"north, and the new owner of HALO would have to honour the contract with PPHM/Avid or pay the fines (which mostly will be about the profit Avid would have realised on the orders)."
The type of contract that you are describing does not exist. If you believe that they have some type of penalizing contract(which they absolutely, 100%, do not) please post.
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