Agreement to Purchase and Sell Stock Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Company agrees to sell to each of the Investors at the Closing (as defined below), and each of the Investors agrees to purchase from the Company at the Closing, the number of shares of the Company's Common Stock set forth opposite such Investor's name on the Schedule of Investors (collectively, the "Shares") at a price of $39.00 per share.
Agreement to Purchase and Sell On the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Originator, severally and for itself, agrees to sell to the Buyer, and the Buyer agrees to purchase from such Originator from time to time on or after the Closing Date, but before the Purchase and Sale Termination Date (as defined in Section 1.4), all of such Originator’s right, title and interest (but not obligations) in and to:
(a) each Receivable of such Originator that existed and was owing to such Originator at the closing of such Originator’s business on the date (the “Cut-Off Date”) that is (i) with respect to each Originator party hereto on the Closing Date, 1 Business Day prior to the Closing Date, and (ii) with respect to any Originator that first becomes a party hereto after the Closing Date, 1 Business Day prior to the date on which such Originator becomes a party hereto or such other date as the Buyer and such Originator agree to in writing;
(b) each Receivable generated by such Originator from and including the Cut-Off Date to but excluding the Purchase and Sale Termination Date;
(c) all rights to, but not the obligations of, such Originator under all Related Security with respect to any of the foregoing Receivables;
(d) all monies due or to become due to such Originator with respect to any of the foregoing;
(e) all books and records of such Originator to the extent related to any of the foregoing; and
(f) all Collections and other proceeds (as defined in the UCC) of any of the foregoing that are or were received by such Originator on or after the Cut-Off Date, including, without limitation, all funds which either are received by such Originator, the Buyer or the Servicer from or on behalf of the Account Debtors in payment of any amounts owed (including, without limitation, invoice price, finance charges, interest and all other charges) in respect of any of the above Receivables or Related Security or are applied to such amounts owed by the Account Debtors (including, without limitation, any insurance payments that such Originator, the Buyer or the Servicer applies in the ordinary course of its business to amounts owed in respect of any of the above Receivables or Related Security, and net proceeds of sale or other disposition of repossessed goods or other collateral or property of the Account Debtors in respect of any of the above Receivables or any other parties directly or indirectly liable for payment of such Receivables).
(g) all rights, remedies, powers, privileges, title and interest (but not obligations) with respect to the Receivables sold hereunder; and
(h) all rights, remedies, powers, privileges, title and interest (but not obligations) in and to all Interim Deposit Accounts, Designated Deposit Accounts, Controlled Accounts and Agent Deposit Accounts into which any Collections or other proceeds with respect to such Receivables may be deposited (which Interim Deposit Accounts existing on the Closing Date shall be transferred to the Buyer under a separate agreement prior to the Initial Borrowing Date), and any related investment property acquired with any such Collections or other proceeds (as such term is defined in the applicable UCC). All purchases hereunder shall be made without recourse, but shall be made pursuant to, and in reliance upon, the representations, warranties and covenants of the Originators set forth in this Agreement and each other Loan Document. No obligation or liability to any Account Debtor or any other Person on any Receivable is intended to be assumed by the Buyer hereunder, and any such assumption is expressly disclaimed. The Buyer’s foregoing agreement to purchase Receivables and the proceeds and rights described in clauses (c) through (h) (collectively; the “Related Rights”), is herein called the “Purchase Facility.”
Conditions to Purchase of Option Securities In the event that the Underwriters exercise their option provided in Section 2(b) hereof to purchase all or any portion of the Option Securities, the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein and the statements in any certificates furnished by the Company and any of its subsidiaries hereunder shall be true and correct as of each Date of Delivery and, at the relevant Date of Delivery, the Representatives shall have received:
Agreement to Sell and Purchase the Shares At the Closing (as defined in Section 3), the Company will sell to the Purchaser, and the Purchaser will buy from the Company, upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, the number of Shares (at the purchase price) shown below:
Agreements to Sell and Purchase and Lock-Up Agreements On the basis of the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement, and subject to its terms and conditions, the Company agrees to issue and sell, and each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company at a price per Share of $______ (the "PURCHASE PRICE") the number of Firm Shares set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule I hereto. On the basis of the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement, and subject to its terms and conditions, the Company agrees to issue and sell the Additional Shares and the Underwriters shall have the right to purchase, severally and not jointly, up to _______ Additional Shares from the Company at the Purchase Price. Additional Shares may be purchased solely for the purpose of covering over-allotments made in connection with the offering of the Firm Shares. The Underwriters may exercise their right to purchase Additional Shares in whole or in part from time to time by giving written notice thereof to the Company within 30 days after the date of this Agreement. You shall give any such notice on behalf of the Underwriters and such notice shall specify the aggregate number of Additional Shares to be purchased pursuant to such exercise and the date for payment and delivery thereof, which date shall be a business day (i) no earlier than two business days after such notice has been given (and, in any event, no earlier than the Closing Date (as hereinafter defined)) and (ii) no later than ten business days after such notice has been given. If any Additional Shares are to be purchased, each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees to purchase from the Company the number of Additional Shares (subject to such adjustments to eliminate fractional shares as you may determine) which bears the same proportion to the total number of Additional Shares to be purchased from the Company as the number of Firm Shares set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule I bears to the total number of Firm Shares. The Company hereby agrees not to (i) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any
CONDITIONS TO THE INVESTOR’S OBLIGATION TO PURCHASE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK The obligation of the Investor to buy Purchase Shares under this Agreement is subject to the satisfaction of each of the following conditions on or prior to the Commencement Date and, once such conditions have been initially satisfied, there shall not be any ongoing obligation to satisfy such conditions after the Commencement has occurred:
(a) The Company shall have executed each of the Transaction Documents and delivered the same to the Investor;
(b) The Common Stock shall be listed on the Principal Market, trading in the Common Stock shall not have been within the last 365 days suspended by the SEC or the Principal Market and such suspension has not subsequently been cured;
(c) The representations and warranties of the Company shall be true and correct in all material respects (except to the extent that any of such representations and warranties is already qualified as to materiality in Section 4 above, in which case, such representations and warranties shall be true and correct without further qualification) as of the date hereof and as of the Commencement Date as though made at that time (except for representations and warranties that speak as of a specific date, which shall be true and correct as of such date) and the Company shall have performed, satisfied and complied with the covenants, agreements and conditions required by the Transaction Documents to be performed, satisfied or complied with by the Company at or prior to the Commencement Date. The Investor shall have received a certificate, executed by the chief executive officer of the Company, dated as of the Commencement Date, to the foregoing effect in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B;
(d) The Registration Statement shall be effective and no stop order with respect to the Registration Statement shall be pending or threatened by the SEC. The Company shall have a maximum dollar amount certain of Common Stock registered under the Registration Statement which is sufficient to issue to the Investor not less than the full Available Amount worth of Purchase Shares. The Current Report and the Initial Prospectus Supplement each shall have been filed with the SEC, as required pursuant to Section 5(a). The Prospectus shall be current and available for issuances and sales of all of the Purchase Shares by the Company to the Investor. Any other Prospectus Supplements required to have been filed by the Company with the SEC under the Securities Act at or prior to the Commencement Date shall have been filed with the SEC within the applicable time periods prescribed for such filings under the Securities Act;
(e) The Company will have delivered to the Transfer Agent irrevocable instructions, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Investor, to issue Purchase Shares in accordance with this Agreement; and
(f) No Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
Acknowledgment Regarding Purchasers’ Purchase of Shares The Company acknowledges and agrees that each of the Purchasers is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby. The Company further acknowledges that no Purchaser is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby and any advice given by any Purchaser or any of their respective representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby is merely incidental to the Purchasers’ purchase of the Shares. The Company further represents to each Purchaser that the Company’s decision to enter into this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Company and its representatives.
Acknowledgment Regarding Investor’s Purchase of Shares The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Investor is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Registered Offering Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. The Company further acknowledges that the Investor is not acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Registered Offering Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and any advice given by the Investor or any of its respective representatives or agents in connection with the Registered Offering Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby is merely incidental to the Investor’s purchase of the Securities, and is not being relied on by the Company. The Company further represents to the Investor that the Company’s decision to enter into the Registered Offering Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent evaluation by the Company and its representatives.
Sale and Purchase of the Shares On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements contained in, and subject to the terms and conditions of, this Agreement:
(a) The Company agrees to sell to each of the Underwriters, and each of the Underwriters agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at a price of $_____ per share (the "Initial Price"), the number of Firm Shares set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter under the column "Number of Firm Shares to be Purchased from the Company" on Schedule I to this Agreement, subject to adjustment in accordance with Section 10 hereof.
(b) The Company grants to the several Underwriters an option to purchase, severally and not jointly, all or any part of the Option Shares at the Initial Price. The number of Option Shares to be purchased by each Underwriter shall be the same percentage (adjusted by the Representatives to eliminate fractions) of the total number of Option Shares to be purchased by the Underwriters as such Underwriter is purchasing of the Firm Shares. Such option may be exercised only to cover over-allotments in the sales of the Firm Shares by the Underwriters and may be exercised in whole or in part at any time on or before 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the business day before the Firm Shares Closing Date (as defined below), and from time to time thereafter within 30 days after the date of this Agreement, in each case upon written, facsimile or telegraphic notice, or verbal or telephonic notice confirmed by written, facsimile or telegraphic notice, by the Representatives to the Company no later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the business day before the Firm Shares Closing Date or at least two business days before the Option Shares Closing Date (as defined below), as the case may be, setting forth the number of Option Shares to be purchased and the time and date (if other than the Firm Shares Closing Date) of such purchase.
Agreement to Sell and Purchase (a) The Company and each Selling Shareholder hereby agree to sell to each Underwriter, and upon the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company and the Selling Shareholders herein contained and subject to all the terms and conditions of this Agreement, each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company and each Selling Shareholder, at a price of $_____ per share, that number of Firm Shares (rounded up or down as determined by you in your discretion, in order to avoid fractions of a share) obtained by multiplying the number of Firm Shares to be sold by the Company or the number of Firm Shares to be sold by each Selling Shareholder as set forth opposite the name of such Selling Shareholder in Schedule I hereto, as the case may be, by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of Firm Shares set forth opposite the name of each Underwriter in Schedule II hereto (or such number of Firm Shares increased as set forth in Section 9 hereof) and the denominator of which is the total number of Firm Shares. The difference of $_____ per Firm Share between the initial public offering price and the price at which the Company and each Selling Shareholder will sell the Firm Shares to the Underwriter is the "Underwriters' Discount."
(b) Subject to all the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Company hereby grants the Option to the Underwriters to purchase, severally and not jointly, up to 240,000 Option Shares from the Company at the same price per share as the Underwriters shall pay for the Firm Shares. The Option may be exercised only to cover overallotments in the sale of the Firm Shares by the Underwriters and may be exercised in whole or in part at any time (but not more than once) on or before the 30th day after the date of this Agreement upon written or telegraphic notice (the "Option Shares Notice") by the Representatives to the Company no later than 12:00 noon, Charlotte, North Carolina time, at least two and no more than five business days before the date specified for closing in the Option Shares Notice (the "Option Closing Date") setting forth the aggregate number of Option Shares to be purchased and the time and date for such purchase. On the Option Closing Date, the Company will issue and sell to the Underwriters the number of Option Shares set forth in the Option Shares Notice, and each Underwriter will purchase, severally and not jointly, such percentage of the Option Shares as is equal to the percentage of Firm Shares that it is purchasing.
(c) Certificates in negotiable form for the Firm Shares to be sold by the Selling Shareholders hereunder have been placed in custody for delivery under this Agreement, under a custody agreement (the "Custody Agreement") made with _________, as custodian (the "Custodian").
