided that
the Company or any Company Subsidiary, (x) may
as a tenant, or a landlord, renew any existing
lease for a term not to exceed two years and
(y) nothing herein shall prevent the Company,
in its capacity as landlord, from renewing any
lease pursuant to any option granted prior to
the date hereof;
(xv) enter, or permit any
Company Insurance Subsidiary to enter, into any
material reinsurance, coinsurance or similar
Contract, whether as reinsurer or reinsured,
except in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practice;
(xvi) other than as
contemplated in the Company's current business
plan, enter, or permit any Company Subsidiary
to enter, into any Contract with any insurance
agent or broker that provides, by its terms,
for exclusivity (including, without limitation,
by territory, product, or distribution) or that
is not terminable by its terms within 180 days
by the Company or a Company Subsidiary, as the
case may be, without substantial premium or
penalty or, in the case of career agents,
without commission renewal liability, except to
the extent that the Contract provides for
vesting commissions;
(xvii) (x) take, or agree or
commit to take, or permit any Company
Subsidiary to take, or agree or commit to take,
any action that would make any representation
and warranty of the Company hereunder
inaccurate in any material respect at the
Effective Time (except for representations and
warranties which speak as of a particular date,
which need be accurate only as of such date),
(y) omit, or agree or commit to omit, or permit
any Company Subsidiary to omit, or agree or
commit to omit, to take any action necessary to
prevent any such representation or warranty
from being inaccurate in any material respect
at the Effective Time (except for
representations and warranties which speak as
of a particular date, which need be accurate
only as of such date), provided however that
the Company shall be permitted to take or omit
to take such action which can be cured, and in
fact is cured, at or prior to the Effective
Time or (z) take, or agree or commit to take,
or permit any Company Subsidiary to take, or
agree or commit to take, any action that would
result in, or is reasonably likely to result
in, any of the conditions of the Merger set
forth in Article VII not being satisfied;
(xviii) authorize, recommend,
propose or announce an intention to do any of
the foregoing, or enter into any contract,
agreement, commitment or arrangement to do any
of the foregoing;
(xix) settle, or permit any
Company Subsidiary to settle, any material tax
audit, or in either case to make or change any
material tax election or file amended Tax
Returns, but only, in each case, where such
audit is directed at, or such Tax Return is
filed by, the Company, other than as part of
any Textron consolidated group; or
(xx) file any Tax Return after
the date hereof and no later than the Effective
Time which relates to Taxes the nonpayment of
which would have a Company Material Adverse
Effect.
6.2 Conduct of Business of Parent. Except as
set forth in Section 6.2 of the Parent Disclosure
Schedule, during the period from the date of this
Agreement to the Effective Time (unless the Company shall
otherwise agree in writing and except as otherwise
contemplated by this Agreement), Parent will conduct its
operations according to its ordinary and usual course of
business consistent with past practice and shall use all
reasonable efforts to preserve intact its current
business organizations, keep available the service of its
current officers and employees, maintain its material
Permits and Contracts and preserve its relationships with
customers, suppliers and others having business dealings
with it. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, and except as otherwise contemplated by this
Agreement or as set forth in Section 6.2 of the Parent
Disclosure Schedule, Parent will not, without the prior
written consent of the Company (which consent shall not
be unreasonably withheld):
(i) issue, sell, grant, dispose
of, pledge or otherwise encumber, or authorize
or propose the issuance, sale, disposition or
pledge or other encumbrance of (A) any
additional shares of capital stock of any class
(including the shares of Parent Common Stock),
or any securities or rights convertible into,
exchangeable for, or evidencing the right to
subscribe for any shares of capital stock, or
any rights, warrants, options, calls,
commitments or any other agreements of any
character to purchase or acquire any shares of
capital stock or any securities or rights
convertible into, exchangeable for, or
evidencing the right to subscribe for, any
shares of capital stock or (B) any other
securities in respect of, in lieu of, or in
substitution for, shares of Parent Common Stock
outstanding on the date hereof;
(ii) redeem, purchase or
otherwise acquire, or propose to redeem,
purchase or otherwise acquire, any of its
outstanding shares of Parent Common Stock;
(iii) split, combine, subdivide
or reclassify any shares of Parent Common Stock
or declare, set aside for payment or pay any
dividend, or make any other actual,
constructive or deemed distribution in respect
of any capital stock of Parent or otherwise
make any payments to stockholders in their
capacity as such, other than the declaration
and payment of regular quarterly cash dividends
on the Shares in an amount no greater than $.72
per share and in accordance with past dividend
policy and except for dividends by a direct or
indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent;
(iv) adopt a plan of complete
or partial liquidation, dissolution, merger,
consolidation, restructuring, recapitalization
or other reorganization of Parent or any of the
Parent Subsidiaries (other than the Merger),
except for Parent Subsidiaries which are not
material to the assets, liabilities, financial
condition or results of operations of Parent
and the Parent Subsidiaries taken as a whole;
(v) adopt any amendments to its
Certificate of Incorporation or By-Laws or
alter through merger, liquidation,
reorganization, restructuring or in any other
fashion the corporate structure or ownership of
any direct or indirect subsidiary of Parent,
except for Parent Subsidiaries which are not
material to the assets, liabilities, financial
condition or results of operations of Parent
and the Parent Subsidiaries taken as a whole;
(vi) make, or permit any Parent
Subsidiary to make, any material acquisition,
by means of merger, consolidation or otherwise,
or material disposition, of assets or
securities;
(vii) other than in the
ordinary course of business consistent with
past practice, incur, or permit any Parent
Subsidiary to incur, any material indebtedness
for borrowed money or guarantee any such
indebtedness or make any material loans,
advances or capital contributions to, or
material investments in, any other person other
than Parent or any Parent Subsidiary;
(viii) change any method of
accounting or accounting practice by Parent or
any Parent Subsidiary, except for any such
required change in GAAP or applicable statutory
accounting principles;
(ix) permit any Parent
Insurance Subsidiary to materially change its
investment guidelines or policies and approved
programs or transactions or conduct
transactions in investments except in material
compliance with the investment guidelines and
policies of such Parent Insurance Subsidiary
and all applicable insurance Laws;
(x) enter, or permit any
Parent Insurance Subsidiary to enter, into any
material reinsurance, coinsurance or similar
Contract, whether as reinsurer or reinsured,
except in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practice;
(xi) (x) take, or agree or
commit to take, or permit any Parent Subsidiary
to take, or agree or commit to take, any action
that would make any representation and warranty
of Parent hereunder inaccurate in any material
respect at the Effective Time (except for
representations and warranties which speak as
of a particular date, which need be accurate
only as of such date), (y) omit, or agree or
commit to omit, or permit any Parent Subsidiary
to omit, or agree or commit to omit, to take
any action necessary to prevent any such
representation or warranty from being
inaccurate in any material respect at the
Effective Time (except for representations and
warranties which speak as of a particular date,
which need be accurate only as of such date),
provided however that Parent shall be permitted
to take or omit to take such action which can
be cured, and in fact is cured, at or prior to
the Effective Time or (z) take, or agree or
commit to take, or permit any Parent Subsidiary
to take, or agree or commit to take, any action
that would result in, or is reasonably likely
to result in, any of the conditions of the
Merger set forth in Article VII not being
satisfied; or
(xii) authorize, recommend,
propose or announce an intention to do any of
the foregoing, or enter into any contract,
agreement, commitment or arrangement to do any
of the foregoing.
6.3 Alternative Proposals. The Company will
not authorize, and will use its reasonable efforts to
cause its officers, directors, employees or agents not
to, directly or indirectly, solicit, initiate or
encourage any inquiries relating to, or the making of any
proposal which constitutes, an Alternative Proposal (as
defined in Section 9.10), or recommend or endorse any
Alternative Proposal, or participate in any discussions
or negotiations, or provide third parties with any
nonpublic information, relating to any such inquiry or
proposal or otherwise facilitate any effort or attempt to
make or implement an Alternative Proposal, provided,
however, that the Company may, and may authorize and
permit its officers, directors, employees or agents to,
provide third parties with nonpublic information,
otherwise facilitate any effort or attempt by any third
party to make or implement an Alternative Proposal,
recommend or endorse any Alternative Proposal with or by
any third party, and participate in discussions and
negotiations with any third party relating to any
Alternative Proposal with or by any third party, and
participate in discussions and negotiations with any
third party relating to any Alternative Proposal, if the
Company's Board of Directors, after having consulted with
and considered the advice of outside counsel, has
reasonably determined in good faith that the failure to
do so would be reasonably likely to cause the members of
such Board of Directors to breach their fiduciary duties
under applicable law. The Company will immediately cease
and cause to be terminated any activities, discussions or
negotiations conducted prior to the date of this
Agreement with any parties other than Parent with respect
to any of the foregoing. The Company shall immediately
advise Parent following the receipt by it of any
Alternative Proposal and the details thereof, and advise
Parent of any developments with respect to such
Alternative Proposal immediately upon the occurrence
thereof.
6.4 Joint Proxy Statement-Prospectus;
Registration Statement. As promptly as practicable
following the date of this Agreement, Parent and the
Company shall, in consultation with each other, prepare
and file with the SEC, a joint proxy statement and forms
of proxy in connection with the vote of the Company's
stockholders with respect to the Merger and this
Agreement and the votes of Parent's stockholders with
respect to the issuance of shares of Parent Common Stock
in the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by
this Agreement and the Charter Amendment (such joint
proxy statement (which shall constitute the prospectus
forming a part of the Registration Statement), together
with any supplements thereto, in the form mailed to the
Company's and Parent's respective stockholders, is herein
called the "Joint Proxy Statement-Prospectus") and
Parent, in consultation with the Company, shall prepare
and file with the SEC the Registration Statement. Each
of Parent and the Company shall use its reasonable
efforts to have the Registration Statement declared
effective as promptly as practicable. Parent shall also
use its reasonable best efforts to take any action
required to be taken under state securities or blue sky
laws in connection with the issuance of the shares of
Parent Common Stock pursuant to this Agreement in the
Merger. The Company shall furnish Parent with all
information concerning the Company and the holders of its
capital stock and shall take such other action as Parent
may reasonably request in connection with the
Registration Statement and the issuance of shares of
Parent Common Stock. If at any time prior to the
Effective Time any event or circumstance relating to
Parent, any Subsidiary of Parent, the Company, or their
respective officers or directors, should be discovered by
such party which should be set forth in an amendment or a
supplement to the Registration Statement or the Joint
Proxy Statement-Prospectus, such party shall promptly
inform the other thereof and take appropriate action in
respect thereof. Each of Parent and the Company will use
its reasonable efforts to cause the Joint Proxy
Statement-Prospectus to be mailed to its stockholders at
the earliest practicable date.
6.5 Stock Exchange Listing. Parent shall as
promptly as practicable prepare and submit to the NYSE a
listing application covering the shares of Parent Common
Stock issuable in connection with the Merger and this
Agreement, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to
obtain, prior to the Effective Time, approval for the
listing of such shares, subject to official notice of
issuance.
6.6 Letters of Accountants.
(a) Parent shall use all reasonable
efforts to cause to be delivered to the Company a letter
of Ernst & Young LLP, Parent's independent auditors,
dated a date within two business days before the date on
which the Registration Statement shall become effective
and addressed to the Company, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Company and customary in
scope and substance for letters delivered by independent
public accountants in connection with registration
statements similar to the Registration Statement, which
letter shall be brought down to the Effective Time.
(b) The Company shall use all reasonable
efforts to cause to be delivered to Parent a letter of
Ernst & Young LLP, the Company's independent auditors,
dated a date within two business days before the date on
which the Registration Statement shall become effective
and addressed to Parent, in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to Parent and customary in scope and
substance for letters delivered by independent public
accountants in connection with registration statements
similar to the Registration Statement, which letter shall
be brought down to the Effective Time.
6.7 Stockholders' Approvals.
(a) The Company shall duly call, give
notice of, convene and hold a special meeting of the
Company's stockholders (the "Company Stockholders
Meeting") as soon as practicable following the date on
which the Registration Statement becomes effective for
the purpose of obtaining the requisite stockholder
approval in connection with this Agreement and the
Merger. The Company shall use its reasonable efforts to
obtain stockholder approval of this Agreement, and the
Company shall, through its Board of Directors, recommend
to its stockholders approval of this Agreement, unless,
in each case, the members of the Board of Directors of
the Company, after having consulted with and considered
the advice of outside counsel, reasonably determine in
good faith that under the circumstances the foregoing
actions would be reasonably likely to result in a breach
of their fiduciary duties to the Company's stockholders
under applicable law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Board of Directors of the Company may at any time prior
to the Effective Time withdraw, modify, or change any
recommendation and declaration regarding this Agreement,
or recommend and declare advisable any other offer or
proposal, if the Board of Directors, after consultation
with its outside counsel, has reasonably determined in
good faith that the making of such recommendation, or the
failure to withdraw, modify or change its recommendation
reasonably likely to result in a breach of fiduciary
duties of the members of such Board of Directors to the
Company's stockholders under applicable law.
(b) Parent shall duly call, give notice
of, convene and hold a special meeting of Parent's
stockholders (the "Parent Stockholders Meeting") as soon
as practicable following the date on which the
Registration Statement becomes effective for the purpose
of obtaining the requisite stockholder approvals for the
issuance of shares of Parent Common Stock in the Merger
and the other transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, as required by the rules of the NYSE, and the
Charter Amendment. Parent shall use its reasonable
efforts to obtain stockholder approval of such issuance
and such amendment and Parent shall, through its Board of
Directors, recommend to its stockholders approval of such
issuance and such amendment, unless, in each case, the
members of the Board of Directors of Parent, after having
consulted with and considered the advice of outside
counsel, reasonably determine in good faith that under
the circumstances the foregoing actions would be
reasonably likely to result in a breach of their
fiduciary duties to Parent's stockholders under
applicable law.
6.8 Satisfaction of Conditions, Receipt of
Necessary Approvals. Subject to the terms and conditions
herein provided, each of the parties hereto agrees to (i)
promptly effect all necessary registrations, submissions
and filings, including, but not limited to, filings under
the HSR Act and submissions of information requested by
governmental authorities, which may be necessary or
required in connection with the consummation of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (ii) to use
its reasonable efforts to secure federal and state
antitrust clearance (including taking steps to avoid or
set aside any preliminary or permanent injunction or
other order of any federal or state court of competent
jurisdiction or other governmental authority), (iii) use
its reasonable efforts to take all other action and to do
all other things necessary, proper or advisable to
consummate and make effective as promptly as practicable
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and (iv)
use its reasonable efforts to obtain all other necessary
or appropriate Consents (including but not limited to (a)
any required Consents of the Commissioners of Insurance
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of
Delaware and any Consents which may be required under the
insurance Laws of any state in which the Company or any
of its Insurance Subsidiaries does business and (b) such
Consents, as may be required under the laws of any
foreign country in which the Company or any of the
Company Subsidiaries conducts any business or owns any
assets). Each of Parent and the Company acknowledge that
certain actions may be necessary with respect to the
foregoing in making notifications and obtaining Consents
which are material to the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby, and each of Parent and
the Company agree to take such action as is reasonably
necessary to complete such notifications and obtain such
Consents, provided, however, that nothing in this Section
6.8 or elsewhere in this Agreement shall require any
party hereto to hold separate or make any divestiture of
any asset or otherwise agree to any restriction on their
operations which would in any such case be material to
the assets, liabilities or business of, (a) in the case
of the Company, the Company and the Company Subsidiaries,
taken as a whole, and, (b) in the case of Parent, Parent
and the Parent Subsidiaries (including the Surviving
Corporation), taken as a whole, in order to obtain any
Consent required by this Agreement.
6.9 Access to Information.
(a) Upon reasonable notice, each party
shall (and shall cause each of such party's Subsidiaries
to) afford to officers, employees, counsel, accountants
and other authorized representatives of the other party
("Representatives"), in order to evaluate the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, reasonable
access, during normal business hours throughout the
period prior to the Effective Time, to its properties,
books and records and, during such period, shall (and
shall cause each of such party's Subsidiaries to) furnish
promptly to such Representatives all information
concerning its business, properties and personnel as may
reasonably be requested.
(b) Each party agrees that it will not,
and will cause its Representatives not to, use any
information obtained pursuant to this Section 6.9 for any
purpose unrelated to the consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) The Confidentiality Agreements, dated
January 12, 1996 and April 24, 1996, by and between
Textron and Parent (collectively, as amended, the
"Confidentiality Agreements"), shall apply with respect
to information furnished by Parent, Textron, the Company,
any of their respective subsidiaries, and any of their
respective officers, employees, counsel, accountants and
other authorized representatives hereunder.
(d) Notwithstanding the provisions
hereof, during the period prior to the Effective Time,
the parties shall take appropriate precautions to ensure
that competitively sensitive information is not exchanged
in a manner which is inconsistent with applicable Law.
6.10 Publicity. Parent and the Company will
consult with each other and will mutually agree upon any
press releases or public announcements pertaining to the
Merger and shall not issue any such press releases or
make any such public announcements prior to such
consultation and agreement, except as may be required by
applicable Law or by obligations pursuant to any listing
agreement with any national securities exchange, in which
case the party proposing to issue such press release or
make such public announcement shall use its reasonable
efforts to consult in good faith with the other party
before issuing any such press releases or making any such
public announcements.
6.11 Indemnification of Directors and
Officers.
(a) Parent agrees that all rights to
indemnification and exculpation existing in favor of the
directors and officers of the Company (the "Company
Indemnified Parties") under the provisions existing on
the date hereof of the Company's Articles of Organization
or By-Laws shall survive and continue in full force after
the Effective Time, and that from and after the Effective
Time, Parent shall assume all obligations of the Company
in respect thereof as to any claim or claims asserted
after the Effective Time.
(b) Parent shall cause to be maintained
in effect for the Indemnified Parties (as defined below)
for not less than six years policies of directors' and
officers' liability insurance with respect to matters
occurring at or prior to the Effective Time (including,
without limitation, the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement) providing substantially the same coverage and
containing terms and conditions which are no less
advantageous, in any material respect, to those currently
maintained by Textron for the benefit of the Company's
present or former directors, officers, employees or
agents covered by such insurance policies prior to the
Effective Time (the "Indemnified Parties"); provided,
however, that Parent may, in lieu of maintaining such
existing insurance as provided above, cause comparable
coverage to be provided under any policy maintained for
the benefit of Parent or any of the Parent Subsidiaries,
so long as the material terms thereof are no less
advantageous than such existing insurance.
(c) This Section 6.11 is intended to
benefit the Company Indemnified Parties and the
Indemnified Parties and shall be binding on all
successors and assigns of Parent, Newco, the Company and
the Surviving Corporation. Parent hereby guarantees the
performance by the Surviving Corporation of the
indemnification obligations pursuant to this Section
6.11.
(d) The Company shall use its reasonable
efforts to provide all required or appropriate notices
under such existing insurance with respect to potential
claims of which it is aware prior to the Effective Time.
6.12 Employees.
(a) Except as otherwise provided herein,
until December 31, 1997, Parent agrees to continue to
maintain for the benefit of all officers and employees of
the Company and the Company Subsidiaries ("Company
Employees") those employee benefit plans, programs,
arrangements and policies that are currently maintained
by the Company for the benefit of Company Employees.
Thereafter, and except as otherwise provided in this
paragraph (a), Parent shall provide generally to Company
Employees employee benefit plans, programs, arrangements
and policies that are no less favorable than those
provided by Parent to its similarly situated officers and
employees. Until December 31, 1997, Parent shall provide
generally to Company Employees severance benefits in
accordance with the policies of either (i) the Company as
disclosed in Section 6.12(a) of the Company Disclosure
Schedule, or (ii) Parent, whichever of (i) or (ii) will
provide the greater benefit to the officer or employee,
provided that (x) the officer or employee signs a release
similar to the release that must be signed by employees
of Parent in similar circumstances and (y) no severance
benefits will be paid solely because an officer or
employee is not offered employment with Parent or an
affiliate of Parent in the same geographic location. For
purposes of participation, vesting and benefit accrual
under such employee benefit plans, the service of the
Company Employees prior to the Effective Time shall be
treated as service with Parent participating in such
employee benefit plans to the extent permitted by law;
provided, however, that in the case of any Company
defined benefit plan, Parent may provide for an
adjustment or offset for benefits accrued under such
Company plan. Notwithstanding anything in this Section
6.12(a) to the contrary, (i) during any period of time
when any Company Plan requires continued benefit accrual
in the event of a change of control, then Parent during
such period of time shall continue to maintain such
Company Plan as an ongoing plan for such period of time,
(ii) during such period of time the participants in such
Company Plan shall not participate in Parent's comparable
benefit plan; and (iii) when participants become covered
under Parent's comparable benefit plan, then the
provisions of the immediately preceding sentence shall
apply (including an offset for benefits accrued under
such Company Plan following the Effective Time).
(b) Parent and the Surviving Corporation
hereby agree to honor without modification and assume the
employment agreements, executive termination agreements
and individual benefit arrangements set forth in Section
6.12(b) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, all as in
effect at the Effective Time.
(c) Parent shall advise the employees of
the Company, in a written communication issued to such
employees as soon as practicable following the date of
this Agreement, of Parent's undertakings set forth in
this Section 6.12.
6.13 Conduct of Business of Newco. During the
period of time from the date of this Agreement to the
Effective Time, Newco shall not engage in any activities
of any nature except as provided in or contemplated by
this Agreement.
6.14 Rights Agreement. The Company shall take
all action necessary to ensure that, so long as this
Agreement shall not have been terminated pursuant to
Article VIII hereof, no "Rights" (as that term is defined
in the Rights Agreement) are issued or required to be
issued to the stockholders of the Company prior to, or as
of, the Effective Time; provided, however, that if the
Company shall redeem the Rights in response to any
actions taken by any person other than Parent or Newco,
Parent shall deliver to the Company on or prior to the
time for the payment of the Redemption Price (as defined
in the Rights Agreement) as provided in the Rights
Agreement an amount equal to the aggregate Redemption
Price to be paid to the stockholders of the Company other
than Textron; provided, further, that in the event of any
such redemption, Parent and Newco agree that none of the
Company's representations, warranties, covenants or
agreements set forth in this Agreement shall be deemed to
be inaccurate, untrue or breached in any respect for any
purpose as a result of the redemption of the Rights.
6.15 Compliance with the Securities Act.
(a) At least 20 days prior to the
Effective Time, the Company shall cause to be delivered
to Parent a list identifying all persons who were, in the
Company's reasonable judgment, at the record date for the
Company Stockholders Meeting convened in accordance with
Section 6.7(a) hereof, "affiliates" of the Company as
that term is used in paragraphs (c) and (d) of Rule 145
under the Securities Act (the "Affiliates").
(b) The Company shall use its reasonable
efforts to cause each person who is identified as one of
its Affiliates in its list referred to in Section 6.15(a)
above to deliver to Parent (with a copy to the Company),
at or prior to the Effective Time, an executed letter
agreement, in a form customary for the type of
transaction contemplated by this Agreement, (the
"Affiliate Letters").
(c) If any Affiliate of the Company
refuses to provide an Affiliate Letter, Parent may place
appropriate legends on the certificates evidencing the
shares of Parent Common Stock to be received by such
Affiliate pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and to
issue appropriate stop transfer instructions to the
transfer agent for shares of Parent Common Stock to the
effect that the shares of Parent Common Stock received by
such Affiliate pursuant to this Agreement only may be
sold, transferred or otherwise conveyed (i) pursuant to
an effective registration statement under the Securities
Act, (ii) in compliance with Rule 145 promulgated under
the Securities Act, or (iii) pursuant to another
exemption under the Securities Act.
ARTICLE VII
CONDITIONS TO CONSUMMATION OF THE MERGER
7.1 Conditions to Each Party's Obligations to
Effect the Merger. The respective obligations of each
party to effect the Merger are subject to the
satisfaction at or prior to the Effective Time of the
following conditions:
(a) Stockholder Approvals.
(i) This Agreement shall have
been duly approved by the stockholders of the
Company entitled to vote with respect thereto
in accordance with applicable Law and the
Articles of Organization and By-Laws of the
Company; and
(ii) each of the issuance of
shares of Parent Common Stock in the Merger and
the Charter Amendment shall have been duly
approved by the stockholders of Parent entitled
to vote with respect thereto in accordance with
applicable Law and the Certificate of
Incorporation and By-Laws of Parent and, in the
case of the issuance of shares of Parent Common
Stock in the Merger, the rules of the NYSE.
(b) Injunction. There shall not be in
effect any Law or Order of a court or governmental or
regulatory agency of competent jurisdiction directing
that the transactions contemplated herein not be
consummated; provided, however, that, subject to the
terms and provisions herein provided (including but not
limited to Section 6.8 of this Agreement), prior to
invoking this condition each party shall use its
reasonable efforts to have any such Order vacated.
(c) Governmental Filings and Consents.
Subject to the terms and provisions herein provided
(including but not limited to Section 6.8 hereof), all
governmental Consents legally required for the
consummation of the Merger and the transactions
contemplated hereby shall have been obtained and be in
effect at the Effective Time (including but not limited
to the approval of the Commissioners of Insurance of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Delaware
and any Consents which may be required under the
insurance Laws of any state in which the Company or any
of the Company Subsidiaries conducts any business or owns
any assets), except where the failure to obtain any such
Consent would not reasonably be expected to have a Parent
Material Adverse Effect, and the waiting periods under
the HSR Act shall have expired or been terminated.
Parent shall have received all state securities or "blue
sky" permits and other authorizations necessary to issue
the shares of Parent Common Stock pursuant to this
Agreement in the Merger.
(d) NYSE Listing of Shares of Parent
Common Stock. The shares of Parent Common Stock issuable
to the holders of Shares pursuant to this Agreement in
the Merger shall have been authorized for listing on the
NYSE, upon official notice of issuance.
(e) Registration Statement. The
Registration Statement shall have become effective under
the Securities Act and shall not be the subject of any
stop order or proceeding by the SEC seeking a stop order.
7.2 Additional Conditions to the Obligations
of Parent and Newco. The respective obligations of
Parent and Newco to effect the Merger are subject to the
satisfaction at or prior to the Effective Time of the
following conditions, any or all of which may be waived
in whole or in part by Parent or Newco, as the case may
be, to the extent permitted by applicable law:
(a) Representations and Warranties. For
purposes of this Section 7.2(a), the accuracy of the
representations and warranties of the Company set forth
in Article IV of this Agreement shall be assessed as of
the date of this Agreement and as of the Effective Time
with the same effect as though all such representations
and warranties had been made on and as of the Effective
Time (provided that representations and warranties which
are confined to a specified date shall speak only as of
such date). The representations and warranties set forth
in Section 4.2 of this Agreement, including the
information set forth on the Company Disclosure Schedule
relating thereto, shall be true and correct (except for
inaccuracies which are de minimis in amount). All
representations and warranties set forth in Article IV
which are qualified by reference to materiality or a
Company Material Adverse Effect shall be true and correct
and all other representations and warranties set forth in
Article IV of this Agreement shall be true and correct in
all material respects.
(b) Performance. The Company shall have
performed in all material respects all of its respective
covenants and agreements under this Agreement theretofore
to be performed.
(c) Officer's Certificate. Parent shall
have received at the Effective Time a certificate dated
the Effective Time and executed by the Chief Executive
Officer or the Chief Financial Officer of the Company
certifying to the fulfillment of the conditions specified
in Sections 7.2(a) and (b) hereof.
7.3 Additional Conditions to the Obligations
of the Company. The obligation of the Company to effect
the Merger is subject to the satisfaction at or prior to
the Effective Time of the following conditions, any and
all of which may be waived in whole or in part by the
Company to the extent permitted by applicable law:
(a) Representations and Warranties. For
purposes of this Section 7.3(a), the accuracy of the
representations and warranties set forth in Article V of
this Agreement shall be assessed as of the date of this
Agreement and as of the Effective Time with the same
effect as though all such representations and warranties
had been made on and as of the Effective Time (provided
that representations and warranties which are confined to
a specified date shall speak only as of such date). The
representations and warranties set forth in Section 5.2
of this Agreement, including the information set forth on
the Parent Disclosure Schedule relating thereto, shall be
true and correct (except for inaccuracies which are de
minimis in amount). All representations and warranties
set forth in Article V of this Agreement which are
qualified by reference to materiality or a Parent
Material Adverse Effect shall be true and correct and all
other representations and warranties set forth in Article
V of this Agreement shall be true and correct in all
material respects.
(b) Performance. Parent and Newco shall
have performed in all material respects all of their
respective covenants and agreements under this Agreement
theretofore to be performed.
(c) Officer's Certificate. The Company
shall have received at the Effective Time a certificate
dated the Effective Time and executed by the Chief
Executive Officer or the Chief Financial Officer of
Parent certifying to the fulfillment of the conditions
specified in Sections 7.3(a) and (b) hereof.
ARTICLE VIII
TERMINATION
8.1 Termination by Mutual Consent. This
Agreement may be terminated and the Merger may be
abandoned at any time prior to the Effective Time, before
or after the approval by stockholders of the Company, by
the mutual written consent of Parent and the Company.
8.2 Termination by Either Parent or the
Company. This Agreement may be terminated and the Merger
may be abandoned by Parent or the Company, before or
after the approval by stockholders of the Company, if (i)
any court of competent jurisdiction in the United States
or some other governmental body or regulatory authority
shall have issued an Order permanently restraining,
enjoining or otherwise prohibiting the Merger and such
Order shall have become final and nonappealable,
provided, that the party seeking to terminate this
Agreement pursuant to this clause (i) shall have used all
reasonable efforts to remove such Order, (ii) the Merger
shall not have been consummated by September 1, 1996;
provided that the right to terminate this Agreement
pursuant to this Section 8.2 shall not be available to
any party whose failure to fulfill any of its material
obligations under this Agreement results in the failure
of the Merger to occur on or prior to such date and
provided further, that this Agreement may be extended by
written notice of either Parent or the Company to a date
not later than October 31, 1996, if the Merger shall not
have been consummated as a direct result of the
governmental Consents required for consummation of the
Merger not having been obtained by September 1, 1996,
(iii) this Agreement shall have been voted on by
stockholders of the Company and the vote shall not have
been sufficient to satisfy the condition set forth in
Section 7.1(a)(i) or (iv) the issuance of shares of
Parent Common Stock in the Merger and the other
transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall have
been voted on by stockholders of Parent and the vote
shall not have been sufficient to satisfy the condition
set forth in Section 7.1(a)(ii).
8.3 Termination by Parent. This Agreement may
be terminated by Parent and the Merger may be abandoned
prior to the Effective Time, before or after the approval
by stockholders of the Company, (i) in the event of a
material breach by the Company of any covenant or
agreement contained in this Agreement which, by its
nature, cannot be cured prior to the Closing or which has
not been cured within 30 days after the giving of written
notice to the Company of such breach, (ii) in the event
of an inaccuracy of any representation or warranty of the
Company contained in this Agreement which, by its nature,
cannot be cured prior to the Closing or which has not
been cured within 30 days after the giving of written
notice to the Company of such inaccuracy and which
inaccuracy, in either case, would cause the conditions
set forth in Section 7.2(a) not to be satisfied, (iii) in
the event that any of the conditions precedent to the
obligations of Parent to consummate the Merger cannot be
satisfied or fulfilled by the date set forth in Section
8.2(ii) of this Agreement, provided that the failure of
such conditions to be so satisfied shall not be as a
result of Parent's failure to fulfill its material
obligations under this Agreement, or (iv) the Board of
Directors of the Company withdraws or materially modifies
or changes its recommendation or approval of this
Agreement in a manner adverse to Parent or Newco.
8.4 Termination by the Company. This
Agreement may be terminated by the Company and the Merger
may be abandoned at any time prior to the Effective Time,
before or after the approval by stockholders of the
Company, (i) in the event of a material breach by Parent
or Newco of any covenant or agreement contained in this
Agreement which, by its nature, cannot be cured prior to
the Closing or which has not been cured within 30 days
after the giving of written notice to Parent of such
breach, (ii) in the event of an inaccuracy of any
representation or warranty of Parent or Newco contained
in this Agreement which, by its nature, cannot be cured
prior to the Closing or which has not been cured within
30 days after the giving of written notice to the Company
of such inaccuracy and which inaccuracy, in either case,
would cause the conditions set forth in Section 7.3(a)
not to be satisfied, (iii) in the event that any of the
conditions precedent to the obligations of the Company to
consummate the Merger cannot be satisfied or fulfilled by
the date set forth in Section 8.2(ii) of this Agreement,
provided that the failure of such conditions to be so
satisfied shall not be as a result of the Company's
failure to fulfill its material obligations under this
Agreement, or (iv) prior to the Company Stockholders
Meeting, the Board of Directors of the Company has (y)
withdrawn or modified or changed its recommendation or
approval of this Agreement in a manner adverse to Parent
and Newco in order to approve and permit the Company to
execute a definitive agreement relating to an Alternative
Proposal and (z) determined, based on the advice of
outside legal counsel to the Company, that the failure to
take such action as set forth in the preceding clause (y)
would be reasonably likely to result in breach of the
Board of Director's fiduciary duties under applicable
law; provided, however, that the Board of Directors of
the Company shall have been advised by such outside
counsel that notwithstanding a binding commitment to
consummate an agreement of the nature of this Agreement
entered into in the proper exercise of their applicable
fiduciary duties, such fiduciary duties would also be
reasonably likely to require the directors to terminate
this Agreement as a result of such Alternative Proposal;
provided, further, that the Company shall immediately
advise Parent following the receipt by it of any
Alternative Proposal and the details thereof, and advise
Parent of any developments with respect to such
Alternative Proposal immediately upon the occurrence
thereof.
8.5 Effect of Termination.
(a) In the event of termination of this
Agreement and the abandonment of the Merger pursuant to
this Article VIII, written notice thereof shall as
promptly as practicable be given to the other parties to
this Agreement and this Agreement shall terminate and the
transactions contemplated hereby shall be abandoned,
without further action by any of the parties hereto. If
this Agreement is terminated as provided herein: (i)
except as provided in Section 8.5(b), there shall be no
liability or obligation on the part of Parent or Newco,
the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries or their
respective officers and directors, and all obligations of
the parties shall terminate, except (A) for the
obligations of the parties pursuant to this Section 8.5,
(B) for the provisions of Sections 9.1 and 9.2, (C) for
the obligations of parties set forth in the
Confidentiality Agreements referred to in Section 6.9(c)
hereof and (D) that a party who is in willful breach of
any of its representations, warranties, covenants or
agreements set forth in this Agreement shall be liable
for damages occasioned by such breach, including without
limitation any expenses incurred by the other party in
connection with this Agreement, and (ii) all filings,
applications and other submissions made pursuant to the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall, to the
extent practicable, be withdrawn from the agency or
person to which made.
(b) Under the circumstances set forth in
this Section 8.5(b), and only under these circumstances,
the Company agrees to make certain termination payments
to Parent as follows: (i) if an Alternative Proposal
which provides that the Company's stockholders will
receive in excess of $26.00 per share is then outstanding
and (ii) the Board of Directors of the Company withdraws
or modifies or changes in a manner adverse to Parent or
Newco its approval or recommendation of this Agreement or
the Merger in order to permit the Company to execute a
definitive agreement relating to such Alternative
Proposal, then, provided Parent and Newco shall not be in
material breach of their obligations under this
Agreement, the Company shall pay Parent the sum of
$22,500,000 in cash (the "Termination Payment"). The
Termination Payment shall be made as promptly as
practicable but not later than three business days after
such termination, and such payment shall be made by wire
transfer of immediately available funds to an account
designated by Parent. Notwithstanding anything in this
Agreement to the contrary, the Termination Payment shall
be Parent's sole and exclusive remedy hereunder for the
withdrawal, modification or change in such approval or
recommendation of the Board of Directors of the Company
under the circumstances described in this Section 8.5(b)
and, upon such payment and delivery of the Termination
Payment to Parent, no person shall have any further claim
or rights against the Company under this Agreement.
ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL
9.1 Payment of Expenses and Other Payments.
Whether or not the Merger shall be consummated and except
as otherwise provided in this Agreement, each party
hereto shall pay its own expenses incident to preparing
for, entering into and carrying out this Agreement and
the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.
9.2 Survival of Representations and Covenants;
Survival of Confidentiality Agreements. The respective
representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of
the parties made herein shall not survive beyond the
earlier of termination of this Agreement or the Effective
Time. This Section 9.2 shall not limit any covenant or
agreement of the parties hereto which by its terms
contemplates performance after the Effective Time. The
Confidentiality Agreements shall survive any termination
of this Agreement, and the provisions of such
Confidentiality Agreements shall apply to all information
and material delivered by any party hereunder.
9.3 Modification or Amendment. Subject to the
applicable provisions of the MBCL, at any time prior to
the Effective Time, the parties hereto may modify or
amend this Agreement, by written agreement executed and
delivered by duly authorized officers of the respective
parties; provided, however, that after approval of this
Agreement by the stockholders of the Company, no
amendment shall be made which changes the consideration
payable in the Merger or adversely affects the rights of
the Company's stockholders hereunder without the approval
of such stockholders.
9.4 Waiver and Extension. At any time prior
to the Effective Time, the parties hereto may (a) extend
the time for the performance of any of the obligations or
other acts of the other parties hereto, (b) waive any
inaccuracies in the representations and warranties
contained herein or in any document delivered pursuant
hereto or (c) except to the extent prohibited by Law,
waive compliance with any of the agreements or conditions
contained herein. Any agreement on the part of a party
hereto to any such extension or waiver shall be valid
only if set forth in an instrument in writing signed on
behalf of such party. The failure of any party at any
time or times to require performance of any provision
hereof shall in no manner affect the right of such party
at a later time to enforce the same or any other
provision of this Agreement. No waiver of any condition
or of the breach of any term contained in this Agreement
in one or more instances shall be deemed to be or
construed as a further or continuing waiver or such
condition or breach or a waiver of any condition or of
the breach of any other term of this Agreement.
9.5 Counterparts. For the convenience of the
parties hereto, this Agreement may be executed in any
number of counterparts, each such counterpart being
deemed to be an original instrument, and all such
counterparts shall together constitute the same
agreement.
9.6 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the Laws
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts without giving
effect to the principles of conflicts of law thereof.
9.7 Notices. Any notice, request, instruction
or other document to be given hereunder by any party to
the other parties shall be in writing and shall be deemed
given when delivered personally, upon receipt of a
transmission confirmation (with a confirming copy sent by
overnight courier) if sent by telecopy or like
transmission, and on the next business day when sent by
Federal Express, Express Mail, or other reputable
overnight courier, as follows:
(a) If to the Company, to
The Paul Revere Corporation
18 Chestnut Street
Worcester, MA 01608
Attention: Senior Vice President
and General Counsel
(508) 799-4441 (telephone)
(508) 792-6337 (telecopier)
with a copy to:
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
One Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
Attention: Margaret A. Brown, Esq.
(617) 573-4800 (telephone)
(617) 573-4822 (telecopier)
and a copy to:
Textron Inc.
40 Westminster Street
Providence, RI 02903-2596
Attention: Executive Vice President
and General Counsel
(401) 421-2800 (telephone)
(401) 457-2418 (telecopier)
(b) If to Parent or Newco, to
Provident Companies, Inc.
1 Fountain Square
Chattanooga, TN 37402
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
(423) 755-1011 (telephone)
(423) 755-1755 (telecopier)
with a copy to:
Alston & Bird
1201 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309
Attention: Dean Copeland, Esq.
(404) 881-7000 (telephone)
(404) 881-7777 (telecopier)
or to such other persons or addresses as may be
designated in writing by the party to receive such
notice. Nothing in this Section 9.7 shall be deemed to
constitute consent to the manner and address for service
of process in connection with any legal proceeding
(including litigation arising out of or in connection
with this Agreement), which service shall be effected as
required by applicable law.
9.8 Entire Agreement; Assignment. This
Agreement, the Confidentiality Agreements and the
Separation Agreement (a) constitute the entire agreement
among the parties with respect to the subject matter
hereof and supersede all other prior agreements and
understandings, both written and oral, among the parties
or any of them with respect to the subject matter hereof
and (b) shall not be assigned by operation of law or
otherwise.
9.9 Parties in Interest. This Agreement shall
be binding upon and inure solely to the benefit of each
party hereto and their respective successors and assigns.
Nothing in this Agreement, express or implied, other than
the right to receive the consideration payable in the
Merger pursuant to Article III hereof, is intended to or
shall confer upon any other person any rights, benefits
or remedies of any nature whatsoever under or by reason
of this Agreement; provided, however, that the provisions
of Section 6.11 shall inure to the benefit of and be
enforceable by the Indemnified Parties or Company
Indemnified Parties, as the case may be.
9.10 Certain Definitions. As used herein:
(a) "Alternative Proposal" shall mean any
proposal or offer for a merger, asset acquisition or
other business combination involving the Company or any
Company Subsidiary or any proposal or offer to acquire a
significant equity interest in, or a significant portion
of the assets of, the Company or any Company Subsidiary
other than the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement.
(b) "Company Material Adverse Effect"
shall mean any adverse change in the assets, liabilities,
financial condition, or results of operations of the
Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries which is
material to the Company and the Company Subsidiaries
taken as a whole or any material adverse effect on the
ability of the Company to perform its obligations under
this Agreement or to consummate the transactions
contemplated hereby.
(c) "Company Plans" shall mean the
employee benefit plans, programs and arrangements
maintained or contributed to by the Company or any
Company Subsidiary.
(d) "Company Properties" shall mean all
parcels of real property owned by the Company or any
Company Subsidiary.
(e) "Consent" shall mean any consent,
approval, authorization, clearance, exemption, waiver, or
similar affirmation by, or filing with or notification
to, a person pursuant to any Contract, Law, Order, or
Permit.
(f) "Contract" shall mean any written or
oral agreement, arrangement, commitment, contract,
indenture, instrument, lease or other obligation of any
kind or character, or other obligation that is binding on
any person or its capital stock, properties or business.
(g) "Default" shall mean (i) any breach
or violation of or default under any Contract, Order or
Permit, (ii) any occurrence of any event that with the
passage of time or the giving of notice or both would
constitute a breach or violation of or default under any
Contract, Order or Permit, or (iii) any occurrence of any
event that with or without the passage of time or the
giving of notice would give rise to a right to terminate
or revoke, change the current terms of, or renegotiate,
or to accelerate, increase, or impose any liability
under, or create any Lien in connection with, any
Contract, Order or Permit.
(h) "Environmental Claim" shall mean any
investigation, notice of violation, demand, allegation,
action, suit, Order, consent decree, penalty, fine, Lien,
proceeding or claim (whether administrative, judicial or
private in nature) arising: (i) pursuant to, or in
connection with, an actual or alleged violation of any
Environmental Law; (ii) in connection with any Hazardous
Material or actual or alleged activity associated with
any Hazardous Material; (iii) from any abatement,
removal, remedial, corrective or other response action in
connection with any Hazardous Material, Environmental Law
or Order, or (iv) from any actual or alleged damage,
injury, threat or harm to health, safety, natural
resources or the environment.
(i) "Environmental Law" shall mean any
Law pertaining to: (i) the protection of health, safety
and the indoor or outdoor environment; (ii) the
conservation, management or use of natural resources and
wildlife; (iii) the protection or use of surface water
and ground water; (iv) the management, manufacture,
possession, presence, use, generation, transportation,
treatment, storage, disposal, release, threatened
release, abatement, removal, remediation or handling of,
or exposure to, any Hazardous Material; or (v) pollution
(including any release to air, land, surface water and
ground water); and includes, without limitation, the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and
Liability Act of 1980, as amended, 42 U.S.C. SECTION 9601 et
seq., and the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, 42
U.S.C. SECTION 6901 et seq.
(j) "ERISA Affiliate" shall mean any
corporation or trade or business, whether or not
incorporated, that together with an entity or any
Subsidiary of such entity would be deemed a "single
employer" within the meaning of Section 4001 of ERISA, or
considered as being members of a controlled group of
corporations, under common control, or members of an
affiliated service group within the meaning of
Subsections 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code or
Section 4001(a)(14) of ERISA.
(k) "Hazardous Material" shall mean any
substance, chemical, compound, product, solid, gas,
liquid, waste, by-product, pollutant, contaminant or
material which is hazardous or toxic, and includes
without limitation, asbestos or any substance containing
asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls, petroleum (including
crude oil or any fraction thereof), and any hazardous or
toxic waste, material or substance regulated under any
Environmental Law.
(l) "Law" shall mean any law, ordinance,
regulation, rule, or statute or the U.S. Federal
Government or any state or subdivision thereof applicable
to a person or its properties, liabilities or business.
(m) "Lien" shall mean any conditional
sale agreement, default of title, easement, encroachment,
encumbrance, hypothecation, infringement, lien, mortgage,
option, pledge, reservation, restriction, security
interest, title retention or other security arrangement,
or any adverse right or interest, charge, or claim of any
nature whatsoever of, on, or with respect to any property
or property interest.
(n) "Litigation" shall mean any action,
arbitration, cause of action, claim, complaint, criminal
prosecution, demand letter, governmental or other
administrative or other proceeding, whether at law or at
equity, before or by any federal, state or foreign court,
tribunal, or agency or before any arbitrator.
(o) "Order" shall mean any administrative
decision or award, decree, injunction, judgment, order,
quasi-judicial decision or award, ruling, or writ of any
federal, state, local or foreign or other court,
arbitrator, mediator, tribunal, administrative agency or
authority.
(p) "Parent Material Adverse Effect"
shall mean any adverse change in the assets, liabilities,
financial condition, or results of operations of Parent
or any of the Parent Subsidiaries which is material to
Parent and the Parent Subsidiaries taken as a whole or
any material adverse effect on the ability of Parent or
Newco to perform its obligations under this Agreement or
to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby.
(q) "Parent Plans" shall mean the
employee benefit plans, programs and arrangements
maintained or contributed to by Parent or any Parent
Subsidiary.
(r) "Parent Properties" shall mean all
parcels of real property owned by Parent or any Parent
Subsidiary.
(s) "Permit" shall mean any federal,
state, local or foreign governmental approval,
authorization, certificate, declaration, easement,
filing, franchise, license, notice, permit, variance,
clearance, exemption, closure or right to which any
person is a party or that is or may be binding upon or
inure to the benefit of any person or its securities,
properties or business.
(t) "Subsidiary" shall mean, when used
with reference to any entity, any corporation a majority
of the outstanding voting securities of which are owned
directly or indirectly by such former entity.
9.11 Obligation of Parent. Whenever this
Agreement requires Newco to take any action, such
requirement shall be deemed to include an undertaking on
the part of Parent to cause Newco to take such action and
a guarantee of the performance thereof.
9.12 Validity. The invalidity or
unenforceability of any provision of this Agreement shall
not affect the validity or enforceability of any other
provisions of this Agreement, each of which shall remain
in full force and effect.
9.13 Captions. The Article, Section and
paragraph captions herein are for convenience of
reference only, do not constitute part of this Agreement
and shall not be deemed to limit or otherwise affect any
of the provisions hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have
caused this Agreement to be executed by their respective
duly authorized officers as of the date first above
written.
Attest: THE PAUL REVERE CORPORATION
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/c/ John H. Budd By:/s/ Charles E. Soule
Name: Charles E. Soule
Title: President and Chief
Executive Officer
Attest: PROVIDENT COMPANIES, INC.
[seal]
/s/ Susan N. Roth By:/s/ J. Harold Chandler
Secretary Name: J. Harold Chandler
Title: President
Attest: PATRIOT ACQUISITION CORPORATION
[seal]
/s/ Susan N. Roth By:/s/ Thomas R. Watjen
Secretary Name: Thomas R. Watjen
Title: President
CONFORMED COPY EXHIBIT C
STANDSTILL AGREEMENT
THIS STANDSTILL AGREEMENT (this "Agreement") is made
and entered into as of April 29, 1996, by and between
PROVIDENT COMPANIES, INC., a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), and TEXTRON INC., a Delaware corporation (the
"Investor").
In consideration of the mutual warranties,
representations, covenants and agreements set forth
herein, the parties, intending to be legally bound, agree
as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS
As used in this Agreement and any amendments hereto,
the following terms shall have the following meanings
respectively:
"Beneficial owner" (and various derivations of such
term such as "beneficially owned") shall have the meaning
set forth in the regulations of the SEC included in 17
C.F.R. SECTION 240.13d-3; provided that for purposes of this
Agreement, (i) Investor and its Subsidiaries shall not be
deemed to beneficially own Company Voting Securities with
respect to which all investment decisions with respect to
such Company Voting Securities are made by an independent
investment manager or investment advisor (provided, that
if Investor or such Subsidiary exercises voting power in
respect of such Company Voting Securities, Investor or
such Subsidiary shall be deemed to beneficially own such
Company Voting Securities for purposes of Section 3.1 of
this Agreement), and (ii) any option, warrant, right,
conversion privilege or arrangement to purchase, acquire
or vote Company Voting Securities regardless of the time
period during or at which it may be exercised and
regardless of the consideration paid shall be deemed to
give the holder thereof beneficial ownership of the
Company Voting Securities to which it relates. Any
Company Voting Securities which are subject to such
options, warrants, rights, conversion privileges or other
arrangements shall be deemed to be outstanding for
purposes of computing the percentage of outstanding
securities owned by the holder thereof but shall not be
deemed to be outstanding for the purpose of computing the
percentage of outstanding securities owned by any other
Person.
"Company Common Stock" shall mean the $1.00 par
value common stock of the Company and any security which
is exchanged or substituted for such common stock.
"Company Shares" shall mean the shares of Company
Common Stock to be acquired by the Investor pursuant to
the Merger (as defined in the Merger Agreement), and any
Company Voting Securities received in exchange or
substitution therefor or as a dividend in respect
thereof.
"Company Voting Securities" shall mean all classes
of capital stock of the Company which are then entitled
to vote generally in the election of directors and any
securities exchanged or substituted for such classes of
capital stock and any securities convertible into or
exchangeable or exercisable for (whether or not presently
convertible, exchangeable or exercisable) such classes of
capital stock. For purposes of determining the amount or
percentage of outstanding Company Voting Securities
beneficially owned by a Person, and for purposes of
calculating the aggregate voting power relating to such
Company Voting Securities, securities that are deemed to
be outstanding shall be included to the extent provided
in the definition of "beneficial owner."
"Control Event" shall mean (a) the entry by the
Company into any agreement relating to (i) any
consolidation or merger of the Company in which the
Company is not the continuing or surviving corporation or
pursuant to which shares of the Company Common Stock
would be converted into cash, securities or other
property, other than a merger of the Company in which the
holders of the Company Common Stock immediately prior to
the merger have the same proportionate ownership of
common stock of the surviving corporation immediately
after the merger or (ii) any sale, lease, exchange or
other transfer (in one transaction or a series of related
transactions) of all, or substantially all, the assets of
the Company, (b) the acquisition by any Person of Company
Voting Securities representing 50% or more of the
outstanding shares of Company Voting Securities, or
(c) at any time during a period of two consecutive years,
individuals who at the beginning of such period
constituted the Board of Directors of the Company shall
cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority
thereof, excluding directors whose election or nomination
for election by the shareholders of the Company during
such two-year period was approved by a vote of at least
two-thirds of the directors then still in office who were
directors at the beginning of such period.
"Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended, included in 15 U.S.C. SECTIONS
78a-78jj.
"Merger Agreement" shall mean that certain Agreement
and Plan of Merger, dated as of April 29, 1996, by and
among the Company, Patriot Acquisition Corporation and
The Paul Revere Corporation, as the same may be amended.
"Party" shall mean either the Company, on the one
hand, or the Investor, on the other hand, and "Parties"
shall mean the Company and the Investor.
"Person" shall mean a natural person or any legal,
commercial or governmental entity, such as, but not
limited to, a corporation, general partnership, joint
venture, limited partnership, limited liability company,
trust, business association, group (within the meaning of
Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), or any person
acting in a representative capacity.
"Qualifying Tender Offer" shall mean an offer to
purchase or exchange for cash or other consideration any
Company Voting Securities (whether pursuant to a tender
offer within the meaning of Section 14(d) of the Exchange
Act or otherwise) (i) which is made by or on behalf of
the Company or (ii) which is made by or on behalf of any
other Person and which is approved by the Board of
Directors of the Company or not opposed by the Board of
Directors of the Company by two business days prior to
the expiration of such offer.
"SEC" shall mean the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
"Securities Act" shall mean the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, included in 15 U.S.C. SECTIONS 77a-77z.
"Subsidiary" shall mean all those corporations,
associations, or other business entities of which
Investor either (i) owns or controls 50% or more of the
outstanding voting securities either directly or through
an unbroken chain of entities as to each of which 50% or
more of the outstanding voting securities is owned
directly or indirectly by its parent, or (ii) in the case
of partnerships, serves, or any other Subsidiary serves,
as a general partner.
"Voting Agreement" shall mean the Voting Agreement,
dated as of April 29, 1996, by and among Investor, The
Paul Revere Corporation and the shareholders of the
Company named therein.
ARTICLE TWO
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
2.1 Representations and Warranties of the Company.
The Company hereby represents and warrants to the
Investor as follows:
(a) The Company is a corporation in good
standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. The
Company has corporate power and authority to execute and
deliver this Agreement and to perform its terms.
(b) The execution and delivery of this
Agreement and the consummation of the transactions
contemplated herein have been duly and validly authorized
by all necessary corporate action in respect thereof on
the part of the Company. This Agreement has been duly
and validly executed by the Company and, assuming this
Agreement constitutes a valid and binding agreement of
the Investor, represents a valid and binding obligation
of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms
(except in all cases as such enforceability may be
limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, receivership, conservatorship,
moratorium, or 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 proceeding may
be brought). The execution, delivery and performance of
this Agreement, and the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby, will not constitute a breach,
violation or default, or create a lien, under any law,
rule or regulation or any judgment, decree, governmental
permit or license or permit, indenture or instrument of
the Company or to which the Company is subject.
2.2 Representations and Warranties of the Investor.
The Investor hereby represents and warrants to the
Company as follows:
(a) The Investor is a corporation in good
standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. The
Investor has corporate power and authority to execute and
deliver this Agreement and to perform its terms.
(b) The execution and delivery of this
Agreement and the consummation of the transactions
contemplated herein have been duly and validly authorized
by all necessary corporate action in respect thereof on
the part of the Investor. This Agreement has been duly
and validly executed by the Investor and, assuming this
Agreement constitutes a valid and binding agreement of
the Company, represents a valid and binding obligation of
the Investor, enforceable in accordance with its terms
(except in all cases as such enforceability may be
limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, receivership, conservatorship,
moratorium, or 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 proceeding may
be brought). The execution, delivery and performance of
this Agreement, and the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby, will not constitute a breach,
violation or default, or create a lien, under any law,
rule or regulation or any judgment, decree, governmental
permit or license or permit, indenture or instrument of
the Investor or to which the Investor is subject.
(c) As of the date of this Agreement, except
as contemplated by the Merger Agreement or the Voting
Agreement, the Investor does not (i) beneficially own any
Company Voting Securities, (ii) have any right to acquire
or vote, or to acquire the right to vote, any Company
Voting Securities, whether pursuant to any outstanding
warrant, option, right, call, or agreement or commitment
of any character relating to Company Voting Securities,
or otherwise, or (iii) have any understanding which, if
implemented, could lead to the acquisition or voting by
the Investor or any of its Subsidiaries of any Company
Voting Securities.
ARTICLE THREE
COVENANTS AND AGREEMENTS OF THE INVESTOR
The Investor hereby covenants and agrees with the
Company as follows:
3.1 Voting of Company Voting Securities.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement,
the Investor shall effect such action as may be necessary
to ensure that:
(a) subject to the receipt of proper notice
and the absence of a preliminary or permanent
injunction or other final order of any United Stated
Federal or state court barring such action, the
Investor and its Subsidiaries are, as shareholders,
present in person or represented by proxy at all
shareholder meetings of the Company so that all
shares of Company Voting Securities of which
Investor or any of its Subsidiaries beneficially own
are voted and deemed to be present, in person or by
proxy, at all meetings of the shareholders of the
Company so that all Company Voting Securities so
beneficially owned may be counted for the purpose of
determining the presence of a quorum at such
meetings; and
(b) all Company Voting Securities that are
beneficially owned by the Investor or any of its
Subsidiaries as of the appropriate record date are
voted on all matters to be voted upon by the holders
of Company Voting Securities or any class or series
thereof in the same proportion as the votes cast by
the other holders of Company Voting Securities with
respect to such matter (it being agreed that it
shall be sufficient for the Investor and its
Subsidiaries to file with the Inspectors of Election
for such meeting of shareholders, prior to the
closing of the polls, a ballot stating that such
Company Voting Securities are intended to be voted
in the same proportion as the votes cast by the
other holders of Company Voting Securities with
respect to such matter); except that (i) the
Investor and such Subsidiaries may, in their sole
discretion, vote or cause to be voted all or a
greater proportion of such Company Voting Securities
in favor of any matter that is recommended favorably
by the Board of Directors of the Company and
(ii) the Investor and its Subsidiaries may, in their
sole discretion, vote any or all of their Company
Voting Securities on any amendment to the
Certificate of Incorporation or By-Laws (other than
a proposal only to increase the number of authorized
shares of Company Common Stock), disposition of the
Company (by way of merger, disposition of assets or
otherwise), liquidation, dissolution or any other
action that is materially adverse to the Investor or
such Subsidiaries.
3.2 General Restrictions. Neither the Investor nor
any of its Subsidiaries shall, directly or indirectly:
(i) make or participate in the making of any public
announcement with respect to, or submit or participate in
the submission of a proposal for, or offer of, any
Control Event; (ii) initiate the solicitation of or
solicit proxies or consents or become a "participant" in
a "solicitation" (as such terms are defined in Rule
14a-11 under the Exchange Act) with respect to any
Company Voting Securities in opposition to the
recommendation of the Board of Directors of the Company
with respect to any matter; (iii) initiate or institute,
or participate in the initiation or institution of, any
shareholder vote (whether pursuant to Rule 14a-8 of the
Exchange Act or otherwise) with respect to any matter
which is not required by the Company's Certificate of
Incorporation or By-Laws, the rules of the New York Stock
Exchange, Inc. or any other national securities exchange
or automated quotations system on which Company Voting
Securities are then traded, or by any similar laws or
rules to be submitted to the Company's shareholders;
(iv) initiate or institute, or participate in the
initiation or institution of any legal, regulatory or
administrative action or proceeding in any court of
competent jurisdiction or appropriate regulatory or
administrative body or agency with respect to the Company
or any of its directors, officers, employees,
accountants, legal counsel or other advisors, which
action or proceeding in any way contests, or otherwise
seeks to void, the validity of, or the enforceability of
any provision of this Agreement; or (v) join or become a
part of any partnership, limited partnership, syndicate
or other group, or otherwise act in concert with any
other Person, for the purpose of voting Company Voting
Securities on matters set forth in clause (ii) of Section
3.1(b) of this Agreement, except as a member of a group
consisting solely of the Investor and its Subsidiaries
with respect to actions specifically required or
permitted by this Article Three.
3.3 Acquisition of Voting Securities. Neither the
Investor or any of its Subsidiaries shall, directly or
indirectly, acquire beneficial ownership of any Company
Voting Securities, if the effect of such acquisition
would be to cause the Investor and its Subsidiaries to
beneficially own, collectively, more than 15% of the
outstanding Company Voting Securities, except pursuant to
(i) the Merger Agreement or the Voting Agreement,
(ii) dividends or distributions of Company Voting
Securities made on or to Company Shares beneficially
owned by such Person or (iii) offerings made available
only to holders of Company Voting Securities generally;
provided that the Investor or any of its Subsidiaries may
acquire shares of Company Voting Securities from the
Investor or another Subsidiary of the Investor. In the
event that the Investor or any of its Subsidiaries sells,
transfers or otherwise disposes (with or without full
consideration) of any Company Voting Securities (other
than to the Investor or a Subsidiary of the Investor),
the Investor and its Subsidiaries may not thereafter
reacquire such shares during the term of this Agreement
if the effect of such acquisition would be to cause the
Investor and its Subsidiaries to beneficially own,
collectively, more than 15% of the outstanding Company
Voting Securities, subject to the exceptions set forth in
clauses (ii) and (iii) of the immediately preceding
sentence.
3.4 Right of First Refusal. Each of the Investor
and its Subsidiaries, prior to making any offer to sell,
sale or other transfer of Company Voting Securities to
any Person (other than (x) to an underwriter or
underwriters in connection with a bona fide public
offering of Company Voting Securities or (y) pursuant to
a Qualifying Tender Offer) representing beneficial
ownership of more than two percent (2.0%) of the combined
voting power of all Company Voting Securities outstanding
at such time, shall give the Company the opportunity to
purchase, or to designate an alternative purchaser of,
such Company Voting Securities in the following manner:
(a) The proposed transferor of such Company
Voting Securities shall give to the Company written
notice (the "Transfer Notice") of the proposed
transfer, specifying the proposed transferee, the
number of Company Voting Securities proposed to be
disposed of, the proposed consideration to be
received in exchange therefor, and the other
material terms of the proposed transfer.
(b) The Company shall have the right,
exercisable by written notice given to the Person
which gave the Transfer Notice within three (3)
business days after receipt of such Notice, to
purchase (or to cause another Person designated by
the Company to purchase) all, but not less than all,
of the Company Voting Securities specified in such
Notice for cash at the purchase price set forth
therein. If the consideration specified in the
Transfer Notice includes any property other than
cash, such purchase price shall be deemed to be the
amount of any cash included as part of such
consideration plus the value (as jointly determined
by a nationally recognized investment banking firm
selected by each Party or, in the event such firms
are unable to agree, a third nationally recognized
investment banking firm to be selected by the first
two such firms) of such other property included in
such consideration and the date on which the Company
must exercise its right of first refusal shall be
extended until five business days after the
determination of the value of property included in
the consideration.
(c) If the Company exercises its right of
first refusal hereunder, the closing of the purchase
of the Company Voting Securities with respect to
which such right has been exercised shall take place
within three (3) business days after the Company
gives notice of such exercise. If the Company does
not exercise its right of first refusal hereunder
within the time specified for such exercise, the
Person giving the Transfer Notice shall be free
during the period of 90 calendar days following the
expiration of such time for exercise to sell the
Company Voting Securities specified in such Notice
to the Person identified therein as the proposed
transferee in exchange for the consideration
specified therein (or at any price in excess
thereof).
ARTICLE FOUR
ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS
4.1 Stock Legends. The following legend shall be
placed upon all certificates for shares of the Company
Voting Securities held by the Investor and its
Subsidiaries, which legend will remain thereon as long as
such Company Voting Securities are subject to the
restrictions contained in this Agreement:
"THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE
ARE SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF AN AGREEMENT,
DATED AS OF APRIL 29, 1996, BETWEEN PROVIDENT
COMPANIES, INC. AND TEXTRON INC."
Certificates representing Company Voting Securities
acquired subsequent to the date of this Agreement by the
Investor or any of its Subsidiaries shall be promptly
surrendered to the Company for placement thereon of the
foregoing legend. The Company may enter a stop transfer
order with the transfer agent or agents of Company Voting
Securities against the transfer of Company Voting
Securities except in compliance with the requirements of
this Agreement. The Company agrees to remove promptly
any stop transfer order with respect to, and issue
promptly unlegended certificates in substitution for,
certificates for the Company Voting Securities that are
no longer subject to the restrictions contained in this
Agreement.
4.2 Further Assurances. From time to time
after the execution of this Agreement, as and when
requested by the Company and the Investor and to the
extent permitted by Delaware law, the Parties shall take
or cause to be taken such further or other action as
shall be necessary to carry out the purposes of this
Agreement.
ARTICLE FIVE
TERM OF AGREEMENT
5.1 Term of Agreement. Except as otherwise
expressly provided in this Agreement, the respective
rights and obligations of the Parties under this
Agreement shall arise from and after the Effective Time
and continue in full force and effect through the third
anniversary of the Effective Time.
5.2 Survival of Covenants. From and after the date
of termination of this Agreement, none of the Parties
shall have any continuing liability or obligation to
perform any of their covenants or agreements pursuant to
this Agreement.
5.3 Remedies. The Parties recognize and hereby
acknowledge that it may be difficult to accurately
measure the amount of damages that would result to a
Party by reason of a failure of the other Party to
perform any of the obligations imposed on it by this
Agreement. The Parties accordingly agree that each such
Party shall be entitled to an injunction 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, in
addition to any other remedies to which such Party may be
entitled at law or in equity in accordance with this
Agreement.
ARTICLE SIX
MISCELLANEOUS
6.1 Notices. All notices, consents, requests,
instructions, approvals and other communications provided
for herein shall be in writing and shall be deemed to
have been duly given if mailed, by first class or
registered mail, three (3) business days after deposit in
the United States Mail, or if telexed or telecopied, sent
by telegram, or delivered by hand or reputable overnight
courier, when confirmation is received, in each case as
follows:
The Company: Provident Companies, Inc.
1 Fountain Square
Chattanooga, TN 37402
Telecopy: (423) 755-1755
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
Copy to Counsel: Alston & Bird
One Atlantic Center
1201 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309-3424
Telecopy: (404) 881-7777
Attention: F. Dean Copeland, Esq.
The Investor: Textron Inc.
40 Westminster Street
Providence, RI 02903-2596
Telecopy: (401) 457-2418
Attention: Executive Vice President
and General Counsel
Copy to Counsel: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
One Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
Telecopier: (617) 573-4822
Attention: Margaret A. Brown, Esq.
or to such other persons or addresses as may be
designated in writing by the party to receive such
notice. Nothing in this Section 6.1 shall be deemed to
constitute consent to the manner and address for service
of process in connection with any legal proceeding
(including litigation arising out of or in connection
with this Agreement), which service shall be effected as
required by applicable law.
6.2 Amendments. This Agreement may be amended by a
subsequent writing signed by both Parties upon the
approval of each of the Parties.
6.3 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed
in two or more counterparts all of which shall be one and
the same Agreement and shall become effective when one or
more counterparts have been signed by each Party and
delivered to the other Party.
6.4 Headings. The headings in this Agreement are
for convenience only and shall not affect the
construction or interpretation of this Agreement.
6.5 Successors and Assigns. All terms and
conditions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and
inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by any
successor to the Investor and any successor to the
Company. Except as otherwise provided in this Section
6.5, any assignment of the rights and obligations of the
Parties under this Agreement shall be effective upon a
written agreement signed by all the Parties.
6.6 Severability. If any provision of this
Agreement shall be held to be illegal, invalid or
unenforceable, such illegality, invalidity or
unenforceability shall attach only to such provision and
shall not in any manner affect or render illegal, invalid
or unenforceable any other provision of this Agreement,
and this Agreement shall be carried out as if any such
illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision were not
contained herein.
6.7 Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes
the entire understanding between and among the Parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof and shall
supersede any prior agreements and understandings among
the Parties with respect to such subject matter.
6.8 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be
governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of
the State of Delaware.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the Parties has caused
this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered as of
the date above written.
PROVIDENT COMPANIES, INC.
By:/s/ J. Harold Chandler
____________________________
Name: J. Harold Chandler
Title: President
TEXTRON INC.
By:/s/ Stephen L. Key
___________________________
Name: Stephen L. Key
Title: Executive Vice
President and Chief
Financial Officer
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EXHIBIT D
REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT dated as of April
29, 1996 by and between Textron Inc., a Delaware
corporation ("Investor"), and Provident Companies, Inc.,
a Delaware corporation (the "Company").
Investor is the holder of approximately 83% of
the outstanding voting common stock of The Paul Revere
Corporation, a Massachusetts corporation ("Paul Revere").
Simultaneously with the execution of this Agreement, the
Company, Paul Revere and Patriot Acquisition Corporation,
a Massachusetts corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary
of Parent ("Newco"), are entering into an Agreement and
Plan of Merger (the "Merger Agreement") providing for the
merger (the "Merger") of Newco with and into Paul Revere
pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Merger
Agreement.
The Company and Investor desire to provide for
certain registration rights with respect to the shares of
common stock, par value $1.00 per share, of the Company
("Company Common Stock") to be received by Investor in
the Merger.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the
foregoing and the respective covenants and agreements set
forth herein and in the Merger Agreement, the parties
hereby agree as follows:
Section 1. Registration on Request.
1.1 Notice. Subject to the terms and
conditions set forth herein, at any time or from time to
time after the Effective time of the Merger upon written
notice of Investor requesting that the Company effect the
registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the "Securities Act"), of all or part of the Registrable
Securities (as defined in Section 7 hereof) held by it,
which notice shall specify the intended method or methods
of disposition of such Registrable Securities, the
Company will use its reasonable best efforts to effect
(at the earliest practicable date) the registration,
under the Securities Act, of such Registrable Securities
for disposition in accordance with the intended method or
methods of disposition stated in such request, provided
that:
(a) if the Company shall have previously
effected a registration with respect to Registrable
Securities pursuant to Section 2 hereof, the Company
shall not be required to effect any registration pursuant
to this Section 1 until a period of 180 days shall have
elapsed from the effective date of the most recent such
previous registration; provided, that if, in the most
recent such previous registration, participation pursuant
to Section 2 hereof shall not have been to the extent
requested pursuant to Section 2 hereof, then the Company
shall not be required to effect any registration pursuant
to this Section 1 until a period of 90 days shall have
elapsed from the effective date of the most recent such
previous registration;
(b) if, upon receipt of a registration
request pursuant to this Section 1, the Company is
advised in writing (with a copy to Investor) by a
recognized national independent investment banking firm
selected by the Company that, in such firm's opinion, a
registration at the time and on the terms requested would
adversely affect any public offering of securities of the
Company by the Company (other than in connection with
employee benefit and similar plans) or by or on behalf of
any shareholder of the Company exercising a demand
registration right (collectively, a "Company Offering")
with respect to which the Company has commenced
preparations for a registration prior to the receipt of a
registration request pursuant to this Section 1, the
Company shall not be required to effect a registration
pursuant to this Section 1 until the earlier of (i) 30
days after the completion of such Company Offering, (ii)
promptly after any abandonment of such Company Offering
or (iii) 60 days after the date of receipt of a
registration request pursuant to this Section 1;
(c) if, while any registration request
pursuant to this Section 1 is pending, the Company
determines in the good faith judgment of the principal
securities counsel or outside securities counsel of the
Company that the filing of a registration statement would
require disclosure of material information which the
Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving
as confidential, the Company shall not be required to
effect a registration pursuant to this Section 1 until
the earlier of (i) the date upon which such material
information is disclosed to the public or ceases to be
material or (ii) 30 days after the Company makes such
good faith determination; and
(d) Investor (together with any
transferee of Investor as contemplated by Section 6
hereof) shall have the right to exercise registration
rights pursuant to this Section 1 up to a number of times
equal to three (3) plus the number of Blackout
Termination Rights (as defined in Section 3.3(b) hereof)
provided for by Section 3.3(b); provided, that a
registration will not count as an exercise of
registration rights under this Section 1 until the
registration statement relating to such exercise has
become effective; provided, further that Investor shall
not have the right to exercise registration rights
pursuant to this Section 1 more than one (1) time plus
the number of Blackout Termination Rights provided for by
Section 3.3(b) during any 6-month period; provided,
further that the number of shares of Common Stock
registered pursuant to any registration requested
pursuant to this Section 1 shall be no less than the
least of (i) Registrable Securities having an aggregate
expected offering price of $10 million and (ii) the
number of shares of Common Stock, held by Investor or
such transferee; and provided, further that Investor
shall utilize any Blackout Termination Rights before its
other registration rights hereunder.
1.2 Inclusion of Other Securities in
Registration. The number of Registrable Securities to be
included in a registration of Registrable Securities
pursuant to Section 1.1 shall not be reduced as a result
of the inclusion in such registration of Company Common
Stock pursuant to a request of any holder thereof
exercising incidental registration rights similar to
those set forth in Section 2 hereof.
1.3 Registration Expenses. Registration
Expenses (as defined in Section 7.1 hereof) for any
registration requested pursuant to this Section 1 shall
be paid by the Company, except that with respect to any
such registration the Company shall not bear underwriting
discounts or commissions.
Section 2. Incidental Registration.
2.1 Notice and Registration. If the Company
proposes to register any of its Voting Equity Securities
(as defined in Section 7 hereof) ("Other Securities") for
public sale under the Securities Act (whether proposed to
be offered for sale by the Company or any other person),
on a form and in a manner which would permit registration
of Registrable Securities for sale to the public under
the Securities Act, the Company will give prompt written
notice to Investor of its intention to do so, and upon
the written request of Investor delivered to the Company
within 10 business days after the giving of any such
notice (which request shall specify the amount of
Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by
Investor and the intended method of disposition thereof),
the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to
effect, in connection with the registration of the Other
Securities, the registration under the Securities Act of
all Registrable Securities which the Company has been so
requested to register by Investor, to the extent required
to permit the disposition (in accordance with the
intended method or methods thereof as aforesaid) of
Registrable Securities so to be registered; provided
that:
(i) if, at any time after giving
such written notice of its intention to register any
Other Securities and prior to the effective date of
the registration statement filed in connection with
such registration, the Company shall determine for
any reason not to register the Other Securities the
Company may, at its election, give written notice of
such determination to Investor and thereupon the
Company shall be relieved of its obligation to
register such Registrable Securities in connection
with the registration of such Other Securities (but
not from its obligation to pay Registration Expenses
to the extent incurred in connection therewith as
provided in Section 2.2 hereof), without prejudice,
however, to the rights (if any) of Investor
immediately to request that such registration be
effected as a registration under Section 1 hereof;
(ii) the Company will not be
required to effect any registration pursuant to this
Section 2 if the Company shall have been advised in
writing (with a copy to Investor) by a recognized
national independent investment banking firm
selected by the Company that, in such firm's
opinion, a registration at that time would adversely
affect the Company Offering;
(iii) the Company shall not be
required to effect any registration of Registrable
Securities under this Section 2 incidental to the
registration of any of its securities solely in
connection with mergers, acquisitions, exchange
offers, recapitalizations, reclassifications,
subscription offers, dividend reinvestment plans or
stock option or other benefit plans; and
(iv) in the event that Investor
requests the registration of Registrable Securities
in connection with any underwritten registration of
Other Securities and the managing underwriter of
such registration informs Investor and any other
holder of securities of the Company requesting
registration in connection with such registration of
Other Securities in writing of its belief that the
distribution of all or a specified number of such
Registrable Securities concurrently with the
securities being distributed by such underwriters
would interfere with the successful marketing of the
securities being distributed by such underwriters
(such writing to state the basis of such belief and
the approximate number of such Registrable
Securities which may be distributed without such
effect), then the Company may, upon written notice
to Investor and all such other requesting holders,
reduce pro rata (if and to the extent stated by such
managing underwriter to be necessary to eliminate
such effect) the number of such securities, the
registration of which shall have been requested by
Investor and each such other holder so that the
resultant aggregate number of such securities so
included in such registration shall be equal to the
number of securities stated in such managing
underwriter's letter.
No registration of Registrable Securities effected under
this Section 2 shall relieve the Company of its
obligation to effect a registration of Registrable
Securities pursuant to Section 1.
2.2 Registration Expenses. The Company (as
between the Company and Investor) will pay all
Registration Expenses in connection with any registration
pursuant to this Section 2, except that with respect to
any such registration, the Company shall not bear
underwriting discounts or commissions.
Section 3. Registration Procedures.
3.1 Registration and Qualification. If and
whenever the Company is required to use its reasonable
best efforts to effect the registration of any
Registrable Securities under the Securities Act as
provided in Sections 1 and 2 hereof, the Company will as
promptly as is practicable:
(a) prepare, file and use its reasonable
best efforts to cause to become effective a registration
statement under the Securities Act regarding Registrable
Securities to be offered;
(b) prepare and file with the Securities
and Exchange Commission ("SEC") such amendments and
supplements to such registration statement and the
prospectus used in connection therewith as may be
necessary to keep such registration statement effective
and to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act
with respect to the disposition of all Registrable
Securities until the earlier of (i) such time as all of
such Registrable Securities have been disposed of in
accordance with the intended methods of disposition by
Investor set forth in such registration statement or (ii)
the expiration of 180 days after such registration
statement becomes effective (plus such additional days as
may be provided under Section 3.3(c)), but in no event
more than nine months after such registration statement
becomes effective;
(c) advise Investor and any underwriter
promptly and, if requested by such persons, confirm such
advice in writing, (i) when such registration statement
and the prospectus used in connection therewith has been
filed, and, with respect to any supplement to the
registration statement or any post-effective amendment
thereto, when the same has become effective, (ii) of any
request by the SEC for amendments to such registration
statement or amendments or supplements to such prospectus
or for additional information relating thereto or (iii)
of the issuance by the SEC of any stop order suspending
the effectiveness of such registration statement under
the Securities Act or of the suspension by any state
securities commission of the qualification of any
Registrable Securities for offering or sale in any
jurisdiction or of the initiation of any proceeding for
any of the preceding purposes. If at any time the SEC
shall issue any stop order suspending such effectiveness
of such registration statement, or any state securities
commission or other regulatory authority shall issue an
order suspending the qualification or exemption from
qualification of the Registrable Securities under state
securities or blue sky laws, the Company shall use its
reasonable best efforts to obtain the withdrawal or
lifting of such order at the earliest possible time;
(d) furnish to Investor, and to any
underwriter before filing with the SEC, copies of such
registration statement and such prospectus included
therein and any amendments and supplements thereto
(including all documents incorporated by reference prior
to the effectiveness of such registration statement),
which documents, other than documents incorporated by
reference, will be subject to the review of Investor and
any such underwriter for a period of at least five
business days, and the Company shall not file such
registration statement or such prospectus or any
amendment or supplement to such registration statement or
prospectus to which Investor or any such underwriter
shall reasonably object within five business days after
the receipt thereof; Investor or underwriter(s), if any,
shall be deemed to have reasonably objected to such
filing only if the registration statement, amendment,
prospectus or supplement, as applicable, as proposed to
be filed, contains a material misstatement or omission;
(e) to the extent practicable, promptly
prior to the filing of any document that is to be
incorporated by reference into registration statement or
such prospectus subsequent to the effectiveness thereof,
and in any event no later than the date such document is
filed with the SEC, provide copies of such document to
Investor, if requested, and to any underwriter, make
representatives of the Company available for discussion
of such document and other customary due diligence
matters, and include such information in such document
prior to the filing thereof as Investor or any such
underwriter reasonably may request;
(f) make available at reasonable times
for inspection by Investor, any underwriter participating
in any disposition pursuant to such registration
statement and any attorney or accountant retained by
Investor or any such underwriter, all financial and other
records, pertinent corporate documents and properties of
the Company and cause the officers, directors and
employees of the Company to supply all information
reasonably requested by Investor and any such
underwriters, attorneys or accountants in connection with
the registration statement subsequent to the filing
thereof and prior to its effectiveness;
(g) if requested by Investor or any
underwriter, promptly incorporate in such registration
statement or prospectus, pursuant to a supplement or
post-effective amendment if necessary, such information
as Investor and any underwriter may reasonably request to
have included therein, including, without limitation,
information relating to the "plan of distribution" of the
Registrable Securities, information with respect to the
principal amount or number of shares of Registrable
Securities being sold to such underwriter, the purchase
price being paid therefor and any other terms of the
offering of the Registrable Securities to be sold in such
offering and make all required filings of any such
prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment as soon
as practicable after the Company is notified of the
matters to be incorporated in such prospectus supplement
or post-effective amendment;
(h) furnish to Investor and to any
underwriter of such Registrable Securities such number of
conformed copies of the registration statement and of
each such amendment and supplement thereto (in each case
including all exhibits), such number of copies of the
prospectus included in such registration statement
(including each preliminary prospectus and any summary
prospectus), in conformity with the requirements of the
Securities Act, such documents incorporated by reference
in such registration statement or prospectus, and such
other documents as Investor or such underwriter may
reasonably request;
(i) use its reasonable best efforts to
register or qualify all Registrable Securities covered by
such registration statement under such other securities
or blue sky laws of such United States jurisdictions as
Investor or any underwriter of such Registrable
Securities shall reasonably request, and do any and all
other acts and things which may be necessary or advisable
to enable Investor or any underwriter to consummate the
disposition in such jurisdictions of its Registrable
Securities covered by such registration statement, except
that the Company shall not for any such purpose be
required to qualify generally to do business as a foreign
corporation in any jurisdiction where it is not so
qualified, or to subject itself to taxation in any such
jurisdiction, or to consent to general service of process
in any such jurisdiction;
(j) (i) furnish to Investor, addressed to
it, an opinion of counsel for the Company, dated the date
of the closing under the underwriting agreement, if any,
or the date of effectiveness of the registration
statement if such registration is not an underwritten
offering, and (ii) use its reasonable best efforts to
furnish to Investor, addressed to it, a "cold comfort"
letter signed by the independent certified public
accountants who have certified the Company's financial
statements included in such registration statement
covering substantially the same matters with respect to
such registration statement (and the prospectus included
therein) and, in the case of such accountants' letter,
with respect to events subsequent to the date of such
financial statements, as are customarily covered in
opinions of issuer's counsel and in accountants' letters
delivered to underwriters in underwritten public
offerings of securities and such other matters as
Investor may reasonably request;
(k) immediately notify Investor at any
time when a prospectus relating to a registration
pursuant to Section 1 or 2 hereof is required to be
delivered under the Securities Act of the happening of
any event as a result of which the prospectus included in
such registration statement, as then in effect, includes
an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state
any material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading,
and at the request of Investor prepare and furnish to
Investor a reasonable number of copies of a supplement to
or an amendment of such prospectus as may be necessary so
that, as thereafter delivered to the purchasers of such
Registrable Securities, such prospectus shall not include
an 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
circumstances under which they are made, not misleading;
and
(l) provide promptly to Investor upon
request any document filed by the Company with the SEC
pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 and Section 15
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
The Company may require Investor to furnish the Company
such information regarding Investor and the distribution
of such securities as the Company may from time to time
reasonably request in writing and as shall be required by
law or by the SEC or the National Association of
Securities Dealers, Inc. in connection with any
registration.
3.2 Underwriting. (a) If a registration
requested pursuant to Section 1 involves an underwritten
offering, the underwriter or underwriters thereof shall
be selected by Investor (provided that the book-running
and other managing underwriters shall be reasonably
satisfactory to the Company). If requested by any
underwriters for any underwritten offering of Registrable
Securities pursuant to a registration requested
hereunder, the Company will enter into an underwriting
agreement with such underwriters for such offering, such
agreement to contain such representations and warranties
by the Company and such other terms and provisions as are
customarily contained in underwriting agreements with
respect to secondary distributions, including, without
limitation, indemnities and contribution to the effect
and to the extent provided in Section 5 hereof and the
provision of opinions of counsel and accountants' letters
to the effect and to the extent provided in Section
3.1(j). The holders of Registrable Securities on whose
behalf Registrable Securities are to be distributed by
such underwriters shall be parties to any such
underwriting agreement, and the representations and
warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of,
the Company to and for the benefit of such underwriters
shall also be made to and for the benefit of such holders
of Registrable Securities.
(b) In the event that any registration
pursuant to Section 2 hereof shall involve, in whole or
in part, an underwritten offering, the Company may
require (but is not obligated to require) Registrable
Securities requested to be registered pursuant to Section
2 to be included in such underwriting on the same terms
and conditions as shall be applicable to the Other
Securities being sold through underwriters under such
registration. In such case, the holders of Registrable
Securities on whose behalf Registrable Securities are to
be distributed by such underwriters shall be parties to
any such underwriting agreement. Such agreement shall
contain such representations and warranties by Investor
and such other terms and provision as are customarily
contained in underwriting agreement with respect to
secondary distribution, including, without limitation,
indemnities and contribution to the effect and to the
extent provided in Section 5 hereof. The representations
and warranties in such underwriting agreement by, and the
other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for
the benefit of such underwriters shall also be made to
and for the benefit of such holders of Registration
Securities.
3.3 Blackout Periods. (a) At any time when a
registration statement effected pursuant to Section 1
hereunder relating to Registrable Securities is
effective, upon written notice from the Company to
Investor that either:
(i) the Company has determined to engage
in a Company Offering and has been advised in
writing (with a copy to Investor) by a recognized
national independent investment banking firm
selected by the Company that, in such firm's
opinion, Investor's sale of Registrable Securities
pursuant to the registration statement would
adversely affect the Company's own immediately
planned Company Offering (a "Transaction Blackout");
or
(ii) the Company determines in the good
faith judgment of the principal securities counsel
or outside securities counsel of the Company that
Investor's sale of Registrable Securities pursuant
to the registration statement would require
disclosure of material information which the Company
has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as
confidential (an "Information Blackout"),
Investor shall suspend sales of Registrable Securities
pursuant to such registration statement until the earlier
of:
(X) (i) in the case of a Transaction
Blackout, the earlier of (A) 30 days after the
completion of such Company Offering, (B) the
termination of any "black out" period required by
the underwriters to be applicable to Investor, if
any, in connection with such the Company Offering,
(C) promptly after abandonment of such Company
Offering and (D) 60 days after the date of the
Company's written notice of Transaction Blackout or
(ii) in the case of an Information
Blackout, the earlier of (A) the date upon which
such material information is disclosed to the public
or ceases to be material or (B) 30 days after the
Company makes such good faith determination and
(Y) such time as the Company notifies
Investor that sales pursuant to such registration
statement may be resumed (the number of days from
such suspension of sales of Investor until the day
when such sales may be resumed hereunder is
hereinafter called a "Sales Blackout Period");
provided, that the Company may not impose a Transaction
Blackout following the printing and distribution of a
preliminary prospectus in any underwritten public
offering of Registrable Securities until the termination
of the distribution of such Registrable Securities.
(b) Any delivery by the Company of notice
of a Transaction Blackout or Information Blackout (i)
during the 90 days immediately following effectiveness of
any registration statement effected pursuant to Section 1
hereof or (ii) which shall preclude any registration
statement effected pursuant to Section 1 hereof from
being effective for an aggregate period of 180 days (plus
such additional days as may be provided under Section
3.3(c)), during which period there existed no applicable
Transaction Blackout or Information Blackout, shall give
Investor the right, by notice to the Company within 20
Business Days after the end of such blackout period, to
cancel such registration and obtain one additional
registration right (a "Blackout Termination Right") under
Section 1.1(d).
(c) If there is a Transaction Blackout or
an Information Blackout and Investor does not exercise
its cancellation right, if any, pursuant to (b) above,
or, if such cancellation right is not available, the time
period set forth in Section 3.1(b) shall be extended for
a number of days equal to the number of days in the Sales
Blackout Period.
Section 4. Preparation; Reasonable Investigation.
4.1 Preparation; Reasonable Investigation. In
connection with the preparation and filing of each
registration statement registering Registrable Securities
under the Securities Act, the Company will give Investor
and the underwriters, if any, and their respective
counsel and accountants, such reasonable and customary
access to its books and records and such opportunities to
discuss the business of the Company with its officers and
the independent public accountants who have certified its
financial statements as shall be necessary, in the
opinion of Investor and such underwriters or their
respective counsel, to conduct a reasonable investigation
within the meaning of the Securities Act.
Section 5. Indemnification and Contribution
5.1 Indemnification and Contribution. (a) In
the event of any registration of any Registrable
Securities hereunder, the Company will enter into
customary indemnification arrangements to indemnify and
hold harmless Investor, its directors and officers, each
Person who participates as an underwriter in the offering
or sale of such securities, each officer or director of
each underwriter, and each Person, if any, who controls
such seller or any such underwriter (within the meaning
of the Securities Act) against any losses, claims,
damages, liabilities and expenses, joint or several, to
which such Person may be subject under the Securities Act
or otherwise insofar as such losses, claims, damages,
liabilities or expenses (or actions or proceedings in
respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (i) any
untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any
material fact contained in any registration statement
under which such securities were registered under the
Securities Act, any preliminary prospectus or final
prospectus included therein, or any amendment or
supplement thereto, or any document incorporated by
reference therein, or (ii) any omission or alleged
omission to state therein a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading, and the Company will reimburse
each such Person for any legal or any other expenses
reasonably incurred by such Person in connection with
investigating or defending any such loss, claim,
liability, action or proceeding; provided that the
Company shall not be liable in any such case to the
extent that any such loss, claim, damage, liability (or
action or proceeding in respect thereof) or expense
arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission
made in such registration statement, any such preliminary
prospectus or final prospectus, or amendment or
supplement thereto in reliance upon and in conformity
with written information furnished to the Company by
Investor or any such underwriter for use in the
preparation thereof. Such indemnity shall remain in full
force and effect regardless of any investigation made by
or on behalf of Investor or any such Person and shall
survive the transfer of such securities by Investor. The
Company also shall agree to provide such provision for
contribution as shall be reasonably requested by Investor
or any underwriters in circumstances where such indemnity
is held unenforceable.
(b) Investor, by virtue of exercising its
registration rights hereunder, agrees and undertakes to
enter into customary indemnification arrangements to
indemnify and hold harmless (in the same manner and to
the same extent as set forth in clause (a) of this
Section 5) the Company, each director of the Company,
each officer of the Company who shall sign such
registration statement, each Person who participates as
an underwriter in the offering or sale of such
securities, each officer and director of each underwriter
and each Person, if any, who controls the Company or any
such underwriter within the meaning of the Securities
Act, with respect to any statement or omission from such
registration statement, any preliminary prospectus or
final prospectus included therein or any amendment or
supplement thereto, if such statement or omission was
made in reliance upon and in conformity with written
information furnished by Investor to the Company for
inclusion in such registration statement or prospectus.
Such indemnity shall remain in full force and effect
regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of
the Company or any such director, officer or controlling
Person and shall survive the transfer of the registered
securities by Investor. Investor also shall agree to
provide such provision or contribution as shall
reasonably be requested by the Company or any
underwriters in circumstances where such indemnity is
held unenforceable.
(c) Indemnification and contribution
similar to that specified in the preceding subdivisions
of this Section 5 (with appropriate modifications) shall
be given by the Company and Investor with respect to any
required registration or other qualification of such
Registrable Securities under any federal or state law or
regulation of governmental authority other than the
Securities Act.
Section 6. Benefits of Registration Rights.
6.1 Benefits of Registration Rights. Investor
and any transferees of Registrable Securities permitted
hereunder may jointly exercise the registration rights
hereunder in such manner and in such proportion as they
shall agree among themselves, provided that any such
transferees shall be subject to and bound by all of the
terms and conditions hereof applicable to Investor.
6.2 Non-exclusive Means of Sale. Nothing in
this Agreement shall be deemed to preclude Investor from
selling any Registrable Securities in accordance with the
provisions of Rule 144 or Rule 145(d) (or any successor
provision thereto) under the Securities Act in accordance
with the provisions hereof.
Section 7. Certain Definitions.
7.1 "Registration Expenses", as used in this
Agreement, means all expenses incident to the Company's
performance of or compliance with the registration
requirements set forth in this Agreement regardless of
whether any such registration becomes effective
including, without limitation, the following: (i) all
fees, disbursements, and expenses of counsel for the
Company (United States and foreign), all reasonable fees,
disbursements and expenses of (a) one counsel for
Investor and all other holders of Registrable Securities
and (b) the Company's independent certified public
accountants in connection with the registration of
Registrable Securities to be disposed of under the
Securities Act; (ii) all fees and expenses in connection
with the preparation, printing and filing of the
registration statement, any preliminary prospectus or
final prospectus, any other offering document and
amendments and supplements thereto (including, if
applicable, the fees and expenses of any "qualified
independent underwriter" and its counsel that may be
required by the rules and regulations of the NASD) and
the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the
underwriters and dealers; (iii) all cost of printing or
producing any agreement(s) among underwriters,
underwriting agreement(s) and blue sky or legal
investment memoranda, any selling agreements and any
other documents in connection with the offering, sale or
delivery of Registrable Securities to be disposed of;
(iv) all expenses in connection with the qualification of
Registrable Securities to be disposed of for offering and
sale under state blue sky or securities laws, including
the fees and disbursements of counsel or the underwriters
in connection with such qualification and in connection
with any blue sky and legal investment surveys; (v) any
filing fees incident to securing any required review by
the NASD of the terms of the sale of Registrable
Securities to be disposed of; and (vi) all application
and filing fees in connection with listing the
Registrable Securities on a national securities exchange
or automated quotation system pursuant to the
requirements hereof.
7.2 "Registrable Securities" means (i) the
Company Common Stock to be issued to Investor in the
Merger; (ii) any securities of the Company issued as a
dividend or distribution with respect to Company Common
Stock or any Registrable Securities and (iii) any
securities which may be issued in exchange for any
Company Common Stock or any Registrable Securities. As
to any proposed offer or sale of Registrable Securities,
such securities shall cease to be Registrable Securities
with respect to such proposed offer or sale when (i) a
registration statement with respect to the sale of such
securities shall have become effective under the
Securities Act and all such securities shall have been
disposed of in accordance with such registration
statement, (ii) all such shares as are sold pursuant to
Rule 144 or Rule 145(d) (or any successor provision
thereto) under the Securities Act or (iii) all such
securities are permitted to be sold pursuant to Rule 144
or Rule 145(d) (or any successor provision thereto) under
the Securities Act, without being limited by any quantity
restrictions provided for therein.
7.3 "Voting Equity Securities" means all
common equity securities issued by the Company having the
ordinary power to vote in the election of directors of
the Company, other than securities having such power only
upon the occurrence of a default or any other
extraordinary contingency.
Section 8. Miscellaneous.
8.1 No Inconsistent Agreements. The Company
shall not on or after the date of this Agreement enter
into any agreement with respect to its securities that
violates the rights granted to Investor in this
Agreement.
8.2 Governing Law; Jurisdiction. This
Agreement shall be construed, performed and enforced in
accordance with, and governed by, the laws of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without giving effect to
the principles of conflicts of laws thereof. The parties
hereto irrevocably elect as the sole judicial forum for
the adjudication of any matters arising under or in
connection with this Agreement, and consent to the
jurisdiction of, the courts of the County of Suffolk,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts or of the United States of
America for the District of Massachusetts.
8.3 Severability. In the event that any part
of this Agreement is declared by any court or other
judicial or administrative body to be null, void or
unenforceable, said provision shall survive to the extent
it is not so declared, and all of the other provisions of
this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.
8.4 Notices. All notices, consents, requests,
instructions, approvals and other communications provided
for herein shall be in writing and shall be deemed to
have been duly given if mailed, by first class or
registered mail, three (3) business days after deposit in
the United States Mail, or if telexed or telecopied, sent
by telegram, or delivered by hand or reputable overnight
courier, when confirmation is received, in each case as
follows:
If to Investor:
Textron Inc.
40 Westminster Street
Providence, RI 02903-2596
Attention: Executive Vice President and
General Counsel
401-457-2418 (telecopier)
With a copy to:
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
One Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
Attention: Margaret A. Brown, Esq.
617-573-4822 (facsimile)
If to the Company:
Provident Companies, Inc.
1 Fountain Square
Chattanooga, TN 37402
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
423-755-1755 (telecopier)
With a copy to:
Alston & Bird
1201 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309
Attention: Dean Copeland, Esq.
404-881-7777 (telecopier)
Any party may change its address for the
purpose of this Section by giving the other party written
notice of its new address in the manner set forth above.
Nothing in this Section 8.4 shall be deemed to constitute
consent to the manner and address for service of process
in connection with any legal proceeding (including
litigation arising out of or in connection with this
Agreement), which service shall be effected as required
by applicable law.
8.5 Amendments; Waivers. This Agreement may
be amended or modified, and any of the terms, covenants
or conditions hereof may be waived, only by a written
instrument executed by the parties hereto, or in the case
of a waiver, by the party waiving compliance. Any waiver
by any party of any condition, or of the breach of any
provision, term or covenant contained in this Agreement,
in any one or more instances, shall not be deemed to be
nor construed as furthering or continuing waiver of any
such condition, or of the breach of any other provision,
term or covenant of this Agreement.
8.6 Section and Paragraph Headings. The
section and paragraph headings in this Agreement are for
reference purposes only and shall not affect the meaning
or interpretation of this Agreement.
8.7 Counterparts. This Agreement may be
executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed
an original, but all of which shall constitute the same
instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have
caused this Agreement to be executed by their respective
officers thereunto duly authorized as of the date first
above written.
TEXTRON INC.
By:/s/ Stephen L. Key
Name: Stephen L. Key
Title: Executive Vice
President and Chief
Financial Officer
PROVIDENT COMPANIES, INC.
By:/s/ J. Harold Chandler
Name: J. Harold Chandler
Title: President
