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Title:

Master Sale and Purchase Agreement

Entities:

Barclays Bank plc; Celanese AG; Imperial Chemical Industries plc; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Date:

2005

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$81

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#1011829

 

 

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Dated: November 23, 2004

 

 

(1) ERGON INVESTMENTS UK LIMITED
   
(2) CELANESE AMERICAS CORPORATION

 

 


MASTER SALE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT
relating to the Vinamul Polymers business of Ergon
Investments UK Limited (and subsidiaries) and the
entire issued share capitals of Vinamul Limited and
Vinamul B.V.

 

 

CONTENTS

Clause Page
     
1. Interpretation 1
2. Sale and purchase of the Business Assets and the Shares and treatment of Shared Assets 38
3. Consideration 40
4. Liabilities 48
5. Release of Guarantees 55
6. Taxation 56
7. Condition 57
8. Obligations until Completion 60
9. Completion 60
10. The Employees 62
11. The Business Contracts 62
12. Pensions and Related Benefits 74
13. Repayment of Debt 74
14. Consents 74
15. Purchaser Warranties 75
16. Warranties 77
17. Indemnification 81
18. Technical Information and ip 83
19. Information Technology 85
20. Further Assurance 85
21. Information, Records and Assistance 86
22. Insurance 89
23. Announcements 90
24. Confidentiality 90
25. Purchaser's Undertakings 93
26. Costs and Exchange Rates, Payments 95
27. Entire Agreement 95
28. No Set-Off 97
29. Continuing Effect 97
30. Invalidity 97
31. Amendments, Variations, Releases and Waivers 98
32. Assignment 98
33. Notices 100
34. Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 101
35. Counterparts 102
36. Law and Jurisdiction 102
37. Acrylate supply for the Business 102

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Schedules
   
1. Conduct of the Business and the Companies until Completion
   
2. Property Matters
  Part 1: General Conditions Business Properties
  Part 2: Special Conditions
  Part 3: List of Business Properties
  Part 4: List of Company Properties
  Part 5: List of Retained Properties
  Part 6: List of Leaseback Properties
  Part 7: Miscellaneous Property Matters
  Part 8: Meredosia Permitted Exceptions
  Part 9: Woodruff Permitted Exceptions
   
3. Completion Arrangements
  Part 1: The Business
  Part 2: The Companies
   
4. Intellectual Property
  Part 1: Logos
  Part 2: ICI Group Standards
  Part 3: Patents forming part of the Excluded IP
  Part 4: Uniqema Patents
   
5. Pensions and Related Benefits
  Part 1: U.S. Pensions
  Part 2: UK Pensions
  Part 3: Canadian Pensions
  Part 4: Dutch Pensions
  Part 5: Rest of the World Pensions
  Annex to Part 1 of Schedule 5 U.S. Actuarial Annex
  Annex to Part 2 of Schedule 5 Letter from Seller's Actuary (UK)
  Annex to Part 3 of Schedule 5 Canadian Actuarial Annex
  Annex to Part 4 of Schedule 5 Letter from Seller's Actuary (Netherlands)
   
6. Warranties
  Part 1: General Warranties (Business and the Companies)
  Part 2: Company specific Warranties
   
7. Provisions Relating to Claims under this Agreement
   
8. Allocation of Consideration
   
9. The Excluded Assets and Excluded Contracts
  Part 1: The Excluded Assets
  Part 2: The Excluded Contracts

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10. Persons of whom enquiry was made relating to the Warranties
   
11. Determination and Certification of Working Capital Adjustment
  Part 1: The Working Capital Statement
  Part 2: Pro Forma Working Capital Statement
   
12. Debt
  Part 1: Closing Net Debt Statement
  Part 2: Repayment of Net Debt
   
13. The Companies
   
14. Exclusive Emulsion Polymers
  Part 1: Adhesives Exclusive Emulsion Polymers
  Part 2: Elotex Exclusive Emulsion Polymers
   
15. Condition
   
16. The Documents in the Agreed Terms
  Part 1: The Transaction Documents
  Part 2: The Ancillary Agreements
  Part 3: Other documents in the Agreed Terms
   
17. The Reorganisation Documents
   
18. Relevant Competition Authorities
   
19. The Employees
  Part 1: Employee Provisions
  Part 2: Intentionally left blank
  Part 3: List of Seconded Employees
  Part 4: The Hot Melt Employees
  Part 5: The Transitional U.S. Employees
  Part 6: The Bridgewater Employees
  Part 7: The Brampton Employees
  Part 8: The European Employees
  Part 9: The Company Employees
  Part 10: The U.S. Employees
  Part 11: The Canadian Employees
  Part 12: The Specified Retained Employees
  Part 13: The Specified Transferring Employees
  Part 14: US Payroll Information
  Part 15: Canadian Payroll Information
  Part 16: European and Company Payroll Information
   
20. Information Technology
   
21. Glossary of defined terms
   
22. Shared Contracts

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  Part 1: Shared Business Contracts
  Part 2: Shared Company Contracts
   
23. No Embarrassment Payment
   
24. Step Up Adjustment
   
25. Acrylate Supply for the Business

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MASTER SALE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT
   
DATE:                            2004
   
PARTIES:  
   

 
(1) ERGON INVESTMENTS UK LIMITED a company incorporated in England and Wales (registered number 02074787) whose registered office is at 20 Manchester Square, London W1U 3AN ("Ergon"); and
   
(2) CELANESE AMERICAS CORPORATION whose principal place of business is at Suite 310, 550 US Highway 202/206, Bedminster, NJ 07921-1590, United States of America (the "Purchaser").
   
BACKGROUND
   
Ergon has agreed to sell and transfer (or procure the sale and transfer of) certain assets comprising the Business as a going concern and to sell and transfer (or procure the sale and transfer of) the Shares, and the Purchaser has agreed to purchase (or procure the purchase by one or more Business Purchaser or Company Purchaser of) the same and to assume (or procure the assumption by one or more Business Purchaser or Company Purchaser of) certain liabilities and other obligations of the Business on the terms of this Agreement.
   
IT IS NOW AGREED THAT:
   
1. INTERPRETATION
   
1.1 Defined Terms
   
  In this Agreement, the following words and expressions shall have the following meanings:
   
  "Adhesives" means the Industrial Adhesives division of NSC;
   
  "Adhesives Exclusive Emulsion Polymers" means Emulsion Polymers which are manufactured exclusively for and sold exclusively to Adhesives (or exclusively for and to both Adhesives and Elotex collectively) or, if they have not been manufactured or sold, which have been or are being developed exclusively for Adhesives (or exclusively for both Adhesives and Elotex collectively) (as evidenced by documentation existing as at the Transfer Time), in each case for use in the manufacture of adhesives, an exhaustive list of which Emulsion Polymers are set out in Part 1 (Adhesives Exclusive Emulsion Polymers) of Schedule 14 (Exclusive Emulsion Polymers);

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