As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 23, 2006
Registration No. 333-134018
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Amendment No. 1
to
Form S-1
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
ICF INTERNATIONAL, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | 8742 | 22-3661438 | ||
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number) |
9300 Lee Highway
Fairfax, VA 22031
(703) 934-3000
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number including area code, of registrants principal executive offices)
Sudhakar Kesavan
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
ICF INTERNATIONAL, INC.
9300 Lee Highway
Fairfax, VA 22031
(703) 934-3000
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
With copies to:
James J. Maiwurm, Esq. SQUIRE, SANDERS & DEMPSEY L.L.P. 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Suite 1400 Tysons Corner, Virginia 22182-2700 Telephone: (703) 720-7800 Telecopy: (703) 720-7801 |
Richard J. Sandler, Esq. DAVIS POLK & WARDWELL 450 Lexington Avenue New York, New York 10017 Telephone: (212) 450-4000 Telecopy: (212) 450-3800 |
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date hereof.
If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box. ¨
If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ¨
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ¨
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ¨
The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.
The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and it is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.
PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS Subject to Completion |
June 23, 2006 |
Shares
ICF INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Common Stock
This is the initial public offering of our common stock. No public market currently exists for our common stock. We are offering shares of our common stock and the selling stockholders identified in this prospectus are offering shares of our common stock. We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of common stock by the selling stockholders. We expect the public offering price to be between $ and $ per share.
We have applied to have our common stock approved for listing on The Nasdaq National Market under the symbol ICFI.
Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. Before buying any shares, you should read the discussion of material risks of investing in our common stock in Risk factors beginning on page 10 of this prospectus.
Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the adequacy or accuracy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
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Public offering price | $ | $ | ||
Underwriting discounts and commissions | $ | $ | ||
Proceeds, before expenses, to us | $ | $ | ||
Proceeds, before expenses, to the selling stockholders | $ | $ |
The underwriters may also purchase up to an additional shares of our common stock within 30 days of the date of this prospectus, solely to cover over-allotments. Of these additional shares, up to may be purchased from us and up to may be purchased from the selling stockholders. If the underwriters exercise this option in full, the total underwriting discounts and commissions will be $ , our total proceeds, before expenses, will be $ , and the total proceeds, before expenses, to the selling stockholders will be $ .
The underwriters are offering the common stock as set forth under Underwriting. Delivery of the shares will be made on or about , 2006.
Sole book-running manager
UBS Investment Bank |
Stifel Nicolaus |
William Blair & Company |
Jefferies & Company |
Until , 2006 (25 days after the date of this prospectus), federal securities laws may require all dealers that effect transactions in our common stock, whether or not participating in this offering, to deliver a prospectus. This is in addition to the dealers obligation to deliver a prospectus when acting as underwriters and with respect to their unsold allotments or subscriptions.
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Unless the context requires otherwise, the words ICF, we, company, us and our refer to ICF International, Inc. and, where appropriate, its subsidiaries.
Unless the context requires otherwise, the term CMEP refers to our principal stockholder, CM Equity Partners, L.P. and its affiliated partnerships that hold shares of our common stock, who are also the selling stockholders identified under Principal and selling stockholders.
Our fiscal year ends on December 31. We currently derive more than 70% of our revenue from departments and agencies of the U.S. federal government, which has a fiscal year ending on September 30. Unless the context requires otherwise, references in this prospectus to fiscal year mean the applicable fiscal year of the U.S. federal government.
Unless the context requires otherwise, all share numbers in this prospectus give effect to the -for- stock split of our common stock to be effected immediately prior to the closing of this offering.
The names ICF International, CommentWorks, Integrated Planning Model, International Carbon Pricing Tool, IPM, K-PRISM, UAM and Urban Airshed Model are our trademarks. This prospectus also contains trademarks and service marks of other companies.
This summary highlights selected information appearing elsewhere in this prospectus and may not contain all of the information that is important to you. This prospectus includes information about the shares offered as well as information regarding our business and detailed financial data. You should read this prospectus in its entirety.
ICF INTERNATIONAL, INC.
We provide management, technology and policy consulting and implementation services primarily to the U.S. federal government, as well as to other government, commercial and international clients. We help our clients conceive, develop, implement and improve solutions that address complex economic, social and national security issues. Our services primarily address four key markets: defense and homeland security; energy; environment and infrastructure; and health, human services and social programs. Increased government involvement in virtually all aspects of our lives has created increasing opportunities for us to resolve issues at the intersection of the public and private sectors.
Our U.S. federal government clients include every cabinet-level department, including the Department of Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Justice and the Department of Energy. U.S. federal government clients generated 72% of our revenue in 2005. Our state and local government clients include the states of California, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. State and local government clients generated 9% of our revenue in 2005. We also serve commercial and international clients, primarily in the energy sector, including electric and gas utilities, oil companies and law firms. Our commercial and international clients generated 19% of our revenue in 2005.
Across our markets, we provide end-to-end services that deliver value throughout the entire life of a policy, program, project or initiative:
Ø | Advisory Services. We provide advisory and management consulting services including needs and markets assessment, policy analysis, strategy and concept development, change management strategy, enterprise architecture and program design. |
Ø | Implementation Services. Often based on the results of our advisory services, we provide implementation services including information technology solutions, project and program management, project delivery, strategic communications and training. |
Ø | Evaluation and Improvement Services. In support of our advisory and implementation services, we provide evaluation and improvement services, including program evaluation, continuous improvement initiatives, performance management, benchmarking and return-on-investment analyses. |
We have more than 1,600 employees and serve clients globally from our headquarters in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area, our 15 domestic regional offices throughout the United States and our five international offices in London, Moscow, New Delhi, Rio de Janeiro and Toronto.
We generated revenue of $177.2 million and $53.4 million in 2005 and the quarter ended March 31, 2006, respectively. Our total backlog was $226.8 million and $216.8 million as of December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006, respectively. We define total backlog as the future revenue we expect to receive from our contracts and other engagements. See BusinessContract Backlog for a discussion of how we calculate backlog.
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MARKET OPPORTUNITY
An increasing number of complex, long-term factors are changing the way we live and the way in which government and industry must operate and interact. Some of these factors include terrorism, increasing federal budget deficits, emergency preparedness for natural disasters and national security threats, rising energy demands, environmental changes and an aging federal civilian workforce, among others. In response, government and industry stakeholders are continually evaluating, formulating and implementing new policies and modifying business processes, creating opportunities for professional services firms that understand these factors and the associated policy, technology and management implications. Our services address these opportunities primarily in the following four key markets:
Defense and Homeland Security. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Homeland Security are undergoing major transformations due to the changing nature of security threats, implications of the information age, logistics modernization requirements, emergency preparedness and the social issues associated with globally deployed armed forces. These factors, combined with a retiring federal civilian workforce, create opportunities for qualified professional services firms.
Energy. Rising global energy demands and constrained oil and gas supplies have prompted the search for alternative fuels and the implementation of energy efficiency initiatives. In addition, deregulation of utilities, capacity expansions, the emergence of emissions trading markets, and mergers and acquisitions in the energy sector are creating demand for professional services firms with knowledge of relevant economic and regulatory forces affecting the industry.
Environment and Infrastructure. Global warming, environmental degradation, depletion of natural resources, growth of city centers and underinvestment in transportation infrastructure are creating demand for professional services providers that can help reconcile the competing concerns of government and industry stakeholders in addressing these issues.
Health, Human Services and Social Programs. An aging U.S. population, continued immigration, population growth among lower income levels and rising health care costs are expected to drive an increased need for public spending in the areas of health, human services and social programs. Governments are increasingly turning to professional services firms that have strong expertise in designing and executing programs in these areas.
COMPETITIVE STRENGTHS
We possess the following key business strengths:
We have a highly educated professional staff with deep subject matter knowledge. Our institutional thought leadership and experience in areas of policy, technology and management consulting, combined with our ability to assemble multi-disciplinary teams, enable us to deliver superior client service.
We have long-standing relationships with our clients. We have performed work for many of our clients for decades. This experience, combined with our prime contractor positions and multi-level client access, gives us better visibility into our clients upcoming requirements.
Our advisory services position us to capture a full range of engagements. We believe our advisory services position us favorably to offer our clients end-to-end services across the entire life cycle of a particular policy or program, including implementation and improvement services.
Our technology solutions are driven by our deep subject matter expertise. We combine our information technology skills with our deep subject matter expertise and thorough understanding of organizational processes to deliver differentiated technology-enabled solutions.
Our proprietary analytics and methods allow us to deliver superior solutions to clients. We have developed proprietary tools, project management methodologies and models in the areas of energy
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planning, air-quality analysis and carbon emissions that are used by governments and commercial entities around the world.
We are led by an experienced management team. Our senior management team has successfully grown the business organically and through acquisitions and possesses extensive industry and management experience.
STRATEGY
Our strategy to increase our revenue, grow our company and increase stockholder value involves the following key elements:
Ø | Strengthen our end-to-end service offerings |
Ø | Grow our client base and increase scope of services provided to existing clients |
Ø | Expand into additional markets at the intersection of the public and private sectors |
Ø | Focus on high margin projects |
Ø | Capitalize on operating leverage |
Ø | Pursue strategic acquisitions |
RISK FACTORS
Our business is subject to risks. Many of these risks result from our dependence on contracts with U.S. federal government agencies and departments for the majority of our revenue and profit. As a result, we are exposed to a number of considerations, such as:
Ø | We derived 72% of our revenue from each of 2004 and 2005 from contracts with the U.S. federal government agencies; therefore, a change in federal government spending priorities could be adverse to our business. |
Ø | Congress may not approve budgets in a timely manner for the federal agencies and departments we support, which could delay and reduce spending, and therefore cause us to lose revenue and profit. |
Ø | Our failure to comply with complex laws, rules and regulations relating to federal government contracts could cause us to lose business and subject us to a variety of penalties. |
Ø | Unfavorable government audit results could force us to adjust previously reported operating results, affect future operating results and subject us to a variety of penalties and sanctions. |
Ø | Our federal government contracts contain provisions that are unfavorable to us and permit our government clients to terminate our contracts partially or completely at any time prior to completion. |
Ø | The adoption of new procurement laws, rules and regulations, and changes in existing laws, rules and regulations, could impair our ability to obtain new contracts and could cause us to lose revenue and profit. |
Our business with commercial clients depends primarily on the energy sector of the global economy, which is highly cyclical.
For a discussion of these and other risks we face, see Risk factors.
OUR CORPORATE INFORMATION
Our principal operating subsidiary was founded in 1969. ICF International, Inc. was formed as a Delaware limited liability company in 1999 under the name ICF Consulting Group Holdings, LLC in
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connection with the purchase of our business from a larger services organization. Several of our current senior managers participated in this buyout transaction along with private equity investors. We converted to a Delaware corporation in 2003 and changed our name to ICF International, Inc. in 2006.
Our principal executive office is located at 9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax, Virginia 22031, and our telephone number is (703) 934-3000. We maintain an Internet website at www.icfi.com. We have not incorporated by reference into this prospectus the information on our website and you should not consider it to be a part of this prospectus.
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The offering
Common stock we are offering |
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Common stock being offered by the selling stockholders |
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Total shares of common stock being offered |
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Common stock to be outstanding immediately after this offering |
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Over-allotment option |
shares. Of the shares covered by this option, shares are provided by us and shares are provided by the selling stockholders. If the over-allotment option is exercised in full, there will be shares of common stock outstanding immediately after this offering. |
Use of proceeds |
We estimate that the net proceeds to us from this offering will be approximately $ , or approximately $ if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full, assuming an initial public offering price of $ per share (the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses. Each $1 increase (decrease) in the public offering price per share would increase (decrease) our net proceeds, after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions, by $ (assuming no exercise of the underwriters over-allotment option). |
We intend to use $ of the net proceeds for repayment of a portion of our existing indebtedness under our revolving credit facility and term loan facility, $2.7 million for payments due to employees as a one-time bonus under our amended and restated employee annual incentive compensation pool plan and the balance for general corporate purposes. See Use of proceeds.
We will not receive the proceeds from any sale of common stock by the selling stockholders.
Proposed Nasdaq National Market symbol |
ICFI |
Risk factors |
Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk, including risks associated with the fact that we earn most of our revenue under |
contracts with departments and agencies of the
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federal government. For a discussion of these and other risks that affect our business and operations, see Risk factors.
Unless otherwise specified, all share and net proceeds amounts in this prospectus assume that the underwriters do not exercise their over-allotment option to purchase up to an additional shares of common stock from us and shares of common stock from the selling stockholders.
Unless otherwise specified, the number of shares of our common stock outstanding is based on shares outstanding as of March 31, 2006 after giving effect to the -for- stock split of our common stock to be effected immediately prior to the closing of this offering, and excludes:
Ø | shares issuable upon exercise of options outstanding as of March 31, 2006, at a weighted average exercise price of per share, of which options to purchase shares were exercisable as of that date; |
Ø | shares issuable upon exercise of warrants outstanding as of March 31, 2006, at an exercise price of per share, all of which were exercisable as of that date; and |
Ø | shares available for future grant under our stock plans as of March 31, 2006. |
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Summary consolidated financial and other data
The following summarizes our historical consolidated financial and other information. We derived the historical financial and other information for each of the three years ended December 31, 2003, 2004 and 2005 from our audited consolidated financial statements. We derived the historical financial and other information for the quarters ended April 1, 2005 and March 31, 2006 from our unaudited financial statements appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. Results for any interim period are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for a full year.
We have presented the balance sheet data as of March 31, 2006:
Ø | on an actual basis; and |
Ø | on an adjusted basis to reflect our sale of common stock in this offering at an assumed public offering price of $ per share (the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), and receipt of the net proceeds, after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses. Each $1 increase (decrease) in the public offering price per share would increase (decrease) the as-adjusted figure shown below for cash and cash equivalents and total stockholders equity by $ (assuming no exercise of the underwriters over-allotment option), after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions. |
Effective October 1, 2005, we consummated the acquisition of Caliber Associates, Inc. for $20.8 million in cash. The unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated statement of operations data for the year ended December 31, 2005 gives effect to the acquisition of Caliber Associates, Inc. as if it had occurred on January 1, 2005. Operating results for Caliber Associates, Inc. from the date of the acquisition, October 1, 2005, through December 31, 2005 are included in our statement of operations data for the year ended December 31, 2005. The pro forma information does not necessarily indicate what the operating results would have been had the acquisition been completed at the beginning of the period presented. Moreover, this information does not necessarily indicate what our future operating results or financial position will be.
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This information should be read in conjunction with Managements discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations and our financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this prospectus.
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Consolidated statement of operations data: |
2003 | 2004 | 2005 | Pro forma 2005 | April 1, 2005 |
March 31, 2006 |
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Revenue |
$ | 145,803 | $ | 139,488 | $ | 177,218 | $ | 207,794 | $ | 41,212 | $ | 53,448 | ||||||||||||
Direct costs |
91,022 | 83,638 | 106,078 | 122,192 | 23,969 | 31,626 | ||||||||||||||||||
Operating expenses |
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Indirect and selling expenses |
45,335 | 46,097 | 60,039 | (1) | 71,782 | (1) | 13,905 | 17,883 | ||||||||||||||||
Depreciation and amortization |
3,000 | 3,155 | 5,541 | 6,706 | 777 | 772 | ||||||||||||||||||
Earnings from operations |
6,446 | 6,598 | 5,560 | 7,114 | 2,561 | 3,167 | ||||||||||||||||||
Other (expense) income |
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Interest expense, net |
(3,095 | ) | (1,266 | ) | (2,981 | ) | (4,054 | ) | (473 | ) | (1,026 | ) | ||||||||||||
Other |
33 | (33 | ) | 1,308 | 1,308 | 1 | | |||||||||||||||||
Total other (expense) income |
(3,062 | ) | (1,299 | ) | (1,673 | ) | (2,746 | ) | (472 | ) | (1,026 | ) | ||||||||||||
Income from continuing operations before income taxes |
3,384 | 5,299 | 3,887 | 4,368 | 2,089 | 2,141 | ||||||||||||||||||
Income tax expense |
1,320 | 2,466 | 1,865 | 2,420 | 1,002 | 1,047 | ||||||||||||||||||
Income from continuing operations |
2,064 | 2,833 | 2,022 | 1,948 | 1,087 | 1,094 | ||||||||||||||||||
Income from discontinued operations |
308 | 184 | | | | | ||||||||||||||||||
Net income |
$ | 2,372 | $ | 3,017 | $ | 2,022 | $ | 1,948 | $ | 1,087 | $ | 1,094 | ||||||||||||
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Other operating data: | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | April 1, 2005 |
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EBITDA from continuing operations(2) |
$ | 9,446 | $ | 9,753 | $ | 11,101 | $ | 3,338 | $ | 3,939 | |||||
Non-cash compensation charge included in EBITDA from continuing operations(1) |
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Consolidated balance sheet data: | Actual | As adjusted | ||||
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Cash and cash equivalents |
$ | 1,296 | $ | |||
Net working capital |
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Total assets |
155,953 | |||||
Current portion of long-term debt |
12,400 | |||||
Long-term debt, net of current portion |
53,944 | |||||
Total stockholders equity |
54,160 |
(1) | Includes a one-time, non-cash compensation charge of $2.1 million in December 2005 resulting from the acceleration of the vesting of all then outstanding stock options. See Managements discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations Results of Operations Year ended December 31, 2005 compared to year ended December 31, 2004. |
(2) | EBITDA from continuing operations, a measure used by us to evaluate performance, is defined as net income plus (less) loss (income) from discontinued operations, less gain from sale of discontinued operations, less other income, plus other expenses, net interest expense, income tax expense and depreciation and amortization. We believe EBITDA from continuing operations is useful to investors because similar measures are frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of companies in our industry. EBITDA from continuing operations is not a recognized term under generally accepted accounting principles and does not purport to be an alternative to net income as a measure of operating performance or to cash flows from operating activities as a measure of liquidity. Because not all companies use identical calculations, this presentation of EBITDA from continuing operations may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures used by other companies. EBITDA from continuing operations is not intended to be a measure of free cash flow for managements discretionary use, as it does not consider certain cash requirements such as interest payments, tax payments, capital expenditures and debt service. Our credit agreement includes covenants based on EBITDA from continuing operations, subject to certain adjustments. See Managements discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations Liquidity and Capital Resources. A reconciliation of net income to EBITDA from continuing operations follows: |
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Net income |
$ | 2,372 | $ | 3,017 | $ | 2,022 | $ | 1,087 | $ | 1,094 | |||||||||
Loss (income) from discontinued operations |
(308 | ) | 196 | | | | |||||||||||||
Gain from sale of discontinued operations |
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Other expense (income) |
(33 | ) | 33 | (1,308 | ) | (1 | ) | | |||||||||||
Interest expense, net |
3,095 | 1,266 | 2,981 | 473 | 1,026 | ||||||||||||||
Income tax expense |
1,320 | 2,466 | 1,865 | 1,002 | 1,047 | ||||||||||||||
Depreciation and amortization |
3,000 | 3,155 | 5,541 | 777 | 772 | ||||||||||||||
EBITDA from continuing operations |
$ | 9,446 | $ | 9,753 | $ | 11,101 | $ | 3,338 | $ | 3,939 | |||||||||
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Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. In addition to the other information in this prospectus, you should carefully consider the risks described below before purchasing our common stock. If any of the following risks actually occurs, our business, prospects, results of operations or financial condition could suffer. As a result, the trading price of our common stock may decline, and you might lose part or all of your investment.
RISKS RELATED TO OUR INDUSTRY
Federal government spending priorities may change in a manner adverse to our business.
We derived 72% of our revenue for each of 2004 and 2005 from contracts with U.S. federal government agencies and departments. Virtually all of our major government clients have experienced reductions in budgets at some time, often for a protracted period, and we expect similar changes in the future. In addition, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) may restrict expenditures by our federal government clients. A decline in expenditures, or a shift in expenditures away from agencies, departments, projects, or programs that we support, whether to pay for other projects or programs within the same or other agencies or departments, to reduce federal budget deficits, to fund tax reductions, or for other reasons, could materially adversely affect our business, prospects, financial condition or operating results. Moreover, the perception that a cut in Congressional appropriations and spending may occur could adversely affect investor sentiment about our common stock and cause our stock price to fall.
The failure by Congress to approve budgets in a timely manner for the federal agencies and departments we support could delay and reduce spending and cause us to lose revenue and profit.
On an annual basis, Congress must approve budgets that govern spending by each of the federal agencies and departments we support. When Congress is unable to agree on budget priorities, and thus is unable to pass the annual budget on a timely basis, then Congress typically enacts a continuing resolution. Continuing resolutions generally allow government agencies and departments to operate at spending levels based on the previous budget cycle. When government agencies and departments must operate on the basis of a continuing resolution, funding we expect to receive from clients for work we are already performing and new initiatives may be delayed or cancelled. Thus, the failure by Congress to approve budgets in a timely manner can result in either loss of revenue and profit in the event government agencies are required to cancel existing or new initiatives, or the deferral of revenue and profit to later periods due to delays in the implementation of existing or new initiatives.
Our failure to comply with complex laws, rules and regulations relating to federal government contracts could cause us to lose business and subject us to a variety of penalties.
We must comply with laws, rules and regulations relating to the formation, administration and performance of federal government contracts, which affect how we do business with our government clients and impose added costs on our business. Among the more significant are:
Ø | the Federal Acquisition Regulation, and agency regulations analogous or supplemental to the Federal Acquisition Regulation, which comprehensively regulate the formation, administration and performance of government contracts; |
Ø | the Truth in Negotiations Act, which requires certification and disclosure of cost and pricing data in connection with some contract negotiations; |
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Risk factors
Ø | the Procurement Integrity Act, which, among other things, defines standards of conduct for those attempting to secure government contracts, prohibits certain activities relating to government procurements, and limits the employment activities of certain former government employees; |
Ø | the Cost Accounting Standards, which impose accounting requirements that govern our right to reimbursement under cost-based government contracts; and |
Ø | laws, rules and regulations restricting (i) the use and dissemination of information classified for national security purposes, (ii) the exportation of specified products, technologies and technical data, and (iii) the use and dissemination of sensitive but unclassified data. |
The government may in the future change its procurement practices and/or adopt new contracting laws, rules and/or regulations, including cost accounting standards, that could be costly to satisfy or that could impair our ability to obtain new contracts. Any failure to comply with applicable laws, rules and regulations could subject us to civil and criminal penalties and administrative sanctions, including termination of contracts, repayments of amounts already received under contracts, forfeiture of profit, suspension of payments, fines and suspension or debarment from doing business with U.S. federal and even state and local government agencies and departments, any of which could substantially adversely affect our reputation, our revenue and operating results, and the value of our stock. Unless the content requires otherwise, we use the term contracts to refer to contracts and any task orders or delivery orders issued under a contract.
Unfavorable government audit results could force us to adjust previously reported operating results, could affect future operating results and could subject us to a variety of penalties and sanctions.
The federal government audits and reviews our contract performance, pricing practices, cost structure, and compliance with applicable laws, regulations and standards. Like most major government contractors, we have our government contracts audited and reviewed on a continual basis by federal agencies, including the Defense Contract Audit Agency. Audits, including audits relating to companies we have acquired or may acquire or subcontractors we have hired or may hire, could raise issues that have significant adverse effects on our operating results. For example, audits could result in substantial adjustments to our previously reported operating results if costs that were originally reimbursed, or that we believed would be reimbursed, are subsequently disallowed. In addition, cash we have already collected may need to be refunded, past and future operating margins may be reduced, and we may need to adjust our practices, which could reduce profit on other past, current and future contracts. Moreover, a government agency could withhold payments due to us under a contract pending the outcome of any investigation with respect to a contract or our performance under it.
If a government audit, review, or investigation uncovers improper or illegal activities, we may be subject to civil and criminal penalties and administrative sanctions, including termination of contracts, repayments of amounts already received under contracts, forfeiture of profit, suspension of payments, fines and suspension or debarment from doing business with U.S. federal and even state and local government agencies and departments. In addition, we could suffer serious harm to our reputation if allegations of impropriety were made against us, whether or not true. Government audits have been completed on our incurred contract costs only through 2001; audits for costs incurred on work performed since then have not yet been completed. In addition, non-audit reviews by the government may still be conducted on all our government contracts.
If we were suspended or debarred from contracting with the federal government generally, or any specific agency, if our reputation or relationship with government agencies and departments were impaired, or if the government otherwise ceased doing business with us or significantly decreased the amount of business it does with us, our revenue and operating results would be materially harmed.
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Our federal government contracts contain provisions that are unfavorable to us and permit our government clients to terminate our contracts partially or completely at any time prior to completion.
Our federal government contracts contain provisions not typically found in commercial contracts, including provisions that allow our government clients to terminate or modify these contracts at the governments convenience upon short notice. If a government client terminates one of our contracts for convenience, we may recover only our incurred and committed costs, settlement expenses, and any fee due on work completed prior to the termination but not the cost for or lost fees on the terminated work. In addition, many of our government contracts and task and delivery orders are incrementally funded as appropriated funds become available. The reduction or elimination of such funding can result in options not being exercised and further work on existing contracts and orders being curtailed. In any such event, we would have no right to seek lost fees or other damages. If a federal government client were to terminate, decline to exercise an option or to curtail further performance with respect to one or more of our significant contracts, our revenue and operating results would be materially harmed.
The adoption of new procurement practices or contracting laws, rules, and regulations and changes in existing procurement practices or contracting laws, rules and regulations could impair our ability to obtain new contracts and could cause us to lose revenue and profit.
In the future, the federal government may change its procurement practices and/or adopt new contracting laws, rules or regulations that could cause federal agencies and departments to curtail the use of services firms or increase the use of companies with a preferred status, such as small businesses. For example, legislation restricting the procedure by which services are outsourced to government contractors has been proposed in the past, and if such legislation were to be enacted, it would likely reduce the amount of services that could be outsourced by the federal government. Any such changes in procurement practices or new contracting laws, rules or regulations could impair our ability to obtain new contracts and materially reduce our revenue and profit.
Our business activities may be or may become subject to international, foreign, U.S., state or local laws or regulatory requirements that may limit our strategic options and growth and may increase our expenses and reduce our profit, negatively affecting the value of our stock. We generally have no control over the effect of such laws or requirements on us and they could affect us more than they affect other companies.
RISKS RELATED TO OUR BUSINESS
We have been dependent on contracts with U.S. federal government agencies and departments for the majority of our revenue and profit, and our business, revenue and profit levels could be materially and adversely affected if our relationships with these agencies and departments deteriorate.
Contracts with U.S. federal government agencies and departments accounted for approximately 72% of our revenue for each of 2004 and 2005. Revenue from contracts with clients in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accounted for approximately 39% of our revenue for 2004. Revenue from contracts with clients in the Department of Defense (DoD), EPA and DHS accounted for approximately 41% of our revenue for 2005. We believe that federal government contracts will continue to be the source of the vast majority of our revenue and profit for the foreseeable future.
Because we have a large a number of contracts with clients, we continually bid for and execute new contracts and our existing contracts continually become subject to recompetition and expiration. Upon
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the expiration of a contract, we typically seek a new contract or subcontractor role relating to that client to replace the revenue generated by the expired contract, although there is no assurance that we will be successful in doing so. Of our 20 largest contracts, based on their contribution to revenue for the quarter ended December 31, 2005, 13 are expected to expire or become subject to recompetition in 2006. Collectively, these contracts represented approximately 26% of our revenue for the quarter ended December 31, 2005. There can be no assurance that the government requirements those expired contracts were satisfying will continue after their expiration, that the government will re-procure those requirements, that any such re-procurement will not be restricted in a way that would eliminate us from the competition (e.g., set aside for small business), or that we will be successful in any such re-procurements. If we are not able to replace the revenue from these contracts, either through follow-on contracts for those requirements or new contracts for new requirements, our revenue and operating results will be materially harmed.
Among the key factors in maintaining our relationships with federal government agencies and departments are our performance on individual contracts, the strength of our professional reputation, and the relationships of our senior management with client personnel. Because we have many government contracts, we expect disagreements and performance issues with government clients to arise from time to time. To the extent that such disagreements arise, our performance does not meet client expectations, our reputation or relationships with one or more key clients are impaired, or one or more important client personnel leave their employment, are transferred to other positions, or otherwise become less involved with our contracts, our revenue and operating results could be materially harmed. Our reputation could also be harmed if we work on or are otherwise associated with a project that receives significant negative attention in the news media or otherwise for any reason.
Our increasing dependence on GSA Schedule and other Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts creates the risk of increasing volatility in our revenue and profit levels.
We believe that one of the key elements of our success is our position as a prime contractor under General Services Administration Multiple-Award Schedule (GSA Schedule) contracts and other Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts. As these types of contracts have increased in importance over the last several years, we believe our position as a prime contractor on these contracts has become increasingly important to our ability to sell our services to federal government clients. However, these contracts require us to compete for each delivery order and task order rather than having a more predictable stream of activity and, therefore, revenue and profit, during the term of a contract. There can be no assurance that we will continue to obtain revenue from such contracts at these levels, or in any amount, in the future. To the extent that federal agencies and departments choose to employ GSA Schedule and other contracts on which we are not qualified to compete or provide services, we could lose business, which would negatively affect our revenue and profitability.
Our commercial business depends on the energy sector of the global economy, which is highly cyclical and can lead to substantial variations in revenue and profit from period to period.
Our commercial business is heavily concentrated in the energy industry, which is highly cyclical. Our clients in the energy industry go through periods of high demand and high pricing followed by periods of low demand and low pricing. Their demand for our services has historically risen and fallen accordingly. We expect that demand for our services from energy industry clients, which is strong at the current time, will drop when the energy industry experiences its next downturn. Factors that could cause a downturn include a decline in general economic conditions, changes in political stability in the Middle East and other oil producing regions, and changes in government regulations impacting the energy sector. There
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are other factors, unrelated to the price or demand for energy, that have in the past affected demand for our services or may in the future affect it, such as the fate of a major corporation in the energy industry.
We may not receive revenue corresponding to the full amount of our backlog, or may receive it later than we expect, which could materially and adversely affect our revenue and operating results.
We have included backlog data under Business Contract Backlog and elsewhere in this prospectus. The calculation of backlog is highly subjective and is subject to numerous uncertainties and estimates, and there can be no assurance that we will in fact receive the amounts we have included in our backlog. Our assessment of a contracts potential value is based upon factors such as the amount of revenue we have recently recognized on that contract, our experience in utilizing contract capacity on similar types of contracts, and our professional judgment. In the case of contracts which may be renewed at the option of the applicable agency, we generally calculate backlog by assuming that the agency will exercise all of its renewal options; however, the applicable agency may elect not to exercise its renewal options. In addition, federal contracts rely upon Congressional appropriation of funding, which is typically provided only partially at any point during the term of federal contracts, and all or some of the work to be performed under a contract may require future appropriations by Congress and the subsequent allocation of funding by the procuring agency to the contract. Our estimate of the portion of backlog that we expect to recognize as revenue in any future period is likely to be inaccurate because the receipt and timing of this revenue is often dependent upon subsequent appropriation and allocation of funding and is subject to various contingencies, such as timing of task orders and delivery orders, many of which are beyond our control. In addition, we may never receive revenue from some of the engagements that are included in our backlog, and this risk is greater with respect to unfunded backlog.
The actual receipt of revenue on engagements included in backlog may never occur or may change because a program schedule could change, the program could be canceled, the governmental agency or other client could elect not to exercise renewal options under a contract or could select other contractors to perform services, or a contract could be reduced, modified or terminated. We adjust our backlog periodically to reflect modifications to or renewals of existing contracts, awards of new contracts, or approvals of expenditures. Additionally, the maximum contract value specified under a contract awarded to us is not necessarily indicative of the revenue that we will realize under that contract. We also derive revenue from IDIQ contracts, which typically do not require the government to purchase a specific amount of goods or services under the contract other than a minimum quantity, which is generally very small. If we fail to realize revenue corresponding to our backlog, our revenue and operating results for the then current fiscal period as well as future reporting periods could be materially adversely affected.
Because much of our work is performed under task orders, delivery orders and short-term assignments, we are exposed to the risk of not having sufficient work for our staff, which can affect both revenue and profit.
We perform some of our work under short-term contracts. Even under many of our longer-term contracts, we perform much of our work under individual task orders and delivery orders, many of which are awarded on a competitive basis. If we can not obtain new work in a timely fashion, whether through new task orders or delivery orders, modifications to existing task orders or delivery orders, or otherwise, we may not be able to keep our staff profitably utilized. It is difficult to predict when such new work or modifications will be obtained. Moreover, we need to manage our staff carefully in order to ensure that staff with appropriate qualifications are available when needed and that staff do not have excessive down-time when working on multiple projects, or as projects are beginning or nearing completion. There can be no assurance that we can profitably manage the utilization of our staff. In the short run, our costs are relatively fixed, so lack of staff utilization hurts revenue, profit and operating results.
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The loss of key members of our senior management team could impair our relationships with clients and disrupt the management of our business.
We believe that our success depends on the continued contributions of the members of our senior management team, particularly Sudhakar Kesavan, our Chief Executive Officer, John Wasson, our Chief Operating Officer, and Alan Stewart, our Chief Financial Officer. We rely on our senior management to generate business and manage and execute projects and programs successfully. In addition, the relationships and reputation that many members of our senior management team have established and maintain with client personnel contribute to our ability to maintain good client relations and identify new business opportunities. We do not generally have employment agreements with members of our senior management team providing for a specific term of employment. The loss of any member of our senior management could impair our ability to identify and secure new contracts, to maintain good client relations, and otherwise manage our business.
If we fail to attract and retain skilled employees, we will not be able to continue to win new work, to staff engagements and to sustain our profit margins and revenue growth.
We must continue to hire significant numbers of highly qualified individuals who have technical skills and who work well with our clients. These employees are in great demand and are likely to remain a limited resource for the foreseeable future. If we are unable to recruit and retain a sufficient number of these employees, our ability to staff engagements and to maintain and grow our business could be limited. In such a case, we may be unable to win or perform contracts, and we could be required to engage larger numbers of subcontractor personnel, any of which could cause a reduction in our revenue, profit and operating results and harm our reputation. We could even default under one or more contracts for failure to perform properly in a timely fashion, which could expose us to additional liability and further harm our reputation and ability to compete for future contracts. In addition, some of our contracts contain provisions requiring us to commit to staff an engagement with personnel the client considers key to our successful performance under the contract. In the event we are unable to provide these key personnel or acceptable substitutes, or otherwise staff our work, the client may reduce the size and scope of our engagement under a contract or terminate it, and our revenue and operating results may suffer.
We may not be successful in identifying acquisition candidates, and if we undertake acquisitions, they could fail to perform as we expect, increase our costs and liabilities, and disrupt our business.
One of our strategies is to pursue growth through strategic acquisitions. Although much of our recent growth has been through acquisitions, we have relatively limited acquisition experience to date. We may not be able to identify suitable acquisition candidates at prices that we consider appropriate. If we do identify an appropriate acquisition candidate, we may not be able to negotiate the terms of the acquisition successfully, finance the acquisition on terms satisfactory to us, or, if the acquisition occurs, integrate the acquired business into our existing business. Our out-of-pocket expenses in identifying, researching and negotiating potential acquisitions will likely be significant, even if we do not ultimately acquire identified businesses. In addition, negotiations of potential acquisitions and the integration of acquired business operations could disrupt our business by diverting management attention away from day-to-day operations and by reducing staff utilization during a transition period. Acquisitions of businesses or other material operations may require additional debt or equity financing or both, resulting in additional leverage or dilution of ownership, or both. Moreover, we may need to record write-downs from future impairments of identified intangible assets and goodwill, which could reduce our future reported earnings.
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It may be difficult and costly to integrate acquisitions due to geographic differences in the locations of personnel and facilities, differences in corporate cultures, disparate business models or other reasons. If we are unable to integrate companies we acquire successfully, our revenue and operating results could suffer. In addition, we may not be successful in achieving the anticipated cost efficiencies and synergies from these acquisitions, including our strategy of offering our services to existing clients of acquired companies to increase our revenue and profit. In fact, our costs for managerial, operational, financial and administrative systems may increase and be higher than anticipated. In addition, we may experience attrition, including key employees of acquired and existing businesses, during and following the integration of an acquired business into our company. This attrition could adversely affect our future revenue and operating results and prevent us from achieving the anticipated benefits of the acquisition.
Businesses that we acquire may have greater-than-expected liabilities for which we become responsible.
Businesses we acquire may have liabilities or adverse operating issues, or both, that we fail to discover through due diligence or the extent of which we underestimate prior to the acquisition. For example, to the extent that any prior owners, employees or agents of any acquired businesses or properties failed to comply with or otherwise violated applicable laws, rules or regulations, or failed to fulfill their obligations, contractual or otherwise, to applicable government authorities, their customers, suppliers or others, we, as the successor owner, may be financially responsible for these violations and failures and may suffer harm to our reputation and otherwise be adversely affected. An acquired business may have problems with internal controls over financial reporting, which could be difficult for us to discover during our due diligence process and could in turn lead us to have significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in our own internal controls over financial reporting. These and any other costs, liabilities and disruptions associated with any of our past acquisitions and any future acquisitions we may pursue could harm our operating results.
We face intense competition from many competitors that have greater resources than we do, which could result in price reductions, reduced profitability and loss of market share.
We operate in highly competitive markets and generally encounter intense competition to win contracts. We also compete with these competitors for the acquisition of new business. If we are unable to compete successfully for new business, our revenue and operating margins may decline. Many of our competitors are larger and have greater financial, technical, marketing and public relations resources, larger client bases, and greater brand or name recognition than we do. Some of our principal competitors include BearingPoint, Inc., Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., CRA International, Inc., L-3 Communications Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Navigant Consulting, Inc., Northrop Grumman Corporation, PA Consulting Group, SAIC, Inc. and SRA International, Inc. We also have numerous smaller competitors, many of which have narrower service offerings and serve niche markets. Our competitors may be able to compete more effectively for contracts and offer lower prices to clients, causing us to lose contracts and lowering our profit or even causing us to suffer losses on contracts that we do win. Some of our subcontractors are also competitors, and some of them may in the future secure positions as prime contractors, which could deprive us of work we might otherwise have won under such contract. Our competitors also may be able to provide clients with different and greater capabilities and benefits than we can provide in areas such as technical qualifications, past performance on relevant contracts, geographic presence, ability to keep pace with the changing demands of clients and the availability of key professional personnel. Our competitors also have established or may establish relationships among themselves or with third parties, including through mergers and acquisitions, to increase their ability to address client needs. Accordingly, it is possible that new competitors or alliances
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among competitors may emerge. Our competitors may also be able to offer higher prices for attractive acquisition candidates, which could harm our strategy of growing through selected acquisitions. In addition, our competitors may engage in activities, whether proper or improper, to gain access to our proprietary information, to encourage our employees to terminate their employment with us, to disparage our company, and otherwise to gain competitive advantages over us. For further information regarding competition, see section entitled Business Competition.
We derive significant revenue and profit from contracts awarded through a competitive bidding process, which can impose substantial costs upon us, and we will lose revenue and profit if we fail to compete effectively.
We derive significant revenue and profit from federal government contracts that are awarded through a competitive bidding process. We expect that most of the government business we seek in the foreseeable future will be awarded through competitive bidding. Competitive bidding imposes substantial costs and presents a number of risks, including:
Ø | the substantial cost and managerial time and effort that we spend to prepare bids and proposals for contracts that may or may not be awarded to us; |
Ø | the need to estimate accurately the resources and costs that will be required to service any contracts we are awarded, sometimes in advance of the final determination of their full scope; |
Ø | the expense and delay that may arise if our competitors protest or challenge awards made to us pursuant to competitive bidding, and the risk that any such protest or challenge could result in the resubmission of bids on modified specifications, and in termination, reduction or modification of the awarded contracts; and |
Ø | the opportunity cost of not bidding on and winning other contracts we might otherwise pursue. |
To the extent we engage in competitive bidding and are unable to win particular contracts, we not only incur substantial costs in the bidding process that would negatively affect our operating results, but we may lose the opportunity to operate in the market for services that are provided under those contracts for a number of years. Even if we win a particular contract through competitive bidding, our profit margins may be depressed or we may even suffer losses as a result of the costs incurred through the bidding process and the need to lower our prices to overcome competition.
We may lose money on some contracts if we underestimate the resources we need to perform under the contract.
We provide services to clients primarily under three types of contracts: time-and-materials contracts; cost-based contracts; and fixed-price contracts. For fiscal 2003, we derived 40%, 44%, and 16% of our revenue from time-and-materials, cost-based contracts and fixed-price contracts, respectively. For fiscal 2004, the corresponding percentages were 37%, 41% and 22%, respectively. For fiscal 2005, the corresponding percentages were 42%, 34%, and 24%, respectively. Each of these types of contracts, to differing degrees, involves the risk that we could underestimate our cost of fulfilling the contract, which may reduce the profit we earn or lead to a financial loss on the contract.
Ø | Under time-and-materials contracts, we are paid for labor at negotiated hourly billing rates and for certain expenses, and we assume the risk that our costs of performance may exceed the negotiated hourly rates. |
Ø | Under our cost-based contracts, which frequently cap many of the various types of costs we can charge and which impose overall and individual task order or delivery order ceilings, we are reimbursed for certain costs incurred, which must be allowable and at or below these caps under the terms of the |
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contract and applicable regulations. If we incur unallowable costs in performance of the contract, the client will not reimburse those costs, and if our allowable costs exceed any of the applicable caps or ceilings, we will not be able to recover those costs. In some cases, we receive no fees. |
Ø | Under fixed-price contracts, we perform specific tasks for a fixed price. Compared to cost-plus-fee contracts and time-and-materials contracts, fixed-price contracts involve greater financial risk because we bear the full impact of cost overruns. |
For all three contract types, we bear varying degrees of risk associated with the assumptions we use to formulate our pricing for the work. To the extent our working assumptions prove inaccurate, we may lose money on the contract, which would adversely affect our operating results.
Our operating margins and operating results may suffer if cost-based contracts increase in proportion to our total contract mix.
Our clients typically determine what type of contract will be awarded to us. In general, cost-based contracts are the least profitable of our contract types. To the extent that we enter into more or larger cost-based contracts in proportion to our total contract mix or our indirect rates change for any reason, our operating margins and operating results may suffer. We do not know how, if at all, our contract mix or our indirect rates will change in the future.
We have incurred substantial amounts of debt and expect to incur additional debt in the future, which could substantially reduce our profitability, limit our ability to pursue certain business opportunities, and reduce the value of your investment.
As a result of our business activities and acquisitions, we have incurred a substantial amount of debt. Although we will reduce our borrowings with the proceeds of this offering, we may incur significant additional debt in the future, which could increase the risks described here and lead to other risks. The amount of our debt could have important consequences for holders of our stock, including, but not limited to:
Ø | our future ability to obtain additional financing for working capital, capital expenditures, product and service development, acquisitions, general corporate purposes, and other purposes may be impaired; |
Ø | a substantial portion of our cash flow from operations could be dedicated to the payment of the principal and interest on our debt; |
Ø | our vulnerability to economic downturns and rises in interest rates will be increased; |
Ø | our flexibility in planning for and reacting to changes in our business and the marketplace may be limited; and |
Ø | we may be placed at a competitive disadvantage relative to other firms. |
Servicing our debt in the future may require a significant amount of cash. Our ability to repay or refinance our debt depends on our successful financial and operating performance. Our financial and operational performance depends upon a number of factors, many of which are also beyond our control.
If our financial performance declines and we are unable to pay our debts, we will be required to pursue one or more alternative strategies, such as selling assets, refinancing or restructuring indebtedness, or selling additional stock, perhaps under unfavorable conditions. Any of these factors could adversely affect the value of our stock.
Our continued success depends on our ability to raise capital on commercially reasonable terms when, and in the amounts, needed. If additional financing is required, including refinancing then existing debt, there can be no assurances that we will be able to obtain such additional financing on terms acceptable
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to us and at the times required, if at all. In such event, we may be required to raise additional equity by issuing additional stock, alter our business plan materially, curtail all or part of our business expansion plans, or be subject to the actions listed below in the event of default. Any of these results could have a significant adverse effect on the value of our stock.
A default under our debt could lead to a bankruptcy or other financial restructuring that would significantly adversely affect the value of our stock.
In the event of a default under our financing arrangements, the lenders could, among other things, (i) declare all amounts borrowed to be due and payable, together with accrued and unpaid interest, (ii) terminate their commitments to make further loans, and (iii) proceed against the collateral securing the obligations owed to them. Our senior debt is and will continue to be secured by substantially all of our assets. Defaults under additional indebtedness we incur in the future could have these and other effects. Any such default could have a significant adverse effect on the value of our stock.
A default under our debt could lead to the bankruptcy, insolvency, financial restructuring or liquidation of our company. In any such event stockholders would be entitled to share ratably in our assets available for distribution only after the payment in full to the holders of all of our debt and other liabilities. There can be no assurance that, in any such bankruptcy, insolvency, financial restructuring or liquidation, stockholders would receive any distribution whatsoever.
Our existing and future debt will include covenants that restrict our activities and create the risk of defaults, which could impair the value of your stock.
Our financing arrangements contain and will continue to contain a number of significant covenants that, among other things, restrict our ability to dispose of assets; incur additional indebtedness; make capital expenditures; pay dividends; create liens on assets; enter into leases, investments and acquisitions; engage in mergers and consolidations; engage in certain transactions with affiliates; and otherwise restrict corporate activities (including change of control and asset sale transactions). In addition, our financing arrangements require us to maintain specified financial ratios and comply with financial tests, some of which may become more restrictive over time. At times we have not fulfilled the covenants, maintained the ratios, or complied with the financial tests specified in our financial arrangements or have only marginally fulfilled the covenants, maintained the ratios, or complied with the financial tests. The failure to fulfill the requirements of debt covenants, if not cured through performance or an amendment of the financing arrangements, could have the consequences of a default described in the risk factor above. At the times when we only marginally fulfill the requirements of debt covenants, our day-to-day business decisions may be affected. For example, concern over satisfying debt restrictions and covenants might cause us to forego contract bidding or acquisition opportunities or otherwise cause us to focus on short-term rather than long-term results. There is no assurance that we will be able to fulfill our debt covenants, maintain these ratios, or comply with these financial tests in the future, nor is there any assurance that we will not be in default under our financial arrangements in the future.
Our international operations pose special and unusual risks to our profitability and operating results.
We currently have offices in London, Moscow, New Delhi, Rio de Janeiro and Toronto; we also perform work in other foreign countries, some of which have a history of political instability or may expose our employees and subcontractors to physical danger; and we expect to continue to expand our international operations and offices. One element of our strategy to improve our competitiveness is to perform some of our work in countries with lower cost structures, such as India. There can be no assurance, however, that this strategy will be successful. Moreover, this particular element of our strategy could create problems
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for our ability to compete for government contracts, to the extent government agencies prefer or mandate that work under their contracts be executed in the United States or by U.S. citizens. In addition, expansion into new geographic regions requires considerable management and financial resources, the expenditure of which may negatively impact our results, and we may never see any return on our investment. Moreover, we are required to comply with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or FCPA, which generally prevents the making of payments to foreign officials in order to obtain or retain business. Some of our competitors may not be subject to FCPA restrictions. Our operations are subject to risks associated with operating in, and selling to and in, foreign countries, including, but not limited to those listed elsewhere in this Risk factors section and:
Ø | compliance with the laws, regulations, policies, legal standards and enforcement mechanisms of the United States and the other countries in which we operate, which are sometimes inconsistent; |
Ø | currency fluctuations and devaluations and limitations on conversion of foreign currencies into U.S. dollars; |
Ø | recessions, depressions, inflation, hyperinflation, strikes and political and economic instability; |
Ø | rapid changes in and high interest rates; |
Ø | restrictions on the ability to repatriate profits to the United States or otherwise move funds; |
Ø | potential personal injury to personnel who may be exposed to military conflicts and other hostile situations in foreign countries, including Afghanistan and Iraq; |
Ø | civil disturbances, terrorist activities, acts of war, natural disasters, epidemics, pandemics and other catastrophic events; |
Ø | expropriation and nationalization of our assets or those of our subcontractors; |
Ø | difficulties in managing and staffing foreign operations and collecting accounts receivable; |
Ø | longer sales cycles; |
Ø | confiscatory taxes or other adverse tax consequences; |
Ø | tariffs, duties, export controls and other trade barriers; and |
Ø | investment and other restrictions and requirements by United States and foreign governments, including activities that disrupt markets, restrict payments or limit, change or deprive us of the ability to enforce contracts or obtain and retain licenses and other rights necessary to conduct our business. |
Any or all of these factors could, directly or indirectly, adversely affect our international and domestic operations and our overall revenue, profit and operating results.
Systems and/or service failures could interrupt our operations, leading to reduced revenue and profit.
Any interruption in our operations or any systems failures, including, but not limited to: (1) inability of our staff to perform their work in a timely fashion, whether caused by limited access to, and/or closure of, our and/or our clients offices or otherwise, (2) failure of network, software and/or hardware systems, and (3) other interruptions and failures, whether caused by us, a third-party service provider, unauthorized intruders and/or hackers, computer viruses, natural disasters, power shortages, terrorist attacks or otherwise, could cause loss of data and interruptions or delays in our business or that of our clients, or both. In addition, the failure or disruption of mail, communications and/or utilities could cause an interruption or suspension of our operations or otherwise harm our business.
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If we fail to meet client expectations or otherwise fail to perform our contracts properly, the value of our stock could decrease.
We could lose revenue, profit and clients and be exposed to liability if we have disagreements with our clients or fail to meet client expectations. We create, implement and maintain solutions that are often critical to our clients operations, and the needs of our clients are rapidly changing. Our ability to secure new work and hire and retain qualified staff depends heavily on our overall reputation as well as the individual reputations of our staff. Perceived poor performance on even a single contract could seriously impair our ability to secure new work and hire and retain qualified staff. In addition, we have experienced, and may experience in the future, some systems and service failures, schedule or delivery delays, and other problems in connection with our work.
Moreover, a failure by one or more of our subcontractors to perform satisfactorily the agreed-upon services on a timely basis may compromise our ability to perform our obligations as a prime contractor. In some cases, we have limited involvement in the work performed by the subcontractor and may have exposure as a result of problems caused by the subcontractor. In addition, we may have disputes with our subcontractors that could impair our ability to execute our contracts as required and could otherwise increase our costs.
If our work or the work of one or more of our subcontractors has significant defects or errors, fails to meet our clients expectations, or fails to keep up with clients ever-changing needs, we may, among other things:
Ø | lose future contract opportunities due to receipt of poor past performance evaluations from our customers; |
Ø | be required to provide additional services to clients at no charge; |
Ø | have contracts terminated for default and be liable to our customers for reprocurement costs and other damages; |
Ø | suffer reduced profit and loss of revenue if clients postpone additional work or fail to exercise options or to award contracts; |
Ø | receive negative publicity, which could damage our reputation and the reputation of our staff and adversely affect our ability to attract and retain clients and hire and retain qualified staff; and |
Ø | incur substantial costs and suffer claims for substantial damages against us, regardless of our responsibility for the problem. |
Any of these outcomes could have a material adverse effect upon our operations, our financial performance, and the value of our stock.
Our failure to obtain and maintain necessary security clearances may limit our ability to perform classified work for government clients, which could cause us to lose business.
Some federal government contracts require us to maintain facility security clearances and require some of our employees to maintain individual security clearances. The federal government has the right to grant and terminate such clearances. If our employees lose or are unable to obtain needed security clearances in a timely manner, or we lose or are unable to obtain a needed facility clearance, government clients can limit our work under or terminate some contracts. To the extent we cannot obtain the required facility clearances or security clearances for our employees or we fail to obtain them on a timely basis, we may not derive our anticipated revenue and profit, which could harm our operating results. In addition, a
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security breach relating to any classified or sensitive but unclassified information entrusted to us for protection could cause serious harm to our business, damage our reputation and result in a loss of our facility or individual employee security clearances.
Our relations with other contractors are important to our business and, if disrupted, could cause us damage.
We derive a portion of our revenue from contracts under which we act as a subcontractor or from teaming arrangements in which we and other contractors jointly bid on particular contracts, projects or programs. During 2004 and 2005, our revenue as a subcontractor was between 12% and 14% of our revenue. As a subcontractor or team member, we often lack control over fulfillment of a contract, and poor performance on the contract could tarnish our reputation, result in reduction of the amount of our work under or termination of that contract, and could cause us not to obtain future work, even when we perform as required. We expect to continue to depend on relationships with other contractors for a portion of our revenue and profit in the foreseeable future. Moreover, our revenue and operating results could be materially and adversely affected if any prime contractor or teammate does not pay our invoices in a timely fashion, chooses to offer products or services of the type that we provide, teams with other companies to provide such products or services, or otherwise reduces its reliance upon us for such products or services.
The diversity of the services we provide and the clients we serve may create actual, potential and perceived conflicts of interest and conflicts of business that limit our growth and lead to liability for us.
Because we provide services to a wide array of both government and commercial clients, occasions arise where, due to actual, potential or perceived conflicts of interest or business conflicts, we cannot perform work for which we are qualified. A number of our contracts contain limitations on the work we can perform for others, such as, for example, when we are assisting a governmental agency or department in the development of regulations or enforcement strategies. Our internal procedure requires that, whenever a project we are pursuing may pose a potential conflict of interest or business, our Contracts Conflict of Interest Manager, or COI Manager, is notified in writing prior to initiation of work. The COI Manager is then responsible for determining the extent of any possible conflict. As a result of these actions, we may determine that no actual or potential conflict is likely and the pursuit of the project should proceed, the likelihood of actual or potential conflict is sufficiently great that we should not pursue the project at all, or there is an actual or potential conflict of interest that can be mitigated by an appropriately fashioned mitigation plan, which must then be created and implemented. However, there can be no assurance that this process will work properly. Actual, potential and perceived conflicts limit the work we can do and, consequently, can limit our growth, adversely affect our operating results, and reduce the value of our company. In addition, if we fail to address actual or potential conflicts properly, even if we simply fail to recognize a perceived conflict of interest, we may be in violation of our existing contracts, may otherwise incur liability and lose future business for not preventing the conflict from arising, and our reputation may suffer. As we grow and further diversify our service offerings, client base and geographic reach, the potential for actual and perceived conflicts will increase, further adversely affecting our operating results.
We sometimes incur costs before a contract is executed or appropriately modified. To the extent a suitable contract or modification is not later signed or we are not paid for our work, our revenue and profit will be reduced.
When circumstances warrant, we sometimes incur expenses and perform work without a signed contract or appropriate modification to an existing contract to cover such expenses or work. When we do so, we
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are working at-risk, and there is a chance that the subsequent contract or modification will not ensue, or if it does, that it will not allow us to be paid for the expenses already incurred or work already performed or both. In such cases, we have generally been successful in obtaining the required contract or modification, but any failure to do so in the future could affect our operating results.
As we develop new services, new clients and new practices, enter new lines of business, and focus more of our business on providing more implementation and improvement services rather than advisory services, our risks of making costly mistakes increases.
We currently assist our clients both in advisory capacities and by helping them implement and improve the solutions to their problems. As part of our corporate strategy, we will attempt to sell more services relating to implementation and improvement, and we are regularly searching for ways to provide new services to clients. In addition, we plan to extend our services to new clients, into new lines of business, and into new geographic locations. As we change our focus towards implementation and improvement; attempt to develop new services, new clients, new practice areas and new lines of business; open new offices; and do business in new geographic locations, those efforts could harm our results of operations and could be unsuccessful.
In addition, there can be no assurance that we can maintain our current revenue or profitability or achieve any growth at all or that, if we grow our revenue, we can do so profitably. Competitive pressures may require us to lower our prices in order to win new work. In addition, growth and attempts to grow place substantial additional demands on our management and staff, as well as on our information, financial, administrative and operational systems, demands that we may not be able to manage successfully. Growth may require increased recruiting efforts, opening new offices, increased business development, selling, marketing and other actions that are expensive and entail increased risk. We may need to invest more in our people and systems, controls, policies and procedures than we anticipate. Therefore, even if we do grow, the demands on our people and systems, controls, policies and procedures may be sufficiently great that the quality of our work, our operating margins and our operating results suffer.
Efforts involving a different focus, new services, new clients, new practice areas, new lines of business, new offices and new geographic locations entail inherent risks associated with inexperience and competition from mature participants in those areas. Our inexperience may result in costly decisions that could harm our profit and operating results. In particular, implementation services often relate to the development and implementation of critical infrastructure or operating systems that our clients may view as mission critical, and if we fail to satisfy the needs of our clients in providing these services, our clients could incur significant costs and losses for which they could seek compensation from us.
Claims in excess of our insurance coverage could harm our business and financial results.
When entering into contracts with commercial clients, we attempt, where feasible and appropriate, to negotiate indemnification protection from our clients as well as monetary limitation of liability for professional acts, errors and omissions, but it is not always possible to do so. In addition, we cannot be sure that these contractual provisions will protect us from liability for damages if action is taken against us. Claims against us, both under our client contracts and otherwise, have arisen in the past, exist currently, and will arise in the future. These claims include actions by employees, clients and third parties. Some of the work we do, for example, in the environmental area, is potentially hazardous to our employees, our clients and third parties, and they may suffer damage because of our actions or inaction. We have various policies and programs in the environmental, health and safety area, but they may not
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prevent harm to clients, employees and third parties. Our insurance coverage may not be sufficient to cover all of the claims against us, insurance may not continue to be available on commercially reasonable terms in sufficient amounts to cover such claims, or at all, and our insurers may disclaim coverage as to any or all such claims, and otherwise may be unwilling or unable to cover such claims. The successful assertion of any claim or combination of claims against us could seriously harm our business. Even if not successful, such claims could result in significant legal and other costs, harm our reputation, and be a distraction to management.
We depend on our intellectual property and our failure to protect it could enable competitors to market services and products with similar features, which may reduce demand for our services and products.
Our success depends in part upon the internally developed technology and models, proprietary processes and other intellectual property that we utilize to provide our services and incorporate in our products. If we are unable to protect our intellectual property, our competitors could market services or products similar to our services and products, which could reduce demand for our offerings. Federal government clients typically retain a perpetual, world-wide, royalty-free right to use the intellectual property we develop for them in any manner they deem appropriate, including providing it to our competitors in connection with their performance of federal government contracts. When necessary, we seek governmental authorization to re-use intellectual property developed for the federal government or to secure export authorization. Federal government clients may grant contractors the right to commercialize software developed with federal funding, but they are not required to do so. In any event, if we were to use improperly intellectual property even partially funded by the federal government, the federal government could seek damages and royalties from us, sanction us and prevent us from working on future government contracts.
We may be unable to prevent unauthorized parties from copying or otherwise obtaining and using our technology and models. Policing unauthorized use of our technology and models is difficult, and we may not be able to prevent misappropriation, particularly in foreign countries where the laws, and enforcement of those laws, may not protect our intellectual property as fully as those in the United States. Others, including our employees, may compromise the trade secrets and other intellectual property that we own. Although we require our employees to execute non-disclosure and intellectual property assignment agreements, these agreements may not be legally or practically sufficient to protect our rights. Litigation may be necessary to enforce our intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets, and to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others. Any litigation could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources, with no assurance of success.
In addition, we need to invest in our intellectual property regularly to maintain it, keep it up to date, and improve it. There can be no assurance that we will be able to do so in a timely manner, effectively, efficiently, or at all. To the extent that we do not maintain and improve our intellectual property, our reputation may be damaged, we may lose business, and we may subject the company to costly claims that we have failed to perform our services properly.
We may be harmed by intellectual property infringement claims.
We may become subject to claims from our employees and third parties who assert that intellectual property we use in delivering services and business solutions to our clients infringe upon intellectual property rights of such employees or third parties. Our employees develop much of the intellectual property that we use to provide our services and business solutions to our clients, but we also engage third parties to assist us and we license technology from other vendors. If our vendors, our employees or
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third parties assert claims that we or our clients are infringing on their intellectual property, we could incur substantial costs to defend those claims, even if we prevail. In addition, if any of these infringement claims are ultimately successful, we could be required to:
Ø | pay substantial damages; |
Ø | cease selling and using products and services that incorporate the challenged intellectual property; |
Ø | obtain a license or additional licenses from our vendors or other third parties, which may not be available on commercially reasonable terms or at all; and |
Ø | redesign our products and services that rely on the challenged intellectual property, which may be very expensive or commercially impractical. |
Any of these outcomes could further adversely affect our operating results.
Our business will be negatively affected if we are not able to anticipate and keep pace with rapid changes in technology or if growth in the use of technology by our clients is not as rapid as in the past.
Our success depends, in part, on our ability to develop and implement technology services and solutions that anticipate and keep pace with rapid and continuing changes in technology, industry standards and client preferences. We may not be successful in anticipating or responding to these developments on a timely basis, and our offerings may not be successful in the marketplace. In addition, the costs we incur in anticipation or response may be substantial and may be greater than we anticipate, and we may never recover these costs. Also, technologies developed by our competitors may make our service or solution offerings uncompetitive or obsolete. Any one of these circumstances could have a material adverse effect on our ability to obtain and successfully complete client engagements. Moreover, we use technology-enabled tools to differentiate ICF from our competitors and to facilitate our service offerings that do not require the delivery of technology services or solutions. If we fail to keep these tools current and useful, our ability to sell and deliver our services and, as a result, our operating results could suffer.
RISKS RELATED TO THIS OFFERING
There is no prior public market for our common stock and the market price of our common stock could be extremely volatile and could decline following this offering, resulting in a substantial loss on, or total loss of, your investment.
Prior to this offering, there has not been a public market for our common stock. An active trading market for our common stock may never develop nor be sustained, which could adversely affect your ability to sell your shares and could depress the market price of your shares. In addition, the initial public offering price will be determined through negotiations among us, the selling stockholders, and the representatives of the underwriters, and may bear no relationship to the price at which the common stock will trade upon completion of this offering.
The stock market in general has been highly volatile. As a result, the market price of our common stock is likely to be similarly volatile, and investors in our common stock may experience a decrease in the value of their stock, including decreases unrelated to our operating performance or prospects. The price of our common stock could be subject to wide fluctuations in response to a number of factors, including those listed elsewhere in this Risk factors section and others such as:
Ø | our operating performance and the performance of other similar companies and companies deemed to be similar; |
Ø | actual or anticipated fluctuations in our operating results from quarter to quarter; |
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Ø | changes in estimates of our revenue, earnings or operating results or recommendations by securities analysts; |
Ø | revenue, earnings or operating results that differ from securities analysts estimates; |
Ø | publication of reports about us or our industry; |
Ø | speculation in the press and investment community; |
Ø | commencement, completion and termination of contracts, any of which can cause us to incur significant expenses without corresponding payments or revenue, during any particular quarter; |
Ø | timing of significant costs and investments, such as bid and proposal costs; |
Ø | variations in purchasing patterns under GSA Schedule contracts, IDIQ contracts and other contracts; |
Ø | our contract mix and the extent of use of subcontractors and changes in either; |
Ø | changes in our staff utilization rates, which can be caused by various factors outside of our control, including inclement weather that prevents our professional staff from traveling to work sites; |
Ø | any seasonality of our business; |
Ø | the level and cost of our debt; |
Ø | changes in presidential administrations and federal government officials; |
Ø | changes or perceived changes in policy and budgetary measures that affect government contracts; |
Ø | the unwillingness of certain parties to purchase our stock because of limitations on foreign ownership, control or influence or for other reasons; |
Ø | changes in accounting principles and policies; |
Ø | general market conditions, including economic factors unrelated to our performance; and |
Ø | military and other actions related to international conflicts, wars or otherwise. |
In the past, securities class action litigation has often been instituted against companies following periods of volatility in their stock price. This type of litigation could result in substantial costs and divert our managements attention and resources.
Our principal investor will have significant influence over us, which could result in actions of which you or other stockholders do not approve.
Following this offering, CMEP, our principal stockholder, will beneficially own shares of common stock, or % of our outstanding common stock based on shares outstanding on May 31, 2006. If the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full, CMEP will beneficially own shares, or % of our outstanding common stock. In either case, CMEP will have significant influence over the outcome of all matters that our stockholders vote upon, including the election of directors, amendments to our certificate of incorporation and by-laws, and mergers and other business combinations. CMEPs interests may not be aligned with the interests of our other investors. This concentration of ownership and voting power may also have the effect of delaying or preventing a change in control of our company and could prevent stockholders from receiving a premium over the market price if a change in control is proposed.
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Our principal investor and some members of our board of directors may have conflicts of interest that could hinder our ability to make acquisitions.
One of our principal growth strategies following completion of this offering will be to make selective acquisitions of complementary businesses. CMEP, which will continue to be our principal stockholder following the closing of this offering, sponsors private equity funds. Some of these funds are focused on investments in, among other things, businesses in the federal services sector. Our directors Peter M. Schulte and Joel R. Jacks are principals of CMEP. In addition, Messrs. Schulte and Jacks, as well as our director Dr. Edward H. Bersoff, are directors and officers of Federal Services Acquisition Corporation (FSAC), a publicly held special purpose acquisition company formed to acquire federal services businesses. FSAC has approximately $120 million available for this purpose. To date, there has not been a situation in which CMEP, FSAC and we have simultaneously pursued the same acquisition target. However, it is possible that CMEP and related funds and FSAC could be interested in acquiring businesses that we would also be interested in, and that these relationships could hinder our ability to carry out our acquisition strategy. In the event this situation arises in the future, we plan to refer the matter to independent members of our board of directors who are neither members of management nor affiliated with either CMEP nor FSAC.
We have never operated as a public company, and fulfilling our obligations incident to being a public company will be expensive and time consuming.
As a private company, we have maintained a relatively small finance and accounting staff. We currently do not have an internal audit group, and we have not been required to maintain and establish disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting as required under the federal securities laws. As a public company, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the related rules and regulations of the SEC, as well as the rules of the Nasdaq National Market, will require us to implement additional corporate governance practices and adhere to a variety of reporting requirements and complex accounting rules. Compliance with these public company obligations will require significant management time, place significant additional demands on our finance and accounting staff and on our financial, accounting and information systems. We may need to hire additional accounting and financial staff with appropriate public company reporting experience and technical accounting knowledge. Other expenses associated with being a public company include increased auditing, accounting and legal fees and expenses, investor relations expenses, increased directors fees and director and officer liability insurance costs, registrar and transfer agent fees, listing fees, as well as other miscellaneous expenses. We cannot accurately predict the amount of additional costs that we may incur or the timing of such costs, but we have estimated that such costs will exceed $2 million during our first 12 months of being a public company. We believe, but cannot be certain, that the level of such costs will be higher during the first year or two of being a public company than in later years.
Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 will require us to document and test our internal controls over financial reporting for fiscal 2007 and beyond and will require an independent registered public accounting firm to report on our assessment as to the effectiveness of these controls. Any delays or difficulty in satisfying these requirements could adversely affect our future results of operations and our stock price.
Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 will require us to document and test the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting in accordance with an established internal control framework and to report on our conclusion as to the effectiveness of our internal controls. It will also require an independent registered public accounting firm to test our internal controls over financial reporting and report on the effectiveness of such controls for our fiscal year ending December 31, 2007
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and subsequent years. An independent registered public accounting firm will also be required to test, evaluate and report on the completeness of our assessment. In addition, upon completion of this offering, we will be required under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to maintain disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting. Moreover, it may cost us more than we expect to comply with these control- and procedure-related requirements.
We may in the future discover areas of our internal controls that need improvement, particularly with respect to businesses that we have recently acquired or may acquire in the future. We cannot be certain that any remedial measures we take will ensure that we implement and maintain adequate internal controls over our financial processes and reporting in the future. Any failure to implement required new or improved controls, or difficulties encountered in their implementation could harm our operating results or cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations. If we are unable to conclude that we have effective internal controls over financial reporting, or if our independent auditors are unable to provide us with an unqualified report regarding the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting as of December 31, 2007 and in future periods as required by Section 404, investors could lose confidence in the reliability of our financial statements, which could result in a decrease in the value of our common stock. Failure to comply with Section 404 could potentially subject us to sanctions or investigations by the SEC, the Nasdaq National Market or other regulatory authorities.
A substantial number of shares will become eligible for sale in the near future, which could cause our common stock price to decline significantly.
If our stockholders sell, or the market perceives that our stockholders intend to sell, substantial amounts of our common stock in the public market, the market price of our common stock could decline significantly. These sales also might make it more difficult for us to sell equity or equity-related securities in the future at a time and price that we deem appropriate. In 2006, shares will become available for sale in the public market following the expiration of lock-up agreements by CMEP and certain other stockholders. As these restrictions on resale end, the market price of our common stock could drop significantly if the holders of these shares sell them or are perceived by the market as intending to sell them. Also, as of May 31, 2006, options to purchase shares of our common stock were exercisable and additional options will become exercisable in the future. Shares issued upon the exercise of any of these stock options would generally be available for sale in the public market.
We do not intend to pay dividends.
We intend to retain our earnings, if any, for general corporate purposes, and we do not anticipate paying cash dividends on our stock in the foreseeable future. In addition, existing financing arrangements prohibit us from paying such dividends. This lack of dividends may make our stock less attractive to investors.
Provisions of our charter documents and Delaware law may inhibit potential acquisition bids and other actions that you and other stockholders may consider favorable, and the market price of our common stock may be lower as a result.
There are provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws that make it more difficult for a third party to acquire, or attempt to acquire, control of our company, even if a change in control were considered favorable by you and other stockholders. For example, our board of directors has the authority to issue up to 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock. The board of directors can fix the price, rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions of the preferred stock without any further vote or action by our stockholders. The issuance of shares of preferred stock may delay or prevent a change-in-control transaction. As a result, the market price of our common stock and
the voting and other rights of our stockholders may be adversely affected. This issuance of shares of preferred stock may result in the loss of voting control to other stockholders.
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Our charter documents contain other provisions that could have an anti-takeover effect. These provisions:
Ø | divide our board of directors into three classes, making it more difficult for stockholders to change the composition of the board; |
Ø | allow directors to be removed only for cause; |
Ø | do not permit our stockholders to call a special meeting of the stockholders; |
Ø | require all stockholder actions to be taken by a vote of the stockholders at an annual or special meeting or by a written consent signed by all of our stockholders; |
Ø | require our stockholders to comply with advance notice procedures to nominate candidates for election to our board of directors or to place stockholders proposals on the agenda for consideration at stockholder meetings; and |
Ø | require the approval of the holders of capital stock representing at least two-thirds of the companys voting power to amend our indemnification obligations, director classifications, stockholder proposal requirements and director candidate nomination requirements set forth in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws. |
In addition, we are subject to the anti-takeover provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which regulates corporate acquisitions. These provisions could discourage potential acquisition proposals and could delay or prevent a change-in-control transaction. They could also have the effect of discouraging others from making tender offers for our common stock. These provisions may also prevent changes in our management.
We indemnify our officers and the members of our board of directors under certain circumstances. Such provisions may discourage stockholders from bringing a lawsuit against officers and directors for breaches of fiduciary duty and may also have the effect of reducing the likelihood of derivative litigation against officers and directors even though such action, if successful, might otherwise have benefited you and other stockholders. In addition, your investment may be adversely affected to the extent that we pay the costs of settlement and damage awards against our officers or directors pursuant to such provisions.
Because our management will have broad discretion over the use of the net proceeds to us from this offering, you may not agree with how we use them and the proceeds may not be invested successfully.
Our management will have broad discretion as to the use of the offering proceeds. Although we currently anticipate that the net proceeds of this offering to us will be used primarily for repayment of our existing indebtedness under our revolving credit facility and term loan facilities and one-time bonus payments due to employees under our amended and restated employee annual incentive compensation pool plan, with the balance to be used for general corporate purposes, including working capital and potential acquisitions, our management may allocate our net proceeds among these purposes as it determines is necessary. Even if our existing indebtedness is reduced, we may subsequently decide to incur additional debt. In addition, market or other factors may require our management to allocate portions of our net proceeds for other purposes. Accordingly, you will be relying on the judgment of our management with regard to the use of the net proceeds to us from this offering, and you will not have the opportunity, as part of your investment decision, to assess whether these proceeds are being used appropriately. It is possible that we will invest our portion of the net proceeds in a way that does not yield a favorable, or any, return for our company.
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If you invest in this offering, you will experience immediate and substantial dilution.
The initial public offering price of our common stock will be substantially higher than the net tangible book value per share of the outstanding common stock. As a result, investors purchasing common stock in this offering will incur immediate dilution in the net tangible book value per share of the common stock. Investors who purchase shares in this offering:
Ø | will pay a price per share that substantially exceeds the per share tangible book value of our assets after subtracting our liabilities; and |
Ø | will have contributed approximately % of the total amount of our equity funding since inception, but will only own approximately % of the shares outstanding immediately after this offering, based on shares outstanding on March 31, 2006, calculated on a pro forma basis. |
In the past, we have offered, and we expect to continue to offer, stock to our employees and directors. Such stock is likely to be offered to our employees and directors at prices below the then current market prices and may be offered at prices below the initial public offering price. Our employee stock purchase plan will allow employees to purchase our stock at a five percent discount to market price. Options issued in the past have had per share exercise prices below the initial public offering price per share. As of March 31, 2006, there were shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of outstanding stock options at a weighted average exercise price of $ per share. Additional options may be granted to employees and directors in the future at per-share exercise prices below the then current market prices and below the initial public offering price per share.
In addition, we may be required, or could elect, to seek additional equity financing in the future or to issue preferred or common stock to pay all or part of the purchase price for any businesses, products, technologies, intellectual property and/or other assets or rights we may acquire or to pay for a reduction, change and/or elimination of liabilities in the future. If we issue new equity securities under these circumstances, our stockholders may experience additional dilution and the holders of any new equity securities may have rights, preferences and privileges senior to those of the holders of our common stock.
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Special note regarding forward-looking statements
Some of the statements under Summary, Risk factors, Managements discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations, Business, and elsewhere in this prospectus constitute forward-looking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as anticipate, believe, could, estimate, expect, intend, may, plan, potential, should, will, and would or similar words. You should read statements that contain these words carefully because they discuss our future expectations, contain projections of our future results of operations or of our financial position, or state other forward-looking information. We believe that it is important to communicate our future expectations to our investors. However, there may be events in the future that we are not able to predict or control accurately. The factors listed above in the section captioned Risk factors, as well as any cautionary language in this prospectus, provide examples of risks, uncertainties and events that may cause our actual results to differ materially from the expectations we describe in our forward-looking statements, including but not limited to:
Ø | changes in federal government spending priorities; |
Ø | failure by Congress to timely approve budgets; |
Ø | our dependency on contracts with federal government agencies and departments for the majority of our revenue; |
Ø | an economic downturn in the energy sector; |
Ø | failure to receive the full amount of our backlog; |
Ø | loss of members of management or other key employees; |
Ø | difficulties implementing our acquisition strategy; and |
Ø | difficulties expanding our service offerings and client base. |
Before you invest in our common stock, you should be aware that the occurrence of the events described above, in the section captioned Risk factors and elsewhere in this prospectus could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial position.
Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this prospectus. We undertake no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, even if our situation changes in the future.
NOTICE TO INVESTORS
You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus. We, the selling stockholders and the underwriters have not authorized anyone to give you different or additional information. We are offering to sell, and seeking offers to buy, shares of our common stock only in jurisdictions where those offers and sales are permitted. You should not assume that the information in this prospectus is accurate as of any date after the date of this prospectus, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or of any sale of shares of common stock.
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We estimate that the net proceeds to us from this offering will be approximately $ , or approximately $ if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full, assuming an initial public offering price of $ per share (the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses. Each $1 increase (decrease) in the public offering price per share would increase (decrease) our net proceeds, after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions, by $ (assuming no exercise of the underwriters over-allotment option).
We intend to use:
Ø | approximately $ of the net proceeds of this offering to repay a portion of the existing indebtedness under our revolving credit and term loan facilities; |
Ø | $2.7 million for one-time bonus payments due to employees under our amended and restated employee annual incentive compensation pool plan (see Management Employment Agreements); and |
Ø | the balance for general corporate purposes, including working capital and potential acquisitions. |
We are often engaged in preliminary discussions with acquisition candidates. As of the date of this prospectus, we have no binding commitments or agreements to enter into any acquisitions.
We expect to refinance our revolving credit facility and two term loan facilities in connection with the completion of this offering. Those facilities include:
Ø | An $8 million short-term term loan facility that matures in January 2007 (sometimes referred to herein as the time loan facility). As of May 26, 2006, the outstanding principal amount under this facility was $8.0 million. |
Ø | A $22 million term loan facility that matures in October 2010. As of May 26, 2006, the outstanding principal amount under this facility was $19.8 million. |
Ø | A revolving credit facility that allows us to borrow up to the lesser of $45 million or the applicable borrowing base and matures in October 2010. As of May 26, 2006, the principal amount outstanding under our revolving credit facility was $37.5 million. |
The indebtedness to be repaid under our short-term term loan facility, our term loan facility and our revolving credit facility bears interest at rates equal to an applicable margin, or spread, plus, at our option, either a base rate equal to the U.S. prime rate or a LIBOR rate determined by reference to the interest period relevant to the indebtedness. The applicable margins for base rate indebtedness and applicable spread for LIBOR rate indebtedness under the short-term term loan and term loan facilities and the revolving credit loan facility are variable subject to certain leverage ratio tests. As of May 26, 2006, the base rate margin and LIBOR spread were 0.75% and 3.50%, respectively, for borrowings under the short-term term loan facility; 0.25% and 3.00%, respectively, for borrowings under the term loan facility; and 0.25% and 3.00%, respectively, for borrowings under the revolving credit facility.
A substantial amount of the debt to be repaid with the proceeds of the offering was incurred in 2005 in connection with the Synergy and Caliber acquisitions and the repayment of $6.4 million of subordinated debt due to our former parent. In connection with the Synergy acquisition in January 2005, we increased the capacity under our credit facilities by $10 million. In October 2005, in connection with the Caliber acquisition and the repayment of debt to our former parent, we increased the capacity under our credit facilities by an additional $25 million.
We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of common stock by the selling stockholders.
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We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our common stock. We currently intend to retain all future earnings, if any, for use in the operations and expansion of our business. As a result, we do not anticipate paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Any future determination as to the declaration and payment of cash dividends will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend on factors our board of directors deems relevant, including among others, our results of operations, financial condition and cash requirements, business prospects, and the terms of our credit facilities and other financing arrangements.
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The following table sets forth our cash and cash equivalents, short-term debt and capitalization as of March 31, 2006:
Ø | on an actual basis; and |
Ø | on an adjusted basis to reflect our sale of common stock in this offering at an assumed public offering price of $ per share (the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), and receipt of the net proceeds, after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses. Each $1 increase (decrease) in the public offering price per share would increase (decrease) the as-adjusted figure shown below for cash and cash equivalents, additional paid-in capital and total stockholders equity by $ (assuming no exercise of the underwriters over-allotment option), after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions. |
As of March 31, 2006 | |||||||
Actual | As adjusted | ||||||
(In thousands) | |||||||
Cash and cash equivalents |
$ | 1,296 | $ | ||||
Current portion of long-term debt |
$ | 12,400 | $ | ||||
Long-term debt, net of current portion(1) |
$ | 53,944 | $ | ||||
Stockholders equity: |
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Common stock, $0.01 par value per share; 20,000,000 shares authorized; shares issued and shares outstanding, actual; shares issued and shares outstanding, as adjusted |
93 | ||||||
Additional paid-in capital |
51,011 | ||||||
Retained earnings |
4,928 | ||||||
Treasury stock |
(628 | ) | |||||
Stockholder notes receivable(2) |
(1,446 | ) | |||||
Accumulated other comprehensive income |
202 | ||||||
Total stockholders equity |
54,160 | ||||||
Total capitalization |
$ | 120,504 | $ | ||||
You should read this table along with Managements discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations and our financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this prospectus.
The actual outstanding share information is retroactively adjusted to give effect to the -for- stock split of our common stock to be effected immediately prior to the closing of this offering and excludes:
Ø | shares issuable upon exercise of options outstanding as of March 31, 2006, at a weighted average exercise price of per share, of which options to purchase shares were exercisable as of that date; |
Ø | shares issuable upon exercise of warrants outstanding as of March 31, 2006, at an exercise price of per share, all of which were exercisable as of that date; and |
Ø | shares available for future grant under our stock plans as of March 31, 2006. |
(1) | At May 26, 2006, we had approximately $52.9 million in long-term debt, net of current portion, outstanding. |
(2) | Represents loans provided by us to certain employees for the purpose of purchasing shares of our common stock. As of May 5, 2006, certain of those loans, with an aggregate principal balance of $703,027, were repaid. See Certain relationships and related party transactionsLoans to Executive Officers. |
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If you invest in our common stock in this offering, your ownership will be diluted to the extent of the difference between the initial public offering price per share and the pro forma net tangible book value per share of our common stock after this offering. Our net tangible book value, as of March 31, 2006, was approximately $ , or $ per share of common stock. Net tangible book value per share represents the amount of total tangible assets less total liabilities, divided by the number of shares of common stock outstanding.
Dilution per share to new investors represents the difference between the amount per share paid by purchases of our common stock in this offering and the net tangible book value per share of common stock immediately after completion of this offering. As of March 31, 2006, after giving effect to:
Ø | the -for- stock split of our common stock to be effected immediately prior to the closing of this offering; |
Ø | the sale by us of shares of common stock in this offering at an assumed initial public offering price of $ per share (the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus); and |
Ø | the deduction of the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us, |
our pro forma net tangible book value would have been approximately $ , or $ per share. The assumed initial public offering price of $ per share exceeds $ per share, which is the per share pro forma value of our total tangible assets less total liabilities after this offering. This represents an immediate increase in pro forma net tangible book value of $ per share to existing stockholders. Accordingly, new investors in the offering will suffer an immediate dilution of their investment of approximately $ per share. The table below illustrates this per share dilution as of March 31, 2006:
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Pro forma net tangible book value per share dilution to new stockholders |
$ |
Each $1 increase (decrease) in the public offering price per share would increase (decrease) the as-adjusted pro forma net tangible book value by $ per share (assuming no exercise of the underwriters over-allotment option) and the dilution to investors in this offering by $ per share, assuming that the number of shares offered in this offering, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same.
If the underwriters over-allotment option is exercised in full, the as-adjusted pro forma net tangible book value will increase to approximately $ per share, representing an increase to existing stockholders of approximately $ per share, and there will be an immediate dilution of approximately $ per share to new investors.
The following table summarizes, as of March 31, 2006, the difference between the number of shares of common stock purchased from us, the total consideration paid for such shares and the average price per share paid by existing stockholders and by new investors. As shown in the following table, new investors will contribute % of the total consideration paid to us to date in exchange for shares of our stock, in exchange for which they will own % of our outstanding shares of common stock. The calculation
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below is based on the assumed initial offering price of $ per share, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and our estimated expenses for this offering:
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Each $1 increase (decrease) in the public offering price per share would increase (decrease) the total consideration paid by new investors, total consideration paid by all stockholders and the price per share paid by new stockholders by $ , $ and $ , respectively, assuming that the number of shares offered in this offering, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same.
If the underwriters over-allotment option is exercised in full, the number of shares held by new investors will increase to shares, or %, of the total number of shares of common stock outstanding immediately after this offering.
The tables and calculations above are based on shares outstanding as of March 31, 2006 after giving effect to the -for- stock split of our common stock to be effected immediately prior to the closing of this offering, and exclude:
Ø | shares issuable upon exercise of options outstanding as of March 31, 2006, at a weighted average exercise price of per share, of which options to purchase shares were exercisable as of that date; |
Ø | shares issuable upon exercise of warrants outstanding as of March 31, 2006, at an exercise price of per share, all of which were exercisable as of that date; and |
Ø | shares available for future grant under our stock plans as of March 31, 2006. |
To the extent that any of these options or warrants are exercised, new options or warrants are issued or we issue additional shares of common stock in the future, there will be further dilution to new investors.
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Selected consolidated financial and other data
The following selected consolidated financial and other data should be read in conjunction with our financial statements and the related notes, and with Managements discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations, included elsewhere in this prospectus. The statement of operations data for 2003, 2004 and 2005 and the balance sheet data as of December 31, 2004 and 2005 are derived from, and are qualified by reference to, our audited financial statements included in this prospectus. The statement of operations data for 2001 and 2002 and the balance sheet data as of December 31, 2001, 2002 and 2003 are derived from our corresponding audited financial statements. The statement of operations data for the quarters ended April 1, 2005 and March 31, 2006 and the balance sheet data as of April 1, 2005 and March 31, 2006 are derived from our unaudited financial statements included in this prospectus. In the opinion of management, those unaudited financial statements have been prepared on a basis substantially consistent with the audited financial statements and include all adjustments, consisting of normal and recurring adjustments, necessary for the fair presentation of the results for these periods and as of such dates. Results for any interim period are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for a full year.
We have presented the balance sheet data as of March 31, 2006:
Ø | on an actual basis; and |
Ø | on an adjusted basis to reflect our sale of common stock in this offering at an assumed public offering price of $ per share (the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), and receipt of the net proceeds, after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses. Each $1 increase (decrease) in the public offering price per share would increase (decrease) the as-adjusted figure shown below for cash and cash equivalents and total stockholders equity by $ (assuming no exercise of the underwriters over-allotment option), after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions. |
We adopted the provisions of SFAS 123(R) on January 1, 2006, and our results for the quarter ended March 31, 2006 reflect $76,359 of stock-based compensation expense.
Effective October 1, 2005, we consummated the acquisition of Caliber Associates, Inc. for $20.8 million in cash. The unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated statement of operations data for the year ended December 31, 2005 gives effect to the acquisition of Caliber Associates, Inc. as if it had occurred on January 1, 2005. Operating results for Caliber Associates, Inc. from the date of the acquisition, October 1, 2005, through December 31, 2005 are included in our statement of operations data for the year ended December 31, 2005. The pro forma information has been prepared for illustrative purposes only, and is not necessarily indicative of the operating results that would have occurred if the acquisition had been consummated on January 1, 2005, nor is it necessarily indicative of any future operating results.
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2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
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Revenue |
$ | 111,733 | $ | 143,496 | $ | 145,803 | $ | 139,488 | $ | 177,218 | $ | 207,794 | $ | 41,212 | $ | 53,448 | ||||||||||||||||
Direct costs |
62,258 | 87,345 | 91,022 | 83,638 | 106,078 | 122,192 | 23,969 | 31,626 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operating expenses |
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Indirect and selling expenses |
41,068 | 47,156 | 45,335 | 46,097 | 60,039 | (1) | 71,782 | (1) | 13,905 | 17,883 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Depreciation and amortization |
5,196 | 3,664 | 3,000 | 3,155 | 5,541 | 6,706 | 777 | 772 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Earnings from operations |
3,211 | 5,331 | 6,446 | 6,598 | 5,560 | 7,114 | 2,561 | 3,167 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other (expense) income |
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Interest expense, net |
(3,688 | ) | (2,940 | ) | (3,095 | ) | (1,266 | ) | (2,981 | ) | (4,054 | ) | (473 | ) | (1,026 | ) | ||||||||||||||||
Other |
| | 33 | (33 | ) | 1,308 | 1,308 | 1 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Total other (expense) income |
(3,688 | ) | (2,940 | ) | (3,062 | ) | (1,299 | ) | (1,673 | ) | (2,746 | ) | (472 | ) | (1,026 | ) | ||||||||||||||||
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes |
(477 | ) | 2,391 | 3,384 | 5,299 | 3,887 | 4,368 | 2,089 | 2,141 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Minority interest in net loss |
94 | | | | | | | | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Income tax expense |
716 | 1,099 | 1,320 | 2,466 | 1,865 | 2,420 | 1,002 | 1,047 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Income (loss) from continuing operations |
(1,099 | ) | 1,292 | 2,064 | 2,833 | 2,022 | 1,948 | 1,087 | 1,094 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Discontinued operations |
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Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net |
251 | (503 | ) | 308 | (196 | ) | | | | | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Gain from disposal of subsidiary, net |
| | | 380 | | | | | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Income (loss) from discontinued operations |
251 | (503 | ) | 308 | 184 | | | | | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Net income (loss) |
$ | (848 | ) | $ | 789 | $ | 2,372 | $ | 3,017 | $ | 2,022 | $ | 1,948 | $ | 1,087 | $ | 1,094 | |||||||||||||||
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2002 |
2003 | 2004 |
2005 |
April 1, 2005 |
March 31, 2006 | ||||||||||||||
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EBITDA from continuing operations(2) |
$ | 8,407 | $ | 8,995 | $ | 9,446 | $ | 9,753 | $ | 11,101 | $ | 3,338 | $ | 3,939 | |||||||
Non-cash compensation charge included in EBITDA from continuing operations(1) |
| | | | 2,138 | | |
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Consolidated balance sheet data: | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | Actual | Adjusted | ||||||||||||||
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Cash and cash equivalents |
$ | 1,011 | $ | 660 | $ | 1,643 | $ | 797 | $ | 499 | $ | 1,296 | $ | ||||||||
Net working capital |
10,499 | 10,305 | 6,085 | 5,502 | 18,141 | 19,374 | |||||||||||||||
Total assets |
88,311 | 105,945 | 101,842 | 94,057 | 151,124 | 155,953 | |||||||||||||||
Current portion of long-term debt |
2,750 | 3,750 | 4,235 | 4,235 | 6,767 | 12,400 | |||||||||||||||
Long-term debt, net of current portion |
33,183 | 27,904 | 20,313 | 16,844 | 54,205 | 53,944 | |||||||||||||||
Total stockholders equity |
30,815 | 43,079 | 45,276 | 47,861 | 52,903 | 54,160 |
(1) | Includes a one-time, non-cash compensation charge of $2.1 million in December 2005 resulting from the acceleration of the vesting of all then outstanding stock options. See Managements discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operationsResults of OperationsYear ended December 31, 2005 compared to year ended December 31, 2004. |
(2) | EBITDA from continuing operations, a measure used by us to evaluate performance, is defined as net income plus (less) loss (income) from discontinued operations, less gain from sale of discontinued operations, less other income, plus other expenses, net interest expense, income tax expense and depreciation and amortization. We believe EBITDA from continuing operations is useful to investors because similar measures are frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of companies in our industry. EBITDA from continuing operations is not a recognized term under generally accepted accounting principles and does not purport to be an alternative to net income as a measure of operating performance or to cash flows from operating activities as a measure of liquidity. Because not all companies use identical calculations, this presentation of EBITDA from continuing operations may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures used by other companies. EBITDA from continuing operations is not intended to be a measure of free cash flow for managements discretionary use, as it does not consider certain cash requirements such as interest payments, tax payments, capital expenditures and debt service. Our credit agreement includes covenants based on EBITDA from continuing operations, subject to certain adjustments. See Managements discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations Liquidity and Capital Resources. A reconciliation of net income to EBITDA from continuing operations follows: |
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Net income (loss) |
$ | (848 | ) | $ | 789 | $ | 2,372 | $ | 3,017 | $ | 2,022 | $ | 1,087 | $ | 1,094 | |||||||||||
Loss (income) from discontinued operations |
(251 | ) | 503 | (308 | ) | 196 | | | | |||||||||||||||||
Gain from sale of discontinued operations |
| | | (380 | ) | | | | ||||||||||||||||||
Other expense (income) |
| | (33 | ) | 33 | (1,308 | ) | (1 | ) | | ||||||||||||||||
Interest expense, net |
3,688 | 2,940 | 3,095 | 1,266 | 2,981 | 473 | 1,026 | |||||||||||||||||||
Minority interest in net loss |
(94 | ) | | | | | | | ||||||||||||||||||
Income tax expense |
716 | 1,099 | 1,320 | 2,466 | 1,865 | 1,002 | 1,047 | |||||||||||||||||||
Depreciation and amortization |
5,196 | 3,664 | 3,000 | 3,155 | 5,541 | 777 | 772 | |||||||||||||||||||
EBITDA from continuing operations |
$ | 8,407 | $ | 8,995 | $ | 9,446 | $ | 9,753 | $ | 11,101 | $ | 3,338 | $ | 3,939 | ||||||||||||
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UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED FINANCIAL DATA
We acquired Caliber Associates, Inc. (Caliber) effective as of October 1, 2005 for $20.8 million in cash. The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations data for the year ended December 31, 2005 gives effect to our acquisition of Caliber as if it had occurred on January 1, 2005. The acquisition has been accounted for using purchase price accounting in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 141, Business Combinations.
This unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations has been prepared in accordance with rules prescribed by Article 11 of Regulation S-X and based upon our historical financial statements and the historical financial statements of Caliber. This unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations should be read in conjunction with our historical audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2005, and the historical audited consolidated financial statements of Caliber for the year ended December 31, 2004 and the historical unaudited consolidated financial statements of Caliber for the nine months ended September 30, 2005 included elsewhere in this prospectus. This unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations has been prepared for illustrative purposes only, and is not necessarily indicative of the operating results that would have occurred if the acquisition transaction described above had been consummated on January 1, 2005, nor is it necessarily indicative of any future operating results.
Year ended December 31, 2005 |
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ICF (includes Caliber results from October 1, 2005) |
Caliber (through |
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Revenue |
$ | 177,218 | $ | 30,576 | $ | | $ | 207,794 | |||||||
Direct costs |
106,078 | 16,114 | | 122,192 | |||||||||||
Operating expenses |
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Indirect and selling expenses |
60,039 | (1) | 14,517 | (2,774) | (2) | 71,782 | (1) | ||||||||
Depreciation and amortization |
5,541 | 384 | 781 | (3) | 6,706 | ||||||||||
Earnings from operations |
5,560 | (439) | 1,993 | 7,114 | |||||||||||
Other (expense) income |
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Interest expense, net |
(2,981) | (763) | (310) | (4) | (4,054) | ||||||||||
Other |
1,308 | | | 1,308 | |||||||||||
Total other expense |
1,673 | (763) | (310) | (2,746) | |||||||||||
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes |
3,887 | (1,202) | 1,683 | 4,368 | |||||||||||
Income tax expense |
1,865 | | 555 | (5) | 2,420 | ||||||||||
Income (loss) from continuing operations |
$ | 2,022 | $ | (1,202) | $ | 1,128 | $ | 1,948 | |||||||
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(1) | Includes a one-time, non-cash compensation charge of $2.1 million in December 2005 resulting from the acceleration of the vesting of all then outstanding stock options. See Managements discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operationsResults of OperationsYear ended December 31, 2005 compared to year ended December 31, 2004. |
(2) | Pro forma adjustment to remove Calibers employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) expense for January to September 2005. The ESOP terminated upon the acquisition and would not have existed in the period provided or been replaced with a similar expense. See Note 9 Employee Benefit Plans of the notes to the historical unaudited consolidated financial statements of Caliber Associates, Inc. for the nine months ended September 30, 2005 included in this prospectus. |
(3) | Pro forma adjustment to reflect increase in amortization expense of purchased intangibles assuming acquisition of Caliber on January 1, 2005, net of removal of amortization for Calibers own intangibles that ceased at purchase. |
(4) | Pro forma adjustment to reflect net increase in interest expense for additional interest expense on acquisition financing indebtedness and for elimination of interest expense on indebtedness of Caliber related to its ESOP. |
(5) | Pro forma adjustment to reflect a net increase in tax expense due to the following items (in thousands): |
Increase due to elimination of ESOP expense |
$ | 1,097 | ||
Increase due to amortization expense |
56 | |||
Tax benefit of net loss of Caliber for nine months | (476 | ) | ||
Decrease for additional interest expense | (122 | ) | ||
$ | 555 | |||
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Managements discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations
The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with the Selected consolidated financial and other data and the consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus. This discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions, such as statements of our plans, objectives, expectations and intentions. The cautionary statements made in this prospectus should be read as applying to all related forward-looking statements wherever they appear in this prospectus. Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to our actual results differing materially from those anticipated include those discussed in Risk Factors and elsewhere in this prospectus.
OVERVIEW
We provide management, technology and policy consulting and implementation services primarily to the U.S. federal government, as well as to other government, commercial and international clients. We help our clients conceive, develop, implement and improve solutions that address complex economic, social and national security issues. Our services primarily address four key markets: defense and homeland security; energy; environment and infrastructure; and health, human services and social programs. Increased government involvement in virtually all aspects of our lives has created opportunities for us to resolve issues at the intersection of the public and private sectors. We believe that demand for our services will continue to grow as government, industry and other stakeholders seek to understand and respond to geopolitical and demographic changes, budgetary constraints, heightened environmental and social concerns, rapid technological changes and increasing globalization.
Our federal government, state and local government, commercial and international clients utilize our services because we combine diverse institutional knowledge and experience in their activities with the deep subject matter expertise of our highly educated staff, which we deploy in multi-disciplinary teams. Our federal government clients include every cabinet-level department, including the Department of Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Justice and the Department of Energy. U.S. federal government clients generated 72% of our revenue in 2005. Our state and local government clients include the states of California, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. State and local government clients generated 9% of our revenue in 2005. We also serve commercial and international clients, primarily in the energy sector, including electric and gas utilities, oil companies and law firms. Our commercial and international clients generated 19% of our revenue in 2005. We have successfully worked with many of these clients for decades, providing us a unique and knowledgeable perspective on their needs.
We report operating results and financial data as a single segment based upon the information used by our chief operating decision makers in evaluating the performance of our business and allocating resources.
REVENUE
We earn revenue from services that we provide to government and commercial clients in four key markets:
Ø | defense and homeland security; |
Ø | energy; |
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Ø | environment and infrastructure; and |
Ø | health, human services and social programs. |
The following table shows our revenue from each of our four markets as a percentage of total revenue for the periods indicated. For each client, we have attributed all revenue from that client to the market we consider to be the clients primary market, even if a portion of that revenue relates to a different market.
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Defense and homeland security |
16 | % | 19 | % | 28 | % | 29 | % | 28 | % | |||||
Energy |
24 | 21 | 20 | 20 | 19 | ||||||||||
Environment and infrastructure |
44 | 44 | 35 | 38 | 28 | ||||||||||
Health, human services and social programs |
16 | 16 | 17 | 13 | 25 | ||||||||||
Total revenue |
100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % | |||||
The proportion of our revenue from each market identified in the above table changed significantly from 2004 to 2005, and may change from 2005 to 2006, due primarily to our recent acquisitions. See Acquisitions below for a discussion of these acquisitions.
Our primary clients are agencies and departments of the U.S. federal government. The following table shows our revenue by type of client as a percentage of total revenue for the periods indicated.
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72 | % | 72 | % | 72 | % | 72 | % | 75 | % | |||||
Domestic commercial |
12 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 11 | ||||||||||
U.S. state and local government |
7 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 9 | ||||||||||
International |
9 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 5 | ||||||||||
Total revenue |
100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % | |||||
Most of our revenue is from contracts on which we are the prime contractor, which we believe provides us strong client relationships. In 2003, 2004 and 2005, 91%, 87% and 86% of our revenue, respectively, was from prime contracts.
Contract mix
We had over 1,000 active contracts in 2005. Our contracts with clients include time-and-materials contracts, cost-based contracts (including cost-based fixed fee, cost-based award fee and cost-based incentive fee, as well as grants and cooperative agreements), and fixed-price contracts. Our contract mix varies from year to year due to numerous factors, including our business strategies and the procurement activities of our clients. Unless the content requires otherwise, we use the term contracts to refer to contracts and any task orders or delivery orders issued under a contract.
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The following table shows our revenue from each of these types of contracts as a percentage of total revenue for the periods indicated.
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40 | % | 37 | % | 42 | % | 44 | % | 44 | % | |||||
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44 | 41 | 34 | 32 | 30 | ||||||||||
Fixed-price |
16 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 26 | ||||||||||
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100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % | |||||
Time-and-materials contracts. Under time-and-materials contracts, we are paid for labor at fixed hourly rates and generally reimbursed separately for allowable materials, other direct costs and out-of-pocket expenses. Our actual labor costs may vary from the expected costs which formed the basis for our negotiated hourly rates if we need to hire additional employees at higher wages, increase the compensation paid to existing employees, or are able to hire employees at lower-than-expected rates. Our non-labor costs, such as fringe benefits, overhead and general and administrative costs, also may be higher or lower than we anticipated. To the extent that our actual labor and non-labor costs under a time-and-materials contract vary significantly from the negotiated hourly rates, we can generate more or less than the targeted amount of profit or, perhaps, a loss.
Cost-based contracts. Under cost-based contracts, we are paid based on the allowable costs we incur, and usually receive a fee. All of our cost-based contracts reimburse us for our direct labor and fringe-benefit costs that are allowable under the contract, but many limit the amount of overhead and general and administrative costs we can recover, which may be less than our actual overhead and general and administrative costs. In addition, our fees are constrained by fee ceilings and in certain cases, such as with grants and cooperative agreements, we may receive no fee. Because of these limitations, our cost-based contracts, on average, are our least profitable type of contract and we may generate less than the expected return. Cost-based fixed fee contracts specify the fee to be paid. Cost-based incentive fee and cost-based award fee contracts provide for increases or decreases in the contract fee, within specified limits, based upon actual results as compared to contractual targets for factors such as cost, quality, schedule and performance.
Fixed-price contracts. Under fixed-price contracts, we perform specific tasks for a pre-determined price. Compared to time-and-materials and cost-based contracts, fixed-price contracts involve greater financial risk because we bear the full impact of labor and non-labor costs that exceed our estimates, in terms of costs per hour, number of hours, and all other costs of performance, in return for the full benefit of any cost savings. We therefore may generate more or less than the targeted amount of profit or, perhaps, a loss.
DIRECT COSTS
Direct costs consist primarily of costs incurred to provide services to clients, the most significant of which are employee salaries and wages, plus associated fringe benefits, relating to specific client engagements. Direct costs also include the costs of subcontractors and outside consultants, third-party materials and any other related direct costs, such as travel expenses.
We generally expect the ratio of direct costs as a percentage of revenue to decline when our own labor increases relative to subcontracted labor or outside consultants. Conversely, as subcontracted labor or outside consultants for clients increase relative to our own labor, we expect the ratio to increase.
Changes in the mix of services and other direct costs provided under our contracts can result in variability in our direct costs as a percentage of revenue. For example, if we are successful in our strategy
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to increase the proportion of our work in the area of implementation, we expect that more of our services will be performed in client-provided facilities and/or with dedicated staff. Such work generally has a higher proportion of direct costs than much of our current advisory work, but we anticipate that higher utilization of such staff will decrease the amount of indirect expenses. In addition, to the extent we are successful in winning larger contracts, our own labor services component could decrease because larger contracts typically are broader in scope and require more diverse capabilities, potentially resulting in more subcontracted labor, more other direct costs and lower margins. Although these factors could lead to a higher ratio of direct costs as a percentage of revenue, the economics of these larger jobs are nonetheless generally favorable because they increase income, broaden our revenue base and have a favorable return on invested capital.
OPERATING EXPENSES
Our operating expenses consist of indirect and selling expenses, including non-cash compensation, and depreciation and amortization.
Indirect and selling expenses
Indirect and selling expenses include our management, facilities and infrastructure costs for all employees, as well as salaries and wages, plus associated fringe benefits, not directly related to client engagements. Among the functions covered by these expenses are marketing, business and corporate development, bids and proposals, facilities, information technology and systems, contracts administration, accounting, treasury, human resources, legal, corporate governance and executive and senior management. We include all of our cash incentive compensation in this item, as well as non-cash compensation such as stock-based compensation provided to employees whose compensation and other benefit costs are included in both direct costs and indirect and selling expenses. See Significant New Accounting Pronouncement below for a discussion of how we treat such compensation in our financial statements. In 2005, this stock-based compensation was comprised of a one-time non-cash compensation charge of $2.1 million resulting from the acceleration of the vesting of all then outstanding stock options in December.
We try to utilize our office space as efficiently as possible, and therefore attempt to sublease or otherwise dispose of space we do not anticipate needing in the near-term, but there can be no assurance that we will be able to do so in a timely manner, on commercially reasonable terms or at all. For example, on April 14, 2006, we decided to abandon, effective June 30, 2006, our San Francisco, California leased facility and relocate our staff there to other space. Our San Francisco lease obligation expires in July 2010 and covers approximately 12,000 square feet at an annual rate of $79 per square foot plus operating expenses. Management believes, based upon consultation with its leasing consultants, that the current market for similar space is substantially below this cost. In addition, we are also abandoning a smaller space in Lexington, Massachusetts that we have been unable to sublease. We anticipate a charge to earnings in the second quarter of 2006 of approximately $4.0 million as a result of these actions.
Depreciation and amortization
Depreciation and amortization includes the depreciation of computers, furniture and other equipment, the amortization of the costs of software we use internally, leasehold improvements and the amortization of goodwill and other intangible assets arising from acquisitions.
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INCOME TAX EXPENSE
Our effective tax rate of 48.9% for the quarter ended March 31, 2006 was higher than the statutory tax rate for the quarter ended March 31, 2006 primarily due to permanent tax differences related to expenses not deductible for tax purposes, valuation allowances for tax losses from certain foreign subsidiaries and prior-year deferred tax adjustments. If we are successful in increasing our pre-tax income in the future, we expect our effective tax rate to decline.
ACQUISITIONS
A key element of our growth strategy is to pursue acquisitions. In 2005, we completed the acquisitions of Synergy, Inc. and Caliber Associates, Inc.
Synergy. Effective January 1, 2005, we acquired all of the outstanding common stock of Synergy, Inc. Synergy provides strategic consulting, planning, analysis and technology solutions in the areas of logistics, defense operations and command and control, primarily to the U.S. Air Force. We undertook the acquisition in order to enhance our presence in the areas of homeland security and national defense and also in government technology and program management. The aggregate purchase price was approximately $19.5 million, including $18.4 million of cash, common stock valued at $0.5 million, and $0.6 million of transaction expenses. The excess of the purchase price over the estimated fair value of the net assets acquired was approximately $14.9 million, of which we allocated approximately $14.1 million to goodwill and $0.8 million to customer-related intangible assets. Synergys results are included in our statements of operations beginning January 1, 2005.
Caliber Associates. Effective October 1, 2005, we acquired all of the outstanding common stock of Caliber Associates, Inc. from its employee stock ownership plan. Caliber provides professional services in the areas of human services programs and policies. We undertook the acquisition to enhance our presence in the areas of child and family studies and also in information technology and human services. The aggregate initial purchase price was approximately $20.8 million, including $19.5 million of cash and $1.3 million of transaction expenses. In addition to the initial consideration, the purchase agreement provides for additional contingent payments in cash up to an additional $3.5 million over the two years following the acquisition, subject to Caliber achieving certain performance goals. This additional amount has already been placed in escrow and is shown on our balance sheet as restricted cash. The excess of the purchase price over the estimated fair value of the net assets acquired was approximately $17.7 million, of which we allocated approximately $13.8 million to goodwill and $3.9 million to intangible assets. Calibers results are included in our statements of operations beginning October 1, 2005.
Our results of operations in 2005 were affected significantly by our acquisitions of Synergy and Caliber. Synergy operations accounted for approximately $21.7 million of our 2005 revenue, principally relating to our defense and homeland security market. Caliber operations had revenue of approximately $39.8 million in 2005, of which approximately $9.3 million is included in our 2005 revenue (in the fourth quarter), principally relating to our health, human services and social programs market.
Our prior acquisitions were accounted for as purchases and involved purchase prices well in excess of tangible asset values, resulting in the creation of a significant amount of goodwill and other intangible assets. Increased levels of intangible assets will increase our depreciation and amortization charges. At December 31, 2005, goodwill accounted for 53.7% of our total assets, and purchased intangibles accounted for 2.7% of our total assets. Under generally accepted accounting principles, we test our goodwill for impairment at least annually, and if we conclude that our goodwill is impaired we will be required to write down its carrying value on our balance sheet and book an impairment charge in our statement of operations.
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We plan to continue to acquire businesses if and when opportunities arise. We expect future acquisitions to also be accounted for as purchases and therefore generate significant amounts of goodwill and other intangible assets. We expect to incur additional debt for future acquisitions and, in some cases, to use our stock as acquisition consideration in addition to, or in lieu of, cash. Any issuance of stock may have a dilutive effect on our stock outstanding.
IMPACT OF OUR INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING
The completion of this offering will have near and long-term effects on our results of operations. For example, in the near term, under the terms of an incentive plan that has been in place since 1999, the completion of this offering will cause $2.7 million of one-time bonuses to become due to approximately 30 members of our management team. These bonuses are expected to be payable upon completion of this offering.
We have historically paid fees and certain expenses to CMLS Management, L.P., an affiliate of CM Equity Partners, L.P., under a consulting agreement. These amounts were approximately $333,000 for 2003, $361,000 for 2004 and $380,000 for 2005. The consulting agreement will terminate upon completion of this offering.
Over the long-term, our results of operations will be affected by the costs of being a public company, including changes in board and executive compensation, the costs of compliance with the Sarbanes- Oxley Act of 2002, the costs of complying with SEC and Nasdaq requirements, and increased insurance, accounting and legal costs. These costs are not reflected in our historical results.
FLUCTUATION OF QUARTERLY RESULTS AND CASH FLOW
Our results of operations and cash flow may vary significantly from quarter to quarter depending on a number of factors, including:
Ø | the progress of contract performance; |
Ø | the number of billable days in a quarter; |
Ø | vacation days; |
Ø | the timing of client orders; |
Ø | timing of award fee notices; |
Ø | changes in the scope of contracts; |
Ø | billing of other direct and subcontract costs; |
Ø | the commencement and completion of contracts; |
Ø | the timing of significant costs and investments (such as bid and proposal costs); |
Ø | our contract mix and use of subcontractors; |
Ø | changes in staff utilization; |
Ø | level and cost of our debt; |
Ø | changes in accounting principles and policies; and |
Ø | general market and economic conditions. |
Because a significant portion of our expenses, such as personnel, facilities and related costs, are fixed in the short term, contract performance and variation in the volume of activity, as well as in the number
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-and volume of contracts commenced or completed during any quarter, may cause significant variations in operating results from quarter to quarter.
EFFECT OF APPROVAL OF FEDERAL BUDGET
The federal governments fiscal year ends on September 30 of each year. If a federal budget for the next fiscal year has not been approved by that date, our clients may have to suspend engagements on which we are working until a budget has been approved. Any such suspension may reduce our revenue in the quarter ending September 30 (our third quarter) or the subsequent quarter. The federal governments fiscal year end can also trigger increased contracting activity, which could increase our third or fourth quarter revenue.
EFFECTS OF INFLATION
We generally have been able to price our contracts in a manner to accommodate the rates of inflation experienced in recent years, although we cannot be sure that we will be able to do so in the future.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The following table sets forth certain items from our consolidated statements of operations as a percentage of revenue for the periods indicated.
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March 31, 2006 |
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100.0 | % | 100.0 | % | 100.0 | % | 100.0 | % | 100.0 | % | |||||
Direct costs |
62.4 | 60.0 | 59.9 | 58.2 | 59.2 | ||||||||||
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Indirect and selling expenses |
31.1 | 33.0 | 33.9 | 33.7 | 33.5 | ||||||||||
Depreciation and amortization |
2.1 | 2.3 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 1.4 | ||||||||||
Earnings from operations |
4.4 | 4.7 | 3.1 | 6.2 | 5.9 | ||||||||||
Other (expense) income |
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Interest expense, net |
(2.1 | ) | (0.9 | ) | (1.7 | ) | (1.1 | ) | (1.9 | ) | |||||
Other |
| | 0.8 | | | ||||||||||
Total other expense |
(2.1 | ) | (0.9 | ) | (0.9 | ) | (1.1 | ) | (1.9 | ) | |||||
Income from continuing operations before income taxes |
2.3 | 3.8 | 2.2 | 5.1 | 4.0 | ||||||||||
Income tax expense |
0.9 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 2.5 | 2.0 | ||||||||||
Income from continuing operations |
1.4 | 2.0 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 2.0 | ||||||||||
Income from discontinued operations |
0.2 | 0.2 | | | | ||||||||||
Net income |
1.6 | % | 2.2 | % | 1.1 | % | 2.6 | % | 2.0 | % | |||||
Quarter ended March 31, 2006 compared to quarter ended April 1, 2005
Revenue. Revenue for the first quarter of 2006 was $53.4 million, compared to $41.2 million for the first quarter of 2005, representing an increase of $12.2 million or 29.7%. The increase in revenue was primarily due the acquisition of Caliber (approximately $10.4 million of revenue), as well as approximately $1.8 million in net contract growth, excluding Caliber, due primarily to an increase in subcontractor revenue.
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Direct costs. Direct costs for the first quarter of 2006 were $31.6 million, or 59.2% of revenue, compared to $24.0 million, 58.2% of revenue, for the first quarter of 2005. This 31.9% increase resulted primarily from the corresponding increase in revenue, and included approximately $5.1 million in additional labor and related fringe benefit costs, and $2.4 million in additional subcontractor and $0.2 million in additional other direct costs. The increase in direct costs as a percentage of revenue in the first quarter of 2006 is due to Calibers contract mix as well as an increase in subcontractor costs.
Indirect and selling expenses. Indirect and selling expenses for the first quarter of 2006 were $17.9 million, or 33.5% of revenue, compared to $13.9 million, or 33.7% for the first quarter of 2005. The 28.6% increase in indirect and selling expenses was due principally to the addition of staff and related non-labor expenses of our Caliber acquisition.
Earnings from Operations. For the first quarter of 2006, earnings from operations were $3.2 million, or 5.9% of revenue, compared to $2.6 million, or 6.2% for the first quarter of 2005. Earnings from operations increased primarily due to the increase in revenue from the Caliber acquisition. The decrease in earnings from operations as a percentage of revenue is due to an increase in direct costs resulting primarily from a change in contract mix.
Interest expense. For the first quarter of 2006, interest expense was $1.0 million, compared to $0.5 million for the first quarter of 2005. The 117.0% increase was due primarily to increased borrowings to fund the Caliber acquisition and higher interest rates.
Year ended December 31, 2005 compared to year ended December 31, 2004
Revenue. Revenue for 2005 was $177.2 million, compared to $139.5 million for 2004, representing an increase of 27.0%. The increase in revenue was primarily due to the acquisitions of Synergy, effective January 1, 2005 (approximately $21.7 million of revenue), and Caliber, effective October 1, 2005 (approximately $9.3 million of revenue), as well as approximately $6.7 million in net contract growth.
Direct costs. Direct costs for 2005 were $106.1 million, or 59.9% of revenue, compared to $83.6 million, 60.0% of revenue, for 2004. This 26.9% increase resulted from the corresponding increase in revenue, and included approximately $15.6 million in additional labor and related fringe benefit costs, approximately $4 million in additional subcontract costs, and approximately $2.9 million in additional other direct costs.
Indirect and selling expenses. Indirect and selling expenses for 2005 were $60.0 million, or 33.9% of revenue, compared to $46.1 million, or 33.0%, for 2004. The 30.2% increase in indirect and selling expenses was due principally to the addition of staff and related expenses of our two acquisitions. In December 2005, our board of directors accelerated the vesting of all of the outstanding unvested options previously awarded to our employees and officers, resulting in a non-cash stock compensation expense of approximately $2.1 million for the year. Absent this action, the majority of these options would have vested at the completion of this offering. This acceleration of vesting provided us greater certainty concerning the costs and timing of the expenses for these options.
Depreciation and amortization. Depreciation and amortization for 2005 was $5.5 million, compared to $3.2 million for 2004. The 71.9% increase in depreciation and amortization was primarily due to the increased amortization of purchased intangibles of $2.3 million. Of this amount, $1.8 million is attributable to the change in the estimated life of the intangible assets related to customers and contracts we obtained in our 2002 acquisition of two of the operating units of Arthur D. Little, Inc., and the remainder is attributable to the Synergy and Caliber acquisitions. See Note G Goodwill and other intangible assets of our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements appearing in this prospectus.
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Earnings from operations. For 2005, earnings from operations were $5.6 million, or 3.1% of revenue, compared to $6.6 million, or 4.7%, for 2004. Earnings from operations decreased primarily due to the $2.1 million of non-cash compensation resulting primarily from the accelerated vesting of options in 2005, as well as the increased amortization and depreciation discussed above.
Interest expense. For 2005, interest expense was $3.0 million, compared to $1.3 million for 2004. This 131.0% increase was due primarily to increased borrowings to fund the acquisitions of Synergy and Caliber.
Other income. Our $1.3 million of other income in 2005 resulted primarily from our reassessment of potential liabilities associated with the Arthur D. Little acquisitions. We had previously recorded a contingent liability of $1.4 million. The pre-acquisition contingency was resolved in our favor during 2005.
Income tax expense. Our income tax rate for 2005 was 48.0% compared to 46.1% for 2004. The 2005 effective rate was higher primarily because of higher permanent tax differences due to expenses not deductible for tax purposes and prior-year deferred tax adjustments.
Year ended December 31, 2004 compared to year ended December 31, 2003
Revenue. Revenue for 2004 was $139.5 million, compared to $145.8 million for 2003, representing a decrease of $6.3 million, or 4.3%. This decrease was due primarily to $8.4 million in 2003 revenue from two contracts acquired as part of the Arthur D. Little acquisitions that were completed or assigned to a third party in 2003 or early 2004.
Direct costs. Direct costs for 2004 were $83.6 million, or 60.0% of revenue, compared to of $91.0 million, or 62.4%, for 2003. This 8.1% decrease in direct costs was primarily due to a decrease of $6.0 million in subcontractor costs on the two Arthur D. Little contracts discussed above.
Indirect and selling expenses. Indirect and selling expenses for 2004 were $46.1 million, or 33.0% of revenue, compared to $45.3 million, or 31.1% of revenue, for 2003. This 1.8% increase in indirect and selling expenses resulted from a variety of factors, including additional staff and related expenses in business development.
Depreciation and amortization. Depreciation and amortization for 2004 and 2003 was stable, at $3.2 and $3.0 million, respectively.
Earnings from operations. For 2004, earnings from operations increased slightly to $6.6 million, or 4.7% of revenue, a 3.1% increase from $6.4 million, or 4.4% of revenue, for 2003.
Interest expense. For 2004, interest expense was $1.3 million, compared to $3.1 million for 2003. This 58.1% decrease was due primarily to a prepayment penalty and acceleration of amortization of approximately $1 million with respect to the refinancing of our debt in 2003, as well as to reduced borrowings.
Discontinued operations. In April 2004, we sold ICF Energy Solutions, Inc. (ESI) to Nexus Energy Software, Inc. on terms that resulted in a gain of approximately $0.4 million. The discontinued operations of ESI contributed net income of $0.3 million in 2003 and a net loss of $0.2 million in 2004. We sold this software company because it did not fit with our long-range strategic goals. See Note D Divestiture of our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in this prospectus.
Income tax expense. Our income tax rate in 2004, 46.1%, was higher than in 2003, 39.0%, primarily because of our consumption of one-time research and development tax credits in 2003.
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Selected quarterly financial and other data
We maintain a December 31 fiscal year-end for financial reporting purposes. Prior to 2006, our quarterly financial information is presented consistent with our labor and billing cycles. Management does not believe that this practice has a material effect on historically reported quarterly results or on the comparison of such results.
The following table shows our results of operations and other data by quarter for the periods indicated. See Overview Fluctuation of Quarterly Results and Cash Flow and Overview Effect of Approval of Federal Budget for a description of the factors that may cause our quarterly results to fluctuate.
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Mar. 26, 2004 |
June 25, 2004 |
Sept. 30, 2004 |
Dec. 31, 2004 |
Apr. 1, 2005 |
July 1, 2005 |
Sept. 30, 2005 |
Dec. 31, 2005 |
March 31, 2006 |
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Revenue |
$ | 34,111 | $ | 35,862 | $ | 36,055 | $ | 33,460 | $ | 41,212 | $ | 42,073 | $ | 42,151 | $ | 51,782 | $ | 53,448 | ||||||||||||||||||
Direct costs |
20,426 | 21,727 | 21,648 | 19,837 | 23,969 | 25,446 | 25,465 | 31,198 | 31,626 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operating expenses |
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Indirect and selling expenses |
11,141 | 11,720 | 11,680 | 11,556 | 13,905 | 13,611 | 14,258 | 18,265 | (1) | 17,883 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Depreciation and amortization |
765 | 744 | 813 | 833 | 777 | 896 | 721 | 3,147 | 772 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total costs and expenses |
11,906 | 12,464 | 12,493 | 12,389 | 14,682 | 14,507 | 14,979 | 21,412 | 18,655 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Earnings from operations |
1,779 | 1,671 | 1,914 | 1,234 | 2,561 | 2,120 | 1,707 | (828 | ) | 3,167 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other (expense) income |
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Interest expense, net |
(334 | ) | (309 | ) | (298 | ) | (325 | ) | (473 | ) | (737 | ) | (628 | ) | (1,143 | ) | (1,026 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
Other |
| (2 | ) | (31 | ) | | 1 | (1 | ) | 1,320 | (12 | ) | | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes |
1,445 | 1,360 | 1,585 | 909 | 2,089 | 1,382 | 2,399 | (1,983 | ) | 2,141 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Income tax expense (benefit) |
673 | 632 | 738 | 423 | 1,002 | 664 | 1,150 | (951 | ) | 1,047 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Income (loss) from continuing operations |
772 | 728 | 847 | 486 | 1,087 | 718 | 1,249 | (1,032 | ) | 1,094 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discontinued operations |
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Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net |
(151 | ) | (40 | ) | | (5 | ) | | | | | | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gain from disposal of subsidiary, net |
| 271 | | 109 | | | | | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net income (loss) |
$ | 621 | $ | 959 | $ | 847 | $ | 590 | $ | 1,087 | $ | 718 | $ | 1,249 | $ | (1,032 | ) | $ | 1,094 | |||||||||||||||||
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EBITDA from continuing operations(2) |
$ | 2,544 | $ | 2,415 | $ | 2,727 | $ | 2,067 | $ | 3,338 | $ | 3,016 | $ | 2,428 | $ | 2,319 | $ | 3,939 | ||||||||||||||||||
Non-cash compensation charge included in EBITDA from continuing operations(1) |
2,138 |
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(1) | Includes a one-time, non-cash compensation charge of $2.1 million in December 2005 resulting from the acceleration of the vesting of all then outstanding stock options. See Managements discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operationsResults of OperationsYear ended December 31, 2005 compared to year ended December 31, 2004. |
(2) | EBITDA from continuing operations, a measure used by us to evaluate performance, is defined as net income plus (less) loss (income) from discontinued operations, less gain from sale of discontinued operations, less other income, plus other expenses, net interest expense, income tax expense and depreciation and amortization. We believe EBITDA from continuing operations is useful to investors because similar measures are frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of companies in our industry. EBITDA from continuing operations is not a recognized term under generally accepted accounting principles and does not purport to be an alternative to net income as a measure of operating performance or to cash flows from operating activities as a measure of liquidity. Because not all companies use identical calculations, this presentation of EBITDA from continuing operations may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures used by other companies. EBITDA from continuing operations is not intended to be a measure of free cash flow for managements discretionary use, as it does not consider certain cash requirements such as interest payments, tax payments, capital expenditures and debt service. Our credit agreement includes covenants based on EBITDA from continuing operations, subject to certain adjustments. See Managements discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations Liquidity and Capital Resources. A reconciliation of net income to EBITDA from continuing operations follows: |
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June 25, 2004 |
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Net income (loss) |
$ | 621 | $ | 959 | $ | 847 | $ | 590 | $ | 1,087 | $ | 718 | $ | 1,249 | $ | (1,032 | ) | $ | 1,094 | |||||||||||||
Loss (income) from discontinued operations |
151 | 40 | | 5 | | | | | | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Gain from sale of discontinued operations |
| (271 | ) | | (109 | ) | | | | | | |||||||||||||||||||||
Other expense (income) |
| 2 | 31 | | (1 | ) | 1 | (1,320 | ) | 12 | | |||||||||||||||||||||
Interest expense, net |
334 | 309 | 298 | 325 | 473 | 737 | 628 | 1,143 | 1,026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Income tax expense (benefit) |
673 | 632 | 738 | 423 | 1,002 | 664 | 1,150 | (951 | ) | 1,047 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Depreciation and amortization |
765 | 744 | 813 | 833 | 777 | 896 | 721 | 3,147 | 772 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
EBITDA from continuing operations |
$ | 2,544 | $ | 2,415 | $ | 2,727 | $ | 2,067 | $ | 3,338 | $ | 3,016 | $ | 2,428 | $ | 2,319 | $ | 3,939 | ||||||||||||||
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LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
Our primary liquidity needs are for working capital, repayment of debt, new acquisitions, capital expenditures and the payment of obligations on prior acquisitions. Historically, we have relied primarily on our cash flow from operations and borrowings under our credit facility to provide the capital for our liquidity needs.
Our short-term liquidity requirements have been met, in part, by amounts borrowed under our revolving credit facility in excess of the otherwise applicable maximum borrowing base, as allowed by a March 14, 2006 amendment to our credit facilities. Such overadvances are permitted only through August 31, 2006, and no such overadvances were outstanding as of May 26, 2006. We also have due in January 2007 an $8 million short-term term loan facility with an outstanding principal amount of $8 million as of May 26, 2006.
Over the longer term, our liquidity needs include continuing financing of our operations and the reduction of our existing revolving credit and term debt, which are at heightened levels due to the incurrence of debt during 2005 in connection with the Synergy and Caliber acquisitions and the repayment of debt to our former parent, which, in the aggregate, required us to increase the availability under our credit facilities by approximately $35 million. We also require funding to pursue our acquisition strategy, which is severely constrained by our current liquidity.
Following this offering and the repayment of outstanding debt under our credit facilities, we expect the combination of cash flow from operations and our borrowing capacity under a new credit agreement to continue to meet our anticipated cash requirements for at least the next twelve months, excluding liquidity needed to pursue our acquisition strategy. Any acquisitions we undertake may be funded through other forms of debt, such as publicly issued or privately placed senior or subordinated debt, or the use of common or preferred equity as acquisition consideration.
Cash and net working capital
The following table sets forth our cash and net working capital (current assets less current liabilities) balances at the dates indicated.
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April 1, 2005
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$ | 1,643 | $ | 797 | $ | 499 | $ | 1,074 | $ | 1,296 | |||||
Net working capital |
6,085 | 5,502 | 18,141 | 10,858 | 19,374 |
We consider cash on deposit and all highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less to be cash and cash equivalents. We maintain minimal cash balances and have substantially all available cash credited against our borrowings under our line of credit. Our net working capital increased by $12.6 million at December 31, 2005 as compared to December 31, 2004. The increase in net working capital for 2005 was primarily due to an increase in net contract receivables from $29.5 million at December 31, 2004 to $52.9 million at December 31, 2005, which more than offset an approximate $11.8 million increase in current liabilities.
This increase in net working capital was primarily due to the effects of the Synergy and Caliber acquisitions, both of which had higher receivables in terms of days sales outstanding than the company as a whole as of December 31, 2005, an increase in days sales outstanding for receivables for the rest of our company from December 31, 2004 to December 31, 2005 and a decrease in days payable outstanding from December 31, 2004 to December 31, 2005.
Our net working capital increased by $8.5 million at March 31, 2006 as compared to April 1, 2005. The increase in net working capital for the first quarter 2006 was primarily due to an increase of net contract
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receivables of $14.7 million from $42.5 million at April 1, 2005 to $57.2 million at March 31, 2006, which more than offset an approximate $7.2 million increase in current liabilities. The increase in net contract receivables was in large part due to the growth in revenue of $12.2 million as well as delays in billings resulting from the Caliber integration. The increase in current liabilities was primarily due to an increase of $7.4 million in the current portion of debt.
Cash flow
Our operating cash flow is primarily affected by the overall profitability of our contracts, our ability to invoice and collect from our clients in a timely manner, and our ability to manage our vendor payments. We bill most of our clients and prime contractors monthly after services are rendered.
Operating activities provided cash of $11.8 million, $3.3 million and $2.2 million in 2003, 2004 and 2005, respectively. Operating activities in 2005 provided approximately $1.0 million less cash than operating activities provided in 2004. This decrease was primarily attributable to an increase in contract receivables due to the integration of the two acquisitions made in 2005. Operating activities in 2004 provided approximately $8.5 million less of net cash than in 2003. In 2003, we received large cash advances from a commercial client. As of December 31, 2003, the balance of the cash advances was approximately $1.6 million. The criteria for payment to the third-parties were satisfied, and the payments were disbursed in 2004. The decrease in accrued expenses in 2004 was primarily attributable to a reduction of accrued subcontractor costs and liabilities related to the Arthur D. Little acquisitions.
Operating activities used cash of $4.2 million in first quarter of 2006 as compared to providing $0.3 million in the first quarter of 2005. Operating activities in the first quarter of 2006 were negatively impacted by an increase in accounts receivable of $4.3 million, due in large part to growth in revenue and delays in billings resulting from the Caliber integration, and a decrease in accounts payable of $2.6 million due to the timing of vendor payments.
Our cash flow used in investing activities in recent years relates primarily to acquisitions. Investing activities used cash of $2.1 million, $0.2 million and $38.8 million in 2003, 2004 and 2005, respectively. The $38.8 million in cash used in investing activities for 2005, compared to $0.2 million of cash used in investing activities in 2004, was primarily due to the $38.6 million used for the Synergy and Caliber acquisitions.
Investing activities used cash of $18.9 million and $0.1 million in the first quarters of 2005 and 2006, respectively. The cash used in investing activities for the first quarter of 2006 was primarily for capital expenditures. The cash used in investing activities for the first quarter of 2005 was primarily for the acquisition of Synergy ($18.6 million).
Our cash flow from financing activities consists primarily of proceeds from and payments on our credit facilities. Financing activities used cash of $9.0 million and $3.8 million in 2003 and 2004, respectively, and provided cash of $36.3 million in 2005. For 2005, $36.3 million of cash flow from financing activities reflected payments of $21.8 million on our credit facilities and borrowings of $61.7 million. The $3.8 million used in financing activities for 2004 was primarily due to payments made under our credit facilities.
Financing activities provided cash of $18.7 million and $5.2 million in the first quarters of 2005 and 2006, respectively. For the first quarter of 2006, $6.8 million of cash flow from financing activities reflected net borrowings to finance operating activities, partially offset by $1.5 million of debt payments. For the first quarter of 2005, the $18.7 million provided in financing activities primarily reflected the increased borrowings to finance the Synergy acquisition.
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Credit agreement
In October 2005, in connection with the Caliber acquisition, we entered into an amended and restated credit agreement with a syndicate of banks. This agreement currently provides for three credit facilities:
Ø | a revolving line of credit for up to the lesser of $45 million or a borrowing base comprised of eligible billed receivables, maturing in October 2010, that bears interest at either the U.S. prime rate plus a margin or LIBOR plus a spread, with both the margin and the spread depending on our total leverage and with interest payable monthly; |
Ø | a term loan facility for $22 million, maturing in October 2010, that also bears interest at the U.S. prime rate plus a margin or LIBOR plus a spread, with both the margin and the spread depending on our total leverage and with principal and interest payable in monthly installments; and |
Ø | a short-term loan facility, or time loan, for $8 million, maturing in January 2007, that bears interest at a rate 0.50% above that of the term loan, with interest payable monthly, with six monthly principal payments of $333,334 commencing July 1, 2006, and with the balance due in January 2007. |
On March 14, 2006 our lenders agreed to an amendment to the credit agreement to provide us with a temporary increase in our borrowing base so that it equals $6 million plus eligible receivables through June 30, 2006 and $4 million plus eligible receivables through August 31, 2006, in each case not to exceed the total revolving credit facility of $45 million.
The outstanding borrowings are collateralized by a security interest in substantially all of our assets. Our credit agreement requires that we meet certain financial covenants. At the present time, these include a fixed charge coverage ratio (in general, EBITDA as defined in the credit agreement plus real property rent and operating lease expense divided by real property rent and operating lease expense, plus interest expense, plus cash taxes paid plus required principal payments on debt and capital lease payments) of not less than 1.10 to 1.00 and a maximum leverage ratio (in general, total debt divided by EBITDA as defined in the credit agreement) of 3.5 to 1.0 (4.0 to 1.0 as of the quarters ended March 31 and June 30, 2006). EBITDA as defined in the credit agreement varies significantly from the calculation of EBITDA from continuing operations as set forth herein. Our credit agreement also limits capital expenditures to 1.5% of gross revenue during the past 12 months; prohibits net operating losses; and prohibits our total senior debt from exceeding our aggregate billed and unbilled receivables. We were in compliance with these financial covenants as of March 31, 2006.
In November 2005, we entered into an interest rate swap agreement as a partial hedge against interest rate fluctuations on approximately $15 million. The effect of the agreement was to establish a fixed LIBOR rate of 5.11% on that amount.
For 2003, 2004 and 2005, our net interest expense was approximately $3.1 million, $1.3 million and $3.0 million, respectively. For the first quarters of 2005 and 2006, our net interest expense was approximately $0.5 million and $1.0 million, respectively.
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The following table summarizes the amounts available and outstanding (excluding interest) under our credit facilities as of December 31, 2004 and 2005 and May 26, 2006. The amounts listed as available and outstanding prior to October 2005 below with respect to the term loan represent the amounts available and outstanding under a predecessor loan facility replaced by the term loan in October 2005. This table does not include a note payable to our former owner of approximately $6.4 million that was outstanding as of December 31, 2004 and that was repaid in full during 2005.
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$ | 28,000 | $ | 45,000 | $ | 45,000 | ||||||
Capacity (term loan) |
6,353 | 21,634 | 19,801 | |||||||||
Capacity (time loan) |
| 8,000 | 8,000 | |||||||||
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20,102 | 37,518 | 45,000 | |||||||||
Availability (term loan) |
6,353 | 21,634 | 19,801 | |||||||||
Availability (time loan) |
| 8,000 | 8,000 | |||||||||
Amount outstanding (Facility A/line of credit)(1) |
8,965 | 32,019 | 38,135 | |||||||||
Amount outstanding (term loan) |
6,353 | 21,634 | 19,801 | |||||||||
Amount outstanding (time loan) |
| 8,000 | 8,000 | |||||||||
Unused availability (Facility A/line of credit) |
11,137 | 5,499 | 6,865 | |||||||||
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Interest rate on Facility A/line of credit |
5.25 | % | 7.25 | % | 8.25 | % |
(1) | Includes letters of credit. |
Use of proceeds
We plan to use up to $ million of the net proceeds of this offering to repay in full our term loan facilities (see Use of Proceeds for a more complete description of these plans) with the balance of the net proceeds being applied to make $2.7 million of one-time bonus payments to employees (see ManagementEmployment, Severance and Restricted Stock Agreements for a description of these incentive payments) and reduce our borrowings under our revolving line of credit.
Replacement credit facilities
We expect to enter into new credit facilities after the completion of this offering that will finance working capital needs and provide capacity for future acquisitions. These facilities will replace our existing credit facilities. We expect the completion of this offering to enable us to put in place a more cost-effective capital structure that will provide the financing needed for our existing operations and working capital needs, as well as possible acquisitions.
In the event it is not possible to enter into the new facilities we contemplate, we would have to resort to other more expensive and less attractive forms of financing, including publicly or privately placed senior and subordinated debt and the issuance of common stock, preferred stock or other forms of equity. Such forms of financing would likely carry higher interest and other costs, thereby reducing our profitability; include covenants that would be more restrictive than those under the capital structure that we contemplate after the completion of this offering; restrict our ability to grow through acquisitions or require the use of common or preferred equity as acquisition consideration; and could dilute the holders of our common stock.
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Off-balance sheet arrangements
We do not have any off-balance sheet arrangements.
Contractual obligations
The following table summarizes our contractual obligations (excluding interest in the case of debt) as of March 31, 2006 that require us to make future cash payments.
Less than 1 year | 1-3 years |
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$ | | $ | | $ | 38,177 | $ | | $ | 38,177 | |||||
Term loan(1) |
4,400 | 13,200 | 2,567 | | 20,167 | ||||||||||
Time loan(2) |
8,000 | | | | 8,000 | ||||||||||
Rent of facilities |
8,988 | 16,254 | 14,910 | 14,192 | 54,344 | ||||||||||
Operating lease obligations |
1,177 | 1,432 | 360 | | 2,969 | ||||||||||
Purchase obligations |
688 | | | | 688 | ||||||||||
Other long-term liabilities |
| 440 | | | 440 | ||||||||||
Total |
$ | 23,253 | $ | 31,326 | $ | 56,014 | $ | 14,192 | $ | 124,785 | |||||
(1) | The term loan requires monthly principal payments of $366,667 plus interest and matures in October 2010. |
(2) | The time loan requires monthly principal payments of $333,334 plus interest commencing July 1, 2006 and matures in January 2007. |
The components of our credit facilities referred to above (Facility A/line of credit, Term loan and Time loan) provide that each component defaults upon a default of any of the other components and, therefore, may be accelerated together. The other contractual obligations referred to in the above table do not include provisions that create, increase or accelerate other obligations.
DESCRIPTION OF CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The preparation of our financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires that we make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amount of assets, liabilities, revenue and expenses, as well as the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. If any of these estimates or judgments proves to be incorrect, our reported results could be materially affected. Actual results may differ significantly from our estimates under different assumptions or conditions. We believe that the estimates, assumptions and judgments involved in the accounting practices described below have the greatest potential impact on our financial statements and therefore consider them to be critical accounting policies.
Revenue recognition
We recognize revenue when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, services have been rendered, the contract price is fixed or determinable, and collectibility is reasonably assured. We enter into contracts that are either time-and-materials contracts, cost-based contracts or fixed-price contracts.
Time-and-Materials Contracts. Revenue under time-and-materials contracts is recognized as costs are incurred. Revenue for time-and-materials contracts is recorded on the basis of allowable labor hours worked multiplied by the contract-defined billing rates, plus the costs of other items used in the performance of the contract. Profit and losses on time-and-materials contracts result from the difference between the cost of services performed and the contract-defined billing rates for these services.
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Cost-Based Contracts. Revenue under cost-based contracts is recognized as costs are incurred. Applicable estimated profit, if any, is included in earnings in the proportion that incurred costs bear to total estimated costs. Incentives, award fees, or penalties related to performance are also considered in estimating revenue and profit rates based on actual and anticipated awards.
Fixed-Price Contracts. Revenue for fixed-price contracts is recognized when earned, generally as work is performed in accordance with the provisions of the Commissions Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 104, Revenue Recognition. Services performed vary from contract to contract and are not uniformly performed over the term of the arrangement. Revenue on most fixed-price contracts is recorded each period based on contract costs incurred to date compared with total estimated costs at completion (cost-to-cost method). Performance is based on the ratio of costs incurred to total estimated costs where the costs incurred represent a reasonable surrogate for output measures of contract performance, including the presentation of deliverables to the client. Progress on a contract is matched against project costs and costs to complete on a periodic basis. Clients are obligated to pay as services are performed, and in the event that a client cancels the contract, payment for services performed through the date of cancellation is negotiated with the client. Revenue under certain fixed-price contracts is recognized ratably over the period benefited.
Revenue recognition requires us to use judgment relative to assessing risks, estimating contract revenue and costs, and making assumptions for schedule and technical issues. Due to the size and nature of many of our contracts, the estimation of revenue and cost at completion can be complicated and is subject to many variables. Contract costs include labor, subcontracting costs and other direct costs, as well as allocation of allowable indirect costs. We must also make assumptions regarding the length of time to complete the contract because costs also include expected increases in wages, prices for subcontractors and other direct costs. From time to time, facts develop that require us to revise our estimated total costs and revenue on a contract. To the extent that a revised estimate affects contract profit or revenue previously recognized, we record the cumulative effect of the revision in the period in which the facts requiring the revision become known. Provision for the full amount of an anticipated loss on any type of contract is recognized in the period in which it becomes probable and can be reasonably estimated. As a result, operating results could be affected by revisions to prior accounting estimates.
We generate invoices to clients in accordance with the terms of the applicable contract, which may not be directly related to the performance of services. Unbilled receivables are invoiced based upon the achievement of specific events as defined by each contract including deliverables, timetables and incurrence of certain costs. Unbilled receivables are classified as a current asset. Advanced billings to clients in excess of revenue earned are recorded as deferred revenue until the revenue recognition criteria are met. Reimbursements of out-of-pocket expenses are included in revenue with corresponding costs incurred by us included in cost of revenue. We grant credit primarily to large companies and government agencies and occasionally perform credit evaluations of our clients financial condition. We do not generally require collateral. Credit losses relating to clients generally have been within managements expectations.
From time to time, we may proceed with work based on client direction prior to the completion and signing of formal contract documents. We have a formal review process for approving any such work. Revenue associated with such work is recognized only when it can reliably be estimated and realization is probable. We base our estimates on a variety of factors, including previous experiences with the client, communications with the client regarding funding status, and our knowledge of available funding for the contract.
Goodwill and the amortization of intangible assets
Costs in excess of the fair value of tangible and identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed in a business combination are recorded as goodwill, in accordance with Statement of Financial
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Accounting Standards (SFAS) 141, Business Combinations. Goodwill and intangible assets acquired in a purchase business combination and determined to have an indefinite useful life are not amortized, but instead reviewed annually (or more frequently if impairment indicators arise) for impairment in accordance with the provisions of SFAS 142 Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets. SFAS 142 also requires that intangible assets with estimable useful lives be amortized over their respective estimated useful lives to their estimated residual values, and reviewed for impairment in accordance with SFAS 144, Accounting for Impairment or Disposal of Long-lived Assets.
We have elected to perform the annual goodwill impairment review on September 30 of each year. Based upon managements review, including a valuation report issued by an investment bank, we determined that no goodwill impairment charge was required for 2003, 2004 or 2005.
We follow the provisions of SFAS 144 in accounting for impairment or disposal of long-lived assets. SFAS 144 requires that long-lived assets and certain identifiable intangibles be reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset might not be recoverable. Recoverability of assets to be held and used is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of an asset to future undiscounted net cash flow expected to be generated by the asset. If such assets are considered to be impaired, the impairment to be recognized is measured by the amount by which the carrying amount of the asset exceeds the fair value of the asset. Assets to be disposed of are reported at the lower of the carrying amount or fair value, less cost to sell.
SIGNIFICANT NEW ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENT
In December 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued SFAS 123 (revised 2004), Shared-Based Payment (SFAS 123(R)), which is a revision of SFAS 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation. SFAS 123(R) supersedes APB 25, and amends SFAS 95, Statement of Cash Flows.
SFAS 123(R) was effective for non-public companies in the first fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2005. We adopted SFAS 123(R) effective January 1, 2006. SFAS 123(R) requires all share-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options, to be recognized in the financial statements based on their fair values (i.e., pro forma disclosure is no longer an alternative to financial statement recognition). Non-public entities that did not use the fair-value-based method of accounting are required to apply the prospective transition method of accounting under SFAS 123(R) as of the required effective date. Under the prospective method, a non-public entity accounting for its equity-based awards using the intrinsic-value method under APB 25 would continue to apply APB 25 in future periods to awards outstanding at the date they adopt SFAS 123(R). All awards granted, modified, or settled after the date of adoption would be accounted for using the measurement, recognition and attribution provisions of SFAS 123(R). Should we make share-based awards consistent with historical levels, the adoption of SFAS 123(R) will have a material impact on our financial statements.
Implementation of FASB 123(R)
In adopting SFAS 123(R), companies must choose among alternative valuation models and amortization assumptions. We elected to use the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model and straight-line amortization of compensation expense over the requisite service period of the grant. We will reconsider use of the Black-Scholes-Merton model if additional information becomes available in the future that indicates another model would be more appropriate or if grants issued in future periods have characteristics that cannot be reasonably estimated using this model.
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The following assumptions were used for option grants made during the quarter ended March 31, 2006:
Expected volatility. Because we are not publicly traded, we have no history of share prices determined on the open market. Therefore, the expected volatility of our shares was estimated based upon analyzing volatilities of similar public companies. The expected volatility factor used in valuing options granted during the quarter ended March 31, 2006 was 36%.
Expected term. We do not have any history of employee exercise behavior. The expected term of five years was estimated by consideration of the contractual terms of the grants, vesting schedules, employee forfeitures and expected terms of option grants by similar public companies.
Risk-free interest rate. We base the risk-free interest rates used in the Black-Scholes-Merton valuation method on implied interest rates for U.S. Treasury securities with a term consistent with the expected life of the stock options. The risk-free interest rate used in valuing options granted during the quarter ended March 31, 2006 was 4.51%.
Dividend yield. The Black-Scholes-Merton valuation model calls for a single expected dividend yield as an input. We have not paid dividends in the past nor do we expect to pay dividends in the future. We therefore used a dividend yield percentage of zero.
During the quarter ended March 31, 2006, we granted incentive stock options to purchase shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $ per share, the fair value of the stock on the date of grant. The Black-Scholes-Merton weighted average valuation of the options granted during the quarter ended March 31, 2006 was $ per share. These options expire in ten years and vest upon the attainment of certain levels of operating income or upon certain events, including this offering. We are expensing the value of these option grants over the period of time from the date of award to the expected date of this offering.
In addition, in September 2005 we made a restricted common stock award to a key employee, 25% of which vests each January 1 thereafter, with vesting accelerating effective upon the completion of this offering. This stock award is also being expensed based on the grant date value of the stock of $ per share.
The total intrinsic value of the options outstanding and the options exercisable at March 31, 2006 was approximately $4.8 million.
We recognized stock-based compensation expense of $76,359 in the quarter ended March 31, 2006, which is included in indirect and selling expenses. All of this expense related to the options and stock awards granted in the quarter ended March 31, 2006. Net income for the quarter ended March 31, 2006 also reflects income tax benefits relating to this expense of $29,490. There was no stock-based compensation expense in the quarter ended April 1, 2005.
As of March 31, 2006, there was approximately $0.1 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested stock-based compensation agreements. This amount relates entirely to stock option grants and restricted stock grants during the quarter ended March 31, 2006. This cost is expected to be fully amortized over the next year because such grants will vest upon completion of this offering.
Based on the initial public offering price of $ per share, the intrinsic value of options outstanding at , 2006 was $ million, of which $ million related to vested options and $ million related to unvested options.
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QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
In addition to the risks involved in our operations, we are exposed to interest rate and foreign exchange rate risks.
Our exposure to interest rate risk relates primarily to changes in interest rates for borrowings under our revolving credit agreement and our term loans. These borrowings accrue interest at variable rates. Based upon our borrowings under these facilities at the end of 2005 and without giving effect to the swap agreement we entered into in 2005, a hypothetical one hundred basis point increase in interest rates we pay on those borrowings would increase our annual interest expense by approximately $0.6 million.
Because of the size and nature of our international operations, we are not currently exposed to substantial risks relating to exchange rate fluctuations. As our mix of business changes in the future, however, this exposure could become material.
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COMPANY OVERVIEW
We provide management, technology and policy consulting and implementation services primarily to the U.S. federal government, as well as to other government, commercial and international clients. We help our clients conceive, develop, implement and improve solutions that address complex economic, social and national security issues. Our services primarily address four key markets: defense and homeland security; energy; environment and infrastructure; and health, human services and social programs. Increased government involvement in virtually all aspects of our lives has created opportunities for us to resolve issues at the intersection of the public and private sectors. We believe that demand for our services will continue to grow as government, industry and other stakeholders seek to understand and respond to geopolitical and demographic changes, budgetary constraints, heightened environmental and social concerns, rapid technological changes and increasing globalization.
Our federal government, state and local government, commercial and international clients utilize our services because we combine diverse institutional knowledge and experience in their activities with the deep subject matter expertise of our highly educated staff, which we deploy in multi-disciplinary teams. Our federal government clients include every cabinet-level department, including the Department of Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Justice and the Department of Energy. U.S. federal government clients generated 72% of our revenue in 2005. Our state and local government clients include the states of California, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. State and local government clients generated 9% of our revenue in 2005. We also serve commercial and international clients, primarily in the energy sector, including electric and gas utilities, oil companies and law firms. Our commercial and international clients generated 19% of our revenue in 2005. We have successfully worked with many of these clients for decades, providing us a unique and knowledgeable perspective on their needs.
We partner with our clients to solve complex problems and produce mission-critical results. Across our markets, we provide end-to-end services that deliver value throughout the entire life of a policy, program, project or initiative:
Ø | Advisory Services. We help our clients analyze the policy, regulatory, technology and other challenges facing them and develop strategies and plans for responding. Our advisory and management consulting services include needs and markets assessment, policy analysis, strategy and concept development, change management strategy, enterprise architecture and program design. |
Ø | Implementation Services. We implement and manage technological, organizational and management solutions for our clients, often based on the results of our advisory services. Our implementation services include information technology solutions, project and program management, project delivery, strategic communications and training. |
Ø | Evaluation and Improvement Services. In support of advisory and implementation services, we provide evaluation and improvement services to help our clients increase the future efficiency and effectiveness of their programs. These services include program evaluation, continuous improvement initiatives, performance management, benchmarking and return-on-investment analyses. |
We provide our services using multi-disciplinary teams with deep subject matter expertise, highly analytical methodologies and technology-enabled tools. We have more than 1,600 employees, including many who are recognized thought leaders in their respective fields. As of December 31, 2005, almost 50% of our professional staff held post-graduate degrees in diverse fields such as economics, engineering, business administration, information technology, law, life sciences and public policy. Over 300 of our
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employees hold a U.S. federal government security clearance. Our senior managers have extensive industry and project management experience and an average tenure of 14 years with our company. This diverse pool of intellectual capital enables us to assemble multi-disciplinary teams that can provide creative solutions to our clients most pressing problems.
We serve clients globally from our headquarters in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area, our 15 domestic regional offices throughout the United States and our five international offices in London, Moscow, New Delhi, Rio de Janeiro and Toronto.
We generated revenue of $177.2 million and $53.4 million in 2005 and the quarter ended March 31, 2006, respectively. Our total backlog was $226.8 million and $216.8 million as of December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006, respectively. See Contract Backlog for a discussion of how we calculate backlog.
MARKET OPPORTUNITY
An increasing number of complex, long-term factors are changing the way we live and the way in which government and industry must operate and interact. These factors include terrorism and changing national security priorities, increasing federal budget deficits, the need for emergency preparedness in response to natural disasters and threats to national security, rising energy demand, global climate change, aging infrastructure, environmental degradation and an aging population and federal civilian workforce. The federal government and other governments react to these factors by evaluating, adopting and implementing new policies, which drive governmental spending and the regulatory environment affecting industry. Industry, in turn, must adapt to this government involvement by realigning strategic direction, formulating plans for responding and modifying business processes. Both the reaction by governments to these factors and the resulting impact on industry create opportunities for professional service firms that are expert in addressing issues at the intersection of the public and private sectors.
Within the U.S. federal government, continuing budget deficits are forcing government departments and agencies to transform in order to provide more services with fewer resources. In addition, an aging workforce is retiring in large numbers from the federal government, resulting in diminished institutional knowledge and ability to perform services. This combination of forces provides opportunities for professional services firms with deep experience and expertise in the issues facing government and the ability to deliver innovative and transformational approaches to those issues. Further, these capabilities need to be combined seamlessly with strong information technology and other implementation skills. Government at every level recognizes the importance of information technology in fulfilling policy mandates, and there is increasing awareness among key government decision makers that, to be effective, technology solutions need to be properly integrated with the affected people and processes.
Defense and homeland security
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is undergoing major transformations in its approach to strategies, processes, organizational structures and business practices due to several complex, long-term factors. These factors include the changing nature of global security threats and enemies, the implications of the information age, the community and family issues associated with globally deployed armed forces, and the continued loss of professional capabilities in the military and senior civilian workforce through retirement. Other factors include the increasing complexity of war-fighting strategies, the need for real-time information sharing and logistics modernization, network-centric warfare requirements and the global nature of combat arenas. DoD is also grappling with domestic and international disaster relief requirements while it fights a global war on terrorism.
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Professional services firms that understand the strategic context of defense transformation and DoDs mission objectives while providing a wide range of services, such as policy analysis, information technology-enabled solutions and outsourced implementations, should see increased demand for their services. The need for rapid deployment and management of armed forces anywhere around the globe requires concept, policy and technology innovation in the fields of logistics management, operational support, and command and control. Demand is increasing to support military organizations and program offices as senior civilians retire and military personnel remain focused on war-fighting efforts. With families and communities experiencing longer troop deployments, we believe the global war on terror will increase demand for professional services firms in the area of social services to military personnel and their families
Similarly, homeland security programs continue to drive budgetary growth at the federal level and are also increasing funding for state and local budgets. Over the last few years, homeland security concerns have broadened to include areas such as health, food, energy, water and transportation safety and involve all levels of government and the private sector. For example, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, government policy makers are reassessing the emergency management function of homeland security in order to refocus spending and support to respond to natural disasters. The increased dependence upon private sector personnel and organizations as first responders also requires a keen understanding of the diversity and relationships among various stakeholders involved in homeland security.
This complex environment of urgent needs and public scrutiny necessitates consulting support from firms that understand the interaction among government policies, implementation requirements and public sentiment. Developing and implementing systems to improve communications, logistics planning, information sharing and organizational effectiveness provide further opportunities for additional advisory and implementation services.
Finally, significant opportunities lie at the intersection of defense and homeland security. We believe the strengthened ties among traditional defense requirements, homeland security support, and disaster preparedness, response and recovery create significant demands for professional services. We believe that a major emphasis will be in the areas of strategy, policy, planning, execution and logistics and that companies possessing deep domain expertise across these disciplines will be well positioned to partner with DoD, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and state and local governments.
Energy
Significant factors affecting suppliers, users and regulators of energy are driving private sector demand for professional services firms with expertise in this market. According to the International Energy Agency, world energy demand is expected to grow by 50% from 2004 to 2030. As a result, the global energy industry has estimated that approximately $17 trillion in capital will be required from 2004 to 2030 to build sufficient energy infrastructure to meet the increased demand. At the same time, oil and gas supplies have become increasingly constrained, partly due to the need to source from politically sensitive or physically challenging regions. Moreover, most industrialized countries are undergoing deregulation of electric and gas utilities in order to stimulate competition at the generation, transmission and retail levels. These factors, together with the continual search for alternative fuels, are driving profound and long-term restructuring in the energy industry.
In addition, with evidence mounting that sea levels are rising and climate volatility is increasing at a rapid pace, reducing or offsetting greenhouse gas emissions is becoming a critical element of energy
industry strategy, resulting in the development of additional regulations for curbing emissions that
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significantly affect energy industry operations. Entirely new markets are being created in response to problems associated with emissions, such as emissions trading. Although the regulatory landscape in this area is still evolving, the need to address carbon and other harmful emissions has significantly changed the way in which the worlds governments and industries interact.
Consumers of energy are also reacting to deregulating energy markets, increasing environmental constraints and rising costs. Pressure is increasing to manage demand through energy efficiency programs, demand response and peak load management. Government programs and public-private partnerships are becoming more prevalent, pursuing sometimes overlapping and conflicting goals, such as reducing national dependence on foreign energy sources, limiting the growth of domestic power generation and the resultant pollutants, and reducing electricity and gas costs for businesses and consumers.
We believe there will be significant opportunities for professional services firms that combine industry expertise in complex, interdependent energy systems with deep knowledge of the economic, scientific and regulatory factors that influence those systems. In particular, for energy producers and other energy suppliers, these changes have increased the need for advisory and implementation services to support regulatory developments, power and transmission market assessments, capacity expansions and corporate restructurings, acquisitions and divestitures.
Environment and infrastructure
A growing awareness of, and concern about, the effects of global warming, continued environmental degradation and depletion of key natural resources has increased demand for professional services that address these environmental issues. Furthermore, natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina, have underscored the importance of long-term stewardship, while environmental reviews of new facilities for energy refining, delivery and transportation have become increasingly complex. Solutions to these environmental issues need to integrate an understanding of evolving regulations, demands for improved infrastructure and economic incentives while providing equitable treatment of the various constituents involved in the political discourse related to these solutions. As a result, we anticipate continued demand for professional services firms that understand the complex relationships between these issues and can help reconcile the often competing concerns of different government and industry stakeholders. We believe that firms with these strengths are best positioned to help governments with developing and implementing effective public policies and programs and to assist commercial entities with responding to these policies and programs.
Environmental and public health services are also needed to help decision makers keep pace with advances in science while developing public policies that are protective but not unduly restrictive. The private sector is anxious to bring new products to the market, including new pesticides and food additives, while product developers and regulators must perform human health and ecological risk assessments to ensure product safety. Product developers and regulators therefore must evaluate the environmental and public health tradeoffs of alternative materials used in manufacturing and new approaches for controlling air and water pollution. In addition, public policy priorities often create tremendous development pressures that present significant environmental challenges. For example, new energy demands foster the development of additional liquefied natural gas facilities and associated pipelines, as well as uranium enrichment and nuclear power facilities. Moreover, additional transportation infrastructure is required to meet needs for defense logistics, freight movements and nuclear waste disposal. All of these pressures contribute to growing demand for firms with capabilities in environment and infrastructure.
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Important parts of the transportation infrastructure of the United States have suffered from under-investment for decades. The resurgence of city centers and the rapid growth of international trade have put tremendous pressure on access points and exits around our major urban and port areas. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has estimated that our highway, bridge and transit infrastructure will require approximately $90 billion of annual investment through 2020 to maintain current operating conditions and that an additional $36 billion in annual investment will be required during the same period to make planned improvements and capacity expansions. Both the public and private sectors will need assistance from experienced professional services firms that understand the economic, social and environmental implications of the options available to upgrade the transportation infrastructure.
Health, human services and social programs
A confluence of long-term factors is expected to drive an increased need for public spending on health, human services and social programs, despite budgetary pressures. U.S. Social Security and Medicare trustees project a major rise in the percentage of the population age 65 and older from 12% today to 18% in 2025, placing significant burdens on a variety of public programs. Other major factors adding to pressure for more program support include continued immigration, increased military personnel returning home with health and social service needs, increased population growth at the lowest income levels, and the rising cost of healthcare. In addition, demand is growing for professional services that plan for and respond to the health and social consequences of threats from terrorism, natural disasters and epidemics.
We believe the resulting growth in demand for program services in this era of budget deficits will require agencies at all levels of government to utilize professional services firms with diverse expertise across social program areas. These areas include designing and enhancing programs to meet new threats, determining the effectiveness of programs, re-engineering current programs to increase efficiency, providing the required management and technical resources to support underlying knowledge management, training and technical assistance, and managing widely dispersed people and information. In addition, we expect that government will consolidate services with professional services firms with expertise across multiple social program areas in order to take advantage of best practices and extract additional efficiencies.
COMPETITIVE STRENGTHS
We possess the following key business strengths:
We have a highly educated professional staff with deep subject matter knowledge.
We possess strong intellectual capital that provides us deep understanding of policies, processes and programs at the intersection of the public and private sectors. Our thought leadership is based on years of training, experience and education. Our clients are able to draw on the in-depth knowledge of our subject matter experts and our corporate experience developed over decades of providing advisory services. As of December 31, 2005, almost 50% of our professional staff held post-graduate degrees in diverse fields such as economics, engineering, business administration, information technology, law, life sciences and public policy. These qualifications, and the complementary nature of our markets, enable us to deploy multi-disciplinary teams able to identify, develop and implement solutions that are creative, pragmatic and tailored to our clients specific needs.
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We believe our diverse range of markets, services and projects provides a stimulating work environment for our employees and enhances their professional development. The use of multi-disciplinary teams provides our staff the opportunity to develop and refine common skills required in many types of engagements. Our approach to managing human resources fosters collaboration and significant cross-utilization of the skills and experience of both industry experts and personnel who can bring creative solutions drawing upon their experiences in different markets. The types of services we provide, and the manner in which we do so, enable us to attract and retain talented professionals from a variety of backgrounds while maintaining a culture that fosters teamwork and excellence.
We have long-standing relationships with our clients.
We have a successful record of fulfilling our clients needs, as demonstrated by our continued long-term client relationships. We have numerous contacts at various levels within our clients organizations, ranging from key decision makers to functional managers. We have advised the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and DoD for more than 30 years, the U.S. Department of Energy for over 25 years and have multi-year relationships with many of our other clients. Such extensive experience, together with increasing on-site presence and prime contractor position on a substantial majority of our contracts, gives us clearer visibility into future opportunities and emerging requirements. In addition, over 300 of our employees hold a U.S. federal government security clearance, which affords us client access at appropriate levels and further strengthens our relationships. Our balance between defense and civilian agencies, our commercial presence and the diversity of the markets we serve mitigate the impact of annual shifts in our clients budgets and priorities.
Our advisory services position us to capture a full range of engagements.
We believe our advisory approach, which is based on deep subject matter expertise and understanding of our clients requirements and objectives, is a significant competitive differentiator that helps us gain access to key client decision makers during the initial phases of a policy, program, project or initiative. We use this expertise and understanding to formulate customized recommendations for our government and commercial clients. Because of our role in formulating initial recommendations, we are often well positioned to capture the implementation services that often result from our recommendations. Implementation services, in turn, allow us to hone our understanding of the clients requirements and objectives as they evolve over time. We use this understanding to provide evaluation and improvement services that maintain the relevance of our recommendations. In this manner, we believe we are able to offer end-to-end services across the entire life cycle of a particular policy, program, project or initiative.
Our technology solutions are driven by our deep subject matter expertise.
We possess strong knowledge in information technology and a deep understanding of human and organizational processes. This combination of skills allows us to deliver technology-enabled solutions tailored to our clients business and organizational needs. There is increasing awareness among government and commercial decision makers that, to be effective, technology solutions need to be seamlessly integrated with people and processes. An example of such a technology-enabled solution that we have developed is CommentWorks, a web-based tool that enables federal government agencies to collect and process public comments in connection with rulemaking or other activities.
Our proprietary analytics and methods allow us to deliver superior solutions to clients.
We believe our innovative, and often proprietary, analytics and methods are key competitive differentiators because they improve our credibility with prospective clients, enhance our ability to deliver customized solutions and enable us to deliver services in a more cost-effective manner than our
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competitors. We have developed industry standard energy and environmental models such as IPM (Integrated Planning Model) and UAM (Urban Airshed Model), which are used by governments and commercial entities around the world for energy planning and air quality analyses, respectively. The scientific validity of UAM has been recognized in decisions by U.S. federal courts, including the Supreme Court, which supports use of these models by our government clients in their official administrative processes. In addition, we have developed a suite of proprietary climate change tools to help the private sector develop strategies for complying with greenhouse gas emission reduction requirements, including the K-PRISM project risk evaluation system and the International Carbon Pricing Tool. We also maintain proprietary databases that we continually refine and that are available to be incorporated quickly into our analyses on client engagements. In addition, we use proprietary project management methodologies that we believe help reduce process related risk, improve delivery, contain costs and help meet our clients tight timetables. We have won numerous awards for the quality of our technical work.
We are led by an experienced management team.
Our senior management team possesses extensive industry experience and has an average tenure of 14 years with our company. Our managers are experienced not only in generating business, but also in successfully managing and executing advisory and implementation assignments. For example, one of our senior managers served for 20 years on the New York City Fire Department and later as Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Operations Chief at Ground Zero. Our management team also has experience in acquiring other businesses and integrating their operations with our own. A number of our managers are industry-recognized thought leaders. For example, one of our senior managers was named last year to Project Management Institutes Power 50, which recognized forward-thinking strategic leaders. Our managements successful past performance and deep understanding of our clients needs have been key differentiating factors in competitive situations.
STRATEGY
Our strategy to increase our revenue, grow our company and increase stockholder value involves the following key elements:
Strengthen our end-to-end service offerings
We plan to leverage our advisory services and strong client relationships to increase our revenue from implementation services, which include information technology solutions, project and program management, project delivery, strategic communications and training. Currently, we generate most of our revenue from advisory services, with the remainder coming from implementation and evaluation and improvement services. We believe our advisory services provide us with insight and understanding of our clients missions and goals and, as a result, position us to capture a greater portion of the implementation engagements that directly result from our advisory services. Expanding our client engagements into implementation and evaluation and improvement services will increase the scale, scope and duration of our contracts and thus accelerate our growth.
Grow our client base and increase scope of services provided to existing clients
We intend to grow our client base, while maintaining strong relationships with our current clients, by expanding our geographic presence domestically in the United States and internationally. Within the United States, we plan to increase our presence at key government client sites. Our strong record of past performance with government clients, highly skilled multi-disciplinary teams and growing information technology implementation capabilities should facilitate this expansion. We also intend to take advantage of the growing need for our advisory services in Europe, Asia and Latin America through our existing offices in these regions. Expansion of our advisory services in these markets will help increase our client
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relationships and set the stage for us to expand into implementation and improvement services. In addition, we intend to invest in development and marketing initiatives in order to strengthen our brand recognition among potential clients. We intend to focus on additional opportunities in our existing client base by increasing the scope of our services, such as by identifying and offering clients new skill sets and implementation and improvement services that complement ongoing advisory services.
Expand into additional markets at the intersection of the public and private sectors
We have a strong record of providing services that address complex issues at the intersection of the public and private sectors. We believe there are additional opportunities for us to expand into other markets that are impacted by government involvement. In the next three to five years, we expect key markets for these opportunities to include education, social and criminal justice and veterans affairs. Although we believe we are well qualified to serve these additional markets, we have not yet fully capitalized on these additional opportunities and have only limited presence in these markets.
Focus on high margin projects
We plan to pursue higher margin commercial energy projects and continue to shift our government contract base to increase margins. In light of recent oil price increases, the impact of those increases on the prices of other forms of energy, and the need for both governments and industry to react to these conditions, we view the energy industry as a particularly attractive market for us over the next decade, and we have strong global client relationships in this market. Historically, our margins on engagements in this market have been higher than those in our government business. We believe the size and scope of these assignments will grow in the future due to the major changes facing the energy industry. In addition, we will continue our efforts in government markets to shift our contract mix from cost-based contracts toward fixed-price contracts and time-and-materials contracts, both of which, in our experience, typically offer higher margins.
Capitalize on operating leverage
We have built a corporate infrastructure and internal systems that we believe are readily scalable and can accommodate significant growth without a proportionate increase in expense. We have invested significant time and resources in developing our accounting and financial systems and our information technology infrastructure. As our revenue base grows, we expect to realize operating leverage by spreading the costs associated with these investments over a larger revenue base, which would increase our operating margins. In addition, we intend to pursue larger prime contract opportunities, which should provide a greater return on our business development efforts and allow for enhanced employee utilization. Also, in an effort to reduce costs and access global talent, we are utilizing resources in India for our commercial work, including energy modeling, and intend to further utilize offshore resources where appropriate.
Pursue strategic acquisitions
We plan to augment our organic growth with selected acquisitions. During the past five years, we have acquired and integrated several businesses, including two of Arthur D. Littles consulting units in May 2002, Synergy, Inc. in January 2005 and Caliber Associates, Inc. in October 2005. We plan to continue a disciplined acquisition strategy to obtain new customers, increase our size and market presence and obtain capabilities that complement our existing portfolio of services, while focusing on cultural compatibility and financial impact.
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SERVICES AND SOLUTIONS
We offer a broad and diverse set of services and solutions within our four key markets: defense and homeland security; energy; environment and infrastructure; and health, human services and social programs. We seek to provide end-to-end services that deliver value throughout the entire life of a policy, program, project or initiative. The following chart provides an overview of our end-to-end services and solutions in our four key markets.
Defense and homeland security
We support DoD by providing high-end strategic planning, analysis and technology solutions in the areas of logistics management, operational support and command and control. We also provide strong capabilities to the defense sector in environmental management, human capital assessment, military community research and technology-enabled solutions. In the area of homeland security, we provide services to federal, state and local government clients to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from natural disasters, technological failures and terrorist attacks. We are a national leader in critical infrastructure protection and are currently leading two efforts for DHSs Preparedness Directorate in its Infrastructure Protection Division. We also manage the national program to test emergency preparedness at the federal, state, local and private sector levels in communities adjacent to nuclear power facilities.
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The following is a representative list of our clients in this market for 2005.
Ø U.S. Department of Defense |
Ø U.S. Department of Homeland Security | |
Ø Air Force |
Ø Federal Emergency Management Agency | |
Ø Army |
Ø Secret Service | |
Ø Navy |
Ø Transportation Security Administration | |
Ø Directorate for Science & Technology | ||
Ø Commonwealth of Puerto Rico |
Ø Citizenship & Immigration Services | |
Ø State of Nebraska |
Ø Directorate for Preparedness | |
Ø Coast Guard |
Some of our representative client engagements in the defense and homeland security market are described below.
Network Centric Logistics Office of the Secretary of Defense, Office of Force Transformation (OSD/OFT)
In support of OSD/OFTs efforts to leverage information technology to transform the U.S. military from disparate, isolated units into a well-coordinated, highly responsive and networked organization, we were retained to design, develop and implement a network-centric defense logistics solution. We utilized our expertise in strategy and concept development, research and analysis, and our in-depth understanding of logistics and the emerging complexities of modern warfare, to assist OSD/OFT with this web-based prototype solution. This system is designed to be linked to various information technology networks and provides real-time integration of information from the militarys logistics, operations and intelligence groups. This integrated capability is a source of operational advantage and a force multiplier.
E-Procurement System U.S. Department of Defense
By Congressional mandate, DoDs Joint Electronic Commerce Program Office was required to develop an electronic procurement system allowing military and other authorized government users to order from DoD catalogs. From this mandate emerged EMALL, one of DoDs most widely adopted web-based government procurement applications. Initially, EMALL targeted finished goods and off-the-shelf products, which comprised only a fraction of DoD procurements. In order to allow EMALL to handle more complicated transactions, DoD engaged us to develop more sophisticated functionality by integrating commercial off-the-shelf technology components with customized software. We have enhanced EMALL by enabling secure messaging, competitive pricing and collaborative checkout procedures to help users obtain the best price. We have also developed programs to allow various agencies (such as DHS) and other buyers (such as military bases) to develop their own business rules. Our efforts are responsible, in part, for EMALLs recent exponential growth in sales, from $13 million in 2003, to over $500 million in 2005 and projected sales of $1 billion in 2006. In 2004, EMALL received the David Packard award for Acquisition Excellence, and in 2005, EMALL received the Defense Certificate of Recognition for Acquisition Innovation.
Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program and Offsite Exercises U.S. Department of Homeland Security
DHS has engaged us to evaluate the ability of state and local governments in regions with nuclear power plants to implement their radiological emergency preparedness and response plans. The Radiological Emergency Preparedness (REP) Program is designed to enhance the ability of all levels of government and
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their private sector partners to plan for, prepare for, and respond to, peacetime radiological emergencies, and to ensure that adequate off-site emergency plans are in place and can be implemented successfully. Under this contract, we conduct more than 75 annual exercises and drills, provide access to more than 130 subject matter experts and other evaluators and deliver training. To facilitate managing this complex engagement, we have developed two web-based systems to analyze and track issues and personnel involved in these REP exercises.
National Infrastructure Protection Plan Development U.S. Department of Homeland Security
In December 2003, the White House directed the Secretary of DHS to lead the federal government in protecting 17 critical infrastructure sectors of the United States, such as transportation, telecommunications and pipeline systems. We were selected by DHS as the lead contractor to coordinate the development of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan. Based on extensive research and interviews with DHS personnel, participating federal agencies and other stakeholders, we developed a framework for collecting information on critical infrastructure and key resources. In addition, this framework can be used in assessing potential asset risks, determining cross-sector impacts and interdependencies and for prioritizing assets based on vulnerabilities, threats and consequences in the development and performance assessment of protective programs.
Energy
We assist energy enterprises and energy consumers worldwide in their efforts to develop, analyze and implement strategies related to their business operations and the interrelationships of those operations with the environment and applicable government regulations. Our clients include integrated energy enterprises, power developers, regulated electricity transmission and distribution companies, unregulated enterprises, municipal power authorities, energy traders and marketers, oil and gas exploration and production companies, gas transmission companies, pipeline developers, local distribution companies, industry associations, investors, financial institutions, law firms and regulators in the United States and throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. We also support government and commercial clients in designing, implementing and improving effective and innovative demand-side management strategies in a wide range of areas, including energy efficiency and peak load management.
For more than 25 years, we have helped commercial and regulatory clients in the energy sector deal with complex and challenging regulatory and litigation issues. We provide advisory services in asset and contract valuation, rate structure and price analysis, resource planning, market structures and environmental compliance. Our expert testimony and support for scores of litigated cases reinforce our reputation for deep industry knowledge backed by our proprietary analytical models. We are currently providing support and representation in a number of regulatory proceedings, including those at the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU).
The following is a representative list of our clients in this market for 2005.
Ø U.S. Department of Energy |
Ø We Energies | |
Ø U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
Ø GridFlorida | |
Ø TXU Energy |
Ø Con Edison Company of New York | |
Ø Pacific Gas & Electric |
Ø BP Global Power | |
Ø Cinergy |
Ø Excelsior Energy | |
Ø CenterPoint Energy |
Ø State of New York | |
Ø Northeast Utilities |
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Some of our representative client engagements in the energy market are described below.
Support for the ENERGY STAR® Program U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Utilities, State Agencies
Since the programs inception in 1992, we have assisted EPA in the design and implementation of ENERGY STAR, one of the best known energy efficiency programs in the world to help government, business, and families save energy. Our roles in the ENERGY STAR program have included analyzing the market potential for energy efficiency in buildings and commercial products, designing incentives to encourage energy efficiency, developing energy use specifications for more than 25 ENERGY STAR products, and developing proprietary tools to map ENERGY STAR home specifications across various national climate zones. On behalf of EPA, we have also conducted extensive outreach to influence the manufacturing and building industries and have promoted energy efficient products and processes to over 2,000 of the top businesses in the U.S.
ENERGY STAR has become the national benchmark for best practices in energy efficiency. As a result of our role in the national ENERGY STAR program, we are now assisting regional and state entities in designing and implementing similar programs. For example, we have worked nationally and locally with a major utility to initiate the ENERGY STAR New Homes Transformation, contributing to the construction of over 500,000 ENERGY STAR homes. In addition, the ENERGY STAR label and tenets are used in other countries and jurisdictions, including the European Union, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Taiwan. We have also provided consulting services to Brazil, China, India and Taiwan related to the use of ENERGY STAR concepts in their own energy efficiency labeling programs.
Greenhouse Gas Strategy and Implementation Support Major Oil & Gas Company
The energy industry accounts for about one-third of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by human activities. One of the worlds largest oil and gas companies has employed our services as it strives to redefine its future in a carbon-constrained world. In addition to helping this client establish protocols for measuring and managing its GHG emissions, we helped develop an internal GHG trading system designed to increase corporate-wide awareness about the need for, and internal costs of, reducing our clients emissions. We have been engaged to support the clients interests in assessing the value and commercial viability of proposed new power market projects in Europe and Asia based on cleaner fuels such as gas and renewable fuels. More recently, as our client explores new business models that are less reliant on traditional petroleum-based fuels, we have been engaged to identify and evaluate various policy options that could be introduced to reduce GHG emissions throughout the fuel cycle in the transportation sector. As the global energy industry continues to address GHG emissions in various regions, we believe our combined expertise in carbon strategy, emission trading, global energy market analysis, energy efficiency, alternative fuels, and transportation will play an important role.
Power Market Strategy, Regulatory and Litigation Support Commercial and Regulatory Clients
We work with companies in the power markets in the Americas, Europe and Asia to help them develop strategies that will optimize the value of their existing and proposed assets within continuously evolving regulatory and market frameworks. Our energy market models are used as the basis for decision-making by both commercial and regulatory clients. For example, we have recently been retained by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to provide analyses and legal filings and to serve as an expert witness with respect to a large proposed acquisition. Our work involves detailed node-by-node analyses of the power grid affecting the state, assessments of the impact of divesting specific generating units, and recommendations for additional power generation that the combined entity may have to sell to alleviate competition concerns.
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Environment and infrastructure
For more than three decades, we have been providing services for the design, evaluation and implementation of environmental policies and projects across all environmental media land, air and water. We work with federal, regional and international governments and commercial clients to assess, establish and improve environmental policies using interdisciplinary skills ranging from finance and economics, to the earth and life sciences, to information technology and program management. Because of the wide range of potential environmental impacts of changes in transportation, energy and other types of infrastructure, our in-depth environmental knowledge is often critical to providing comprehensive solutions. In addressing infrastructure issues, however, we go beyond environmental questions to address problems at the nexus of transportation, energy, economic development and the environment. For example, we help shape national freight policy and assess alternatives for reducing urban congestion and pollution. Our solutions are based on skills in transportation planning, urban and land use planning, environmental science, economics, information technology, financial analysis, policy analysis and communications.
The following is a representative list of our clients in this market for 2005.
Ø U.S. Department of Transportation |
Ø U.S. Postal Service | |
Ø Federal Aviation Administration |
Ø U.S. Department of Commerce | |
Ø Federal Highway Administration |
Ø U.S. Department of Interior | |
Ø U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
Ø U.S. Federal Trade Commission | |
Ø U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration |
Ø U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration | |
Ø U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
Ø European Commission | |
Ø Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
Some of our representative client engagements in the environment and infrastructure market are described below.
National Airspace Implementation Support U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
We have provided over 20 years of support to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to improve its management, maximize return on its capital investments, and mitigate the risks in investment outcomes. We provide a wide variety of on-site management services, including:
Ø | design and implementation of an agency-wide portfolio management framework that has improved capital investment planning and management processes; |
Ø | support to FAA Integrated Project Teams in their tailored implementation of program management processes, tools and techniques; |
Ø | curriculum development and training on acquisition management and program management; |
Ø | analyses of identified deficiencies and technology enhancement opportunities in air traffic control information technology systems; |
Ø | business process re-engineering for human resource, civil rights reporting and investment management processes; and |
Ø | assistance in developing the FAAs Acquisition Management System, one of the first such systems in government exempt from the Federal Acquisition Regulation. |
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Market-Based Air Emission Control Programs U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPAs Clean Air Markets Division (CAMD) was established to use the successful market-based approach to utility regulation pioneered in the Title IV Acid Rain Program on new pollutants and sources. We have supported EPAs Clean Air programs since the 1970s through our deep knowledge of the regulated industries, their market relationships and the technologies they use for generating power and reducing emissions. This knowledge is vital in supporting CAMDs innovative market-based programs, which leave many compliance decisions to the affected industries. A critical dimension of our support is collecting industry knowledge in a detailed and sophisticated industry database that drives our proprietary Integrated Planning Model (IPM), which simulates the activities of the entire North American power industry. This approach allows us to provide detailed cost and air quality analyses of responses to emission cap and trade proposals and other air emissions requirements. These model runs form the core of the Regulatory Impact Analyses that EPA and the U.S. Office of Management and Budget require for program implementation.
Environmental Assessment of Permitting Mexican Carriers to Operate in the United States U.S. Department of Transportation
The North American Free Trade Agreement requires that Mexican trucks and buses be permitted to operate in the United States beyond established commercial border zones. The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) retained us to analyze air pollution, noise, safety, and other impacts of Mexican vehicles on U.S. highways. We applied firm-wide expertise in transportation, environmental assessment, commodity flow, traffic and air quality modeling, and stakeholder outreach to perform the required analyses, provide advisory services to FMCSA, conduct public hearings to reach out to stakeholders and carry out the required filings during an expedited environmental impact review schedule. We developed a system to estimate the likely movement of trucks throughout the United States, determine appropriate emissions factors and estimate emissions effects in every air quality non-attainment and maintenance area in the country under a variety of scenarios.
Environmental Safety and Occupational Health Support U.S. Missile Defense Agency
For the last five years, we have been supporting the efforts of the Civil Engineering and Environmental Management Division within the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to facilitate environmental stewardship and compliance of all Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) testing and deployment activities. We provide a range of environmental planning, safety and occupational health support to MDA. For example, we prepared MDAs first Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the BMDS, which covered a wide variety of missile technologies and systems. We have also developed and are maintaining MDAs environmental knowledge management system, which allows MDA environmental professionals to analyze proposed future actions using data from hundreds of documents we have reviewed and, thus, streamline their environmental compliance activities. In addition, we have developed and implemented a geographic information system for MDA that analyzes the potential effects of BMDS activities on environmental resources. We have received numerous letters of commendation from MDA for our work and we were awarded the DoD Group Achievement Award for Environmental Management in 2005.
Health, human services and social programs
We provide research, consulting, implementation and improvement services that help government, industry and other stakeholders develop and manage effective programs in the areas of health and human services at the national, regional and local levels. Clients utilize our services in this market because we
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have deep subject matter expertise in complex social areas, including education, children and families, public health, economic development and disaster recovery, housing and communities, military personnel recruitment and retention, and substance abuse. We partner with our clients in the public, private and non-profit sectors to increase their knowledge base, support program development, enhance program operations, evaluate program results and improve program effectiveness.
The following is a representative list of our clients in this market for 2005.
Ø U.S. Department of Health & Human |
Ø U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development | |
Ø Centers for Disease Control |
Ø U.S. Department of Agriculture | |
Ø Food & Drug Administration |
Ø U.S. Department of Justice | |
Ø National Institutes of Health |
Ø U.S. Department of State | |
Ø Administration for Children & Families |
Ø U.S. Department of Education |
Some of our representative client engagements in the health, human services and social programs market are described below.
Childrens Bureau Clearinghouse Services U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
We help U.S. federal agencies such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) implement human and social programs by managing technical assistance centers, providing instructional systems, supporting stakeholder outreach, developing information technology applications and managing clearinghouse operations. Clearinghouses disseminate information about a program or subject area to professionals in the field and the general public. We have been chosen to manage several clearinghouses because of our deep and broad understanding of legislation, regulations, emerging issues, research findings and promising practice models, combined with our ability to collect, synthesize and disseminate information to diverse audiences in multiple formats.
Since the 1990s, we have operated and provided leadership, in collaboration with the Childrens Bureau, for two large, federally funded clearinghouses: the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse. Today, as a result of continuous process improvement, both of these clearinghouses have a strong Internet presence with total on-line libraries of more than 48,000 documents, on-line ordering capabilities, product lines of more than 130 documents (developed by our staff experts) and on-line databases that make information continuously available. We exhibited at more than 70 national, regional and state conferences in 2005 and distributed more than 170,000 publications.
Addressing Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment U.S. Departments of Justice, and Health and Human Services
In addition to providing advisory and research services at the front end of government programs, we also conduct evaluations and implement program enhancements. We received funding from DOJ and HHS to evaluate and implement recommendations of The Greenbook, a ground-breaking work developed by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges to change approaches to family violence in order to help battered women and their children lead safer lives. We led a team of subject matter and evaluation experts to develop and implement data collection protocols, perform multi-level qualitative and quantitative analyses, and describe evaluation findings. The original three-year evaluation funding period (through August 2003) has been extended to seven years to allow a more comprehensive evaluation plan and development of products for targeted policymaker, practitioner and evaluator
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audiences. Our work has been referenced by government and industry stakeholders citing the Greenbook project as a model for collaborative systems change that can support safety and well-being among families experiencing violence.
CONTRACTS
Government, commercial and international clients accounted for 81%, 14% and 5%, respectively, of our 2005 revenue. Our clients span a broad range of defense and civilian agencies and commercial enterprises. We had more than 1,000 active contracts as of December 31, 2005, including task orders and delivery orders under GSA Schedules. Our contract periods typically extend from one month to as much as seven years, including option periods. Option periods may be exercised at the election of the government. Our largest contract accounted for approximately 5% and 3% of our revenue for 2004 and 2005, respectively. Our top ten contracts collectively accounted for approximately 32% and 22% of our revenue for 2004 and 2005, respectively. We received approximately 18% and 16% of our revenue for 2005 from DoD and EPA, respectively. Most of our revenue is derived from prime contracts, which accounted for 87% and 86% of our revenue for 2004 and 2005, respectively. We consider each task order and delivery order under GSA Schedules as a separate contract. Unless the context otherwise requires, we use the term contracts to refer to contracts and any task orders or delivery orders issued under a contract.
CONTRACT BACKLOG
We define total backlog as the future revenue we expect to receive from our contracts and other engagements. We generally include in backlog the estimated revenue represented by contract options that have been priced, though not exercised. We do not include any estimate of revenue relating to potential future delivery orders that might be awarded under our GSA Schedule contracts, other Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts, or other contract vehicles that are also held by a large number of firms, and under which potential future delivery orders or task orders might be issued by any of a large number of different agencies and are likely to be subject to a competitive bidding process. We do, however, include potential future work expected to be awarded under IDIQ contracts that are available to be utilized by a limited number of potential clients and are held either by us alone or by a limited number of firms.
We include expected revenue in funded backlog when we have been authorized by the client to proceed under a contract up to the dollar amount specified by our client, and this amount will be owed to us under the contract after we provide the services pursuant to the authorization. If we do not provide services authorized by a client prior to the expiration of the authorization, we remove amounts corresponding to the expired authorization from backlog. We do include expected revenue under an engagement in funded backlog when we do not have a signed contract if we have received client authorization to begin or continue working and we expect to sign a contract for the engagement. In this case, the amount of funded backlog is limited to the amount authorized. Our funded backlog does not represent the full revenue potential of our contracts because government clients, and sometimes other clients, generally authorize work under a particular contract on a yearly or more frequent basis, even though the contract may extend over a number of years. Most of the services we provide to commercial clients are provided under contracts with relatively short durations that authorize us to provide services and, as a consequence, our backlog attributable to these clients is typically reflected in funded backlog and not in unfunded backlog.
We define unfunded backlog as the difference between total backlog and funded backlog. Our revenue estimates for purposes of determining unfunded backlog for a particular contract are based, to a large extent, on the amount of revenue we have recently recognized on that contract, our experience in
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utilizing contract capacity on similar types of contracts, and our professional judgment. Our revenue estimate for a contract included in backlog is sometimes lower than the revenue that would result from our client utilizing all remaining contract capacity.
Although we expect our contract backlog to result in revenue, the timing of revenue associated with both funded and unfunded backlog will vary based upon a number of factors, and we may not recognize revenue associated with a particular component of backlog when anticipated, or at all. The federal government has the right to cancel any contract, or ongoing or planned work under any contract, at any time. In addition, there can be no assurance that revenue from funded or unfunded backlog will have similar profitability to previous work or will be profitable at all. Generally speaking, we believe the risk that a particular component of backlog will not result in future revenue is higher for unfunded backlog than for funded backlog.
Our estimates of funded, unfunded and total backlog at the dates indicated were as follows:
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$ | 134.4 | $ | 226.8 | $ | 216.8 |
See Risk factors Risks Related to Our Business We may not receive revenue corresponding to the full amount of our backlog, or may receive it later than we expect, which could materially and adversely affect our revenue and operating results.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Our business development efforts drive our organic growth. A firm-wide business development process, referred to as the Business Development Life Cycle (BDLC), is used to guide sales activities in a disciplined manner from lead identification, through lead qualification to capture and proposal. An internally developed, web-based tool is used to track all sales opportunities throughout the BDLC, as well as to manage our aggregate sales pipeline. Major sales opportunities are each led by a capture manager and are put through executive reviews at multiple points during their lifecycle to ensure alignment with our corporate strategy and effective use of resources.
Business development efforts in priority market areas, which include our largest federal agency accounts (DoD, DHS, HHS, DOT and EPA) and the commercial energy sector, are executed through account teams, each of which is headed by a corporate account executive and supported by dedicated corporate business development professionals and senior staff from the relevant operating units. Each account executive has significant authority and accountability to set the priorities and to bring to bear the correct resources. Each team participates in regular executive reviews. This account-based approach allows deep insight into the needs of our clients. It also helps us anticipate their evolving requirements over the coming 12 to 18 months and position ourselves to meet those requirements. Each of our operating units is responsible for maximizing sales in our existing accounts and finding opportunities in closely related accounts. Their efforts are complemented by our corporate business development function, which is responsible for large and strategically important pursuits.
The corporate business development function also includes a market research and competitive intelligence group, a proposal management group and a strategic capture unit. In addition, we have a marketing and communications group that is responsible for our website, press releases, sales collateral and trade show management. Pricing is not handled by the corporate business development function.
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Our contracts and administration function leads our pricing decisions in partnership with the business development account teams and operating units.
COMPETITION
We operate in a highly competitive and fragmented marketplace and compete against a number of firms in each of our four key markets. Some of our principal competitors include BearingPoint, Inc., Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., CRA International, Inc., L-3 Communications Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Navigant Consulting, Inc., Northrop Grumman Corporation, PA Consulting Group, SAIC, Inc., and SRA International, Inc. In addition, within each of our four key markets, we have numerous smaller competitors, many of which have narrower service offerings and serve niche markets.
Some of our competitors are significantly larger than us and have greater access to resources and stronger brand recognition than we do.
We consider the principal competitive factors in our market to be client relationships, reputation and past performance of the firm, client references, technical knowledge and industry expertise of employees, quality of services and solutions, scope of service offerings and pricing.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
We own a number of trademarks and copyrights that help maintain our business and competitive position. We have no patents. Sales and licenses of our intellectual property do not comprise a substantial portion of our revenue or profit; however, this situation could change in the future. We rely on the technology and models, proprietary processes and other intellectual property we own or have rights to use in our analysis and other work we perform for our clients. We use these innovative, and often proprietary, analytical models and tools throughout our service offerings. Our domestic and overseas staffs regularly maintain, update and improve these models based on our corporate experience. In addition, we sometimes retain limited rights in software applications we develop for clients. We use a variety of means to protect our intellectual property, as discussed in Risk factors, but there can be no assurance that these will adequately protect our intellectual property.
EMPLOYEES
As of March 31, 2006 we had 1,284 benefits-eligible (full-time and regular part-time) employees and 402 non-benefits eligible (variable part-time) employees. On a full-time equivalents basis, our total headcount was 1,439. As of March 31, 2006, almost 50% of our professional staff held post-graduate degrees in diverse fields such as economics, engineering, business administration, information technology, law, life sciences and public policy. More than 85% of our employees hold a bachelors degree or equivalent, and over 300 hold a U.S. federal government security clearance.
We have a professional environment that encourages advanced training to acquire industry recognized certifications, rewards strong job performance with advancement opportunities and fosters ethical and honest conduct. Our salary structure, incentive compensation and benefit packages are competitive within our industry.
FACILITIES
We lease our office facilities and do not own any real estate. We have leased our corporate headquarters through October 2012 at 9300 Lee Highway in Fairfax, Virginia, in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. As of December 31, 2005, we leased approximately 200,000 square feet of office space at this and an adjoining building. These buildings house a portion of our operations and substantially all of our corporate functions, including executive management, treasury, accounting, human resources, business and corporate development, facilities management, information services and contracts.
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As of December 31, 2005, we also leased approximately 240,000 square feet of office space in about two dozen other locations throughout the United States and around the world, with various lease terms expiring over the next seven years. Approximately 30,000 square feet of the space we lease is currently subleased to other parties. We believe that our current office space, together with other office space we will be able to lease, will meet our needs for the next several years. For further discussion regarding our approach and plans with respect to leased office space, see Managements discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations Operating expenses.
In addition, a portion of our operations staff is housed at client-provided facilities, pursuant to the terms of a number of our customer contracts.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
From time to time, we are involved in various legal matters and proceedings concerning matters arising in the ordinary course of business. We currently believe that any ultimate liability arising out of these matters and proceedings will not have a material adverse effect on our financial position, results of operations, or cash flow.
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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
Our executive officers and directors, and their ages are as follows:
Name | Age | Title | ||
Sudhakar Kesavan |
51 | Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
John Wasson |
45 | Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer | ||
Alan Stewart |
51 | Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary | ||
Ellen Glover |
51 | Executive Vice President | ||
Gerald Croan |
56 | Executive Vice President | ||
Dr. Edward H. Bersoff |
63 | Director | ||
Robert Hopkins |
49 | Director | ||
Joel R. Jacks |
58 | Director | ||
David C. Lucien |
56 | Director | ||
William Moody |
53 | Director | ||
Peter M. Schulte |
48 | Director |
Sudhakar Kesavan serves as the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of ICF and its wholly owned subsidiary, ICF Consulting Group, Inc. In 1997, Mr. Kesavan was named President of ICF Consulting Group, Inc. when it was a subsidiary of ICF Kaiser. In 1999, the Group was divested from Kaiser and became a wholly owned subsidiary of the company through a joint effort of the management of ICF Consulting Group, Inc. and CM Equity Partners, L.P. Mr. Kesavan received his Master of Science degree from the Technology and Policy Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his postgraduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and his Bachelor of Technology degree (chemical engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Mr. Kesavan serves on the Board of the Rainforest Alliance, a New York based nonprofit environmental organization.
John Wasson serves as an Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of ICF and has been with ICF Consulting Group, Inc. since 1987. Mr. Wasson previously worked as a staff scientist at the Conservation Law Foundation of New England and as a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development. Mr. Wasson holds an M.S. in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Davis.
Alan Stewart serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ICF and has been with ICF Consulting Group, Inc. since 2001. Mr. Stewart has almost 30 years of experience in financial management, including mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Stewart was chief financial officer at DataZen Corporation, Blackboard, Inc. and Deltek Systems, Inc. Prior to joining Deltek Systems, Inc., Mr. Stewart held senior finance positions at BTG, Inc., Tempest Technologies, Inc., C3, Inc., the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Martin Marietta Corporation and Touche Ross & Co. Mr. Stewart received his B.S. in Accounting from Virginia Commonwealth University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Ellen Glover serves as an Executive Vice President of ICF and joined ICF Consulting Group, Inc. in 2005. Prior to joining us, since 2004, Ms. Glover served as the Vice President and General Manager of Dynamics Research, a publicly traded professional and technical services contractor to federal and state government agencies, which acquired Impact Innovations Group. Prior to the acquisition, from 2002 to 2004, Ms. Glover served as President of Impact Innovations Group, a provider of information technology services to federal and commercial markets. From 1983 to 2002, Ms. Glover was an officer of Advanced Technology Systems, a provider of information technology services to the U.S. Department
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of Defense and civilian agencies. Ms. Glover served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Advanced Technology Systems from 1994 to 2002, as Director of Operations from 1990-1993 and as a Program Manager prior to 1990. Ms. Glover holds a M.S. in Urban Planning and a B.A. in History and Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh.
Gerald Croan serves as an Executive Vice President of ICF and the president of ICFs subsidiary, Caliber Associates, Inc., which focuses on our health, human services and social programs market. Mr. Croan joined ICF with our acquisition effective October 1, 2005 of Caliber Associates, Inc. Mr. Croan founded Caliber Associates, Inc. in 1983 and served as its president since its inception. Mr. Croans experience includes research, evaluation, technical assistance and training, and related program support services for juvenile justice, victim services, youth services and community programs, military family issues and developmental work on community needs assessment systems for the military. Mr. Croans work has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Justice and Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to founding Caliber Associates, Inc., Mr. Croan served as a senior manager at two consulting organizations and with the Pennsylvania Department of Justice. Mr. Croan holds a B.S. and an M.C.P. (city planning) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Croan has served on the Board of the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, an Arlington, Virginia based nonprofit organization since 2003 and on the Board of the National Learning Institute, a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit organization, since 2001.
Dr. Edward H. Bersoff has served as a director of ICF since October 2003. Dr. Bersoff is the chairman and founder of Greenwich Associates, a business advisory firm located in Northern Virginia which was formed in 2003. From November 2002 to June 2003, he was managing director of Quarterdeck Investment Partners, LLC, an investment banking firm, and chairman of Re-route Corporation, a company that offers email forwarding and address correction services. From February 1982 until November 2001, Dr. Bersoff was chairman, president and chief executive officer of BTG, Inc., a publicly traded information technology firm he founded in 1982. In November 2001 BTG, Inc. was acquired by The Titan Corporation, a NYSE listed company. Dr. Bersoff served as a director of Titan from February 2002 until August 2005 when Titan was sold. In addition, Dr. Bersoff serves on the boards of EFJ, Inc., a manufacturer of wireless communications products and systems primarily for public service and government customers, Fargo Electronics, Inc., a manufacturer of identity card issuance systems, materials and software for government and corporate applications, and Federal Services Acquisition Corporation, which are all public companies, and a number of private companies, including 3001, Inc. Dr. Bersoff holds A.B., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from New York University and is a graduate of the Harvard Business Schools Owner/President Management Program. Dr. Bersoff is the Rector of the Board of Visitors of Virginia Commonwealth University, a Trustee of the VCU Medical Center, a Trustee of New York University and a Trustee of the George Mason University Foundation. He also serves as chairman of the Inova Health System Health Care Services Board and is a Trustee of the Inova Health System.
Robert Hopkins has served as a director of ICF since November 2001. Mr. Hopkins is a partner and has been associated with CM Equity Partners, L.P. since 1999. From 1991 to 1998, Mr. Hopkins was a partner at Connor & Company, a management consulting firm specializing in strategic alliances and operations management. From 1986 to 1991, Mr. Hopkins was an investment banker, including at Kidder Peabody, Inc. Mr. Hopkins has worked closely with the executive management team at Evans Consoles Inc., a Canadian company that consummated a court-ordered reorganization in 2004 by which all of its assets were transferred to its creditors, where he was CEO during an extended transition from the founder to present management. Mr. Hopkins also serves on the Board of Directors of Evans Consoles Inc., Devon Publishing Group and Martin Designs, Inc. Mr. Hopkins received a B.A. in Economics from Hobart College and a Masters degree in Public and Private Management from the Yale School of Management.
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Joel R. Jacks has served as a director of ICF since June 1999. Mr. Jacks, together with Peter M. Schulte, co-founded CMLS Management, L.P. in 1996 and in 2000 they co-founded CM Equity Management, L.P. Mr. Jacks serves as a managing partner of each of these CMEP entities. Mr. Jacks is a director of several other CMEP portfolio companies, including 3001, Inc.; Falcon Communications, Inc.; Echo Bridge Entertainment, LLC; Evans Consoles Inc., a Canadian company that consummated a court-ordered reorganization in 2004 by which all of its assets were transferred to its creditors; Martin Designs, Inc.; and Devon Publishing Group. Mr. Jacks is also the chairman and chief executive officer of Federal Services Acquisition Corporation, a publicly held special purpose acquisition company formed to acquire federal services businesses with its principal office in New York City. Mr. Jacks was previously a director of Resource Consultants, Inc., a technical services and program management firm serving the U.S. Department of Defense and federal civil agencies; and Examination Management Services, Inc., which subsequent to Mr. Jacks service as chairman underwent a voluntary restructuring in 2005. Mr. Jacks was previously a director of Kronos Products, Inc., Central Foodservice Co. and a member of the executive committee of Missota Paper Holding LLC prior to their sale in 2004. From January 2000 to April 2003, Mr. Jacks was chairman of Beta Brands Incorporated. In May 2003, following default by Beta Brands in the repayment of its secured indebtedness, a Canadian court approved a consensual foreclosure by which the secured lenders acquired all of the assets of Beta Brands. Mr. Jacks received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
David C. Lucien has served as a director of ICF since August 2004. Mr. Lucien has more than 36 years of experience in the information technology industry within both commercial and government sectors. He has held several senior-level executive positions for private and public technology companies involved in computer systems manufacturing, technology services and systems integration. Most recently, Mr. Lucien assumed the role of Chairman and CEO of CMS Information Services, Inc. in March 2003, serving until CMS was sold to CACI International in March 2004. Currently, Mr. Lucien serves on various boards and from time to time, through Mr. Luciens company, DCL Associates of Leesburg, Virginia, a sole proprietorship, assists various equity funds in the review of current and potential portfolio companies that focus on information technology services, federal services, telecommunications and the Internet. Prior to his work at CMS Information Services, Inc., Mr. Lucien was the founder and principal of Interpro Corporation, a strategic advisory services firm, from January 1990 until December 2002. Mr. Lucien is a founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Northern Virginia Technology Council and Chairman Emeritus of the Virginia Technology Council. Mr. Lucien also sits on the Advisory Board of the Draper Atlantic Fund and the Advisory Board of A&T Systems.
William Moody has served as a director of ICF since December 2005. Mr. Moody has more than 28 years of experience in environmental and economics consulting and directs ICF Consulting Group, Inc.s administration and contracts group, where he manages the following departments: contracts, pricing, subcontracts, invoicing and collections, facilities and security. Prior to assuming this position, he held a variety of positions within the company including leading the environment, economics and regulations business, where he specialized in supporting U.S. federal programs in air quality and hazardous waste. Prior to joining ICF Consulting Group, Inc. in 1992, Mr. Moody held management positions at Midwest Research Institute and Radian Corporation. Mr. Moody holds a Masters of Science degree in Environmental Science from Washington State University and a Bachelors of Science degree in Physics from Washington College.
Peter M. Schulte has served as a director of ICF since June 1999. Mr. Schulte, together with Mr. Jacks, co-founded CMLS Management, L.P., and in 2000 they co-founded CM Equity Management, L.P. Mr. Schulte serves as a managing partner of each of these CMEP entities. Mr. Schulte is a director of several CMEP portfolio companies, including 3001, Inc.; Falcon Communications, Inc.; and Echo Bridge Entertainment, LLC. Mr. Schulte is also a director and the president, chief financial officer and secretary
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of Federal Services Acquisition Corporation, a publicly held special purpose acquisition company formed to acquire federal services businesses with its principal office in New York City. Mr. Schulte was previously a director of Kronos Products, Inc., Central Foodservice Co. and a member of the executive committee of Missota Paper Holding LLC prior to their sale in 2004. Additionally, Mr. Schulte was previously a director of Resource Consultants, Inc.; AverStar, Inc., a provider of information technology services and software products for the mission-critical systems of federal, civil and defense agencies and to large commercial companies; Evans Consoles, Inc., a Canadian company that consummated a court-ordered reorganization in 2004 by which all of its assets were transferred to its creditors. Subsequent to the Canadian court-approved foreclosure of the assets of Beta Brands Incorporated and until its dissolution, Mr. Schulte was a director of Beta Brands Incorporated. Mr. Schulte received a B.A. in Government from Harvard College and a Masters in Public and Private Management from the Yale School of Management. Mr. Schulte also serves on the Board of the Rainforest Alliance, a New York based nonprofit environment organization.
BOARD COMPOSITION
Upon completion of this offering, we will initially have an authorized board of directors comprised of five members. William Moody and Robert Hopkins have informed us that they intend to resign from the board of directors prior to this offering. Sudhakar Kesavan will serve as the chairman of the board of directors pursuant to his employment agreement. Dr. Edward H. Bersoff and David C. Lucien are independent directors in accordance with the requirements of the Nasdaq National Market and the rules of the SEC. We believe that, within the transition periods available to us following the completion of this offering, we will comply with all applicable requirements of the SEC and the Nasdaq National Market relating to director independence and the composition of the committees of our board of directors. Upon completion of this offering, our board will be divided into three classes as follows:
Ø | Class I will consist of Peter M. Schulte and have a term expiring at our annual meeting of stockholders in 2007; |
Ø | Class II will consist of Dr. Edward H. Bersoff and David C. Lucien and have a term expiring at our annual meeting of stockholders in 2008; and |
Ø | Class III will consist of Sudhakar Kesavan and Joel R. Jacks and have a term expiring at our annual meeting of stockholders in 2009. |
At each annual meeting of stockholders to be held after the initial classification of directors described above, the successors to directors whose terms then expire will serve until the third annual stockholders meeting following their election and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Upon completion of this offering, our amended and restated bylaws will provide that the number of directors may be set from time to time by the holders of a majority of the companys outstanding common stock at a properly called and conducted stockholders meeting or by a majority vote of the board of directors.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND BOARD COMMITTEES
The board of directors has established an audit committee and a compensation committee.
Audit Committee. Upon completion of this offering, the audit committee will consist of Dr. Edward H. Bersoff, David C. Lucien and Joel R. Jacks. The audit committee reviews the financial reports and related financial information provided by the company to governmental agencies and the general public, the companys system of internal and disclosure controls and the effectiveness of its control structure, and the companys accounting, internal and external auditing and financial reporting processes. The audit committee also reviews other matters with respect to our accounting, auditing and financial reporting practices and procedures as it may find appropriate or may be brought to its attention. The board of directors has determined that Dr. Edward H. Bersoff is an audit committee financial expert as defined
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under SEC rules and regulations by virtue of his background and experience described under Executive Officers and Directors above. In accordance with applicable Nasdaq National Market rules allowing for a one-year period to transition to an audit committee consisting of all independent members and allowing for the appointment of a nonindependent member of the audit committee in exceptional and limited circumstances, the board has determined that the appointment of Joel R. Jacks to the audit committee is in the best interests of the company. We expect the audit committee to meet not less often than four times a year.
Compensation Committee. Upon completion of this offering, the compensation committee will consist of Dr. Edward H. Bersoff, David C. Lucien and Peter M. Schulte. The compensation committee provides assistance to the board of directors in fulfilling the boards responsibilities relating to management, organization, performance, compensation and succession. In discharging its responsibilities, the compensation committee considers and authorizes our compensation philosophy, evaluates our senior managements performance, sets the compensation for the chief executive officer with the other non-employee directors, and makes recommendations to the board regarding the compensation of other members of senior management. The compensation committee also administers our incentive compensation, deferred compensation, executive retirement and equity-based plans. In accordance with applicable Nasdaq National Market rules allowing for a one-year period to transition to a compensation committee consisting of all independent members and allowing for the appointment of a nonindependent member of the compensation committee in exceptional and limited circumstances, the board has determined that the appointment of Peter M. Schulte to the compensation committee is in the best interests of the company. We expect the compensation committee to meet not less often than twice per year.
COMPENSATION COMMITTEE INTERLOCKS AND INSIDER PARTICIPATION
Dr. Edward H. Bersoff, David C. Lucien and Peter M. Schulte are the members of the compensation committee. Neither Dr. Edward H. Bersoff, David C. Lucien nor Peter M. Schulte is an officer or employee of the company. Except for Peter M. Schulte, who serves as a member of the board of directors of FSAC, of which Dr. Edward H. Bersoff will become chairman and chief executive officer upon the completion of FSACs acquisition of Advanced Technology Systems, Inc., no member of our compensation committee and none of our executive officers serve as a member of the board of directors or compensation committee of any entity that has one or more executive officers serving as a member of our board of directors or compensation committee. Dr. Bersoff is also a member of the board of directors of FSAC, as is Joel R. Jacks. During fiscal year 2005, the compensation committee consisted of Sudhakar Kesavan, Joel R. Jacks and Peter M. Schulte. Additionally, as described more fully below in the section entitled Employment Agreementsemployee annual incentive compensation pool plan, Sudhakar Kesavan, William Moody and Peter M. Schulte are members of the committee related to our Amended and Restated Annual Incentive Compensation Pool Plan. Following the completion of this offering, the Amended and Restated Employee Annual Incentive Compensation Pool Plan will be terminated and the committee related to the plan will be dissolved.
Sudhakar Kesavan is the chief executive officer, president and chairman of the company, and William Moody is an employee and director of the company. Also, as discussed more fully below in the section captioned Certain relationships and related party transactions Consulting Agreement, Joel R. Jacks and Peter M. Schulte are the managing members of entities that direct the affairs of CMLS Management, L.P., with whom our subsidiary, ICF Consulting Group, Inc., has a consulting agreement. Pursuant to the consulting agreement, CMLS Management, L.P. provides financial, acquisition, strategic, business and consulting services to the company. In consideration for these services, ICF Consulting Group, Inc. annually pays a fixed consulting fee of $100,000 and a variable fee equal to 2% the average EBITDA of ICF Consulting Group, Inc., as calculated pursuant to the terms of the consulting agreement, based on
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recent fiscal years of ICF Consulting Group, Inc. The consulting agreement will terminate automatically upon the completion of this public offering and requires payment of a $90,000 termination fee by ICF Consulting Group, Inc. to CMLS Management, L.P. ICF Consulting Group, Inc. paid CMLS Management, L.P. approximately $333,000 for 2003, $361,000 for 2004 and $380,000 for 2005 for consulting services under the consulting agreement.
CODE OF ETHICS
We have adopted a Code of Ethics applicable to all of our directors, officers and employees, including our chief executive officer, chief financial officer and controller. The full text of the Code of Ethics is available on our website at www.icfi.com.
MANAGEMENT SHAREHOLDERS AGREEMENT
The company, CMEP and certain other stockholders are parties to a Management Shareholders Agreement, which will terminate upon completion of this public offering. Pursuant to the Management Shareholders Agreement, certain CMEP affiliates have the right to select up to a majority of the board of directors and at least one additional director, ICFs chief executive officer is entitled to serve as a director, and the employees who are stockholders and party to the agreement are entitled to elect one director. Messrs. Jacks, Hopkins, Schulte, Bersoff and Lucien were selected by CMEP to serve on the board. The employees selected William Moody to serve on the board.
COMPENSATION OF DIRECTORS
Our policies for the compensation of directors will be reviewed annually by the compensation committee of our board of directors, and any changes in those policies will be approved by the entire board. The arrangements described below will be in effect upon the completion of our offering.
Cash Compensation. Directors who are employed by us will not receive additional compensation for their service on the board of directors. All directors are entitled to reimbursement of expenses for attending each meeting of the board and each committee meeting.
Our non-employee directors will each receive annual retainers of $24,000, payable quarterly, covering up to four regular board meetings, one annual meeting and a reasonable number of special board meetings. Additional retainers, if any, for additional meetings will be determined by the board of directors or the compensation committee. The chair of the audit committee will receive $8,000 annually, and each other audit committee member will receive $4,000 annually, payable in equal quarterly installments as compensation for services as audit committee chair and committee member, respectively. The chair of the compensation committee will receive $6,000 annually, payable in equal quarterly installments, as compensation for service as chair of that committee, and each other compensation committee member will receive $3,000 annually, payable in equal quarterly installments as compensation for services as compensation committee chair and committee member, respectively.
Restricted Stock Grants. New non-employee members of the board will receive, upon being elected to the board of directors, an initial grant of restricted shares of common stock with a fair market value equal to three times the annual cash retainer amount. These initial grants of restricted stock will vest equally over a period of three years, subject to acceleration upon events such as a change of control. Starting with their second year of service, non-employee directors will receive annual grants of restricted stock with a fair market value equal to the annual cash retainer amount. These annual restricted stock grants will vest immediately.
Board members are encouraged to own an amount of shares equal to three times their annual board compensation and may elect to convert their quarterly cash compensation into our common stock at the fair market value of our common stock on the quarterly payment date.
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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
The following table sets forth the total compensation paid or accrued for the last three years for our chief executive officer and all three of our other highest paid executive officers whose combined salary and bonus exceeded $100,000 during 2005 for services rendered to us, collectively referred to as the named executives.
Summary compensation table
Name and Principal Position |
Year | Annual compensation |
Long-term compensation |
All other compensation(3) | |||||||||||||||||||
Salary | Bonus(1) | Other annual compensation |
Awards |
Payouts |
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Restricted stock awards |
Securities (shares)(2) |
LTIP payouts |
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Sudhakar Kesavan Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer |
2005 2004 2003 |
$ |
330,530 336,367 317,263 |
$ |
215,000 67,000 70,000 |
$ |
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$ |
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$ |
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$ |
4,037 11,420 14,316 | ||||||||
John Wasson Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer |
2005 2004 2003 |
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229,142 225,436 204,359 |
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140,000 65,000 67,000 |
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8,400 13,601 15,540 | |||||||||
Alan Stewart Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary |
2005 2004 2003 |
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209,791 213,430 193,184 |
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100,000 40,000 40,000 |
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7,744 13,436 15,920 | |||||||||
Ellen Glover(4) Executive Vice President |
2005 | 75,967 | | | 121,110 | (5) | | 25,000 |
(1) | The bonus amounts identified in this column were paid under our Amended and Restated Employee Annual Incentive Compensation Pool Plan. |
(2) | The share information in this column is retroactively adjusted to give effect to the -for- stock split of our common stock to be effected immediately prior to the closing of this offering. |
(3) | Represents matching contribution to our Retirement Savings Plan, except with respect to Ellen Glover. The $25,000 payment to Ellen Glover included in this column represents a cash signing bonus. |
(4) | Ellen Glover joined us effective September 6, 2005. |
(5) | Represents the market value on September 6, 2005, the date of grant (calculated by multiplying the fair market value of our common stock on the date of the grant, which was $ , by the number of shares awarded, which was ) without giving effect to the diminution in value attributable to the restrictions on such stock. This restricted stock vests at 25% each January 1 following the grant date. Accordingly, shares vested on January 1, 2006. Additionally, all of these restricted shares will vest automatically if certain extraordinary transactions involving the company or CMEP occur, including the completion of this offering. If declared, dividends are payable on this stock. |
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STOCK OPTIONS
The table below contains information relating to stock options granted to the named executives during the year ended December 31, 2005. All of these options were granted to purchase common stock. The percentage of total options granted to employees set forth below is based on an aggregate of shares subject to options granted to our employees in 2005, after giving effect to the -for- stock split of our common stock to be effected immediately prior to the closing of this offering.
Option grants in 2005
Individual grants |
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Name | Number of securities underlying options granted |
Percent of options |
Exercise price per share |
Expiration date | Potential realizable value at assumed annual rates of stock price appreciation for option term(1) | |||||||||||
0% | 5% | 10% | ||||||||||||||
Sudhakar Kesavan |
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John Wasson |
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Alan Stewart |
(2 | ) | 4.9 | % | December 22, 2015 | |||||||||||
Ellen Glover |
(2 | ) | 19.6 | % | September 1, 2015 |
(1) | The potential realizable value is calculated based on the term of the option at the time of grant. Assumed rates of stock price appreciation of 0%, 5% and 10% are prescribed by rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission and do not represent our prediction of our stock price performance. The potential realizable values at 0%, 5% and 10% appreciation are calculated by assuming that the price of $ per share in our initial public offering, which we have assumed for accounting purposes was the fair market value on the date of grant, appreciates at the indicated rate for the entire ten-year term of the option and that the option is exercised at the exercise price and sold on the last day of its term at the appreciated price. |
(2) | These options are vested and immediately exercisable. |
OPTION EXERCISES AND YEAR-END OPTION VALUES
The following table sets forth information for the named executives with respect to options exercised by them during the year ended December 31, 2005 and the value of their options outstanding as of December 31, 2005.
Aggregate option exercises in 2005 and year-end option values
Number of shares acquired on exercise |
Value realized |
Number of securities underlying unexercised options at year end |
Value of unexercised in-the-money options at year end(1) | |||||||||
Name | Exercisable | Unexercisable | Exercisable | Unexercisable | ||||||||
Sudhakar Kesavan |
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John Wasson |
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Alan Stewart |
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Ellen Glover |
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(1) | Represents the difference between the exercise price and the assumed initial public offering price of $ per share, multiplied by the number of shares subject to the option, without taking into account any taxes that may be payable in connection with the transaction. |
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EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENTS
Employment, severance and restricted stock agreements
We will enter into an amended and restated employment agreement with Sudhakar Kesavan as of the effective date of this offering. The agreement provides that Mr. Kesavan will serve as our chief executive officer, president and chairman of the board of directors and for Mr. Kesavan to receive a base salary of $375,000 per year, with at least a $25,000 increase in 2007 and annual increases at least equal to increases in the consumer price index each subsequent year. The compensation committee may further increase Mr. Kesavans base salary. Mr. Kesavan will also be eligible to receive annual incentive bonuses equal to up to 100% of his base salary in the discretion of the compensation committee. We are also required to maintain a life insurance policy in an amount of at least $1 million payable to Mr. Kesavans immediate family. Either we or Mr. Kesavan may terminate this agreement by giving 45 days notice to the other. Absent a change in control, if Mr. Kesavan is involuntarily terminated without cause or resigns for good reason, he will be paid all accrued salary, a severance payment equal to twenty-four months of his base salary and a pro rata bonus for the year of termination. Additionally, Mr. Kesavans options, restricted stock and other equity compensation awards will be accelerated in connection with such a termination. Pursuant to the terms of his original employment agreement, as a result of his continuous service to the company since 1999, Mr. Kesavan may, in his discretion, declare that any termination of his employment by him is for good reason under the amended and restated employment agreement, resulting in our payment to him of the termination amounts, and the vesting of equity awards, described in this paragraph. Mr. Kesavans severance agreement discussed below addresses Mr. Kesavans severance in connection with a change in control event where Mr. Kesavan does not exercise his right to terminate his employment and declare such termination to be for good reason as described in this paragraph.
On October 1, 2005, we entered into an employment agreement with Gerald Croan. The agreement provides for Mr. Croan to receive a base salary of $194,000 per year. Mr. Croan is also eligible to receive an award under our Amended and Restated Employee Annual Incentive Compensation Pool Plan in 2006. The employment agreement with Mr. Croan expires October 1, 2007. If Mr. Croan is involuntarily terminated without cause or resigns for good reason before October 1, 2007, he will be paid all accrued salary, bonus and benefits and a severance payment equal to the greater of twenty weeks of his base salary or his base salary for the rest of his employment term. If Mr. Croan is involuntarily terminated without cause or resigns for good reason after October 1, 2007, he will be paid all accrued salary, bonus and benefits and a severance payment equal to the greater of twenty weeks of his base salary or the amount payable, if any, under our standard severance policy on the date of his termination.
Effective as of the date of this offering, we will enter into severance protection agreements with Sudhakar Kesavan, John Wasson and Alan Stewart. For each of these executive officers, the severance protection agreements provide that if the officer is involuntarily terminated without cause or resigns for good reason within a 24 month period following a change in control, the officer will be paid all accrued salary and a pro rata bonus for the year of termination and a single lump sum equal to three times the officers average compensation for the prior three years or the officers term of employment if less than three years. The officer will also receive such life insurance, disability, medical, dental, hospitalization, financial counseling and tax consulting benefits as are provided to other similarly situated executives who continue in the employ of ICF for the 36 months following termination and up to 12 months of outplacement services. Vesting of options, restricted stock or other equity compensation awards will be accelerated as provided in the applicable company equity incentive plans. The officer is not entitled to receive a gross up payment to account for any excise tax that might be payable under the Internal Revenue Code, although we may elect to have the severance payments reduced to the extent necessary to avoid an excise tax.
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In connection with these severance protection agreements, effective as of the date of this offering, we will enter into restricted stock award agreements with Sudhakar Kesavan, John Wasson and Alan Stewart. Under these agreements, effective upon completion of this offering, pursuant to our 2006 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan, we will grant restricted shares of common stock to Sudhakar Kesavan and restricted shares of common stock to each of John Wasson and Alan Stewart. These grants of restricted stock will vest equally over a period of three years, subject to acceleration if we terminate the respective officer without cause or if the officer terminates his employment for good reason following a change in control. The officers generally will have all the rights and privileges of stockholder with respect to the restricted stock, including the right to receive dividends and to vote.
Employee annual incentive compensation pool plan
Executive officers and other employees may receive incentive compensation under our Amended and Restated Employee Annual Incentive Compensation Pool Plan. This plan provides that, if we meet certain EBITDA targets, an amount equal to a percentage change in EBITDA is pooled and distributed to employees by a committee of the directors based on each employees job performance during that year. Additionally, this plan provides for a one-time pool of $2.7 million to be allocated among our employees upon the occurrence of certain extraordinary transactions involving the company or CMEP, including the completion of this offering. Thus, immediately prior to or following the effective date of this offering, we will allocate and pay $2.7 million among our executive officers and employees in accordance with determinations previously made by a board committee charged with making the allocation. Following the completion of this offering, the Amended and Restated Employee Annual Incentive Compensation Pool Plan will be terminated and the committee related to this plan will be dissolved.
STOCK AND BENEFIT PLANS
Management stock option plan
Effective June 25, 1999, ICF Consulting Group, Inc. adopted the Management Stock Option Plan or the 1999 Option Plan. The 1999 Option Plan, as amended, provides for the issuance of options for our common stock to our and our subsidiaries eligible employees and other service providers, including officers, directors, consultants and advisors. As of May 31, 2006, there were options outstanding under the 1999 Option Plan to purchase a total of shares of our common stock. Since May 31, 2006, we have not granted any options under the 1999 Option Plan. No options under the 1999 Option Plan have been exercised. No additional awards will be made under the 1999 Option Plan upon the completion of this offering and the effectiveness of the 2006 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan described below.
2005 Restricted stock plan
Under our 2005 Restricted Stock Plan, a committee of the board of directors may grant restricted stock awards to our directors and employees. These awards will be subject to such terms, conditions, restrictions or limitations as the committee may determine are appropriate, including restrictions on transferability, requirements of continued employment or individual performance, or our financial performance. During the period in which any shares of common stock are subject to restrictions, the compensation committee may, in its discretion, grant to the recipient of the restricted shares the rights of a stockholder with respect to such shares, including the right to vote such shares and to receive dividends paid on shares of common stock. Only one issuance of shares of restricted stock has been made under the 2005 Restricted Stock Plan. No additional awards will be made under the 2005 Restricted Stock Plan upon the completion of this offering and the effectiveness of the 2006 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan described below.
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2006 Long-term equity incentive plan
Our board of directors approved our 2006 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan, or the 2006 Equity Plan, as of April 20, 2006, and our stockholders approved the 2006 Equity Plan at the 2006 annual meeting of our stockholders. The 2006 Equity Plan will become effective and no additional awards will be made under our 1999 Option Plan and 2005 Restricted Stock Plan upon completion of this offering.
Executive officers, other key employees and non-employee directors may receive long-term incentive compensation under the 2006 Equity Plan. The 2006 Equity Plan provides for the award of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, performance shares/units and other incentive awards.
Purpose. The purpose of the 2006 Equity Plan is to optimize the profitability and growth of the company through incentives consistent with the companys goals and which align the personal interests of plan participants with an incentive for individual performance. The plan is further intended to assist the company in motivating, attracting and retaining plan participants and allowing them to share in company successes.
Administration. The 2006 Equity Plan will be administered by the compensation committee. The compensation committee will determine who participates in the plan, the size and type of awards under the plan and the conditions applicable to the awards.
Eligibility. Those persons eligible to participate in the 2006 Equity Plan are officers and other key employees of ICF and our subsidiaries and our non-employee directors.
Shares Subject to the 2006 Equity Plan. Upon completion of this offering, there will be shares of common stock of the company reserved for issuance under the 2006 Equity Plan and, except for the planned restricted stock grants to Messrs. Kesavan, Wasson and Stewart described above, no awards have been granted under the 2006 Equity Plan. The shares of common stock reserved for options outstanding under the 1999 Option Plan and for issuance under the 2006 Equity Plan and the 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan together constitute approximately % of the shares of common stock outstanding upon completion of this offering. To the extent outstanding options are exercised, there will be dilution to investors.
Stock Options. Stock option awards may be granted in the form of non-statutory stock options or incentive stock options. Options are exercisable in whole or in such installments as may be determined by the compensation committee. The compensation committee establishes the exercise price of stock options, which exercise price may not be less than the per share fair market value of our common stock on the date of the grant. The exercise price is payable in cash, shares of common stock or a combination of cash and common stock.
Stock options granted in the form of incentive stock options are also subject to certain additional limitations, as provided in Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Incentive stock options may be made only to employees, and the aggregate fair market value of common stock with respect to which incentive stock options may become exercisable by an employee in any calendar year may not exceed $100,000. In addition, incentive stock options may not be exercised after ten years from the grant date and any incentive stock option granted to an employee who owns shares of our common stock possessing more than 10% of the combined voting power of all classes of our shares must have an option price that is at least 110% of the fair market value of the shares and may not be exercisable after five years from the date of grant.
Stock Appreciation Rights. Stock appreciation rights are granted pursuant to stock appreciation rights awards on terms set by the compensation committee. The compensation committee determines the grant price for a stock appreciation right, except that unless otherwise designated by the compensation
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committee, the strike price of a stock appreciation right granted as a freestanding award will not be less than 100% of the fair market value of a share of common stock on the date of grant. Upon exercise of a stock appreciation right, we will pay the participant an amount equal to the excess of the aggregate fair market value of our common stock on the date of exercise, over the grant price. The compensation committee determines the term of stock appreciation rights granted under the 2006 Equity Plan, but unless otherwise designated by the compensation committee stock appreciation rights are not exercisable after the expiration of ten years from the date of grant. For each award of stock appreciation rights, the compensation committee will determine the extent to which the award recipient may exercise the stock appreciation rights after that recipients service relationship with us ceases.
Restricted Stock Awards. The compensation committee may grant restricted stock awards, which will be subject to such terms, conditions, restrictions or limitations as the compensation committee may determine are appropriate, including restrictions on transferability, requirements of continued employment or individual performance, or our financial performance. During the period in which any shares of common stock are subject to restrictions, the compensation committee may, in its discretion, grant to the recipient of the restricted shares the rights of a stockholder with respect to such shares, including the right to vote such shares and to receive dividends paid on shares of common stock.
Performance Shares/Units. The compensation committee may grant performance shares or units subject to such terms, conditions, restrictions or limitations as the compensation committee may determine are appropriate. Performance units will be assigned an initial value established by the compensation committee and performance shares will be assigned an initial value equal to the per share fair market value of our common stock on the date of the grant. The compensation committee will set performance goals in its discretion and the number and value of the payout for the performance shares/units will be determined based on the extent to which those performance goals are met. Payouts for performance shares/units may be payable in cash, shares of common stock or a combination of cash and common stock. The compensation committee may assign rights to performance shares/units that entitle the recipient to receive any dividends declared with respect to shares of common stock earned in connection with grants of performance shares/units.
Other Awards. The compensation committee may grant other awards to employees or non-employee directors in amounts and on terms determined by the compensation committee.
Change in Control. In the event of a change in control of ICF:
Ø | stock options and/or stock appreciation rights not otherwise exercisable will become fully exercisable; |
Ø | all restrictions previously established with respect to restricted stock awards will lapse; and |
Ø | all performance shares/units or other awards will be deemed to be fully earned for the entire performance period applicable to them. |
The vesting of all of these awards will be accelerated as of the effective date of the change in control.
Transferability. Except as explicitly set forth in an award agreement, the rights and interests of a participant under the 2006 Equity Plan may not be transferred, except by will or the applicable laws of descent and distribution in the event of the death of the participant.
Adjustments upon Changes in Capitalization. The number of shares of our common stock as to which awards may be granted under the 2006 Equity Plan and shares of common stock subject to outstanding awards will be appropriately adjusted to reflect changes in our capitalization, including stock splits, stock dividends, mergers, reorganizations, consolidations and recapitalizations.
Amendments. The board of directors may suspend or terminate the 2006 Equity Plan at any time. In addition, the 2006 Equity Plan may be amended from time to time in any manner without stockholder
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approval, except that no modification or termination of the 2006 Equity Plan may adversely affect in any material way any award previously granted under the 2006 Equity Plan without the written consent of the person holding such award.
2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Our board of directors approved our 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan as of April 20, 2006, and our stockholders approved the 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan at the 2006 annual meeting of our stockholders. The 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan will become effective upon completion of this offering. The 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan is intended to qualify as an employee stock purchase plan within the meaning of Section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code. The 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan provides a means by which eligible employees may purchase our common stock through payroll deductions. We will implement the 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan by offerings of purchase rights to eligible employees.
Purpose. The purpose of the 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan is to provide eligible employees of ICF and its subsidiaries with an opportunity to acquire equity in the company through the purchase of common stock. The plan is further intended to assist the company in retaining employees and allow them to share in company successes.
Administration. The 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan will be administered by the compensation committee.
Eligibility. Generally, all employees of ICF or its subsidiaries designated by the compensation committee are eligible to participate in the 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan except for employees who customarily work 20 hours or less per week or are customarily not employed for more than 5 months per year. However, no employee may participate in the 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan if immediately after we grant the employee a purchase right, the employee has voting power over 5% or more of our outstanding capital stock. Further, a participants right to purchase our stock under the 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, plus any other employee stock purchase plans intended to qualify under Section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code established by us or by our affiliates, is limited. The right may accrue to any participant at a rate of no more than $25,000 worth of our stock for each calendar year in which purchase rights are outstanding.
Shares Subject to the 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. There are currently shares of common stock of the company reserved for issuance under the 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan and no awards have been granted under the plan. The shares of common stock reserved for options outstanding under the 1999 Option Plan and for issuance under the 2006 Equity Plan and the 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan together constitute approximately % of the shares of common stock outstanding upon completion of this offering. To the extent stock is purchased under the plan, there will be dilution to investors.
Offerings. The compensation committee has the authority to set the terms of each offering under the 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. The compensation committee may specify offerings of up to 6 months where common stock is purchased for accounts of participating employees at a price per share equal to 95% of the fair market value of a share on the purchase date. Fair market value means the average of the high and low price per share of our common stock on the purchase date. The offering periods may generally start on the first business day on or after January 1 and July 1 of each year.
Participants in the plan may authorize payroll deductions be made by the company for the purchase of stock under the plan. Amounts deducted and accumulated for each participant are used to purchase shares of our common stock at the end of each offering period. Participants may end their participation in an offering with at least 20 days notice prior to a payroll deduction date. Their participation ends automatically on termination of their employment.
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Adjustments upon Changes in Capitalization. The number of shares of our common stock subject to the 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan or rights to purchase under the plan, as well as the price of shares subject to purchase rights and the number of shares an employee can purchase, will be appropriately adjusted to reflect changes in our capitalization, including stock splits, stock dividends, mergers, reorganizations, consolidations and recapitalizations.
Amendments. The compensation committee may amend the 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan from time to time in any manner without stockholder approval, except the compensation committee may not make any changes that would adversely affect purchase rights previously granted under the plan unless the changes are necessary to comply with Section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code. Additionally, the compensation committee may not, without stockholder approval, make any changes that would increase the number of common shares subject to the plan or which may be purchased by an eligible employee, decrease the minimum purchase price for a share of common stock such that the plan would no longer comply with the requirements of Section 423, or change any of the provisions relating to eligibility for participation in offerings under the plan.
401(k) plan
We maintain the ICF Consulting Group Retirement Savings Plan, which is intended to be a tax-qualified defined contribution plan under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Under the terms of this plan, eligible employees may elect to contribute up to 70% of their eligible compensation as salary deferral contributions to the plan, subject to statutory limits. We make matching contributions each pay period equal to 100% of an employees contributions up to the first 3% of the employees compensation and we also make matching contributions equal to 50% of the employees contributions up to the next 2% of the employees compensation. We do not make matching contributions for employee contributions in excess of 5% of the employees compensation.
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Certain relationships and related party transactions
The following includes a description of transactions since January 1, 2003 and certain transactions prior to that date to which we have been a party, in which the amount involved in the transaction exceeds $60,000, and in which any of our directors, executive officers, or holders of more than 5% of our capital stock had or will have a direct or indirect material interest other than equity and other compensation, termination, change-in control and other arrangements, which are described under Management.
CONSULTING AGREEMENT
Our subsidiary, ICF Consulting Group, Inc., has a consulting agreement with CMLS Management, L.P. that we entered into on June 25, 1999 and which will be amended prior to completion of this offering. The consulting agreement will terminate upon the completion of this offering. CMLS Management, L.P. is an affiliate of CMEP, our majority stockholder prior to the completion of this offering. Also, Joel R. Jacks and Peter M. Schulte, who are both members of our board of directors, are the managing members of entities that direct the affairs of CMLS Management, L.P. and CMEP. CMLS Management, L.P. provides financial, acquisition, strategic, business and consulting services to the company. In consideration for these services, ICF Consulting Group, Inc. annually pays a fixed consulting fee of $100,000 and a variable fee equal to 2% the average EBITDA of ICF Consulting Group, Inc., as calculated pursuant to the terms of the consulting agreement, based on recent fiscal years of ICF Consulting Group, Inc. Upon termination of the consulting agreement as a result of the completion of this offering, a $90,000 termination fee will be due from ICF Consulting Group, Inc. to CMLS Management, L.P. ICF Consulting Group, Inc. paid CMLS Management, L.P. approximately $333,000 for 2003, $361,000 for 2004 and $380,000 for 2005 for consulting services under the consulting agreement.
LOANS TO EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
We provided loans to the executive officers specified below for the purpose of purchasing shares of our common stock. Each loan was approved by a majority of our board of directors, including a majority of the disinterested members of the board of directors. The loans bore interest at rates ranging from 4.0% to 7.4%. Each executive officer specified below pledged a portion of the shares acquired with the loan as security for the promissory note evidencing such loan. All of the loans were repaid by May 5, 2006.
Name & Title | Principal amount |
Date of loan |
January 1, 2003 to present: Largest aggregate indebtedness |
Indebtedness as of May 8, 2006 | |||||||||
Sudhakar Kesavan Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer |
$ | 250,000 | June 25, 1999 | $ | 250,000 | $ | 0 | ||||||
John Wasson Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer |
139,797 | (1) | October 8, 2002 | (1) | 139,797 | 0 | |||||||
Alan Stewart Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary |
71,700 | (2) | August 26, 2002 | (2) | 71,700 | 0 | |||||||
Ellen Glover Executive Vice President |
216,530 | September 6, 2005 | 216,530 | 0 |
(1) | Represents two loans. The first loan was made as of October 8, 2002 in the principal amount of $100,000 and the second loan was made as of December 28, 2004 in the principal amount of $39,797. |
(2) | Represents two loans. The first loan was made as of August 26, 2002 in the principal amount of $35,000 and the second loan was made as of December 28, 2004 in the principal amount of $36,700. |
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Principal and selling stockholders
The following table sets forth certain information regarding beneficial ownership of our common stock as of May 31, 2006, by:
Ø | each person, or group of affiliated persons, known to us to beneficially own more than 5% of the outstanding shares of our common stock; |
Ø | each of our stockholders selling shares in this offering; |
Ø | each of our directors; |
Ø | each of our executive officers; and |
Ø | all of our directors and executive officers as a group. |
The percentages shown are based on shares of common stock outstanding as of May 31, 2006, after giving effect to the stock split and the exercise of options to purchase an aggregate of shares of common stock and including the shares that are being offered for sale by us in this offering. Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and includes voting and investment power with respect to shares. The number of shares beneficially owned by a person includes shares subject to options held by that person that were exercisable as of May 31, 2006 or within 60 days of May 31, 2006. The shares issuable under those options are treated as if they were outstanding for computing the percentage ownership of the person holding those options but are not treated as if they were outstanding for the purposes of computing the percentage ownership of any other person. Unless otherwise indicated below, to our knowledge, all persons named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to their shares of common stock, except to the extent authority is shared by spouses under applicable law.
Unless otherwise indicated, the address of each person owning more than 5% of the outstanding shares of common stock is c/o ICF International, Inc., 9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA 22031. The following table sets forth the number of shares of our common stock beneficially owned by the indicated parties after giving effect to the stock split. The table assumes that the underwriters over-allotment option is not exercised. If the over-allotment option is exercised in full, the number of shares offered in the offering by the selling stockholders would increase by .
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Shares beneficially owned prior to the offering |
Shares offered in the offering |
Shares beneficially owned after the offering | ||||||||||
Beneficial Owner | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | ||||||||
CM Equity Partners, L.P.(1) |
32.55 | % | ||||||||||
CMEP Co-Investment ICF, L.P.(1) |
38.66 | % | ||||||||||
CM Equity Partners II, L.P.(1) |
16.54 | % | ||||||||||
CM Equity Partners II Co-Investors, L.P.(1) |
1.56 | % | ||||||||||
CM Equity Partners, L.P. and affiliates as a group(1), (2) |
89.31 | % | (3 | ) | ||||||||
Sudhakar Kesavan(4) |
3.45 | % | | |||||||||
John Wasson(5) |
1.71 | % | | |||||||||
Alan Stewart(6) |
* | | ||||||||||
Ellen Glover(7) |
* | | ||||||||||
Gerald Croan |
* | | ||||||||||
Dr. Edward H. Bersoff |
* | | ||||||||||
Joel R. Jacks(1) |
89.31 | % | | |||||||||
Robert Hopkins |
* | | ||||||||||
David C. Lucien |
* | | ||||||||||
William Moody(8) |
* | | ||||||||||
Peter M. Schulte(1) |
89.31 | % | | |||||||||
Directors and officers as a group (11 persons)(1), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8) |
96.46 | % | |
* Represents beneficial ownership of less than 1%.
(1) | Directors Peter M. Schulte and Joel R. Jacks are the managing members of entities that serve as the general partners of CM Equity Partners, L.P., CMEP Co-Investment ICF, L.P., CM Equity Partners II, L.P. and CM Equity Partners II Co-Investors, L.P. Messrs. Schulte and Jacks disclaim beneficial ownership of the shares of the companys common stock owned by each of CM Equity Partners, L.P., CMEP Co-Investment ICF, L.P., CM Equity Partners II, L.P. and CM Equity Partners II Co-Investors, L.P. except to the extent of their respective pecuniary interests therein. The address for each of CM Equity Partners, L.P., CMEP Co-Investment ICF, L.P., CM Equity Partners II, L.P. and CM Equity Partners II Co-Investors, L.P. is 900 Third Avenue, 33rd Floor, New York, New York 10022-4775. |
(2) | Represents shares of common stock held by CM Equity Partners, L.P. and CMEP Co-Investment ICF, L.P., CM Equity Partners II, L.P. and CM Equity Partners II Co-Investors, L.P., affiliates of CM Equity Partners, L.P. |
(3) | Represents shares offered by CM Equity Partners, L.P., shares offered by CMEP Co-Investment ICF, L.P., shares offered by CM Equity Partners II, L.P. and shares offered by CM Equity Partners II Co-Investors, L.P. |
(4) | The total number of shares listed as beneficially owned by Sudhakar Kesavan includes options to purchase shares of our common stock. |
(5) | The total number of shares listed as beneficially owned by John Wasson includes options to purchase shares of our common stock. |
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(6) | The total number of shares listed as beneficially owned by Alan Stewart includes options to purchase shares of our common stock. |
(7) | The total number of shares listed as beneficially owned by Ellen Glover includes options to purchase shares of our common stock and shares of unvested restricted common stock. |
(8) | The total number of shares listed as beneficially owned by William Moody includes options to purchase shares of our common stock. |
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U.S. federal tax considerations for non-U.S. holders of common stock
The following is a general discussion of material U.S. federal income and estate tax consequences of the ownership and disposition of our common stock by a non-U.S. holder who acquires our common stock pursuant to this offering. The discussion is based on provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the Code, applicable U.S. Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder and U.S. Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, rulings and pronouncements and judicial decisions, all as in effect on the date of this prospectus, and all of which are subject to change, possibly on a retroactive basis, or different interpretations. There can be no assurance that the IRS will not take a position contrary to the tax consequences discussed below or that any positions taken by the IRS would not be sustained.
The discussion is limited to non-U.S. holders who hold our common stock as a capital asset within the meaning of Section 1221 of the Code (generally, property held for investment). As used in this discussion, the term non-U.S. holder means a beneficial owner of our common stock that is not, for U.S. federal income tax purposes:
Ø | an individual who is a citizen or resident of the U.S.; |
Ø | a corporation (including any entity treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes) created or organized in or under the laws of the U.S. or any political subdivision thereof; |
Ø | an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source; or |
Ø | a trust (1) if a U.S. court is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of the trust and one or more U.S. persons have authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust, or (2) that has made a valid election to be treated as a U.S. person for such purposes. |
This discussion specifically does not address U.S. federal income and estate tax rules applicable to any person who holds our common stock through entities treated as partnerships for U.S. federal income tax purposes or through entities that are disregarded for U.S. federal income tax purposes or such entities themselves. If a partnership (including any entity or arrangement treated as a partnership for such purposes) owns our common stock, the tax treatment of a partner in the partnership will depend upon the status of the partner and the activities of the partnership. A holder that is a partnership or a disregarded entity or a holder of an interest in such an entity should consult its own tax advisor regarding the tax consequences of the purchase, ownership and disposition of our common stock.
This discussion does not consider:
Ø | any U.S. state, local or foreign tax consequences; |
Ø | any U.S. federal gift tax consequences; |
Ø | any U.S. federal tax consideration that may be relevant to a non-U.S. holder in light of its particular circumstances or to non-U.S. holders that may be subject to special treatment under U.S. federal tax laws, including without limitation, banks or other financial institutions, insurance companies, common trust funds, tax-exempt organizations, certain trusts, hybrid entities, certain former citizens or residents of the U.S., holders subject to U.S. federal alternative minimum tax, broker-dealers and dealers or traders in securities or currencies; or |
Ø | special tax rules that may apply to a non-U.S. holder who is deemed to sell our common stock under the constructive sale provisions of the Code and to a non-U.S. holder who holds our common stock as part of a straddle, hedge, conversion transaction, synthetic security or other integrated investment. |
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This discussion is for general purposes only. Prospective investors are urged to consult their own tax advisors regarding the application of the U.S. federal income and estate tax laws to their particular situations and the consequences under U.S. federal gift tax laws, as well as foreign, state and local laws and tax treaties.
DIVIDENDS
As previously discussed under Dividend Policy above, we do not anticipate paying dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. If we make distributions on our common stock, those payments will constitute dividends for U.S. federal income tax purposes to the extent paid from our current or accumulated earnings and profits, as determined under U.S. federal income tax principles. To the extent those distributions exceed our current and accumulated earnings and profits, the distributions will constitute a return of capital and first reduce the non-U.S. holders adjusted tax basis, but not below zero, and then will be treated as gain from the sale of stock, as described in the section of this prospectus entitled Gain on disposition of common stock.
Dividends paid to a non-U.S. holder generally will be subject to withholding of tax at a 30% rate, or a lower rate under an applicable income tax treaty, unless the dividend is effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business of the non-U.S. holder within the U.S. or, if an income tax treaty applies, attributable to a permanent establishment of the non-U.S. holder within the U.S. Under applicable U.S. Treasury regulations, a non-U.S. holder (including, in certain cases of non-U.S. holders that are entities, the owner or owners of such entities) will be required to satisfy certain certification and disclosure requirements in order to claim a reduced rate of withholding pursuant to an applicable income tax treaty. Non-U.S. holders should consult their tax advisors regarding their entitlement to benefits under a relevant income tax treaty.
Dividends that are effectively connected with a non-U.S. holders conduct of a trade or business in the U.S. or, if an income tax treaty applies, attributable to a permanent establishment in the U.S., are taxed on a net income basis at the regular graduated U.S. federal income tax rates in the same manner as if the non-U.S. holder were a resident of the U.S. In such cases, we will not have to withhold U.S. federal income tax if the non-U.S. holder complies with applicable certification and disclosure requirements. In addition, a branch profits tax may be imposed at a 30% rate, or a lower rate under an applicable income tax treaty, on dividends received by a foreign corporation that are effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the U.S. A non-U.S. holder who is eligible for a reduced rate of U.S. federal withholding tax under an income tax treaty may obtain a refund or credit of any excess amounts withheld by filing an appropriate claim for a refund together with the required information with the IRS.
GAIN ON DISPOSITION OF COMMON STOCK
A non-U.S. holder generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax with respect to gain realized on a sale or other disposition of our common stock unless one of the following applies:
Ø | the gain is effectively connected with the non-U.S. holders conduct of a trade or business in the U.S. or, if an income tax treaty applies, is attributable to a permanent establishment maintained by the non-U.S. holder in the U.S.; in these cases, the non-U.S. holder generally will be taxed on its net gain derived from the disposition at the regular graduated rates and in the manner applicable to U.S. persons and, if the non-U.S. holder is a foreign corporation, the branch profits tax described above may also apply; |
Ø | the non-U.S. holder is an individual who holds the common stock as a capital asset and is present in the U.S. for 183 days or more in the taxable year of the disposition and certain other conditions are met; in this case, the non-U.S. holder will be subject to a 30% tax on the gain derived from the sale or other disposition or such lower rate as may be specified by an applicable income tax treaty; or |
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Ø | we are or have been a U.S. real property holding corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes at any time within the shorter of the five-year period ending on the date of disposition or the period that the non-U.S. holder held our common stock. We do not believe that we have been, currently are, or will become, a U.S. real property holding corporation. If we were or were to become a U.S. real property holding corporation at any time during the applicable period, however, any gain recognized on a disposition of our common stock by a non-U.S. holder who did not own (directly, indirectly or constructively) more than 5% of our common stock during the applicable period would not be subject to U.S. federal income tax, provided that our common stock is regularly traded on an established securities market (within the meaning of Section 897(c)(3) of the Code). |
FEDERAL ESTATE TAX
Common stock owned or treated as owned by an individual who is a non-U.S. holder at the time of death will be included in the individuals gross estate for U.S. federal estate tax purposes, unless an applicable estate tax or other treaty provides otherwise, and, therefore, such individual may be subject to U.S. federal estate tax.
INFORMATION REPORTING AND BACKUP WITHHOLDING TAX
Dividends and proceeds from the sale or other taxable disposition of our common stock are potentially subject to backup withholding. In general, backup withholding will not apply to dividends on our common stock made by us or our paying agents, in their capacities as such, to a non-U.S. holder if the holder has provided the required certification that it is a non-U.S. holder and neither we nor our paying agent has actual knowledge (or reason to know) that the holder is a U.S. holder.
Generally, we must report to the IRS the amount of dividends paid, the name and address of the recipient and the amount, if any, of tax withheld. These information reporting requirements apply even if withholding was not required. A similar report is sent to the recipient of the dividend. Pursuant to income tax treaties or some other agreements, the IRS may make its reports available to tax authorities in the recipients country of residence.
In general, backup withholding and information reporting will not apply to proceeds from the disposition of our common stock paid to a non-U.S. holder if the holder has provided the required certification that it is a non-U.S. holder and neither we nor our paying agent has actual knowledge (or reason to know) that the holder is a U.S. holder.
Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Rather, the amount of any backup withholding will be allowed as a credit against the holders U.S. federal income tax liability, if any, and may entitle such holder to a refund, provided that the required information is furnished to the IRS in a timely manner.
Non-U.S. holders should consult their tax advisors regarding the application of the information reporting and backup withholding rules to them.
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Upon the closing of this offering and the filing of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, our authorized capital stock will consist of 70 million shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share and 5 million shares of preferred stock, $0.001 par value per share. The following is a summary of the material features of our capital stock. For more detail, please see our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws listed as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.
COMMON STOCK
As of May 31, 2006, there were shares of common stock outstanding held by stockholders of record after giving effect to the -for- stock split of our common stock to be effected immediately prior to the closing of this offering. Based upon the number of shares outstanding as of that date, and giving effect to the issuance of the shares of common stock offered by us in this offering, there will be shares of common stock outstanding upon the completion of this offering. There are no shares of preferred stock outstanding.
As of May 31, 2006, shares of common stock were reserved for grants under our stock plans, and options and warrants to purchase a total of shares of our common stock were outstanding.
Our common stock is all one class. Holders of common stock have identical rights. The holders of common stock do not have cumulative voting rights. Directors are elected by a plurality of the votes of the shares present in person or by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote in such election. Subject to preferences that may be applicable to any outstanding preferred stock, holders of common stock are entitled to receive ratably such dividends, if any, as may be declared by the board of directors out of funds legally available to pay dividends. Upon our liquidation, dissolution, or winding up, the holders of common stock are entitled to receive ratably all assets after the payment of our liabilities, subject to the prior rights of any outstanding preferred stock. Holders of common stock have no preemptive, subscription, redemption, or conversion rights. They are not entitled to the benefit of any sinking fund. The outstanding shares of common stock are, and the shares of common stock offered by us in this offering will be, when issued and paid for, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. The rights, powers, preferences and privileges of holders of common stock are subject to the rights of the holders of shares of any series of preferred stock which we may designate and issue in the future.
In the case of a dividend or other distribution payable in shares of common stock, including distributions pursuant to stock splits or divisions of common stock, only shares of common stock may be distributed with respect to common stock.
PREFERRED STOCK
Upon the closing of this offering and the filing of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, the board of directors is authorized, subject to any limitations prescribed by law, without further stockholder approval, to issue up to an aggregate of 5 million shares of preferred stock. The preferred stock may be issued in one or more series and on one or more occasions. Each series of preferred stock shall have such number of shares, designations, preferences, voting powers, qualifications and special or relative rights or privileges as the board of directors may determine. These rights and privileges may include, among others, dividend rights, voting rights, redemption provisions, liquidation preferences, conversion rights and preemptive rights.
The issuance of preferred stock, while providing desirable flexibility in connection with possible acquisitions and other corporate purposes, could adversely affect the voting power or other rights of the holders of common stock. In addition, the issuance of preferred stock could make it more difficult for a third party to acquire us or discourage a third party from attempting to acquire us.
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WARRANTS
As of May 31, 2006, warrants to purchase shares of our common stock at a price per share of $ were outstanding. These warrants expire on June 25, 2009. These warrants contain anti-dilution provisions providing for adjustments to the exercise price and the number of shares underlying the warrant upon the occurrence of certain events, including any issuance of common stock or convertible securities at a certain price, stock dividend, stock split, stock combination, or merger, consolidation or sale of substantially all of the assets, recapitalization or other similar transaction.
ANTI-TAKEOVER EFFECTS OF VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF OUR AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION AND OUR AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS
Provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws, which are summarized below, may be deemed to have an anti-takeover effect and may delay, defer or prevent a tender offer or takeover attempt that a stockholder might consider in such stockholders best interest, including those attempts that might result in a premium over the market price for the shares held by stockholders.
Classified board of directors. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws provide for a board of directors divided into three classes, with one class to be elected each year to serve for a three-year term. The provision for a classified board will have the effect of making it more difficult for stockholders to change the composition of our board.
Number of directors; removal for cause; filling vacancies. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws provide that our board of directors will consist of not less than one nor more than nine members, the exact number of which will be fixed from time to time by the holders of a majority of the companys outstanding stock at a properly called and conducted stockholders meeting or by a majority vote of the board of directors. The limitation on the total number of directors may be subject to adjustment by the rights of any outstanding preferred stock. Upon the closing of this offering, the size of our board will be fixed at five directors.
Under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, or the DGCL, unless otherwise provided in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, directors serving on a classified board may be removed by the stockholders only for cause. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws also provide that any vacancy occurring on the board may be filled by a majority of the board then in office, even if less than a quorum, or by a plurality of the votes entitled to be cast in the election of directors at a stockholders meeting. Any director elected in accordance with the preceding sentence will hold office for the remainder of the full term of the class of directors in which the new directorship was created or the vacancy occurred and until such directors successor shall have been elected and qualified. No decrease in the number of directors constituting the board of directors shall have the effect of removing or shortening the term of any incumbent director.
The director removal and vacancy provisions will make it more difficult for a stockholder to remove incumbent directors and simultaneously gain control of the board by filling vacancies created by such removal with its own nominees.
Special meetings of stockholders. Our amended and restated bylaws deny stockholders the right to call a special meeting of stockholders. Our amended and restated bylaws provide that a special meeting of stockholders may be called only by our board of directors.
Unanimous stockholder action by written consent. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation requires all stockholder actions to be taken by a vote of the stockholders at an annual or special meeting or by a written consent without a meeting signed by all of the stockholders of outstanding common stock. Preferred stock may be issued with voting rights that alter these requirements for holders of preferred stock.
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Stockholder proposals. At any meeting of stockholders, only business that is properly brought before the meeting will be conducted. To be properly brought before a meeting of stockholders, business must be specified in the notice of the meeting (or any supplement to that notice) given by or at the direction of the board of directors, brought before the meeting by or at the direction of the board or properly brought before the meeting by a stockholder. For business to be properly brought before a meeting by a stockholder, the stockholder must have given timely written notice of the business in proper written form to our corporate secretary.
To be timely, a stockholders notice must be delivered to or mailed and received at our principal executive offices not less than 60 days nor more than 90 days prior to the date of the meeting; provided, however, that in the event that less than 75 days notice or prior public disclosure is given or made to stockholders, notice by the stockholder must be received not later than the close of business on the 15th day following the day on which notice of the date of the meeting was mailed or public disclosure of the date of the meeting was made, whichever first occurs.
To be in proper written form, a stockholders notice to the secretary must set forth as to each matter the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting:
Ø | a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting and the reasons for conducting the business at the meeting; |
Ø | the name and record address of the stockholder proposing such business; |
Ø | the class, series and number of our shares of our capital stock beneficially owned by the stockholder proposing the business; and |
Ø | any material interest of the stockholder in the business that the stockholder intends to propose. |
Nomination of candidates for election to our board. Under our amended and restated bylaws, only persons who are properly nominated will be eligible for election to be members of our board. To be properly nominated, a director candidate must be nominated at a meeting of the stockholders by or at the direction of the directors, by any nominating committee or person appointed by the directors or by any stockholder who is entitled to vote for the election of directors at the meeting and who nominates a director in accordance with our amended and restated bylaws. To properly nominate a director in accordance with our amended and restated bylaws, a stockholder must have given timely written notice in proper written form to our corporate secretary.
To be timely, a stockholders notice must be delivered to or mailed and received at our principal executive offices not less than 60 days nor more than 90 days prior to the date of the meeting; provided, however, that in the event that less than 75 days notice or prior public disclosure is given or made to stockholders, notice by the stockholder must be received not later than the close of business on the 15th day following the day on which notice of the date of the meeting was mailed or public disclosure of the date of the meeting was made, whichever first occurs.
To be in proper written form, a stockholders notice to the corporate secretary must be accompanied by the written consent of each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election as a director to serve as a director if elected and must set forth as to each intended director nominee (other than an incumbent director):
Ø | the name, age, business address and residence address of the person; |
Ø | the principal occupation or employment of the person; |
Ø | the class and number of shares of our capital stock that are beneficially owned by the person; and |
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Ø | any other information relating to the person that would be required to be disclosed in solicitations for proxies for election of directors pursuant to the rules and regulations of Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. |
Additionally, to be in proper written form, a stockholders notice to the corporate secretary must set forth as to the stockholder giving the notice:
Ø | the name and record address of such stockholder; and |
Ø | the class and number of shares of our capital stock that are beneficially owned by the stockholder. |
Amendment of amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws. The DGCL provides generally that the affirmative vote of a majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote is required to amend or repeal a corporations amended and restated certificate of incorporation or amended and restated bylaws, unless the certificate of incorporation requires a greater percentage. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation requires the approval of the holders of our capital stock representing at least two-thirds of the companys voting power entitled to vote in the election of directors to amend any provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation described in the sections of this prospectus entitled Classified board of directors above and Limitations on Liability and Indemnification of Directors and Officers below. In addition, our amended and restated bylaws may be amended by our board of directors without a stockholder vote. Our amended and restated bylaws additionally require the approval of the holders of our capital stock representing at least two-thirds of the companys voting power entitled to vote in the election of directors to amend any provisions of our amended and restated bylaws described in the sections of this prospectus entitled Classified board of directors, Stockholder proposals and Nomination of candidates for election to our board above.
ANTI-TAKEOVER EFFECTS OF PROVISIONS OF DELAWARE LAW
We are subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware. Section 203 prohibits a publicly held Delaware corporation from engaging in a business combination with an interested stockholder for a period of three years after the date of the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder, unless the business combination is approved in a prescribed manner. A business combination includes mergers, consolidations, asset sales and other transactions involving us and an interested stockholder. In general, an interested stockholder is a person who, together with affiliates and associates, owns, or within three years did own, 15% or more of the corporations voting stock.
LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY AND INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
We have adopted provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation that limit or eliminate the personal liability of our directors to the maximum extent permitted by the DGCL. The DGCL expressly permits a corporation to provide that its directors will not be liable for monetary damages for a breach of their fiduciary duties as directors, except for liability:
Ø | for any breach of the directors duty of loyalty to us or our stockholders; |
Ø | for any act or omission not in good faith or that involves intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law; |
Ø | under Section 174 of the DGCL (relating to unlawful stock repurchases, redemptions or other distributions or payment of dividends); or |
Ø | for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. |
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These limitations of liability do not generally affect the availability of equitable remedies such as injunctive relief or rescission. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation also obligates us to indemnify our officers, directors, employees and other agents to the fullest extent permitted under the DGCL, subject to limited exceptions. Also, we may advance expenses to our directors, officers and employees in connection with legal proceedings, subject to limited exceptions.
We may enter into separate indemnification agreements with our board members and officers that may be broader than the specific indemnification provisions contained in the DGCL. These indemnification agreements could require us, among other things, to indemnify our board members and officers against liabilities that may arise by reason of their status or service as board members and officers, other than liabilities arising from willful misconduct. These indemnification agreements may also require us to advance any expenses incurred by the board members and officers as a result of any proceeding against them as to which they could be indemnified and to obtain directors and officers insurance if available on reasonable terms.
The limited liability and indemnification provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and in any indemnification agreements we enter into may discourage stockholders from bringing a lawsuit against our board members for breach of their fiduciary duties and may reduce the likelihood of derivative litigation against our board members and officers, even though a derivative action, if successful, might otherwise benefit us and our stockholders. A stockholders investment in us may be adversely affected to the extent we pay the costs of settlement or damage awards against our directors and officers under these indemnification provisions.
At present, there is no pending litigation or proceeding involving any of our directors, officers, employees or agents in which indemnification by us is sought, nor are we aware of any threatened litigation or proceeding that may result in a claim for indemnification.
REGISTRATION RIGHTS
Following the completion of this offering, under the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement between us and certain holders of shares of common stock, if we propose to register any of our equity securities under the Securities Act of 1933, our stockholders who are parties to the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement are entitled to notice of such registration and are entitled to request inclusion of shares of their common stock in that registration. We are obligated to use reasonable commercial efforts to include such shares in the registration, if, and only if, CM Equity Partners, L.P., CMEP Co-Investment ICF, L.P., CM Equity Partners II, L.P. and CM Equity Partners II Co-Investors L.P. or their transferees participate as a seller in such registration. These registration rights are subject to typical conditions and limitations, among them the right of the underwriters of an offering to limit the number of shares included in the registration.
TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR
The transfer agent and registrar for the common stock is .
LISTING
We have filed an application for our common stock to be listed on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol ICFI.
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Prior to this offering, there was no public market for our common stock. Future sales of substantial amounts of our common stock in the public market, or the perception that these sales could occur, could adversely affect the price of our common stock. Based on the number of shares outstanding as of , after giving effect to the -for- stock split of our common stock to be effected immediately prior to the closing, we will have approximately shares of our common stock outstanding after the completion of this offering (approximately shares if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full). Of those shares, the shares of common stock sold in this offering ( shares if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full) will be freely transferable without restriction, unless purchased by our affiliates. The remaining shares of common stock to be outstanding immediately following the completion of this offering, which are restricted securities under Rule 144 of the Securities Act, or Rule 144, as well as any other shares held by our affiliates, may not be resold except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an applicable exemption from registration, including an exemption under Rule 144.
LOCK-UP AGREEMENTS
The holders of approximately shares of outstanding common stock as of the closing of this offering and the holders of shares of common stock underlying options and warrants as of the closing of this offering, including all of our directors and executive officers and the selling stockholders have entered into lock-up agreements under which they have generally agreed, subject to certain exceptions, not to offer or sell any shares of common stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for shares of common stock for a period of at least 180 days from the date of this prospectus without the prior written consent of UBS Securities LLC. See Underwriting No sale of Similar Securities.
RULE 144
In general, under Rule 144, an affiliate of ours who beneficially owns shares of our common stock that are not restricted securities, or a person who beneficially owns for more than one year shares of our common stock that are restricted securities, may generally sell, within any three-month period, a number of shares that does not exceed the greater of:
Ø | 1% of the number of shares of our common stock then outstanding, which will equal approximately shares immediately after this offering; and |
Ø | the average weekly trading volume of our common stock on the Nasdaq National Market during the four preceding calendar weeks. |
Sales under Rule 144 are also subject to requirements with respect to manner of sale, notice and the availability of current public information about us. Generally, a person who was not our affiliate at any time during the three months before the sale, and who has beneficially owned shares of our common stock that are restricted securities for at least two years, may sell those shares without regard to the volume limitations, manner of sale provisions, notice requirements or the requirements with respect to availability of current public information about us.
Rule 144 does not supersede the contractual obligations of our security holders set forth in the lock-up agreements described above.
RULE 701
Generally, an employee, officer, director or consultant who purchased shares of our common stock before the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, or who holds
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options as of that date, under a written compensatory plan or contract, may rely on the resale provisions of Rule 701 under the Securities Act. Under Rule 701, these persons who are not our affiliates may generally sell their eligible securities, commencing 90 days after the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, without having to comply with the public information, holding period, volume limitation or notice provisions of Rule 144. These persons who are our affiliates may generally sell their eligible securities under Rule 701, commencing 90 days after the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, without having to comply with Rule 144s one-year holding period restriction.
Neither Rule 144 nor Rule 701 supersedes the contractual obligations of our security holders set forth in the lock-up agreements described above.
REGISTRATION RIGHTS
Upon completion of this offering, under the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement between us and certain holders of shares of common stock, if we propose to register any of our equity securities under the Securities Act of 1933 (other than registrations via SEC Form S-4 or S-8), all of the parties to the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement who are then current holders of common stock that has not been previously registered and is not permitted to be sold by SEC Rule 144 are entitled to notice of such registration and are entitled to request inclusion of shares of their common stock in that registration. The company is obligated to use reasonable commercial efforts to include such shares in the registration, if, and only if, CM Equity Partners, L.P., CMEP Co-Investment ICF, L.P., CM Equity Partners II, L.P. and CM Equity Partners II Co-Investors L.P. or their transferees are participating as sellers in such registration. These registration rights are subject to typical conditions and limitations, among them the right of the underwriters of an offering to limit the number of shares included in the registration.
STOCK PLANS
We intend to file a registration statement on Form S-8 under the Securities Act to register shares of common stock issued or reserved for issuance under our 1999 Option Plan, 2006 Equity Plan and 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan as soon as practicable after the completion of this offering. Accordingly, shares registered under the Form S-8 registration statement will be available for sale in the open market following its effective date, subject to Rule 144 volume limitations and the 180-day lock-up arrangement described above, if applicable.
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We and the selling stockholders are offering shares of our common stock through the underwriters named below. UBS Securities LLC, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated and William Blair & Company, L.L.C. and Jefferies & Company, Inc. are the representatives of the underwriters. UBS Securities LLC is the sole book-running manager of our offering, and UBS Securities LLC and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated are the joint lead managers of our offering. We and the selling stockholders have entered into an underwriting agreement with the representatives. Subject to the terms and conditions of the underwriting agreement, each of the underwriters has severally agreed to purchase the number of shares listed next to its name in the following table:
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William Blair & Company, L.L.C. |
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The underwriting agreement provides that the underwriters must buy all of the shares if they buy any of them. However, the underwriters are not required to take or pay for the shares covered by the underwriters over-allotment option described below.
Our common stock is offered subject to a number of conditions, including:
Ø | receipt and acceptance of our common stock by the underwriters; and |
Ø | the underwriters right to reject orders in whole or in part. |
We have been advised by the representatives that the underwriters intend to make a market in our common stock but that they are not obligated to do so and may discontinue making a market at any time without notice.
In connection with this offering, certain of the underwriters or securities dealers may distribute prospectuses electronically.
OVER-ALLOTMENT OPTION
The underwriters have an option to buy up to an aggregate of additional shares of our common stock. We are providing of these shares and the selling stockholders are providing of these shares. If the underwriters purchase fewer than all of the shares covered by this option, then we and the selling stockholders will sell shares on a pro rata basis in approximately the same proportion. The underwriters may exercise this option solely for the purpose of covering over-allotments, if any, made in connection with this offering. The underwriters have 30 days from the date of this prospectus to exercise this option. If the underwriters exercise this option, they will each purchase additional shares on a pro rata basis in approximately the same proportion to the amounts specified in the table above.
DIRECTED SHARE PROGRAM
At our request, the underwriters have reserved up to 5% of the aggregate number of shares of common stock offered hereby for sale at the public offering price set forth on the cover page of this prospectus to persons who are our directors, officers, and employees, to certain vendors, suppliers, customers and business associates, and to persons who are otherwise associated with us, through a directed share program. The number of shares of common stock available for sale to the general public will be reduced by the number of directed shares purchased by participants in the directed share program. Any directed
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shares not purchased will be offered by the underwriters to the general public on the same basis as all other shares of common stock offered. We have agreed to indemnify the underwriters against certain liabilities and expenses, including liabilities under the Securities Act, in connection with the sales of the directed shares. We have been advised by UBS Securities LLC that any participants in the directed share program who purchase more than $100,000 of our common stock will be required to sign a lock-up agreement, the form of which will be the same as the lock-up agreements to be entered into by all of our directors and officers and substantially all of our existing stockholders. See Shares eligible for future sale Lock-up agreements for a description of the material terms of these agreements.
COMMISSIONS AND DISCOUNTS
Shares sold by the underwriters to the public will initially be offered at the initial offering price set forth on the cover of this prospectus. Any shares sold by the underwriters to securities dealers may be sold at a discount of up to $ per share from the initial public offering price. Any of these securities dealers may resell any shares purchased from the underwriters to other brokers or dealers at a discount of up to $ per share from the initial public offering price. If all the shares are not sold at the initial public offering price, the representatives may change the offering price and the other selling terms. Sales of shares made outside of the United States may be made by affiliates of the underwriters. Upon execution of the underwriting agreement, the underwriters will be obligated to purchase the shares at the price and upon the terms stated in the underwriting agreement and, as a result, will thereafter bear any risk associated with changing the offering price to the public or other selling terms.
The following table shows the per share and total underwriting discounts and commissions we and the selling stockholders will pay to the underwriters, assuming both no exercise and full exercise of their over-allotment option:
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$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
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$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ |
We estimate that the total expenses of this offering payable by us, not including the underwriting discounts and commissions, will be approximately $ . The selling stockholders are not obligated to reimburse us for any of such expenses.
NO SALES OF SIMILAR SECURITIES
We, the selling stockholders, our executive officers and directors and substantially all of our other existing security holders have entered, and certain individuals who purchase shares of our common stock in this offering through the directed share program may enter, into lock-up agreements with the underwriters. Under these agreements, subject to certain exceptions, we and each of these persons may not, without the prior written approval of UBS Securities LLC, offer, sell, contract to sell or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, or hedge our common stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable for our common stock. These restrictions will be in effect for a period of 180 days after the date of this prospectus. At any time and without public notice, UBS Securities LLC may, in its sole discretion, release some or all of the securities from these lock-up agreements.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if (1) during the last 17 days of the 180-day lock-up period we issue an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to us occurs or (2) prior to the expiration of the 180-day lock-up period, we announce that we will release earnings results during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the 180-day lock-up period, then the restrictions described above will continue to apply until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the material news or material event.
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INDEMNIFICATION AND CONTRIBUTION
We and the selling stockholders have agreed to indemnify the underwriters and their controlling persons against certain liabilities, including certain liabilities under the Securities Act. If we or the selling stockholders are unable to provide this indemnification, we and the selling stockholders have agreed to contribute to payments the underwriters and their controlling persons may be required to make in respect of those liabilities.
LISTING
We have applied to have our common stock approved for listing on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol ICFI.
PRICE-STABILIZATION, SHORT POSITIONS
In connection with this offering, the underwriters may engage in activities that stabilize, maintain or otherwise affect the price of our common stock, including:
Ø | stabilizing transactions; |
Ø | short sales; |
Ø | purchases to cover positions created by short sales; |
Ø | imposition of penalty bids; |
Ø | syndicate covering transactions; and |
Ø | passive market making. |
Stabilizing transactions consist of bids or purchases made for the purpose of preventing or retarding a decline in the market price of our common stock while this offering is in progress. These transactions may also include making short sales of our common stock, which involve the sale by the underwriters of a greater number of shares of common stock than they are required to purchase in this offering and purchasing shares of common stock in the open market to cover positions created by short sales. Short sales may be covered short sales, which are short positions in an amount not greater than the underwriters over-allotment option referred to above, or may be naked short sales, which are short positions in excess of that amount.
The underwriters may close out any covered short position either by exercising their over-allotment option, in whole or in part, or by purchasing shares in the open market. In making this determination, the underwriters will consider, among other things, the price of shares available for purchase in the open market compared to the price at which they may purchase shares through the over-allotment option.
Naked short sales are sales in excess of the over-allotment option. The underwriters must close out any naked short position by purchasing shares in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if the underwriters are concerned that there may be downward pressure on the price of the common stock in the open market that could adversely affect investors who purchased in this offering.
The underwriters also may impose a penalty bid. This occurs when a particular underwriter repays to the underwriters a portion of the underwriting discount received by it because the representatives have repurchased shares sold by or for the account of that underwriter in stabilizing or short covering transactions.
In connection with this offering, certain underwriters and selling group members, if any, who are qualified market makers on the Nasdaq National Market may engage in passive market making transactions in our common stock on the Nasdaq National Market in accordance with Rule 103 of
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Regulation M under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. In general, a passive market maker must display its bid at a price not in excess of the highest independent bid of such security; if all independent bids are lowered below the passive market makers bid, however, such bid must then be lowered when certain purchase limits are exceeded.
As a result of these activities, the price of our common stock may be higher than the price that otherwise might exist in the open market. If these activities are commenced, they may be discontinued by the underwriters at any time. The underwriters may carry out these transactions on the Nasdaq National Market, in the over-the-counter market or otherwise.
DETERMINATION OF OFFERING PRICE
Prior to this offering, there was no public market for our common stock. The initial public offering price will be determined by negotiation by us, the selling stockholders and the representatives of the underwriters. The principal factors to be considered in determining the initial public offering price include:
Ø | the information set forth in this prospectus and otherwise available to the representatives; |
Ø | our history and prospects and the history of, and prospects for, the industry in which we compete; |
Ø | our past and present financial performance and an assessment of our management; |
Ø | our prospects for future earnings and the present state of our development; |
Ø | the general condition of the securities markets at the time of this offering; |
Ø | the recent market prices of, and the demand for, publicly traded common stock of generally comparable companies; and |
Ø | other factors deemed relevant by the underwriters, the selling stockholders and us. |
AFFILIATIONS
Certain of the underwriters or their affiliates have in the past provided commercial banking, financial advisory, investment banking or other services for us and our affiliates, including companies we have acquired, or for the selling stockholders and their affiliates, for which they received customary fees. The underwriters and their affiliates may in the future provide these types of services to us, the selling stockholders and our respective affiliates.
NOTICE TO INVESTORS
European Economic Area
With respect to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented Prospectus Directive 2003/71/EC, including any applicable implementing measures, from and including the date on which the Prospectus Directive is implemented in that Member State, the offering of our common stock in this offering is only being made:
(a) | to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities; |
(b) | to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than 43,000,000 and (3) an annual net turnover of more than 50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or |
(c) | in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the Issuer of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive. |
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United Kingdom
Shares of our common stock may not be offered or sold and will not be offered or sold to any persons in the United Kingdom other than to persons whose ordinary activities involve them in acquiring, holding, managing or disposing of investments (as principal or as agent) for the purposes of their businesses and in compliance with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done in relation to shares of our common stock in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom. In addition, each Underwriter has only communicated or caused to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated any invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the FSMA) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of shares of our common stock in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the Company. Without limitation to the other restrictions referred to herein, this offering circular is directed only at (1) persons outside the United Kingdom, (2) persons having professional experience in matters relating to investments who fall within the definition of investment professionals in Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005; or (3) high net worth bodies corporate, unincorporated associations and partnerships and trustees of high value trusts as described in Article 49(2) of the Financial Services and Markets act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005. Without limitation to the other restrictions referred to herein, any investment or investment activity to which this offering circular relates is available only to, and will be engaged in only with, such persons, and persons within the United Kingdom who receive this communication (other than persons who fall within (2) or (3) above) should not rely or act upon this communication.
Switzerland
Shares of our common stock may be offered in Switzerland only on the basis of a non-public offering. This prospectus does not constitute an issuance prospectus according to articles 652a or 1156 of the Swiss Federal Code of Obligations or a listing prospectus according to article 32 of the Listing Rules of the Swiss exchange. The shares of our common stock may not be offered or distributed on a professional basis in or from Switzerland and neither this prospectus nor any other offering material relating to shares of our common stock may be publicly issued in connection with any such offer or distribution. The shares have not been and will not be approved by any Swiss regulatory authority. In particular, the shares are not and will not be registered with or supervised by the Swiss Federal Banking Commission, and investors may not claim protection under the Swiss Investment Fund Act.
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The validity of the shares of common stock offered hereby will be passed upon for us by Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P., Tysons Corner, Virginia. Certain legal matters in connection with this offering will be passed upon for the underwriters by Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, New York.
The consolidated financial statements of ICF as of December 31, 2004 and 2005 and for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2004 and 2005 included in this prospectus have been audited by Grant Thornton LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report appearing herein and elsewhere in the registration statement, and are included in reliance upon the report of such firm given upon their authority as experts in accounting and auditing in giving said reports.
The consolidated financial statements of Caliber Associates, Inc. as of and for the year ended December 31, 2004 included in this prospectus have been audited by Argy, Wiltse & Robinson, P.C., independent auditors, and are included in reliance upon the report of such firm given upon their authority as experts in accounting and auditing. Argy, Wiltse & Robinson, P.C., are not registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and their audit opinion on the financial statements of Caliber Associates, Inc. is included herein in reliance upon paragraph II.P.2 of the outline entitled Current Accounting and Disclosure Issues in the Division of Corporation Finance, dated March 4, 2005, prepared by accounting staff members in the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Where you can find more information
We have filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, a registration statement on Form S-1 under the Securities Act with respect to the shares of common stock we are offering. This prospectus does not contain all of the information in the registration statement and the exhibits to the registration statement. For further information with respect to us and our common stock, we refer you to the registration statement and to the exhibits to the registration statement. Statements contained in this prospectus about the contents of any contract or any other document are not necessarily complete, and, in each instance, we refer you to the copy of the contract or other document filed as an exhibit to the registration statement. Each of these statements is qualified in all respects by this reference.
You may read and copy the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part at the SECs Public Reference Room, which is located at 100 F Street, N.E., Room 1850, Washington, D.C. 20549. You can request copies of the registration statement by writing to the SEC and paying a fee for the copying cost. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for more information about the operation of the SECs Public Reference Room. In addition, the SEC maintains an Internet website, which is located at http://www.sec.gov, that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC. You may access the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part at the SECs Internet website. Upon completion of this offering, we will be subject to the information reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and we will file reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC.
We maintain an Internet website at www.icfi.com. We have not incorporated by reference into this prospectus the information on our website, and you should not consider it to be a part of this prospectus.
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Board of Directors
ICF International, Inc., and Subsidiaries
(formerly known as ICF Consulting Group Holdings, Inc., and Subsidiaries)
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of ICF International Inc., and Subsidiaries (formerly known as ICF Consulting Group Holdings, Inc., and Subsidiaries) (the Company) as of December 31, 2004 and 2005, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders equity, and cash flows for each of the three years then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Companys management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audit included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Companys internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements assessing the accounting principles used, and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of ICF International, Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2004 and 2005, and the consolidated results of their operations and cash flows for the three years then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
/s/ GRANT THORNTON LLP
Vienna, Virginia
April 4, 2006 (except for Note R, as to which the date is April 14, 2006)
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December 31, 2004 |
December 31, 2005 |
March 31, 2006 |
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(unaudited) | ||||||||||||
(in thousands, except share amounts) | ||||||||||||
ASSETS |
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Current Assets |
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Cash |
$ | 797 | $ | 499 | $ | 1,296 | ||||||
Contract receivables, net |
29,470 | 52,871 | 57,208 | |||||||||
Notes receivable, current portion |
600 | | | |||||||||
Prepaid expenses |
928 | 1,549 | 1,686 | |||||||||
Deferred income tax |
983 | 2,342 | 2,342 | |||||||||
Total Current Assets |
32,778 | 57,261 | 62,532 | |||||||||
Property and Equipment, net |
4,065 | 3,984 | 3,722 | |||||||||
Note Receivable, net of current portion |
600 | | | |||||||||
Goodwill |
53,287 | 81,182 | 81,174 | |||||||||
Other Intangible Assets |
2,205 | 4,127 | 3,760 | |||||||||
Restricted Cash |
| 3,500 | 3,617 | |||||||||
Other Assets |
1,122 | 1,070 | 1,148 | |||||||||
Total Assets |
$ | 94,057 | $ | 151,124 | $ | 155,953 | ||||||
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS EQUITY |
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Current Liabilities |
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Accounts payable |
$ | 4,187 | $ | 7,062 | $ | 4,441 | ||||||
Accrued salaries and benefits |
7,410 | 10,201 | 11,457 | |||||||||
Accrued expenses |
7,205 | 8,271 | 9,138 | |||||||||
Current portion of long-term debt |
4,235 | 6,767 | 12,400 | |||||||||
Deferred revenue |
4,081 | 6,396 | 5,688 | |||||||||
Income tax payable |
158 | 423 | 34 | |||||||||
Total Current Liabilities |
27,276 | 39,120 | 43,158 | |||||||||
Long-term Debt, net of current portion |
16,844 | 54,205 | 53,944 | |||||||||
Deferred Rent |
1,395 | 1,568 | 1,521 | |||||||||
Deferred Income Tax |
591 | 2,730 | 2,730 | |||||||||
Other Liabilities |
90 | 598 | 440 | |||||||||
Total Liabilities |
46,196 | 98,221 | 101,793 | |||||||||
Commitments and Contingencies |
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Stockholders Equity |
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Common stock, $.01 par value; 20,000,000 shares authorized, 9,232,565, 9,300,685 and 9,300,685 issued, and 9,016,947, 9,164,157 and 9,212,432 outstanding as of December 31, 2004, December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006 |
92 | 93 | 93 | |||||||||
Additional paid-in capital |
48,099 | 50,825 | 51,011 | |||||||||
Retained earnings |
1,812 | 3,834 | 4,928 | |||||||||
Treasury stock |
(1,383 | ) | (918 | ) | (628 | ) | ||||||
Stockholder notes receivable |
(944 | ) | (1,139 | ) | (1,446 | ) | ||||||
Accumulated other comprehensive income |
185 | 208 | 202 | |||||||||
Total Stockholders Equity |
47,861 | 52,903 | 54,160 | |||||||||
Total Liabilities and Stockholders Equity |
$ | 94,057 | $ | 151,124 | $ | 155,953 | ||||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these statements.
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
Year ended December 31, |
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2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
April 1, 2005 |
March 31, 2006 |
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Revenue |
$ | 145,803 | $ | 139,488 | $ | 177,218 | $ | 41,212 | $ | 53,448 | ||||||||||
Direct Costs |
91,022 | 83,638 | 106,078 | 23,969 | 31,626 | |||||||||||||||
Operating Expenses |
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Indirect and selling expenses |
45,335 | 46,097 | 60,039 | 13,905 | 17,883 | |||||||||||||||
Depreciation and amortization |
3,000 | 3,155 | 5,541 | 777 | 772 | |||||||||||||||
Earnings from Operations |
6,446 | 6,598 | 5,560 | 2,561 | 3,167 | |||||||||||||||
Other (Expense) Income |
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Interest expense, net |
(3,095 | ) | (1,266 | ) | (2,981 | ) | (473 | ) | (1,026 | ) | ||||||||||
Other |
33 | (33 | ) | 1,308 | 1 | | ||||||||||||||
Total Other Expense |
(3,062 | ) | (1,299 | ) | (1,673 | ) | (472 | ) | (1,026 | ) | ||||||||||
Income from Continuing Operations Before Income Taxes |
3,384 | 5,299 | 3,887 | 2,089 | 2,141 | |||||||||||||||
Income Tax Expense |
1,320 | 2,466 | 1,865 | 1,002 | 1,047 | |||||||||||||||
Income from Continuing Operations |
2,064 | 2,833 | 2,022 | 1,087 | 1,094 | |||||||||||||||
Discontinued Operations |
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(Loss) income from discontinued operations, net of taxes of $194, and $(123) respectively |
308 | (196 | ) | | | | ||||||||||||||
Gain from disposal of subsidiary, net of tax of $239 |
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Income from Discontinued Operations |
308 | 184 | | | | |||||||||||||||
Net Income |
$ | 2,372 | $ | 3,017 | $ | 2,022 | $ | 1,087 | $ | 1,094 | ||||||||||
Earnings from Continuing Operations per Share-Basic |
$ | 0.23 | $ | 0.31 | $ | 0.22 | $ | 0.12 | $ | 0.12 | ||||||||||
Earnings from Continuing Operations per Share-Diluted |
$ | 0.23 | $ | 0.30 | $ | 0.21 | $ | 0.11 | $ | 0.11 | ||||||||||
Earnings from Discontinued Operations per Share-Basic |
$ | 0.03 | $ | 0.02 | $ | | $ | | $ | | ||||||||||
Earnings from Discontinued Operations per Share-Diluted |
$ | 0.03 | $ | 0.02 | $ | | $ | | $ | | ||||||||||
Earnings per Share-Basic |
$ | 0.26 | $ | 0.33 | $ | 0.22 | $ | 0.12 | $ | 0.12 | ||||||||||
Earnings per Share-Diluted |
$ | 0.26 | $ | 0.32 | $ | 0.21 | $ | 0.11 | $ | 0.11 | ||||||||||
Weighted-average Shares Outstanding Basic |
9,088 | 9,080 | 9,185 | 9,138 | 9,225 | |||||||||||||||
Weighted-average Shares Outstanding Diluted |
9,210 | 9,398 | 9,737 | 9,466 | 9,772 |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these statements.
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS EQUITY
Common Stock |
Additional Paid-in |
(Accumulated Deficit) Retained Earnings |
Treasury Stock |
Stockholder Notes Receivable |
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) |
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January 1, 2003 |
9,035 | $ | 92 | $ | 48,554 | $ | (3,577 | ) | 197 | $ | (1,199 | ) | $ | (737 | ) | $ | (54 | ) | $ | 43,079 | ||||||||||||||
Net income |
| | | 2,372 | | | | | 2,372 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other Comprehensive Income |
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Foreign currency translation adjustment |
| | | | | | | 349 | 349 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total Comprehensive Income |
2,721 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Purchase of warrants |
| | (506 | ) | | | | | | (506 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Payments on stockholder notes |
| | | | | | 13 | | 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interest receivable from stockholder notes |
| | | | | | (31 | ) | | (31 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
December 31, 2003 |
9,035 | 92 | 48,048 | (1,205 | ) | 197 | (1,199 | ) | (755 | ) | 295 | 45,276 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Net income |
| | | 3,017 | | | | | 3,017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other Comprehensive Income |
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Foreign currency translation adjustment |
| | | | | | | (110 | ) | (110 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Total Comprehensive Income |
2,907 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net payments from management stockholder issuances and buybacks |
(18 | ) | | 51 | | 18 | (184 | ) | (191 | ) | | (324 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Payments on stockholder notes |
| | | | | | 33 | | 33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interest receivable from stockholder notes |
| | | | | | (31 | ) | | (31 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
December 31, 2004 |
9,017 | 92 | 48,099 | 1,812 | 216 | (1,383 | ) | (944 | ) | 185 | 47,861 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Net income |
| | | 2,022 | | | | | 2,022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other Comprehensive Income |
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Foreign currency translation adjustment |
| | | | | | | 23 | 23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total Comprehensive Income |
2,045 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Issuance of common stockSynergy acquisition |
68 | 1 | 499 | | | | | | 500 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-cash equity compensation |
| | 2,138 | | | | | | 2,138 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net payments from management stockholder issuances and buybacks |
79 | | 89 | | (79 | ) | 465 | (242 | ) | | 312 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Payments on stockholder notes |
| | | | | | 107 | | 107 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interest receivable from stockholder notes |
| | | | | | (60 | ) | | (60 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
December 31, 2005 |
9,164 | $ | 93 | $ | 50,825 | $ | 3,834 | $ | 137 | $ | (918 | ) | $ | (1,139 | ) | $ | 208 | $ | 52,903 | |||||||||||||||
Net Income |
1,094 | 1,094 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other Comprehensive Income |
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Foreign currency translation adjustment |
| (6 | ) | (6 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total Comprehensive Income |
| 1,088 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-cash equity compensation |
76 | 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net payments from management stockholder issuances . |
48,275 | 110 | (48,275 | ) | 290 | (300 | ) | 100 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Payments on stockholder notes |
14 | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interest receivable from stockholder notes . |
(21 | ) | (21 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
March 31, 2006 (unaudited) |
9,212,432 | $ | 93 | $ | 51,011 | $ | 4,928 | $ | 88,253 | $ | (628 | ) | $ | (1,446 | ) | $ | 202 | $ | 54,160 | |||||||||||||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these statements.
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
Year ended December 31, |
Quarter ended |
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2003 | 2004 | 2005 | April 1, 2005 |
March 31, 2006 |
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(unaudited) | ||||||||||||||||||||
(in thousands) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Cash Flows from Operating Activities |
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Net income from continuing operations |
$ | 2,064 | $ | 2,833 | $ | 2,022 | $ | 1,087 | $ | 1,094 | ||||||||||
Net (loss) income from discontinued operations |
308 | (196 | ) | | | | ||||||||||||||
Gain on disposal of subsidiary, net of tax |
| 380 | | | | |||||||||||||||
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities: |
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Accrued interest on stockholder notes |
(31 | ) | (31 | ) | (60 | ) | (11 | ) | (21 | ) | ||||||||||
(Benefit) Provision for deferred income taxes |
967 | (280 | ) | (1,916 | ) | | | |||||||||||||
Gain on disposal of subsidiary |
| (620 | ) | | | | ||||||||||||||
Loss (gain) on disposal of fixed assets |
(11 | ) | 33 | 50 | | | ||||||||||||||
Non-cash equity compensation |
2,138 | | 76 | |||||||||||||||||
Depreciation and amortization |
3,000 | 3,155 | 5,541 | 777 | 772 | |||||||||||||||
Amortization of debt discount |
913 | | | | | |||||||||||||||
Changes in operating assets and liabilities: |
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Contract receivables, net |
5,096 | 4,350 | (4,340 | ) | (4,849 | ) | (4,336 | ) | ||||||||||||
Prepaid expenses and other assets |
(124 | ) | (259 | ) | (100 | ) | 397 | (11 | ) | |||||||||||
Assets held for sale |
(191 | ) | | | | | ||||||||||||||
Income tax receivable |
177 | 259 | | | | |||||||||||||||
Accounts payable |
(2,434 | ) | (179 | ) | 1,279 | 1,046 | (2,621 | ) | ||||||||||||
Accrued salaries and benefits |
383 | (1,990 | ) | (3,170 | ) | 540 | 1,256 | |||||||||||||
Accrued expenses |
(1,365 | ) | (2,365 | ) | (580 | ) | 719 | 875 | ||||||||||||
Deferred revenue |
3,035 | (2,163 | ) | 1,670 | 1,214 | (708 | ) | |||||||||||||
Income tax payable |
| 158 | (472 | ) | (685 | ) | (389 | ) | ||||||||||||
Liabilities held for sale |
(17 | ) | | | | | ||||||||||||||
Deferred rent |
414 | 184 | 41 | 28 | (47 | ) | ||||||||||||||
Other liabilities |
(424 | ) | | 133 | | (158 | ) | |||||||||||||
Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Operating Activities |
11,760 | 3,269 | 2,236 | 263 | (4,218 | ) | ||||||||||||||
Cash Flows from Investing Activities |
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Purchase of property and equipment |
(1,930 | ) | (1,155 | ) | (1,370 | ) | (340 | ) | (115 | ) | ||||||||||
Proceeds from sale of property and equipment |
222 | 11 | | | | |||||||||||||||
Proceeds from sale of subsidiary |
| 659 | | | | |||||||||||||||
Payments received on notes receivable |
| 300 | 1,200 | | | |||||||||||||||
Payments for ADL acquisition |
(383 | ) | | | | | ||||||||||||||
Payments for Synergy acquisition |
| | (18,546 | ) | (18,566 | ) | | |||||||||||||
Payments for Caliber acquisition |
| | (20,058 | ) | | | ||||||||||||||
Capitalized software development costs |
(30 | ) | | (70 | ) | | (24 | ) | ||||||||||||
Net Cash Used in Investing Activities |
(2,121 | ) | (185 | ) | (38,844 | ) | (18,906 | ) | (139 | ) | ||||||||||
Cash Flows from Financing Activities |
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Payments on notes payable |
(23,537 | ) | (4,235 | ) | (21,808 | ) | (833 | ) | (1,467 | ) | ||||||||||
Proceeds from notes payable |
12,000 | | 38,647 | 18,647 | | |||||||||||||||
Net borrowings from working capital facilities |
3,518 | 766 | 23,054 | 1,215 | 6,839 | |||||||||||||||
Restricted cash related to Caliber acquisition |
| | (3,500 | ) | | (117 | ) | |||||||||||||
Debt issue costs |
(493 | ) | (60 | ) | (525 | ) | (316 | ) | (117 | ) | ||||||||||
Prepaid offering costs |
| | | | (91 | ) | ||||||||||||||
Purchase of warrants |
(506 | ) | | | | | ||||||||||||||
Net payments for stockholder issuances and buybacks |
| (324 | ) | 312 | (18 | ) | 100 | |||||||||||||
Payments received on stockholder notes |
13 | 33 | 107 | 29 | 14 | |||||||||||||||
Net Cash Provided by (Used In) Financing Activities |
(9,005 | ) | (3,820 | ) | 36,287 | 18,724 | 5,161 | |||||||||||||
Effect of Exchange Rate on Cash |
349 | (110 | ) | 23 | 196 | (7 | ) | |||||||||||||
(Decrease) Increase in Cash |
983 | (846 | ) | (298 | ) | 277 | (797 | ) | ||||||||||||
Cash, beginning of year |
660 | 1,643 | 797 | 797 | 499 | |||||||||||||||
Cash, end of year |
$ | 1,643 | $ | 797 | $ | 499 | $ | 1,074 | $ | 1,296 | ||||||||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these statements.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Note A Basis of Presentation and Nature of Operations
Interim Results
The financial statements as of March 31, 2006 and for the quarters ended April 1, 2005 and March 31, 2006 have been prepared by ICF International, Inc. without an audit and in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (US GAAP) and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not contain all of the information and footnotes required by US GAAP for complete financial statements. All disclosures as of March 31, 2006 and for the quarters ended April 1, 2005 and March 31, 2006, presented in the notes to the financial statements are unaudited. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (which include only normal recurring adjustments) considered necessary to present fairly the financial condition as of March 31, 2006 and results of operations and cash flows for the quarters ended April 1, 2005 and March 31, 2006, have been made. The results of operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2006 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full year ended December 31, 2006.
Basis of presentation and nature of operations
The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of ICF International, Inc. (ICFI), and its subsidiary, ICF Consulting Group, Inc. (Consulting), (collectively, the Company). The operations of Consulting are conducted within the following subsidiaries:
Ø | The K.S. Crump Group, LLC |
Ø | ICF Incorporated, LLC |
Ø | ICF Information Technology, LLC |
Ø | ICF Resources, LLC |
Ø | Systems Applications International, LLC |
Ø | ICF Associates, LLC |
Ø | Commentworks.com Company, LLC |
Ø | ICF Services Company, LLC |
Ø | ICF Consulting Services, LLC |
Ø | ICF Emergency Management Services, LLC |
Ø | ICF Program Services, LLC |
Ø | ICF Consulting Ltd. (UK) |
Ø | ICF Consulting Canada, Inc. |
Ø | ICF Consulting PTY Ltd (Australia) |
Ø | ICF/EKO (Russia) |
Ø | ICF Consultoria do Brasil, Ltda. |
Ø | ICF Consulting India Private, Ltd. |
Ø | Synergy, Inc. |
Ø | Simulation Support, Inc. |
Ø | ICF Biomedical Consulting, LLC |
Ø | Caliber Associates, Inc. |
Ø | Collins Management Consulting, Inc. |
Ø | Fried & Sher, Inc. |
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
With the exception of immaterial minority interests in ICF Consulting do Brasil, Ltda. and ICF/EKO, all subsidiaries are wholly owned by Consulting.
On June 25, 1999, ICFI purchased 90 percent of the outstanding shares of common stock of Consulting from Consultings then parent, ICF Kaiser International, Inc. (Kaiser). In September 2002, ICFI purchased the remaining 10 percent of the outstanding shares of Consulting previously owned by Kaiser for $4.5 million (see Note K). Consulting then became a wholly owned subsidiary of ICFI. ICFI is a holding company with no operations or assets, other than its investment in the common stock of Consulting. All significant intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated.
Nature of operations
The Company provides management, technology, and policy professional services in the areas of defense and homeland security, energy, environment and infrastructure, and health, human services and social programs. The Companys major clients are United States (U.S.) government agencies, especially the Department of Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, and Department of Transportation; commercial entities, particularly electric and gas utilities and other energy market participants; and other government organizations throughout the United States and the world. The Company offers a full range of services to these clients, including strategy, analysis, program management, and information technology solutions that combine experienced professional staff, industry and institutional knowledge, and analytical methods.
The Company, incorporated in Delaware, is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, with 15 primary domestic regional offices and international offices in Brazil, Canada, India, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
Segment
The Company has concluded that it operates in one segment based upon the information used by our chief operating decision makers in evaluating the performance of its business and allocating resources. Our single segment represents the Companys core business, professional services primarily for federal government clients. Although the Company describes multiple service offerings to four markets to provide a better understanding of the Companys business operations, the Company does not manage its business or allocate resources based upon those service offerings or markets.
Note B Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Revenue recognition
The Company recognizes revenue when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, services have been rendered, the contract price is fixed or determinable, and collectibility is reasonably assured.
The Companys contracts with clients are either cost-type, time-and-materials, or fixed-price contracts. Revenues under cost-type contracts are recognized as costs are incurred. Applicable estimated profits are included in earnings in the proportion that incurred costs bear to total estimated costs. Incentives, award fees, or penalties related to performance are also considered in estimating revenues and profit rates based on actual and anticipated awards. Revenues for time-and-materials contracts are recorded on the basis of allowable labor hours worked, multiplied by the contract-defined billing rates, plus the costs of other items used in the performance of the contract. Profits on time-and-materials contracts result from the difference between the cost of services performed and the contract-defined billing rates for these services.
Service revenue for fixed-price contracts is recognized when earned, generally as work is performed in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and Exchange Commissions (SEC) Staff Accounting
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
Bulletin No. 104, Revenue Recognition. Services performed vary from contract to contract and are not uniformly performed over the term of the arrangement. Revenues on most fixed-price contracts are recorded based on contract costs incurred to date compared with total estimated costs at completion on a task or work order basis. Performance is based on the ratio of costs incurred to total estimated costs where the costs incurred represent a reasonable surrogate for output measures of contract performance, including the presentation of deliverables to the client. Progress on a contract is matched against project costs and costs to complete on a periodic basis. Customers are obligated to pay as services are performed, and in the event that an agency of the federal government cancels the contract, payment for services performed through the date of cancellation is negotiated with the client. Revenues under certain other fixed-price contracts are recognized ratably over the contract period.
Revenue recognition requires judgment relative to assessing risks, estimating contract revenue and costs, and making assumptions for schedule and technical issues. Due to the size and nature of many of the Companys contracts, the estimation of revenue and costs can be complicated and is subject to many variables. Contract costs include labor, subcontracting costs, and other direct costs, as well as allocation of allowable indirect costs. Assumptions have to be made regarding the length of time to complete the contract because costs also include expected increases in wages, prices for subcontractors, and other direct costs. From time to time, facts develop that require the Company to revise its estimated total costs and revenue on a contract. To the extent that a revised estimate affects contract profit or revenue previously recognized, the Company records the cumulative effect of the revision in the period in which the facts requiring the revision become known. Provision for the full amount of an anticipated loss on any type of contract is recognized in the period in which it becomes probable and can be reasonably estimated.
Invoices to clients are generated in accordance with the terms of the applicable contract, which may not be directly related to the performance of services. Unbilled receivables are invoiced based upon the achievement of specific events as defined by each contract including deliverables, timetables, and incurrence of certain costs. Unbilled receivables are classified as a current asset. Advanced billings to clients in excess of revenue earned are recorded as deferred revenue until the revenue recognition criteria are met. Reimbursements of out-of-pocket expenses are included in revenues with corresponding costs incurred by the Company included in cost of revenues.
From time to time, the Company may proceed with work based on client commitment prior to the completion and signing of formal contract documents. The Company has a formal review process for approving any such work. Revenue associated with such work is recognized only when it can reliably be estimated and realization is probable.
Approximately 72 percent of the Companys revenue for each of the years 2003, 2004, and 2005 was derived under prime contracts and subcontracts with agencies and departments of the federal government. Revenue by contract type is as follows:
Year ended December 31, |
Quarter ended |
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2003 | 2004 |
2005 |
April 1, 2005 |
March 31, 2006 |
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(unaudited) | |||||||||||||||
Time-and-materials |
40 | % | 37 | % | 42 | % | 44 | % | 44 | % | |||||
Cost-based |
44 | % | 41 | % | 34 | % | 32 | % | 30 | % | |||||
Fixed-price |
16 | % | 22 | % | 24 | % | 24 | % | 26 | % | |||||
Total |
100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % | |||||
For the years ending December 31, 2003, 2004, and 2005, revenue from various branches of the Department of Defense (DoD) accounted for approximately 6 percent or $8.2 million, 8 percent or $11.3
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
million, and 18 percent or $31.8 million, respectively. The accounts receivable due from DoD contracts as of December 31, 2004 and 2005, was approximately $1.7 million and $7.8 million, respectively.
For the years ending December 31, 2003, 2004, and 2005, revenue from various branches of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accounted for approximately 21 percent or $30.3 million, 21 percent or $29.4 million, and 16 percent or $27.7 million, respectively. The accounts receivable due from EPA contracts as of December 31, 2004 and 2005, was approximately $4.4 million and $4.6 million, respectively.
Payments to the Company on cost-type contracts with the U.S. government are provisional payments subject to adjustment upon audit by the government. Such audits have been finalized through December 31, 2001. Contract revenue for subsequent periods has been recorded in amounts, which are expected to be realized upon final audit and settlement of costs in those years.
Cash
As of December 31, 2004 and 2005, the Company held $0.9 million and $0.4 million, respectively, in foreign financial institutions.
Property and equipment
Property and equipment are carried at cost and are depreciated using the straight-line method over their estimated useful lives, which range from two to seven years. Leasehold improvements are amortized on a straight-line basis over the shorter of the economic life of the improvement or the related lease term.
Goodwill and other intangible assets
Goodwill represents the excess of costs over fair value of assets of businesses acquired. The Company adopted the provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 142, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets, as of January 1, 2002. Goodwill and intangible assets acquired in a purchase business combination and determined to have an indefinite useful life are not amortized, but instead reviewed annually (or more frequently if impairment indicators arise) for impairment in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 142. SFAS No. 142 also requires that intangible assets with estimable useful lives be amortized over their respective estimated useful lives to their estimated residual values, and reviewed for impairment in accordance with SFAS No. 144, Accounting for Impairment or Disposal of Long-lived Assets.
The Company has elected to perform the annual goodwill impairment review on September 30 of each year. Based upon managements review, including a valuation report issued by an investment bank, it was determined that a goodwill impairment charge was not required in 2003, 2004, or 2005.
Long-lived assets
The Company follows the provisions of SFAS No. 144 in accounting for impairment or disposal of long-lived assets. SFAS No. 144 requires that long-lived assets and certain identifiable intangibles be reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset might not be recoverable. Recoverability of assets to be held and used is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of an asset to future undiscounted net cash flows expected to be generated by the asset. If such assets are considered to be impaired, the impairment to be recognized is measured by the
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
amount by which the carrying amount of the asset exceeds the fair value of the asset. Assets to be disposed of are reported at the lower of the carrying amount or fair value, less cost to sell.
Stock-based compensation plan
Prior to January 1, 2006, as permitted under SFAS No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation, the Company accounted for its stock-based compensation plan using the intrinsic value method prescribed by Accounting Principles Board (APB) Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees.
On December 26, 2005, the Board of Directors approved resolutions to accelerate the vesting of all outstanding unvested options previously awarded to employees and officers of the Company effective December 30, 2005. Options to purchase 774,450 shares of stock with exercise prices ranging from $5.00 to $9.05 were accelerated. The majority of these options were performance based and subject to variable plan accounting under APB Opinion No. 25. Because the Company never attained the performance objectives, a measurement date had yet to be established for the performance based options. The option agreements also provide for full vesting upon a change of control event. Such an event would trigger a measurement date under APB Opinion No. 25 and the recording of compensation expense. The acceleration of the vesting of these options resulted in the Company recording a non-cash stock compensation expense of approximately $2.1 million during the year ended December 31, 2005, using the intrinsic value method.
Historically, as a private company, the Company has disclosed pro forma SFAS No. 123 information using the minimum value method, which, in accordance with SFAS No. 123(R), is no longer presented.
Implementation of FASB 123(R)
In December 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued SFAS No. 123 (revised 2004) (SFAS No. 123(R)), Share-Based Payment, which requires that compensation costs related to share-based payment transactions be recognized in financial statements. SFAS No. 123(R) eliminates the alternative to use the intrinsic method of accounting provided for in APB Opinion No. 25, which generally resulted in no compensation expense recorded in the financial statements related to the grant of stock options to employees if certain conditions were met.
Effective January 1, 2006, the Company adopted SFAS No. 123(R) using the prospective method. Under this method, compensation costs for all awards granted after the date of adoption and modifications of any previously granted awards outstanding at the date of adoption are measured at estimated fair value and included in operating expenses over the performance period during which an employee provides service in exchange for the award.
In adopting SFAS No. 123(R), companies must choose among alternative valuation models and amortization assumptions. The Company has elected to use the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model and straight-line amortization of compensation expense over the requisite service period of the grant. The Company will reconsider use of the Black-Scholes-Merton model if additional information becomes available in the future that indicates another model would be more appropriate or if grants issued in future periods have characteristics that cannot be reasonably estimated using this model.
The following assumptions were used for option grants made during the quarter ended March 31, 2006:
Expected Volatility. Because the Company is not publicly traded, it has no history of share prices determined on the open market. Therefore, the expected volatility of the Companys shares was estimated based upon analyzing volatilities of similar public companies. The expected volatility factor used in valuing options granted during the quarter ended March 31, 2006 was 36%.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
Expected Term. The Company does not have any history of employee exercise behavior. The expected term of five years was estimated by consideration of the contractual terms of the grants, vesting schedules, employee forfeitures and expected terms of option grants by similar public companies.
Risk-Free Interest Rate. The Company bases the risk-free interest rates used in the Black-Scholes-Merton valuation method on implied interest rates for U.S. Treasury securities with a term consistent with the expected life of the stock options. The risk-free interest rate used in valuing options granted during the quarter ended March 31, 2006 was 4.51%.
Dividend Yield. The Black-Scholes-Merton valuation model calls for a single expected dividend yield as an input. The Company has not paid dividends in the past nor does it expect to pay dividends in the future. The Company therefore used a dividend yield percentage of zero.
During the quarter ended March 31, 2006, the Company granted incentive stock options to purchase 15,000 shares of the Companys common stock at an exercise price of $9.05 per share, the fair value of the stock on the date of grant. The Black-Scholes-Merton weighted average valuation of the options granted during the quarter ended March 31, 2006 was $3.54 per share. These options expire in ten years and vest upon the attainment of certain levels of operating income or upon certain events, including an initial public offering. The Company is expensing the value of these option grants over the period of time from the date of award to the expected date of the initial public offering, when they will vest.
In addition, in September 2005 the Company made a restricted common stock award to a key employee of 16,500 shares, 25% of which vests each January 1 thereafter, with vesting accelerating effective upon the completion of the Companys initial public offering. This stock award is also being expensed based on the grant date value of the stock of $9.05 per share.
The total intrinsic value of the options outstanding and the options exercisable at March 31, 2006 was approximately $4.8 million.
The Company recognized stock-based compensation expense of $76,359 in the quarter ended March 31, 2006, which is included in indirect and selling expenses. All of this expense related to the options granted in the quarter ended March 31, 2006 and a single stock grant awarded in September 2005. Net income for the quarter ended March 31, 2006 also reflects income tax benefits relating to this expense of $29,490. There was no stock-based compensation expense in the quarter ended April 1, 2005.
As of March 31, 2006, there was approximately $0.1 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested stock-based compensation agreements. This amount relates entirely to stock option grants during the quarter ended March 31, 2006 and a single stock grant awarded in September 2005. This cost is expected to be fully amortized over the next year because such grants will vest in the event of the initial public offering.
Foreign currency translation
The financial positions and results of operations of the Companys foreign affiliates are translated using the local currency as the functional currency. Assets and liabilities of the affiliates are translated at the exchange rate in effect at year-end. Income statement accounts are translated at the average rate of exchange prevailing during the year. Translation adjustments arising from the use of differing exchange rates from period to period are included in accumulated other comprehensive income in stockholders equity. Gains and losses resulting from foreign currency transactions included in operations are not material for any of the periods presented.
Deferred rent
The Company recognizes rent expense on a straight-line basis over the term of each lease. Lease incentives or abatements, received at or near the inception of leases, are accrued and amortized ratably over the life of the lease.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
Fair value of financial instruments
Financial instruments are defined as cash, contract receivables, debt agreements, accounts payable and accrued expenses. The carrying amounts of contract receivables, accounts payable, and accrued expenses in the accompanying financial statements approximate fair value because of the short maturity of these instruments. The carrying value of the Companys long-term debt that incurs interest based on floating market rates approximates fair value as of December 31, 2005.
Derivative financial instruments
The Company uses a derivative financial instrument to manage its exposure to fluctuations in interest rates on its credit facility. This derivative is not accounted for as a hedge and is recorded as either an asset or liability in the consolidated balance sheet, and periodically adjusted to fair value. Adjustments to reflect the change in the fair value of the derivative are reflected in earnings. The Company does not hold or issue derivative instruments for trading purposes.
Income taxes
The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 109, Accounting for Income Taxes. This method requires recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of temporary differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The Company evaluates its ability to benefit from all deferred tax assets and establishes valuation allowances for amounts it believes are not more likely than not to be realizable.
Risks and uncertainties
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash and cash equivalents and contract receivables. The majority of the Companys cash transactions are processed through one U.S. commercial bank. Cash in excess of daily requirements is used to reduce amounts outstanding under the Companys line-of-credit. To date, the Company has not incurred losses related to cash and cash equivalents.
The Companys contract receivables consist principally of contract receivables from agencies and departments of, as well as from prime contractors to the U.S. government. The Company extends credit in the normal course of operations and does not require collateral from its clients.
The Company has historically been, and continues to be, heavily dependent upon contracts with the U.S. government and is subject to audit by audit agencies of the government. Such audits determine, among other things, whether an adjustment of invoices rendered to the government is appropriate under the underlying terms of the contracts. Management does not expect any significant adjustments, as a result of government audits, that will adversely affect the Companys financial position.
Use of estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities and contingent liabilities at the date of the financial statements and
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Earnings per share
Basic earnings per share (EPS) is computed by dividing reported net income by the weighted-average number of shares and warrants outstanding. Diluted EPS considers the potential dilution that could occur if securities or other contracts to issue stock were exercised or converted into stock. The difference between the basic and diluted weighted-average equivalent shares with respect to the Companys EPS calculation is due entirely to the assumed exercise of stock options. The dilutive effect of stock options for each period reported is summarized below:
Year ended December 31, |
Quarter ended | |||||||||
2003 | 2004 | 2005 | April 1, 2005 |
March 31, 2006 | ||||||
(unaudited) | ||||||||||
(in thousands) | ||||||||||
Basic weighted-average shares outstanding |
9,088 | 9,080 | 9,185 | 9,138 | 9,225 | |||||
Effect of potential exercise of stock options |
122 | 318 | 552 | 328 | 547 | |||||
Diluted weighted-average shares outstanding |
9,210 | 9,398 | 9,737 | 9,466 | 9,772 | |||||
Note C Acquisitions
Synergy, Inc.
Effective January 1, 2005, the Company acquired 100 percent of the outstanding common shares of Synergy, Inc. Synergy provides strategic consulting, planning, analysis, and technology solutions in the areas of logistics, defense operations, and command and control, primarily to the U.S. Air Force. As a result of the acquisition, the Company expects to enhance its presence in the areas of homeland security and national defense, as well as government technology and program management.
The acquisition was accounted for as a purchase in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 141, Business Combinations. The aggregate purchase price was approximately $19.5 million, including $18.4 million of cash, stock valued at $0.5 million, and $0.6 million of transaction expenses. The valuation of Company stock was performed by an outside investment firm. The excess of the purchase price over the estimated fair value of the net tangible assets acquired was approximately $14.9 million. In September 2005, the Company obtained an independent valuation to assist management in the purchase price allocation. The independent valuation was used by the Company to allocate approximately $14.1 million to goodwill and $0.8 million to customer-related intangible assets. The customer-related intangible assets are being amortized over 48 months. Neither the goodwill nor the amortization of intangibles is deductible for tax purposes. The results of operations for Synergy are included in the Companys statement of operations for the entire year.
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The assets acquired and liabilities assumed consist of the following (in thousands of dollars):
Cash |
$ | 435 | |
Contract receivables |
8,386 | ||
Deferred tax asset current |
472 | ||
Other current assets |
274 | ||
Customer-related intangibles |
851 | ||
Goodwill |
14,092 | ||
Property and equipment |
175 | ||
Total assets |
24,685 | ||
Accounts payable |
687 | ||
Accrued salaries and benefits |
3,164 | ||
Deferred tax liability non-current |
189 | ||
Other current liabilities |
1,163 | ||
Total liabilities |
5,203 | ||
Net assets |
$ | 19,482 | |
Caliber Associates, Inc.
Effective October 1, 2005, the Company acquired 100 percent of the outstanding common shares of Caliber Associates, Inc. (Caliber), which was formerly 100 percent owned by an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) created in 2001. Caliber provides high-quality research and consulting services in the areas of human services programs and policies. As a result of the acquisition, the Company expects to enhance its presence in the areas of child and family studies, as well as information technology and human services.
The acquisition was accounted for as a purchase in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 141, Business Combinations. The aggregate purchase price was approximately $20.8 million, including $19.5 million of cash and $1.3 million of transaction expenses. The excess of the purchase price over the estimated fair value of the net tangible assets acquired was approximately $17.7 million. In February 2006, the Company obtained an independent valuation to assist management in the purchase price allocation. The independent valuation was used by the Company to allocate approximately $13.8 million to goodwill and $3.9 million to intangible assets. The intangible assets consist of customer-related intangibles, developed technology and non-compete agreement in the amounts of $2.6 million, $0.5 million, and $0.8 million, respectively. The customer-related intangibles, developed technology and non-compete agreement are being amortized over 48 months, 24 months, and 48 months, respectively. Neither the goodwill, nor the amortization of intangibles, is deductible for tax purposes. In addition to the initial consideration, the purchase agreement provides for additional cash payments of approximately $3.5 million over two years following closing, which are contingent upon the attainment of certain performance criteria. The additional payments were placed in escrow and classified as restricted cash. If the performance criteria are met, the payments will be recorded as goodwill. The results of operations for Caliber are included in the Companys statement of operations since October 1, 2005.
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The assets acquired and liabilities assumed consist of the following (in thousands of dollars):
Cash |
$ | 749 | |
Contract receivables |
10,213 | ||
Other current assets |
849 | ||
Customer-related intangibles |
2,560 | ||
Developed technology |
545 | ||
Non-compete agreement |
778 | ||
Goodwill |
13,794 | ||
Property and equipment |
605 | ||
Total assets |
30,093 | ||
Accounts payable |
909 | ||
Accrued salaries and benefits |
2,847 | ||
Non-compete liability |
1,000 | ||
Deferred tax liabilitycurrent |
2,375 | ||
Deferred tax liabilitynon-current |
742 | ||
Other current liabilities |
1,413 | ||
Total liabilities |
9,286 | ||
Net assets |
$ | 20,807 | |
Proforma information
The following unaudited condensed proforma information presents combined financial information as if the acquisitions of Synergy and Caliber had been effective at the beginning of each year presented. The proforma information includes adjustments reflecting changes in the amortization of intangibles, interest expense, ESOP related expenses, and to record income tax effects as if Synergy and Caliber had been included in the Companys results of operations:
2004 | 2005 | |||||
(in thousands of dollars, except per share amounts) | ||||||
Revenue |
$ | 202,293 | $ | 207,794 | ||
Income from continuing operations |
$ | 2,514 | $ | 1,948 | ||
Net income |
$ | 2,698 | $ | 1,948 | ||
Earnings per share: |
||||||
Basic earnings per share |
$ | .30 | $ | .21 | ||
Diluted earnings per share |
$ | .29 | $ | .20 |
Note D Divestiture
On March 19, 2004, the Company agreed to sell ICF Energy Solutions, Inc. (ESI), to Nexus Energy Software, Inc. (Nexus). The sale of ESI closed on April 8, 2004, and the consideration received consisted of the following components:
Ø | $1.3 million in cash upon closing |
Ø | $1.5 million 30-month note with quarterly payments of principal and interest at 6 percent |
Ø | Earn-out of 13 percent of all future billings in excess of $4 million a year for the first 24 months after the closing, and in excess of $2 million for the six-month period following the initial 24 month period |
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
The net assets sold had a carrying value of $1.5 million and consisted primarily of capitalized software development costs. The gain on the sale of ESI was calculated using the cash and note received upon closing, totaling $2.8 million. The earn-out was excluded due to the uncertainty of realization; therefore, the proceeds received upon closing, less the $1.5 million of net assets sold and selling expenses of approximately $0.6 million, resulted in a gain of approximately $0.4 million, net of tax.
Net income (loss) from the Companys discontinued operations has been segregated from continuing operations and reported as a separate line item on the consolidated statements of operations for all periods presented.
The following amounts related to ESI have been segregated from continuing operations and reflected as discontinued operations (in thousands of dollars) :
2003 | 2004 | ||||||
Revenue |
$ | 5,827 | $ | 1,133 | |||
Expenses |
5,519 | 1,329 | |||||
Net (loss) income from discontinued operations, net of taxes of $194 and $(123), respectively |
$ | 308 | $ | (196 | ) | ||
During 2005, Nexus paid the remaining balance of the $1.5 million note in full.
Note E Contract Receivables
Contract receivables consist of the following (in thousands of dollars):
December 31, |
March 31 2006 |
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2004 | 2005 | |||||||||||
(unaudited) | ||||||||||||
Billed |
$ | 23,975 | $ | 45,316 | $ | 48,910 | ||||||
Unbilled |
7,191 | 9,539 | 10,346 | |||||||||
Allowance for doubtful accounts |
(1,696 | ) | (1,984 | ) | (2,048 | ) | ||||||
Contract receivables, net |
$ | 29,470 | $ | 52,871 | $ | 57,208 | ||||||
Contract receivables, net of the established allowance, are stated at amounts expected to be realized in future periods. Unbilled receivables result from revenue that has been earned in advance of billing. The unbilled receivables can be invoiced at contractually defined intervals or milestones, as well as upon completion of the contract or U.S. government cost audits. The Company anticipates that the majority of unbilled receivables will be substantially billed and collected within one year. Contract receivables are classified as current assets in accordance with industry practice.
The allowance for doubtful accounts is determined based upon managements best estimate of potentially uncollectible contract receivables. The factors that influence managements estimate include historical experience and managements expectations of future losses on a contract by contract basis. The Company writes off contracts receivable when such amounts are determined to be uncollectible. Losses have historically been within managements expectations.
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Note F Property and Equipment
Property and equipment consist of the following:
December 31, |
March 31,
|
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2004 | 2005 | |||||||||||
(unaudited) | ||||||||||||
Leasehold improvements |
$ | 4,278 | $ | 5,404 | $ | 5,441 | ||||||
Software |
3,682 | 5,330 | 5,354 | |||||||||
Furniture and equipment |
3,005 | 2,097 | 2,097 | |||||||||
Computers |
2,242 | 2,935 | 2,989 | |||||||||
13,207 | 15,766 | 15,881 | ||||||||||
Accumulated depreciation and amortization |
(9,142 | ) | (11,782 | ) | (12,159 | ) | ||||||
$ | 4,065 | $ | 3,984 | $ | 3,722 | |||||||
Note G Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets
Goodwill
(in thousands of dollars) |
||||
Balance at December 31, 2003 |
$ | 53,287 | ||
Goodwill acquired during year |
| |||
Balance at December 31, 2004 |
53,287 | |||
Goodwill acquired during year (Note C) |
27,895 | |||
Balance at December 31, 2005 |
$ | 81,182 | ||
Adjustment to Caliber goodwill (Note C) (unaudited) |
(8 | ) | ||
Balance at March 31, 2006 (unaudited) |
$ | 81,174 | ||
The balance of $53.3 million as of December 31, 2003, consists of $48.6 million and $4.7 million arising from ICFIs June 1999 purchase of Consultings common stock from Kaiser, and the Companys 2002 acquisition of two divisions of former Arthur D. Little International, Inc. (ADL), respectively.
Other intangible assets
Intangible assets related to contracts and customers acquired from the Companys acquisition of two divisions of the former ADL in May 2002, were being amortized on a straight-line basis over expected contract periods and the estimated life of customer relationships over a weighted-average period of nine and 90 months, respectively. During 2005, the Company revised the initial estimated life of 90 months for customer-related intangible assets to 44 months, which was determined to be consistent with the estimated economic benefits of the intangible asset. The effect of the change in the estimated life of the ADL intangible assets was the recording of an additional $1.8 million of amortization expense in 2005.
The customer-related intangible assets, which consists of customer contracts, backlog and non-contractual customer relationships, related to the Synergy and Caliber acquisitions are being amortized based on estimated cash flows and respective estimated economic benefit of the assets. The estimated life of the customer contracts assets is 48 months. Intangible assets related to acquired developed technology and non-compete agreements obtained in connection with business combinations are amortized on a straight-line basis over their estimated lives of 24 months and 48 months, respectively.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
Other intangibles consist of the following (in thousands of dollars):
December 31, |
March 31, 2006
|
|||||||||||
2004 | 2005 | |||||||||||
(unaudited) | ||||||||||||
Customer related intangibles |
$ | 5,355 | $ | 8,767 | $ | 3,411 | ||||||
Non-compete agreements |
| 778 | 778 | |||||||||
Developed technology |
| 545 | 545 | |||||||||
5,355 | 10,090 | 4,734 | ||||||||||
Less: accumulated amortization |
(3,150 | ) | (5,963 | ) | (974 | ) | ||||||
Total |
$ | 2,205 | $ | 4,127 | $ | 3,760 | ||||||
Aggregate amortization expense for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2004, and 2005, was $0.7 million, $0.5 million, and $2.8 million, respectively. The estimated amortization expense relating to intangible assets for the next four years is as follows at December 31, 2005 (in thousands of dollars):
Year ended December 31, | |||
2006 |
$ | 1,465 | |
2007 |
1,226 | ||
2008 |
880 | ||
2009 |
556 | ||
$ | 4,127 | ||
Note H Accrued Salaries and Benefits
Accrued salaries and benefits consist of the following (in thousands of dollars):
December 31, |
March 31, 2006
| ||||||||
2004 | 2005 | ||||||||
(unaudited) | |||||||||
Accrued compensation |
$ | 2,442 | $ | 5,204 | $ | 6,511 | |||
Accrued vacation |
2,019 | 3,193 | 3,456 | ||||||
Accrued profit sharing |
2,032 | 343 | | ||||||
Other |
917 | 1,461 | 1,490 | ||||||
Total |
$ | 7,410 | $ | 10,201 | $ | 11,457 | |||
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
Note I Accrued Expenses
Accrued expenses consist of the following (in thousands of dollars):
December 31, |
March 31, 2006
| ||||||||
2004 | 2005 | ||||||||
(unaudited) | |||||||||
Accrued subcontractor costs |
$ | 3,025 | $ | 3,355 | $ | 3,882 | |||
Pre-acquisition contingency ADL acquisition |
1,440 | | | ||||||
Accrued non-compete liability |
| 560 | 205 | ||||||
Accrued insurance premiums |
595 | 862 | 1,140 | ||||||
Accrued professional services |
439 | 729 | 888 | ||||||
Accrued rent |
501 | 665 | 538 | ||||||
Accrued taxes |
226 | 358 | 630 | ||||||
Other accrued expenses/liabilities |
979 | 1,742 | 1,855 | ||||||
Total |
$ | 7,205 | $ | 8,271 | $ | 9,138 | |||
During 2005, a pre-acquisition contingency recorded during the ADL acquisition was resolved in the Companys favor, which resulted in the Company recording other income of $1.4 million in 2005.
Note J Long-Term Debt
In August 2003, the Company entered into a credit facility with a syndicate of lenders. The agreement required the Company to retire its existing bank debt in full with the proceeds from Facilities A and B (see table below). The Company incurred approximately $0.6 million in debt issuance costs related to its new credit facility.
In January 2005, in connection with the Synergy acquisition (Note C), the Company and its lenders agreed to modify the credit facility. The modification provided for an increase in the Facility A and B commitment amounts from $28 million to $35 million, and $12 million to $15 million, respectively. Substantially, all the other terms and conditions remained the same. The Company incurred approximately $0.3 million in debt issuance costs related to its amended financing arrangement.
In October 2005, in connection with the Caliber acquisition (Note C), the Company and its lenders agreed to amend and restate its existing credit facility. The amendment provided for an increase in the Facility A commitment amount from $35 million to $45 million and replaced the Facility B commitment of $15 million with a Term Loan Facility commitment of $22 million and a Time Loan Facility commitment of $8 million. In addition, the Note Payable to Kaiser (Note K) was paid in full. The Company incurred approximately $0.2 million in debt issuance costs related to its amended financing arrangement. With the finalization of the new banking arrangement in October 2005, the unamortized debt issuance costs of approximately $0.3 million associated with the January 2005 credit facility were charged to earnings.
The Companys debt issuance costs are being amortized over the term of indebtedness and total approximately $0.3 million and $0.2 million, net of accumulated amortization of $0.2 million and $0.01 million as of December 31, 2004 and 2005, respectively. Amortization expense of approximately $0.5 million, $0.2 million, and $0.6 million was recorded during the years ended December 31, 2003, 2004, and 2005, respectively.
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Long-term debt consists of the following (in thousands of dollars):
December 31, |
March 31, 2006
|
|||||||||||
2004
|
2005
|
|||||||||||
(unaudited) | ||||||||||||
Facility A/Swing Line provides for borrowings up to the lesser of $28 million for 2004 and $45 million for 2005 for the eligible borrowing base, and matures in October 2010. Outstanding borrowings bear daily interest at a base rate (based on either the U.S. Prime Rate, which was 5.25% at December 31, 2004, 7.25% at December 31, 2005 and 7.75% at March 31, 2006, and, or London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) plus spread), payable monthly. |
$ | 8,284 | $ | 31,338 | $ | 38,177 | ||||||
Facility B note for $15 million, maturing on June 1, 2006. The Facility B note was replaced by the Term Loan Facility and Time Loan Facility in October 2005. The outstanding principal incurred daily interest at the base rate plus 0.25% (4.25% at December 31, 2004), payable monthly. Monthly principal payments of $352,942 commenced on September 1, 2003. |
6,353 | | | |||||||||
The Term Loan Facility for $22 million, maturing in October 2010. Outstanding principal bears daily interest at a base rate plus 0.25% (based on the U.S. Prime Rate, which was 7.25% at December 31, 2005 and 7.75% at March 31, 2006, or LIBOR plus spread), payable monthly. Monthly principal payments of $366,667 commenced in November 2005. |
| 21,634 | 20,167 | |||||||||
The Time Loan Facility for $8 million, maturing in January 2007. Outstanding principal bears daily interest at a base rate plus 0.75% (based on the U.S. Prime Rate, which was 7.25% at December 31, 2005 and 7.75% at March 31, 2006, or LIBOR plus spread), payable monthly. Six monthly principal payments of $333,334 commencing on July 1, 2006. The remaining balance of $6 million is due upon maturity. |
| 8,000 | 8,000 | |||||||||
Note payable to Kaiser, subordinate to bank debt, due in full on June 25, 2006. The note bears interest at a fixed rate of 8.5%. Quarterly payments of interest commenced October 1, 2002 (see Note J). The note was paid in its entirety in October 2005. |
6,442 | | | |||||||||
21,079 | 60,972 | 66,344 | ||||||||||
Less: current portion |
(4,235 | ) | (6,767 | ) | (12,400 | ) | ||||||
$ | 16,844 | $ | 54,205 | $ | 53,944 | |||||||
The bank loans are collateralized by substantially all assets of the Company, and require the Company to remain in compliance with certain financial ratios, as well as other restrictive covenants.
Minimum future principal payments of debt are as follows at December 31, 2005 (in thousands of dollars):
2006 |
$ | 6,767 | ||
2007 |
10,400 | |||
2008 |
4,400 | |||
2009 |
4,400 | |||
2010 |
35,005 | |||
60,972 | ||||
Less: current maturities |
(6,767 | ) | ||
Total long-term debt |
$ | 54,205 | ||
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
Amendment to credit facility
On March 14, 2006, the Company and its lenders agreed to the 1st Amendment to the Business Loan and Security Agreement (dated October 5, 2005), to provide the Company with a temporary increase to Facility A (revolving line) of $6 million through June 30, 2006, and then decreasing to $4 million from the period July 1 through August 31, 2006, to cover working capital needs, not to exceed the total capacity of Facility A of $45 million.
Letters-of-credit
At December 31, 2004 and 2005, the Company had outstanding letters-of-credit totaling $0.7 million. These letters-of-credit expire on various dates through September 30, 2006.
Derivative instruments
The Company designates its derivatives based upon the criteria established by SFAS No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, which establishes accounting and reporting standards for derivative instruments. SFAS No. 133 requires that an entity recognize all derivatives as assets or liabilities in the balance sheet and measure those instruments at fair value.
In November 2005, the Company entered into an interest rate swap agreement as part of its amended credit facility as a partial hedge of the Companys variable rate debt to reduce the Companys exposure to interest rate fluctuations. The effect of the agreement was to effectively establish a fixed USD-LIBOR rate of 5.11 percent. The interest rate swap agreement expires November 10, 2008. At December 31, 2005, the interest rate swap agreement covered a notional amount of $15 million, and variable rate debt outstanding totaled approximately $61 million.
The interest rate swap agreement did not qualify for hedge accounting. Therefore, the change in fair value resulted in a charge of approximately $0.2 million to earnings.
Note K Commitments and Contingencies
Litigation and claims
Various lawsuits and claims and contingent liabilities arise in the ordinary course of the Companys business. The ultimate disposition of certain of these contingencies is not determinable at this time. The Companys management believes there are no current outstanding matters that will materially affect the Companys financial position or results of operations.
Operating leases
The Company has entered into various operating leases for equipment and office space. Certain of the facility leases require that the Company pay operating expenses in addition to base rental amounts, and three leases require the Company to maintain letters-of-credit. Rent expense, net of sub-lease income, for operating leases was approximately $10.6 million, $9.9 million, and $10.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2004, and 2005, respectively.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
Future minimum rental payments under all non-cancelable operating leases are as follows (in thousands of dollars):
Year ended December 31, | |||
2006 |
$ | 10,749 | |
2007 |
9,676 | ||
2008 |
8,407 | ||
2009 |
8,091 | ||
2010 |
7,501 | ||
Thereafter |
15,892 | ||
$ | 60,316 | ||
Contingent bonuses
In September 2004, the Board of Directors approved a contingent bonus pool of $2.7 million, which will be payable from the proceeds of an event, such as a sale, merger, or initial public offering of the Companys common stock, realized or received by the Company at the time of distribution of the net proceeds to shareholders.
Settlement of claims with Kaiser
In June 2002, the Company and Kaiser executed a mutual release and settlement agreement to settle the pending claims (the Dispute) by the Company against Kaiser. In consideration of the Company settling the Dispute, Kaiser and the Company agreed to the following terms:
Ø | Cancellation of $2.2 million of the principal amount of indebtedness owed by the Company to Kaiser. |
Ø | Cancellation of the original notes owed to Kaiser, which totaled $6.6 million, and the issuance of a new promissory note in the amount of $6.4 million (see Note J). The new promissory note bears interest at 8.5 percent during the period the note is held by Kaiser. Upon the sale of the note to a third party, the interest rate will be adjusted to 10.5 percent per annum. |
Ø | Released by Kaiser, and all of its assigns of the Company from any liabilities, debts, and damages arising out of the Dispute. |
Ø | Sale by Kaiser to the Company of all its remaining common stock in Consulting for $4.5 million. |
Ø | Release of Kaiser from its indemnification obligations to the Company against certain future subcontractor claims and other liabilities existing in 1999. Therefore, the Company recorded accrued liabilities based upon its best estimate of anticipated subcontractor claims and other liabilities. The carrying amount of this accrued liability was approximately $1.0 million and $0.9 million as of December 31, 2004 and 2005, respectively. Such amounts are reviewed periodically and adjusted when appropriate. |
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
Note L Income Taxes
Income tax expense (benefit) consists of the following at December 31 (in thousands of dollars):
2003 | 2004 | 2005 | |||||||||
Current: |
|||||||||||
Federal |
$ | 384 | $ | 2,314 | $ | 3,008 | |||||
State |
163 | 548 | 773 | ||||||||
547 | 2,862 | 3,781 | |||||||||
Deferred: |
|||||||||||
Federal |
918 | (230 | ) | (1,578 | ) | ||||||
State |
49 | (50 | ) | (338 | ) | ||||||
967 | (280 | ) | (1,916 | ) | |||||||
$ | 1,514 | $ | 2,582 | $ | 1,865 | ||||||
Deferred tax assets (liabilities) consist of the following at December 31 (in thousands of dollars):
2004 | 2005 | |||||||
Deferred Tax Assets |
||||||||
Current: |
||||||||
Allowance for doubtful accounts |
$ | 317 | $ | 388 | ||||
Accrued liabilities |
555 | 1,193 | ||||||
Stock option compensation |
| 846 | ||||||
Accrued vacation |
477 | 873 | ||||||
Other |
97 | 385 | ||||||
Total current deferred tax asset |
1,446 | 3,685 | ||||||
Non-current: |
||||||||
Foreign net operating loss carryforward (NOL) |
565 | 636 | ||||||
Depreciation |
28 | 973 | ||||||
Deferred rent |
548 | 682 | ||||||
Other |
69 | 103 | ||||||
Valuation allowance |
(565 | ) | (636 | ) | ||||
Total non-current deferred tax assets |
645 | 1,758 | ||||||
Total Deferred Tax Assets |
2,091 | 5,443 | ||||||
Deferred Tax Liabilities |
||||||||
Current: |
||||||||
Retention |
(463 | ) | (616 | ) | ||||
Section 481(a) adjustment |
| (727 | ) | |||||
Total current deferred liability |
(463 | ) | (1,343 | ) | ||||
Non-current: |
||||||||
Amortization |
(874 | ) | (2,994 | ) | ||||
Section 481(a) adjustment |
| (1,455 | ) | |||||
Installment sale |
(362 | ) | | |||||
Other |
| (39 | ) | |||||
Total non-current deferred tax liabilities |
(1,236 | ) | (4,488 | ) | ||||
Total Net Deferred Tax Liabilities |
(1,699 | ) | (5,831 | ) | ||||
Total Net Deferred Tax (Liability) Asset |
$ | 392 | $ | (388 | ) | |||
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
As of December 31, 2005, the Company had NOL carryforwards for state income tax purposes of approximately $0.4 million, expiring through 2019. As of December 31, 2005, the Company had foreign NOL carryforwards of approximately $1.6 million, which are fully reserved and begin to expire in 2006.
The Company has deferred tax assets applicable to the following jurisdictions where the Companys operations have a recent history of pre-tax cumulative losses for financial reporting purposes.
2004 | 2005 | |||||
(in thousands of dollars) | ||||||
Canada |
$ | 417 | $ | 452 | ||
Russia |
148 | 184 | ||||
Total |
$ | 565 | $ | 636 | ||
The need to establish valuation allowances for these deferred assets is based on a more likely than not threshold that the benefit of such assets will be realized in future periods. Appropriate consideration is given to all available evidence, including historical operating results, projections of taxable income, and tax planning alternatives. It has been determined that is more likely than not that the deferred assets in the Companys Canadian and Russian operations will not be realized. Therefore, the Company has recorded a full valuation allowance against these deferred assets.
The Companys provision for income taxes differs from the anticipated United States federal statutory rate. Differences between the statutory rate and the Companys provision are as follows:
2003 | 2004 | 2005 | |||||||
Taxes at statutory rate |
34.0 | % | 34.0 | % | 34.0 | % | |||
State taxes, net of federal benefit |
4.6 | % | 4.6 | % | 4.6 | % | |||
Other permanent differences |
3.2 | % | 2.2 | % | 4.5 | % | |||
Research and development credits |
(5.0 | )% | 0.0 | % | 0.0 | % | |||
Change in valuation allowance |
1.6 | % | 2.4 | % | 1.4 | % | |||
Prior year tax adjustments |
0.6 | % | 0.2 | % | 3.2 | % | |||
Deferred asset changes due to tax rate and other |
0.0 | % | 2.7 | % | 0.3 | % | |||
39.0 | % | 46.1 | % | 48.0 | % | ||||
Note M Employee Benefit Plans
Effective June 30, 1999, the Company established the ICF Consulting Group Retirement Savings Plan (the Retirement Savings Plan). The Retirement Savings Plan is a defined contribution profit sharing plan with a cash or deferred arrangement under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Effective January 1, 2005, participants in the Retirement Savings Plan were able to elect to defer up to 70 percent of their compensation subject to statutory limitations, and were entitled to receive 100 percent employer matching contributions for the first 3 percent and 50 percent for the next 2 percent of the participants compensation. During 2003 and 2004, participants were entitled to receive 50 percent employer matching contributions up to a maximum of 4 percent of the participants compensation. For 2003 and 2004, the Retirement Savings Plan also provided for non-elective employer contributions. Effective with the 2005 Plan Year, the Retirement Savings Plan was amended to cease employer non-elective contributions. Contribution expense related to the Plans for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2004, and 2005, was approximately $3.7 million, $2.7 million, and $2.1 million, respectively.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
Note N Stockholders Equity
Management shareholder agreement
Pursuant to the 1999 acquisition by Holdings of Consulting, a management shareholder agreement (the Agreement) was executed, which provides management shareholders with the right to sell their shares back to the Company under certain circumstances at values specified in the Agreement. The agreement terminates upon an initial public offering of the Companys common stock.
Employee stock option plan
On June 25, 1999, the Company adopted the ICF Consulting Group, Inc., Management Stock Option Plan (the Plan). The Plan provides for the granting of straight and incentive awards to employees of the Company to purchase shares of the Companys common stock. A total of 1,334,027 shares of common stock was reserved for issuance under the Plan. In May 2002, the Company amended the Plan to reserve an additional 238,313 shares for issuance. The exercise price for straight awards granted under the Plan shall not be less than $5.00 per share. The option price for incentive awards granted under the Plan is determined by the Compensation Distribution Committee of the Board of Directors based upon the fair market value of the Companys common stock on the date of grant, and the Plan will expire in June 2009.
The following table depicts stock option activity for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2004, and 2005 and the quarter ended March 31, 2006:
Options Outstanding | |||||||
Options Available for Grant |
Shares | Weighted- Average Exercise Price | |||||
As of January 1, 2003 |
397,618 | 1,174,722 | $ | 5.48 | |||
Options granted in 2003 |
189,936 | 189,936 | $ | 6.10 | |||
Options forfeited or cancelled |
11,375 | 11,375 | $ | 5.75 | |||
As of December 31, 2003 |
219,057 | 1,353,283 | $ | 5.56 | |||
Options granted in 2004 |
132,500 | 132,500 | $ | 7.34 | |||
Options forfeited or cancelled |
51,791 | 51,791 | $ | 5.82 | |||
As of December 31, 2004 |
138,348 | 1,433,992 | $ | 5.72 | |||
Options granted in 2005 |
102,045 | 102,045 | $ | 7.84 | |||
Options forfeited or cancelled |
18,798 | 18,798 | 6.28 | ||||
As of December 31, 2005 |
55,101 | 1,517,239 | $ | 5.85 | |||
Options granted in the first quarter of 2006 |
15,000 | 15,000 | $ | 9.05 | |||
Options forfeited or cancelled |
2,594 | 2,594 | 6.34 | ||||
As of March 31, 2006 (unaudited) |
42,695 | 1,529,645 | $ | 5.89 | |||
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ICF International, Inc., and Subsidiaries
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
The following table summarizes additional information about stock options outstanding as of December 31, 2005:
Options Outstanding |
Options Exercisable | |||||||||||
Range of Exercise Prices |
Number of Options |
Weighted- Life (Years) |
Weighted- Exercise Price |
Number of Options |
Weighted- Exercise Price | |||||||
$ 5.009.05 |
1,517,239 | 6.51 | $ | 5.85 | 1,517,239 | $ | 5.85 |
Prior to January 1, 2006, the fair value of each option grant is established on the date of grant using the minimum value method, as prescribed by SFAS No. 123. The following assumptions were used under the minimum value method for grants in the 12 months ended December 31, 2003, 2004, and 2005, respectively: no dividends yield; risk-free interest rates of approximately 3.05 percent, 3.24 percent, and 4.10 percent, and expected life of five years. The weighted-average fair values of options granted during the years ended December 31, 2003, 2004 and 2005, were $.85, $1.00, and $1.43, respectively.
The following table summarizes additional information about stock options outstanding as of March 31, 2006 (unaudited):
Options Outstanding |
Options Exercisable | |||||||||||
Range of Exercise Prices |
Number of Options |
Weighted- Life (Years) |
Weighted- Exercise Price |
Number of Options |
Weighted- Exercise Price | |||||||
$ 5.00-9.05 |
1,529,645 | 5.58 | $ | 5.89 | 1,514,645 | $ | 5.89 |
As discussed in Note B, effective January 1, 2006, the fair value of each option grant is established on the date of grant using the prospective method under SFAS No. 123(R) using the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model. The following assumptions were used under the prospective method for grants in the quarter ended March 31, 2006: expected volatility factor of 36 percent; dividend yield percentage of 0 percent; risk-free interest rate of 4.51 percent; and expected term of five years. The Black-Scholes-Merton weighted-average fair value of options granted during the quarter ended March 31, 2006 was $3.54 per share.
Warrants
On June 25, 1999, the Company issued 20.074028 warrants that entitled the holders, subject to certain conditions, to purchase 15,452.07 shares of the Company per warrant at an exercise price of $.01 per share, for a total of 310,185.286 shares of the Company. The following table summarizes information about shares associated with outstanding warrants for the years ending December 31, 2003, 2004, and 2005 and the quarter ended March 31, 2006:
Outstanding at January 1, 2003 |
310,185.286 | |
Repurchased in 2003 |
257,403.938 | |
Balance at December 31, 2003 |
52,781.348 | |
Activity during 2004 |
| |
Balance at December 31, 2004 |
52,781.348 | |
Activity during 2005 |
| |
Balance at December 31, 2005 |
52,781.348 | |
Activity during first quarter of 2006 |
| |
Balance at March 31, 2006 (unaudited) |
52,781.348 | |
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ICF International, Inc., and Subsidiaries
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
Note O Related-Party Transactions
Effective with the 1999 purchase of Consulting from Kaiser, the Company entered into a seven-year management services agreement with the majority shareholder of ICFI. The agreement calls for a fixed consulting fee of $0.1 million per annum, as well as a variable fee based upon the Companys annual earnings, adjusted as defined in the agreement. During 2003, 2004, and 2005, management fees related to this agreement were $0.3 million, $0.4 million, and $0.4 million, respectively, and are included in operating expenses in the accompanying consolidated financial statements. The agreement terminates upon an initial public offering of the Companys common stock.
Note P Supplemental Cashflow Information
Cash paid
Cash paid for interest for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2004, and 2005, was approximately $2.5 million, $1.4 million, and $2.8 million, respectively. Income taxes paid for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2004, and 2005, were $0.3 million, $2.2 million, and $5.0 million, respectively. Cash paid for interest for the quarter ended March 31, 2006 was approximately $1.0 million. Income taxes paid for the quarter ended March 31, 2006 was approximately $1.5 million.
Note Q Supplemental Information
Valuation and qualifying accounts
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts (in thousands of dollars)
December 31, |
March 31,
| ||||||||||
2003 | 2004 | 2005 | |||||||||
(unaudited) | |||||||||||
Balance at beginning of period |
$ | 2,586 | $ | 1,672 | $ | 1,696 | 1,984 | ||||
Addition at cost |
| 274 | 1,167 | 90 | |||||||
Deductions |
914 | 250 | 879 | 26 | |||||||
Balance at end of period |
$ | 1,672 | $ | 1,696 | $ | 1,984 | 2,048 | ||||
Note R Subsequent Event
On April 14, 2006, the Company decided to abandon, effective June 30, 2006, its San Francisco, California leased facility and relocate its staff there to other space. The San Francisco lease obligation expires in July 2010 and covers 12,000 square feet, at an annual rate of $79 per square foot plus operating expenses. Management believes, based upon consultation with its leasing consultants, that the current market for similar space is substantially below this cost. In addition, the Company is also abandoning a smaller space in Lexington, Massachusetts that it has been unable to sublease. The Company anticipates a charge to earnings in the second quarter of 2006 of approximately $4.0 million as a result of these actions.
F-28
Report of Independent Accountants
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders
of Caliber Associates, Inc.:
In our opinion, the accompanying consolidated balance sheet and related consolidated statements of income, of stockholders deficit, and of cash flows present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Caliber Associates, Inc. (an S Corporation) and its subsidiary (collectively referred to as the Company) at December 31, 2004, and results of their operations and their cash flows for the year then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Companys management; our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit of these statements in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America, which require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for the opinion expressed above.
/s/ ARGY, WILTSE & ROBINSON, P.C.
McLean, Virginia
March 6, 2005
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Caliber Associates, Inc.
December 31, 2004
ASSETS | ||||
Current assets |
||||
Cash and cash equivalents |
$ | 61,684 | ||
Accounts receivable |
7,604,828 | |||
Unbilled receivables |
4,062,560 | |||
Income taxes receivable |
0 | |||
Other current assets |
451,071 | |||
Total current assets |
12,180,143 | |||
Property and equipment, net |
756,515 | |||
Contract rights, net |
49,984 | |||
Deposits |
233,161 | |||
Marketable securities restricted |
455,410 | |||
Total assets |
$ | 13,675,213 | ||
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS DEFICIT | ||||
Current liabilities |
||||
Accounts payable and accrued expenses |
$ | 739,687 | ||
Accrued payroll and related liabilities |
2,097,767 | |||
Bank line-of-credit |
836,678 | |||
Billings in excess of revenue recognized |
499,325 | |||
Subordinated notes payable to employees |
1,723,372 | |||
Deferred rent |
170,230 | |||
Total current liabilities |
6,067,059 | |||
Subordinated notes payable to employees |
11,468,791 | |||
Deferred rent |
243,367 | |||
Deferred compensation |
559,586 | |||
Deferred income taxes |
2,531,321 | |||
Total liabilities |
20,870,124 | |||
Stockholders deficit |
||||
Common stock no par value, 900,000 shares authorized |
500 | |||
Retained earnings |
5,791,083 | |||
Less: unallocated employee stock ownership plan shares |
(12,986,494 | ) | ||
Total stockholders deficit |
(7,194,911 | ) | ||
Commitments |
||||
Total liabilities and stockholders deficit |
$ | 13,675,213 | ||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Caliber Associates, Inc. (An S Corporation)
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOME
Year ended December 31, 2004
Contract revenue |
$ | 36,482,610 | ||
Operating costs and expenses |
||||
Direct labor |
12,810,648 | |||
Other direct costs |
6,344,747 | |||
Indirect costs |
15,862,768 | |||
Unallowable costs |
103,843 | |||
35,122,006 | ||||
Income from operations |
1,360,604 | |||
Other income (expense) |
||||
Interest income |
12,324 | |||
Interest expense |
(979,312 | ) | ||
Net income |
$ | 393,616 | ||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
F-31
Caliber Associates, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF STOCKHOLDERS DEFICIT
Year ended December 31, 2004
Common Stock |
Retained |
Unallocated Employee Stock Ownership Plan Shares |
Total Stockholders Deficit |
||||||||||||||
Shares | Amount | ||||||||||||||||
Balance at December 31, 2003 |
900,000 | $ | 500 | $ | 5,976,168 | $ | (15,053,283 | ) | $ | (9,076,615 | ) | ||||||
Value of ESOP shares released for allocation to participants in 2004 |
0 | 0 | (578,701 | ) | 2,066,789 | 1,488,088 | |||||||||||
Net income for the year ended December 31, 2004 |
0 | 0 | 393,616 | 0 | 393,616 | ||||||||||||
Balance at December 31, 2004 |
900,000 | $ | 500 | $ | 5,791,083 | $ | (12,986,494 | ) | $ | (7,194,911 | ) | ||||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
F-32
Caliber Associates, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
Year ended December 31, 2004
Cash flows from operating activities: |
||||
Net income |
$ | 393,616 | ||
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities: |
||||
Depreciation and amortization |
722,722 | |||
Employee stock ownership plan expense |
1,488,088 | |||
(Increase) decrease in: |
||||
Accounts receivable |
(1,904,778 | ) | ||
Unbilled receivables |
3,330,854 | |||
Income taxes receivable |
2,700 | |||
Other current assets |
26,707 | |||
Marketable securities restricted |
(178,348 | ) | ||
Increase (decrease) in: |
||||
Accounts payable and accrued expenses |
130,276 | |||
Accrued payroll and related liabilities |
(728,545 | ) | ||
Billings in excess of revenue recognized |
(608,878 | ) | ||
Deferred rent |
(332,114 | ) | ||
Deferred compensation |
163,373 | |||
Total adjustments |
2,112,057 | |||
Net cash provided by operating activities |
2,505,673 | |||
Cash flows from investing activities: |
||||
Purchases of property and equipment, net |
(205,312 | ) | ||
Increase in deposits |
(179,139 | ) | ||
Net cash used in investing activities |
(384,451 | ) | ||
Cash flows from financing activities: |
||||
Net (repayments) borrowings under bank line-of-credit |
(855,003 | ) | ||
Repayments under subordinated notes payable to employees |
(1,523,457 | ) | ||
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities |
(2,378,460 | ) | ||
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents |
(257,238 | ) | ||
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year |
318,922 | |||
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year |
$ | 61,684 | ||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
F-33
Caliber Associates, Inc.
NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
December 31, 2004
Note 1 Organization and Significant Accounting Policies
Description of business and principles of consolidation
The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Caliber Associates, Inc. (Caliber) and its subsidiary, Fried & Sher, Inc. (Fried & Sher) (collectively referred to as the Company). Caliber is incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia to provide research and management consulting services to departments and agencies of the federal government. Fried & Sher provides leading work life professional services to the federal government and commercial businesses. All significant intercompany balances have been eliminated in consolidation.
Use of estimates
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions regarding certain types of assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses. Such estimates primarily relate to unsettled transactions and events as of the date of the financial statements. Accordingly, upon settlement, actual results may differ from estimated amounts.
Revenue recognition
Revenue on fixed-price and cost-reimbursable contracts includes direct costs and allocated indirect costs incurred plus recognized profit. Revenue is recognized under fixed-price contracts on the percentage-of-completion basis. Revenue on time-and-material contracts is recognized based upon time (at established rates) and other direct costs incurred. Unbilled receivables and billings in excess of revenue recognized result from differences between billings, which are determined based upon contractual terms, and amounts recognized as earned, which are based upon costs incurred and contract performance. Losses on contracts are provided for in the period they are first determined.
Federal government contract costs for 2002 through 2004, including indirect expenses, are subject to audit and adjustment by the Defense Contract Audit Agency. Contract revenue has been recorded in amounts which are expected to be realized upon final settlement.
Cash equivalents
The Company considers all highly liquid instruments with original maturities of three months or less to be cash equivalents.
Marketable securities
Management of the Company determines the appropriate classification of marketable securities at the time of purchase and reevaluates such designation at each balance sheet date. Management has classified its marketable securities as trading and, thus, is carrying them at current market value, with realized and unrealized gains and losses included in earnings. The cost of securities sold is based on the specific identification method.
Property and equipment
Property and equipment is stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation of property and equipment is computed using accelerated methods over the estimated useful lives of three to seven years. Amortization of leasehold improvements is computed using the straight-line method over the shorter of the estimated useful lives of the assets or the term of the related lease.
F-34
Caliber Associates, Inc.
NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
December 31, 2004
Contract rights
Contract rights are stated at cost less accumulated amortization. Amortization of contract rights is computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful life of three years. Contract rights were recorded at $545,358 with accumulated amortization of $495,374 at December 31, 2004. Amortization expense related to contract rights was $160,720 for the year ended December 31, 2004.
Income taxes
Effective January 1, 2002, the Company became an S Corporation for federal income tax purposes (which also applies to most states). Accordingly, as of this date, the Company is generally not subject to corporate income taxes and the income, deductions and credits generated by the Company will flow to the Companys stockholders. However, any taxable income generated by the Company for any year through December 31, 2011 would subject the Company to income taxes to the extent income earned under C Corporation status had been previously deferred for income tax purposes. Accordingly, a deferred tax liability remains on the Companys consolidated balance sheet to reflect this liability, which may be triggered in future years.
Note 2 Marketable Securities
The Company invests in several publicly-traded mutual funds under a Rabbi Trust Agreement for the funding of the nonqualified deferred compensation plan (Note 9). As such, all amounts are restricted for this use. During the year ended December 31, 2004, the securities produced unrealized capital gains of $19,378. All investment income earned during the year ended December 31, 2004 relate to marketable securities held at year end.
Note 3 Unbilled Receivables
Unbilled receivables consists of the following at December 31, 2004:
Amounts currently billable |
$ | 3,160,863 | |
Amounts billable upon completion of milestones |
703,838 | ||
Rate variances |
100,318 | ||
Contract retainages |
97,541 | ||
$ | 4,062,560 | ||
Note 4 Property and Equipment
Property and equipment consists of the following at December 31, 2004:
Software licenses |
$ | 809,709 | ||
Leasehold improvements |
760,906 | |||
Computer equipment |
753,855 | |||
Other equipment |
615,321 | |||
Office furniture |
442,969 | |||
3,382,760 | ||||
Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization |
(2,626,245 | ) | ||
$ | 756,515 | |||
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Caliber Associates, Inc.
NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
December 31, 2004
Depreciation and amortization expense on property and equipment totaled $562,002 for the year ended December 31, 2004.
Note 5 Bank Line-of-Credit
The Company maintains a bank line-of-credit facility under which it may borrow up to the lesser of $4,000,000 or 85% of eligible billed receivables. Borrowings under this bank line-of-credit agreement are due upon demand, are secured by all of the Companys assets, and bear interest at the banks prime rate (5.25% at December 31, 2004). This agreement requires the Company to comply with certain financial covenants. At December 31, 2004, the Company was in compliance with these covenants. The maturity date of this agreement is January 31, 2006.
Interest expense resulting from the line-of-credit agreement, which approximated interest paid, totaled $75,026 for the year ended December 31, 2004.
Note 6 Subordinated Notes Payable to Employees
Subordinated notes payable to employees consists of eleven subordinated notes payable to employees with stated amounts totaling $18,239,857, with one-time payments ranging from $4,500 to $708,171, and remaining quarterly principal payments ranging from $4,893 to $152,743, plus accrued interest (ranging from 5.75% to 8.25% per annum), and terms ranging from 5 to 15 years. These notes payable are secured by the Companys common stock, and are subordinated to the bank line-of-credit agreement.
The scheduled maturities of these notes payable at December 31, 2004 are as follows:
Years ending December 31, | |||
2005 |
$ | 1,505,148 | |
2006 |
1,502,884 | ||
2007 |
1,280,081 | ||
2008 |
1,278,054 | ||
2009 |
1,114,971 | ||
Thereafter |
6,292,801 | ||
$ | 12,973,939 | ||
Interest expense resulting from subordinated notes payable to employees totaled $904,286, of which $718,924 was paid during the year ended December 31, 2004. As of December 31, 2004, the current portion of subordinated notes payable to employees includes accrued interest payable of $218,224.
Note 7 Deferred Rent
In October 1995, the Company entered into the first of a series of leases for office space. The net cost under these leases is approximately $13,239,000 over the eleven year and eight month term including rent abatements, scheduled rent increases, and other related factors associated with these leases. The Company is recognizing the expense associated with these leases on a straight-line basis ratably over the lease terms in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. The deferred rent liability represents the cumulative difference between the monthly rent expense recorded and the amount of rent paid.
F-36
Caliber Associates, Inc.
NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
December 31, 2004
Note 8 Employee Benefit Plans
401(k) profit sharing plan
The Company maintains a defined contribution 401(k) profit sharing plan (the Plan) for all employees who have attained the age of 21. Employees are eligible for the profit sharing contribution once they have completed twelve months of service with the Company. Participants may make voluntary contributions up to the maximum amount allowable by law. Company contributions to the Plan are at the discretion of management and vest to the participants ratably over a five year period for profit sharing contributions and ratably over a three year period for matching contributions. Employees begin vesting in the Company matching contribution upon completion of 1,000 hours of service to the Company and in the profit sharing contribution in the second year of participation. The Company recorded no contributions to the Plan for the year ended December 31, 2004.
Employee Stock Ownership Plan
The Company maintains an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (the ESOP) that covers all employees over the age of 21 who have work at least 1,000 hours in a year. Company contributions on behalf of the employees are determined at the discretion of the Board of Directors and vest to the participants ratably over five years, beginning with the second year of credited service. Initially, the ESOP borrowed funds from the Company to purchase 900,000 shares of common stock from the stockholders of the Company. The ESOP shares initially were pledged as collateral for its debt. As the debt is repaid, shares are released from collateral and allocated, based on the proportion of debt service paid in the year. Debt of the ESOP is recorded as subordinated notes payable to employees (see Note 6) and the shares pledged as collateral are reported as unallocated ESOP shares in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. As shares are released from collateral, the Company reports compensation expense equal to the current market price of the shares, and the shares become outstanding. ESOP compensation expense was $1,073,500 for the year ended December 31, 2004. The Company also recorded contributions to the 401(k) Plan of $320,544, through shares acquired from the ESOP, for the year ended December 31, 2004.
The ESOP shares are as follows at December 31, 2004:
Allocated shares at the beginning of the year |
147,336 | ||
Shares released for allocation |
68,410 | ||
Unallocated shares at the end of the year |
684,254 | ||
Total ESOP shares |
900,000 | ||
Fair value of unallocated shares at the end of the year |
$ | 9,853,258 | |
Note 9 Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan
The Company maintains a nonqualified deferred compensation plan (the deferred compensation plan) for all employees not eligible to participate in the Companys Employee Stock Plan (Note 8). Contributions to the deferred compensation plan are made through voluntary employee salary reductions of up to 100 percent of total compensation. The Company, at its discretion, may make a contribution to the deferred compensation plan. The Companys contribution to the deferred compensation plan vests immediately. The Company recorded contributions of $123,526 to the Plan for the year ended December 31, 2004. The Company has funded its deferred compensation liability with marketable securities, as selected by the participating employees. The liability to the participants will increase or decrease according to the
F-37
Caliber Associates, Inc.
NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
December 31, 2004
performance of the selected investments. The fair value of the liability, therefore, approximates the book value as of December 31, 2004, except for Company contributions accrued, but not yet paid.
Note 10 Concentrations of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to significant concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, and unbilled receivables. The Companys management believes the risk of loss associated with cash and cash equivalents is very low since cash and cash equivalents are maintained in financial institutions. However, at various times throughout the year, the Company had cash and cash equivalents on deposit with a financial institution that exceeded the federally insured limit. To date, accounts receivable and unbilled receivables have been derived primarily from contracts with agencies of the federal government. Accounts receivable are generally due within 30 days and no collateral is required. The Company maintains reserves for potential credit losses and historically such losses have been insignificant and within managements expectations.
Note 11 Commitments
The Company leases office space under the terms of noncancelable operating leases that expire at various dates through December 2008. These leases require the Company to reimburse the landlord for its pro rata share of the increases in annual operating expenses and real estate taxes. The following is a schedule of the future minimum lease payments required under noncancelable operating leases that have initial or remaining terms in excess of one year as of December 31, 2004:
Years ending December 31, | |||
2005 |
$ | 2,120,000 | |
2006 |
1,264,000 | ||
2007 |
580,000 | ||
2008 |
35,000 | ||
$ | 3,999,000 | ||
Rent expense aggregated $1,975,424 for the year ended December 31, 2004.
Note 12 Subsequent Event
On January 10, 2005, the Company acquired certain assets and liabilities of Collins Management Consulting, Inc. Collins Management Consulting, Inc. provides consulting services in the field of child development. As a result of the acquisition, the Company becomes one of the largest purveyors of information about early childhood currently under contract to the government.
The aggregate purchase price was $950,000 in cash plus additional consideration. The purchase price will be adjusted for any additional consideration earned during each accounting period.
F-38
Caliber Associates, Inc.
NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
December 31, 2004
The following table summarizes the estimated fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the date of acquisition. The Company is in the process of valuing these assets and liabilities. Thus, the allocation of the purchase price is subject to adjustment.
Cash |
$ | 27,306 | ||
Accounts receivable |
743,996 | |||
Other current assets |
18,170 | |||
Other assets |
13,489 | |||
Property and equipment |
68,305 | |||
Non-compete agreements |
200,000 | |||
Contract rights |
604,740 | |||
Total assets acquired |
1,676,006 | |||
Current liabilities |
(717,103 | ) | ||
Noncurrent liabilities |
(8,903 | ) | ||
Net assets acquired |
$ | 950,000 | ||
F-39
Caliber Associates, Inc.
September 30, 2004 and 2005
2004 | 2005 | |||||||
ASSETS | ||||||||
Current assets |
||||||||
Cash and cash equivalents |
$ | 45,971 | $ | 1,760,760 | ||||
Accounts receivable |
5,637,455 | 6,505,174 | ||||||
Unbilled receivables |
5,359,332 | 4,174,650 | ||||||
Other current assets |
354,999 | 179,878 | ||||||
Total current assets |
11,397,757 | 12,620,462 | ||||||
Property and equipment, net |
775,102 | 605,313 | ||||||
Intangible assets, net |
79,510 | 726,727 | ||||||
Deposits |
53,471 | 66,318 | ||||||
Marketable securities restricted |
306,037 | 0 | ||||||
Total assets |
$ | 12,611,877 | $ | 14,018,820 | ||||
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS DEFICIT | ||||||||
Current liabilities |
||||||||
Accounts payable and accrued expenses |
$ | 605,762 | $ | 1,195,002 | ||||
Accrued payroll and related liabilities |
3,146,291 | 2,805,336 | ||||||
Bank line-of-credit |
185,234 | 0 | ||||||
Billings in excess of revenue recognized |
757,957 | 915,865 | ||||||
Subordinated notes payable to employees |
1,717,433 | 1,516,501 | ||||||
Deferred rent |
323,561 | 157,423 | ||||||
Total current liabilities |
6,736,238 | 6,590,127 | ||||||
Subordinated notes payable to employees |
11,846,430 | 10,329,929 | ||||||
Deferred rent |
124,965 | 133,368 | ||||||
Deferred compensation |
400,500 | 0 | ||||||
Deferred income taxes |
2,585,000 | 2,588,164 | ||||||
Total liabilities |
21,693,133 | 19,641,588 | ||||||
Stockholders deficit |
||||||||
Common stock no par value, 900,000 and 2,000,000 shares authorized, respectively |
500 | 500 | ||||||
Retained earnings |
5,971,527 | 3,654,253 | ||||||
Less: unallocated employee stock ownership plan shares |
(15,053,283 | ) | (9,277,521 | ) | ||||
Total stockholders deficit |
(9,081,256 | ) | (5,622,768 | ) | ||||
Commitments |
||||||||
Total liabilities and stockholders deficit |
$ | 12,611,877 | $ | 14,018,820 | ||||
See the accompanying notes.
F-40
Caliber Associates, Inc. (An S Corporation)
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
Nine month periods ended September 30, 2004 and 2005
2004 | 2005 | |||||||
Contract revenue |
$ | 27,305,611 | $ | 30,576,421 | ||||
Operating costs and expenses |
||||||||
Direct labor |
9,712,835 | 10,515,734 | ||||||
Other direct costs |
4,355,717 | 5,597,971 | ||||||
Indirect costs |
12,266,499 | 14,410,301 | ||||||
Unallowable costs |
242,903 | 491,071 | ||||||
26,577,954 | 31,015,077 | |||||||
Income from operations |
727,657 | (438,656 | ) | |||||
Other income (expense) |
||||||||
Interest income |
5,150 | 16,828 | ||||||
Interest expense |
(737,448 | ) | (780,340 | ) | ||||
Net loss |
$ | (4,641 | ) | $ | (1,202,168 | ) | ||
See the accompanying notes.
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Caliber Associates, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS DEFICIT
Nine month periods ended September 30, 2004 and 2005
Common Stock |
Retained Earnings |
Unallocated Employee Stock Ownership Plan Shares |
Total Stockholders Deficit |
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Shares | Amount | ||||||||||||||||
Balance at December 31, 2003 |
900,000 | $ | 500 | $ | 5,976,168 | $ | (15,053,283 | ) | $ | (9,076,615 | ) | ||||||
Net loss for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2004 |
0 | 0 | (4,641 | ) | 0 | (4,641 | ) | ||||||||||
Balance at September 30, 2004 |
900,000 | $ | 500 | $ | 5,971,527 | $ | (15,053,283 | ) | $ | (9,081,256 | ) | ||||||
Balance at December 31, 2004 |
900,000 | $ | 500 | $ | 5,791,083 | $ | (12,986,494 | ) | $ | (7,194,911 | ) | ||||||
Stock split |
900,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
Value of ESOP shares released for allocation to participants for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2005 |
0 | 0 | (934,662 | ) | 3,708,973 | 2,774,311 | |||||||||||
Net loss for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2005 |
0 | 0 | (1,202,168 | ) | 0 | (1,202,168 | ) | ||||||||||
Balance at September 30, 2005 |
1,800,000 | $ | 500 | $ | 3,654,253 | $ | (9,277,521 | ) | $ | (5,622,768 | ) | ||||||
See the accompanying notes.
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Caliber Associates, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
Nine month periods ended September 30, 2004 and 2005
2004 | 2005 | |||||||
Cash flows from operating activities: |
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Net loss |
$ | (4,641 | ) | $ | (1,202,168 | ) | ||
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities: |
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Depreciation and amortization |
601,877 | 384,339 | ||||||
Employee stock ownership plan expense |
805,125 | 2,774,311 | ||||||
Deferred rent |
(297,185 | ) | (138,050 | ) | ||||
(Increase) decrease in: |
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Accounts receivable |
62,595 | 1,846,149 | ||||||
Unbilled receivables |
2,034,082 | (112,090 | ) | |||||
Income taxes receivable |
56,379 | 0 | ||||||
Other current assets |
122,779 | 289,363 | ||||||
Marketable securities restricted |
(28,975 | ) | 455,410 | |||||
Increase (decrease) in: |
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Accounts payable and accrued expenses |
(808,774 | ) | 67,010 | |||||
Accrued payroll and related liabilities |
319,979 | 529,007 | ||||||
Billings in excess of revenue recognized |
(350,246 | ) | 416,540 | |||||
Deferred compensation |
4,287 | (559,586 | ) | |||||
Total adjustments |
2,521,923 | 5,952,403 | ||||||
Net cash provided by operating activities |
2,517,282 | 4,750,235 | ||||||
Cash flows from investing activities: |
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Purchases of property and equipment, net |
(102,580 | ) | (36,386 | ) | ||||
Purchase of intangible assets |
(30,000 | ) | (892,694 | ) | ||||
Decrease in deposits |
551 | 180,332 | ||||||
Net cash used in investing activities |
(132,029 | ) | (748,748 | ) | ||||
Cash flows from financing activities: |
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Net repayments under bank line-of-credit |
(1,506,447 | ) | (956,678 | ) | ||||
Repayments under subordinated notes payable to employees |
(1,151,757 | ) | (1,345,733 | ) | ||||
Net cash used in financing activities |
(2,658,204 | ) | (2,302,411 | ) | ||||
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents |
(272,951 | ) | 1,699,076 | |||||
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the period |
318,922 | 61,684 | ||||||
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the period |
$ | 45,971 | $ | 1,760,760 | ||||
See the accompanying notes.
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Caliber Associates, Inc.
NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
September 30, 2004 and 2005
Note 1 Organization and Significant Accounting Policies
Description of business and principles of consolidation
The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Caliber Associates, Inc. (Caliber) and its subsidiaries, Fried & Sher, Inc. (Fried & Sher) and Collins Management, Inc. (Collins) (collectively referred to as the Company). Caliber is incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia to provide research and management consulting services to departments and agencies of the federal government. Fried & Sher provides leading work life professional services to the federal government and commercial businesses. Collins provides consulting services in the field of child development. All significant intercompany balances have been eliminated in consolidation.
Purchase of the company
Effective October 5, 2005, under the terms of a stock purchase agreement (the Agreement), ICF Consulting Group, Inc. (ICF) acquired all of the outstanding shares of the Company. The purchase price consists of a base consideration amount, plus or minus other items, as defined in the Agreement.
The accompanying financial statements do not include or reflect any other amounts or transactions related to the purchase of the Company by ICF.
The significant accounting policies followed by the Company are described below.
Use of estimates
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions regarding certain types of assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses. Such estimates primarily relate to unsettled transactions and events as of the date of the financial statements. Accordingly, upon settlement, actual results may differ from estimated amounts.
Revenue recognition
Revenue on fixed-price and cost-reimbursable contracts includes direct costs and allocated indirect costs incurred plus recognized profit. Revenue is recognized under fixed-price contracts on the percentage-of-completion basis. Revenue on time-and-material contracts is recognized based upon time (at established rates) and other direct costs incurred. Unbilled receivables and billings in excess of revenue recognized result from differences between billings, which are determined based upon contractual terms, and amounts recognized as earned, which are based upon costs incurred and contract performance. Losses on contracts are provided for in the period they are first determined.
Federal government contract costs for 2002 through 2005, including indirect expenses, are subject to audit and adjustment by the Defense Contract Audit Agency. Contract revenue has been recorded in amounts which are expected to be realized upon final settlement.
Cash equivalents
The Company considers all highly liquid instruments with original maturities of three months or less to be cash equivalents.
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Caliber Associates, Inc.
NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
September 30, 2004 and 2005
Marketable securities restricted
Management of the Company determines the appropriate classification of marketable securities at the time of purchase and reevaluates such designation at each balance sheet date. Management has classified its marketable securities as trading and, thus, is carrying them at current market value, with realized and unrealized gains and losses included in earnings. The cost of securities sold is based on the specific identification method.
Property and equipment
Property and equipment is stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation of property and equipment is computed using accelerated methods over the estimated useful lives of three to seven years. Amortization of leasehold improvements is computed using the straight-line method over the shorter of the estimated useful lives of the assets or the term of the related lease.
Intangible assets
Intangible assets, which consist of contract rights and non-compete agreements, are stated at cost less accumulated amortization. Amortization of intangible assets is computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of three years to 80 months. Intangible assets were recorded at $1,381,111 and $575,358, with accumulated amortization of $654,384 and $495,848 at September 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively. Amortization expense related to intangible assets totaled $129,010 and $161,194 for the nine month periods ended September 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively.
The following is a schedule of estimated future amortization expense:
Years ending September 30, | |||
2006 |
$ | 163,904 | |
2007 |
163,904 | ||
2008 |
113,904 | ||
2009 |
97,237 | ||
2010 |
97,237 | ||
Thereafter |
90,540 | ||
$ | 726,727 | ||
Income taxes
Effective January 1, 2002, the Company became an S Corporation for federal income tax purposes (which also applies to most states). Accordingly, as of this date, the Company is generally not subject to corporate income taxes and the income, deductions and credits generated by the Company will flow to the Companys stockholders. However, any taxable income generated by the Company for any year through December 31, 2011 would subject the Company to income taxes to the extent income earned under C Corporation status had been previously deferred for income tax purposes. Accordingly, a deferred tax liability remains on the Companys consolidated balance sheet to reflect this liability, which may be triggered in future years.
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Caliber Associates, Inc.
NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
September 30, 2004 and 2005
Note 2 Business Combination
On January 10, 2005, the Company acquired certain assets and liabilities of Collins Management Consulting, Inc. Collins Management Consulting, Inc. provides consulting services in the field of child development. As a result of the acquisition, the Company has become one of the largest purveyors of information about early childhood development currently under contract to the federal government.
The aggregate purchase price was $950,000, which included net cash paid of $922,694 (of which $30,000 was paid in 2004). The purchase price will be adjusted for any additional consideration earned during future accounting periods.
The following table summarizes the estimated fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the date of acquisition.
Cash |
$ | 27,306 | ||
Accounts receivable |
746,495 | |||
Other current assets |
18,170 | |||
Other assets |
13,489 | |||
Property and equipment |
67,741 | |||
Non-compete agreements |
200,000 | |||
Contract rights |
635,753 | |||
Total assets acquired |
1,708,954 | |||
Current liabilities |
(750,051 | ) | ||
Noncurrent liabilities |
(8,903 | ) | ||
Net assets acquired |
$ | 950,000 | ||
Note 3 Marketable Securities Restricted
The Company invests in several publicly-traded mutual funds under a Rabbi Trust Agreement for the funding of the nonqualified deferred compensation plan (see Note 10). As such, all amounts are restricted for this use. During the nine month periods ended September 30, 2005 and 2004, the securities produced unrealized capital gains of $0 and $28,975, respectively. All investment income earned during the nine month periods ended September 30, 2005 and 2004 relate to marketable securities held at the end of each period. In September 2005, the marketable securities were sold for $602,571 resulting in a realized gain of $180,885.
Note 4 Unbilled Receivables
Unbilled receivables consists of the following at September 30:
2004 | 2005 | |||||
Amounts currently billable |
$ | 4,009,187 | $ | 3,306,170 | ||
Amounts billable upon completion of milestones |
1,162,476 | 765,986 | ||||
Rate variances |
103,825 | 83,799 | ||||
Contract retainages |
83,844 | 18,695 | ||||
$ | 5,359,332 | $ | 4,174,650 | |||
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Caliber Associates, Inc.
NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
September 30, 2004 and 2005
Note 5 Property and Equipment
Property and equipment consists of the following at September 30:
2004 | 2005 | |||||||
Leasehold improvements |
$ | 760,905 | $ | 769,125 | ||||
Other equipment |
621,656 | 620,464 | ||||||
Computer equipment |
753,856 | 528,676 | ||||||
Software licenses |
700,642 | 468,473 | ||||||
Office furniture |
442,969 | 442,969 | ||||||
3,280,028 | 2,829,707 | |||||||
Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization |
(2,504,926 | ) | (2,224,394 | ) | ||||
$ | 755,102 | $ | 605,313 | |||||
Depreciation and amortization expense on property and equipment totaled $255,329 and $440,683 for the nine month periods ended September 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively.
Note 6 Bank Line-of-credit
The Company maintains a bank line-of-credit facility under which it may borrow up to the lesser of $4,000,000 or 85% of eligible billed receivables. Borrowings under this bank line-of-credit agreement are due upon demand, are secured by all of the Companys assets, and bear interest at the banks prime rate (6.75% at September 30, 2005). This agreement requires the Company to comply with certain financial covenants. At September 30, 2005, the Company was in compliance with these covenants. The bank line-of-credit was terminated on October 5, 2005.
Note 7 Subordinated Notes Payable to Employees
Subordinated notes payable to employees consists of eleven subordinated notes payable to employees with stated amounts totaling $18,205,233, with one-time payments ranging from $4,969 to $796,666, and remaining quarterly principal payments ranging from $4,893 to $152,743, plus accrued interest (ranging from 5.75% to 8.25% per annum), and terms ranging from 5 to 15 years. These notes payable are secured by the Companys common stock, and are subordinated to the bank line-of-credit agreement.
The scheduled maturities of these notes payable at September 30, 2005 are as follows:
Years ending September 30, | |||
2006 |
$ | 1,516,501 | |
2007 |
1,323,898 | ||
2008 |
1,281,624 | ||
2009 |
1,152,865 | ||
2010 |
1,114,971 | ||
2011 |
1,114,971 | ||
Thereafter |
4,341,600 | ||
$ | 11,846,430 | ||
Interest expense resulting from subordinated notes payable to employees totaled $703,444 and $712,840, of which $703,444 and $488,531 was paid during the nine month periods ended
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Caliber Associates, Inc.
NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
September 30, 2004 and 2005
September 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively. As of September 30, 2005 and 2004, the current portion of subordinated notes payable to employees includes accrued interest payable of $0 and $224,309, respectively.
Note 8 Deferred Rent
In October 1995, the Company entered into the first of a series of leases for office space. The net cost under these leases is approximately $13,239,000 over the eleven-year and eight-month term including rent abatements, scheduled rent increases, and other related factors associated with these leases. The Company is recognizing the expense associated with these leases on a straight-line basis ratably over the lease terms in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The deferred rent liability reflected in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet represents the cumulative difference between the monthly rent expense recorded and the amount of rent paid.
Note 9 Employee Benefit Plans
401(k) profit sharing plan
The Company maintains a defined contribution 401(k) profit sharing plan (the Plan) for all employees who have attained the age of 21. Employees are eligible for the profit sharing contribution once they have completed twelve months of service with the Company. Participants may make voluntary contributions up to the maximum amount allowable by law. Company contributions to the Plan are at the discretion of management and vest to the participants ratably over a five-year period for profit sharing contributions and ratably over a three-year period for matching contributions. Employees begin vesting in the Company matching contribution upon completion of 1,000 hours of service to the Company, and in the profit sharing contribution in the second year of participation. The Company recorded no contributions to the Plan for either of the nine month periods ended September 30, 2005 and 2004. On September 30, 2005, the Companys Board of Directors approved an amendment to the Plan to distribute all Plan assets to participants immediately prior to the effective date of the stock purchase agreement (see Note 1).
Employee Stock Ownership Plan
The Company maintains an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (the ESOP) that covers all employees over the age of 21 who have work at least 1,000 hours in a year. Company contributions on behalf of the employees are determined at the discretion of the Board of Directors and vest to the participants ratably over five years, beginning with the second year of credited service. Initially, the ESOP borrowed funds from the Company to purchase 900,000 shares of common stock from the stockholders of the Company, and these shares were initially pledged as collateral for the debt. As the debt is repaid, shares are released from collateral and allocated, based on the proportion of debt service paid in the year. Debt of the ESOP is recorded as subordinated notes payable to employees (see Note 7) and the shares pledged as collateral are reported as unallocated ESOP shares in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. As shares are released from collateral, the Company reports compensation expense equal to the current market price of the shares, and the shares become outstanding. ESOP compensation expense totaled $2,505,408 and $564,717 for the periods ended September 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively. The Company also recorded contributions to the 401(k) Plan of $268,903 and $240,408, through shares acquired from the ESOP, for the nine month periods ended September 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively. Effective October 1, 2005, the Companys Board of Directors approved, immediately prior to the effective date of the stock purchase agreement (see Note 1), the sale of the ESOP assets, rights, title, and all interests in the issued and
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Caliber Associates, Inc.
NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
September 30, 2004 and 2005
outstanding ESOP shares to Caliber ESOP Custodial Corporation (the ESOP Sponsor) for $10 to a former officer of Caliber Associates, Inc. The ESOP Sponsor was created to administer the proceeds that resulted from the stock purchase agreement (see Note 1).
The ESOP shares are as follows at September 30:
2004 | 2005 | |||||
Allocated shares at the beginning of the period |
147,336 | 501,350 | ||||
Shares released for allocation |
0 | 375,980 | ||||
Unallocated shares at the end of the period |
752,664 | 922,670 | ||||
Total ESOP shares |
900,000 | 1,800,000 | ||||
Fair value of unallocated shares at the end of the period |
$ | 10,311,496 | $ | 6,320,290 | ||
Note 10 Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan
The Company maintains a nonqualified deferred compensation plan (the Deferred Compensation Plan) for all employees not eligible to participate in the Companys Employee Stock Plan (Note 9). Contributions to the Deferred Compensation Plan are made through voluntary employee salary reductions of up to 100 percent of total compensation. The Company, at its discretion, may make a contribution to the Deferred Compensation Plan. The Companys contribution to the Deferred Compensation Plan vests immediately. The Company recorded contributions of $12,900 and $112,763 to the Plan for the nine month periods ended September 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively. The Company has funded its deferred compensation liability with marketable securities, as selected by the participating employees. The liability to the participants will increase or decrease according to the performance of the selected investments. The fair value of the liability, therefore, approximates the book value as of September 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively, except for Company contributions accrued, but not yet paid. On September 30, 2005, the Companys Board of Directors approved an amendment to the Deferred Compensation Plan to distribute all of its assets to the participants immediately prior to the effective date of the stock purchase agreement (see Note 1).
Note 11 Common Stock
On May 18, 2005, the Company increased its authorized common stock to 2,000,000 shares, and approved a two-for-one stock split.
Note 12 Concentrations of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to significant concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, and unbilled receivables. The Companys management believes the risk of loss associated with cash and cash equivalents is very low since cash and cash equivalents are maintained in financial institutions. However, at various times throughout the periods and at September 30, 2005, the Company had cash and cash equivalents on deposit with a financial institution that exceeded the federally insured limit. To date, accounts receivable and unbilled receivables have been derived primarily from contracts with agencies of the federal government. Accounts receivable are generally due within 30 days and no collateral is required. The Company maintains reserves for potential credit losses and historically such losses have been insignificant and within managements expectations.
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Caliber Associates, Inc.
NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
September 30, 2004 and 2005
Note 13 Commitments
The Company leases office space under the terms of noncancelable operating leases that expire at various dates through December 31, 2008. These leases require the Company to reimburse the landlord for its pro rata share of the increases in annual operating expenses and real estate taxes. The following is a schedule of the future minimum lease payments required under noncancelable operating leases that have initial or remaining terms in excess of one year as of September 30, 2005:
Years ending September 30, | |||
2006 |
$ | 1,708,000 | |
2007 |
853,000 | ||
2008 |
35,000 | ||
2009 |
9,000 | ||
$ | 2,605,000 | ||
Rent expense aggregated $1,793,160 and $1,557,150 for the nine month periods ended September 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively.
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ICF INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Common Stock
Until , 2006 (25 days after the date of this prospectus), federal securities laws may require all dealers that effect transactions in our common stock, whether or not participating in this offering, to deliver a prospectus. This is in addition to the dealers obligation to deliver a prospectus when acting as underwriters and with respect to their unsold allotments or subscriptions.
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ITEM 13. OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION.
The following table sets forth the costs and expenses, other than the underwriting discount, payable by the Registrant in connection with the sale of common stock being registered. All amounts are estimates except the SEC registration fee and the NASD filing fee.
SEC registration fee |
$ | 8,025 | |
NASD filing fee |
8,000 | ||
NASDAQ National Market listing fee |
5,000 | ||
Printing and engraving expenses |
* | ||
Legal fees and expenses |
* | ||
Accounting fees and expenses |
* | ||
Blue Sky fees and expenses (including legal fees) |
* | ||
Transfer agent and registrar fees and expenses |
* | ||
Miscellaneous |
$ | * | |
Total |
$ | * | |
* | To be provided by amendment. |
The Registrant will bear all expenses shown above. The selling stockholders will not bear any of such expenses.
ITEM 14. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
Article SIXTH of the Registrants Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that, to the extent not prohibited by law, the Registrant shall indemnify any person who is or was a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding or alternative dispute resolution procedure, whether civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or otherwise, formal or informal, including an action by or in the right of the Registrant, by reason of the fact that such person, or a person of whom such person is the legal representative, is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Registrant or is or was serving at the request of the Registrant, as a director, manager, officer, partner, trustee, employee or agent of another foreign or domestic corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, whether the basis of proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as such a director, officer, employee or agent of the Registrant or in any other capacity while serving as such other director, manager, partner, trustee, employee or agent, against all judgments, penalties and fines incurred or paid, and against all expenses (including attorneys fees) and settlement amounts incurred or paid, in connection with any such proceeding, except in relation to matters as to which the person did not act in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Registrant, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the persons conduct was unlawful.
Expenses shall be advanced to a person entitled to indemnification at his or her request, provided that, if the board of directors requires it and the expenses were incurred by the person in his or her capacity as a director or officer, he or she must undertake to repay the amount advanced if it is ultimately determined that he or she is not entitled to indemnification for such expenses.
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The rights to indemnification and reimbursement or advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, such Article SIXTH of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation are enforceable by any person entitled to such indemnification or reimbursement or advancement of expenses in any court of competent jurisdiction. The burden of proving that such indemnification or reimbursement or advancement of expenses is not appropriate is on the Registrant. Such a person is also entitled to indemnification for any expenses incurred in connection with successfully establishing his or her right to such indemnification or reimbursement or advancement of expenses.
Article SIXTH of the Registrants Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation further provides that the indemnification provided therein is not exclusive.
The Registrant has purchased directors and officers liability insurance that would indemnify its directors and officers against damages arising out of certain kinds of claims that might be made against them based on their negligent acts or omissions while acting in their capacity as such.
Peter M. Schulte, Joel R. Jacks and Robert Hopkins are directors of the Registrant and Peter M. Schulte and Joel R. Jacks are also co-managers, and Robert Hopkins is a partner, of CM Equity Partners, L.P., and each is serving on the Registrants board of directors at the request of CM Equity Partners, L.P. Pursuant to the limited partnership agreement with CM Equity Partners, L.P., Messrs. Schulte, Jacks and Hopkins are indemnified against liability they may incur in their capacity as a director of the Registrant. In addition, as Messrs. Schulte, Jacks, Hopkins, Bersoff and Lucien are serving on the Registrants board of directors at the request of CM Equity Partners, L.P., each is a beneficiary of an insurance policy maintained by CM Equity Partners, L.P. and affiliated entities to cover liability they may incur in their capacity as directors of the Registrant.
The Underwriting Agreement provides that the Underwriters are obligated, under certain circumstances, to indemnify directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act). Reference is made to the form of Underwriting Agreement to be filed as Exhibit 1.1 hereto.
At present, there is no pending litigation or proceeding involving any director, officer, employee or agent as to which indemnification will be required or permitted under the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. The Registrant is not aware of any threatened litigation or proceeding that may result in a claim for such indemnification.
ITEM 15. RECENT SALES OF UNREGISTERED SECURITIES.
Since January 1, 2003, the Registrant has issued the following securities that were not registered under the Securities Act as summarized below. No underwriters were involved in the following sales of securities. All share amounts have been retroactively adjusted to give effect to the -for- stock split of our common stock to be effected immediately prior to the closing of this offering.
(a) | Issuances of Common Stock |
(1) | On April 30, 2004, we issued shares of our common stock to one of our directors for consideration of $110,100. |
(2) | On December 28, 2004, we issued an aggregate of shares of our common stock to certain of our employees and directors for aggregate consideration of $191,500.60. |
(3) | Effective January 1, 2005, we issued shares to certain stockholders of Synergy, Inc. as part of the consideration for our acquisition of Synergy, Inc. |
(4) | On March 31, 2005, we issued an aggregate of shares of our common stock to certain of our employees for aggregate consideration of $325,000.52. |
(5) | On September 6, 2005 we issued shares of our common stock to one of our employees for consideration of $216,530. |
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(6) | On September 30, 2005, we issued an aggregate of shares of our common stock to certain of our employees and directors for aggregate consideration of $86,700.08. |
(7) | On February 13, 2006, we issued shares of our common stock to one of our employees for consideration of $100,002.50. |
(8) | On March 31, 2006, we issued an aggregate of shares of our common stock to certain of our employees for aggregate consideration of $299,555. |
(9) | On April 3, 2006, we issued shares of our common stock to one of our employees for consideration of $45,250. |
Each of the sales described under Issuances of Common Stock above was made in reliance upon the exemption from the registration provisions of the Securities Act set forth in Section 4(2) thereof relative to sales by an issuer not involving any public offering and the rules and regulations thereunder. The purchasers or recipients of securities in each case acquired the securities for investment only and not with a view to the distribution thereof. Each of the recipients of securities in these transactions was an accredited or sophisticated person and had adequate access, through employment, business or other relationships, to information about us.
(b) | Stock Option Grants and Grants of Restricted Stock |
(1) | On January 1, 2003, we issued to certain of our employees options to purchase an aggregate of shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $ per share. |
(2) | On December 17, 2003, we issued to one of our employees options to purchase shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $ per share. |
(3) | On January 1, 2004, we issued to certain of our employees options to purchase an aggregate of shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $ per share. |
(4) | In April and May 2004, we issued to certain of our employees options to purchase an aggregate of shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $ per share. |
(5) | On August 23, 2004, we issued to one of our employees options to purchase shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $ per share. |
(6) | In January 2005, we issued to certain of our employees options to purchase shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $ per share. |
(7) | On March 28, 2005, we issued to one of our employees options to purchase shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $ per share. |
(8) | In July, August and September 2005, we issued to certain of our employees options to purchase an aggregate of shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $ per share. |
(9) | On September 6, 2005, we issued shares of restricted common stock to an employee. |
(10) | On November 11, 2005, we issued to one of our employees options to purchase shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $ per share. |
(11) | On December 22, 2005, we issued to certain of our employees options to purchase shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $ per share. |
(12) | In January 2006, we issued to certain of our employees options to purchase an aggregate of shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $ per share. |
(13) | In April 2006, we issued to the certain of our employees options to purchase an aggregate of shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $ per share. |
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(14) | On May 5, 2006, we issued to certain of our employees options to purchase an aggregate of shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $ per share. |
(15) | Effective upon completion of this offering, we will issue a total of shares of restricted common stock to Sudhakar Kesavan, John Wasson and Alan Stewart under their restricted stock award agreements. |
Each of the sales described under Stock Option Grants and Grants of Restricted Stock above was made in reliance upon the exemption from the registration provisions of the Securities Act set forth in Rule 701 promulgated under the Securities Act as the transactions were effected under compensatory benefit plans and contracts relating to compensation as provided under Rule 701. The recipients of these securities were our employees and directors and received the securities under our Management Stock Option Plan. No consideration other than the continued employment or service by the employee and director recipients was received by us in connection with any of these issuances of securities. Each of the recipients of securities in these transactions had adequate access, through employment, business or other relationships, to information about us.
ITEM 16. EXHIBITS.
(a) Exhibits:
Exhibit Number |
Exhibit | |
1.1* | Form of Underwriting Agreement | |
3.1 | Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant (to be effective upon completion of this offering) | |
3.2 | Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant (to be effective upon completion of this offering) | |
4.1* | Specimen common stock certificate | |
4.2 | Form of Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement | |
4.3 | See Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2 for provisions of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant defining the rights of holders of common stock of the Registrant | |
5.1 | Form of Opinion of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. | |
10.1 | Management Stock Option Plan | |
10.2 | 2006 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan (to be effective upon completion of this offering) | |
10.3 | 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (to be effective upon completion of this offering) | |
10.4 | Amended and Restated Business Loan and Security Agreement dated as of October 5, 2005 by and among ICF Consulting Group Holdings, Inc. and ICF Consulting Group, Inc., as Borrowers, Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania, Chevy Chase Bank, F.S.B., PNC Bank, National Association, Commerce Bank, N.A., as Lenders, and Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania, as Agent; and First Modification to Amended and Restated Business Loan and Security Agreement and Other Loan Documents, dated as of March 14, 2006 | |
10.5 | Form of Amended and Restated Employment Agreement between the Registrant and Sudhakar Kesavan | |
10.6 | Employment Agreement dated October 1, 2005 between ICF Consulting Group, Inc. and Gerald Croan | |
10.7 | Form of Severance Agreement between the Registrant and each of Sudhakar Kesavan, Alan Stewart and John Wasson |
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Exhibit Number |
Exhibit | |
10.8 | Form of Restricted Stock Award Agreement between the Registrant and each of Sudhakar Kesavan, Alan Stewart and John Wasson | |
10.9 | Consulting Agreement dated June 25, 1999 between ICF Consulting Group, Inc. and CMLS Management, L.P.; and Form of First Amendment to Consulting Agreement | |
10.10 | Stock Purchase Agreement by and among ICF Consulting Group, Inc., ICF Consulting Group Holdings, Inc., Terrence R. Colvin, Wesley C. Pickard, Donald L. Zimmerman and the other shareholders of Synergy, Inc. dated effective January 1, 2005 | |
10.11 | Stock Purchase Agreement by and among ICF Consulting Group, Inc., Caliber Associates, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Trust, Caliber Associates, Inc., Gerald Croan and Sharon Bishop dated effective September 12, 2005 | |
10.12 | Agreement of Sublease between ICF Kaiser International, Inc. and ICF Consulting Group, Inc. dated June 1999 | |
10.13 | Assignment Agreement regarding Deed of Lease among B2TECS, Hunters Branch Leasing, LLC and ICF Consulting Group, Inc. dated effective October 7, 2005 | |
21.1 | Subsidiaries of the Registrant | |
23.1 | Consent of Grant Thornton LLP | |
23.2 | Consent of Argy, Wiltse & Robinson, P.C. | |
23.3 | Consent of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. (included in Exhibit 5.1) | |
24.1 | Power of Attorney |
* | To be filed by amendment. |
| Previously filed. |
(b) Financial Statement Schedules:
No financial statement schedules are provided because the information called for is not required or is shown either in the financial statements or the notes thereto.
ITEM 17. UNDERTAKINGS.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act, may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant, the Underwriting Agreement, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act, and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered hereunder, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
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The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that:
(1) | For purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this Registration Statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the Registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4), or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this Registration Statement as of the time it was declared effective. |
(2) | For purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new Registration Statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. |
The undersigned Registrant hereby further undertakes to provide to the underwriter at the closing specified in the underwriting agreements certificates in such denominations and registered in such names as required by the underwriter to permit prompt delivery to each purchaser.
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Signatures
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Fairfax, Virginia, on this 23rd day of June, 2006.
ICF INTERNATIONAL, INC. | ||
By: |
/s/ Sudhakar Kesavan | |
Sudhakar Kesavan, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature |
Title |
Date | ||
/s/ Sudhakar Kesavan Sudhakar Kesavan |
Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) |
June 23, 2006 | ||
/s/ Alan Stewart Alan Stewart |
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) |
June 23, 2006 | ||
* Dr. Edward H. Bersoff |
Director |
June 23, 2006 | ||
* Robert Hopkins |
Director |
June 23, 2006 | ||
* Joel R. Jacks |
Director |
June 23, 2006 | ||
* David C. Lucien |
Director |
June 23, 2006 | ||
* William Moody |
Director |
June 23, 2006 | ||
* Peter M. Schulte |
Director |
June 23, 2006 |
*By: |
/s/ Alan Stewart | |
Alan Stewart Attorney-in-fact |
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Exhibit index
Exhibit Number |
Exhibit | |
1.1* | Form of Underwriting Agreement | |
3.1 | Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant (to be effective upon completion of this offering) | |
3.2 | Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant (to be effective upon completion of this offering) | |
4.1* | Specimen common stock certificate | |
4.2 | Form of Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement | |
4.3 | See Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2 for provisions of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant defining the rights of holders of common stock of the Registrant | |
5.1 | Form of Opinion of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. | |
10.1 | Management Stock Option Plan | |
10.2 | 2006 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan (to be effective upon completion of this offering) | |
10.3 | 2006 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (to be effective upon completion of this offering) | |
10.4 | Amended and Restated Business Loan and Security Agreement dated as of October 5, 2005 by and among ICF Consulting Group Holdings, Inc. and ICF Consulting Group, Inc., as Borrowers, Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania, Chevy Chase Bank, F.S.B., PNC Bank, National Association, Commerce Bank, N.A., as Lenders, and Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania, as Agent; and First Modification to Amended and Restated Business Loan and Security Agreement and Other Loan Documents, dated as of March 14, 2006 | |
10.5 | Form of Amended and Restated Employment Agreement between the Registrant and Sudhakar Kesavan | |
10.6 | Employment Agreement dated October 1, 2005 between ICF Consulting Group, Inc. and Gerald Croan | |
10.7 | Form of Severance Agreement between the Registrant and each of Sudhakar Kesavan, Alan Stewart and John Wasson | |
10.8 | Form of Restricted Stock Award Agreement between the Registrant and each of Sudhakar Kesavan, Alan Stewart and John Wasson | |
10.9 | Consulting Agreement dated June 25, 1999 between ICF Consulting Group, Inc. and CMLS Management, L.P.; and Form of First Amendment to Consulting Agreement | |
10.10 | Stock Purchase Agreement by and among ICF Consulting Group, Inc., ICF Consulting Group Holdings, Inc., Terrence R. Colvin, Wesley C. Pickard, Donald L. Zimmerman and the other shareholders of Synergy, Inc. dated effective January 1, 2005 | |
10.11 | Stock Purchase Agreement by and among ICF Consulting Group, Inc., Caliber Associates, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Trust, Caliber Associates, Inc., Gerald Croan and Sharon Bishop dated effective September 12, 2005 | |
10.12 | Agreement of Sublease between ICF Kaiser International, Inc. and ICF Consulting Group, Inc. dated June 1999 | |
10.13 | Assignment Agreement regarding Deed of Lease among B2TECS, Hunters Branch Leasing, LLC and ICF Consulting Group, Inc. dated effective October 7, 2005 |
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Exhibit index
Exhibit Number |
Exhibit | |
21.1 | Subsidiaries of the Registrant | |
23.1 | Consent of Grant Thornton LLP | |
23.2 | Consent of Argy, Wiltse & Robinson, P.C. | |
23.3 | Consent of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. (included in Exhibit 5.1) | |
24.1 | Power of Attorney |
* | To be filed by amendment. |
| Previously filed. |
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Exhibit 5.1
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.
800 Towers Crescent Drive, 14th Floor
Tysons Corner, VA 22182-2700
, 2006
Board of Directors
ICF International, Inc.
9300 Lee Highway
Fairfax, VA 22031
Gentlemen:
We have acted as counsel for ICF International, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Company), in connection with the preparation and filing by the Company of a registration statement on Form S-1 (the Registration Statement) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), relating to the sale of shares of common stock, par value $.0001 (Common Stock), of the Company, including shares of Common Stock to cover over-allotments, if any. Up to shares of Common Stock will be issued and sold by the Company (the Primary Shares) and up to shares of Common Stock will be offered and sold by stockholders of the Company identified in the Registration Statement (the Secondary Shares).
We have reviewed the Registration Statement and have examined such other documents, and considered such matters of law, as we have deemed necessary or appropriate for purposes of this opinion. We have assumed the genuineness of all signatures on all documents reviewed by us, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, and the conformity to authentic originals of all documents submitted to us as copies.
Based upon and subject to the foregoing, we are of the opinion that, (a) when the Registration Statement has become effective, the Primary Shares, when issued by the Company and paid for in the manner contemplated by the prospectus contained in the Registration Statement, will be legally issued, fully paid and non-assessable and (b) the Secondary Shares have been legally issued and are fully paid and non-assessable.
The opinions set forth herein are rendered as of the date hereof and are based solely upon the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. We consent to the reference to our Firm wherever appearing in the Registration Statement and to the inclusion of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not admit hereby that we come within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Very truly yours,
Exhibit 10.5
FORM OF
AMENDED AND RESTATED
EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (this Agreement), dated , 2006, is by and between ICF International, Inc., a Delaware corporation headquartered at 9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax, Virginia (the Company), and Sudhakar Kesavan (the Executive).
WHEREAS, the Executive has served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company since 1999 under the terms of an Employment Agreement dated as of June 25, 1999 (the Original Agreement);
WHEREAS, the Company has registered shares of its common stock for sale to the public (the Offering);
WHEREAS, the Company desires to retain the services of the Executive following the effectiveness of the Offering, where this Agreement and the Severance Protection Agreement dated , 2006 (the Severance Protection Agreement) will amend and restate, and replace, the Executives current employment agreement with the Company;
WHEREAS, the Executive desires to remain with the Company following the effectiveness of the Offering; and
WHEREAS, the parties wish to set forth the terms and conditions of that continued employment.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and promises contained herein, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows:
1. | Term of Employment. |
The Company hereby employs the Executive, and the Executive hereby accepts employment with the Company, upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement. Subject to the provisions of Section 5, this Agreement may be terminated by either party upon forty-five (45) days notice.
2. | Title; Duties. |
(a) | President and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors. The Executive shall be employed as President and Chief Executive Officer and shall serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company. The Executive shall perform such services consistent with his position as may be assigned to him from time to time by the Board of Directors of the Company and |
are consistent with the applicable law and the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws of the Company, including, but not limited to, managing the business and affairs of the Company. |
(b) | Committees. At all times during the Executives employment, the Executive shall be a member of the Companys Executive Committee if there shall be such a Committee and may serve, at the discretion of the Board, as a member of such other committees as may be established by the Board. |
(c) | Employment of Company Officers. No offers of employment by the Company to senior executive officers shall be made without the prior approval of the Executive. |
3. | Extent of Services. |
(a) | General. The Executive agrees not to engage in any business activities during the Executives employment except those which are for the sole benefit of the Company, and to devote his entire business time, attention, skill and effort to the performance of his duties under this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive may (i) engage in personal investments, provided that the Executive shall not acquire more than 5% of the equity of another business without the prior approval of the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors, (ii) engage in charitable, professional and civic activities (including serving on the board of directors of non-profit, charitable and civic organizations) which do not impair the performance of his duties to the Company, and (iii) with the prior approval of the Compensation Committee, serve on the boards of directors or trustees of for-profit corporations other than the Company. The Executive shall, to the best of his ability, execute the strategic plan of the Company as approved by the Board, perform his duties, adhere to the Companys published policies and procedures, promote the Companys interests, reputation, business and welfare, and work actively with the Board of Directors and other senior managers to help augment the existing business base, increase the corporate contract backlog and identify and develop new business opportunities. |
(b) | Corporate Opportunities. The Executive agrees that, unless approved by the Board of Directors, he will not take personal advantage of any business opportunities which arise during his employment with the Company and which may be of benefit to the Company. All material facts regarding such opportunities must be promptly reported to the Board of Directors for consideration by the Company. |
4. | Compensation and Benefits. |
(a) | Salary. The Company shall pay the Executive a gross base annual salary (Base Salary) of not less than $375,000. Effective January 1, 2007, the annual rate of Base Salary shall be increased by no less than $25,000 over the annual rate of Base Salary in effect for the preceding year. Effective January 1, 2008, and on each subsequent January 1 during the Executives employment, the annual rate of Base Salary shall be increased by no less than the increase in the CPI National Index for the year over the annual rate of Base Salary in effect for the preceding year. In addition to the aforementioned increases in Base Salary, the |
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Compensation Committee may, from time to time, increase the Executives Base Salary based on the performance of the Company and other factors deemed relevant by the Compensation Committee. Effective as of the date of any such increase, the Base Salary as so increased shall be considered the new Base Salary for all purposes of this Agreement and thereafter may not be reduced. The salary shall be payable in arrears in approximately equal bi-weekly installments on the Companys regularly scheduled payroll dates, minus such deductions as may be required by law or reasonably requested by the Executive. |
(b) | Incentive Compensation. In the discretion of the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors, the Executive shall be eligible for annual incentive compensation (IC) awards for the immediately preceding fiscal year in an amount up to 100% of the Executives Base Salary for the prior fiscal year. |
(c) | Equity Awards. In the discretion of the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors, the Executive shall be eligible to receive stock options, restricted shares and other equity awards on such terms as may be determined by the Compensation Committee. |
(d) | Deductions from Compensation. The Company shall withhold from the Executives compensation any and all applicable local, state, federal, or foreign taxes, including income tax, withholding tax, social security tax, and pension contributions, if any. |
(e) | Employee Benefits. The Executive shall be entitled to participate in any and all employee benefit programs for which the Executive may be eligible, as may exist at any particular time and from time to time during the Executives employment. |
(f) | Executive Benefits. The Executive shall be entitled to all executive benefits that the Company makes available to other executives, as may exist at any particular time and from time to time during the Executives employment. In addition, the Company shall maintain and pay all premiums for a life insurance policy on the Executive in an amount of at least $1,000,000, the beneficiaries of which policy shall be the Executives immediate family, provided that the Executive is eligible for such a life insurance policy at reasonable rates. The Company also shall pay expenses up to $3,000 per year relating to the Executives tax and estate planning. Further, the Executive may attend, at the Companys expense, subject to prior approval of expenses by the Compensation Committee, two weeks of management education during each year of the Executives employment. |
(g) | Reimbursement of Business Expenses. The Company shall reimburse the Executive for all reasonable travel, entertainment and other expenses incurred or paid by the Executive in connection with, or related to, the performance of his duties, responsibilities or services under this Agreement, upon presentation by the Executive of documentation, expense statements, vouchers, and/or such other supporting information as the Company may reasonably request. |
5. | Termination. |
(a) | Termination by the Company for Cause. The Company may terminate the Executives employment at any time for Cause upon written notice by the |
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Company to the Executive. Cause for termination shall mean any of the following: (i) any act that would constitute a material violation of the Companys material written policies; (ii) willfully engaging in conduct materially and demonstrably injurious to the Company, provided, however, that no act or failure to act, on the Executives part, shall be considered willful unless done, or omitted to be done, by the Executive not in good faith and without reasonable belief that his action or omission was in the best interest of the Company; (iii) being indicted for, or if charged with but not indicted for, being tried for (a) a crime of embezzlement or a crime involving moral turpitude or (b) a crime with respect to the Company involving a breach of trust or dishonesty or (c) in either case, a plea of guilty or no contest to such a crime; or (iv) abuse of alcohol in the workplace, use of any illegal drug in the workplace or a presence under the influence of illegal drugs in the workplace. |
(b) | Termination by the Executive. The Executive may voluntarily terminate his employment upon forty-five (45) days prior written notice to the Company. As provided in the Original Agreement, because the Executive has served continuously since 1999, the Executive may, in his discretion, declare that such termination is for Good Reason and be entitled to the benefits of Section 6(c) hereof. |
(c) | Termination by the Company Without Cause. Termination of the Executives employment without Cause shall mean termination by the Company (i) for any reason other than for Cause, (ii) upon the death of the Executive, or (iii) in the Companys sole discretion, upon thirty (30) days prior written notice in the event the Executive becomes Disabled, as defined in any group long-term disability insurance maintained by the Company applicable to the Executive, or, if the Company shall not maintain such insurance, Disabled shall mean a determination by an independent physician acting reasonably and in good faith that the Executive is incapacitated by reason of a physical or mental illness which is long-term in nature and which prevents the Executive from performing the substantial and material duties of his employment with the Company, provided that such incapacity can reasonably be expected to prevent the Executive from working at least six months in any twelve month period. The Company may require the Executive to have the examination described in the preceding sentence at any time for the purpose of determining whether the Executive has a long-term disability, and the Executive agrees to submit to such examination upon request of the Board of Directors; provided that the Company shall pay all costs and expenses associated with such examination. |
6. | Effect of Termination. |
(a) | General. Regardless of the reason for termination of the Executives employment, the Executive shall be entitled to the following: |
(i) | payment of any unpaid portion of his Base Salary through the effective date of termination; |
(ii) | reimbursement for any outstanding reasonable business expense he has incurred in performing his duties hereunder; |
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(iii) | continued insurance benefits to the extent required by law; |
(iv) | payment of any accrued but unpaid amounts as required independently of this Agreement by the terms of any bonus or other incentive pay, or any other employee benefit plan or program of the Company, including but not limited to the Companys incentive compensation arrangements; and |
(v) | vesting of options and other equity awards pursuant to any option, restricted stock or similar equity award agreements through the date of termination. |
(b) | Termination by the Company for Cause or by the Executive Without Good Reason. If the Company terminates the Executives employment for Cause pursuant to Section 5(a) or the Executive terminates his employment without Good Reason pursuant to Section 5(b), the Executive shall have no rights or claims against the Company except to receive the payments and benefits described in Section 6(a). |
(c) | Termination by the Company Without Cause or by the Executive for Good Reason. If the Company terminates the Executives employment without Cause pursuant to Section 5(c), or the Executive terminates his employment for Good Reason pursuant to Section 5(b), the Executive shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the items referenced in Section 6(a): |
(i) | an amount equal to his Base Salary at the rate in effect on his last day of employment for a period of twenty-four months from the date of termination (the Severance Payment). Fifty percent (50%) of the Severance Payment shall be paid in a lump-sum amount within thirty (30) days of the date of termination and fifty percent (50%) of the Severance Payment shall be paid in approximately equal installments on the Companys regularly scheduled payroll dates, subject to all legally required payroll deductions and withholdings for sums owed by the Executive to the Company; |
(ii) | accelerated vesting as of the last day of his employment of all unvested portions of stock options and shares of restricted stock previously issued to the Executive, which options shall remain exercisable for the remainder of the option term; |
(iii) | a pro-rata share of any IC to which the Executive otherwise would have been entitled for the fiscal year in which his employment terminates, such pro-rated IC to be paid to the Executive within sixty (60) days following the end of the fiscal year in which such termination occurs; and |
(iv) | at the expense of the Company, continuation of the Executives family health and dental insurance policy in effect as of the date of termination for twenty-four (24) months following termination, or, in the event the Company cannot continue coverage of such policy, the Company shall pay for equivalent coverage for twenty-four (24) months following the Executives termination of employment. |
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(d) | Termination Following Change in Control. In the event of the Executives termination of employment following a Change of Control (as defined in the Severance Protection Agreement), the Executive shall be entitled to the benefits set forth in the Severance Protection Agreement. |
7. | Confidentiality and Inventions. |
The Executive acknowledges that he shall continue to be bound by the ICF Incorporated Employee Agreement on Ideas, Inventions, and Confidential Information executed by the Executive on September 16, 1987, and the ICF Incorporated Employee Confidentiality Agreement executed by the Executive on July 31, 1986.
8. | Non-Solicitation. |
(a) | Non-Solicitation of Clients. The Executive agrees that, for a period of (i) twenty-four (24) months from the date of termination of the Executives employment for Cause pursuant to Section 5(a) or by the Executive without Good Reason pursuant to Section 5(b), or (ii) twelve (12) months from the date of termination of the Executives employment without Cause pursuant to Section 5(c) by the Executive for Good Reason pursuant to Section 5(b) or the Severance Protection Agreement (the Client Non-Solicitation Term), the Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, solicit any Client of the Company (as defined below) for the purpose of providing services which are competitive with the Companys major practice areas, as described in the final prospectus relating to the Offering. The Executive further agrees that, during the Client Non-Solicitation Term, the Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, whether as employee, agent, partner, member, consultant or in any other capacity, participate, assist or be involved, in any respect, in any proposal or project which the Company is or was involved in during the one (1) year period prior to the date of termination of the Executives employment with the Company. |
(b) | Client of the Company shall mean any person or entity which is or was a client of the Company at any time during the one (1) year period prior to the termination of the Executives employment with the Company or any person or entity which the Company is or was soliciting during the one (1) year period prior to the termination of the Executives employment with the Company. If any such person or entity described above is an agency or department of any federal, state or local government, the Client of the Company shall be deemed to be only the specific agency or department with which the Company had or has a client relationship or to which the Company has made a solicitation and not any other agency or department of such federal, state or local government. |
(c) | Non-Solicitation of Employees. The Executive agrees that, for a period of (i) twenty-four (24) months from the date of termination of the Executives employment for Cause pursuant to Section 5(a) or by the Executive without Good Reason pursuant to Section 5(b), or (ii) eighteen (18) months from the date of termination of the Executives employment without Cause pursuant to Section 5(c) or by the Executive for Good Reason pursuant to Section 5(b), the Executive shall not hire, solicit or encourage, or cause others to solicit or encourage, any employee of the Company to terminate their employment with the Company. |
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary above, this Section shall not prohibit the Executive from hiring or attempting to hire, directly or indirectly, any former employee of the Company whose employment with the Company shall have terminated at least six (6) months prior to such efforts by the Executive. |
(d) | Acknowledgement. The Executive acknowledges that he will acquire much confidential information concerning the past, present and future business of the Company as the result of his employment, as well as access to the relationships between the Company and its clients and employees. The Executive further acknowledges that the business of the Company is very competitive and that competition by him in that business during his employment, or after his employment terminates, would severely injure the Company. The Executive understands and agrees that the restrictions contained in this Section 8 are reasonable and are required for the Companys legitimate protection, and do not unduly limit his ability to earn a livelihood. |
9. | Employee Representations and Warranties. The Executive represents and warrants to the Company as follows: |
(a) | The Executive is not now under any obligation of a contractual or other nature to any person, business or other entity which is inconsistent or in conflict with this Agreement or which would prevent him from performing his obligations under this Agreement. |
(b) | The Executive has never been affiliated with, in any capacity, a government contractor that has been suspended or debarred from its contract with the government during the Executives affiliation with such contractor. |
(c) | There are no pending or threatened claims against the Executive in any court or agency of any jurisdiction. |
10. | Arbitration. |
(a) | Any disputes between the Company and the Executive in any way concerning the Executives employment, the termination of his employment, this Agreement or its enforcement shall be submitted at the initiative of either party to mandatory arbitration in Fairfax County, Virginia before a single arbitrator pursuant to the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association, or its successor, then in effect. The decision of the arbitrator shall be rendered in writing, shall be final, and may be entered as a judgment in any court in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The parties irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of the federal and state courts located in the Commonwealth of Virginia for this purpose. Each party shall be responsible for its or his own costs incurred in such arbitration and in enforcing any arbitration award, including attorneys fees. |
(b) | Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company, in its sole discretion, may bring an action in any court of competent jurisdiction located in the Commonwealth of Virginia to seek injunctive relief and such other relief as the Company shall elect to enforce the Executives covenants in Section 8 of this Agreement. |
11. | Miscellaneous. |
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(a) | Notices. Any notices, requests, demands, waivers, comments, or other communications contemplated hereunder shall be deemed to have been duly given if personally delivered or if sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier, by facsimile, or by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested and postage prepaid, addressed as follows: |
If to the Company:
ICF International, Inc.
9300 Lee Highway
Fairfax, Virginia 22301
Attention: Chairman
If to the Executive:
ICF International, Inc.
9300 Lee Highway
Fairfax, Virginia 22301
Attention: Sudhakar Kesavan
and shall be deemed to have been received (a) in the case of personal delivery, on the date of such delivery, (b) in the case of a nationally recognized overnight courier, on the next business day after the date when sent, (c) in the case of facsimile transmission, when received, and (d) in the case of mailing, on the third business day following posting. |
(b) | Pronouns. Whenever the context may require, any pronouns used in this Agreement shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine or neuter forms, and the singular forms of nouns and pronouns shall include the plural, and vice versa. |
(c) | Entire Agreement. This Agreement, together with the Severance Protection Agreement, constitutes the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, whether written or oral, relating to the subject matter of this Agreement. In the event of a conflict between any terms of this Agreement and any terms of the Severance Protection Agreement or any of the other agreements mentioned herein, the terms of this Agreement shall govern, provided that the Severance Protection Agreement shall govern, in accordance with its terms, any termination of the Executives employment following a Change in Control as defined in the Severance Protection Agreement. |
(d) | Amendment. This Agreement may be amended or modified only by a written instrument executed by both the Company and the Executive. |
(e) | Governing Law. This Agreement shall be construed, interpreted and enforced in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without regard to its conflicts of laws principles. |
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(f) | Assignment. This Agreement is a personal contract and, except as specifically set forth herein, the rights and interests of the Executive herein may not be sold, transferred, assigned, pledged or hypothecated. |
(g) | Waiver. No delays or omission by the Company or the Executive in exercising any right under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver of that or any other right. A waiver or consent given by the Company or the Executive on any one occasion shall be effective only in that instance and shall not be construed as a bar or waiver of any right on any other occasion. |
(h) | Captions. The captions appearing in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and in no way define, limit or affect the scope or substance of any Section of this Agreement. |
(i) | Time. All references in this Agreement to periods of days are to calendar days, unless expressly provided otherwise. Where the time period specified in this Agreement would end on a weekend or holiday, the time period shall be deemed to end on the next business day. |
(j) | Severability. In case any provision of this Agreement shall be held by a court or arbitrator with jurisdiction over the parties to this Agreement to be invalid, illegal or otherwise unenforceable, such provision shall be restated to reflect, as nearly as possible, the original intentions of the parties in accordance with applicable law, and the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall in no way be affected or impaired thereby. |
(k) | Binding Effect. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties and their respective executors, administrators, personal representatives, heirs, assigns and successors in interest. |
(l) | Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. |
(m) | Survival of the Executives Rights. All of the Executives rights hereunder, including his rights to compensation and benefits pursuant to Section 4, rights upon termination pursuant to Section 6, and his obligations pursuant Section 8, shall survive the termination of the Executives employment and/or the termination of this Agreement. |
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the day and year first above written.
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Exhibit 10.6
EMPLOYMENT AND NON-COMPETE AGREEMENT
EMPLOYMENT AND NON-COMPETE AGREEMENT (Agreement), dated as of October 1, 2005, by and between ICF Consulting Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (hereinafter referred to as Employer), and Gerald Croan, an individual (hereinafter referred to as Employee) residing at the address set forth on the signature page hereof.
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, Employee has been employed by Caliber Associates, Inc. (Caliber);
WHEREAS, Employer has acquired all of the outstanding stock of Caliber;
WHEREAS, Employer desires to engage or employ Employee to perform services for Employer (or any present or future parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of Employer and any successor or assign of Employer) upon the terms and conditions set forth below, and Employee desires to accept employment upon such terms and conditions; and
WHEREAS, Employer and Employee desire to set forth in writing the terms and conditions of their agreements and understandings with respect to Employees employment by Employer.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:
1. EMPLOYMENT. Employer hereby employs Employee to serve in the position of Executive Vice President and Employee hereby accepts employment by Employer in such position, upon all of the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
2. TERM. This Agreement shall commence on October 1, 2005 and shall, subject to earlier termination as set forth in Section 9 hereof, continue until the close of business on the second anniversary of such date (the period commencing on the date hereof and continuing through such anniversary or earlier termination is hereinafter referred to as the Employment Term).
3. EMPLOYEES REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. Except as set forth on Exhibit A hereto, Employee represents, warrants and covenants to Employer that he is free to accept employment with Employer as contemplated herein and has no other written or oral obligations or commitments of any kind or nature which would in any way interfere with his acceptance of employment pursuant to the terms hereof or the full performance of his obligations hereunder or which would otherwise pose any conflict of interest.
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4. | DUTIES AND EXTENT OF SERVICES. |
(a) Duties and Extent of Service. During the first fifteen months of the Employment Term, Employee shall serve in the position of Executive Vice President and Practice Leader for Caliber, reporting to ICFs Chief Operating Officer and shall have such authority and perform such executive duties as are commensurate with such position. During the sixteenth through twenty fourth months of the Employment Term, Employee shall serve in the position of Executive Vice President of ICF Consulting with responsibilities as determined by ICFs Chief Operating Officer that may include practice management or may focus on strategic direction, business development or senior client management issues in federal and state and local consulting markets. During the sixteenth through twenty fourth months of the Employment Term, Employee shall report to ICFs Chief Operating Officer, or his or her designee, and shall have such authority and perform such duties as are commensurate with the defined position. Employee shall use reasonable efforts to serve Employer faithfully, diligently and competently. In addition, Employee will hold such other offices in Employer (or any affiliates of Employer) to which he may be elected, appointed or assigned from time to time, and to which he has consented, and shall discharge the duties related to such offices. To the best of his ability during the Employment Term, Employee agrees to devote his full and exclusive business time, skill, attention and energy diligently and competently to perform the duties and responsibilities assigned to him hereunder or pursuant hereto, provided he may manage personal investments, and, with the consent of Employer which shall not be unreasonably withheld, serve on civic or charitable boards. Employee shall be available to travel as the reasonable needs of the business require.
5. | COMPENSATION. |
(a) Base Salary. Subject to the provisions of Section 9 of this Agreement, during the Employment Term for all services rendered under this Agreement, Employer shall pay to Employee a base salary of One Hundred Eighty Four Thousand Dollars ($184,000) per annum (Salary), to be increased to One Hundred Ninety Four Thousand Dollars ($194,000) per annum on March 1, 2006. Salary shall be payable in accordance with Employers normal payroll practices for its employees and shall be subject to payroll deductions and tax withholdings in accordance with Employers usual practices and as required by law. Subsequent to the first annual salary increase, Employee shall receive salary increases annually consistent with Employers practices with respect to annual salary increases given to other employees of Employer with responsibilities and titles comparable to Employees.
(b) [Intentionally Omitted].
(c) Incentive Compensation Pool Plan. Commencing January 1, 2006, Employee shall be eligible to participate in the Employers Employee Annual Incentive Compensation Pool Plan (at a level determined on an annual basis) in accordance with the terms of such Plan. The Employees bonus range for 2006 shall be Zero to Sixty Thousand dollars ($0-$60,000)
(d) Purchase of Employer Stock. Employee will be given the opportunity to invest in Employer through the purchase of Employer common stock within three (3) months of
closing event between Employer and Caliber. Employees minimum investment, if any, will be $100,000 and the price per share at which the stock may be purchased shall be the then prevailing fair market value of a share, but in no event at a price greater than, or on terms less favorable then the price or terms under which stock is then being offered or sold to other ICF executives. Upon signing a non-disclosure agreement, Employee will receive a copy of the Information Memorandum for Management Shareholders.
6. | FRINGE BENEFITS AND EXPENSES; BOARD OBSERVER |
(a) Employee Benefits. Employee shall not be entitled to any benefits or fringe benefits except as specifically set forth in this Agreement and except for those, if any, made available by Employer from time to time (subject to applicable requirements for participation), in Employers sole discretion, to all of its other employees generally, which shall be available to Employee on a basis and under terms at least as favorable as those available to Employees peer executives.
(b) Group Insurance and Benefits Plans. During the Employment Term, Employee shall be entitled to participate (subject to applicable requirements for participation) in the applicable group health insurance and medical plans and group life insurance plan and group disability insurance plan maintained from time to time by Employer for its employees on a basis and under terms at least as favorable as those available to Employees peer executives.
(c) Expenses. Employer shall reimburse Employee for his reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses in connection with the performance of his duties and responsibilities hereunder, subject to the submission of appropriate vouchers, bills and receipts in accordance with Employers policies from time to time in effect, including sufficient detail to entitle Employer to income tax deductions for such paid items, if such items are so deductible.
7. | NON-COMPETITION. |
(a) The non-competition and non-solicitation of employee provisions set forth in Section 5.8 of that certain Stock Purchase Agreement, dated of even date herewith, among Employer, Employee, Caliber and the other parties named therein (the Stock Purchase Agreement) are incorporated herein by this reference as if fully set forth herein. In this connection, all defined terms in such provisions incorporated herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Stock Purchase Agreement. All references to this Section 7 shall be deemed include the provisions incorporated herein by reference.
(b) In connection with this Agreement, Employee, as a condition of his employment, shall execute and deliver to Employer the Croan/Bishop Employee Non-Solicitation/Non-Competition Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit B (the Non-Solicitation Agreement).
(c) Employee acknowledges that the Stock Purchase Agreement governing Employers acquisition of Caliber includes certain non-competition and non-solicitation covenants applicable to Employee. As between Sections 5.8 and 5.9 of the Stock Purchase
Agreement and the covenants contained in the Non-Solicitation Agreement, the more restrictive covenants shall apply to Employee.
(d) Employee acknowledges that the provisions of this Section 7 are reasonable in scope and duration and that he possesses sufficient skills such that he could be gainfully employed following the Employment Term without violating such provisions. If, in any judicial proceeding, a court refuses to enforce any of the covenants set forth in this Section 7 (or any part thereof), then such unenforceable covenant (or such part) shall be eliminated from this Agreement to the extent necessary to permit the remaining separate covenants (or portions thereof) to be enforced. In the event that the provisions of this Section 7 are deemed to exceed the time, geographic or scope limitations permitted by applicable law, then such provisions shall be reformed to the maximum time, geographic or scope limitations, as the case may be, permitted by applicable laws.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the restrictions set forth in this Section 7 shall immediately terminate and shall be of no further force or effect (i) in the event of default by Employer of the performance of any of its obligations hereunder, which default is not cured within ten (10) days after notice thereof, (ii) if Employees employment has been terminated by Employer other than for Cause, or (iii) if Employee resigns for Good Reason.
8. RETURN OF PROPERTY. All computer software, computer programs, source codes, object codes, magnetic tapes, printouts, samples, notes, records, reports, documents, schematics, customer lists, photographs, catalogs and other writings, whether copyrightable or not, relating to or dealing with Employers business and plans, and those of others entrusted to Employer which are prepared or created by Employee or which may come into his possession at any time during or as a result of his employment, are the property of Employer, and upon termination of his employment, Employee agrees to return all such computer software, computer programs, source codes, object codes, magnetic tapes, printouts, samples, notes, records, reports, documents, schematics, customer lists, photographs, catalogs and other writings and all copies thereof to Employer.
9. TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT.
(a) Termination Events and Certain Notices. Notwithstanding any provisions of this Agreement to the contrary, Employees employment and this Agreement may be terminated only as follows: (i) by Employer with Cause (as hereinafter defined), effective upon the delivery of written notice to Employee; (ii) by Employer without Cause, effective following advance notice of not less than thirty (30) days; (iii) by Employee with or without Good Reason, effective following advance notice of not less than thirty (30) days; (iv) upon Employees death; or (v) upon Employee becoming Disabled (as defined below), effective on the date of such disability event. Any notice pursuant to this Section 9 shall: (i) indicate the specific termination provision in this Agreement relied upon, (ii) in the case of termination under Section 9(b) or 9(c), set forth in reasonable detail the facts and circumstances claimed to provide a basis for termination of Employees employment under the provision so indicated (the failure by Employee or Employer to set forth in the notice any fact or circumstance shall not waive any right Employee or Employer hereunder or preclude Employee or Employer from asserting such
fact or circumstance in enforcing Employees or Employers rights hereunder), and (iii) the effective date of the termination, as determined in accordance with this Section 9(a) (the Date of Termination).
(b) Definitions of Cause and Disabled. For purposes of this Agreement, Cause shall mean: (i) willful fraud or embezzlement by Employee with respect to Employer, (ii) a material act of dishonesty with respect to Employer, or willful breach of fiduciary duty to Employer on the part of Employee in performance of employment duties, in each case, that is materially injurious to Employer, (iii) conviction of a felony, (iv) habitual drunkenness or drug addiction, (v) continued gross negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of employment duties after notice specifically identifying such negligence or misconduct, (vi) material abandonment or willful neglect of employment duties, (vii) repeated insubordination, after notice specifically identifying such insubordination, that is materially injurious to Employer, (viii) conduct on the part of Employee which results in governmental sanctions being imposed on Employer or Employee, (ix) events or items not covered by clauses (i) through (viii) which constitute a material breach by Employee of this Agreement which is not cured by Employee within thirty (30) days following his receipt of written notice thereof, or (x) material breach by Employee of any of his representations or warranties under this Agreement which, if curable, is not cured within thirty (30) days following notice to Employee thereof. Employee shall be deemed Disabled if, in Employers reasonable judgment after consultation with a doctor of its choice and acceptable to Employee or his legal representative (which may, but need not be, the doctor then treating Employee), Employee is unable, due to mental, emotional or physical injury or illness, to perform substantially all of his employment duties for a period of 120 consecutive days or 150 days within any period of 365 days; provided, however, that to the extent Employee is covered by a group disability insurance policy offered to employees of Employer, the term Disability shall be determined consistent therewith.
(c) Definition of Good Reason. For purposes of this Agreement, Good Reason shall mean, in the absence of the express written consent of Employee with respect thereto, a reasonable determination by Employee that any of the following has occurred: (i) the assignment to Employee of any duties inconsistent in any material respect with Employees position, authority, duties or responsibilities as defined in Section 4 of this Agreement, or any other action by Employer which results in a material diminution in such position, authority, duties or responsibilities; (ii) any failure by Employer to comply with any material provision of this Agreement applicable to it; (iii) the assignment of Employee to a location outside Washington, D.C. or Northern Virginia; (iv) a reduction of Employees Salary; or (v) the order, request or insistence by Employer that the Employee engage in any unlawful conduct.
(d) Effect of Termination For Cause or Employees Resignation. In the event that this Agreement is terminated by Employer with Cause, or in the event that Employee resigns from or quits his employment without Good Reason, Employer shall pay to Employee, within thirty (30) days following the date of such termination, Salary and any then accrued but unpaid bonus amounts payable to Employee and any compensation previously deferred by Employee to the extent not theretofore paid through the date of such termination. Subject to the requirements of Federal COBRA laws, Employee shall not be entitled to any other compensation, remuneration or other sums provided for in this Agreement.
(e) Compensation Upon Death or Disability. Upon the death of Employee, or termination of employment because Employee is Disabled, Employer shall pay to Employee, his legal guardian or the legal representative of Employees estate (or heir as designated by the legal representative of Employees estate at such time), within thirty (30) days following the date of Employees death or termination, the Salary, any accrued but unpaid bonus amounts payable to Employee and any compensation previously deferred by Employee to the extent not theretofore paid through the date of death or termination (to be paid when it otherwise would have been payable). In addition, any incentive stock options granted to Employee that have not vested shall be deemed automatically to have vested upon the date of such death or termination. Subject to the requirements of Federal COBRA laws, Employee (or such legal guardian, legal representative or any heirs) shall not be entitled to any other compensation, remuneration or other sums provided for in this Agreement or to which Employee might otherwise be entitled hereunder or at law or in equity, provided that Employee shall receive such disability and death benefits to which Employee may be entitled as a participant in the benefit plans of Employee in which employee participates, it being understood and agreed that if Employee is being paid under a disability insurance plan, Employer shall not be obligated to also pay Salary to Employee.
(f) Compensation Upon Termination Without Cause or Resignation for Good Reason. In the event that Employer terminates this Agreement without Cause or Employee resigns for Good Reason, Employer shall pay to Employee within thirty (30) days after the Date of Termination, the sum of (1) Employees Salary through the Date of Termination to the extent not theretofore paid; and (2) any accrued but unpaid bonus amounts payable to Employee. In addition, Employer shall pay to Employee severance pay equal to the greater of (i) the amount of Salary that would have been paid during the remainder of the Employment Term as would have been payable had termination not occurred or (ii) an amount equal to twenty (20) weeks of salary at the rate of Employees then base Salary. Any severance shall be payable in bi-weekly amounts equal to the bi-weekly compensation payments received by Employee prior to the termination until the severance pay is paid in full.
(g) Termination After the Employment Term. If at any time after the Employment Term, Employer terminates Employees employment relationship with Employer without Cause or Employee resigns for Good Reason, Employer shall pay to Employee within five (5) business days after the Date of Termination, the sum of (1) Employees Salary through the Date of Termination to the extent not theretofore paid; and (2) any accrued but unpaid bonus amounts and benefits payable to Employee. In addition, Employer shall pay to Employee within five (5) business days after the Date of Termination severance pay equal to the greater of (i) the amount of severance that would be payable under the Employers then existing severance payment plan or policy and (ii) an amount equal to twenty (20) weeks of salary at the rate of Employees then base salary. Any severance shall be payable in bi-weekly amounts equal to the bi-weekly compensation payments received by Employee prior to the termination until the severance pay is paid in full. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, this Section 9(g) shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement.
10. LAW APPLICABLE. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed pursuant to the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without giving effect to conflicts of laws principles.
11. NOTICES. Any notices required or permitted to be given pursuant to this Agreement shall be sufficient, if in writing and sent by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, to his residence, listed on the signature page of this Agreement, in the case of Employee, and to 9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax, Virginia 22031, Attention: Chief Operating Officer, in the case of Employer.
12. ASSIGNMENT, ETC. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective legal representatives, heirs, assignees and/or successors in interest of any kind whatsoever; provided, however, that Employee acknowledges and agrees that he cannot assign or delegate any of his rights, duties, responsibilities or obligations hereunder to any other person or entity. Employer may assign its rights under this Agreement to any affiliate of Employer or to any entity upon any sale of all or substantially all of the assets of Employer, or upon any merger or consolidation of Employer with or into any other entity, provided that such assignment shall not relieve Employer of its obligations hereunder without the written consent of Employee.
13. ENTIRE AGREEMENT; MODIFICATIONS. This Agreement, together with the Non-Solicitation Agreement, Agreement on Ideas, Inventions, and Confidentiality and the Code of Ethics Acknowledgment executed by Employee, constitutes the entire final agreement between the parties with respect to, and supersedes any and all prior agreements between the parties hereto both oral and written concerning, the subject matter hereof and may not be amended, modified or terminated except by a writing duly signed by the parties hereto.
14. SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this Agreement shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable, and is not reformed by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unenforceability shall attach only to such provision and shall not in any way affect or render invalid or unenforceable any other provision of this Agreement, and this Agreement shall be carried out as if such invalid or unenforceable provision were not contained herein.
15. NO WAIVER. A waiver of any breach or violation of any term, provision or covenant contained herein shall not be deemed a continuing waiver or a waiver of any future or past breach or violation. No oral waiver shall be binding. The failure of a party to insist upon strict adherence to any term of this Agreement on one or more occasions shall not be considered a waiver or deprive that party of the right thereafter to insist upon strict adherence to that term or any other term of this Agreement.
16. SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE. It is agreed and understood by the parties hereto that monetary damages alone are not an adequate remedy for any breach of the provisions of this Agreement, and its provisions may be specifically enforced by an injunction issued by a court of competent jurisdiction.
17. | ARBITRATION. |
(a) If a dispute arises out of or relates to this Agreement or the breach thereof, the parties agree to use their commercially reasonable efforts to resolve such dispute within a reasonable time through negotiations and efforts by the affected parties. If such dispute cannot be resolved by negotiation, the parties agree to submit the dispute to a sole mediator selected by the parties, or, if the parties are unable to agree to the sole mediator, the parties agree to submit the dispute to mediation under the rules of the American Arbitration Association (AAA). If not thus resolved, the dispute will be referred to a single arbitrator selected by the parties within thirty (30) days after the conclusion of mediation, or in the absence of such agreement on such selection, to AAA for selection in accordance with the rules of the AAA.
(b) Any resolution reached through mediation or award arising out of arbitration (i) shall be limited to a holding for or against a party, and affording such monetary remedy as is deemed equitable, just and within the scope of this Agreement; (ii) may in appropriate circumstances include injunctive relief; and (iii) may be entered in court in accordance with the United States Arbitration Act.
(c) The arbitrator may not limit, expand or otherwise modify the terms of this Agreement.
(d) The laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia shall apply to any mediation, arbitration, or litigation (for specific performance or interim measures as set forth in paragraph (f)) arising under this Agreement. All disputes and matters arising under, in connection with, or incident to this Agreement which are to be litigated, if at all, shall be litigated in and before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia or the courts of Fairfax County, Virginia.
(e) A request by a party to a court for interim measures or specific performance necessary to preserve a partys rights and remedies for resolution pursuant to this Section shall not be deemed a waiver of the obligation to mediate or agreement to arbitrate.
(f) The parties, their representatives, other participants and the mediator or arbitrator shall hold the existence, content and result of mediation or arbitration in confidence.
18. COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument, and it shall not be necessary in making proof of this agreement to account for all such counterparts.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands to this Agreement on the day and year first above written.
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By: | /s/ ALAN R. STEWART | |
Name: | Alan R. Stewart | |
Title: | CFO |
/s/ GERALD CROAN |
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NON-SOLICITATION/
NON -COMPETITION AGREEMENT
THIS NON-SOLICITATION/NON-COMPETITION AGREEMENT (the Agreement) is made on October 1, 2005 (date) by and between ICF CONSULTING GROUP, INC. including all of its subsidiaries (collectively, the Employer) and GERALD CROAN (the Employee).
WHEREAS, Employee was formerly an employee of Caliber;
WHEREAS, by the terms of Stock Purchase Agreement by and among ICF Consulting Group, Inc., Caliber Associates, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Trust, Caliber Associates, Inc., Gerald Croan and Sharon Bishop (the Stock Purchase Agreement), the Employer is to acquire Caliber (the Purchase Transaction);
WHEREAS, in connection with the Purchase Transaction, Employee is to become an employee of the Employer or one of its subsidiaries;
WHEREAS, as a condition of Employees initiation or continuation of employment with the Employer, the Employee and the Employer have entered into this Agreement; and
WHEREAS, in the course of employment, Employee has learned or will learn confidential information about the Employer and its clients and customers, improper use or disclosure of which could interfere with or disrupt the Employers business.
NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, each intending to be legally bound, agree as follows:
1. For a period of two (2) years after the Closing Date (all capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the definition provided in the Stock Purchase Agreement) or one year after Employee ceases to be employed by Employer, whichever is longer (the Non-Compete Period), Employee shall not, except for the benefit of Employer, in any way, directly or indirectly, through affiliates, subsidiaries, employees or agents or otherwise, manage, direct, operate, control, be employed by, associated with, or engage in, or participate in any of the foregoing or otherwise advise or assist in any way or be connected with or directly or indirectly own as partner, shareholder, proprietor, advisor or consultant or otherwise or, except as provided in paragraph (b) below, have any investment, interest in or right with respect to any enterprise, entity or business which competes with the Employer Business, as defined below.
(a) For purposes hereof, an Employer Business shall mean the business activities of Employer.
(b) Nothing herein shall prohibit Employee from being a passive owner of not more than five percent (5%) of the equity securities of a publicly traded enterprise.
(c) The foregoing shall not prevent Employee, after termination of employment with Employer, from participating, directly or indirectly, in any business activities of an entity or organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Code, provided (i) Employee gives ten (10) business days prior written notice to ICF of any such business activities that are otherwise prohibited in this Section 1 but for this clause and (ii) either (a) Employer consents to such activities in writing or (b) fails to respond to the notice by the tenth (10th) business day following such notice.
2. During the Non-Compete Period, Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, except for the benefit of Employer, solicit, attempt to solicit, offer employment, hire or otherwise persuade any person employed by Employer in the Employer Business to leave the employ of Employer or entice or persuade or attempt to persuade any such person to leave the employ of Employer. The preceding sentence shall not apply to any such person who is terminated by Employer (or any of its affiliates) or terminates his or her employment with Employer (or any of its affiliates) without any solicitation from Employee and six (6) months have elapsed since such termination.
3. During the Non-Compete Period, the Employee agrees that he or she will not, either individually for him or herself, or for the benefit of any other entity, either as employee, consultant, investor or in any other capacity whatsoever: (i) solicit to perform or perform for any Customer or Prospective Customer, any services of a nature or kind similar to and/or competitive with services provided by (or proposed to be provided by, as evidenced by Employers written records) Employer as of the Closing Date, or (ii) sell to any Customer or Prospective Customer any products that are similar and/or competitive with any products offered for sale by Employer as of the Closing Date. For purposes of this Agreement, Customer means any entity that has purchased services or goods from Employer at any time within two (2) years prior to the date the Employee ceases to be employed by Employer (the Look Back Period) and Prospective Customer means any entity either identified by Employer for solicitation (as evidenced by Employers written records), or solicited by Employer (as evidenced by Employers written records) during the Look Back Period.
4. Employee acknowledges that the provisions of this Agreement are reasonable in scope and duration. If, in any judicial proceeding, a court refuses to enforce any of the provisions set forth in this Agreement (or any part thereof), then such unenforceable provision (or such part) shall be eliminated from this Agreement to the extent necessary to permit the remaining separate provisions (or portions thereof) to be enforced. In the event that the provisions of this Agreement are deemed to exceed the time, geographic or scope limitations permitted by applicable law, then such provisions shall be reformed to the maximum time, geographic or scope limitations, as the case may be, permitted by applicable laws.
5. The provisions of this Agreement are necessary to protect the Employers business from unfair competition and other disruptions. The provisions of this Agreement are not unduly burdensome to the Employee and will not unduly restrict the Employees ability to earn a livelihood should the employment relationship between the Employer and Employee cease.
6. The remedies at law available to the Employer for any breach or threat of breach by the Employee of this Agreement will be inadequate, and the Employer shall be entitled to an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches of the provisions of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions thereof, in addition to any other remedy to which the Employer may be entitled at law or equity. In the event that either party prevails in any action to enforce the terms of this Agreement, such party shall be entitled to recover expenses incurred in enforcing these provisions, including reasonable attorneys fees and court costs.
7. The terms and enforcement of this Agreement are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without regard to conflict of laws rules. Any legal action relating to or arising from this Agreement will be brought in a state court of competent jurisdiction in Fairfax County, Virginia or in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, each venue being where the Employer maintains its principal place of business. The headings contained herein are for reference purposes only and shall not in any way affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Covenant on the date first above written.
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Exhibit 10.7
FORM OF
SEVERANCE PROTECTION AGREEMENT
SEVERANCE PROTECTION AGREEMENT dated , 2006, by and between ICF International, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Company), and (the Executive).
PURPOSE
The Board of Directors of the Company (the Board) recognizes that the possibility of a Change in Control (as hereinafter defined) of the Company exists and that the threat or occurrence of a Change in Control may result in the distraction of its key management personnel because of the uncertainties inherent in such a situation.
The Board has determined that it is essential and in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders to retain the services of the Executive in the event of the threat or occurrence of a Change in Control and to ensure the Executives continued dedication and efforts in such event without undue concern for the Executives personal financial and employment security.
In order to induce the Executive to remain in the employ of the Company, particularly in the event of the threat or occurrence of a Change in Control, the Company desires to enter into this Agreement to provide the Executive with certain benefits in the event the Executives employment is terminated as a result of, or in connection with, a Change in Control.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the respective agreements of the parties contained herein, it is agreed as follows:
SECTION 1. Definitions.
For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings set forth below:
Accrued Compensation means an amount which includes all amounts earned or accrued by the Executive through and including the Termination Date but not paid to the Executive on or prior to such date, including (a) all base salary, (b) reimbursement for all reasonable expenses incurred by the Executive on behalf of the Company during the period ending on the Termination Date, (c) all vacation pay and (d) all bonuses and incentive compensation (other than the Pro Rata Bonus).
Base Amount means the Executives average annual taxable W-2 compensation during the three years (or such lesser period as the Executive has been employed by the Company) prior to the year in which the Termination Date occurs and includes all amounts of the Executives base salary that are deferred under any qualified or non-qualified employee benefit plan of the Company or any other agreement or arrangement.
Beneficial Owner has the meaning as used in Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act. The terms Beneficially Owned and Beneficial Ownership each have a correlative meaning.
Board means the Board of Directors of the Company.
Bonus Amount means the annual bonus, if any, paid or payable to the Executive pursuant to any annual bonus or incentive plan maintained by the Company in respect of the fiscal year ending immediately prior to the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs. Bonus Amount includes only the short-term incentive portion of the annual bonus and does not include restricted stock awards, options or other long-term incentive compensation awarded to Executive.
Cause for the termination of the Executives employment with the Company shall mean any of the following: (a) any act that would constitute a material violation of the Companys material written policies; (b) willfully engaging in conduct materially and demonstrably injurious to the Company, provided, however, that no act or failure to act, on the Executives part, shall be considered willful unless done, or omitted to be done, by the Executive not in good faith and without reasonable belief that [his/her] action or omission was in the best interest of the Company; (c) being indicted for, or if charged with but not indicted for, being tried for (i) a crime of embezzlement or a crime involving moral turpitude or (ii) a crime with respect to the Company involving a breach of trust or dishonesty or (iii) in either case, a plea of guilty or no contest to such a crime; or (d) abuse of alcohol in the workplace, use of any illegal drug in the workplace or a presence under the influence of illegal drugs in the workplace.
Change of Control of the Company means, and shall be deemed to have occurred upon, any of the following events:
(a) The acquisition by any person (as defined in Section 3(a)(9) of the Exchange Act and used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) thereof, including a group as defined in Section 13(d) thereof) of beneficial ownership (as defined in Rule 13d-3 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange Act) of thirty-five percent (35%) or more of the outstanding voting securities; provided, however, that the following acquisitions shall not constitute a Change in Control for purposes of this subparagraph (a): (A) any acquisition directly from the Company; (B) any acquisition by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (C) any acquisition by any employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; or (D) any acquisition by any corporation pursuant to a transaction which complies with clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of subparagraph (c) below; or
(b) Individuals who, as of July , 2006, constitute the Board (the Incumbent Board) cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the Board; provided, however, that any individual who becomes a director of the Company subsequent to July 31, 2006 and whose election, or whose nomination for election by the Companys stockholders, to the Board was either (i) approved by a vote of at least a majority of the directors then comprising the Incumbent Board or (ii) recommended by a nominating committee comprised entirely of directors who are then Incumbent Board members shall be considered as though such individuals were a member of the Incumbent Board, but excluding, for this purpose, any such individual
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whose initial assumption of office occurs as a result of either an actual or threatened election contest (as such terms are used in Rule 14a-11 of Regulation 14A promulgated under the Exchange Act), other actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents or an actual or threatened tender offer; or
(c) Consummation of a reorganization, merger, or consolidation or sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company (a Business Combination), in each case unless following such Business Combination, (i) all or substantially all of the persons who were the Beneficial Owners, respectively, of the outstanding shares and outstanding voting securities immediately prior to such Business Combination own, directly or indirectly, more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors of the Company, as the case may be, of the entity resulting from the Business Combination (including, without limitation, an entity which as a result of such transaction owns the Company or all or substantially all of the Companys assets either directly or through one or more subsidiaries) in substantially the same proportions as their ownership, immediately prior to such Business Combination, of the outstanding voting securities (provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (i) any shares of common stock or voting securities of such resulting entity received by such Beneficial Owners in such Business Combination other than as the result of such Beneficial Owners ownership of outstanding shares or outstanding voting securities immediately prior to such Business Combination shall not be considered to be owned by such Beneficial Owners for the purposes of calculating their percentage of ownership of the outstanding common stock and voting power of the resulting entity); (ii) no person (excluding any entity resulting from such Business Combination or any employee benefit plan (or related trust) of the Company or such entity resulting from the Business Combination) beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, thirty-five percent (35%) or more of the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of such entity resulting from the Business Combination unless such person owned thirty-five percent (35%) or more of the outstanding shares or outstanding voting securities immediately prior to the Business Combination; and (iii) at least a majority of the members of the Board of the entity resulting from such Business Combination were members of the Incumbent Board at the time of the execution of the initial agreement, or the action of the Board, providing for such Business Combination; or
(d) Approval by the Companys stockholders of a complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company.
For purposes of clause (c), any person who acquires outstanding voting securities of the entity resulting from the Business Combination by virtue of ownership, prior to such Business Combination, of outstanding voting securities of both the Company and the entity or entities with which the Company is combined shall be treated as two persons after the Business Combination, who shall be treated as owning outstanding voting securities of the entity resulting from the Business Combination by virtue of ownership, prior to such Business Combination of, respectively, outstanding voting securities of the Company, and of the entity or entities with which the Company is combined.
Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
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Company means ICF International, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and includes its Successors.
Continuation Period has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(b)(iii).
Disability means the status of disability as defined in any group long-term disability insurance maintained by the Company applicable to the Executive, or, if the Company shall not maintain such insurance, Disabled shall mean a determination by an independent physician acting reasonably and in good faith that the Executive is incapacitated by reason of a physical or mental illness which is long-term in nature and which prevents the Executive from performing the substantial and material duties of his employment with the Company, provided that such incapacity can reasonably be expected to prevent the Executive from working at least six months in any twelve month period. The Company may require the Executive to have the examination described in the preceding sentence at any time for the purpose of determining whether the Executive has a long-term disability, and the Executive agrees to submit to such examination upon request of the Board of Directors, provided that the Company shall pay all costs and expenses associated with such examination.
Full Release means a written release, timely executed so that it is fully effective as of the date of payment pursuant to Section 3(b)(ii), in a form satisfactory to the Company (and similar to the Agreement set forth in Exhibit A), pursuant to which the Executive fully and completely releases the Company from all claims that the Executive may have against the Company (other than any claims that may arise or have arisen under this Agreement).
Good Reason means the occurrence after a Change in Control of any of the events or conditions described in clauses (a) through (f) hereof, without the Executives prior written consent:
(a) any (i) material adverse change in the Executives status, title, position or responsibilities (including reporting responsibilities) from the Executives status, title, position or responsibilities as in effect at any time within 180 days preceding the date of the Change in Control or at any time thereafter, (ii) assignment to the Executive of duties or responsibilities which are inconsistent with the Executives status, title, position or responsibilities as in effect at any time within 180 days preceding the date of the Change in Control or at any time thereafter, or (iii) in the case of an Executive who is an executive officer of the Company a significant portion of whose responsibilities relate to the Companys status as a public company, the failure of such Executive to continue to serve as an executive officer of a public company, in each case except in connection with the termination of the Executives employment for Disability, Cause, as a result of the Executives death or by the Executive other than for Good Reason;
(b) a reduction in Executives base salary or any failure to pay the Executive any cash compensation to which the Executive is entitled within fifteen (15) days after the date when due;
(c) the imposition of a requirement that the Executive be based (i) at any place outside a 50-mile radius from the Executives principal place of employment immediately prior to the Change in Control or (ii) at any location other than the Companys corporate headquarters
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or, if applicable, the headquarters of the business unit by which [he/she] was employed immediately prior to the Change in Control, except, in each case, for reasonably required travel on Company business which is not materially greater in frequency or duration than prior to the Change in Control;
(d) the insolvency or the filing (by any party, including the Company) of a petition for bankruptcy with respect to the Company, which petition is not dismissed within 60 days;
(e) any material breach by the Company of any provision of this Agreement; or
(f) the failure of the Company to obtain, as contemplated in Section 7, an agreement, reasonably satisfactory to the Executive, from any Successor to assume and agree to perform this Agreement.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, no termination will be deemed to be for Good Reason hereunder if it results from an isolated, insubstantial and inadvertent action not taken by the Company in bad faith and which is remedied by the Company promptly after receipt of notice thereof given by the Executive.
Notice of Termination means a written notice from the Company or the Executive of the termination of the Executives employment which indicates the specific termination provision in this Agreement relied upon and which sets forth in reasonable detail the facts and circumstances claimed to provide a basis for termination of the Executives employment under the provision so indicated.
Person has the meaning as used in Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act, and will include any group as such term is used in such sections.
Pro Rata Bonus means an amount equal to the Bonus Amount multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days elapsed in the then fiscal year through and including the Termination Date and the denominator of which is 365; provided that the provisions of this Agreement providing for the payment of a Pro Rata Bonus amount shall not be interpreted to call for the payment of amounts duplicative of amounts paid as part of the Base Amount.
Securities Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Subsidiary means any corporation or entity with respect to which another specified corporation or entity has the power under ordinary circumstances to vote or direct the voting of sufficient securities to elect a majority of the directors or other managers.
Successor means a corporation or other entity acquiring all or substantially all the assets and business of the Company, whether by operation of law, by assignment or otherwise.
Termination Date means (a) in the case of the Executives death, the Executives date of death, (b) in the case of the termination of the Executives employment with the Company by the Executive for Good Reason, five days after the date the Notice of Termination is received by
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the Company, and (c) in all other cases, the date specified in the Notice of Termination; provided that if the Executives employment is terminated by the Company for Cause or due to Disability, the date specified in the Notice of Termination will be at least 30 days after the date the Notice of Termination is given to the Executive.
SECTION 2. Term of Agreement.
The term of this Agreement (the Term) will commence on the date hereof and will continue in effect until December 31, 2008; provided that on December 31, 2008 and each anniversary of such date thereafter, the Term shall automatically be extended for one additional year unless, not later than October 1 of such year, the Company or the Executive shall have given notice not to extend the Term; and further provided that, in the event a Change in Control occurs during the Term, the Term will be extended to the date 24 months after the date of the occurrence of such Change in Control.
SECTION 3. Termination of Employment.
3.1 If, during the Term, the Executives employment with the Company is terminated within 24 months following a Change in Control, the Executive will be entitled to the following compensation and benefits:
(a) If the Executives employment with the Company is terminated (i) by the Company for Cause or Disability, (ii) by reason of the Executives death or (iii) by the Executive other than for Good Reason, the Company will pay to the Executive the Accrued Compensation and, if such termination is other than by the Company for Cause, a Pro Rata Bonus.
(b) If the Executives employment with the Company is terminated for any reason other than as specified in Section 3.1(a), the Executive will be entitled to the following:
(i) the Company will pay the Executive all Accrued Compensation and a Pro Rata Bonus;
(ii) subject to the Executive providing the Company with a Full Release, the Company will pay the Executive as severance pay, and in lieu of any further compensation for periods subsequent to the Termination Date, in a single payment an amount in cash equal to three (3) times the Base Amount;
(iii) subject to the Executive providing the Company with a Full Release and complying with [his/her] obligations under Section 6, the Company will, for a period of 36 months (the Continuation Period), at its expense provide to the Executive and the Executives dependents and beneficiaries the same or equivalent life insurance, disability, medical, dental, hospitalization, financial counseling and tax consulting benefits (the Continuation Period Benefits) provided to other similarly situated executives who continue in the employ of the Company during the Continuation Period (similarly situated executives). The obligations of the Company to provide the Executive and the Executives dependents and beneficiaries with the Continuation
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Period Benefits shall not restrict or limit the Companys right to terminate or modify the benefits made available by the Company to its similarly situated executives or other employees, and following any such termination or modification, the Continuation Period Benefits that Executive (and the Executives dependents and beneficiaries) shall be entitled to receive shall be so terminated or modified. The Companys obligations hereunder with respect to the foregoing benefits will be limited to the extent that the Executive obtains any such benefits pursuant to a subsequent employers benefit plans, in which case the Company may reduce the coverage of any benefits it is required to provide the Executive hereunder as long as the coverages and benefits of the combined benefit plans are no less favorable to the Executive than the coverages and benefits required to be provided hereunder. This Section 3.1(b) will not be interpreted so as to limit any benefits to which the Executive or the Executives dependents or beneficiaries may be entitled under any of the Companys employee benefit plans, programs or practices following the Executives termination of employment;
(iv) the Company shall provide the Executive with outplacement services suitable to the Executives position for a period of 12 months or, if earlier, until the first acceptance by the Executive of an offer of employment; and
(v) such other acceleration of vesting and other benefits provided in other Company plans or agreements regarding options to purchase Company stock, restricted stock, deferral of stock or other equity compensation awards granted to or otherwise applicable to Executive.
(c) The amounts provided for in Section 3.1(a) and Sections 3.1(b)(i), (ii) and (iv) will be paid in a single lump sum cash payment by the Company to the Executive within five business days after the Termination Date.
(d) The Executive will not be required to mitigate the amount of any payment provided for in this Agreement by seeking other employment or otherwise, and no such payment will be offset or reduced by the amount of any compensation or benefits provided to the Executive in any subsequent employment, except as specifically provided in Section 3.1(b)(iii) and 3.1(b)(iv).
3.2 Except as otherwise provided herein, the compensation to be paid to the Executive pursuant to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(b)(i) and 3.1(b)(ii) of this Agreement will be in lieu of any similar severance or termination compensation (i.e., compensation based directly on the Executives annual salary or annual salary and bonus) to which the Executive may be entitled under any other Company severance or termination agreement, plan, program, policy, practice or arrangement. With respect to any other compensation and benefit to be paid or provided to the Executive pursuant to this Section 3, the Executive will have the right to receive such compensation or benefit as herein provided or, if determined by the Executive to be more advantageous to the Executive, similar compensation or benefits to which the Executive may be entitled under any other Company severance or termination agreement, plan, program, policy, practice or arrangement. The Executives entitlement to any compensation or benefits of a type
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not provided in this Agreement will be determined in accordance with the Companys employee benefit plans and other applicable programs, policies and practices as in effect from time to time.
SECTION 4. Notice of Termination.
Following a Change in Control, any purported termination of the Executives employment by the Company will be communicated by a Notice of Termination to the Executive. For purposes of this Agreement, no such purported termination will be effective without such Notice of Termination.
SECTION 5. Excise Tax Adjustments.
5.1 In the event Executive becomes entitled to Severance Benefits under Section 3(b) herein, and the Company determines that the benefits provided in Section 3(b) (with the Severance Benefits, the Total Payments) will be subject to the tax (the Excise Tax) imposed by Section 4999 of the Code, or any similar tax that may hereafter be imposed, the Company shall compute the Net After-Tax Amount, and the Reduced Amount, and shall adjust the Total Payments as described below. The Net After-Tax Amount shall mean the present value of all amounts payable to the Executive hereunder, net of all federal income, excise and employment taxes imposed on the Executive by reason of such payments. The Reduced Amount shall mean the largest aggregate amount of the Total Payments that, if paid to the Executive, would result in the Executive receiving a Net After-Tax Amount that is equal to or greater than the Net After-Tax Amount that the Executive would have received if the Total Payments had been made. If the Company determines that there is a Reduced Amount, the Total Payments will be reduced to the Reduced Amount. Such reduction shall be made by the Company with respect to benefits in the order and in the amounts suggested by the Executive, except to the extent that the Company determines that a different reduction or set of reductions would significantly reduce the costs or administrative burdens of the Company.
5.2 For purposes of determining whether the Total Payments will be subject to the Excise Tax and the amounts of such Excise Tax and for purposes of determining the Reduced Amount and the Net After-Tax Amount:
(a) Any other payments or benefits received or to be received by the Executive in connection with a Change in Control of the Company or the Executives termination of employment (whether pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other plan, arrangement, or agreement with the Company, or with any individual, entity, or group of individuals or entities (individually and collectively referred to in this subsection (b) as Persons) whose actions result in a Change in Control of the Company or any Person affiliated with the Company or such Persons) shall be treated as parachute payments within the meaning of Section 280G(b)(2) of the Code, and all excess parachute payments within the meaning of Section 280G(b)(1) of the Code shall be treated as subject to the Excise Tax, unless, in the opinion of a tax advisor selected by the Company and reasonably acceptable to the Executive (Tax Counsel), such other payments or benefits (in whole or in part) should be treated by the courts as representing reasonable compensation for services actually rendered (within the meaning of Section 280G(b)(4)(B) of the Code), or otherwise not subject to the Excise Tax;
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(b) The amount of the Total Payments that shall be treated as subject to the Excise Tax shall be equal to the lesser of (i) the total amount of the Total Payments or (ii) the amount of excess parachute payments within the meaning of Section 280G(b)(1) of the Code (after applying clause (a) above);
(c) In the event that the Executive disputes any calculation or determination made by the Company, the matter shall be determined by Tax Counsel. All fees and expenses of Tax Counsel shall be borne solely by the Company; and
(d) The Executive shall be deemed to pay federal income taxes at the highest marginal rate of federal income taxation in the calendar year in which the Gross-Up Payment is to be made, and state and local income taxes at the highest marginal rate of taxation in the state and locality of the Executives residence on the effective date of employment, net of the maximum reduction in federal income taxes which could be obtained from deduction of such state and local taxes, taking into account the reduction in itemized deduction under Section 68 of the Code.
SECTION 6. Covenants of the Executive.
During the Continuation Period following any Change in Control pursuant to which the Executive receives the severance payment pursuant to Section 3.1(b)(ii), the Executive Covenants and agrees as follows:
(a) the Executive agrees to comply with [his/her] obligations under the Invention and Confidentiality Agreement that [he/she] entered into with the Company; and
(b) the Executive acknowledges that the Executive has knowledge of confidential and proprietary information concerning the current salary, benefits, skills, and capabilities of Company employees and that it would be improper for the Executive to use such Company proprietary information in any manner adverse to the Companys interests. The Executive agrees that [he/she] will not recruit or solicit for employment, directly or indirectly, any employee of the Company during the Continuation Period.
SECTION 7. Successors; Binding Agreement.
This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the Company and its Successors, and the Company will require any Successors to expressly assume and agree to perform this Agreement in the same manner and to the same extent that the Company would be required to perform it if no such succession or assignment had taken place. Neither this Agreement nor any right or interest hereunder will be assignable or transferable by the Executive or by the Executives beneficiaries or legal representatives, except by will or by the laws of descent and distribution. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Executives legal representatives.
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SECTION 8. Fees and Expenses.
The Company will pay as they become due all legal fees and related expenses (including the costs of experts) incurred by the Executive, in good faith, in (a) contesting or disputing, any termination of employment and (b) seeking to obtain or enforce any right or benefit provided by this Agreement or by any other plan or arrangement maintained by the Company under which the Executive is or may be entitled to receive benefits. If the dispute is resolved by a final decision of an arbitrator pursuant to Section 15 in the favor of the Company, the Executive shall reimburse the Company for all such legal fees and related expenses (including costs of experts) paid by the Company on behalf of the Executive.
SECTION 9. Notice.
For the purposes of this Agreement, notices and all other communications provided for in this Agreement (including the Notice of Termination) will be in writing and will be deemed to have been duly given when personally delivered or sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, addressed to the respective addresses last given by each party to the other, provided that all notices to the Company will be directed to the attention of the Board with a copy to the Secretary of the Company. All notices and communications will be deemed to have been received on the date of delivery thereof or on the third business day after the mailing thereof, except that notice of change of address will be effective only upon receipt.
SECTION 10. Dispute Concerning Termination.
If prior to the Date of Termination (as determined without regard to this Section 10) the party receiving the Notice of Termination notifies the other party that a dispute exists concerning the termination, the Date of Termination shall be extended until the earlier of (a) the date on which the Term ends or (b) the date on which the dispute is finally resolved, either by mutual written agreement of the parties or by a final judgment, order or decree of an arbitrator or a court of competent jurisdiction (which is not appealable or with respect to which the time for appeal therefrom has expired and no appeal has been perfected); provided, however, that the Date of Termination shall be extended by a notice of dispute given by the Executive only if such notice is given in good faith and the Executive pursues the resolution of such dispute with reasonable diligence.
SECTION 11. Compensation During Dispute.
If a purported termination occurs following a Change in Control and during the Term and the Date of Termination is extended in accordance with Section 10 hereof, the Company shall continue to pay the Executive the full compensation in effect when the notice giving rise to the dispute was given (including, but not limited to, salary) and continue the Executive as a participant in all compensation, benefit and insurance plans in which the Executive was participating when the Notice of Termination was given, until the Date of Termination, as determined in accordance with Section 10 hereof. Amounts paid under this Section 11 are in addition to all other amounts due under this Agreement and shall not be offset against or reduce any other amounts due under this Agreement or otherwise.
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SECTION 12. Nonexclusivity of Rights.
Nothing in this Agreement will prevent or limit the Executives continuing or future participation in any benefit, bonus, incentive or other plan or program provided by the Company for which the Executive may qualify, nor will anything herein limit or reduce such rights as the Executive may have under any other agreements with the Company (except for any severance or termination agreement). Amounts which are vested benefits or which the Executive is otherwise entitled to receive under any plan or program of the Company will be payable in accordance with such plan or program, except as specifically modified by this Agreement.
SECTION 13. No Set-Off.
The Companys obligation to make the payments provided for in this Agreement and otherwise to perform its obligations hereunder will not be affected by any circumstances, including any right of set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which the Company may have against the Executive or others.
SECTION 14. Miscellaneous.
No provision of this Agreement may be modified, waived or discharged unless such waiver, modification or discharge is agreed to in writing and signed by the Executive and the Company. No waiver by either party hereto at any time of any breach by the other party hereto of, or compliance with, any condition or provision of this Agreement to be performed by such other party will be deemed a waiver of similar or dissimilar provisions or conditions at the same or at any prior or subsequent time. No agreement or representation, oral or otherwise, expressed or implied, with respect to the subject matter hereof has been made by either party which is not expressly set forth in this Agreement.
SECTION 15. Governing Law and Binding Arbitration.
This Agreement will be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware without giving effect to the conflict of laws principles thereof. Any controversy, claim or other dispute arising out of or relating to this Agreement, or the breach thereof, shall be resolved exclusively by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration rules. To the maximum extent possible all aspects of the arbitration shall be confidential, except the judgment, if and when it is filed with a court. The place of arbitration shall be Fairfax County, Virginia, and judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator(s) may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. If there is any arbitration or litigation between the parties arising out of or related to this Agreement, the prevailing party will be entitled to recover, in addition to the relief awarded, all reasonable costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys, accountants and other professionals fees and expenses) whether, in arbitration, at trial, on appeal or in bankruptcy. In determining the costs and expenses to be awarded the prevailing party, the arbitrator or the court is not bound by the Virginia rules and case law regarding reimbursable costs, but should instead venture to make the prevailing party whole by awarding all reasonable costs incurred in connection with the litigation.
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SECTION 16. Severability.
The provisions of this Agreement will be deemed severable and the invalidity or unenforceability of any provision will not affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions hereof.
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SECTION 17. Entire Agreement.
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties hereto and supersedes all prior agreements, if any, understandings and arrangements, oral or written, between the parties hereto with respect to severance protection following a Change in Control.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed and delivered this Agreement as of the date first above written.
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Exhibit A
to
Severance Protection Agreement
RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS AND POTENTIAL CLAIMS
1. This Release of All Claims and Potential Claims (Release) is entered into by and between (Executive) and ICF International, Inc. (hereinafter ICF). Executive and ICF have previously entered into a Severance Protection Agreement dated (Severance Agreement). In consideration of the promises made herein and the consideration due Executive under the Severance Agreement, this Release is entered into between the parties.
2. The purposes of this Release are to settle completely and release ICF, its individual and/or collective officers, directors, stockholders, agents, parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, predecessors, successors, assigns, employees (including all former employees, officers, directors, stockholders and/or agents), attorneys, representatives and employee benefit programs (including the trustees, administrators, fiduciaries and insurers of such programs) (referred to collectively as Releasees) in a final and binding manner from every claim and potential claim for relief, cause of action and liability of any and every kind, nature and character whatsoever, known or unknown, that Executive has or may have against Releasees arising out of, relating to or resulting from any events occurring prior to the execution of this Release, including but not limited to any claims and potential claims for relief, causes of action and liabilities arising out of, relating to or resulting from the employment relationship between Executive and ICF and/or the termination of that relationship including any and all claims and rights under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and any personal gain with respect to any claim arising under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. 3730, but excluding any rights or benefits to which Executive is entitled under the Severance Agreement.
3. This Release is:
(a) A compromise settlement of all such claims and potential claims, known or unknown, and therefore this Release does not constitute either an admission of liability on the part of Executive and ICF or an admission, directly or by implication, that Executive and/or ICF have violated any law, rule, regulation, contractual right or any other duty or obligation. The parties hereto specifically deny that they have violated any law, rule, regulation, contractual right or any other duty or obligation.
(b) Entered into freely and voluntarily by Executive and ICF solely to avoid further costs, risks and hazards of litigation and to settle all claims and potential claims and disputes, known or unknown, in a final and binding manner.
4. For and in consideration of the promises and covenants made by Executive to ICF and ICF to Executive contained herein, Executive and ICF have agreed and do agree as follows:
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(a) Executive waives, releases and forever discharges Releasees from any claims and potential claims for relief, causes of action and liabilities, known or unknown, that [he/she] has or may have against Releasees arising out of, relating to or resulting from any events occurring prior to the execution of this Release, including but not limited to any claims and potential claims for relief, causes of action and liabilities of any and every kind, nature and character whatsoever, known or unknown, arising out of, relating to or resulting from the employment relationship between Executive and ICF and the termination of that relationship, including any and all claims and rights under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and any personal gain with respect to any claim arising under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. 3730, but excluding any rights or benefits to which Executive is entitled under the Severance Agreement.
(b) Executive agrees that [he/she] will not directly or indirectly institute any legal proceedings against Releasees before any court, administrative agency, arbitrator or any other tribunal or forum whatsoever by reason of any claims and potential claims for relief, causes of action and liabilities of any and every kind, nature and character whatsoever, known or unknown, arising out of, relating to or resulting from any events occurring prior to the execution of this Release, including but not limited to any claims and potential claims for relief, causes of action and liabilities arising out of, relating to or resulting from the employment relationship between Executive and ICF and/or the termination of that relationship including any and all claims and rights under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
(c) Executive is presently unaware of any injuries that [he/she] may have suffered as a result of working at ICF and has no present intention of filing a workers compensation claim. Should any such claim arise in the future, Executive waives and releases any right to proceed against ICF for such a claim. Executive also waives any right to bring any disability claim against ICF or its carrier.
5. As a material part of the consideration for this Agreement, Executive and [his/her] agents and attorneys agree to keep completely confidential and not disclose to any person or entity, except immediate family, attorney, accountant, or tax preparers, or in response to a court order or subpoena, the terms and/or conditions of this Release and/or any understandings, agreements, provisions and/or information contained herein or with regard to the employment relationship between Executive and ICF. Executive understands and agrees that ICF may be required by law to report all or a portion of the amounts paid to Executive and/or [his/her] attorney in connection with this Agreement to the taxing authorities.
6. Any dispute, claim or controversy of any kind or nature, including but not limited to the issue of arbitrability, arising out of or relating to this Release, or the breach thereof, or any disputes which may arise in the future, shall be resolved exclusively by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration rules. To the maximum extent possible all aspects of the arbitration shall be confidential, except the judgment if and when it is filed with a court. The place of arbitration shall be Fairfax County, Virginia, and judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator(s) may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. If there is any arbitration or litigation between the parties arising out of or related to this Agreement, the prevailing party will be entitled to recover, in addition to the
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relief awarded, all reasonable costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys, accountants and other professionals fees and expenses) whether in arbitration, at trial, on appeal or in bankruptcy. In determining the costs and expenses to be awarded the prevailing party, the arbitrator or the court is not bound by the Virginia rules and case law regarding reimbursable costs, but should instead venture to make the prevailing party whole by awarding all reasonable costs incurred in connection with the litigation
7. It is further understood and agreed that Executive has not relied upon any advice whatsoever from ICF and/or its attorneys individually and/or collectively as to the taxability, whether pursuant to Federal, state or local income tax statutes or regulations, or otherwise, of the consideration transferred hereunder and that [he/she] will be solely liable for all of [his/her] tax obligations. Executive understands and agrees that ICF may be required by law to report all or a portion of the amounts paid to [him/her] and/or [his/her] attorney in connection with this Release to federal and state taxing authorities. Executive waives, releases, forever discharges and agrees to indemnify, defend and hold ICF harmless with respect to any actual or potential tax obligations imposed by law.
8. It is further understood and agreed that Releasees and/or their attorneys shall not be further liable either jointly and/or severally to Executive and/or [his/her] attorneys individually or collectively for costs and/or attorneys fees, including any provided for by statute, nor shall Executive and/or [his/her] attorneys be liable either jointly and/or severally to ICF and/or its attorneys individually and/or collectively for costs and/or attorneys fees, including any provided for by statute.
9. Executive understands and agrees that if the facts with respect to which this Release are based are found hereafter to be other than or different from the facts now believed by [him/her] to be true, [he/she] expressly accepts and assumes the risk of such possible difference in facts and agrees that this Release shall be and remain effective notwithstanding such difference in facts.
10. Executive understands and agrees that there is a risk that the damage and/or injury suffered by Executive may become more serious than [he/she] now expects or anticipates. Executive expressly accepts and assumes this risk, and agrees that this Release shall be and remains effective notwithstanding any such misunderstanding as to the seriousness of said injuries or damage.
11. Executive understands and agrees that if [he/she] hereafter commences any suit arising out of, based upon or relating to any of the claims and potential claims for relief, causes of action and liability of any and every kind, nature and character whatsoever, known or unknown, [he/she] has released herein, Executive agrees to pay Releasees, and each of them, in addition to any other damages caused to Releasees thereby, all attorneys fees incurred by Releasees in defending or otherwise responding to said suit.
12. It is further understood and agreed that this Release shall be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of Executives spouse, heirs, successors, assigns, agents, employees, representatives, executors and administrators and shall be binding upon and will inure to the
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benefit of the individual and/or collective successors and assigns of Releasees and their successors, assigns, agents and/or representatives.
13. This Release shall be construed in accordance with and governed for all purposes by the laws of the State of Delaware.
14. Executive agrees that [he/she] will not seek future employment with, nor need to be considered for any future openings with ICF, any division thereof, or any subsidiary or related corporation or entity.
15. If any part of this Agreement is found to be either invalid or unenforceable, the remaining portions of this Agreement will still be valid.
16. This Agreement is intended to release and discharge any claims of Executive under the Age Discrimination and Employment Act. To satisfy the requirements of the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act, 29 U.S.C. Section 626(f), the parties agree as follows:
A. Executive acknowledges that [he/she] has read and understands the terms of this Agreement.
B. Executive acknowledges that [he/she] has been advised in writing to consult with an attorney, if desired, concerning this Agreement and has received all advice [he/she] deems necessary concerning this Agreement.
C. Executive acknowledges that [he/she] has been given twenty-one (21) days to consider whether or not to enter into this Agreement, has taken as much of this time as necessary to consider whether to enter into this Agreement, and has chosen to enter into this Agreement freely, knowingly and voluntarily.
D. For a seven day period following the execution of this Agreement, Executive may revoke this Agreement by delivering a written revocation to the President and Secretary of ICF. This Agreement shall not become effective and enforceable until the revocation period has expired (the Effective Date).
17. Executive does not hereby waive rights to indemnification for actions occurring through [his/her] affiliation with ICF, whether those rights arise from statute, corporate charter documents or any other source.
18. Executive acknowledges that [he/she] has been encouraged to seek the advice of an attorney of [his/her] choice with regard to this Release. Having read the foregoing, having understood and agreed to the terms of this Release, and having had the opportunity to and having been advised by independent legal counsel, the parties hereby voluntarily affix their signatures.
19. This Agreement is to be interpreted without regard to the draftsperson. The terms and intent of the Agreement shall be interpreted and construed on the express assumption that all parties participated equally in its drafting.
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20. This Release constitutes a single integrated contract expressing the entire agreement of the parties hereto. Except for the Severance Agreement, which defines certain obligations on the part of both parties, and this Release, there are no agreements, written or oral, express or implied, between the parties hereto, concerning the subject matter herein.
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Exhibit 10.8
FORM OF
ICF INTERNATIONAL, INC.
RESTRICTED STOCK AWARD AGREEMENT
This Restricted Stock Award Agreement (this Agreement) is by and between ICF International, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Corporation), and (the Participant), an employee of the Corporation, and is effective as of the effective date of the Corporations initial public offering (the Effective Date).
1. Award of Restricted Stock. Subject to the provisions of the ICF International, Inc. 2006 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan (the Plan) and this Agreement, the Corporation hereby grants to the Participant shares (the Award) of the Corporations Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the Common Stock), to which the restrictions referred to in Section 2 (the Vesting Conditions) attach (the Restricted Stock).
2. Vesting Conditions.
(a) Vesting Schedule. The Restricted Stock shall be initially unvested (the unvested shares of Restricted Stock are referred to in this Agreement as the Unvested Shares) and shall vest, if at all, as provided in this Section 2 over a three (3) year period measured from the Effective Date (the Vesting Period). Except as otherwise provided in Section 2(c) below, thirty-three percent (33%) of the Restricted Stock shall vest upon the date that is 366 days after the Effective Date, thirty-three percent (33%) of the Restricted Stock shall vest on the second anniversary of the Effective Date, and thirty-three percent (33%) of the Restricted Stock shall vest on the third anniversary of the Effective Date (each, a Vesting Date).
(b) Rounding. The number of shares of Restricted Stock vesting as of a particular Vesting Date shall be rounded down to the nearest whole share; provided, however, that all remaining Unvested Shares shall vest completely on the final Vesting Date.
(c) Other Vesting. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 2, all of the Restricted Stock shall vest immediately if (i) the Corporation terminates the Participants employment without Cause (as defined in the Severance Protection Agreement between the Corporation and the Participant dated as of the Effective Date (the Severance Protection Agreement),without regard to whether a Change of Control, as defined in the Severance Protection Agreement, has occurred, or (ii) the Participant terminates his employment for Good Reason following a Change of Control, each as defined in the Severance Protection Agreement, in each case at any time prior to the satisfaction of the Vesting Conditions.
3. Rights During Vesting Period. The Participant generally shall have the rights and privileges of a stockholder as to the Restricted Stock, including the right to receive cash dividends and the right to vote. However, notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the following restrictions shall apply to shares of Restricted Stock prior to satisfaction of the Vesting Conditions as to those shares: (a) the Participant shall not be entitled to delivery of a certificate for the Restricted Stock until the satisfaction of the Vesting Conditions; (b) none of the Restricted Stock may be sold, transferred (except by will or the laws of descent and distribution), assigned, pledged or otherwise encumbered or disposed of prior to satisfaction of the Vesting Conditions; (c) except as otherwise expressly provided herein and in the Plan, the Participant shall forfeit and immediately transfer back to Corporation without payment all of the Restricted Stock, and all rights of the Participant to such Restricted Stock shall terminate without further obligation on the part of the Corporation, if and when the Participant ceases to be an employee of the Corporation prior to the satisfaction of the Vesting Conditions. As a condition of the Award, the Corporation may require the Participant to deliver to the Corporation a duly signed stock power, endorsed in blank, with respect to the shares of Common Stock subject to the Award.
4. Satisfaction of Vesting Conditions. Upon the satisfaction of the Vesting Conditions as to particular shares of Restricted Stock, the restrictions on the applicable number of shares of Restricted Stock shall terminate and a stock certificate for such number of shares of Common Stock shall be delivered, free and clear of all such restrictions, to the Participant or, subject to Section 5, the Participants beneficiary or estate, as the case may be, subject to the provisions of Sections 7 and 8(e). The Corporation shall not be required to deliver any fractional share of Common Stock, but will pay, in lieu thereof, the fair market value of such fractional share to the Participant or the Participants beneficiary or estate, as the case may be. The Corporation shall pay any original issue tax that may be due upon the issuance of the Restricted Stock and all other costs incurred by the Corporation in issuing such shares of Common Stock.
5. Nontransferability of Restricted Stock. The Restricted Stock is not transferrable by the Participant prior to the satisfaction of the Vesting Conditions except by will or the laws of descent and distribution. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, prior to the expiration of the Vesting Conditions, the Award and Restricted Stock may not be sold, transferred except as aforesaid, assigned, pledged, or otherwise encumbered or disposed of, shall not be assignable by operation of law, and shall not be subject to execution, attachment or similar process. Any attempted sale, transfer, pledge, assignment or other encumbrance or disposition of the Restricted Stock contrary to the provisions hereof, or the levy of any execution, attachment or similar process upon the Restricted Stock, shall be null and void and without effect.
6. Reorganization or Liquidation of the Corporation. In the event the Corporation is succeeded by another corporation in a reorganization, which term includes a merger, consolidation, acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets or voting stock of the Corporation, or other extraordinary transaction with similar effect, the Participant shall be entitled to receive (subject to any required action by stockholders) such securities of the surviving or resulting corporation or other consideration as the board of directors of such corporation shall determine to be as nearly equivalent as practicable to the nearest whole number and class of shares of stock or other securities or other consideration to which the Participant would have been entitled under the terms of such reorganization (without adjustment for any fractional interest thereby eliminated), as if, immediately prior to such event, the Participant had
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been the holder of record of the number of shares of Common Stock which were then Restricted Stock without any restriction whatsoever. Any such shares of stock or other securities issued to the Participant in connection with any such reorganization shall, after any such reorganization, be deemed to be Restricted Stock for all purposes of this Agreement and the Plan.
7. Compliance with Securities Laws; Legend on Share Certificates.
(a) As of the Effective Date, the Restricted Stock has not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), or under any applicable state securities laws (the Securities Act and such state laws being hereinafter sometimes referred to as the Securities Laws). The Restricted Stock shall not be transferrable except pursuant to the provisions of the Securities Laws. The Participant represents that the Participant (i) is acquiring the Restricted Stock for the Participants own account and not with a view to reselling, splitting, sharing or otherwise participating in a distribution thereof in violation of any Securities Laws, (ii) understands that the effect of such representation is that the Restricted Stock must be held indefinitely unless subsequently registered under the Securities Laws or an exemption from such registration is available at the time of any proposed sale or other transfer thereof, (iii) understands that the Corporation is under no obligation to register the Restricted Stock for resale, and (iv) is fully familiar with the circumstances under which the Participant is required to hold the Restricted Stock and the limitations upon transfer or other disposition thereof.
(b) The Participant agrees that each certificate for the Restricted Stock shall be stamped or otherwise imprinted with legends in substantially the following forms:
(i) The shares represented hereby have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Act), or under the state securities or blue sky laws of any state. Such shares may not be sold or transferred except pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Act or an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Corporation that such registration is not required.
(ii) The sale or other transfer of the shares represented hereby is subject to certain restrictions contained in a certain Restricted Stock Award Agreement by and between the registered owner and ICF International, Inc., as the same may be amended from time to time, to which reference is hereby made for a full statement of provisions thereof. A copy of said Agreement will be furnished to any stockholder on request and writing in without charge.
8. Miscellaneous.
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(a) Notices. Any notice hereunder shall be in writing, and delivered or sent by first-class U.S. mail, postage prepaid, addressed to:
(i) if to the Corporation, at:
ICF International, Inc.
9300 Lee Highway
Fairfax, VA 22031
Attn: Chief Financial Officer
(ii) if to the Participant, at the address shown on the signature page hereof,
subject to the right of either party, by written notice hereunder, to designate at any time hereafter some other address.
(b) Compliance with Law and Regulations. The Restricted Stock shall be subject to all applicable Federal and state laws, rules and regulations and to such approvals by any government or regulatory agency as may be required. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the restrictions on the Restricted Stock shall not terminate or expire if such termination or expiration would be contrary to applicable law.
(c) No Employment Rights. Nothing in the Plan, this Agreement or the Award shall confer upon the Participant any rights to continued employment with the Corporation or shall interfere with the right of the Corporation to terminate the Participants employment with the Corporation.
(d) Section 83(b) Election. If the Participant elects, in accordance with Section 83(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, or subsequent comparable statute (the Code), to recognize ordinary income in the year in which the Restricted Stock is awarded, the Participant shall furnish to the Corporation a copy of a completed and signed election form and shall pay (or make arrangements satisfactory to the Corporation to pay) to the Corporation, within sixty (60) days after the Effective Date, any Federal, state and local taxes required to be withheld with respect to the Award.
(e) Withholding. Prior to the expiration of the Vesting Period as to particular shares of Restricted Stock, the Participant shall make arrangements with the Corporation to pay or otherwise satisfy any Federal, state and local tax withholding requirements with respect to such shares. The Corporation shall, to the extent permitted by law, have the right to deduct from any payment of any kind otherwise due to the Participant any Federal, state and local taxes required by law to be withheld or collected with respect to the Award.
(f) Corporations Rights. The existence of the Restricted Stock shall not affect in any way the right or power of the Corporation its stockholders to make or authorize any or all adjustments, recapitalizations, reorganizations or other changes in the Corporations capital structure or its business, or any merger or consolidation of the Corporation, or any issue of bonds, debentures, preferred or other stocks with preference ahead of or convertible into, or otherwise affecting the Common Stock or the rights thereof, or the dissolution or liquidation of
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the Corporation, or any sale or transfer of all or any part of the Corporations assets or business, or any other corporate act or proceeding, whether of a similar character or otherwise.
(g) Employment by Affiliates. For the purpose of this Agreement, employment by a parent or subsidiary of, or a successor to, the Corporation shall be considered employment by the Corporation. Subsidiary as used herein shall have the meaning of subsidiary corporation as defined in Section 424 of the Code.
(h) Plan Governs. The Participant hereby acknowledges receipt of a copy of the Plan and agrees to be bound by its terms, all of which are incorporated herein by reference. The Plan shall govern in the event of any conflict between this Agreement and the Plan.
(i) Choice of Law. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware.
(j) Entire Agreement. This Agreement contains the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the Restricted Stock granted hereunder. Any oral or written agreements, representations, warranties, written inducements, or other communications made prior to the execution of this Agreement with respect to the Restricted Stock granted hereunder shall be void and ineffective for all purposes. The foregoing sentence is not intended to apply to, void or in any way affect the employment and related agreements by and between the Company and the Participant or the terms, conditions, rights and obligations of the parties thereto.
(k) Amendment. This Agreement may be amended from time to time by the written mutual consent of the parties hereto.
(l) Successors and Assigns. The provisions of this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the Corporation and its successors and assigns and be binding upon the Participant and the Participants legal representatives, heirs, legatees, distributees, assigns and transferees by operation of law, whether or not any such person has become a party to this Agreement or has agreed in writing to join herein and to be bound by the terms, conditions and restrictions hereof.
(m) Impact on Other Benefits. The value of the Restricted Stock (either on the date hereof or at the time the Restricted Stock vests) shall not be includable as compensation or earnings for purposes of any benefit plan offered by the Corporation.
(n) Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.
(o) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two counterparts each of which shall constitute one and the same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed and delivered this Agreement as of the Effective Date.
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Exhibit 10.9
CONSULTING AGREEMENT
CONSULTING AGREEMENT, dated as of June 25, 1999 (this Agreement), between CMLS MANAGEMENT, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (CMLS), and ICF CONSULTING GROUP, INC., a Delaware corporation (the Company).
WHEREAS, the Company desires to obtain financial, acquisition, strategic, business and consulting services from CMLS with respect to the management of the Company and future acquisitions the Company may wish to undertake;
WHEREAS, CMLS is in the business or providing such services and is willing to provide such services to the Company in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants and agreements set forth in this Agreement and the mutual benefits to be derived from this Agreement, CMLS and the Company agree as follows:
1. Engagement. Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Company retains CMLS as a consultant to provide analysis, advise and other financial, strategic, business, acquisition and consulting services including, but not limited to, the identification and sourcing of capital to meet the needs of the Company and its subsidiaries (the Subsidiaries) as they may exist from time to time (the Services).
2. CMLS Duties and Obligations. CMLS agrees, during the term of this Agreement, to provide the Services in a professional manner and to provide such other consulting services as may be reasonably requested from time to time by the Company, its Subsidiaries or their respective chief executive officers in accordance with this Agreement,
including providing the services of an employee of CMLS to serve as a director of the Company or its Subsidiaries.
3. Compensation; Expenses.
(a) As consideration for the provision of the Services, the Company agrees to pay or to cause its Subsidiaries to pay to CMLS, during the term of this Agreement, the following fees:
(i) A closing fee equal to $750,000, payable upon the closing (the Closing) of the transactions contemplated by the Recapitalization Agreement dated , 1999, among ICF Kaiser International, Inc. (ICF Kaiser), ICF Consulting Group Holdings, LLC and the Company (the Recapitalization Agreement);
(ii) A fixed consulting fee of $100,000 per annum;
(iii) An annual variable fee equal to 2% percent of the Companys consolidated Adjusted EBITDA (as defined on the attached Exhibit 1 as such Exhibit may be amended so as to conform to the definition of Adjusted EBITDA in the Shareholders Agreement as hereinafter defined) for each of the Companys fiscal years or portions thereof during the term of this Agreement; and
(iv) Acquisition fees to be agreed upon by the Company and CMLS on a case by case basis, payable upon each closing by the Company or a Subsidiary of a transaction for which CMLS provided analysis, advice or acquisition consulting services.
(b) The fees payable under subparagraphs 3(a)(ii) and (iii) shall be payable quarterly in arrears on the last day of the fiscal quarter. The first payment on account of such fees shall be pro rated from the Closing until the end of the first fiscal quarter following the Closing. For such purpose, the annual fee under subparagraph (a)(ii) above shall be payable at
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the rate of $25,000 per quarter and the variable fee under subparagraph (a)(iii) above shall be payable at the rate of $45,000 per quarter for an aggregate of $70,000 per quarter with adjustments to be made after the end of the fiscal year on the basis of actual Adjusted EBITDA calculated from the Companys audited consolidated financial statements.
(c) The Company shall reimburse or shall cause its Subsidiaries to reimburse CMLS for all documented reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including, without limitation, travel and lodging) incurred by CMLS, its managers and agents in connection with providing the Services hereunder.
4. Term. The initial term of CMLS engagement under this Agreement shall commence on the date hereof and shall continue through and until the seventh anniversary of the date hereof (the Initial Term) and the engagement shall thereafter be extended on a year-to-year basis by the Company, with the approval of a majority of the board of directors of the Company (the Board), upon written notice six months prior to the end of the Initial Term or any subsequent one-year extension.
5. Indemnification.
(a) Indemnification by the Company
(i) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless CMLS and its managers, members, agents and affiliates against and from any and all claims, liabilities, losses, costs, damages, expenses, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement (including reasonable attorneys fees), arising from any source, including, without limitation, from any threatened, pending or completed actions or lawsuits whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor, arising from CMLS performance of the Services, except insofar as such may arise solely
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from CMLS negligence or intentional wrongdoing. The Company shall be entitled to direct the defense of any claim for which it is obligated to provide indemnification, at the Companys expense, but such defense shall be conducted by legal counsel mutually agreed to by the Company and CMLS. If the Company and CMLS cannot agree on legal counsel within a reasonable period of time, legal counsel shall be selected by the managing partner of Cravath, Swaine and Moore. The Company agrees to keep CMLS informed on a timely basis of the status of all legal proceedings relating to this indemnification and shall provide copies of all documents relating to the legal proceedings to CMLS or at CMLS request, its legal counsel. The Company further agrees that it will not settle, compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment in any pending or threatened claim, action or proceeding without the prior written consent of CMLS, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. CMLS agrees to provide reasonably timely notice to the Company of any proceeding or investigation which may be the subject of any indemnity demand hereunder. The failure to provide such immediate notice shall not affect the Companys obligation to provide indemnity hereunder, except to the extent that such delay has prejudiced the Company.
(ii) Expenses incurred in defending any threatened or pending civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding shall be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding, upon receipt of any undertaking by or on behalf of CMLS to repay such amount if it is ultimately determined, in a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction that CMLS is not entitled to be indemnified against such expenses solely as a result of CMLS gross negligence or intentional wrongdoing. This undertaking by CMLS shall be an unqualified general undertaking, and no security for such undertaking will be required.
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(iii) All of CMLS rights and obligations under this Section 5(a) will continue even after this Agreement has been terminated for any reason.
(b) Indemnification by CMLS
(i) CMLS agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its directors, officers, employees, agents and affiliates against and from any and all claims, liabilities, losses, costs, damages, expenses, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement (including reasonable attorneys fees), arising from any source, including, without limitation, from any threatened, pending or completed actions, or lawsuits whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by or in the right of CMLS to procure a judgment in its favor, arising from CMLS gross negligence or intentional wrongdoing in its performance of the Services. CMLS shall be entitled to direct the defense of any claim for which it is obligated to provide indemnification, at CMLS expense, but such defense shall be conducted by legal counsel mutually agreed to by the Company and CMLS. If the Company and CMLS cannot agree on legal counsel within a reasonable period of time, legal counsel shall be selected by the head of the litigation department of Cravath, Swaine and Moore. CMLS agrees to keep the Company informed on a timely basis of the status of all legal proceedings relating to this indemnification and shall provide copies of all documents relating to the legal proceedings to the Company or at the Companys request, its legal counsel. CMLS further agrees that it will not settle, compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment in any pending or threatened claim, action or proceeding without the prior written consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. The Company agrees to immediately notify CMLS of any proceeding or investigation which may be the subject of any indemnity demand hereunder. The
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failure to provide such immediate notice shall not affect CMLS obligation to provide an indemnity hereunder, except to the extent that such delay has prejudiced CMLS.
(ii) Expenses incurred in defending any threatened or pending civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding shall be paid by the CMLS in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding, upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the Company to repay such amount if it is ultimately determined, in a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, that the Company is not entitled to be indemnified against such expenses solely as a result of the Companys negligence or intentional wrongdoing in its performance of the Services. This undertaking by the Company shall be an unqualified general undertaking, and no security for such undertaking will be required.
(iii) All of the Companys rights and obligations under this Section 5(b) will continue even after this Agreement has been terminated for any reason.
6. Nature of CMLS Undertaking: No Joint Venture or Partnership. The Company and CMLS hereby agree that neither CMLS entering into this Agreement nor CMLS provision of Services to the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be construed to have created either a joint venture or a partnership for the purpose of providing such Services.
7. Confidentiality. CMLS and its affiliates shall not directly or indirectly communicate disclose or use (other than to (a) the Companys shareholders (b) the limited partners or control groups of the Companys Shareholders and (c) each of the Companys employees agents, advisors and representatives) or use any secret, private or confidential information or other proprietary knowledge concerning the Company or its Subsidiaries which is received in the course of providing the Services hereunder, including, without limitation,
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information relating to products, services, technology, trade secrets, systems, operations an customers, provided, however, that such obligation of confidentiality shall not apply to information which (i) is in the public domain, (ii) is known to CMLS prior to disclosure by the Company or its Subsidiaries, (iii) is received from a third party having a right to make disclosure thereof, (iv) is disclosed by CMLS in connection with the performance of its duties hereunder, (v) is required by law, court order, regulatory agency of competent jurisdiction, or stock exchange on which the Companys securities are listed, or (vi) the disclosure of which is authorized by the Company or the Subsidiaries. Except as specifically stated above and in the Shareholders Agreement, CMLS shall not be limited in any way in the conduct of its business. This provision shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
CMLS acknowledges that disclosure of, or any contravention of, this Section will result in immediate, direct irreparable and substantial damage to the Company for which a remedy at law may not be sufficient and therefore, the Company may be entitled to injunctive, specific performance or such other equitable relief or remedy as may be available to it.
8. Notices. Any notice, report or payment required or permitted to be given or made under this Agreement by one party to the other shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made for all purposes hereof if mailed, by registered mail, postage prepaid, addressed to such party at its address indicated below or to such other address as the addressee shall have theretofore furnished in writing to the other party:
If to CMLS:
CMLS Management, L.P.
135 East 57th Street
New York, New York 10022
Attention: Mr. Peter M. Schulte
Fax No.: (212) 829-0553
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with a copy to:
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10019-6064
Attention: Robert M. Hirsh, Esq.
Fax No.: (212) 757-3990
If to the Company:
ICF Consulting Group, Inc.
9300 Lee Highway
Fairfax, Virginia 22031-1207
Attention: Chief Executive Officer
9. Agreement. This Agreement (a) contains the complete and entire understanding and agreement of CMLS and the Company respecting the subject matter hereof; (b) supersedes and cancels all other understandings or agreements, other than the Shareholders Agreement, oral or written, respecting the subject matter hereof; and (c) may not be modified except by an instrument in writing executed by CMLS and the Company.
10. Waiver. No failure or delay on the party of any part hereto in exercising any rights, power or remedy hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof (except as provided in Section 5(a) above), nor shall any single or partial exercise of such right, power or remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof or exercise of any right, power or remedy. The remedies provided herein are cumulative and are not exclusive of any remedies that may be available to such party at law, in equity or otherwise.
11. Successors, Assignment, Third Party Beneficiaries. CMLS and the Company may not assign their respective rights or obligations under this Agreement without the express written consent of the other party. This Agreement and all the provisions hereof shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted
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assigns. Other than as provided in Section 5, no person other than the parties hereto is intended to be a beneficiary of this agreement.
12. Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable in whole, or in part, such invalidity or unenforceability shall attach only to such provision or part of such provision and all other provisions of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect.
13. Section Headings. All section headings herein have been inserted for convenience of reference only and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
14. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of New York and for all purposes shall be governed by, construed, interpreted and enforced according to the laws of the State of New York.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company and CMLS have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered on the date and year first above written.
CMLS MANAGEMENT, L.P. | ||||
By: | CMLS Management, GP, L.L.C. | |||
By: | /s/ Peter M. Schulte | |||
Peter M. Schulte | ||||
Managing Member | ||||
ICF CONSULTING GROUP, INC. | ||||
By: | /s/ Peter M. Schulte | |||
Peter M. Schulte | ||||
Vice Chairman |
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SCHEDULE A
CERTAIN SUPPLEMENTAL DEFINITIONS
Adjusted Cash means the average of Cash for the end of each fiscal quarter of the Companys two most recently completed fiscal years, one of which may be a Short Year (as defined below), or, if the Companys consolidated audited balance sheet for either of such fiscal years is yet not available, such average computed utilizing Estimated Cash for any fiscal quarter in either of such fiscal years.
Adjusted EBITDA means:
(a) if the Notice Date is prior to the end of the fiscal year during which the Closing (as defined in the Recapitalization Agreement) occurs (the Short Year) or within the first nine months of the fiscal year following the Short Year, EBITDA for such Short Year, which shall be annualized by multiplying such EBITDA by a fraction, the numerator of which is 365 and the denominator of which is the number of days from the Closing Date to the end of the fiscal year (the Annualized EBITDA). If the Notice Date is within the period described in this paragraph (a), the Annualized EBITDA shall not be averaged with EBITDA of any other fiscal period;
(b) if the Notice Date is within the last three months of the fiscal year following the Short Year, the average of EBITDA for such fiscal year and Annualized EBITDA; or
(c) if the Notice Date falls at any time following the Companys first full fiscal year after the Closing, (i) if the Notice Date is within the first nine months of the Companys fiscal year, the average of EBITDA for the two most recent fiscal years of the Company (or, if one of such fiscal years is the Short Year, then Annualized EBITDA shall be
used for such fiscal year), or (ii) if the Notice Date is within the final three months of the fiscal year, the average of EBITDA for fiscal year prior to the fiscal year in which the Notice Date falls and EBITDA for the fiscal year in which the notice Date fails.
Adjusted Indebtedness, means the Companys consolidated short and long-term debt and capital leases, averaged quarterly over the Companys two most recently completed fiscal years, one of which may be a Short Year (as defined below), or, if the Companys consolidated audited balance sheet for either of such fiscal years is yet not available, such average computed utilizing Estimated Indebtedness for any fiscal quarter in either of such fiscal years.
Book Value means (a) the purchase price of such Management Shareholders Share plus (b)(i) the retained earnings or losses (as the case may be) of ICFC from the Closing Date to the Notice Date plus proforma proceeds from the exercise of options and/or warrants less the value of any Treasury Stock acquired after the Closing shown on the most recent financial statement multiplied by (ii) the portion of the total limited liability company interests of ICFC outstanding on the Notice Date, on a fully diluted basis, including, without limitation, interests represented by vested options and unexercised warrants, represented by such Management Shareholders Share.
Buy-Back Price means the lower of (a) the purchase price originally paid by the Shareholder for each such Repurchase Share, plus an amount equal to interest thereon at a rate of 7% per annum, calculated for the period from and including the Acquisition Date up to but excluding the Notice Date and (b) the Book Value of such Repurchase Shares.
Cash with respect to any fiscal period, means that portion of the Companys current assets in the from of cash or cash equivalents as reflected (a) with respect to any audited
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fiscal period of the Company, in the Companys consolidated audited financial statements for such fiscal period, or (b) with respect to any unaudited fiscal period of the Company, in the Companys consolidated financial statements for such fiscal period.
EBITDA with respect to any fiscal period, shall be obtained from the Companys consolidated annual audited income statements and shall be defined as follows:
(a) net income, as determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
(b) minus extraordinary and nonoperating gains and plus extraordinary and nonoperating losses, including, without limitation, any prepayment penalties resulting from the retirement of debt before its scheduled repayment date;
(c) plus income taxes;
(d) minus gains plus losses from the sale of assets other than write-offs in the ordinary course of business;
(e) plus interest expense and all other related costs of borrowing;
(f) plus extraordinary litigation expenses and extraordinary legal and accounting expenses;
(g) plus any expenses incurred or minus reimbursement received, both net of reserves, in settlement of any claims or other items related to the assets and liabilities of the Company for events occurring prior to the date of this Agreement;
(h) plus any charges to income related to the grant, issuance of exercise of Common Stock options or warrants to management of, or lenders to, the Company or its Subsidiaries;
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(i) plus consulting fees paid to CMLS in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of this Agreement;
(j) plus charges amortized or expenses relating to acquisitions by the Company of its Subsidiaries completed after the date of this Agreement;
(k) plus amortization and other similar non-cash charges, including but not limited to amortization of transaction expenses related to the transactions contemplated by the Recapitalization Agreement (the Acquisition);
(l) plus any and all expenses relating to the discussion, evaluation, negotiation, documentation and closing or potential closing of the Acquisition (including, without limitation, the fees, disbursement and other expenses to lawyers, accountants, actuaries, consultants, and any other advisors);
(m) minus interest income to the extent it is reflected above the operating income line;
(n) plus travel, lodging and entertainment expenses for the directors of or lenders to the Company and CMLS;
(o) plus any director or similar fees paid to any member of the Board;
(p) plus costs associated with, and the impact on profits, actions taken by the Board, other than those taken to achieve the Companys or its Subsidiaries budget or projected growth if such actions are out of the ordinary course, including, but not limited to, changes in accounting policies;
(q) plus expenses for special consultants engaged outside of the ordinary course which are not allowable as part of the Companys or its Subsidiaries general and administrative rates;
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(r) plus depreciation, amortization and other similar non-cash charges;
(s) plus costs associated with key-man life insurance policies; and
(t) plus costs associated with financial reporting (in the ordinary course of business) to CMLS and the Companys lenders.
In the event of loss from a catastrophe or other casualty loss, an act of God, including, but not limited to, fire, flood, wind damage, lightning or other event, industrial sabotage, labor strikes, disputes or work stoppages or any other unforeseen event (whether at the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or at any of its suppliers), which such event or events shall cause a disruption or cessation of all or a portion of the normal business operations of the Company or its Subsidiaries for a period of forty-eight hours or longer, than for purposes of the determination of EBITDA, to the extent that the Company or its Subsidiaries is not reimbursed by its business interruption insurance policy, EBITDA will be credited with an amount equal to the product of (a) the daily average EBITDA for the two most recent fiscal years of the Company (or as applicable, its Subsidiary) for which there were no such disruptions and (b) the number of days that the normal business operations were disrupted or ceased.
Estimated Cash with respect to any fiscal period, means an estimate of such periods Cash, as estimated by the Board in good faith.
Estimated EBITDA with respect to any fiscal period, means an estimate of such periods EBITDA, as determined by the Board in good faith.
Estimated Indebtedness with respect to any fiscal period, means an estimate of such periods Indebtedness, as determined by the Board in good faith.
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Indebtedness, with respect to any period, means the Companys consolidated short and long-term working capital and funded debt and capital leases for the period being measured.
Notice Date means the date upon which the Repurchase Notice is given provided, however, that, if the repurchase of the Shares may not occur because of any limitation or repurchasing contained in this Agreement, the Notice Date shall be the first day on which such limitations no longer exist.
Put/Call Price means the higher of (x) the quotient obtained dividing (a)(i) Adjusted Cash, plus (ii) the product of (A) six and (B) Adjusted EBITDA; minus (iii) the Companys Adjusted Indebtedness, by (b) the number of share of Common Stock issued and outstanding as of the Notice Date, computed on a fully diluted basis, including without limitation, vested options and unexercised warrants; and (y) the purchase price originally paid by the Shareholder for each such Repurchase Share, plus an amount equal to interest thereon at a rate of 7% per annum, calculated for the period from and including the Acquisition Date up to but excluding the Notice Date.
Estimated EBITDA, Estimated Cash; and Estimated Indebtedness.
Determinations of Estimated EBITDA, Estimated Cash and Estimated Indebtedness shall be made at the next scheduled quarterly meeting of the Board following the Notice Date (the First Meeting) provided that, if the Notice Date is within ten days of the First Meeting such determinations shall be made at the Board meeting immediately following the First Meeting.
Adjustments.
If either of Estimated EBITDA, Estimated Indebtedness, or Estimated Cash is utilized in the determination of Put/Call Price, no later than 90 days after the Companys fiscal
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year end for which Estimated EBITDA, Estimated Indebtedness, or Estimated Cash was determined by the Board, the Company shall pay to the Shareholder, subject to the provisions of Section 5.3, an amount equal to (a) the product of (i) the Put/Call Price, calculated utilizing each of actual EBITDA, actual Cash and actual Indebtedness for such fiscal year and (ii) the number of Repurchase Shares minus (b) the consideration paid by the Company for such Repurchase Shares, if such amount is a positive number, and if such amount is a negative number, within 10 days of receipt of written notice from the Company such Shareholder shall pay the absolute value of such amount to the Company.
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FORM OF
FIRST AMENDMENT TO CONSULTING AGREEMENT
THIS FIRST AMENDMENT TO CONSULTING AGREEMENT (First Amendment) is made this , 2006 by and between CMLS MANAGEMENT, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (CMLS), and ICF CONSULTING GROUP, INC., a Delaware corporation (the Company).
RECITALS
R-1. Under the terms of a Consulting Agreement dated June 25, 1999, by and between CMLS and the Company, the Company retained CMLS as a consultant for the purpose of providing to the Company financial, acquisition and strategic, business and consulting services.
R-2. The term of the Consulting Agreement is for seven years commencing June 25, 1999 and ending June 25, 2006.
R-3. The Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of ICF International, Inc., formerly ICF Consulting Group Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (ICFI).
R-4. The Company and CMLS wish to extend the term of the Consulting Agreement until the earlier of December 31, 2006 or an Exit Event (as hereinafter defined).
NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and CMLS do hereby agree as follows:
1. Section 4 of the Consulting Agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following language:
4. Term.
(a) The term of CMLS engagement under this Agreement commenced July 25, 1999 and shall continue until the earlier of (i) December 31, 2006 or (ii) an Exit Event as hereinafter defined.
(b) For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(i) CM Group shall mean the following entities: CM Equity Partners, L.P.; CMEP Co-Investment ICF, L.P.; CM Equity Partners II, L.P.; and CM Equity II Co-investors, L.P.
(ii) Exit Event shall mean the occurrence of any of the following (each deemed to have occurred on the applicable effective date of the transaction): (1) the sale of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company, or of ICFI, in a transaction or series of transactions (which in the case of ICFI includes, without limitation, its shares in the Company); (2) a transaction or series of
transactions which result in the change in the beneficial ownership of 50.1 percent (50.1%) or more of the outstanding shares of the Company or ICFI, unless at or upon the completion of such transaction or transactions, members of the CM Group, directly or indirectly retain control of the Company or ICFI, as applicable; (3) the merger or consolidation of the Company or ICFI with another Person unless at or upon completion of such transaction members of the CM Group will directly or indirectly control such combined entity; (iv) the date of completion of the first Qualified Public Offering.
(iii) Person means any natural person, sole proprietorship, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, unincorporated association, unincorporated syndicate, unincorporated organization, trust, body corporate, and any individual acting in the capacity of trustee, executor, administrator or other legal representative.
(iv) Public Offering means any offer for sale of equity securities of ICFI or ICF pursuant to an effective registration statement filed under the Securities Act, or the merger or consolidation into a Person whose equity securities are registered under the Securities Act where the consideration to be received by the ICFI shareholders (or to be received by ICFI as the Companies shareholder) in such sale, merger or consolidation are such equity securities.
(v) Qualified Public Offering means a Public Offering of equity securities which results in (1) aggregate gross cash proceeds to (A) the selling ICFI shareholders or ICFI or both (in the case of a Public Offering by ICFI) or (B) ICFI or the Company (in the case of a Public Offering by the Company) of at least $30 Million Dollars ($30,000,000) and (2) an aggregate market value (calculated using the offering price of such Public Offering of ICFIs or the Companys, as applicable, outstanding equity securities immediately following the consummation of such Qualified Public Offering of at least $100,000,000.
(vi) Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933 and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
(c) In the event that this Agreement is terminated prior to December 31, 2006 as a result of an Exit Event pursuant to Section 4(a), then CMLS shall be entitled to a termination fee of $90,000, which shall be in addition to any other fees payable under Section 3 of this Agreement.
2. Except as amended by this First Amendment, the Consulting Agreement is hereby ratified and affirmed.
3. All section headings herein have been inserted for convenience of reference only and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
4. This Agreement shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of New York and for all purposes shall be governed by, construed, interpreted and enforced according to the laws of the State of New York.
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WITNESS, the undersigned have caused their duly authorized officer, agent or representative to execute and deliver this First Amendment.
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Exhibit 23.1
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
We have issued our report dated April 4, 2006, except for Note R, as to which the date is April 14, 2006, accompanying the consolidated financial statements of ICF International, Inc., and Subsidiaries contained in the Registration Statement (Form S-1 No. 333-134018) and Prospectus. We consent to the use of the aforementioned report in Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement and Prospectus, and to the use of our name as it appears under the caption Experts.
/s/ Grant Thornton LLP
Vienna, Virginia
June 20, 2006
Exhibit 23.2
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTING FIRM
We have issued our report dated March 6, 2005, accompanying the consolidated financial statements of Caliber Associates, Inc., contained in the Registration Statement on Form S-1 and related Prospectus of ICF International, Inc. We consent to the use of the aforementioned report in the Registration Statement on Form S-1 and related Prospectus of ICF International, Inc. and to the reference to our firm under the headings Selected consolidated financial data and Experts in the Prospectus.
/s/ ARGY, WILSTE & ROBINSON, P.C.
Argy, Wilste & Robinson, P.C.
Tysons Corner, Virginia
June 22, 2006
June 23, 2006
Karen J. Garnett, Assistant Director
Paul Fischer, Attorney-Advisor
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, NE
Washington, DC 20549
Re: | ICF International, Inc. |
Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed May 11, 2006
File No. 333-134018
Dear Ms. Garnett and Mr. Fischer:
Thank you for your letter dated June 7, 2006 setting forth comments on the above-referenced Registration Statement on Form S-1.
On behalf of ICF International, Inc. (ICF), we are filing herewith Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement (Amendment No. 1). We are also providing to the Staff three unmarked copies of Amendment No. 1 and three copies of Amendment No. 1 that are marked to show changes from the original Registration Statement. Unless otherwise indicated, all references to page numbers are to the marked Amendment No. 1 provided herewith.
This response letter has been filed via EDGAR, tagged as CORRESP. The attachments to this letter have not been provided via EDGAR. Instead, we are delivering an original of this letter, together with all attachments, by hand.
We look forward to working with you in connection with your ongoing review of the Registration Statement and its ultimate acceleration. We are not requesting acceleration at this time.
General
1. | Please provide us copies of market and industry data that you cite or rely on in your filing. These materials should be appropriately marked, dated, and refer to the page number on which they are cited. We note, for example, cites to the International Energy Agency and U.S. Department of Transportation on page 2. |
Response: Enclosed with this letter are copies of market and industry data that ICF relies upon with respect to statements on pages 64, 66, 68, 71, 73 and 76 of Amendment No. 1. The cite on page 2 noted in the comment was eliminated in connection with the revisions made in response to comment 4.
Karen J. Garnett, Assistant Director
Paul Fischer, Attorney-Advisor
Securities and Exchange Commission
June 23, 2006
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Prospectus Cover Page
2. | We note the disclosure regarding the application to have your common stock approved for quotation on the Nasdaq. Please advise us of the basis for your belief that you will be quoted on the Nasdaq. Please refer to the note to Item 202 of Regulation S-K. |
Response: ICF believes that its common stock will be quoted on the Nasdaq National Market based on its evaluation of the Nasdaq National Market listing standards. ICFs evaluation with respect to each Nasdaq National Market initial listing standard category is as follows:
| Stockholders Equity. ICFs total stockholders equity as of March 31, 2006 was $54,160,000. This amount exceeds all three Nasdaq National Market initial listing standards for this category, the highest of which is $30 million. |
| Market Value of Total Assets and Total Revenue. ICFs total assets and total revenue as of and for the year ended December 31, 2005 were $151,124,000 and $177,218,000, respectively. These amounts exceed all three Nasdaq National Market initial listing standards for this category, the highest of which requires total assets of $75 million and total revenue of $75 million. |
| Income From Continuing Operations Before Income Taxes. ICFs income from continuing operations before income taxes for the year ended December 31, 2005 was $3,887,000. This amount exceeds all three Nasdaq National Market initial listing standards for this category, the highest of which is $1 million. |
| Publicly Held Shares. Following the offering, ICF expects to have approximately 8 million publicly held shares, determined on a pre-split basis. This amount exceeds, and would exceed after any reasonably probable stock split by the Company in anticipation of the offering, all three Nasdaq National Market initial listing standards for this category, which are each 1.1 million. |
| Market Value of Publicly Held Shares. Following the offering, ICF expects its publicly held shares to have a market value of approximately $75 million. This amount exceeds all three Nasdaq National Market initial listing standards for this category, the highest of which is $20 million. |
| Minimum Bid Price. The minimum bid price is expected to be in excess of $5.00, satisfying all three Nasdaq National Market initial listing standards for this category, each of which is $5. |
| Shareholders (Round Lot Holders). Following the offering, ICF expects to have at least 400 round lot holders of its common stock, which satisfies the minimum |
Karen J. Garnett, Assistant Director
Paul Fischer, Attorney-Advisor
Securities and Exchange Commission
June 23, 2006
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requirement under all three Nasdaq National Market initial listing standards for this category, each of which is 400. |
| Market Makers. ICF expects that there will be at least 4 market makers with respect to ICFs common stock. This number satisfies the minimum requirement under all three Nasdaq National Market initial listing standards for this category, the highest of which is 4. |
| Operating History. ICF has operated continuously since its organization in 1999, which satisfies all three Nasdaq National Market initial listing standards for this category, the highest of which is two years. |
| Corporate Governance. Immediately prior to and following the offering, ICF intends to implement and comply with all applicable Nasdaq corporate governance requirements for initial and continued listing on Nasdaq. |
3. | Please revise to delete the reference to sole book-running manager from the cover page. This information is more appropriate for the underwriting section of the prospectus or the back cover page. |
Response: We believe it is common and customary to identify the roles of the various underwriters within the underwriting syndicate on the cover page of the prospectus. See, e.g., RAM Holdings Ltd. (final prospectus filed April 28, 2006) and HealthSpring, Inc. (final prospectus filed February 6, 2006). Indeed, the Commission acknowledged the relevance and prevalence of this type of disclosure when it amended Rule 134 under the Securities Act in August 2005 to specifically extend the safe harbor to this type of information (see Rule 134(a)(10)). We also believe that this information is used by some investors when evaluating investment opportunities, as investors can and often do consider the reputation of the book-running managers and other co-managers when making their investment decision.
Prospectus Summary, page 1
4. | The summary should provide investors with a clear, concise and coherent snapshot description of the most significant aspects of the offering. We note that much of the information in the summary is repeated in, and more appropriate for, the body of the prospectus. For example, disclosure relating to Market Opportunity starting on page 2 is repeated on page 59 through 62. Disclosure regarding your competitive strengths and business strategy on pages 3-4 is repeated on pages 62 through 65. Please revise to delete repetitious disclosure. If you wish to retain information about your market opportunity, competitive strengths, and business strategy in the summary, please limit the disclosure to a brief summary rather than the detailed disclosure you currently provide. |
Karen J. Garnett, Assistant Director
Paul Fischer, Attorney-Advisor
Securities and Exchange Commission
June 23, 2006
Page 4
Response: The summary has been revised as suggested in this comment. See pages 1-4 of Amendment No. 1.
ICF International, Inc., page 1
5. | To the extent that you retain disclosure regarding your backlog as of December 31, 2005, please revise to briefly describe how backlog is calculated. |
Response: Additional disclosure responsive to this comment is included at page 1 of Amendment No. 1.
Risk Factors, page 4
6. | Please revise the risk factor at arrow one to indicate the extent to which your revenues are derived from contracts with the federal government and its agencies. |
Response: The risk factor referred to in this comment has been revised as suggested. See page 3 of Amendment No. 1.
Risk Factors, page 10
7. | Please review your risk factor subheadings to ensure they reflect the risk you describe in the text. Some of your subheadings merely state facts about your business. For example, we note the heading Our commercial business depends on the energy sector of the global economy, which is highly cyclical, on page 13. Please review and revise subheadings to succinctly state the risks that will result from the facts or circumstances you discuss. |
Response: The risk factors referred to in this comment have been revised in response to this comment. See pages 12-23 of Amendment No. 1.
Risks related to our industry
The failure by Congress to approve budgets in a timely manner for the federal agencies and departments we support could delay and reduce spending and cause us to lose revenue and profit, page 10
8. | Please revise to reference the impact that failure to approve a budget timely would have on your operating results. |
Response: Revised disclosure responsive to this comment is included at page 10 of Amendment No. 1.
Karen J. Garnett, Assistant Director
Paul Fischer, Attorney-Advisor
Securities and Exchange Commission
June 23, 2006
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Unfavorable government audit results could force us to adjust previously reported operating results, could affect future operating results and could subject us to a variety of penalties and sanctions, page 11
9. | We note that government audits have been completed on your incurred contract costs through 2001. Please advise us as to whether you have historically had any negative audits or any determination by the DCAA or other agencies that costs were improperly allocated. If so, please revise to provide brief disclosure in this regard. |
Response: Since 1999, when ICF was purchased in a management buyout/recapitalization from ICF Kaiser International, Inc., government audits of incurred costs through 2001 have resulted in minimal negative adjustments. The effect of any such adjustment is limited because the majority of ICFs revenue is currently derived from projects that are not cost-based. Years after 2001 remain open and the Company cannot predict the outcome of any audits for those years.
Risks related to our business
We are dependent on contracts with U.S federal government agencies and departments for the majority of our revenue and profit, page 12
10. | The concluding sentence of this risk factor appears to contradict the first sentence of the paragraph wherein you state that you believe one of the key elements of your success is your position as a prime contractor under GSA Schedule contracts and other IDIQ contracts. Please revise to address this inconsistency or advise. |
Response: The risk factor referred to has been separated out as a separate risk factor and revised in response to this comment. See pages 12 and 13 of Amendment No. 1.
The loss of key members of our senior management team could impair our relationships with clients and disrupt the management of our business, page 14
11. | Please revise to identify the key members of senior management upon whom you rely. |
Response: The risk factor referred to has been revised in response to this comment. See page 15 of Amendment No. 1.
We face intense competition from many competitors that have greater resources than we do, which could result in price reductions, reduced profitability and loss of market shares, page 16
12. | Please confirm, if true, that the principal competitors whom you have named are representative of your competitors as a whole. |
Response: The competitors named in the risk factor referred to in this comment are representative of ICFs competitors on larger procurements. These named competitors
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Paul Fischer, Attorney-Advisor
Securities and Exchange Commission
June 23, 2006
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are, for the most part, among the larger and better-known competitors, many of which are publicly held. In addition, as explained in this risk factor, ICF competes with a number of smaller businesses. The names of these smaller competitors, however, are not likely to be as meaningful to the reader as the competitors referred to in this risk factor.
We have incurred substantial amounts of debt and expect to incur additional debt in the future, which could substantially reduce our profitability, limit our ability to pursue certain business opportunities, and reduce the value of your investment, page 18
13. | Because of the length of this risk factor, please revise to break out the risks related to your debt both present and future under separate risk factor sub-headings. |
Response: This risk factor has been subdivided and revised as suggested in the comment. See pages 18 and 19 of Amendment No. 1.
14. | We note your statement in paragraph two that at times you have not fulfilled the covenants, maintained the ratios, or complied with the financial tests specified in [y]our financial arrangements, or have done so only marginally. Please revise, as applicable, to disclose the ramifications of not fulfilling the covenants, or doing so only on a marginal basis. |
Response: This risk factor has been revised as suggested in the comment. See page 19 of Amendment No. 1.
Our international operations pose special and unusual risks to our profitability and operating results, page 19
15. | Please identify for us the other foreign countries where ICF International performs work. |
Response: The principal other foreign countries where ICF performs work include Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, India, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Russia, Singapore and the United Kingdom.
The diversity of the services we provide and the clients we serve may create actual, potential and perceived conflicts of interest and conflicts of business that limit our growth and lead to liability for us, page 22
16. | Please revise to briefly describe the internal process for determining whether a project would create a potential or actual conflict of interest. |
Response: This risk factor has been revised as suggested in the comment. See page 22 of Amendment No. 1.
Karen J. Garnett, Assistant Director
Paul Fischer, Attorney-Advisor
Securities and Exchange Commission
June 23, 2006
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Our principal investor and some members of our board of directors may have conflicts of interest that could hinder our ability to make acquisitions, page 26
17. | Please revise to address whether there are mechanisms in place to address conflicts of interest arising when the acquisition goals of ICF International and CMEP or FSAC are similar with respect to a particular complementary business. |
Response: This risk factor has been revised as suggested in the comment. See page 27 of Amendment No. 1.
18. | Please advise whether FSAC has identified any federal services business for acquisition. We note that FSAC has earmarked $120 million for this purpose. |
Response: FSAC has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Advanced Technology Systems, Inc. The transaction is described in FSACs filings with the Commission, including preliminary proxy materials. The transaction has not yet closed and remains subject to stockholder approval, among other closing conditions.
We have never operated as a public company, and fulfilling our obligations incident to being a public company will be expensive and time consuming, page 26
19. | Please revise to provide an estimate of the costs associated with being a public company. |
Response: This risk factor has been revised as suggested in the comment. See page 27 of Amendment No. 1.
Use of Proceeds, page 31
20. | We note that you will use a portion of the proceeds from this offering for debt repayment. If the indebtedness to be discharged was incurred within one year, describe the use of the proceeds of such indebtedness. Refer to Instruction 4 to Item 504 of Regulation S-K. |
Response: The Use of Proceeds disclosure has been revised as suggested in the comment. See page 32 of Amendment No. 1.
Capitalization, page 33
21. | Please advise us why the current portion of long-term debt is not included in the sum of your total capitalization or revise accordingly. |
Response: Amendment No. 1 has been revised to include the current portion of long-term debt in total capitalization.
Karen J. Garnett, Assistant Director
Paul Fischer, Attorney-Advisor
Securities and Exchange Commission
June 23, 2006
Page 8
Selected consolidated financial and other data, page 38
22. | Reference is made to your classification of the unusual expense included in EBITDA. Since non-cash compensation is an ordinary expense, please consider clearly stating the nature of the charge rather than characterizing it as unusual. |
Response: The line item referred to has been changed to Non-cash compensation charge included in EBITDA from continuing operations. See for example pages 8, 38 and 51 of Amendment No. 1.
Managements Discussion and Analysis, page 41
23. | The final sentence of your introductory paragraph suggests that there may be other factors possibly affecting operating results of which you are presently aware, but have not included as risk factor disclosure. Please advise or revise. |
Response: ICF is not aware of material risks not reflected in the risk factors. Accordingly, the paragraph referred to in this comment has been revised. See page 42 of Amendment No. 1.
Liquidity and Capital Resources, page 52
24. | Please revise to quantify all material short-term liquidity requirements. Further, provide similar disclosure regarding all material long-term liquidity requirements. |
Response: Please see revised disclosure included at page 53 of Amendment No. 1.
25. | We note disclosure on page 18 in the Risk Factors section, indicating that your financing arrangements require you to maintain specified financial ratios and tests. Please expand your disclosure to briefly describe these financial ratios and tests. Also indicate whether you are currently in compliance with those ratios and tests. |
Response: Please see revised disclosure included at page 55 of Amendment No. 1.
Cash and net working capital, page 52
26. | We note your disclosure that as part of your acquisitions of Synergy and Caliber, you acquired receivables which were higher in terms of days sales outstanding than the company as a whole. Tell us what consideration you have given to discussing the potential credit risk related to these receivables and how management intends to address any increased risk. |
Response: At this time, ICF does not believe there is greater potential credit risk associated with the receivables acquired in the Synergy and Caliber transactions than the receivables of the company as a whole. The customers who owe those receivables are
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governmental bodies and are viewed by ICF as being as likely to pay as ICFs government clients in general. In addition, since closing the transactions, ICF has been able to manage the days sales outstanding of those receivables to the point where, on average, they are no longer higher than the days sales outstanding of the company as a whole.
Cash flow, page 53
27. | Please revise to clarify why you experienced a decrease in deferred revenue and accrued expenses in fiscal 2004. |
Response: Please see revised disclosure at page 54 of Amendment No. 1.
Credit Agreement, page 53
28. | The last paragraph on page 53 indicates that you expect to enter into new credit facilities after completion of this offering. Please revise to clarify how you will finance working capital needs and fund future acquisitions if you are unsuccessful in securing new credit facilities on favorable terms. |
Response: Please see revised disclosure at page 56 of Amendment No. 1.
29. | Refer to the table at the top of page 54. Please revise to clarify whether the amounts outstanding include accrued but unpaid interest, or if they reflect principal only. Also, please clarify whether the amount of term loans outstanding includes amounts under both the term loan maturing in 2010 and the short-term loan maturing in January 2007. If so, please show those amounts separately in the table. |
Response: Please see revised disclosure at page 56 of Amendment No. 1.
Contractual Obligations, page 54
30. | Please revise, as applicable, to describe any provisions that create, increase or accelerate obligations, or other pertinent data to the extent necessary for an understanding of the timing and amount of the contractual obligations. Refer to Item 303(a)(5) of Regulation S-K. |
Response: Please see revised disclosure at page 57 of Amendment No. 1.
31. | Please tell us why the table indicates that a portion of your term loan will mature in less than 1 year and in 1-3 years. We note disclosure on page 53 indicating that the maturity date of your term loan is October 2010. Similarly, please tell us why the table reflects two different maturity periods for the time loan. |
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Response: See footnotes added to the table on page 57 of Amendment No. 1 in response to this comment.
Business
Focus on high margin projects, page 65
32. | Please revise to briefly identify the basis for your expectation that the energy industry will be a particularly attractive market for you over the next decade. |
Response: Please see revised disclosure at page 69 of Amendment No. 1.
Services and Solutions, page 66
33. | Please revise to include a definition of NEPA. |
Response: Please see revised disclosure at page 70 of Amendment No. 1.
Environment and infrastructure, page 70
34. | We note your statement that for more than three decades you have been a leading provider of services for the design, evaluation and implementation of environmental polices and projects across all environmental media. Please revise to indicate the measure whereby you determined that you are a leading provider, whether by revenues or some other means. Also, provide independent third-party support for your assertion that you are a leader in this field. |
Response: This statement has been revised to eliminate the reference to leading. See page 74 of Amendment No. 1.
Corporate Governance and Board Committees, page 80
35. | Please provide additional disclosure regarding each committee to discuss the frequency with which each will have meetings. |
Response: Please see the revised disclosure at pages 84 and 85 of Amendment No. 1.
Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation, page 8l
36. | Please revise to identify the entity for which Peter Schulte serves as a member of the board of directors or compensation committee. Identify any other executive officers of that entity that serve as members of ICFs board of directors. |
Response: Please see revised disclosure at page 85 of Amendment No. 1.
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Executive Compensation
Summary Compensation Table, page 83
37. | We note disclosure on page 85 indicating that on October 1, 2005 you entered into an employment agreement under which Mr. Croan would receive a base salary of $194,000 per year. Please confirm, if true, that Mr. Croan did not receive salary and bonus of at least $100,000 for the year ended December 31, 2005, such that it was appropriate not to include disclosure pursuant to Item 402 of Regulation S-K identifying Mr. Croan as one of the most highly compensated executive officers for that year. |
Response: The statement above is correct. Mr. Croan joined ICF effective October 1, 2005 and did not receive salary and bonus of at least $100,000 for the year ended December 31, 2005 for services rendered to ICF. Therefore, it was appropriate not to include disclosure pursuant to Item 402 of Regulation S-K identifying Mr. Croan as one of the most highly compensated ICF executive officers for that year.
38. | Please revise the table to clarify, by footnote or otherwise, whether amounts paid as bonus were paid under the terms of the Employee Annual Incentive Compensation Pool Plan, or whether the bonus amounts were paid at the discretion of the board of directors or the compensation committee. |
Response: Please see revised disclosure at page 87 of Amendment No. 1.
39. | Please revise the summary compensation table to reflect shares underlying all options granted to the named executive officers in each of the three fiscal years shown. For example, we note that the option grants table on page 84 indicates that you granted options to Mr. Stewart and Ms. Glover in 2005; however, the shares underlying those options do not appear in the summary compensation table. |
Response: The number of shares underlying options in the summary compensation table have been intentionally omitted until the anticipated reverse stock split ratio is determined. This share information will then be retroactively adjusted to reflect the stock split. An additional footnote clarifying this approach has been added to the summary compensation table on page 87 of Amendment No. 1. Without adjusting for any stock split, the number of shares underlying options in the summary compensation table are as follows:
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Name and Principal Position |
Year | Securities Underlying (Shares) | ||
Sudhakar Kesavan Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer |
2005 2004 2003 |
21,936 | ||
John Wasson Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer |
2005 2004 2003 |
20,000 19,500 | ||
Alan Stewart Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary |
2005 2004 2003 |
5,000 15,000 11,000 | ||
Ellen Glover Executive Vice President |
2005 | 20,000 |
2005 Restricted Stock Plan, page 86
40. | Please revise to clarify whether any shares of restricted stock have been granted to date under the plan. If so, please revise the summary compensation table on page 83 to reflect those shares, if appropriate. |
Response: This section has been revised as suggested in the comment. See page 90 of Amendment No. 1. The issuance of 16,500 shares of restricted stock to Ellen Glover identified on the summary compensation table is the only issuance under the 2005 Restricted Stock Plan.
Principal and selling stockholders, page 92
41. | Please identify all selling shareholders who are registered broker-dealers or affiliates of broker dealers. Additionally, tell us if the broker-dealer received the securities as underwriting compensation. Please note, a registration statement registering the resale of shares being offered by broker-dealers must identify the broker dealers as underwriters if the shares were not issued as underwriting compensation. |
Response: None of the selling shareholders are registered broker-dealers or affiliates of broker-dealers.
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42. | We note that you have included Entities Affiliated with CM Equity Partners, L.P. in your selling shareholder table. This aggregate disclosure does not appear consistent with the requirement of Item 507 of Regulation S-K, which states that each selling shareholder be named, and that the attendant disclosure with respect to share ownership be broken out. Please revise to provide all disclosure required by Item 507 of Regulation S-K. |
Response: The table referred to in this comment has been revised as suggested. See pages 97 and 98 of Amendment No. 1.
43. | We note disclosure in footnote (1) indicating that Messrs. Shulte, Jacks, and Hopkins beneficially own the shares held by affiliates of CM Equity Partners, L.P. Please revise the table to separately identify these three individuals and to show the full amount of their beneficial ownership. Disclaimers of beneficial ownership may be disclosed by footnotes to the table. |
Response: The table referred to in this comment has been revised as suggested to reflect beneficial ownership by Messrs. Schulte and Jacks. Mr. Hopkins position with CMEP is such that he is not a beneficial owner. See pages 97 and 98 of Amendment No. 1.
Underwriting, page 104
44. | At the conclusion of the first paragraph you describe the underwriting agreement as subject to terms and conditions. Please provide to us a draft copy of the underwriting agreement, so that we may review in more detail the terms and conditions. |
Response: We expect that the underwriting agreement will contain customary terms and conditions. ICF and the underwriters are currently negotiating the underwriting agreement and will file it in a pre-effective amendment to the Registration Statement.
45. | We note the discussion beginning on page 107 regarding the offering of stock in foreign countries. Please tell us whether this public offering is part of a global offering and revise your disclosure as appropriate. |
Response: It is not currently contemplated that this offering would be part of a global offering, in the sense that there would be more than one underwriting syndicate or tranches. It is possible that the underwriters may wish to sell some shares of common stock to offshore accounts, including to accounts located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland, and the disclosure appearing under Underwriting Notice to Investors is intended to help insure that, if the underwriters do make such offers or sales, that they will be made in compliance with applicable laws.
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Financial Statements ICF International, Inc. and Subsidiaries
General
46. | Update your financial statements pursuant to 3-12 of Regulation S-X. |
Response: Amendment No. 1 includes financial information for the quarter ended March 31, 2006.
Consolidated Statements of Operations, page F-4
47. | Please advise us how your presentation of non-cash compensation as a separate line item on the face of your statement of operations complies with the guidance in SAB Topic 14F or revise accordingly. |
Response: ICF has changed the presentation in the financial statements to include the non-cash stock compensation expense with indirect and selling expenses, which follows the Companys treatment for cash incentive compensation, rather than the prior separate presentation as a standalone line item in the audited and interim financial statements.
Note B Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Revenue Recognition, page F-8
48. | Further explain how you determine the pro-rata portion of fixed fees to be recognized on cost-type contracts and tell us if the referenced probable and estimable fees are billable under the contractual terms. Also, we note that actual and anticipated awards are considered in estimating revenues. Clarify your basis for the consideration of award fees prior to the time in which they are triggered under the terms of the contract. |
Response: ICF typically recognizes fixed fees under cost-based contracts to be earned in proportion to the ratio of the allowable costs actually incurred in performance of the contract to the total estimated costs of the contract. This ratio is applied to the fixed fee under the contract to determine the pro-rata portion of the fee recognized as revenue. The estimated fees are billed currently with the incurred costs on a monthly basis in accordance with contractual terms.
With respect to estimated award fees, ICF considers estimated award fees under costbased contracts in estimating revenues only when it is able to make reasonably dependable estimates of such awards. It evaluates such estimates based on ICFs prior experience under similar award fee contracts, prior award fee determinations under the existing contract and communications with the client as to ICFs performance, including any interim performance evaluations received. Historically, ICF believes that its close communications with its clients throughout the term of contracts has resulted in its
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estimates of award fees being reasonable in relation to the amounts actually awarded and has not resulted in any significant reversals of amounts in subsequent periods.
ICF currently recognizes revenue in advance on award fees on only one contract, which has total annual award fees of approximately $100,000. ICF has over eight years of history on this contract and has not to date had to reduce revenue because of overestimating award fees.
49. | We note that under certain circumstances you may proceed with work prior to signing formal contract documents. Please clarify how you determine persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists in these circumstances under SAB Topic 13A2. Advise us of your customary business practices as it relates to these customers and how your policy is consistent with those practices. Lastly, explain what legal rights you have to payment in situations where services have been performed without a contract. |
Response: ICF determines that persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists when it has a request, or approval, to commence or continue work from a representative of the customer who has authority to make such requests or approvals. It is customary for some U.S. federal agencies and other customers to ask ICF to begin work before a formal contract exists, or to continue work before a formal extension is executed. ICF decides, on a case-by-case basis consistent with its experience with particular customers, whether and to what extent to begin or continue work in such instances. In most cases, ICF has written or email authorization from the client to commence or continue work while the formal contract or extension is being negotiated or prepared. In some instances, such authorizations are oral. Formal contracts or extensions are usually executed within a few weeks after authorization to commence work. ICFs experience in this area has been favorable, and it is rare for ICF not to be paid for work based on deferred formal documentation. ICF has rarely had to reverse revenue recognition in these circumstances. In the event a customer refused to pay for services rendered after asking ICF to begin or continue work, ICF would take the position that an oral contract existed, based on doctrines such as detrimental reliance, and that, in any event, it is entitled to payment on a quantum meruit basis.
Stock-based compensation plan, page F-11
50. | Tell us how you determined the fair value of the Companys stock for purposes of calculating the charge to compensation expense on the date the vesting of all outstanding unvested options was accelerated. Include in your response a discussion of the valuation methodology as well as the significant assumptions used by the Company in determining the fair value. In addition tell us what consideration was given to the pending initial public offering and how that factored into your valuation. |
Response: The fair value of the Companys common stock as of December 31, 2005 was determined by the Board of Directors based on a contemporaneous valuation
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performed by an unrelated, independent valuation specialist as of September 30, 2005 (on a pro forma basis to include the recent Caliber acquisition). Determining the fair value of ICFs stock required making complex and subjective judgments. The independent, valuation firm performed a formal business valuation and followed generally accepted valuation standards. The valuation firm considered several methodologies in its analysis, including guideline public company analysis, an analysis of comparable company transactions, and a discounted cash flow analysis. Although the market-based analyses did not include directly comparable companies to ICF, the analysis provided useful benchmarks. The final valuation conclusion was based on a detailed discounted cash flow analysis, in light of the results of the market-based analysis.
The discounted cash flow analysis, an income-based approach, involves applying appropriate discount rates to estimated future free cash flows, which were based on managements forecasts of revenue and costs. The revenue forecasts were based on expected annual growth rates of approximately 10% and normalized EBITDA margins of 8%. There is inherent uncertainty in these estimates; however, the assumptions underlying the estimates were consistent with ICFs business plan. The risks associated with executing the Companys business plan were assessed in selecting the appropriate discount rate, which was approximately 16% percent. If a different discount rate had been used, without adjusting other assumptions, the valuation would have been different.
In general, the per share value as of December 31, 2005 as compared to December 31, 2004, increased due to many facts and circumstances, including: the acquisitions of Caliber and Synergy; the integration of the Synergy acquisition; growing revenues; increasing normalized profit margins and growth expectations; and the relative improvement in general market and economic conditions.
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The resulting enterprise values and related valuation multiples are:
Valuation by Board as of 12/31/05 |
Valuation by Independent Firm as of 9/30/05 | |||||
Equity Value to Enterprise Value Reconciliation | ||||||
Per Share Value |
$ | 9.05 | $ | 9.05 | ||
Number of Shares |
9,736,866 | 9,164,157 | ||||
Implied Equity Value |
$ | 88,118,637 | $ | 82,935,621 | ||
Plus Debt |
$ | 60,972,000 | $ | 62,019,000 | ||
Implied Enterprise Value |
$ | 149,090,637 | $ | 144,954,621 | ||
Financial Results1 | ||||||
ICF Trailing Revenues |
$ | 207,794,000 | $ | 204,918,000 | ||
ICF Trailing EBITDA |
$ | 15,958,000 | $ | 16,309,000 | ||
Implied Valuation Multiples | ||||||
Trailing Revenue Multiple |
0.7 x | 0.7 x | ||||
Trailing EBITDA Multiple |
9.3 x | 8.9 x |
Consideration of Public Offering
The difference between ICF as a private company versus a potentially public company was factored into the formal business valuation analysis in September 2005 in several ways. For example, in the analysis of guideline public companies, a discount for lack of marketability was used to transform the indicated values from public companies to the
1 | The financial results as of September 30, 2005 and December 31, 2005 represent pro forma results, which include the annualized results of the Caliber acquisition. |
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indicated values of private companies in the market, based on a detailed study of the differences between public company and private company valuations. This issue was also taken into account in assessing the reasonableness of the discount rate.
While it is reasonable to expect that the completion of an IPO will add value to ICFs shares because they will have increased liquidity and marketability, the timing and amount of additional value can be measured with neither precision nor certainty. As of the valuation dates noted above, ICF had no immediate plans to file for a public offering, because management needed time to ensure the successful integration of the Caliber acquisition. ICF began a formal discussion process with nine investment banks regarding the initiation of a possible public offering in early 2006. The fair value of the Companys common stock that was used by management in 2005 for purposes of calculating the charge to compensation expense was within the range of the estimated post-IPO fair value of the Companys common stock in the February 2006 analyses performed by the underwriters who were selected to the lead and manage the IPO.
Note C Acquisitions, page F-13
51. | Explain to us how you have considered the disclosure requirements of paragraph 51(b) of SFAS 141 as it relates to goodwill acquired as part of the acquisition transactions. |
Response: ICF disclosed, as required by paragraph 51(b) of SFAS 141, the primary reasons for, and purchase price of, each acquisition transaction, including a description of the factors that contributed to a purchase price that results in the recognition of goodwill. Because each acquisition was an extensively negotiated, arms-length transaction with the price and terms based on market factors, ICF believes its disclosure is adequate and consistent with the requirements of SFAS 141.
52. | Tell us how you have complied with the disclosure requirements in paragraph 51(d) of SFAS 141 as it relates to the stock issued in connection with the Synergy, Inc. acquisition. Include in your response the number of shares issued and a discussion of the valuation methodology as well as the significant assumptions used in determining the fair value. |
Response: ICF has provided the cost of the acquired entity itemized by cash, stock and transaction expenses. ICF issued 69,199.89 shares of common stock valued at $7.34/share, the fair market value as determined by its Board of Directors, or $500,000 worth of common stock.
53. | Based on your discussion here it appears that you have concluded that any earnout payments resulting from your acquisition of Caliber Associates, Inc. should be accounted |
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for as an adjustment to the purchase price. In a supplemental response to us, please explain how you have considered the guidance in EITF 95-8 in determining the appropriate accounting treatment. Specifically address whether the former owners to which payment is being made are current employees of the Company, and if so whether any continuing employment criteria must be met in order for the employee to be eligible to receive the payment. |
Response: EITF 95-8 discusses the accounting for contingent consideration paid to the shareholders of an acquired enterprise in a purchase method business combination. The issue is whether the contingent consideration based on future performance or events is additional purchase price or compensation for services, use of property, or profit sharing. The EITF addresses a number of factors or indicators that should be considered in this determination.
In this case, there is no link between continuing employment by selling shareholders and the contingent consideration. At the time of its acquisition by ICF, 100% of the outstanding stock of Caliber was owned by the ESOP. The two founders have signed multi-year employment agreements, but are not participants in the ESOP and will not receive any of the contingent consideration in any event. The ultimate recipients of the contingent consideration will be the ESOP participants, regardless of their status as employees or their performance as employees. In addition, the level of compensation for current Caliber senior management equals or exceeds their compensation prior to the acquisition and is comparable to similar positions at ICF.
Based on the facts and circumstances enumerated above, ICF meets and complies with the requirements of EITF 95-8 for classifying this contingent consideration as purchase price.
Note N Stockholders Equity, page F-25
54. | For equity instruments granted during the 12 months prior to the date of the most recent balance sheet included in the registration statement, tell us what consideration was given to disclosing in the notes to the financial statements the following: |
| For each grant date, disclose the number of options or shares granted, the exercise price, the fair value of the common stock, and the intrinsic value, if any, per option; |
| Disclose whether the valuation used to determine the fair value of the equity instruments was contemporaneous or retrospective; |
| Indicate whether or not the valuation was performed by an unrelated third party. |
Response: All of the 102,045 options granted in 2005 were revalued at $9.05 in December 2005. These 102,045 options represent substantially less than 2% of ICFs
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total outstanding common stock, and none of the options had any intrinsic value at the time of issuance. Because all of the options granted were in accordance, and consistent in amount, with ICFs past practice and the total of the options and stock granted was small relative to the outstanding shares, ICF did not feel it necessary to disclose in the notes to the financial statements any of the specific information indicated in the comment. For a discussion of ICFs valuation methodology, please refer to the response to comment 50.
Financial Statements December 31, 2004 Audited Financial Statements of Caliber Associates, Inc.
Report of Independent Accountants, page F-28
55. | Please have your auditors revise their report to include the city and state of the office issuing the opinion. |
Response: The revisions requested in this comment have been made. See page F-29 of Amendment No. 1.
Financial Statements September 30, 2005 Unaudited Financial Statements of Caliber Associates, Inc.
56. | We note the reference at the bottom of your financial statements to the independent accountants review report. Please tell us where this report has been included in your filing or include it in your next amendment. |
Response: The reference to the review report has been deleted from Amendment No. 1.
Part II
Item 15. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
57. | Please revise to identify the exemption relied upon for each issuance and to provide a description of the facts that support your use of each such exemption. We note the general disclosure at the end of this section, however, the specific exemption relied upon for each transaction is not clear. |
Response: The section referred to in this comment has been revised as suggested. See pages II-2 to II-4 of Amendment No. 1.
58. | Please revise to indicate the type and amount of consideration received in each in connection with the issuance of options. |
Response: The section referred to in this comment has been revised as suggested. See page II-4 of Amendment No. 1.
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Item 16. Exhibits
59. | Please file all remaining exhibits as soon as possible. Upon review, we may have further comments. If you are not prepared to file the legal opinion with your next amendment, please provide a draft of the opinion for us to review. |
Response: Virtually all of the remaining exhibits, including the draft opinion, have been filed with Amendment No. 1.
We appreciate the Staffs attention to the Registration Statement and the opportunity to provide the foregoing responses to the Staffs comments. If you wish to discuss any of the foregoing comments, please call me at (703) 720-7890.
Very truly yours,
/s/ James J. Maiwurm*
cc: | Sudhakar Kesavan, ICF International, Inc. |
Robert Telewicz, Securities and Exchange Commission
* Admitted only in D.C., Maryland, New York and Ohio.