UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 10-Q/A

(Amendment No. 1)

 

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

 

For the quarterly period ended: June 30, 2012

 

¨ TRANSITION REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Commission file number: 000-53223

 

GBS ENTERPRISES INCORPORATED

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Nevada   27-3755055
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)   (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

585 Molly Lane

Woodstock, GA 30189

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(404) 891-1711

Issuer’s telephone number

 

Securities registered under Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class   Name of each exchange on which registered
None   N/A

Securities registered under Section 12(g) of the Act:

 

Common Stock, $0.001 par value

(Title of class)

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.

 

Yes ¨ No x

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.

 

Yes ¨ No  x

 

Note - Checking the box above will not relieve any registrant required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act from their obligations under those Sections.

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

 

Yes  x No ¨

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 229.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).

 

Yes x No   ¨

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange ct. (Check one):

 

Large accelerated filer  ¨ Accelerated filer  ¨
   
Non-accelerated filer   ¨ (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) Smaller reporting company  x

 

Indicate by checkmark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act).

 

Yes   ¨ No x

 

APPLICABLE ONLY TO CORPORATE REGISTRANTS

 

Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the registrant’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date. As of September 11, 2012, there were 29,431,664 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Registrant issued and outstanding.

 

 
 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

GBS Enterprises Incorporated, a Nevada corporation (the “Company”), is filing this Amendment No. 1 (this “Amendment No. 1”) to its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2012 (the “Form 10-Q”), originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 20, 2012, for the following purposes:

 

1. Updating Note 21 and the addition of Note 22 to the Company’s Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements contained in Part I. Item 1. Financial Information;
2. Updating information in Part I, Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations pertaining to the Company’s sale of SD Holdings Ltd., Synaptris and Synaptris India to Lotus Holdings Ltd.;
3. Amending Part I. Item 4. Controls and Procedures to state that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were not effective at June 30, 2012;
4. Updating information Part II. Item 5. Other Information pertaining to Subsequent Events; and
5. Furnishing the Interactive Data File with detailed note tagging as Exhibit 101 to the Form 10-Q in accordance with Rule 405 of Regulation S-T. Exhibit 101 provides the financial statements and related notes in the Form 10-Q formatted in XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language).

 

Other than the foregoing, no additional material changes have been made to the Company’s Form 10-Q. This Amendment No. 1 to the Form 10-Q speaks as of the original filing date of the Form 10-Q, does not reflect events that may have occurred subsequent to the original filing date and does not modify or update in any way disclosures made in the original Form 10-Q.

 

The Company is also filing updated Exhibits 31 and 32 to this Amendment No. 1.

 

Pursuant to Rule 406T of Regulation S-T, the interactive data files on Exhibit 101 hereto are deemed not filed or part of a registration statement or prospectus for purposes of Sections 11 or 12 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, are deemed not filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and otherwise are not subject to liability under those sections.

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

    Page No:
  PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION  
Item 1. Consolidated Financial Statements 4
  Balance Sheet 5
  Statement of Operations 6
  Statement of Cash Flows 7
  Notes to the Financial Statements 8
Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations 44
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk  
Item 4. Controls and Procedures 58
     
  PART II - OTHER INFORMATION  
Item 1. Legal Proceedings  
Item 1A.     Risk Factors  
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds  
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities  
Item 4. [Removed and Reserved by the Securities and Exchange Commission]  
Item 5. Other Information 58
Item 6. Exhibits 59
Signatures   60

 

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PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Item 1.         Financial Statements

 

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Interim Consolidated Financial Statements

 

June 30, 2012

 

(Unaudited)

 

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GBS Enterprises Incorporated

Interim Consolidated Balance Sheets

June 30, 2012 and March 31, 2012

(Unaudited)

 

    June 30, 2012     March 31, 2012  
    $     $  
Assets                
Current Assets                
Cash and cash equivalents - Note 6     1,357,487       1,502,977  
Accounts Receivable - Note 7     8,228,657       4,936,887  
Inventories - Note 3     121,880       236,712  
Prepaid expenses - Note 8     541,813       459,363  
Other receivables - Note 9     915,795       1,474,929  
Assets held for Sale     -       24,107  
Total current assets     11,165,632       8,634,975  
                 
Property, plant and equipment - Note 10     1,690,843       1,597,326  
Financial assets - Note 11     938,243       1,998,194  
Investment in related company, at equity - Note 5     265,438       244,219  
Deferred tax assets     4,588,618       3,945,272  
Goodwill - Note 12     35,210,705       39,744,686  
Software - Note 13     14,195,605       14,039,149  
Other assets - Note 14     96,070       246,140  
Total non-current assets     56,985,522       61,814,986  
                 
Total assets     68,151,154       70,449,961  
                 
Liabilities and stockholders' equity                
Current liabilities                
Notes payable     -       1,381,821  
Liabilities to banks - Note 15     11,270       19,651  
Accounts payables and accrued liabilities - Note 16     5,533,048       5,919,788  
Deferred income - Note 18     10,598,489       6,421,502  
Other liabilities - Note 17     3,157,050       4,237,071  
Due to related parties     569,391       1,175,103  
Total current liabilities     19,869,247       19,154,936  
                 
Liabilities to banks - Note 19     3,886,791       3,463,483  
Deferred tax liabilities     1,169,549       1,196,472  
Retirement benefit obligation     155,157       150,632  
Other liabilities - Note 20     117,713       2,906,238  
Total non-current liabilities     5,329,210       7,716,825  
                 
Total liabilities     25,198,457       26,871,761  
                 
Stockholders' equity                
Capital stock - Note 21                
Authorized:                
75,000,000 common shares of $.001 par value each                
25,000,000 peferred shares of $.001 par value each                
Outstanding and Issued:                
29,431,664  common stock (March 31, 2012: 28,211,664)     29,432       28,212  
Additional paid in capital     49,346,693       47,902,913  
Accumulated deficit     (13,922,428 )     (12,970,652 )
Other comprehensive income     251,248       476,773  
Subscriptions received - Note 22     44,485          
                 
      35,749,430       35,437,246  
Noncontrolling interest in subsidiaries     7,203,266       8,140,954  
                 
Total stockholders' equity     42,952,696       43,578,200  
                 
Total stockholders' equity and liabilities     68,151,154       70,449,961  
                 
Supplemental Cash Flow Disclosures - Note 25                
Subsequent events - Note 26                

 

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GBS Enterprises Incorporated

Interim Consolidated Statements of Operations

For the three months Ended June 30, 2012 and June 30, 2011

(Unaudited)

 

    For the three months  
    Ended June 30  
    2012     2011  
    $     $  
               
Revenues - Note 23                
Products     2,939,070       1,796,151  
Services     5,369,581       3,880,279  
      8,308,651       5,676,430  
Cost of goods sold                
Products     2,533,513       721,901  
Services     2,539,574       1,867,447  
      5,073,087       2,589,348  
Gross profit     3,235,563       3,087,082  
                 
Operating expenses                
Selling expenses     4,455,119       3,663,474  
Administrative expenses     1,278,377       1,499,856  
General expenses     156,703       202,304  
      5,890,200       5,365,634  
                 
Operating income     (2,654,637 )     (2,278,553 )
                 
Other Income (expense) - Note 24                
Other Income (expense)     76,619       (658,569 )
Interest income     1,299       11,382  
Interest expense     (47,136 )     (98,301 )
      30,781       (745,488 )
                 
Income (loss) before income taxes     (2,623,856 )     (3,024,040 )
                 
Income tax (income) expense     (659,341 )     (1,036,877 )
                 
Net income (loss)     (1,964,515 )     (1,987,163 )
Net income (loss) attributable to non controlling interest     (1,012,739 )     (172,271 )
                 
Net income (loss) attributable to stockholders     (951,776 )     (1,814,893 )
                 
Other comprehensive income (loss)     150,474       814,568  
Other comprehensive income  (loss) attributable to non noncontrolling interest     75,051       406,469  
Other comprehensive income (loss) attributable to stockholders     75,423       408,099  
Net income (loss) and comprehensive income (loss) attributed to stockholders     (876,353 )     (1,406,794 )
                 
Net earnings (loss) per share, basic and diluted   $ (0.03 )     (0.509 )
                 
Weighted Average number of common shares, basic and diluted     29,064,851       24,847,525  

 

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GBS Enterprises Incorporated

Interim Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

For the three months ended June 30, 2012 and June 30, 2011

(Unaudited)

 

    June 30, 2012     June 30, 2011  
    $     $  
             
Cash flow from operating activties                
Net loss / net income     (1,964,515 )     (1,987,163 )
Adjustments                
Deferred income taxes     (616,488 )     (1,051,345 )
Depreciation and amortization     1,206,410       1,030,391  
Write-down of Goodwill and Intangibles                
Gains from equity investment     (21,219 )     -  
Loss (Gain) on Sale of Assets     (89,979 )     0  
Changes in operating assets and liabilities             -  
Accounts receivable and other assets     (2,932,889 )     1,705,817  
Other Assets     150,070       (4,915 )
Inventories     114,832       -  
Accounts payable and other liabilities     1,170,667       2,270,840  
                 
Net cash provided (used) by operating activities     (2,983,110 )     1,963,625  
                 
Cash flow from investing activties                
(Purchase) Sale of intangible assets     1,797,868       (847,722 )
(Purchase) Sale of property, plant and equipment     (310,721 )     (64,164 )
(Purchase) Sale of Subsidiaries             (600,000 )
Proceeds from Sale of Subsidiaries             -  
(Increase) Decrease in Financial assets     1,906,066       (1,246,776 )
                 
Net cash provided (used) in investing activities     3,393,214       (2,758,662 )
                 
Cash flow from financing activties                
Net borrowings - banks     (394,814 )     (780,277 )
Other borrowings     (1,622,371 )     (340,735 )
Capital paid-in     224,485       -  
Loans from related party     1,271,520       -  
                 
Net cash provided (used) in financing activities     (521,180 )     (1,121,012 )
                 
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash     (34,414 )     191,125  
                 
Net increase (decrease) in cash     (145,490 )     (1,724,924 )
Cash and cash equivalents - Beginning of the year     1,502,977       8,530,864  
                 
Cash and cash equivalents - End of year     1,357,487       6,805,940  

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Note 1 INTERIM REPORTING

 

The accompanying unaudited interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for interim financial statements prepared under the accrual basis of accounting in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. They do not include all information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete financial statements. However, except as disclosed herein, they include all adjustments, which are, in the opinion of management, necessary to present fairly the financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the interim periods presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These interim financial statements follow the same accounting policies and methods of their application as the Company’s audited March 31, 2012 financial statements. All adjustments are of a normal recurring nature. It is suggested that these interim financial statements be read in conjunction with the Company’s March 31, 2012 financial statements.

 

Operating results for the three months ended June 30, 2012 are not necessarily indicative of the results that can be expected for the year ending March 31, 2013.

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Note 2 COMPANY AND BACKROUND

 

GBS Enterprises Incorporated, a Nevada corporation, through its subsidiaries, is a global provider of technology solutions for businesses and government agencies. We focus on developing and delivering solutions that help our customers to gain value and reduce cost in the development, deployment and management of the applications used in the course of conducting their business (“business applications”). We do this by building software and providing services that aid in:

 

Information Technology (“IT”) systems analysis, planning and management;
Automating business processes;
Optimizing system and application performance;
Ensuring the security and compliance of systems, applications and processes; and
Migrating and integrating systems, applications and processes.

 

Our customers include corporate and government IT departments, solutions integrators (“SIs”) and independent software vendors (“ISVs”). Our corporate customers are from a variety of industries, including insurance, financial services, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, and education. The install-base of our software products spans more than 5,000,000 users in 38 countries on four continents. We principally market and sell our products and services directly in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Nordics and India; and indirectly through local distributors and resellers representing Australia, South America and regionally in Europe.

 

Our software and services are designed to mainly serve organizations that have investments in IBM’s Lotus® Notes and Domino platform. The IBM Lotus® Notes and Domino platform is both a system for enterprise email as well as an application platform, meaning that it can be used as both an email system and an environment in which business applications can be deployed and used. This platform was originally brought to market by Lotus Development Corp. in 1989, and was subsequently acquired by IBM in 1995. According to IBM, there were 145 million licenses sold worldwide for Lotus Notes through 2008 (Source: “Global Businesses Choosing Lotus Software” IBM Press Release January 15, 2009).

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

During the last five years, we, through our subsidiaries, have executed our strategy to acquire companies which have developed software and specialized services for the Lotus Notes and Domino market. This growth by acquisition strategy has resulted in less competition for our software products; a large concentration of highly skilled employees with unique expertise in the area of Lotus Notes and Domino; staff and physical offices on three continents providing greater access to a global market; significant market awareness and greater market share amongst organizations that use Lotus Notes and Domino; and a comprehensive portfolio of solutions specific to the needs and requirements of organizations which use Lotus Notes and Domino.

 

While our products and services remain in use and demand, over the last several years, the market itself has been undergoing a paradigm shift. New technologies, especially in the areas of Cloud Computing and Mobile applications, have grown in popularity due to the potential cost savings and operational efficiencies they can offer. As organizations make investments in these new technologies, they are faced with highly complex and costly projects to migrate (“migration”) or replace their existing systems that don’t operate in the cloud or on mobile devices (“modernization”) – this includes their existing email and business applications that run on Lotus Notes and Domino.

 

To that end, we have acquired and developed technologies that help organizations reduce the time, cost, resources and risks associated with these highly complex migration and modernization projects.

 

General Corporate History

 

We were incorporated in Nevada on March 20, 2007 as SWAV Enterprises Ltd. (“SWAV”). SWAV was an importer and wholesaler of Chinese manufactured goods.

 

On April 26, 2010, SWAV purchased certain technology assets of Lotus Holdings Ltd. (“Lotus”) pursuant to an Asset Purchase Agreement in consideration for aggregate of 2,265,240 shares of SWAV common stock. Also on April 26, 2010, Lotus (on behalf of the SPPEF Members as discussed below) purchased an aggregate of 11,984,770 of the outstanding shares of common stock from the selling shareholders of SWAV in consideration for an aggregate purchase price of $370,000. As a result of the two sets of transactions, Lotus owned an aggregate of 14,250,010 shares of common stock of SWAV, representing approximately 95.0% of the 15,000,000 shares of SWAV common stock outstanding on April 26, 2010.

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

On September 6, 2010, SWAV’s name was changed to GBS Enterprises Incorporated. On October 14, 2010, the Company’s trading symbol on the OTC Bulletin Board was changed from SWAV to GBSX.

 

About Lotus Holdings, Ltd.

 

Lotus is a holding company which was formed under the laws of Gibraltar for the purpose of financing merger and acquisition projects, specifically in the niche market of small or microcap companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange with complex shareholder structures and whose stock is trading below one Euro (€1.00) per share.

 

SPPEFs

 

Lotus typically finances its merger and acquisition projects through the use of Special Purpose Private Equity Funds (“SPPEFs”). Typically, SPPEFs are funded by a company’s major shareholders (the “Major Shareholders”) seeking to raise capital for projects and who fund at least 50% of the SPPEF, with the remaining portion being provided through the investment community and network of investors in Lotus. Each SPPEF is co-managed by a representative of the company’s Major Shareholders (the “Representative Secretary”) and an attorney appointed by Lotus (the “Lotus Representative”).

 

On February 25, 2010, a group of shareholders (the “GROUP Major Shareholders”) of GROUP Business Software AG, a German public company trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol “INW” (“GROUP”), engaged Lotus to provide financial consulting and advisory services, on a non-exclusive basis, for the primary task of establishing a SPPEF. On March 12, 2010, the GROUP Major Shareholders and Lotus established and funded a SPPEF with $1,400,000, consisting of $1,000,000 from the GROUP Major Shareholders and $400,000 from a Lotus investor (collectively, the “SPPEF Members”).

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

In early April 2010, the SPPEF Members decided to acquire SWAV. As disclosed above, on April 26, 2010, Lotus, on behalf of the SPPEF Members, acquired an aggregate of 11,984,770 shares of SWAV common stock from the selling shareholders of SWAV for an aggregate purchase price of $370,000. The 11,984,770 shares of SWAV common stock shares represented approximately 79.9% of the 15,000,000 outstanding shares of SWAV common stock on April 26, 2010. Upon the consummation of the acquisition, the then executive officers and directors of SWAV resigned and Mr. Joerg Ott, the Chief Executive Officer of GROUP and a GROUP Major Shareholder, was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of SWAV and sole member of SWAV’s Board of Directors.

 

Transactions following the acquisition

 

On November 1, 2010, the Company repurchased an aggregate of 3,043,985 of the 11,984,770 shares of the Company’s common stock originally purchased by Lotus on April 26, 2010. In consideration for the 3,043,985 shares of the Company’s common stock, the Company issued to Lotus a Secured Demand Note, dated November 1, 2010 (the “First Demand Note”), for the principal amount of $300,000 bearing interest at the rate of 5% per annum. The First Demand Note was repaid in September 2011.

 

Effective December 30, 2010, pursuant to securities purchase agreements between the Company and six GROUP Major Shareholders, the Company purchased an aggregate of 7,115,500 shares of GROUP common stock from the six GROUP Major Shareholders in consideration for an aggregate for 3,043,985 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “December Transaction”). As a result the Company owned approximately 28.2% of the outstanding common stock of GROUP.

 

Reverse Merger

 

After the December Transaction was completed, the additional GROUP Major Shareholders decided to accept the share swap offer from the Company and to effectuate a reverse merger of GROUP and the Company. To effectuate the reverse merger, on January 5, 2011, the Company repurchased from Lotus an aggregate of 2,361,426 of the 11,984,770 shares of the Company’s common stock originally purchased by Lotus on April 26, 2010. In consideration for these 2,361,426 shares, the Company issued to Lotus a Secured Demand Note, dated January 5, 2011 (the “Second Demand Note”), for the principal amount of $200,000 bearing interest at the rate of 5% per annum. The Second Demand Note was repaid in November 2011.

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Effective January 6, 2011, pursuant to securities purchase agreements between the Company and the remaining GROUP Major Shareholders, the Company purchased an aggregate of 5,525,735 shares of GROUP common stock from the remaining GROUP Major Shareholders in consideration for an aggregate of 2,361,426 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “January Transaction”). The 5,525,735 GROUP shares represented approximately 21.9% of the outstanding shares of common stock of GROUP. As a result of the December Transaction and January Transaction, the Company purchased an aggregate of 12,641,235 shares of GROUP from the GROUP Major Shareholders in consideration for an aggregate of 5,405,411 shares of the Company’s common stock, resulting in the Company owning approximately 50.1% of the outstanding common stock of GROUP and effectuating a reverse merger of the Company and GROUP whereby GROUP became the accounting acquirer.

 

Additional Acquisition

 

On February 27, 2012, the Company acquired an additional 883,765 shares of common stock of GROUP to maintain its 50.1% ownership of GROUP. On February 27, 2012, an outstanding loan of GROUP was converted into an aggregate of 1,750,000 shares of GROUP common stock, thereby increasing GROUP’s outstanding common stock to 26,982,000 shares. As a result of the foregoing increase in the number of outstanding shares of GROUP common stock, the Company increased its ownership of GROUP common stock to an aggregate of 13,525,000 shares, representing approximately 50.1% of the outstanding common stock of GROUP. The Company purchased the 883,765 shares of GROUP common stock from GAVF LLC for an average purchase price of $0.70 per share, or approximately $619,000.

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Acquisitions of Subsidiary Companies

 

Pavone AG

 

Effective April 1, 2011, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding common shares of Pavone AG, a German corporation, for $350,000 in cash and 1,000,000 shares of its common stock. The fair value of the common stock was determined to be $4.90 per share, representing the market value at the end of trading on the date of the acquisition. The total value of the investment, including the assumption of $ 583,991 in debt was $5,843,991. Pavone’s extensive workflow software for Lotus Notes and Domino along with their large customer base is well suited to GBS Enterprises portfolio strategy. The acquisition of Pavone complements GBS's majority ownership in GROUP and the Company believes that it further strengthens their leading industry position on the IBM Lotus Platforms and expands their cloud computing technology offerings beyond the IBM Lotus market. Pavone currently has offices in Germany and the UK. They have over 2,500 customers and over 150,000 users worldwide.

 

GroupWare, Inc.

 

Effective June 1, 2011, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding common shares of GroupWare, Inc., a Florida corporation (“GroupWare”). As consideration the Company paid $250,000 and issued 250,000 shares of its common stock. The fair value of the common stock was determined to be $4.34 per share, representing the market value at the end of trading on the date of the acquisition. The total value of the investment, including the assumption of $ 694,617 in debt was $ 2,029,617. Upon the consummation of the acquisition, the management and board of GroupWare resigned and Joerg Ott, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and sole director, was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer and sole director of GroupWare. GroupWare is based in Lubeck, Germany with offices in St. Petersburg, Florida. GroupWare's ePDF server delivers centralized, network-wide PDF solutions for messaging, workflow, document, content and data management. The Company believes that the acquisition strengthens the GBS Transformer offering, which helps bring IBM Lotus Notes client applications to the web, by substituting traditional printing methods provided by the Notes client with simple-to-use print-to-PDF capabilities in the browser. In addition, GroupWare provides a solution for applications that are ready to be retired. With the ePDF Server, GBS customers can convert the entire contents of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino applications to a permanent and secure archive in PDF or PDF/A format, while preserving their ability to be full-text searched and ensuring that the critical application data is accessible in the future, when needed. GBS will deliver the application archiving capabilities via its GroupLive cloud, making it possible for customers and partners to take advantage of elastic cloud computing resources to rapidly process the application contents without the need to dedicate hardware on-site for temporary or intermittent processing jobs.

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

IDC Global, Inc.

 

On July 25, 2011, the Company acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of IDC Global, Inc. (IDC”), a Delaware corporation with data centers in Chicago, New York, London and Frankfurt.. Pursuant to the acquisition agreement of July 15, 2011, the Company agreed to issue the shareholders an aggregate of 800,000 shares of common stock and make a cash payment of $750,000. The agreement required an additional payment to the management shareholders of 80,000 shares of common stock and signing bonuses to personnel of $35,000. The Company also agreed to reimburse IDC up to $25,000 for incurred accounting and legal fees related to the transaction. The fair value of the common stock was determined to be $3.70 per share, representing the market value at the end of trading on the date of the agreement. The total value of the investment including debt assumption of $883,005 was $4,066,000. IDC is a privately held company that provides nationwide network and data center services. IDC delivers customized, high availability technology solutions for WAN, Wireless Services, Co-location & Hosting, Managed Services, and Network Security. IDC is helping customers make the transition from large, static and expensive on-premise computing to dynamic, flexible and cost-effective off-premise computing. The Company believes that the acquisition of IDC provides it with the infrastructure needed to provide a comprehensive end-to-end solution for all customers regardless of their platform, and that it will prove to be especially beneficial to IBM Lotus Domino and Notes customers who finally have the same options as other platforms.

 

SD Holdings, Ltd.

 

On September 27, 2011, the Company entered into an acquisition agreement with SD Holdings, Ltd. (“SYN”), a Mauritius corporation, and the shareholders of SYN owning 100% of issued and outstanding shares of SYN. SYN owns 100% of all issued and outstanding shares of Synaptris, Inc., a California corporation (“Synaptris”), and 100% of all issued and outstanding shares of Synaptris Decisions Private Limited, a company formed in India (“Synaptris India”). Pursuant to the acquisition agreement, the Company purchased one hundred percent (100%) of the issued and outstanding shares of SYN (“SYN Shares”) effective November 1, 2011 in consideration for $525,529 and agreed to issue 700,000 shares of common stock, subject to adjustment. Actual shares issued were 612,874. The fair value of the common stock was determined to be $2.05 per share, representing the market value at the end of trading on the date of the agreement.

 

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June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Subsequent Sale of SD Holdings, Ltd. (SYN)

 

On April 1, 2012, the Company sold SYN, Synaptris and Synaptris India for $1,877,232 in a restructuring of its subsidiaries to simplify the multilevel structure derived from the historical mergers and acquisitions, and to reduce overhead and administrative costs. The details of the following restructure are detailed within Subsequent Events as they occurred outside of this financial statement date.

 

Note 3 ACCOUNTING POLICIES

 

The financial statements and accompanying notes are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, the more significant of which are as follows:

 

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

Segment Reporting

 

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) authoritative guidance regarding segment reporting establishes standards for the way that public business enterprises report information about operating segments in annual financial statements and requires that those enterprises report selected information about operating segments in interim financial reports. It also establishes standards for related disclosures about products and services, geographic areas and major customers. The Company has determined that it operates in only one segment – the development and maintenance of computer software programs and support products.

 

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June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Comprehensive Income (Loss)

 

The Company adopted the FASB Codification topic (“ASC”) 220, “Reporting Comprehensive Income”, which establishes standards for the reporting and display of comprehensive income and its components in the financial statements. Comprehensive income consists of net income and other gains and losses affecting stockholder's equity that are excluded from net income, such as unrealized gains and losses on investments available for sale, foreign currency translation gains and losses and minimum pension liability. Since inception, the Company’s other comprehensive income represents foreign currency translation adjustments and small net actuarial losses on pension plans.

 

Net Income per Common Share

 

ASC 260, “Earnings per share”, requires dual presentation of basic and diluted earnings per share (EPS) with a reconciliation of the numerator and denominator of the EPS computations. Basic earnings per share amounts are based on the weighted average shares of common stock outstanding. If applicable, diluted earnings per share would assume the conversion, exercise or issuance of all potential common stock instruments such as options, warrants and convertible securities, unless the effect is to reduce a loss or increase earnings per share. Diluted net income (loss) per share on the potential exercise of the equity-based financial instruments is not presented where anti-dilutive. Accordingly, although the diluted weighted average number of common stock outstanding is disclosed on the statements of operation, the calculated net loss per share is the same for both the basic and diluted as both are based on the basic weighted average of common stock outstanding. There were no adjustments required to net income for the period presented in the computation of diluted earnings per share.

 

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June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Financial Instruments

 

Financial instruments consist of cash and cash equivalents, accounts and other receivable, financial assets, notes payable, liabilities to banks, accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities, due to related parties and retirement benefit obligations. Financial assets and liabilities are measured upon first recognition and reviewed at the financial statement date. Changes in fair value are recognized through profit and loss. Unless otherwise noted, it is management’s opinion that the Company is not exposed to significant interest or credit risks arising from these financial instruments.

 

Currency Risk

 

We use the US dollar as our reporting currency. The functional currencies of our significant foreign subsidiaries are the local currency, which includes the Euro, the British pound and the Bulgarian Lev. . Accordingly, some assets and liabilities are incurred in those currency and we are subject to foreign currency risks.

 

Fair Value Measurements

 

The Company follows ASC 820, “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures”, for all financial instruments and non-financial instruments accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis. This new accounting standard establishes a single definition of fair value and a framework for measuring fair value, sets out a fair value hierarchy to be used to classify the source of information used in fair value measurement and expands disclosures about fair value measurements required under other accounting pronouncements. It does not change existing guidance as to whether or not an instrument is carried at fair value. The Company defines fair value as the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. When determining the fair value measurements for assets and liabilities, which are required to be recorded at fair value, the Company considers the principal or most advantageous market in which the Company would transact and the market-based risk measurements or assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability, such as inherent risk, transfer restrictions and credit risk.

 

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June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

The Company has adopted ASC 825, Financial Instruments, which allows companies to choose to measure eligible financial instruments and certain other items at fair value that are not required to be measured at fair value. The Company has not elected the fair value option for any eligible financial instruments.

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

The Company considers all highly liquid instruments with a maturity of three months or less at the time of issuance to be cash equivalents.

 

Inventories

 

Pursuant to ASC 330 (Inventories), inventories held for sale are recognized under inventories. Inventories were measured at the lower of cost or market. Cost is determined on a first-in-first out basis, without any overhead component.

 

Goodwill and other Intangible Assets

 

Intangible assets predominately comprise goodwill, acquired software and capitalized software development services. Intangible assets acquired in exchange for payment are reflected as acquisition costs. If the development costs can be capitalized per ASC 985-20-25, these are reflected as ascribable personnel and overhead costs.

 

Company created software can be intended for sale to third parties or used by the Company itself. If the conditions for capitalization are not met, the expenses are recorded with their effect on profit in the year in which they were incurred.

 

The Company amortizes intangible assets with a limited useful life to the estimated residual book value in accordance with ASC regulations. In addition, in special circumstances according to ASC 350-30, a recoverability test is performed and, if applicable, unscheduled amortization is considered.

 

The useful life of acquired software is between three and five years and three years for Company created software.

 

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June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Intangible assets obtained as part of an acquisition which do not meet the criteria for a separate entry are identified as goodwill. Goodwill is reviewed once a year during an impairment test, whereby the appraised fair value of the invested capital of the reporting unit, is compared with the carrying (book) value of its invested capital amount (including goodwill.) Use value is generally applied in order to determine the recoverability of goodwill and intangible assets with an indefinite useful life. The projected financial plan prepared by the management serves as the basis for this determination of use value and the planning assumptions are each adjusted for the current state of knowledge. Reasonable assumptions regarding macroeconomic trends and historical developments are taken into account in making these adjustments. Future estimated cash flows are determined based on the expected growth rates of the markets in question.

 

If the carrying amount of the reporting unit exceeds the appraised fair value, the impairment based on use value measures the amount of loss, if any, and an unscheduled amortization expense is recorded. If the appraised value of the reporting unit exceeds its carrying amount, goodwill of the reporting unit is not considered to be impaired.

 

Property, Plant and Equipment

 

Property, plant and equipment are valued at acquisition or manufacturing costs reduced by scheduled and, if necessary, unscheduled depreciation. Fixed assets are depreciated on a straight-line basis, prorated over their expected useful life. Scheduled depreciation for property, plant and equipment is based on useful lives of 3 to 10 years. Leasehold Improvements are depreciated up to 40 years.

 

If fixed assets are sold, retired or scrapped, the profit or loss arising from the difference between the net sales proceeds and the residual book value are included under other operating earnings and expenses.

 

Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets

 

The Company evaluates the recoverability of its fixed assets and other assets in accordance with ASC topic, 360.10. This guidance requires recognition of impairment of long-lived assets in the event the net book value of such assets exceeds its’ expected cash flows or appraised value In this instance, the asset is considered to be impaired and is written down to fair value.

 

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June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Revenue Recognition

 

Sources of Revenues:

 

License revenues

 

Our license revenues consist of revenues earned from the licensing of our software products. These products are generally licensed on a perpetual basis. Pricing models have generally been based either upon the physical infrastructure, such as the number of physical desktop computers or servers, on which our software runs or on a per user basis. License revenues are recognized when the elements of revenue recognition for the licensed software are complete, generally upon electronic shipment of the software and the software key to provide full access to all functionalities for our customers. In general, our invoices reflect license, service and maintenance components. In the case of multi element contracts, the revenues allocated to the software license represent the residual amount of the contract after the fair value of the other elements has been determined. Certain products of our software offering are licensed on a subscription basis.

 

Software maintenance revenues

 

Software maintenance revenues are recognized ratably on a pro-rata basis over the range of the contract period. Our contract periods typically range from one to five years. Vendor-specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) of fair value for software maintenance services is established by the rates charged in stand-alone sales of software maintenance contracts or the stated renewal rate for software maintenance. Customers who are party to software maintenance agreements with us are entitled to receive support, product updates and upgrades on a when-and-if-available basis.

 

Professional services revenues

 

Professional services include pre-project consulting, software design, customization, project management, implementation and training. Professional services are not considered essential to the functionality of our products, as these services do not alter the product capabilities and may be performed by our customers or by other vendors. Professional services engagements performed for a fixed fee, for which we are able to make reasonably dependable estimates of progress toward completion, are recognized on a proportional performance basis based on hours incurred and estimated hours of completion. Professional services engagements that are on a time and materials basis are recognized based on hours incurred. Revenues on all other professional services engagements are recognized upon completion. Our professional services may be sold with software products or on a stand-alone basis. Vendor Specific Objective Evidence (VSOE) of fair value for professional services is based upon the standard rates we charge for such services when sold separately.

 

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June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Foreign Currency Translation

 

The functional currency of the Company is US dollars. For financial reporting purposes, the financial statements of the subsidiary companies whose functional currency is other than US dollars were translated into US dollars using the current rate method. Assets and liabilities were translated at the exchange rates at the balance sheet dates, revenue and expenses were translated at the average exchange rates and stockholders’ equity was translated at historical exchange rates. Any translation adjustments resulting are not included in determining net income but are included in foreign exchange adjustment to other comprehensive income, a component of stockholders’ equity .

 

Other Provisions

 

According to FASB ASC 450 “Contingencies”, provisions are made whenever there is a current obligation to third parties resulting from a past event which is likely in the future to lead to an outflow of resources and of which the amount can be reliably estimated. Provisions not already resulting in an outflow of resources in the following year are recognized at their discounted settlement amount on the financial statement date. The discount taken is based on market interest rates. The settlement amount also includes the expected cost increases. Provisions are not set off against contribution claims. If the amended estimate leads to a reduction of the obligatory amount, the provision is proportionally reversed and the earnings are recognized in other operating earnings.

 

Deferred Taxes

 

Income taxes are provided in accordance with FASB Codification topic 740, “Accounting for Income Taxes”. A deferred tax asset or liability is recorded for all temporary differences between financial and tax reporting and net operating loss-carry forwards.

 

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June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Deferred tax assets are reduced by a valuation allowance when, in the opinion of management, it is more likely than not that, that some portion or all of the deferred tax asset will not be realized. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are adjusted for the effect of changes in tax laws and rates on the date of enactment.

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

In July 2012, the FASB issued ASU 2011-08, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Testing Goodwill for Impairment. With the objective of reducing the cost and complexity of performing an impairment test for indefinite-lived intangible assets by simplifying how an entity tests those assets for impairment and to improve consistency in impairment testing guidance among long-loved asset categories. The amendments permit an entity first to assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that an indefinite-lived intangible asset is impaired as a basis for determining whether it is necessary to perform the quantitative impairment test in accordance with Subtopic 350-30, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other – General Intangibles Other than Goodwill. The more-likely-than-not threshold is defined as having the likelihood of more than 50 percent. The amendments are effective for annual and interim impairment tests performed beginning April 1, 2013. Adoption of this new standard is not expected to have significant impact to the Company’s financial statement.

 

Off - Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

We have not entered into any other financial guarantees or other commitments to guarantee the payment obligations of any third parties. We have not entered into any derivative contracts that are indexed to our shares and classified as shareholder’s equity or that are not reflected in our consolidated financial statements. Furthermore, we do not have any retained or contingent interest in assets transferred to an unconsolidated entity that serves as credit, liquidity or market risk support to such entity. We do not have any variable interest in any unconsolidated entity that provides financing, liquidity, market risk or credit support to us or engages in leasing, hedging or research and development services with us.

 

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June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Principles of Consolidation and Reverse Acquisition

 

As previously disclosed, the Company has exchanged a total of 5,405,411 shares of common stock in exchange for 50.1% of the outstanding common shares of GROUP. Although the Company was the legal acquirer, the transaction was accounted for as a recapitalization of GROUP in the form of a reverse merger, whereby GROUP becomes the accounting acquirer and is deemed to have retroactively adopted the capital structure of the Corporation. Accordingly, the accompanying consolidated financial statements reflect the historical consolidated financial statements of GROUP for periods presented prior to January 6, 2011. All costs associated with the reverse merger transaction were expensed as incurred. Those expenses totaled approximately $300,000 and were included in professional fees in administrative expenses.

 

The Company has based its financial reporting for the consolidation with GROUP in accordance with the FASB ASC 805-40 as it relates to reverse acquisitions. Goodwill has been measured as the excess of the fair value of the consideration effectively transferred by the Company, the acquire, for financial reporting purposes, over the net amount of the Company’s recognized identifiable assets and liabilities.

 

We have recorded the acquired assets and liabilities of Group Business Software Enterprises, Inc. on the acquisition date of January 6, 2011, at their fair value and the operations of Group Business Software Enterprises, Inc. have been included in the consolidated financial statements since the acquisition date.

 

The assets and liabilities of GROUP, the acquirer for financial reporting purposes, are measured and recognized in the consolidated financial statements at their precombination carrying amounts in accordance with ASC 805-40-45-2(a). Therefore, the non-controlling interest reflects the non-controlling shareholders’ proportionate interest in the pre-combination carrying amounts of GROUP’s net assets even though the non-controlling interests in other acquisitions are measured at their fair values at the acquisition date.

 

The purpose of the acquisition was to allow GROUP easier access to American financial markets. Goodwill recognized of $8,705,528 was recorded upon consolidation and was calculated as the value of the consideration given less the value of the asset received. The resulting goodwill represents the benefit to be gained by gaining entry into American financial markets.

 

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June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Fiscal year-end reporting

 

The Company has a March 31 year-end. As noted in General Corporate History above, GROUP is a publicly traded company on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. It has always reported on that exchange using a December 31 year-end reporting date. The Company’s other subsidiary companies also have December 31 year-ends. The consolidation of these entities for financial reporting purposes for the Company’s June 30, 2012 quarter end has been performed without any adjustments for timing differences between these two reporting dates in accordance Regulation S-X Rule 3A-02 (the ‘93 day rule”). Intervening events which materially affect the financial position or results of operations have been recognized.

 

Note 4 SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES

 

The subsidiaries listed below were included in the basis of consolidation:

 

      Stockholders'             Profit    
      Equity     Percentage of     of the     Date
      as of
06.30.12
    Subscribed
Capital
    consolidated
quarter
    of the
First
  Headquarters   KUSD     KUSD     in %     KUSD     Consolidation
ebVOKUS Software GmbH   Dresden   351     54     50.1 %   -58     01/11/2005
GROUP Business Software (UK) Ltd.   Manchester     -1,290       23       50.1 %     -28     12/31/2005
GROUP Business Software Corp.   Woodstock     -9,389       1       50.1 %     -1,623     12/31/2005
GROUP LIVE N.V.   Den Haag     -3,534       134       50.1 %     -2     12/31/2005
Permessa Corporation   Waltham     -5       0       50.1 %     667     09/22/2010
Relavis Corporation   Woodstock     -834       2       50.1 %     -25     01/08/2007
GROUP Business Software AG   Eisenach     20,810       36,107       Reverse 50,1     -1,025     06/01/2011
Pavone GmbH   Boeblingen     -197       47       100 %     -162     01/04/2011
Pavone Ltd.   North Yorkshire     -71       584       100 %     -4     01/04/2011
Groupware Inc.   Woodstock     -482       1       100 %     0     01/06/2011
IDC Global, Inc.   Chicago     2,429       0       100 %     111     07/25/2011

 

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At the year end of March 31, 2012, there were seventeen of these subsidiaries (KUSD = 1,000’s of US Dollars) and the following transactions have taken place:

 

As previously reported, Group Technologies GmbH was sold this Company on March 08, 2012 for a price of 49 KUSD and was deconsolidated out of the June 30, 2012 statements.

 

As reported in Subsequent Events, on July 6, 2012 and August 9, 2012, Pavone AG and Groupware AG, respectively, were merged into Pavone GmbH. Pavone GmbH is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. The mergers were consummated solely for administrative purposes and therefore the results for Pavone AG and Groupware AG were combined and shown within Pavone GmbH for June 30, 2012.

 

As reported in General Corporate History, SD Holdings, Ltd, Synaptris, Inc. and Synaptris Private Decisions, Ltd. were sold on April 1, 2012 and therefore not included in the consolidation of June 30, 2012.

 

Note 5 ASSOCIATED COMPANY

 

Due to the absence of domination/control, B.E.R.S. AD, Varna, Bulgaria was treated an associated company in the consolidated financial statements. GROUP Business Software AG's acquired B.E.R.S AD for 265 (KEUR). The investment, representing 50% of B.E.R.S. AD has been accounted for on the equity basis, with the Company’s proportionate share of income being recorded in the consolidated statement of operations with a corresponding adjustment to the asset carrying value. In the quarter ended June 30, 2012, the proportionate share of the loss was 11 KUSD (March 31, 2012 year end: -35 KUSD.)

 

Associated Companies   Headquarters     Total Value     Debts     Sales Revenues     Annual Profit/Loss  
          Assets                    
          06.30.12                    
          KUSD     KUSD     KUSD     KUSD  
                                         
B.E.R.S. AD   Varna       265       91       176       11  

 

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Note 6 CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

 

As of the financial statement date, the Company’s cash and cash equivalents totaled 1,358 KUSD (March 31, 2012 year end: 1,503 KUSD). Included in that amount are cash equivalents of 20 KUSD (March 31, 2012 year end: 12 KUSD).

 

Note 7 ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE

 

As of the financial statement date, Accounts Receivable were 8,229 KUSD (March 31, 2012 year end: 4,937 KUSD). Receivables are generally measured at their nominal value and taking into account all foreseeable risks. Probable default risks are handled with specific allowances for bad debts. With regard to the trade receivables which are neither impaired nor delinquent, there are no indications as of the financial statement date that the debtors will not meet their payment obligations.

 

Note 8 PREPAID EXPENSES

 

Prepaid expenses in the amount of 542 KUSD were primarily recorded for prepaid rent and advance on technological collaboration events ( March 31, 2012 year end: 460 KUSD).

 

Note 9 OTHER RECEIVABLES - CURRENT

 

Other Receivables as of the financial statement date were 916 KUSD (March 31, 2012 year end: 1,475 KUSD). The largest individual item under other receivables represents security deposits (486 KUSD). Also included herein are receivable from the sale of GEDYS IntraWare GmbH (240 KUSD), tax assets (163 KUSD) and other (27 KUSD).

 

Note 10 PROPERTY PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

 

Fixed assets are measured at cost less scheduled straight-line depreciation.

 

Depreciation of the computer hardware listed as office equipment is distributed over a period of three to five years. The depreciation period for other office equipment is three to ten years. Office furnishings are depreciated over a period of eight to ten years. Leasehold Improvements are depreciated up to 40 years.

 

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Property, Plant and
Equipment
kUSD
  Development
of the cost
    Development
of
accumulated
depreciation
    Balance  
                   
Updated 03.31.2010     4,538       4,262       276  
Additions     164       120          
Disposals     292       226          
Currency differences     84       40          
Reclassifications     0       0          
Updated 03.31.2011     4,494       4,196       298  
Additions     4,302       3,018          
Disposals     58       72          
Currency differences     273       273          
Reclassifications     0       0          
Updated 03.31.2012     9,011       7,414       1,597  
Additions     228       124          
Disposals     -208       -208          
Currency differences     118       110          
Reclassifications     -240       -222          
Updated 06.30.2012     8,909       7,218       1,691  

 

Note 11 LONG TERM FINANCIAL ASSETS

 

The major components of the Financial Assets include the following:

 

    KUSD     KUSD  
    6/30/2012     3/31/2012  
Receivable from sale of GEDYS IntraWare GmbH                
Balance outstanding, payable in monthly installments of $ 20,006, bearing interest at prime plus .25%, not be greater than 2% per annum     780       777  
Current portion, included in other current receivables     240       233  
 Subtotal     540       544  
Intercompany Loan Values during the quarter     393       1,449  
Other Long Term Receivables     6       5  
Balance     939       1,998  

 

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Note 12 GOODWILL

 

Goodwill arises from the following business acquisitions:

 

Affiliated Company   Date of the First
Consolidation
  Goodwill
YE 2012
in kUSD
    Goodwill
Q1
2012/2013
in kUSD
 
GROUP Business Software AG   01/06/11     20,813.0       18,492.2  
GROUP Business Software Corp.   12/31/05     2,177.5       2,177.5  
GROUP LIVE N.V.   12/31/05     0.0       0.0  
GROUP Business Software Ltd   12/31/05     2,765.1       2,765.1  
ebVOKUS Software GmbH   10/01/05     443.6       443.6  
Relavis Corporation   08/01/07     0.0       0.0  
Permessa   09/22/10     2,387.4       2,387.4  
Pavone AG   04/01/11     4,956.4       4,956.4  
Groupware Inc.   06/01/11     994.1       994.1  
IDC   07/25/11     2,994.4       2,994.4  
SD Holding   09/27/11     2,213.1          
      39,744.7       35,210.7  

 

During the period ended June 30, 2012, the Company sold SD Holdings, Ltd and reduced the goodwill associated with this subsidiary. A reduction in goodwill was also necessary for GROUP Business Software AG. To retain the current level of ownership of 50.1%, the Company bought out a debt to equity swap of Group Business Software AG for additional shares. This had the effect of negative Goodwill.

 

Note 13 SOFTWARE

 

Development costs

 

The costs of developing new software products and updating products already marketed by the Company are generally recognized as expenses in the period in which they arise. Provided they meet the conditions for capitalization as per FASB ASC 985-20-25, they are capitalized. Capitalized development costs can be attributed to the defined products. These products are technically realizable and there is a target market for them.

 

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The development costs arising in the reporting period result from the personnel costs attributed to the development work as well as overhead costs, provided that these are related to the development work and do not represent general administrative costs. The ascribable overhead costs are directly recognized.

 

Capitalized development costs are generally amortized over a period of three years starting with the date of marketability of the new products or major releases.

 

Concessions, Industrial Property Rights, Licenses

 

The intangible financial assets carried in this item are licenses acquired in exchange for payment.

 

These financial assets are measured at acquisition cost less scheduled straight-line amortization. The assets added in the scope of the cost price allocation of the business divisions acquired this year.

 

The useful life spans were based uniformly throughout the Company according to those used by the parent company. Scheduled amortization is performed over a period from three to ten years.

 

The useful life of the domain “gbs.com”, was estimated as unlimited. This is because no other legal, contractual or other factors exist which would limit its useful life. It is not systematically amortized, but rather annually. Should there exist signs indicating towards impairment it is tested for recoverability and, if necessary, written down to the amount which could be obtained for it if sold.

 

Amortization of concessions, industrial property and similar rights and assets, as well as licenses to such rights and assets are presented in the profit and loss statement under "Depreciation and Amortization."

 

Concessions and licenses
kUSD
  Development
of the cost
    Development
of
accumulated
depreciation
    Balance  
                   
Updated 03.31.2010     34,143       21,114       13,029  
Additions     7,862       3,916          
Disposals     1,656       1,021          
Currency differences     -9       -185          
Reclassifications     0       0          
Updated 03.31.2011     40,339       23,824       16,515  
Additions     3,524       8,650          
Disposals     3,945       3,588          
Currency differences     -929       -1,272          
Reclassifications     2,665       0          
Updated 03.31.2012     41,653       27,614       14,039  
Additions     1,088       1,070          
Disposals     -25       -5          
Currency differences     895       736          
Reclassifications     0       0          
Updated 06.30.2012     43,612       29,416       14,196  

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Note 14 OTHER ASSETS

 

Re-insurance claims of 96 KUSD from life insurance (reinsurance of pension obligations) were recognized as actuarial reserves. Valuations from the insurance companies form the basis for these claims. Earnings from interest on the financial assets were recognized according to the cost of liabilities from pension obligations presented in the pension plan costs (March 31, 2012 year end: 246 KUSD).

 

Note 15 LIABILITIES TO BANKS - CURRENT

 

Short term liabilities to banks represent an operating line of credit, bearing interest at a 3.25% daily periodic rate with a credit limit of 100 KUSD (March 31, 2012 year end: 20 KUSD).

 

Note 16 ACCOUNTS PAYABLE AND ACCRUED LIABILITIES

 

Trade payables

 

As of the financial statement date, trade accounts payable amounted to 2,885 KUSD (March 31, 2012 year end: 2,235 KUSD). Trade payables are carried at their repayment amount and all have a residual term of up to one year.

 

Other Accrual

 

Other provisions are createdas of the financial statement datein an amount necessary according to a reasonable commercial appraisal, to cover future payment obligations, perceivable risks and uncertain liabilities of the Company. Amounts deemed to be most likely to occur ,in careful assessment,are accrued.

 

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June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

  Status                   Currency       Status  
KUSD     03.31.12     Utilization     Dissolution     Increase     Differences     06.30.12  
Tax provision     2       2       0       0       0       0  
Salary     942       572       24       236       16       597  
Vacation     439       -55       30       79       12       555  
Workers Compensation Insurance Association     27       -1       0       4       1       33  
Compensation Levy for Non-Employment of Severely Handicapped Persons     17       16       0       5       0       6  
Outstanding Invoices     1,000       691       60       593       22       864  
Annual Financial Statement Costs     310       147       0       64       3       229  
Other Provisions     818       654       0       57       6       227  
Warranties     60       0       0       0       2       61  
Provision for Legal Costs     71       0       0       0       2       73  
Total     3,685       2,026       114       1,039       64       2,648  

 

Provisions for salaries of 597 KUSD (March 31, 2012 year end: 942 KUSD) include the provisions created for the variable salaries of the sales staff for the sales objectives reached in this business period..

 

Vacation provisions of 555 KUSD March 31, 2012 year end: 439 KUSD) include the obligations of GROUP’s companies to their employees for remaining vacation claims from the reporting period. The amount of the provision is calculated on the gross salary of the individual employee plus the employer contribution to social security/Medicare and based on the unused vacation days as of the financial statement date.

 

For liabilities not yet settled, a provision totaling 864 KUSD (March 31, 2012 year end: 1,000 KUSD) was created.

 

Other Provisions of 227 KUSD (March 31, 2012 year end: 818 KUSD) include accruals for Board of Director compensation (32 KUSD).

 

Expenses for the audit of the Company and preparation of the annual consolidated financial statements were recognized at 229 KUSD (March 31, 2012 year end: 310 KUSD).

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

A provision for anticipated legal consulting of 73 KUSD was recorded (March 31, 2012 year end: 71 KUSD).

 

For warranty claims, a provision of 61 KUSD (March 31, 2012 year end: 60 KUSD) was created determined by service income..

 

Note 17 OTHER SHORT TERM LIABILITIES

 

Other short-term liabilities of 3,157 KUSD (March 31, 2012 year end: 4, 237 KUSD) includes the following obligations and payments currently due: :

 

Other Short-Term
  06.30.12     3.31.12  
Liabilities    KUSD     KUSD  
Purchase Assets L911     1,100       1,094  
Purchase Assets Fastworks     0       0  
Purchase Assets Permessa     750       1,900  
Purchase Assets Salesplace     0       0  
Tax Liabilities     847       724  
Purchase Archiving Software     333       324  
Other Liabilities     126       196  
      3,157       4,237  

 

Note 18 DEFERRED INCOME

 

Accruals for future periods leading to realization of sales after the financial statement date are reported under deferred income. The deferred income items listed as of the financial statement date in the amount of 10,498 KUSD (March 31, 2012 year end: 6,421 KUSD) primarily include maintenance income collected in advance for the period after the end of the financial statement date. . They are amortized on a straight-line basis over their respective contract terms.

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Note 19 LIABILITIES TO BANKS – LONG TERM

 

Liabilities to banks as of the financial statement date was 3,887 KUSD (March 31, 2012 year end: 3,463 KUSD) represent bank obligations of GROUP AG with Baden-Württembergische Bank with a credit line totaling 4,000 KUSD (3,000 KEUR) and are collateralized by a silent blanket agreement for GROUP AG’s trade receivables. The term of the loan runs until June 30, 2014. The Company has curtailed the risk of changing interest rates existing with regard to liabilities to banks due to variable interest rate agreements by obtaining a fixed interest rate for half of its credit line. Accordingly, 2,000 KUSD (1,500 KEUR) is bearing interest at prime plus 1.5% and 2,000 KUSD (1,500 KEUR) is fixed at 3.5%

 

Note 20 OTHER LIABILITIES – LONG TERM

 

Other long-term liabilities include long-term capital leases of 117 KUSD as of the financial statement date (March 31, 2012 year end: 2,906 KUSD).

 

Note 21 COMMON STOCK

 

Common stock belongs to the legally purchasing company according to the principles of a Reverse Acquisition and therefore, the common stock is that of GBS Enterprises Incorporated. The Company has authorized capital of 75,000,000 common shares and 25,000,000 preferred shares each with a par value of $001. No preferred shares have been issued. As at June 30, 2012, there were 29,431,664 shares of common stock outstanding of which 30 have not yet been issued. At the time of the Reverse Acquisition, there were 16,500,000 shares of common stock outstanding and, as the Reverse Acquisition was accounted for as a recapitalization applied retroactively, this balance is recorded as the balance outstanding since inception.

 

In March, 2011, the Company consummated a private placement offering of an aggregate of 6,044,000 Units at a purchase price of $1.25 per Unit, for gross proceeds of $7,555,000.  Each Unit was comprised of one share of Common Stock and one three-year Warrant to purchase one share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $1.50 per share (“Private Placement Warrant”). The net proceeds of this offering were $6,839,327.25.

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

On April 9, 2012, the Company filed a Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No: 333-180626) (the “Registration Statement”) therein registering the 6,044,000 shares of Common Stock underlying the Private Placement Warrants and 2,020,000 underlying the Investor Warrants on behalf of the selling stockholders named in the Registration Statement (the “Selling Stockholders”). As of the date of this Form 10-Q, the Registration Statement has not been declared effective under the Securities Act by the SEC. The Company is in the process of amending the Registration Statement in response to the SEC’s most recent comments regarding the first amendment to the Registration Statement filed on July 19, 2012.

 

We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares of Common Stock by the Selling Stockholders. We will, however, receive proceeds in the event the Private Placement Warrants and Investor Warrants are exercised by the Selling Stockholders. As of the date of this Form 10-Q, the Selling Stockholders have exercised an aggregate of 2,025,000 Private Placement Warrants and 900,000 Investor Warrants, for gross proceeds of $3,487,500. If the outstanding 4,019,000 Private Placement Warrants and 1,120,000 Investor Warrants are exercised, we will receive an aggregate of $6,588,500 in additional gross proceeds. However, there can be no assurance that any additional warrants will be exercised. To date, we have used the proceeds of the warrants already exercised for general corporate working capital purposes. We intend to use the proceeds from the exercise of any additional warrants to increase marketing, advertising and Modernization Services, to form development teams and for general corporate working capital purposes. The Board of Directors of the Company has broad discretion as to the use of the net proceeds from any exercise of the warrants and may change the allocation of such proceeds without shareholder notice or consent.

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

The number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Private Placement Warrants and Investor Warrants and corresponding exercise prices are subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split, dividend, recapitalization, reclassification and otherwise. The Private Placement Warrants and Investor Warrants are only exercisable by the payment of cash. Pursuant to the terms of the Private Placement Warrants and Investor Warrants, the warrant holders are required to exercise their Warrants, in the event our Common Stock trades at an average of at least $3.00 per share for a period of not less than 20 consecutive trading days. Also, throughout the three year exercise period of the Private Placement Warrants and Investor Warrants, the Company has the right to redeem the Warrants for $0.05 per share.

 

On April 16, 2012, the Company sold 120,000 Units to Joerg Ott, the then Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company, for a purchase price of $1.50 per Unit, for a total purchase price of $180,000. Each Unit consisted of one share of Common Stock of the Company and one warrant to purchase one share of Common Stock of the Company from the date of issuance until the third anniversary date of the date of issuance for $1.50 per share. The Company sold the Units and underlying securities to Mr. Ott in reliance on Section 4(2) of the Securities Act due to the fact that the issuance was isolated and did not involve a public offering of securities.

 

On April 28, 2012, $632,500 in notes payable to RealRisk Ventures, LLC (“RealRisk”) was converted into 550,000 shares of common stock and to receive the warrant described below. On February 22, 2012, the Company had issued a Convertible Promissory Note (the “RealRisk Note”) to RealRisk in the principal amount of $632,500 bearing interest at the rate of 4.5% per year and maturing on June 30, 2012. The Company issued the RealRisk Note pursuant to Section 4(2) under the Securities Act due to the fact that the issuance was isolated and did not involve a public offering of securities. The outstanding principal and interest under the RealRisk Note was convertible by the holder thereof into shares of the Company’s Common Stock at a rate of $1.15 per share prior to May 15, 2012. Under the RealRisk Note, if the holder converted such note prior to May 1, 2012, the Company would issue the holder a warrant to purchase 550,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock for a period commencing on the date of issuance until the third anniversary date of the date of issuance for $1.75 per share . .

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

On April 30, 2012, $ 632,500 in notes payable to Lotus Holdings Ltd. (“Lotus Holdings”) was converted into 550,000 shares of common stock and a warrant described below. On January 5, 2012, the Company had issued a Convertible Promissory Note (the “Lotus Note”) to Lotus Holdings for the principal amount of $500,000 bearing interest at the rate of 4.5% per year and maturing on June 30, 2012. The Company issued the Lotus Note pursuant to Section 4(2) under the Securities Act due to the fact that the issuance was isolated and did not involve a public offering of securities. The outstanding principal and interest under the Lotus Note was convertible by the holder thereof into shares of the Company’s Common Stock at a rate of $1.15 per share prior to May 15, 2012. Under the Lotus Note, if the holder converted such note prior to May 1, 2012, the Company would issue the holder a warrant to purchase 500,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock for a period commencing on the date of issuance until the third anniversary date of the date of issuance for $1.75 per share.

 

On May 15, 2012, the Company issued 150,000 unregistered shares of Common Stock to Kjell Jahn, the former selling stockholder of GroupWare, AG, a Florida corporation purchased by the Company in June 2011. The Company issued the shares in reliance on Section 4(2) of the Securities Act due to the fact that the issuance was isolated and did not involve a public offering of securities.

 

Other changes in common stock are disclosed in Note 24, Supplementary Cash Flow Disclosures.

 

Warrants and Options

 

The Company has issued warrants to outside consultants in payments for services provided as detailed in the following schedule. The warrants are issued as “cashless” warrants and all have a three-year term with the exception of the Ventana Capital Partners’ warrant which has a 30 month term. Each warrant is exercisable into one share of common stock. The warrants have been valued using a Black-Scholes option pricing model with volatility, equity value and interest rate inputs noted below. The valuation of the warrants issued in the quarter ending June 30, 2012 is for disclosure purposes only as the charge is related to the cost of issuing the shares and there is no impact to the financial statements. The warrants issued on April 1, 2011, whose value was determined to be $34,000, was included as compensation expense and credited to additional paid in capital in fiscal 2012. There are no stock options issued by the Company to employees or other parties.

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Black Scholes assumptions for warrants issued were as follows:

 

For the period ending June 30, 2012 -

 

Volatility - 77.1%
   
Risk free interest rate - 1.19%
   
Expected life - 3 years
   
Dividend rate - Nil

 

Summary of Warrants
Issued:
                           
Outside Consultants   Grant
Size
    Strike
Price
    Val. Date   Stock Value at
Val. Date
    Warrant Value at
Val. Date
 
Ventana Capital Partners     2,000,000     $ 4.00     10/1/2010   $ 0.03     $ 0.00  
Frank J. Pena     117,880     $ 1.50     3/14/2011   $ 0.91     $ 0.34  
Garwood Securities, LLC     117,880     $ 1.50     3/14/2011   $ 0.91     $ 0.34  
Jackson E. Spears     421,520     $ 1.50     3/14/2011   $ 0.91     $ 0.34  
William Gregozeski     50,000     $ 1.50     3/14/2011   $ 0.91     $ 0.34  
Frank J. Pena     3,000     $ 1.50     3/14/2011   $ 0.91     $ 0.34  
Garwood Securities, LLC     2,400     $ 1.50     3/14/2011   $ 0.91     $ 0.34  
Jackson E. Spears     9,600     $ 1.50     3/14/2011   $ 0.91     $ 0.34  
Ronald J. Everett     100,000     $ 1.50     4/1/2011   $ 0.91     $ 0.34  

 

Common Stock Warrants   Common     Valuation     Fair Value
Per
    Warrants
Fair
 
Issued to Outside Consultants   Shares     Date     Warrant     Value  
                                 
Common Stock Warrants issued on October 1, 2010     2,000,000       10/1/2010     $ 0.00     $ 0  
                                 
Common Stock Warrants issued on March 14, 2011     707,280       3/14/2011     $ 0.34     $ 240,475  
                                 
Common Stock Warrants Granted on March 24, 2011     15,000       3/24/2011     $ 0.34     $ 5,100  
                                 
Common Stock Warrants Granted on April 1, 2011     100,000       4/1/2011     $ 0.34     $ 34,000  
                                 
Total Warrants' Fair Value                           $ 279,575  

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

None of these warrants have been exercised.

 

As noted above, through a private placement, the Company issued 6,044,000 warrants which allowed the holder to purchase one share of common stock of the Company from the date of the grant until the third anniversary of the date of the grant for a purchase price of $1.50 per share.

In March, 2012, the Company issued an aggregate of 2,020,000 warrants to five “accredited investors” pursuant to Section 4(2) of the Securities Act. Each investor warrant is exercisable for the three-year period commencing from the date of issuance for $0.50 per share of Common Stock and has the same terms as the Private Placement Warrants.

 

The Company will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares of Common Stock by the Selling Stockholders. It will, however, receive proceeds in the event the Private Placement Warrants and Investor Warrants are exercised by the Selling Stockholders. As of the financial statement date, the Selling Stockholders have exercised an aggregate of 2,025,000 Private Placement Warrants and 900,000 Investor Warrants, for gross proceeds of $3,487,500. If the outstanding 4,019,000 Private Placement Warrants and 1,120,000 Investor Warrants are exercised, an aggregate of $6,588,500 in additional gross proceeds will be received. However, there can be no assurance that any additional warrants will be exercised.

 

A recap of the warrants outstanding as at June 30, 2012, which expire in March, 2014 is as follows:

 

Number of            
Warrants     Exercise price     Expiration date
                 
  2,000,000     $ 4.00     6/1/2013
                 
  707,280     $ 1.50     3/14/2014
                 
  15,000     $ 1.50     3/24/2014
                 
  3,199,000     $ 1.50     3/31/2014
                 
  100,000     $ 1.50     4/1/2014

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

The weighted average exercise price at March 31, 2012 was $2.32

 

The weighted average exercise price at June 30, 2012 was $ 2.32

 

Note 22 SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED

 

On May 10, 2012, the Company sold 30,000 Units to Markus R. Ernst, the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, for a purchase price of $1.50 per Unit, for a total purchase price of $45,000. Each Unit consists of one share of Common Stock of the Company and one warrant to purchase one share of Common Stock of the Company from the date of issuance until the third anniversary date of the date of issuance for $1.50 per share. The Company sold the Units and underlying securities to Mr. Ernst in reliance on Section 4(2) of the Securities Act due to the fact that the issuance was isolated and did not involve a public offering of securities.

 

As of June 30, 2012, the shares remain unissued and therefore classified as subscriptions received on the financial statement.

 

Note 23 REVENUE ALLOCATION

 

Gross revenue may be broken down by the following products for the three months ended June 30, 2012, June 30, 2011 and the twelve months ended March 31, 2012 are as follows:

 

    06.30.12     06.30.11     3.31.12  
Sales Revenues   KUSD     KUSD     KUSD  
                   
Licenses     1,189       1,092       5,327  
Maintenance     2,654       2,655       11,851  
Service     2,715       1,225       8,675  
Third-Party Products     639       397       2,302  
LND Third-Party Products     1,089       285       3,607  
Others     22       23       181  
                         
      8,309       5,676       31,944  

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Revenues by geographical area for the three months ended June 30, 2012, June 30, 2011 and the twelve months ended March 31, 2012 are as follows:`

 

Sales Revenues   06.30.12     06.30.11     3.31.12  
by geographic area   KUSD     KUSD     KUSD  
                   
US     3,054       1,942       9,359  
Germany     5,026       3,454       20,624  
United Kingdom     229       280       1,110  
Others     0       0       849  
                         
      8,309       5,676       31,944  

 

Long-lived assets by geographical area, which primarily include property plant and equipment, are as follows:

 

Long-lived assets   06.30.12     06.30.11     3.31.12  
by geographic area   KUSD     KUSD     KUSD  
                   
US     1,407       103       1,284  
Germany     280       241       292  
United Kingdom     4       3       3  
Others     0       0       19  
                         
      1,691       347       1,597  

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

Note 24 OTHER INCOME/EXPENSE

 

Other income of 77 KUSD (March 31, 2012 year end: -647 KUSD) includes investments of associate companies of 11 KUSD and Other miscellaneous income.

 

Note 25 SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW DISCLOSURES

 

The significant non-cash transactions for the period ending June 30, 2012 and year ended March 31, 2011 and March 31, 2012 were as follows:

 

a. On April 1, 2011, the Company acquired Pavone AG, for 350 KUSD, assumption of $583,991 debt and 1,000,000 shares of its common stock.
b. On June 1, 2011, the Company acquired GroupWare, Inc., for 250 KUSD, assumption of $694,617 debt and 250,000 shares of its common stock.
c. On July 25, 2011, the Company acquired IDC Global, Inc. for 750 KUSD, $ 883,005 assumption of debt, 25 (KUSD) reimbursement for accounting and legal fees, 35 KUSD signing bonuses and 880,000 shares of common stock.
d. On September 27, 2011, the Company acquired SD Holdings Ltd for $525,529 and issued 612,874 shares of Common Stock.
e. On February 27, 2012, an outstanding debt of GROUP was converted into an aggregate of 1,750,000 shares of GROUP common stock, increasing GROUP’s total outstanding common stock to 26,982,000 shares. As a result of the foregoing increase in the number of total outstanding shares of GROUP common stock, the Company increased its ownership of GROUP common stock to an aggregate of 13,525,000 shares, representing approximately 50.1% of the outstanding common stock of GROUP, by purchasing the 883,765 shares of GROUP common stock from GAVF LLC for an average purchase price of $0.70 per share.

 

Note 26 SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

The Company adheres to the 93 day rule with respect to its subsidiaries that have a year end of December 31.

 

The following events happened after March 31, 2012 but before June 30, 2012:

 

None

 

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Notes to the Interim Financial Statements

June 30, 2012

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

The following events happened after June 30, 2012:

 

Pursuant to an existing transfer agreement, effective as of July, 1, 2012, the Company entered into a purchase agreement with SD Holdings, Ltd. (“SYN”) for $1,877,232, and acquired all assets including intellectual property rights and liabilities of the IntelliPRINT and FewClix product lines, customer contracts and certain employees for operations in a new subsidiary, GBS India.

 

In addition, a royalty fee in the amount of approximately $350,000 has been agreed upon for the benefit the Company. Additionally a profit based fee of up to $700,000 may be earned based on license and revenue recognized from the sold IntelliVIEW and IntelliVIEW NXT products.

 

On August 1, 2012, the Company acquired the shares of GBS India Private Limited, an incorporated entity formed under the Indian Companies Act 1956, for operations as GBS, India.

 

On July 6, 2012 and August 9, 2012, Pavone AG and Groupware AG, respectively, were merged into Pavone GmbH. The mergers were consummated solely for administrative purposes. Pavone GmbH is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company.

 

On July 11, 2012 Joerg Ott resigned as the Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer) of the Company effective immediately.  Mr. Ott will continue in his capacity as the Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors and as the Chief Executive Officer of GROUP.  On July 11, 2012, the Board of Directors of the Company appointed Gary D. MacDonald as the Managing Director of Worldwide Operations and Interim Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer) of the Company, effective immediately.  Mr. MacDonald has been serving as the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Development Officer since April 30, 2010, a member of the Board of Directors since December 2, 2011 and a member of the Board’s Audit Committee since March 1, 2012.

 

On August 13, 2012, the Company entered into a Note Purchase and Security Agreement with John A. Moore, a member of the Board of Directors of the Company, and his spouse pursuant to which the Company sold a secured promissory note in the aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000 bearing interest at a rate of 20% per year and maturing on the first anniversary date of the issuance with a 2% prepayment penalty. To secure the obligations of the Company under the note, the Company granted a first priority security interest in the accounts receivable of the Company and its subsidiaries located in the United States of America on a one-for-one (1:1) basis.

 

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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

 

Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

 

The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with our financial statements and the notes to those financial statements that are included elsewhere in Quarterly Report. Our discussion includes forward-looking statements based upon current expectations that involve risks and uncertainties, such as our plans, objectives, expectations and intentions. Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those set forth under the “Risk Factors,” “Cautionary Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” and “Description of Business” sections in the Company’s 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012. We use words such as “anticipate,” “estimate,” “plan,” “project,” “continuing,” “ongoing,” “expect,” “believe,” “intend,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “predict,” and similar expressions to identify forward-looking statements. Although we believe the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions within the bound of our knowledge of our business, our actual results could differ materially from those discussed in these statements. We undertake no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason even if new information becomes available or other events occur in the future. Except as required by applicable law, including the securities laws of the United States, we do not intend to update any of the forward-looking statements to conform these statements to actual results. Readers are urged to carefully review and consider the various disclosures made throughout the entirety of this Quarterly Report , which attempt to advise interested parties of the risks and factors that may affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects.

 

OVERVIEW

 

GBS Enterprises Incorporated, a Nevada corporation (the “Company,” “GBS,” “GBSX,” “we,” “us,” “our” or similar expressions), conducts its primary business through its 50.1% owned subsidiary, GROUP Business Software AG (“GROUP”), a German-based public-company whose stock trades on the Frankfurt Exchange under the stock symbol INW. GROUP’s software and consulting business is focused on serving IBM’s Lotus Notes and Domino market. GROUP caters primarily to mid-market and enterprise-size organizations with over 3,500 customers in thirty-eight countries spanning four continents, representing more than 5,000,000 active users of its products. GROUP’s customers include Abbot, Ernst & Young, Deutsche Bank, Bayer, HBSC, Merck and Toyota. GROUP provides IBM Lotus Notes/Domino Application and Transformation technology, and related Cloud Computing technology. Headquartered in Eisenach, Germany the Company has offices throughout Europe and North America. The Company maintains a website at www.gbsx.us. GROUP maintains a website at www.gbs.com. The information contained in the Company’s and GROUP’s websites is not incorporated by reference herein.

 

The Company’s Common Stock is quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board under the ticker symbol, “GBSX.”

 

Products and Services

 

GBS has achieved significant growth by consolidating the fragmented Lotus Software market through the merger & acquisitions of companies with complementary product, technology or services offerings. Based on its organic growth and growth by acquisition GBS has continuously developed its software and service business to service and support GBS’s expanding Lotus customer base.

 

Historically, GROUP has achieved growth through acquisition by targeting attractive, yet underperforming companies with complimentary operations and leveraging GROUP’s expertise to successfully turnaround and integrate these targets.

 

Key success factors for this strategy are: enhanced portfolio, positioning GROUP as the ‘one-stop-shop’ for Lotus applications and services, expanded customer support, fast code migration, and cloud enablement/XPages conversion of acquired applications.

 

Going forward, the Company will focus on potential acquisition targets in the following areas of software and services: Applications, Professional Services, Hosting/Outsourcing Services, Administration and IT services, and XPages expertise.

 

Messaging and Business Applications Software & Solutions

 

GBS Messaging and Business Application Software & Solutions product lines include software and advisory services for email and Instant Messaging (IM) Management, Security, Compliance, Archiving and Productivity, CRM Applications, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Management software, Workflow and Business Process Management software, ePDF Archiving & Document Management and e-Banking solutions.

 

GBS develops, sells and installs well known business process and management software suites based on Lotus Notes / Domino and IBM Portal technology, mainly for major international companies and medium-sized customers.

 

Through GBS’s comprehensive messaging software product lines and associated services, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange or SMTP-based-email customers, as well as Lotus Sametime customers are able to provide their users with secure, efficient and centrally administered use of e-mail and IM while maintaining control over their compliance with current legal requirements and corporate guidelines.

 

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Consulting Services

 

As a leader in the IBM Lotus Notes Software and Services business GBS provides consulting services to its customers. GBS develops, sells and orchestrates customer-specific Lotus Domino strategy and consulting services, such as CIO and IT department leader Strategic Advisory Services, Managed Services, Outsourcing, Administration, Assessments and Implementations, Performance Improvements, Custom Application Development, Governance and Security, Technical Support, and Training, as well as Email Migration Services.

 

Based on GBS’s unique concentration of industry talent and expertise, mainly in the areas inside and around IBM Lotus Notes/Domino, inside and around corporate messaging (IBM, Microsoft, SMTP) and inside and around IT environmental and application assessment, analysis and reporting, commercial and governmental customers, as well as SIs and channel partners are able to rely on the industry leading strategic and tactical advisory services for evaluating, planning, staffing and execution of any customer project. GBS Consulting Services’ global teams of consultants use modern project management techniques, proprietary methodologies and GBS accelerator technologies to complete client projects on time and with reduced risk.

 

We believe that our focus on recruiting and retaining top Lotus expertise, positions our team to offer leading-edge Lotus Notes / Domino subject matter knowledge to our customers. GBS consultants have an average of over 12 years’ experience each in Lotus Notes/Domino and its related products and are routinely asked to present at IBM Lotus events including Lotusphere, an annual conference hosted by IBM Lotus Software.

 

As a Premier IBM Business Partner - GBS is one of the few partners that can sell and support licenses for all five IBM software brands: Lotus, WebSphere, Rational, Tivoli, and DB2.

 

Cloud Computing

 

As IT departments face continuous budget reductions and constant pressure for higher performance and efficiency, CIOs are focusing on modern technologies to support their need for increased scalability, flexibility and lower costs. GBS has identified this demand as a strategic growth opportunity for the company and has placed a significant focus on expanding its Cloud Computing and Modernizing/Migrating technology offerings. The strategic opportunities are served by GBS with two distinct offerings:

 

1) GROUP Live - Cloud Automation Platform / Cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) software and services. and
2) Transformer - Lotus Notes modernization/migration services and technology accelerators

 

GBS Cloud Computing activities are focused on cloud automation solutions and therefore the Company has made key acquisitions and R&D investments to create an award winning Cloud Platform-as-a-Service offering. Under the GROUP Live banner, the GBS PaaS offering has been sold to a variety of enterprise customers, which use the PaaS software to host internal corporate clouds (Private cloud) and applications as-a-service to their various internal user groups. GROUP Live has also be sold and implemented by a number of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), which are leveraging the platform to deliver their own Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications to their respective customer bases.

 

Both of these customer groups enjoy the comprehensive nature of this platform agnostic PaaS solution and its exceptional change management capabilities enabling resource flexibility, business agility, scalability and ease-of-use beyond that which is generally available in the market today.

 

GBS Lotus Application Modernization and Migration

 

GBS Lotus Application Modernization and Migration activities are focused on the IBM Lotus / Domino applications market and the offering spans from expert services and accelerator technologies to modernize, web enable and migrate Lotus applications; and thus ultimately take the Lotus applications from legacy to the future. The foundation of the Transformer Suite Software offering is GBS’s significant R&D investment in a set of methodologies and key technology accelerators to automate the conversion of traditional Notes based client-server applications, into the IBM XPages framework which enables Domino applications to be run and accessed via the Lotus client, a web browser or on a mobile device. The patent-pending software that underpins Transformer was developed by GBS with the assistance and guidance from IBM Corporation’s Software Group to ensure alignment with future releases of the IBM Lotus / Domino and XPages technology.

 

Revenue Model

 

GBS generates its revenue from the sale of software developed by us and third-parties and delivery of related services, including IT systems planning, administration, support, hosting, implementation and integration.

 

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Strategy and Focus Areas

 

While our products and services remain in demand, we see a significant opportunity to achieve growth and secure our future with additional investments in our strategic portfolio. Based on current market demands for modern, Cloud-based and mobile-device capable business applications, we have acquired and developed a set of very unique technologies that help organizations to reduce the time, cost, resources and risks associated with modernizing or migrating their existing applications.

 

We generate revenue with our cloud automation platform from subscription and usage fees and related services, including support and strategic consulting services. The subscription period is typically based on a yearly or multi-year contract with our customers. Additionally, we generate revenue from consulting around utilizing our cloud platform services.

 

Another pillar of our strategic portfolio is a suite of tools and methodologies we have developed to rapidly convert Lotus Notes applications into web and mobile applications through automated conversion processes. This portfolio includes a set of powerful analysis tools known as Insights that identify all of the Lotus Notes applications within an organization and provide metrics about the uses and users of those applications. Because of the nature of Lotus Notes and Domino, the applications within a customer environment tend to be highly distributed and number in the thousands. For many organizations, this fact alone makes it extremely difficult to plan for projects that involve modernizing these applications for use in a browser and on mobile devices or migrating them to another platform. Our technologies help them to dramatic reduce the cost, risk, time and resources associated with these highly complex projects.

 

We generate revenue with our analysis tools by charging a fee for the use of our technology and for the associated cost of the services to produce a report and set of recommendations for the customer. Additional revenues come from consulting services that result from helping our customers to implement those recommendations. For use of our conversion tools, referred to as Transformer, we charge a flat fee for the conversion and additional hourly rates to perform additional supporting development or testing as needed.

 

We also believe there is significant revenue opportunity in licensing these tools to a network of global partners who also have existing presence and expertise in the Lotus Notes and Domino market. We have established partner agreements for the use of the analysis and conversion tools with partners in Australia, Brazil and directly with IBM through its IBM Software Services for Collaboration (“ISSC”) global service unit.

 

General Corporate History

 

We were incorporated in Nevada on March 20, 2007 as SWAV Enterprises Ltd. (“SWAV”). SWAV was an importer and wholesaler of Chinese manufactured goods.

 

On April 26, 2010, SWAV purchased certain technology assets of Lotus Holdings Ltd. (“Lotus”) pursuant to an Asset Purchase Agreement in consideration for an aggregate of 2,265,240 shares of SWAV common stock. Also on April 26, 2010, Lotus (on behalf of the SPPEF Members as discussed below) purchased an aggregate of 11,984,770 of the outstanding shares of common stock from the selling shareholders of SWAV in consideration for an aggregate purchase price of $370,000. As a result of the two sets of transactions, Lotus owned an aggregate of 14,250,010 shares of common stock of SWAV, representing approximately 95.0% of the 15,000,000 shares of SWAV common stock outstanding on April 26, 2010.

 

On September 6, 2010, SWAV’s name was changed to GBS Enterprises Incorporated. On October 14, 2010, the Company’s trading symbol on the OTC Bulletin Board was changed from SWAV to GBSX.

 

About Lotus Holdings, Ltd.

 

Lotus is a holding company which was formed under the laws of Gibraltar for the purpose of financing merger and acquisition projects, specifically in the niche market of small or microcap companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange with complex shareholder structures and whose stock is trading below one Euro (€1.00) per share.

 

SPPEFs

 

Lotus typically finances its merger and acquisition projects through the use of Special Purpose Private Equity Funds (“SPPEFs”). Typically, SPPEFs are funded by a company’s major shareholders (the “Major Shareholders”) seeking to raise capital for projects and who fund at least 50% of the SPPEF, with the remaining portion being provided through the investment community and network of investors in Lotus. Each SPPEF is co-managed by a representative of the company’s Major Shareholders (the “Representative Secretary”) and an attorney appointed by Lotus (the “Lotus Representative”).

 

On February 25, 2010, a group of shareholders (the “GROUP Major Shareholders”) of GROUP Software AG, a German public company trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol “INW” (“GROUP”), engaged Lotus to provide financial consulting and advisory services, on a non-exclusive basis, for the primary task of establishing a SPPEF. On March 12, 2010, the GROUP Major Shareholders and Lotus established and funded a SPPEF with $1,400,000, consisting of $1,000,000 from the GROUP Major Shareholders and $400,000 from a Lotus investor (collectively, the “SPPEF Members”).

 

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In early April 2010, the SPPEF Members decided to acquire SWAV. As disclosed above, on April 26, 2010, Lotus, on behalf of the SPPEF Members, acquired an aggregate of 11,984,770 shares of SWAV common stock from the selling shareholders of SWAV for an aggregate purchase price of $370,000. The 11,984,770 shares of SWAV common stock shares represented approximately 79.9% of the 15,000,000 outstanding shares of SWAV common stock on April 26, 2010. Upon the consummation of the acquisition, the then executive officers and directors of SWAV resigned and Mr. Joerg Ott, the Chief Executive Officer of GROUP and a GROUP Major Shareholder, was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of SWAV and sole member of SWAV’s Board of Directors.

 

Transactions following the April 26, 2010 Acquisition

 

On November 1, 2010, the Company repurchased an aggregate of 3,043,985 of the 11,984,770 shares of the Company’s common stock originally purchased by Lotus on April 26, 2010. In consideration for the 3,043,985 shares of the Company’s common stock, the Company issued to Lotus a Secured Demand Note, dated November 1, 2010 (the “First Demand Note”), for the principal amount of $300,000 bearing interest at the rate of 5% per annum. The First Demand Note was repaid in September 2011.

 

Effective December 30, 2010, pursuant to securities purchase agreements between the Company and six GROUP Major Shareholders, the Company purchased an aggregate of 7,115,500 shares of GROUP common stock from the six GROUP Major Shareholders in consideration for an aggregate for 3,043,985 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “December Transaction”). As a result, the Company owned approximately 28.2% of the outstanding common stock of GROUP.

 

Reverse Merger

 

After the December Transaction was completed, the additional GROUP Major Shareholders decided to accept the share swap offer from the Company and to effectuate a reverse merger of GROUP and the Company. To effectuate the reverse merger, on January 5, 2011, the Company repurchased from Lotus an aggregate of 2,361,426 of the 11,984,770 shares of the Company’s common stock originally purchased by Lotus on April 26, 2010. In consideration for these 2,361,426 shares, the Company issued to Lotus a Secured Demand Note, dated January 5, 2011 (the “Second Demand Note”), for the principal amount of $200,000 bearing interest at the rate of 5% per annum. The Second Demand Note was repaid in November 2011.

 

Effective January 6, 2011, pursuant to securities purchase agreements between the Company and the remaining GROUP Major Shareholders, the Company purchased an aggregate of 5,525,735 shares of GROUP common stock from the remaining GROUP Major Shareholders in consideration for an aggregate of 2,361,426 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “January Transaction”). The 5,525,735 GROUP shares represented approximately 21.9% of the outstanding shares of common stock of GROUP. As a result of the December Transaction and January Transaction, the Company purchased an aggregate of 12,641,235 shares of GROUP from the GROUP Major Shareholders in consideration for an aggregate of 5,405,411 shares of the Company’s common stock, resulting in the Company owning approximately 50.1% of the outstanding common stock of GROUP and effectuating a reverse merger of the Company and GROUP whereby GROUP became the accounting acquirer.

 

Additional Acquisitions

 

On February 27, 2012, the Company acquired an additional 883,765 shares of common stock of GROUP to maintain its 50.1% ownership of GROUP. On February 27, 2012, an outstanding loan of GROUP was converted into an aggregate of 1,750,000 shares of GROUP common stock, thereby increasing GROUP’s outstanding common stock to 26,982,000 shares. As a result of the foregoing increase in the number of outstanding shares of GROUP common stock, the Company increased its ownership of GROUP common stock to an aggregate of 13,525,000 shares, representing approximately 50.1% of the outstanding common stock of GROUP. The Company purchased the 883,765 shares of GROUP common stock from GAVF LLC for an average purchase price of $0.70 per share, or approximately $619,000.

 

Acquisitions and Sales of Subsidiary Companies

 

Since the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2011, we have successfully consummated the following subsidiary transactions described below

 

Pavone AG

 

Effective April 1, 2011, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding common shares of Pavone AG, a German corporation (“Pavone”), for $350,000 in cash and 1,000,000 shares of its common stock. The fair value of the common stock was determined to be $4.90 per share, representing the market value at the end of trading on the date of the acquisition. The total value of the investment, including the assumption of $583,991 in debt, was $5,843,991. Pavone’s extensive workflow software for Lotus Notes and Domino along with their large customer base is well suited to GBS Enterprises portfolio strategy. The acquisition of Pavone complements GBS's majority ownership in GROUP and the Company believes that it further strengthens their leading industry position on the IBM Lotus Platforms and expands their cloud computing technology offerings beyond the IBM Lotus market. Pavone currently has offices in Germany and the UK. They have over 2,500 customers and over 150,000 users worldwide.

 

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GroupWare, Inc.

 

Effective June 1, 2011, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding common shares of GroupWare, Inc., a Florida corporation (“GroupWare”). As consideration, the Company paid $250,000 and issued 250,000 shares of its common stock. The fair value of the common stock was determined to be $4.34 per share, representing the market value at the end of trading on the date of the acquisition. The total value of the investment, including the assumption of $694,617, in debt was $2,029,617. Upon the consummation of the acquisition, the management and board of GroupWare resigned and Joerg Ott, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and sole director, was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer and sole director of GroupWare. GroupWare is based in Lubeck, Germany with offices in St. Petersburg, Florida. GroupWare's ePDF server delivers centralized, network-wide PDF solutions for messaging, workflow, document, content and data management. The Company believes that the acquisition strengthens the GBS Transformer offering (as discussed below), which helps bring IBM Lotus Notes client applications to the web, by substituting traditional printing methods provided by the Notes client with simple-to-use print-to-PDF capabilities in the browser. In addition, GroupWare provides a solution for applications that are ready to be retired. With the ePDF Server, GBS customers can convert the entire contents of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino applications to a permanent and secure archive in PDF or PDF/A format, while preserving their ability to be full-text searched and ensuring that the critical application data is accessible in the future, when needed. GBS will deliver the application archiving capabilities via its GroupLive cloud, making it possible for customers and partners to take advantage of elastic cloud computing resources to rapidly process the application contents without the need to dedicate hardware on-site for temporary or intermittent processing jobs.

 

IDC Global, Inc.

 

On July 25, 2011, the Company acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of IDC Global, Inc., a Delaware corporation with offices in Chicago, New York, London and Frankfurt (“IDC”). Pursuant to the acquisition agreement, dated July 15, 2011, the Company agreed to issue the shareholders an aggregate of 800,000 shares of common stock and make a cash payment of $750,000. The agreement required an additional payment to the management shareholders of 80,000 shares of common stock and signing bonuses to personnel of $35,000. The Company also agreed to reimburse IDC up to $25,000 for incurred accounting and legal fees related to the transaction. The fair value of the common stock was determined to be $3.70 per share, representing the market value at the end of trading on the date of the agreement. The total value of the investment, including $883,005 of debt assumption, was $4,066,000. IDC is a privately held company that provides nationwide network and data center services. IDC delivers customized, high availability technology solutions for WAN, Wireless Services, Co-location & Hosting, Managed Services, and Network Security. IDC is helping customers make the transition from large, static and expensive on-premise computing to dynamic, flexible and cost-effective off-premise computing. The Company believes that the acquisition of IDC provides it with the infrastructure needed to provide a comprehensive end-to-end solution for all customers regardless of their platform, and that it will prove to be especially beneficial to IBM Lotus Domino and Notes customers who finally have the same options as other platforms.

 

The assets and liabilities of the above companies represent their values as of March 31, 2012 and are included in these consolidated financial statements. This timing approach is allowed as per Regulation S-X Rule 3A-02.

 

SD Holdings, Ltd.

 

On September 27, 2011, the Company entered into an acquisition agreement with SD Holdings, Ltd. (“SYN”), a Mauritius corporation, and the shareholders of SYN owning 100% of issued and outstanding shares of SYN. SYN owns 100% of all issued and outstanding shares of Synaptris, Inc., a California corporation (“Synaptris”), and 100% of all issued and outstanding shares of Synaptris Decisions Private Limited, a company formed in India (“Synaptris India”). Pursuant to the acquisition agreement, the Company purchased one hundred percent (100%) of the issued and outstanding shares of SYN (“SYN Shares”) effective November 1, 2011 in consideration for $525,529 and agreed to issue 700,000 shares of common stock, subject to adjustment. Actual shares issued were 612,874. The fair value of the common stock was determined to be $2.05 per share, representing the market value at the end of trading on the date of the agreement.

 

On April 1, 2012, the Company sold SYN, Synaptris and Synaptris India to Lotus Holdings Ltd. for a purchase price of $1,877,232 in an effort to restructure the Company’s multilevel subsidiary-structure derived from the historical mergers and acquisitions, and to reduce overhead and administrative costs.

 

SYN has a year end of March 31, 2012 and as such was included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of March 31, 2012. No valuations for this entity are included in this quarterly filing pursuant to the sales transaction on April 1, 2012.

 

Overview of Cloud Computing Technology and Industry Trends

 

Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. These services are broadly divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

 

IaaS providers have massive data centers that can handle the data run over the cloud, the largest of which is Amazon.com. PaaS providers offer the actual cloud platform that runs on the IaaS data centers and can deploy the applications (SaaS products).  Some of the leading PaaS providers include Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure Services Platform, Google App Engine, and Rackspace Cloud. SaaS delivers applications on the cloud, which simplify product licensing and maintenance.  The SaaS market was first filled by a number of CRM (Customer Relationship Management), ERP (Enterprise Risk Management) and email applications but has spread into nearly all other types of software.  Leading providers in this space include Salesforce.com, Google and Zoho as well as IBM’s Lotus Live suite.  

 

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Over the past five years, there has been a migration from on-premise hardware and software to cloud computing which allows companies to increase efficiency and reduce cost by paying for software and hardware use on a subscription basis. In this model, IT managers are able to rent server capacity on an as-needed basis from a third party, instead of managing a data center on-premise, and purchasing up-to-date licenses for software based on real-time, instead of purchasing bundles of licenses or software and upgrading when updates are released.

 

Competition

 

The competitive landscape in the enterprise data center market is intense and changing, and we expect there will be a new class of very large, well-financed, and aggressive competitors, each bringing its own new class of products to address this new market. We also expect to see acquisitions, further industry consolidation, and new alliances among companies as they seek to serve the enterprise data center market.

 

The Company is focused on developing a portfolio of Cloud Computing software technologies and Application Services to address the needs of ISV’s, Data Center providers, as well as commercial and government organizations.

 

Results of Operations

 

Assets:

 

Total Assets decreased from $70,449,961 at March 31, 2012 to $68,151,154 at June 30, 2012. Total Assets consists of Total Current Assets and Total Non-Current Assets.

 

At June 30, 2012, our Total Current Assets were $11,165,632 as compared to $8,634,975 at March 31, 2012. Total Current Assets consist of: Cash and Cash Equivalents; Accounts Receivable; Inventories; Prepaid Expenses; Other Receivables and Assets held for Sale.

 

· Cash and Cash Equivalents decreased from $1,502,977 at March 31, 2012 to $1,357,487 at June 30, 2012 as a result of our investments in strategic technology areas such as application migration and modernization, cloud technology and the associated costs necessary to build and implement the go to market strategy.

 

· Accounts Receivable increased from $4,936,887 at March 31, 2012 to $8,228,657 at June 30, 2012 which includes a $1,877,232 receivable from the sale of SD Holdings, Ltd., as well as increased accounts receivables resulting from ordinary sales processes of approximately $1,500,000 in other subsidiaries.

 

· Inventories decreased from $236,712 at March 31, 2012 to $121,880 at June 30, 2012 primarily from the sale of finished goods within Groupware AG.

 

· Prepaid Expenses increased from $459,363 at March 31, 2012 to $541,813 at June 30, 2012.

 

· Other Receivables decreased from $1,474,929 at March 31, 2012 to $915,795 at June 30, 2012. The decrease was primarily due to the collection of a previous warrant payment in escrow ($250,000) and a decrease in a receivable (approximately $405,000) which was included in the sale of SD Holdings, Ltd. An increase in tax assets (approximately $163,000) and a receivable from a previous sale of a business unit (approximately $7000) as well as a decrease in deposits account and other (approximately $74,000) account for the remainder of the change in balance.

 

  · Assets held for Sale decreased from $24,107 at March 31, 2012 to $0 at June 30, 2012 from the residual assets associated with the previously reported sale of Group Technologies GmbH for $49,256 on March 8, 2012.

  

At June 30, 2012, our Total Non-Current Assets were $56,985,522 as compared to $61,814,986 at March 31, 2012. Total Non-Current Assets consist of: Property (plant and equipment), Financial Assets, Investments in Related Company, Deferred Tax Assets, Goodwill, Software and Other Assets.

 

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· Net Property (plant and equipment) increased from $1,597,326 at March 31, 2012 to $1,690,843 at June 30, 2012 attributable primarily to additional assets purchased within IDC Global, Inc. ( approximately $139,000), the sale of SD Holdings’ fixed assets (approximately $18,000) with the remainder being current depreciation charges.

 

· Financial Assets decreased from $1,998,194 at March 31, 2012 to $938,243 at June 30, 2012, which includes a decrease in intercompany loans of approximately $1,050,000.

 

· Investments in Related Company increased from $244,219 at March 31, 2012 to $265,438 at June 30, 2012.

 

· Deferred Tax Assets increased from $3,945,272 at March 31, 2012 to $4,588,618 at June 30, 2012 and consisted of Deferred Tax Assets derived from Financial Assets and Losses carried forward.

 

· Goodwill decreased from $39,744,686 at March 31, 2012 to $35,210,705 at June 30, 2012 and consisted of the goodwill associated with eight business entities. The decrease during the quarter resulted from the sale of SD Holdings with goodwill of $2,213,100. There was a reduction of $2,320,844 for negative goodwill described in Note 12.

 

· Software increased from $14,039,149 at March 31, 2012 to $14,195,605 at June 30, 2012, 2012 as a result of the quarterly calculation of capitalized development costs, product rights and license for our expert business software, legacy business software and strategic business software all in the developmental or improvement stage.

 

· Other Assets decreased from $246,140 at March 31, 2012 to $96,070 at June 30, 2012. This decrease was due to tax credits and other deposits divested with the sale of SD Holdings, Ltd.

 

Liabilities:

 

Total Liabilities decreased from $26,871,761 at March 31, 2012 to $25,198,457 at June 30, 2012. Total Liabilities consists of Total Current Liabilities and Total Non-Current Liabilities.

 

At June 30, 2012, our Total Current Liabilities were $19,869,247 compared to $19,154,936 at March 31, 2012. Total Current Liabilities consist of Notes Payable, Liabilities to Banks, Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities, Deferred Income, Other Liabilities and Amounts Due to Related Parties.

 

· Notes Payable decreased from $1,381,821 at March 31, 2012 to $0 at June 30, 2012. $1,286 was converted into shares of GROUP AG with the balance being repaid in cash.

 

· Liabilities to Banks decreased from $19,651 at March 31, 2012 to $11,270 at June 30, 2012 on payments of a line of credit by a subsidiary.

 

· Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilitie s decreased from $5,919,788 at March 31, 2012 to $5,533,048 at June 30, 2012. This includes trades payables, tax accruals and other accruals as detailed in Note 16..

 

· Deferred Income increased from $6,421,502 at March 31, 2011 to $10,598,489 at June 30, 2012 encompassing maintenance income collected in advance after the close of the fiscal quarter. The increase relates to contracts for annual services which are routinely billed to customers in the first quarter.

 

  · Other Liabilities of $4,237,071 at March 31, 2012 decreased to $3,157,050 at June 30, 2012 primarily as a result of a $1,150,000 payment made to the shareholders of Permessa Corporation for the initial purchase of this entity. Payments reclassified from long term to currently due on prior purchases of software (approximately $16,000), tax liabilities and other receivables (approximately $54,000) were increases within this account.

 

· Amounts Due to Related Parties decreased from $1,175,103 at March 31, 2012 to $569,391 at June 30, 2012.

 

At June 30, 2012, our Total Non-Current Liabilities were $5,329,210, compared to $7,716,825 at March 31, 2012. Total Non-Current Liabilities consist of Liabilities to Banks, Deferred Tax Liabilities, Retirement Benefit Obligation, and Other Liabilities.

 

· Liabilities to Banks increased from $3,463,483 at March 31, 2012 to $3,886,791 at June 30, 2012 and consisted of a long-term business line of credit due to the Baden-Württembergische Bank. The increase in notes payable is due to the funding of expenditures consistent with the advancement of our technology and overall business plan.

 

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· Deferred Tax Liabilities decreased from $1,196,472 at March 31, 2012 to $1,169,549 at June 30, 2012 resulting from the deferred taxes associated with the capitalization of software expenses, the purchase price allocation of acquired assets, and the temporary adjustment of depreciation.

 

· Retirement Benefit Obligation increased from $150,632 at March 31, 2012 to $155,157 at June 30, 2012.

 

· Other Liabilities decreased from $2,906, 238 at March 31, 2012 to $117,713 at June 30, 2012 primarily as a result of the exercise of convertible debt to capital in GROUP AG shares ($2,266,075), convertible debt to capital in Company shares ($632,500) and an increase in a capital lease (approximately $110,000).

 

Revenues

 

For the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2012, our Net Sales increased to $8,308,651 from $5,676,430 for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2011. The Company generates nets sales from Licenses, Maintenance, Services, Third-Party Products and Others.

 

Product revenue increased from $1,796,151 to $2,939,070. An increase in Third Party Products primarily accounted for the increase (approximately $1,046,000) with an increase in revenue licenses also contributing (approximately $ 97,000).

 

The increase of Service revenue from $3,880,279 to $5,369,581 generated from the service driven acquisitions of Pavone AG in April, 2011 (approximately $633,000) and IDC Global, Inc. in July, 2011 (approximately $1,357,000) with a decrease (approximately $501,000) from other subsidiaries.

 

Cost of Goods Sold

 

For the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2012, our Cost of Goods Sold increased to $5,073,087 from $2,589,348 over the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2011.  Cost of Goods Sold consists of Cost for Services, Cost for Third-Party Products and Cost for Software Licenses.   

 

Within Cost of Goods Sold was an increase of $1,811,612 for costs related to the Products Division of Revenue and an increase of $672,127 for the associated costs within the Services Division of Revenue. Increases were in the following categories: materials (approximately $1,812,000) salaried personnel (approximately $301,000), depreciation (approximately $165,000), and operating costs (approximately $390,000). Other Income recorded within Cost of Goods Sold presented a decrease to the overall expense category (approximately 184,000 and related to the capitalization of software.

 

Cost of Goods Sold increases were primarily associated with the recent acquistions of Pavone and IDC Global (approximately $1,180,000) and the additional material costs incurred through GROUP AG (approximately $ 1,215,000).

 

Operating Expenses

 

For the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2012, our Operating Expenses increased to $5,890,200 from $5,365,634 over the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2011. Operating Expenses consist of Selling Expenses, Administrative Expenses and General Expenses.

 

For the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2012, our Selling Expenses increased to $4,455,119 from $3,663,474 for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2011. Selling Expenses consist of costs for the Sales, Marketing and Service units and has increased in relation to the additional companies acquired and in support of the overall increased sales generated. Build up and additional marketing expenses were incurred in anticipation of, and as part of, our go to market sales strategy for new technology. Approximately $861,000 of that increase resulted from new acquisitions of Pavone and IDC and the associated personnel, materials and sales operating costs offset with a reduction of approximately $69,000 in other subsidiaries.

 

For the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2012, our Administrative Expenses decreased to $1,278,377 from $1,499,856 for the fiscal quarter ended June, 2011. Administrative Expenses consist of costs for the management and administration units. Most significant decreases included in these expenses accounting for approximately $211,000 include travel, external service and consultancy costs.

 

For the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2012, our General Expenses decreased to $156,703 from $202,304 for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2011 in response to newly administered budgeting procedures and reduction in General personnel.

 

Other Income (Expense)

 

For the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2012, Other Income of $30,781 was increased from Other Expense of $745,488 for fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2011. This includes income from investments of associate companies (approximately $11,000) and other income (approximately $65,000)

 

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Income taxes (Expense)

 

As a result of the change in the majority ownership of GROUP Business Software in 2011 and based on the current legal situation, management has determined it is more likely than not that the tax losses carried forward for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011 will not be available as a deduction to determine taxable income. Therefore, the deferred tax assets from the losses carried forward for GROUP Business Software AG in an amount of $3,691,000 were written off in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011 and included in income tax expense.

 

For the quarter ended June 30, 2012 a statutory tax range from 23% to 34% has been applied resulting in an expected income tax recovery of $7,986,000. This is reduced by price allocations from consolidation of $2,798,000, permanent differences of $1,061,000, temporary differences of $ 66,000, effect of tax rate changes of $ 593,000, valuation allowances of $ 561,000 and an increase of deferred income tax assets of $ 207,000. The total amount of income tax recovery has been $ 3,114,000.

 

Liquidity & Capital Resources

 

At June 30, 2012 we had $1,357,487 in cash and cash equivalents, compared to $1,502,977 at March 31, 2012. At June 30, 2012, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $13,922,428 and stockholders’ equity of $42,952,697.

 

In March 2011, the Company consummated a private placement offering of an aggregate of 6,044,000 Units at a purchase price of $1.25 per Unit, for gross proceeds of $7,555,000. Each Unit was comprised of one share of Common Stock and one three-year Warrant to purchase one share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $1.50 per share (“Private Placement Warrant”). The number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Private Placement Investor Warrants and corresponding exercise prices are subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split, dividend, recapitalization, reclassification and otherwise. The Private Placement Warrants are only exercisable by the payment of cash. Pursuant to the terms of the Private Placement Warrants, the warrant holders are required to exercise their Private Placement Warrants in the event our Common Stock trades at an average of at least $3.00 per share for a period of not less than 20 consecutive trading days. Also, throughout the three year exercise period of the Private Placement Warrants, the Company has the right to redeem the Warrants for $0.05 per share.

 

In March 2012, we issued an aggregate of 2,020,000 warrants to five “accredited investors” pursuant to Section 4(2) of the Securities Act (the “Investor Warrants”). Each Investor Warrant is exercisable for the three-year period commencing from the date of issuance for $0.50 per share of Common Stock and has the same terms as the Private Placement Warrants.

 

On April 9, 2012, the Company filed a Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No: 333-180626) (the “Registration Statement”) therein registering the 6,044,000 shares of Common Stock underlying the Private Placement Warrants and 2,020,000 underlying the Investor Warrants on behalf of the selling stockholders named in the Registration Statement (the “Selling Stockholders”). As of the date of this Form 10-Q, the Registration Statement has not been declared effective under the Securities Act by the SEC. The Company is in the process of amending the Registration Statement in response to the SEC’s most recent comments regarding the first amendment to the Registration Statement filed on July 19, 2012.

 

We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares of Common Stock by the Selling Stockholders. We will, however, receive proceeds in the event the Private Placement Warrants and Investor Warrants are exercised by the Selling Stockholders. As of the date of this Form 10-Q, the Selling Stockholders have exercised an aggregate of 2,025,000 Private Placement Warrants and 900,000 Investor Warrants, for gross proceeds of $3,487,500. If the outstanding 4,019,000 Private Placement Warrants and 1,120,000 Investor Warrants are exercised, we will receive an aggregate of $6,588,500 in additional gross proceeds. However, there can be no assurance that any additional warrants will be exercised. To date, we have used the proceeds of the warrants already exercised for general corporate working capital purposes. We intend to use the proceeds from the exercise of any additional warrants to increase marketing, advertising and Modernization Services, to form development teams and for general corporate working capital purposes. The Board of Directors of the Company has broad discretion as to the use of the net proceeds from any exercise of the warrants and may change the allocation of such proceeds without shareholder notice or consent.

 

On April 16, 2012, the Company sold 120,000 Units to Joerg Ott, the then Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company, for a purchase price of $1.50 per Unit, for a total purchase price of $180,000. Each Unit consisted of one share of Common Stock of the Company and one warrant to purchase one share of Common Stock of the Company from the date of issuance until the third anniversary date of the date of issuance for $1.50 per share. The Company sold the Units and underlying securities to Mr. Ott in reliance on Section 4(2) of the Securities Act due to the fact that the issuance was isolated and did not involve a public offering of securities.

 

On April 28, 2012, $632,500 in notes payable to RealRisk Ventures, LLC (“RealRisk”) were converted into 550,000 shares of common stock and to receive the warrant described below. On February 22, 2012, the Company had issued a Convertible Promissory Note (the “RealRisk Note”) to RealRisk in the principal amount of $632 ,500 bearing interest at the rate of 4.5% per year and maturing on June 30, 2012. The Company issued the RealRisk Note pursuant to Section 4(2) under the Securities Act due to the fact that the issuance was isolated and did not involve a public offering of securities. The outstanding principal and interest under the RealRisk Note was convertible by the holder thereof into shares of the Company’s Common Stock at a rate of $1.15 per share prior to May 15, 2012. Under the RealRisk Note, if the holder converted such note prior to May 1, 2012, the Company would issue the holder a warrant to purchase 550,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock for a period commencing on the date of issuance until the third anniversary date of the date of issuance for $1.75 per share.

 

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On April 30, 2012, $ 632,500 in notes payable to Lotus Holdings Ltd. (“Lotus Holdings”) were converted into 550,000 shares of common stock and a warrant described below. On January 5, 2012, the Company had issued a Convertible Promissory Note (the “Lotus Note”) to Lotus Holdings for the principal amount of $500,000 bearing interest at the rate of 4.5% per year and maturing on June 30, 2012. The Company issued the Lotus Note pursuant to Section 4(2) under the Securities Act due to the fact that the issuance was isolated and did not involve a public offering of securities. The outstanding principal and interest under the Lotus Note was convertible by the holder thereof into shares of the Company’s Common Stock at a rate of $1.15 per share prior to May 15, 2012. Under the Lotus Note, if the holder converted such note prior to May 1, 2012, the Company would issue the holder a warrant to purchase 500,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock for a period commencing on the date of issuance until the third anniversary date of the date of issuance for $1.75 per share.

 

On May 10, 2012, the Company sold 30,000 Units to Markus R. Ernst, the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, for a purchase price of $1.50 per Unit, for a total purchase price of $45,000. Each Unit consists of one share of Common Stock of the Company and one warrant to purchase one share of Common Stock of the Company from the date of issuance until the third anniversary date of the date of issuance for $1.50 per share. The Company sold the Units and underlying securities to Mr. Ernst in reliance on Section 4(2) of the Securities Act due to the fact that the issuance was isolated and did not involve a public offering of securities. As of June 30, 2012, the Company has not issued these the 30,000 shares of Common Stock underlying under the Units but such shares are deemed to be beneficially owned by Mr. Ernst.

 

On May 15, 2012, the Company issued 150,000 unregistered shares of Common Stock to Kjell Jahn, the former selling stockholder of GroupWare, AG, a Florida corporation purchased by the Company in June 2011. The Company issued the shares in reliance on Section 4(2) of the Securities Act due to the fact that the issuance was isolated and did not involve a public offering of securities.

 

On August 13, 2012, the Company entered into a Note Purchase and Security Agreement with John A. Moore, a member of the Board of Directors of the Company, and his spouse (collectively, the “Lender”) pursuant to which the Company sold a secured promissory note (the “Note”) to the Lender in the aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000 bearing interest at a rate of 20% per year and maturing on the first anniversary date of the issuance with a 2% prepayment penalty. To secure the obligations of the Company under the Note, the Company granted the Lender a first priority security interest in the accounts receivable of the Company and its subsidiaries located in the United States of America on a one-for-one (1:1) basis. The Company intends to use the proceeds for working capital purposes.

 

In the future, the Company may supplement its liquidity to fund its operations or implement its business strategy through the sale of equity or debt securities or through short or long term loans. However, there can be no assurances that the Company will be successful in consummating any such financings on favorable terms, if at all.

 

Cash Flows

 

    Fiscal Quarter Ended     Fiscal Quarter Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2012     2011  
Net cash provided (used in) Operating Activities   $ (2,983,110 )   $ 1,963,625  
Net cash provided by (used in) Investing Activities   $ 3,393,214     $ (2,758,662 )
Net cash provided (used in) by Financing Activities   $ (521,180 ))   $ (1,121,012 )
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash   $ (34,414 )   $ 191,125  
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents during the period   $ (145,490 )   $ (1,724,924 )
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period   $ 1,502,977     $ 8,530,864  
                 
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period   $ 1,357,487     $ 6,805,940  

 

Cash Flows

 

Net Cash used by operating activities for the three month period ending June 30, 2012 was approximately $3.0 million compared to net cash provided by operating activities for the three month period ending June 30, 2011 of approximately $2.0 million. This change is primarily due to the expenditures made by the Company for the development of the strategic areas of GBS. The cash provided by investing activities during the three month period ending June 30, 2012 was approximately $3.4 million. This increase was primarily from the sale of intangible assets of approximately $1.8 million and an increase in financial assets of approximately $1.9 million which resulted from a decrease of intercompany loans (and related exchange costs) during the three month period ending June 30, 2012. Net cash used in financing activities decreased from approximately $1.1 million for the three month period ended June 30, 2011 to approximately $0.5 million for the three month period ended June 30, 2012. The decrease during the three month period was primarily due to a debt to equity swap in GROUP Business Software AG and approximately $1.5 million provided from the issuance of additional shares and warrants.

 

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CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND ESTIMATES

 

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.  The areas where critical estimates were made that have significant importance to the financial statements are as follows:

 

i.       Allowance for doubtful accounts. The company provides for potential bad debts on an account-by-account basis. Bad debts have not been significant and our allowance has been accurate. Non-trade receivables are also scrutinized and allowed for based on expected recovery. One significant item ($1,902,000) which was previously written off was re-evaluated and reinstated during fiscal 2011. The amount was subsequently paid.

 

ii.       Allocation of the price paid when acquiring subsidiaries. When the Company acquires subsidiary companies an allocation of the purchase is required. The allocation is based on management’s analysis of the value of the net assets, and is based on estimated future cash flows that each component will produce. Such components might include software, customer lists and other intangible assets that are not readily determinable. The allocation has a significant impact on the future earnings of the Company as certain assets, customer lists for example, must be amortized and charged to operations over time, while other assets, notably goodwill, does not.

 

iii.      Impairment testing on intangibles and goodwill. As noted in more detail below, these areas involve numerous estimates as to expected cash flows, expected rates of return and other factors that are difficult to determine and are often out of the Company’s direct control. Accordingly, the Company adopts a conservative approach.

 

iv.      Valuation of deferred tax credits. The Company provides an allowance for tax recoveries arising from the application of losses carried forward. An allowance is provided where management has determined that it is less than likely that the loss will be applied and income taxes recovered.

 

Comprehensive Income (Loss)

 

The Company adopted the FASB Codification topic (“ASC”) 220, “Reporting Comprehensive Income”, which establishes standards for the reporting and display of comprehensive income and its components in the financial statements. Comprehensive income consists of net income and other gains and losses affecting stockholder's equity that are excluded from net income, such as unrealized gains and losses on investments available for sale, foreign currency translation gains and losses and minimum pension liability. Since inception, the Company’s other comprehensive income represents foreign currency translation adjustments and small net actuarial losses on pension plans.

 

Net Income per Common Share

 

ASC 260, “Earnings per share”, requires dual presentation of basic and diluted earnings per share (EPS) with a reconciliation of the numerator and denominator of the EPS computations. Basic earnings per share amounts are based on the weighted average shares of common stock outstanding. If applicable, diluted earnings per share would assume the conversion, exercise or issuance of all potential common stock instruments such as options, warrants and convertible securities, unless the effect is to reduce a loss or increase earnings per share. Diluted net income (loss) per share on the potential exercise of the equity-based financial instruments is not presented where anti-dilutive. Accordingly, although the diluted weighted average number of common stock outstanding is disclosed on the statements of operation, the calculated net loss per share is the same for both the basic and diluted as both are based on the basic weighted average of common stock outstanding. There were no adjustments required to net income for the period presented in the computation of diluted earnings per share.

 

Financial Instruments

 

Financial instruments consist of cash and cash equivalents, accounts and other receivable, financial assets, notes payable, liabilities to banks, accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities, due to related parties and retirement benefit obligations. Financial assets and liabilities are measured upon first recognition and reviewed at the financial statement date. Changes in fair value are recognized through profit and loss. Unless otherwise noted, it is management’s opinion that the Company is not exposed to significant interest or credit risks arising from these financial instruments.

 

Currency Risk

 

We use the US dollar as our reporting currency. The functional currencies of our significant foreign subsidiaries are the local currency, which includes the Euro, the British pound and the Bulgarian Lev. Accordingly, some assets and liabilities are incurred in those currencies and we are subject to foreign currency risks.

 

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Fair Value Measurements

 

The Company follows ASC 820, “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures”, for all financial instruments and non-financial instruments accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis. This new accounting standard establishes a single definition of fair value and a framework for measuring fair value, sets out a fair value hierarchy to be used to classify the source of information used in fair value measurement and expands disclosures about fair value measurements required under other accounting pronouncements. It does not change existing guidance as to whether or not an instrument is carried at fair value. The Company defines fair value as the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. When determining the fair value measurements for assets and liabilities, which are required to be recorded at fair value, the Company considers the principal or most advantageous market in which the Company would transact and the market-based risk measurements or assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability, such as inherent risk, transfer restrictions and credit risk.

 

The Company has adopted ASC 825, Financial Instruments, which allows companies to choose to measure eligible financial instruments and certain other items at fair value that are not required to be measured at fair value. The Company has not elected the fair value option for any eligible financial instruments.

 

Cash and Cash Equivalents

 

The Company considers all highly liquid instruments with a maturity of three months or less at the time of issuance to be cash equivalents.

 

Inventories

 

Pursuant to ASC 330 (Inventories), inventories held for sale are recognized under inventories. Inventories were measured at the lower of cost or market. Cost is determined on a first-in-first out basis, without any overhead component.

 

Goodwill and other Intangible Assets

 

Intangible assets predominately include goodwill, acquired software and capitalized software development.. Intangible assets acquired in exchange for payment are reflected at acquisition costs. If the development costs can be capitalized per ASC 985-20-25, these are reflected as ascribable personnel and overhead costs.

 

Company created software can be intended for sale to third parties or used by the Company itself. If the conditions for capitalization are not met, the expenses are recorded with their effect on profit in the year in which they were incurred.

 

The Company amortizes intangible assets with a limited useful life to the estimated residual book value in accordance with ASC regulations. In addition, in special circumstances according to ASC 350-30, a recoverability test is performed and, if applicable, unscheduled amortization is considered.

 

The useful life of acquired software is between three and five years and three years for Company-created software.

 

Intangible assets obtained as part of an acquisition which do not meet the criteria for a separate entry are identified as goodwill. Goodwill is reviewed once a year during an impairment test, whereby the appraised fair value of the invested capital of the reporting unit, is compared with the carrying (book) value of its invested capital amount (including goodwill.) Use value is generally applied in order to determine the recoverability of goodwill and intangible assets with an indefinite useful life. The projected financial plan prepared by the management serves as the basis for this determination of use value and the planning assumptions are each adjusted for the current state of knowledge. Reasonable assumptions regarding macroeconomic trends and historical developments are taken into account in making these adjustments. Future estimated cash flows are determined based on the expected growth rates of the markets in question.

 

If the carrying amount of the reporting unit exceeds the appraised fair value, the impairment based on use value measures the amount of loss, if any, and an unscheduled amortization expense is recorded. If the appraised value of the reporting unit exceeds its carrying amount, goodwill of the reporting unit is not considered to be impaired.

 

Property, Plant and Equipment

 

Property, plant and equipment are valued at acquisition or manufacturing costs reduced by scheduled and, if necessary, unscheduled depreciation. Fixed assets are depreciated on a straight-line basis, prorated over their expected useful life. Scheduled depreciation for property, plant and equipment is based on useful lives of 3 to 10 years. Leasehold Improvements are depreciated up to 40 years.

 

If fixed assets are sold, retired or scrapped, the profit or loss arising from the difference between the net sales proceeds and the residual book value are included under other operating earnings and expenses.

 

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Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets

 

The Company evaluates the recoverability of its fixed assets and other assets in accordance with ASC topic, 360.10. This guidance requires recognition of impairment of long-lived assets in the event the net book value of such assets exceeds its’ expected cash flows or appraised value In this instance, the asset is considered to be impaired and is written down to fair value.

 

Revenue Recognition

 

License Revenues

 

License revenues

 

Our license revenues consist of revenues earned from the licensing of our software products. These products are generally licensed on a perpetual basis. Pricing models have generally been based either upon the physical infrastructure, such as the number of physical desktop computers or servers, on which our software runs or on a per user basis. License revenues are recognized when the elements of revenue recognition for the licensed software are complete, generally upon electronic shipment of the software and the software key to provide full access to all functionalities for our customers. In general, our invoices reflect license, service and maintenance components. In the case of multi element contracts, the revenues allocated to the software license represent the residual amount of the contract after the fair value of the other elements have been determined. Certain products of our software offering are licensed on a subscription basis.

 

Software maintenance revenues

 

Software maintenance revenues are recognized ratably on a pro-rata basis over the range of the contract period. Our contract periods typically range from one to five years. Vendor-specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) of fair value for software maintenance services is established by the rates charged in stand-alone sales of software maintenance contracts or the stated renewal rate for software maintenance. Customers who are party to software maintenance agreements with us are entitled to receive support, product updates and upgrades on a when-and-if-available basis.

 

Professional services revenues

 

Professional services include pre-project consulting, software design, customization, project management, implementation and training. Professional services are not considered essential to the functionality of our products, as these services do not alter the product capabilities and may be performed by our customers or by other vendors. Professional services engagements performed for a fixed fee, for which we are able to make reasonably dependable estimates of progress toward completion, are recognized on a proportional performance basis based on hours incurred and estimated hours of completion. Professional services engagements that are on a time and materials basis are recognized based on hours incurred. Revenues on all other professional services engagements are recognized upon completion. Our professional services may be sold with software products or on a stand-alone basis. Vendor Specific Objective Evidence (VSOE) of fair value for professional services is based upon the standard rates we charge for such services when sold separately.

 

Foreign Currency Translation

 

The functional currency of the Company is US dollars. For financial reporting purposes, the financial statements of the subsidiary companies whose functional currency is other than US dollars were translated into US dollars using the current rate method. Assets and liabilities were translated at the exchange rates at the balance sheet dates, revenue and expenses were translated at the average exchange rates and stockholders’ equity was translated at historical exchange rates. Any translation adjustments resulting are not included in determining net income but are included in foreign exchange adjustment to other comprehensive income, a component of stockholders’ equity .

 

Other Provisions

 

According to FASB ASC 450 “Contingencies”, provisions are made whenever there is a current obligation to third parties resulting from a past event which is likely in the future to lead to an outflow of resources and of which the amount can be reliably estimated. Provisions not already resulting in an outflow of resources in the following year are recognized at their discounted settlement amount on the financial statement date. The discount taken is based on market interest rates. The settlement amount also includes the expected cost increases. Provisions are not set off against contribution claims. If the amended estimate leads to a reduction of the obligatory amount, the provision is proportionally reversed and the earnings are recognized in other operating earnings.

   

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Deferred Taxes

 

Income taxes are provided in accordance with FASB Codification topic 740, “Accounting for Income Taxes”. A deferred tax asset or liability is recorded for all temporary differences between financial and tax reporting and net operating loss-carry forwards.

 

Deferred tax assets are reduced by a valuation allowance when, in the opinion of management, it is more likely than not that, that some portion or all of the deferred tax asset will not be realized. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are adjusted for the effect of changes in tax laws and rates on the date of enactment.

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

  

In July 2012, the FASB issued ASU 2011-08, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Testing Goodwill for Impairment. With the objective of reducing the cost and complexity of performing an impairment test for indefinite-lived intangible assets by simplifying how an entity tests those assets for impairment and to improve consistency in impairment testing guidance among long-loved asset categories. The amendments permit an entity first to assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that an indefinite-lived intangible asset is impaired as a basis for determining whether it is necessary to perform the quantitative impairment test in accordance with Subtopic 350-30, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other – General Intangibles Other than Goodwill. The more-likely-than-not threshold is defined as having the likelihood of more than 50 percent. The amendments are effective for annual and interim impairment tests performed beginning April 1, 2013. Adoption of this new standard is not expected to have significant impact to the Company’s financial statement.

  

Principles of Consolidation and Reverse Acquisition

 

As previously disclosed, the Company originally exchanged a total of 5,405,411 shares of common stock in exchange for 50.1% of the outstanding common shares of GROUP (and retained its 50.1% shareholding by acquiring an additional 883,765 shares of GROUP on February 27, 2012). Although the Company was the legal acquirer, the transaction was accounted for as a recapitalization of GROUP in the form of a reverse merger, whereby GROUP became the accounting acquirer and was deemed to have retroactively adopted the capital structure of the Corporation. Accordingly, the accompanying consolidated financial statements reflect the historical consolidated financial statements of GROUP for all periods presented, and do not include the historical financial statements of the Company. All costs associated with the reverse merger transaction were expensed as incurred. Those expenses totaled approximately $300,000 and were included in professional fees in administrative expenses.

 

The Company has based its financial reporting for the consolidation with GROUP in accordance with FASB Accounting Standard Codification (ASC) 805-40 as it relates to reverse acquisitions. Goodwill has been measured as the excess of the fair value of the consideration effectively transferred by the Company, the acquiree, for financial reporting purposes, over the net amount of the Company’s recognized identifiable assets and liabilities.

 

We have recorded the acquired assets and liabilities of GBSX on the acquisition date of January 6, 2011, at their fair value and the operations of GBSX have been included in the consolidated financial statements since the acquisition date.

 

The assets and liabilities of GROUP, the acquirer for financial reporting purposes, are measured and recognized in the consolidated financial statements at their precombination carrying amounts in accordance with ASC 805-40-45-2(a). Therefore, in a reverse acquisition, the non-controlling interest reflects the non-controlling shareholders’ proportionate interest in the pre-combination carrying amounts of GROUP’s net assets even though the non-controlling interests in other acquisitions are measured at their fair values at the acquisition date.

 

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It should also be noted that the Company and GROUP have different year-end reporting dates. The Company’s fiscal year-end reporting date is March 31 and GROUP’s calendar year-end reporting date is December 31. The consolidation of these entities for financial reporting purposes has been performed without any adjustments for timing differences between these two reporting dates in accordance Regulation S-X Rule 3A-02.

 

Due to recent conversations with the SEC, the Company intends to change its fiscal year end from March 31 to the calendar year end beginning with the 2013 to be the first fiscal year to correspond with the fiscal year end of GROUP. The Company believes these changes will allow the simplification of transaction and reporting processes to support future growth. Historical results will not be restated. In addition, the Company intends to amend its annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012 and the quarterly report for the first, second and third quarters of that fiscal year and the first and second quarters of this fiscal year to reflect the change in the Company's fiscal year end to a calendar year end.

 

OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS

 

We have not entered into any other financial guarantees or other commitments to guarantee the payment obligations of any third parties. We have not entered into any derivative contracts that are indexed to our shares and classified as shareholder’s equity or that are not reflected in our consolidated financial statements. Furthermore, we do not have any retained or contingent interest in assets transferred to an unconsolidated entity that serves as credit, liquidity or market risk support to such entity. We do not have any variable interest in any unconsolidated entity that provides financing, liquidity, market risk or credit support to us or engages in leasing, hedging or research and development services with us.

 

Item 4. Controls and Procedures.

 

Evaluation of Controls and Procedures.

 

In accordance with Exchange Act Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15, our management is required to perform an evaluation under the supervision and with the participation of the Company’s management, including the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period.

 

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

 

Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our principal executive officer and the principal financial officer, we have conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on this evaluation, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer concluded as of the evaluation date that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective.

 

Changes in Internal Controls over Financial Reporting

 

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2012 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

However, subsequent to our June 30, 2012 financial statement date, and as described more fully in the Principles of Consolidation and Reverse Merger, we believe we have sufficiently remedied any disclosure control and procedure that was deemed ineffective during the previous evaluation. This was accomplished by a decision to change our fiscal year to December 31st, and the shift from the principles of Regulation S-X.

  

PART II-OTHER INFORMATION

 

Item 5. Other Information.

 

Subsequent Events

 

On July 6, 2012 and August 9, 2012, Pavone AG and Groupware AG, respectively, were merged into Pavone GmbH. The mergers were consummated solely for administrative purposes. Pavone GmbH is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company.

 

Pursuant to an existing transfer agreement, effective as of July 1, 2012, the Company entered into a purchase agreement with SYN for an a purchase price of $1,877,232, and acquired all assets, including intellectual property rights, and liabilities of the IntelliPRINT and FewClix product lines, customer contracts and certain employees for operations in a new subsidiary, GBS India Private India, an incorporated entity formed under the Indian Companies Act 1956 (“GBS India”). In addition, a royalty fee in the amount of approximately $350,000 has been agreed upon for the benefit the Company. Additionally a profit based fee of up to $700,000 may be earned based on license and revenue recognized from the sold IntelliVIEW and IntelliVIEW NXT products.

 

On August 1, 2012, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding shares of capital stock of GBS India. We anticipate GBS India's presence in India to accelerate our plan to expand our product development team particularly for our strategic offerings in India.

 

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As previously reported by the Company, Joerg Ott resigned as the Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer) of the Company on July11, 2012, effective immediately.  Mr. Ott will continue in his capacity as the Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors and as the Chief Executive Officer of GROUP.  On July 11, 2012, the Board of Directors of the Company appointed Gary D. MacDonald as the Managing Director of Worldwide Operations and Interim Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer) of the Company, effective immediately.  Mr. MacDonald has been serving as the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Development Officer since April 30, 2010, a member of the Board of Directors since December 2, 2011 and a member of the Board’s Audit Committee since March 1, 2012.

  

Item 6. Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.:   Description:
3.1(1)   Certificate of Incorporation, dated June 5, 2012, of GBS India Private Limited
     
10.1(1)   Purchase Agreement, dated June 6, 2012, between GBS Enterprises Incorporated (as Purchaser) and SD Holdings, Ltd. (as Seller)
     
10.2(1)   Purchase Agreement, dated April 2, 2012, between GBS Enterprises Incorporated (as Seller) and Lotus Holdings, Ltd. (as Purchaser)
     
10.3(1)   Transfer Agreement, dated May 21, 2012 (effective as of July 1, 2012), between Synaptris Decisions Private Limited and GBS India Private Limited
     
31.1(1)   Rule 13(a)-14(a)/15(d)-14(a) Certification of Principal Executive Officer
     
31.2(1)   Rule 13(a)-14(a)/15(d)-14(a) Certification of Principal Financial and Accounting Officer
     
32.1(1)   Section 1350 Certification of Principal Executive Officer
     
32.2(1)   Section 1350 Certification of Principal Financial and Accounting Officer
     
101.INS (2)   XBRL Instance Document
     
101.SCH (2)   XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
     
101.CAL (2)   XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
     
101.LAB (2)   XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase Document
     
101.DEF (2)   XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
     
101.PRE (2)   XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document

 

(1) Filed herewith.
(2) Pursuant to Rule 406T of Regulation S-T, these interactive data files are deemed not filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and otherwise are not subject to liability under those sections.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

  GBS ENTERPRISES INCORPORATED
   
Date: September 13, 2012 By: /s/ Gary D. MacDonald
  Gary D. MacDonald
  Interim Chief Executive Officer
  (Principal Executive Officer)
   
Date: September 13, 2012 By: /s/ Markus R. Ernst
  Markus R. Ernst
  Chief Financial Officer
  (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

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Exhibit 10.1

 

SD HOLDINGS LTD.

 

-and -

 

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

 

 

  

PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

respecting

 

IntelliView Product line and Business

 

FewCiix Product Line and Business Receivables

 

from Synaptris Inc.and Kezava Inc. Payables to

 

GBS India.

 

 

 

 
 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

  INTERPRETATION 1
    1.1   Defined Tern1s 1
    1.2   Schedules 3
    1.3   Currency 3
    1.4   Payments 3
    1.5   Choice of Law and Attorney 4
    1.6   Interpretation Not Affected by Headings or Party Drafting  4
    1.7   Nun1ber and Gender 4
    1.8   Time of Essence 4
2 PURCHASE OF, SEPARATION OF AND REPURCHASE OF ASSETS 5
    2.1   Purchased Assets 5
    2.2   Excluded Assets 6
    2.3   Assumed Liabilities 6
    2.4   Retained Liabilities and Indemnity 6
3 PURCHASE AND REPURCHASE PRICE AND PAYMENT 7
    3.1   Purchase Price 7
    3.2   Payment of Purchase Price 7
    3.3   Prepaid Expenses and Adjustments 7
4 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT 7
5 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES 8
    5.1   Representations and Warranties 8
    5.2   Disclaimer Respecting Seller's Representations and Wa1Tanties 10
    5.3   Representations and Warranties by the Purchaser 10
    5.4   Survival of Warranties by Purchaser  11
6 COVENANTS AND ADDITIONAL TERMS 11
    6.1   Confidential Information 11
    6.2   Interim Period 12
    6.3   Covenants by the Seller 13
    6.4   Announcements 13
    6.5   Survival of Covenants 14
7 CLOSING 14
    7.1   Closing Arrangements 14
8 GENERAL CONTRACT TERMS 14
    8.1   Further Assurances 14
    8.2   Remedies Cumulative 14
    8.3   Notices 14
    8.4   Expenses of Parties 15
    8.5   Assignment 15
    8.6   Successors and Assigns 15
    8.7   Entire Agreement 15
    8.8   Waiver 16
    8.9   Amendments 16
    8.10  Counterparts 16
    8.11  Fax and E-Mail Execution 16

 

 
 

 

PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

Made as of the 6 111 day of June 2012

 

Between

 GBS ENTERPRISES INC.

a corporation incorporated under the laws of Nevada, USA

(the "Purchaser")

OF THE FIRST PART

and

  SD Holdings Ltd,

a corporation incorporated under the laws of Mauritius

(the "Seller"),

OF THE SECOND PART

witnesses that,

WHEREAS:

 

The Seller restructures his operations; and therefore the Seller wishes to sell and the Purchaser to purchase the certain assets on or before the Closing Day, effective as of the "Effective Day", as described herein.

 

THEREFORE:

 

In consideration of the premises and the mutual agreements and covenants hereinn contained, the parties hereto hereby covenant and agree as follows:

 

1           INTERPRETATION

 

1.1 Defined Terms.

(a)          In this agreement and in the schedules hereto, unless there is something in the subject matter or context inconsistent therewith, the following terms and expressions will have the following meanings:

 

(1) "Assumed Contracts" means the Customer Contracts, Other Contracts, the Licensed IP Agreements for the Business;

 

(2) "Assumed Employees" means the employees of the Business;

 

(3) "Assumed Liabilities" means the liabilities of the Purchaser which are to be assumed by the Seller pursuant to section 2.3 hereof;

 

(4) "Business" means the business carried on by the SO Holdings division of the Purchaser which comprises the development, marketing, distribution and licensing of the IBM Lotus Notes/Domino business and any related consulting and training, in particular but not limited to the Intelli Print and FewClix product lines;

 

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(5) "Business Restructuring"" means the separation of any data, documentation, website, domain, or any other related information to the FewClix products, the IntelliPrint product line, the related employees, receivables, the lease for the Synaptris Decision Ptv Ltd premises in Chennai, all related business and all related assets from the Business; .

 

(6) "Business Day" means any day other than a day which is a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday in the City of New York, NY, USA;

 

(7) "Business Records" means the books, records, files and documents relating to the operation of the Business and the ownership of the other assets transferred hereunder, including without limitation, sales and purchase records, lists of suppliers, credit information, cost and pricing information, business reports, plans and projections and all other correspondence, data and information, financial or otherwise, in any format and media whatsoever related thereto; but specifically excluding therefrom the corporate and financial records of the Purchaser and those records related to any assets not transferred hereunder.

 

(8) "Closing" means the completion of the purchase, repurchase and sale transactions as provided by this agreement;

 

(9) "Closing Day" means July 1, 2012, or such other date as the Seller and Purchaser, directly or by their legal counsel, agree in writing;

 

(10) "Closing Time" means the time at which the parties through their legal counsel agree to attend to the Closing;

 

(II) "Condition" of the Business means the condition of the assets, liabilities, operations, activities, earnings, prospects, affairs or financial position of the Business as of June 26, 2012;

 

(12) "Conditions Precedent" means the Closing will not occur prior to the completion of the events described in Section 4 hereof;;

 

(13) "Effective Day" means July 1 st , 2012;

 

(14) "Encumbrances" means mortgages, charges, pledges, security interests, liens, encumbrances, actions, claims, demands and equities of any nature whatsoever or howsoever arising and any rights or privileges capable of becoming any of the foregoing;

 

(15) "Interim Period" is the time from execution of this agreement until the Closing Time.

 

(16) "Payment" means any wire transfers from the Purchaser, or from an affiliated party to the Purchaser, to the Seller, or to an affiliated party to the Seller;

 

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(17) "Person" means and includes any i individual, corporation, partnership, firm, joint venture, syndicate, association, trust, government, governmental agency or board or commission or authority. and any other form of entity or organization;

 

(18) "Prepaid Expenses" means prepaid contracts and rights relating exclusively to the Business, including and not limited to rent and deposits for utilities, and employee advances.

 

(19) "Purchase Price" means the amount payable by the Purchaser to the Seller for all of the Purchased Assets, as provided in Section 3. 1 hereof;

 

(20) "Purchased Assets" means the IntelliPrint and FewCii x computer software application for Lotus Notes and any other computer software based on the lntelliPrint product, including all past and current versions and all versions in development, and including all source code, progran1 code and documentation in any format related thereto, and all patent rights, copyrights, and other proprietary rights therein. As well as all receivables to be paid by Synaptris Incorporated and Keezava Incorporated to the Seller.

 

(21) "Warranty Claim" means a claim made by either the Seller or the Purchaser based on or with respect to the inaccuracy or nun-performance or non-fulfillment or breach of any representation or warranty made by the other party contained in this agreement or contained in any document or certificate given in order to carry out the transactions contemplated hereby; and

 

(22) "Work-in-progress" means the work-in-progress of the Business.

 

(b)          Any reference herein to "the best of the knowledge" of the Purchaser will mean the actual knowledge of the Purchaser's representative, Ronald R. Durban, a director of the Purchaser, and the knowledge which he would have had if he had conducted a diligent inquiry into the relevant subject matter.

 

1.2 Schedules

The schedules which are attached to this agreement are incorporated into this agreement by reference and are deemed to be part hereof

 

1.3 Currency

Unless otherwise stated, all dollar amounts referred to in this agreement are in United States dollars.

 

1.4 Payments.

All payments shall be made by bank wire transfer in immediately available funds.

 

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1.5 Choice of Law and Attorney.

Each Party irrevocably y submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of (i) the state courts of the State of New York, NY, USA and (ii) the United States District Court for the District of Manhattan for the purposes of any suit, action or other proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement, any other Transaction Document or any transaction contemplated hereby or thereby. Each Party agrees to commence any action, suit or proceeding relating hereto only in either such court. Each Party irrevocably y and unconditionally waives any objection to the laying of venue of any action, suit or proceeding arising out of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby in (A) the state court of the State of New York, NY, USA, or (B) the United States District Court for the District of Manhattan, and hereby further irrevocably and unconditionally waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court that any such action, suit or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. Each Party further irrevocably consents to the service of process out of any of the aforementioned courts in any such suit, action or other proceeding by the mailing of copies thereof by mail to such Party at its address set fo1th in this Agreement, such service of process to be effective upon acknowledgment of receipt of such registered mail ; provided that nothing in this Section 1 .5 shall affect the right of any Party to serve legal process in any other manner permitted by Law. The consent to jurisdiction set forth in this Section 1.5 shall not constitute a general consent to service of process in the State of New York and shall have no effect for any purpose except as provided in this Section 1.5. The Parties agree that a final judgment in any such suit, action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by Law.

 

1.6 Interpretation Not Affected by Headings or Party Drafting

The division of this agreement into articles, sections, paragraphs, subparagraphs and clauses and the insertion of headings are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this agreement. The terms "this agreement" , " hereof ' , " herein" , "hereunder" and similar expressions refer to this agreement and the schedules hereto and not to any particular article, section, paragraph, subparagraph, clause or other portion hereof and include any agreement or instrument supplementary or ancillary hereto. Each party hereto acknowledges that it and its legal counsel have reviewed and participated in settling the terms of this agreement, and the parties here by agree that any rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguity i s to be resolved against the drafting party shall not be applicable in the interpretation of this agreement.

 

1.7 Number and Gender

In this agreement, unless there is something in the subject matter or context inconsistent therewith words in the singular number include the plural and words in the plural include the singular; and words importing the use of any gender shall include all genders; and the rest of the sentence shall be construed as if the necessary grammatical and terminological changes had been made.

 

1.8 Time of Essence

Time shall be of the essence hereof.

 

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2 PURCHASE OF, SEPARATION OF AND REPURCHASE OF ASSETS

 

2.1 Purchased Assets

On and subject to the terms contained herein, the Purchaser hereby agrees to sell and the Seller hereby agrees to purchase from the Purchaser, the Purchased Assets of the Business as a going concern, at the "Effective Day" comprising the followingng:

 

(1) all assets of SD Holdings IntelliPRINT and FewClix businesses, including all liabilities, all IP rights to products, if owned by SD Holdings or any subsidiary, comprising but not limited to all copyright and all associated all related code, specifications, documentation, revisions, enhancements and modifications thereto, in whatever form and media;

 

(2) all of the trademarks regarding these businesses owned by SD Holdings or its subsidiaries;

 

(3) the benefit of Customer Contracts, subject to assumption of the obligation of performance thereunder by the Seller;

 

(4) the benefit of the Other Contracts, subject to assumption of the obligation of performance thereunder by the Seller;

 

(5) the benefit of Licensed IP Agreements, subject to assumption of the obligation of performance thereunder by the Seller;

 

(6) the Work-in-progress;

 

(7) all inventory of consumable supplies of the Business as of the Closing Time;
     
  (8)  the benefit of the Prepaid Expenses; 

 

(9) the Equipment;

 

(10) the Business Records;

 

(11) all marketing and advertising materials relating to the Business, in any format and media whatsoever, and the right, title and interest of the Purchaser in the content thereof;

 

(12) the telephone numbers of the Business

 

(13) the internet domain names related to the business; and all web sites utilizing such domain names, including the right of the Seller in all programs and source code utilized therein, subject to all licenses of content therein.

 

(14) The receivables from royalty fees to the IntelliVIEW and NXT product lines to be paid by Keezava, Inc. in the amount of $348,000 as described in Exhibit A.

 

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(15) The receivables from Earn Out to be paid by Synaptris, Inc. in the amount of $700,000 as described in Exhibit B.

 

2.2 Excluded Assets

Specifically excluded from the Purchased Assets are:

 

(I) All others

 

2.3 Assumed Liabilities

(a)          The Purchaser shall assume and will pay, perform, discharge and satisfy the following liabilities of the Purchaser relating to the Business (the " Assumed Liabilities"):

 

(1)         all liabilities and obligations of the Seller accruing on and after the Closing Date for future performance under the Assumed Contracts;

 

(2) commissions due to the employees of the Business in the normal course with respect to orders received and not invoiced by the Closing Date, and commissions due to the employees for invoices for maintenance invoiced prior to closing with a maintenance term beginning on or after October I , 20 II ; and

 

(3) any other liability or obligation provided elsewhere in lhis agreement to be assumed or performed by the Seller.

 

(4) The payables to GBS India Ptv. Ltd. in the amount of $772,794.00

 

(b)          Without expanding on the specificity of the foregoing, Assumed Liabilities shall not include:

 

(I) any liabilities in respect of all indebtedness of the Purchaser to all persons except as otherwise specifically y provided in this agreement;

 

(2) any liability claims relating to any product or service of the Business produced, sold, performed or delivered prior to the Closing Date;

 

(3) any liabilities for all taxes, duties, levies, assessments and other such charges, including any penalties, interests and fines with respect thereto, payable by the Purchaser to any federal, provincial, municipal or other government or governmental agency, authority, board, bureau or commission; domestic or foreign;

 

(4) liabilities for employment compensation and reimbursement of expenses as provided by subsection 7.5;

 

2.4 Retained Liabilities and Indemnity

The Purchaser will not assume and will not be liable for, and the Seller will indemnify the Purchaser from and against, all obligations, commitments and liabilities of and claims against the Purchaser (whether absolute, accrued or contingent) relating to the Business prior to the Closing Date, except for the Assumed Liabilities.

 

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3            PURCHASE AND REPURCHASE PRICE AND PAYMENT

 

3.1 Purchase Price

The Purchase Price payable by the Purchaser to the Seller for the Purchased Assets is s 1 ,877,232.48.

 

3.2 Payment of Purchase Price

 

(a)         On Closing, Purchaser shall pay to Seller a total amount of $1,877,232.48.

(b)        Purchaser has the right to substitute any po11ion of the payment for the Purchase Price in cash by transfer of receivables from selling, reselling or licensing of the Purchased Assets, provided however that this substitute payments exclude any rights or licenses to the Separated Assets; and Seller has the obligation to accept such substitute as payment.

 

3.3 Prepaid Expenses and Adjustments

Prepaid Expenses, employee costs, and all other matters provided in this agreement to be paid by the Purchaser or Seller, which are assumed or retained by the other, shall be adjusted and allowed between the Purchaser and Seller as of the Date of Closing, that day to be allocated to the Seller. Any additional adjustments as are determined within ninety (90) days of closing shall be readjusted after such period and paid by the benefiting party to the other party forthwith.

 

4           CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

 

The Purchaser acknowledges that the Seller's main interest is the restructuring of its Indian operations to simplify the corporate structure and offering it utilizes to carry on business in India, and such restructuring will require the fulfillment all of the Conditions Precedent to the Closing of this Agreement as described in this section 4 herein, if not waived by the Seller in writing. Consequently, the parties agree:

 

(1)           Notwithstanding anything herein contained, the obligation of the Seller and the Purchaser to complete the transactions provided for herein will be subject to the fulfillment of the following conditions at or prior to the Closing Time:

 

(i) The formation of GBS India Private Limited is completed and the final transfer of all shares of GBS India Ptv Ltd will be at Closing.
(ii) All assets to the IntelliPrint or FewClix business/product lines are repurchased by the Seller or by an affi liate to the Seller, or will be at Closing.
(iii) All employees for the lntelliPrint and FewClix product lines, as well as for all G BS related QA activities are transferred to GBS India Ptv Ltd.
(iv) All employees for the Transformer business line and the GroupLive business line are transferred to GBS India Ptv. Ltd.

 

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(v) The management of GBS India is in place and contracted for a period of 24 months;
(vi) Purchaser has full ownership of GBS India Ptv. Ltd.

 

(2)        All transfer documents regarding the Seller or its affiliates are completed and executed on the Closing Day. All outstanding payments between the Parties, except for the fees and expenses for the restructuring service, will be paid or balanced at the Closing.

 

(3)        The Purchasers expenses as described in section 11.4 are approved and accepted by the Seller.

 

5               REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

5.1 Representations and Warranties

The Seller represents and warrants to the Purchaser as hereafter set forth, and acknowledges that the Seller is relying upon the accuracy of each of such representations and warranties in connection with the purchase of the Purchased Assets and the Repurchase of the Separated Assets completion of the other transactions hereunder:

 

(a)         Status. The Seller is a corporation duly incorporated and validly y subsisting in all respects under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation. The Seller has all necessary corporate power to own its properties and to carry on its business as it is now being conducted.

 

(b)         Corporate Authority and Binding Obligation. The Seller has good right, full corporate power and absolute authority to enter into this agreement and to sell, assign and transfer the Purchased Assets to the Seller in the manner contemplated herein and to perform all of the Seller's obligations under this agreement. The Seller and its board of directors have taken all necessary or desirable actions, steps and corporate and other proceedings to approve or authorize, validly and effectively, the entering into, and the execution, delivery and performance of, this agreement and the sale and transfer of the Purchased Assets by the Seller to the Seller. This agreement is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Seller, enforceable against the Seller in accordance with its terms subject to (i ) bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, reorganization and other laws relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally, and (ii) the fact that equitable remedies, including the remedies of specific performance and injunction, may only be granted in the discretion of a court.

 

(c)         No Other Purchase Agreements. No person has any agreement, option, understanding or commitment, or any right or privilege (whether by law, preemptive or contractual) capable of becoming an agreement, option or commitment, for the purchase or other acquisition from the Seller of any of the Purchased Assets, or any rights or interest therein, other than in the ordinary course of the Business.

 

(d)         Contractual and Regulatory Approvals. Except as specified in Schedule 7 attached hereto, the Seller is not under any obligation, contractual or otherwise, to request or obtain the consent of any person, and no permits, licenses, certifications, authorizations or approvals of, or notifications to, any federal, provincial, municipal or local government or governmental agency, board, commission or authority are required to be obtained by the Seller in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by the Seller of this agreement or the completion of any of the transactions contemplated herein.

 

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(e)         Compliance with Constraining Documents, Agreements and Laws. The execution, delivery and performance of this agreement and each of the other agreements contemplated or referred to herein by the Seller, and the completion of the transactions contemplated hereby, will not constitute or result in a violation, breach or default, or cause the acceleration of any obligations which are included in the Assumed Liabilities, under:

 

(1) any term or provision of any of the articles, by-laws or other constraining documents of the Seller; or
(2) subject to obtaining the contractual consents referred to in Schedule 7 hereof, the terms of any indenture, agreement (written or oral), instrument or understanding or other obligation or restriction to which the Seller is a party or by which it is bound including, without limitation, any of the Assumed Contracts.

 

(a)             Title to Assets. Except as set forth on Schedule 8, the Seller is contracted to sell, or is en titled to, or is the owner of and has good and marketable title to all of the Purchased Assets, free of encumbrances, and no other person owns any assets which are being used in the Business; except such title in the case of leases and licenses being limited to the rights of lessee and licensee.

 

(b)            Customer Contracts and Other Contracts. To the best of the Seller's knowledge, the Seller is not in default or breach of any of its obligations under any one or more of the Customer Contracts or Other Contracts, and there exists no state of facts which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default or breach. To the best of the Seller's knowledge, all such Customer Contracts and Other Contracts are now in good standing and i n full force and effect without amendment thereto, the Seller is entitled to all benefits thereunder and the other parties to such Customer Contracts and Other Contracts are not in default or breach of any of their obligations thereunder. To the best of the Seller's knowledge, all agreements with customers of the Business are contained in the customer files to be delivered to the Seller on closing and there are no other agreements, contracts, commitments or waivers related thereto.

 

(c)             Disclosure. No representation or warranty contained in this section 6.1 , and no statement contained in any schedule, certificate, list, summary or other disclosure document provided or to be provided to the Seller pursuant hereto, or in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, contains or will contain any untrue statement of a material fact, or to the knowledge of the Seller omits or will omit to state any material fact which is necessary in order to make the statements contained therein not misleading.

 

(d)             Conduct of Business. As of the Time of Closing, during the Interim Period, except as contemplated by this agreement or with the prior written consent of the Seller:

 

(1) Seller shall have operated the Business only in the ordinary course thereof, consistent with past practices;

 

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(2) Seller shall have promptly advised the Seller of any facts that have come to Seller's attention which would cause any of the Seller's representations and warranties herein contained to be untrue in any material respect;
(3) Seller shall have carried out its obligations under section 7 .2

 

(e)            Employees. There is no pension, benefit, profit sharing or other similar plan respecting the Assumed Employees that will be binding or the Seller. There is no collective bargaining agreement, either directly or by operation of law, with any trade union or association which might qualify as a trade union.

 

5.2 Disclaimer Respecting Seller's Representations and Warranties

The Seller acknowledges that it is purchasing the Purchased Assets pursuant to this agreement on an "as is, where is" basis and, except for the representations and warranties set out herein, the Seller does not make, nor is it liable for, any representation, warranty or condition of any kind whatsoever, express or implied, or legal, equitable, conventional, collateral or otherwise, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The Seller acknowledges that is familiar with the Business and has had the opportunity to conduct a full investigation of the Business. In purchasing the Purchased Assets and assuming the Assumed Liabilities pursuant to this agreement, the Seller acknowledges that it is relying entirely on its own knowledge, investigations and judgment. In conducting its investigation of the Business, the Purchased Assets and the Assumed Liabilities, and in considering the various factors relevant to such assets, rights and obligations, the Seller has not relied on the judgment or any representations or warranties of the Seller or those of its agents, employees, officers, di rectors, affiliates, advisors or other representatives, other than as set out in section 6.1 of this agreement.

 

5.3 Representations and Warranties by the Purchaser

The Purchaser represents and warrants to the Seller as follows, and acknowledges that the Seller is relying upon the accuracy of each of such representations and warranties in connection with the sale of the Purchased Assets and the completion of the other transactions hereunder:

 

(a)             Status. The Purchaser is a corporation duly incorporated and validly subsisting i n all respects under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation.

 

(b)             Corporate Authority and Binding Obligation. The Purchaser has good right, full corporate power and absolute authority to enter into this agreement and to purchase the Purchased Assets from the Purchaser in the manner contemplated herein and to perform all of the Purchaser's obligations under this agreement. Upon waiver or f fulfillment of the condition set forth in subsection 8.1 (g) the Purchaser and its shareholders and board of directors shall have taken all necessary or desirable actions, steps and corporate and other proceedings to approve or authorize, validly and effectively, the entering into of, and the execution, delivery and perfom1ance of, this agreement and the purchase of the Purchased Assets by the Purchaser from the Purchaser. This agreement is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Purchaser, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, reorganization and other laws relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and the fact that equitable remedies, including the remedies of specific performance and injunction, may only be granted in the discretion of a court.

 

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(c)            Contractual and Regulatory Approvals. Subject only to and upon waiver or fulfillment of the condition set forth in subsection 8.l(e) , the Purchaser is not under any obligation, contractual or otherwise to request or obtain the consent of any person, and no permits, licenses, certifications, authorizations or approvals of, or notifications to, any federal, provincial, mw1icipal or local government or governmental agency, board, commission or authority are required to be obtained by the Purchaser in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by the Purchaser of this agreement or the completion of any of the transactions contemplated herein.

 

(d)            Compliance with Constraining Documents, Agreements and Laws. The execution, delivery and performance of this agreement and each of the other agreements contemplated or referred to herein by the Purchaser, and the completion of the transactions contemplated hereby, will not constitute or result in a violation or breach of or default under:

 

(I) any term or provision of any of the a1ticles, by-laws or other constraining documents of the Purchaser; or
(2) the terms of any indenture, agreement (written or oral), instrument or understanding or other obligation or restriction to which the Purchaser is a pa1ty or by which it is bound.

 

5.4 Survival of Warranties by Purchaser

The representations and warranties made by the Purchaser and contained in this agreement or contained in any document or certificate given in order to carry out the transactions contemplated hereby will survive the closing of the purchase and sale of the Purchased Assets provided for herein and, notwithstanding such closing or any investigation made by or on behalf of the Purchaser or any other person or any knowledge of the Purchaser or any other person, shall continue in full force and effect for the benefit of the Purchaser, provided that no warranty claim may be made or brought by the Purchaser after the date which is 12 months following the Closing Date.

 

6          COVENANTS AND ADDITIONAL TERMS  

 

6.1 Confidential Information

(a)           Until the Closing Parties shall to keep in strict confidence and not use for any purpose other than completing the transactions provided by this agreement any information supplied by or learned from Parties, and their respective advisors and agents, related to Parties or to the Business, including and not limited to the assets, liabilities, customers, employees, plans, products, techniques and finances of Parties. Excluded i s any information in the public domain other than by breach of this or any other confidentiality agreement or obligation of any person

 

(b)           Parties may disclose such information as is relevant to lenders and equity partners to obtain necessary debt and equity financing, each of whom shall receive such information in confidence on and subject to the terms hereof. At the request of Parties, Parties will supply Parties with a list of all such persons and organizations with contact details and a brief summary of the information supplied.

 

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(c)            The obligation of the Parties to keep confidential and not use any information does not apply to information which:

(i) becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure by the Parties or its representatives in violation of this agreement or any other confidentiality agreement or obligation of any person;
(ii) was available to the Parties on a non-confidential basis before its disclosure by the Parties;
(iii) becomes available to the Parties on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the Parties if such source is not bound by a confidentialityy agreement with the Parties

 

(d)          This confidentiality obligation:

(i) shall continue following termination of this agreement in accordance with its terms;
  (ii)  shall cease respecting the Business only as of the closing, and shall otherwise continue with respect to any matter other than the Business, such as other matters respecting Parties; and 
(iii) is in addition to and not in substitution for any other agreements respecting confidentiality.

 

6.2 Interim Period

Except as contemplated by this agreement or with the prior written consent of the Seller, during the Interim Period the Purchaser will:

 

(a)            operate the Business only y in the ordinary course thereof, consistent with past practices;

 

(b)             take all commercially reasonable actions within their control to ensure that the representations and warranties in section 6.1 hereof remain true ru1d correct at the time of Closing;

 

(c)             promptly advise the Seller of any facts that come to its attention which would cause any of the Purchaser's representations and warranties herein contained to be untrue in any respect;

 

(d)            take all action to preserve the Purchased Assets and the Business and its goodwill and relationships with customers, suppliers and others having dealings with the Business, to keep available the services of all employees of the Business and to maintain in full force and effect all agreements relating to the Business to which the Purchaser is a surety, and take all other action reasonably requested by the Seller in order that the condition of the Business will not be impaired during the Interim Period; condition of the Business during the Interim Period;

 

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(e)          promptly ad v is e the Seller in wntmg of any m ater i a l adver se ch an ge m the condition of the Bu s ine ss du r in g th e Interim Period;

  

(f)           maintain all of the tangible properties and assets of the Business in the same condition as they now exist, ordinary wear and tear excepted;

 

(g)           maintain the Business Records in the ordinary course and record all transactions on a basis consistent with past practice;

 

(h)           not create, incur or assume any encumbrance upon any of the Purchased Assets;

 

(i)           not dispose of any of the Purchase Assets properties or assets of the Business except in the ordinary course of the Business;

 

(j)            not terminate or waive any right of substantial value of the Business;

 

(k)           maintain the inventories of the Business in accordance with past practice;

 

(I)           keep in full l force al l of the current insurance policies of the Business;

 

(m)           take all actions within its control to ensure performance all of Purchaser's obligations falling due during the Interim Period under all agreements relating to the Business to which the Purchaser is a party or by which it is bound;

 

(n)           not enter into any agreement relating to the Business other than agreements made in the ordinary course of the Business consistent with past practice;

 

(o)           not increase, in any manner, the compensation or employee benefits of any of the employees of the Business, or pay or agree to pay to any of them any pension, severance or termination amount or other employee benefit not required by any of the employee benefit plans and programs referred to in the schedules attached hereto.

 

(p)           And will separated the assets as described in section 2.5, restructure the SD Holdings operations and prepare the transfer of the separated assets to GBS India upon Closing.

 

6.3 Covenants by the Seller

The Seller covenants to the Purchaser that it wil l do or cause to be done the following:

(a)           Fulfillment of Conditions Precedent.

 

6.4 Announcements

No announcement with respect to this agreement will be made by any party hereto without the prior approval of the other party and the existence and the terms of this agreement will be kept confidential. The wording and timing of all press releases and employee announcements will be mutually agreed upon. The foregoing will not apply to any announcement by any party required in order to comply with laws pertaining to timely announcement.

 

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6.5 Survival of Covenants

The covenants of the Seller and Purchaser herein will survive the Closing and shall continue in full force and effect for the benefit of the other.

 

7          CLOSING 

 

7.1 Closing Arrangements

The transactions contemplated herein shall be closed at the Closing Time at the offices of the Seller on or no later than five days after the fulfillment of all Conditions Precedent.

 

8            GENERAL CONTRACT TERMS

 

8.1 Further Assurances

Each of the Purchaser and the Seller hereby covenants and agrees that at any time and from time to time after the Closing Date it will, upon the request of the others, do, execute, acknowled ge and deliver or cause to be done, executed, acknowledged and deli vered all such further acts, deeds, assignments, transfers, conveyances and assurances as may be required for the better carrying out and performance of all the tem1s of this agreement.

 

8.2 Remedies Cumulative

The rights and remedies of the parties under thi s agreement are cumulative and in addition to and not in substitution for any rights or remedies provided by law. Any single or partial exercise by any party hereto of any right or remedy for default or breach of any term, covenant or condition of this agreement does not waive, alter, affect or prejudice any other right or remedy to which such party may be lawfully entitled for the same default or breach.

 

8.3 Notices

(a)       Any notice, designation, commW1ication, request, demand or other document, required or permitted to be given or sent or delivered hereunder to any party hereto shall be in writing and shall be sufficiently given or sent or delivered if it is:

 

(1) delivered personally to an officer or director of such party;
(2) delivered in a sealed envelope addressed to the party at the notice address as provided below;
(3) sent by fax to the party to the attention of party addressed below, provided proof of receipt of transmission is obtained.

 

(b) Notices shall be sent to the following addresses or telecopy numbers:

 

In the case of the Seller:

 

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GBS Enterprises Incorporated

USA

Attention: Joerg Ott

Fax:         +I (404) 474 7256

 

In the case of the Purchaser:

SO Holdings Ltd.

Attention: Suzann X7B{

 

With a copy to:

Lotus Holding Ltd.

Don House

30-31 Main Street

Gibraltar

Attent ion:  Ronald R. Durban

 

or to such other address or fax number as a party may change by notice.

 

8.4 Expenses of Parties

Purchaser shall bear all expenses incurred in connection with this.

 

8.5 Assignment

Save as provided herein the rights of the Seller hereunder shall not be assignable without the written consent of the Purchaser.

 

8.6 Successors and Assigns

This agreement shall be binding upon and enure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns. Nothing herein, express or implied, is intended to confer upon any person, other than the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns, an y rights, remedies, obligations or liabilities under or by reason of this agreement.

 

8.7 Entire Agreement

This agreement and the schedules referred to herein together with all certificates, transfers, documents, agreements and instruments delivered concurrently with this agreement constitute the entire agreement between the parties hereto and supersede all prior agreements, representations, warranties, statements, promises, information, arrangements and understandings, whether oral or written, express or implied, with respect to the subject matter hereof. None of the parties hereto shall be bound or charged with any oral or written agreements, representations, warranties, statements, promises, information, arrangements or understandings not specifically set forth in this agreement or in the schedules, certificates, transfers, docw11ents agreement and instruments delivered concurrently with this agreement. The parties hereto further acknowledge and agree that, in entering into this agreement and in delivering such schedules, certificates, transfers, documents, agreements and instruments, they have not in any way relied, and will not in any way rely, upon any oral or written agreements, representations, warranties, statements, promises, information, arrangements or understandings, express or implied, not specifically set forth in this agreement or in such schedules, certificates, transfers, documents, agreements or instruments.

 

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8.8 Waiver

Any party hereto which is entitled to the benefits of this agreement may, and has the right to, waive any term or condition hereof at any time on or prior to the Closing Time; provided, however, that such waiver shall be evidenced by written instrument duly executed on behalf of such party.

 

8.9 Amendments

No modification or amendment to this agreement may be made unless agreed to by the parties hereto in writing by their authorized officers.

 

8.10 Counterparts

This agreement may be executed in several counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, and such counterparts together shall constitute one instrument.

 

8.11 Fax and E-Mail Execution

This agreement and any document executed in furtherance of it up to the Time of Closing may be executed and delivered by fax transmission provided a printed proof of transmission receipt is obtained; or by scanned signature as a pdf file, which may be delivered by e-mail to the customary e-mail address of the recipient provided no notice of non-delivery is transmitted back. Each party so delivering a document shall provide an originally signed copy upon request forthwith thereafter.

 

(Signatures on next page)

 

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(Signature page of Purchase Agreement between SD Holdings Ltd. as Purchaser and GBSEnterprises Incorporated as Seller)

 

In witness whereof, the parties hereto have duly executed and delivered this agreement under hand of their duly authorized officers as of the day and year first written above.

 

SD Holdings Ltd.  
   
Per: /s/ Joerg Ott  
Name: Joerg Ott  
Title: Director  

 

GBS Enterprises Incorporated  
   
Per: /s/ Joerg Ott  
Name: Joerg Ott  
Title: CEO  

 

 

 

Exhibit 10.2

 

LOTUS HOLDING LTD.

 

- and -

 

GBS Enterprises Incorporated

  

 

  

PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

respecting

 

SD Holdings Ltd.

 

 

  

 
 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

  INTERPRETATION 1
  1.1 Defined Terms 1
  1.2 Schedules 4
  1.3 Currency 4
  1.4 Payments 4
  1.5 Choice of Law and Attornment 4
  1.6 Interpretation Not Affected by Headings or Party Drafting 4
  1.7 Number and Gender 5
  1.8 Time of Essence 5
2 PURCHASE OF, SEPARATION OF AND REPURCHASE OF ASSETS 5
  2.1 Purchased Assets 5
  2.2 Excluded Assets 6
  2.3 Additional Purchased Assets 6
  In addition to the assets described above, Purchaser acquires all receivables from Seller to SD Holdings as of the day of Closing 6
  2.4 Assumed Liabilities 6
  2.5 Retained Liabilities and Indemnity 7
  2.6 Separation of Assets by Purchaser 7
  2.7 Repurchase of Assets by Seller 8
3 PURCHASE AND REPURCHASE PRICE AND PAYMENT 8
  3.1 Purchase Price 8
  3.2 Payment of Purchase Price 8
  3.3 Prepaid Expenses and Adjustments 8
  3.4 Repurchase Price 8
  3.5 Repurchase Price Payment 9
4 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT 9
5 TRANSACTION STRUCTURE 9
6 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES 10
  6.1 Representations and Warranties 10
  6.2 Disclaimer Respecting Seller's Representations and Warranties 13
  6.3 Representations and Warranties by the Purchaser 13
  6.4 Survival of Warranties by the Purchaser 14
  6.5 Survival of Warranties by Purchaser 14
7 COVENANTS AND ADDITIONAL TERMS 15
  7.1 Confidential Information 15
  7.2 Interim Period 15
  7.3 Covenants by the Purchaser 17
  7.4 Covenants by the Seller 17
  7.5 Announcements 17
  7.6 Survival of Covenants 18
8 CONDITIONS AND TERMINATION OF AGREEMENT 18
  8.1 Conditions to the Obligations of the Seller and the Purchaser 18

 

 
 

 

  8.2 Waiver or Termination by Purchaser 18
9 CLOSING 19
  9.1 Closi ng Arrangements 19
10 INDEMNIFICATION 19
  10.1 Indemnity by the Seller 19
11 GENERAL CONTRACT TERMS 19
  11.1 Further Assurances 19
  11.2 Remedies Cumulative 19
  11.3 Notices 20
  11.4 Expenses of Parties 20
  11.5 Assignment 20
  11.6 Successors and Assigns 20
  11.7 Entire Agreement 21
  11.8 Waiver 21
  11.9 Amendments 21
  11.10 Counterparts 21
  11.11 Fax and E-Mail Execution 21

 

 
 

 

PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

Made as of the 2nd day of April, 2012

 

Between  

GBS ENTERPRISES INC.

a corporation incorporated under the laws of Nevada, USA

(the "Seller")

OF THE FIRST PART

 and

Lotus Holding Ltd,

a corporation incorporated under the laws of Gibraltar

 (the "Purchaser" ),

OF THE SECOND PART

 witnesses that,

WHEREAS:

 

The Seller restructures his Indian operations; and therefore the Seller wishes to sell and the Purchaser to x`xpurchase the certain assets on or before the Closing Day, but not prior to the fulfillment of all Conditions Precedent, effective as of the "Effective Day", as descri bed herein.

 

THEREFORE:

 

In consideration of the premises and the mutual agreements and covenants herein contained, the parties hereto hereby covenant and agree as follows:

 

1           INTERPRETATION

 

1.1 Defined Terms.

(a)           In this agreement and in the schedules hereto, unless there is something in the subject matter or context inconsistent therewith. the following ng terms and expressions will have the following meanings:

 

(1) "Assumed Contracts" means the Customer Contracts, Other Contracts, the Licensed IP Agreements for the Business;

 

(2) "Assumed Employees" means the employees of the Business;

 

(3) "Assumed Liabilities" means the liabilities of the Purchaser which are to be assumed by the Seller pursuant to section 2.3 hereof;

 

(4) "Business" means the business carried on by the SO Holdings division of the Purchaser which comprises the development, marketing, distribution and licensing of the non-IBM Lotus Notes/Domino business and any related consu lting and train i ng, in particular but not limited to the Intelli View and NXT prod uct;

 

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(5) "Business Restructuring"" mea ns the separation of any data, documentation, website, domain, or any other related information to the FewClix products, t he lntelliPrint product line, the related employees, receivables, t he lease for the Synaptris Decision Ptv Ltd premises in Chennai, all related business and all related assets from the Business; .

 

( 6) " Business Day" means any day other than a day which i s a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday in the Ci t y of New York, NY;

 

(7) " Business Records" mea ns the books, records, fi les and documents relating to the operation of the Business and the ownership of the other assets transferred hereunder, including without limitation, sales and purchase records, lists of suppliers, credit information, cost and pricing information, business reports, plans and projections and all other correspondence, data and infom1ation, financial or otherwise, in any format and med ia whatsoever related thereto; but specifically excluding therefrom the corporate and financial records of the Purchaser and those records related to any assets not transferred hereunder.

 

( 8) " Closing" means the compl etion of the purchase, repurchase and sale transactions as provided by this agreement;

 

(9) "Closing Day" means A ugust I, 2012, or such other date as the Seller and Purchaser, directly or by their legal counsel, agree in writing;

 

( I0) "Closing Time" means the time at which the parties through their legal counsel agree to attend to the Closing;

 

(11) "Condition" of the Bus iness means the condition of the assets, liabilities, operations, activities, earnings, prospects, affairs or financial position of the Business as of April 2nd , 201 2;

 

(12) "Conditions Precedent" means the Closing will not occur prior to the completion of the events described in Section 4 hereof;;

 

(13) "Effective Day" means April 1 51 , 2012;

 

( 14) "Encumbrances" means mortgages, charges, pledges, security interests, Iiens, encumbrances, actions, claims, demands and equities of any nature whatsoever or howsoever arising and any rights or privileges capable of becoming any of the foregoing;

 

( 15) "GBS India" mea ns the brand name for the new entity to be created as a wholly owned subsidiary to Seller by Purchaser.

 

(16) "interim Period" is the time from execution of this agreement until the Closing Ti me.

 

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(17) "Payment" means any wire transfers from the Purchaser, or from an affiliated party to the Purchaser, to the Seller, or to an affiliated party to the Seller;

 

(18) "Person" means and includes any individual, corporation. partnership, firm, joint venture, syndicate, association, trust, government, governmental agency or board or commission or authority, and any other form of entity or organization;

 

(19) "Prepaid Expenses" means prepaid contracts and rights relating exclusively to the Business, including and not limited to rent and deposits for ut ilities, and employee advances.

 

(20) "Premises" means the leased office premises at Bishop Waller Ave., Malipore, Chennai, where the Seller wil l continue to canyon the Business of GBS India;

 

(21) "Purchase Price" means the amount payable by the Purchaser to the Seller for all of the Purchased Assets, as provided in sectio n 3.1 hereof;

 

(22) "Purchased Assets" means all assets of SD Holdings; the undertaking and assets of the Business which are to be sold by the Purchaser to the Seller pursuant to sectio n 2.1 hereof;

 

(23) "Repurchased Assets" means the IntelliPrint and FewClix computer software application for Lotus Notes and any other computer software based on the IntelliPrint product, including al l past and current versions and all versions in development, and including all source code, program code and documentation in any format related thereto, and all patent rights, copyrights, and other proprietary rights therein.

 

(24) "Repurchase Price" means the amount payable by the Seller to the Purchaser for all of the Repurchased Assets, as provided in section 3.6 hereof;

 

(25) "Separated Assets" means all assets separated by the Purchaser for repurchase by the Selkr, as provided in section 2.5 hereof;

 

(26) "Warranty Claim" means a cl aim made by either the Seller or the Purchaser based on or with respect to the inaccuracy or non-performance or non-fulfillment or breach of any representation or warranty made by the other patty contained in this agreement or contained in any document or certificate given in order to cany out the transactions contemplated hereby; and

 

(27) "Work-in-progress" means the work-in-progress of the Business.

 

(b)           Any reference herein to "the best of the knowledge" of the Purchaser will mean the actual knowledge of the Purchaser's representative, Ronald R. Durban, a director of the Purchaser, and the knowledge which he would have had if he had conducted a diligent inquiry into the relevant subject matter.

 

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1.2 Schedules

The schedules which are attached to this agreement are incorporated into this agreement by reference and are deemed to be part hereof.

 

1.3 Currency

Unless otherwise stated, all dollar amounts referred to in t his agreement are in United States dollars.

 

1.4 Payments.

All payments shall be made by bank wire transfer in immediately available fw1ds.

 

1 .5 Choice of Law and Attornment.

Each Party irrevocably y submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of (i) the state courts of the State of New York, NY, USA and (ii) the United States District Court for the District of Manhattan for the purposes of any suit, action or other proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement, any other Transaction Document or any transaction contemplated hereby or thereby. Each Party agrees to commence any action, suit or proceeding relating hereto only in either such court. Each Party irrevocably and unconditionally waives any objection to the laying of venue of any action, suit or proceeding arising out of thi s Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby in (A) the state court of the State of New York, NY, USA, or (B) the United States District Court for the District uf Manhattan, and hereby further irrevocably and unconditionally wai ves and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court that any such action, suit or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. Each Party further irrevocably consents to the service of process ou t of any of the aforementioned courts in any such suit, action or other proceeding by the mailing of copies thereof by mail to such Party at its address set forth i n this Agreement, such service of process to be effective upon acknowledgment of receipt of such registered mail; provided that nothing in this Section 1.5 shall affect the right of any Party to serve legal process in any other manner permitted by Law. The consent to jurisdiction set forth in this Section 1.5 shall not constitute a general consent to service of process in the State of Delaware and shall have no effect for any purpose except as provided in this Section 1 .5. The Parties agree that a final j udgment in any such suit, action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by Law.

 

1.6 Interpretation Not Affected by Headings or Party Drafting

The di vision of this agreement into articles, sections, paragraphs, subparagraphs and clauses and the insertion of headings are for convenience of reference onl y and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this agreement. The terms "this agreement" , "hereof', " herein" , "hereunder" and similar expressions refer to this agreement and t he schedules hereto and not to any particular at1icle, section, paragraph, subparagraph, clause or other portion hereof and include any agreement or instrument supplementary or ancillary hereto. Each party hereto acknowledges that it and i ts legal counsel have reviewed and participated i n settling the terms of this agreement, and the parties hereby agree that any rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguity is to be resolved against tht: drafting party shall not be applicable in the interpretation of this agreement.

 

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1.7 Number and Gender

In this agreement, unless there is something in the subject matter or context inconsistent therewith words in the singular number include the plural and words in the plural include the singular; and words importing the use of any gender shall include all genders; and the rest of the sentence shall be construed as if the necessary grammatical and terminological changes had been made.

 

1.8 Time of Essence

Time shall be of the essence hereof.

 

2 PURCHASE OF, SEPARATION OF AND REPURCHASE OF ASSETS

 

2.1 Purchased Assets

On and subject to the terms contained herein, the Purchaser hereby agrees to sell and the Seller hereby agrees to purchase from the Purchaser, the Purchased Assets of the Business as a goi ng concern, at the "Effective Day" comprising the following:

 

(1) all assets of SD Holdings, including all liabilities, all subsidiaries, all IP rights to products, if owned by SD Holdings or any subsidiary, comprising but not limited to all copyright and all associated all related code, specifications, documentation, revisions, enhancements and modifications thereto, in whatever form and media;

 

(2) all of the trademarks owned by SD Holdings or its subsidiaries;

 

(3) the benefit of Customer Contracts, subject to assumption of the obligation of performance thereunder by the Seller;

 

(4) the benefit of the Other Contracts, subject to assumption of the obligation of performance thereunder by the Seller;

 

(5) the benefit of Licensed IP Agreements, subject to assumption of the obligation of performance thereund er by the Seller;

 

(6) the Work-in-progress;

 

(7) all inventory of consumable supplies of the Business as of the Closing Time;

 

(8) the benefit of the Prepaid Expenses;

 

(9) the Equipment;

 

(10) the lease of the Premises;

 

(11) the Business Records;

 

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(12) all marketing and advertising materials relating to the Business, in any format and media whatsoever, and the right, title and interest of the Purchaser in the content thereof;

 

(13) the telephone numbers of the Business

 

(14) the internet domain names listed on Schedule 6 attached hereto; and all web sites utilizing such domain names, including the right of the Purchaser in all programs and source code utilized therein, subject to all licenses of content therein.

 

2.2 Excluded Assets

Specifically excluded from the Purchased Assets are:

 

(1) None

 

2.3 Additional Purchased Assets

In addition to the assets described above, Purchaser acquires all receivables from Seller to so Holdings as of the day of Closing.

 

2.4 Assumed Liabilities

(a)            The Purchaser shall assume and will pay, perform, discharge and satisfy the following liabilities of the Purchaser relating to the Business (the "Assumed Liabilities"):

 

(1) all li a bili ties and obligations of the Seller accruing on and after the Closing Date for future performance under the Assumed Contracts;

 

(2) commissions due to the employees of the Business in the normal course with respect to orders received and not invoiced by the Closing Date, and commissions due to the employees for invoices for maintenance invoiced prior to closing with a maintenance term beginning on or after October 1, 2011 ; and

 

(3) any other liability or obligation provided elsewhere in this agreement to be assumed or performed by the Seller.

 

(b)           Without ex panding on the specifici ty of the foregoing, Assumed Liabilities shall not include:

 

(1) any liabilities in respect of all indebtedness of the Purchaser to all persons except as otherwise specificall y provided in this agreement;

 

(2) any liabili ty claims relating to any product or service of the Business produced, sold, performed or delivered prior to the Closing Date;

 

(3) any liabilities for all taxes, duties. levies, assessments and other such charges, including any penalties, interests and fines with respect thereto, payable by the Purchaser to any federal, provincial, municipal or other government or governmental agency, authority, board, bureau or commission; domestic or foreign;

 

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(4) liabilities for employment compensation and reim bu rsement of expenses as provided by su bsection 7.5;

 

2 .5 Retained Liabilities and Indemnity

  The Purchaser will not assume and will not be liable for, and the Seller will indemnify the Purchaser from and against, all obligations, comm i tments and liabi lities of and claims against the Purchaser (whether absolute, accrued or contingent) relating to the Business prior to the Closing Date, except for the Assumed Liabilities.

 

2.6 Separation of Assets by Purchaser

  On and subject to the terms contained herein, the Purchaser hereby agrees to separate and sell and the Seller hereby agrees to purchase from the Purchaser, the Separated Assets of the Business as a going concern, at the "Closing Day'· comprising the following:

 

(1) all assets of IntelliPRINT and FewCl ix product lines, including all liabilities, all subsidiaries, all IP rights to products, if owned by SO Holdi ngs or any subsidiary, comprising but not limited to all copyright and all associated all related code, specifications, documentation, revisions, enhancements and modifications thereto, in whatever f01m and media;

 

(2) al l of the trademarks to the IntelliPRINT and FewCi ix product lines owned by SO Hold ings or its su bsidiaries;

 

(3) the benefit of all rel ated Customer Contracts,;

 

(4) the benefit of the related Other Contracts,;

 

(5) the benefit of related Licensed IP Agreements;

 

(6) the related Work-in-progress;

 

(7) all inventory of consumable supplies of the related Business as of the Closing Time;

 

(8) t he benefit of the related Prepaid Expenses;

 

(9) the related Equipment;

 

(10) the lease ofthe Premises at Bishop Waller Ave, Malipore, Chennai;

 

(11) the related Business Records;

 

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(12) all marketing and advertising materials relating to the Business, in any format and media whatsoever, and the right, title and interest of the Purchaser in the content thereof;

 

(13) the telephone numbers of the Business:

 

(14) the internet domain names listed on Schedule 6 attached hereto; and al l web sites utilizing such domain names, including the right of the Purchaser in all programs and source code utilized therein, subject to all licenses of content therein.

 

(15) all rights and liabilities to the related employee contracts.

 

The Purchaser will provide the Seller with support to create a new entity in India, registered as GBS I ndia Pri vate Limited at the address of the current Indian operations and will transfer all Separated Assets prior to or upon payment of the Repurchase Price to this new entity.

 

2.7 Repurchase of Assets by Seller

  On and subject to the terms contained herein, the Purchaser hereby agrees to sell and the Seller hereby agrees to purchase from the Purchaser, the Separated Assets of the Business as described in section 2.5 as a going concern, at the "Closing Day".

 

3           PURCHASE AND REPURCHASE PRICE AND PAY MENT

 

3.1 Purchase Price

The Purchase Price payable by the Purchaser to the Seller for the Purchased Assets is $ L.877,232.48.

 

3.2 Payment of Purchase Price

 

(a)           On Closing, Purchaser shall pay to Seller a total amou nt of $1 ,877,232.48.

(b)           Purchaser has the right to su bstitute any portion of the payment for the Purchase Price in cash by transfer of receivables from selling, reselling or licensing of the Pu rchased Assets, provided however that this substitute payments exclude any rights or licenses to the Separated Assets; and Seller has the obligation to accept such substitute as payment.

 

3.3 Prepaid Expenses and Adjustments

Prepaid Expenses, employee costs, and all other matters provided in this agreement to be paid by the Purchaser or Seller, which are assumed or retained by the other, shall be adjusted and allowed between the Purchaser and Seller as of the Date of Closing, that day to be allocated to the Seller. Any additional adjustments as are determined within ninety (90) days of closing shall be readjusted after such period and paid by the benefiting party to the other party forthwith.

 

3.4 Repurchase Price

The Repurchase Price payable by the Seller to the Purchaser for the Separated Assets is $1,602,026.4 .

 

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3.5 Repurchase Price Payment

(a)           On Closing, Seller shall pay to Purchaser a total amount of $1,602,026.48.

(b)           30 days after the Closi ng Seller sha ll pay all outstand ing fees and expenses for the restructuring of SD Holdings Ltd. to Purchaser.

(c)           Seller has the right, and Purchaser will accept, any balancing of outstanding payments due to Seller by Purchaser as payment to the Repurchase Price.

 

4           CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

 

The Purchaser acknowledges that the Seller's main interest is the restruct uring of its Indian operations to simplify the corporate structure and offering it utilizes to carry on business in Ind ia, and such restructuring will require the fu lfill ment all of the Conditions Precedent to the Closi ng of this Agreement as described i n this section 4 herein, if not wai ved by the Seller in writing. Consequently, the parties agree:

 

(1)            Notwithstanding anythi ng herein contained, the obligation of the Sell er and the Purchaser to complete the transactions provided for herein will be subject to the fulfillment of the following cond iti ons at or prior to the Closing Time:

 

(i) The formation of GBS Ind ia Private Limited is completed and the final transfer of all shares of GBS India Ptv Ltd wil l be at Closing.
(ii) All assets to the IntelliPrin t or FewClix business/product lines are repurchased by the Seller or by an affi liate to the Seller, or will be at Closi ng.
(iii) All employees for the lntelliPr int and FewClix product lines, as well as for all GBS related QA activities are transferred to GBS India Ptv Ltd.
(iv) All employees for the Transformer business line and the GroupLi ve business line are transferred to GBS India Ptv. Ltd.
(v) The management of GBS India is in place and contracted for a period of 24 months

 

(2)            All transfer documents regard i ng the Seller or its affiliates are completed and executed on the Closing Day. All outstanding payments between the Parties, except for the fees and expenses for the restructuring service, will be paid or balanced at the Closing.

 

(3)            The Purchasers expenses as described in section 11.4 are approved and accepted by the Seller.

 

5           TRANSACTION STR UCTURE

 

The Purchaser acknowledges that the Seller proposes to review the tax and business implications of the corporate structure it utilizes to carry on business in India, and such may result in a requirement to restructure this transaction. Consequently, the parties agree:

 

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(a)           Prior to the Closing, Seller has the right and the obligation in its capaci ty as a representative of the SD Holdings board of directors and its sole shareholder position of SD Holdings during the interim period.to execute independent, separate contracts wi th third parties to achieve the primary goal of this agreement. Purchaser agrees to comply in full to these contracts, if an y, as the future owner of SD Holdings Ltd. Seller guarantees that Purchaser wil l not be burden with unknown cost or fees in any of these contracts, if any, or that these contracts, if any, will be i n conflict with the pri mary goal of this agreement.

 

(b)           Seller shall have the right to assign this agreement to a corporation or other entity wholly owned by or independent f rom the Seller. Notwithstanding such assignment, the Seller shall remain liable for all obligations of contracts signed under section 5 (a) and all obligations under this agreement, including and not limited to t he obligations to pay t he Repurchase Price.

 

(c)           Purchaser will have the right to assign this agreement to a corporation or other entity not owned, controlled or affiliated with the Purchaser; notwithstanding such assignment, the Purchaser shall remain liabl e for all obligations under this agreement.

 

(d)           Seller will consent to any other form of reorgani zation or transaction structure that is proposed by Purchaser provided such reorgan i zation is reasonable; it does not expose the Seller to any greater tax, business or financial risk than the transactions herein provided; the Seller bears a ll additional costs associated therewi th, including any additional professional charges to Purchaser;

 

(e)           Seller continues to be jointl y and severally liable for all obligations under this agreement; and Purchaser will receive a favorable opinion from its professional advisors on those matters.

 

6           REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

6.1 Representations and Warranties

The Seller represents and warrants to the Purchaser as hereafter set forth, and acknowledges that the Seller is rel ying upon the accuracy of each of such representations and warranties in connection with the purchase of the Purchased Assets and the Repurchase of the Separated Assets completion of the other transactions hereunder:

 

(a)             Status. The Seller is a corporation d ul y incorporated and valid ly subsisting in all respects under the laws of its j urisd iction of incorporation. The Seller has all necessary corporate power to own i ts properties and to carry on i ts busi ness as it is now being conducted.

 

(b)             Corporate Authority and Binding Obligation. The Seller has good right, full corporate power and absolute authority to enter into this agreemen t and to sell, assign and transfer the Purchased Assets to the Seller in the manner contemplated herein and to perform all of the Seller's obligations under this agreement. The Sell er and its board of directors have taken all necessary or desirable actions, steps and corporate and other proceed ings to approve or authorize, validly and effectively, the entering in to, and the execution, delivery and performance of, this agreement and the sale and transfer of the Purchased Assets by the Seller to the Seller. This agreement is a legal, valid and bindin g obl igation of the Seller, enforceable against the Seller in accordance with i ts terms subject to (i) bankruptcy, insol vency, moratorium, reorganization and other laws relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generall y, and (ii ) the fact that equitable remedies, including the remedies of specific performance and injunction, may only be granted in the discretion of a court.

 

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(c)           No Other Purchase Agreements.  No person has any agreement, option, understanding or comm itment, or any right or privilege (whether by law, preemptive or contractual) capa ble of becoming an agreement, option or commitment, for the purchase or other acquisition from the Seller of any of the Purchased Assets, or any rights or interest therein, other than in the ordinary course of the Business.

 

(d)            Contractual and Regulatory Approvals. Except as specified in Sche dul e 7 attached hereto, the Seller i s not under any obligation, contractual or otherwise, to request or obtain the consent of any person, and no permits, licenses, certifications, authorizations or approvals of, or notifications to, any federal, provincial, municipal or local government or governmental agency, board, commission or authority are required to be obtained by the Seller in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by the Seller of th i s agreement or the completion of any of the transactions contemplated herein.

 

(e)            Compliance with Constating Documents, Agreements and Laws. The execution, deli very and performance of this agreement and each of the other agreements contemplated or referred to herein by the Seller, and the completion of the transactions contemplated hereby, wi l l not constit u te or n:sul t in a viol ation, breach or default, or cause the acceleration of any obligations which are included in the Asstm1ed Lia bilities, under:

 

(1) any term or provision of any of the articles, by-laws or other constating documents of the Seller; or
(2) subject to obtaining the contractual consents referred to in Sche du le 7 hereof, the terms of any indenture, agreement (written or oral), instrument or understanding or other obligation or restriction to which the Seller is a party or by which it is bound including, without limitation, any of the Assumed Contracts.

 

(a)            Title to Assets. Except as set forth on Schedule 8, the Seller is contracted to sell, or is entitled to, or is the owner of and has good and marketable title to all of the Purchased Assets, free of encumbrances, and no other person owns any assets which are being used in the Business; except such t itle in the case of leases and licenses being limited to the rights of lessee and licensee.

 

(b)            Customer Contracts and Other Contracts. To the best of the Seller's knowledge, the Seller is not in default or breach of any of its obligations under an y one or more of the Customer Contracts or Other Contracts, and there exists no state of facts which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default or breach. To the best of the Seller's knowledge, all such Customer Contracts and Other Contracts are now in good standing and in full force and effect without amendment thereto, the Seller is entitled to all benefits thereunder and the other parties to such Customer Contracts and Other Contracts are not in default or breach of any of their obligations thereunder. To the best of the Seller's knowledge, all agreements with customers of the Business are contained in the customer files to be delivered to the Sel ler on closi ng and there are no other agreements, contracts, commitments or waivers related thereto.

 

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(c)            Intellectual Property Rights. The Seller is contracted to sell, or is entitled to, or is the owner of the copyright and all other rights of ownershi p to SD Holdings, and no other person has any i nterest or rights therein, save as to user licenses granted to customers as provided under the description of Customer Contracts. There is no, and there has never been any, claim, action or proceed ing i n existence or th reatened by any person claiming any interest or title therei n or that the Seller is i nfringing the rights of any other person with respect to SD Holdings.

 

(d)            Licensed IP Agreements. Schedu le 4 sets out an accurate and complete l ist and descripti on of al l Licensed IP Agreements for intellectual property that is material to the Business. The Seller is not in default or breach of any of its obligations u nder any of the Licensed IP Agreements, and there exists no state of facts which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default or breach. All such License Agreements are now in good stand ing and in full force and effect wi thout amendment thereto, the Seller is entitled to al l benefits thereunder and, to the best of the knowledge of the Seller, the other parties to such License Agreements are not in default or breach of any of their obligations thereunder. The Sell er is enti tled to assign all of its interest in the Licensed IP Agreements to the Seller, subject to obtaining any consents referred to in Sc he d ul e 7 or making arrangements satisfactory to the Seller in that regard.

 

(e)            Copies of Documents. On or before the end of the Due Diligence Period complete and cor rect copies (incl uding all amendments) of all material contracts, leases and other documents of the Busi ness in possession of the Seller have been del ivered or made available to the Sel l er.

 

(f)            Disclosure. No representation or warranty contained in this section 6.1, and no statement contai ned in any schedule, certificate, list, summary or other disclosure document provided or to be provided to the Seller pursuant hereto, or in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, contai ns or will contain any untnte statement of a material fact, or to the k nowledge of the Seller omi ts or will omit to state any material fact which is necessary in order to make the statements contained therein not misleading.

 

(g)            Conduct of Business. As of the Time of Closing, d uring the Interim Period, except as contemplated by this agreement or wi th the prior written consent of the Seller:

 

(1) Seller shall have operated the Business onl y in the ordinary course thereof, consistent with past practices;
(2) Seller shall have prom ptly advised the Seller of any facts that have come to Seller's attention which would cause any of the Seller's representations and warranties herein contained to be untrue i n any material respect;
(3) Seller shall have carried out its obligations under section 7. 2

 

(h)            Employees. There is no pension, benefit, profit sharing or other simi lar plan respecting the Assumed Employees that will be bindi ng or the Seller. There is no collective bargaining agreement, either directly or by operation of law, with any trade union or association which might qualify as a trade union.

 

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( i) Lease of Premises.
(1) The Premises is the only real property utilized in the Business;
(2) The lease of the Premises and related documents attached hereto as Schedule 9 comprises the full and complete lease thereof and it is in full force and effect and unamended.
(3) All rental and other pay ments required to be paid by the Seller as tenant have been duly paid to date. Nu party to the lease is in breach thereund er and there has been no notice of default of termination.

 

6.2 Disclaimer Respecting Seller's Representations and Warranties

The Seller acknowledges that it is purchasing the Purchased Assets pursuant to this agreement on an "as is, where is" basis and, except for the representations and warranties set out herein, the Seller does not make, nor is i t liable for, any representation, warranty or condition of any kind whatsoever, express or implied, or legal , equitable, conventional, collateral or otherwise, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The Seller acknowledges that is familiar wi th the Business and has had the opportunity to conduct a full investigation of the Business. In purchasing the Purchased Assets and assuming the Assumed Liabilities pursuant to this agreement, the Seller acknowledges that it is rel ying entirel y on its own knowledge, i nvestigations and judgment. In conducting its investigation of the Business, the Purchased Assets and the Assumed Li abilities, and in considering the various factors relevant to such assets, rights and obligations, the Seller has not relied on the judgment or any representations or warranties of the Seller or those of its agents, employees, officers, directors, affiliates, advisors or other representatives, other than as set out in section 6.1 of this agreement.

 

6.3 Representations and Warranties by the Purchaser

The Purchaser represents and warrants to the Seller as fol lows, and acknowledges that the Seller is rel ying upon the accuracy of each of such representations and warranties in connection with the sale of the Purchased Assets and the completion of the other transactions hereunder:

 

(a)            Status. The Purchaser is a corporation dul y incorporated and validl y subsisting in all respects under the laws of its jurisd ict ion of i ncorporation.

 

(b)            Corporate Authority and Binding Obligation. The Purchaser has good right, full corporate power and absolute authority to enter into this agreement and to purchase the Purchased Assets from the Purchaser in the manner contemplated herein and to perform all of the Purchaser's obligations w1der this agreement. U pon waiver or fulfillment of the condition set forth in subsection 8.1(g) the Purchaser and its shareholders and board of directors shall have taken all necessary or desirable actions, steps and corporate and other proceedings to approve or authorize, valid ly and effectively, the entering into of, and the execution, deli very and performance of, this agreement and the purchase of the Purchased Assets by the Purchaser from the Purchaser. This agreement is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Purchaser, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, reorganization and other laws relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and the fact that equitable remedies, including the remedies of specific perfonnance and injunction, may only be granted in the discretion of a court.

 

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(c)            Contractual and Regulatory Approvals. Subject only to and upon waiver or fulfillment of the condition set forth in subsection 8.1 (e), the Purchaser is not under any obligation, contractual or otherwise to request or obtain the consent of any person, and no permits, licenses, certifications, authorizations or approvals of, or notifications to, any federal, provincial, municipal or local government or governmental agency, board, commission or authority are required to be obtained by the Purchaser in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by the Purchaser of this agreement or the completion of any of the transactions contemplated herein.

 

(d)            Compliance with Constating Documents, Agreements and Laws. The execution, delivery and performance of this agreement and each of the other agreements contemplated or refened to herein by the Purchaser, and the completion of the transactions contemplated hereby, will not constitute or result in a violation or breach of or default under:

 

(1) any term or provision of any of the articles, by-laws or other constating documents of the Purchaser; or
(2) the terms of any indenture, agreement (written or oral), instrument or understanding or other obligation or restriction to which the Purchaser is a party or by which it is bound.

 

6.4 Survival of Warranties by the Purchaser

The representations and warranties made by the Purchaser and contained in this agreement, or contained in any document or cettificate given in order to carry out the transactions contemplated hereby, will survi ve the closi ng of the purchase of the Purchased Assets provided for herein and, notwithstanding such closing or any investigation made by or on behalf of the Purchaser or any other person or any knowledge of the Purchaser or any other person, shall continue in full force and effect for the benefit of the Purchaser. No wananty claim may be made or brought by the Purchaser after the date which is twelve (12) months following the Closing Date; provided that any warranty claim which is based upon or relates to the title to the Purchased Assets or which is based upon intentional misrepresentation or fraud by the Purchaser may be made or brought by the Purchaser at any time.

 

6.5 Survival of Warranties by Purchaser

The representations and wananties made by the Purchaser and contained in this agreement or contained in any document or certificate given in order to carry out the transactions contemplated hereby will survive the closing of the purchase and sale of the Purchased Assets provided for herein and, notwithstanding such closing or any investigation made by or on behalf of the Purchaser or any other person or any knowledge of the Purchaser or any other person, shall continue in full force and effect for the benefit of the Purchaser, provided that no warranty claim may be made or brought by the Purchaser after the date which is 12 months following the Closing Date. 

  

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7            COVENANTS AND ADDITIONAL TERMS

 

7.1 Confidential Information

(a)           Until the Closing Parties shall to keep in strict confidence and not use for any purpose other than completing the transactions provided by this agreement any information supplied by or learned from Parties, and their respective advisors and agents, related to Patties or to the Business, including and not limited to the assets, liabilities, customers, employees, plans, products, techniques and finances of Parties. Excluded is any information in the public domain other than by breach of this or any other confidentiality agreement or obl igation of any person

 

(b)           Parties may disclose such i nformation as is relevant to lenders and equity partners to obtain necessary debt and equity financi ng, each of whom shall receive such information in confidence on and subject to the terms hereof. At the request of Parties, Parties wi ll supply Parties with a list of all such persons and organizations with con tact details and a brief summary of the information supplied.

 

(c)           The obligation of the Parties to keep confidential and not use any information does not apply to information which:

(i) becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure by the Parties or its representatives in violation of this agreemen t or any other confidentiality agreement or obligation of any person;
(ii) was avai la ble to the Parties on a non-confidentia l basis before its disclosure by the Parties;
(iii) becomes available to the Parties on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the Parties if such source is not bound by a confidentiality agreement wi th the Pa11ies

 

(d)           This confidential ity obli gation:

(i) shal l continue following termination ofthis agreemen t in accordance with its terms;
(ii) shall cease respecting the Business onl y as of the closing, and shall otherwise continue with respect to any matter other than the Business, such as other matters respecting Part ies; and
(iii) is in addi tion to and not i n substitution for any other agreements respecting confidentiali ty.

 

7.2 Interim Period

Except as contemplated by this agreement or with the prior written consent of the Seller, duri ng the Interim Period the Purchaser will:

 

(a)           operate the Business only in the ordinary course thereof, consistent wi th past practices;

 

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(b)           take all commercially reasonable actions within their control to ensure that the representations and warranties in section 6.1 hereof remain true and correct at the time of Cl osing, with the same force and effect as if such representations and warranties were made at and as of the Closing Ti me, and to satisfy or cause to be satisfied the conditions in subsection 8. 2 (i) and subsectio n 8.2(1) hereof;

 

(c)           promptly advise the Seller of any facts that come to its attention which would cause any of the Purchaser's representations and warranties herein contained to be untrue in any respect;

 

(d)           take all action to preserve the Purchased Assets and the Business and its goodwi ll and relationships with customers, su ppl iers and others having deal ings with the Business, to keep avai lable the services of all employees of the Business and to maintain i n full force and effect all agreements relat ing to the Business to which the Purchaser is a party, and take all other action reasonably req uested by the Seller in order that the cond ition of the Business will not be impaired during the Interim Period;

 

(e)           promptly advise the Seller in wntmg of any material adverse change 111 the condition of the Business du ri ng the Interim Period;

 

(f)            maintai n all of the tangible properties and assets of the Business in the same condition as they now exist, ordinary wear and tear excepted;

 

(g)           maintain the Business Records in the ordinary course and record all transactions on a basis consistent wi th past practice;

 

(h)           not create, i ncur or assume any encumbrance upon any of the Purchased Assets;

 

(i)            not dispose of any of the Purchase Assets properties or assets of the Business except in the ordinary course of the Business;

 

U)            not terminate or waive any right of substantial value of the Business;

 

(k)           maintain the inventories of the Business in accordance with past practice;

 

(I)            keep in full force all of the current insurance policies of the Business;

 

(m)           take all actions within its control to ensure performance all of Purchaser's obligations falling due during the Interim Period under all agreements relating to the Business to which the Purchaser is a party or by which it is bound;

 

(n)           not enter into any agreement relating to the Business other than agreements made in the ordinary course of the Business consistent with past practice;

 

(o)           not increase, in any manner, the compensation or employee benefits of any of the employees of the Business, or pay or agree to pay to any of them any pension, severance or termination amount or other employee benefit not req uired by any of the employee benefit plans and programs referred to in the schedules attached hereto.

 

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(p)           And will separated the assets as described i n sect ion 2.5, restructure the SD Holdings operations and prepare the transfer of the separated assets to GBS India upon Closi ng.

 

7.3 Covenants by the Purchaser.

The Purchaser covenants to the Sel ler as follows:

 

(a)           Delivery of Repurchased Assets. At the Closi ng Time, the Purchaser will del iver to the Seller good and marketable title to and exclusi ve possession of the Repurchased Assets.

 

(b)           Removal of Copies of Software. Forthwith after Closing the Purchaser will remove all copies of any of the Products and any other information exclusive to the Business or compri si ng the Repurchased Assets stored or mai ntained on any com puter system under the control of the Purchaser and destroy or erase any copies contained on any removable media. The Purchaser shall not be required to erase or destroy any removable media that constitute backup or archives of other records the Purchaser wishes to retain, but shall take reasonable steps to identify such med ia and ensure that they are maintained as confidential and that the portion contai ni ng the copy of the Product and formation to be removed is not d isclosed, copied, released or delivered to any other person or used by any person. The Purchaser will del i ver a certificate of compliance and status of the foregoing under signature of a senior officer wi thin fourteen (14) days after Closing.

 

(c)           Further Assurance. After Closing, at req uest and expense of Seller, Purchaser will execute and deliver such further assurances, deeds, conveyances, bills of sale, assurances, transfers, assignment and any other documents, and take such actions, as Sel ler may reasonably request to confirm the sale and transfer of the Purchased Assets to the Seller and establish the right of the Seller as owner thereof and enti tled to al l benefit therefrom i n accordance with the tenor of this agreement.

 

7.4 Covenants by the Seller

The Seller covenants to the Purchaser that it will do or cause tube done the following:

(a)           Fulfillment of Conditions Precedent.

 

7.5 Announcements

No announcemen t with respect to this agreement will be made by any party hereto without the prior approval of the other party and the existence and the terms of this agreement will be kept confiden tial. The word ing and timing of all press releases and employee annou ncements will be mutually agreed upon. The foregoing will not apply to any announcement by any party required in order to comply with laws pertaining to timely disclosu re, provided that such party consults with the other parties before mak i ng any such announcement. 

 

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7.6 Survival of Covenants

 

The covenants of the Seller and Purchaser herein will survive the Closi ng and shall contin ue in full force and effect for the benefit of the other.

 

8           CONDITIONS AND TERMINATION OF AGREEMENT

 

8.1 Conditions to the Obligations of the Seller and the Purchaser

 

Notwithstanding anything herein contained, the obligation of the Parties to complete the transactions provided for herein will be subject to the fu lfill ment of the followi ng conditions at or prior to the Closing Time, or such other ti me as is specified in such condition (the "Condition Date"). The Purchaser on the one part and the Seller on the other part, each covenant with the other to use its commercially reasonabl e best efforts to ensure that such conditions are fulfilled to the extent that such ful fillment is within the power of such party.

 

(a)           Accuracy of Representations and Wananties and Performance of Covenants.

 The representations and warranties of the Parties contained in this agreement or in any documents delivered in ord er to carry out the transactions contemplated hereby will be true and accurate on the date hereof and at the Closing Time wi th the same force and effect as though such representations and warranties had been made as of the Closing Time (regardless of the date as of which the information in this agreement or any such schedule or other document made pursuant hereto is given). Tn addition, the Parties shall have complied wi th a ll covenants and agreements herein agreed to be performed or caused to be performed by it at or prior to the Closing Time.

 

(b)           No Restraining Proceedings. No order, decision or ruling of any comt, tri bunal or regulatory authority having jurisdiction shall have been made, and no action or proceeding shall be pending or threatened which, in the opini on of counsel to the other Party, is likel y to resu lt in an order, decision or ruli ng, to disallow, enjoi n or prohi bi t the sale of the Purchased Assets contemplated hereby.

 

8.2 Waiver or Termination by Purchaser

(a)           Non-fu lfillment of Cond ition Termination Right. If any of the conditions for a Party's benefit are not fulfilled or complied with by the Condi tion Date and not waived by the Party on or by the Condition Date, the Party may notify the other Party within five (5) days of the Condition Date of the non-fu lfi llment and this agreement i s thereby terminated.

 

(b)           Effect of Termination. In the event of term i nation under this section, the Seller and Purchaser shall be rel eased from all obli gations, unless the condition or conditions which have not been fulfilled are reasonably capable of being fulfilled or caused the fulfilled by such party and in which case the party shall not be released of liability related thereto.

 

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9           CLOSING

 

9.1 Closing Arrangements

 

The transactions contemplated herein shall be closed at the Closing Time at the offices of the Seller on or no later than five days after the fulfillment of all Conditions Precedent.

 

10           INDEMNIFICATION

 

10.1 Indemnity by the Seller

(a)           The Seller hereby agrees to indemnify and hold the Purchaser harmless from and against any claims, demands, actions, causes of action, damage, loss, defici ency, cost, liability and expense which may be made or brought against the Purchaser or which the Purchaser may suffer or incur as a result of, in respect of or arising out of:

 

( 1) any non-performance or non-fulfillment of any covenant or agreement on the part of the Seller contained in this agreement or in any document gi ven in order to carry out the transactions contemplated hereby;

 

(2) any misrepresentation, inaccuracy, incorrectness or breach of any representation or warranty made by the Seller contained in this agreement or conta ined in any document or cettificate gi ven in order to carry out the transactions contemplated hereby, and

 

(3) all costs and expenses including, without limitation, legal fees on a su bstantial indemnity basis, incidental to or in respect of the foregoing.

 

The obligations of indem nification by the Seller pursuant to this section 10.1 will be subject to the limitations in this agreement with respect to the survival of the representations and warranties; and the procedures respecting i ndemni ty claims herein provided.

 

11           GENERAL CONTRACT TERMS

 

11.1 Further Assurances

Each of the Purchaser and the Seller hereby covenants and agrees that at any time and from time to time after the Closing Date it will, upon the req uest of the others, do, execute, acknowledge and deliver or cause to be done, executed, acknowledged and delivered all such fmther acts, deeds, assignments, transfers, conveyances and assurances as may be required for the better carrying out and performance of all the terms of this agreement.

 

11. 2 Remedies Cumulative

The rights and remedies of the parties under this agreement are cumulative and in addition to and not in substitution for any rights or remedies provided by law. Any single or partial exercise by any party hereto of any right or remedy for defau lt or breach of any term, covenant or condition of this agreement does not wai ve, al ter, affect or prejudice any other right or remedy to which such party may be lawfu ll y entitled for the same defaul t or breach.

 

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11.3 Notices

(a)           Any notice, designation, communication, request, demand or other document, required or permitted to be given or sent or del ivered hereunder to any party hereto shall be in writing and shall be sufficiently given or sent or delivered if it is:

 

(1) delivered personally to an officer or director of such party;
(2) delivered in a sealed envelope addressed to the party at the notice address as provided below;
(3) sent by fax to the party to the attention of party addressed below, provided proof of receipt of transmission is obtained.

 

(b)           Notices shall be sent to the following addresses or telecopy numbers:

 

In the case of the Seller:

 

GBS Enterpri ses Incorporated

USA

Attention: Joerg Ott

Fax:  + 1 (404) 474 7256

 

In the case of the Purchaser:

Lotus Holding Ltd. Don House

30-31 Main Street

Gibraltar

Attention:  Ronald R. Durban

 

or to such other address or fax number as a party may change by notice.

 

11.4 Expenses of Parties

Seller shall bear all expenses incurred in connection with this agreement including, without limitation, the charges for the restructuring services at a rate of $525.00/hour, the cost for the formation of GBS India, all related third party fees necessary to accomplish the purpose of this agreement. For any expenses exceeding a total amount of $75,000, the prior written consent from the Seller is mandatory for the Seller to bear the cost.

 

11.5 Assignment

Save as provided herein the rights of the Seller hereunder shall not be assignable without the written consent of the Purchaser.

 

11.6 Successors and Assigns

This agreement shall be binding upon and enure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respecti ve successors and permitted assigns. Nothing herein, express or implied, is intended to confer upon any person, other than the pat1ies hereto and their respective successors and assigns, any rights, remedies, obligations or liabi I i ties under or by reason of this agreement.

 

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11.7 Entire Agreement

This agreement and the schedules referred to herein together with all ce11ificates, transfers, documents, agreements and instruments deli vered concurrently with this agreement constitute the entire agreement between the parties hereto and su persede all prior agreements, representations, warranties, statements, promises, information, arrangements and understandings, whether oral or written, express or implied, with respect to the subject matter hereof. None of the parties hereto shall be bound or charged with an y oral or written agreements, representations, warranties, statements, promises, informati on, arrangements or understandings not specifically set forth in this agreement or in the schedules, certificates, transfers, documents agreement and instruments delivered concwTentl y with this agreement. The parties hereto fu rther acknowledge and agree that, in entering into this agreement and in delivering such sched ules, certificates, transfers, documents, agreements and instruments, they have not in any way relied, and will not in any way rely, upon any oral or written agreements, representations, warranties, statements, promises, information, arrangements or understandings, express or implied, not specifically set forth in this agreement or in such schedules, certificates, transfers, documents, agreements or instruments.

 

11.8 Waiver

Any party hereto which is entitled to the benefits ofthis agreement may, and has the right to, waive any term or condition hereof at any time on or prior to the Closing Time; provided, however, that such waiver shall be evidenced by written instrument dul y executed on behalf of such party.

 

11.9 Amendments

No modification or amendment to this agreement may be made unless agreed to by the

parties hereto in writing by their authori zed officers.

 

11.10 Counterparts

This agreement may be executed in several counterpmts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, and such counterparts together shall constitute one instrument.

 

11.11 Fax and E-Mail Execution

This agreement and any document executed in furtherance of it up to the Time of Closing may be executed and delivered by fax transmission provided a printed proof of transmission receipt i s obtained; or by scanned signature as a pdf file, which may be delivered by e-mail to the customary e-mail address of the recipient provided no notice of non-delivery is transmitted back. Each party so delivering a docw11ent shall provide an originall y si gned copy upon request forthwith thereafter.

 

(Signatures on next page)

 

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(Signature page of Purchase Agreement between Lotus Holding Ltd. as Purchaser and GBS Enterprises Incorporated as Seller)

 

In witness whereof the parties hereto have d ul y executed and delivered this agreement under hand of their duly authorized officers as of the day and year first written above.

 

Lotus Holding Ltd.  
   
Per: /s/ Ronald R. Durban  
Name: Ronald R. Durban  
   
GBS Enterprises Incorporated  
   
Per: /s/ Joerg Ott  
Name: Joerg Ott  
Title: CEO  

 

 

 

Exhibit 10.3

 

TRANSFER OF ACCOUNTS
PAYABLE

 

This agreement is made and entered into this 21'' day of May, 2012 by and between Synaptris Incorporated, a California Corporation located at 3031 Tisch Way, Suite# 505, San Jose, CA 95128, USA ("Synaptris") and SD Holdings Limited, a company established under the laws of the Republic of Mauritius, having its registered office at 608, St James Court, St Denis Street, Port Louis, Republic of Mauritius ("SD Holdings") for the transfer of Accounts Payable(AP) owed by Synaptris to Synaptris Decisions Private Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of India located at 2, Bishop Waller's Avenue (East), Mylapore, Chennai 600 004, Tamilnadu, India, ("Synaptris Decisions") as listed in Exhibit A from Synaptris to SD Holdings.

 

WHEREAS, the shareholders of Synaptris Decisions have unanimously voted to transfer AP owed to Synaptris Decisions by Synaptris to SD Holdings as detailed in Exhibit B; and

 

WHEREAS, Synaptris is desirous of transferring to SD Holdings this AP as shown on the attached shareholder resolution in Exhibit C, and SD Holdings is desirous of acquiring said AP as shown on the attached shareholder resolution in Exhibit D.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements hereinafter entered into, it is agreed as follows:

 

1.   Synaptris does hereby transfer and assign the AP listed on the attached Exhibit A to SD Holdings.

 

2.   This Agreement shall be binding upon the parties, successors and assignees of the parties. This Agreement and any accompanying instruments and documents include the entire transaction between the parties and there are no representations, warranties, covenants or conditions, except those specified herein or in accompanying instruments and documents.

 

3.   This Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of Delaware.

 

4.   This Agreement may be executed simultaneously in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Signatures sent by facsimile transmission shall be deemed to be evidence of the original execution thereof.

 

DATED this 21stday of May 2012.

 

SYNAPTRIS INCORPORATED  
   
By: /s/ Ahmad Shihadah  
Ahmad Shihadah  
Corporate Secretary  

 

SD HOLDINGS LIMITED  
   
By: /s/ Suzanne Gijadhur  
Suzanne Gijadhur  
Corporate Secretary  

 

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Exhibit B: Synaptris Decisions Private Limited Shareholder Resolution

 

WRITTEN CONSENT
OF THE Shareholders
OF
Synaptris Decisions Private Limited

 

The undersigned, being all the Shareholders of Synaptris Decisions Private Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of India located at 2, Bishop Waller's Avenue (East), Mylapore, Chennai 600 004, Tamilnadu, India, ("Synaptris Decisions"), pursuant to the provisions of LAW, as amended, do hereby consent to the adoption of the following resolutions:

 

RESOLVED, that Synaptris Decisions hereby authorize the transfer by Synaptris to SD Holdings of such Accounts Payables due to Synaptris Decisions from Synaptris as detailed in Exhibit A.

 

FURTHER RESOLVED, that the appropriate Shareholders, Directors and Management of Synaptris Decisions be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to do and perform all such acts and deeds and to execute all such other actions as they, or any of them, may deem to be necessary, proper or convenient in order to carry out the intent of the foregoing resolutions.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being all the Shareholders of the Corporation, hereby approve, ratify and adopt the foregoing resolutions.

 

By: Aslam Koomar   By: /s/ Paramasivam Venkataramasamy
SD Holdings Limited   Paramasivam Venkataramasamy
Being 100% Shareholders of Synaptris Decisions   Nominee Shareholder
Private Limited    
     
Name: Aslam Koomar   Name: Paramasivam Venkataramasamy 
Title: Director  

 

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Exhibit C: Synaptris Inc. Shareholder Resolution

 

WRITTEN CONSENT
OF THE Shareholders
OF Synaptris
Incorporated

 

The undersigned, being all the Shareholders of Synaptris Incorporated, a California Corporation located at, 3031 Tisch Way, Suite# 505, San Jose, CA 95128, USA ("Synaptris"), pursuant to the provisions of LAW, as amended, do hereby consent to the adoption of the following resolutions:

 

RESOLVED, that Synaptris hereby authorize the transfer by Synaptris to SD Holdings of such Accounts Payables due to Synaptris Decisions from Synaptris as detailed in Exhibit A.

 

FURTHER RESOLVED, that the appropriate Shareholders, Directors and Management of Synaptris be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to do and perform all such acts and deeds and to execute all such other actions as they, or any of them, may deem to be necessary, proper or convenient in order to carry out the intent of the foregoing resolutions.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being all the Shareholders of the Corporation, hereby approve, ratify and adopt the foregoing resolutions.

 

Dated this 21 st day of May 2012  
   
By: /s/ Aslam Koomar  
   
Being 100% Shareholders of Synaptris Incorporated  
   
Name: Aslam Koomar  
Title:  
Director   

 

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Exhibit 31.1

 

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SS 1350, AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

 

I, Gary D. MacDonald, certify that:

 

1. I have reviewed this Form 10-Q/A for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2012 of GBS Enterprises Incorporated, a Nevada corporation (the “registrant”);

 

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

4. The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a- 15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

 

(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

(b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

 

(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5. The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.

 

Date: September 13, 2012

 

/s/ Gary D. MacDonald  
Gary D. MacDonald  
Interim Chief Executive Officer  
(Principal Executive Officer)  

 

 

 

Exhibit 31.2

 

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SS 1350, AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

 

I, Markus R. Ernst, certify that:

 

1. I have reviewed this Form 10-Q/A for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2012 of GBS Enterprises Incorporated, a Nevada corporation (the “registrant”);

 

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

4. The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a- 15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

 

(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

(b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

 

(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5. The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.

 

Date: September 13, 2012

 

/s/ Markus R. Ernst  
Markus R. Ernst  
Chief Financial Officer  
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)  

 

 

 

Exhibit 32.1

 

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 906

OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

 

I, Gary D. MacDonald, hereby certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

 

(1) the quarterly report on Form 10-Q/A of GBS Enterprises Incorporated for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2012 fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

 

(2) the information contained in the Form 10-Q/A fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of GBS Enterprises Incorporated.

 

Date: September 13, 2012 /s/ Gary D. MacDonald
  Gary D. MacDonald
  Interim Chief Executive Officer
  (Principal Executive Officer)

 

 

 

Exhibit 32.2

 

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 906

OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

 

I, Markus R. Ernst, hereby certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 , that:

 

(1) the quarterly report on Form 10-Q/A of GBS Enterprises Incorporated for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2012 fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

 

(2) the information contained in the Form 10-Q/A fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of GBS Enterprises Incorporated.

 

Date: September 13, 2012 /s/ Markus R. Ernst
  Markus R. Ernst
  Chief Financial Officer
  (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)