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REGISTRATION STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
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ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
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TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
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SHELL COMPANY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
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Title of each class
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Common Shares, No Par Value
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Nasdaq Global Market
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Large accelerated filer ☐
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International Financial Reporting Standards as issued
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[Reserved]. |
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Capitalization and Indebtedness. |
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Reasons for the Offer and Use of Proceeds. |
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Risk Factors. |
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History and Development of the Company. |
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Business Overview. |
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Organizational Structure. |
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Property, Plants and Equipment. |
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Operating Results. |
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Liquidity and Capital Resources |
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Research and Development, Patents and Licenses. |
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Trend Information. |
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Critical Accounting Estimates. |
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Directors and Senior Management. |
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Compensation |
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Board Practices |
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Employees |
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Share Ownership. |
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Disclosure of a registrant’s action to recover erroneously awarded compensation
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Major Shareholders |
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Related Party Transactions. |
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Interests of Experts and Counsel. |
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Consolidated Statements and Other Financial Information. |
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Significant Changes. |
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Offer and Listing Details. |
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Plan of Distribution. |
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Markets. |
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Selling Shareholders. |
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Dilution. |
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Expenses of the Issue. |
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Share Capital. |
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Articles and By-laws. |
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Material Contracts. |
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Exchange Controls. |
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Taxation. |
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Dividends and Paying Agents. |
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Statements by Experts. |
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Documents on Display. |
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Subsidiary Information. |
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Annual Report to Security Holders |
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| ITEM 1. |
IDENTITY OF DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND ADVISERS |
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OFFER STATISTICS AND EXPECTED TIMETABLE |
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KEY INFORMATION |
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Reserved |
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Capitalization and Indebtedness. |
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Reasons for the Offer and Use of Proceeds. |
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Risk Factors. |
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While we were profitable in 2025 and 2024, we incurred a loss in 2023 and have incurred losses in past years and may not operate
profitably in the future. |
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Our operating results may fluctuate from quarter to quarter and year to year. |
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Our financial results may be significantly affected by currency fluctuations. |
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M&A, which requires the integration of multiple acquired companies and their respective businesses, operations and employees
with our own, involves significant risks. |
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Our revenues depend in great measure on government procurement procedures and practices. |
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Because competition in our industry is intense, our business, operating results and financial condition may be adversely affected.
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Our business involves significant risks and uncertainties that may not be covered by indemnities or insurance. |
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The markets for our products may be affected by changing technology, requirements, standards and products. |
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Increasing scrutiny and changing expectations with respect to our ESG policies may impose additional costs on us or expose us to
additional risks. |
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Our failure to retain and attract personnel could harm our business, operations and product development efforts. |
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We face risks associated with doing business in international markets. |
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Our failure to comply with anti-corruption laws and regulations could adversely affect our reputation, business, financial condition
and results of operations. |
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We may be vulnerable to physical and electronic security breaches and cyber-attacks which could disrupt our operations. |
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We may not be able to protect our proprietary technology and unauthorized use of our proprietary technology by third parties may
impair our ability to compete effectively. |
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Claims that our products infringe upon the intellectual property of third parties may require us to incur significant costs, enter
into licensing agreements or license substitute technology. |
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Undetected defects in our products may increase our costs and harm the market acceptance of our products. |
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If suppliers terminate our arrangements with them, or amend them in a manner detrimental to us, we may experience delays in production
and implementation of our products. |
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We currently benefit from government programs and tax benefits that may be discontinued or reduced in the future, which would increase
our future tax expenses. |
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We may fail to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting, which could result in material misstatements in our
financial statements. |
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We may be adversely affected by regulations and market expectations related to sourcing and our supply chain, including conflict
minerals. |
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Our success depends on our ability to develop and maintain advanced security technologies, and failure to keep pace with rapid technological
changes could make our solutions less competitive. |
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We rely on proprietary technology, software, and intellectual property, and any inability to protect these rights or unauthorized
use by third parties could harm our business. |
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Our products incorporate third-party technologies and components, and disruptions in access to these technologies or licensing issues
could affect our ability to deliver solutions. |
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We may face intellectual property infringement claims, which could result in costly litigation, damages, or the need to redesign
products. |
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Cybersecurity threats, including hacking, data breaches, or vulnerabilities in our software or systems, could damage our reputation
and expose us to liability. |
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Our solutions must integrate with complex customer environments, and failures, defects, or performance issues in our systems could
result in customer dissatisfaction, contract penalties, or loss of future business. |
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We may not be able to successfully develop, introduce, or commercialize new technologies, including AI-driven or analytics-based
security solutions, in a timely or cost-effective manner. |
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Our intellectual property protections (including patents, trade secrets, and copyrights) may be limited in certain jurisdictions,
particularly in countries where enforcement is weaker. |
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We are exposed to political, economic, and security instability in certain regions, which may disrupt our operations, projects, and
supply chains. |
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Our international operations expose us to foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, which can materially affect our revenues and
operating results. |
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We are subject to complex and changing regulatory environments, including export controls, trade sanctions, and anti-corruption laws,
which may limit our ability to sell products in certain jurisdictions or increase compliance costs. |
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A significant portion of our revenues is derived from government and critical infrastructure customers worldwide, making us vulnerable
to changes in government budgets, procurement policies, and geopolitical tensions affecting cross-border contracts. |
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Our global operations require us to manage logistics, supply chains, and third-party partners across multiple jurisdictions, which
may be impacted by trade restrictions, tariffs, or disruptions in international transportation. |
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We may face restrictions on the repatriation of earnings, taxation complexities, and differing legal systems, which could adversely
impact our financial condition and cash flows. |
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Operating internationally exposes us to cultural, language, and operational challenges, as well as risks related to hiring, retaining,
and managing personnel across diverse regions. |
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Volatility of the market price of our Common Shares could adversely affect our shareholders and us. |
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We may not pay dividends in the future. |
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As a foreign private issuer whose shares are listed on the NASDAQ Global Market, we may follow certain home country corporate governance
practices instead of certain NASDAQ requirements. |
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We may in the future be classified as a passive foreign investment company, or PFIC, which would subject our U.S. investors to adverse
tax rules. |
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The rights and obligations of a holder of Common Shares will be governed by Ontario law and may differ from the rights and obligations
of shareholders of companies organized under the laws of other jurisdictions. |
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The Articles, together with the By-Laws, and Canadian laws and regulations applicable to us may adversely affect our ability to take
actions that could be deemed beneficial to holders of our Common Shares, or the ability of another party to acquire control of the Company.
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Canadian take-over bid laws may discourage take-over bids being made for the Company and may discourage the acquisition of large
numbers of our Common Shares. |
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Canadian issuer bid laws restrict our ability to purchase our Common Shares. |
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We are able to issue an unlimited amount of additional Common Shares, which may cause our shareholders to experience dilution in
the future. |
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Our Common Shares are subject to Canadian insolvency laws which may offer less protection to its shareholders compared to U.S. insolvency
laws. |
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changes in customers’ or potential customers’ budgets as a result of, among other things, government funding (influenced
by long shutdowns) and procurement policies; |
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changes in demand for our existing products and services; |
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our long and variable sales cycle; |
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our ability to maintain sales volumes at a level sufficient to cover fixed manufacturing and operating costs; and |
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the timing of the introduction and market acceptance of new products, product enhancements and new applications. |
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Difficulties in integrating the operations, systems, technologies, products, and personnel of the acquired businesses or enterprises;
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Diversion of management’s attention from normal daily operations of the business and the challenges of managing larger and
more widespread operations resulting from acquisitions; |
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Integrating financial forecasting and controls, procedures and reporting cycles; |
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Difficulties in entering markets in which we have no or limited direct prior experience and where competitors in such markets have
stronger market positions; |
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Insufficient revenue to offset increased expenses associated with acquisitions; and |
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The potential loss of key employees, customers, distributors, vendors and other business partners of the companies we acquire following
and continuing after announcement of acquisition plans. |
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their requirements or budgetary constraints change; |
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they cancel multi-year contracts and related orders if funds become unavailable; or |
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they shift spending priorities into other areas or for other product. |
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we may not be successful in developing and marketing new products or product features that respond to technological change or evolving
industry standards; |
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we may experience difficulties that could delay or prevent the successful development, introduction and marketing of these new products
and features; or |
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our new products and product features may not adequately meet the requirements of the marketplace and achieve market acceptance.
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different and changing regulatory requirements in the jurisdictions in which we currently operate or may operate in the future;
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fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; |
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export restrictions, tariffs and other trade barriers; |
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difficulties in staffing, managing and supporting foreign operations; |
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longer payment cycles; |
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difficulties in collecting accounts receivable; |
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political and economic changes, hostilities and other disruptions in regions where we currently sell our products or may sell our
products in the future; and |
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seasonal changes in business activity. |
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actual or anticipated variations in our quarterly operating results or those of our competitors; |
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announcements by us or our competitors of technological innovations or new and enhanced products; |
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developments or disputes concerning proprietary rights; |
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introduction and adoption of new industry standards; |
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changes in financial estimates by securities analysts; |
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market changes or trends in our industry; |
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changes in the market valuations of our competitors; |
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announcements by us or our competitors of significant acquisitions; |
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entry into strategic partnerships or joint ventures by us or our competitors; |
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additions or departures of key personnel; |
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political and economic conditions, such as a recession or interest rate or currency rate fluctuations or political events;
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general economic conditions, including conditions related to the banking industry or caused by pandemics and high inflation, and
slow or negative market growth; and |
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other events or factors in any of the countries in which we do business, including those resulting from war, incidents of terrorism,
natural disasters or responses to such events. |
| ITEM 4. |
INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY |
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History and Development of the Company. |
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Business Overview. |
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Leverage existing customer relationships. We believe that we have the capability to offer
certain of our customers a comprehensive security package. As part of our product development process, we seek to maintain close relationships
with our customers to identify market needs and to define appropriate product specifications. We intend to expand the depth and breadth
of our existing customer relationships while initiating similar new relationships. Our Software (SMS,VMS) offering is an excellent opportunity
to revisit our existing customers. |
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Refine and broaden our product portfolio. We have identified the security needs of our customers
and intend to enhance our current products’ capabilities, develop new products, acquire complementary technologies and products
and enter into OEM agreements with third parties in order to meet those needs. The extension of our solution might broaden our addressable
market by using our sensors and information management to offer vertical solutions outside of the strict security applications.
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Develop and enhance our presence in verticals which we have identified as strategic. We intend
to enhance our presence in our target vertical markets: utilities, correctional facilities logistics and energy (among other, oil and
gas terminals as well as oil and gas pipelines infrastructure), airports and military /border sites. Many if not all, of the verticals
are highly regulated and require unique security solutions. As a solution provider with a wide selection of security technologies and
products, we believe that we can offer a comprehensive security solution that meets the standards required by the applicable regulations.
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Enhance our presence in emerging markets. We intend to enhance our presence in emerging markets
such as Asia, Latam and eastern Europe in order to increase our exposure and sales. |
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Strengthen our presence in existing markets. We intend to increase our marketing efforts
in our existing markets mainly in North America, the EMEA Union, and APAC region and to acquire or invest in complementary businesses
and joint ventures. |
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Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems (PIDS), fence mounted, buried and free standing; |
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PIDS fence sensor with intelligent perimeter LED based lighting; |
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A common operating platform for VMS and SMS, including IVA applications, PIDS applications |
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Surveillance systems and LIDAR solutions |
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Pipeline security, third party interference (TPI) and fiber infrastructure monitoring |
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Fence mounted detection systems – “microphonic” wire sensors, fiber optic sensors and electronic ranging sensors;
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Buried sensors – buried coaxial cable volumetric sensors and buried fiber sensors to secure pipelines, borders and critical
assets against intrusion by targets on the surface and excavation; |
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Electrical field disturbance sensors (volumetric); |
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Microwave sensors; |
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Hybrid perimeter intrusion detection and intelligent lighting system; |
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MultiSensor – next generation of sensors, using multiple sensing technologies, processed by intelligent algorithms (AI software):
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Lidar sensors |
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Face Recognition - Senstar Symphony-based video analytic identifies known and unknown individuals. Using a combination of patented
2D to 3D pose correction technology, this analytic is designed for fast, reliable identification under real-world challenges, including
lighting, angles, facial hair, pose, glasses and other occlusions, motion, crowds, and expression. |
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Automatic License Plate Recognition - Senstar Symphony-based video analytic reads license plates and other vehicle markings and seamlessly
integrates the data into the site’s security and operational processes. The analytic can be used for automating vehicle access systems
such as gates and other barriers, flag vehicle in/out times in surveillance footage, notifying customer management systems of client arrivals,
and track vehicles crossing toll and border checkpoints. |
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Outdoor People and Vehicle Tracking - Senstar Symphony-based video analytic optimized for detecting and monitoring the movement of
vehicles and people in outdoor environments. Typical applications include perimeter intrusion detection, parking lot monitoring, public
safety, and wrong-way detection. The analytic retains its extremely high tracking and object classification accuracy even in the presence
of challenging weather and lighting conditions. Organizations can use tracked events to trigger alarms and direct operators to specific
concerns, making it the perfect addition to any video surveillance system. |
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Left and Removed Item Detection - Monitor changes in an environment to detect when objects are added or removed from a scene. Set
alarms to notify security staff when an item has been removed from an area or left unattended for a designated amount of time. This solution
is designed for use in airports, train stations, and other public spaces. |
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Indoor People Tracking - Detect and track people moving within the frame of a camera. Alarms can be set when unauthorized entry into
an area is detected and dwell times can be tracked and recorded for the detection of unwanted loitering. Heat maps can also be created
in retail stores and public spaces to determine areas of highest traffic and interest. |
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Crowd Detection - Real-time occupancy estimation for indoor and outdoor deployments, ideal for monitoring public spaces, event venues,
and capacity restricted environments. Crowd Detection also offers numerous business intelligence applications. |
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PTZ Auto-Tracking (Auto PTZ) - Auto PTZ can automatically control a PTZ camera, enabling it to zoom in and follow moving people and
vehicles within the field of the camera. This is designed for use in outdoor perimeter monitoring and provides a closer look at people
and vehicles for future forensic purposes. |
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Hardware solutions supporting our VMS software products are an “R series” of preconfigured servers, “E series”
of physical appliances for smaller applications and a novel POE powered "Thin Client" device for convenient network access for monitors
or other applications. |
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The Senstar Thin Client - is a simple and cost-effective device designed to display 1080p video from 30+ network video camera manufacturers
via ONVIF Profile S, as well as from the Senstar Symphony VMS or any RTSP-compatible video source. The device is ideal for space-constrained
environments due to its compact design while its web-based interface makes it easy to configure and manage. |
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The R-Series Operator Station complements the R-Series Network Video Recorders (NVR). Featuring validated hardware, the Operator
Station is ideal for customers looking for a preconfigured video surveillance client. "Senstar Fusion, is a software solution that neutralizes
false alarms using sophisticated AI techniques analyzing simultaneously detection signals from PIDS and video sensors. |
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We do not provide high availability functionalities on our Symphony servers. |
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In December 2025, we announced our acquisition of Blickfeld. Blickfeld offers both hardware and perception software solutions
for security, traffic, industrial automation, and logistic applications. Blickfeld offers security and safety solutions as well as volumetric
and industrial applications: |
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Security and safety solutions |
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We sell primarily through system integrators, security solution providers, and selected distributors who integrate our LiDAR sensors
and perception software into perimeter protection and surveillance systems. For strategic projects and key accounts, our sales and application
engineering teams engage directly with end customers to support system design and ensure proper implementation. |
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Senstar Symphony Common Operating Platform - Video, Security and Data Intelligence Platform with Sensor Fusion Engine; and
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Network Manager - a middleware (software) package interfacing between our family of PIDS sensors and any command and control solution,
be it our own system or an external third party application. It is provided to integrators with a full software development kit to enable
fast integration of our PIDS into any other SMS and physical security information system. It offers an entry level operator display system
called the Alarm Information Module (AIM), typically for management of a single PIDS sensor. |
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PIDS products are sold indirectly through system integrators and distribution or VAR channels. Due to the sophistication of our products,
we often need to approach end-users directly and be in contact with system integrators; however, sales are directed through third parties.
Our sales team is trained on cross-selling PIDS, VMS, SMS, IVA . |
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VMS, and IVA. Video management system software and Intelligent Video Applications licenses, the associated maintenance and support
services, are sold primarily through locally based distributor or VAR partners. Some key accounts are managed directly with the end-users.
Our sales team is trained on cross-selling PIDS, VMS, SMS, IVA. |
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Year ended in December 31, |
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2025 |
2024 |
2023 |
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(in thousands) |
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North America |
$ |
17,959 |
$ |
16,262 |
$ |
14,835 |
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Europe |
12,830 |
12,763 |
11,393 |
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APAC |
4,942 |
5,410 |
3,863 |
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South and Latin America |
467 |
975 |
2,197 |
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Others |
176 |
343 |
504 |
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Total |
$ |
36,374 |
$ |
35,753 |
$ |
32,792 |
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Canada: As a close trading partner with the U.S., our operations in Canada may be directly impacted by changes in U.S. tariffs and
trade agreements, such as revisions to the USMCA. These measures may disrupt cross-border supply chains, impact pricing, and introduce
regulatory complexities that could increase compliance costs. |
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EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa): Ongoing trade tensions between the U.S. and the European Union, as well as post-Brexit
trade uncertainties, may increase customs duties, delay shipments, or result in regulatory misalignments. If the U.S. expands tariffs
on EMEA-sourced products or components, or if reciprocal trade actions are introduced, it could affect our cost structure and sales strategy
in the region. |
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USA: As a significant market and operating base, any expansion of protectionist trade policies within the U.S., including sector-specific
tariffs (e.g., on steel, aluminum, or technology products), could raise input costs or limit sourcing options. Additionally, regulatory
unpredictability may hinder long-term supply planning and pricing stability. |
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APAC: The Asia-Pacific region plays a critical role in our global supply chain, especially in manufacturing and sourcing. Escalating
U.S.-China trade tensions, as well as tariffs on key APAC-origin goods, could lead to increased material costs, longer lead times, and
potential reconfiguration of supplier relationships. This could negatively affect product availability, pricing, and competitiveness in
both domestic and international markets. |
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that patents will be issued from any pending applications, or that the claims allowed under any patents will be sufficiently broad
to protect our technology; |
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that any patents issued or licensed to us will not be challenged, invalidated or circumvented; or |
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as to the degree or adequacy of protection any patents or patent applications may or will afford. |
| C. |
Organizational Structure. |
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Country of Incorporation/Organization |
Ownership Percentage | ||
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Senstar Corporation |
Canada |
100% | ||
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Senstar Inc. |
United States (Delaware) |
100% | ||
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Senstar GmbH. |
Germany |
100% | ||
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Blickfeld GmbH |
Germany |
100% Senstar GMBH | ||
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Blickfeld North America Inc. |
United States |
100% Blickfeld GMBH |
| D. |
Property, Plants and Equipment. |
| ITEM 4A. | Unresolved Staff Comments |
| ITEM 5. |
Operating and Financial Review and Prospects |
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Operating Results. |
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continuing the growth of revenues and profitability of our perimeter security systems and video and security management systems lines
of products; |
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enhancing the introduction and recognition of our new products; |
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penetrating new markets and strengthening our presence in existing markets; |
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strengthening our presence in our strategic verticals; |
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cross selling at existing customers security and non -security applications provided thanks to our suite of sensors and information
management systems; |
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succeeding in selling our comprehensive PIDS, VMS, SMS products as a combined solution; |
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expand our addressable market with the introduction of the Senstar MultiSensor and LIDAR solutions, designed to provide intrusion
detection systems dedicated to critical spots of non-critical infrastructure; and |
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deliver technological and functional innovation to compete techno competition and address future needs. |
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Year Ended December 31 |
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2024 |
2023 |
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Revenues |
100 |
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100 |
% |
100 |
% | ||||||
|
Cost of revenues |
34 |
% |
36 |
% |
43 |
% | ||||||
|
Gross profit |
66 |
% |
64 |
% |
57 |
% | ||||||
|
Operating expenses: |
||||||||||||
|
Research and development, net |
9 |
% |
12 |
% |
12 |
% | ||||||
|
Selling and marketing, net |
27 |
% |
25 |
% |
30 |
% | ||||||
|
General and administrative |
22 |
% |
16 |
% |
19 |
% | ||||||
|
Operating income (loss) |
8 |
% |
11 |
% |
(4 |
)% | ||||||
|
Financial income (expenses), net |
- |
2 |
% |
- |
||||||||
|
Income (loss) before income taxes |
9 |
% |
13 |
% |
(4 |
)% | ||||||
|
Taxes on income (tax benefit) |
- |
% |
6 |
% |
- |
|||||||
|
Income (loss) from continuing operations |
9 |
% |
7 |
% |
(4 |
)% | ||||||
|
|
• |
our customers are mainly budget-oriented organizations with lengthy decision processes, which tend to mature late in the year; and
|
|
|
• |
due to harsh weather conditions in certain areas in which we operate during the first quarter of the calendar year, certain projects
and services are put on hold and consequently revenues are delayed. |
|
Year ended
December
31, |
CAD appreciation
(devaluation)
rate % |
|||
|
2021 |
(0.1 |
) | ||
|
2022 |
6.4 |
|||
|
2023 |
(2.3 |
) | ||
|
2024 |
8.7 |
|||
|
2025 |
(4.8 |
) | ||
| B. |
Liquidity and Capital Resources |
|
Year ended December 31, |
||||||||||||
|
2025 |
2024 |
2023 |
||||||||||
|
(in thousands) |
||||||||||||
|
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities |
1,755 |
6,656 |
260 |
|||||||||
|
Net cash used in investing activities |
(561 |
) |
(223 |
) |
(334 |
) | ||||||
|
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities |
16 |
39 |
(213 |
) | ||||||||
|
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents |
665 |
(812 |
) |
156 |
||||||||
|
Increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash |
1,875 |
5,660 |
(131 |
) | ||||||||
|
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at the beginning of the year, including
cash attributable to discontinued operations |
20,466 |
14,806 |
14,937 |
|||||||||
|
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at the end of the year |
22,341 |
20,466 |
14,806 |
|||||||||
| C. |
Research and Development, Patents and Licenses. |
| D. |
Trend Information. |
| E. |
Critical Accounting Estimates |
|
|
• |
Raw materials, parts and supplies – using the “first-in, first-out” method. |
|
|
• |
Work-in-progress and finished products – on the basis of direct manufacturing costs with the addition of allocable indirect
manufacturing costs. |
| ITEM 6. |
Directors, Senior Management and Employees |
| A. |
Directors and Senior Management. |
|
Name |
Age |
Position | ||
|
Gillon Beck |
64 |
Chairman of the Board of Directors | ||
|
Jacob Berman (1) (2) (3) |
77 |
Director | ||
|
Tom Overwijn (1) (2) (3) |
64 |
Director | ||
|
Kelli Roiter (1) (2) (3) |
54 |
Director | ||
|
Fabien Haubert |
51 |
Chief Executive Officer | ||
|
Alicia Kelly |
48 |
Chief Financial Officer | ||
|
Jeremy Weese |
49 |
Chief Technology Officer | ||
|
Matthieu Currat |
43 |
Chief Operating Officer |
|
(1) Member of our Audit
Committee.
(2) Member of our Compensation
Committee.
(3) Member of our Sustainability,
Nominating and Governance Committee. |
||
| B. |
Compensation |
|
Information Regarding the Senior Executives(1) (U.S. dollars in thousands) |
||||||
|
Name and Principal Position(2) |
Base Salary |
Benefits and
Perquisites(3) |
Variable
Compensation(4) |
Equity-Based
Compensation(5) |
Total | |
|
Fabien Haubert – Chief Executive Officer |
275 |
201 |
130 |
265 |
870 | |
|
Jeremy Weese – Chief Technology Officer |
197 |
20 |
71 |
87 |
375 | |
|
Alicia Kelly - Chief Financial Officer |
194 |
12 |
87 |
87 |
381 | |
|
Matthieu Currat – Chief Operating Officer |
179 |
10 |
66 |
43 |
298 | |
|
(1) |
All amounts reported in the table are in terms of cost to our company, as recorded
in our financial statements. | |||||
|
(2) |
All current Senior Executives listed in the table are full-time employees. Cash compensation
amounts denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar were converted into U.S. dollars at the average conversion rate for the year
ended December 31, 2025. | |||||
|
(3) |
Amounts reported in this column include benefits and perquisites or on account of
such benefits and perquisites, including those mandated by applicable law. Such benefits and perquisites may include, to the extent applicable
to each executive, payments, contributions and/or allocations for savings funds, pension, severance, vacation, car or car allowance, medical
insurances and benefits, risk insurances (e.g., life, disability, accident), convalescence pay, payments for social security, tax gross-up
payments and other benefits and perquisites consistent with our guidelines. | |||||
|
(4) |
Amounts reported in this column refer to Variable Compensation such as commission,
incentive and bonus payments as recorded in our financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2025. | |||||
|
(5) |
Amounts reported in this column represent the expense recorded in our financial statements
for the year ended December 31, 2025. | |||||
| C. |
Board Practice |
|
|
• |
retaining and terminating our independent auditors, subject to ratification by the board of directors, and in the case of retention,
to ratification by the shareholders |
|
|
• |
re-approving audit and non-audit services to be provided by the independent auditors and related fees and terms; |
|
|
• |
overseeing the accounting and financial reporting processes of our company and audits of our financial statements, the effectiveness
of our internal control over financial reporting and making such reports as may be required of an audit committee under the rules and
regulations promulgated under the Exchange Act; |
|
|
• |
reviewing with management and our independent auditor our annual and quarterly financial statements prior to publication or filing
(or submission, as the case may be) to the SEC; |
|
|
• |
recommending to the board of directors the retention and termination of the internal auditor, and the internal auditor’s engagement
fees and terms, as well as approving the yearly or periodic work plan proposed by the internal auditor; |
|
|
• |
reviewing with our general counsel and/or external counsel, as deemed necessary, legal and regulatory matters that could have a material
impact on the financial statements; |
|
|
• |
identifying irregularities in our business administration by among other things, consulting with the internal auditor or with the
independent auditor, and suggesting corrective measures to the board of directors; |
|
|
• |
reviewing policies and procedures with respect to transactions between the Company and officers and directors (other than transactions
related to the compensation or terms of service of officers and directors), or affiliates of officers or directors, or transactions that
are not in the ordinary course of the Company’s business and deciding whether to approve such acts and transactions if so required;
and |
|
|
• |
establishing procedures for the handling of employees’ complaints as to the management of our business and the protection to
be provided to such employees. |
|
|
• |
recommending to our board of directors for its approval a compensation policy, as well as other compensation policies, incentive-based
compensation plans and equity-based compensation plans, and overseeing the development and implementation of such policies and recommending
to our board of directors any amendments or modifications the committee deems appropriate; |
|
|
• |
reviewing and approving the granting of options and other incentive awards to our chief executive officer and other executive officers,
including reviewing and approving corporate goals and objectives relevant to the compensation of our chief executive officer and other
executive officers, including evaluating their performance in light of such goals and objectives; and |
|
|
• |
administering our equity-based compensation plans, including without limitation, approving the adoption of such plans, amending and
interpreting such plans and the awards and agreements issued pursuant thereto, and making awards to eligible persons under the plans and
determining the terms of such awards. |
|
|
• |
overseeing and assisting our board in reviewing and recommending nominees for election as directors; |
|
|
• |
assessing the performance of the members of our board; |
|
|
• |
establishing and maintaining effective corporate governance policies and practices, including, but not limited to, developing
and recommending to our board a set of corporate governance guidelines applicable to our business: and |
|
|
• |
to oversee our policies, programs and strategies related to environmental, social and governance. |
| D. |
Employees |
| E. |
Share Ownership. |
|
Name |
Number of Common Shares Owned (1)
|
Percentage of Outstanding Common Shares (2)
|
||||||
|
Gillon Beck (3)
|
- |
- |
||||||
|
Jacob Berman |
- |
- |
||||||
|
Tom Overwijn |
- |
- |
||||||
|
Kelli Roiter |
- |
- |
||||||
|
Fabien Haubert (4)
|
174,000 |
* |
||||||
|
Alicia Kelly (5)
|
68,333 |
* |
||||||
|
Jeremy Weese(6)
|
44,408 |
* |
||||||
|
Matthieu Currat (7)
|
22,167 |
* |
||||||
|
All directors and executive officers as a group (8 persons) (8)
|
308,908 |
* |
||||||
|
|
(1) |
Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC and generally includes voting or investment power with
respect to securities. Common Shares relating to options or convertible debenture notes currently exercisable or exercisable within 60
days of the date of this table are deemed outstanding for computing the percentage of the person holding such securities but are not deemed
outstanding for computing the percentage of any other person. Except as indicated by footnote, the persons named in the table above have
sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares shown as beneficially owned by them. |
|
|
(2) |
The percentages shown are based on 23,331,653 Common Shares issued and outstanding as of April 29, 2026. |
|
|
(3) |
Does not include any Common Shares held by the FIMI Funds. |
|
|
(4) |
Includes 174,000 Common Shares issuable upon the exercise of currently exercisable options. |
|
|
(5) |
Includes 68,333 Common Shares issuable upon the exercise of currently exercisable options. |
|
|
(6) |
Includes 44,333 Common Shares issuable upon the exercise of currently exercisable options. |
|
|
(7) |
Includes 22,167 Common Shares issuable upon the exercise of currently exercisable options. |
|
|
(8) |
Includes 308,833 Common Shares issuable upon the exercise of currently exercisable options. |
| F. |
Disclosure of a Registrant’s Action to Recover Erroneously Awarded Compensation |
| ITEM 7. |
Major Shareholders and Related Party Transactions |
| A. |
Major Shareholders |
|
Name |
Number of Common
Shares Beneficially
Owned1
|
Percentage of
Outstanding CommonShares2
|
||||||
|
FIMI Opportunity Five (Delaware), Limited Partnership3
|
4,646,924 |
19.9 |
% | |||||
|
FIMI Israel Five, Limited Partnership3
|
5,207,235 |
22.3 |
% | |||||
| B. |
Related Party Transactions. |
| C. |
Interests of Experts and Counsel. |
| ITEM 8. |
Financial Information |
| A. |
Consolidated Statements and Other Financial Information. |
| B. |
Significant Changes. |
| ITEM 9. |
The Offer and Listing |
| A. |
Offer and Listing Details. |
| B. |
Plan of Distribution. |
| C. |
Markets. |
| D. |
Selling Shareholders. |
| E. |
Dilution. |
| F. |
Expenses of the Issue. |
| ITEM 10. |
Additional Information |
| A. |
Share Capital. |
| B. |
Articles and By-Laws. |
| C. |
Material Contracts. |
|
|
• |
On December 9, 2025, we entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Blickfeld GmbH ("Blickfeld"), a Munich-based specialist
in 3D LiDAR sensors and integrated software. A copy of the agreement has been filed as an exhibit to this Annual Report. |
|
|
• |
Structure and Consideration: The transaction was structured as a cash-funded acquisition, whereby a wholly owned subsidiary
of the Company acquired all outstanding shares of Blickfeld. The consideration consisted of an upfront cash payment of €10.4 million,
supplemented by €1 million in performance-based earnouts, subject to customary closing adjustments. |
|
|
• |
Funding: The acquisition was funded using the Company’s existing cash reserves. |
|
|
• |
Closing Conditions: The completion of the transaction was subject to customary closing conditions, including required regulatory
approvals. |
|
|
• |
Completion: The acquisition closed on February 13, 2026. |
|
|
• |
Post-Closing Operations: Following the closing, Blickfeld GmbH and its subsidiary, Blickfeld North America Inc., continue to
operate as subsidiaries of the Company, maintaining their existing names. Blickfeld operates with a degree of autonomy while leveraging
Senstar’s global infrastructure, support, and sales channels. |
|
|
• |
Strategic Rationale: The acquisition is intended to integrate Blickfeld’s high-precision 3D LiDAR security technology
with the Company’s existing perimeter intrusion detection systems (PIDS) and video management software (VMS). This acquisition aims
to broaden the Company’s addressable market into new verticals, including volumetric and traffic monitoring, improve situational
awareness capabilities, and strengthen its technological portfolio in the security market. |
| D. |
Exchange Controls. |
| E. |
Taxation. |
|
|
• |
broker-dealers; |
|
|
• |
financial institutions; |
|
|
• |
certain insurance companies; |
|
|
• |
investors liable for alternative minimum tax; |
|
|
• |
regulated investment companies, real estate investment trusts, or grantor trusts; |
|
|
• |
dealers or traders in securities, commodities or currencies; |
|
|
• |
tax-exempt organizations; |
|
|
• |
non-resident aliens of the United States or taxpayers whose functional currency is not the U.S. dollar; |
|
|
• |
persons who hold the Common Shares through partnerships or other pass-through entities; |
|
|
• |
persons who acquire their Common Shares through the exercise or cancellation of employee stock options or otherwise as compensation
for services; |
|
|
• |
persons (or their direct, indirect or constructive owners) that actually or constructively own 10% or more of our shares by vote
or value; or |
|
|
• |
investors holding Common Shares as part of a straddle, appreciated financial position, a hedging transaction or conversion transaction.
|
|
|
• |
an individual who is a citizen or, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, a resident of the United States; |
|
|
• |
a corporation or other entity taxable as a corporation created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or any political
subdivision thereof; |
|
|
• |
an estate the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income taxation regardless of its source; or |
|
|
• |
a trust if such trust has validly elected to be treated as a U.S. person for U.S. federal income tax purposes or if (1) a court within
the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and (2) one or more U.S. persons have the authority
to control all of the substantial decisions of such trust. |
| F. |
Dividends and Paying Agents. |
| G. |
Statements by Experts. |
| H. |
Documents on Display. |
| I. |
Subsidiary Information. |
| J. |
Annual Report to Security Holders. |
| ITEM 11. |
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk |
| ITEM 12. |
Description of Securities Other Than Equity Securities |
| ITEM 13. |
Defaults, Dividend Arrearages and Delinquencies |
| ITEM 14. |
Material Modifications to the Rights of Security Holders and Use of Proceeds |
| ITEM 15. |
Controls and Procedures |
| ITEM 16. | [Reserved] |
|
ITEM 16A. |
Audit Committee Financial Expert |
|
ITEM 16B. |
Code of Ethics |
|
ITEM 16C. |
Principal Accountant Fees and Services |
|
Year Ended December 31, |
||||||||
|
Services Rendered |
2025 |
2024 |
||||||
|
Audit (1)
|
288,069 |
209,000 |
||||||
|
Tax (2)
|
311,258 |
29,000 |
||||||
|
Other (3)
|
24,000 |
13,000 |
||||||
|
Total |
623,327 |
251,000 |
||||||
|
|
(1) |
Audit fees are for audit services for each of the years shown in the table, including fees associated with the annual audit (including
audit of our internal control over financial reporting), consultations on various accounting issues and audit services provided in connection
with other statutory or regulatory filings. |
|
|
(2) |
Tax fees are for professional services rendered by our auditors for tax compliance, tax planning and tax advice on actual or contemplated
transactions, tax consulting associated to international taxation, tax assessment deliberation, transfer pricing and withholding tax assessments.
|
|
|
(3) |
Other fees primarily relate to out of pocket reimbursement of expenses and primarily traveling expenses of our auditors. These fees
also relate to fees associated with the conflict Minerals work plan, due diligence, and the Risk Assessment Service. |
|
ITEM 16D. |
Exemptions from the Listing Standards for Audit Committees |
|
ITEM 16E. |
Purchase of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers |
|
ITEM 16F. |
Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant |
|
ITEM 16G. |
Corporate Governance |
|
ITEM 16H. |
Mine Safety Disclosure |
|
ITEM 16I. |
Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions That Prevent Inspections |
| ITEM 17. | Financial Statements |
| ITEM 18. | Financial Statements |
| ITEM 19. | Exhibits |
Exhibit No. |
Description |
101.INS |
Inline XBRL Instance Document.* |
101.SCH |
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document.* |
101.PRE |
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Presentation Linkbase Document.* |
101.CAL |
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Calculation Linkbase Document.* |
101.LAB |
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Label Linkbase Document.* |
101.DEF |
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document.* |
104 |
Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101)* |
| * | Pursuant to Rule 406T of Regulation S-T, these interactive data files 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 not filed for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and otherwise are not subject to liability under those sections. |
| (1) | Filed as Exhibit 3.1 to our Registration Statement on Form F-4 (File No. 333-274706), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 27, 2023 and incorporated herein by reference. |
| (2) | Filed as Exhibit 2.1 to our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2023, and incorporated herein by reference. |
| (3) | Filed as Exhibit 99.1 to Form 6-K of Senstar Technologies Ltd., furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 27, 2023, and incorporated herein by reference. |
| (4) | Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to our Registration Statement on Form F-4 (File No. 333-274706), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 27, 2023 and incorporated herein by reference. |
| (5) | Filed as Exhibit 4.6 to our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2023, and incorporated herein by reference. |
| (6) | Filed as Exhibit 4.4 to our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2024, and incorporated herein by reference. |
| (7) | Filed as Exhibit 97.1 to our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2023, and incorporated herein by reference. |
SIGNATURE
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION |
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By: |
/s/ Fabien Haubert | ||
| Name | Fabien Haubert | ||
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer | ||
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Kost Forer Gabbay & Kasierer
144 Menachem Begin Road, Building A,
Tel-Aviv 6492102, Israel
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Tel: +972-3-6232525
Fax: +972-3-5622555
ey.com
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/s/ KOST FORER GABBAY & KASIERER
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A Member of EY Global
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A member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited
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|
Revenue Recognition – Determination of the standalone selling price of distinct performance obligations not sold separately
|
||
|
Description of the Matter
|
As explained in note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company generates revenues from: [1] sales of security products; [2] services and maintenance, and [3] software license fees and related services. The Company may enter into contracts with customers that include multiple products and services, which are generally distinct and recorded as separate performance obligations. The transaction price is then allocated to the distinct performance obligations not sold separately based on a relative standalone selling price [“SSP”] basis and revenue is recognized when control of the distinct performance obligation is transferred to the customer.
The principal considerations for our assessment that the determination of the SSP of distinct performance obligations not sold separately represents a critical audit matter is the significant audit effort due to the volume of data to evaluate the SSP as well as significant auditor judgment in assessing the reasonableness of the SSP in the absence of directly observable selling prices.
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|
|
How We
Addressed the Matter in Our Audit
|
Our audit procedures included, among others, evaluating the appropriateness of the overall methodology used by management to develop the SSP of distinct performance obligations not sold separately. These procedures also included, among others, on a sample basis [i] testing the accuracy and completeness of the data in the population of transactions used to calculate the SSP; [ii] testing the mathematical accuracy of management’s calculations of the SSP and [iii] testing management’s analysis evaluating the impact of changes in the SSP on the amount of revenue recognized in the current period.
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|
December 31,
|
||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
|||||||
|
ASSETS
|
||||||||
|
CURRENT ASSETS:
|
||||||||
|
Cash and cash equivalents
|
$
|
22,341
|
$
|
20,466
|
||||
|
Short-term bank deposits
|
127
|
111
|
||||||
|
Restricted cash and deposits
|
6
|
5
|
||||||
|
Trade receivables, net
|
9,840
|
10,306
|
||||||
|
Unbilled accounts receivable
|
219
|
228
|
||||||
|
Other accounts receivable and prepaid expenses
|
2,710
|
2,161
|
||||||
|
Inventories
|
5,591
|
4,957
|
||||||
|
Total current assets
|
40,834
|
38,234
|
||||||
|
LONG-TERM ASSETS:
|
||||||||
|
Deferred tax assets
|
671
|
1,158
|
||||||
|
Operating lease right-of-use assets
|
549
|
528
|
||||||
|
Property and equipment, net
|
1,622
|
1,328
|
||||||
|
Intangible assets, net
|
142
|
468
|
||||||
|
Goodwill
|
10,850
|
10,360
|
||||||
|
Total long-term assets
|
13,834
|
13,842
|
||||||
|
Total assets
|
$
|
54,668
|
$
|
52,076
|
||||
|
December 31,
|
||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
|||||||
|
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
|
||||||||
|
CURRENT LIABILITIES:
|
||||||||
|
Trade payables
|
$
|
1,889
|
$
|
2,689
|
||||
|
Deferred revenues and customer advances
|
2,884
|
3,044
|
||||||
|
Other accounts payable and accrued expenses
|
3,993
|
6,433
|
||||||
|
Short-term operating lease liabilities
|
269
|
254
|
||||||
|
Total current liabilities
|
9,035
|
12,420
|
||||||
|
LONG-TERM LIABILITIES:
|
||||||||
|
Deferred revenues
|
1,510
|
1,171
|
||||||
|
Deferred tax liabilities
|
580
|
443
|
||||||
|
Long-term operating lease liabilities
|
289
|
296
|
||||||
|
Other long-term liabilities
|
38
|
70
|
||||||
|
Total long-term liabilities
|
2,417
|
1,980
|
||||||
|
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENT LIABILITIES
|
||||||||
|
SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY:
|
||||||||
|
Share capital -
|
||||||||
|
Common shares no par value -
|
||||||||
|
Authorized: 39,748,000 shares at December 31, 2025 and 2024; Issued and outstanding: 23,331,653 and 23,326,653 shares at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively
|
-
|
-
|
||||||
|
Additional paid-in capital
|
38,005
|
37,377
|
||||||
|
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)
|
(507
|
)
|
(980
|
)
|
||||
|
Foreign currency translation adjustments (Company's standalone financial statements)
|
9,664
|
8,442
|
||||||
|
Accumulated deficit
|
(3,946
|
)
|
(7,163
|
)
|
||||
|
Total shareholders' equity
|
43,216
|
37,676
|
||||||
|
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity
|
$
|
54,668
|
$
|
52,076
|
||||
|
Year ended December 31,
|
||||||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
2023
|
||||||||||
|
Revenues
|
$
|
36,374
|
$
|
35,753
|
$
|
32,792
|
||||||
|
Cost of revenues
|
12,537
|
12,836
|
13,944
|
|||||||||
|
Gross profit
|
23,837
|
22,917
|
18,848
|
|||||||||
|
Operating expenses:
|
||||||||||||
|
Research and development, net
|
3,348
|
4,151
|
4,005
|
|||||||||
|
Selling and marketing
|
9,632
|
8,998
|
9,954
|
|||||||||
|
General and administrative
|
7,847
|
5,885
|
6,154
|
|||||||||
|
Total operating expenses
|
20,827
|
19,034
|
20,113
|
|||||||||
|
Operating income (loss)
|
3,010
|
3,883
|
(1,265
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Financial income (expenses), net
|
71
|
731
|
(64
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Income (loss) before income taxes
|
3,081
|
4,614
|
(1,329
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Taxes on income (tax benefit)
|
(136
|
)
|
1,977
|
(40
|
)
|
|||||||
|
Net income (loss)
|
$
|
3,217
|
$
|
2,637
|
$
|
(1,289
|
)
|
|||||
|
Basic net income (loss) per share
|
$
|
0.14
|
$
|
0.11
|
$
|
(0.06
|
)
|
|||||
|
Diluted net income (loss) per share
|
$
|
0.14
|
$
|
0.11
|
$
|
(0.06
|
)
|
|||||
|
Year ended December 31,
|
||||||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
2023
|
||||||||||
|
Net income (loss)
|
$
|
3,217
|
$
|
2,637
|
$
|
(1,289
|
)
|
|||||
|
Foreign currency translation adjustments
|
473
|
(1,004
|
)
|
782
|
||||||||
|
Total other comprehensive income (loss)
|
473
|
(1,004
|
)
|
782
|
||||||||
|
Total comprehensive income (loss)
|
$
|
3,690
|
$
|
1,633
|
$
|
(507
|
)
|
|||||
|
Number of shares
|
Common shares
|
Additional paid-in
capital
|
Accumulated other comprehensive
income (loss)
|
Foreign currency translation
adjustments - the Company
|
Accumulated
deficit
|
Total shareholders' equity
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Balance as of January 1, 2023
|
23,309,987
|
$
|
6,799
|
$
|
30,503
|
$
|
(758
|
)
|
$
|
9,654
|
$
|
(8,511
|
)
|
$
|
37,687
|
|||||||||||||
|
Stock-based compensation
|
-
|
-
|
18
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
18
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Foreign currency translation adjustments - the Company
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
(6
|
)
|
-
|
(6
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
Comprehensive income (loss):
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Net loss
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
(1,289
|
)
|
(1,289
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
Foreign currency translation adjustments
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
782
|
-
|
-
|
782
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Balance as of December 31, 2023
|
23,309,987
|
6,799
|
30,521
|
24
|
9,648
|
(9,800
|
)
|
37,192
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Change in par value of common shares
|
-
|
(6,799
|
)
|
6,799
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Issuance of shares upon exercise of employee stock options
|
16,666
|
-
|
39
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
39
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Stock-based compensation
|
-
|
-
|
18
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
18
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Foreign currency translation adjustments - the Company
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
(1,206
|
)
|
-
|
(1,206
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
Comprehensive income (loss):
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Net income
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
2,637
|
2,637
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Foreign currency translation adjustments
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
(1,004
|
)
|
-
|
-
|
(1,004
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
Balance as of December 31, 2024
|
23,326,653
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
37,377
|
$
|
(980
|
)
|
$
|
8,442
|
$
|
(7,163
|
)
|
$
|
37,676
|
|||||||||||||
|
Number of shares
|
Additional paid-in
capital
|
Accumulated other comprehensive
income (loss)
|
Foreign currency translation
adjustments - the Company
|
Accumulated deficit
|
Total shareholders' equity
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
Balance as of December 31, 2024
|
23,326,653
|
$
|
37,377
|
$
|
(980
|
)
|
$
|
8,442
|
$
|
(7,163
|
)
|
$
|
37,676
|
|||||||||||
|
Issuance of shares upon exercise of employee stock options
|
5,000
|
16
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
16
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Stock-based compensation
|
-
|
612
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
612
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Foreign currency translation adjustments - the Company
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1,222
|
-
|
1,222
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Comprehensive income (loss):
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Net income
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
3,217
|
3,217
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Foreign currency translation adjustments
|
-
|
-
|
473
|
-
|
-
|
473
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Balance as of December 31, 2025
|
23,331,653
|
$
|
38,005
|
$
|
(507
|
)
|
$
|
9,664
|
$
|
(3,946
|
)
|
$
|
43,216
|
|||||||||||
|
Year ended December 31,
|
||||||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
2023
|
||||||||||
|
Cash flows from operating activities:
|
||||||||||||
|
Net income (loss)
|
$
|
3,217
|
$
|
2,637
|
$
|
(1,289
|
)
|
|||||
|
Adjustments required to reconcile net income to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:
|
||||||||||||
|
Depreciation and amortization
|
676
|
733
|
917
|
|||||||||
|
Loss (gain) on sale of property and equipment
|
14
|
(5
|
)
|
8
|
||||||||
|
Stock based compensation
|
612
|
18
|
18
|
|||||||||
|
Decrease (increase) in trade receivables, net
|
1,112
|
(1,243
|
)
|
613
|
||||||||
|
Decrease (increase) in unbilled accounts receivable
|
20
|
(7
|
)
|
116
|
||||||||
|
Decrease (increase) in other accounts receivable and prepaid expenses
|
(397
|
) |
138
|
(967
|
)
|
|||||||
|
Decrease (increase) in inventories
|
(228
|
)
|
1,705
|
1,479
|
||||||||
|
Decrease (increase) in deferred income taxes, net
|
592
|
229
|
218
|
|||||||||
|
Decrease (increase) in operating lease right-of-use assets
|
272
|
309
|
245
|
|||||||||
|
Decrease in operating lease liabilities
|
(286
|
)
|
(319
|
)
|
(229
|
)
|
||||||
|
Increase (decrease) in trade payables
|
(944
|
)
|
1,217
|
(799
|
)
|
|||||||
|
Increase (decrease) in other accounts payable and accrued expenses and deferred revenues and customer advances
|
(2,905
|
)
|
1,535
|
(47
|
)
|
|||||||
|
Accrued severance pay, net
|
-
|
(291
|
)
|
(23
|
)
|
|||||||
|
Net cash provided by operating activities
|
$
|
1,755
|
$
|
6,656
|
$
|
260
|
||||||
|
Year ended December 31,
|
||||||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
2023
|
||||||||||
|
Cash flows from investing activities:
|
||||||||||||
|
Investment of short-term bank deposits
|
$
|
(2
|
)
|
$
|
(1
|
)
|
$
|
(1
|
)
|
|||
|
Proceeds from sale of property and equipment
|
-
|
51
|
47
|
|||||||||
|
Purchase of property and equipment
|
(559
|
)
|
(273
|
)
|
(380
|
)
|
||||||
|
Net cash used in investing activities
|
(561
|
)
|
(223
|
)
|
(334
|
)
|
||||||
|
Cash flows from financing activities:
|
||||||||||||
|
Proceeds from issuance of shares upon exercise of options to employees
|
16
|
39
|
-
|
|||||||||
|
Deferred payment with respect to asset acquisition
|
-
|
-
|
(213
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
|
16
|
39
|
(213
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents
|
665
|
(812
|
)
|
156
|
||||||||
|
Increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
|
1,875
|
5,660
|
(131
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year
|
20,466
|
14,806
|
14,937
|
|||||||||
|
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year
|
$
|
22,341
|
$
|
20,466
|
$
|
14,806
|
||||||
|
Year ended December 31,
|
||||||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
2023
|
||||||||||
|
Supplemental disclosures of cash flows activities:
|
||||||||||||
|
Cash paid (received) during the year for:
|
||||||||||||
|
Interest
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
||||||
|
Federal tax
|
$
|
720
|
$
|
(474
|
) |
$
|
-
|
|||||
|
Provincial tax
|
617
|
(406
|
) |
-
|
||||||||
|
United States tax
|
127
|
35
|
24
|
|||||||||
|
Canada
|
-
|
-
|
359
|
|||||||||
|
Israel
|
748
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||
|
$ |
2,212
|
$ |
(845
|
) |
$ |
383
|
||||||
|
Significant non-cash transactions:
|
||||||||||||
|
Right-of-use asset recognized with corresponding lease liability
|
$
|
272
|
$
|
39
|
$
|
134
|
||||||
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
U.S. dollars in thousands (except share and per share data)
| NOTE 1:- |
GENERAL
|
| a. |
General:
|
| b. |
Redomiciliation Transaction:
|
F - 14
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 1:- |
GENERAL (Cont.)
|
| c. |
On December 9, 2025 Senstar Technologies Corporation’s wholly owned subsidiary entered into a definitive agreement (the "Agreement") to acquire Blickfeld GmbH ("Blickfeld"), a top producer of 3D LiDAR sensors with integrated software for security, volume monitoring, industrial and traffic applications, for €10.4 million in cash with €1 million in performance-based earnouts. The agreement is subject to regulatory approvals and the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
|
| a. |
Use of estimates:
|
F - 15
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 2:- |
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.)
|
| b. |
Foreign currency:
|
| c. |
Principles of consolidation:
|
| d. |
Cash equivalents:
|
| e. |
Short-term restricted cash and deposits:
|
F - 16
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 2:- |
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.)
|
| f. |
Short-term bank deposits:
|
| g. |
Inventories:
|
| h. |
Property and equipment:
|
|
%
|
||
|
Buildings
|
3 - 4
|
|
|
Machinery and equipment
|
10 - 33 (mainly 10%)
|
|
|
Motor vehicles
|
15 - 20
|
|
|
Promotional displays
|
10 - 25
|
|
|
Office furniture and equipment
|
20 - 33
|
|
|
Leasehold improvements
|
By the shorter of the term of the lease or the useful life of the assets
|
F - 17
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 2:- |
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.)
|
| i. |
Intangible assets:
|
|
%
|
||
|
Patents
|
10
|
|
|
Technology
|
12.5 - 26.7
|
|
|
Customer relationships
|
10.3 - 36.4
|
| j. |
Impairment of long-lived assets:
|
| k. |
Goodwill:
|
F - 18
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 2:- |
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.)
|
| l. |
Business combinations:
|
F - 19
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 2:- |
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.)
|
| m. |
Revenue recognition:
|
F - 20
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 2:- |
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.)
|
F - 21
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 2:- |
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.)
|
| n. |
Accounting for stock-based compensation:
|
|
2025
|
2024
|
||||
|
Dividend yield
|
0%
|
0%
|
|||
|
Expected volatility
|
44.13%-73.38%
|
43.88%-66.99%
|
|||
|
Risk-free interest
|
3.91%-4.12%
|
4.09%-4.24%
|
|||
|
Contractual term
|
6 years
|
6 years
|
|||
|
Suboptimal exercise multiple
|
1.32
|
1.32
|
F - 22
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 2:- |
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.)
|
| o. |
Research and development costs:
|
| p. |
Warranty costs:
|
|
December 31,
|
||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
|||||||
|
Warranty provision, beginning of year
|
$
|
152
|
$
|
150
|
||||
|
Charged to costs of revenue relating to new sales
|
162
|
159
|
||||||
|
Utilization of warranty
|
(156
|
)
|
(145
|
)
|
||||
|
Foreign currency translation adjustments
|
(5
|
)
|
(12
|
)
|
||||
|
Warranty provision, year end
|
$
|
153
|
$
|
152
|
||||
| q. |
Net earnings per share:
|
F - 23
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 2:- |
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.)
|
| r. |
Concentrations of credit risk:
|
F - 24
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 2:- |
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.)
|
|
Year ended
December 31,
|
||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
|||||||
|
Balance at the beginning of the year
|
$
|
82
|
$
|
58
|
||||
|
Credit losses expenses during the year
|
91
|
56
|
||||||
|
Customer write-offs during the year
|
(16
|
)
|
(27
|
)
|
||||
|
Exchange rate
|
24
|
(5
|
)
|
|||||
|
$
|
181
|
$
|
82
|
|||||
| s. |
Income taxes:
|
| t. |
Severance pay:
|
F - 25
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 2:- |
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.)
|
| u. |
Fair value measurements:
|
| Level 1 | - | Observable inputs that reflect quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets. |
| Level 2 | - | Significant other observable inputs based on market data obtained from sources independent of the reporting entity. |
| Level 3 | - | Unobservable inputs which are supported by little or no market activity. |
| v. |
Advertising expenses:
|
F - 26
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 2:- |
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.)
|
| w. |
Comprehensive income (loss):
|
|
Year ended December 31,
|
||||||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
2023
|
||||||||||
|
Balance at the beginning of the year
|
$
|
(980
|
)
|
$
|
24
|
$
|
(758
|
)
|
||||
|
Foreign currency translation adjustments
|
473
|
(1,004
|
)
|
782
|
||||||||
|
Total accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)
|
$
|
(507
|
)
|
$
|
(980
|
)
|
$
|
24
|
||||
| x. |
Leases:
|
F - 27
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 2:- |
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.)
|
| y. |
Reclassifications:
|
| z. |
Impact of recently issued and adopted accounting standards:
|
F - 28
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 3:- |
OTHER ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE AND PREPAID EXPENSES
|
|
December 31,
|
||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
|||||||
|
Prepaid expenses
|
$
|
1,346
|
$
|
879
|
||||
|
Government authorities
|
644
|
830
|
||||||
|
Prepaid tax asset
|
502
|
-
|
||||||
|
Others
|
218
|
452
|
||||||
|
$
|
2,710
|
$
|
2,161
|
|||||
| NOTE 4:- |
INVENTORIES
|
|
December 31,
|
||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
|||||||
|
Raw materials
|
$
|
1,075
|
$
|
642
|
||||
|
Work in progress
|
577
|
695
|
||||||
|
Finished products
|
3,939
|
3,620
|
||||||
|
$
|
5,591
|
$
|
4,957
|
|||||
| NOTE 5:- |
LEASES
|
| a. |
Supplemental balance sheet information related to operating leases is as follows:
|
|
December 31,
|
||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
|||||||
|
Operating lease ROU assets
|
$
|
549
|
$
|
528
|
||||
|
Operating lease liabilities, current
|
$
|
269
|
$
|
254
|
||||
|
Operating lease liabilities, long-term
|
$
|
289
|
$
|
296
|
||||
|
Weighted average remaining lease term (in years)
|
1.42
|
1.41
|
||||||
|
Weighted average discount rate
|
3.80
|
%
|
4.29
|
%
|
||||
F - 29
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 5:- |
LEASES (Cont.)
|
| b. |
Future lease payments under operating leases as of December 31, 2025, are as follows:
|
|
December 31,
|
||||
|
2026
|
$
|
282
|
||
|
2027
|
223
|
|||
|
2028
|
61
|
|||
|
2029
|
10
|
|||
|
Total future lease payments
|
576
|
|||
|
Less - imputed interest
|
(18
|
)
|
||
|
Total lease liability balance
|
$
|
558
|
||
| c. |
Operating lease expenses amounted to $290, $301 and $339 for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Operating lease expenses with a term of twelve months or less were immaterial.
|
| NOTE 6:- |
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET
|
|
December 31,
|
||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
|||||||
|
Cost:
|
||||||||
|
Land and buildings
|
$
|
2,908
|
$
|
2,512
|
||||
|
Machinery and equipment
|
2,151
|
2,042
|
||||||
|
Motor vehicles
|
61
|
48
|
||||||
|
Promotional displays
|
327
|
259
|
||||||
|
Office furniture and equipment
|
2,979
|
3,023
|
||||||
|
8,426
|
7,884
|
|||||||
|
Accumulated depreciation:
|
||||||||
|
Buildings
|
1,963
|
1,769
|
||||||
|
Machinery and equipment
|
1,907
|
1,778
|
||||||
|
Motor vehicles
|
51
|
48
|
||||||
|
Promotional displays
|
251
|
226
|
||||||
|
Office furniture and equipment
|
2,632
|
2,735
|
||||||
|
6,804
|
6,556
|
|||||||
|
Property and equipment, net
|
$
|
1,622
|
$
|
1,328
|
||||
| b. |
Depreciation expenses amounted to $333, $374 and $420 for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
|
F - 30
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 7:- |
INTANGIBLE ASSETS, NET
|
| a. |
Composition:
|
|
December 31,
|
||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
|||||||
|
Cost:
|
||||||||
|
Know-how and patents
|
$
|
3,201
|
$
|
3,078
|
||||
|
Technology
|
6,494
|
6,248
|
||||||
|
Customer relationships
|
1,038
|
1,004
|
||||||
|
10,733
|
10,330
|
|||||||
|
Accumulated amortization:
|
||||||||
|
Know-how and patents
|
3,192
|
3,067
|
||||||
|
Technology
|
6,361
|
5,811
|
||||||
|
Customer relationships
|
1,038
|
984
|
||||||
|
10,591
|
9,862
|
|||||||
|
Intangible assets, net
|
$
|
142
|
$
|
468
|
||||
| b. |
Amortization expenses related to intangible assets amounted to $343, $359 and $497 for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
|
| c. |
Estimated amortization of intangible assets for the years ended:
|
|
December 31,
|
||||
|
2026
|
$
|
136
|
||
|
2027
|
3
|
|||
|
2028
|
3
|
|||
|
$
|
142
|
|||
F - 31
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 8:- |
GOODWILL
|
|
Total
|
||||
|
As of January 1, 2024
|
$
|
11,090
|
||
|
Foreign currency translation adjustments
|
(730
|
)
|
||
|
As of December 31, 2024
|
10,360
|
|||
|
Foreign currency translation adjustments
|
490
|
|||
|
As of December 31, 2025
|
$
|
10,850
|
||
| NOTE 9:- |
OTHER ACCOUNTS PAYABLE AND ACCRUED EXPENSES
|
|
December 31,
|
||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
|||||||
|
Employees and payroll accruals
|
$
|
1,948
|
$
|
2,133
|
||||
|
Accrued expenses
|
1,194
|
1,274
|
||||||
|
Government authorities
|
384
|
1,063
|
||||||
|
Uncertain tax positions
|
178
|
1,874
|
||||||
|
Others
|
289
|
89
|
||||||
|
$
|
3,993
|
$
|
6,433
|
|||||
| NOTE 10:- |
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENT LIABILITIES
|
| a. |
Guarantees:
|
| b. |
Legal proceedings:
|
F - 32
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 11:- |
SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
|
| a. |
Pertinent rights and privileges conferred by common shares:
|
| b. |
Stock Option Plan:
|
F - 33
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 11:- |
SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY (Cont.)
|
|
Number of options
|
Weighted-average exercise price
|
Weighted- average remaining contractual life
(in months)
|
Aggregate intrinsic
value
(in thousands)
|
|||||||||||||
|
Outstanding at January 1, 2024
|
137,666
|
3.130
|
33.07
|
-
|
||||||||||||
|
Granted
|
897,750
|
2.885
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||
|
Exercised
|
(16,666
|
)
|
2.361
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
|
Expired
|
(43,000
|
)
|
3.2
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
|
Outstanding as of December 31, 2024
|
975,750
|
2.915
|
67.58
|
512.61
|
||||||||||||
|
Exercisable as of December 31, 2024
|
54,667
|
3.247
|
22.38
|
10.55
|
||||||||||||
|
Number of options
|
Weighted-average
exercise price
|
Weighted- average
remaining
contractual life
(in months)
|
Aggregate intrinsic
value
(in thousands)
|
|||||||||||||
|
Outstanding at January 1, 2025
|
975,750
|
2.915
|
67.58
|
512.61
|
||||||||||||
|
Granted
|
33,250
|
4.160
|
|
- |
|
- | ||||||||||
|
Exercised
|
(5,000
|
)
|
3.277
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
|
Expired
|
(8,000
|
)
|
3.073
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
|
Outstanding as of December 31, 2025
|
996,000
|
2.953
|
56.70
|
1,869
|
||||||||||||
|
Exercisable as of December 31, 2025
|
364,255
|
2.955
|
51.47
|
683
|
||||||||||||
F - 34
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 11:- |
SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY (Cont.)
|
|
Number of options
outstanding as of
December 31,
2025
|
Exercise
price
|
Weighted
average
remaining
contractual life
(in months)
|
Number of options
exercisable as of
December 31,
2025
|
|||||||||||
|
897,750
|
2.89
|
59.41
|
299,255
|
|||||||||||
|
65,000
|
3.28
|
14.94
|
65,000
|
|||||||||||
|
33,250
|
4.16
|
65.10
|
-
|
|||||||||||
|
996,000
|
56.70
|
364,255
|
||||||||||||
| c. |
Dividends:
|
| NOTE 12:- |
BASIC AND DILUTED NET EARNINGS PER SHARE
|
|
Year ended December 31,
|
||||||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
2023
|
||||||||||
|
Numerator:
|
||||||||||||
|
Income (loss) attributable to Senstar shareholders
|
$
|
3,217
|
$
|
2,637
|
$
|
(1,289
|
)
|
|||||
|
Denominator:
|
||||||||||||
|
Denominator for basic net earnings per share weighted-average number of shares outstanding
|
23,329,557
|
23,311,721
|
23,309,987
|
|||||||||
|
Effect of diluting securities:
|
||||||||||||
|
Employee stock options
|
130,389
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||
|
Denominator for diluted net earnings per share - adjusted weighted average shares and assumed exercises
|
23,459,946
|
23,311,721
|
23,309,987
|
|||||||||
F - 35
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 13:- |
TAXES ON INCOME
|
| a. |
Tax laws and tax rates applicable to the Group companies:
|
| b. |
Tax assessments:
|
F - 36
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 13:- |
TAXES ON INCOME (Cont.)
|
| c. |
Reconciliation between the theoretical tax expense, assuming all income is taxed at the Canadian statutory rate for 2025 and 2024 and the Israeli statutory rate for 2023, and the actual tax expense, is as follows:
|
|
Year ended December 31,
|
||||||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
2023
|
||||||||||
|
Income (loss) before taxes as reported in the statements of operations
|
$
|
3,081
|
$
|
4,614
|
$
|
(1,329
|
)
|
|||||
|
Amount
|
%
|
Amount
|
%
|
Amount
|
%
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
Canadian Federal Statutory Tax Rate
|
$
|
770
|
25.0
|
$
|
1,154
|
25.0
|
$
|
(306
|
)
|
(23.0
|
)
|
|||||||||||||
|
Provincial and Local Income Tax, Net of Federal Income Tax Effect
|
(29
|
)
|
(0.9
|
)
|
(1
|
)
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Foreign Tax Effect
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
United States of America
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Changes in valuation allowance
|
(59
|
)
|
(1.9
|
)
|
(59
|
)
|
(1.3
|
)
|
145
|
10.9
|
||||||||||||||
|
Tax rate differences in subsidiaries and benefit from reduced tax rates
|
(16
|
)
|
(0.5
|
)
|
(7
|
)
|
(0.2
|
)
|
21
|
1.6
|
||||||||||||||
| Foreign tax credits | 57 | 1.8 | 138 | 3.0 | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||
|
Other
|
(19
|
) |
(0.6
|
) |
-
|
-
|
6
|
0.5
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Germany
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Changes in enacted tax rates
|
73
|
2.4
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Tax rate differences in subsidiaries and benefit from reduced tax rates
|
13
|
0.4
|
18
|
0.4
|
20
|
1.5
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Non-deductible professional fees
|
80
|
2.6
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Israel
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Withholding tax undistributed earnings
|
-
|
-
|
(424
|
)
|
(9.2
|
)
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Non-deductible professional fees
|
-
|
-
|
(101
|
)
|
(2.2
|
)
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Canada
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Tax rate differences in subsidiaries and benefit from reduced tax rates
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
(42
|
)
|
(3.2
|
)
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Investment tax credits
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
(83
|
)
|
(6.2
|
)
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Other
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
(34
|
)
|
(2.6
|
)
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Other Foreign Jurisdiction
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Other
|
4
|
0.1
|
(5
|
)
|
(0.1
|
)
|
(13
|
)
|
(1.0
|
)
|
||||||||||||||
|
Provision for uncertain tax position
|
(1,183
|
)
|
(38.4
|
)
|
757
|
16.4
|
140
|
10.5
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Non-deductible stock compensation
|
129
|
4.2
|
12
|
0.3
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Non-deductible professional fees
|
48
|
1.6
|
138
|
3.0
|
191
|
14.4
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Taxable capital gains
|
65
|
2.1
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Non-deductible other
|
13
|
0.4
|
12
|
0.3
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Changes in valuation allowance
|
39
|
1.3
|
240
|
5.2
|
142
|
10.7
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Investment tax credits
|
(156
|
)
|
(5.1
|
)
|
(154
|
)
|
(3.3
|
)
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||||
|
Withholding tax undistributed earnings
|
27
|
0.9
|
292
|
6.3
|
(260
|
)
|
(19.6
|
)
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Other
|
8
|
0.2
|
(33
|
)
|
(0.7
|
)
|
33
|
2.5
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Taxes on income (tax benefit) in the statements of operations
|
$
|
(136
|
)
|
$
|
1,977
|
$
|
(40
|
)
|
||||||||||||||||
(*) Based on the Canadian statutory income tax rate of 25% for 2025 and 2024 and the Israeli statutory income tax rate of 23% for 2023.
F - 37
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 13:- |
TAXES ON INCOME (Cont.)
|
| d. |
Taxes on income (tax benefit) included in the statements of operations:
|
|
Year ended December 31,
|
||||||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
2023
|
||||||||||
|
Current
|
$
|
(507
|
)
|
$
|
1,739
|
$
|
(239
|
)
|
||||
|
Deferred
|
371
|
238
|
199
|
|||||||||
|
$
|
(136
|
)
|
$
|
1,977
|
$
|
(40
|
)
|
|||||
|
Year ended December 31,
|
||||||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
2023
|
||||||||||
|
Domestic (*)
|
$
|
325
|
$
|
1,049
|
$
|
(28
|
)
|
|||||
|
Foreign
|
(461
|
)
|
928
|
(12
|
)
|
|||||||
|
$
|
(136
|
)
|
$
|
1,977
|
$
|
(40
|
)
|
|||||
F - 38
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 13:- |
TAXES ON INCOME (Cont.)
|
| e. |
Deferred income taxes:
|
|
December 31,
|
||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
|||||||
|
Deferred tax assets:
|
||||||||
|
Operating losses carry forwards
|
$
|
725
|
$
|
2,091
|
||||
|
Capital losses carry forwards
|
37
|
1,327
|
||||||
|
Tax Credits
|
195
|
367
|
||||||
|
Right of use liability
|
145
|
140
|
||||||
|
Property, plant and equipment
|
183
|
178
|
||||||
|
Deferred revenue
|
113
|
129
|
||||||
|
Reserves
|
76
|
1,184
|
||||||
|
Total deferred taxes before valuation allowance
|
1,474
|
5,416
|
||||||
|
Valuation allowance
|
(602
|
)
|
(3,970
|
)
|
||||
|
Deferred tax assets, net:
|
872
|
1,446
|
||||||
|
Deferred tax liabilities:
|
||||||||
|
Intangible assets
|
(261
|
)
|
(269
|
)
|
||||
|
Right of use asset
|
(145
|
)
|
(140
|
)
|
||||
|
Tax credits
|
(55
|
)
|
(43
|
)
|
||||
|
Undistributed earnings of subsidiaries
|
(320
|
)
|
(279
|
)
|
||||
|
Deferred tax liabilities:
|
(781
|
)
|
(731
|
)
|
||||
|
Net deferred tax assets
|
$
|
91
|
$
|
715
|
||||
|
Domestic (*)
|
$
|
(153
|
)
|
$
|
(179
|
)
|
||
|
Foreign
|
$
|
244
|
$
|
894
|
||||
F - 39
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 13:- |
TAXES ON INCOME (Cont.)
|
| f. |
The domestic and foreign components of income (loss) before taxes are as follows:
|
|
Year ended December 31,
|
||||||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
2023
|
||||||||||
|
Domestic (*)
|
$
|
798
|
$
|
2,367
|
$
|
(992
|
)
|
|||||
|
Foreign
|
2,283
|
2,247
|
(337
|
)
|
||||||||
|
$
|
3,081
|
$
|
4,614
|
$
|
(1,329
|
)
|
||||||
| g. |
Net operating carryforward tax losses:
|
F - 40
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 13:- |
TAXES ON INCOME (Cont.)
|
| h. |
Uncertain tax positions:
|
|
December 31,
|
||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
|||||||
|
Balance at the beginning of the year
|
$
|
1,874
|
$
|
1,113
|
||||
|
Additions based on tax positions taken related to the current year
|
5
|
1,335
|
||||||
|
Reduction related to expirations of statute of limitations
|
(131
|
) |
(578
|
)
|
||||
|
Reductions related to settlements of tax matters
|
(1,579
|
)
|
||||||
|
Foreign currency translation adjustments
|
9
|
4
|
||||||
|
Balance at the end of the year
|
$
|
178
|
$
|
1,874
|
||||
Although the Company believes that it has adequately provided for any reasonably foreseeable outcomes related to tax audits and settlement, there is no assurance that the final tax outcome of its tax audits will not be different from that which is reflected in the Company's income tax provisions. Such differences could have a material effect on the Company's income tax provision, cash flow from operating activities and earnings in the period in which such determination is made.
F - 41
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 13:- |
TAXES ON INCOME (Cont.)
|
| i. |
Supplemental disclosure for taxes in cash flow
|
|
Year ended December 31,
|
||||||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
2023
|
||||||||||
|
Supplemental disclosures of cash flows activities:
|
||||||||||||
|
Cash paid (refund) during the year for:
|
||||||||||||
|
Federal tax
|
$
|
720
|
$
|
(474
|
) |
$
|
-
|
|||||
|
Provincial tax
|
617
|
(406
|
) |
-
|
||||||||
|
United States tax
|
127
|
35
|
24
|
|||||||||
|
Canada
|
-
|
-
|
359
|
|||||||||
|
Israel
|
748
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||
|
$
|
2,212
|
$
|
(845
|
) |
$
|
383
|
||||||
| NOTE 14:- |
BALANCES AND TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PARTIES
|
| NOTE 15:- |
SEGMENT INFORMATION
|
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SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 15:- |
SEGMENT INFORMATION (Cont.)
|
|
Year ended December 31,
|
||||||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
2023
|
||||||||||
|
North America
|
$
|
17,959
|
$
|
16,262
|
$
|
14,835
|
||||||
|
Europe
|
12,830
|
12,763
|
11,393
|
|||||||||
|
APAC
|
4,942
|
5,410
|
3,863
|
|||||||||
|
South and Latin America
|
467
|
975
|
2,197
|
|||||||||
|
Others
|
176
|
343
|
504
|
|||||||||
|
$
|
36,374
|
$
|
35,753
|
$
|
32,792
|
|||||||
|
December 31,
|
||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
|||||||
|
Canada
|
$
|
10,123
|
$
|
9,812
|
||||
|
Europe
|
1,265
|
1,081
|
||||||
|
USA
|
1,775
|
1,791
|
||||||
|
$
|
13,163
|
$
|
12,684
|
|||||
F - 43
SENSTAR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
| NOTE 16:- |
SELECTED STATEMENTS OF INCOME DATA
|
|
Year ended December 31,
|
||||||||||||
|
2025
|
2024
|
2023
|
||||||||||
|
Financial expenses:
|
||||||||||||
|
Bank charges
|
$
|
(145
|
)
|
$
|
(104
|
)
|
$
|
(157
|
)
|
|||
|
Foreign exchange loss, net
|
(167
|
)
|
-
|
(58
|
)
|
|||||||
|
(312
|
)
|
(104
|
)
|
(215
|
)
|
|||||||
|
Financial income:
|
||||||||||||
|
Interest on short-term bank deposits
|
383
|
363
|
151
|
|||||||||
|
Foreign exchange income, net
|
-
|
472
|
-
|
|||||||||
|
383
|
835
|
151
|
||||||||||
|
Financial income (expenses), net
|
$
|
71
|
$
|
731
|
$
|
(64
|
)
|
|||||
| NOTE 17:- |
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
|
|
|
1. |
Blickfeld Holding GmbH with its seat in Berlin, Germany, registered with the commercial reg-ister of the local court (Amtsgericht) of
Charlottenburg (Berlin), Germany, under HRB 260227 B
|
|
|
2. |
Senstar GmbH with its seat in Maintal, Germany, registered with the commercial register of the local court of Hanau, Germany, under HRB 99111
|
|
|
3. |
Dr. Mathias Muller [***]
|
|
|
4. |
Rolf Wojtech [***]
|
|
3
|
||
|
4
|
||
|
6
|
||
|
8
|
||
|
8
|
||
|
9
|
||
|
10
|
||
|
12
|
||
|
15
|
||
|
15
|
||
|
17
|
||
|
18
|
||
|
22
|
||
|
22
|
||
|
25
|
||
|
26
|
||
|
27
|
||
|
27
|
||
|
28
|
||
|
28
|
||
|
29
|
||
|
Annex
|
Description
|
|
Annex H‑1
|
VSOP
|
|
Annex H‑2
|
VSOP Option Holders
|
|
Annex H‑3
|
VSOP Calculation
|
|
Annex 2.3
|
Share Purchase Price Calculation
|
|
Annex 5.2.1c)
|
Key Employees
|
|
Annex 5.3.1
|
Termination Agreement
|
|
Annex 5.3.2
|
Managing Director Service Agreement Muller
|
|
Annex 5.3.3
|
Employment Agreement Wojtech
|
|
Annex 5.3.4
|
Shareholder Resolution Company
|
|
Annex 5.3.9
|
Receipt Closing Purchase Price
|
|
Annex 5.5.1
|
Closing Memorandum
|
|
Annex 6.1
|
Title Guarantees
|
|
Annex 6.2
|
Business Guarantees
|
|
Annex 6.3
|
Seller's Knowledge
|
|
Annex 7.3.1d)
|
Purchaser's Knowledge
|
|
Annex 7.3.2a
|
Data Room Index
|
|
Annex 7.3.2b
|
Safekeeping Instruction
|
|
Annex 8.1
|
Purchaser's Guarantees
|
|
Annex 11.3
|
Permitted Leakage
|
|
Definition
|
Section
|
Definition
|
Section
|
|
|
Additional VSOP Payment
|
Recitals (H)
|
Affiliate
|
11.3
|
|
|
Agreement
|
Title Page
|
Blickfeld Companies
|
Recitals (J)
|
|
|
Blickfeld Company
|
Recitals (J)
|
Blickfeld US
|
Recitals (J)
|
|
|
BMWE
|
5.2.1a)
|
Breach of Guarantee
|
7.1.1
|
|
|
Business Day
|
4.2
|
Business Guarantee Cap
|
7.4.2a)
|
|
|
Business Guarantees
|
6.2
|
Closing Actions
|
5.3
|
|
|
Closing Conditions
|
5.2.1
|
Closing Date
|
5.1.2
|
|
|
Closing Memorandum
|
5.5.1
|
Closing Purchase Price
|
2.2
|
|
|
Closing
|
5.1.1
|
Company
|
Recitals (A)
|
|
|
Company’s Account
|
2.5
|
Competing Activity
|
13.1.1a)
|
|
|
Cut‑off Date
|
Recitals (E)
|
Data Room Data Carrier
|
7.3.2
|
|
|
Data Room Index
|
7.3.2
|
De Minimis Amount
|
7.4.1
|
|
|
Due Diligence Documents
|
7.3.2
|
Earn‑Out Baseline Value
|
4.1.1
|
|
|
Earn‑Out Period
|
4.1.1
|
Earn‑Out Relevant Revenue
|
4.1.1
|
|
|
Earn‑Out Target Value
|
4.1.2
|
Earn‑out VSOP Payment
|
Recitals (H)
|
|
|
Effective Date
|
1.1
|
Escrow Account
|
3.1
|
|
|
Escrow Amount
|
2.2
|
Escrow Amount
|
3.1
|
|
|
Escrow Period
|
3.1
|
Exit Participation
|
Recitals (H)
|
|
|
Expert
|
4.4.4
|
Fundamental Guarantees
|
b)
|
|
|
Guarantee Claim
|
7.1.4
|
Guarantee Claims
|
7.1.4
|
|
|
Guarantee Notice
|
7.2.1
|
Leakage
|
11.3
|
|
|
Loan 1
|
Recitals (G)
|
Loan 2
|
Recitals (G)
|
|
|
Loan 3
|
Recitals (G)
|
Loan Agreement 1
|
Recitals (G)
|
|
|
Loan Agreement 2
|
Recitals (G)
|
Loan Agreement 3
|
Recitals (G)
|
|
|
Loan Agreements
|
Recitals (G)
|
Loan Indemnification Amount
|
11.5
|
|
|
Loan Purchase Price
|
2.1
|
Loan Receivables
|
Recitals (G)
|
|
|
Loans
|
Recitals (G)
|
MAC
|
5.2.1b)
|
|
Mathias Muller
|
Title Page
|
New Loan
|
11.5
|
|
|
New Loans
|
11.5
|
Notary
|
3.1
|
|
|
Objection Notice
|
4.4.2
|
Objection Period
|
4.4.2
|
|
|
Parties
|
Title Page
|
Party
|
Title Page
|
|
|
Permitted Leakage
|
11.3
|
Preliminary Earn‑Out Calculation
|
4.4.1
|
|
|
Preliminary VSOP Payment
|
Recitals (H)
|
Proposal
|
4.4.4
|
|
|
Purchaser
|
Title Page
|
Purchasers’ Guarantees
|
8.1
|
|
|
Relative
|
11.3
|
Releasing Parties
|
14
|
|
|
Relevant Claims
|
14
|
Research Allowance 2023
|
9.7
|
|
|
Retention Account
|
12.2
|
Retention Period
|
12.2
|
|
|
Revised Earn‑Out Calculation
|
4.4.2
|
Rolf Wojtech
|
Title Page
|
|
|
Scheduled Closing Date
|
5.1.2
|
Seller
|
Title Page
|
|
|
Sellers’ Account
|
2.4
|
Sellers’ Guarantees
|
6.2
|
|
|
Sellers’ Knowledge
|
6.3
|
Share Purchase Price Calculation
|
2.3
|
|
|
Share Purchase Price
|
2.1
|
Signing Date
|
Title Page
|
|
|
Sold Shares
|
Recitals (C)
|
Tax Authority
|
9.1.1
|
|
|
Tax Dispute
|
9.4.1
|
Tax Guarantees
|
9.8
|
|
|
Tax Returns
|
9.5
|
Taxes
|
9.1
|
|
|
Third Party Claim
|
7.2.2
|
Threshold Amount
|
7.4.1
|
|
|
Title Guarantees
|
6.1
|
Total Exit Participation Payment
|
Recitals (H)
|
|
|
Total Guarantee Cap
|
7.4.2b)
|
Total Purchase Price
|
2.1
|
|
|
Transaction
|
Recitals (I)
|
VAT
|
2.7
|
|
|
VSOP Adjustment Payment
|
Recitals (H)
|
VSOP
|
Recitals (H)
|
|
|
(A) |
Blickfeld GmbH is a German limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung) with its seat in Munich, Germany, registered with the commercial register
of the local court of Munich, Germany, under HRB 231953 ("Company").
|
|
|
(B) |
Object of the Company is the development, production and distribution of solutions for the col-lection and further processing of data, in particular three-dimensional distance data.
|
|
|
(C) |
The Seller is the sole shareholder of the Company and holding 25,000 shares in the Company with a nominal value of EUR 1.00 each and with the consecutive numbers 121,500 through and including 146,499 ("Sold Shares"), representing 100% of the issued share capital of the Com-pany.
|
|
|
(D) |
In 2024 the Company underwent restructuring insolvency proceedings (/nso/venzp/anverfah-ren). The proceedings were filed with the local court of Munich under 1507 IN
835/24. According to the restructuring part (gestaltender Tei/) of the insolvency plan (/nsolvenzplan) dated Sep-tember 12, 2024, with an addendum dated
October 1, 2024, the share capital of the Company was reduced to zero and the Sold Shares were issued by way of a capital increase.
|
|
|
(E) |
Insolvency proceedings were opened on 1 June•2024. Upon court approval of the insolvency plan on 24 October 2024, and such approval becoming legally effective on 11 November 2024 (the "Cut-off Date"), all quota-entitled creditors (/nso/venzg/aubiger) waived their claims against the Company to the extent such claims remained outstanding after receipt of all quota
payments under the insolvency plan. Accordingly, all claims existing prior to the Cut-off date (including conditional, contingent, or hypothetical claims) have been settled at the insolvency rate (includ-ing payment after dissolution of the
provisions in accordance with Section C.11.8 of the insol-vency plan), and any remaining amounts have been waived. Furthermore, it was resolved that quota-entitled creditors who did not participate in the proceedings remain subject to the
statute of limitation set forth in section 259b Insolvency Code (/nsolvenzordnung, lnsO) and, that this provision shall also apply mutatis mutandis to disputed claims (Besondere Verjahrungsfrist). As a result, all quota-entitled claims existing as of the Cut-off-Date became time-barred as of 11 November 2025. The Company was released from the insolvency proceedings as of 4
Decem-ber, 2024.
|
|
|
(F) |
The Purchaser is active in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of solutions for the collection and processing of data, in particular three-dimensional distance data, as well as re-lated businesses
and the provision of services associated with this purpose.
|
|
|
(G) |
The Seller granted the Company a shareholder loan in a nominal amount of EUR 1,250,000 ("Loan 1") under a loan agreement dated 22 October 2024 ("Loan Agreement 1"), a share-holder loan in a nominal amount of EUR 475,000 ("Loan 2") under a loan agreement dated 3 March 2025 ("Loan Agreement 2")
and a shareholder loan in a nominal amount of EUR 150,000 ("Loan 3"; together with Loan 1 and Loan 2 the "Loans"), under a loan agreement dated 15
September 2025 ("Loan Agreement 3"; together with the Loan Agreement 1 and the Loan Agreement 2 the"Loan Agreements"). As at the Effective Date, the principal
amounts of the Loans granted, including accrued but unpaid interest thereon, had a total balance of EUR 1,970,201.37, whereas the three Loans had the following balances (including accrued but unpaid interest thereon): Loan 1: EUR
1,336,535.24; Loan 2: EUR 483,026.76; Loan 3: EUR 150,639.37. All claims of the Seller for (re-)payment in connection with the Loans until (and including) the Effective Date, i.e. the outstanding principal amount and all interest accrued
thereon but unpaid with a total balance of EUR 1,970,201.37 (but excluding the Loan Agree-ments as a legal contract), shall be collectively referred to as the "Loan Receivables". The Loan Agreements
shall be terminated pursuant to section 5.3.1 as of the Effective Date and the Loan Receivables shall be sold and assigned to the Purchaser.
|
|
|
(H) |
The Company has established (i) a general virtual share option program, (ii) a layoff-related virtual share option program, and (iii) an optional virtual share option program (together, the "VSOP"), copies of which are attached hereto as Annex (H)-1 for evidentiary purposes. The VSOP entitles the Option Holders (as defined in the VSOP) in case of an
Exercise Event (as defined in the VSOP) to exercise their Virtual Options (as defined in the VSOP) in accordance with Section 6.4 of the VSOP and to demand the payment of an exit proceed participation in accordance with Section 7.1 of the
VSOP from the Company ("Exit Participation"). The Parties acknowledge and agree that the Seller shall bear the economic burden of the VSOP, in partic-ular the payment of the Exit Participations to the
Option Holders. If an Option Holder does not exercise his/her Virtual Options in accordance with Section 6.4 of the VSOP, i.e. within three months after receipt of the Exit Notification (as defined in the VSOP) by the Company, his/her Virtual
Options forfeit pursuant to Section 4.4 of the VSOP. Annex (H)-2 contains a conclusive list of all persons that as of the Signing Date have been granted Virtual Options under the VSOP stipulating for
each person the number of Virtual Options granted to him/her. Based on (i) a Share Purchase Price of EUR 8,719,798.63, (ii) the calculation methodology as laid down in Section 7 of the VSOP, (iii) the assumption that all Option Holders will
exercise their options right and (iv) not (yet) taking into consideration any earn out payments or purchase price adjust-ments resulting from potential Guarantee Claim or indemnity claims of the Purchaser, the ag-gregate amount of the Exit
Participation payments that is due and payable to all Option Holders under the VSOP amounts to EUR 876,279.46 (the "Total Exit Participation Payment"). The Parties agree that 87.79% of the Total Exit
Participation Payment, i.e. an amount of EUR 769,325.86, (the "Preliminary VSOP Payment") shall be deducted from the Total Purchase Price. In addition, the Option Holders under the VSOP shall receive,
subject to potential deduc-tions due to Guarantee Claim or indemnity claims, the remaining 12.21% of the Total Exit Par-ticipation Payment as an additional payment which shall however only be made two (2) years and 10 Business Days after the
Closing Date and once the limitation periods for potential Guar-antee Claim or indemnity claims (if any) have expired (the "Additional VSOP Payment"). Under the assumption that no Guarantee Claims or
indemnity claims did arise, the Additional VSOP Payment amounts to EUR 106,953.60 and the Seller shall pay the Additional VSOP Payment - or in case of Guarantee Claim and/or indemnity claims the respectively reduced amount - to the Purchaser
by release from the Retention Account. In the event an Earn-Out becomes due and payable pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, the Purchaser shall procure that the Company shall, within a reasonable period of time after the determination of
the Earn Out, calculate the earn-out related VSOP Payment pursuant to Section 7 of the VSOP (the "Earn-out VSOP Pay-ment"). Under the assumption of a full Earn-out, the Earn-out VSOP Payment amounts
to EUR 102,840,00. The Seller shall pay to the Purchaser (i) the Additional VSOP Payment and (ii) the Earn-out VSOP Payment, in each case within a reasonable period of time after the re-spective VSOP payment has become, or would have become,
due (together the "VSOP Ad-justment Payment"). The amounts of the VSOP Adjustment Payment have been calculated in accordance with Section 7 of the VSOP at Signing Date (see Annex (H)-3) and shall be adjusted accordingly to the final figures for the formula of Section 7 of the VSOP.
|
|
|
(I) |
The Seller intends to sell and assign to the Purchaser the Sold Shares in the Company and the Loan Receivables. The Purchaser intends to accept the sale and assignment of the Sold Shares in the Company and the
Loan Receivables by the Seller (the sales and assignments together the "Transaction").
|
|
|
(J) |
Blickfeld North America Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Blickfeld US"), is a wholly owned sub-sidiary of the Company, with all of its shares held exclusively by the
Company (Company and Blickfeld US together the "Blickfeld Companies" and each individually also a "Blickfeld Com-pany"). By the sale and transfer of the Sold
Shares in the Company, the Purchaser will indirectly acquire full ownership of Blickfeld US.
|
|
|
1. |
|
|
1.1 |
The Seller hereby sells to the Purchaser with economic effect as of 30 September 2025, 24:00 hours German Time, ("Effective Date") the Sold Shares in the Company
(even if the number, designation or amount should deviate from Preamble (C)) as well as the Loan Receiv-ables and hereby assigns them to the Purchaser subject to the condition precedent of full pay-ment of the Closing Purchase Price to the
Seller and the Escrow Amount to the Notary in ac-cordance with section 5.3.6 and 5.3.8. The Purchaser hereby accepts these sales and assign-ments.
|
|
|
1.2 |
The sales and assignments pursuant to section 1.1 comprise all ancillary rights appertaining to the Sold Shares and the Sold Loans, including the right to receive all profits of the current and, to the extent
a distribution has not yet been made, previous fiscal years.
|
|
|
2. |
|
|
2.1 |
The purchase price which Purchaser has to pay for all Sold Shares is a fixed purchase price and amounts to EUR 8,719,798.63 in total ("Share Purchase Price"), and the
purchase price which Purchaser has to pay for the sold Loan Receivables is a fixed purchase price and shall be equal to the nominal value of each Loan Receivable (plus accrued interest) on the Effective Date, amounting EUR 1,970,201.37 in
total for all Loan Receivables ("Loan Purchase Price"); the Share Purchase Price and the Loan Purchase Price together amounting to EUR 10,690,000.00 referred
to as the "Total Purchase Price".
|
|
|
2.2 |
The Total Purchase Price less a retention of EUR 400,000 (this retention "Escrow Amount") and less the Preliminary VSOP Payment of [***] (the Total Purchase Price
minus the Escrow Amount and minus the Preliminary VSOP Payment the "Closing Purchase Price", totalling [***]) shall be due on the Scheduled Closing Date and shall be paid by the Purchaser to the
Seller in the course of the Closing in accordance with section 5.3.6.
|
|
|
2.3 |
The Share Purchase Price has been calculated on a cash-debt free basis, adding the cash and cash-like items and deducting the debt and debt-like items from the enterprise value of the Com-pany, each as of the
Effective Date. This calculation of the Share Purchase Price is attached as Annex 2.3 ("Share Purchase Price Calculation").
|
|
|
2.4 |
All payments owed to the Seller pursuant or in connection with this Agreement - other than the payments pursuant to section 3, which shall solely be made pursuant to said section and the provisions of the
Escrow Agreement (as defined in section 3) - shall be paid free of costs and charges in immediately available funds (gleichtagige Gutschrift) by wire transfer to the following account of the Seller
("Sellers' Account"):
|
|
|
Account owner: |
Blickfeld Holding GmbH |
|
|
Bank: | [***] |
|
|
IBAN: |
|
|
|
BIC: |
|
|
|
2.5 |
All payments owed to the Company pursuant or in connection with this Agreement shall be paid free of costs and charges in immediately available funds (gleichtagige
Gutschrift) by wire trans-fer to the following account of the Company ("Company's Account"):
|
|
|
Account owner: | Blickfeld GmbH |
|
|
Bank: | [***] |
|
|
IBAN: |
|
|
|
BIC: |
|
|
|
2.6 |
Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement, each Party shall pay interest on any amounts due under or in connection with this Agreement at a rate of 5% p.a. from the due date until the date of payment. The
Parties are free to claim further damages.
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2.7 |
The Parties are of the opinion that the transaction/s contemplated by this Agreement is/are ex-empt from Value Added Tax pursuant to the German Value Added Tax Act (UStG) or
any com-parable tax of any other applicable jurisdiction ("VAT"). The Seller undertakes not to opt for VAT. In the event that the competent Tax Authority/ies should disagree, the Total Purchase Price
shall not include the VAT. In such case, the Purchaser shall be obligated to pay the applicable VAT to the Seller after the Purchaser received an invoice that complies with the respective legal requirements of the applicable jurisdiction.
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3.1 |
The Purchaser shall pay an amount of EUR 400,000 (the "Escrow Amount") as part of the Purchase Price to the notarial escrow account (Notaranderkonto) with [***] (the "Notary", the escrow account in the following "Escrow Account"). The Escrow Account shall be held on
behalf of the Seller and the Purchaser jointly for a period of twelve (12) months from the Closing Date ("Escrow Period"). The Escrow Amount shall secure all indemnifications claims of the Purchaser
against the Seller of this Agreement, in particular any Guarantee Claims, claims based on any indemnification provided for in this Agreement, and claims arising out of or in connection with covenants provided for in this Agreement.
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3.2 |
The Notary shall only release and pay out the Escrow Amount (or the relevant part thereof) to the Seller upon the occurrence of one of the following events, but not before end of the Escrow Period:
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3.2.1 |
the Notary has received a confirmation in text form (e-mail sufficient) from the Purchaser that no indemnification obligation by the Seller exist; or
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3.2.2 |
no notice in text form (email sufficient) specifying the facts or circumstances for Seller's indem-nification obligation and the estimated costs of remedy has been received by the Notary from the Purchaser; or
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3.2.3 |
an indemnification notice pursuant to section 3.2.2 has been received by the Notary, but the Seller has provided the Notary with an expert opinion from a sworn and publicly appointed expert (vereidigter Sachverstandiger) evidencing that the fact entitling the Purchaser to an indemnifi-cation claim does not exist.
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3.3 |
If the Purchaser submits an indemnification notice in accordance with section 3.2.2 or a notice regarding the set-off of the Escrow Amount against the Earn-Out VSOP Payment in accordance with section 4.2, the
Notary shall withhold only an amount corresponding to the estimated in-demnification costs as specified in such notice. Any amount exceeding these estimated costs shall be released and paid out to the Seller at the end of the Escrow Period.
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3.4 |
If, by end of the Escrow Period, the Notary has not received either (i) a confirmation from the Purchaser that no indemnification claims exist against the Seller or (ii) a final and binding court decision
regarding the existence and/or amount of indemnification claim, the Notary shall re-lease and pay out the remaining Escrow Amount to the Seller, unless the Purchaser provides evidence that court proceedings have been initiated before the end
of the Escrow Period.
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3.5 |
The Notary shall act exclusively in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the holding and release of the Escrow Amount. No separate escrow agreement shall be re-quired.
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3.6 |
The Purchaser shall bear the costs for the Escrow Account.
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4.1 |
The Earn-Out shall:
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4.1.1 |
If the net revenue of the Company and Blickfeld US generated in the period commencing on the month following the Closing Date and ending 12 months thereafter ("Earn-Out
Period"; the revenue generated during the Earn-Out Period the "Earn-Out Relevant Revenue") falls short of EUR [***] ("Earn-Out Baseline Value"), the
Earn-Out shall equal EUR 0,00.
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4.1.2 |
If the Earn-Out Relevant Revenue equals or exceeds the Earn-Out Baseline Value but falls short the Earn-Out Target Value, the Earn-Out shall linearly increase from [***] to [***]. For clarification: In case the
Earn-Out Relevant Revenue is [***], the Earn-Out shall be [***]; in case the Earn-Out Relevant Revenue is [***], the Earn-Out shall be [***] plus [***]
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4.2 |
The Earn-Out shall be due (fa/fig) 20 banking days (in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (each a "Business Day") following the date
on which the Earn-Out Calculations have become final and binding for all Parties pursuant to section 4.4. The Purchaser shall be entitled to set off the Earn-Out VSOP Payment against the Earn-Out. If there is no Earn-Out or if the Earn-Out is
insuffi-cient, the Purchaser shall, at its own discretion, be entitled to set off the Earn-Out VSOP Pay-ment against the Escrow Amount or to claim reimbursement from the Seller.
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4.3 |
The Purchaser shall procure that, subject to section 4.5, the Company continues to conduct its business operations in the ordinary course of business within the Earn-Out Period. Until the Earn-Out has been
determined, the Purchaser shall not take any action (or let the Company take any action) with the purpose of adversely affecting the ability of the Company to achieve the Earn-Out Relevant Revenue.
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4.4 |
With regard to the calculation of the Earn-Out the following shall apply:
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4.4.1 |
The Purchaser shall cause the Company's management to prepare the pre-liminary earn-out calculation ("Preliminary Earn-Out Calculation") within 15 Business Days after
expiration of the Earn-Out Period and the Purchaser shall provide the Seller with the Preliminary Earn-Out Calculation (pdf copy by e-mail sufficient) within 15 Business Days after receipt of the Prelimi-nary Earn-Out Calculation. Purchaser
shall ensure that the Seller and its advisers have access during normal office hours to all books, records, documents, and other financial information, in each case only to the extent reasonably required in order to assess the Preliminary
Earn-Out Calculation. The Seller shall treat any financial or other information received under or in con-nection with this section 4.4.1 strictly confidential and shall only share any such information with its directors, officers, employees
and professional advisors bound by confidentiality on a need to know basis.
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4.4.2 |
The Seller must raise objections (if any) to the Preliminary Earn-Out Calculations within 15 Busi-ness Days.after receiving the Preliminary Earn-Out Calculations ("Objection
Period") by provid-ing the Purchaser at least in text form with (i) an objection notice, specifying which item(s) in the
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4.4.3 |
If and to the extent the Seller objects to the Preliminary Earn-Out Calculations in accordance with section 4.4.2, the Purchaser and the Seller shall endeavor in good
faith to resolve such objections. If the Purchaser and the Seller resolve the objections within 15 Business Days after the receipt of the Objection Notice by the Purchaser, they shall, within such 15 Business Day period, adjust the
Preliminary Earn-Out Calculations in accordance with their agreement. The Preliminary Earn-Out Calculations shall, in this form, become final and binding for all Parties.
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4.4.4 |
If and to the extent the Purchaser and the Seller do not resolve the objections within the 15 Busi-ness Day period pursuant to section 4.4.3, the Purchaser and the Seller may jointly appoint an internationally
recognized accounting firm ("Expert"), to review the matter. If the Purchaser and the Seller are unable to agree on an Expert within 15 Business Days of Purchaser's request at least in text form to
the Seller or Sellers' request at least in text form to the Purchaser, or if the joint appointment is not made within 15 Business Days of such request, the Institute of Char-tered Accountants in Germany (/nstitut
der WirtschaftsprOfer in Deutsch/and e. V.), D0sseldorf, shall, at Purchaser's or Sellers' request at least in text form and after considering any proposals and comments from the Purchaser and the Seller, select an Expert by notice
at least in text form to the Purchaser and the Seller ("Proposal"). The Expert named in the Proposal shall be ap-pointed jointly by the Purchaser and the Seller without undue delay. If such joint
appointment is not made within 15 Business Days of receipt of the Proposal, the Purchaser individually on the one hand and the Seller on the other hand may each appoint the Expert with binding effect for all Parties.
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4.4.5 |
The Purchaser and the Seller shall instruct the Expert in writing to determine the matters in dispute in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and, if necessary, to obtain an inde-pendent legal
opinion, binding on all Parties in relation to the matters in dispute, as to the rele-vant legal provisions of this Agreement and their interpretation. Unless the Purchaser and the Seller jointly instruct otherwise, the Expert shall limit its
decisions to the disputed issues and its decisions shall fall between the positions taken by the Purchaser and the Seller in the Prelimi-nary Earn-Out Calculation and the Objection Notice. On the basis of its findings and the undis-puted
parts of the Preliminary Earn-Out Calculation and the Objection Notice, the Expert shall amend the Preliminary Earn-out Calculation to reflect its decision and determine the Earn-Out. The Expert's decision and the revised versions of the
Preliminary Earn-Out Calculation shall be final and binding for all Parties. The Expert shall act as an expert determiner (Schiedsgutachter) within the meaning of sections 317 et seqq. of the German Civil Code (BGB) and not as an arbitrator (Schiedsrichter) and shall decide at its reasonable discretion in accordance with sec-tion 319
para. 1 German Civil Code (8GB).
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4.4.6 |
The Purchaser and the Seller shall promptly provide the Expert with the Preliminary Earn-Out Calculation, the Objection Notice and such other books, records, documents, and other infor-mation as the Expert may
reasonably require in order to make the necessary decisions and determinations. The Expert shall without undue delay provide the Purchaser or the Seller with copies of all books, records, documents, and other information provided to it by the
Seller or the Purchaser, respectively. Before reaching a decision, the Expert shall give the Purchaser and the Seller an opportunity to present their respective views (recht/iches Gehor), including
the possibility of at least one oral (virtual session allowed) hearing in the presence of the Purchaser, the Seller, and their advisers. Both Purchaser and Seller shall instruct the Expert to use its best endeavors to deliver to the Seller
and the Purchaser the opinion at least in text form containing its decision and the reasons for its decision, together with its revised versions of the Preliminary Earn-Out Calculations as soon as practicable and, if possible, within 15
Business Days of its appointment.
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4.4.7 |
The costs and expenses of the Expert shall be borne by the Parties in such proportions as the Expert shall in its discretion determine, taking into account the degree of success or unsuccess-fulness of the
respective Party and by applying sections 91 et seq. of the German Code of Civil Procedure (Zivilprozessordnung, ZPO). Any costs and expenses of the Expert
that become due prior to such decision shall preliminarily (i.e. until final determination pursuant to the preceding sentence) be borne in equal parts by the Purchaser on the one hand and by the Seller on the other hand.
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4.5 |
In the event that in the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending 6 months thereafter, the Company's order backlog as per Closing Date plus new order in-take received after the Closing Date do not reach
an amount of at least [***] , the Parties explicitly agree that in such event the Purchaser shall, at its sole discretion, be entitled, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 4.3 or otherwise in the Agreement, to undertake any
and all measures to restructure the Company as the Purchaser deems necessary with immediate effect. Such measures may include, but are not limited to, changes to the corporate structure, mergers, de-mergers, spin-offs, the sale of assets, as
well as any other corporate and/or business measures.
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5.1 |
Scheduled Closing Date, Closing Date
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5.1.1 |
The consummation of this Agreement ("Closing") shall take place on the Scheduled Closing Date at the offices of the Notary in Stuttgart at 10.00 am German Time or at
another place and/or time agreed upon by the Parties at least in text form.
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5.1.2 |
The "Scheduled Closing Date" shall be the 5th Business Day following the day on which, for the first time, all Closing Conditions have been fulfilled or duly waived or
such other day (that succeeds the day of fulfilmenUdue waiver of the Closing Conditions) agreed upon by the Parties at least in text form. The "Closing Date" is the end (24:00 hrs) of the day on which
the Closing actually occurs.
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5.2 |
Closing Conditions
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5.2.1 |
The Parties shall be obligated to consummate this Agreement only if each of the following con-ditions ("Closing Conditions") has either been fulfilled or duly waived:
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The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy ("BMWE") has cleared the Transaction by written confirmation (a confirmation by email would be sufficient);
or the BMWE has issued a Certificate of non-objection pursuant to Sec. 58 German For-eign Trade and Payments Ordinance (AWV); or the respective statutory periods under German investment control law (or, as the case may be, any statutory
periods prolonged by mutual agreement) have expired and the BMWE has not prohibited the Transaction nor announced a further review of the Transaction so that the Transaction may be closed under German investment control law. If the Parties
(before submission of a filing to the BMWE or after filing, having received a respective indication from the BMWE) (i) reach a common view that the Transaction does not trigger a filing obligation under German investment control law and (ii)
mutually agree not to apply for a Certificate of non-objection of the BMWE, this Closing Condition is deemed to be fulfilled. This Clos-ing Condition cannot be waived.
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No MAC has occurred and no change, effect, development or circumstance has oc-curred that is reasonably likely to result in a MAC. "MAC" means any material adverse
change, effect, development or circumstance relating to any Blickfeld Company's busi-ness, results of operations, assets, liabilities, permits, intellectual property rights or fi-nancial condition, which, in total and after considering any
favorable events occurring, would result in a permanent decrease in the total value of the Blickfeld Companies of more than 20% of the Total Purchase Price.
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The Seller confirms to the Purchaser at least in text form (e-mail sufficient) that as of the Closing Date (i) none of the key employees listed in Annex 5.2.1c) and
(ii) not more than 20% of the employees of the Company listed in Appendix 7.1 to Annex 6.2 of this Agreement, have terminated their respective employment relationship with the Com-pany or have until the Closing Date given notice of
termination of their respective em-ployment agreements with the Company.
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5.2.2 |
The Parties are obligated to work towards the immediate fulfilment of the Closing Conditions and to cooperate to this end. The Parties shall inform each other of the current status of the intended fulfilment of
the Closing Conditions (including the fulfilment itself) and of any circum-stances that may prevent or delay the fulfilment of the Closing Conditions.
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5.3 |
Closing Actions
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5.3.1 |
The Seller shall provide the Purchaser a duly executed termination agreement between the Seller and the Company substantially in the form of Annex 5.3.1 by which the
Loan Agreements are terminated as of the Effective Date.
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5.3.2 |
The Seller and Mathias Muller shall provide the Purchaser with a duly executed version of the amended managing director service agreement between the Company and Mathias Muller, sub-stantially in the form of Annex 5.3.2.
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5.3.3 |
The Seller and Rolf Wojtech shall provide the Purchaser with a duly executed version of the amended employment agreement between the Company and Rolf Wojtech, substantially in the form of Annex 5.3.3.
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5.3.4 |
The Seller shall pass and provide the Purchaser with a copy of a duly executed resolution for the appointment (Beste/lung) of Fabien Haubert as
managing director of the Company granting him joint representation power under exemption from the restrictions of Section 181 German Civil Code (BGB) with effect as of the Closing Date, substantially in the form of Annex 5.3.4.
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5.3.5 |
The Seller shall provide the Purchaser (i) with a copy of a duly executed resolution for the ap-pointment (Beste/lung) of Fabien Haubert and/or any other persons
designated by the Pur-chaser as additional members of the Board of Directors and/or (if applicable) as additional Pres-idents of Blickfeld US, granting the Purchaser control of Blickfeld US, each with effect as of the Closing Date, and (ii)
evidence of amending the Bylaws and other necessary documents to consummate the aforementioned appointments as of Closing Date. The Parties are obligated to work towards the immediate preparation of this Closing Action and to cooperate for
this purpose. The Parties shall inform each other of the current status of the fulfilment of this Closing Action and of any circumstances that may prevent or delay the fulfilment of this Closing Action.
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5.3.6 |
The Purchaser shall pay the Closing Purchase Price to the Sellers' Account.
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5.3.7 |
The Purchaser shall pay the Preliminary VSOP Payment to the Company's Account.
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5.3.8 |
The Purchaser shall pay the Escrow Amount to the Notary.
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5.3.9 |
Once the Closing Purchase Price is credited to the Sellers' Account, the Escrow Amount is credited to the Notary's Account and the Preliminary VSOP Payment is credited to the Company's
Account, the Seller shall issue to the Purchaser a signed receipt substantially in the form of Annex 5.3.9.
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5.4 |
Waiver
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5.4.1 |
The Purchaser is entitled to waive by declaration at least in text form to the Seller the fulfil-ment/execution of the following Closing Conditions and Closing Actions: sections 5.2.1b) and c), 5.3.1 through
and including 5.3.5, and 5.3.9.
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5.4.2 |
The Parties may not waive the Closing Condition set forth in section 5.2.1a).
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5.5 |
Closing Memorandum
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5.5.1 |
After all Closing Actions have been taken or duly waived, the Parties shall sign a closing mem-orandum substantially in form of Annex 5.5.1 ("Closing Memorandum") and
shall submit a copy of such Closing Memorandum to the Notary.
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5.5.2 |
The Parties hereby jointly and irrevocably instruct the Notary (i) to submit, without undue delay after receipt of the copy of the Closing Memorandum and without further examination by the Notary, an updated
shareholders' list of the Company pursuant to section 40 para. 2 German Limited Liability Companies Act (GmbHG) to the competent commercial register and (ii) to pro-vide the Parties and the Company
with a copy of such list.
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5.5.3 |
The Seller hereby authorises Purchaser with effect from receipt of the Closing Purchase Price on the Sellers' Account - under release from the restrictions imposed by section 181 German Civil Code (8GB) and
with the right to grant sub-authorisations - to exercise all shareholder rights in connection with the Sold Shares, in particular to pass shareholder resolutions, including resolutions regarding the amendment of the articles of association.
As of this point in time, the Seller shall, to the extent permitted by law, no longer exercise any shareholder rights in connec-tion with the Sold Shares themselves, unless the Purchaser instructs it to do so at least in text form. The power
of attorney pursuant to this section 5.5.3 shall expire upon registration of the updated list of shareholders with the competent commercial register.
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5.6 |
Long Stop Date
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5.6.1 |
The Seller on the one hand and the Purchaser on the other hand shall each be entitled to rescind (zurOcktreten) this Agreement if
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the Closing Conditions (except the Closing Condition of section 5.2.1a) have not been fulfilled or duly waived within six months after the Signing Date; or
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the Closing Actions have not been completely performed or duly waived within two weeks after the Scheduled Closing Date.
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5.6.2 |
Notwithstanding section 5.6.1a), if the Closing Condition of section 5.2.1a) has not been fulfilled until 31 March 2026 and if the Seller does not provide the Company with financial resources in the form of
debt capital the Company requires to continue its business operations beyond 31 March 2026, each Party shall be entitled to rescind this Agreement if the Purchaser does not provide the Company with the necessary funds for the continuation of
its business operations beyond 31 March 2026.
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There is no right of rescission if
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in case of rescission by the Seller, the Seller and, in case of rescission by the Purchaser, the Purchaser is responsible for the occurrence of the reason for rescission; or
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Closing has occurred before receipt of the rescission notice.
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5.6.4 |
The rescission shall be effected by declaration of the Seller or declaration of the Purchaser, as the case may be, at least in text form to the Purchaser or the Seller, as the case may be, with a copy for
information purposes to the Notary. In the event of an effective rescission, (i) all obliga-tions between the Parties pursuant to this Agreement shall cease with the exception of the ob-ligations pursuant to this section 5.6.4 and sections 15
through (and including) 18 and (ii) any performance already rendered and measures already taken shall be reversed.
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6.1 |
Title Guarantees
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6.2 |
Business Guarantees
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6.3 |
Nature of Sellers' Guarantees
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7.1 |
Restitution in Kind, Compensation
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7.1.1 |
If a Sellers' Guarantee is incorrect ("Breach of Guarantee"), the Seller shall put the Purchaser or, at Purchaser's discretion, the respective Blickfeld Company within
four weeks after receipt of the Guarantee Notice into the position Purchaser or the respective Blickfeld Company, as applicable, would have been in had the Sellers' Guarantee been correct with the agreed content (restitution in kind - Natura/restitution).
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7.1.2 |
If restitution in kind is not possible, not sufficient or not performed within the aforementioned period, the Purchaser is entitled to claim monetary compensation (Schadensersatz
in Geld) to itself or, at its discretion, a Blickfeld Company.
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7.1.3 |
Eligible for compensation are damages within the meaning of sections 249 et seqq. German Civil Code (8GB) including reductions in company value, foreseeable indirect and foreseeable consequential damages, with
the exemption of unforeseeable indirect damages, unforeseeable consequential damages, lost profits as well as internal costs and expenses (e.g. labour and overhead costs).
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7.1.4 |
Claims of the Purchaser for Breach of Guarantee are referred to collectively as "Guarantee Claims" and individually as "Guarantee
Claim".
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7.2 |
Notification Obligations
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7.2.1 |
The Purchaser shall notify the Seller in reasonable time at least in text form if the Purchaser becomes, after the Closing Date, aware of any circumstances which may give rise to a Breach of Guarantee ("Guarantee Notice"). The Guarantee Notice shall set out the circumstances which have come to Purchaser's attention and the Breach of Guarantee which may result there-from. A culpable breach of these
obligations by the Purchaser may constitute contributory neg-ligence within the meaning of section 254 German Civil Code (8GB).
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If a claim is threatened or asserted by a third party which could constitute a Breach of Guarantee ("Third Party Claim") the Purchaser shall, without prejudice to
section 7.2.1, be entitled to de-fend or procure that any Blickfeld Company defends itself against the Third Party Claim. The Purchaser shall keep the Seller continuously informed, at least in text form, of the material status of the defence,
including all time limits, and provide them with copies of the relevant pleadings and procedural documents. Without the consent of the Seller, the Purchaser shall (i) not settle (vergleichen) any
Third Party Claim and (ii) not admit (anerkennen) any Third Party Claim. The consent of the Seller shall be deemed to have been given if (i) the consent is withheld without reasonable cause or (ii)
the Seller does not declare, within two weeks of a request to do so by the Purchaser and indicating its reasons, at least in text form whether it gives or withholds its consent. A culpable breach of these obligations by the Purchaser may
constitute contributory negligence within the meaning of section 254 German Civil Code (8GB).
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7.3 |
Exclusion
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7.3.1 |
The Seller shall not be liable for the Breach of Guarantee if and to the extent:
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the Purchaser received compensation from a third party, such as an insurance com-pany;
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the damages are compensated by advantages received by the Purchaser or any Blick-feld Company in connection with the relevant Breach of Guarantee (Vorteilsausg/eich);
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the Purchaser participated in causing (mitverursacht) the Breach of Guarantee within the meaning of section 254 para. 1 German Civil Code (8GB) or Purchaser or any
Blick-feld Company failed to comply with the duty to mitigate damages (Schadensminder-ungspflicht) within the meaning of section 254 para. 2 German Civil Code (8GB); or
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as of the Signing Date or as of the Closing Date, any of the individuals of the Purchaser's sphere listed in Annex 7.3.1 knew (kannten)
or should have known (hatte kennen miissen) a fact or circumstance constituting the Breach of Guarantee. Such individuals shall be deemed to have known or should have known a fact or
circumstance only if in the view of an objective third person the facts or circumstances constituting the Breach of Guarantee were sufficiently and fairly disclosed in (i) the Due Diligence Documents or are reasonably identifiable from (ii)
this Agreement (including its Annexes and Ap-pendixes). Any attribution of knowledge or fault pursuant to section 166, 278 German Civil Code (8GB), including in the form of knowledge typically recorded in documents (typischenNeise aktenma/3ig festgehaltenes Wissen), shall be excluded.
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7.3.2 |
An index of the data room, displaying the documents in the data room including the Q&A and additional correspondence between the Company and Purchaser's Due Diligence advisors (in written form or via email)
("Data Room Index") is attached as Annex 7.3.2 a. On the Signing Date, the Parties handed over to the Notary two identical data carriers produced by the data
room provider Securedocs with the entire data room content as of 1 December 2025, 12.35 pm, and labelled "Project Screen" ("Data Room Data Carrier") for safekeeping for 5 years as of the Closing Date
and instructed the Notary to proceed with the Data Room Data Carriers only in accordance with the safekeeping instruction attached as Annex 7.3.2 b to this deed (the docu-ments stored on the Data Room
Data Carriers "Due Diligence Documents").
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7.4 |
Limitations
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7.4.1 |
The Purchaser shall only be entitled to assert a Guarantee Claim if such claim - serial damages being considered as one case - exceeds EUR 20,000 ("De Minimis Amount") and
the total amount of all Guarantee Claims exceeding the De Minimis Amount exceeds EUR 80,000 ("Threshold Amount"). If the De Minimis Amount and the Threshold Amount are exceeded, the Seller shall be
liable for the full amount and not only for the amount exceeding the De Minimis Amount or the Threshold Amount. This section 7.4.1 does not apply to Fundamental Guaran-tees.
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7.4.2 |
Sellers' liability for Guarantee Claims:
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based on any breach of Business Guarantees and Tax Guarantees other than Funda-mental Guarantees (as defined thereafter) is limited to 10 % of the Total Purchase Price ("Business
Guarantee Cap");
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based on any breach of Fundamental Guarantees (as defined thereafter) is limited to 100 % of the Total Purchase Price ("Total Guarantee Cap").
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7.5 |
Limitation Periods
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7.5.1 |
Any Guarantee Claim for breach of a Fundamental Guarantee shall be time-barred (verjahrt) 36 months after the Closing Date. Any Guarantee Claim for breach of a
Business Guarantee (other than a Fundamental Guarantee) shall be time-barred (verjahrt) 24 months after the Closing Date.
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7.5.2 |
Section 203 German Civil Code (BGB) shall not apply, not even by analogy, unless expressly agreed otherwise.
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7.6 |
Misconduct, Fraud
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8.1 |
The Purchaser hereby guarantees to the Seller by way of independent promises of guarantee irrespective of fault pursuant to section 311 para. 1 German Civil Code (BGB) (selbstandige,
verschuldensunabhangige Garantieversprechen gema/3 § 311 Abs. 1 BGB) that the statements set forth in Annex 8.1 ("Purchasers' Guarantees") are correct as at the Signing Date and as at the
Closing Date.
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8.2 |
If a Purchaser's Guarantee is incorrect, section 7 shall apply mutatis mutandis, whereby (i) the Total Guarantee Cap but not the Business Guarantee Cap applies and (ii) the limitation period amounts to 36
months after the Closing Date.
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9.1 |
"Taxes" shall mean:
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9.1.1 |
all taxes imposed by a competent federal, state or local authority ("Tax Authority") within the meaning of section 3 para. 1 through para. 3 German Fiscal Code (AO) as
well as taxes in ac-cordance with the relevant provisions of a foreign or supranational legal system;
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9.1.2 |
all other domestic and foreign public law charges (e.g. chamber of commerce charges);
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9.1.3 |
all domestic and foreign social security contributions;
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9.1.4 |
any stamp duties;
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9.1.5 |
all payment obligations (in particular repayment obligations) in connection with investment grants, investment subsidies, subsidies, grants, corona aid (Coronahilfen) and
similar public-law grants and comparable domestic or foreign benefits;
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9.1.6 |
any tax liability and civil law liability in connection with sections 9.1.1 through 9.1.5 (e.g. due to a contractual indemnification);
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9.1.7 |
any statutory secondary liability in respect of any item within the meaning of sections 9.1.1 through 9.1.6; and
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9.1.8 |
any interest, penalties, fines, (sur-)charges and additions, including any ancillary tax obligations within the meaning of section 3 para. 4 German Fiscal Code (AO) as well as ancillary tax obli-gations in
accordance with the relevant provisions of a foreign or supranational legal system, attributable to any item within the meaning of sections 9.1.1 through 9.1.7.
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9.2 |
The Seller shall indemnify and hold harmless (freistellen) the Purchaser or, at Purchaser's dis-cretion, any Blickfeld Company from and against:
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9.2.1 |
any Taxes assessed against any Blickfeld Company or payable by any Blickfeld Company which relate to any taxable event which occurred after the Cut-off Date but prior to or on the Effective Date or which relate
to any Tax assessment period (Veran/agungszeitraum) and/or any Tax levying period (Erhebungszeitraum) ending after
the Cut-off Date but prior to or on the Effective Date, it being understood that with regard to Tax assessment periods and Tax levying periods beginning before and ending after the Effective Date, the portion of Taxes attributable to the time
period up to and including the Effective Date shall be determined as if the Effective Date was the end of a business year and the end of a Tax assessment period and Tax levying period;
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9.2.2 |
all Taxes and other damages and expenses (including reasonable costs for advisors) resulting from any breach of a Tax Guarantee.
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9.3 |
The Purchaser shall not have a claim under section 9.2 if and to the extent that the relevant Tax liabilities and other damages and expenses:
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9.3.1 |
are paid until the Effective Date; or
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9.3.2 |
have been accounted for in the financial statements as of the Effective Date as accrual (ROck-stellung) or liability (Verbindlichkeit);
or
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9.3.3 |
are the object of an effective, enforceable, and recoverable claim of any Blickfeld Company or Purchaser for a Tax refund (Steuererstattung) or an indemnification by a
third party excluding own employees; or
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9.3.4 |
are caused by circumstances which give rise to a corresponding reduction of Taxes at the level of any Blickfeld Company in any Tax assessment period and/or any Tax levying period after the Effective Date; for
purposes of this exclusion the amount of any corresponding reduction of Taxes shall be discounted to the due date of the corresponding claim under Section 9.2 by applying a rate of 5.0% per annum.
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9.4 |
The following shall apply with regard to the indemnification procedure:
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9.4.1 |
Following the Closing Date, the Purchaser shall notify the Seller of any announced or ongoing Tax audits (steuer/iche BetriebsprOfung) or other administrative or
judicial proceedings which may require indemnification by the Seller under section 9.2 (each such Tax audit or proceeding "Tax Dispute") without undue delay but in no event later than one month after
the Purchaser has become aware of these facts. The notification shall be made at least in text form and shall comprise the essential facts on the object of the Tax Dispute. Furthermore, copies of all docu-ments of the Tax Authority or the
court regarding the Tax Dispute must be enclosed.
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9.4.2 |
The Seller shall be entitled, either by itself or represented by advisers of its choice and at its own expense, to participate in any Tax Dispute. The Seller shall notify the Purchaser at least in text form
within four weeks as of receipt of the notice pursuant to section 9.4.1 of its intention to conduct or participate in a Tax Dispute. The Purchaser shall cooperate with the Seller and shall procure that any Blickfeld Company or its legal
successors cooperate/s with the Seller in all stages of the Tax Dispute at Sellers' expenses. If the Seller does not enter into or participate in a Tax Dispute or the Purchaser is not notified of such decision, the Purchaser or any Blickfeld
Company shall be entitled to pay, to agree on a settlement of or to contest the alleged Tax liabilities.
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9.5 |
The Seller shall in relation to Taxes prepare and submit for all Blickfeld Companies all returns, applications, notifications, claims for refunds, and communications to be filed with any Tax Au-thority,
including all explanatory notes and attachments thereto, (collectively "Tax Returns") that must be filed by or on behalf of any Blickfeld Company before the Closing Date. The Purchaser shall prepare,
submit or have prepared and submitted by all Blickfeld Companies all Tax Returns to be submitted by or on behalf of all Blickfeld Companies after the Closing Date, however in the case of Tax Returns for the period up to the Effective Date
only after review and approval by the Seller; the Seller may only withhold the approval if it resulted in significant economic disadvantages for it. Tax Returns for any periods before the Effective Date shall be prepared in line with Tax
Returns of past Tax assessment periods and Tax levying periods unless statutory provisions state otherwise. The Purchaser shall be responsible for ensuring that all Tax Returns requiring review and approval by the Seller are received by the
Seller no later than two weeks before expiration of the deadline for submission of the relevant Tax Returns. If there are differ-ences of opinion on the content of the Tax Returns, the right to decide on matters relating to Tax periods until
the Effective Date ultimately lies with the Seller and for Tax periods thereafter with the Purchaser.
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9.6 |
The Purchaser shall procure that, except as required by law or according to the opinion of any Tax Authority (especially in accordance with Tax decrees or Tax guidelines (Steuererlasse
oder Steuerrichtlinien), neither the Purchaser nor any of its Affiliates (including, after Closing, all Blick-feld Companies):
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9.6.1 |
takes any measure on or after the Closing Date that results in any Tax liability of the Seller or its Affiliates or in a reduction of Tax refund claims of the Seller;
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9.6.2 |
exercises or amends any Tax option (Steuerwahlrecht), amends any Tax Returns, represents any Tax opinions, takes or refrains from taking actions or conducts
transactions or restructurings that result in increased Tax liabilities of the Seller or its Affiliates in a reduction of Tax refund claims of the Seller.
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9.7 |
Sections 9.1 to 9.6 apply mutatis mutandis in case of Tax refunds, i.e. the Purchaser shall pay out these Tax refunds to the Seller as additional purchase price. However, section 9.7 sentence 1 shall not apply
to allowances in the meaning of section 9.1.5 except for the research allowance 2023 (Forschungszulage 2023) under the German Research Allowance Act (For-schungszu/agengesetz)
("Research Allowance 2023"). Regarding the Research Allowance 2023, the following shall apply:
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9.7.1 |
If the Research Allowance 2023 will be paid out in cash to the Company between the Effective Date and the Closing Date, and no New Loan (defined in section 11.5) is taken out by the Com-pany between Signing
Date and Closing Date, it shall be paid out by the Purchaser to the Seller as additional Share Purchase Price in an amount equal to the difference between the Com-pany's cash position as of the Closing Date and as of the Effective Date. If
the total result of the subtraction is negative, then the result will be deemed to be zero.
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9.7.2 |
If the Research Allowance 2023 will be paid out in cash to the Company between the Effective Date and the Closing Date, and New Loans are taken out by the Company between Signing Date and Closing Date, it shall
be paid out by the Purchaser to the Seller as additional Share Purchase Price in an amount equal to the difference between the Company's cash position as of the Closing Date and as of the Effective Date, minus the New Loans.
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9.7.3 |
For the definition of Company's cash position and the provision of and the approval on the bal-ance sheets stating Company's respective cash positions and the Research Allowance 2023 pay-out as well as for the
recalculation of the Preliminary VSOP Payment, reference is made to section 11.5 sentence 3 to (incl.) 6 (mutatis mutandis, if applicable).
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9.7.4 |
If the Research Allowance 2023 will be paid out to the Company in cash after the Closing Date, the Research Allowance 2023 shall be paid out by the Purchaser to the Seller as additional Share Purchase Price in
complete under the condition that the Earn-Out Baseline Value (see section 4.1.1) is achieved. In this case, the payment shall be due together with the respective Earn-Out.
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9.7.5 |
For the avoidance of doubt: The refund of the Research Allowance 2023 will not be paid out, in any case, to the extent this has been considered as a receivable in the financial statements as of the Effective
Date.
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9.7.6 |
For clarification purpose, see the following example calculations based on fictitious amounts:
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9.7.7 |
Example 1: No New Loan is taken out between Signing Date and Closing Date: EUR 200,000 (Company's cash position at Closing Date) minus EUR 100,000 (Company's cash position at Effective Date)= EUR 200,000 minus
EUR 100,000 = EUR 100,000 (EUR 100,000 to be paid by Purchaser to Seller as additional Share Purchase Price).
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9.7.8 |
Example 2: A New Loan is taken out between Signing Date and Closing Date and cash differ-ence between Closing Date and Effective Date is equal or exceeds the New Loan: EUR 100,000 cash difference between
Closing Date and Effective Date ((EUR 200,000 Company's cash po-sition at Closing Date) minus EUR 100,000 (Company's cash position at Effective Date)) minus EUR 50,000 New Loan= EUR 100,000 minus EUR 50,000 = EUR 50,000 (EUR 50,000 to be paid
by Purchaser to Seller as additional Share Purchase Price).
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9.7.9 |
Example 3: If a New Loan is taken out by the Company between Signing Date and Closing Date and the cash difference between Closing Date and Effective Date falls short the New Loan or the cash difference between
Closing Date and Effective Date is negative: see the calculation examples in section 11.9.
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9.8 |
The Seller hereby guarantees to the Purchaser by way of independent promises of guarantee irrespective of fault pursuant to section 311 para. 1 German Civil Code (8GB)
(selbstandige, verschuldensunabhangige Garantieversprechen gemaf3 § 311 Abs. 1 8GB) that the following statements ("Tax Guarantees") are correct as for the period defined in section 9.2.1:
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9.8.1 |
all Blickfeld Companies have duly and timely filed all Tax Returns which it is obligated to file and, to Seller's Knowledge, all Tax Returns filed by the Blickfeld Companies are complete and correct in terms of
their contents in relation to the Tax law applicable at the time of filing of the respective Tax Returns;
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9.8.2 |
all Blickfeld Companies have duly and timely paid or withheld and remitted all due Taxes;
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9.8.3 |
all deliveries, services, and other transactions between any Blickfeld Company and its respec-tive shareholder or a related person or entity within the meaning of section 1 para. 2 German Foreign Tax Act (AStG) were made on the basis of and in accordance with a previously con-cluded written agreement whose terms, to Seller's Knowledge, comply with the arm's length principle; in this context, to Seller's
Knowledge, all necessary documentation obligations have been fulfilled by the respective Blickfeld Company;
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9.8.4 |
the Company does not maintain permanent establishments in jurisdictions other than Germany; the Blickfeld US does not maintain permanent establishments in jurisdictions other than the United States of America;
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9.8.5 |
no Tax audits or similar proceedings or Tax (criminal) proceedings relating to Taxes of any Blickfeld Company are being conducted or have been announced by any Tax authority against any Blickfeld Company;
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9.8.6 |
the Blickfeld Companies are not, and have never been, a member of any tax consolidation scheme or other fiscal unity (e.g. Organschaft), nor has any of the Blickfeld
Companies entered into any tax sharing, tax allocation or similar agreement;
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9.8.7 |
the Blickfeld Companies do not own and have not owned real estate; and
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9.8.8 |
the Blickfeld Companies have, to Seller's Knowledge, maintained all material tax records, doc-uments and evidence required by applicable tax laws and such documentation is available for review by the Purchaser.
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9.9 |
Any claim under this section 9 shall be time-barred (verjahrt) three months after the final and non-appealable assessment (formelle
und materiel/e Bestandskraft) of the relevant Tax, how-ever, not before expiration of six months as of the Closing Date. Section 203 8GB shall not apply, not even by analogy, unless expressly agreed otherwise. Section 7.5 shall not
apply.
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10.1 |
Any restitution in kind or compensation in cash by the Seller to the Purchaser, for instance due to Breach of Guarantee or based on an indemnification under this Agreement, shall, in the rela-tionship between
the Seller and the Purchaser, be treated as a reduction of the purchase price. Any such restitution in kind or compensation in cash by the Seller directly to any Blickfeld Com-pany shall, in the relationship between the Seller and the
Purchaser, be treated as a reduction of the purchase price and, in the relationship between the Purchaser and the respective Blickfeld Company, be treated as a shareholder contribution (Gesel/schaftereinlage).
Any restitution in kind or compensation in cash by Purchaser to the Seller, for instance due to a breach of Pur-chaser's Guarantees, shall, in the relationship between the Purchaser and the Seller, be treated as an increase of the
purchase price.
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10.2 |
If any restitution in kind or compensation in cash pursuant to this Agreement is subject to Taxes at the level of the Purchaser, any Blickfeld Company or the Seller, such restitution in kind or compensation in
cash shall be increased in a way that the Purchaser, any Blickfeld Company or the Seller, as applicable, are, after deduction of the relevant Taxes, left with an amount that equals the amount which would have been received without the
relevant Tax.
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10.3 |
Unless expressly stated otherwise in this Agreement, the remedies provided for by sections 7, 9 and 10 shall be the exclusive remedies available to the Purchaser with regard to status, qual-ity, and condition
of any Blickfeld Company, including its legal relationships, assets, liabilities, and businesses operations. In particular, unless expressly stated otherwise in sections 7, 9 and 10, Purchaser's statutory rights with respect to status,
quality, and condition of any Blickfeld Company (i) to rescind (zurUcktreten) or otherwise unwind this Agreement (e.g. by way of gro/3er Schadenersatz or
Schadenersatz statt der Leistung), (ii) to claim compensation due to the de-fectiveness of the object of purchase pursuant to sections 437 to 441 German Civil Code (8GB), (iii) based on breach of pre-contractual obligations (culpa in contrahendo) including claims un-der sections 241 para. 2, 280 para. 1, 311 para. 2 and/or para. 3 German Civil Code (8GB), (iv) based on cessation or frustration of contract (Wegfall oder Storung der Geschaftsgrundlage) pursuant to section 313 German Civil Code (8GB), and (v) based on tort including claims under sections 823 et seqq. German Civil Code (8GB) shall be
excluded. Rights due to fraud (arglis-tige Tauschung) or willful misconduct (Vorsatz) remain unaffected.
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11.1 |
As of the Signing Date and until the Closing Date, the Seller will not - and shall procure that all Blickfeld Companies will not - take any action that could (i) detrimentally affect, jeopardize or prevent the
consummation of this Agreement or (ii) result in a Breach of Guarantee. As of the Signing Date and until the Closing Date, the Parties will immediately notify each other of any circumstance that becomes known to them and that could
detrimentally affect, jeopardize or prevent the consummation of this Agreement or that could result in a Breach of Guarantee.
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11.2 |
The Seller shall procure and guarantee irrespective of fault that the Blickfeld Companies conduct its respective business operations, as of the Signing Date and until the Closing Date, in the ordinary course of
business, consistent with past practice, and with the care of a prudent busi-nessman. In particular, the Seller shall procure and guarantee irrespective of fault that the Blick-feld Companies refrain from (and do not undertake to carry out)
the following measures during this period, unless explicitly approved at least in text form by the Purchaser in advance:
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11.2.1 |
carry out real estate transactions, in particular acquire, encumber or dispose of real estate or rights equivalent to real estate;
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11.2.2 |
assign or transfer by way of security, pledge or otherwise encumber any tangible or intangible assets, whether or not such assets can be recognised in the balance sheet;
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11.2.3 |
with the exception of current trade payables, in the ordinary course of business and in accord-ance with past business practice, create liabilities, take out loans or other financing or assume liability for
third-party liabilities;
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open new lines of business or branches, discontinue lines of business or branches or open or close permanent establishments;
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11.2.5 |
establish, acquire or dispose of, or undertake to establish, acquire or dispose of, a company or partnership or an undertaking or parts thereof or an open or silent participation in a company or partnership;
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11.2.6 |
take measures pursuant to the German Reorganisation Act (UmwG), conclude intercompany agreements within the meaning of sections 291 et seqq. German Stock Corporation Act (AktG)
or adopt shareholder resolutions amending the articles of association;
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allot further Virtual Options in accordance with the VSOP;
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11.2.8 |
outside the ordinary course of business and contrary to past practice, (i) take any action that would result in an increase in cash or inventories, including, without limitation, collecting or sell-ing
receivables or entering into similar legal transactions in a manner not consistent with past practice in terms of timing and size, (ii) change accounting methods or liquidity and financial management, including practices relating to
factoring, collection of receivables, payment of lia-bilities, acceptance or execution of advance payments, and the granting of discounts and de-ductions, or (iii) make investments in fixed assets; and
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11.2.9 |
resolve upon, declare, contract for or pay dividends or other disclosed or hidden distributions.
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11.3 |
The Seller shall procure and guarantee - on a EUR-for-EUR basis and irrespective of fault-that between the Signing Date and the Closing Date, no Leakage (as defined below) other than Permitted Leakage occurs. "Leakage" shall mean (i) any dividend payment and any declaration of or commitment to pay a dividend or similar distribution by any Blickfeld Company and any reduction or commitment to reduce the paid-up
share capital of any Blickfeld Company, (ii) any repayment of principal of any shareholder loan or payment of interest on any such shareholder loan, (iii) any payment of transaction costs and transaction bonuses including brokerage and
advisory fees as well as (iv) any payment or performance by any Blickfeld Company or obliga-tion of any Blickfeld Company to pay or perform other than at arms' length, in the ordinary course of business, and in accordance with past practice
to (x) the Seller or any direct or indirect share-holder of the Seller or (y) any person affiliated with the Seller or any direct or indirect shareholder of the Seller within the meaning of section 15 German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) ("Affiliate") or (z) any relative within the meaning of section 15 German Fiscal Code (AO) ("Relative") of the Seller or any direct or indirect shareholder of the Seller. "Permitted Leakage" shall mean the payments, performances, payment obligations, and
performance obligations disclosed in An-nex 11.3 as well as payments made in accordance with the Insolvency Plan from the insolvency escrow account.
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11.4 |
The Parties shall use their best efforts to obtain investment control clearance for the Transaction or the issuance of a Certificate of non-objection pursuant to Sec. 58 German Foreign
Trade and Payments Ordinance (AWV) without undue delay after the Signing Date. The Purchaser shall notify the Transaction to the competent authority/ies. Neither Party shall agree on an extension
of a deadline without the prior consent of the other Parties at least in text form. The Seller un-dertakes to provide the Purchaser or its lawyers, as soon as possible after the Signing Date, with all documents, data, and other
information which, in the reasonable opinion of the Pur-chaser or its lawyers, are necessary to prepare, amend or supplement the investment control notification/s. The Seller further undertakes, to the extent legally possible, to instruct
any Blick-feld Company to provide information to the Purchaser or its lawyers in accordance with the preceding sentence. If and to the extent the competent authority/ies make/s the granting of the clearance of the Transaction to
conditions or requirements to be fulfilled by the Purchaser, any of its Affiliates or any Blickfeld Company, the Purchaser shall not be obligated to fulfil such conditions or requirements or to ensure their fulfilment unless such
conditions or requirements are reasonable to the Purchaser. If and to the extent the competent authority/ies prohibit/s the Transaction, the Purchaser shall be entitled, and, upon Seller's request and as further specified by the
Seller, be obligated, to appeal or seek redress against the prohibition. Upon Purchaser's request and as further specified by the Purchaser, the Seller shall also file any appeal or remedy and/or participate in any appeal or remedy
proceedings initiated by the Purchaser.
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11.5 |
In the event that the Company takes out any loan(s) between the Effective Date and the Closing Date, and the Research Allowance 2023 will not be paid out in cash to the Company between the Signing Date and the
Closing Date, the Parties agree that the loan(s), including any interest accrued thereon up to and including the Closing Date and any other costs incurred by the Com-pany in connection with the conclusion of the respective loan agreement(s)
(together the "New Loans" and each separately a "New Loan") less the difference in the Company's cash position as of the Closing Date and as of the Signing
Date (which shall be deemed to be zero in case the cash difference is negative) shall be deducted from the Share Purchase Price (the result to be defined as the "Loan Indemnification Amount").
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11.6 |
In the case that the Research Allowance 2023 will be paid to the Company in cash between the Signing Date and the Closing Date, section 9.7 shall prevail section 11.5 unless section 9.7.9 is applicable ( ROckverweisung).
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11.7 |
The Seller shall ensure that the Company provides the Purchaser with balance sheets evidenc-ing the Company's cash position as of the Signing Date and as of the Closing Date and the Research Allowance 2023
pay-out as well as for the recalculation of the Preliminary VSOP Pay-ment and shall give the Purchaser the opportunity to review, approve, or object to these balance sheets. If the Purchaser does not object within ten Business Days, approval
shall be deemed to have been given. The Purchaser shall not unreasonably withhold approval of these balance sheets. The Company's cash position shall include (i) all cash on hand, (ii) all balances held with banks or other credit
institutions, and (iii) all cheques received by the Company that are immediately available for deposit or collection.
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11.8 |
For the avoidance of doubt: In any case, the New Loans shall be paid back by the Company. The Purchaser shall ensure that the Company complies in all respects with these New Loans agreements. The Purchaser
may, at its own discretion, decide to buy the New Loans receivables at face value as of the Closing Date.
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11.9 |
For clarification purpose, see the following example calculations based on fictitious amounts:
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11.9.1 |
Example 1: EUR 200,000 (New Loan) minus -EUR 20,000 cash difference between Closing Date and Signing Date (EUR 30,000 (Company's cash position as of the Closing Date) minus EUR 50,000 (Company's cash position
as of the Signing Date)): Cash position deemed to be zero, i.e. EUR 200,000 minus EUR O = EUR 200,000 (Loan Indemnification Amount to be deducted from the Share Purchase Price). The EUR 200,000 (New Loan) shall be paid by the Company.
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11.9.2 |
Example 2: EUR 200,000 (New Loan) minus EUR 20,000 cash difference between Closing Date and Signing Date (EUR 50,000 (Company's cash position as of the Closing Date) minus EUR 30,000 (Company's cash position as
of the Signing Date)): EUR 200,000 minus EUR 20,000 = EUR 180,000 (Loan Indemnification Amount to be deducted from the Share Pur-chase Price). The EUR 200,000 (New Loan) shall be paid by the Company.
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12.1 |
As of the Closing Date, the Parties will cooperate and assist each other to the extent necessary or appropriate to ensure a smooth transition of the Blickfeld Companies and - indirectly - its business to
Purchaser. In particular, after the Closing Date, the Seller shall, to the extent per-mitted by law, provide the Purchaser without undue delay with all information relating to any Blickfeld Company and its business which is (in whatever form)
available to them.
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12.2 |
The Seller undertakes to retain an amount of at least EUR 640,000 of the Closing Purchase Price in a separate bank account (the "Retention Account"). The Additional
VSOP Payment shall be released two (2) years as of Closing Date from the Retention Account, the difference between the amount of the Retention Account and the Additional VSOP Payment shall be re-tained on the Retention Account until the date
the Escrow Amount is released to the Sellers pursuant to the terms of the Escrow Agreement ("Retention Period"). The Seller shall ensure that the Retention Account remains sufficiently funded and
liquid throughout the entire Retention Period to cover any potential claims of the Purchaser against the Seller arising out of or in con-nection with this Agreement, in particular any Guarantee Claims, claims based on any indemni-fication
provided for in this Agreement, and claims arising out of or in connection with covenants provided for in this Agreement. The Seller shall not withdraw, transfer, pledge, or otherwise dispose of any funds from the Retention Account during the
Retention Period, except with the prior written consent of the Purchaser or as expressly provided for in this Agreement. The ex-istence and balance of the Retention Account shall be confirmed in writing by the Seller to the Purchaser upon
request at any time during the Retention Period.
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12.3 |
The Purchaser shall provide that the Company will, immediately after Closing Date, notify in text form (email sufficient) the Option Holders of the VSOP in accordance with Section 6.4 of the VSOP, and shall
provide evidence of this to the Seller.
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12.4 |
The Purchaser shall ensure that the Company complies in all respects with recital (H) of this Agreement and effects the Preliminary VSOP Payment to the Option Holders of the VSOP in accordance with Section 6.4
of the VSOP and with this Agreement and shall provide evidence of this fulfilment to the Seller. The Purchaser shall further ensure that the Company will not make any Preliminary VSOP Payment to the Option Holders before sending the
calculation sheet for any adjustment of the Preliminary VSOP Payment based on the final figures for the formula in Section 7 of the VSOP, to the Seller and giving the Seller the opportunity to review, approve or object the calculation. If the
Seller does not object within ten Business Days, the approval shall be deemed to have been given. The Seller shall not unreasonably withhold the approval of the calculation. The same applies to the VSOP Adjustment Payments. The Seller shall
indemnify and hold harmless the Purchaser, or upon Purchaser's request the Company, against any amounts to be paid or incurred by the Company and/or the Purchaser arising the Company and/or the Purchaser in connection with the VSOP, in
particular from the necessity of an adjust-ment and/or recalculation of the Preliminary VSOP Payment or the VSOP Adjustment Payments to the Option Holders and/or the retention of the Exit Participation of the Option Holders due their
participation in Seller's liability for Guarantee Claims and indemnity claims.
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13.1 |
Non-Competition
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13.1.1 |
For a period of 24 months from the Closing Date, the Seller, Mathias MOiier and Rolf Wojtech, each individually, shall refrain from:
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engaging, directly or indirectly, in the subject-matter (sachfichen) and geographical (raumfichen) business field of LiDAR
hardware and LiDAR-related software in the ap-plications where any Blickfeld Company is active as and where conducted on the Clos-ing Date ("Competing Activity");
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holding, directly or indirectly, any shares or voting rights in any company or partnership engaging, directly or indirectly, in any Competing Activity, except that the acquisition or holding of shares purely
for financial investment purposes that do not grant the Seller, directly or indirectly, management functions or any material influence in the competing company or partnership shall be permitted;
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acting as a director or officer of a person/company/partnership that, directly or indirectly, carries on a Competing Activity, (in whole or in part) in the field of a Competing Activity; and
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making available to any person engaging, directly or indirectly, in any Competing Activity information of a confidential nature such as know-how or trade secrets of any Blickfeld Company.
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13.1.2 |
In case the Seller, Mathias MOiier and/or Rolf Wojtech, each individually, intend to start an ac-tivity that may fall under the non-competition clause in section 13.1.1, they are entitled to request the
Purchaser in text form to waive the restriction or to confirm that the non-competition clause in section 13.1.1 does not apply. If the respective requesting Party does not receive an objection by the Purchaser within 20 Business Days after
receipt of the request by the requesting Party, the waiver or confirmation shall be deemed to be granted.
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13.1.3 |
Without derogating from any other remedy available to Purchaser by law or equity, if the Seller, Mathias MOiier or Rolf Wojtech breaches its/his obligations under section 13.1.1, the respective breaching Party
shall pay to the Purchaser a contractual penalty in the amount of EUR 50,000.00 per breach, unless it was not mutually agreed otherwise between the Purchaser and the respective breaching Party. The Purchaser shall be free to claim further
damages and exercise further rights.
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13.2 |
Non-Solicitation
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13.2.1 |
For a period of 24 months from the Closing Date, the Seller, Mathias MOiier and Rolf Wojtech, each individually, shall refrain from:
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influencing or attempting to influence a customer, supplier, consultant or other contrac-tual partner of any Blickfeld Company in the field of a Competing Activity with the aim of persuading it to terminate its
business relationship with the Company, to reduce the service/trading quantities or to worsen the conditions; and
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enticing away or attempting to entice away a present or future employee of any Blickfeld Company who has an employment relationship with any Blickfeld Company already on the Closing Date.
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13.2.2 |
Section 13.1.3 shall apply mutatis mutandis to section 13.2.1.
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15.1 |
All notices to the Seller, Mathias Muller or Rolf Wojtech in connection with this Agreement shall be addressed in text form (Textform) to:
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15.2 |
All notices to Purchaser in connection with this Agreement shall be addressed in text form to:
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15.3 |
The Parties shall immediately and at least in text form notify the other Parties of any changes to their contact details as set out above. Until such notification, the contact details as set out above shall be
deemed effective. The receipt of notices in connection with this Agreement by the Par-ties' legal advisors shall not constitute or replace the receipt of the notices by the Parties them-selves.
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15.4 |
If the Seller takes its seat/residence in a place outside Germany, it shall appoint an authorised delivery agent (Zustel/ungsbevollmachtigten) resident in Germany.
Until such designation, the Seller shall accept proof of attempted delivery at the previous (domestic) contact address as receipt for the purposes of this Agreement. The same applies to the Purchaser.
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16.1 |
The Parties undertake to treat the content of this Agreement, the circumstances of its negotia-tion, conclusion, and execution as well as all information obtained in this context about the other Parties and
their Affiliates strictly confidential and to protect such information effectively against access by third parties. This obligation does not include information that is publicly known or becomes publicly known without a breach of this
obligation or the disclosure of which is required by law, official or court order or capital market-related regulations. In the latter case, the Parties are obligated to inform the other Parties prior to the disclosure and to limit the
disclosure to the minimum required by law, official or court order or capital market regulations. The Parties shall be entitled to disclose confidential information (i) to their bodies (in particular supervisory and advisory
boards), employees, and advisors and (ii) to their respective Affiliates and their bodies (in particular supervisory and advisory boards), employees, and advisors at any time to the extent necessary for the execution of this Agreement and the
legal transactions agreed herein if the recipients are bound to secrecy.
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16.2 |
Press releases, publications or communications require the prior consent of the Parties in text form.
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17.1 |
All costs arising in connection with the preparation, negotiation, conclusion, and consummation of this Agreement or the transaction/s contemplated herein, including the fees and expenses of advisors, shall be
borne by the Party who commissioned such costs.
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17.2 |
The Purchaser shall bear all transfer taxes arising from the conclusion or consummation of this Agreement or the transaction/s contemplated herein; VAT shall be governed exclusively by sec-tion 2.7. The
Purchaser shall also bear the costs of the notarisation of this Agreement and the official fees for the German investment control clearance.
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18.1 |
This Agreement and its Annexes and Appendixes contain all agreements between the Parties relating to the subject matter of this Agreement and insofar take precedence over all oral and written declarations of
intent or other declarations/agreements made by the Parties in connec-tion with the negotiation of this Agreement. Any modification, amendment or termination of this Agreement (including this section 18.1 itself) shall be in writing unless a
stricter form is required by law.
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18.2 |
Rights and obligations out of or in connection with this Agreement and the transaction/s con-templated herein may not be assigned or transferred, in whole or in part, without the prior con-sent, at least in
text form, of the other Parties.
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18.3 |
Claims of third parties shall only be created by this Agreement if and to the extent expressly provided for by this Agreement (kein Vertrag zugunsten Drifter).
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18.4 |
Where an English phrase in this Agreement is followed by a German phrase in parenthesis and in italics, the German phrase and not the English phrase to which it relates shall prevail through-out this Agreement.
Any definition in this Agreement is also applicable to its Annexes and Ap-pendixes.
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18.5 |
Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, neither Party shall be entitled (i) to set off any rights or claims of any other Party out of or in connection with this Agreement against any rights or
claims of its own or (ii) to refuse performance of any obligation under this Agree-ment on the grounds that it has a right of retention, unless the rights or claims of the Party asserting a right of set-off or retention have been recognised
by the other Party at least in text form or have been established by a final decision of a competent court.
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18.6 |
It is the mutual understanding of the Parties, that this Agreement is governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and other
international uniform law is not applicable.
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18.7 |
Exclusive jurisdiction, also internationally, regarding all disputes arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or its validity shall, to the extent permissible, be Frankfurt am Main, Ger-many.
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18.8 |
If any provision of this Agreement is or becomes void, invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, the validity and enforceability of all remaining provisions shall not be affected. The Parties shall, to the
extent permitted by law, replace the void, ineffective or unenforceable provision with a valid and enforceable provision that comes as close as possible to the economic purpose of the void, ineffective or unenforceable provision in terms of
subject matter, extent, time, place and scope. The same shall apply to the filling of any unintended gaps in this Agreement.
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Subsidiary Name
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Country of Incorporation/Organization
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Ownership Percentage
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Senstar Corporation
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Canada
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100%
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Senstar Inc.
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United States (Delaware)
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100%
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Senstar GmbH.
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Germany
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100%
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Blickfeld GmbH
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Germany
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100% Senstar GMBH
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Blickfeld North America Inc.
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United States
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100% Blickfeld GMBH
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1. |
I have reviewed this annual report on Form 20-F of Senstar Technologies Corporation;
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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;
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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 company as of, and for,
the periods presented in this report;
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The company’s other certifying officer 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 company and have:
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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 company, 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;
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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;
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Evaluated the effectiveness of the company’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
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Disclosed in this report any change in the company’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by the annual report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the
company’s internal control over financial reporting;
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The company’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the company’s auditors and the audit committee of the company’s board of directors (or
persons performing the equivalent function):
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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 company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report
financial information; and
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Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the company’s internal control over financial reporting.
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I have reviewed this annual report on Form 20-F of Senstar Technologies Corporation;
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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;
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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 company as of, and for,
the periods presented in this report;
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The company’s other certifying officer 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 company and have:
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(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 company, 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;
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(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;
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Evaluated the effectiveness of the company’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
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Disclosed in this report any change in the company’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by the annual report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the
company’s internal control over financial reporting;
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The company’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the company’s auditors and the audit committee of the company’s board of directors (or
persons performing the equivalent function):
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(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 company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report
financial information; and
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Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the company’s internal control over financial reporting.
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* |
The originally executed copy of this Certification will be maintained at the Company’s offices and will be made available for inspection upon request.
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(1) |
The Report fully complies with the requirements of section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
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(2) |
The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and result of operations of the Company.
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The original executed copy of this Certification will be maintained at the Company’s offices and will be made available for inspection upon request.
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(1) |
The Report fully complies with the requirements of section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
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The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and result of operations of the Company.
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The original executed copy of this Certification will be maintained at the Company’s offices and will be made available for inspection upon request.
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/s/ KOST FORER GABBAY & KASIERER
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A Member of EY Global
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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May 1, 2026
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/s/ KOST FORER GABBAY & KASIERER
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A Member of EY Global
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