Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
On October 21, 2009, Ixia, a California corporation ("Ixia" or the
"Company"), entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (the "Asset Purchase
Agreement") with Agilent Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Agilent").
Pursuant to the terms of the Asset Purchase Agreement, the Company and its
affiliates will acquire substantially all of the assets of Agilent and its
affiliates that relate to the design, development, research, manufacture,
supply, distribution, sale, support and maintenance of the Agilent N2X and
Agilent Network Tester products and the provision of services relating to such
products (the "Business"), and assume certain liabilities of Agilent relating to
the Business, for a cash purchase price of $44,075,000, subject to a
post-closing working capital adjustment. The acquisition is scheduled to close
on October 30, 2009, subject to certain customary closing conditions.
Pursuant to the Asset Purchase Agreement, Ixia will offer employment to all
employees of the Business, and Agilent will sublease (or assign leases for)
certain facilities to Ixia. In connection with the Asset Purchase Agreement,
Ixia and Agilent have also entered into a Transition Services Agreement pursuant
to which Agilent will provide to Ixia, for agreed upon fees and beginning on the
date of the closing, certain services through March 31, 2010 and certain other
services through June 30, 2010 (subject to earlier termination by Ixia under
certain circumstances).
The Asset Purchase Agreement contains customary representations, warranties
and covenants. Each party has agreed to indemnify the other for (i) subject to
certain limitations, losses arising out of breaches of representations,
warranties and covenants in the Asset Purchase Agreement and in certain related
documents and (ii) liabilities that, in the case of Ixia, are excluded from the
transaction and, in the case of Agilent, are assumed by Ixia. The Asset Purchase
Agreement contains certain termination rights for both Ixia and Agilent.
The foregoing description of the Asset Purchase Agreement and the
transactions contemplated thereby does not purport to be complete and is
qualified in its entirety by reference to the Asset Purchase Agreement, which is
filed as Exhibit 2.1 hereto and incorporated by reference into this Current
Report on Form 8-K.
Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition
On October 21, 2009, the Company issued a press release regarding the
proposed transaction with Agilent that also included an announcement of the
Company's estimated net revenues for the fiscal third quarter ended
September 30, 2009. A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to
this Current Report on Form 8-K.
The information in this Item 2.02 and in Exhibit 99.1 furnished herewith
shall not be deemed "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or otherwise subject to
the liabilities of that Section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by
reference into any registration statement or other document filed under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act.
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