8-K: Current report filing

Exhibit 2.1

EXECUTION VERSION

Dated 20 January 2017

Sale and Purchase Agreement

relating to Nordic Cinema Group Holding AB

between

The Institutional Sellers

The Management Sellers

Goldcup 14139 AB

and

AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc.

White & Case LLP

5 Old Broad Street

London EC2N 1DW

Table of Contents

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Agreed Form Documents

Data Room Index and DVDs

Management Warranty Deed

Tax Deed

Budget and Cash Flow Forecast

Director Resignation Letter

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This Agreement is made on 20 January 2017

Between:

(1)                                 The persons whose details are set out in Part 1 of Schedule 2 (jointly referred to as the “Institutional Sellers” and individually as an “Institutional Seller”);

(2)                                 The persons whose details are set out in Part 2 of Schedule 2 (jointly referred to as the “Management Sellers” and individually as a “Management Seller”);

(3)                                 Goldcup 14139 AB, a company incorporated in Sweden with registered number 559094-8328 (the “Purchaser”); and

(4)                                 AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., a public corporation in Delaware with registered number 4365546 and whose registered office is at Corporate Creates Network Inc., 3411 Silverside Road, Rodney Building #104, Wilmington, DE 19810, New Castle County (the “Purchaser Guarantor”).

Whereas:

(A)                               Each of the Sellers are, at the date of this Agreement, the beneficial owner and registered holder of that number of Shares as set out opposite its name in Schedule 1 and, in the case of the Institutional Sellers, the legal and beneficial owner of the Shareholder Loans.

(B)                               Each of the Sellers has agreed to sell, and the Purchaser has agreed to purchase, all of the Shares on the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement.

It is agreed:

1.                                      Interpretation

1.1                               In this Agreement:

“Agreed Form” means, in relation to any document, the form of that document which has been initialled for the purpose of identification by or on behalf of the Purchaser, the Institutional Sellers’ Representative and the Management Sellers’ Representative;

“Agreed Leakage Amount” has the meaning set out it in Clause 11.3;

“Agreed Rate” means in respect of the period from (and excluding) the Locked Box Date to (and including) 31 March 2017, nine percentage points (9.00%) per annum and, in respect of the period from (and excluding) 31 March 2017 to (and including) the Completion Date three quarters of a percentage point (0.75%) per annum;

“A Ordinary Shares” means the A ordinary shares of SEK 0.001 quotient value each in the capital of the Company;

“Articles” means the articles of association of the Company as in force as at the date of this Agreement;

“Bank Break Fee Amount” means the break fees which become payable by a Group Company to any lender under the Existing Debt Facilities upon the repayment of the Existing Debt Facilities on Completion together with any amount of interest or other cost payable in respect of any part of an interest period following Completion, any prepayment costs and any advisers fees but for the avoidance of doubt shall exclude the principal on the Existing Debt Facilities and interest to Completion payable on the Existing Debt Facilities;

“Bank Pay-Off Amount” means the amount specified in the Indebtedness Schedule required to discharge all amounts owed by the Company and any other Group Company (including

principal, interest and any break fees including the Bank Break Fee Amount) under the Existing Debt Facilities, together with associated hedging arrangements (including the Swap Settlement Amount), on Completion and to release all security in relation to the facilities provided under the Existing Debt Facilities (inclusive of any prepayment costs and any advisors fees);

“Bonnier” means Bonnier Holding AB, a company incorporated in Sweden with registered number 556576-7463 and whose registered office is at Torsgatan 21, 11321 Stockholm, Sweden;

“Bonnier Loan Agreement” means the loan agreement between Bonnier and the Company constituting the Bonnier Shareholder Loan (as amended and/or restated from time to time) as contained in the Data Room;

“Bonnier Shareholder Loan” means the SEK 300,000,000 shareholder loan made by Bonnier in favour of the Company as constituted by the Bonnier Loan Agreement;

“B Preference Shares” means the B preference shares of SEK 0.001 quotient value each in the capital of the Company;

“Bridgepoint Loan Agreement” means the loan agreement dated 9 July 2015 between European Cinemas and the Company constituting the Bridgepoint Shareholder Loan (as amended and/or restated from time to time);

“Bridgepoint Shareholder Loan” means the SEK 700,000,000 shareholder loan made by European Cinemas in favour of the Company as constituted by the Bridgepoint Loan Agreement;

“Budget and Cash Flow Forecast” means the budget and cash flow forecast in relation to the Group for the 2017 financial year in the Agreed Form;

“Business” means the business of the Group as carried out at Completion;

“Business Day” means a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday or a public holiday) when commercial banks are open for ordinary banking business in London, New York, Luxembourg and Stockholm;

“Claim” means any claim, proceeding, suit or action against the Sellers arising out of or in connection with the warranties set out in Clause 8 of this Agreement;

“Companies Act” means the Companies Act 2006 as amended at any time prior to the date hereof;

“Company” means Nordic Cinema Group Holding AB, a company incorporated in Sweden with registered number 559010-5036 and whose registered office is at Greta Garbos Väg 11-13, 16940, Solna, Sweden;

“Completion” means the completion of the sale and purchase of the Sale Securities under this Agreement;

“Completion Date” means five (5) Business Days after (and excluding) the date on which the Condition has been satisfied or waived in accordance with this Agreement or such other date as the Purchaser and the Institutional Sellers may agree in writing;

“Completion Obligations” means the obligations of the Purchaser and each of the Sellers to be satisfied at Completion pursuant to Clause 7;

“Condition” means the condition referred to in Clause 4.1;

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“Confidential Information” means any information relating to the Group including any information relating to its business, financial or other affairs (including future plans and targets);

“Connected Person” means, in respect of an individual person:

(a)                                 the spouse or civil partner, parents and siblings (including step-siblings and half-siblings) and direct descendants of such individual and their respective spouses or civil partners, parents and siblings (including step-siblings and half-siblings) and direct descendants (together, the “Connected Person’s Family”);

(b)                                 any trust established by or for the benefit of that individual or a member of that individual’s Connected Person’s Family;

(c)                                  any undertaking (other than any Group Company) which that individual or that individual’s Connected Person’s Family is able to individually or collectively exercise or control the exercise of a majority of the votes able to be cast at general meetings, or to appoint or remove directors holding a majority of voting rights at board meetings, in each case on all, or substantially all, matters;

(d)                                 any undertaking (other than any Group Company) whose directors are accustomed to act in accordance with the directions or instructions of that individual or one or more members of that individual’s Connected Person’s Family;

(e)                                  any undertaking (other than any Group Company) of which that individual or a member of that individual’s Connected Person’s Family is a director;

(f)                                   any partnership or undertaking (other than any Group Company) in which that individual or one or more members of that individual’s Connected Person’s Family individually or collectively has a direct or indirect economic interest; and

(g)                                  any nominee, trustee or agent or any other person acting on behalf of any person referred to in in this definition;

“Consideration” has the meaning given to it in Clause 3.1;

“Continuing Provisions” means Clauses 1, 4.3(a), 4.3(b), 14 and 17 to 32;

“Data Room” means the information and the documents contained in the electronic data room hosted by Merrill Corporation as contained on the DVD initialled by or on behalf of the Purchaser, the Institutional Sellers’ Representative and the Management Sellers’ Representative, the contents of which are detailed in the index in the Agreed Form;

“Disclosed” means fairly disclosed with sufficient details and in such a manner as to enable the non-disclosing Party to make a reasonably informed assessment of the nature and scope of the matter concerned and its impact on the Group;

“Encumbrance” means any pledge, charge (fixed or floating), lien, mortgage, debenture, hypothecation, security interest, right to acquire, pre-emption right, option, claim, equitable right, power of sale, pledge, retention of title, right of first refusal or other third party encumbrance, right or security interest of any kind or an agreement, arrangement or obligation to create any of the foregoing;

“Equity Value” has the meaning given to it in Clause 3.1(a);

“EUMR” means Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings (the EC Merger Regulation);

“European Cinemas” means European Cinemas S.à r.l., a company incorporated in

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Luxembourg with registered number B197419 and whose registered office is at 2, avenue Charles de Gaulle, L - 1653 Luxembourg;

“Existing Debt Facilities” means the senior loans facilities in the amount of SEK 1,850,000,000 and EUR 156,000,000 provided pursuant to a senior facilities agreement between Nordic Cinema Group AB, as borrower, and (i) The Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, (ii) Danske Bank A/S Danmark, Sverige Filial, (iii) GE Corporate Finance Bank SCA, London Branch, (iv) Natixis and (v) Nordea Bank AB, as lenders, dated 6 May 2015;

“Financial Due Diligence Report” means the Project Thor financial due diligence report prepared by KPMG LLP and dated 16 December 2016;

“Government Authority” means any supranational, national, state, municipal or local government, (including any subdivision, court, administrative agency or commission or other authority thereof) or any other supranational, governmental, intergovernmental, quasi-governmental authority, body, department or organisation, including the European Union, or any regulatory body appointed by any of the foregoing in each case, in any jurisdiction;

“Group” means the Company and each of its subsidiaries and subsidiary undertakings and “Group Company” and “member of the Group” shall be construed accordingly;

“Group Subsidiaries” has the meaning given to it in Clause 8.1(e);

“Guaranteed Obligations” has the meaning given to it in Clause 14.1;

“Indebtedness Schedule” means the schedule to be provided by the Institutional Sellers to the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 5.1;

“Institutional Sellers” has the meaning given to it in the Recitals;

“Institutional Seller’s Affiliate” means, in relation to an Institutional Seller:

(a)                                 any fund or limited partner in respect of which any member of its Institutional Seller’s Group is a general partner, manager, operator or investment adviser (in each case, whether solely or jointly with others);

(b)                                 any fund or limited partner which has the same general partner, operator, manager or investment adviser as any member of its Institutional Seller’s Group or any fund referred to in (a) above;

(c)                                  any general partner, operator, manager or investment adviser to any member of its Institutional Seller’s Group or to any fund or limited partner referred to in (a) or (b) above;

(d)                                 any subsidiary undertaking, parent undertaking or associated undertaking of any entity referred to in (a), (b) or (c) above (“associated undertaking” having the meaning ascribed to it in section 1162 of the Companies Act and Paragraph 19, Schedule 6 of The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 SI 2008/410 respectively (but for this purpose ignoring paragraph 19(1)(b) of Schedule 6 of those Regulations));

(e)                                  any scheme under which certain officers, employees or partners of such Institutional Seller or of any member of its Institutional Seller’s Group are entitled (as individuals or through a body corporate or any other vehicle) to acquire shares in companies in which the Institutional Seller also invests, or any person (excluding natural persons) holding shares or other interests under such a scheme or entitled to the benefits of shares or other interests under such a scheme;

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(f)                                   any director, employee or partner of any of the above or of any member of that Institutional Seller’s Group, and any Connected Person of any such director, employee or partner; and

(g)                                  any nominee, trustee or agent or any other person acting on behalf of any person referred to in (a) to (f) above or any other investor (and any director, officer, employee or partner of such other investor) that holds interests, directly or indirectly, in any person referred to in (a) to (f) above;

“Institutional Sellers’ Commitments” has the meaning given in Clause 10.6;

“Institutional Seller’s Group” means, in relation to an Institutional Seller:

(a)                                 that Institutional Seller, any subsidiary undertaking of that Institutional Seller, any parent undertaking of that Institutional Seller and any subsidiary undertaking of any such parent undertaking, in each case whether direct or indirect;

(b)                                 any person or entity for whom an Institutional Seller holds Sale Securities as trustee or nominee or in any other capacity whatsoever, together with any subsidiary undertaking of that person, any parent undertaking of that person and any subsidiary undertaking of any such parent undertaking, in each case whether direct or indirect; and

(c)           any Institutional Seller’s Affiliate of that Institutional Seller,

in each case, from time to time and excluding any Group Company;

“Institutional Sellers’ Representative” means the person designated by the Institutional Sellers to serve as their representative in accordance with Clause 17.2;

“Institutional Sellers’ Warranties” means those warranties set out in Clause 8;

“Interest Payment Amount” means an amount equivalent to interest at the Agreed Rate on the sum of the Equity Value less (i) any Agreed Leakage Amount, (ii) any Leakage Set-off Amount, and (iii) any Swap Settlement Amounts from (and excluding) the Locked Box Date to (and including) the Completion Date, such interest to accrue, but not compound, daily, as notified in the Indebtedness Schedule;

“Investment Agreement” means the investment agreement dated 9 July 2015 between the Institutional Sellers;

“Investor Director” means any person falling within limb (f) of the definition of Institutional Sellers’ Affiliate who has been appointed as a director of the Company or a Group Company;

“Leakage” means:

(a)                                 in each case (A) by or on behalf of any member of the Group or any NCG JVCo to or for the benefit of any Seller, any member of an Institutional Seller’s Group or any Connected Person of any Management Seller and (B) during the period from (but excluding) the Locked Box Date to (and including) the Completion Date:

(i)                                     any dividend, bonus or other distribution of capital (whether in cash or in kind) or any payments in lieu of any dividend, bonus or distribution, declared, paid or made (whether actual or deemed);

(ii)                                  any future benefits granted or assets transferred;

(iii)                               any creation, issue or allotment of any securities whatsoever;

(iv)                              any redemption, repurchase, repayment or return of share or loan capital or

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loan (including any interest thereon) (or any other relevant securities), or return of capital (whether by reduction of capital or otherwise and whether in cash or in kind);

(v)                                 any consultant, advisory, management, monitoring, service, shareholder or other fees (including director’s fees), charges or compensation of a similar nature paid;

(vi)                              any payments or transaction of any kind other than on arm’s length third party terms (including the purchase by any member of the Group of any assets from any Seller, any member of an Institutional Seller’s Group or any Connected Person of any Management Seller to the extent that such transfer is at more than market value or any payment by any member of the Group to any portfolio investee entity of any investment funds managed or advised by an Institutional Seller or a member of the Institutional Seller’s Group which is outside the ordinary course of business);

(vii)                           any waiver, deferral, discount or release (whether conditional or not) of any amount, liability, right, value, benefit or obligation owed or due to any member of the Group;

(viii)                        any amendment to the amount or timing of interest, principal or fees in respect of the Shareholder Loan or any other indebtedness owed by any member of the Group or any;

(ix)                              any payment of principal, interest or fees in respect of the Shareholder Loan;

(x)                                 any liability or obligation (contingent or otherwise) assumed, secured, incurred or discharged; and

(xi)                              any guarantee, indemnity or Encumbrance provided by, or over the assets, rights or other benefits of, any member of the Group,

but, in each case, not including any Permitted Leakage;

(b)                                 any:

(i)                                     Transaction Costs incurred or paid or agreed to be paid by any member of the Group at any time; and

(ii)                                  any bonuses, incentives or commission (including any transaction or retention bonuses for management) paid or made (or declared to be or treated as paid or made) in connection with the preparation, negotiation or consummation of the Transaction or such other transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or the Purchaser Debt Finance Commitment Letters,

but, in each case, not including any Permitted Leakage;

(c)                                  any agreement (whether conditional or otherwise) by or on behalf of any member of the Group or requirement on any member of the Group to enter into or carry out any of the actions or transactions referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b) above entered into during the period from (but excluding) the Locked Box Date to (and including) the Completion Date;

(d)                                 any fees or costs incurred or becoming payable at any time by any Group Company as a consequence of any of the matters referred to above; and

(e)                                  any liability for Tax arising for the Group as a result of the occurrence of any of those

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matters set out in paragraphs (a) to (d) above.

“Leakage Set-off Amount” has the meaning given in Clause 11.3(a)(ii);

“Locked Box Accounts” means the section of the Accountants’ Due Diligence Report entitled “Balance Sheet”;

“Locked Box Date” means 31 October 2016;

“Long Stop Date” means 30 April 2017;

“Losses” means all losses, liabilities, costs (including reasonably incurred and documented legal costs and experts’ and consultants’ fees), charges, expenses, actions, proceedings, claims and demands;

“Management Sellers” has the meaning given to it in the Recitals;

“Management Sellers’ Representative” means the representative of the Management Sellers appointed pursuant to Clause 17.1;

“Management Warranty Deed” means the deed of warranty between the Purchaser and the Management Sellers dated on or around the date of this Agreement;

“Material Group Asset” means any asset (tangible or intangible) (or category or series of related assets) of the Group with a market value (in aggregate) in excess of SEK11,000,000 (or its equivalent);

“Material Group Company” means any Group Company whose enterprise value (on a stand-alone basis) is in excess of SEK55,000,000 (or its equivalent);

“NCG JVCo” means any undertaking in which a Group Company controls, directly or indirectly, 50% or less of the voting rights in that undertaking;

“Notice” has the meaning given to it in Clause 25.1;

“Party” means a party to this Agreement and “Parties” shall mean the parties to this Agreement;

“Permitted Leakage” means:

(a)                                 any payments expressly provided for under the terms of the Transaction Documents or the Purchaser Debt Finance Commitment Letters;

(b)                                 any payments to the extent specifically provided for in the Locked Box Accounts;

(c)                                  the annual monitoring fee payable to the Institutional Sellers up to a maximum aggregate amount of EUR 357,145 (excluding any VAT thereon), together with any other reasonable third party out of pocket expenses incurred by an Institutional Seller or its Investor Director(s);

(d)                                 any directors’ fees (including reasonable out of pocket expenses) and/or consultancy fees incurred, paid or agreed to be paid or payable to a Management Seller or to Anders Ehrling and Simon Wright pursuant to their current employment, director and/or consulting agreements with any Group Company in each case to the extent they are Disclosed in the Data Room or the Financial Due Diligence Report (and disregarding for these purposes any modification or amendment to such agreements or arrangements since the Locked Box Date), together with any related Tax;

(e)                                  the salaries and other remuneration (including expenses) and bonuses, emoluments and other entitlements incurred, paid or agreed to be paid or payable to a

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Management Seller in accordance with their current employment agreements, director and/or consulting agreements with any Group Company or NCG JVCo in each case to the extent they are Disclosed in the Data Room (and disregarding for these purposes (i) any modification or amendment to such agreements or arrangements since the Locked Box Date and (ii) any bonuses incurred, paid or agreed to be paid in connection with the Transaction), and including any additional amounts paid or agreed to be paid with the prior written consent of the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 6, together with any related Tax;

(f)                                   any amounts incurred, paid or agreed to be paid or payable or any liability, cost or expense incurred in connection with any matter undertaken at the written request of, or with the prior written consent of, the Purchaser;

(g)                                  any amounts incurred, paid or agreed to be paid or payable or agreed to be made in the ordinary course of the Group’s or any NCG JVCo’s trading activities, on arm’s length terms and consistent with past practice in the 12 month period prior to the date of this Agreement by any member of the Group or any NCG JVCo to any portfolio company of any member of any Institutional Seller’s Group;

(h)                                 the Transaction Bonuses; and

(i)                                     any accrual of (but not payment of) interest on the Bonnier Shareholder Loan or Bridgepoint Shareholder Loan in accordance with the terms of the Bonnier Loan Agreement or the Bridgepoint Loan Agreement respectively (and disregarding, for these purposes, any modification or amendment to the terms of the Bonnier Shareholder Loan or the Bridgepoint Shareholder Loan following the Locked Box Date).

“Pro Rata Portion” has the meaning set out in Clause 11.4;

“Properties” has the meaning given in the Management Warranty Deed;

“Purchaser Debt Finance” means the debt financing incurred or intended to be incurred in accordance with the Purchaser Debt Finance Commitment Letters;

“Purchaser Debt Finance Commitment Letters” means the commitment letters dated as of the date of this Agreement from the lenders party thereto;

“Purchaser’s Completion Documents” has the meaning given to it in Clause 10.1;

“Purchaser’s Group” means the Purchaser, its subsidiaries and subsidiary undertakings, any holding company or parent undertaking of the Purchaser and all other subsidiaries and subsidiary undertakings of any such holding company or parent undertaking as the case may be from time to time, and “member of the Purchaser’s Group” shall be construed accordingly;

“Purchaser’s Solicitors” means Pinsent Masons LLP of 30 Crown Place, Earl Street, London EC2A 4ES;

“Purchaser’s Swedish Counsel” means Advokatfirman Lindahl of P.O Box 1065, SE-101 89 Stockholm;

“Relevant Area” means such geographical area as the Group has carried on its business within the twelve (12) months immediately prior to Completion;

“Remedy” has the meaning set out in Clause 4.2;

“Reserved Matters” means those matters listed in Schedule 5.5 of the Investment Agreement;

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“Restricted Person” means any of Peter Broström, Jan Bernhardsson, Marcus Lorendal, Jonas Burvall, Niklas Angeltoft, Patrik Karlsson, Maria Skoglund, Malin Lundstedt, Stefan Malmén, Sture Johansson, Ted Johansson, Ivar Halstvedt, Robert Sigfusson, Jon Einar Sivertsen, Ole Christian Corneliussen, Veronica Lindholm, Tuukka Metsäaho, Ismo Määttä, Kalle Peltola, Janne Uusi-Kölli, Arūnas Baltrušaitis, Gintaras Plytnikas, Kristjan Kongo, and Normunds Labrencis;

“Sale Securities” means the Shares held by the Sellers as set out against each Seller’s name in column (2) of Schedule 1 and “Sale Security”;

“Seller’s Solicitors” means White & Case LLP of 5 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1DW;

“Sellers” means the Institutional Sellers and the Management Sellers;

“SF License Agreements” means the licences in respect of the “SF” trademark and domain names between the Group and Aktiebolaget Svensk Filmindustri;

“Shares” means the A Ordinary Shares and the B Preference Shares;

“Shareholder Loans” means the Bonnier Shareholder Loan and the Bridgepoint Shareholder Loan;

“Shareholder Loans Redemption Amount” means an amount equal to the principal plus  interest accrued on the Shareholder Loans in accordance with the terms and conditions thereof in order to redeem the Shareholder Loans in accordance with Schedule 3;

“Swap Agreements” means each of the ISDA Master Agreements entered into by the Group Companies, as amended and supplemented from time to time (including all confirmations supplemental thereto), containing the terms of foreign exchange swaps in connection with the Existing Debt Facilities;

“Swap Settlement Amounts” means the costs of terminating the Swap Agreements on Completion;

“Tax” or “Taxation” means and includes all forms of taxation (other than deferred tax) and statutory and governmental, state, provincial, local governmental or municipal charges, duties, contributions and levies, withholdings and deductions, in each case whether of the United Kingdom, Sweden or elsewhere and whether levied by reference to income, profits, gains, net wealth, asset values, turnover, added value or otherwise and whether chargeable directly or primarily against or attributable directly or primarily to a Group Company or any other person and all penalties, charges, costs and interest relating thereto and shall further include payments in respect of or on account of the foregoing whenever and wherever imposed;

“Taxation Authority” means any governmental or other authority competent to impose Taxation whether in the United Kingdom, Sweden or elsewhere or responsible for the administration and/or collection of Tax or enforcement of any law in relation to Tax;

“Tax Deed” means the tax deed in agreed form executed by the Purchaser and the relevant Management Sellers and delivered at Completion;

“Transaction” means the agreement to sell and purchase the Sale Securities pursuant to this Agreement;

“Transaction Bonuses” means the transaction bonuses amounting to SEK 9,404,379 in aggregate payable to Niklas Angeltoft, Teresia Byström, Gustav Norberg, Madeleine Nilsson, Janne Stigvall, Marcus Lorendal and Malin Lazar;

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“Transaction Costs” means any professional fees, expenses, transaction bonuses or other costs (including, but not limited to, any consulting, advisory or management fees) in each case including any VAT paid or agreed to be paid or incurred or owing by any member of the Group or any NCG JVCo, in each case in connection with the preparation, negotiation or consummation of the Transaction and such other transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or the Purchaser Debt Finance Commitment Letters;

“Transaction Documents” means this Agreement, each of the documents in the Agreed Form and any other document entered into or to be entered into pursuant to this Agreement; and

“VAT” means value added tax as defined in Article 17 of The EC Sixth Directive on VAT 77/388/EEC and all Taxes of a similar nature levied in addition to or in substitution for it.

In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:

1.2                               Any reference to “writing” or “written” means any method of reproducing words in a legible and non-transitory form (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, email).

1.3                               References to “include” or “including” are to be construed without limitation.

1.4                               References to a “company”, “holding company”, “subsidiary”, “parent undertaking” and “subsidiary undertaking” shall have the same meaning in this Agreement as their respective definitions in the Companies Act (provided that where a holding company creates security over the shares of a subsidiary, that subsidiary shall be deemed not to cease being a subsidiary of the holding company solely as a result of the creation of that security).

1.5                               References to a “person” include any individual, company, partnership, joint venture, firm, association, trust, governmental or regulatory authority or other body or entity (whether or not having separate legal personality).

1.6                               Unless the context otherwise requires, words in the singular include the plural and vice versa and a reference to any gender includes all other genders.

1.7                               The table of contents and headings are inserted for convenience only and do not affect the construction of this Agreement.

1.8                               References to recitals, Clauses, paragraphs and Schedules are (unless the context otherwise requires) to recitals, clauses and paragraphs of, and schedules to, this Agreement. The Schedules form part of this Agreement.

1.9                               References to any statute or statutory provision include a reference to that statute or statutory provision as amended, consolidated or replaced from time to time (whether before or after the date of this Agreement) and include any subordinate legislation made under the relevant statute or statutory provision except to the extent that any amendment, consolidation or replacement would increase or extend the liability of any Party under this Agreement.

1.10                        References to any English legal term for any action, remedy, method of financial proceedings, legal document, legal status, court, official or any legal concept or thing shall, in respect of any jurisdiction other than England, be deemed to include what most nearly approximates in that jurisdiction to the English legal term.

1.11                        Any provision of this Agreement which is expressed to bind or be an obligation of the Sellers shall bind and be an obligation of each of them severally (and thus not jointly or jointly and severally) and any reference to ‘the Sellers’ in this Agreement shall be construed as a reference to each Seller individually and severally (and thus not jointly or jointly and severally) unless otherwise expressly provided. The Purchaser may in its absolute discretion

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release, compound, or compromise or give time or indulgence in relation to the liability of certain Sellers without in any way prejudicing or affecting its rights against the other Sellers.

1.12                        References to times of day are to London time unless otherwise stated.

1.13                        Save as otherwise expressly provided, the expression “procure” where used in the context of a Seller in relation to a member of the Group means solely that that Seller undertakes to exercise (i) its rights and votes as a shareholder in that company or (ii) votes as a director of that company; or (iii) power to procure any director of that company appointed by such Seller takes the necessary action to procure so far as it is lawfully able, compliance with that obligation.

1.14                        References to indemnities or  warranties in this Agreement, the Management Warranty Deed or the Tax Deed shall be construed as meaning on an after-Tax basis, such that, to the extent that the amount payable pursuant to such indemnity or warranty is chargeable to any Tax in the hands of the payee, the amount payable shall be increased as necessary so as to ensure that, after taking into account the amount of Tax chargeable on such indemnity or warranty payment (including on any increased payment) but ignoring any penalty or interest payable in connection with any failure to pay or any delay in paying any such Tax due (in either case) to the fault of the payee, the payee is in no better and no worse a position than it would have been in if there had been no such Tax chargeable.

2.                                      Sale and Purchase

2.1                               Each of the Sellers agree to sell and the Purchaser agrees to purchase all of the Sale Securities, with full title guarantee, and with all rights which are at the Completion Date attached to them (including, without limitation, the right to receive all dividends, distributions and interest declared, made, accrued or paid at any time), and the Sale Securities shall be sold by the Sellers free from all Encumbrances, on the terms of this Agreement and subject to satisfaction of the Condition.

2.2                               Each of the Sellers hereby agrees to waive or procure the waiver of any rights or restrictions which may have been conferred on it under the Articles, the Investment Agreement or otherwise as may affect the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (other than its rights pursuant to this Agreement) including, without limitation:

(a)                                 any rights of redemption, pre-emption, first refusal or transfer it may have with respect to the Sale Securities; and

(b)                                 any rights to acquire any Sale Securities.

2.3                               The Purchaser shall not be obliged to complete the acquisition of the Sale Securities unless the purchase of all of the Sale Securities is completed simultaneously.

3.                                      Consideration

3.1                               Consideration Amount

The aggregate consideration for the sale and purchase of the Sale Securities shall be the payment by the Purchaser of an amount equal to:

(a)                                 SEK 5,600,700,000 (five billion, six hundred million and seven hundred thousand Swedish Krona) (the “Equity Value”);

(b)                                 less the Shareholder Loans Redemption Amount;

(c)                                  less any Leakage Set-Off Amount (if any);

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(d)                                 less any Agreed Leakage Amount (if any);

(e)                                  plus the Interest Payment Amount;

(f)                                   less the Swap Settlement Amounts; and

(g)                                  less the Bank Break Fee Amount;

(the sum of the amounts set out in Clauses 3.1(a) to 3.1(g) (inclusive) being the “Consideration”),

all of which shall be apportioned, allocated and paid or discharged (as appropriate) on Completion in accordance with Clause 7.

4.                                      Condition

4.1                               Condition Precedent

The obligations of the Sellers and the Purchaser to complete the sale and purchase of the Sale Securities contained in Clause 2 are conditional upon satisfaction (or waiver in accordance with this Agreement) of the following requirements:

(a)                                 the European Commission declaring that the Transaction is compatible with the internal market pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) alone or in combination with Article 6(2), Article 8(1) or Article 8(2) of the EUMR (or the time periods laid down in Article 10(1) or Article 10(3) of the EUMR having elapsed without any decision having been made by the European Commission) and either:

(i)                                     the European Commission indicating that it does not intend to refer whole or part of the Transaction to a competent authority of any Member State in accordance with Article 9 of the EUMR; or

(ii)                                  if such a referral is made, clearance being obtained from the competent authority of that Member State(s).

For the avoidance of doubt, if the European Commission refers only a part of the Transaction to one or more competent authorities in any Member State, Clause 4.1 shall be satisfied only if the condition in Clause 4.1(a)(ii) is also met.

4.2                               Responsibility for satisfaction

(a)                                 Purchaser’s Obligations

(i)                                     The Purchaser shall use its reasonable endeavours to ensure satisfaction of the Condition set out in Clause 4.1 as soon as possible and in any event on or before the Long Stop Date.

(ii)                                  The Purchaser undertakes to:

(A)                               prepare and submit in consultation with the Institutional Seller’s Representative the draft filing to the European Commission as soon as possible following the date of this Agreement and in any event within eleven (11) Business Days of the date of this Agreement and submit the final filing itself as soon as permitted thereafter by the European Commission;

(B)                               use its reasonable endeavours to avoid any declaration of incompleteness by the European Commission and/or competent authority of any Member State or any other suspension for the time

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periods of clearance;

(C)                               take all steps necessary to procure the satisfaction of the Condition referred to in Clause 4.1(a) by the end of the European Commission’s Phase I review (i.e. without the need for a second phase of investigation) or by the end of a Member State competent authority’s Phase I period of review if a referral described in Clause 4.1(a)(ii) is made. Such steps shall include, but are not limited to, proposing, negotiating, offering to commit and agreeing, in each case where necessary to ensure that the Condition in Clause 4.1(a) is satisfied prior to the Long Stop Date with the European Commission and/or competent authority of any Member State to effect (and if such offer is accepted, commit to effect), by agreement, order or otherwise the sale, divestiture, license, or disposition of any necessary assets or businesses by the Purchaser or by any member of the Purchaser’s Group (each being a “Remedy”);

(D)                               procure that the Institutional Sellers’ Representative is given a reasonable opportunity to review and comment on drafts and final version of any filings or other material documentation prior to their submission to the European Commission and/or competent authority of any Member State (it being acknowledged that certain such drafts and/or documents may be shared on a confidential outside counsel to counsel basis only) and to take account of any reasonable comments;

(E)                                respond as soon as reasonably practicable to all inquiries received from the European Commission and/or competent authority of any Member State to whom a filing has been made or referred to for additional information or documentation and to supplement such filings as reasonably requested by the European Commission and/or the applicable authority. The Purchaser undertakes to keep the Institutional Sellers’ Representative informed of material contact with the European Commission and/or competent authority of any Member State and to the extent permitted by law, provide the Institutional Sellers’ Representative with copies of all material relevant documentation in relation thereto (to the extent such information relates to the Company and provided that the Purchaser shall not be required to provide the Institutional Seller’s Representative with any confidential information or business secrets) and allow the Institutional Sellers’ Representative the opportunity to participate in any calls or meeting with the European Commission and/or competent authority of any Member State;

(F)                                 notify the Institutional Sellers’ Representative within two Business Days after receipt of each such clearance or approval required to satisfy Clause 4.1;

(G)                               to the extent permitted by law to notify in writing to the Institutional Sellers’ Representative anything which will or is likely to prevent the Condition from being satisfied on or before the Long Stop Date promptly after it comes to its notice; and

(H)                              to agree and implement any Remedies that may be required by the European Commission and/or competent authority of any Member State prior to the Completion Date and, failing that, within six months of Completion or other period as required by the clearance

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decision of the European Commission and/or by competent authority of any Member State if a referral described in Clause 4.1(a) is made.

(b)                                 Sellers’ Obligations

Each of the Sellers individually and severally (not jointly or jointly and severally) undertake to the Purchaser:

(A)                             to the extent permitted by law, to co-operate with the Purchaser in good faith and to use all reasonable endeavours to procure co-operation by the Group with a view to satisfying the Condition set out in Clause 4.1(a), including, to the extent necessary and on a confidential basis, providing all information reasonably required by the Purchaser in relation to the business of the Company and the Group or in relation to any such Seller and providing all information reasonably required by the European Commission and/or competent authority of any Member State (as applicable) in relation to the business of the Company and the Group or in relation to any such Seller, provided that any information provided in relation to any such Seller shall be provided only to the European Commission and/or competent authority of any Member State (as applicable) and/or, if necessary the Purchaser’ Solicitors on a strictly confidential basis and shall not be provided to the Purchaser;

(B)                             in relation to the Transaction only, notify the Purchaser’s advisers of any material written communication from, or any material oral communication with the European Commission and/or competent authority of any Member State and provide the Purchaser’s advisers with copies (or a written record if the communication is oral) of all such communications;

The Institutional Seller’s Representative undertakes to the Purchaser to:

(A)                             review and/or comment on any draft submission and communication to the European Commission and/or competent authority of any Member State when provided to the Institutional Seller’s Representative by the Purchaser’s advisers; and

(B)                             where reasonably able to do so, attend all material meetings and participate in all material telephone calls with the European Commission and/or competent authority of any Member State when requested by the Purchaser’s advisers and permitted by the European Commission and/or competent authority of any Member State and, where appropriate, make oral submissions at such meetings or during telephone calls.

4.3                               Non-Satisfaction

(a)                                 If the Condition set out in Clause 4.1 is not fulfilled (or waived in accordance with this Agreement) on or before the Long Stop Date, this Agreement shall automatically terminate provided that either the Institutional Sellers or the Purchaser shall, provided the parties exercising their rights in this Clause 4.3(a) (the “Extending Party”) have complied with the terms of this Agreement, have the right to extend the Long Stop Date for an initial 30 day period and one further 30 day period if, in the reasonable expectation of the Extending Party, the Condition will be capable of being satisfied during such additional 30 day period(s).

(b)                                 If this Agreement terminates in accordance with Clause 4.3(a), and without limiting the right of any party to this Agreement to claim damages, all obligations of the parties under this Agreement shall terminate (except for the Continuing Provisions) but (for the avoidance of doubt) all rights and liabilities of the parties which have accrued before termination shall continue to exist.

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4.4                               Accuracy of Information

Each Party warrants and undertakes to the other Parties that any information that it provides to any other Party on or prior to or following the date hereof with respect to any merger control clearance filings and any other approvals by governmental authorities (including, without limitation, information as to revenues per country) is, and (in respect of information provided following the date hereof) will be, complete and accurate and not misleading in any material respect.

5.                                      Indebtedness Schedule

5.1                               Indebtedness Schedule

(a)                                 Not less than three (3) Business Days prior to the Completion Date, the Institutional Sellers shall provide the Purchaser with a schedule (the “Indebtedness Schedule”) setting out:

(i)                                   the amount and allocation of the (A) Consideration payable to each of the Sellers for the Sale Securities held by them and (B) the Shareholder Loans Redemption Amount owed to them;

(ii)                                the Bank Pay-Off Amount (including all appropriate details including currency, identity of payee and payee account details and the Bank Break Fee and the Swap Settlement Amounts);

(iii)                             the Interest Payment Amount;

(iv)                            any Agreed Leakage Amount; and

(v)                               any Leakage Set-off Amount.

(b)                                 In the event that Completion is deferred beyond the intended Completion Date in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and an Indebtedness Schedule has been delivered to the Purchaser prior to such deferral occurring, the Institutional Sellers shall be entitled to provide a revised Indebtedness Schedule to the Purchaser and the Indebtedness Schedule previously submitted shall cease to apply or be relevant for all purposes, provided that such revised Indebtedness Schedule shall be provided not less than two (2) Business Days prior to the deferred Completion Date.

6.                                      Pre-Completion

6.1                               Sellers’ Obligations in Relation to the Conduct of Business

(a)                                 Subject to Clause 6.2, each Seller shall procure that from the date of this Agreement until Completion:

(i)                                   the business of each member of the Group is conducted in accordance with applicable laws and in the ordinary and usual course;

(ii)                                each member of the Group shall maintain in force all insurance policies that such member of the Group maintains as at the date of this Agreement, in all material respects on the same terms and at similar levels of cover as prevail at the date of this Agreement;

(iii)                             no amendment is made, or consent is given for the purposes of such amendment, to the terms of the Bonnier Loan Agreement and the Bridgepoint Loan Agreement; and

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(iv)                            notwithstanding the generality of (i) above, the audit of the Group’s consolidated financial statements dated 31 December 2016 is carried out in the ordinary and usual course and in accordance with past practice.

(b)                                 Subject to Clause 6.2, each Institutional Seller undertakes to the Purchaser that prior to Completion it shall not:

(i)                                   exercise any of its rights as a shareholder of the Company to approve, and shall procure that its Investor Directors (subject to their fiduciary duties) shall not approve, any actions by a Group Company or NCG JVCo which would be contrary to Clause 6.1(a); and

(ii)                                vote or in any way exercise its rights and powers to approve any of the Reserved Matters without the prior written approval of the Purchaser.

(c)                                  Without prejudice to the generality of clause 6.1, the Sellers undertake to the Purchaser to procure that the Company shall, and shall procure that each member of the Group shall, not effect or undertake any matter set out in Schedule 4 in the period from the date of this Agreement until Completion without the prior approval of the Purchaser (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).

(d)                                 The Sellers shall notify the Purchaser as soon as reasonably practicable if they become aware of any matter, fact or circumstance which constitutes a breach of Clause 6.1 prior to Completion.

6.2                               Exceptions to Sellers’ and Management Sellers’s Obligations

Clause 6.1 does not apply in respect of and shall not operate so as to restrict or prevent:

(a)                                 any matter reasonably undertaken by any member of the Group in an emergency or disaster situation with the intention of and to the extent only of those matters strictly required with a view to minimising any adverse effect thereof (and of which the Purchaser will be promptly notified in writing);

(b)                                 any action taken in accordance with any contract or arrangement entered into by a Group Company prior to the date of this Agreement and Disclosed in the Data Room;

(c)                                  any matter expressly contemplated by this Agreement (including for the avoidance of doubt any matters set out in the definition of Permitted Leakage) or the Transaction Documents;

(d)                                 any matter undertaken at the written request or with the prior written consent of the Purchaser;

(e)                                  any provision of information to any regulatory body or government agency or commissioning body in the ordinary course of business; and

(f)                                   any matter to the extent required by applicable law or any regulation of any applicable Government Authority.

6.3                               Sellers’ Obligations in Relation to Agreements with Change of Control Provision

Each Seller shall procure that from the date of this Agreement until Completion, the Group Companies shall, at the Purchaser’s reasonable request, take such steps as is reasonably necessary to obtain waivers and/or new agreements from contractual parties to agreements which contain change of control provisions which are triggered by the Transaction subject to applicable laws. The Purchaser, together with the Group Companies, shall have the right  to approach all such contractual parties after the date of this Agreement, in order to seek waivers

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from such change of control provisions and/or to enter into new agreements, effective as of Completion.

6.4                               Debt Financing Obligations of the Purchaser

(a)                                 Subject to applicable law and Clause 6.4(b), the Sellers shall, and shall use their reasonable endeavours to procure that the Group and its advisers, officers and directors shall, provide such reasonable assistance as is reasonably required by the Purchaser from the date of this Agreement until Completion in connection with the below provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, none of the obligations in this Clause 6.4 shall delay Completion as contemplated under Clause 7:

(i)                                   the negotiation, agreement and syndication of any debt financing (including any public or private offering or placement of debt or equity securities (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may include an offering of high-yield debt securities under Rule 144A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended)) which is to be negotiated by any member of the Purchaser’s Group for the purpose of financing any part of the Consideration (the “Applicable Financing”);

(ii)                                the repayment of the Existing Debt Facilities on or immediately following Completion (such assistance to include relevant Group Companies, promptly following the Purchaser’s request, executing and delivering to the Purchaser, or at its direction, such documents as the Purchaser may reasonably require in relation to the repayment of the Existing Debt Facilities); and

(iii)                             the release on Completion of any security which has been granted by any member of the Group in connection with the Existing Debt Facilities and which is outstanding on Completion;

provided, that such assistance shall include (A) providing any information, documents, agreements, consents, comfort letters, certifications and representations reasonably requested by the Purchaser, its advisers and accountants, its financing sources or investments banks or their advisers (which shall include all documentation and other information required under applicable “know-your-customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations), (B) participating in a reasonable number of meetings and conference calls with prospective lenders and investors, road shows, due diligence sessions, drafting sessions and sessions with ratings agencies and preparation of materials related to such road shows, sessions, conference calls and meetings, (C) assisting in the preparation of a customary confidential information memorandum or other offering document including in connection with any offering of high-yield debt securities under Rule 144A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, (D) obtaining customary debt pay-off letters with respect to the Existing Debt Facilities and (E) to the extent practicable in the context of Clause 6.1(a)(iv), providing an audited consolidated balance sheet and audited consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Group as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016.  The Parties further acknowledge and agree that, to the extent that the provisions of this clause 6.4 require the Management Sellers to provide reasonable assistance in converting the financial statements of the Group from Swedish or any other GAAP and restated in accordance with US GAAP, the costs and expenses of such conversion and restatement (including any costs incurred by the Group in engaging the auditors of the Group to undertake such conversion and restatement) will be borne directly by the Purchaser subject to Clause (b).

(b)                                 Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement shall require any such cooperation to the extent that it would (i) require any Group Company to enter into any financing, purchase or other agreement for the Applicable Financing that would

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be effective prior to Completion or (ii) result in any officer, director, manager or other representative of any Group Company or any Sellers or of any member of an Institutional Seller’s Group incurring any personal liability with respect to any matters relating to the Applicable Financing. No Seller or any member of an Institutional Seller’s Group shall be required to pay any fees or expenses in connection with the Applicable Financing and no Group Company shall be required to pay any such fees or expenses prior to Completion. The Purchaser shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company and the Group and each Seller and each member of each Institutional Seller’s Group and their respective representatives from and against any and all Losses suffered or incurred by them in connection with the Applicable Financing (including actions taken in accordance with this Clause 6.4), except to the extent that such Losses result from the gross negligence, wilful misconduct or fraud of any Sellers, the Company of any member of the Group (or any of their officers directors or employees) or from the Group having provided the Purchaser (or omitted to provide the Purchaser) with information that was intentionally materially incorrect or misleading (including as a result of its omission).

(c)                                  The cost of any actions taken by the Group pursuant to Clause 6.4(a) (including any adviser fees but not including any charge for the time of Group personnel) shall be borne by the Purchaser.

7.                                      Completion

7.1                               Subject to Clause 4, Completion shall take place at the offices of the Purchaser’s Swedish Counsel in Stockholm on the Completion Date.

7.2                               At Completion:

(a)                                 the Sellers shall comply with its obligations as specified in Part 1 of Schedule 3; and

(b)                                 the Purchaser shall comply with its obligations as specified in Part 2 of Schedule 3.

7.3                               Breach of Completion Obligations

Subject to Clause 4.3(a), if the obligations of (i) the Purchaser or (ii) the Sellers under Clauses 7.2 and Schedule 3 are not complied with on the Completion Date in any material respect, the Purchaser (in the case of a default by a Seller) or the Sellers (in the case of a default by the Purchaser) shall be entitled (in addition to and without prejudice to all other rights or remedies available, including the right to claim damages) by written notice to the Purchaser or the Sellers as the case may be:

(a)                                 to defer Completion for a period of up to ten (10) Business Days (so that the provisions of this Clause 7 shall apply to Completion as so deferred);

(b)                                 to require the Parties to proceed to Completion as far as practicable, having regard to the defaults which have occurred; or

(c)                                  subject to Completion having first been deferred for a period of at least ten (10) Business Days under Clause 7.3(a) and the Purchaser and the Sellers having used reasonable endeavours to effect Completion during that period, to terminate this Agreement by notice in writing to the Purchaser or the Sellers (as the case may be).

7.4                               Termination

If this Agreement is terminated in accordance with Clause 7.3(c) (and without limiting any Party’s rights and remedies, including the right to claim damages), all obligations of the Parties under this Agreement shall end (except for the Continuing Provisions) but for the avoidance of doubt all rights and liabilities of the Parties which have accrued before

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termination shall continue to exist. Save for the termination provisions set out in Clauses 4.3(a) and 7.3(c), there are no other circumstances in which a Party shall be entitled to terminate this Agreement.

7.5                               Completion Payments

All amounts expressed to be payable to the Sellers at Completion pursuant to any provision of this Agreement shall be paid to such accounts as nominated in writing by the Institutional Sellers and the Management Sellers’ Representatives and the receipt of each such amount in such accounts shall be an absolute discharge to the Purchaser of the obligation to pay such amount and the Purchaser shall not be concerned to see to the application of any such amount thereafter.

8.                                      Warranties

8.1                               Institutional Sellers’ Warranties

Each of the Institutional Sellers individually and severally (and not jointly or jointly and severally) warrants to the Purchaser that the statements set out below are true, accurate and not misleading as at the date of this Agreement and as at the Completion Date as if they had been repeated immediately before Completion:

(a)                                 it is the sole legal and beneficial owner of the Sale Securities listed opposite its name in columns (2) and (3) of Schedule 1, has the full right to exercise all voting and other rights over such Sale Securities;

(b)                                 it has the full right to transfer the full legal and beneficial title to such Sale Securities to the Purchaser free from Encumbrances and there will be no such Encumbrances effecting any of such Sale Securities at Completion;

(c)                                  the Shares constitute the whole of the issued and allotted share capital of the Company and are fully paid up;

(d)                                 other than this Agreement, there is no agreement, arrangement or obligation requiring the creation, allotment, issue, sale, transfer, redemption or repayment of, or the grant to a person of the right (conditional or not) to require the allotment, issue, sale, transfer, redemption or repayment of, any Sale Securities or any other share in the capital of the Company (including an option or right of pre-emption or conversion);

(e)                                  other than any Encumbrance relating to the Existing Debt Facilities (if applicable), there is no Encumbrance in relation to any of the shares or unissued shares in the capital of any of the members of the Group other than the Company (the “Group Subsidiaries”). No Group Company is under any obligation (whether actual or contingent) to sell, charge or otherwise dispose of any shares in any of the Group Subsidiaries or any interest therein to any person;

(f)                                   it has the full legal right, power, capacity and authority to enter into, deliver and perform its obligations under each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party (the “Sellers’ Completion Documents”);

(g)                                  the Sellers’ Completion Documents will, when executed by it, constitute legal, valid and binding and enforceable obligations on it in accordance with their respective terms;

(h)                                 the execution, delivery and performance of its obligations under, the Sellers’ Completion Documents will not:

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(i)                                     result in a breach of, conflict with, or constitute a default under, any agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it is respectively bound;

(ii)                                  result in a breach of any law, lien, lease, order, judgment, award, injunction, ordinance, regulation or decree or any other restriction of any kind or character to which it is a party or by which it is bound;

(iii)                               conflict with, or result in a breach of, any provision of its memorandum or articles of association, by-laws or equivalent constitutional document; or

(iv)                              require it to obtain any consent or approval of, or give any notice to or make any registration with, any governmental or regulatory authority which has not been obtained or made at the date of this Agreement on a basis which is both unconditional and which cannot be revoked (provided that this paragraph (iv) shall not extend to those consents or approvals from anti-trust, governmental or regulatory authorities referred to in Clause 4.1);

(i)                                     other than the Shareholder Loans, there is no other indebtedness owed to the Institutional Sellers or any Connected Person of the Institutional Sellers;

(j)                                    it is validly existing and is duly incorporated under the law of its jurisdiction of incorporation; and

(k)                                 no:

(i)                                     petition has been presented or resolution has been passed in relation to it;

(ii)                                  step has been taken in relation to it; or

(iii)                               legal proceedings have been started or threatened against it,

for its winding-up or dissolution, or for the appointment of a liquidator, receiver, administrator, administrative receiver or similar officer over any or all of its assets and it has not become subject to any analogous proceedings, appointments or arrangements under the laws of any applicable jurisdiction.

Unless expressly provided in this Agreement, each of the Institutional Sellers’ Warranties shall be separate and independent and shall not be limited by reference to any other paragraph or anything in this Agreement.

8.2                               Management Sellers’ Warranties

Each Management Seller individually and severally (and not jointly or jointly and severally) warrants to the Purchaser that the statements set out below are true, accurate and not misleading as at the date of this Agreement and as at the Completion Date as if they had been repeated immediately before Completion:

(a)                                 the Shares constitute the whole of the issued and allotted share capital of the Company and are fully paid up;

(b)                                 he/she is the sole legal and beneficial owner of the Sale Securities listed opposite his/her name in columns (2) and (3) of Schedule 1 and has the full right to exercise all voting and other rights over such Sale Securities;

(c)                                  there is not and will be no Encumbrance effecting any of the Sale Securities listed opposite his/her name in columns (2) and (3) of Schedule 1;

(d)                                 he/she has the necessary power and authority to enter into and perform this Agreement and any other Transaction Document to which he/she is a party; and

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(e)                                  other than the Sale Securities listed in Schedule 1, he/she is not aware of any person being entitled to require any Group Company or any NCG JVCo to issue any share or loan capital now or at any future date.

8.3                               Notification Obligation

The Sellers shall immediately notify the Purchaser in writing as soon as it becomes aware of any fact, matter or circumstance that:

(a)                                 would or might cause a warranty, in the case of the Institutional Sellers, in Clause 8.1 to be untrue, inaccurate or misleading if it was to be repeated at any time after the date of this Agreement;

(b)                                 would or might cause a warranty, in the case of the Management Sellers, in Clause 8.2 to be untrue, inaccurate or misleading if it was to be repeated at any time after the date of this Agreement; or

(c)                                  is reasonably likely to delay Completion.

9.                                      Limitation of Sellers’ Liability

9.1                               Maximum Liability

The liability of the Sellers in respect of any Claim:

(a)                                 shall not arise unless and until the amount of such Claim when substantiated exceeds SEK 200,000 (in which case the liability of the Sellers shall be limited to the excess over SEK 200,000); and

(b)                                 shall not (when aggregated with the amount of all other Claims and including all legal and other professional fees and expenses payable by the Sellers in respect of all such Claims) exceed the aggregate of the Consideration and the Shareholder Loans Redemption Amount.

9.2                               Time Limitations

(a)                                 No Seller shall be liable in respect of any claim unless written notice specifying (in reasonable detail) the matter(s) which gives rise to the claim, the nature of the claim and (if practicable) the amount claimed in respect thereof is given by or on behalf of the Purchaser to the Sellers as soon as reasonably practicable after the Purchaser becomes aware of the claim and in any event:

(i)                             in the case of a claim for breach of Clause 6, by no later than six (6) months from the Completion Date; or

(ii)                          in the case of any other Claim by no later than six (6) years from the Completion Date,

(provided that any failure to provide any such details of the claim or to indicate its nature or to provide an estimate of the amount of any such claims shall not invalidate such claim).

(b)                                 Any claim notified pursuant to Clause 9.2(a) shall (if not previously satisfied, settled or withdrawn) be deemed to have been withdrawn and shall determine absolutely unless legal proceedings in respect of it have been properly issued and validly served within nine (9) months of such written notice being given to the Sellers or the Management Sellers’ Representative (as appropriate) or, in the case of any

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contingent liability, within nine (9) months after such contingent liability becomes an actual liability.

9.3                               Limitations on Leakage Claims

(a)                                 The aggregate liability of the Sellers in respect of any amounts payable pursuant to Clause 11.4 (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any amounts payable as a result of Clause 11.4(a)(iii)) shall not exceed an amount equal to the Leakage received by or benefitted to such Seller or in the case of an Institutional Seller, by or to any member of that Institutional Seller’s Group, or, in the case of a Management Seller, by or to any Connected Person of that Management Seller, plus (in each case) the Pro Rata Portion of any Leakage deemed to be received by or to the benefit of such persons pursuant to Clause 11.4(b).

(b)                                 No Seller shall be liable in respect of any amounts payable pursuant to Clause 11.4 unless written notice specifying (in reasonable detail) the matter(s) which gives rise to the claim, the nature of the claim and (if practicable) the amount claimed in respect thereof is given by or on behalf of the Purchaser to the Sellers as soon as reasonably practicable after the Purchaser becomes aware of the claim and, in any event, by no later than twelve (12) months from the Completion Date.

9.4                               Duty to Mitigate

The Purchaser shall procure that reasonable steps are taken to avoid or mitigate any loss or damage which in the absence of mitigation might be reasonably likely to give rise to a liability in respect of any Claim.

9.5                               Contingent Liabilities

Without prejudice to the Purchaser’s ability to give notice of a claim within the time period set out in Clause 9.2, no Seller shall be liable in respect of any Claim which is contingent unless and until such contingent liability becomes an actual liability and is due and payable.

9.6                               Other Compensation

No Seller shall be liable in respect of any Claim to the extent that the Purchaser actually recovers or is otherwise made good or compensated (without cost to the Purchaser or any Group Company) in relation to the subject matter of such Claim.

9.7                               Waiver of Rights of Rescission

Without prejudice to the rights set out in Clause 4.3(a) and 7.3, notwithstanding that a Party becomes aware at any time:

(a)                                 that there has been a breach of any provision of this Agreement; or

(b)                                 that there may be a claim against another Party or Parties in connection with this Agreement or any other Transaction Document,

no Party shall be entitled to terminate or rescind this Agreement or treat this Agreement as terminated and shall only be entitled to claim damages in respect of such matter and, accordingly, each Party waives all and any rights to terminate or rescind this Agreement it may have in respect of any such matter (howsoever arising or deemed to arise), other than any such rights arising in respect of dishonesty, fraud, wilful misconduct or wilful concealment of another Party.

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9.8                               Fraud

None of the limitations contained in this Clause 9 shall apply to any Claim against a Party to the extent that such claim arises as a result of fraud by that Party or where such claim would not have arisen but for fraud by that Party.

10.                               Purchaser’s Warranties and Undertakings

10.1                        Purchaser’s Warranties

Each of the Purchaser and the Purchaser Guarantor warrant to each of the Sellers that the statements set out below are true, accurate and not misleading as at the date of this Agreement and as at the Completion Date as if they had been repeated immediately before Completion:

(a)                                 it is a company validly existing and duly incorporated under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation;

(b)                                 it has the full legal right, power, capacity and authority to enter into, deliver and perform its obligations under each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party (the “Purchaser’s Completion Documents”);

(c)                                  the Purchaser’s Completion Documents will, when executed by it, constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of it in accordance with their respective terms;

(d)                                 the execution, delivery, and performance of its obligations under, the Purchaser’s Completion Documents will not:

(i)                                   conflict with, or result in a breach of, any provision of its memorandum or articles of association, by-laws or equivalent constitutional document;

(ii)                                result in a breach of any law, lien, order, judgment, award, injunction, ordinance, regulation or decree or any other restriction of any kind or character to which it is a party or by which it is bound; or

(iii)                             require it to obtain any consent or approval of, or give any notice to or make any registration with, any governmental or other authority which has not been obtained or made at the date hereof both on an unconditional basis and on a basis which cannot be revoked (provided that this paragraph (iii) shall not extend to those consents or approvals from anti-trust, governmental or regulatory authorities referred to in Clause 4.1); and

(e)                                  no:

(i)                                   resolution has been passed in relation to it;

(ii)                                step has been taken in relation to it; or

(iii)                             legal proceedings have been started or threatened against it,

for its winding-up or dissolution, or for the appointment of a liquidator, receiver, administrator, administrative receiver or similar officer over any or all of its assets.

10.2                        Notification Obligation

The Purchaser shall notify the Sellers promptly in writing upon becoming aware of any fact, matter or circumstance that is reasonably likely to delay Completion.

10.3                        Purchaser Financing Undertakings

The Purchaser has delivered to the Sellers true and complete copies of the Purchaser Debt Finance Commitment Letters.  The Purchaser undertakes to each of the Sellers that it will not,

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without the prior written consent of the Institutional Sellers amend the Purchaser Finance Documents, Debt Finance Commitment Letters in a manner which would be materially prejudicial to the interests of the Sellers under this Agreement; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, the Purchaser Debt Finance Commitment Letters may be amended to add purchasers, lenders, lead arrangers, book-runners, syndication agents or similar entities.  The Purchaser shall use all reasonable endeavours to obtain and consummate the Purchaser Debt Finance at Completion.

10.4                        Waiver of Rights

The Purchaser hereby warrants and undertakes to each of the Sellers for itself and as agent and trustee for each employee, director or officer of any member of the Group (each a “Relevant Person”) that other than with respect to the terms of this Agreement, any other direct contractual obligation existing between the Purchaser and the Relevant Person and in the absence of fraud, the Purchaser:

(a)                                 has no rights against (and waives any rights it may have against); and

(b)                                 may not make a claim against (and waives any claim it may have against),

any Relevant Person, provided that nothing in this Clause 10.4 shall limit the ability of the Purchaser to bring any claim against (i) any adviser to the Group and/or the Sellers, to the extent it has prepared a report or other documentation for the specific benefit of the Purchaser or a member of the Group in connection with the Transaction (subject always to the terms of any reliance letter entered into between the Purchaser and the relevant adviser and/or the terms of engagement of such adviser); and (ii) the Sellers to the extent permitted by any contractual arrangements between a Seller and a Purchaser.

10.5                        No Representation

The Purchaser acknowledges that, except where specifically otherwise provided, no representation or warranty has been made as to the accuracy or completeness of any of the information provided in relation to the Group by the Sellers, any member of an Institutional Seller’s Group nor any of their respective agents.

10.6                        Institutional Sellers’ Commitments

(a)                                 The Purchaser shall use its best endeavours to procure that immediately following Completion:

(i)                                   each Institutional Seller and each other member of each Institutional Seller’s Group shall be unconditionally and irrevocably released in full from their respective obligations under any guarantee, security interest, indemnity, support letter or other contingent obligation, including without limitation the grant of collateral, given or undertaken by each Institutional Seller or member of each Institutional Seller’s Group in relation to or arising out of any obligations or liabilities of any Group Company (the “Institutional Sellers’ Commitments”) which shall not have been released on or prior to Completion, each such release to be in form and substance satisfactory to the relevant Institutional Seller (acting reasonably); and

(ii)                                the Purchaser, or another member of the Purchaser’s Group, shall enter into replacement obligations with the relevant counterparty to such Institutional Sellers Commitments as soon as reasonably practicable following Completion.

(b)                                 The Purchaser undertakes to indemnify and hold each Institutional Seller and each other member of each Institutional Seller’s Group harmless from and against all

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Losses suffered or incurred by it after Completion in relation to or arising out of the Institutional Seller Commitments, to the extent that the Institutional Seller Commitments are not released (or replaced by the Purchaser) at or prior to Completion.

11.                               Leakage

11.1                        Warranty and Undertaking

Each Seller:

(a)                                 warrants to the Purchaser that from (but excluding) the Locked Box Date to (and including) the date of this Agreement, there has been; and

(b)                                 undertakes to the Purchaser to procure that from the date of this Agreement to (and including) the Completion Date, there will be,

no Leakage, provided that no Seller shall have any liability to the Purchaser under Clause 11.1 or 11.4 if Completion does not occur.

11.2                        Notification of Leakage

Each Seller undertakes to the Purchaser to notify the Purchaser in writing as soon as is reasonably practicable upon becoming aware of any Leakage having taken place in breach of Clause 11.1 at any time in the period from (but excluding) the Locked Box Date to (and including) the Completion Date.

11.3                        Adjustment for Leakage

(a)                                 If any Leakage is notified or comes to the attention of the Purchaser on or prior to Completion then:

(i)                                   in the event that a Seller has not notified the Purchaser of such Leakage, subject to the relevant Seller (the “Relevant Seller”) agreeing that Leakage has occurred and agreeing the amount to be paid by the Relevant Seller pursuant to Clause 11.4(a) in respect of such Leakage (an “Agreed Leakage Amount”), the Purchaser shall be entitled to reduce the Consideration to be paid to the Relevant Seller pursuant to Clause 3 by the full amount of the Agreed Leakage Amount by reducing the amount of Consideration to be paid to the Relevant Seller (and the payment of the amount of the Consideration so reduced shall be an absolute discharge of the Purchaser’s obligations hereunder in respect of the Consideration to be paid to the Relevant Seller pursuant to this Agreement); and

(ii)                                in the event that a Seller has notified the Purchase of such Leakage, the Purchaser shall be entitled to reduce the Consideration to be paid to such Seller pursuant to Clause 3 by the full amount of such notified Leakage (the “Leakage Set-off Amount”) by reducing the amount of Consideration to be paid to such Seller (and the payment of the amount of the Consideration so reduced shall be an absolute discharge of the Purchaser’s obligations hereunder in respect of the Consideration to be paid to the such Seller pursuant to this Agreement).

(b)                                 In respect of any Leakage to which Clause 11.4(b) applies, the Institutional Sellers’ Representative and the Management Sellers’ Representative shall have the authority to agree on behalf of the Institutional Sellers and the Management Sellers respectively any Agreed Leakage Amount pursuant to Clause 11.3(a) and, for the avoidance of doubt, all Sellers will be deemed Relevant Sellers in respect of such

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Leakage in accordance with Clause 11.4(b).

(c)                                  For the avoidance of doubt:

(i)                                   the fact that any Leakage comes to the attention of the Purchaser on or prior to Completion but no Agreed Leakage Amount is agreed in respect of it pursuant to this Clause 11.3 shall not affect the Sellers’ obligations or the Purchaser’s rights pursuant to Clauses 11.1 and 11.4 or otherwise under this Agreement in respect of that Leakage; and

(ii)                                the fact that an Agreed Leakage Amount has been agreed or a Leakage Set-off Amount has reduced the amount of Consideration payable by the Purchaser pursuant to this Clause 11.3 in respect of any Leakage shall not preclude the Purchaser from recovering any further amounts payable under Clause 11.4 in respect of such Leakage and not taken into account in the Agreed Leakage Amount or the Leakage Set-off Amount.

11.4                        Payment for Leakage

(a)                                 If any Leakage occurs the Seller who receives or benefits from (or whose Institutional Seller’s Group, in the case of an Institutional Seller, or whose Connected Persons, in the case of a Management Seller, receives or benefits from) the Leakage shall on demand by the Purchaser pay to the Purchaser an amount in cash in SEK equal to:

(i)                                   the amount of such Leakage;

(ii)                                all reasonable costs and expenses (including, without limitation, damages, legal and other professional fees and costs, penalties and expenses) incurred by the Purchaser as a result of such Leakage; and

(iii)                             any amount necessary to ensure that after any Tax on a payment made in accordance with sub-clauses (i) or (ii) above, the Purchaser is left with the same amount it would have had if the payment was not subject to Tax,

save that, for the avoidance of doubt, any amount already taken into account in the calculation of any Agreed Leakage Amount or Leakage Set-off Amount and taken into account in the determination of the Consideration pursuant to Clause 11.3 shall not be recoverable under this Clause 11.4 after Completion.

(b)                                 In respect of any Leakage that is not received or benefitted from by one or more Sellers (or by any member of an Institutional Seller’s Group or any Connected Person of a Management Seller), each Seller shall be deemed to have received or benefitted from its Pro Rata Portion of such Leakage and each Seller shall on demand by the Purchaser pay to the Purchaser its Pro Rata Portion of the aggregate amount to be paid to the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 11.4(a) in respect of such Leakage For the purposes of this Clause 11.4(a), “Pro Rata Portion”, shall mean in relation to any Seller, that Seller’s pro rata portion based on the proportion that the Consideration receivable by such Seller pursuant to this Agreement bears to the aggregate amount of Consideration receivable by all Sellers pursuant to this Agreement.

12.                               Restrictive Covenants

12.1                        Subject to Clause 12.2 and 12.4, each Management Seller undertakes to the Purchaser and each Group Company that he will not (whether alone or in conjunction with, or on behalf of,

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another person and whether directly or indirectly), without the prior written consent of the Purchaser:

(a)                                 for a period of one year immediately following the Completion Date, knowingly directly or indirectly interfere or attempt to interfere with the continuance of supplies to any Group Company from any supplier who has been supplying goods or services to that Group Company at any time during the twelve (12) months immediately preceding Completion if such interference causes or would cause that supplier to cease supplying, or materially reduce its supply of, those goods or services;

(b)                                 for a period of one year immediately following the Completion Date, knowingly directly or indirectly solicit, endeavour to entice away from any Group Company, employ or offer to employ, any person employed in a managerial, technical or sales capacity by any Group Company at Completion where the person in question either has Confidential Information or would be in a position to exploit a Group Company’s trade connections save that no Management Seller will have any liability if that person is responding to a bona fide and genuine job advertisement not aimed at employees of the Group; or

(c)                                  within the Relevant Area for a period of one year following the Completion Date, either alone or jointly with, through or as adviser to, or agent of, or manager for, any person directly or indirectly carry on or be engaged, connected with or interested in any other business involved in the sale or supply of goods or services which competes with all or any material part of the Business.

12.2                        Nothing in clause 12.1 shall prevent any of the Management Seller from performing any duties under his service contract with any member of the Purchaser’s Group as an employee or consultant.

12.3                        Each of the undertakings set out in this clause 12 is separate and severable and enforceable accordingly, and if any one or more of such undertakings or part of an undertaking is held to be against the public interest or unlawful the remaining undertakings or part of the undertakings will continue in full force and effect and will bind each Management Seller.

12.4                        The holding of any units of any authorised unit trust of not more than three per cent. of any class of shares or securities of any company which is dealt on any recognised stock exchange (as defined by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as amended)) shall not constitute a breach of clause 12.1.

12.5                        The Institutional Sellers each severally undertake to the Purchaser and each Group Company that they will not, and that they will procure that no member of their respective Institutional Sellers Group (provided that, in the case of European Cinemas, Institutional Seller’s Group shall not include any portfolio companies, limited partners or investors of any member of its Institutional Seller’s Group but shall include employees, directors and officers of any general partner, manager, operator or investment adviser within the Institutional Seller’s Group including, but not limited to Mika Herold, Christopher Bley and Mikael Lövgren) will, without the prior written consent of the Purchaser, for a period of one year following the Completion Date, knowingly directly or indirectly solicit or entice away from any Group Company, any Restricted Person save that the Institutional Sellers will have no liability if such person is responding to a bona fide and genuine job advertisement or enters into a process managed by a recruitment firm, provided that such advertisement or process is not made or set up specifically to be aimed at a Restricted Person.

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13.                               Termination of Related Party Agreements

Effective as of and conditional upon Completion, the Sellers hereby terminate, and shall procure that each member of an Institutional Seller’s Group and each Connected Person of a Management Seller terminates (a) the side letter between Bonnier and Bridgepoint Europe V Investments S.à r.l. in respect of the SF rebranding and (b) all such agreements between it and any Group Company (other than (i) the Shareholder Loan Agreements; (ii) any service contract between a Management Seller and a Group Company that has been Disclosed in the Data Room; and (iii) the SF Licence Agreements) and irrevocably waives, and shall procure that each member of an Institutional Seller’s Group and each Connected Person of a Management Seller waives, any and all claims any such person may have in its capacity as shareholder, director or employee (as applicable) against any Group Company or any other direct or indirect party (other than any claim arising under the aforementioned service contracts).

14.                               Guarantee

14.1                        In consideration of the Sellers entering into this Agreement, the Purchaser Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Sellers the due and punctual performance and observance by the Purchaser of all its obligations, commitments, undertakings and warranties undertaken or expressed to be undertaken under or pursuant to this Agreement (including, without limitation, the obligations contained in Clause 4.2(a)(ii)(C)) to which it is party including the payment of court-awarded damages for breach of those obligations, commitments, undertakings and warranties along with any court-awarded legal costs arising from claiming for such damages (the “Guaranteed Obligations”).

14.2                        If and whenever the Purchaser defaults for any reason whatsoever in the performance of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, the Purchaser Guarantor shall forthwith, upon demand, unconditionally perform (or procure performance of) and satisfy (or procure the satisfaction of) the Guaranteed Obligations in regard to which such default has been made in the manner prescribed by this Agreement and so that the same benefits shall be conferred on the Sellers as they would have received if the Guaranteed Obligations had been duly performed and satisfied by the Purchaser.

14.3                        This guarantee is to be a continuing guarantee and, accordingly, is to remain in force until all the Guaranteed Obligations shall have been performed or satisfied notwithstanding the winding up, liquidation, dissolution or other incapacity of the Purchaser. This guarantee is in addition to and without prejudice to and not in substitution for any rights or security which the Sellers may now or hereafter have or hold for the performance and observance of the Guaranteed Obligations.

14.4                        As a separate and independent stipulation, the Purchaser Guarantor agrees that any of the Guaranteed Obligations (including any moneys payable) which may not be enforceable against or recoverable from the Purchaser by reason of any legal limitation, disability or incapacity on or of the Purchaser or the dissolution, amalgamation, reconstruction or reorganisation of the Purchaser or any other fact or circumstance (other than any limitation imposed by this Agreement) shall nevertheless be enforceable against and recoverable from the Purchaser Guarantor as though the same had been incurred by the Purchaser Guarantor and the Purchaser Guarantor were the sole or principal obligor in respect thereof and shall be performed or paid by the Purchaser Guarantor on demand.

14.5                        The Purchaser Guarantor, as principal obligor and as a separate and independent obligation and liability from its obligations and liabilities in Clause 14.1, undertakes to indemnify and keep indemnified the Sellers against all costs, claims, expenses, losses, damages and liabilities which the Sellers may incur or suffer arising out of or in connection with any breach by the Purchaser of any of its obligations under this Agreement.

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14.6                        The liability of the Purchaser Guarantor under this Clause 14 shall not be affected, impaired, reduced or released by:

(a)                      any variation of the terms of the Guaranteed Obligations (whether or not agreed by the Purchaser);

(b)                      any forbearance, neglect or delay in seeking performance of the Guaranteed Obligations or any granting of time for, or waiver in relation to, such performance;

(c)                       any agreement or arrangement which the Sellers make with the Purchaser or with any person which (but for this Clause 14.6(c)) would or might operate to diminish or discharge the liability of a surety;

(d)                      any change in the status, control or ownership of the Purchaser;

(e)                       any change in the constitution or control of, or the insolvency of, or bankruptcy, winding-up or analogous proceedings relating to, the Purchaser;

(f)                        any illegality, invalidity or unenforceability of any obligation of any person under this Agreement; or

(g)                       any other act, event or omission which might operate to discharge, impair or otherwise affect any of the obligations of the Guarantor or any of the rights, powers and remedies conferred on the Sellers under this Agreement.

14.7                        The Purchaser Guarantor waives all rights it has or may have to require the Sellers to proceed first against the Purchaser.

14.8                        The guarantee and indemnity in this Clause 14 shall extend to all costs and reasonable expenses incurred by the Sellers in enforcing such guarantee and indemnity.

14.9                        The Purchaser Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that damages may not be an adequate remedy for breach of the guarantee and indemnity in this Clause 14 and that the Sellers shall have the right to require specific performance of the Purchaser Guarantor’s obligations under this Clause 14. The Purchaser agrees not to object to any application by the Sellers for such specific performance.

15.                               Waiver

15.1                        Subject to Completion under Clause 7 having taken place, each of the Institutional Sellers in respect of itself and its respective Institutional Seller’s Affiliates (which in respect of European Cinemas shall exclude any portfolio companies of any of its Institutional Seller’s Affiliates and any investors in any such Institutional Seller’s Affiliates) confirms that as at the date of this Agreement (i) all sums due to a Group Company or NCG JVCo from that Seller have been repaid in full and (ii) it does not have any claims or rights or causes of action against any Group Company or any directors or officers of any Group Company other than in respect of any Permitted Leakage.

15.2                        Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no Institutional Seller, nor any member of an Institutional Seller’s Group, and no Management Seller or any Connected Person of any Management Seller (other than the Purchaser) shall have any rights or claims against any debt financing source (including, without limitation, any lenders, lead arrangers, book-runners, syndication agents or similar entities) in connection with this Agreement, the Purchaser Debt Finance or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby.

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16.                               Confidentiality and Announcements

16.1                        Announcements

With the exception of the Announcement which shall be made on the date hereof (or on such other date as may be agreed), no announcement, communication or circular concerning the existence or provisions of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document shall be made or issued by or on behalf of any Party, any Group Company or any of the Institutional Seller’s Group or the Purchaser’s Group (as applicable) without the prior written approval of the other Parties (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed). This shall not affect any announcement, communication or circular required by law or any governmental or regulatory body, court order or the rules of any relevant stock exchange (for the avoidance of doubt including the Listed Company Manual of the New York Stock Exchange) or any contractual obligation, but then only to the extent so required and the Party with an obligation to make an announcement or communication or issue a circular shall consult with the Purchaser and the Institutional Seller insofar as is reasonably practicable before complying with such an obligation.

16.2                        Confidentiality

(a)                        Subject to Clause 16.1, Clause 16.2(b) and 16.2(c):

(i)                                   from the date of this Agreement each of the Parties shall treat as strictly confidential and not disclose or use any information received or obtained as a result of entering into any Transaction Document which relates to:

(A)                             the existence or the provisions of any Transaction Documents (save if and to the extent that such existence or provisions shall have come into the public domain through any announcement, communication or circular which is made other than in breach of the provisions of Clause 16.1); or

(B)                             the negotiations relating to any Transaction Documents;

(ii)                                the Institutional Sellers shall, and shall procure that each member of the Institutional Seller’s Group shall, from the date of this Agreement (but subject to this obligation terminating as regards information relating to the Group if this Agreement is terminated), treat as strictly confidential and not disclose or use any information relating to the Group and any other information relating to the business, financial or other affairs (including future plans and targets) of the Purchaser’s Group;

(iii)                             each Management Seller shall, and shall procure that each of such Management Seller’s Connected Persons shall, from the date of this Agreement (but subject to this obligation terminating as regards information relation to the Group if this Agreement is terminated), treat as strictly confidential and not disclose or use any information relating to the Group and any other information relating to the business, financial or other affairs (including future plans and targets) of the Purchaser’s Group; and

(iv)                            the Purchaser shall, and shall procure that each member of the Purchaser’s Group shall, from the date of this Agreement, treat as strictly confidential and not disclose or use any information relating to the business, financial or other affairs (including future plans and targets) of the Institutional Seller or the Institutional Seller’s Group.

(b)                                 Clause 16.2(a) shall not prohibit disclosure or use of any information if and to the extent:

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(i)                                     the disclosure or use is required to vest the full benefit of this Agreement in a Party;

(ii)                                  the disclosure or use is required by any Management Seller in the ordinary course of his employment by any Group Company;

(iii)                               the information is or becomes publicly available (other than by breach of this Agreement);

(iv)                              the Purchaser and the Institutional Seller have given prior written approval to the disclosure or use;

(v)                                 the information is independently developed after Completion;

(vi)                              the disclosure or use is required by law, any governmental or regulatory body (including HM Treasury and UK Financial Investments Limited) or any recognised stock exchange on which the shares of any Party or any member of the Institutional Seller’s Group or any member of the Purchaser’s Group are listed (including where this is required as part of any actual or potential offering, placing and/or sale of securities of that Party or member of the Institutional Seller’s Group or member of the Purchaser’s Group);

(vii)                           the disclosure or use is required for the purpose of any judicial or arbitral proceedings arising out of any Transaction Document;

(viii)                        the disclosure or use is made to professional advisers on a confidential basis for the purpose of advising a Party;

(ix)                              the disclosure is made to a Taxation Authority in connection with the Tax affairs of the disclosing Party;

(x)                                 the disclosure is made to any member of the Institutional Seller’s Group or a Connected Person of a Management Seller, it being agreed and acknowledged that the Institutional Seller or, as the case may be, the relevant Management Seller shall procure compliance by such member of the Institutional Seller’s Group or, as the case may be, such Connected Person with the provisions of this Clause 16.2 in respect of such information as if it had itself given the undertakings given in this Clause 16.2 by the Institutional Seller or by the relevant Management Seller, as the case may be;

(xi)                              the disclosure is made by the Purchaser to any member of the Purchaser’s Group, it being agreed and acknowledged that the Purchaser shall procure compliance by such member of the Purchaser’s Group with the provisions of Clause 16.2 in respect of such information as if it had itself given the undertakings given in this Clause 16.2 by the Purchaser;

(xii)                           the disclosure is made by the Purchaser to any bank or financial institution in connection with the financing or refinancing (whether in whole or in part) by the Purchaser of the acquisition of the Sale Securities, provided that the Purchaser remains liable for any breach of the confidentiality undertakings in this Clause 16 by such person (as if such person had itself given the undertakings given in this Clause 16.2 by the Purchaser);

(xiii)                        the disclosure is made by any member of the Institutional Seller’s Group or by a Management Seller to a potential investor, financier or employer for the purposes of demonstrating historic performance, raising finance or in connection with a proposed investment, provided that the disclosing Party remains liable for any breach of the confidentiality undertaking in this Clause

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16 by such person (as if such person had itself given the undertakings given in this Clause 16.2 by the disclosing Party);

(xiv)                       the disclosure is made on a confidential basis to potential purchasers of all or part of the Institutional Seller’s Group or the Purchaser’s Group or to their professional advisers or actual or potential financiers provided that any such persons need to know the information for the purposes of considering, evaluating, advising on or furthering the potential purchase and the disclosing Party remains liable for any breach of the confidentiality obligations set out in this Clause 16 by such person (as if such person had itself given the undertakings given in this Clause 16.2 by the disclosing Party),

provided that prior to disclosure or use of any information pursuant to Clause 16.2(b)(i), (v) or (vi) (except in the case of disclosure to a Taxation Authority), the Party concerned shall promptly notify (to the extent permitted by any applicable law or regulation) the other Parties of such requirement with a view to providing (if reasonably practicable to do so) the other Parties with the opportunity to contest such disclosure or use or otherwise to agree the timing and content of such disclosure or use.

(c)                                  The  Purchaser may disclose any information it receives in relation to the Company (or any member of the Group) to any equity investor or prospective investor in it or any of the Purchaser’s Group or to any debt financing source or potential debt financing source (or their respective professional advisers) to it or any of the Purchaser’s Group or rating agency in connection with any debt financing,  including, for the avoidance of doubt, the existence and contents of this Agreement and the Transaction Documents, subject to, where reasonably practicable, imposing an obligation to ensure that such recipients keep such information confidential.

17.                               Appointment of Representative

17.1                        The Management Sellers hereby appoint Jan Bernhardsson as their representative who may, acting alone, authorise the making of any request, election, proposal or consent expressed to be made on behalf of the Management Sellers (in their capacity as Management Sellers) to the Purchaser or to the Institutional Sellers. The Management Sellers shall be bound by the actions taken by the Management Sellers’ Representative pursuant to this Clause. The Purchaser shall be entitled at its sole discretion to have regard only to, and to rely absolutely upon and act in accordance with, without any liability to any party for having relied or acted thereon, notices, including requests, elections or proposals, issued by the Management Sellers’ Representative. Service of any notice or other communication on the Management Sellers’ Representative shall be deemed to constitute valid service thereof on all the Management Sellers. The Management Sellers may appoint a replacement Management Sellers’ Representative by decision taken by Management Sellers representing a two thirds majority of the aggregate number of A Ordinary Shares and B Preference Shares held by the Management Sellers in the capital of the Company immediately prior to Completion, provided that five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice of such appointment has been given to the Institutional Sellers’ Representative and the Purchaser. The Management Sellers’ Representative shall not be liable to any of the Management Sellers for any claims whatsoever arising from any act or omission undertaken by him in his capacity as the Management Sellers’ Representative, save in the case of fraud or wilful default.

17.2                        The Institutional Sellers hereby appoint Mika Herold as their representative who may, acting alone, authorise the making of any request, election, proposal or consent expressed to be made on behalf of the Institutional Sellers (in their capacity as Institutional Sellers) to the Purchaser or to the Management Sellers.  The Institutional Sellers shall be bound by the actions taken by the Institutional Sellers’ Representative pursuant to this Clause. The Purchaser shall be entitled at its sole discretion to have regard only to, and to rely absolutely

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upon and act in accordance with, without any liability to any party for having relied or acted thereon, notices, including requests, elections or proposals, issued by the Institutional Sellers’ Representative. The Institutional Sellers’ Representative shall not issue any of the same nor make any such request, election, proposal or consent where such issuance or action would adversely affect any Institutional Seller disproportionately to any other Institutional Seller. Service of any notice or other communication on the Institutional Sellers’ Representative shall be deemed to constitute valid service thereof on all the Institutional Sellers. The Institutional Sellers’ Representative shall pass any notices received pursuant to this Agreement on behalf of an Institutional Seller to such Institutional Seller without undue delay. The Institutional Sellers may appoint a replacement Institutional Sellers’ Representative by decision taken by Institutional Sellers representing a two thirds majority of the aggregate number of A Ordinary Shares and B Preference Shares held by the Institutional Sellers in the capital of the Company immediately prior to Completion, provided that five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice of such appointment has been given to the Purchaser and the Management Sellers’ Representative. The Institutional Sellers’ Representative shall not be liable to any of the Institutional Sellers for any claims whatsoever arising from any act or omission undertaken by him in his capacity as the Institutional Sellers’ Representative, save in the case of fraud or wilful default.

18.                               Costs

Except where this Agreement provides otherwise or where otherwise mutually agreed by the Parties in writing, each Party shall pay its own costs and expenses in relation to the negotiation, preparation and implementation of this Agreement, the Transaction Documents and the Purchaser Debt Finance Commitment Letters or otherwise incurred in relation to it with a view to the sale and purchase hereunder, provided that the Company shall not, unless otherwise mutually agreed in writing by the Parties, pay any additional Transaction Costs.

19.                               Stamp Duty, Fees and Taxes

19.1                        The Purchaser shall bear the cost of all stamp duty, notarial fees and all registration and transfer taxes and duties or their equivalents in all jurisdictions where such fees, taxes and duties are payable as a result of the purchase of the Sale Securities. The Purchaser shall be responsible for arranging the payment of such stamp duty and all other such fees, taxes and duties, including fulfilling any administrative or reporting obligation imposed by the jurisdiction in question in connection with such payment.

19.2                        If any Party defaults in the payment when due of any sum payable under any Transaction Document its liability shall be increased to include interest on such sum from the date when such payment is due until the date of actual payment (after as well as before judgement) at a rate per annum of five (5) per cent above the base rate from time to time of Barclays Bank PLC. Such interest shall accrue from day to day and shall be compounded monthly.

20.                               Grossing-up

20.1                        The recipient or expected recipient of a payment under this Agreement shall claim from the appropriate Taxation Authority any exemption, rate reduction, refund, credit or similar benefit (including pursuant to any relevant double tax treaty) to which it is entitled in respect of any deduction or withholding in respect of which a payment has been or would otherwise be required to be made pursuant to this Agreement and, for such purposes, shall, within any applicable time limits, submit any claims, notices, returns or applications and send a copy of them to the payer.

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Taxation payable by it or similar benefit by reason of any deduction or withholding for or on account of Taxation then it shall reimburse to the payer such part of such additional amounts paid pursuant to this Agreement as the recipient of the payment certifies to the payer will leave it (after such reimbursement) in no better and no worse position than would have arisen if the payer had not been required to make such deduction or withholding.

21.                               Further Assurance

21.1                        Each Seller undertakes to execute and deliver (at its own cost) all such instruments and other documents and take all such actions as the Purchaser may from time to time reasonably require in order to effect the transfer of the Sale Securities to the Purchaser and otherwise to secure to the Purchaser the full benefit of this Agreement.

21.2                        Each Seller and the Purchaser each severally undertakes to the other to take all reasonable steps within its powers as the other may from time to time reasonably require in order to secure to the other the full benefit of this Agreement.

22.                               Continuing Obligations

Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, each of the obligations, warranties and undertakings accepted or given by each of the Parties or any of them under this Agreement or any document referred to herein (excluding any obligation which is fully performed on Completion) shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding Completion taking place.

23.                               Assignment

Except as otherwise expressly provided for in this Agreement no Party may assign, grant any security interest over, hold on trust or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement, save that:

(a)                                 after the Completion Date, the Institutional Sellers may assign (in whole or in part) the benefit of this Agreement to any member of its Institutional Seller’s Group provided that if such assignee ceases to be a member of its Institutional Seller’s Group all benefits relating to this Agreement assigned to such assignee shall be deemed automatically by that fact to be re-assigned to the Institutional Seller immediately before such cessation;

(b)                                 the Purchaser may assign (in whole or in part) the benefit of this Agreement or any Transaction Document to any other member of the Purchaser’s Group provided that if such assignee ceases to be a member of the Purchaser’s Group all benefits relating to this Agreement assigned to such assignee shall be deemed automatically by that fact to be re-assigned to the Purchaser immediately before such cessation; and

(c)                                  the Purchaser or any member of the Purchaser’s Group may charge and/or assign (in whole or in part) the benefit of this Agreement or any Transaction Document to any bank or financial institution or other person by way of security for the purposes of or in connection with the financing or refinancing (whether in whole or in part) by the Purchaser of the acquisition of the Sale Securities,

provided that, any such assignee shall not be entitled to receive under this Agreement any greater amount than that to which the assignor would have been entitled and neither the Purchaser nor any Seller shall be under any greater obligation or liability than if such assignment had never occurred.

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24.                               Method of Payment and Set Off

24.1                        Any payments pursuant to this Agreement shall be made in full, without any set off, counterclaim, restriction or condition and without any deduction or withholding (save as may be permitted by Clause 3.1, Clause 11.3, required by law, or as otherwise agreed).

24.2                        Save as expressly stated otherwise in this Agreement, any payments pursuant to this Agreement shall be effected by crediting for same day value the account specified by the Party entitled to the payment (reasonably in advance and in sufficient details to enable payment by telegraphic or other electronic means to be effected) on or before the due date for payment.

24.3                        Payment of a sum in accordance with this Clause 24 shall constitute a payment in full of the sum payable and shall be a good discharge to the payer (and those on whose behalf such payment is made) of the payer’s obligation to make such payment and the payer (and those on whose behalf such payment is made) shall not be obliged to see to the application of the payment as between those on whose behalf the payment is received.

25.                               Notices

25.1                        Any notice or other communication in connection with this Agreement (each, a “Notice”) shall be:

(a)                                 in writing;

(b)                                 in English;

(c)                                  delivered by hand, pre-paid recorded delivery, pre-paid special delivery or courier using an internationally recognised courier company or email.

25.2                        A Notice to European Cinemas shall be sent to the following address, or such other person or address as European Cinemas may notify to the other Parties from time to time. Notice of any change shall be effective five (5) Business Days after it is served:

European Cinemas Sarl

2 avenue Charles de Gaulle

L-1653 Luxembourg

Email: Luxembourg@bridgepoint.eu

Attention: Mr Davy BEAUCE and Mrs Daphne CHARBONNET

With a copy to

White & Case LLP

5 Old Broad Street

London

EC2N 1DW

Attention: Ian Bagshaw

Email: ian.bagshaw@whitecase.com

25.3                        A Notice to Bonnier shall be sent to the following address, or such other person or address as Bonnier may notify to the other Parties from time to time. Notice of any change shall be effective five (5) Business Days after it is served:

Bonnier Holding AB

Torsgatan 21

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113 21 Stockholm

Email: erik.haegerstrand@bonnier.se

Attention: Erik Haegerstrand

With a copy to

Roschier Attorneys

Brunkebergstorg 2

111 51 Stockholm

Email: malin.leffler@roschier.com

Attention: Malin Leffler

25.4                        A Notice to the Management Sellers shall be sent to the Management Sellers’ Representative, which as at the date of this Agreement, shall be sent to the following address, or such other person or address as the Management Sellers’ Representative may notify to the other Parties from time to time. Notice of any change shall be effective five (5) Business Days after it is served:

Jan Bernhardsson

Hackpettsvägen 12, 167 65 Bromma

Email: jan.bernhardsson@ncg.se

Attention: N/A

25.5                        A Notice to the Purchaser shall be sent to the following address, or such other person or address as the Purchaser may notify to the other Parties from time to time. Notice of any change shall be effective five (5) Business Days after it is served:

Kevin Connor

One AMC Way

11500 Ash Street

Leawood KS66211

United States of America

Email: kconnor@amctheatres.com

Attention: General Counsel

With a copy to

Pinsent Masons LLP

30 Crown Place

London

EC2A 4ES

Email: Tom.Leman@pinsentmasons.com

Attention: Tom Leman

25.6                        A Notice to the Purchaser Guarantor shall be sent to the following address, or such other person or address as the Purchaser may notify to the other Parties from time to time. Notice of any change shall be effective five (5) Business Days after it is served:

Kevin Connor

One AMC Way

11500 Ash Street

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Leawood KS66211

United States of America

Email: kconnor@amctheatres.com

Attention: General Counsel

With a copy to

Pinsent Masons LLP

30 Crown Place

Earl Street

London

EC2A 4ES

Email: Tom.Leman@pinsentmasons.com

Attention: Tom Leman

25.7                        A Notice shall be effective upon receipt and shall be deemed to have been received:

(a)                                 9.00 am on the second Business Day after posting, if sent by pre-paid post, or at the time recorded by the delivery service if sent recorded delivery;

(b)                                 at the time of delivery, if delivered by hand or courier; or

(c)                                  at time of sending, if sent by email, provided that receipt shall not occur if the sender receives an automated message indicating that the message has not been delivered to the recipient.

26.                               Invalidity

26.1                        If any provision in this Agreement is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, the provision shall apply with whatever deletion or modification is necessary so that the provision is legal, valid and enforceable and gives effect to the commercial intention of the Parties.

26.2                        To the extent it is not possible to delete or modify the provision, in whole or in part, under Clause 26.1 then such provision or part of it shall, to the extent that it is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, be deemed not to form part of this Agreement and the legality, validity and enforceability of the remainder of this Agreement shall, subject to any deletion or modification made under Clause 26.1, not be affected.

27.                               Whole Agreement

27.1                        This Agreement and the Transaction Documents contain the whole agreement between the Parties relating to the subject matter of this Agreement and the Transaction Documents at the date of this Agreement to the exclusion of any terms implied by law which may be excluded by contract and supersedes any previous written or oral agreement between the Parties in relation to the matters dealt with in this Agreement.

27.2                        Each Party acknowledges that, in entering into this Agreement, it is not relying on any representation, warranty or undertaking not expressly incorporated into it or the Transaction Documents.

27.3                        So far as is permitted by law and except in the case of fraud, each Party agrees and acknowledges that its only right and remedy in relation to any representation, warranty or undertaking made or given in this Agreement shall be for breach of the terms of this

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Agreement and each of the Parties waives all other rights and remedies (including those in tort or arising under statute) in relation to any such representation, warranty or undertaking.

27.4                        Nothing in this Clause 27 limits or excludes any liability for fraud.

28.                               Variation

No variation of this Agreement shall be effective unless in writing and signed by or on behalf of the Purchaser, the Purchaser Guarantor, the Institutional Sellers’ Representative and the Management Sellers’ Representative.

29.                               No Waiver

29.1                        No failure or delay by any Party in exercising any right or remedy provided under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver of it, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right or remedy preclude any other or further exercise of it or the exercise of any other right or remedy.

29.2                        Any waiver of a breach of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of any subsequent breach.

30.                               Third Party Rights

30.1                        A person who is not a Party to this Agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of, or enjoy any benefit under, this Agreement.

31.                               Counterparts

This Agreement may be entered into in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Any Party may enter into this Agreement by executing any such counterpart.

32.                               Governing Law and Submission to Jurisdiction

32.1                        This Agreement (and the other Transaction Documents which are not expressed to be governed by another law) and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by, construed and take effect in accordance with English Law.

32.2                        Each of the Parties irrevocably agrees that the courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute which may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and that accordingly any proceedings arising out of or in connection with this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents shall be brought in such courts. Each of the Parties irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of such courts and waives any objection to proceedings in any such court on the ground of venue or on the ground that the proceedings have been brought in an inconvenient forum.

32.3                        Each of the Parties agrees that in the event of any action between any of the Parties being commenced in respect of this Agreement or any matters arising under it, the process by which it is commenced (where consistent with the applicable court rules) may be served on them in accordance with Clause 25.

33.                               Agent for Service of Process

33.1                        European Cinemas irrevocably appoints Bridgepoint Advisers Limited of 95 Wigmore Street,

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London W1U 1FB as its agent for service of process in England.

33.2                        Bonnier irrevocably appoints Bonnier Publishing of West Wing, The Granary, Birdham Road, Chichester, PO20 7EQ, UK as its agent for service of process in England.

33.3                        The Management Sellers’ Representative appoints Michelmores LLP of 12th Floor, 6 New Street Square, London, EC4A 3BF as agent for service for the Management Sellers in England.

33.4                        The Purchaser irrevocably appoints Odeon Cinemas Group Limited of 57-59 St Albans House Haymarket, London, England SW1Y 4QX as its agent for service of process in England.

33.5                        The Purchaser Guarantor irrevocably appoints Odeon Cinemas Group Limited of 57-59 St Albans House Haymarket, London, England SW1Y 4QX as its agent for service of process in England.

33.6                        If any person appointed as agent for service of process ceases to act as such the relevant Party shall immediately appoint another person to accept service of process on its behalf in England and notify the other Parties of such appointment. If it fails to do so within ten (10) Business Days any other Party shall be entitled by notice to the other Parties to appoint a replacement agent for service of process.

This Agreement has been entered into on the date first stated above.

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SIGNATORIES

Schedule 1

The Sellers

Sale Securities

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Schedule 2

The Institutional Sellers and Management Sellers

Part 1
Institutional Sellers

Part 2
Management Sellers

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Schedule 3

Completion Arrangements

Part 1            

Sellers’ Obligations

1.                                      On Completion, the Sellers shall:

(a)                                 deliver or make available to the Purchaser:

(i)                                     a copy of the share register of the Company, evidencing that the Purchaser has been duly recorded therein as the lawful owner of the relevant Shares;

(ii)                                  a copy (certified by a director or the company secretary of the Company to be a true copy) of the resolution in the Agreed Form of the directors of the Company authorising the execution by the Company of each of the Transaction Documents to which the Company is a party;

(iii)                               executed customary pay-off documentation and deeds of release providing that, subject to the payment of the Bank Pay-Off Amount, all security provided by any Group Company under the Existing Debt Facilities will be released on Completion;

(iv)                              executed resignation letters in the Agreed Form from Simon Wright and Anders Ehrling, the directors appointed by the Institutional Sellers; and

(v)                                 executed general powers of attorney authorising those persons nominated by the Purchaser in writing no fewer than three (3) Business Days prior to Completion to sign on behalf of the Group Companies until such persons are officially registered.

2.                                      On Completion, the Sellers shall make the statutory books and records of the Company available to the Purchaser at the offices of the Company.

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Part 2            

Purchaser’s Obligations

1.                                      On Completion, the Purchaser shall:

(a)                                 deliver or make available to the Sellers satisfactory evidence of the due fulfilment of the Condition set out in Clause 4.1;

(b)                                 pay the Consideration by wire transfer of immediately available funds to such account(s) as are nominated pursuant to Clause 7.5;

(c)                                  procures that the Company pays an amount equal to the Shareholder Loans Redemption Amount to European Cinemas and Bonnier as set out in the Indebtedness Schedule by wire transfer of immediately available funds to such account(s) as are nominated pursuant to Clause 7.5;

(d)                                 on behalf of the relevant Group Company pay the Bank Pay-Off Amount as set out in the Indebtedness Schedule, to the lenders under the Existing Debt Facilities, in accordance with the requirements of the Existing Debt Facilities and by wire transfer in immediately available funds; and

(e)                                  issue and deliver to the Sellers a copy (certified by a director or the company secretary of the Purchaser to be a true copy) of the resolution in the Agreed Form of the directors of the Purchaser authorising the execution by the Purchaser of each of the Transaction Documents to which the Purchaser is a party.

2.                                      Immediately following Completion, the Purchaser shall (i) cause the appointment of new directors (and procure acknowledgement of the resignation of the resigning directors) by each Group Company; (ii) cause action to be taken to resolve on how the signatory power shall be vested in respect of such Group Companies; and (iii) cause such changes to become effective (e.g. by notifying the Swedish Companies Registration Office (Sw. Bolagsverket) of the changes to the board of directors of the Company) and procure immediate confirmation of receipt of any notifications made for such purpose. All minutes and necessary ancillary documentation to perform the actions in this Paragraph 2 shall be prepared by the Purchaser and submitted in a timely fashion by the Purchaser’s Solicitors to the Seller’s Solicitors (by email) for its approval prior to Completion.

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Schedule 4                                    Conduct of Business pre-Completion

1.                                      alter or propose to alter the share capital of any Group Company or the rights attaching to any shares in any Group Company (including creating, repaying, redeeming or granting any options over any share or loan capital of a Group Company or agreeing to do any of those things);

2.                                      allot, issue or sell any shares or other securities (including rights convertible into shares or other securities) of any Group Company to any person other than the Seller;

3.                                      permit or propose any material change to the articles of association of any Group Company;

4.                                      make or propose to make any dividends or other distributions except where contemplated either by this Agreement or by an existing employee incentive plan of any Group Company;

5.                                      sell or acquire any Material Group Asset or any Material Group Company or grant any option, right of pre-emption or create any other Encumbrance in respect of the same, or incur any material obligations or material liabilities;

6.                                      acquire, or agree to acquire, any share or other interest in any company, partnership or other venture, any assets, properties, interests or businesses having a value (i) in excess of SEK11,000,000 (or its equivalent) individually or SEK28,000,000 (or its equivalent) in the aggregate

7.                                      merge or consolidate with a corporate body or any other person or enter into a demerger transaction or participate in any other type of corporate reconstruction;

8.                                      pass any resolution or file any petition for winding up by any Group Company or make any arrangement with its or their creditors generally or make any application for an administration order or for the appointment of a receiver or administrator;

9.                                      establish or close any branch, agency, trading establishment or business;

10.                               other than in the ordinary course of business, deal in any way (including the acquisition or disposal, whether outright or by way of licence or otherwise howsoever) with material intellectual property, save for the conduct of ongoing applications for registration of such material intellectual property;

11.                               make any material change to the nature of the business of any Group Company or the jurisdiction from which each Group Company is managed and controlled;

12.                               enter into any new, or materially vary the terms of any existing, long-term incentive plan scheme or vary or make any binding decisions on any of the material terms of employment of any employees who are a party to any of the existing long-term incentive plan schemes;

13.                               appoint any person as a director;

14.                               establish any pension scheme or implement any material variation to any pension scheme of any Group Company;

15.                               in any way dispose of or acquire the whole or part of any properties whether freehold or leasehold including granting or varying any assignments, sub-leases or licenses to use or occupy (save for concessionaires or any other licenses to use or occupy granted in the ordinary course of business);

16.                               apply for any material licence, consent or approval under or in relation to any head lease or materially vary any head lease that any of the Properties are held under;

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17.                               settle any material rent review in respect of any rent payable by any Group Company in respect of any leasehold Properties;

18.                               serve any material notice under any lease that any of the Properties are held under;

19.                               make any change to (a) the auditors; (b) the accounting reference date; or (c) the accounting policies, bases or methods from those set out in the accounts and the accountant’s report, other than as recommended by the auditors, of any Group Company;

20.                               other than where expressly contemplated by this Agreement, enter into or vary any transaction or arrangement with, or for the benefit of, any of its directors or shareholders or any other person who is a connected person of any of its directors or shareholders;

21.                               pay or propose to pay any bonus, award or other incentive payment save for such bonuses, awards or incentive payments made in the ordinary course and consistent with past practice;

22.                               enter into any material transaction or make any material payment other than on an arm’s length basis;

23.                               enter into a material contract or arrangement other than in the ordinary and usual course of business or which may result in any material change in the nature or scope of the operations of the Group;

24.                               materially amend, or agree to materially amend, the terms of its material borrowing or indebtedness in the nature of borrowing or create, incur or agree to create or incur, material borrowing or indebtedness in the nature of borrowing (except pursuant to facilities Disclosed in the Disclosure Letter where the borrowing or indebtedness in the nature of borrowing does not exceed the amount available to be drawn by the Group Company under those facilities);

25.                               enter into any, or amend the terms of any existing, incorporated or unincorporated partnership, joint venture or consortium agreement;

26.                               other than as set out in the Budget and Cash Flow Forecast, incur any capital expenditure with a value of SEK11,000,000 (or its equivalent) (including obligations under hire purchase and leasing arrangements);

27.                               give an indemnity or guarantee other than in the ordinary course of business;

28.                               mortgage or charge or permit the creation of or suffer to subsist any mortgage or fixed or floating charge, lien (other than a lien arising by operation of law) or other encumbrance over the whole or any part of the undertaking, property or assets of any Group Company;

29.                               otherwise than in the ordinary course of business, make any loan or give any credit or acquire any loan capital of any corporate body (wherever incorporated);

30.                               commence or threaten to commence any legal or arbitration proceedings (other than in respect of the dispute with ticket.international GmbH & Co. KG) or compromise or settle litigation or arbitration proceedings or any action, demand, or dispute which has a value in excess of SEK11,000,000 (or its equivalent) or waive a right in relation to litigation or arbitration proceedings; and

31.                               enter into any legally binding agreement to do any of the above.

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EXECUTION VERSION

Dated 20 January 2017

Warranty Deed

between

Goldcup 14139 AB

as Purchaser

and

the persons listed in Schedule 1

as Management Warrantor

White & Case LLP

5 Old Broad Street

London EC2N 1DW

Table of Contents

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This Deed is made on 20 January 2017

Between:

(1)                                 Goldcup 14139 AB a company incorporated in Sweden with registered number 559094-8328 (the “Purchaser”); and

(2)                                 The persons whose names and addresses are set out in Schedule 1 hereto (together the “Management Warrantors” and each a “Management Warrantor”).

Whereas:

(A) The Management Warrantors are engaged in the management of the operations of the Group.

(B) In connection with the sale of the Shares to the Purchaser under the Sale and Purchase Agreement, the Management Warrantors have agreed to give the Warranties on and subject to the terms and conditions contained in this deed.

It is agreed:

1.                                      Interpretation

1.1                               Words and expressions defined in clause 1.1 of the Sale and Purchase Agreement shall (unless defined in this deed or the context otherwise requires) have the same meanings in this deed.

1.2                               In this deed unless the context otherwise requires:

“Accountants’ Due Diligence Report” means the vendor due diligence report prepared by KPMG LLP on the Group dated 16 December 2016 in the agreed form;

“Accounts” means the consolidated financial statements of the Company and the financial statements of each other Group Company dated as 31 December 2015;

“Accounts Date” means 31 December 2015;

“Affiliates” in relation to any person means any entity over which that person has control, any controller of that entity or any other entity which is controlled by the same person as controls the first entity;

“Anti-Bribery Laws” means any law, rule, regulation, or other legally binding measure of any jurisdiction that relates to bribery or corruption, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (as amended by the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Amendments of 1988 and 1998) and the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, to the extent applicable to the relevant person or company;

“Antitrust Laws” means any statute, law, ordinance, rule or regulation designed to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions for the purpose or effect of monopolisation, restraining trade or competition or abusing a dominant position or relative or superior market power in any jurisdiction in which any member of the Group is incorporated or conducts operations;

“Applicable Laws” means any of the following, to the extent that it applies to this Deed in any relevant jurisdiction within which any member of the Group, is incorporated or operates: (a) any statute, regulation, by-law, legislation, ordinance or subordinate legislation in force from time to time, (b) any applicable civil or criminal code, (c) any binding court order, judgment or decree, (d) any applicable industry code, policy or

standard enforceable by law, and (e) any applicable direction, policy, requirement, rule or order that is given by a regulatory authority that is enforceable by law;

“Associated Entities” means the entities which are partly owned by a Group Company and which are set forth in document 2.1.1.2.1 in the Data Room, and “Associated Entity” means any one of them.

“Associated Person” means in relation to a company, a person (including an employee, agent or subsidiary) who performs or has performed services for or on that company’s behalf;

“Basket Amount” has the meaning given to it in Schedule 3;

“Business Day” has the meaning given to it in the Sale and Purchase Agreement;

“Business IT” means all Information Technology which is owned or used by any Group Company and which is material to the business of the Group;

“Claim” means any claim, proceeding, suit or action against any Management Warrantor arising out of or in connection with this Warranty Deed;

“Company” means Nordic Cinema Group Holding AB, a company incorporated in Sweden with registered number 559010-5036 and whose registered office is at Greta Garbos Väg 11-13, 16940, Solna, Sweden;

“Companies Act” means the Companies Act 2006;

“Completion” has the meaning given to it in the Sale and Purchase Agreement;

“Data Room” has the meaning given to it in the Sale and Purchase Agreement;

“Data Room Information” means the contents of the Data Room;

“De Minimis Claim Amount” has the meaning given to it in Schedule 3;

“Disclosed” has the meaning given to it in the Sale and Purchase Agreement;

“Disclosure Documents” means the Reports, the Disclosure Letter and the Data Room Information;

“Disclosure Letter” means the letter from the Management Warrantors to the Purchaser disclosing certain matters relating to certain of the Warranties dated on or about the date of this deed (including, subject to the terms set out therein, the contents of the Schedules thereto and those documents, facts, events, circumstances, matters and information deemed to be Disclosed in it);

“Division” means any of the Group businesses operated in (i) Sweden (ii) Finland (iii) Norway (iv) Latvia (v) Estonia and (vi) Lithuania;

“Employees” means the individuals having a contact of employment with a Group Company or any other director, consultant or officer of a Group Company and “Employee” means any one of them;

“Encumbrance” has the meaning given to it in the Sale and Purchase Agreement;

“Environment” means the natural and man-made environment including all or any of the following media, namely air (including the air within buildings or other natural or man-made structures above or below ground), water (including surface or ground water, water in pipe, drainage or sewerage systems or natural or manmade conveyance) or land

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(including sediment), ecological systems and any living organisms supported by those media (including human beings);

“Environmental Laws” means all applicable international, European Union, national, state, federal, regional or local laws (including common law, statute law, civil, criminal and administrative laws), together with all subordinate legislation and codes of practice, including without limitation guidance notes, circulars, decisions, regulations, orders, consent orders and decrees, directives and judgments, of any relevant jurisdiction which are in force at the date of this Deed insofar as they relate or apply to Environmental Matters concerning the Group and/or the Properties;

“Environmental Matters” means all matters relating to the pollution, protection, restoration or remediation of, or prevention of harm or damage to, the Environment (including without limitation energy efficiency and asbestos) or the protection of health and safety, including any (i) contamination, (ii) any Hazardous Materials, packaging, noise, vibration, radiation, odour, nuisance or interference with the use or enjoyment of land or the erection or occupation or use of any man made or natural structures above or below ground (iii) matters related to workplace or public safety, and (vi) other such matters arising out of the use and exploitation of any environmental or natural resource or Hazardous Materials;

“GAAP” means, for each Group Company, generally accepted accounting practices in the jurisdiction where such Group Company is required to maintain accounting records, and includes compliance with all Applicable Laws and all applicable accounting standards;

“Group” and “Group Company” has the meaning given to it in the Sale and Purchase Agreement;

“Group Assets” has the meaning given to it in paragraph Schedule 2;

“Hazardous Materials” means any natural or artificial material, substance or article (whether solid, liquid, gas, noise, ion, vapour, electromagnetic or radiation, and whether alone or in combination with any other substance) which is capable of causing harm to or having a deleterious effect on the Environment;

“Information Technology” means computer systems, communication systems, software and hardware;

“Intellectual Property Rights” means trade marks, service marks, rights in trade names, business names, logos or get-up, patents, petty patents, utility models, supplementary protection certificates, rights in inventions, registered and unregistered design rights, copyrights, semiconductor topography rights, database rights, rights in domain names and URLs, rights to sue for passing off and in unfair competition, rights in opposition proceedings and all other similar rights in any part of the world (including in Know-how) including, where such rights are obtained or enhanced by registration, any registration of such rights and applications and rights to apply for such registrations;

“Inter-Company Trading Debt” means all amounts owed, outstanding or accrued, including any VAT arising on such amounts, as between any Group Companies in respect of inter-company trading activity and the provision of services, facilities and benefits between them and intra-group loans;

“IT Contracts” means all arrangements and agreement under which:

(a)                                 any third party provides any element of, or services relating to, IT Systems, including without limitation leasing, hire-purchase, software licences, support, maintenance, services, development and design agreements; and

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(b)                                 the Group provides any third party with any element of, or services relating to, IT Systems, including without limitation leasing, hire-purchase, software licences, support, maintenance services, development and design agreements;

“IT Systems” means all computer systems, communications systems, software and hardware (including databases, firmware, systems, devices, peripherals, communication equipment and links, storage media, networking equipment, power supplies and any other components used in conjunction with such);

“Key Employees” means Jan Bernhardsson, Marcus Lorendal, Maria Skoghund, Veronica Lindholm, Ivar Halstvedt, Ted Johannson, Jonas Burval, Patrik Karlsson, Peter Broström, and Niklas Angeltoft;

“Know-how” means industrial and commercial information and techniques in any form not in the public domain including drawings, formulae, test results, reports, project reports and testing procedures, instruction and training manuals, tables of operating conditions, market forecasts, lists and particulars of customers and suppliers;

“Legal Due Diligence Report” means the vendor due diligence report prepared by Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyrå AB on the Group in the agreed form;

“Locked Box Accounts” means the section of the Accountants’ Due Diligence Report entitled “Balance Sheet”;

“Locked Box Date” has the meaning given to it in the Sale and Purchase Agreement;

“Losses” means all losses, liabilities, costs (including reasonably incurred and documented legal costs and experts’ and consultants’ fees), charges, expenses, actions, proceedings, claims and demands;

“Management Accounts” means the consolidated management accounts of the Group for the period from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016 which are contained in Folder 1.1.1.1 of the Data Room;

“Management Warrantors’ Representative” means the persons appointed pursuant to Clause 7.2(a);

“Management Warrantors’ Allocation” means the document allocating the Management Warrantors’ liability allocation under this Deed in the Agreed Form;

“Management Warrantors’ Solicitors” means Hansen Advokatbyrå KB of Hovslagargatan 5B, SE-111 48 Stockholm, Sweden;

“Material Agreement” means the agreements set out in Schedule 4;

“Pension Schemes” means pension schemes listed in Schedule 5;

“Properties” means the properties owned or leased by the Group, details of which are Disclosed in the Disclosure Documents in Folders 2.19 and 2.9.14.7.3 and “Property” means any one of them;

“Purchaser’s Group” has the meaning given to it in the Sale and Purchase Agreement;

“Purchaser’s Solicitors” means Pinsent Masons LLP of 30 Crown Place, Earl Street, London EC2A 4ES;

“Relevant Benefits” means any pension (including an annuity), lump sum or gratuity given or to be given on retirement or on death, or by virtue of a pension sharing order or

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provision, or in anticipation of retirement, or, in connection with past service, after retirement or death;

“Relevant Proportion” means in respect of a claim for breach of a Warranty, the percentage set out opposite each Management Warrantor’s name in column 4 of the Management Warrantors’ Allocation;

“Reports” means the Accountants’ Due Diligence Report and the Legal Due Diligence Report;

“Returns” has the meaning given to in 18.4 Schedule 2;

“Sale and Purchase Agreement” means the agreement entered into (or to be entered into) on or about the date of this deed between, inter alios, the Management Warrantors and the Purchaser relating to the acquisition by the Purchaser of the Company, together with any agreements to be entered into pursuant to it;

“Shares” has the meaning given to it in the Sale and Purchase Agreement;

“Subsidiaries” means the subsidiaries (as defined at Clause 1.3) of the Company in the group structure diagram on page 1 of document 2.1.1.2.1 in the Data Room, and “Subsidiary” means any one of them;

“Tax Authority” means any taxing or other authority competent to impose any liability in respect of Taxation or responsible for the administration and/or collection of Taxation or enforcement of any law in relation to Taxation;

“Tax or Taxation” has the meaning given to it in the Sale and Purchase Agreement;

“Tax Lien” means any claim against any asset of the Group by any Tax Authority in respect of any unpaid Taxation;

“Trade Secrets” means trade secrets and other proprietary and confidential information that provides a Group Company with a competitive advantage and is maintained in confidence, including know how and rights in any jurisdiction to limit the use or disclosure thereof by any person;

“Transaction Documents” has the meaning given to it in the Sale and Purchase Agreement;

“Warranty and Indemnity Insurance” has the meaning given in Schedule 3;

“Warranties” means those warranties contained in Schedule 2; and

“W&I Insurer” means the insurer providing the Warranty and Indemnity Insurance.

1.3                               In this deed unless the context otherwise requires:

(a)                                 references to recitals, paragraphs, clauses and schedules and sub-divisions of them, unless the context otherwise requires, are references to the Recitals, paragraphs and Clauses of, and Schedules to, this deed and sub-divisions of them respectively;

(b)                                 references to any enactment includes references to such enactment as re-enacted, amended or extended on or before the date of this deed and any subordinate legislation made under it on or before the date of this deed;

(c)                                  references to any English or Swedish legal term or statute shall, in respect of any jurisdiction other than England or Sweden, respectively, be construed as

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references to the term, concept or statute which most nearly corresponds to it in that jurisdiction.

(d)                                 references to a “person” include any individual, company, corporation, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, organisation, institution, trust or agency, whether or not having a separate legal personality;

(e)                                  references to the one gender include all genders, and references to the singular include the plural and vice versa;

(f)                                   headings are inserted for convenience only and shall be ignored in construing this deed;

(g)                                  the words “company”, “holding company”, “subsidiary” and “subsidiary undertaking” have the meanings given to them by the Companies Act;

(h)                                 references to a “company” shall also be construed to include any other corporation or body corporate wherever and however incorporated or established;

(i)                                     any provision which is expressed to bind the Management Warrantors shall bind each of them severally (and thus not jointly) and any reference to “the Management Warrantors” in this deed shall be construed as a reference to each Management Warrantor individually and severally (and thus not jointly) unless otherwise expressly provided. The Purchaser may in its absolute discretion release, compound, or compromise or give time or indulgence in relation to the liability of certain Management Warrantors without in any way prejudicing or affecting its rights against the other Management Warrantors;

(j)                                    references to time of the day are to Stockholm time; and

(k)                                 reference to a document being “in the agreed form” is to a document in the terms agreed between the parties and for identification purposes only signed or initialled by them or on their behalf on or before the date of this deed.

2.                                      Warranties and Recourse

2.1                               Each of the Management Warrantors hereby severally acknowledges that the Purchaser is entering into the Sale and Purchase Agreement in reliance upon the Warranties and severally warrants to the Purchaser that each of the Warranties is true, accurate and not misleading at the date hereof.

2.2                               Each of the Warranties is given subject to:

(a)                                 the matters being Disclosed in the Disclosure Documents (save that for the purposes of Warranty 20.2, the Reports shall not be deemed to be Disclosed); and

(b)                                 the extent of the  limitations referred to in this deed.

2.3                               Each statement set out in Schedule 2 shall be deemed to be made in respect of each Management Warrantor to the knowledge and belief of such Management Warrantor, which knowledge and belief shall be interpreted to extend to those facts, matters and circumstances of which such Management Warrantor is actually aware as at the date of this Deed having made reasonable enquiries of each other Management Warrantor and each Key Employee who is not a Management Warrantor.

2.4                               Subject always to Clause 2.3, the Purchaser shall have the right to claim in respect of any breach of the Warranties against any or all of the Management Warrantors.

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2.5                               The Purchaser hereby confirms to the Management Warrantors that, save for any matters being Disclosed, the Purchaser is not actually aware of any fact or circumstance which would constitute a breach of any of the Warranties as at the date of this deed. For the purposes of this confirmation the Purchaser’s awareness shall be deemed to be the actual awareness of Adam Aron, Craig Ramsey and Kevin Connor with both Craig Ramsey and Kevin Connor having been deemed to have read the Reports.

2.6                               The Management Warrantors shall not be liable in respect of a claim for breach of Warranties to the extent that facts, matters or circumstances that could reasonably be expected to give rise to the relevant claim for breach of Warranty were actually known to the Purchaser prior to signing this deed.  For the purposes of this Clause, the Purchaser’s awareness shall be deemed to be the actual awareness of Adam Aron, Craig Ramsey and Kevin Connor.

2.7                               Each of the Warranties shall be construed as separate and independent and (unless expressly provided to the contrary) shall not be limited by the terms of or by reference to any of the other Warranties.

3.                                      Assignment

None of the parties may assign, grant any security interest over, hold on trust or otherwise transfer any of their respective rights or obligations under this deed in whole or in part, save that the Purchaser may assign its rights under this deed to any member of the Purchaser’s Group and that the Purchaser charge and/or assign the benefit of this deed to any bank or financial institution or other person by way of security for the purposes of or in connection with the financing or refinancing (whether in whole or in part) by the Purchaser of the acquisition of the Shares, provided that the Management Warrantors shall be under no greater obligation or liability thereby than if such assignment had never occurred and that the amount of loss or damage recoverable by the assignee shall be calculated as if that person had been originally named as the Purchaser in this deed (and, in particular, shall not exceed the sum which would, but for such assignment, have been recoverable hereunder by the Purchaser in respect of the relevant fact or circumstance).

4.                                      Effect of Completion

The terms of this deed (subject as specifically otherwise provided in this deed) shall continue in force after and notwithstanding Completion and the remedies of the Purchaser in respect of any breach of any of the Warranties shall continue to subsist notwithstanding Completion.

5.                                      Counterparts

This deed may be entered into in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument.  The parties may enter into this deed by signing any such counterpart.

6.                                      Third Party Rights

A person who is not a party to this deed has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of this deed but this does not affect any right or remedy of a third party which exists or is available apart from that Act.

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7.                                      Notices

7.1                               Any notice or other communication in connection with this deed (each, a “Notice”) shall be:

(a)                                 in writing; and

(b)                                 delivered by hand, fax, pre-paid recorded delivery, pre-paid special delivery or courier using an internationally recognised courier company.

7.2                               For the purposes of this Clause 7, the authorised address of:

(a)                                 each of the Management Warrantors shall be as set out in Schedule 1, and will be copied to (i) Jan Bernhardsson or any other person as appointed by the Management Warrantors from time to time (the “Management Warrantors’ Representative”); and (ii) Management Warrantor’s Solicitors, marked for the urgent attention of Krister Hansen; and

(b)                                 the Purchaser shall be One AMC Way, 11500 Ash Street, Leawood KS66211, marked “Attention: Kevin Connor, General Counsel” and will be copied to the Purchaser’s Solicitor, marked for the urgent attention of Tom Leman,

or such other address as that party may notify to the others in writing from time to time in accordance with the requirements of this Clause 7.  Notice of any change shall be effective ten Business Days after it is served.

7.3                               A Notice shall be effective upon receipt and shall be deemed to have been received:

(a)                                 at 9.00 am on the second Business Day after posting or at the time recorded by the delivery service;

(b)                                 at the time of delivery, if delivered by hand or courier; or

(c)                                  at the time of transmission in legible form, if delivered by fax.

8.                                      Invalidity

8.1                               If any provision in this deed shall be held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, the provision shall apply with whatever deletion or modification is necessary so that the provision is legal, valid and enforceable and gives effect to the commercial intention of the parties.

8.2                               To the extent it is not possible to delete or modify the provision, in whole or in part, under Clause 8.1, then such provision or part of it shall, to the extent that it is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, be deemed not to form part of this deed and the legality, validity and enforceability of the remainder of this deed shall, subject to any deletion or modification made under Clause 8.1, not be affected.

9.                                      General Provisions

9.1                               The Purchaser may release or compromise the liability of any of the Management Warrantors hereunder or grant to any Management Warrantor time or other indulgence without affecting the liability of any other Management Warrantor hereunder.

9.2                               Any waiver of a breach of any of the terms of this deed or of any default hereunder shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any subsequent breach or default and shall in no way affect the other terms of this deed.

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9.3                               Notwithstanding any provision in this deed to the contrary, any and all obligations of the Management Warrantors under this deed are several and each Management Warrantor shall only be responsible for fulfilling its own obligations hereunder and shall not be liable or responsible for the failure of any party to fulfil its respective obligations.

9.4                               Except as otherwise expressly provided in this deed or expressly agreed by the parties in writing, no failure to exercise and no delay on the part of any party in exercising any right, remedy, power or privilege of that party under this deed and no course of dealing between the parties shall be construed or operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege.  The rights and remedies provided by this deed are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.

9.5                               This deed may be varied only by a document signed by the Purchaser and by the Management Warrantors’ Representative on behalf of the Management Warrantors.

10.                               Governing Law and Submission to Jurisdiction

10.1                        This deed and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

10.2                        Each of the parties irrevocably agrees that the courts of England and Wales are to have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute which may arise out of or in connection with this deed and that accordingly any proceedings arising out of or in connection with this deed shall be brought in such courts.

10.3                        Each of the parties hereto agrees that in the event of any action between any of the parties hereto being commenced in respect of this deed or any matters arising under it, the process by which it is commenced, (where consistent with the applicable rules) may be served on them in accordance with Clause 7 and Clause 13.

11.                               Liability

11.1                        The Purchaser shall not exercise any right of set-off or counterclaim against or otherwise withhold payment of any sums stated to be payable by the Purchaser under the Sale and Purchase Agreement or under any other Transaction Document unless and until:

(a)                                 such liability has been agreed by the Management Warrantors or finally and judicially determined payable in proceedings; or

(b)                                 the Purchaser has obtained and delivered to the Management Warrantors Representative a written opinion of a Queen’s Counsel of good repute and standing and of more than ten (10) years call opining that a Claim has a reasonable prospect of success on its merits and that the amount claimed by the Purchaser under or in respect of such Claim (a “Relevant Claim”) represents a reasonable estimate of the amount which (subject to the limitations set out in this Deed) may be payable in the event that such Relevant Claim is successful, in which case the Purchaser shall be entitled to withhold an amount equal to the Purchaser’s good faith estimate of the amount due to the Purchaser under or in respect of such Relevant Claim (the “Retained Amount”) pending final its final determination, settlement or agreement.

11.2                        If a Relevant Claim is finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in favour of the Purchaser or settled or agreed as between the Purchaser and the Management Warrantors in favour of the Purchaser such amount of the Relevant Amount as is due to

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the Purchaser in respect of such finally determined, settled or agreed Relevant Claim in accordance with and subject to the terms of this Deed (including subject to the limitations set out herein) shall be for the account of the Purchaser and the balance (if any) shall be paid to the Management Warrantors in each case not later than ten (10) Business Days after the date of determination of the amount payable.

11.3                        If the Purchaser fails to issue and serve proceedings in respect of the Relevant Claim in such time period as may be required in accordance with Schedule 3, the Relevant Claim is finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in favour of the Management Warrantors (which if capable of appeal has not been appealed by the Purchaser within four (4) weeks of the date of determination) or the Relevant Claim is settled or agreed as between the Purchaser and the Management Warrantors in favour of the Management Warrantors, the Retained Amount shall be paid to the Management Warrantors not later than ten (10) Business Days after the relevant date.

12.                               Entire Agreement

12.1                        This deed and the Transaction Documents contain the entire agreement and understanding of the parties and supersede all prior agreements, understandings or arrangements between the parties (both oral and written) relating to the subject matter of this deed and the Transaction Documents.

12.2                        Each of the parties acknowledges and agrees that:

(a)                                 it does not enter into this deed on the basis of and does not rely, and has not relied upon, any statement, representation, warranty, assurance, covenant, agreement, undertaking, indemnity, guarantee or commitment of any nature whatsoever (in any case whether oral, written, express or implied, and whether negligent or innocent) made, given or agreed to by any person (whether a party to this deed or not), except those expressly set out or referred to in this deed and/or the Transaction Documents and, the only remedy or remedies available in respect of any representation, statement, warranty, assurance, covenant, agreement, undertaking, indemnity, guarantee or commitment of any nature whatsoever made to it shall be a claim for breach of contract under this deed and/or the Transaction Documents;

(b)                                 no statement, undertaking, assurance, warranty, covenant or other provision set out in this deed that is given by any party to this deed to any other is given as a representation;

(c)                                  any statutory or common law remedies, terms, warranties, representations or conditions that are not expressly set out or referred to in this deed and might otherwise be implied are hereby expressly excluded; and

(d)                                 this Clause 12 shall not apply to any statement, representation or warranty made fraudulently or to any provision of this deed which was induced by, or otherwise entered into as a result of, fraud, fraudulent concealment or fraudulent misrepresentation, for which the remedies shall be all those available under the law governing this deed.

13.                               Agent for Service of Process

13.1                        The Management Sellers’ Representative appoints Michelmores LLP of 12th Floor, 6 New Street Square, London, EC4A 3BF as agent for service of process for the Management Warrantors in England.

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13.2                        If any person appointed pursuant to Clause 13.1 as agent for service of process ceases to act as such, the Management Sellers’ Representative shall immediately appoint another person to accept service of process on behalf of the Management Warrantors in England and notify the Purchaser of such appointment.  If the Management Sellers’ Representative fails to do so within ten (10) Business Days, the Purchaser shall be entitled by notice to the Management Sellers’ Representative to appoint a replacement agent for services of process.

In Witness whereof this deed has been executed and delivered as a deed on the date first above written.

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