1. | INTERPRETATION | 1 |
2. | SURRENDER | 3 |
3. | SECOND PAYMENT | 4 |
4. | VALUE ADDED TAX | 4 |
5. | RELEASE OF THE TENANT | 4 |
6. | RELEASE OF THE TENANT'S GUARANTOR | 5 |
7. | RELEASE OF THE LANDLORD | 5 |
8. | DOCUMENTS AND HMLR REQUIREMENTS | 5 |
9. | GUARANTEE AND INDEMNITY | 5 |
10. | INTEREST | 7 |
11. | NON-MERGER | 7 |
12. | NOTICES | 7 |
13. | LIABILITY | 8 |
14. | THIRD PARTY RIGHTS | 8 |
15. | JURISDICTION AND GOVERNING LAW | 8 |
DATE | 2nd November 2009 |
HM Land Registry | |
Landlord's title number: | AGL 55160 |
Administrative area: | Ealing: London |
"Property" | Unit 1, Sovereign Park Estate, Coronation Road, Park Royal, London NW10 as more particularly described in and demised by the Lease. | ||
"Second Payment" | means the sum of three hundred thousand pounds (£300,000.00) exclusive of any VAT payable on such amount. | ||
"VAT" | value added tax chargeable under the Value Added Tax Act 1994 and any similar replacement tax and any similar additional tax. | ||
1.2. | Clause headings do not affect the interpretation of this deed. | ||
1.3. | A person includes a natural person, corporate or unincorporated body (whether or not having separate legal personality). | ||
1.4. | Words in the singular shall include the plural and vice versa. | ||
1.5. | A reference to one gender shall include a reference to the other genders. | ||
1.6. | A reference to any party shall include that party's personal representatives, successors or permitted assigns. | ||
1.7. | A reference to a statute, statutory provision or subordinate legislation is a reference to it as it is in force from time to time, taking account of any amendment or re-enactment and includes any statute, statutory provision or subordinate legislation which it amends or re-enacts. | ||
1.8. | A reference to a statute or statutory provision shall include any subordinate legislation made from time to time under that statute or statutory provision. | ||
1.9. | A reference to "writing" or "written" includes faxes but not e-mail. | ||
1.10. | A reference to a document is a reference to that document as varied or novated (in each case, other than in breach of the provisions of this agreement) at any time. | ||
1.11. | References to clauses are to the clauses of this deed. |
1.12. | Any phrase introduced by the terms including, include, in particular or any similar expression shall be construed as illustrative and shall not limit the sense of the words preceding those terms. | ||
1.13. | References to the "Landlord" include a reference to the person entitled for the time being to the immediate reversion to the Lease. | ||
1.14 | The expressions "landlord covenant" and "tenant covenant" each have the meanings given to them by the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995. | ||
2. | SURRENDER | ||
2.1. | In consideration of: | ||
2.1.1. | six hundred thousand pounds (£600,000.00) (plus VAT) paid by the Tenant to the Landlord (of which the Landlord acknowledges receipt); | ||
2.1.2. | the obligation on the part of the Tenant and the Tenant's Guarantor to pay the Second Payment on or before 2nd February 2010; and | ||
2.1.3. | the grant by the Landlord to the Tenant of a new lease of the Property on the date hereof for a term of one (1) year; and | ||
2.1.4. | the releases by the Landlord pursuant to clause and clause; | ||
the Tenant surrenders and yields up to the Landlord all its estate, interest and rights in the Property and the Landlord accepts the surrender. | |||
2.2. | The residue of the term of years granted by the Lease shall merge and be extinguished in the reversion immediately expectant on the termination of the Lease. | ||
The Premises are surrendered subject to: | |||
2.3.1. | all matters registrable by any local authority or other body exercising powers under statute or by royal charter or any utility service or supply company ("Competent Authority") pursuant to statute; | ||
2.3.2. | all requirements, notices, order or proposals (whether or not subject to confirmation) of any Competent Authority; |
2.3.3. | all matters disclosed by searches or as the result of enquiries formal or informal and whether made in person or by writing by or for the Landlord; and | ||
2.3.4. | all notices served by the owner or occupier of any adjoining or neighbouring property. | ||
2.4. | The Tenant surrenders the Property with full title guarantee except that the covenant set out in section 2(1)(b) of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1994 shall not extent to the Tenant insofar as the covenant makes the Tenant liable for any of the costs referred to in such covenant and the Landlord shall be liable for such costs instead. | ||
3. | SECOND PAYMENT | ||
3.1. |
On
2nd
February 2010 the Tenant shall make the Second Payment to the Landlord,
such payment to be made by direct credit to the Landlord's Conveyancer's
client account:
Lloyds
TSB Bank plc
Law
Courts Branch
222
Strand
LONDON
WC1R 1BB
Sort
code: 30-00-04
Account
No: 00816400.
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3.2. | If the Landlord or the Landlord's Conveyancer (as the case may be) has not received the Second Payment by 5.30 pm on 2nd February 2010 the Landlord is entitled to treat the Second Payment as late and to charge interest on it in accordance with clause 10 of this deed. | ||
4. |
VALUE
ADDED TAX
On the date of this deed, and in the case of the Second Payment when
such payment becomes due but in each case subject to prior receipt of a
valid VAT invoice, the Tenant shall pay the Landlord any VAT properly
chargeable on such amounts.
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5. |
The Landlord releases the Tenant and its predecessors in title from
all the tenant covenants and conditions of the Lease and from all
liability for any subsisting breach of any of them except for any
obligations on the part of the Tenant under this
deed.
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6. |
The
Landlord releases the Tenant's Guarantor from the covenants, indemnities
and other obligations arising under or in respect of the Lease and from
all liability for any subsisting breach of those covenants, indemnities
and other obligations except for any obligations on the part of the
Tenant's Guarantor under this deed.
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7. |
The Tenant releases the Landlord from all the landlord covenants of
the Lease and from all liability for any subsisting breach of any of
them.
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8. |
On the date of this deed, the Tenant shall deliver to the Landlord,
or to the Landlord's Conveyancer the Lease and the original part of this
deed.
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9. | GUARANTEE AND INDEMNITY | ||
9.1. | The Tenant's Guarantor guarantees to the Landlord that the Tenant shall pay the Second Payment to the Landlord in accordance with its obligation in clause of this deed and that if the Tenant fails to pay the Second Payment to the Landlord, the Tenant's Guarantor shall pay the Second Payment to the Landlord. | ||
9.2. | The Tenant's Guarantor covenants with the Landlord as a separate and independent primary obligation to indemnify the Landlord against any failure by the Tenant to pay the Second Payment to the Landlord in accordance with the obligations in clause of this deed. | ||
9.3. | The liability of the Tenant's Guarantor shall not be affected by: | ||
9.3.1. | any time or indulgence granted by the Landlord to the Tenant; or | ||
9.3.2. | any delay or forbearance by the Landlord in enforcing the payment of the Second Payment or in making any demand in respect of the Second Payment; or | ||
9.3.3. | the Landlord exercising any right or remedy against the Tenant for any failure to pay the Second Payment; or | ||
9.3.4. | the Landlord taking any action or refraining from taking any action in connection with any other security held by the Landlord in respect of the Tenant's liability to pay the Second Payment including the release of any such security; or |
9.3.5. | any legal limitation or disability on the Tenant or any invalidity or irregularity of any of the Tenant's obligation in this agreement or any unenforceability of any of them against the Tenant; or | ||
9.3.6. | the Tenant being dissolved, or being struck off the register of companies or otherwise ceasing to exist, or, if the Tenant is an individual, by the Tenant dying or becoming incapable of managing its affairs; or | ||
9.3.7. | the disclaimer of the Tenant's liability under this lease or the forfeiture of this agreement ; or | ||
by any other act or omission except an express written release of the Tenant's Guarantor by the Landlord. | |||
9.4. | The Tenant's Guarantor shall not claim in competition with the Landlord in any insolvency proceedings or arrangement of the Tenant in respect of any payment made by the Tenant's Guarantor pursuant to this guarantee and indemnity. If it otherwise receives any money in such proceedings or arrangement, it shall hold that money on trust for the Landlord to the extent of its liability to the Landlord. | ||
9.5. | The Tenant's Guarantor shall not, without the consent of the Landlord, exercise any right or remedy that it may have (whether against the Tenant or any other person) in respect of any amount paid or other obligation performed by the Tenant's Guarantor under this guarantee and indemnity unless and until all the obligations of the Tenant's Guarantor under this guarantee and indemnity have been fully performed. | ||
9.6. | This guarantee and indemnity is in addition to any other security that the Landlord may at any time hold from the Tenant's Guarantor or the Tenant or any other person in respect of the liability of the Tenant to pay the Second Payment shall not merge in or be affected by any other security. | ||
9.7. | The Tenant's Guarantor shall not be entitled to claim or participate in any other security held by the Landlord in respect of the liability of the Tenant to pay the Second Payment. |
10. |
INTEREST
If the Second Payment or any other money payable under this deed by
the Tenant to the Landlord has not been paid by the date it is due,
whether it has been formally demanded or not, the Tenant shall pay the
Landlord interest at 4% above the base lending rate from time to time of
HSBC Bank plc or if that base lending rate stops being used or published
then at a comparable commercial rate reasonably determined by the Landlord
(both before and after any judgment) on that amount for the period from
the due date to and including the date of payment.
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11. |
NON-MERGER
Completion of the surrender of the Lease does not cancel liability to
perform any outstanding obligation under this deed.
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12. | NOTICES | ||
12.1. | Any notice given under this deed must be in writing and signed by or on behalf of the party giving it. | ||
12.2. | Any notice or document to be given or delivered under this deed may be given by delivering it personally or sending it by pre-paid first class post, or recorded delivery to the address and for the attention of the relevant party as follows: | ||
12.2.1. |
to
the Landlord at:
Seymour
House, Whiteleaf Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire HP3
9DE
marked
for the attention of the Managing Director
or
at the Landlord's Conveyancer, quoting the reference
(SPS/OX-259021).
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12.2.2. |
to
the Tenant at:
Unit
1, Sovereign Park, Coronation Road, London NW10 7QP
Marked
for the attention of Michael Pope
or
at the Tenant's Conveyancer, quoting the reference
RJC/043922.00019/NMH
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12.2.3. |
to
the Tenant's Guarantor at:
Unit
1, Sovereign Park, Coronation Road, London NW10 7QP
Marked
for the attention of Michael Pope
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12.3. | Giving or delivering a notice or a document to a party's conveyancer has the same effect as giving or delivering it to that party. |
12.4. | Any such notice will be deemed to have been received: | |||
12.4.1. | if delivered personally, at the time of delivery provided that: | |||
12.4.1.1. | if delivery occurs before 9.00 am on a working day, the notice will be deemed to have been received at 9.00 am on that day; and | |||
12.4.1.2. | if delivery occurs after 5.00 pm on a working day, or at any time on a day that is not a working day, the notice will be deemed to have been received at 9.00 am on the next working day. | |||
12.4.2. | in the case of pre-paid first class or recorded delivery post, at 9.00 am on the second working day after posting. | |||
12.5. | In proving service, it will be sufficient to prove that delivery was made or that the envelope containing the notice or document was properly addressed and posted as a prepaid first class or recorded delivery letter, as the case may be. | |||
12.6. | A notice given or document delivered under this agreement will not be validly given or delivered if sent by e-mail. | |||
13. |
LIABILITY
If the Landlord or the Tenant is more than one person, then in each
case those persons shall be jointly and severally liable for their
respective obligations arising by virtue of this deed. The Landlord may
release or compromise the liability of any one of those persons or grant
any time or concession to any one of them without affecting the liability
of any other of them.
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14. |
A person who is not a party to this deed shall not have any rights
under or in connection with it.
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15. | JURISDICTION AND GOVERNING LAW | |||
15.1. | This Lease and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales. | |||
15.2. | The parties irrevocably agree that the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim that arises out of or in connection with this agreement or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims). | |||
15.3. | Each party irrevocably consents to any process in any proceedings arising out of or in connection with this agreement under clause 15.2 being served on it in accordance with the provisions of this agreement relating to service of notices. Nothing contained in this agreement will affect the right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. |