RENAISSANCE SOLUTIONS INC
8-K/A, 1997-02-21
MANAGEMENT CONSULTING SERVICES
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                                   FORM 8-K/A

                 AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO CURRENT REPORT ON FORM 8-K


                       PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF
                      THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


     Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported):    February 3, 1997
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                          Renaissance Solutions, Inc.
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            (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)


                                   Delaware
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                  (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

            0-25746                            04-3150009
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   (Commission File Number)        (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)


Lincoln North, 55 Old Bedford Road, Lincoln, MA               01773
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   (Address of Principal Executive Offices)                 (Zip Code)

                                (617) 259-8833
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              (Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code)


                                Not Applicable
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         (Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
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     This Amendment No. 1 on Form 8-K/A amends and restates Item 7 of the
Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Secruities and Exchange Commission on
February 18, 1997 by Renaissance Solutions, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
"Form 8-K"), for the sole purpose of filing an additional exhibit to the Form 8-
K which was erroneously omitted.

ITEM 7.  FINANCIAL STATEMENT AND EXHIBITS.
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     (a) Financial Statements of Businesses Acquired:
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     None required.

     (b) Pro Forma Financial Information:
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     None required.

     (c)  Exhibits:
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     See the Exhibit Index attached hereto.
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                                   SIGNATURE


     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Date: February 21, 1997                RENAISSANCE SOLUTIONS, INC.
                                              (Registrant)



                                       /s/ George A. McMillan
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                                       George A. McMillan
                                       Vice President, Chief Financial Officer 
                                         and Chief Operating Officer
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                               INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Exhibit
Number       Description
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2*           Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of January 27, 1997,
             among the Company, and the parties named therein.

             The following schedules to the Stock Purchase Agreement, or
             to the referenced exhibit thereto, have been omitted.  The
             Company will furnish copies of the omitted schedules to the
             Commission upon request:

             Stock Purchase Agreement:
 
             Disclosure Letter
             Schedule I:    Warrantors, B.V. and Other Sellers
             Schedule III:  The Network Companies
             Schedule IV:   Details on the Company
             Schedule V:    Option Grants and List of Employees

             Exhibit F - Option Agreement:

             Schedule 3:  The Network Companies
             Schedule 4:  Customers

2.1          Agreement, dated as of February 3, 1997, by and between 
             Dean Street Investments B.V. and COBA Consulting Limited.

99*          Press Release issued February 14, 1997


*Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K 
 dated February 3, 1997.

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                                                                     EXHIBIT 2.1
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THIS AGREEMENT is dated 3rd day of February 1997 and is made
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BETWEEN:-
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1.   DEAN STREET INVESTMENTS B.V. (Company Number:-  33248274) whose registered
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     office is situate at Rokin 55, 1012 KK Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("DVI")
     (as a partner of the firm known as The Coba Group Partnership) ("the
     Partnership").

2.   COBA CONSULTING LIMITED whose registered office is at 40 Holborn Viaduct
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     London ECIN 2PB ("the Purchaser").

     (together "the Parties")

WHEREAS:-
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[A]  The Partners have formed a partnership and have carried on, inter alia, the
     business of management consultancy.

[B]  The Purchaser is a company limited by shares of which DVI holds 25.87%.

[C]  The Parties are aware that irrespective of the care they take (and have
     taken) to ensure that this Agreement ("the Transaction") is dealt with on
     arms length terms without conferring a benefit on any person to the
     detriment of another others may take a different view and they therefore
     wish to implement a mechanism to maintain adherence to arms length dealings
     and the absence of any benefit being conferred on any person in the event
     of such different view being taken and substantiated.

NOW IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows:-
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1.   PURPOSE AND DEFINITIONS
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     1.1  This is an agreement for the sale and purchase of the Business
          (as defined in sub-clause 1.2).

     1.2  In this Agreement the following expressions have the following
          meanings:-

          "Business"
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          means that proportion of DVI's interest in the management consultancy
          business now carried on by the Partnership;

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          "Consideration"
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          means the sum specified in Clause 2.1.3;
          "Intellectual Property Rights"
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          means all copyright technical or commercial information and computer
          programs together with the benefit of all rights for the protection
          thereof and of all applications for such rights as listed in Schedule
          1.

          "Partners"
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          means Richard Jonathan Peel, Graham Simon Gould, Nicholas John Hewitt,
          Robert Neville House, Mark Parry and DVI;

          "Premises"
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          means the premises occupied by the Partnership at 40 Holborn Viaduct
          London ECIN 2PB;

          "Transfer Assets"
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          means those items referred to in Clause 2.1.1;

          "Transfer Date"
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          means the close of business on the date hereof;

          "Work in Progress"
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          means the benefit and burden of all the contracts engagements orders
          and work in progress relating to the Business subsisting but
          uncompleted at the Transfer Date.

     1.3  References to Clauses sub-clauses and Schedules are to Clauses
          and sub-clauses of and Schedules to this Agreement.

     1.4  References in this Agreement to statutory provisions shall be
          construed as references to those provisions as respectively replaced
          amended or re-enacted (whether before or after the date hereof) from
          time to time and shall include any provisions of which they are re-
          enactments (whether with or without modification) and any subordinate
          legislation made under such provisions and (so far as liability
          thereunder may exist or can arise) shall include also any past
          statutory provisions or regulations (as from time to time modified or
          re-enacted) which such provisions or regulations have directly or
          indirectly replaced.

     1.5  Words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa
          words importing a gender and references to persons include bodies
          corporate or unincorporate.

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     1.6  The headings to the Clauses are for convenience only and have no
          legal effect.

     1.7  References to "$" or "Dollars" shall mean the lawful currency of
          the United States of America.  For any conversion between Dollars and
          Pounds Sterling the exchange rate shall be $1.67 to (pounds)1.00.

2.  SALE OF THE BUSINESS AND ASSETS
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     2.1  DVI with full title guarantee in accordance with the provisions
          of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1994 shall sell
          free from all liens charges and encumbrances and the Purchaser as at
          the Transfer Date shall purchase the Business as a going concern which
          shall:-

               2.1.1  include:-

                      2.1.1.1  the assets listed in Schedule 1;

                      2.1.1.2  all other assets of the Partnership which relate
                               to or are used in connection with the Business
                               and which are required by the Purchaser;

               2.1.2  exclude:-

                      2.1.2.1  all debts and liabilities; and

                      2.1.2.2  the assets listed in Schedule 2.

               2.1.3  The aggregate consideration payable for all the assets
               hereby agreed to be sold shall be the sum of US$1,903,385.50.

     2.2  All the assets hereby agreed to be sold shall as from the
          Transfer Date (pending delivery of the same) and, in the case of those
          assets which do not pass by delivery, pending the execution of such
          assignments or novations as may be required shall be held by DVI on
          trust for the Purchaser absolutely.

     2.3  DVI shall be responsible for and shall indemnify the Purchaser
          against any claims by creditors of the Business arising prior to the
          Transfer Date (including the Inland Revenue and H M Customs and Excise
          in respect of corporation tax or value added tax payable by DVI in
          respect of any period or event occurring prior to the Transfer Date).

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     2.4  The Purchaser hereby undertakes with DVI to keep DVI fully
          indemnified against all losses claims liabilities costs and expenses
          whatsoever in respect of any act omission neglect or default by the
          Purchaser in connection with the Business or the assets relating to
          the Business sold hereunder or any of them arising on or after the
          Transfer Date.

     2.5  Insofar as any contracts engagements orders or licenses cannot
          effectively be transferred to or assumed by the Purchaser except by an
          agreement of novation with third parties:-

          2.5.1  if the Purchaser so requires the parties shall use their
                 respective reasonable endeavours to procure the same to be
                 novated; and

          2.5.2  unless and until any such novation is effected DVI shall do all
                 such acts and things in relation thereto as the Purchaser may
                 reasonably require.

3.  COMPLETION
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     3.1  Completion shall take place at the offices of the Purchaser when
          DVI shall:-

          3.1.1  give possession to the Purchaser of the assets hereby
                 agreed to be sold;

          3.1.2  (if requested by the Purchaser so to do) deliver to the
                 Purchaser duly executed assignment of such of the assets hereby
                 agreed to be sold as are not transferable by delivery;

          3.1.3  deliver (or cause to be delivered) to the Purchaser all
                 books of account income records stock and other records and
                 information relating to the Business including all records
                 regarding value added taxation referred to in Section 33 Value
                 Added Tax Act 1983.

     3.2  DVI hereby assigns absolutely to the Purchaser with full title
          guarantee all interest and title it may have to the goodwill of the
          Business being 25.87% of the said goodwill.

     3.3  The Consideration shall be left outstanding as a loan from DVI to
          the Purchaser without bearing interest and shall be repayable by the
          Purchaser on demand from DVI.

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4.   ADJUSTMENT
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     4.1  If despite the common intention and understanding of the Parties
          it is at any time hereafter either agreed with the Inland Revenue or
          finally determined (expressly or by implication) by any Court or
          Tribunal that the value attributable to the Transfer Assets is greater
          than the Consideration then the parties agree that:-

          4.1.1  if such greater amount is ascertained or otherwise agreed the
                 Purchaser shall forthwith pay to DVI the amount by which such
                 greater amount exceeds the Consideration; or

          4.1.2  if a lesser amount is ascertained or otherwise agreed DVI shall
                 forthwith reimburse the Purchaser the amount by which such
                 lesser amount is less than the Consideration; or

          4.1.3  if no amount, value or figure is agreed with the Inland Revenue
                 or finally determined by any Court or Tribunal (expressly or by
                 implication) then the calculation of the additional payment to
                 be made hereunder shall be determined by an arbitrator to be
                 appointed by agreement between the parties and in default of
                 agreement by an arbitrator appointed by the President of the
                 Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the amount, value or
                 figure determined finally by the arbitration (after any appeal
                 or appeals) shall be treated as the market value of the
                 Transfer Assets and the Purchaser shall be forthwith pay to DVI
                 the amount by which such greater amount exceeds the
                 Consideration.

5.   VALUE ADDED TAX
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     5.1  DVI and the Purchaser intend that Section 33 of the Value Added
          Tax Act 1983 and Article 5 of the Value Added Tax (Special Provisions)
          Order 1992 shall apply to the sale and purchase of the Business and
          accordingly shall use all reasonable endeavours to secure that
          pursuant to such provisions the sale of the Business hereunder falls
          to be treated as a transfer of a business as a going concern for the
          purposes of value added taxation.

6.   POST-COMPLETION MATTERS
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     6.1  Notwithstanding completion of the sale and purchase hereunder DVI
          shall from time to time execute and do or procure to be executed and
          done all documents acts and things as may be necessary or requisite

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          effectually to vest in the Purchaser the assets hereby agreed to be
          sold and to give to the Purchaser the full benefit of this Agreement.

7.   WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS
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     7.1  Save as set out in the remainder of this clause 7, the Purchaser
          hereby acknowledges that it has entered into this Agreement without
          reliance on any warranty or representation made by DVI other than the
          warranty by DVI (and DVI hereby warrants) that all assets transferred
          hereunder are free from all liens charges and encumbrances and are
          transferred with full title guarantee.

8.   CONTINUING EFFECTS OF THIS AGREEMENT
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     8.1  All provisions of this Agreement shall so far as they are capable
          of being performed or observed continue in full force and effect
          notwithstanding the Transfer Date except in respect of those matters
          then already performed.

     8.2  This Agreement shall be binding on and shall ensure for the
          benefit of each party's successors and assign (as the case may be).

9.   ENTIRE AGREEMENT
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     9.1  This Agreement sets forth the entire agreement and understanding
          between the parties in connection with the Business and the sale and
          purchase described herein.

     9.2  Any controversy or claim of whatever nature arising out of or
          relating to this Agreement or breach thereof shall be governed by and
          construed in accordance with the laws of England and submitted to the
          exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

AS WITNESS the signatures of the duly authorised representations of the parties
the day and year first above written.

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                                   SCHEDULE 1

        Assets being sold (exclusive of assets comprised in Schedule 2)
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
 
 
No.      Assets
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<S>      <C>
1        The goodwill and undertaking of the Business.

2        All Work in Progress.

3        All drawings sketches designs models photographs
         paintings cinematographic films artwork tapes
         scripts videos records including customer and
         supplier records catalogues sales literature
         publicity material accounting and other
         specifications and printed matter or material
         relating to or used in connection with the
         Business whether completed or uncompleted.

4        All Intellectual Property Rights relating to the
         Business.

5        All tangible personal property relating to the
         Business.

6        All customer records.
 
</TABLE>

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                                   SCHEDULE 2

                         Assets excluded from the sale
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1        Cash in hand and at bank.

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EXECUTED as a DEED            )
by DEAN STREET                )
INVESTMENTS B.V.              )
executed by its attorney:-    )    /s/ Gareth Edwards
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EXECUTED as a DEED            )
by COBA CONSULTING            )
LIMITED in the                )
presence of:-                 )    /s/ Richard Peel
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                                   Director



                                   /s/ G.A.G. Studd
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                                   Director/Secretary

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