Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing. (a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. (b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. (c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters. (d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business. (e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter. (f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby. (g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II. (h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible. (i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith. (j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company. (k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested. (l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (COPsync, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (COPsync, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (COPsync, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, Securities as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative Underwriters or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City timeEastern Time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the RepresentativeUnderwriters. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s Underwriters’ satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative Underwriters shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s Underwriters’ reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s Underwriters’ reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative Underwriters shall have received the favorable written opinionsreceived, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative Underwriters and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) legal opinions from Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx & Riegels, Cayman Islands counsel to the Company dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, (ii), including customary ) legal opinions and negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx letter from DLA Piper UK LLP, the securities U.S. legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; , and (iiiii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPlegal opinions from Xxx Xxx Law Offices, patent PRC legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date Date. Each of the opinion shall provide assurance to parties that the legal aspects of the transaction have been properly examined and deemed compliant with applicable laws, regulations, and contractual requirements A copy of such opinion shall have been provided to the Underwriters with consent from such counsel. VCL Law LLP, counsel to the Underwriters, shall have furnished to the Representative its (i) written opinion, addressed to the Underwriters; Underwriters and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, and (ii) negative assurance letter, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents and information as such counsel may reasonably request to enable them to pass on such matters. XxxXxxxxx Law Offices, PRC counsel to the Underwriters, shall have furnished to the Representative its written opinion, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative.
(d) The Representative Underwriters shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the CompanyCompany (the “Officers’ Certificate”), substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex I and dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) At each of the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received a certificate of the Company signed by the Secretary of the Company (the “Secretary’s Certificate”), substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex II and dated the Closing Date, certifying: (i) that each of the Charter and Bylaws is true and complete, has not been modified and is in full force and effect; (ii) that the resolutions of the Company’s Board of Directors relating to the Offering are in full force and effect and have not been modified; (iii) the good standing of the Company; and (iv) as to the incumbency of the officers of the Company. The documents referred to in such certificate shall be attached to such certificate.
(f) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative Underwriters shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Asia CPAs LLP (the “Auditor Comfort Letter”) as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulationsRegulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(fg) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Representative, a certificate on behalf of the Company, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof and addressed to the Underwriters, of its Chief Financial Officer with respect to certain financial date contained in the Registration Statement and Prospectus (the “CFO Certificate”), providing “management comfort” with respect to such information, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative, substantially in the form attached hereto as Xxxxx XXX.
(h) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock Ordinary Shares or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeUnderwriters, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(gi) The Representative Underwriters shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex IIIV.
(hj) The Common Stock and the Warrants Shares are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants Shares shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Nasdaq Global Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the RepresentativeUnderwriters. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants Shares under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants Shares from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Nasdaq Global Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Nasdaq Global Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities Firm Shares shall be DTC eligible.
(ik) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(jl) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(km) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(ln) The CSRC shall have concluded the CSRC Filings and published the filing results on January 2, 2024 in respect of the CSRC Filings on its website, and such notice of acceptance and/or filing results published not having otherwise been rejected, withdrawn, revoked or invalidated.
(o) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (is not required to apply for cybersecurity review with the “Warrant Agreement”) CAC with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished respect to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel Company’s proposed overseas listing pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingRevised Cybersecurity Review Measures.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Autozi Internet Technology (Global) Ltd.), Underwriting Agreement (Autozi Internet Technology (Global) Ltd.), Underwriting Agreement (Autozi Internet Technology (Global) Ltd.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of on the date hereof hereof, the Applicable Time and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) Date and the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.precedent:
(a) The Registration Statement Company shall furnish to you at the Time of Purchase an opinion of Xxxxxx Xxxx Nemerovski Xxxxxx Xxxx & Rabkin, A Professional Corporation, special counsel for the Company, addressed to the Underwriters, and dated the Closing Date, with executed copies for each of the other Underwriters in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto.
(b) The Company shall furnish to you at the Time of Purchase an opinion of the Office of Corporate Counsel of the Company, addressed to the Underwriters, and dated the Closing Date, with executed copies for each of the other Underwriters in the form set forth in Exhibit B hereto.
(c) You shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.from Deloitte & Touche LLP letters dated, New York City timerespectively, on the date of this AgreementAgreement and the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters (with executed copies for each of the Underwriters) in the forms satisfactory to you, or at such later time which letters shall cover, without limitation, the various financial disclosures contained in the Registration Statement, the Pre-Pricing Prospectuses, the Prospectus and date as the Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses, if any.
(d) You shall have been consented received at the Time of Purchase the written opinion of Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated the Time of Purchase, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to in writing by the Representative. If .
(e) No Prospectus or amendment or supplement to the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall have been filed with to which you shall have objected in writing.
(f) The Registration Statement and any registration statement required to be filed, prior to the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form sale of the Securities, under the Act pursuant to Rule 462(b) shall have been filed and shall have become effective under the Act. The Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters Supplement shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act at or before 5:30 p.m., New York City time, on the second full business day after the date of this Agreement (or such earlier time as may be required under the Act). The final term sheet contemplated by Section 4(a) hereof, and any other material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act, shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time period; andperiods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433;
(g) Prior to and at the Time of Purchase, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, (i) no stop order suspending with respect to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no issued under the Act or proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated under Section 8(d) or threatened; all requests 8(e) of the Commission for additional information Act; (to be included in ii) the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; Statement and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative all amendments thereto shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains contain an untrue statement of a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits omit to state a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; (iii) none of the Pre-Pricing Prospectuses or the Prospectus, and no amendment or supplement thereto, shall include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading; (iv) the Disclosure Package and any amendment or supplement thereto, shall not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading; and (v) none of the Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses, if any, shall include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.
(ch) The Representative shall have received Company will at the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory Time of Purchase deliver to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as you a certificate of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleExhibit C hereto.
(i) The Company shall have furnished to you such other documents and certificates as to the accuracy and completeness of any statement in the Registration Statement, any Pre-Pricing Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as of the Time of Purchase as you may reasonably request.
(j) FINRA shall not have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and or reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In additionunderwriting, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as other arrangements of the Closing Datetransactions, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Companycontemplated hereby.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Schwab Charles Corp), Underwriting Agreement (Schwab Charles Corp), Underwriting Agreement (Schwab Charles Corp)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The respective obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder, and the closing of the sale of the Stock, are subject to purchase the accuracy, when made and pay for as of the Firm Shares Applicable Time and Firm Warrants or any Option Securitieson the Closing Date, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedcontained herein, as to the accuracy of the date hereof and as statements of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from Company made in any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished certificates pursuant to the Representative or provisions hereof, to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) to each of the following additional terms and conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall Statements have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the any Registration Statement or any part thereof, preventing or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Packageany Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Permitted Free Writing Prospectus or any part thereof shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A under the issuance of such an order Securities Act shall have been initiated or threatened; or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened by the Commission, and all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission for additional information (to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, Statements or the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Representative’s satisfaction; the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus shall have been filed with, the Commission within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by, and in compliance with, the Rules and Regulations and in accordance with Section 4(a), and the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, shall have become effective immediately upon its filing with the Commission; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsof this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
(b) The Representative None of the Underwriters shall not have reasonably determined, discovered and advised disclosed to the Company, Company on or prior to the Closing Date that the any Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, Statement or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, thereto contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of counsel for the Underwriters, is material or omits to state any fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or that the General Disclosure Package, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material or omits to state any fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is necessary in order to make the statements, in the light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading.
(c) All corporate proceedings incident to the authorization, form and validity of each of this Agreement, the Stock, the Registration Statements, the General Disclosure Package, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be reasonably satisfactory in all material respects to counsel for the Underwriters, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel all documents and information that they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.
(d) Fenwick & West LLP, counsel for the Company, shall have furnished to the Representative such counsel’s written opinion and negative assurance statement, each addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative.
(e) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx from Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx Procter LLP, the securities legal counsel for the CompanyUnderwriters, such counsel’s written opinion and negative assurance statement, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, with respect to such matters as the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfiedUnderwriters may reasonably require, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company they request for enabling them to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of businesspass upon such matters.
(ef) On At the date time of the execution of this Agreement and on the Closing DateAgreement, the Representative shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such dateletter, addressed to the Underwriters Underwriters, executed and dated such date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, (i) confirming that they are an independent certified public accountants registered accounting firm with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules the Rules and regulationsRegulations and PCAOB and (ii) stating the conclusions and findings of such firm, of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters, with respect to the financial statements and statingcertain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statements, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(g) On the effective date of any post-effective amendment to any Registration Statement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a letter (the “bring-down letter”) from Ernst & Young LLP addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date confirming, as of such the date of the bring-down letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, as the case may be, as of a date not more than five three (53) business days prior to such datethe date of the bring-down letter), the conclusions and findings of such firm firm, of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters, with respect to the financial information and other matters relating covered by its letter delivered to the Representative concurrently with the execution of this Agreement pursuant to paragraph (f) of this Section 6.
(h) The Company shall have furnished to the Representative a certificate, dated the Closing Date, of its Chief Executive Officer and its Chief Financial Officer stating that (i) such officers have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and, in their opinion, the Registration Statements and each amendment thereto, at the Applicable Time, as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and the General Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time and as of the Closing Date, any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as of its date and as of the Closing Date, the Prospectus and each amendment or supplement thereto, as of the respective date thereof and as of the Closing Date, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading, (ii) since the effective date of the Initial Registration Statement, no event has occurred which should have been set forth in a supplement or amendment to the Registration Statement covered Statements, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus that has not been so set forth therein, (iii) to their knowledge, as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct and the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date, and (iv) there has not been, subsequent to the date of the most recent audited financial statements included or incorporated by such letterreference in the General Disclosure Package, any material adverse change in the financial position or results of operations of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any change or development that, singularly or in the aggregate, would involve a material adverse change or a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business, assets or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, except as set forth in the Prospectus.
(fi) Subsequent to Since the execution and delivery date of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates latest audited financial statements included in the General Disclosure Package or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package as of which information is given the date hereof, (i) the Company and its subsidiaries shall not have sustained any loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth in the Registration Statement General Disclosure Package, and (exclusive of any amendment thereofii) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock (other than stock option and warrant exercises and stock repurchases in the ordinary course of business) or long-term debt of the Company or any change of its subsidiaries, or any change, or any development involving a prospective change, whether in or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in affecting the business, condition (general affairs, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects operations of the CompanyCompany or any of its subsidiaries, taken otherwise than as a whole, including but not limited to set forth in the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamityGeneral Disclosure Package, the effect of which, in any such case described above, in clause (i) or (ii) of this paragraph (i) is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale or delivery of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially Stock on the terms and in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and manner contemplated in the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithGeneral Disclosure Package.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no law, statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state governmental agency or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, body which would prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities Stock or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanyCompany or any of its subsidiaries; and no injunction, restraining order or order of any other nature by any federal or state court of competent jurisdiction shall have been issued which would prevent the issuance or sale of the Stock or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
(k) The Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement there shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) trading in securities generally on the NASDAQ Global Market or trading in any securities of the Company on any exchange or in the over-the-counter market, shall have furnished been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or maximum prices or maximum range for prices shall have been established on any such exchange or such market by the Underwriters Commission, by such exchange or market or by any other regulatory body or governmental authority having jurisdiction, (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared by Federal or state authorities or a material disruption has occurred in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States, (iii) the United States shall have become engaged in hostilities, or the subject of an act of terrorism, or there shall have been an outbreak of or escalation in hostilities involving the United States, or there shall have been a declaration of a national emergency or war by the United States or (iv) there shall have occurred such a material adverse change in general economic, political or financial conditions (or the effect of international conditions on the financial markets in the United States shall be such) as to make it, in the judgment of the Representative, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale or delivery of the Stock on the terms and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requestedin the manner contemplated in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(l) The Company shall have entered into filed a warrant agreement Notification: Listing of Additional Shares with the NASDAQ Global Market and shall have received no objection thereto from the NASDAQ Global Market.
(m) The Representative shall have received on and as of the “Warrant Closing Date satisfactory evidence of the good standing of the Company in the State of Delaware and existence as a foreign corporation in the State of Washington, in each case in writing or any standard form of telecommunication from the appropriate Governmental Authorities of such jurisdictions.
(n) The Representative shall have received the written agreements, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, of the persons and entities listed in Exhibit B to this Agreement”.
(o) with Nevada Agency and Trust The Company shall have furnished to the Underwriters a Secretary’s Certificate of the Company, as warrant agent in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Warrants. If any of Underwriters.
(p) On or prior to the conditions specified in this Section 7 Closing Date, the Company shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative such further certificates and documents as the Representative may reasonably request. All opinions, letters, evidence and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Cascadian Therapeutics, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (Oncothyreon Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (Oncothyreon Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The respective obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase the accuracy, at and pay for as of the Firm Shares date hereof and Firm Warrants or any Option the First Closing Date (as if made at the First Closing Date) and, with respect to the Optional Securities, the Option Closing Date (as if made at the case may beOption Closing Date), as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein contained, as or in certificates of any officer of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished Company delivered pursuant to the Representative or provisions hereof, to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its covenants and other obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.___p.m., New York City Eastern time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as the Representative shall approve and all filings required by Rules 424, 430A, 430B, 430C and 433 under the Securities Act shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodmade; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative No Underwriter shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, Company that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(c) On each Closing Date, the Representative shall have received the opinion of Pillsbury Wxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, dated as of such Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative.
(d) On each Closing Date, the Representative shall have received the opinion of Leydig, Vxxx & Mxxxx, Ltd, special intellectual property counsel for the Company, dated as of such Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative.
(e) On each Closing Date the Representative shall have received the opinion of King & Spalding, special regulatory counsel for the Company, dated as of such Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative.
(f) On each Closing Date the Representative shall have received the favorable opinion of Sxxxxxxxx Yxxxx Cxxxxxx & Rxxxx, a Professional Corporation, counsel for the Underwriters, dated as of such Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative.
(g) There shall have been furnished to the Representative a certificate of the Company, dated as of each Closing Date and addressed to the Representative, signed by the Chief Executive Officer and by the Chief Financial Officer of the Company to the effect that:
(i) The representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct, as if made at and as of such Closing Date, and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to such Closing Date;
(ii) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice that would prevent its use has been issued, and no proceedings for that purpose have been initiated or are pending or, to their knowledge, contemplated;
(iii) Any and all filings required by Rules 424, 430A, 430B and 430C under the Securities Act have been timely made;
(iv) The signers of said certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement and the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto, and such documents contain all statements and information required to be included therein; the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto does not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.; and the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or any supplements thereto do not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
(cv) The Representative shall have received Since the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as effective date of the Closing Date and addressed Registration Statement, there has occurred no event required to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions be set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company an amendment or supplement to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus which has not been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, so set forth; and
(vi) Since the effective date of the Registration Statement, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall have sustained any loss by strike, fire, flood, accident or other calamity (whether or not insured), or shall have become a party to or the subject of any litigation, which is material to the Company or its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, nor shall there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included have been a material adverse change in the Registration Statement general affairs, business, key personnel, capitalization, financial position, earnings or net worth of the Company and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changeits Subsidiaries, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, which loss, litigation or change, in the Representative’s judgment, shall render it inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of the Securities.
(eh) On the date of this Agreement hereof, and on the each Closing Date, the Representative shall have received from Mxxxxx & Kliegman, LLP, independent public or certified public accountants for the Company, a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, dated the date hereof addressed to the Underwriters and Representative, on behalf of the several Underwriters, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative Representative, containing statements and Underwriters’ Counselinformation of the type ordinarily included in accountant’s “comfort letters” to underwriters, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants delivered according to Statement of Auditing Standards No. 72 (or any successor bulletin), with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act audited and all applicable rules unaudited financial statements and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified certain financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given contained in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in and the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from additional conformed copies of such accountants’ letter for each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleseveral Underwriters).
(i) FINRA The Securities and the Common Stock reserved for issuance under the Underwriter Warrants shall have been duly authorized for listing on the Nasdaq Global Market.
(j) The stockholders, officers and directors of the Company (of which such officers, directors and stockholders shall constitute holders of at least 90% of the outstanding Common Stock on an aggregate and fully diluted basis) shall have agreed to the lock-up described in Section 4(i) hereof and such lock-ups shall be in full force and effect on each Closing Date.
(k) The NASD shall have confirmed that it has will not raised raise any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) On or before each Closing Date, the Representative and counsel for the Underwriters shall have received such information, certificates, agreements, opinions and other documents as they may reasonably require. All such opinions, certificates, letters and documents shall be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to counsel for the Underwriters. The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (furnish the “Warrant Agreement”) Representative with Nevada Agency such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and Trust Company, other documents as warrant agent for the WarrantsRepresentative shall reasonably request. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 5 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form Agreement and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative canceled at, or at any time prior to, the consummation First Closing Date or, with respect to the Optional Securities, the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, by the Representative. Any such cancellation shall be without liability of the ClosingUnderwriters to the Company. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing writing, or orally. Any such oral notice shall be by telegraph or telephone and confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City P.M. Eastern time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written legal opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii)Campbells, including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, Cayman Islands counsel to the securities legal counsel for the Company, Company dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; , (ii) Fish Kxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPCxxxxxx, patent P.C., the U.S. legal counsel to for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLCDeheng Law Firm, trademark PRC legal counsel for to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Fxxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants Shares are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants Shares shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants Shares under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants Shares from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities Firm Shares, the Additional Shares and the Shares underlying the Representative’s Warrant shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company and the Representative shall have entered into an escrow agreement with an entity reasonably satisfactory to both parties pursuant to which $600,000 in proceeds from the Offering shall be deposited in an escrow account for a warrant agreement period of thirty (30) months following the “Warrant Closing Date for purposes of satisfying the initial $600,000 in indemnification obligations set forth in this Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for . The Company shall pay the Warrantsreasonable fees of the escrow agent. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Farmmi, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (Farmmi, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (Farmmi, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as Designated Securities they have severally agreed to purchase under this Agreement on the case may be, as provided herein shall be Closing Date are subject to: (i) to the accuracy in all material respects of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, and the Guarantor contained in this Agreement as of the date hereof of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel accuracy in all material respects of the statements of the Company and the Guarantor made in any certificates pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement the provisions hereof delivered prior to or omissionconcurrently with such purchase, (iii) to the performance by the Company and the Guarantor of its their obligations hereunderunder this Agreement, and (iv) each of to the following additional further conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof; all filings (including, without limitation, the terms thereof and a form final term sheet prepared pursuant to Section 5(a) hereof) required by Rule 424(b) or Rule 433 of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities Rules and the method of distribution and similar matters Regulations shall have been filed with made, and no such filings will have been made without the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time consent of the Closing, Representative(s); no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofamendment or supplement thereto, preventing or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure PackagePreliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or suspending the qualification of the Designated Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of any such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests no notice of objection of the Commission to use the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the Rules and Regulations shall have been received by the Company; and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, Statement or the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been disclosed to the Underwriters and complied with to the Representative’s Underwriters’ satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative No Underwriter shall not have reasonably determined, been advised by the Company or shall have discovered and advised disclosed to the Company, Company that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, which in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of the Underwriters, or in the opinion of counsel to the Underwriters, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of the Underwriters, or in the opinion of counsel to the Underwriters, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative At the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Companya certificate, dated as of the Closing Date, of the Guarantor signed by the principal financial or accounting officer of the Guarantor, certifying, with respect to the effect that: Guarantor, that at the Closing Date and subsequent to the dates as of which information is given in the Disclosure Package, (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued shall be in effect, and no proceedings therefor have been initiated for such purpose shall be pending before or threatened by the Commission, Commission (viii) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any material adverse change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a changefinancial condition, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties earnings or prospects of the CompanyGuarantor and its subsidiaries, taken considered as one enterprise, (iii) there shall not have been any downgrading in the rating of any debt securities or preferred stock of the Guarantor or debt securities or preferred stock unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor by Xxxxx’x Investor Services, Inc., Fitch Ratings Ltd. or Standard and Poor’s Corporation, or any public announcement that any such rating agency has under surveillance or review its rating of any debt securities or preferred stock of the Guarantor or debt securities or preferred stock unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor (other than an announcement with positive implications of a wholepossible upgrading, including but not limited and no implication of a possible downgrading, of such rating), (iv) each of the Company and the Guarantor shall have complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its respective part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the occurrence Closing Date, and (v) the representations and warranties of any firethe Company and the Guarantor set forth in Section 1 above and in the applicable Underwriting Agreement, floodif any, stormare accurate in all material respects as though expressly made at and as of the Closing Date. In addition, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamityat the Closing Date, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative Underwriters shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partycertificate dated as of the Closing Date of the Company signed by a director of the Company certifying, duly executed by with respect to the applicable Lock-Up PartyCompany, the matters set forth in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex IIthis Section 6(c)(iv) and (v).
(hd) The Common Stock At the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received a signed opinion or opinions of counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters, dated as of the Closing Date.
(e) At the Applicable Time, the Underwriters shall have received letters of accountants, ordinarily referred to as “comfort letters”, confirming information as specified in the applicable Underwriting Agreement and dated the Warrants date on which the Term Sheets and/or the Prospectus are registered under dated, as applicable from those accountants of the Exchange Act andGuarantor or any of its subsidiaries as specified in the applicable Underwriting Agreement.
(f) At the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received letters of accountants dated as of the Closing Date, confirming information as specified in the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided comfort letters delivered pursuant to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminateSection 6(e) above, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration from those accountants of the Common Stock Guarantor or any of its subsidiaries as specified in the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleapplicable Underwriting Agreement.
(ig) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect At or prior to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent (i) the issuance or sale of public deed in respect to the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court Designated Securities shall have been issued that would, as registered in the Madrid Mercantile Registry; and (ii) the announcement related to the issue of the Closing Date, prevent Designated Securities shall have been published in the issuance or sale Official Gazette of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
Mercantile Registry (k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the WarrantsBoletin Oficial del Registro Mercantil). If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 or in Section 2 of the applicable Underwriting Agreement shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects when and as required by this AgreementAgreement to be fulfilled, or if any of this Agreement may be terminated by the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished Underwriters upon notice to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form Company and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or Guarantor at any time at or prior toto the Closing Date, and such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party except as provided in Section 7 herein. Notwithstanding any such termination, the consummation provisions of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation Sections 8, 9, 10, 14 and 16 herein shall be given to the Company remain in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingeffect.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Telefonica S A), Underwriting Agreement (Telefonica S A), Underwriting Agreement (Telefonica S A)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securitieshereunder, as to the case may beShares to be delivered at each Time of Delivery, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) subject, in their discretion, to the accuracy of the condition that all representations and warranties and other statements of the Company herein contained, as and of the date hereof Selling Stockholder herein are, at and as of such Time of Delivery, true and correct, the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by condition that the Company and the Selling Stockholder shall have performed all of its their respective obligations hereunderhereunder theretofore to be performed, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodperiod prescribed for such filing by the rules and regulations under the Act and in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or Statement, any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure PackagePreliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor proceeding for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are ; all material required to be included in filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by Rule 433 under the Act; and all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission shall have been complied with to the Representatives’ reasonable satisfaction;
(b) Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., U.S. counsel to the Underwriters, shall have furnished to the Underwriters such opinion or opinions, dated such Time of Delivery, with respect to this Agreement, the Registration Statement Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Underwriters may reasonably request;
(c) Garrigues, S.L.P., Spanish counsel to the Underwriters, shall have furnished to the Underwriters such opinion or opinions, dated such Time of Delivery, with respect to this Agreement, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Underwriters may reasonably request;
(d) Squire, Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx L.L.P., U.S. counsel to the Company and the Prospectus pursuant Selling Stockholder, shall have furnished to the Rules Underwriters their written opinion, dated such Time of Delivery, in form and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent substance reasonably satisfactory to the respective dates as of which information is given Underwriters, with respect to the matters set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.Annex I-A hereto;
(e) On Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx, Internal Legal Counsel of the date of this Agreement and on the Closing DateCompany, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed furnished to the Underwriters and a written opinion, dated such Time of Delivery, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within matters set forth in Annex I-B hereto;
(f) Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx xx Xxxxxxx, Internal Counsel to the meaning Selling Stockholder, shall have furnished to the Underwriters a written opinion, dated such Time of Delivery, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (orUnderwriters, with respect to the matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given set forth in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.II hereto;
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Telvent Git S A), Underwriting Agreement (Telvent Git S A), Underwriting Agreement (Telvent Git S A)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedaccuracy, as of the date hereof and as at each of the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date (as if made at such Closing Date), (ii) of and compliance with all representations, warranties and agreements of the absence from any certificatesCompany contained herein, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its respective obligations hereunder, including the covenants contained herein to be performed on or prior to the First Closing Date, and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.5:00 p.m., New York City Central time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, shall approve and all filings required by Rules 424, 430A and 433 of the Rules and Regulations shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon timely made (without reliance on Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to 424(b)(8) or Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period164(b)); and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, thereof or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s your satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative No Underwriter shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, Company that the Registration Statement, the General Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, Prospectus contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s your reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s your reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received Except as contemplated in the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the case of (i) and (ii)Prospectus, including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Time of Sale Disclosure Package, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall have incurred any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, other than in the ordinary course of business, or entered into any material transactions other than in the ordinary course of business, or declared or paid any dividends or made any distribution of any kind with respect to its capital stock; and there shall not have been any change in the Prospectuscapital stock (other than a change in the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise of outstanding options or warrants), there has not been or any material change in the short-term or long-term debt of the Company, or any issuance of options, warrants, convertible securities or other rights to purchase the capital stock of the Company, or any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, Change (whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business), that, in your judgment, makes it impractical or inadvisable to offer or deliver the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus.
(d) On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, the opinions of Xxxxxxxxxx & Xxxxx, P.A., Xxxxx & Xxxxx, P.A. and Xxxxx, Hannaford & Battles, P.A. counsel for the Company, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, substantially in the forms attached hereto as Exhibit B.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the Representative several Underwriters, such opinion or opinions from Faegre & Xxxxxx LLP, counsel for the several Underwriters, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, with respect to the formation of the Company, the validity of the Securities, the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus and other related matters as you reasonably may request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they request to enable them to pass upon such matters.
(f) On each Closing Date you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each McGladrey & Xxxxxx, LLP, dated such date, Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counselyou, confirming that they are it is an independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and all is in compliance with the applicable rules and regulationsrequirements relating to the qualifications of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, and stating, as of the date of such date letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the ProspectusTime of Sale Disclosure Package, as of a date not prior to the date hereof or more than five (5) days prior to the date of such dateletter), the conclusions and findings of such said firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by its letter delivered to you concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, and the effect of the letter so to be delivered on such Closing Date shall be to confirm the conclusions and findings set forth in such prior letter.
(fg) Subsequent On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the Underwriters, a certificate, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, signed by the chief executive officer and by the chief financial officer of the Company, to the execution effect that:
(i) The representations and delivery warranties of the Company in this Agreement orare true and correct, in all material respects, as if earliermade at and as of such Closing Date, and the Company has complied in all material respects with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied under this Agreement at or prior to such Closing Date;
(ii) No stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof or any amendment thereof or the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale, nor suspending or preventing the use of the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, has been issued, and, to their knowledge, no proceeding for that purpose has been instituted or is contemplated by the Commission or any state or regulatory body; and
(iii) The signers of said certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto, and (A) each part of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto contain, and contained when such part of the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, became effective, all statements and information required to be included therein, the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, does not contain and did not contain when such part of the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, became effective, any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading, and the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, does not include and did not include as of its date or the time of first use within the meaning of the Rules and Regulations, any untrue statement of material fact or omit to state and did not omit to state as of its date or the time of first use within the meaning of the rules and Regulations a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, (B) neither (1) the Time of Sale Disclosure Package nor (2) any individual Issuer Limited-Use Free Writing Prospectus, when considered together with the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, include, nor included as of the Time of Sale any untrue statement of a material fact or omits, or omitted as of the Time of Sale, to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, (C) since the Time of Sale there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amended or supplemented prospectus which has not been so set forth, (D) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive Time of Sale Disclosure Package, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has incurred any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, other than in the ordinary course of business, or entered into any material transactions, not in the ordinary course of business, or declared or paid any dividends or made any distribution of any amendment thereof) kind with respect to its capital stock, and except as disclosed in the Prospectus (exclusive Time of any supplement thereto)Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, there shall has not have been any change in the capital stock (other than a change in the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise of outstanding options or warrants), or any material change in the short-term or long-term debt debt, or any issuance of options, warrants, convertible securities or other rights to purchase the capital stock, of the Company Company, or any change of its subsidiaries, or any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a change, prospective Material Adverse Change (whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business), and (E) except as stated in the businessTime of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, condition (financial or otherwise)there is not pending, results of operationsor, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects to the knowledge of the Company, taken as threatened or contemplated, any action, suit or proceeding to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a wholeparty before or by any court or governmental agency, including but not limited to the occurrence of authority or body, or any firearbitrator, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, which might result in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex IIMaterial Adverse Change.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed furnished to terminateyou and counsel for the Underwriters such additional documents, certificates and evidence as you or likely to they may have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligiblereasonably requested.
(i) FINRA Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. shall have confirmed that it has not raised any no objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action The Nasdaq Capital Market shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of approved the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations for listing, subject only to official notice of the Companyissuance.
(k) The Company Underwriters shall have furnished received the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requestedLock-Up Agreements referenced in Section 4.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust CompanyAll such opinions, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to and other documents will be in compliance with the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to you and counsel for the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice The Company will furnish you with such conformed copies of such cancellation opinions, certificates, letters and other documents as you shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingreasonably request.
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Samples: Purchase Agreement (Electromed, Inc.), Purchase Agreement (Electromed, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the --------------------------------------- Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beAdditional Shares, as provided herein herein, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date (for purposes of this Section 6, "Closing Date" shall refer to the ------------ Closing Date for the Firm Shares and any Additional Closing Date, (ii) if different, for the Additional Shares), to the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative Underwriters or to Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx ("Underwriters’ Counsel ' Counsel") pursuant to this Section 7 6 of any material --------------------- misstatement or omission, (iii) to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer :
(a) Prior to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective effective, and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the ClosingDate, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued under the Securities Act or any part thereofproceedings therefor initiated or, or any amendment thereofto the Company's knowledge, nor suspending or preventing threatened by the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Commission. The Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings filed or transmitted for filing with the issuance Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act Regulations within the prescribed time period, and prior to Closing Date the Company shall have provided evidence satisfactory to the Underwriters of such an order shall have been initiated timely filing or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementstransmittal.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement All of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth contained in Section 2 this Agreement shall be true and correct on the date hereof are accurate, (iii) and on the Closing Date with the same force and effect as if made on and as of the date hereof and the Closing Date, respectively. The Company shall have performed or complied with all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company agreements herein contained and required to be performed or complied with hereunder on by it at or prior thereto to the Closing Date.
(c) The Prospectus shall have been duly performed printed and copies distributed to the Underwriters not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second business day following the date of this Agreement or complied withat such later date and time as to which the Underwriters may agree, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) and no stop order suspending the effectiveness qualification or exemption from qualification of the Registration Statement or Shares in any amendment thereof has jurisdiction referred to in Section 4(d) shall have been issued and no proceedings therefor proceeding for that purpose shall have been initiated commenced or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma shall be pending or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of businessthreatened.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(jd) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that agency which would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the SecuritiesShares; and no injunction action, suit or order of any federal, state or foreign court proceeding shall have been issued commenced and be pending against or affecting or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened against, the Company or any of its subsidiaries before any court or arbitrator or any governmental body, agency or official that would(i) could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) has not been disclosed in the Prospectus.
(e) Since the dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus and except as contemplated by the Prospectus, (i) there shall not have been any material adverse change, or any development that is reasonably likely to result in a material adverse change, in the capital stock or the long-term debt, or material increase in the short-term debt, of the Company or any of its subsidiaries from that set forth in the Prospectus, (ii) no dividend or distribution of any kind shall have been declared, paid or made by the Company or any of its subsidiaries on any class of its capital stock, (iii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall have incurred any liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, that are material, individually or in the aggregate, to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and that are required to be disclosed on a balance sheet or notes thereto in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and are not disclosed on the latest balance sheet or notes thereto included in the Prospectus. Since the date hereof and since the dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus, there shall not have occurred any Material Adverse Effect.
(f) The Underwriters shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date, signed on behalf of the Company by each of the Company's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters, confirming, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale matters set forth in paragraphs (a) through (e) of this Section 6 and that, as of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect Closing Date, the business or operations obligations of the CompanyCompany to be performed hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed in all material respects.
(kg) The Company Underwriters shall have furnished received on the Closing Date an opinion, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters and counsel to the Underwriters’ Counsel , of Kronish, Lieb, Weiner & Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, to the effect set forth in Exhibit A --------- hereto.
(h) The Underwriters shall have received an opinion, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters, of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx, counsel to the Underwriters, covering such matters as are customarily covered in such opinions.
(i) Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx shall have been furnished with such other certificatesdocuments, opinions or documents in addition to those set forth above, as they may reasonably require for the purpose of enabling them to review or pass upon the matters referred to in this Section 6 and in order to evidence the accuracy, completeness or satisfaction in all material respects of any of the representations, warranties or conditions herein contained.
(j) At the time this Agreement is executed and at the Closing Date the Underwriters shall have reasonably requestedreceived from Ernst & Young LLP, independent public accountants for the Company and its subsidiaries, dated as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, customary comfort letters addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters and counsel to the Underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information of the Company and its subsidiaries contained in the Prospectus.
(l) At the Closing Date, the Shares shall have been approved for quotation on the Nasdaq.
(m) At the time this Agreement is executed and at the Closing Time, the NASD shall not have withdrawn, or given notice of an intention to withdraw, its approval of the fairness of the underwriting terms and arrangements of the offering of the Shares by the Underwriters.
(n) Each of the General Administrative and Services Agreement, Master Network Services Agreement, Public Internet Access Services Agreement, and Customer Network and Application Services Agreement shall be in full force and effect, and no party to any such agreement shall have given any notice of termination or amendment of any material provision thereof, or of any intention to terminate or amend any material provision thereof, to any other party, and no event shall have occurred which would prevent either party from substantially performing its obligations under such agreements.
(o) All opinions, certificates, letters and other documents required by this Section 6 to be delivered by the Company will be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Underwriters. The Company will furnish the Underwriters with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and other documents as Bear Xxxxxxx shall reasonably request. Prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (furnished to the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency Underwriters such further information, certificates and Trust Company, documents as warrant agent for the WarrantsUnderwriters may reasonably request. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative Underwriters or to Underwriters’ ' Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 shall not be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Underwriters and to Underwriters’ ' Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled canceled by the Representative Underwriters at, or at any time prior to, the consummation Closing Date and the obligations of the ClosingUnderwriters to purchase the Additional Shares may be canceled by the Underwriters at, or at any time prior to, the Additional Closing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing writing, or orally. Any such oral notice shall be by telephone, telecopy, telex or telegraph, confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Digex Inc/De), Underwriting Agreement (Digex Inc/De)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beBonds, as provided herein herein, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy accuracy, as of the date hereof, as of the Applicable Time and as of the Closing Date, of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedherein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement Company shall have become effective filed any preliminary prospectus and all necessary regulatory the Prospectus with the Commission (including the information required by Rule 430B under the Act) in the manner and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on within the date of this Agreement, time period required by Rule 424(b) under the Act; or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected filed a post-effective amendment to rely upon the Registration Statement containing the information required by Rule 430A 430B, and such post-effective amendment shall have become effective.
(b) The Final Term Sheet, and any other material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no periods prescribed for such filings under Rule 433.
(c) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofStatement, or any post-effective amendment thereofto the Registration Statement, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall be in effect and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been issuedinstituted or, to the knowledge of the Company or any Underwriter, threatened by the Commission; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, Statement or the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s your satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(bd) The Representative No Underwriter shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, Company that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, which in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, your opinion is material, material or omits to state a fact which, which in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, your opinion is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(ce) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and Except as contemplated in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement Disclosure Package and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so includedProspectus, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing DateStatement, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement theretoamendments or supplements thereto subsequent to the date of this Agreement), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change adverse change, or any development involving a prospective adverse change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the business, net worth or results of operations of the Company from that set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any amendments or supplements thereto subsequent to the date of this Agreement) that, in your judgment makes it impractical or inadvisable to offer or deliver the Bonds on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(f) On the Closing Date, you shall have received the opinion of XxXxxx Law Firm, P.A., counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.
(g) On the Closing Date, you shall have received the opinion of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Esquire, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Company, dated the Closing Date, in the form of Exhibit B attached hereto.
(h) On the Closing Date, you shall have received from Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the several Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date, as you may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters. In rendering their opinion, such counsel may rely upon the opinion of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Esquire, referred to above, as to all matters governed by South Carolina law.
(i) On or prior to the date hereof, you shall have received a letter from Deloitte & Touche LLP, dated the date of the execution and delivery of this Agreement, and specifying procedures completed not more than three business days prior to the date of the execution and delivery of this Agreement, addressed to you and in form and substance satisfactory to you, (1) confirming that they are independent accountants with respect to the Company as required by the Act and (2) with respect to the accounting, financing, or statistical information (which is limited to accounting, financial or statistical information derived from the general accounting records of the Company) contained in the Registration Statement or incorporated by reference therein, and containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ SAS 72, as amended by SAS 86, “Comfort Letters” to underwriters, with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in or incorporated by reference into the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, including any pro forma financial information. At the Closing Date, you shall have received a letter from Deloitte & Touche LLP, dated the date of its delivery, which shall reaffirm and, if necessary, update, on the basis of a review in accordance with the procedures set forth in the letter from Deloitte & Touche LLP, during the period from the date of the letter referred to in the prior sentence to a date (specified in the letter) not more than three business days prior to the Closing Date.
(j) On the Closing Date, you shall have received from the Company a certificate, signed by its Chairman, President or a Vice President and by its Treasurer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer, dated the Closing Date, to the effect that, to the best of their knowledge based on a reasonable investigation:
(i) the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct in all material respects, as if made on and as of the Closing Date, and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied on or prior to the Closing Date;
(ii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, or any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement, shall be in effect and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or threatened by the Commission;
(iii) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto, contain all statements and information required to be included therein; the Registration Statement or any amendments thereto, at the time the Registration Statement or such amendments became effective and at the Execution Time, did not contain an untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; the Prospectus, as of its date and at the Closing Date did not and does not contain an untrue statement of a material fact and did not and does not omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; the Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time, did not contain any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (provided, however, that in each case, no representation is made, as applicable, as to any statements in or omissions from the Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1 filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, the Book-Entry Information, or information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company by you, or by any Underwriter through you, specifically for use in the preparation thereof); and, since the date hereof there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amended or supplemented prospectus which has not been so set forth and there has been no document required to be filed under the Exchange Act and which upon such filing would be deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, which has not been so filed; and
(iv) since the date of the most recent financial statements included in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto dated after the Execution Time), there has been no material adverse change, or any development which the Company has reasonable cause to believe will involve a prospective material adverse change, in the condition (financial or other), earnings, business or properties of the Company, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock Disclosure Package and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanyProspectus.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters to you such further certificates and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may you shall have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company There shall not have entered into occurred after the date hereof any downgrading, nor shall any notice have been given of any intended or potential downgrading or of any review for a warrant agreement (possible change that indicates a negative change or does not indicate the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Companydirection of the possible change, as warrant agent for in the Warrants. If rating accorded any of the conditions specified in this Company’s securities by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization,” as such term is defined under Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any 3(a)62 of the Exchange Act. All such opinions, certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to and other documents will be in compliance with the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closingyou. Notice The Company will furnish you with such conformed copies of such cancellation opinions, certificates, letters and other documents as you shall reasonably request, and the opinions referred to in paragraphs (f) and (g) shall be given deemed satisfactory provided they are substantially in the forms attached as exhibits to this Agreement. The documents required to be delivered by this Section 5 shall be delivered to the Company in writing office of XxXxxx Law Firm, P.A., counsel for the Company, 0000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx 00000, on or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingprior to the Closing Date.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (South Carolina Electric & Gas Co), Underwriting Agreement (South Carolina Electric & Gas Co)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters of any Designated Securities under the Pricing Agreement relating to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein such Designated Securities shall be subject to: (i) subject, in the accuracy of Representatives’ discretion, to the condition that all representations and warranties and other statements of the Company herein contained, as of Operating Partnership and the date hereof Parent Guarantor included or incorporated by reference in the Pricing Agreement relating to such Designated Securities are true and correct at and as of the Closing Date, (ii) Time of Delivery for such Designated Securities and the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished condition that prior to such Time of Delivery the Representative or Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor shall have performed all of their obligations hereunder theretofore to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunderbe performed, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, :
(i) The Preliminary Prospectus and the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer Prospectus in relation to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the applicable Designated Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act within the applicable time periodperiod prescribed for such filing by the rules and regulations under the Securities Act and in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof; and, at or prior (ii) each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus relating to the Closing Date and Designated Securities (including, without limitation, an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus setting forth the actual time final terms of the Closing, Designated Securities) shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433 under the Securities Act within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by Rule 433 and in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof; (iii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the issuance of such an order Securities Act shall have been initiated or threatenedthreatened by the Commission; and (iv) all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness reasonable satisfaction of the underwriting terms and arrangements.Representatives;
(b) The Representative Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel to the Underwriters, shall not have reasonably determinedfurnished to the Representatives such opinion or opinions, dated the Time of Delivery, with respect to the good standing status of the Operating Partnership and advised the CompanyParent Guarantor, that the Indenture, the Securities, the Guarantee, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement theretothe Time of Sale Information and such other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits and such counsel shall have received such documents and information as they may reasonably request to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required enable them to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.pass upon such matters;
(c) The Representative Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel to the Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor, shall have received furnished to the favorable Representatives their written opinions, in each case opinion or opinions dated the Time of Delivery in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii)Representatives, including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed substantially to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as effect of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.Xxxxx XX hereto;
(d) The Representative Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary to the Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor, shall have received certificates furnished to the Representatives his written opinion or opinions dated the Time of each of Delivery in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the CompanyRepresentatives, dated as of the Closing Date, substantially to the effect that: of Xxxxx XXX hereto;
(e) On the date of the applicable Pricing Agreement for such Designated Securities and at the Time of Delivery for such Designated Securities, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the independent registered public accounting firm of the Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor, which has audited the financial statements of the Operating Partnership and its consolidated subsidiaries and of the Parent Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries, included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, shall have furnished to the Representatives letters, dated the respective dates of delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, containing statements and information of the type customarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus;
(i) The Parent Guarantor and its subsidiaries (including, without limitation, the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 Operating Partnership), taken as a whole, have been satisfied, (ii) as not sustained since the date of the date hereof latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Information and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained Prospectus any material loss or interference with its businessesbusiness from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal court or governmental proceedingaction, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commissiondecree, (vi) there are no pro forma or except as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included set forth in the Registration Statement Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (viiii) subsequent to since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the ProspectusProspectus (without giving effect to any amendment thereof or supplement thereto subsequent to the date of the Pricing Agreement relating to the Designated Securities), except as set forth in Schedule IV to the applicable Pricing Agreement, there has not been any Material Adverse Change change in the beneficial interests of the Parent Guarantor (other than (x) issuances of beneficial interests (A) pursuant to equity-based awards granted in the ordinary course of business to trustees or employees of the Parent Guarantor or the Operating Partnership, (B) upon exercise of options and upon conversion or redemption of convertible or redeemable securities, in each case which were outstanding as of the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, and (C) upon the exchange of Operating Partnership interests for beneficial interests in the Parent Guarantor and (y) repurchases of the Parent Guarantor’s beneficial interests under the Parent Guarantor’s share repurchase program) or in the partnership interests in the Operating Partnership or the capital stock, partnership, membership or beneficial interests of any of its subsidiaries, or any change in the long-term debt of the Parent Guarantor and its subsidiaries (including, without limitation, the Operating Partnership), taken as a whole, or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a material adverse change, whether in or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in affecting the business, condition (financial or otherwise)properties, management, results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties financial condition or prospects of the CompanyParent Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries (including, without limitation, the Operating Partnership), taken as a whole, including but not limited except as set forth in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus (without giving effect to any amendment thereof or supplement thereto subsequent to the occurrence date of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamitythe Pricing Agreement relating to the Designated Securities), the effect of which, in any such case described abovein clause (i) or (ii), is, is in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, Representatives so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale public offering or the delivery of the Designated Securities or Offering as and the Guarantee on the terms and in the manner contemplated hereby.in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus;
(g) The Representative On or after the date of the Pricing Agreement relating to the Designated Securities, (i) no downgrading shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partyoccurred in the rating accorded the Operating Partnership’s debt securities or the Parent Guarantor’s debt securities or, duly executed if applicable, preferred shares of beneficial interest by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as the term is defined by the applicable Lock-Up PartyCommission in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, in each case substantially in with possible negative implications, its rating of any of the form attached as Annex II.Operating Partnership’s debt securities or the Parent Guarantor’s debt securities or preferred shares;
(h) The Common Stock and On or after the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as date of the Closing DatePricing Agreement relating to the Designated Securities, there shall not have occurred any of the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for following: (i) trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action generally shall have been provided to suspended or materially limited on the Representative. The Company New York Stock Exchange or the over-the-counter market; (ii) trading of any securities issued or guaranteed by the Operating Partnership or the Parent Guarantor shall have taken no action designed been suspended on any exchange or in any over-the-counter market; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities shall have been declared by federal or New York State authorities or a material disruption in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services; or (iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or acts of terrorism involving the United States or declaration of national emergency or war by the United States or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis, either within or outside the United States, that, in the judgment of the Representatives, is material and adverse and makes it impracticable or inadvisable to terminateproceed with the offering, sale or likely to have the effect delivery of terminatingthe Designated Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, the registration Preliminary Prospectus, the Time of Sale Information and the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.Prospectus; and
(i) FINRA The Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection furnished or caused to be furnished to the Representatives at the Time of Delivery for the Designated Securities a certificate or certificates of officers of the Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor in such form and executed by such officers of the Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor as shall be satisfactory to the Representatives, as to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor herein at and as of such Time of Delivery, as to the performance by the Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor of all of their obligations hereunder to be performed at or prior to such Time of Delivery, as to the matters set forth in Sections 8(a), 8(e) and 8(f) hereof and as to such other matters (including, without limitation, with respect to compliance with debt agreements and instruments) as the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithRepresentatives may reasonably request.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Brandywine Operating Partnership, L.P.), Underwriting Agreement (Brandywine Operating Partnership, L.P.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The respective obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein on the First Closing Date and, with respect to the Option Shares, the Option Closing Date, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company herein contained, set forth in Section 1 hereof as of the date hereof and as of the First Closing DateDate as though then made and, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished with respect to the Representative or Option Shares, as of the Option Closing Date as though then made, to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the timely performance by the Company of its their respective covenants and obligations hereunder, and (iv) to each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on prior to the date execution of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been be consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodUnderwriters; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings for the issuance of such an order that purpose shall have been initiated or, to the Knowledge of the Company or threatenedany Underwriter, threatened by the Commission; all requests any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Pricing Prospectus, the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfactionsatisfaction of Underwriters’ Counsel; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements; and no amendment to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, or the Prospectus to which the Underwriters or Underwriters’ Counsel shall have reasonably objected, after having received reasonable notice of a proposal to file the same, shall have been filed; and NASDAQ shall not have required a vote of stockholders of the Company in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(b) The Representative All corporate proceedings and other legal matters in connection with this Agreement, the form of Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, and the Prospectus and the registration, authorization, issue, sale and delivery of the Shares, shall have been reasonably satisfactory to Underwriters’ Counsel, and such counsel shall have been furnished with such papers and information as they may reasonably have requested to enable them to pass upon the matters referred to in this Section 7.
(c) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the First Closing Date, and on the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, there shall not have reasonably determinedoccurred any change, and advised or any development involving a prospective change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Company, taken as a whole, from that set forth in the Pricing Disclosure Package that, in the sole judgment of Xxxxxxxx Curhan Ford & Co., is material and adverse and that makes it, in the sole judgment of Xxxxxxxx Curhan Ford & Co., impracticable or inadvisable to market the Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Pricing Disclosure Package.
(d) At the First Closing Date and on the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, the Underwriters shall have received from Xxxxxxx Procter LLP, counsel for the Company (“Company Counsel”), a signed opinion dated as of such Closing Date, reasonably satisfactory to Underwriters’ Counsel, in the form and substance of Exhibit B annexed hereto, including a signed negative assurance statement dated as of such Closing Date, reasonably satisfactory to Underwriters’ Counsel, in the form and substance reflected in Exhibit B.
(e) At the First Closing Date, and on the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, the Underwriters shall have received from Underwriters’ Counsel a signed opinion dated as of such Closing Date in a form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters.
(f) The Underwriters shall have received, on each of the date hereof and the Closing Date, a letter dated the date hereof or the Closing Date, as the case may be, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters, from Odenberg Ullakko Muranishi & Co. LLP, independent public accountants, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, and the Prospectus; provided, however, that the letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off date” not earlier than two business days before the Closing Date.
(g) The Underwriters shall have received, on each of the date hereof and the Closing Date, a letter dated the date hereof or the Closing Date, as the case may be, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters, from Ernst & Young LLP, independent public accountants, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, and the Prospectus; provided that the letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off date” not earlier than two business days before the Closing Date.
(h) The Underwriters shall have received on the First Closing Date and on the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, a certificate of the Company, dated the First Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, signed by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company to the effect that, and Xxxxxxxx Curhan Ford & Co. shall be satisfied that:
(i) The representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct, as if made on and as of the First Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the First Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be;
(ii) When the Registration Statement became effective and at all times subsequent thereto up to the delivery of such certificate, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, and any amendments or any amendment thereof or supplement supplements thereto, or contained all material information required to be included therein by the Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, as the case may be, and in all material respects conformed to the requirements of the Act and the applicable Rules and Regulations thereunder, the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Preliminary Prospectus, contains an any Pricing Prospectus, and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto, did not and does not include any untrue statement of a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits omit to state a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received ; and, since the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as effective date of the Closing Date and addressed Registration Statement, there has occurred no event required to the Underwritersbe set forth in an amended or supplemented Prospectus or Issuer Free Writing Prospectus which has not been so set forth; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and and
(iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, and the Prospectus, there has not been or occurred, as the case may be: (A) any Material Adverse Change or Effect; (B) any development involving transaction that is material to the Company and its Subsidiaries considered as a prospective Material Adverse Changewhole, whether or not arising from except transactions entered into in the ordinary course of business.
; (eC) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Dateany obligation, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such datedirect or contingent, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect is material to the Company within and its Subsidiaries considered as a whole, incurred by the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulationsCompany or its subsidiaries, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given except obligations incurred in the Prospectus, as ordinary course of a date not more than five business; (5D) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt outstanding indebtedness of the Company or any change of its Subsidiaries that is material to the Company and its Subsidiaries considered as a whole; (E) any dividend or development involving a changedistribution of any kind declared, paid or made on the capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; or (F) any loss or damage (whether or not arising from transactions in insured) to the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects property of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence Company or any of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war its Subsidiaries which has been sustained or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall will have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligiblesustained which has a Material Adverse Effect.
(i) FINRA The Company shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect obtained and delivered to the fairness Underwriters an agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto, from each executive officer and reasonableness director of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action The Shares shall have been taken and no statutebe listed on The NASDAQ Capital Market, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as subject only to official notice of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Companyissuance.
(k) The Company shall have furnished complied with the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the furnishing of Prospectuses.
(l) On or before each of the First Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with shall have received such other certificatesinformation, documents and opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent require for the Warrants. If purposes of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Shares as contemplated herein, or in order to evidence the accuracy of any of the representations and warranties, or the satisfaction of any of the conditions or agreements, herein contained. If any condition specified in this Section 7 shall is not have been fulfilled satisfied when and as required to be satisfied, this Agreement may be terminated by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, Underwriters by written statements or letters furnished notice to the Representative Company at any time on or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance prior to the Representative and First Closing Date and, with respect to Underwriters’ Counselthe Option Shares, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior toto the Option Closing Date, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation which termination shall be given without liability on the part of any party to any other party, except for the Company expenses described in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingSection 11 of this Agreement.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Neurobiological Technologies Inc /Ca/), Underwriting Agreement (Neurobiological Technologies Inc /Ca/)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for Shares as provided herein shall be subject to the Firm accuracy, as of the date hereof and the Closing Date and any later date on which Option Shares and Firm Warrants or any are to be purchased (the "Option SecuritiesClosing Date"), as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedherein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, p.m. on the date hereof, or with the consent of this Agreementthe Underwriters, at a later time and date, not later, however, than 5:30 p.m. on the first business day following the date hereof, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to may be approved by a majority in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form interest of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities Underwriters; and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no issued under the Securities Act or proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been therefor initiated or threatened; all requests threatened by the Commission and any request on the part of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, Statement or the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; reasonable satisfaction of counsel to the Underwriters. If the Company has elected to rely upon Rule 430A of the Rules and FINRA Regulations, the price of the Shares and any price-related information previously omitted from the effective Registration Statement pursuant to such Rule 430A shall have raised no objection been transmitted to the fairness Commission for filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and reasonableness Regulations within the prescribed time period, and prior to the Closing Date the Company shall have provided evidence satisfactory to the Underwriters of such timely filing, or a post-effective amendment providing such information shall have been promptly filed and declared effective in accordance with the requirements of Rule 430A of the Rules and Regulations. Qualification under the securities laws of such states as you may deem necessary to the success of the underwriting of the issue and sale of the Shares upon the terms and arrangementsconditions set forth in this Agreement or contemplated by this Agreement and containing no provisions unacceptable to you will have been secured, and no stop order (or the equivalent thereof) will be in effect denying or suspending effectiveness of such qualification, nor will any stop order proceedings (or the equivalent thereof) with respect thereto be instituted or pending or threatened under such laws.
(b) The Representative At the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, if any, counsel for the Underwriters shall not have reasonably determinedbeen furnished with such documents and opinions as they may require for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Shares as contemplated herein and related proceedings or in order to evidence the accuracy of any of the representations and warranties, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectusfulfillment of any of the conditions, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement herein contained; and all proceedings taken by the Company in connection with the issuance and sale of fact which, the Shares as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in Underwriters and counsel for the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleadingUnderwriters.
(c) The Representative There shall not have received the favorable written opinionsbeen, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of since the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of earnings, operations, shareholders’ equity, properties business affairs or business prospects of the CompanyCompany and its Subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, taken as a whole, including but whether or not limited to arising in the occurrence ordinary course of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of business which, in any such case described aboveyour sole judgment, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so is material and adverse as to make it and that makes it, in your sole judgment, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale public offering of Securities or Offering the Shares as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative by the Prospectus, and the Underwriters shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partycertificate of the President or Vice President of the Company and of the chief financial or chief accounting officer of the Company, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, dated as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it there has not raised any objection with respect to been no such material adverse change, (ii) the fairness representations and reasonableness of the underwriting terms warranties in Section 2 hereof are true and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing correct with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement same force and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken effect as though expressly made at and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent (iii) the issuance Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or sale of the Securities; and no injunction satisfied at or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of prior to the Closing Date, prevent and (iv) no stop order suspending the issuance or sale effectiveness of the Securities or materially Registration Statement has been issued and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent no proceedings for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not that purpose have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, initiated or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled threatened by the Representative at, Commission or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingBlue Sky jurisdiction.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Training Devices International Inc), Underwriting Agreement (Training Devices International Inc)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City P.M. Eastern time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written legal opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii)Ogier, including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, British Virgin Islands counsel to the securities legal counsel for the Company, Company dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; , (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx Sidley Austin LLP, patent U.S. legal counsel to for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLCGFE Law Firm, trademark PRC legal counsel for to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants Shares are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants Shares shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants Shares under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants Shares from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities Firm Shares and the Additional Shares shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company and the Representative shall have entered into a warrant an escrow agreement (the “Warrant Escrow Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant an entity reasonably satisfactory to both parties pursuant to which $500,000 in proceeds from the Offering shall be deposited in an escrow account for a period of twenty four (24) months following the Closing Date for purposes of satisfying the initial $500,000 in indemnification obligations set forth in this Agreement. The Company shall pay $10,000 to the escrow agent for or any other reasonable fees agreed upon by the Warrantsparties to the Escrow Agreement. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Cornerstone Management, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (Cornerstone Management, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option SecuritiesAdditional Shares, as the case may beif applicable, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, if applicable, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms term “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or the Option Securities, as Closing Date for the case may be, and Additional Share; the term “Closing” share refer to each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City P.M. Eastern time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written legal opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case Counsel of (i) Xxxxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxxxx, Cayman Islands counsel to the Company dated as of the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLPLi LLC, the securities U.S. legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iiiii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPGFE Law Office, patent PRC legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to or the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Option Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) The Representative shall have received certificates of the Secretary of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) each of the Company’s Memorandum and Articles of Association are true and complete, have not been modified and are in full force and effect; (ii) the resolutions of the Company’s Board of Directors relating to the public offering contemplated by this Agreement are in full force and effect and have not been modified; (iii) as to the accuracy and completeness of all correspondence between the Company or its counsel and the Commission; and (iv) as to the incumbency of the officers of the Company. The documents referred to in such certificate shall be attached to such certificate.
(f) On the date of this Agreement and on the applicable Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(fg) Subsequent Except as contemplated in the General Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(gh) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(hi) The Common Stock and the Warrants Shares are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants Shares shall be listed and listed, admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants Shares under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants Shares from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities Firm Shares, the Additional Shares and the Shares underlying the Representative’s Warrant shall be DTC eligible.
(ij) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(jk) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(kl) At the Closing Date or Option Closing Date, the Company shall issue the Representative’s Warrant to the Representative.
(m) The Company and the Representative shall have entered into an escrow agreement with an entity reasonably satisfactory to both parties pursuant to which $500,000 in proceeds from the Offering shall be deposited in an escrow account for a period of twenty-four (24) months following the Closing Date for purposes of satisfying the initial $500,000 in indemnification obligations set forth in this Agreement. All remaining funds in the escrow account that are not subject to an indemnification claim as of the 24-month period following the Closing Date will be returned to the Company in accordance with the terms of the escrow agreement. The Company shall pay the reasonable fees of the escrow agent.
(n) At the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received on and as of such Closing Date satisfactory evidence of the good standing of the Company and its subsidiaries in their respective jurisdictions of organization and their good standing as foreign entities in such other jurisdictions as the Underwriters may reasonably request, in each case in writing or any standard form of telecommunication from the appropriate governmental authorities of such jurisdictions or, for any such jurisdiction in which evidence of good standing may not be obtained from appropriate governmental authorities, in the form of an opinion of counsel licensed in the applicable jurisdiction.
(o) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Global Internet of People, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (Global Internet of People, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beAdditional Shares, as provided herein herein, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company and the Selling Stockholders herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, Date (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For for purposes of this Section 78, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securitiesfor the Selling Stockholders any Additional Closing Date, as if different, for the case may beAdditional Shares), to the performance by the Company of all of its obligations hereunder, and to each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.additional conditions:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(bSection 4(a) within the applicable time periodhereof; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofpost-effective amendment thereto, or any amendment thereof, nor and no stop order suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) the Prospectus, shall have been issued by the Commission and no proceedings therefor shall have been initiated or, threatened by the Commission; all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission shall have been complied with to the Representative’s Lead Managers’ reasonable satisfaction; and FINRA if the Company has elected to rely on Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement shall have raised no objection become effective by 10:00 p.m. (Washington, D.C. time) on the date of this Agreement or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to by the fairness Lead Managers in writing; and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsall necessary regulatory or stock exchange approvals shall have been received.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determinedAt the Closing Date the Lead Managers, and advised on behalf of the CompanyUnderwriters, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinionsopinion of Bxxxx Bxxxx L.L.P., in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; , in the form of Annex I hereto.
(iic) Fish At the Closing Date the Lead Managers, on behalf of the Underwriters, shall have received the written opinion of Paul, Hastings, Jxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx Wxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and , in the form of Annex II hereto.
(iiid) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLCAt the Closing Date the Lead Managers, trademark legal on behalf of the Underwriters, shall have received the written opinion of Pxxxxx Bxxxx LLP., counsel for the CompanyRoyal Street, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, in the form of Annex III hereto.
(de) The Representative At the Closing Date, the Lead Managers, on behalf of the Underwriters, shall have received certificates the written opinion of Vxxxxx & Exxxxx LLP, counsel for each of the Selling Stockholders other than M/C Venture Partners, et al, Madison Dearborn Capital Partners IV, L.P. and TA Associates, et al, each dated the Closing Date, addressed to the Underwriters, in the form of Annex IV.
(f) At the Closing Date, the Lead Managers, on behalf of the Underwriters, shall have received the written opinion of Mayer, Brown, Rxxx & Maw LLP, counsel for M/C Venture Partners, each dated the Closing Date, addressed to the Underwriters, in the form of Annex V.
(g) At the Closing Date, the Lead Managers, on behalf of the Underwriters, shall have received the written opinion of Gxxxxxx Procter LLP, counsel for Madison Dearborn Capital Partners IV, L.P. and TA Associates, et al, each dated the Closing Date, addressed to the Underwriters, in the form of Annex VI.
(h) At the Closing Date, the Lead Managers, on behalf of the Underwriters, shall have received the written opinion of Underwriters’ Counsel, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Lead Managers, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Shares, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and such other matters as the Lead Managers may require, and the Company shall have furnished to Underwriters’ Counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(i) At the Closing Date the Lead Managers, on behalf of the Underwriters, shall have received a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to in the effect that: form of Annex VII hereto.
(ij) At the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of time this Section 7 Agreement is executed and at the Closing Date, the Lead Managers shall have been satisfiedreceived a comfort letter, (ii) from Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent public accountant for the Company, dated, respectively, as of the date hereof of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, addressed to the representations Underwriters and warranties in the form of Annex VIII.
(i) Neither the Company, the Subsidiaries, nor to the Company’s knowledge after due inquiry, Royal Street shall have sustained, since the date of the Company set forth latest audited financial statements included in Section 2 hereof are accuratethe Pricing Prospectus, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businessesbusiness or properties from fire, whether explosion, flood, hurricane, accident or not covered by insuranceother calamity, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or other than as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included set forth in the Registration Statement and the Pricing Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, (exclusive of any supplement thereto); and (viiii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereofthereto subsequent to the date hereof) and or the Pricing Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt or material increase in the short-term debt of the Company or any Subsidiary or any change or any development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, change in the business, condition (financial or otherwise)condition, results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, Royal Street and the Subsidiaries, individually or taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeLead Managers, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale Offering on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus (exclusive of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyany such supplement).
(gl) On or after the Applicable Time, (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded the Company’s debt securities or the Company’s financial strength or claims paying ability by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as such term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the Securities Act, and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any of the Company’s debt securities or the Company’s financial strength or claims paying ability.
(m) The Representative Lead Managers shall have received a duly executed lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partyperson who is a director or officer of the Company, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Partyeach Selling Stockholder and each other shareholder and other person or entity listed on Schedule IV hereto, in each case substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex IIIX.
(hn) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of At the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action Shares shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect approved for listing upon notice of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading issuance on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleNYSE.
(io) FINRA Prior to or by the Closing Date, the NASD shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, arrangements for the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithOffering.
(jp) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of At the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale you shall have received a certificate of an authorized representative of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federalSelling Stockholders, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of dated the Closing Date, prevent to the issuance or sale effect that the representations and warranties of the Securities or materially Selling Stockholders set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations that each of the CompanySelling Stockholders has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date.
(kq) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 8 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative you or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 8 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Lead Managers and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative Lead Managers at, or at any time prior to, the consummation Closing Date and the obligations of the ClosingUnderwriters to purchase the Additional Shares may be cancelled by the Lead Managers at, or at any time prior to, the Additional Closing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Metropcs Communications Inc), Underwriting Agreement (Metropcs Communications Inc)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be issue of Underwriters’ Securities under any Terms Agreement are subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) That, at the time of purchase, you shall receive the signed opinions of Axxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, and of the General Counsel of the Company, or of an Associate General Counsel, in form satisfactory to your counsel, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the time of purchase (with conformed or reproduced copies thereof for each of the other Underwriters), as indicated below.
(i) The Registration Statement shall have become effective opinion of Axxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP is to state in substance that:
(A) the Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of Delaware, and has all power and authority necessary regulatory to own its properties and listing approvals shall conduct the businesses in which it is engaged;
(B) this Agreement and the Terms Agreement have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.duly authorized, New York City timeexecuted and delivered by the Company and are valid and binding agreements of the Company, on except as rights to indemnification provided herein may be unenforceable under applicable laws;
(C) the date of this AgreementDelayed Delivery Contracts, or at such later time and date as shall if any, have been consented to in writing duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Representative. If Company and (assuming that they have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the purchasers thereunder) are valid and binding agreements of the Company;
(D) the Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company shall have elected to rely and is a valid instrument legally binding upon Rule 430A under the Company in accordance with its terms; the Purchased Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with duly authorized; the Commission in a timely fashion Underwriters’ Securities have been duly authorized and executed (and assuming the facsimile seal of the Company has been affixed thereto or imprinted thereon and they have been duly authenticated by the Trustee, in accordance with the terms thereof and a form Indenture, which assumptions such counsel need not verify by an inspection of the Prospectus containing information relating Underwriters’ Securities) have been duly issued and constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company; the Contract Securities have been duly authorized and executed (and assuming that the facsimile seal of the Company will have been affixed thereto or imprinted thereon and that they will have been duly authenticated by the Trustee, as aforesaid), when issued and delivered against payment as provided in the Delayed Delivery Contracts, will have been duly issued and will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company; and the Purchased Securities are, and the Contract Securities will be, entitled to the description benefits provided by the Indenture; provided, however, that (a) the enforceability of the Indenture, the Underwriters’ Securities and the method Contract Securities may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of distribution creditors’ rights generally and similar (b) rights of acceleration and the availability of equitable remedies thereunder may be limited by equitable principles of general applicability;
(E) the Purchased Securities, the Delayed Delivery Contracts and the Indenture conform in all material respects as to legal matters shall have been with the statements concerning them in the Prospectus;
(F) the documents incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement (the “Incorporated Documents”) (other than the financial statements, related schedules and other financial and statistical data included therein, as to which such counsel need express no opinion), when they were filed with the Commission pursuant Commission, complied as to Rule 424(bform in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act;
(G) within the applicable time periodRegistration Statement and the Prospectus (other than the financial statements, related schedules and other financial and statistical data included therein, and the Trustee’s Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1, as to which such counsel need express no opinion) comply as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Act and the Indenture complies in all material respects with the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended;
(H) no approval by any governmental or regulatory authority is required in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement other than registration of the Purchased Securities under the Act and qualification of the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and any necessary qualification under the securities or blue sky laws of the various jurisdictions in which the Purchased Securities are being offered; and
(I) the Registration Statement is effective under the Act, at or prior and no proceedings for a stop order are pending or, to the Closing Date and best of such counsel’s knowledge, threatened under the actual time of Act. In addition, such counsel shall state that such counsel has participated in the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness preparation of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and although such counsel is not passing upon and does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus (except as to the matters referred to under subheadings (E) and (G) of this subsection (a)), on the basis of the foregoing (relying as to materiality to a large extent upon the opinions of officers and other representatives of the Company), no facts have come to the attention of such counsel which lead it to believe that any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Packagewhen such part became effective, the Prospectus, contained any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits omitted to state a any material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received ; or that the favorable written opinionsProspectus, at the time the Terms Agreement was entered into contained, or at the time of purchase contains, any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in each case in form satisfactory the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (it being understood that such counsel need express no opinion with respect to the Representative financial statements, related schedules and Underwriters’ counsel (other financial and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be statistical data included in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus).
(ii) The opinion of the General Counsel of the Company, or of an Associate General Counsel, is to state in substance that:
(A) there are no contracts or other documents required to be included among the Incorporated Documents or filed as exhibits to the Incorporated Documents or the Registration Statement other than those incorporated by reference or filed as required;
(B) to the best of such counsel’s knowledge, there is no litigation or any governmental proceeding pending or threatened against the Company or any of its subsidiaries which would affect the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or is required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus which is not disclosed and correctly summarized therein; and
(C) no part of the Registration Statement, when such part became effective, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and the Prospectus pursuant Prospectus, at the time the Terms Agreement was entered into did not contain, and at the time of purchase does not contain, any untrue statement of a material fact and did not and does not omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (it being understood that such counsel need express no opinion with respect to the Rules financial statements, related schedules and Regulations which are not so includedother financial and statistical data included in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus).
(b) That, at the time of purchase, the Underwriters shall receive the favorable opinion of their counsel, dated the time of purchase, as to the matters referred to in subheadings (B), (C), (D), (E) and (viiG) subsequent to of subsection (a)(i) of this Section 4. In addition, such counsel shall state that (i) such counsel has participated in conferences with officers and other representatives of the respective dates as Company, representatives of the independent public accounting firm for the Company, representatives of counsel for the Company and representatives of the Underwriters at which information is given in the contents of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there the documents to be specified on a schedule to such opinion (the “General Disclosure Documents”) and related matters were discussed, (ii) although such counsel has made certain inquiries and investigations in connection with the preparation of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus dated October 13, 2005 as supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement (including any preliminary Prospectus Supplement) and the General Disclosure Documents, the limitations inherent in the role of underwriters’ counsel are such that such counsel cannot and does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in such documents, except as provided under subheading (E) of subsection (a)(i) of this Section 4 and (iii) subject to the foregoing, no facts have come to such counsel’s attention that lead such counsel to believe that (x) the Registration Statement, including the documents incorporated therein by reference, at the time the Registration Statement became effective, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (y) the Prospectus dated October 13, 2005 as supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement (including any preliminary Prospectus Supplement), as of its date or as of the date of such opinion, contained or contains an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading or (z) the General Disclosure Documents, taken together, as of the time of execution of the Terms Agreement, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (it being understood that such counsel need express no comment with respect to the financial statements or other financial data that is included in or omitted from the Registration Statement, the Prospectus dated October 13, 2005 as supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement (including any preliminary Prospectus Supplement) or the General Disclosure Documents).
(c) That, at the time of the execution of the Terms Agreement and at the time of purchase, you shall receive a signed letter from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent public accountants, dated the time of the execution of the Terms Agreement or the time of purchase, as applicable, each substantially in the form heretofore furnished to you and in substance satisfactory to you, addressed to the Underwriters (with conformed or reproduced copies thereof for each of the other Underwriters) with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in or incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
(d) That (i) prior to the time of purchase, no stop order with respect to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued under the Act or proceedings therefor pending or threatened; (ii) no part of the Registration Statement, when such part became effective, contained any Material Adverse Change untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and (iii) the Prospectus, at the time the Terms Agreement was entered into did not contain, and at the time of purchase does not contain, any untrue statement of a material fact, and did not and does not omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, other than any statement contained in, or any matter omitted from, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus in reliance upon, and in conformity with, information furnished in writing by or on behalf of any Underwriter through you to the Company expressly for use with reference to such Underwriter in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus.
(e) That, between the time of execution of the Terms Agreement and the time of purchase, in your opinion no material adverse change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any material adverse change in the capital stock or long-term debt condition of the Company or any change or development involving and its subsidiaries, taken as a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition whole (financial or otherwise), results shall have taken place (other than as referred to in or contemplated by the Registration Statement or the Prospectus).
(f) That the Company shall perform such of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties its obligations under this Agreement which are to be performed by the terms hereof at or prospects before the time of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebypurchase.
(g) The Representative That the Company shall, at the time of purchase, deliver to you (with reproduced or conformed copies thereof for each of the other Underwriters) a signed certificate of two of its executive officers stating that, between the time of execution of the Terms Agreement and the time of purchase, no material adverse change or any development involving a prospective material adverse change in the condition of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole (financial or otherwise), shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed taken place (other than as referred to in or contemplated by the applicable Lock-Up Party, Registration Statement and the Prospectus) and also covering the matters set forth in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex IIsubsections (d) and (f) of this Section 4.
(h) The Common Stock and That the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect accepted Delayed Delivery Contracts in any case where sales of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Contract Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested arranged by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall Underwriters have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued approved by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securitieshereunder, as to the case may beShares to be delivered at the Time of Delivery, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) subject, in their discretion, to the accuracy of the condition that all representations and warranties and other statements of the Company herein containedare, as of the date hereof at and as of the Closing DateTime of Delivery, (ii) true and correct, the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by condition that the Company shall have performed all of its obligations hereunderhereunder theretofore to be performed, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act within the applicable time periodperiod prescribed for such filing by the rules and regulations under the Securities Act and in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof; andall material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time period prescribed for such filings by Rule 433.
(b) Xxxxx Day, at or prior counsel for the Underwriters, shall have furnished to the Closing Date Representatives such written opinion or opinions, dated the Time of Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to the actual time Representatives, with respect to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) and other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.
(c) The General Counsel, any Deputy General Counsel to the Company and/or Squire Xxxxxx Xxxxx (US) LLP, counsel to the Company, shall have furnished to the Underwriters such written opinion or opinions and a “10b-5 negative assurance letter,” each dated the Time of Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to the ClosingRepresentatives, no stop order suspending with respect to the effectiveness Registration Statement, the Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) and other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably request.
(d) On the date hereof, on the effective date of any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or any part thereoffiled subsequent to the date of this Agreement and at the Time of Delivery, or any amendment thereofErnst & Young LLP shall have furnished to the Representatives, nor suspending or preventing at the use request of the General Disclosure PackageCompany, a letter, dated the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for date of delivery thereof and addressed to the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests Underwriters, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, containing statements and information of the Commission for additional type customarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information (to be included contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, Package and the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(be) The Representative At any time prior to the Time of Delivery, there shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or occurred any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect thatfollowing: (i) since the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed Applicable Time or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Disclosure Package, in the judgment of the Representatives, any material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and the Prospectusits subsidiaries, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changeconsidered as one enterprise, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, or (ii) any material adverse change in the businessfinancial markets in the United States or any outbreak or escalation of hostilities, condition any declaration of war or other national or international calamity or crisis, any major act of terrorism against the United States, the effect of which shall be such as to make it, in the judgment of the Representatives, impracticable or inadvisable to market the Shares or enforce contracts for the sale of the Shares, or (financial iii) trading in any securities of the Company shall have been suspended by the Commission or otherwise)a national securities exchange or in any over-the-counter market, results or trading generally on either the NASDAQ Stock Market or the New York Stock Exchange shall have been suspended, or minimum or maximum prices for trading shall have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices for securities shall have been required, by either of operationssaid exchanges or by order of the Commission or any other governmental authority, shareholders’ equityor (iv) a banking moratorium shall have been declared by either federal, properties New York or prospects Ohio authorities, or (iv) there is a material disruption in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States, or (v) the rating assigned by any nationally recognized securities rating agency to any securities of the Company as of the Applicable Time shall have been lowered since that date or if any such rating agency shall have publicly announced that it has placed under surveillance or review, other than with positive implications, its rating of securities of the Company, taken as or (vi) there shall exist any facts that would cause the Disclosure Package or any amendments thereto or supplements thereof, at the time it was required to be delivered to a wholepurchaser of Shares, including but contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances existing at the time of such delivery, not limited misleading.
(f) The Company shall have complied with the provisions of Section 5(d) hereof with respect to the occurrence furnishing of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act prospectuses on the Business Day next succeeding the date of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebythis Agreement.
(g) The Representative Certificate of Amendment for the Preferred Stock shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partybeen duly filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Ohio and the Representatives shall have received, duly executed by prior to the applicable Lock-Up PartyTime of Delivery, in each case substantially in satisfactory evidence of the form attached as Annex IIfiling of the Certificate of Amendment for the Preferred Stock.
(h) The Common Stock At the Time of Delivery, the Underwriters shall have received a certificate of the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the General Counsel, any Vice President or any Assistant Secretary, and by Treasurer or the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act andprincipal financial or accounting officer, dated as of the Closing DateTime of Delivery, to the Common Stock effect that (i) since the last date for which summary financial information is set forth in the Disclosure Package, there has been no Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the representations and warranties of the Warrants shall Company in this Agreement are true and correct with the same force and effect as though expressly made at and as of the Time of Delivery, (iii) the Company has performed or complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be listed performed or satisfied at or prior to the Time of Delivery, and admitted and authorized for trading on (iv) the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall conditions specified in Section 5(a) hereof have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligiblesatisfied.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith[Reserved].
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not such further certificates and documents as such Representatives may reasonably request. All such opinions, certificates, letters and other documents will be reasonably in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of Representatives. The Company will furnish the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice Representatives with such conformed copies of such cancellation opinions, certificates, letters and other documents as the Representatives shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingreasonably request.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Keycorp /New/), Underwriting Agreement (Keycorp /New/)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares Shares, as provided herein, shall be subject: (x) to the accuracy, as of the date hereof and Firm Warrants or the Closing Date and any Option Securitieslater Overallotment Closing Date, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder; (y) in the event of the purchase of Overallotment Shares from the Selling Stockholders, the accuracy, as of the Overallotment Closing Date relating to such purchase, of the representations and warranties of the Selling Stockholders herein and to the performance of the Selling Stockholders of their obligations hereunder and (ivz) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the day immediately following the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and or date as shall have been be consented to in writing by the Representativeyou. If the Company shall have elected filing of the Prospectus, or any supplement thereto, is required pursuant to rely upon Rule 424(b) and Rule 430A under of the Securities ActRules and Regulations, the Prospectus shall have been filed with in the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with manner and within the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to time period required by Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time Rule 430A of the Closing, no Rules and Regulations. No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings proceeding for the issuance of such an order that purpose shall have been initiated or, to the knowledge of the Company or threatened; all requests any Underwriter, threatened by the Commission, and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, Statement or the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection reasonable satisfaction of counsel to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsUnderwriters.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determinedAll corporate proceedings and other legal matters in connection with this Agreement, and advised the Company, that the form of Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or and the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement theretoand the registration, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectusauthorization, contains an untrue statement issue, sale and delivery of fact whichthe Shares shall have been reasonably satisfactory to counsel to the Underwriters, in and such counsel shall have been furnished with such papers and information as they may reasonably have requested to enable them to pass upon the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits matters referred to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleadingherein.
(c) The Representative You shall have received the favorable written opinionsreceived, in each case in form satisfactory at no cost to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii)you, including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of on the Closing Date and addressed to on any later Overallotment Closing Date, as the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPcase may be, patent legal the opinion of Fishbeino Badilloo Wagnero Xxxxxxx, counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the or such later Overallotment Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates form attached hereto as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such dateAppendix A, addressed to the Underwriters and with reproduced copies of signed counterparts thereof for the Representative.
(d) In the event of the purchase of any Overallotment Shares from the Selling Stockholders, you shall have received, in addition to the opinion described in section 8(c), the opinion of Fishbeino Badilloo Wagnero Xxxxxxx, counsel to the Selling Stockholders, dated the Overallotment Closing Date, in the form attached hereto as Appendix B.
(e) You shall have received from Proskauer Rose LLP, Underwriters' Counsel, an opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date or on any later Overallotment Closing Date, as the case may be, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to you, with respect to certain legal matters as you may reasonably require, and the Representative Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as it may have reasonably requested for the purpose of enabling it to pass upon such matters.
(f) You shall have received on the Closing Date and on any later Overallotment Closing Date, as the case may be, a letter from the Accountants addressed to the Company and the Underwriters’ Counsel, dated the Closing Date or such later Overallotment Closing Date, as the case may be, confirming that they are it is an independent certified public accountants accountant with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules the Rules and regulationsRegulations thereunder and based upon the procedures described in its letter delivered to you concurrently with the execution of this Agreement (herein called the "Original Letter"), and stating, as of such date (or, with respect but carried out to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) three days prior to the Closing Date or any such date)later Overallotment Closing Date, as the case may be, (i) confirming that the statements and conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given set forth in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants Original Letter are registered under the Exchange Act and, accurate as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of Date or such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the later Overallotment Closing Date, prevent as the issuance or sale of the Securitiescase may be; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.and
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Educational Video Conferencing Inc), Underwriting Agreement (Educational Video Conferencing Inc)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beBonds, as provided herein herein, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy accuracy, as of the date hereof, as of the Applicable Time and as of the Closing Date, of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedherein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement Company shall have become effective filed any preliminary prospectus and all necessary regulatory the Prospectus with the Commission (including the information required by Rule 430B under the Act) in the manner and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on within the date of this Agreement, time period required by Rule 424(b) under the Act; or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected filed a post-effective amendment to rely upon the Registration Statement containing the information required by Rule 430A 430B, and such post-effective amendment shall have become effective.
(b) The Final Term Sheet, and any other material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no periods prescribed for such filings under Rule 433.
(c) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofStatement, or any post-effective amendment thereofto the Registration Statement, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall be in effect and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been issuedinstituted or, to the knowledge of the Company or any Underwriter, threatened by the Commission; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, Statement or the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s your satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(bd) The Representative No Underwriter shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, Company that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, which in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, your opinion is material, material or omits to state a fact which, which in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, your opinion is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(ce) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and Except as contemplated in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement Disclosure Package and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so includedProspectus, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing DateStatement, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement theretoamendments or supplements thereto subsequent to the date of this Agreement), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change adverse change, or any development involving a prospective adverse change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the business, net worth or results of operations of the Company from that set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any amendments or supplements thereto subsequent to the date of this Agreement) that, in your judgment makes it impractical or inadvisable to offer or deliver the Bonds on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(f) On the Closing Date, you shall have received the opinion of XxXxxx Law Firm, P.A., counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.
(g) On the Closing Date, you shall have received the opinion of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Esquire, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Company, dated the Closing Date, in the form of Exhibit B attached hereto.
(h) On the Closing Date, you shall have received from Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the several Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date, as you may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters. In rendering their opinion, such counsel may rely upon the opinion of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Esquire, referred to above, as to all matters governed by South Carolina law.
(i) On or prior to the date hereof, you shall have received a letter from Deloitte & Touche LLP, dated the date of the execution and delivery of this Agreement, and specifying procedures completed not more than three business days prior to the date of the execution and delivery of this Agreement, addressed to you and in form and substance satisfactory to you, (1) confirming that they are independent accountants with respect to the Company as required by the Act and (2) with respect to the accounting, financing, or statistical information (which is limited to accounting, financial or statistical information derived from the general accounting records of the Company) contained in the Registration Statement or incorporated by reference therein, and containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ SAS 72, as amended by SAS 86, “Comfort Letters” to underwriters, with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in or incorporated by reference into the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, including any pro forma financial information. At the Closing Date, you shall have received a letter from Deloitte & Touche LLP, dated the date of its delivery, which shall reaffirm and, if necessary, update, on the basis of a review in accordance with the procedures set forth in the letter from Deloitte & Touche LLP, during the period from the date of the letter referred to in the prior sentence to a date (specified in the letter) not more than three business days prior to the Closing Date.
(j) On the Closing Date, you shall have received from the Company a certificate, signed by its Chairman, President or a Vice President and by its Treasurer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer, dated the Closing Date, to the effect that, to the best of their knowledge based on a reasonable investigation:
(i) the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct in all material respects, as if made on and as of the Closing Date, and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied on or prior to the Closing Date;
(ii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, or any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement, shall be in effect and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or threatened by the Commission;
(iii) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto, contain all statements and information required to be included therein; the Registration Statement or any amendments thereto, at the time the Registration Statement or such amendments became effective and at the Execution Time, did not contain an untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; the Prospectus, as of its date and at the Closing Date did not and does not contain an untrue statement of a material fact and did not and does not omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; the Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time, did not contain any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (provided, however, that in each case, no representation is made, as applicable, as to any statements in or omissions from the Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1 filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, the Book-Entry Information, or information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company by you, or by any Underwriter through you, specifically for use in the preparation thereof); and, since the date hereof there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amended or supplemented prospectus which has not been so set forth and there has been no document required to be filed under the Exchange Act and which upon such filing would be deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, which has not been so filed; and
(iv) since the date of the most recent financial statements included in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto dated after the Execution Time), there has been no material adverse change, or any development which the Company has reasonable cause to believe will involve a prospective material adverse change, in the condition (financial or other), earnings, business or properties of the Company, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock Disclosure Package and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanyProspectus.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters to you such further certificates and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may you shall have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company There shall not have entered into occurred after the date hereof any downgrading, nor shall any notice have been given of any intended or potential downgrading or of any review for a warrant agreement (possible change that indicates a negative change or does not indicate the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Companydirection of the possible change, as warrant agent for in the Warrants. If rating accorded any of the conditions specified in this Company’s securities by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization,” as such term is defined under Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act. All such opinions, certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to and other documents will be in compliance with the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closingyou. Notice The Company will furnish you with such conformed copies of such cancellation opinions, certificates, letters and other documents as you shall reasonably request, and the opinions referred to in paragraphs (f) and (g) shall be given deemed satisfactory provided they are substantially in the forms attached as exhibits to this Agreement. The documents required to be delivered by this Section 5 shall be delivered to the Company in writing office of XxXxxx Law Firm, P.A., counsel for the Company, 0000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx 00000, on or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingprior to the Closing Date.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (South Carolina Electric & Gas Co), Underwriting Agreement (South Carolina Electric & Gas Co)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for Securities pursuant to the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be Terms Agreement are subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company herein contained, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company’s officers made in any certificate furnished pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of all of its covenants and other obligations hereunder and to the following further conditions:
(a) The Company shall have requested and caused the delivery of written opinions, substantially in the forms contemplated by the Terms Agreement.
(b) The Company shall have requested and caused PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditores Independentes, independent auditors for the Company, and such other independent auditors as may be specified in the Terms Agreement, to have furnished to you, at the Execution Time and at the Closing Date, letters, (which may refer to letters previously delivered to one or more of you), dated respectively as of the date hereof Execution Time and as of the Closing Date, (ii) in form and substance satisfactory to you, confirming that they are an independent registered public accounting firm within the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each meaning of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, Act and the terms Exchange Act and covering the matters that are ordinarily covered by “Closing Datecomfort letters” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion drafted in accordance with the terms thereof and a form Statement of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleadingAuditing Standards No. 72.
(c) The Representative Company shall have received the favorable written opinionsfurnished to you a certificate, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as signed by two executive officers of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as Company with specific knowledge of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer financial matters of the Company, reasonably satisfactory to you, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that the signers of such certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, and the Terms Agreement and that: :
(i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof the Agreement are accurate, (iii) true and correct on and as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions Date with the same effect as if made on the Closing Date and obligations of the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or complied with hereunder on satisfied at or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, to the Closing Date;
(iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (vii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor for that purpose or under Section 8A of the Act have been initiated or threatened by instituted or, to the CommissionCompany’s knowledge, threatened;
(viiii) there are no pro forma or as adjusted since the date of the most recent financial statements that are required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus pursuant to (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there has been no material adverse effect on the Rules condition (financial or otherwise), prospects, earnings, business or properties of the Company and Regulations which are not so includedits Subsidiaries, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates taken as of which information is given a whole, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Registration Statement Disclosure Package and the ProspectusFinal Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto); and
(iv) since the Execution Time, there has not been any Material Adverse Change decrease in the rating of any of the debt securities issued by or guaranteed by the Company by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under the Act) or any development involving notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or possible change in any such rating that does not arising from transactions in indicate the ordinary course direction of businessthe possible change.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(fd) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement Execution Time or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof), the Disclosure Package (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the capital stock condition (financial or long-term debt otherwise), earnings, business or properties of the Company or any change or development involving and its Subsidiaries, taken as a changewhole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the business, condition Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence exclusive of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, supplement thereto) the effect of which, in any such case described above, which is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representativeyour sole judgment, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the sale offering or delivery of the Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyby the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(e) Since the Execution Time, there has not been any decrease in the rating of any of the debt securities issued by or guaranteed by the Company by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under the Act) or any notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the direction of the possible change.
(f) Subsequent to the Execution Time, there shall not have been any decrease in the rating of any of the debt securities issued by or guaranteed by the Company by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under the Act) or any notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the direction of the possible change.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of Prior to the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished to the Underwriters such further information, certificates and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingreasonably request.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Vale Overseas LTD), Underwriting Agreement (Vale Overseas LTD)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as Notes hereunder are subject to the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: following conditions:
(a) (i) The Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, have been filed in the accuracy of manner and within the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, time period required by Rule 424(b) (without reference to Rule 424(b)(8)); (ii) the absence from final term sheet contemplated by Section 5(t) hereof and any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished other material required to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance be filed by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (ivpursuant to Rule 433(d) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodperiods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or (iii) any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, Statement or the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness satisfaction of the underwriting terms and arrangementsUnderwriters.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement Execution Time, or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) thereto), the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement theretoamendment thereof), there shall not have been occurred: (i) any change change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the capital stock condition (financial or long-term debt otherwise), earnings, business, properties, net worth, or results of operations of the Company or any change or development involving a changeand its subsidiaries, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in the business, condition Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (financial exclusive of any amendments or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited supplements thereto subsequent to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamityExecution Time), the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable sole judgment of the Representative, Representatives is so material and adverse as to make it impracticable impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the sale offering or delivery of Securities or Offering the Notes as contemplated herebyby the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendments thereto), the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto); or (ii) any event or development relating to or involving the Company and its subsidiaries or any officer or director of the Company and its subsidiaries which makes any statement made in the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus untrue or which, in the opinion of the Company and its counsel or the Representatives and their counsel, requires the making of any addition to or change in the Disclosure Package in order to state a material fact required by the Act or any other law to be stated therein, or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading, if amending or supplementing the Disclosure Package to reflect such event or development would, in the opinion of the Representatives, adversely affect the market for the Notes.
(c) The Representatives shall have received on the Closing Date opinions of Pillsbury Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, dated as of such date and addressed to the Representatives, substantially in the forms attached hereto as Exhibit A-1 and Exhibit A-2.
(d) The Representatives shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion and negative assurance letter of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx L.L.P., counsel for the Underwriters, dated as of such date and addressed to the Representatives with respect to such matters as the Underwriters may request.
(e) The Representatives shall have received letters addressed to the Representatives and dated as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date from Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, substantially in the form heretofore approved by the Underwriters; provided that the letters delivered on the date hereof and on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off” date no more than three (3) Business Days prior to such dates.
(f) (A) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been taken or, to the knowledge of the Company, shall be contemplated by the Commission at or prior to the Closing Date; (B) there shall not have been any material change in the capital stock of the Company nor any material increase in the short-term or long-term debt (including any off-balance sheet activities or transactions) of the Company and its subsidiaries (other than in the ordinary course of business) from that set forth or contemplated in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto); (C) there shall not have been, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), except as may otherwise be stated in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any material adverse change in the condition (financial or other), business, prospects, properties, net worth or results of operations of the Company or its subsidiaries; (D) the Company and its subsidiaries shall not have any liabilities or obligations (financial or other), direct or contingent (whether or not in the ordinary course of business), that are material to the Company or its subsidiaries, other than those reflected in the Registration Statement or the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto); and (E) all the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement shall be true and correct at and as of the Execution Time and on and as of the Closing Date as if made at and as of such time or on and as of such date, and the Representatives shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by either the chief executive officer or chief operating officer and the chief financial officer of the Company (or such other officers as are acceptable to the Representatives), to the effect set forth in this Section 8(f) and in Section 8(g) hereof.
(g) The Representative Company shall not have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partyfailed at or prior to the Closing Date to have performed or complied with any of its agreements herein contained and required to be performed or complied with by it hereunder or under the Indenture, duly executed by at or prior to the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex IIClosing Date.
(h) The Common Stock and Subsequent to the Warrants are registered under Execution Time, there shall not have been any decrease in the rating of any of the Company’s debt securities by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act and, as Act) or any notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the direction of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligiblepossible change.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to the Representatives such further certificates and documents as the Representatives shall have requested. All such opinions, certificates, letters and other documents will be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives and their counsel. Any certificate or document signed by any officer of the Company and delivered to the Underwriters, or to counsel for the Underwriters, shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (to the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrantsstatements made therein. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 8 shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects when and as required by provided in this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements opinions and certificates mentioned above or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to elsewhere in this Section 7 Agreement shall not be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Representatives and to counsel for the Underwriters’ Counsel, this Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled canceled by the Representative Representatives at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the ClosingClosing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orallyby telephone, electronic mail or facsimile confirmed in writing. Any such oral notice With respect to the Closing Date, the documents required to be delivered by this Section 8 shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingdelivered at the offices of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx L.L.P., Attn: Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esq., counsel for the Underwriters, at 0000 Xxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx XX, Xxxxx 000 Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000, on or prior to such date.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (NNN Reit, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (NNN Reit, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as Notes hereunder are subject to the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: following conditions:
(a) (i) The Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, have been filed in the accuracy of manner and within the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, time period required by Rule 424(b) (without reference to Rule 424(b)(8)); (ii) the absence from final term sheet contemplated by Section 5(t) hereof and any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished other material required to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance be filed by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (ivpursuant to Rule 433(d) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodperiods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or (iii) any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, Statement or the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness satisfaction of the underwriting terms and arrangementsUnderwriters.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement Execution Time, or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) thereto), the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement theretoamendment thereof), there shall not have been occurred: (i) any change change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the capital stock condition (financial or long-term debt otherwise), earnings, business, properties, net worth, or results of operations of the Company or any change or development involving a changeand its subsidiaries, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in the business, condition Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (financial exclusive of any amendments or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited supplements thereto subsequent to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamityExecution Time), the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable sole judgment of the Representative, Representatives is so material and adverse as to make it impracticable impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the sale offering or delivery of Securities or Offering the Notes as contemplated herebyby the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendments thereto), the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto); or (ii) any event or development relating to or involving the Company and its subsidiaries or any officer or director of the Company and its subsidiaries which makes any statement made in the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus untrue or which, in the opinion of the Company and its counsel or the Representatives and their counsel, requires the making of any addition to or change in the Disclosure Package in order to state a material fact required by the Act or any other law to be stated therein, or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading, if amending or supplementing the Disclosure Package to reflect such event or development would, in the opinion of the Representatives, adversely affect the market for the Notes.
(c) The Representatives shall have received on the Closing Date opinions of Pillsbury Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, dated as of such date and addressed to the Representatives, substantially in the forms attached hereto as Exhibit A-1 and Exhibit A-2.
(d) The Representatives shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion and negative assurance letter of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx L.L.P., counsel for the Underwriters, dated as of such date and addressed to the Representatives with respect to such matters as the Underwriters may request.
(e) The Representatives shall have received letters addressed to the Representatives and dated as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date from Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, substantially in the form heretofore approved by the Underwriters; provided that the letters delivered on the date hereof and on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off” date no more than three (3) Business Days prior to such dates.
(f) (A) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been taken or, to the knowledge of the Company, shall be contemplated by the Commission at or prior to the Closing Date; (B) there shall not have been any material change in the capital stock of the Company nor any material increase in the short-term or long-term debt (including any off-balance sheet activities or transactions) of the Company and its subsidiaries (other than in the ordinary course of business) from that set forth or contemplated in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto); (C) there shall not have been, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), except as may otherwise be stated in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any material adverse change in the condition (financial or other), business, prospects, properties, net worth or results of operations of the Company or its subsidiaries; (D) the Company and its subsidiaries shall not have any liabilities or obligations (financial or other), direct or contingent (whether or not in the ordinary course of business), that are material to the Company or its subsidiaries, other than those reflected in the Registration Statement or the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto); and (E) all the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement shall be true and correct at and as of the Execution Time and on and as of the Closing Date as if made at and as of such time or on and as of such date, and the Representatives shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by either the chief executive officer or chief operating officer and the chief financial officer of the Company (or such other officers as are acceptable to the Representatives), to the effect set forth in this Section 8(f) and in Section 8(g) hereof.
(g) The Representative Company shall not have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partyfailed at or prior to the Closing Date to have performed or complied with any of its agreements herein contained and required to be performed or complied with by it hereunder or under the Indenture, duly executed by at or prior to the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex IIClosing Date.
(h) The Common Stock and Subsequent to the Warrants are registered under Execution Time, there shall not have been any decrease in the rating of any of the Company’s debt securities by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act and, as Act) or any notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the direction of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligiblepossible change.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to the Representatives such further certificates and documents as the Representatives shall have requested. All such opinions, certificates, letters and other documents will be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives and their counsel. Any certificate or document signed by any officer of the Company and delivered to the Underwriters, or to counsel for the Underwriters, shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (to the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrantsstatements made therein. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 8 shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects when and as required by provided in this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements opinions and certificates mentioned above or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to elsewhere in this Section 7 Agreement shall not be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Representatives and to counsel for the Underwriters’ Counsel, this Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled canceled by the Representative Representatives at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the ClosingClosing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orallyby telephone or facsimile confirmed in writing. Any such oral notice With respect to the Closing Date, the documents required to be delivered by this Section 8 shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingdelivered at the offices of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx L.L.P., Attn: Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esq., counsel for the Underwriters, at 0000 Xxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx XX, Xxxxx 000 Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000, on or prior to such date.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (National Retail Properties, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (National Retail Properties, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The respective obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares Units and Firm Warrants or any the Option SecuritiesUnits, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company DCP Parties contained herein contained, as of the date hereof Execution Time, the Closing Date and as any Option Closing Date pursuant to Section 3 hereof, to the accuracy of the Closing Date, (ii) statements of the absence from DCP Parties made in any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished certificates pursuant to the Representative or provisions hereof, to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company DCP Parties of its their obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective All filings required by Rule 424 and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals Rule 430B shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented made; any other material required to in writing be filed by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected Partnership pursuant to rely upon Rule 430A 433(d) under the Securities Act, the Prospectus Act shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodperiods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order (i) suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor (ii) suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure PackagePreliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus Prospectus, shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings for the issuance of such an order that purpose shall have been initiated instituted or, to the knowledge of the DCP Parties or threatened; all requests any Underwriter, threatened by the Commission. Any request of the Commission for inclusion of additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, Statement or the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Final Prospectus or otherwise) otherwise shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness reasonable satisfaction of the underwriting terms and arrangementsUnderwriters.
(b) The Representative No Underwriter shall not have reasonably determined, discovered and advised disclosed to any of the Company, DCP Parties on or prior to the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date pursuant to Section 3 hereof that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package Final Prospectus or the ProspectusDisclosure Package, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of counsel for the Underwriters, is material or omits to state any fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is required to be stated therein or in the documents incorporated by reference therein or is necessary in order to make the statements therein therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinionsAll corporate, in each case in form satisfactory partnership and limited liability company proceedings and other legal matters incident to the Representative authorization, form and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case validity of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLPthis Agreement, the securities Charter Documents, the Common Units, the Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus, and all other legal matters relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be reasonably satisfactory in all material respects to counsel for the CompanyUnderwriters, and the DCP Parties shall have furnished to such counsel all documents and information that they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.
(d) The Partnership shall have requested and caused Holland & Xxxx LLP, counsel for the Partnership, to have furnished to the Representatives its opinion, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPRepresentatives, patent legal counsel in form and substance satisfactory to the CompanyRepresentatives to the effect set forth on Exhibit B hereto.
(e) Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of DCP Midstream GP, LLC, shall have furnished to the Representatives his opinion, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; Representatives, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives to the effect set forth on Exhibit C hereto.
(iiif) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLCThe Representatives shall have received from Xxxxx Xxxxx L.L.P., trademark legal counsel for the CompanyUnderwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the UnderwritersRepresentatives, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Units, the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) and other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably require, and the Partnership shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(dg) The Representative Partnership shall have received certificates of each furnished to the Representatives a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer Partnership, signed on behalf of the Partnership by the Chairman of the Board or the President and the Chief Financial Officer of the CompanyDCP Midstream GP, LLC, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that the signers of such certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus and any supplements or amendments thereto, and this Agreement and that: :
(i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) representations and warranties of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as each of the date hereof DCP Parties in this Agreement are true and correct on and as of the Closing Date, Date with the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) same effect as of if made on the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations each of the Company DCP Parties has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or complied with hereunder on satisfied at or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, to the Closing Date;
(iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (vii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof notice objecting to its use has been issued and no proceedings therefor for that purpose have been initiated or threatened by instituted or, to the CommissionDCP Parties’ knowledge, threatened; and
(viiii) there are no pro forma or as adjusted since the date of the most recent financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as exclusive of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectusany supplement thereto), there has not been any Material Adverse Change no material adverse effect on the condition (financial or any development involving otherwise), results of operations, prospects, earnings, business or properties of the Partnership Entities and Operating Subsidiaries, taken as a prospective Material Adverse Changewhole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(eh) On The Partnership shall have requested and caused Deloitte & Touche LLP to have furnished to the date of this Agreement Representatives, at the Execution Time and on at the Closing Date, letters (which may refer to letters previously delivered to one or more of the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Representatives), dated respectively as of each such datethe Execution Time and as of the Closing Date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ CounselRepresentatives, (i) confirming that they are such firm is an independent certified registered public accountants with respect to the Company accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act Act, the Rules and all applicable Regulations and the rules and regulationsof the PCAOB, and (ii) stating, as of such the date hereof (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days three Business Days prior to such datethe date hereof), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and (iii) covering such other matters relating as are ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters in connection with registered public offerings.
(i) The Partnership shall have requested and caused Ernst & Young LLP to have furnished to the Representatives, at the Execution Time and at the Closing Date, letters (which may refer to letters previously delivered to one or more of the Representatives), dated respectively as of the Execution Time and as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, (i) confirming that such firm is an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Act, the Rules and Regulations and the rules of the PCAOB, (ii) stating as of the date hereof (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, as of a date not more than three Business Days prior to the date hereof), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and (iii) covering such other matters as are ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters in connection with registered public offerings.
(j) Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, (i) none of the Partnership Entities or Operating Subsidiaries shall have sustained any loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order, investigation or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, or shall have become a party to or the subject of any litigation, court or governmental action, investigation, order or decree that is materially adverse to the Partnership Entities and Operating Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and (ii) there shall not have been any change in the capitalization or increase in short-term or long-term debt of any of the Partnership Entities or Operating Subsidiaries or any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the general affairs, management, condition (financial or otherwise), stockholders’ equity, partners’ equity, members’ equity, results of operations, properties, business or prospects of the Partnership Entities and Operating Subsidiaries, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto) the effect of which, in any case referred to in clause (i) or (ii) above, is, in the sole judgment of the Representatives, so material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or delivery of the Units as contemplated by the Registration Statement covered by such letter(exclusive of any amendment thereof), the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto).
(fk) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement orAgreement, if earlierany debt securities of the Partnership Entities are rated by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization,” as that term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act, the dates as of which information is (i) no downgrading shall have occurred, and no notice shall have been given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and intended or potential downgrading or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the Prospectus (exclusive direction of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any the possible change in the capital stock rating accorded such debt securities and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or long-term debt review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any securities of any of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyPartnership Entities.
(gl) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of Prior to the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action Partnership shall have been provided furnished to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminateRepresentatives such further information, or likely to have certificates and documents as the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleRepresentatives may reasonably request.
(im) FINRA The NYSE shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect approved the Units for listing, subject only to the fairness and reasonableness official notice of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithissuance.
(jn) No action shall have been taken and no statuteAt the Execution Time, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company Partnership shall have furnished to the Underwriters Representatives letters substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto from (i) each officer and Underwriters’ Counsel with director of DCP Midstream GP, LLC and (ii) DCP Midstream and any of its subsidiaries or affiliates that own any Common Units or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Units, addressed to the Representatives and such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company letters shall have entered into a warrant agreement (be in full force and effect on the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency Closing Date and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrantsany Option Closing Date. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by provided in this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements opinions and certificates mentioned above or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to elsewhere in this Section 7 Agreement shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Representatives and to counsel for the Underwriters’ Counsel, this Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative canceled at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of Closing Date by the ClosingRepresentatives. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company Partnership in writing or orallyby telephone or facsimile confirmed in writing. Any such oral notice The documents required to be delivered by this Section 6 shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingdelivered at the office of Holland & Xxxx LLP, counsel for the DCP Parties, at 000 00xx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, or electronically if agreed to by the parties, on or prior to the Closing Date.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (DCP Midstream Partners, LP), Underwriting Agreement (DCP Midstream Partners, LP)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants Securities or any the Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 of any material misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and or listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.p.m., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof hereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Transaction Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and or the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened; all requests any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided, however, that if in the Representative’s opinion such deficiency is curable the Representative shall have given the Company reasonable notice of such deficiency and a reasonable chance to cure such deficiency.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), opinions of (i) Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities LLP legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, as applicable, and addressed to the Underwriters; Representative substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex II, and (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx Peabody LLP, patent intellectual property legal counsel to the Company, Company dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLCeach Option Closing Date, trademark legal counsel for the Companyas applicable, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the UnderwritersRepresentative substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex III.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, Date and each Option Closing Date to the effect that: (i) the conditions condition set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have 6 has been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the applicable Closing Date or Option Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof this Agreement are accurate, (iii) as of the applicable Closing Date or Option Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businessesbusiness, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so includedincluded or incorporated by reference, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, Prospectus there has not been any Material Adverse Change Effect or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse ChangeEffect, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement Agreement, the Closing Date and on the each Option Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “cold comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx the Auditor as of each such date, the date of delivery and addressed to the Underwriters Representative and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules the Rules and regulationsRegulations, and stating, as of such the date of delivery (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to the date of such dateletter), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, and prior to the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of Closing Date and any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto)Option Closing Date, there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether that would cause, or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of businessreasonably be expected to cause, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a wholeMaterial Adverse Effect, including but not limited to to/from the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable sole judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale Offering on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus (exclusive of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyany supplement).
(g) The Prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex II.I.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are is registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock Firm Shares and the Warrants Option Shares shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Nasdaq Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminateto, or likely to have the effect of terminating, terminating the registration of the Common Stock Firm Shares or the Warrants Option Shares under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the from trading its Common Stock or from the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Nasdaq Capital Market, nor will has the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Nasdaq Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or of listing. The Securities Firm Securities, Option Securities, Warrant Shares, the Underwriters’ Warrants and the shares of Common Stock underlying the Underwriters’ Warrants shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the any Transaction Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the any Transaction Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel with a Certificate of Good Standing for the Company certified by the Secretary of State of Delaware dated as of the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date.
(l) The Company shall have furnished the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(lm) The Company On each Closing Date, there shall have entered into been issued to the Underwriters, a warrant agreement (Underwriters' Warrant in the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, form attached hereto as warrant agent for the WarrantsAnnex IV. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Perseon Corp), Underwriting Agreement (Perseon Corp)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares Securities and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, Additional Securities as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, Date (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ ' Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 of any misstatement or omission, omission (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 76, the terms “"Closing Date” " and “"Closing” " shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares Securities and Firm Warrants or Option any Additional Closing Date, if different, for the Additional Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and or listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof hereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities Shares and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and or the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any post-effective amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings for the issuance of such an order therefor shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of threatened by the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsCommission.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case opinion of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx Coie LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; Underwriters in form attached hereto as Annex I.
(iic) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel All proceedings taken in connection with the sale of the Firm Securities and the Additional Securities as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date Representative and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters' Counsel.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates a certificate of each of the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, Date to the effect that: (i) the conditions condition set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have 6 has been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the applicable Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 1 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the applicable Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has and the Subsidiaries have not sustained any material loss or interference with its their respective businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, included or incorporated by reference and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, Prospectus there has not been any Material Adverse Change material adverse change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changematerial adverse change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in or affecting (x) the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders' equity, properties or prospects of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; (y) the long-term debt or capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; or (z) the Offering or consummation of any of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and Agreement, on the Closing Date and, as the case may be, on each Additional Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “"cold comfort” " letter from PMB Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx PC, independent public accountants for the Company, dated, respectively, as of each such date, the date of the date of delivery and addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ ' Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules the Rules and regulationsRegulations, and stating, as of such the date of delivery (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to the date of such dateletter), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter and, with respect to letters issued as of Additional Closing Dates, confirming the conclusions and findings set forth in such prior letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any Subsidiary or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ ' equity, properties or prospects of the CompanyCompany and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable sole judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale Offering on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus (exclusive of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyany supplement).
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock Representative shall have received a duly executed management confirmation letter from the Company's directors and officers relating to certain information appearing in the Warrants are registered under Registration Statement, which letter shall be in the Exchange Act and, as form previously delivered to the Representative in connection with the filing of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligiblePreliminary Prospectus.
(i) FINRA The Securities shall have been approved for quotation on AMEX.
(j) The NASD shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(jk) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanySecurities.
(kl) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ ' Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ ' Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ ' Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing, and the obligations of the Underwriters to purchase the Additional Securities may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the Additional Closing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing writing, or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (HyperSpace Communications, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (HyperSpace Communications, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be hereunder are subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective All filings required by Rules 424(b), 430B and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals 462 under the Act shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsmade.
(b) The Representative You shall not have be reasonably determined, and advised the Company, satisfied that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(ei) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any material change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the indebtedness (other than in the ordinary course of business) of the Company, (ii) except as set forth or contemplated by the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus, no material oral or written agreement or other transaction shall have been entered into by the Company that is not in the businessordinary course of business or that could reasonably be expected to result in a material reduction in the future earnings of the Company, (iii) no loss or damage (whether or not insured) to the property of the Company shall have been sustained that had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (iv) no legal or governmental action, suit or proceeding affecting the Company or any of its properties that is material to the Company or that affects or could reasonably be expected to affect the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall have been instituted or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened and (v) there shall not have been any material change in the condition (financial or otherwise), business, management, results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties operations or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war Company or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make its subsidiaries that makes it impracticable impractical or inadvisable in your judgment to proceed with the sale public offering or purchase of Securities or Offering the Shares as contemplated hereby.
(c) You shall have received on the Closing Date or Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, an opinion of Xxxxxx, Xxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel to the Company, in the form reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
(d) You shall have received on the Closing Date or Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, an opinion of Xxxxx Xxxx LLP, as intellectual property counsel to the Company, in the form reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
(e) You shall have received on the Closing Date or Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, an opinion of Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxx, Xxxxx & Xxxxxxxx, P.C., as intellectual property counsel to the Company, in the form reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
(f) You shall have received on the Closing Date or Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, an opinion of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo P.C., counsel for the Underwriters, in the form reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
(g) The Representative You shall have received a lock-up agreement letter addressed to you and dated the date hereof and the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, from each Lock-Up Partythe firm of EisnerAmper LLP, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Partyindependent certified public accountants, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleheretofore approved by you.
(i) FINRA No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have confirmed been issued by the Commission and no proceedings for that purpose shall be pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, shall be threatened or contemplated by the Commission at or prior to the Closing Date or Additional Closing Date, as the case may be; (ii) no order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the qualification or registration of the Shares under the securities or Blue Sky laws of any jurisdiction shall be in effect and no proceeding for such purpose shall be pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened or contemplated by the authorities of any jurisdiction; (iii) any request for additional information on the part of the staff of the Commission or any such authorities shall have been complied with to the satisfaction of the staff of the Commission or such authorities; (iv) after the date hereof, no amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall have been filed unless a copy thereof was first submitted to you and you did not object thereto in good faith; and (v) all of the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects (except for such representations and warranties qualified by materiality, which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as of the date hereof and on and as of the Closing Date or Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, as if made on and as of the Closing Date or Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, and you shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by the chief executive officer and the chief financial officer of the Company (or such other officers as are acceptable to you) to the effect set forth in this Section 9(h) and in Sections 9(b) and 9(i) hereof.
(i) The Company shall not have failed in any material respect at or prior to the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, to have performed or complied with any of its agreements herein contained and required to be performed or complied with by it hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date or Additional Closing Date, as the case may be.
(j) The Company shall have furnished or caused to have been furnished to you such further certificates and documents as you shall have reasonably requested.
(k) At or prior to the Closing Date, you shall have received the written commitment Lock-Up Agreements from each of the persons and entities listed on Schedule III not to directly or indirectly (i) sell, offer or contract to sell or otherwise dispose of or transfer any shares of Company Securities, whether now owned or acquired after the date of the Prospectus or with respect to which the power of disposition is acquired after the date of the Prospectus, or file any registration statement under the Act with respect to the foregoing or (ii) enter into any swap or other agreement or any other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, the economic consequences of ownership of Company Securities whether any such swap or transaction is to be settled by delivery of Company Securities, in cash or otherwise; other than as provided in such written commitment before the expiration of 60 days from the Closing Date, without the prior written consent of the Representatives.
(l) The Shares shall have been approved for listing on the Nasdaq.
(m) At or prior to the effective date of the Registration Statement, you shall have received a letter from the Corporate Financing Department of FINRA confirming that such Department has not raised any objection determined to raise no objections with respect to the fairness and or reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsarrangements of the offering contemplated hereby. In additionAll such opinions, certificates, letters and other documents will be in compliance with the Company shallprovisions hereof only if they are reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to you and your counsel. The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase Additional Shares hereunder are subject to the satisfaction on and as of the Additional Closing Date of the conditions set forth in this Section 9, except that, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of Additional Closing Date is other than the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; certificates, opinions and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court letters referred to in this Section 9 shall have been issued that would, be dated as of the Additional Closing DateDate and the opinions called for by paragraphs (c), prevent (d), (e) and (f) shall be revised to reflect the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the WarrantsAdditional Shares. If any of the conditions specified hereinabove provided for in this Section 7 9 shall not have been fulfilled satisfied when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder Agreement may be cancelled terminated by you by notifying the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice Company of such cancellation shall be given to the Company termination in writing or orally. Any by telegram at or prior to such oral notice Closing Date, but you shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingentitled to waive any of such conditions.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement, Underwriting Agreement (Leap Therapeutics, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The respective obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase the accuracy, when made and pay for on the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedPartnership contained herein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company Partnership of its obligations hereunder, to the accuracy of the statements of the Partnership made in any certificates delivered pursuant hereto, and (iv) to each of the following additional terms and conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals Prospectus shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on timely filed with the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented Commission; any material required to in writing be filed by the Representative. If Partnership pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus Rules and Regulations shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodperiods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433; and, at the Partnership shall have complied with all filing requirements applicable to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus used or prior referred to after the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, date hereof; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending thereof or preventing or suspending the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor proceeding for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi; no notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included of the Rules and Regulations shall have been received; any request of the Commission for inclusion of additional information in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise shall have been disclosed to the Underwriters and complied with to their satisfaction; and the Prospectus pursuant Commission shall not have notified the Partnership of any objection to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to use of the respective dates as form of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of businessStatement.
(eb) On All partnership and limited liability company proceedings and other legal matters incident to the date authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and on the Closing DateDebt Documents, the Representative authorization, execution and filing of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and all other legal matters relating to the Debt Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby shall be reasonably satisfactory in all material respects to counsel for the Underwriters, and the Partnership shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx furnished to such counsel all documents and information that they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.
(c) Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP shall have furnished to the Underwriters its written opinions, including its tax opinion, and negative assurance letter, as of each such datecounsel to the General Partner and the Partnership, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date, in the form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Managers and their counsel.
(d) The Underwriters shall have received from Hunton Xxxxxxx Xxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date, with respect to the sale of the Notes and other related matters as the Underwriters may reasonably require, and the Partnership shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(e) At the time of execution of this Agreement, the Underwriters shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a letter (the “initial letter”), in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative Managers, addressed to the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel, dated the date hereof (i) confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all are in compliance with the applicable rules and regulationsrequirements adopted by the Commission and the PCAOB and is in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, and (ii) stating, as of the date hereof (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, as of a date not more than three (3) days prior to the date hereof), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters in connection with registered public offerings.
(f) On the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a letter (the “bring-down letter”), in form and substance satisfactory to the Managers, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date, (i) confirming that it is an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the Commission and the PCAOB and is in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, (ii) stating, as of the date of the bring-down letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five three (53) days prior to such datethe date of the bring-down letter), the its conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such the initial letter and (iii) confirming in all material respects the conclusions and findings set forth in the initial letter.
(fg) Subsequent On the Closing Date, the General Partner shall have furnished to the execution Underwriters a certificate, dated the Closing Date of its Chief Financial Officer stating that:
(i) the representations, warranties and delivery agreements of the Partnership in this Agreement are true and correct on and as of the Closing Date, and the Partnership has complied with all the agreements contained herein and satisfied all the conditions to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date;
(ii) the Prospectus has been timely filed with the Commission; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued; and no proceedings or examination for that purpose have been instituted or, if earlierto the knowledge of such officers, threatened by the dates as Commission; no notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of which the Rules and Regulations has been received; any request of the Commission for inclusion of additional information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive or the Prospectus or otherwise has been disclosed to the Underwriters and complied with; and the Commission has not notified the Partnership of any objection to the use of the form of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereofthereto;
(iii) they have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Prospectus, and, in their opinion, (A) (1) the Registration Statement, as of the Effective Date, (2) the Prospectus, as of its date and on the Closing Date, and (3) the Time of Sale Prospectus, as of the Time of Sale, did not and do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact and did not and do not omit to state a material fact (i) solely in the case of the Registration Statement required to be stated therein or (ii) necessary to make the statements therein not misleading (in the case of the Prospectus or the Time of Sale Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which such statements were made), except, in the case of the Time of Sale Prospectus, that the price of the Notes and disclosures directly relating thereto are included in the Prospectus, and (B) since the Effective Date, no event has occurred that should have been set forth in a supplement or amendment to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that has not been so set forth; and
(iv) no event contemplated in Section 7(h) or 7(i) has occurred in respect of the Partnership Entities.
(A) The Partnership Entities (taken as a whole) shall not have sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the most recent preliminary prospectus any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus (exclusive or shall have become a party to or the subject of any supplement thereto)litigation, court or governmental action, investigation, order or decree which is materially adverse to the Partnership Entities, taken as a whole and (B) since such date there shall not have been any material adverse change in the partners’ or members’ capital, capital stock or short-term or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the CompanyPartnership Entities, taken as a whole, including but not limited to or any change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the occurrence general affairs, operations, business, prospects, capitalization, management, financial position, securityholders’ equity or results of any fireoperations of the Partnership Entities, floodtaken as a whole, storm, explosion, accident, act otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Time of war or terrorism or other calamitySale Prospectus and the Prospectus, the effect of which, in any such case described abovein clause (A) or (B), isis to make it, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeManagers, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale public offering or the delivery of Securities the Notes being delivered on the Closing Date on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus
(i) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, if any debt securities of the Partnership are rated by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization,” as that term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act, (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded such debt securities (including the Notes) and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or Offering as contemplated herebyreview, with possible negative implications, its rating of any securities of the Partnership.
(gj) The Representative If any event shall have received occurred on or prior to the Closing Date that requires the Partnership to prepare an amendment or supplement to the Prospectus, such amendment or supplement shall have been prepared, the Managers shall have been given a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partyreasonable opportunity to comment thereon as provided in Section 5(a)(iv) hereof, duly executed by and copies thereof shall have been delivered to the applicable Lock-Up Party, Managers reasonably in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as advance of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(jk) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state governmental agency or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that body which would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the SecuritiesNotes; and no injunction injunction, restraining order or order of any federal, other nature by any federal or state or foreign court of competent jurisdiction shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, Date which would prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requestedNotes.
(l) The Company Partnership shall have entered into a warrant agreement (furnished the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency Managers such additional documents and Trust Company, certificates as warrant agent the Managers or counsel for the WarrantsUnderwriters may reasonably request. If any of the conditions specified All opinions, letters, evidence and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Section 7 Agreement shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative Underwriters and to counsel for the Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P.), Underwriting Agreement (Magellan Midstream Partners Lp)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The respective obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase the accuracy, at and pay for as of the Firm Shares date hereof and Firm Warrants or any Option the First Closing Date (as if made at the First Closing Date) and, with respect to the Optional Securities, the Option Closing Date (as if made at the case may beOption Closing Date), as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedcontained herein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.4 p.m., New York City Eastern time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as the Representative shall approve and all filings required by Rules 424, 430A and 433 under the Securities Act shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodmade; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction.
(b) No Underwriter shall have advised the Company that the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representatives opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(c) On each Closing Date, the Representative shall have received the favorable opinion and negative assurance letter of Oxxxxx Gxxxxxxx Frome Rxxxxxxxxx & Wxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, dated as of such Closing Date, the form of which is attached as Exhibit B.
(d) On each Closing Date, the Representative shall have received the favorable opinion of Wxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx & Rxxxxx, intellectual property counsel for the Company, dated as of such Closing Date, the form of which is attached as Exhibit C.
(e) On each Closing Date the Representative shall have received the favorable opinion of Sichenzia Rxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated as of such Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative.
(f) There shall have been furnished to the Representative a certificate of the Company, dated as of each Closing Date and addressed to the Representative, signed by the Chief Executive Officer and by the Chief Financial Officer of the Company to the effect that:
(i) The representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct, as if made at and as of such Closing Date, and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to such Closing Date;
(ii) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued, and no proceedings for that purpose have been initiated or are pending or, to their knowledge, contemplated;
(iii) Any and all filings required by Rules 424, 430A, 430B and 430C under the Securities Act have been timely made;
(iv) The signers of said certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement and the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto, and such documents contain all statements and information required to be included therein; the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto does not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or any supplements thereto do not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
(v) Since the effective date of the Registration Statement, there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus which has not been so set forth; and
(vi) Since the effective date of the Registration Statement, the Company shall not have sustained any loss by strike, fire, flood, accident or other calamity (whether or not insured), nor shall it have become a party to or the subject of any litigation, which is material to the Company taken as a whole, nor shall there have been a material adverse change in the general affairs, business, key personnel, capitalization, financial position, earnings or net worth of the Company, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, which loss, litigation or change, in the Representative’s judgment, shall render it inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of the Securities.
(g) On the date hereof, and on each Closing Date, the Representative shall have received from J.X. Xxxx LLP, independent public or certified public accountants for the Company, a letter dated the date hereof addressed to the Representative, on behalf of the several Underwriters, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountant’s “comfort letters” to underwriters, delivered according to Statement of Auditing Standards No. 72 (or any successor bulletin), with respect to the audited and unaudited financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (and the Representative shall have received an additional five conformed copies of such accountants’ letter for each of the several Underwriters).
(h) The “lock-up” agreements between the Representatives and the stockholders, officers and directors of the Company listed on Schedule II, delivered to the Representative on or before the date hereof, shall be in full force and effect on each Closing Date.
(i) Since the date of the Prospectus, there has not been a Material Adverse Effect.
(j) On or before each Closing Date, the Representative and counsel for the Underwriters shall have received such information, certificates, agreements, opinions and other documents as they may reasonably require.
(k) On or before the First Closing Date, the Common Stock shall have been approved for listing on the NYSE Amex LLC.
(l) FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written . All such opinions, certificates, letters and documents shall be in each case compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form satisfactory and substance to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal to counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have furnish the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel Representative with such other conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, opinions or letters and other documents as they may have the Representative shall reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrantsrequest. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form Agreement and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative canceled at, or at any time prior to, the consummation First Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, by the Representative. Any such cancellation shall be without liability of the ClosingUnderwriters to the Company. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing writing, or orally. Any such oral notice shall be by telegraph or telephone and confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Iaso Pharma Inc), Underwriting Agreement (Iaso Pharma Inc)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beUnits, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 of any material misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and or listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.p.m., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof hereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Transaction Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and or the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided, however, that if in the Representative’s opinion such deficiency is curable Representative shall have given the Company reasonable notice of such deficiency and a reasonable chance to cure such deficiency.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case opinions of (i) Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities Popeo PC legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; Representative substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex II, and (ii) Fish Pxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPPxxxxxxxx, patent P.C., intellectual property legal counsel to the Company, Company dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for Representative substantially in the Company, dated form attached hereto as of the Closing Date and addressed to the UnderwritersAnnex III.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, Date to the effect that: (i) the conditions condition set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have 6 has been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof this Agreement are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businessesbusiness, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so includedincluded or incorporated by reference, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, Prospectus there has not been any Material Adverse Change Effect or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse ChangeEffect, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “cold comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx the Auditor as of each such date, the date of delivery and addressed to the Underwriters Representative and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules the Rules and regulationsRegulations, and stating, as of such the date of delivery (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to the date of such dateletter), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, and prior to the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto)Closing Date, there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether that would cause, or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of businessreasonably be expected to cause, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a wholeMaterial Adverse Effect, including but not limited to to/from the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable sole judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale Offering on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus (exclusive of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyany supplement).
(g) The Prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex II.I.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Nasdaq Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminateto, or likely to have the effect of terminating, terminating the registration of the Warrants or Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the from trading its Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Nasdaq Capital Market, nor will has the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Nasdaq Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or of listing. The Securities Preferred Stock, the Warrants, the Underlying Shares and the shares of Common Stock underlying the Underwriters’ Warrants shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the any Transaction Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the any Transaction Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel with a Certificate of Good Standing for the Company certified by the Secretary of State of Delaware.
(l) The Company shall have furnished the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(lm) On the Closing Date, there shall have been issued to the Underwriters, a Representatives’ Warrant in the form attached hereto as Annex IV.
(n) The Company Certificate of Designations shall have entered into a warrant agreement (been duly filed with the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the WarrantsSecretary of State of Delaware. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (NeuroMetrix, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (NeuroMetrix, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The respective obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase the accuracy, on and pay for as of the Firm Shares date of the Underwriting Agreement and Firm Warrants or any Option Securitiesthe Closing Date, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Guarantor and the Company herein containedcontained herein, as to the accuracy of the date hereof and as statements of the Closing DateGuarantor and the Company and the officers of their general partner made in any certificates delivered pursuant hereto, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by each of the Guarantor and the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) to each of the following additional terms and conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Prospectus shall have been timely filed with the Commission in accordance with Section 4(a) of this Agreement, and, if applicable, the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., by 10:00 a.m. New York City time, time on the business day following the date of this the Underwriting Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior Prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the ClosingDate, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings proceeding for the issuance of such an order that purpose shall have been initiated or threatenedthreatened by the Commission; all requests and any request of the Commission for inclusion of additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, Statement or the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) otherwise shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness reasonable satisfaction of the underwriting terms and arrangementsUnderwriters.
(b) The Representative Prospectus (and any amendments or supplements thereto) shall not have reasonably determined, been printed and advised copies distributed to the Company, Underwriters as promptly as practicable on or following the date of the Underwriting Agreement or at such other date and time as to which the Underwriters may agree.
(c) None of the Underwriters shall have discovered and disclosed to the Guarantor or the Company on or prior to the Closing Date that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, thereto contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of counsel for the Underwriters, is material or omits to state any fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(cd) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory All partnership proceedings and other legal matters incident to the Representative authorization, form and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates validity of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Transaction Documents and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change and all other legal matters relating to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby, shall be satisfactory in all material respects to the Underwriters, and the Guarantor and the Company shall have furnished to the Underwriters all documents and information that they or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of businesstheir counsel may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx L.L.P. shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx furnished to the Underwriters their written opinion, as of each such datecounsel to the Guarantor and the Company, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect substantially to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given effect set forth in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letterAnnex A hereto.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Enterprise Products Partners L P), Underwriting Agreement (Enterprise Products Operating L P)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be Securities hereunder are subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) (i) The Registration Statement shall have become effective Prospectus, and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall any supplement thereto, have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on filed in the date of this Agreement, or at such later manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b) (without reference to Rule 424(b)(8)); the final term sheet contemplated by Section 5(t) hereto and date as shall have been consented any other material required to in writing be filed by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected pursuant to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus 433(d) shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date periods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433 and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or (ii) any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, Statement or the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness satisfaction of the underwriting terms and arrangementsUnderwriters.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement Execution Time, or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) thereto), the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement theretoamendment thereof), there shall not have been occurred: (i) any change change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the capital stock condition (financial or long-term debt otherwise), earnings, business, properties, net worth, or results of operations of the Company or any change or development involving a changeand its subsidiaries, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in the business, condition Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (financial exclusive of any amendments or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited supplements thereto subsequent to the occurrence date of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamitythis Agreement), the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable sole judgment of the Representative, Representatives is so material and adverse as to make it impracticable impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the sale offering or delivery of the Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyby the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendments thereto), the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto); or (ii) any event or development relating to or involving the Company and its subsidiaries or any officer or director of the Company and its subsidiaries which makes any statement made in the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus untrue or which, in the opinion of the Company and its counsel or the Representatives and their counsel, requires the making of any addition to or change in the Disclosure Package in order to state a material fact required by the Act or any other law to be stated therein, or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading, if amending or supplementing the Disclosure Package to reflect such event or development would, in the opinion of the Representatives, adversely affect the market for the Securities.
(c) The Representatives shall have received on the Closing Date opinions of Pillsbury Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, dated as of such date and addressed to the Representatives, substantially in the forms attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(d) The Representatives shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of Hunton & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated as of such date and addressed to the Representatives with respect to such matters as the Underwriters may request.
(e) The Representatives shall have received letters addressed to the Underwriters and dated as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date from Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, substantially in the form heretofore approved by the Underwriters; provided that the letter delivered on the date hereof and on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off” date no more than three (3) Business Days prior to such dates.
(f) (A) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been taken or, to the knowledge of the Company, shall be contemplated by the Commission at or prior to the Closing Date; (B) there shall not have been any material change in the capital stock of the Company nor any material increase in the short-term or long-term debt (including any off-balance sheet activities or transactions) of the Company and its subsidiaries (other than in the ordinary course of business) from that set forth or contemplated in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto); (C) there shall not have been, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), except as may otherwise be stated in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any material adverse change in the condition (financial or other), business, prospects, properties, net worth or results of operations of the Company or its subsidiaries; (D) the Company and its subsidiaries shall not have any liabilities or obligations (financial or other), direct or contingent (whether or not in the ordinary course of business), that are material to the Company or its subsidiaries, other than those reflected in the Registration Statement or the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto); and (E) all the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement shall be true and correct at and as of the Execution Time and on and as of the Closing Date as if made at and as of such time or on and as of such date, and the Representatives shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by either the chief executive officer or chief operating officer and the chief financial officer of the Company (or such other officers as are acceptable to the Representatives), to the effect set forth in this Section 8(f) and in Section 8(g) hereof.
(g) The Representative Company shall not have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partyfailed at or prior to the Closing Date to have performed or complied with any of its agreements herein contained and required to be performed or complied with by it hereunder or under the Indenture, duly executed by at or prior to the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex IIClosing Date.
(h) The Common Stock and Subsequent to the Warrants are registered Execution Time, there shall not have been any decrease in the rating of any of the Company’s debt securities by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act and, as Act) or any notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the direction of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligiblepossible change.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to the Representatives such further certificates and documents as the Representatives shall have requested. All such opinions, certificates, letters and other documents will be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives and their counsel. Any certificate or document signed by any officer of the Company and delivered to the Underwriters, or to counsel for the Underwriters, shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (to the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrantsstatements made therein. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 8 shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects when and as required by provided in this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements opinions and certificates mentioned above or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to elsewhere in this Section 7 Agreement shall not be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Representatives and to counsel for the Underwriters’ Counsel, this Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled canceled by the Representative Representatives at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the ClosingClosing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orallyby telephone or facsimile confirmed in writing. Any such oral notice With respect to the Closing Date, the documents required to be delivered by this Section 8 shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingdelivered at the offices of Hunton & Xxxxxxxx LLP, Attn: Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esq., counsel for the Underwriters, at 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, X.X., Bank of America Plaza, Suite 4100, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000 on or prior to such date.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (National Retail Properties, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (National Retail Properties, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The respective obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase the accuracy, when made and pay for on the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedPartnership contained herein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company Partnership of its obligations hereunder, to the accuracy of the statements of the Partnership made in any certificates delivered pursuant hereto, and (iv) to each of the following additional terms and conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals Prospectus shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on timely filed with the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented Commission; any material required to in writing be filed by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected Partnership pursuant to rely upon Rule 430A 433(d) under the Securities Act, the Prospectus Act shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodperiods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433; and, at the Partnership shall have complied with all filing requirements applicable to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus used or prior referred to after the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, date hereof; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending thereof or preventing or suspending the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor proceeding for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi; no notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included of the Securities Act shall have been received; any request of the Commission for inclusion of additional information in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise shall have been disclosed to the Underwriters and complied with to their satisfaction; and the Prospectus pursuant Commission shall not have notified the Partnership of any objection to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to use of the respective dates as form of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of businessStatement.
(eb) On All partnership and limited liability company proceedings and other legal matters incident to the date authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and on the Closing DateDebt Documents, the Representative authorization, execution and filing of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and all other legal matters relating to the Debt Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby shall be reasonably satisfactory in all material respects to counsel for the Underwriters, and the Partnership shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx furnished to such counsel all documents and information that they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.
(c) Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP shall have furnished to the Underwriters its written opinions and negative assurance letter, as of each such datecounsel to the General Partner and the Partnership, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date, in the form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Managers and their counsel.
(d) The Underwriters shall have received from Xxxxxxx Xxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date, with respect to the sale of the Notes and other related matters as the Underwriters may reasonably require, and the Partnership shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(e) At the time of execution of this Agreement, the Underwriters shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a letter (the “initial letter”), in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative Managers, addressed to the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel, dated the date hereof (i) confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all are in compliance with the applicable rules and regulationsrequirements adopted by the Commission and the PCAOB and is in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, and (ii) stating, as of the date hereof (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, as of a date not more than three (3) days prior to the date hereof), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters in connection with registered public offerings.
(f) On the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a letter (the “bring-down letter”), in form and substance satisfactory to the Managers, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date, (i) confirming that it is an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the Commission and the PCAOB and is in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, (ii) stating, as of the date of the bring-down letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five three (53) days prior to such datethe date of the bring-down letter), the its conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such the initial letter and (iii) confirming in all material respects the conclusions and findings set forth in the initial letter.
(fg) Subsequent On the Closing Date, the General Partner shall have furnished to the execution Underwriters a certificate, dated the Closing Date of any of its Senior Vice Presidents and delivery its Chief Financial Officer stating that:
(i) the representations, warranties and agreements of the Partnership in this Agreement are true and correct on and as of the Closing Date, and the Partnership has complied with all the agreements contained herein and satisfied all the conditions to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date;
(ii) the Prospectus has been timely filed with the Commission; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued; and no proceedings or examination for that purpose have been instituted or, if earlierto the knowledge of such officers, threatened by the dates as Commission; no notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of which the Securities Act has been received; any request of the Commission for inclusion of additional information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive or the Prospectus or otherwise has been disclosed to the Underwriters and complied with; and the Commission has not notified the Partnership of any objection to the use of the form of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereofthereto;
(iii) they have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Prospectus, and, in their opinion, (A) (1) the Registration Statement, as of the Effective Date, (2) the Prospectus, as of its date and on the Closing Date, and (3) the Time of Sale Prospectus, as of the Time of Sale, did not and do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact and did not and do not omit to state a material fact (i) solely in the case of the Registration Statement required to be stated therein or (ii) necessary to make the statements therein not misleading (in the case of the Prospectus or the Time of Sale Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which such statements were made), except, in the case of the Time of Sale Prospectus, that the price of the Notes and disclosures directly relating thereto are included in the Prospectus, and (B) since the Effective Date, no event has occurred that should have been set forth in a supplement or amendment to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that has not been so set forth; and
(iv) no event contemplated in Section 7(h) or 7(i) has occurred in respect of the Partnership Entities.
(A) The Partnership Entities (taken as a whole) shall not have sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus (exclusive or shall have become a party to or the subject of any supplement thereto)litigation, court or governmental action, investigation, order or decree which is materially adverse to the Partnership Entities, taken as a whole and (B) since such date there shall not have been any material adverse change in the partners’ or members’ capital, capital stock or short-term or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the CompanyPartnership Entities, taken as a whole, including but not limited to or any change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the occurrence general affairs, operations, business, prospects, capitalization, management, financial position, securityholders’ equity or results of any fireoperations of the Partnership Entities, floodtaken as a whole, storm, explosion, accident, act otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Time of war or terrorism or other calamitySale Prospectus and the Prospectus, the effect of which, in any such case described abovein clause (A) or (B), isis to make it, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeManagers, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale public offering or the delivery of Securities the Notes being delivered on the Closing Date on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus
(i) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, if any debt securities of the Partnership are rated by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization,” as that term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act, (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded such debt securities (including the Notes) and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or Offering as contemplated herebyreview, with possible negative implications, its rating of any securities of the Partnership.
(gj) The Representative If any event shall have received occurred on or prior to the Closing Date that requires the Partnership to prepare an amendment or supplement to the Prospectus, such amendment or supplement shall have been prepared, the Managers shall have been given a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partyreasonable opportunity to comment thereon as provided in Section 5(a)(iv) hereof, duly executed by and copies thereof shall have been delivered to the applicable Lock-Up Party, Managers reasonably in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as advance of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(jk) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state governmental agency or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that body which would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the SecuritiesNotes; and no injunction injunction, restraining order or order of any federal, other nature by any federal or state or foreign court of competent jurisdiction shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, Date which would prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requestedNotes.
(l) The Company Partnership shall have entered into a warrant agreement (furnished the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency Managers such additional documents and Trust Company, certificates as warrant agent the Managers or counsel for the WarrantsUnderwriters may reasonably request. If any of the conditions specified All opinions, letters, evidence and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Section 7 Agreement shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative Underwriters and to counsel for the Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Magellan Midstream Partners Lp), Underwriting Agreement (Magellan Midstream Partners Lp)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beAdditional Shares, as provided herein herein, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, Date (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For for purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securitiesany Additional Closing Date, as if different, for the case may beAdditional Shares), to the performance by the Company of all of its obligations hereunder, and to each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.additional conditions:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(bSection 4(a) within the applicable time periodhereof; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofpost-effective amendment thereto, or any amendment thereof, nor and no stop order suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) the Prospectus, shall have been issued by the Commission and no proceedings therefor shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission; all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission shall have been complied with to the Representative’s your reasonable satisfaction; and FINRA if the Company has elected to rely on Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement shall have raised no objection to become effective by 10:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fairness date of this Agreement; and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsall necessary regulatory or stock exchange approvals shall have been received.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised At the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative Closing Date you shall have received the favorable written opinionsopinion of TroyGould PC, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; , in form and substance satisfactory to you, to the effect set forth in Exhibit A hereto.
(iic) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPAt the Closing Date you shall have received the written opinion of Xxxxxx McKonkie, patent legal intellectual property counsel to for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; , in form and substance satisfactory to you, to the effect set forth in Exhibit B hereto.
(iiid) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx At the Closing Date you shall have received the written opinion of Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLCLLP, trademark legal regulatory counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance satisfactory to you, to the effect set forth in Exhibit C hereto.
(de) The Representative At the Closing Date, you shall have received certificates the written opinion of each Underwriters’ Counsel, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance satisfactory to you, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Shares, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and such other matters as you may require, and the Company shall have furnished to Underwriters’ Counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(f) At the Closing Date you shall have received a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to you, as to the effect that: (i) accuracy of the conditions representations and warranties of the Company set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) 1 hereof as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, as to the representations and warranties of performance by the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of all of its obligations hereunder to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of as to the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied withmatters set forth in subsections (a), (ivh) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, and (vi) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so includedthis Section 7, and (vii) subsequent as to the respective dates such other matters as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of businessyou may reasonably request.
(eg) On At the time this Agreement is executed and at the Closing Date, you shall have received a comfort letter, from KMJ Xxxxxx & Company, independent public accountants for the Company, dated, respectively, as of the date of this Agreement and on as of the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning containing statements and information of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information and other matters relating to contained in the Registration Statement covered by such letterStatement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(fh) Subsequent to the execution and delivery No event or condition of this Agreement ora type described in Section 1(h) hereof shall have occurred or shall exist, if earlier, the dates as of which information event or condition is given not described in the Registration Statement Pricing Disclosure Package (exclusive of excluding any amendment thereofor supplement thereto) and the Prospectus (exclusive of excluding any amendment or supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, ) and the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, which in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make Representatives makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of Securities the Shares on the Closing Date or Offering the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, on the terms and in the manner contemplated herebyby this Agreement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(gi) On or after the Applicable Time, (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded any securities of the Company’s by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as such term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the Securities Act, and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any securities of the Company.
(j) No Underwriter shall have discovered and disclosed to the Company on or prior to such Closing Date that the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, contains an untrue statement of a fact which, in the opinion of Underwriters’ Counsel, is material or omits to state a fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(k) The Representative Representatives shall have received a lock-up agreement from each duly executed Lock-Up Party, duly executed by Agreement from each person who is a director or officer of the applicable Lock-Up PartyCompany and each other person or entity listed on Schedule IV hereto, in each case substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex II.Exhibit D.
(hl) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of At the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action Shares shall have been provided approved for quotation on NASDAQ, subject only to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect official notice of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleissuance.
(im) At the Closing Date, FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, arrangements for the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithOffering.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(kn) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(lo) The Company shall have entered into received all necessary waivers of existing lock-up arrangements between it and the underwriters of its initial public offering necessary to permit the initial filing of the Registration Statement, the execution of a warrant definitive underwriting agreement (by it and other actions necessary to consummate the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the WarrantsOffering. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative you or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Representatives and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative Representatives at, or at any time prior to, the consummation Closing Date and the obligations of the ClosingUnderwriters to purchase the Additional Shares may be cancelled by the Representatives at, or at any time prior to, the Additional Closing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Kindred Biosciences, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (Kindred Biosciences, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters Underwriter to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beprovided herein, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) to the continuing accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel accuracy of the statements of officers of the Company made pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the provisions hereof and to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) a. The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, Agreement or at such later date and time and date as shall have been be consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Actyou, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the ClosingDate, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings for the issuance of such an order that purpose shall have been initiated instituted or threatened; all requests shall be pending or contemplated by the SEC and any request on the part of the Commission SEC for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness reasonable satisfaction of the underwriting terms and arrangementsUnderwriter's Counsel.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised b. At the Company, that the Registration StatementClosing Date, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative Underwriter shall have received the favorable written opinionsopinion of Broad and Cassxx, in each case in form satisfactory xxunsel to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, Company dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters Underwriter and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Underwriter's Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the effect that:
(1) the Company within (A) has been incorporated under the meaning of the Securities Florida Business Corporations Act and all applicable rules its status is active, (B) is qualified and regulationsin good standing as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which, to such counsel's knowledge, its ownership or leasing of any properties or the character of its operations requires such qualifications, except where failure to do so would have a material adverse effect on the Company, and stating, (C ) has all requisite power and authority to own or lease its properties and conduct its business as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given described in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.;
(f2) Subsequent to the execution Shares, Underwriter's Warrants and delivery of this Agreement orthe Common Shares have been duly authorized and are, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given or in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt case of the Company or any change or development involving a changeUnderwriter's Warrants, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of businesswill be, in the businessupon exercise and payment therefor, condition (financial or otherwise)validly issued, results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects fully paid and non-assessable securities of the Company, taken as a whole, including but and the holders thereof are not limited and will not be subject to the occurrence personal liability by reason of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any being such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment holders; none of the RepresentativeShares, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable Underwriter's Warrants or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
Shares (i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised are subject to any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness preemptive or similar contractual rights of any stockholder of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations reason of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company's certificate of incorporation, as warrant agent amended, or any applicable statute; or (ii) are subject to any preemptive, or, to such counsel's knowledge, similar contractual rights of any stockholder of the Company by reason of any agreement to which the Company is a party; all corporate action required to be taken for the Warrants. If any authorization, issue and sale of such securities has been duly and validly taken; if issued, the conditions specified in this Section 7 Underwriter's Warrants shall not have been fulfilled when constitute, valid and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all binding obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative atCompany to issue and sell, or at any time prior toupon exercise thereof and payment therefor, the consummation number and type of securities of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to Company called for thereby; and the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.certificates representing the Shares and the
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Onlinetradinginc Com Corp), Underwriting Agreement (Onlinetradinginc Com Corp)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The Primary Parties and the Representative agree that the issuance and the sale of the Shares and the issuance and sale of Securities in the Subscription Offering and the Community Offering and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company Primary Parties herein contained, contained as of the date hereof and as the Time of Delivery, to the accuracy of the Closing Datestatements of officers and trustees of the MHC, (ii) the absence from any certificatesofficers and directors of the Mid-Ties, opinions, written statements or letters furnished the Company and the Bank made pursuant to the Representative or provisions hereof, to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company Primary Parties of its their obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of to the following additional further conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodperiod prescribed for such filing by the Securities Act Regulations and in accordance with Section 3(a) hereof (or a post-effective amendment shall have been filed and declared effective in accordance with the requirements of Rule 430A); and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement Statement, including any post-effective amendment thereto, shall have been issued under the Securities Act or any part thereofproceedings therefor initiated or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission, no order suspending the Offerings or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the authorization for final use of the General Disclosure PackageProspectus, including any prospectus included in a post-effective amendment to the Prospectus Registration Statement, shall have been issued or proceedings therefor initiated or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission, or the FRB and no order suspending the sale of the Shares in any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus jurisdiction shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The At the Time of Delivery, the Representative shall not have received:
(1) The favorable opinion, dated as of the Time of Delivery, of Xxxxxxx Procter LLP, counsel for the Primary Parties, in form and substance satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters, as attached hereto as Exhibit B.
(2) The favorable opinion, dated as of the Time of Delivery, of Xxxx Xxxxxx, PC, counsel for the Underwriters, as to such matters as the Representative may reasonably determinedrequire.
(3) In addition to giving their opinions required by subsections (b)(l) and (b)(2), respectively, of this Section, Xxxxxxx Procter LLP and advised the CompanyXxxx Xxxxxx, PC shall each additionally state that nothing has come to their attention that would lead them to believe that the Registration StatementStatement (except for financial statements and schedules and other financial, pro forma or statistical data included therein, as to which counsel need make no statement), at the General Disclosure Package or time it initially became effective (and at the Prospectustime any post-effective amendment was declared effective), or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains contained an untrue statement of a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits omitted to state a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or that the Prospectus (except for financial statements and schedules and other financial, pro forma or statistical data included therein, as to which counsel need make no statement), at the time the Registration Statement became effective, as of the date of the Prospectus or at the Time of Delivery, or (if applicable) that the General Disclosure Package as of the Applicable Time, included or includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. In giving their opinions, Xxxxxxx Procter LLP and Xxxx Xxxxxx, PC may rely as to matters of fact on certificates of officers, directors and trustees of the Primary Parties and certificates of public officials. Xxxx Xxxxxx, PC may also rely on the opinion of Xxxxxxx Procter LLP.
(c) The Representative shall have received At the favorable written opinionsTime of Delivery referred to in Section 2 hereof, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date Bank and addressed the MHC shall have completed in all material respects the conditions precedent to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPConversion in accordance with the Plan, patent legal counsel the FRB Regulations, Massachusetts Banking Law and all other applicable laws, regulations, decisions and orders, including all terms, conditions, requirements and provisions precedent to the Conversion imposed upon the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed MHC or the Bank by the FRB, the Division or any other regulatory authority other than those which the FRB, the Division or any such other regulatory authority permit to be completed after the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the UnderwritersOfferings.
(d) The Representative At the Time of Delivery, there shall not have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Companybeen, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of since the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse ChangeEffect, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, and the Representative shall have received a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer of the MHC, the Mid-Tier, the Company and the Bank and the Chief Financial Officer of the MHC, the Mid-Tier, the Company and the Bank, dated as of Time of Delivery, to the effect that (i) there has been no such Material Adverse Effect, (ii) there shall have been no material transaction entered into by the MHC, the Mid-Tier, the Company or the Bank from the latest date as of which the financial condition of the Mid-Tier, the Company or the Bank, as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package other than transactions referred to or contemplated therein and transactions in the ordinary course of business substantially consistent with past practice, (iii) none of the Primary Parties shall have received from the FRB, the Division or the FDIC any order or direction (oral or written) to make any material change in the method of conducting its business with which it has not complied (which order or direction, if any, shall have been disclosed in writing to the Representative) or that would materially and adversely affect the business, financial condition, results of operations or prospects of the Company, the MHC, the Mid-Tier and the Bank, considered as one enterprise, (iv) the representations and warranties in Section 1 hereof are true and correct with the same force and effect as though expressly made at and as of the Time of Delivery, (v) each of the Primary Parties have complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on their part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Time of Delivery, including all agreements and conditions set forth in the Agency Agreement, (vi) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been initiated or, to the Knowledge of the Primary Parties, threatened by the Commission, (vii) no order suspending the FRB’s approval of the Holding Company Application or the transactions contemplated thereby or the Division’s approval of the Massachusetts Application or the transactions contemplated thereby has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been initiated or, to the knowledge of the Primary Parties, threatened by the FRB or the Division and no person has sought to obtain regulatory or judicial review of the action of the FRB or the Division in approving the Plan in accordance with the FRB Regulations and Massachusetts Banking Law nor has any person sought to obtain regulatory or judicial review of the action of the FRB in approving the Holding Company Application or the Division approving the Massachusetts Application, and (viii) no order suspending the Offerings or authorization for use of the Prospectus has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been initiated by the FRB or the Division.
(e) On At the date Time of this Agreement and on the Closing DateDelivery, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx certificate of the Chief Executive Officer of the MHC, the Company and the Bank and the Chief Financial Officer of the MHC, the Company and the Bank, dated as of Time of Delivery, to the effect that (i) they have reviewed the contents of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package; (ii) based on each of their knowledge, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading; (iii) based on each of their knowledge, the financial statements and other financial information included in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, the MHC Proxy Statement, the Stockholder Proxy Statement and the General Disclosure Package fairly present the financial condition and results of operations of the Company as of and for the dates and periods covered by the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; (iv) they are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures; (v) they have designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that material information relating to the Company, the MHC and the Bank is made known to them; (vi) they have evaluated the effectiveness of their disclosure controls and procedures; and (vii) they have disclosed to Wolf & Company, P.C. and the audit committee (A) all significant deficiencies in the design or operation of disclosure controls and procedures which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Mid-Tier’s ability to record, process, summarize, and report financial data, and have identified for the Mid-Tier’s and the Bank’s independent registered public accounting firm any material weaknesses in disclosure controls and procedures and (B) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the MHC’s, the Mid-Tier’s and the Bank’s disclosure controls and procedures.
(f) As of the date hereof, the Representative shall have received from Wolf & Company, P.C. a letter dated such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ CounselRepresentative, confirming that to the effect that: (i) they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the MHC, the Mid-Tier, the Company and the Bank within the meaning of the Code of Ethics of the AICPA, the Securities Act and all applicable rules the Securities Act Regulations and regulationsthe FRB Regulations, they are registered with the PCAOB, and statingthey are not in violation of the auditor independence requirements of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act; (ii) it is their opinion that the consolidated financial statements and supporting schedules included in the Registration Statement and covered by their opinions therein comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations; (iii) based upon limited procedures as agreed upon by the Representative and Wolf & Company, P.C. set forth in detail in such letter, nothing has come to their attention that causes them to believe that, except as set forth in such letter, (A) the unaudited amounts of net interest income and net income set forth under “Selected Consolidated Financial and Other Data” or under “Recent Developments” in the Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package do not agree with the amounts set forth in unaudited consolidated financial statements as of and for the dates and periods presented under such date (or, captions or such amounts were not determined on a basis substantially consistent with respect to matters involving changes or developments since that used in determining the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given corresponding amounts in the Prospectusaudited consolidated financial statements included in the Registration Statement, as of the Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package, (B) at a specified date not more than five (5) business days prior to such date)the date of this Agreement, there has been any increase in the consolidated long-term or short-term debt of the Mid-Tier or any decrease in consolidated total assets, the conclusions allowance for loan losses, total deposits or total stockholders’ equity of the Mid-Tier, in each case as compared with the amounts shown in the December 31, 2018 audited consolidated statements of financial condition presented in the Registration Statement or, (C) during the period from December 31, 2018 to a specified date not more than five (5) business days prior to the date of this Agreement, there were any decreases, as compared with the corresponding period in the preceding fiscal year, in consolidated total interest and findings dividend income, net interest income, net interest income after provision for loan losses, income before provision for income taxes or net income of such firm the Mid-Tier, except in all instances for increases or decreases which the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package disclose have occurred or may occur; and (iv) in addition to the examination referred to in their opinion and the limited procedures referred to in clause (iii) above, they have carried out certain specified procedures, not constituting an audit, with respect to the certain amounts, percentages and financial information that are included in the Registration Statement, Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package and that are specified by the Representative, and have found such amounts, percentages and financial information to be in agreement with the relevant accounting, financial and other matters relating to records of the Registration Statement covered by Company and the Bank identified in such letter.
(g) At the Time of Delivery, the Representative shall have received from Wolf & Company, P.C. a letter dated as of the Time of Delivery, to the effect that they reaffirm the statements made in the letter furnished pursuant to subsection (f) Subsequent of this Section, except that the specified date referred to shall be a date not more than three (3) business days prior to the execution and delivery Time of this Agreement or, if earlierDelivery.
(i) At the Time of Delivery, the dates Securities shall have been approved for listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
(j) At the Time of Delivery, the Company and the Bank shall have received a letter from the Appraiser, dated as of which information is given the Time of Delivery, confirming its appraisal.
(k) At the Time of Delivery, counsel for the Underwriters shall have been furnished with such documents and opinions as they may require for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Securities, including the Shares, as herein contemplated and related proceedings, or in order to evidence the Registration Statement (exclusive accuracy of any amendment thereof) and of the Prospectus (exclusive representations or warranties, or the fulfillment of any supplement thereto)of the conditions, herein contained; and all proceedings taken by the Company in connection with the issuance and sale of the Securities as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and counsel for the Underwriters.
(l) At any time prior to the Time of Delivery, (i) there shall not have been occurred any material adverse change in the capital stock financial markets in the United States or long-term debt of the Company elsewhere or any change outbreak of hostilities or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism escalation thereof or other calamity, calamity or crisis the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, are so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with market the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partyto enforce contracts, duly executed by including subscriptions or orders, for the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; , and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(kii) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If trading generally on any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 NYSE MKT, the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq Stock Market shall not have been fulfilled when suspended, and as required by this Agreementminimum or maximum prices for trading shall not have been fixed, or if maximum ranges for prices for securities have been required, by any of said Exchanges or by order of the certificatesCommission or any other governmental authority, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 and a banking moratorium shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled have been declared by the Representative at, either Federal or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingNew York authorities.
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Samples: Agency Agreement (HarborOne Bancorp, Inc.), Agency Agreement (HarborOne NorthEast Bancorp, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Securities pursuant to any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be Terms Agreement are subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company herein contained, as to the accuracy of the date hereof and as statements of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from Company's officers made in any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters certificate furnished pursuant to the Representative or provisions hereof, to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of all of its covenants and other obligations hereunderhereunder and to the following further conditions:
(a) At the applicable Closing Time (i) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued under the 1933 Act, no order suspending trading or striking or withdrawing any Securities to be listed on a national securities exchange from listing and registration under the 1934 Act shall be in effect, and no proceedings under the 1933 Act or 1934 Act therefor shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, or, with respect to the filing of any Form 8-A, by any national securities exchange, (ii) the rating assigned by any nationally recognized securities rating agency indicated in the applicable Terms Agreement to any debt securities or other obligations of the Company as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement shall not have been lowered since the execution of such Terms Agreement nor shall any such rating agency have publicly announced that it has placed any obligations of the Company on what is commonly termed a "watch list" for possible downgrading, (iii) any Securities for which application has been made to list on a national securities exchange shall have been approved for listing, subject to official notice of issuance and (iv) each there shall not have come to your attention any facts that would cause you to believe that the Prospectus, together with the applicable Prospectus Supplement, at the time it was required to be delivered to a purchaser of the following additional conditions. For purposes Securities, contained an untrue statement of this Section 7a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing at such time, not misleading.
(b) At the applicable Closing Time you shall have received:
(1) The favorable opinion, dated as of the applicable Closing Time, of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esq., Senior Vice President/Legal, of the Company, or Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx, Esq., Vice President and General Counsel of the Company, in form and substance satisfactory to you, to the effect that:
(i) The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware.
(ii) The Company has corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the Prospectus.
(iii) To the best of such counsel's knowledge, the terms “Closing Date” Company is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business and “Closing” shall refer is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of substantial properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualifications and in which failure of the Company to be so qualified and in good standing would have a material adverse effect upon the Closing Date for Company and its subsidiaries considered as a single enterprise.
(iv) This Agreement and the Firm Shares applicable Terms Agreement have been duly authorized, executed and Firm Warrants delivered by the Company.
(v) The Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and (assuming the Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Trustee) constitutes a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, or Option Securitiesother laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally or by general equity principles.
(vi) The Securities are in the form contemplated by the Indenture, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and, when executed and authenticated as specified in the Indenture and delivered against payment of the consideration therefor in accordance with this Agreement, as supplemented by the case applicable Terms Agreement, if any, will be valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms, except as enforcement thereof may bebe limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, or other laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally, or by general equity principles, and each holder of Securities will be entitled to the benefits of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each ClosingIndenture.
(avii) The statements in the Prospectus under the caption "Description of Debt Securities" and the Prospectus Supplement under the caption "Description of the Notes", insofar as they purport to summarize certain provisions of documents specifically referred to therein, are accurate summaries of such provisions.
(viii) The Indenture is qualified under the 1939 Act.
(ix) The Registration Statement shall have become is effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities 1933 Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating and, to the description best of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closingsuch counsel's knowledge, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no under the 1933 Act or proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission.
(x) At the time the Registration Statement became effective, the Registration Statement (viother than the financial statements and other financial or statistical data included or incorporated by reference therein, as to which no opinion need be rendered) complied as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the 1933 Act, the 1939 Act and the regulations under each of those Acts.
(xi) To the best of such counsel's knowledge, there are no pro forma legal or as adjusted financial statements that governmental proceedings pending or threatened which are required to be included disclosed in the Registration Statement, other than those disclosed therein, and all pending legal or governmental proceedings which the Company or any subsidiary is a party or of which any of their property is the subject which are not described in the Prospectus, including ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, are, considered in the aggregate, not material.
(xii) To the best of such counsel's knowledge and information, there are no contracts, indentures, mortgages, loan agreements, notes, leases or other instruments required to be described or referred to in the Registration Statement and or to be filed as exhibits thereto other than those described or referred to therein or filed or incorporated by reference as exhibits thereto, the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which descriptions thereof or references thereto are not so includedcorrect, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given and, except for certain minor matters which, either individually or in the Registration Statement and aggregate, will not or do not have a material adverse effect on the ProspectusCompany or its business, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions no default exists in the ordinary course due performance or observance of businessany material obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, indenture, loan agreement, note, lease or other instrument so described, referred to, filed or incorporated by reference.
(exiii) On No consent, approval, authorization, or order of any court or governmental authority or agency is required in connection with the date sale of this Agreement and on the Closing DateSecurities, except such as may be required under the 1933 Act, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date1939 Act, addressed the 1933 Act Regulations or state securities laws; and, to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as best of such date (orcounsel's knowledge and information, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlierAgreement, the dates as applicable Terms Agreement and the Indenture and the consummation of which information is given the transactions contemplated herein and therein will not conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default under, or result in the Registration Statement (exclusive creation or imposition of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of lien, charge or encumbrance upon any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock property or long-term debt assets of the Company pursuant to, any contract, indenture, mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other instrument known to such counsel and to which the Company is a party or by which it may be bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company is subject, or any change law, administrative regulation or development involving a changeadministrative or court decree known to such counsel to be applicable to the Company of any court or governmental agency, whether authority or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial body or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of any arbitrator having jurisdiction over the Company, taken except that counsel need not express an opinion as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war state securities laws or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, regulations; nor will such action result in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment violation of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as provisions of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, charter or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations by- laws of the Company.
(kxiv) The Company shall have furnished Each document filed pursuant to the Underwriters 1934 Act and Underwriters’ Counsel with such incorporated by reference in the Prospectus (except for the financial statements and other certificates, opinions financial or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Companystatistical data included therein or omitted therefrom, as warrant agent to which counsel need not comment), appeared on its face to comply, when filed, as to form in all material respects with the 1934 Act and the 1934 Act Regulations. In rendering such opinion, such counsel may rely (A) as to matters involving the application of laws of the State of New York, to the extent deemed proper and specified in such opinion, upon the opinion of Xxxxx & Xxxx, counsel for the Warrants. If any Underwriters, delivered pursuant to subsection (b)(2) hereof and (B) as to matters of fact, to the extent deemed proper, on certificates of responsible officers of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when Company and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingpublic officials.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Comdisco Inc), Underwriting Agreement (Comdisco Inc)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein under this Agreement shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedCompany, as of the date hereof and as of each of the Closing Date and the Additional Closing Date, (ii) if any; to the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative Underwriters or to Jenkens & Gxxxxxxxx, a Professional Corporation ("Underwriters’ Counsel Counsel"), pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) ; to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, under this Agreement; and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become been declared effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to each of the Closing Date and the actual time of the ClosingAdditional Closing Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings for the issuance of such an order purpose shall have been initiated instituted or threatened; all requests shall be pending or contemplated by the commission and any request on the part of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness reasonable satisfaction of the underwriting terms and arrangementsUnderwriters.
(b) The Representative By the Closing Date, the Representatives shall not have reasonably determined, and advised received clearance from the Company, that NASD as to the amount of compensation allowable or payable to the Underwriters as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative On the Closing Date, the Representatives shall have received the favorable written opinionsopinion of Holme, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Rxxxxxx & Xxxxx Oxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and Date, addressed to the Underwriters; Representatives and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date in form and addressed substance satisfactory to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative At the time this Agreement is executed, and at each of the Closing Date and the Additional Closing Date, if any, you shall have received certificates a letter, addressed to the Representatives and in form and substance satisfactory in all respects to the Representatives from KPMG LLP dated, respectively, as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date and the Additional Closing Date, if any, containing statements and information of the type customarily included in accountants’ "comfort letters" to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Final Prospectus.
(e) At each of the Chief Executive Officer Closing Date and the Additional Closing Date, if any, the Representatives shall have received a certificate of the Company signed by the President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, respectively, to the effect that (i) the Company has performed all covenants and agreements and complied with all conditions required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by the Company prior to and as of the Closing Date, to or the effect that: (i) Additional Closing Date, as the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, case may be; (ii) as of the date hereof Closing Date and the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, the obligations of the Company to be performed on or prior to such Closing Date have been duly performed; (iii) as of Closing Date and the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 1 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions true and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, correct; (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor they have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in carefully examined the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant and, in their opinion (A) when the Registration Statement was declared effective, and at all times subsequent thereto and as of the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, the Registration Statement and Prospectus did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the Rules and Regulations statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which are they were made, not so includedmisleading, and (viiB) since the effective date of the Registration Statement, no event has occurred which should have been set forth in a supplement or otherwise required an amendment to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus; (v) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a material adverse change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, prospects, properties, operations, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties affairs or prospects management of the Company, taken except in each case as described in or contemplated by the Prospectus; and (vi) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and, to their knowledge, no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending under the Securities Act. In addition, the Representatives will have received such other and further certificates of officers of the Company as the Representatives may reasonably request.
(f) At each of the Closing Date and the Additional Closing Date, if any, the Representatives shall have received a wholecertificate of the Company signed by the Secretary of the Company, including but dated the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, respectively, certifying (i) that the By-Laws and Articles of Incorporation of the Company are true and complete, have not limited been modified and are in full force and effect, (ii) that the resolutions relating to the occurrence of any firepublic offering contemplated by this Agreement are in full force and effect and have not been modified, flood(iii) all correspondence between the Company or its counsel and the Commission, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, and (iv) as to the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment incumbency of the Representative, so material and adverse as officers of the Company. The documents referred to make it impracticable or inadvisable in such certificate shall be attached to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebysuch certificate.
(g) The Representative Prior to and on each of the Closing Date and the Additional Closing Date, if any, (i) there shall have received been no material adverse change or development involving a lock-up agreement prospective material adverse change in the condition or prospects or the business activities, financial or otherwise, of the Company from each Lock-Up Partythe latest dates as of which such condition is set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, duly executed (ii) no action suit or proceeding, at law or in equity, shall have been pending or threatened against the Company before or by any court or federal or state commission, board or other administrative agency wherein an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding may materially adversely affect the business, operations, prospects or financial condition or income of the Company, except as set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, (iii) no stop order shall have been issued under the Securities Act and no proceedings therefor shall have been initiated or threatened by the applicable Lock-Up PartyCommission, and (iv) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto shall contain all material statements which are required to be stated therein in accordance with the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations and shall conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations, and neither the Registration Statement nor the Prospectus nor any amendment or supplement thereto shall contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in each case substantially in light of the form attached as Annex IIcircumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have All proceedings taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing in connection with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statuteauthorization, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities as herein contemplated shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives. On or materially prior to the Closing Date and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of Additional Closing Date, as the Company.
(k) The Company case may be, counsel for the Underwriters shall have been furnished the Underwriters such documents, certificates and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent require for the Warrantspurpose of enabling them to review or pass upon the matters referred to in this Section, or in order to evidence the accuracy, completeness or satisfaction of any of the representations, warranties or conditions herein contained. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel Underwriters pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled canceled by the Representative Underwriters at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the ClosingClosing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing writing, or orally. Any such oral notice shall be by telephone, telex or telegraph, confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Uqm Technologies Inc), Underwriting Agreement (Uqm Technologies Inc)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beAdditional Shares, as provided herein herein, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, Date (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For for purposes of this Section 7, the terms “"Closing Date” and “Closing” " shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securitiesany Additional Closing Date, as if different, for the case may beAdditional Shares), to the performance by the Company of all of its obligations hereunder, and to each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.additional conditions:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(bSection 4(a)(i) within the applicable time periodhereof; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofpost-effective amendment thereto, or any amendment thereof, nor and no stop order suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) the Prospectus, shall have been issued by the Commission and no proceedings therefor shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission; all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission shall have been complied with to the Representative’s 's reasonable satisfaction; and FINRA if the Company has elected to rely on Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement shall have raised no objection to become effective by 10:00 p.m. (Washington, D.C. time) on the fairness date of this Agreement; and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsall necessary regulatory or stock exchange approvals shall have been received.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised At the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative Closing Date you shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case opinion of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Holland & Xxxxx Knight LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel in form and substance satisfactory to the CompanyRepresentative, to the effect set forth in Annex I hereto.
(c) At the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received the written opinion of Underwriters' Counsel, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; , in form and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLCsubstance satisfactory to the Representative, trademark legal counsel with respect to the issuance and sale of the Shares, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and such other matters as the Representative may require, and the Company shall have furnished to Underwriters' Counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the Company, dated as purpose of the Closing Date and addressed enabling them to the Underwriterspass upon such matters.
(d) The Representative At the Closing Date you shall have received certificates of each a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Accounting Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the effect that: (i) Representative, as to the conditions accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) 1 hereof as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, as to the representations and warranties of performance by the Company of all of its obligations hereunder to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date, as to the matters set forth in Section 2 hereof are accuratesubsections (a), (iiif) and (g) of this Section 7, and as to such other matters as the Representative may reasonably request.
(e) At the time this Agreement is executed and at the Closing Date, you shall have received a comfort letter, from Xxxx & Associates LLP, independent public accountants for the Company, dated, respectively, as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, all agreementsaddressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters and Underwriters' Counsel.
(f) (i) The Company shall not have sustained, conditions and obligations since the date of the Company to be performed latest audited financial statements included or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied withincorporated by reference in the Pricing Prospectus, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businessesbusiness or properties from fire, explosion, flood, hurricane, accident or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or other than as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included set forth in the Registration Statement and the Pricing Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, (exclusive of any supplement thereto); and (viiii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereofthereto subsequent to the date hereof) and the Pricing Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term or short-term debt of the Company or any change or any development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, general affairs, management, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ stockholders' equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale Offering on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus (exclusive of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyany such supplement).
(g) On or after the Applicable Time, (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded the Company's debt securities or the Company's financial strength or claims paying ability by any "nationally recognized statistical rating organization," as such term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the Securities Act, and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any of the Company's debt securities or the Company's financial strength or claims paying ability.
(h) The Representative Representative, on behalf of all the Underwriters, shall have received a duly executed lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by person who is a director or officer of the applicable Lock-Up PartyCompany and from each stockholder of the Company listed on Schedule II hereto, in each case substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex II.
(hi) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of At the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action Shares shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading approved for quotation on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleNasdaq.
(ij) At the Closing Date, FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, arrangements for the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanyOffering.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ ' Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative you or to Underwriters’ ' Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ ' Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation Closing Date and the obligations of the ClosingUnderwriters to purchase the Additional Shares may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the Additional Closing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of on the date hereof hereof, the Applicable Time and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) Date and the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.precedent:
(a) The Registration Statement Company shall furnish to you at the Time of Purchase an opinion and negative assurance statement of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx LLP, special counsel for the Company, addressed to the Underwriters, and dated the Closing Date, with executed copies for each of the other Underwriters in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto.
(b) The Company shall furnish to you at the Time of Purchase an opinion of the Office of Corporate Counsel of the Company, addressed to the Underwriters, and dated the Closing Date, with executed copies for each of the other Underwriters in the form set forth in Exhibit B hereto.
(c) You shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.from Deloitte & Touche LLP letters dated, New York City timerespectively, on the date of this AgreementAgreement and the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters (with executed copies for each of the Underwriters) in the forms satisfactory to you, or at such later time which letters shall cover, without limitation, the various financial disclosures contained in the Registration Statement, the Pre-Pricing Prospectuses, the Prospectus and date as the Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses, if any.
(d) You shall have been consented received at the Time of Purchase the written opinion and negative assurance statement of Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated the Time of Purchase, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to in writing by the Representative. If Representatives.
(e) No Prospectus or amendment or supplement to the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall have been filed with to which you shall have objected in writing.
(f) The Registration Statement and any registration statement required to be filed, prior to the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form sale of the Securities, under the Act pursuant to Rule 462(b) shall have been filed and shall have become effective under the Act. The Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters Supplement shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act at or before 5:30 p.m., New York City time, on the second full business day after the date of this Agreement (or such earlier time as may be required under the Act). The final term sheet contemplated by Section 4(a) hereof, and any other material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act, shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time period; andperiods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433;
(g) Prior to and at the Time of Purchase, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, (i) no stop order suspending with respect to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no issued under the Act or proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated under Section 8(d) or threatened; all requests 8(e) of the Commission for additional information Act; (to be included in ii) the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; Statement and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative all amendments thereto shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains contain an untrue statement of a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits omit to state a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; (iii) none of the Pre-Pricing Prospectuses or the Prospectus, and no amendment or supplement thereto, shall include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading; (iv) the Disclosure Package and any amendment or supplement thereto, shall not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading; and (v) none of the Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses, if any, shall include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.
(ch) The Representative shall have received Company will at the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory Time of Purchase deliver to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as you a certificate of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleExhibit C hereto.
(i) The Company shall have furnished to you such other documents and certificates as to the accuracy and completeness of any statement in the Registration Statement, any Pre-Pricing Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as of the Time of Purchase as you may reasonably request.
(j) FINRA shall not have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and or reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In additionunderwriting, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as other arrangements of the Closing Datetransactions, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Companycontemplated hereby.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Schwab Charles Corp), Underwriting Agreement (Schwab Charles Corp)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedaccuracy, as of the date hereof and as at each of the First Closing DateDate and the Second Closing Date (as if made at such closing date), (ii) of and compliance with all representations, warranties and agreements of the absence from any certificatesCompany contained herein, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.5:00 p.m., New York City Eastern time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as you, as Representative of the several Underwriters, shall approve and all filings required by Rules 424, 430A and 433 of the Rules and Regulations shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon timely made (without reliance on Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to 424(b)(8) or Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period164(b)); and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, thereof or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s your satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative No Underwriter shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, Company that (i) the Registration StatementStatement or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of a material fact which, in the General opinion of counsel to the Representative, is material or omits to state a material fact which, in the opinion of counsel to the Representative, is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or (ii) the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, Prospectus contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the opinion of counsel to the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the opinion of counsel to the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein therein, or necessary to make the statements therein therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received Except as contemplated in the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the case of (i) and (ii)Prospectus, including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Company shall not have incurred any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, or entered into any material transactions, or declared or paid any dividends or made any distribution of any kind with respect to its capital stock; and there shall not have been any change in the Prospectuscapital stock (other than a change in the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise of outstanding options or warrants or vesting of restricted stock units), there has not been or any material change in the short-term or long-term debt of the Company, or any issuance of options, warrants, or the vesting convertible securities or other rights to purchase the capital stock of the Company, or any Material Adverse Change or any development involving reasonably likely to result in a prospective Material Adverse Change, Change (whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business), that, in the judgment of the Representative, makes it impractical or inadvisable to offer or deliver the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus.
(d) On the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date, as the case may be, there shall have been furnished to the Underwriters, the opinion of Txxxxxxx Hxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, dated such closing date and addressed to the Representative in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B.
(e) On the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date, as the case may be, there shall have been furnished to the Underwriters, the opinion of Wxxxx Xxxx LLP, special regulatory counsel for the Company, dated such closing date and addressed to the Representative in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit C.
(f) On the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date, as the case may be, there shall have been furnished to the Underwriters, the opinion of Sxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, intellectual property counsel for the Company, dated such closing date and addressed to the Representative in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit D.
(g) On the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date, as the case may be, there shall have been furnished to the Underwriters, the opinion of Gxxxxxx Procter LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated such closing date and addressed to the Representative with respect to the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Representative reasonably may request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they request to enable them to pass upon such matters.
(h) On the date of this Agreement and, the First Closing Date and on the Second Closing Date, as the Representative case may be, the Underwriters shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each KPMG LLP, dated such date, date and addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ CounselRepresentative, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all are in compliance with the applicable rules and regulationsrequirements relating to the qualifications of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, and stating, as of the date of such date letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the ProspectusTime of Sale Disclosure Package, as of a date not prior to the date hereof or more than five (5) days prior to the date of such dateletter), the conclusions and findings of such said firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating covered by its letter delivered to the Registration Statement covered by Underwriters concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, and the effect of the letter so to be delivered on the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date, as the case may be, shall be to confirm the conclusions and findings set forth in such prior letter.
(fi) Subsequent On the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date, as the case may be, there shall have been furnished to the execution Underwriters a certificate, dated such closing date and delivery addressed to the Representative, signed by the chief executive officer and by the chief financial officer of the Company, to the effect that:
(i) The representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct, in all material respects (except for those representations and warranties qualified by materiality, in which case are true and correct in all respects), as if made at and as of such closing date, and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to such closing date;
(ii) No stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof or any amendment thereof or the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale, nor suspending or preventing the use of the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, has been issued, and no proceeding for that purpose has been instituted or, if earlierto the best of their knowledge, is contemplated by the Commission or any state or regulatory body; and
(iii) The signers of said certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto, and
(A) each part of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto contain, and contained when such part of the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, became effective, all statements and information required to be included therein, the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, does not contain and did not contain when such part of the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, became effective, any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except that such statement shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter specifically for use therein, and the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, does not include and did not include as of its date or the time of first use within the meaning of the Rules and Regulations, any untrue statement of material fact or omit to state and did not omit to state as of its date or the time of first use within the meaning of the Rules and Regulations a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, except that such statement shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter specifically for use therein,
(B) neither (1) the Time of Sale Disclosure Package nor (2) any individual Issuer Limited-Use Free Writing Prospectus, when considered together with the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, include, nor included as of the Time of Sale any untrue statement of a material fact or omits, or omitted as of the Time of Sale, to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, except that such statement shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or any Individual Limited-Use Free Writing Prospectus based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter specifically for use therein,
(C) since the Time of Sale there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amended or supplemented prospectus which has not been so set forth,
(D) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and Prospectus, the Company has not incurred any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, or entered into any material transactions, not in the ordinary course of business, or declared or paid any dividends or made any distribution of any amendment thereof) kind with respect to its capital stock, and except as disclosed in the Prospectus (exclusive Time of any supplement thereto)Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, there shall has not have been any change in the capital stock (other than a change in the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise of outstanding options or long-warrants), or any material change in the short term debt or long term debt, or any issuance of options, warrants, convertible securities or other rights to purchase the capital stock, of the Company (other than issuances of options under the Company’s existing stock option plans) or any change Material Adverse Change or any development involving a change, prospective Material Adverse Change (whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business), and
(E) except as stated in the businessRegistration Statement, condition (financial or otherwise)the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, results of operationsthere is not pending, shareholders’ equityor, properties or prospects to the knowledge of the Company, taken as threatened or contemplated, any action, suit or proceeding to which the Company is a wholeparty before or by any court or governmental agency, including but not limited authority or body, or any arbitrator, which could reasonably be expected to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, result in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithMaterial Adverse Change.
(j) No action The Underwriters shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of received all the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanyLock-Up Agreements referenced in Section 4(k).
(k) The Company shall have furnished to the Underwriters such additional documents, certificates and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents evidence as they the Representative may have reasonably requested.
(l) The At the First Closing Date, the Company shall have entered into submitted to NYSE MKT a warrant agreement Notification Form: Listing of Additional Shares related to the Securities.
(m) The Underwriters shall have received on the “Warrant Agreement”First Closing Date a certificate of the Secretary of the Company.
(n) The Underwriters shall not have received any unresolved objection from FINRA as to the fairness and reasonableness of the amount of compensation allowable or payable to the Underwriters in connection with Nevada Agency the issuance and Trust Companysale of the Securities.
(o) At the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date, as warrant agent the case may be, counsel for the Warrants. If Underwriters shall have been furnished with such information, certificates and documents as it may reasonably require for the purpose of enabling it to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Securities as contemplated herein and related proceedings, or to evidence the accuracy of any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreementrepresentations or warranties, or if the fulfillment of any of the conditions, herein contained, or otherwise in connection with the offering of the Securities contemplated hereby. All such opinions, certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to and other documents will be in compliance with the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to counsel for the Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of . The Company will furnish the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and other documents as the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingreasonably request.
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Samples: Purchase Agreement (Palatin Technologies Inc), Purchase Agreement (Palatin Technologies Inc)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The respective obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein on the First Closing Date and, with respect to the Option Shares, the Option Closing Date, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company herein contained, set forth in Section 1 hereof as of the date hereof and as of the First Closing DateDate as though then made and, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished with respect to the Representative or Option Shares, as of the Option Closing Date as though then made, to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the timely performance by the Company of its covenants and obligations hereunder, and (iv) to each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on prior to the date execution of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been be consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodUnderwriters; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings for the issuance of such an order that purpose shall have been initiated or, to the Knowledge of the Company or threatenedany Underwriter, threatened by the Commission; all requests any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Pricing Prospectus, the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfactionsatisfaction of Underwriters’ Counsel; and the FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements; and no amendment to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, or the Prospectus to which the Underwriters or Underwriters’ Counsel shall have reasonably objected, after having received reasonable notice of a proposal to file the same, shall have been filed.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determinedAll corporate proceedings and other legal matters in connection with this Agreement, and advised the Company, that the form of Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the any Preliminary Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Pricing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement and the Prospectus and the registration, authorization, issue, sale and delivery of fact whichthe Shares, shall have been reasonably satisfactory to Underwriters’ Counsel, and such counsel shall have been furnished with such papers and information as they may reasonably have requested to enable them to pass upon the matters referred to in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleadingthis Section 7.
(c) The Representative Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the First Closing Date, and on the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, there shall not have occurred any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Company, taken as a whole, from that set forth in the Pricing Disclosure Package that, in the judgment of either of the Representatives, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect and that makes it, in the reasonable judgment of either of the Representatives, impracticable or inadvisable to market the Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Pricing Disclosure Package.
(d) At the First Closing Date and on the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, the Underwriters shall have received the favorable written opinionsfrom Johnson, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii)Pope, including customary negative assurance language)Xxxxx, of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLPXxxxx, the securities legal LLP counsel for the CompanyCompany (“Company Counsel”), a signed opinion dated as of such Closing Date, reasonably satisfactory to Underwriters’ Counsel, in the Closing Date form and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPsubstance of Exhibit B annexed hereto, patent legal counsel to the Company, including a signed negative assurance statement dated as of such Closing Date, reasonably satisfactory to Underwriters’ Counsel, in the form and substance reflected in Exhibit B. Such opinion shall include a legal opinion regarding the sale of the Direct Shares, including compliance with applicable securities laws, provided that such legal opinion may be a “pass-through” opinion, reasonably satisfactory to Underwriters’ Counsel, provided to Johnson, Pope, Xxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx, LLP.
(e) At the First Closing Date Date, and addressed to on the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, the Underwriters shall have received from Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, ’ Counsel a signed opinion dated as of the such Closing Date in a form and addressed substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters.
(df) The Representative Underwriters shall have received, on each of the date hereof and the Closing Date, a letter dated the date hereof or the Closing Date, as the case may be, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters, from Xxxx & Company, P.A., independent public accountants, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, and the Prospectus; provided, however, that the letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off date” not earlier than three business days before the Closing Date.
(g) The Underwriters shall have received certificates on the First Closing Date and on the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, a certificate of each of the Company, dated the First Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, signed by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Daterespectively, to the effect that: , and the Representatives shall be satisfied that:
(i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the The representations and warranties of the Company set forth Company, respectively, in Section 2 hereof this Agreement are accuratetrue and correct, (iii) as if made on and as of the First Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, all agreementsas the case may be, conditions and obligations of the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions in this Agreement on its part to be performed or complied with hereunder on satisfied at or prior thereto have been duly performed to the First Closing Date or complied withthe Option Closing Date, as the case may be;
(ivii) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of When the Registration Statement became effective and at all times subsequent thereto up to the delivery of such certificate, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, and any amendments or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commissionsupplements thereto, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are contained all material information required to be included in therein by the Registration Statement Act and the Prospectus pursuant applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, as the case may be, and in all material respects conformed to the requirements of the Act and the applicable Rules and Regulations which are not so includedthereunder, the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto, did not and does not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made (viiexcept with respect to the Registration Statement), not misleading; and, since the effective date of the Registration Statement, there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amended or supplemented Prospectus which has not been so set forth; and
(iii) subsequent Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, and the Prospectus, there has not been or occurred, as the case may be: (A) any Material Adverse Change or Effect; (B) any development involving transaction that is material to the Company and its Subsidiaries considered as a prospective Material Adverse Changewhole, whether or not arising from except transactions entered into in the ordinary course of business.
; (eC) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Dateany obligation, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such datedirect or contingent, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect is material to the Company within and its Subsidiaries considered as a whole, incurred by the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulationsCompany or its subsidiaries, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given except obligations incurred in the Prospectus, as ordinary course of a date not more than five business; (5D) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt increase in outstanding indebtedness of the Company or any change of its Subsidiaries that is material to the Company and its Subsidiaries considered as a whole; (E) any dividend or development involving a changedistribution of any kind declared, paid or made on the capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; or (F) any loss or damage (whether or not arising from transactions in insured) to the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects property of the Company, taken as Company or any of its Subsidiaries which has been sustained or will have been sustained which has a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex IIMaterial Adverse Effect.
(h) The Common Stock Company shall have obtained and delivered to the Warrants are registered under Underwriters an agreement, substantially in the Exchange Act andform of Exhibit A attached hereto, as from each officer and director of the Closing Date, Company and each owner of the Common Stock and Company’s outstanding stock listed on Schedule C hereto. All of the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on certificates representing the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action Shares shall have been provided to tendered for delivery in accordance with the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect terms and provisions of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligiblethis Agreement.
(i) FINRA The Shares shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make be listed on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant Nasdaq Capital Market, subject only to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithofficial notice of issuance.
(j) No action The Company shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as complied with the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale furnishing of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanyProspectuses.
(k) The Company shall have furnished On or before each of the First Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with shall have received such other certificatesinformation, documents and opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requestedrequire for the purposes of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Shares as contemplated herein, or in order to evidence the accuracy of any of the representations and warranties, or the satisfaction of any of the conditions or agreements, herein contained.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (sold all the “Warrant Agreement”) Direct Shares to investors with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrantsfunds being held in escrow pending this closing. If any of the conditions condition specified in this Section 7 shall is not have been fulfilled satisfied when and as required to be satisfied, this Agreement may be terminated by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, Underwriters by written statements or letters furnished notice to the Representative Company at any time on or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance prior to the Representative and First Closing Date and, with respect to Underwriters’ Counselthe Option Shares, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior toto the Option Closing Date, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation which termination shall be given without liability on the part of any party to any other party, except for the Company expenses described in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingSection 11 of this Agreement.
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Samples: Underwriting and Advisory Agreement (CUI Global, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (CUI Global, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The respective obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase the accuracy, at and pay for as of the Firm Shares date hereof and Firm Warrants or any Option the First Closing Date (as if made at the First Closing Date) and, with respect to the Optional Securities, the Option Closing Date (as if made at the case may beOption Closing Date), as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedcontained herein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.p.m., New York City Eastern time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as the Representative shall approve and all filings required by Rules 424, 430A and 433 under the Securities Act shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodmade; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative No Underwriter shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, Company that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable Representatives opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(c) On each Closing Date, the Representative shall have received the favorable opinion of Xxxxx & XxXxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, dated as of such Closing Date, the form of which is attached as Exhibit B.
(d) On each Closing Date the Representative shall have received the favorable opinion of Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, counsel for the Underwriters, dated as of such Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative.
(e) There shall have been furnished to the Representative a certificate of the Company, dated as of each Closing Date and addressed to the Representative, signed by the Chief Executive Officer and by the Chief Financial Officer of the Company to the effect that:
(i) The representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct, as if made at and as of such Closing Date, and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to such Closing Date;
(ii) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued, and no proceedings for that purpose have been initiated or are pending or, to their knowledge, contemplated;
(iii) Any and all filings required by Rules 424, 430A, 430B and 430C under the Securities Act have been timely made;
(iv) The signers of said certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement and the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto, and such documents contain all statements and information required to be included therein; the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto does not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.; and the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or any supplements thereto do not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
(cv) The Representative shall have received Since the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as effective date of the Closing Date and addressed Registration Statement, there has occurred no event required to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions be set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company an amendment or supplement to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus which has not been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, so set forth; and
(vi) Since the effective date of the Registration Statement, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall have sustained any loss by strike, fire, flood, accident or other calamity (whether or not insured), or shall have become a party to or the subject of any litigation, which is material to the Company or its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, nor shall there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included have been a material adverse change in the Registration Statement general affairs, business, key personnel, capitalization, financial position, earnings or net worth of the Company and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changeits Subsidiaries, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, which loss, litigation or change, in the Representative’s judgment, shall render it inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of the Securities.
(ef) On the date of this Agreement hereof, and on the each Closing Date, the Representative shall have received from Xxxxxxxxx & Co. LLP, independent public or certified public accountants for the Company, a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, dated the date hereof addressed to the Underwriters and Representative, on behalf of the several Underwriters, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative Representative, containing statements and Underwriters’ Counselinformation of the type ordinarily included in accountant’s “comfort letters” to underwriters, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants delivered according to Statement of Auditing Standards No. 72 (or any successor bulletin), with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act audited and all applicable rules unaudited financial statements and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified certain financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given contained in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive and the Representative shall have received an additional five conformed copies of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt such accountants’ letter for each of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwiseseveral Underwriters), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative Securities and the Common Stock reserved for issuance under the Underwriter Warrants shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, been duly executed by authorized for listing on the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex IIAmerican Stock Exchange.
(h) The Common Stock “lock-up” agreements between the Representatives and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act andstockholders, as officers and directors of the Company listed on Schedule II, delivered to the Representative on or before the date hereof, shall be in full force and effect on each Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make On or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the before each Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of Representative and counsel for the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court Underwriters shall have been issued that wouldreceived such information, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, agreements, opinions or and other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) require. All such opinions, certificates, letters and documents shall be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to counsel for the Underwriters. The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (furnish the “Warrant Agreement”) Representative with Nevada Agency such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and Trust Company, other documents as warrant agent for the WarrantsRepresentative shall reasonably request. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form Agreement and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative canceled at, or at any time prior to, the consummation First Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, by the Representative. Any such cancellation shall be without liability of the ClosingUnderwriters to the Company. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing writing, or orally. Any such oral notice shall be by telegraph or telephone and confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Hq Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (Hq Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for Securities pursuant to the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be Terms Agreement are subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company herein contained, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company’s officers made in any certificate furnished pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of all of its covenants and other obligations hereunder and to the following further conditions:
(a) The Company shall have requested and caused the delivery of written opinions, substantially in the forms contemplated by the Terms Agreement.
(b) The Company shall have requested and caused PricewaterhouseCoopers, independent auditors for the Company, and such other independent auditors as may be specified in the Terms Agreement, to have furnished to you, at the Execution Time and at the Closing Date, letters, (which may refer to letters previously delivered to one or more of you), dated respectively as of the date hereof Execution Time and as of the Closing Date, (ii) in form and substance satisfactory to you, confirming that they are an independent registered public accounting firm within the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each meaning of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, Act and the terms Exchange Act and covering the matters that are ordinarily covered by “Closing Datecomfort letters” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion drafted in accordance with the terms thereof and a form Statement of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleadingAuditing Standards No. 72.
(c) The Representative Company shall have received the favorable written opinionsfurnished to you a certificate, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as signed by two executive officers of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as Company with specific knowledge of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer financial matters of the Company, reasonably satisfactory to you, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that the signers of such certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, and the Terms Agreement and that: :
(i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof the Agreement are accurate, (iii) true and correct on and as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions Date with the same effect as if made on the Closing Date and obligations of the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or complied with hereunder on satisfied at or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, to the Closing Date;
(iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (vii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor for that purpose or under Section 8A of the Act have been initiated or threatened by instituted or, to the CommissionCompany’s knowledge, threatened; and
(viiii) there are no pro forma or as adjusted since the date of the most recent financial statements that are required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus pursuant to (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there has been no material adverse effect on the Rules condition (financial or otherwise), prospects, earnings, business or properties of the Company and Regulations which are not so includedits Subsidiaries, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates except as of which information is given set forth in or contemplated in the Registration Statement Disclosure Package and the ProspectusFinal Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(iv) since the Execution Time, there has not been any Material Adverse Change decrease in the rating of any of the debt securities issued by or guaranteed by the Company by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under the Act) or any development involving notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or possible change in any such rating that does not arising from transactions in indicate the ordinary course direction of businessthe possible change.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(fd) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement Execution Time or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof), the Disclosure Package (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the capital stock condition (financial or long-term debt otherwise), earnings, business or properties of the Company or any change or development involving and its Subsidiaries, taken as a changewhole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the business, condition Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence exclusive of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, supplement thereto) the effect of which, in any such case described above, which is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representativeyour sole judgment, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the sale offering or delivery of the Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyby the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(e) Since the Execution Time, there has not been any decrease in the rating of any of the debt securities issued by or guaranteed by the Company by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under the Act) or any notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the direction of the possible change.
(f) Subsequent to the Execution Time, there shall not have been any decrease in the rating of any of the debt securities issued by or guaranteed by the Company by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under the Act) or any notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the direction of the possible change.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of Prior to the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished to the Underwriters such further information, certificates and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingreasonably request.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Vale Overseas LTD), Underwriting Agreement (Vale Overseas LTD)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters Underwriter to purchase and pay for consummate the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein transaction contemplated by this Agreement shall be subject to: (i) to the continuing accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties accuracy of the statements of the Company set forth and its officers and directors made pursuant to the provisions hereof, and to the performance by the Company of its covenants and agreements hereunder and under any and all covenants and agreements contemplated herein and under each certificate, opinion and document contemplated hereunder and to the following additional conditions:
(a) The Registration Statement, in Section 2 hereof are accurateform and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter, (iii) shall have become effective not later than 5:00 p.m., New York time, on the date following the date of this Agreement, or such later date and time as of shall be consented to in writing by you and, on or prior to the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the qualification or registration of the Shares under the Securities laws of any amendment thereof has jurisdiction shall have been issued and no proceedings therefor for that purpose shall have been initiated instituted or threatened shall be pending or to your knowledge or the knowledge of the Company, shall be contemplated by the CommissionCommission or any such authorities of any jurisdiction and any request on the part of the Commission or any such authorities for additional information shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Commission or such authorities and counsel to the Underwriter, and after the date hereof no amendment or supplement shall have been filed to the Registration Statement or Prospectus without your prior consent.
(vib) there are no pro forma The Registration Statement or as adjusted financial statements that are the Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto shall not contain an untrue statement of a fact which is material, or omit to state a fact which is material and is required to be included in stated therein or is necessary to make the Registration Statement statements therein, not misleading.
(c) Between the time of the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Prospectus pursuant Closing Date, there shall be no litigation instituted against the Company or any of its officers or directors and between such dates there shall be no proceeding instituted or, to the Rules and Regulations Company's knowledge, threatened against the Company or any of its officers or directors before or by any federal, state or county commission, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental body, domestic or foreign, in which are not so includedlitigation or proceeding an unfavorable ruling, and decision or finding would have a material adverse effect on the Company or its business, business prospects or properties, or have a material adverse effect on the financial condition or results of operation of the Company.
(viid) subsequent to Since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, (i) there has not shall have been any Material Adverse Change no litigation instituted against -12- the Company or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changeofficer or director of the Company and since such dates there shall have been no proceeding instituted or threatened against the Company or any officer or director of the Company before or by any federal, whether state or not arising from transactions local court, commission, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, in which litigation or proceeding an unfavorable ruling, decision or finding could materially affect the business, properties, prospects, financial condition or results of operations of the Company, and (ii) no executive officer of the Company listed as such in the ordinary course of businessProspectus shall have died, become physically or mentally disabled, resigned or been removed or discharged.
(e) On Each of the date representations and warranties of the Company contained herein and each certificate and document contemplated under this Agreement to be delivered to you shall be true and correct at the Closing Date as if made at the Closing Date, and all covenants and agreements contained herein and in each such certificate and document to be performed on the part of the Company and all conditions contained herein and in each such certificate and document to be fulfilled or complied with by the Company at or prior to the Closing Date shall be fulfilled or complied with.
(f) At the Closing Date, the Representative Company shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx the opinion of Gusrae Xxxxxx & Xxxxx, PLLC, counsel to the Company, dated as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and Closing Date in form and substance content satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect you.
(g) Prior to the Company within Closing Date:
(i) There shall have been no material adverse change in the meaning condition or prospects or the business activities, financial or otherwise, of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since Company from the respective latest dates as of which specified financial information such condition is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus;
(exclusive of any amendment thereofii) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there There shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a changeno transaction, whether or not arising from transactions in outside the ordinary course of business, entered into by the Company from the latest date as of which the financial condition of the Company, is set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus which is material to the Company, which is either (x) required to be disclosed in the Prospectus or Registration Statement and is not so disclosed, or (y) likely to have a material adverse effect on the business or financial condition of the Company;
(iii) The Company shall not be in default under any material provision of any instrument relating to any outstanding indebtedness, except as described in the Prospectus;
(iv) No material amount of the assets of the Company shall have been pledged, mortgaged or otherwise encumbered, except as set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus;
(v) No action, investigation suit or proceeding, at law or in equity, shall have been pending or to the best of its knowledge threatened against the Company or affecting any of its properties or businesses before or by any court or federal or state commission, board or other administrative agency wherein an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding would materially and adversely affect the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties prospects or prospects financial condition or income of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited except as set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus;
(vi) No stop order shall have been issued under the Act and no proceedings therefor shall have been initiated or, to the occurrence best of the knowledge of the Company threatened by the Commission; and
(vii) Each of the representations and warranties of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material Company contained in this Agreement and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in certificate and document contemplated under this Agreement to be delivered to you was, when originally made and is at the form attached as Annex IItime such certificate is dated, true and correct.
(h) The Common Stock Concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and at the Closing Date, you shall have received a certificate of the Company signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company and the Warrants are registered under principal financial officer of the Exchange Act andCompany, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that the conditions set forth in subparagraph (g) above have been satisfied and that, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Paragraph 2 herein and the Warrants statements in the Registration Statement and Prospectus were and are true and correct in all material respects. Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company and delivered to you shall be listed deemed a representation and admitted and authorized for trading on warranty by the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided Company to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed Underwriter as to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligiblestatements made therein.
(i) FINRA On the Closing Date there shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect been duly tendered to you for your account the fairness and reasonableness appropriate number of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithshares of Common Stock.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statuteby the Commission or the NASD the effect of which would make it improper, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by at any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of time prior to the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale for members of the Securities; NASD to execute transactions (as principal or agent) in the Shares and no injunction or order proceedings for the taking of any federal, state or foreign court such action shall have been issued that wouldinstituted or shall be pending, as or, to the knowledge of the Closing DateUnderwriter, prevent or the issuance Company shall be contemplated by the Commission or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) NASD. The Company shall have furnished and the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with Underwriter represent that at the date hereof each has no knowledge that any such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If action is in fact contemplated against any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled them by the Representative at, Commission or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingNASD.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Sb Merger Corp), Underwriting Agreement (Sb Merger Corp)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 76, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and or listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.p.m., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof hereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and or the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package Statement or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, thereto contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory opinions (and as to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case Option Closing Date, if any, a bring-down opinion), including, without limitation, a negative assurance letter of (ia) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Chediak Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLPXxxxxx, the securities legal counsel for the Company, (b) intellectual property legal counsel and (c) regulatory legal counsel, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to Underwriters in the Company, dated forms attached hereto as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the UnderwritersAnnex II.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the each Closing Date, Date to the effect that: (i) the conditions condition set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have 6 has been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the applicable Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section Sections 1 and 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the applicable Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has and the Subsidiaries have not sustained any material loss or interference with its their respective businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or disruption or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so includedincluded or incorporated by reference, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, Prospectus there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving event that is reasonably likely to result in a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “cold comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx BDO (and as to any Option Closing Date, a bring-down letter) as of each such date, the date of delivery and addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules the Rules and regulationsRegulations, and stating, as of such the date of delivery (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to the date of such dateletter), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any post-effective amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any Subsidiary or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the CompanyCompany and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable sole judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale Offering on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus (exclusive of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyany supplement).
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.I.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock Shares and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Nasdaq Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminateto, or likely to have the effect of terminating, terminating the registration of the Common Stock or the and Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending from trading the Common Stock or the and Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Nasdaq Capital Market, nor will has the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Nasdaq Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities Shares, the Warrants, the Representative’s Warrants and shares of Common Stock underlying the Warrants and the Representative’s Warrants shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf behalf, an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 2710 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (RiceBran Technologies), Underwriting Agreement (RiceBran Technologies)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants Securities or any the Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 of any material misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and or listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.p.m., New York City timeEastern Time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof hereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Transaction Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and or the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened; all requests any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided, however, that if in the Representative’s opinion such deficiency is curable, the Representative shall have given the Company reasonable notice of such deficiency and a reasonable chance to cure such deficiency.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of received: (i) the written opinion and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), letter of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, as applicable, and addressed to the Underwriters; Representative substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex II, and (ii) Fish the written opinion of Xxxxxx Martens Xxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx Bear, LLP, patent intellectual property legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLCeach Option Closing Date, trademark legal counsel for the Companyas applicable, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the UnderwritersRepresentative substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex III.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, Date and each Option Closing Date to the effect that: (i) the conditions condition set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have 6 has been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the applicable Closing Date or Option Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof this Agreement are accurate, (iii) as of the applicable Closing Date or Option Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businessesbusiness, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened by the Commission, and (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, Prospectus there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of businessEffect.
(e) On the date of this Agreement Agreement, the Closing Date and on the each Option Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “cold comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx the Auditor as of each such date, the date of delivery and addressed to the Underwriters Representative and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules the Rules and regulationsRegulations, and stating, as of such the date of delivery (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to the date of such dateletter), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, and prior to the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of Closing Date and any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto)Option Closing Date, there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving that would cause, or reasonably be expected to cause, a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a wholeMaterial Adverse Effect, including but not limited to to, from the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable sole judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale Offering on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus (exclusive of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyany supplement).
(g) The Prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Representative shall have received a lockLock-up agreement Up Agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex II.I.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are is registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, the Common Stock Firm Shares and the Warrants Option Shares, as applicable, shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock Firm Shares or the Warrants Option Shares under the Exchange Act or designed to delist or suspend, or likely to have the effect of delisting or suspending the suspending, from trading its Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will has the Company have received any written information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Transaction Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the any Firm Securities or Option Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the any Transaction Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel with a Certificate of Good Standing for the Company certified by the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware dated as of a date within five (5) days of the Closing Date and or the Option Closing Date, as applicable.
(l) The Company shall have furnished the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephonic notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Viking Therapeutics, Inc.), Underwriting Agreement (Viking Therapeutics, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. (1) The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares Initial Units and Firm Warrants or any Option the Additional Securities, as the case may beprovided herein, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, Date (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For for purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares Initial Units and Firm Warrants or Option any Additional Closing Date, if different, for the Additional Securities), as to the case may beperformance by the Company of all of its obligations hereunder, and to each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.additional conditions:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals Canadian Prospectus shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on filed with the date of this Agreement, or at such later time Canadian Qualifying Authorities and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the U.S. Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form Section 4 hereof; no order of any securities commission, securities regulatory authority or securities exchange in Canada to cease distribution or trading of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters Units, Shares, Warrants or Warrant Shares shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; andissued, at or prior and no proceedings for such purpose shall have been instituted or, to the Closing Date and the actual time knowledge of the ClosingCompany, threatened; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofpost- effective amendment thereto, or any amendment thereof, nor and no stop order suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure PackageU.S. Pricing Prospectus, the U.S. Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus Prospectus, shall have been issued; issued by the Commission and no proceedings for the issuance of such an order therefor shall have been initiated or threatenedor, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in on the Registration Statement, part of the General Disclosure Package, Canadian Qualifying Authorities or the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) Commission shall have been complied with to the Representative’s Underwriters’ reasonable satisfaction; and FINRA all necessary regulatory or securities exchange approvals shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsbeen received.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised At the Company, that the Registration StatementClosing Date, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative Underwriters shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel opinion of DLA Piper (and in the case of (iCanada) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal Canadian counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; , in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters.
(iic) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPAt the Closing Date, patent legal the Underwriters shall have received the written opinion and negative assurance letter of DLA Piper LLP (US), United States counsel to for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; , in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters.
(iiid) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx At the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received the negative assurance letter of Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLCProcter LLP, trademark legal the Underwriters’ United States counsel for (together with Stikeman Elliott LLP, the Company“Underwriters’ Counsel”), dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters.
(de) The Representative At the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received certificates of each a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the effect that: (i) Underwriters, as to the conditions accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) 1 hereof as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, as to the representations and warranties of performance by the Company of all of its obligations hereunder to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date, and as to the matters set forth in subsections (a) and (i) of this Section 2 hereof are accurate7.
(f) At the time this Agreement is executed and at the Closing Date, (iii) the Underwriters shall have received a comfort letter from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the independent auditor for the Company, in form customary for prospectus offerings of securities in Canada and registered offerings of securities in the United States dated as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, all agreementsrespectively, conditions and obligations addressed to the Underwriters and their respective U.S. or Canadian affiliates, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel.
(g) At the time this Agreement is executed and at the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received a comfort letter from MNP LLP, the former independent auditor for the Company, in form customary for prospectus offerings of securities in Canada and registered offerings of securities in the United States dated as of the Company date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, respectively, and addressed to be performed the Underwriters and their respective U.S. or complied with hereunder on Canadian affiliates, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel.
(h) At the time this Agreement is executed and at the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received comfort letters from KPMG LLP, the former independent auditor for Newstrike Brands Ltd., in form customary for prospectus offerings of securities in Canada and registered offerings of securities in the United States dated as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, respectively, and addressed to the Underwriters and their respective U.S. or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied withCanadian affiliates, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel.
(ivi) Neither the Company has not sustained nor any Subsidiary nor any Related Entity shall have sustained, since the date of the latest audited consolidated financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Pricing Prospectuses and the Prospectuses, any material loss or interference with its businessesbusiness or properties from fire, explosion, flood, hurricane, accident, outbreak of contagious disease (including, without limitation, matters caused by, related to or resulting from COVID-19) or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, other than as set forth in the Pricing Prospectuses and the Prospectuses (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness exclusive of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued or supplement thereto); and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Statement, the Pricing Prospectuses and the Prospectuses (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any or supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the share capital stock or long-term or short-term debt of the Company Company, any Subsidiary any Related Entity or any change or any development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, general affairs, management, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the CompanyCompany and the Subsidiaries, individually or taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeLead Underwriters, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale Offering on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Pricing Prospectuses and the Prospectuses (exclusive of Securities any amendment or Offering as contemplated herebysupplement thereto).
(gj) The Representative Underwriters shall have received a duly executed lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by person who is a director or executive officer of the applicable Lock-Up PartyCompany listed on Schedule B hereto, in each case substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex II.I.
(hk) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of At the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action Shares shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading conditionally approved for listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities TSX and shall be DTC eligibleapproved for listing on the NYSE, subject to notice of issuance.
(il) At the Closing Date, FINRA shall not have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, arrangements for the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithOffering.
(jm) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of Prior to the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court Company shall have been issued that wouldfurnished to the Lead Underwriters satisfactory evidence of its due and valid authorization of CT Corporation System as its agent to receive service of process in the United States, and satisfactory evidence from CT Corporation System accepting its appointment as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations such agent.
(n) The Underwriters shall have received appropriate legal opinions of the Company’s Québec counsel addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters, dated and delivered on the date of the Canadian Price Prospectus and the Canadian Prospectus, as applicable, to the effect that, except for the financial statements of the Company (including the notes thereto and the auditors’ report thereon) included or incorporated by reference therein and certain other financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Canadian Pricing Prospectus and the Canadian Prospectus (collectively, the “Financial Information”), the French language version of each of the Canadian Pricing Prospectus and the Canadian Prospectus (including the French language version of the documents incorporated by reference therein) is in all material respects a complete and proper translation of the English language versions thereof.
(ko) The Underwriters shall have received appropriate translation opinions of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and MNP LLP, addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters, dated and delivered on the date of the Canadian Prospectus, to the effect that the French language version of the Financial Information is in all material respects a complete and proper translation of the English language version thereof.
(p) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative Underwriters or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Lead Underwriters and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative Lead Underwriters at, or at any time prior to, the consummation Closing Date and the obligations of the ClosingUnderwriters to purchase the Additional Securities may be cancelled by the Lead Underwriters at, or at any time prior to, the Additional Closing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (HEXO Corp.), Underwriting Agreement (HEXO Corp.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beAdditional Shares, as provided herein herein, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company each party herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date (for purposes of this Section 6 “Closing Date” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and any Additional Closing Date, (ii) if different, for the Additional Shares), to the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative you or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) to the performance by the Company each party of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) to each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary foreign and domestic regulatory and listing or stock exchange approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, time on the date of this Agreement, if pricing pursuant to Rule 430A, or 12:00 P.M., New York time on the date an amendment to the Registration Statement containing the public offering price has been filed with the Commission, if pricing pursuant to a pricing amendment, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If Bear Xxxxxxx; if the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A or Rule 434 under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof Section 4(a)(i) hereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities Shares and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any post-effective amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings for the issuance of such an order therefor shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of threatened by the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsCommission.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised At the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative Closing Date you shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case opinion of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters in the form attached hereto as Annex I.
(c) All proceedings taken in connection with the sale of the Firm Shares and the Additional Shares as herein contemplated shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to Bear Xxxxxxx and to Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP’ Counsel, patent legal counsel to and the CompanyUnderwriters shall have received from Underwriters’ Counsel a favorable written opinion, dated as of the Closing Date, with respect to the incorporation of the Company, the issuance and sale of the Shares, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and such other related matters as Bear Xxxxxxx may require, and the Company shall have furnished to Underwriters’ Counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(d) At the Closing Date you shall have received the favorable written opinion of the respective general counsel of MiTAC International Corporation (“MiTAC International”), UPC Technology Corporation and Synnex Technology International on behalf of the applicable Selling Stockholder, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and Underwriters in the form attached hereto as Annex II.
(iiie) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of At the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative you shall have received certificates of each a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, Date to the effect that: that (i) the conditions condition set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have 6 has been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 1(a) hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, Date all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has and the Subsidiaries have not sustained any material loss or interference with its businessestheir respective businesses or properties from fire, flood, hurricane, accident or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are that have not so included, been included or incorporated by reference as required and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, Prospectus there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(ef) On At the Closing Date you shall have received a written certificate of each Selling Stockholder executed by the Attorney-in-Fact, dated the Closing Date, to the effect that (i) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of such Selling Stockholder set forth in Section 1(b) hereof are accurate and (ii) as of the Closing Date all agreements, conditions and obligations of such Selling Stockholder to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with.
(g) At the time this Agreement is executed and at the Closing Date, you shall have received a comfort letter from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent public accountants for the Company, dated as of the date of this Agreement and on as of the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, Date addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(fh) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholdersstockholders’ equity, properties properties, affairs or prospects of the CompanyCompany and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism explosion or other calamitycalamity at any of the properties owned or leased by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable sole judgment of the RepresentativeBear Xxxxxxx, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale Offering on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus (exclusive of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyany supplement).
(gi) The Representative You shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partyperson who is a director or officer of the Company (other than former employees), duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Partyor Selling Stockholder, in each case substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex IIIII.
(hj) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of At the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action Shares shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading approved for listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleNYSE.
(ik) FINRA At the Closing Date, the NASD shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(jl) Each Selling Stockholder has completed the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Custody Agreements, including, without limitation, delivering the Shares to the Custodian.
(m) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the SecuritiesShares; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanyShares.
(kn) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative you or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Bear Xxxxxxx and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative Bear Xxxxxxx at, or at any time prior to, the consummation Closing Date and the obligations of the ClosingUnderwriters to purchase the Additional Shares may be cancelled by Bear Xxxxxxx at, or at any time prior to, the Additional Closing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing writing, or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Synnex Corp), Underwriting Agreement (Synnex Corp)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters of any Designated Securities under the Pricing Agreement relating to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein such Designated Securities shall be subject to: (i) subject, in the accuracy of Representatives’ discretion, to the condition that all representations and warranties and other statements of the Company herein contained, as of Operating Partnership and the date hereof Parent Guarantor included or incorporated by reference in the Pricing Agreement relating to such Designated Securities are true and correct at and as of the Closing Date, (ii) Time of Delivery for such Designated Securities and the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished condition that prior to such Time of Delivery the Representative or Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor shall have performed all of their obligations hereunder theretofore to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunderbe performed, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, :
(i) The Preliminary Prospectus and the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer Prospectus in relation to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the applicable Designated Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act within the applicable time periodperiod prescribed for such filing by the rules and regulations under the Securities Act and in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof; and, at or prior (ii) each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus relating to the Closing Date and Designated Securities (including, without limitation, an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus setting forth the actual time final terms of the Closing, Designated Securities) shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433 under the Securities Act within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by Rule 433 and in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof; (iii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the issuance of such an order Securities Act shall have been initiated or threatenedthreatened by the Commission; and (iv) all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness reasonable satisfaction of the underwriting terms and arrangements.Representatives;
(b) The Representative Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel to the Underwriters, shall not have reasonably determinedfurnished to the Representatives such opinion or opinions, dated the Time of Delivery, with respect to the good standing status of the Operating Partnership and advised the CompanyParent Guarantor, that the Indenture, the Securities, the Guarantee, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement theretothe Time of Sale Information and such other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits and such counsel shall have received such documents and information as they may reasonably request to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required enable them to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.pass upon such matters;
(c) The Representative Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel to the Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor, shall have received furnished to the favorable Representatives their written opinions, in each case opinion or opinions dated the Time of Delivery in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii)Representatives, including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed substantially to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as effect of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.Annex II hereto;
(d) The Representative On the date of the applicable Pricing Agreement for such Designated Securities and at the Time of Delivery for such Designated Securities, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the independent registered public accounting firm of the Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor, which has audited the financial statements of the Operating Partnership and its consolidated subsidiaries and of the Parent Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries, included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, shall have received certificates furnished to the Representatives letters, dated the respective dates of each delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, containing statements and information of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, type customarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the effect that: financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus;
(i) The Parent Guarantor and its subsidiaries (including, without limitation, the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 Operating Partnership), taken as a whole, have been satisfied, (ii) as not sustained since the date of the date hereof latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Information and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained Prospectus any material loss or interference with its businessesbusiness from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal court or governmental proceedingaction, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commissiondecree, (vi) there are no pro forma or except as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included set forth in the Registration Statement Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (viiii) subsequent to since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the ProspectusProspectus (without giving effect to any amendment thereof or supplement thereto subsequent to the date of the Pricing Agreement relating to the Designated Securities), except as set forth in Schedule IV to the applicable Pricing Agreement, there has not been any Material Adverse Change change in the beneficial interests of the Parent Guarantor (other than (x) issuances of beneficial interests (A) pursuant to equity-based awards granted in the ordinary course of business to trustees or employees of the Parent Guarantor or the Operating Partnership, (B) upon exercise of options and upon conversion or redemption of convertible or redeemable securities, in each case which were outstanding as of the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, and (C) upon the exchange of Operating Partnership interests for beneficial interests in the Parent Guarantor and (y) repurchases of the Parent Guarantor’s beneficial interests under the Parent Guarantor’s share repurchase program) or in the partnership interests in the Operating Partnership or the capital stock, partnership, membership or beneficial interests of any of its subsidiaries, or any change in the long-term debt of the Parent Guarantor and its subsidiaries (including, without limitation, the Operating Partnership), taken as a whole, or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a material adverse change, whether in or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in affecting the business, condition (financial or otherwise)properties, management, results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties financial condition or prospects of the CompanyParent Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries (including, without limitation, the Operating Partnership), taken as a whole, including but not limited except as set forth in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus (without giving effect to any amendment thereof or supplement thereto subsequent to the occurrence date of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamitythe Pricing Agreement relating to the Designated Securities), the effect of which, in any such case described abovein clause (i) or (ii), is, is in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, Representatives so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale public offering or the delivery of the Designated Securities and the Guarantee on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus;
(f) On or Offering after the date of the Pricing Agreement relating to the Designated Securities, (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded the Operating Partnership’s debt securities or the Parent Guarantor’s debt securities or, if applicable, preferred shares of beneficial interest by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as contemplated hereby.the term is defined by the Commission in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any of the Operating Partnership’s debt securities or the Parent Guarantor’s debt securities or preferred shares;
(g) The Representative On or after the date of the Pricing Agreement relating to the Designated Securities, there shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) trading generally shall have received a lockbeen suspended or materially limited on the New York Stock Exchange or the over-up agreement from each Lockthe-Up Party, duly executed counter market; (ii) trading of any securities issued or guaranteed by the applicable LockOperating Partnership or the Parent Guarantor shall have been suspended on any exchange or in any over-Up Partythe-counter market; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities shall have been declared by federal or New York State authorities or a material disruption in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services; or (iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or acts of terrorism involving the United States or declaration of national emergency or war by the United States or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis, either within or outside the United States, that, in each case substantially the judgment of the Representatives, is material and adverse and makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or the delivery of the Designated Securities on the terms and in the form attached as Annex II.manner contemplated by this Agreement, the Preliminary Prospectus, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus; and
(h) The Common Stock Operating Partnership and the Warrants are registered under Parent Guarantor shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to the Exchange Act andRepresentatives at the Time of Delivery for the Designated Securities a certificate or certificates of officers of the Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor in such form and executed by such officers of the Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor as shall be satisfactory to the Representatives, as to the accuracy of the Closing Date, representations and warranties of the Common Stock Operating Partnership and the Warrants shall be listed Parent Guarantor herein at and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence as of such action shall have been provided Time of Delivery, as to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed performance by the Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor of all of their obligations hereunder to terminatebe performed at or prior to such Time of Delivery, or likely as to have the effect of terminatingmatters set forth in Sections 8(a), the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market8(e) and 8(f) hereof and as to such other matters (including, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection without limitation, with respect to compliance with debt agreements and instruments) as the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithRepresentatives may reasonably request.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Brandywine Operating Partnership, L.P.), Underwriting Agreement (Brandywine Operating Partnership, L.P.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as Designated Securities they have severally agreed to purchase under this Agreement on the case may be, as provided herein shall be Closing Date are subject to: (i) to the accuracy in all material respects of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, and the Guarantor contained in this Agreement as of the date hereof of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel accuracy in all material respects of the statements of the Company and the Guarantor made in any certificates pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement the provisions hereof delivered prior to or omissionconcurrently with such purchase, (iii) to the performance by the Company and the Guarantor of its their obligations hereunderunder this Agreement, and (iv) each of to the following additional further conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof; all filings (including, without limitation, the terms thereof and a form final term sheet prepared pursuant to Section 5(a) hereof) required by Rule 424(b) or Rule 433 of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities Rules and the method of distribution and similar matters Regulations shall have been filed with made, and no such filings will have been made without the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time consent of the Closing, Representative(s); no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofamendment or supplement thereto, preventing or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure PackagePreliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or suspending the qualification of the Designated Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of any such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests no notice of objection of the Commission to use the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the Rules and Regulations shall have been received by the Company; and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, Statement or the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been disclosed to the Underwriters and complied with to the Representative’s Underwriters’ satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative No Underwriter shall not have reasonably determined, been advised by the Company or shall have discovered and advised disclosed to the Company, Company that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, which in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of the Underwriters, or in the opinion of counsel to the Underwriters, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of the Underwriters, or in the opinion of counsel to the Underwriters, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative At the Closing Date, if from the Applicable Time to the Closing Date there is no Downgrade Event or Review Event (each as defined below), the Underwriters shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Companya certificate, dated as of the Closing Date, of the Guarantor signed by the deputy chief financial officer of the Guarantor, certifying, with respect to the effect that: Guarantor, that at the Closing Date and subsequent to the dates as of which information is given in the Disclosure Package, (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued shall be in effect, and no proceedings therefor have been initiated for such purpose shall be pending before or threatened by the Commission, Commission (viii) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any material adverse change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a changefinancial condition, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties earnings or prospects of the CompanyGuarantor and its subsidiaries, taken considered as a wholeone enterprise, including but (iii) since the Applicable Time, there shall not limited have been, with respect to the occurrence rating of any firedebt securities or preferred stock of the Guarantor or debt securities or preferred stock unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor, flooda downgrade by Xxxxx’x Investor Services, stormInc. (“Xxxxx’x”), explosionFitch Ratings Ltd. (“Fitch”); or Standard and Poor’s Corporation (“S&P”) (any such event, accidenta “Downgrade Event”), act or any public announcement that either Moody’s, Fitch, or S&P has under surveillance or review its rating of war any debt securities or terrorism preferred stock of the Guarantor or debt securities or preferred stock unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor (other calamitythan an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading, and no implication of a possible downgrading, of such rating, and any announcement made prior to the Applicable Time) (any such event, a “Review Event”), (iv) each of the Company and the Guarantor shall have complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its respective part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date, and (v) the representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantor set forth in Section 1 above and in the applicable Underwriting Agreement, if any, are accurate in all material respects as though expressly made at and as of the Closing Date. If, however, from the Applicable Time to the Closing Date, there is a Downgrade Event or a Review Event, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative Underwriters shall have received at the Closing Date a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partycertificate, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, dated as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or Guarantor signed by the Warrants under deputy chief financial officer of the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital MarketGuarantor, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection certifying, with respect to the fairness Guarantor, solely the matters set forth in Section 6(c)(i), (ii), (iv) and reasonableness (v), unless the Representatives, on behalf of the underwriting terms Underwriters, shall have notified in writing to the Company and arrangementsthe Guarantor, by the earlier of 48 hours from the occurrence of the Downgrade Event or Review Event, as the case may be, or the Closing Date, that in their good faith and judgment such Downgrade Event or Review Event makes it impracticable or inadvisable to consummate the offering of the Designated Securities. In addition, at the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received a certificate dated as of the Closing Date of the Company shallsigned by a director of the Company certifying, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement Company, the matters set forth in this Section 6(c)(iv) and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith(v).
(jd) No action At the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have been taken and no statutereceived a signed opinion or opinions of counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters, ruledated as of the Closing Date.
(e) At the Applicable Time, regulation or order the Underwriters shall have been enactedreceived letters of accountants, adopted ordinarily referred to as “comfort letters”, confirming information as specified in the applicable Underwriting Agreement and dated the date on which the Term Sheets and/or the Prospectus are dated, as applicable from those accountants of the Guarantor or issued by any federalof its subsidiaries as specified in the applicable Underwriting Agreement.
(f) At the Closing Date, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, the Underwriters shall have received letters of accountants dated as of the Closing Date, prevent confirming information as specified in the issuance or sale comfort letters delivered pursuant to Section 6(e) above, from those accountants of the Securities; and no injunction Guarantor or order any of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, its subsidiaries as of specified in the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant applicable Underwriting Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 or in Section 2 of the applicable Underwriting Agreement shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects when and as required by this AgreementAgreement to be fulfilled, or if any of this Agreement may be terminated by the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished Underwriters upon notice to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form Company and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or Guarantor at any time at or prior toto the Closing Date, and such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party except as provided in Section 7 herein. Notwithstanding any such termination, the consummation provisions of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation Sections 8, 9, 10, 14 and 16 herein shall be given to the Company remain in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingeffect.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Telefonica S A), Underwriting Agreement (Telefonica S A)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securitiesaccuracy, as of the case may bedate hereof and the Closing Date (as if made at the Closing Date), as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedcontained herein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its their obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with Section 4(a) hereof; all filings (including, without limitation, the terms thereof and a form Final Term Sheet) required by Rule 424(b) or Rule 433 of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities Rules and the method of distribution and similar matters Regulations shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) made within the applicable time period; andperiods prescribed by such Rules, at or prior to and no such filings will have been made without the Closing Date and the actual time consent of the Closing, Representatives; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofamendment or supplement thereto, preventing or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Packageany Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or suspending the qualification of the Notes for offering or sale in any jurisdiction shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of any such an order shall have been initiated or threatenedthreatened pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act; all requests no notice of objection of the Commission to use the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto shall have been received by the Company; and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been disclosed to the Representatives and complied with to the Representatives’ satisfaction.
(b) No Underwriter shall have been advised by the Company, or shall have discovered and disclosed to the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Packagemost recent Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, thereto contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of the Representatives or of counsel to the Underwriters, is material, or omits to state a any fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of the Representatives or of counsel to the Underwriters, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory All corporate proceedings and other legal matters incident to the Representative authorization, form and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case validity of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLPthis Agreement, the securities Indenture, the Notes, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and all other legal matters relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be reasonably satisfactory in all material respects to counsel for the CompanyUnderwriters, dated as of and the Closing Date Company shall have furnished to such counsel all documents and addressed information that they may reasonably request to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel enable them to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriterspass upon such matters.
(d) The Representative Representatives shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of from Xxxxx Xxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, the opinion or opinions, addressed to the Underwriters, dated as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives and substantially in the form of Exhibits B.
(e) The Representatives shall have received from the Company’s General Counsel the opinion or opinions, addressed to the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives and substantially in the form of Exhibit C.
(f) The Representatives shall have received from Xxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel to the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, addressed to the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, with respect to the Notes, Indenture, Registration Statement, Prospectus and Disclosure Package and other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(g) The Representatives shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date, signed by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or any Vice President of the Company and by the Chief Financial Officer or Chief Accounting Officer of the Company to the effect that: (i) there shall not have been, since the conditions set forth date hereof, since the Applicable Time or since the respective dates as of which information is given in subsection (a) the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package, any material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of this Section 7 have been satisfiedthe Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business; (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 1 hereof are accuratetrue and correct with the same force and effect as though expressly made at and as of Closing Date, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or complied with hereunder on satisfied at or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, to Closing Date and (iv) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and, to their knowledge, no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or contemplated by the Commission.
(h) Except as described in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, (i) neither the Company has not sustained nor any material of the Company’s subsidiaries shall have sustained, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, any loss or interference with its businessesbusiness from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal court or governmental proceedingaction, order or decree or (vii) no stop order suspending since such date there shall not have been any change in the effectiveness capital stock or long-term debt of the Registration Statement Company or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated of the Company’s subsidiaries or threatened by the Commissionany change, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changechange, whether in or not arising from transactions affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, stockholders’ equity, properties, business or prospects of the Company and the Company’s subsidiaries taken as a whole, the effect of which, in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii), is, in the ordinary course judgment of businessthe Representatives, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering of the Notes or on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus.
(ei) On Concurrently with the date execution of this Agreement and on the Closing DateAgreement, the Representative Representatives shall have received from KPMG LLP, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, (the “initial comfort letter”) addressed to the Underwriters Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, dated the date hereof, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, Representatives (i) confirming that they are an independent certified registered public accountants with respect to the Company accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and all are in compliance with the applicable rules requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission and regulations, and (ii) stating, as of the date hereof (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, as of a date not more than three days prior to the date hereof), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters in connection with registered public offerings.
(j) The Representatives shall have received a “bring-down comfort” letter (the “bring-down comfort letter”) from KPMG LLP, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, addressed to the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives (i) confirming that they are an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and are in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, (ii) stating, as of the date of the bring-down comfort letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) three days prior to such datethe date of the bring-down comfort letter), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such the initial comfort letter and (iii) confirming in all material respects the conclusions and findings set forth in the initial comfort letter.
(fk) Prior to or on the Closing Date, the Representatives shall have been furnished by the Company such additional documents and certificates as the Representatives or counsel for the Underwriters may reasonably request.
(l) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement orAgreement, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the Registration Statement rating accorded to the debt securities of the Company, or any of the Company’s subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (exclusive as that term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act), and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review with possible negative implications its rating of any amendment thereofof the Company’s debt securities.
(m) Subsequent to the execution and the Prospectus (exclusive delivery of any supplement thereto)this Agreement, there shall not have been occurred any change of the following: (i) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange or the American Stock Exchange or in the capital stock over-the-counter market, or long-term debt trading in any securities of the Company on any exchange or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course over-the-counter market, shall have been suspended or materially limited or the settlement of businesssuch trading generally shall have been materially disrupted or minimum prices shall have been established on any such exchange or such market by the Commission, by such exchange or by any other regulatory body or governmental authority having jurisdiction; (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared by federal or state authorities; (iii) the United States shall have become engaged in hostilities, there shall have been an escalation in hostilities involving the United States or there shall have been a declaration of a national emergency or war by the United States; or (iv) there shall have occurred such a material adverse change in general economic, political or financial conditions, including, without limitation, as a result of terrorist activities after the date hereof (or the effect of international conditions on the financial markets in the United States shall be such) as to make it, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeRepresentatives, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale offering of Securities the Notes or Offering as on the terms and in the manner contemplated herebyin the Prospectus.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(kn) The Company shall have furnished executed and delivered a Board Resolution (as defined in the Indenture) and an Officers’ Certificate (as defined in the Indenture) in respect of the Notes and the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may shall have reasonably requestedreceived copies thereof.
(lo) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust CompanyFINRA, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any upon review, if any, of the conditions specified terms of the public offering of the Securities, shall not have objected to such offering, such terms or the Underwriters’ participation in same. All opinions, certificates, letters and documents referred to in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by 6 will be in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, or Agreement only if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Representatives and to counsel for the Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of . The Company will furnish to the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice Representatives conformed copies of such cancellation shall be given to opinions, certificates, letters and other documents in such number as the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingRepresentatives will reasonably request.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Centene Corp), Underwriting Agreement (Centene Corp)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The respective obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase the accuracy, when made and pay for on the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedPartnership contained herein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company Partnership of its obligations hereunder, to the accuracy of the statements of the Partnership made in any certificates delivered pursuant hereto, and (iv) to each of the following additional terms and conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals Prospectus shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on timely filed with the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented Commission; any material required to in writing be filed by the Representative. If Partnership pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus Rules and Regulations shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodperiods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433; and, at the Partnership shall have complied with all filing requirements applicable to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus used or prior referred to after the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, date hereof; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending thereof or preventing or suspending the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor proceeding for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi; no notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included of the Rules and Regulations shall have been received; any request of the Commission for inclusion of additional information in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise shall have been disclosed to the Underwriters and complied with to their satisfaction; and the Prospectus pursuant Commission shall not have notified the Partnership of any objection to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to use of the respective dates as form of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of businessStatement.
(eb) On All partnership and limited liability company proceedings and other legal matters incident to the date authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and on the Closing DateDebt Documents, the Representative authorization, execution and filing of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and all other legal matters relating to the Debt Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby shall be reasonably satisfactory in all material respects to counsel for the Underwriters, and the Partnership shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx furnished to such counsel all documents and information that they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.
(c) Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP shall have furnished to the Underwriters its written opinions and negative assurance letter, as of each such datecounsel to the General Partner and the Partnership, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date, in the form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Managers and their counsel.
(d) The Underwriters shall have received from Xxxxxxx Xxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date, with respect to the sale of the Notes and other related matters as the Underwriters may reasonably require, and the Partnership shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(e) At the time of execution of this Agreement, the Underwriters shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a letter (the “initial letter”), in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative Managers, addressed to the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel, dated the date hereof (i) confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all are in compliance with the applicable rules and regulationsrequirements adopted by the Commission and the PCAOB and is in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, and (ii) stating, as of the date hereof (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, as of a date not more than three (3) days prior to the date hereof), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters in connection with registered public offerings.
(f) On the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a letter (the “bring-down letter”), in form and substance satisfactory to the Managers, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date, (i) confirming that it is an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the Commission and the PCAOB and is in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, (ii) stating, as of the date of the bring-down letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five three (53) days prior to such datethe date of the bring-down letter), the its conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such the initial letter and (iii) confirming in all material respects the conclusions and findings set forth in the initial letter.
(fg) Subsequent On the Closing Date, the General Partner shall have furnished to the execution Underwriters a certificate, dated the Closing Date of its Chief Financial Officer stating that:
(i) the representations, warranties and delivery agreements of the Partnership in this Agreement are true and correct on and as of the Closing Date, and the Partnership has complied with all the agreements contained herein and satisfied all the conditions to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date;
(ii) the Prospectus has been timely filed with the Commission; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued; and no proceedings or examination for that purpose have been instituted or, if earlierto the knowledge of such officers, threatened by the dates as Commission; no notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of which the Rules and Regulations has been received; any request of the Commission for inclusion of additional information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive or the Prospectus or otherwise has been disclosed to the Underwriters and complied with; and the Commission has not notified the Partnership of any objection to the use of the form of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereofthereto;
(iii) they have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Prospectus, and, in their opinion, (A) (1) the Registration Statement, as of the Effective Date, (2) the Prospectus, as of its date and on the Closing Date, and (3) the Time of Sale Prospectus, as of the Time of Sale, did not and do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact and did not and do not omit to state a material fact (i) solely in the case of the Registration Statement required to be stated therein or (ii) necessary to make the statements therein not misleading (in the case of the Prospectus or the Time of Sale Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which such statements were made), except, in the case of the Time of Sale Prospectus, that the price of the Notes and disclosures directly relating thereto are included in the Prospectus, and (B) since the Effective Date, no event has occurred that should have been set forth in a supplement or amendment to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that has not been so set forth; and
(iv) no event contemplated in Section 7(h) or 7(i) has occurred in respect of the Partnership Entities.
(A) The Partnership Entities (taken as a whole) shall not have sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the most recent preliminary prospectus any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus (exclusive or shall have become a party to or the subject of any supplement thereto)litigation, court or governmental action, investigation, order or decree which is materially adverse to the Partnership Entities, taken as a whole and (B) since such date there shall not have been any material adverse change in the partners’ or members’ capital, capital stock or short-term or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the CompanyPartnership Entities, taken as a whole, including but not limited to or any change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the occurrence general affairs, operations, business, prospects, capitalization, management, financial position, securityholders’ equity or results of any fireoperations of the Partnership Entities, floodtaken as a whole, storm, explosion, accident, act otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Time of war or terrorism or other calamitySale Prospectus and the Prospectus, the effect of which, in any such case described abovein clause (A) or (B), isis to make it, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeManagers, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale public offering or the delivery of Securities the Notes being delivered on the Closing Date on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus
(i) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, if any debt securities of the Partnership are rated by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization,” as that term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act, (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded such debt securities (including the Notes) and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or Offering as contemplated herebyreview, with possible negative implications, its rating of any securities of the Partnership.
(gj) The Representative If any event shall have received occurred on or prior to the Closing Date that requires the Partnership to prepare an amendment or supplement to the Prospectus, such amendment or supplement shall have been prepared, the Managers shall have been given a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partyreasonable opportunity to comment thereon as provided in Section 5(a)(iv) hereof, duly executed by and copies thereof shall have been delivered to the applicable Lock-Up Party, Managers reasonably in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as advance of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(jk) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state governmental agency or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that body which would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the SecuritiesNotes; and no injunction injunction, restraining order or order of any federal, other nature by any federal or state or foreign court of competent jurisdiction shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, Date which would prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requestedNotes.
(l) The Company Partnership shall have entered into a warrant agreement (furnished the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency Managers such additional documents and Trust Company, certificates as warrant agent the Managers or counsel for the WarrantsUnderwriters may reasonably request. If any of the conditions specified All opinions, letters, evidence and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Section 7 Agreement shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative Underwriters and to counsel for the Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Magellan Midstream Partners Lp), Underwriting Agreement (Magellan Midstream Partners Lp)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company herein contained, as of on the date hereof and as hereof, at the time of purchase and, if applicable, at the Closing Dateadditional time of purchase, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes conditions precedent:
(a) The Company shall furnish to you at the time of this Section 7purchase and, if applicable, at the terms “Closing Date” additional time of purchase, opinions of O’Melveny & Xxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company; Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Executive Vice President and “Closing” shall refer General Counsel of the Company; Miles & Xxxxxx, PC, Colorado counsel for the Company; Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Xxxxxx, P.C., Oklahoma counsel for the Company; and Fried, Frank, Harris, Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, tax counsel for the Company, each addressed to the Closing Date for Underwriters and dated the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants time of purchase or Option Securitiesthe additional time of purchase, as the case may be, and with executed copies for each of the foregoing other Underwriters and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closingin form and substance satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters.
(ab) The Registration Statement You shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP letters dated, New York City timerespectively, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later the time of purchase and, if applicable, the additional time of purchase, and date as addressed to the Underwriters (with executed copies for each of the Underwriters) in the forms heretofore approved by the Representatives, which letters shall cover, without limitation, the various financial disclosures, if any, contained in the Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses, if any.
(c) You shall have been consented received from Ernst & Young LLP letters dated, respectively, the date of this Agreement, the time of purchase and, if applicable, the additional time of purchase, and addressed to the Underwriters (with executed copies for each of the Underwriters) in writing the forms heretofore approved by the Representative. If Representatives, which letters shall cover, without limitation, the Company various financial disclosures, if any, contained in the Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses, if any.
(d) You shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under received at the Securities Acttime of purchase and, if applicable, at the additional time of purchase, the favorable opinion of Cravath, Swaine & Xxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
(e) No Prospectus or amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, including documents deemed to be incorporated by reference therein, shall have been filed with to which you shall have objected in writing.
(f) The Registration Statement and any registration statement required to be filed, prior to the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form sale of the Shares, under the Act pursuant to Rule 462(b) shall have been filed and shall have become effective under the Act. The Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters Supplement shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within under the applicable Act at or before 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the second full business day after the date of this Agreement (or such earlier time period; as may be required under the Act).
(g) Prior to and at the time of purchase, and, at or prior to if applicable, the Closing Date and the actual additional time of the Closingpurchase, (i) no stop order suspending with respect to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no issued under the Act or proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated under Section 8(d) or threatened; all requests 8(e) of the Commission for additional information Act; (to be included in ii) the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; Statement and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative all amendments thereto shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains contain an untrue statement of a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits omit to state a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as none of the Closing Date Pre-Pricing Prospectuses or the Prospectus, and addressed no amendment or supplement thereto, shall include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each statements therein, in the light of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Companycircumstances under which they are made, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, not misleading; (iv) the Company has Disclosure Package and all amendments or supplements thereto, shall not sustained any include an untrue statement of a material loss fact or interference with its businessesomit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, whether or in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, misleading and (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness none of the Registration Statement or Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses, if any, shall contain any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by information that conflicts with the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included information contained in the Registration Statement and the Statement, any Pre-Pricing Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and or the Prospectus, there has including any document incorporated by reference therein or, when taken together with each Pre-Pricing Prospectus, shall include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not been any Material Adverse Change misleading.
(h) Between the time of execution of this Agreement and the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, (i) no material adverse change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions material adverse change in the ordinary course business, properties, management, financial condition or results of business.
operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole shall occur or become known and (eii) On the date of this Agreement no transaction which is material and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect adverse to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered has been entered into by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyits subsidiaries.
(gi) The Representative shall have received Company will, at the time of purchase and, if applicable, at the additional time of purchase, deliver to you a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partycertificate of its Chief Executive Officer and its Chief Financial Officer, duly executed by dated the applicable Lock-Up Partytime of purchase or the additional time of purchase, in each as the case substantially may be, in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithExhibit B hereto.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statuteIf the Company or any of its significant subsidiaries is unable to obtain a certificate of good standing from its jurisdiction of incorporation or from any jurisdiction in which it is qualified to do business, rulethe Company will, regulation at the time of purchase and, if applicable, at the additional time of purchase, deliver to you a certificate of its Secretary, dated the time of purchase or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that wouldthe additional time of purchase, as of the Closing Datecase may be, prevent setting forth the issuance steps that the Company or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that wouldsuch subsidiary, as of applicable, is taking in order to restore its good standing status in such jurisdictions, and otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanyRepresentatives.
(k) The Company You shall have furnished received the Underwriters agreement (each, a “Lock-Up Agreement”), in the form set forth as Exhibit A hereto of each of the persons named in Exhibit A-1 hereto, and Underwriters’ Counsel with each such other certificatesLock-Up Agreement shall be in full force and effect at the time of purchase and the additional time of purchase, opinions or documents as they the case may have reasonably requestedbe.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (furnished to you such other documents and certificates as to the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency accuracy and Trust Companycompleteness of any statement in the Registration Statement, any Pre-Pricing Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as of the time of purchase and, if applicable, the additional time of purchase, as warrant agent you may reasonably request.
(m) The Shares shall have been approved for quotation on the Warrants. If any NASDAQ, subject only to notice of issuance at or prior to the conditions specified in this Section 7 time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be.
(n) FINRA shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreementraised any objection with respect to the fairness or reasonableness of the underwriting, or if any other arrangements of the certificatestransactions, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall contemplated hereby that has not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingbeen satisfied.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters of any Designated Securities under the Pricing Agreement relating to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein such Designated Securities shall be subject to: (i) subject, in the accuracy of Representatives’ discretion, to the condition that all representations and warranties and other statements of the Company herein contained, as of Operating Partnership and the date hereof Parent Guarantor included or incorporated by reference in the Pricing Agreement relating to such Designated Securities are true and correct at and as of the Closing Date, (ii) Time of Delivery for such Designated Securities and the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished condition that prior to such Time of Delivery the Representative or Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor shall have performed all of their obligations hereunder theretofore to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunderbe performed, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, :
(i) The Preliminary Prospectus and the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer Prospectus in relation to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the applicable Designated Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act within the applicable time periodperiod prescribed for such filing by the rules and regulations under the Securities Act and in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof; and, at or prior (ii) each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus relating to the Closing Date and Designated Securities (including, without limitation, an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus setting forth the actual time final terms of the Closing, Designated Securities) shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433 under the Securities Act within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by Rule 433 and in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof; (iii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the issuance of such an order Securities Act shall have been initiated or threatenedthreatened by the Commission; and (iv) all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness reasonable satisfaction of the underwriting terms and arrangements.Representatives;
(b) The Representative Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel to the Underwriters, shall not have reasonably determinedfurnished to the Representatives such opinion or opinions, dated the Time of Delivery, with respect to the good standing status of the Operating Partnership and advised the CompanyParent Guarantor, that the Indenture, the Securities, the Guarantee, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement theretothe Time of Sale Information and such other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits and such counsel shall have received such documents and information as they may reasonably request to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required enable them to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.pass upon such matters;
(c) The Representative Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel to the Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor, shall have received furnished to the favorable Representatives their written opinions, in each case opinion or opinions dated the Time of Delivery in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii)Representatives, including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed substantially to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as effect of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.Annex II hereto;
(d) The Representative On the date of the applicable Pricing Agreement for such Designated Securities and at the Time of Delivery for such Designated Securities, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the independent registered public accounting firm of the Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor, which has audited the financial statements of the Operating Partnership and its consolidated subsidiaries and of the Parent Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries, included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, shall have received certificates furnished to the Representatives letters, dated the respective dates of each delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, containing statements and information of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, type customarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the effect that: financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus;
(i) The Parent Guarantor and its subsidiaries (including, without limitation, the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 Operating Partnership), taken as a whole, have been satisfied, (ii) as not sustained since the date of the date hereof latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Information and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained Prospectus any material loss or interference with its businessesbusiness from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal court or governmental proceedingaction, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commissiondecree, (vi) there are no pro forma or except as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included set forth in the Registration Statement Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (viiii) subsequent to since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the ProspectusProspectus (without giving effect to any amendment thereof or supplement thereto subsequent to the date of the Pricing Agreement relating to the Designated Securities), except as set forth in Schedule III to the applicable Pricing Agreement, there has not been any Material Adverse Change change in the beneficial interests of the Parent Guarantor (other than (x) issuances of beneficial interests (A) pursuant to equity-based awards granted in the ordinary course of business to trustees or employees of the Parent Guarantor or the Operating Partnership, (B) upon exercise of options and upon conversion or redemption of convertible or redeemable securities, in each case which were outstanding as of the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, and (C) upon the exchange of Operating Partnership interests for beneficial interests in the Parent Guarantor and (y) repurchases of the Parent Guarantor’s beneficial interests under the Parent Guarantor’s share repurchase program) or in the partnership interests in the Operating Partnership or the capital stock, partnership, membership or beneficial interests of any of its subsidiaries, or any change in the long-term debt of the Parent Guarantor and its subsidiaries (including, without limitation, the Operating Partnership), taken as a whole, or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a material adverse change, whether in or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in affecting the business, condition (financial or otherwise)properties, management, results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties financial condition or prospects of the CompanyParent Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries (including, without limitation, the Operating Partnership), taken as a whole, including but not limited except as set forth in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus (without giving effect to any amendment thereof or supplement thereto subsequent to the occurrence date of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamitythe Pricing Agreement relating to the Designated Securities), the effect of which, in any such case described abovein clause (i) or (ii), is, is in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, Representatives so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale public offering or the delivery of the Designated Securities and the Guarantee on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus;
(f) On or Offering after the date of the Pricing Agreement relating to the Designated Securities, (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded the Operating Partnership’s debt securities or the Parent Guarantor’s debt securities or, if applicable, preferred shares of beneficial interest by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as contemplated hereby.the term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the Securities Act and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any of the Operating Partnership’s debt securities or the Parent Guarantor’s debt securities or preferred shares;
(g) The Representative On or after the date of the Pricing Agreement relating to the Designated Securities, there shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) trading generally shall have received a lockbeen suspended or materially limited on the New York Stock Exchange or the over-up agreement from each Lockthe-Up Party, duly executed counter market; (ii) trading of any securities issued or guaranteed by the applicable LockOperating Partnership or the Parent Guarantor shall have been suspended on any exchange or in any over-Up Partythe-counter market; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities shall have been declared by federal or New York State authorities or a material disruption in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services; or (iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or acts of terrorism involving the United States or declaration of national emergency or war by the United States or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis, either within or outside the United States, that, in each case substantially the judgment of the Representatives, is material and adverse and makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or the delivery of the Designated Securities on the terms and in the form attached as Annex II.manner contemplated by this Agreement, the Preliminary Prospectus, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus; and
(h) The Common Stock Operating Partnership and the Warrants are registered under Parent Guarantor shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to the Exchange Act andRepresentatives at the Time of Delivery for the Designated Securities a certificate or certificates of officers of the Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor in such form and executed by such officers of the Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor as shall be satisfactory to the Representatives, as to the accuracy of the Closing Date, representations and warranties of the Common Stock Operating Partnership and the Warrants shall be listed Parent Guarantor herein at and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence as of such action shall have been provided Time of Delivery, as to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed performance by the Operating Partnership and the Parent Guarantor of all of its obligations hereunder to terminatebe performed at or prior to such Time of Delivery, or likely as to have the effect of terminatingmatters set forth in Sections 8(a), the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market8(e) and 8(f) hereof and as to such other matters (including, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection without limitation, with respect to compliance with debt agreements and instruments) as the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithRepresentatives may reasonably request.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Brandywine Operating Partnership, L.P.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedon the date hereof, the Applicable Time and the Closing Date (or, as to Optional Shares, as of the date hereof and as of the Additional Closing Date, (iiif any) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) and the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.precedent:
(a) The Registration Statement Company shall furnish to you at the Time of Purchase and Additional Time of Purchase, if any, an opinion of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx LLP, special counsel for the Company, addressed to the Underwriters, and dated the Closing Date and Additional Closing Date, if any, with executed copies for each of the other Underwriters in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto.
(b) The Company shall furnish to you at the Time of Purchase and Additional Time of Purchase, if any, an opinion of the Office of Corporate Counsel of the Company, addressed to the Underwriters, and dated the Closing Date and Additional Closing Date, if any, with executed copies for each of the other Underwriters in the form set forth in Exhibit B hereto.
(c) You shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.from Deloitte & Touche LLP letters dated, New York City timerespectively, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time the Closing Date and date as Additional Closing Date, if any, and addressed to the Underwriters (with executed copies for each of the Underwriters) in the forms satisfactory to you, which letters shall cover, without limitation, the various financial disclosures contained in the Registration Statement, the Pre-Pricing Prospectuses, the Prospectus and the Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses, if any.
(d) You shall have been consented received at the Time of Purchase and Additional Time of Purchase, if any, the written opinion and negative assurance statement of Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated the Time of Purchase or Additional Time of Purchase, as applicable, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to in writing by the Representative. If Representatives.
(e) No Prospectus or amendment or supplement to the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall have been filed with to which you shall have objected in writing.
(f) The Registration Statement and any registration statement required to be filed, prior to the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form sale of the Depositary Shares, under the Act pursuant to Rule 462(b) shall have been filed and shall have become effective under the Act. The Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters Supplement shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act at or before 5:30 p.m., New York City time, on the second full business day after the date of this Agreement (or such earlier time as may be required under the Act). The final term sheet contemplated by Section 4(a) hereof, and any other material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act, shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time period; andperiods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433;
(g) Prior to and at the Time of Purchase and Additional Time of Purchase, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closingif any, (i) no stop order suspending with respect to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no issued under the Act or proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated under Section 8(d) or threatened; all requests 8(e) of the Commission for additional information Act; (to be included in ii) the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; Statement and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative all amendments thereto shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains contain an untrue statement of a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits omit to state a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; (iii) none of the Pre-Pricing Prospectuses or the Prospectus, and no amendment or supplement thereto, shall include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading; (iv) the Disclosure Package and any amendment or supplement thereto, shall not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading; and (v) none of the Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses, if any, shall include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.
(ch) The Representative shall have received Company will at the favorable written opinionsTime of Purchase and Additional Time of Purchase, in each case in form satisfactory if any, deliver to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as you a certificate of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and Additional Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfiedif any, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleExhibit C hereto.
(i) The Company shall have furnished to you such other documents and certificates as to the accuracy and completeness of any statement in the Registration Statement, any Pre-Pricing Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as of the Time of Purchase and Additional Time of Purchase, if any, as you may reasonably request.
(j) FINRA shall not have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and or reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In additionunderwriting, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as other arrangements of the Closing Datetransactions, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Companycontemplated hereby.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be Securities hereunder are subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) (i) The Registration Statement shall have become effective Prospectus, and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall any supplement thereto, have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on filed in the date of this Agreement, or at such later manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b) (without reference to Rule 424(b)(8)); the final term sheet contemplated by Section 5(t) hereto and date as shall have been consented any other material required to in writing be filed by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected pursuant to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus 433(d) shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date periods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433 and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or (ii) any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, Statement or the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness satisfaction of the underwriting terms and arrangementsUnderwriters.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement Execution Time, or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) thereto), the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement theretoamendment thereof), there shall not have been occurred: (i) any change change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the capital stock condition (financial or long-term debt otherwise), earnings, business, properties, net worth, or results of operations of the Company or any change or development involving a changeand its subsidiaries, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in the business, condition Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (financial exclusive of any amendments or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited supplements thereto subsequent to the occurrence date of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamitythis Agreement), the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable sole judgment of the Representative, Representatives is so material and adverse as to make it impracticable impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the sale offering or delivery of the Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyby the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendments thereto), the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto); or (ii) any event or development relating to or involving the Company and its subsidiaries or any officer or director of the Company and its subsidiaries which makes any statement made in the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus untrue or which, in the opinion of the Company and its counsel or the Representatives and their counsel, requires the making of any addition to or change in the Disclosure Package in order to state a material fact required by the Act or any other law to be stated therein, or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading, if amending or supplementing the Disclosure Package to reflect such event or development would, in the opinion of the Representatives, adversely affect the market for the Securities.
(c) The Representatives shall have received on the Closing Date opinions of Pillsbury Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, dated as of such date and addressed to the Representatives, substantially in the forms attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(d) The Representatives shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of Hunton & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated as of such date and addressed to the Representatives with respect to such matters as the Underwriters may request.
(e) The Representatives shall have received letters addressed to the Underwriters and dated as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date from Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, substantially in the form heretofore approved by the Underwriters; provided that the letter delivered on the date hereof and on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off” date no more than three (3) Business Days prior to such dates.
(f) (A) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been taken or, to the knowledge of the Company, shall be contemplated by the Commission at or prior to the Closing Date; (B) there shall not have been any change in the capital stock of the Company nor any material increase in the short-term or long-term debt (including any off-balance sheet activities or transactions) of the Company and its subsidiaries (other than in the ordinary course of business) from that set forth or contemplated in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto); (C) there shall not have been, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), except as may otherwise be stated in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any material adverse change in the condition (financial or other), business, prospects, properties, net worth or results of operations of the Company or its subsidiaries; (D) the Company and its subsidiaries shall not have any liabilities or obligations (financial or other), direct or contingent (whether or not in the ordinary course of business), that are material to the Company or its subsidiaries, other than those reflected in the Registration Statement or the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto); and (E) all the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement shall be true and correct at and as of the Execution Time and on and as of the Closing Date as if made at and as of such time or on and as of such date, and the Representatives shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by either the chief executive officer or chief operating officer and the chief financial officer of the Company (or such other officers as are acceptable to the Representatives), to the effect set forth in this Section 8(f) and in Section 8(g) hereof.
(g) The Representative Company shall not have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partyfailed at or prior to the Closing Date to have performed or complied with any of its agreements herein contained and required to be performed or complied with by it hereunder or under the Indenture, duly executed by at or prior to the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex IIClosing Date.
(h) The Common Stock and Subsequent to the Warrants are registered Execution Time, there shall not have been any decrease in the rating of any of the Company’s debt securities by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under the Exchange Act and, as Act) or any notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the direction of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligiblepossible change.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to the Representatives such further certificates and documents as the Representatives shall have requested. All such opinions, certificates, letters and other documents will be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives and their counsel. Any certificate or document signed by any officer of the Company and delivered to the Underwriters, or to counsel for the Underwriters, shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (to the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrantsstatements made therein. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 8 shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects when and as required by provided in this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements opinions and certificates mentioned above or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to elsewhere in this Section 7 Agreement shall not be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Representatives and to counsel for the Underwriters’ Counsel, this Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled canceled by the Representative Representatives at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the ClosingClosing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orallyby telephone or facsimile confirmed in writing. Any such oral notice With respect to the Closing Date, the documents required to be delivered by this Section 8 shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingdelivered at the offices of Hunton & Xxxxxxxx LLP, Attn: Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esq., counsel for the Underwriters, at 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, X.X., Bank of America Plaza, Suite 4100, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000 on or prior to such date.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (National Retail Properties, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option SecuritiesShares, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative Representatives or to Underwriters’ ' Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “"Closing Date” " and “"Closing” " shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option SecuritiesShares, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the RepresentativeRepresentatives. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s Representatives's satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. 2 Per FINRA comments, there shall be a ceiling to the reimbursable expenses. We will discuss with our clients re this number.
(b) The Representative Representatives shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s Representatives's reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s Representatives's reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative Representatives shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in reasonable and customary form satisfactory to the Representative Representatives and Underwriters’ counsel ' Counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Ellenoff Gxxxxxxx & Xxxxx Schole LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPPolsinelli PC, patent legal intellectual property counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative Representatives shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and and, the General Disclosure Package the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative Representatives shall have received a “"comfort” " letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Mxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in customary form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative Representatives and Underwriters’ ' Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), and except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus with respect to the conversion of certain outstanding indebtedness and preferred stock of the Company, there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ ' equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the sole reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeRepresentatives, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative Representatives shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are shall be registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the RepresentativeRepresentatives. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the RepresentativeRepresentatives, make or authorize the Underwriters’ ' Counsel to make on the Company’s 's behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ ' Counsel with such other customary certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative Representatives or to Underwriters’ ' Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Representatives and to Underwriters’ ' Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative Representatives at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securitiesaccuracy, as of the case may bedate hereof and the Closing Date (as if made at the Closing Date), as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedcontained herein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with Section 4(a) hereof; all filings (including, without limitation, the terms thereof and a form Final Term Sheet) required by Rule 424(b) or Rule 433 of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities Rules and the method of distribution and similar matters Regulations shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) made within the applicable time period; andperiods prescribed by such Rules, at or prior to and no such filings will have been made without the Closing Date and the actual time consent of the Closing, Representative; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofamendment or supplement thereto, preventing or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Packageany Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or suspending the qualification of the Notes for offering or sale in any jurisdiction shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of any such an order shall have been initiated or threatenedthreatened pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act; all requests no notice of objection of the Commission to use the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto shall have been received by the Company; and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been disclosed to the Representative and complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction.
(b) No Underwriter shall have been advised by the Company, or shall have discovered and disclosed to the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Packagemost recent Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, thereto contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of the Representative or of counsel to the Underwriters, is material, or omits to state a any fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of the Representative or of counsel to the Underwriters, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Xxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP, counsel for the favorable written Company, the opinion or opinions, in each case addressed to the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and substantially in the case form of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.Exhibit B.
(d) [Reserved.]
(e) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of from Sidley Austin LLP, counsel to the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, addressed to the CompanyUnderwriters, dated the Closing Date and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative, with respect to the Notes, Indenture, Registration Statement, Prospectus and Disclosure Package and other related matters as the Representative may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(f) The Representative shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date, signed by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or any Vice President of the Company and by the Chief Financial Officer or Chief Accounting Officer of the Company to the effect that: (i) there shall not have been, since the conditions set forth date hereof, since the Applicable Time or since the respective dates as of which information is given in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfiedthe Prospectus or the Disclosure Package, any Material Adverse Effect, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 1 hereof are accuratetrue and correct with the same force and effect as though expressly made at and as of Closing Date, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company has complied with this Agreement and satisfied all conditions to be performed or complied with satisfied by it hereunder on at or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, to the Closing Date and (iv) no stop order of the Commission suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and, to the Company’s knowledge, no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or contemplated by the Commission.
(g) Except as described in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, (i) neither the Company has not sustained nor any material of the Company’s subsidiaries shall have sustained, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, any loss or interference with its businessesbusiness from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal court or governmental proceedingaction, order or decree or (vii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of since such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change of the Company’s subsidiaries or any change, or any development involving a prospective change, whether in or not arising from transactions in affecting the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholdersstockholders’ equity, properties properties, business or prospects of the Company and the Company, ’s subsidiaries taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described abovein clause (i) or (ii), is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of Securities or Offering as the Notes on the terms and in the manner contemplated herebyin the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(gh) Concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter with respect to the Company from KPMG LLP, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm (the “initial comfort letter”), addressed to the Representative on behalf of the Underwriters, dated the date hereof, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative, (i) confirming that they are an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and are in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission and (ii) stating, as of the date hereof (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified historical and pro forma financial information of the Company is given in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, as of a date not more than three days prior to the date hereof), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by the accountant’s “comfort letter” to underwriters in connection with registered public offerings.
(i) The Representative shall have received a lock“bring-up agreement down comfort” letter with respect to the Company from KPMG LLP, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, (the “bring-down comfort letter”), addressed to the Representative on behalf of the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative, each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by (i) confirming that they are an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and are in compliance with the applicable Lockrequirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-Up Party01 of Regulation S‑X of the Commission, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(hii) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act andstating, as of the Closing Date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified historical and pro forma financial information of the Company is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than three days prior to the Closing Date), the Common Stock conclusions and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence findings of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection firm with respect to the fairness financial information and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested other matters covered by the Representative, make or authorize initial comfort letter and (iii) confirming in all material respects the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on conclusions and findings set forth in the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithinitial comfort letter.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation Prior to or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of on the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court Representative shall have been issued that would, furnished by the Company with such additional documents and certificates as of the Closing Date, prevent Representative or counsel for the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanyUnderwriters may reasonably request.
(k) The Company Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, (i) no downgrading shall have furnished occurred in the Underwriters rating accorded to the debt securities of the Company, or any of the Company’s subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as that term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act), and Underwriters’ Counsel (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requestedpossible negative implications its rating of any of the Company’s debt securities.
(l) The Company Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, there shall not have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If occurred any of the following: (i) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq Global Market or in the over-the-counter market, or trading in any securities of the Company on any exchange or in the over-the-counter market, shall have been suspended or materially limited or the settlement of such trading generally shall have been materially disrupted or minimum prices shall have been established on any such exchange or such market by the Commission, by such exchange or by any other regulatory body or governmental authority having jurisdiction; (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared by federal or state authorities; (iii) the United States shall have become engaged in hostilities, there shall have been an escalation in hostilities involving the United States or there shall have been a declaration of a national emergency or war by the United States; or (iv) there shall have occurred such a material adverse change in general economic, political or financial conditions, including, without limitation, as a result of terrorist activities after the date hereof (or the effect of international conditions specified on the financial markets in the United States shall be such) as to make it, in the judgment of the Representative, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Notes on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus. All opinions, certificates, letters and documents referred to in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by 6 will be in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, or Agreement only if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to counsel for the Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by . The Company will furnish to the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice conformed copies of such cancellation shall be given to opinions, certificates, letters and other documents in such number as the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingRepresentative will reasonably request.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beAdditional Shares, as provided herein herein, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the applicable Closing Date, Date (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For for purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securitiesany Additional Closing Date, as if different, for the case may beAdditional Shares), to the performance by the Company of all of its obligations hereunder, and to each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.additional conditions:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(bSection 4(a) within the applicable time periodhereof; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofpost-effective amendment thereto, or any amendment thereof, nor and no stop order suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the any Preliminary Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus the Prospectus, shall have been issued; issued by the Commission and no proceedings for the issuance of such an order therefor shall have been initiated or threatenedthreatened by the Commission; all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s your reasonable satisfaction; and FINRA if the Company has elected to rely on Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement shall have raised no objection to become effective by 10:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fairness date of this Agreement; and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsall necessary regulatory or stock exchange approvals shall have been received.
(bi) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised At the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative Closing Date you shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative opinion and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), statement of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx Procter LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; , in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to you;
(iic) Fish At the Closing Date you shall have received the written opinion of Wolf, Greenfield & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPSacks, patent legal P.C., intellectual property counsel to for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; , in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to you.
(iiid) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLCAt the Closing Date, trademark legal counsel for you shall have received the Companywritten opinion and negative assurance statement of Underwriters’ Counsel, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance satisfactory to you, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Shares, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and such other matters as you may require, and the Company shall have furnished to Underwriters’ Counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(de) The Representative At the Closing Date you shall have received certificates of each a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to you, as to the effect that: (i) accuracy of the conditions representations and warranties of the Company set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) 1 hereof as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, as to the representations and warranties of performance by the Company of all of its obligations hereunder to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date, as to the matters set forth in subsections (a) and (h) of this Section 2 hereof are accurate7, and as to such other matters as you may reasonably request.
(iiif) At the time this Agreement is executed and at the Closing Date, you shall have received a comfort letter, from KPMG LLP, independent registered public auditing firm for the Company, dated, respectively, as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, all agreementsaddressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel, conditions containing statements and obligations information of the Company type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to be performed or complied underwriters with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied withrespect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(ivg) Neither the Company has not sustained nor the Subsidiary shall have sustained, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, any material loss or interference with its businessesbusiness or properties from fire, explosion, flood, earthquake, hurricane, accident or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or other than as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included set forth in the Registration Statement Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, (exclusive of any supplement thereto); and (viiii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereofthereto subsequent to the date hereof) and the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term or short-term debt of the Company or the Subsidiary or any change or any development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, general affairs, management, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholdersstockholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the CompanyCompany and the Subsidiary, individually or taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale Offering on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyany such supplement).
(gh) The No Underwriter shall have discovered and disclosed to the Company on or prior to such Closing Date that any of the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, contains an untrue statement of a fact which, in the opinion of Underwriters’ Counsel, is material or omits to state a fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(i) As of the date of this Agreement, the Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each duly executed Lock-Up Party, duly executed by Agreement from each person who is a director or executive officer of the applicable Lock-Up PartyCompany and each shareholder and other person or entity listed on Schedule III hereto, in each case substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex II.Exhibit B.
(hj) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of At the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action Shares shall have been provided approved for quotation on The Nasdaq Capital Market, subject only to official notice of issuance.
(k) The Chief Financial Officer of the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed furnished to terminatethe Representative a certificate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration dated as of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading date of this Agreement and on the NASDAQ Capital Marketeach Closing Date, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligiblein form and substance reasonably satisfactory to you.
(il) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect arrangements relating to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithOffering of the Shares.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(km) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative you or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation Closing Date and the obligations of the ClosingUnderwriters to purchase the Additional Shares may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, any Additional Closing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedaccuracy, as of the date hereof and as at each of the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date (as if made at such Closing Date), (ii) of and compliance with all representations, warranties and agreements of the absence from any certificatesCompany contained herein, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.5:00 p.m., New York City Central time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as you, as the Representative of the several Underwriters, shall approve and all filings required by Rules 424, 430A and 433 of the Rules and Regulations shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon timely made (without reliance on Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form 424(b)(8) or Rule 164(b) of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities Rules and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodRegulations); and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, thereof or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General ADS Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s your satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative No Underwriter shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, Company that the Registration Statement, the General ADS Registration Statement, the Time of sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, Prospectus contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable your opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable your opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received Except as contemplated in the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the case of (i) and (ii)Prospectus, including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Time of Sale Disclosure Package, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall have incurred any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, or entered into any material transactions, or declared or paid any dividends or made any distribution of any kind with respect to its capital stock; and there shall not have been any change in the Prospectuscapital stock (other than a change in the number of outstanding Ordinary Shares due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise of outstanding options), there has not been or any material change in the short-term or long-term debt of the Company, or any issuance of options, warrants, convertible securities or other rights to purchase the capital stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, Change (whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business), that, in your judgment, makes it impractical or inadvisable to offer or deliver the ADSs on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus.
(d) On or after the Time of Sale (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded the Company’s debt securities or preferred stock by any “nationally recognized statistical organization,” as that term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) of the Rules and Regulations, and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any of the Company’s debt securities or preferred stock.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB of the several Underwriters, the opinion of Xxxxx & Xxxxxxx as of each LLP, United States counsel for the Company, dated such date, Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters and you, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(f) On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as the Representative of the several Underwriters’ Counsel, the opinion of Commerce & Finance Law Offices, PRC counsel for the Company, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B.
(g) On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as the Representative of the several Underwriters, the opinion of Xxxxxx and Calder, British Virgin Islands counsel for the Company, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C.
(h) On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as the Representative of the several Underwriters, such opinion or opinions from O’Melveny & Xxxxx LLP, United States counsel for the several Underwriters, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative.
(i) On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as the Representative of the several Underwriters, such opinion or opinions from Tian Yuan Law Firm, PRC counsel for the several Underwriters, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative.
(j) On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as the Representative of the several Underwriters, such opinion or opinions from White & Case LLP, counsel for the Depositary, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D.
(k) At the time of execution of this Agreement, you, as the Representative of the several Underwriters, shall have received a letter of Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx, dated the date hereof and addressed to you, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all are in compliance with the applicable rules and regulationsrequirements relating to the qualifications of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, and stating, as of the date of such date letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the ProspectusTime of Sale Disclosure Package, as of a date not prior to the date hereof or more than five (5) days prior to the date of such dateletter), the conclusions and findings of such firm said firm, customarily included in the accountants’ “comfort letter,” with respect to the financial information and other matters relating covered by its letter delivered to you concurrently with the execution of this Agreement; and on each Closing Date, you shall have received a letter of Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, confirming, as of the date of such letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, as of a date not prior to the Registration Statement covered by initial Closing Date or more than five days prior to the date of such letter), the conclusions and findings set forth in such prior letter.
(fl) Subsequent On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as the Representative of the Underwriters, a certificate, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, signed by the chief executive officer and by the chief financial officer of the Company, to the execution effect that:
(i) The representations and delivery warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct as if made at and as of such Closing Date (and any representations and warranties qualified by materiality in this Agreement will continue to be qualified by materiality as of such Closing Date), and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to such Closing Date;
(ii) No stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof or any amendment thereof or the qualification of the ADSs and the Shares they represent for offering or sale, nor suspending or preventing the use of the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, has been issued, and no proceeding for that purpose has been instituted or, if earlierto the best of their knowledge, is contemplated by the Commission or any state or regulatory body; and
(iii) The signers of said certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the ADS Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto, and (A) each part of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto contain, and contained when such part of the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, became effective, all statements and information required to be included therein, the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, does not contain and did not contain when such part of the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, became effective, any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, does not include and did not include as of its date or the time of first use within the meaning of the Rules and Regulations, any untrue statement of material fact or omit to state and did not omit to state as of its date or the time of first use within the meaning of the rules and Regulations a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, (B) neither (1) the Time of Sale Disclosure Package nor (2) any individual Issuer Limited-Use Free Writing Prospectus, when considered together with the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, include, nor included as of the Time of Sale any untrue statement of a material fact or omits, or omitted as of the Time of Sale, to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, (C) since the Time of Sale there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amended or supplemented prospectus which has not been so set forth, (D) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive Time of Sale Disclosure Package, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has incurred any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, or entered into any material transactions, not in the ordinary course of business, or declared or paid any dividends or made any distribution of any amendment thereof) kind with respect to its capital stock, and except as disclosed in the Prospectus (exclusive Time of any supplement thereto)Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, there shall has not have been any change in the capital stock (other than a change in the number of outstanding Ordinary Shares due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise of outstanding options or warrants), or any material change in the short-term or long-term debt debt, or any issuance of options, warrants, convertible securities or other rights to purchase the capital stock, of the Company Company, or any change of its subsidiaries, or any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a change, prospective Material Adverse Change (whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business), and (E) except as disclosed in the businessTime of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, condition (financial or otherwise)there is not pending, results of operationsor, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects to the knowledge of the Company, taken as threatened or contemplated, any action, suit or proceeding to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a wholeparty before or by any court or governmental agency, including but not limited to the occurrence of authority or body, or any firearbitrator, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, which might result in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyMaterial Adverse Change.
(gm) The Representative shall have received On each Closing Date, the Company will deliver to you a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed certificate signed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, secretary of the Company dated such Closing Date and in each case form and substance satisfactory to you and substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex II.Exhibit E.
(hn) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the On each Closing Date, the Common Stock Company will deliver to you a certificate signed by the chairman of the board of directors of the Company dated such Closing Date and in form and substance satisfactory to you and substantially in the Warrants form attached hereto as Exhibit F.
(o) On each Closing Date, the Company will deliver to you a certificate signed by the chief financial officer of the Company dated such Closing Date and in form and substance satisfactory to you and substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit G.
(p) You shall have received each of the Lock-Up Agreements signed by the persons and entities set forth on Schedule III hereto on or before the date of this Agreement, and each such Lock-Up Agreement shall be listed in full force and admitted and authorized for trading effect on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleeach Closing Date.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(kq) The Company shall have furnished to you and counsel for the Underwriters such additional documents, certificates and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions evidence as you or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(lr) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any Certificates in negotiable form representing all of the conditions specified Shares underlying the ADSs to be sold by the Company hereunder will be placed in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this custody with the Depository or any custodian appointed under the Deposit Agreement. All such opinions, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to and other documents will be in compliance with the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to you and counsel for the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice The Company will furnish you with such conformed copies of such cancellation opinions, certificates, letters and other documents as you shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingreasonably request.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beAdditional Shares, as provided herein herein, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date (for purposes of this Section 6 "Closing Date" shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and any Additional Closing Date, (ii) if different, for the Additional Shares), to the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative you or to Underwriters’ ' Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) to each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If you; if the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under of the Securities ActRegulations, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(bSection 4(a) within the applicable time periodhereof; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the ClosingDate, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any post-effective amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings for the issuance of such an order therefor shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of threatened by the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsCommission.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised At the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative Closing Date you shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case opinion of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxxxx Chance Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; Underwriters in the form attached hereto as Annex I.
(iic) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPAt the Closing Date you shall have received the written opinion of Xxxxxxx Xxxxx W.S., patent legal Scottish counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date addressed to the Underwriters in the form attached hereto as Annex II and the written opinion of Stikeman Elliott, Canadian counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date addressed to the Underwriters in the form attached hereto as Annex III.
(d) All proceedings taken in connection with the sale of the Firm Shares and the Additional Shares as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and substance to you and to Underwriters' Counsel, and the Underwriters shall have received from Underwriters' Counsel a favorable opinion, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed Date, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Shares, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and such other related matters as you may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel ' Counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the Company, dated as purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(e) At the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative you shall have received certificates of each a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: that (i) the conditions condition set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have 6 has been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 1 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and the obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied withperformed, (iv) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, the Company has and the Subsidiaries have not sustained any material loss or interference with its businessestheir respective businesses or properties from fire, flood, hurricane, accident or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, and (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change material adverse change or any material change, or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changematerial change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course business, properties, condition (financial or otherwise) or results of businessoperations of the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, except in each case as described in or contemplated by the Prospectus.
(ef) On At the Closing Date you shall have received a certificate, substantially in the form set forth in Annex V, of each of the persons listed in Schedule IV.
(g) At the time this Agreement is executed and at the Closing Date, you shall have received a comfort letter, from Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, independent public auditors for the Company, dated, respectively, as of the date of this Agreement and on as of the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, Date addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect ' counsel.
(h) Prior to the time this Agreement is executed, you shall have received from the Company within a copy of a letter from Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx to the meaning Company, substantially in the form of Annex VI hereto.
(i) Subsequent to the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date)and until the Closing Date, the conclusions and findings Commission shall continue to accept the audit by Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx of such firm with respect to the audited financial information and other matters relating to statements of the Company contained in the Registration Statement covered and the Prospectus (subject to delivery by such letterXxxxxx Xxxxxxxx to the Company of any representations required by the Commission, all of which representations shall have been delivered to the Company and filed with the Commission in accordance with the Commission's requirements).
(fj) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company affecting, or any change or development involving a changeprospective change in or affecting, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, business or properties or prospects of the Company, Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, including but not limited to including, without limitation, the occurrence of any a fire, flood, storm, explosionhurricane, accident, act of war or terrorism explosion or other calamitycalamity at any of the properties owned or leased by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeUnderwriters, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale public offering or the delivery of Securities or Offering as the Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated herebyin the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(gk) The Representative You shall have also received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed person who is a director or officer of the Company and each shareholder as shall have been heretofore designated by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case you and listed on Schedule II hereto substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex IIIV.
(hl) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of At the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action Shares shall have been provided to the Representative. approved for quotation on The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Nasdaq National Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(im) FINRA At the Closing Date, the NASD shall not have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the .
(n) The Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing shall have complied with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 provisions of Section 4(c) hereof with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithfurnishing of prospectuses on the next business day succeeding the date of this Agreement.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(ko) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ ' Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(lp) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (In the “Warrant Agreement”) event the Underwriters exercise their option to purchase the Additional Shares, all of the conditions in this Section 6 must be satisfied in connection with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for such Additional Shares on or prior to the WarrantsAdditional Closing Date. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative you or to Underwriters’ ' Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative you and to Underwriters’ ' Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative you at, or at any time prior to, the consummation Closing Date and the obligations of the ClosingUnderwriters to purchase the Additional Shares may be cancelled by you at, or at any time prior to, the Additional Closing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Inveresk Research Group Inc)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for Underwritten Securities pursuant to the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be Terms Agreement are subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company herein contained, as to the accuracy of the date hereof and as statements of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from Company’s officers made in any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters certificate furnished pursuant to the Representative or provisions hereof, to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of all of its covenants and other obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional further conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The At the applicable Closing Time, (i) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have become effective been issued under the 1933 Act or proceedings therefor initiated or threatened by the Commission, (ii) the rating assigned by Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc., Standard & Poor’s Corporation and all necessary regulatory Duff and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.Xxxxxx, New York City time, on Inc. to any long-term debt securities or preferred stock of the Company as of the date of the Terms Agreement shall not have been lowered since the execution of such Terms Agreement and (iii) there shall not have come to the Representative’s attention any facts that would cause the Representative to believe that the Prospectus, together with the applicable Prospectus Supplement, at the time it was required to be delivered to a purchaser of the Underwritten Securities, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing at such time, not misleading.
(b) At the applicable Closing Time, the Representative shall have received:
(1) The favorable opinion, dated as of the applicable Closing time, of Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative, to the effect that:
(i) The Company is a corporation duly incorporated and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware.
(ii) This Agreement and the Delayed Delivery Contracts, if any, have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
(iii) The Underwritten Securities have been duly authorised by the Company and, when issued and delivered against payment of the consideration set forth in this Agreement, or at such later time will be validly issued and date as shall have been consented to fully paid and non-assessable.
(iv) The statements set forth in writing by the Representative. If Prospectus and the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A Prospectus Supplement under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in caption “Description of Preferred Stock” insofar as they purport to constitute a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form summary of the Prospectus containing information relating Underwritten Securities, are correct in all material respects.
(v) The Registration Statement is effective under the 1933 Act and, to the description best of the Securities their knowledge and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closinginformation, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued under the 1933 Act or proceedings therefor initiated or threatened by the Commission.
(vi) The Registration Statement and Prospectus, as of their respective effective or issue dates, appeared on their faces to have complied as to form in all material aspects to the requirements of the 1933 Act, including the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, except that, in each case, they do not express any opinion as to the documents incorporated by reference therein or any part thereof, financial statements or supporting schedules (or any amendment thereofnotes to any such statements or schedules) or other financial information, nor suspending in each case, in (or preventing omitted from) the use Registration Statement or the Prospectus.
(vii) The documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, as of the General Disclosure Packagedate it was filed with the SEC, appeared on its face to have complied as to form in all material aspects to the requirements of the 1934 Act, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, except that, in each case, they do not express any opinion as to any financial statements or supporting schedules (or any notes to any such statements or schedules) or other financial information, in each case, in (or omitted from) the documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus.
(viii) The execution and delivery of the Agreement, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests fulfillment of the Commission for additional information (to be included terms herein set forth and the consummation of the transactions herein Contemplated will not conflict with the charter or the bylaws of the Company. Such opinion shall also state that such counsel has not verified, and is not passing upon and does not assume any responsibility for, the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package Statement or the Prospectus, other than those mentioned in (iv) of subsection 4(b)(1) of this Section. Such counsel has, however, generally reviewed and discussed such statements with certain officers of the Company and its auditors. In the course of such review and discussion, no facts have come to such counsel’s attention that lead such counsel to believe (i) that the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof thereto (except for the financial statements and other financial data included therein or supplement theretoomitted therefrom, as to which such counsel need not comment), at the time the Registration Statement or any such amendment became effective or at the time an Annual Report on Form 10-K was filed (whichever is later), or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectusat the date of the Terms Agreement, contains contained an untrue statement of a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits omitted to state a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or (ii) that the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto (except for the financial statements and other financial data included therein or omitted therefrom, as to which such counsel need not comment), at the time the Prospectus was issued, at the time any such amended or supplemented Prospectus was issued or at the Closing Time, included or includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the Circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(2) The favorable opinion, dated as of the applicable Closing Time, of the General Counsel of Deere to the effect that (i) the Company is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing in the state of Delaware, (ii) the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the fulfillment of the terms herein set forth and the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated will not conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default under, the charter or by-laws of the Company or any agreement, indenture or other instrument known to such counsel of which the Company is a party or by which it is bound, or any law, administrative regulation or administrative or court order known to him to be applicable to the Company and the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated will not conflict with or constitute a breach of any agreement, indenture or other instrument known to him of which Deere or any of its subsidiaries, is a party or by which any of them is bound.
(3) The favorable opinion, dated as of the applicable Closing Time, of Sidley Austin LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, with respect to the matters set forth in (i) to (vi), inclusive, and the last paragraph, of subsection (b) (1) of this Section.
(c) The Representative At the applicable Closing Time, there shall not have received been, since the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as date of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed Terms Agreement or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Statement, any material adverse change in the financial condition of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, or in the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change results of operations or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changebusiness prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement , and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” certificate of the President or a Vice President of the Company, dated as of such Closing Time, to the effect that there has been no such material adverse change and to the effect that the other representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 1 are true and correct with the same force and effect as though such Closing Time were a Representation Date.
(d) The Representative shall have received from Deloitte & Touche LLP or other independent certified public accountant acceptable to the Representative a letter, dated as of the date of the Terms Agreement and delivered at such time, in form heretofore agreed to.
(e) The Representative shall have received from Deloitte & Touche LLP or other independent Certified public accountant acceptable to the Representative a letter, dated as of the applicable Closing Time, reconfirming or updating the letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx required by subsection (d) of this Section to the extent that may be reasonably requested by the Representative.
(f) At the applicable Closing Time, counsel for the Underwriters shall have been furnished with such documents and opinions as they may reasonably require for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Underwritten Securities as herein contemplated and related proceedings or in order to evidence the accuracy and completeness of any of the representations and warranties, or the fulfillment of any of the conditions, herein contained; and all proceedings taken by the Company in connection with the issuance and sale of the Underwritten Securities as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and counsel for the Underwriters.
(g) In the event the underwriters exercise their option provided in a Terms Agreement as set forth in Section 2 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 hereunder shall be true and correct as of each Date of Delivery, and the Representative shall have received:
(1) A certificate, dated such dateDate of Delivery, addressed of the President or a Vice President of the Company, in their capacities as such, confirming that the certificate delivered at Closing Time pursuant to Section 4(c) hereof remains true and correct as of such Date of Delivery.
(2) The favorable opinion of Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters Representative, dated such Date of Delivery, relating to the Option Securities and otherwise substantially to the same effect as the opinion required by Section 4(b)(1) hereof.
(3) The favorable opinion of the General Counsel of Deere, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative, dated such Date of Delivery, relating to the Option Securities and otherwise substantially to the same effect as the opinion required by Section 4(b)(2) hereof.
(4) The favorable opinion of Sidley Austin LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated such Date of Delivery, relating to the Option Securities and otherwise to the same effect as the opinion required by Section 4(b) (3) hereof.
(5) A letter from Deloitte & Touche LLP or other independent certified public accountant acceptable to the Representative, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counseldated such Date of Delivery, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect substantially the same in scope and substance as the letter furnished to the Company within Representative pursuant to Section 4(e) hereof, except that the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which “specified financial information is given date” in the Prospectus, as of letter furnished pursuant to this Section 4(g)(5) shall be a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings Date of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the WarrantsDelivery. If any of the conditions condition specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by to be fulfilled, this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder Agreement may be cancelled terminated by the Representative at, or by notice to the Company at any time at or prior toto the applicable Closing Time, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of and such cancellation termination shall be given without liability of any party to the Company any other party except as provided in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingSection 5.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securitiesaccuracy, as of the case may bedate hereof and the Closing Date (as if made at the Closing Date), as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedcontained herein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its their obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with Section 4(a) hereof; all filings (including, without limitation, the terms thereof and a form Final Term Sheet) required by Rule 424(b) or Rule 433 of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities Rules and the method of distribution and similar matters Regulations shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) made within the applicable time period; andperiods prescribed by such Rules, at or prior to and no such filings will have been made without the Closing Date and the actual time consent of the Closing, Representatives; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofamendment or supplement thereto, preventing or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Packageany Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or suspending the qualification of the Notes for offering or sale in any jurisdiction shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of any such an order shall have been initiated or threatenedthreatened pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act; all requests no notice of objection of the Commission to use the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto shall have been received by the Company; and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been disclosed to the Representatives and complied with to the Representatives’ satisfaction.
(b) No Underwriter shall have been advised by the Company, or shall have discovered and disclosed to the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Packagemost recent Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, thereto contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of the Representatives or of counsel to the Underwriters, is material, or omits to state a any fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of the Representatives or of counsel to the Underwriters, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory All corporate proceedings and other legal matters incident to the Representative authorization, form and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case validity of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLPthis Agreement, the securities Notes, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and all other legal matters relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be reasonably satisfactory in all material respects to counsel for the CompanyUnderwriters, dated as of and the Closing Date Company shall have furnished to such counsel all documents and addressed information that they may reasonably request to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel enable them to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriterspass upon such matters.
(d) The Representative Representatives shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of from Xxxxx Xxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, the opinion or opinions, addressed to the Underwriters, dated as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives and substantially in the form of Exhibits B.
(e) The Representatives shall have received from the Company’s General Counsel the opinion or opinions, addressed to the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives and substantially in the form of Exhibit C.
(f) The Representatives shall have received from Weil, Gotshal & Xxxxxx LLP, counsel to the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, addressed to the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, with respect to the Notes, Indenture, Registration Statement, Prospectus and Disclosure Package and other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(g) The Representatives shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date, signed by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or any Vice President of the Company and by the Chief Financial Officer or Chief Accounting Officer of the Company to the effect that: (i) there shall not have been, since the conditions set forth date hereof, since the Applicable Time or since the respective dates as of which information is given in subsection (a) the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package, any material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of this Section 7 have been satisfiedthe Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business; (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 1 hereof are accuratetrue and correct with the same force and effect as though expressly made at and as of Closing Date, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or complied with hereunder on satisfied at or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, to Closing Date and (iv) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and, to their knowledge, no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or contemplated by the Commission.
(h) Except as described in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, (i) neither the Company has not sustained nor any material of the Company’s Subsidiaries shall have sustained, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, any loss or interference with its businessesbusiness from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal court or governmental proceedingaction, order or decree or (vii) no stop order suspending since such date there shall not have been any change in the effectiveness capital stock or long-term debt of the Registration Statement Company or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated of the Company’s Subsidiaries or threatened by the Commissionany change, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changechange, whether in or not arising from transactions affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, stockholders’ equity, properties, business or prospects of the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries taken as a whole, the effect of which, in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii), is, in the ordinary course judgment of businessthe Representatives, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering of the Notes or on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus.
(ei) On Concurrently with the date execution of this Agreement and on the Closing DateAgreement, the Representative Representatives shall have received from KPMG LLP, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, (the “initial comfort letter”) addressed to the Underwriters Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, dated the date hereof, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, Representatives (i) confirming that they are an independent certified registered public accountants with respect to the Company accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and all are in compliance with the applicable rules and regulationsrequirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, and (ii) stating, as of the date hereof (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, as of a date not more than three days prior to the date hereof), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters in connection with registered public offerings.
(j) The Representatives shall have received a “bring-down comfort” letter (the “bring-down comfort letter”) from KPMG LLP, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, addressed to the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives (i) confirming that they are an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and are in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, (ii) stating, as of the date of the bring-down comfort letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) three days prior to such datethe date of the bring-down comfort letter), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such the initial comfort letter and (iii) confirming in all material respects the conclusions and findings set forth in the initial comfort letter.
(fk) Prior to or on the Closing Date, the Representatives shall have been furnished by the Company such additional documents and certificates as the Representatives or counsel for the Underwriters may reasonably request.
(l) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement orAgreement, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the Registration Statement rating accorded to the debt securities of the Company, or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (exclusive as that term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act), and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has any amendment thereofsuch debt securities under surveillance or review with possible negative implications.
(m) Subsequent to the execution and the Prospectus (exclusive delivery of any supplement thereto)this Agreement, there shall not have been occurred any change of the following: (i) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange or the American Stock Exchange or in the capital stock over-the-counter market, or long-term debt trading in any securities of the Company on any exchange or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course over-the-counter market, shall have been suspended or materially limited or the settlement of businesssuch trading generally shall have been materially disrupted or minimum prices shall have been established on any such exchange or such market by the Commission, by such exchange or by any other regulatory body or governmental authority having jurisdiction; (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared by federal or state authorities; (iii) the United States shall have become engaged in hostilities, there shall have been an escalation in hostilities involving the United States or there shall have been a declaration of a national emergency or war by the United States; or (iv) there shall have occurred such a material adverse change in general economic, political or financial conditions, including, without limitation, as a result of terrorist activities after the date hereof (or the effect of international conditions on the financial markets in the United States shall be such) as to make it, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeRepresentatives, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale offering of Securities the Notes or Offering as on the terms and in the manner contemplated herebyin the Prospectus.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(kn) The Company shall have furnished executed and delivered a Board Resolution (as defined in the Indenture) and an Officers’ Certificate (as defined in the Indenture) in respect of the Notes and the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other shall have received copies thereof. All opinions, certificates, opinions or letters and documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified referred to in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by 6 will be in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, or Agreement only if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Representatives and to counsel for the Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of . The Company will furnish to the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice Representatives conformed copies of such cancellation shall be given to opinions, certificates, letters and other documents in such number as the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingRepresentatives will reasonably request.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any the Option SecuritiesShares, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from of any misstatement or omission in any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Representative’s Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission6, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 76, the terms “Closing Date” shall refer to both the Closing Date and Option Closing Date (if any), and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the of both Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or the Option SecuritiesShares (if any), as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and or listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.p.m., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof hereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and or the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided, however, that if in the Representative’s opinion such deficiency is curable Representative shall have given the Company reasonable notice of such deficiency and a reasonable chance to cure such deficiency.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case opinions of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Lxxx & Xxxxx Lxxx LLP, the securities U.S., legal counsel for the Company, including negative assurance language, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Representative in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters; and (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPOgier, patent legal Cayman Islands counsel to for the Company, Company dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; Representative in form and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the each Closing Date, Date to the effect that: (i) the conditions condition set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have 6 has been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the applicable Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section Sections 1 and 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the applicable Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its their respective businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so includedincluded or incorporated by reference, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, Prospectus there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “cold comfort” letter and a bring-down comfort letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, the Auditor addressed to the Underwriters Representative and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Representative’s Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules the Rules and regulationsRegulations, and stating, as of such the date of delivery (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to the date of such dateletter), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, and prior to the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto)Closing Date, there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, Company including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable sole judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale Offering on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus (exclusive of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyany supplement).
(g) The Prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Representative shall have received a lockLock-up agreement Up Agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex II.I.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are Ordinary Shares shall have been registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants Ordinary Shares shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ NYSE American or Nasdaq Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminateto, or likely to have the effect of terminating, terminating the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants Ordinary Shares under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Ordinary Shares from the NYSE American or Nasdaq Capital Market, nor will has the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ NYSE American or Nasdaq Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or of listing. The Securities Shares shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters Representative with a Certificate of Good Standing for the Company certified by the Registrar of Companies of the Cayman Islands, dated no earlier than two (2) Business Days of the date of this Agreement.
(l) The Company shall have furnished the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Representative’s Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and or to Underwriters’ Representative’s Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedaccuracy, as of the date hereof and as at each of the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date (as if made at such Closing Date), (ii) of and compliance with all representations, warranties and agreements of the absence from any certificatesCompany and the Selling Stockholders contained herein, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company and the Selling Stockholders of its their respective obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.5:00 p.m., New York City Central time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, shall approve and all filings required by Rules 424, 430A and 433 shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodmade; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Issuer-Represented Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s your satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative No Underwriter shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, Company that the Registration Statement, the General Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Issuer-Represented Free Writing Prospectus, Prospectus contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable your opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable your opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and Except as contemplated in the case Time of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so includedProspectus, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Time of Sale Disclosure Package, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall have incurred any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, or entered into any material transactions, or declared or paid any dividends or made any distribution of any kind with respect to its capital stock; and there shall not have been any change in the Prospectuscapital stock (other than a change in the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise of outstanding options or warrants), there has not been or any material change in the short-term or long-term debt of the Company, or any issuance of options, warrants, convertible securities or other rights to purchase the capital stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, Change (whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business), that, in your judgment, makes it impractical or inadvisable to offer or deliver the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(d) On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, the opinion of Paul, Hastings, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, in substantially the form attached hereto on Annex I.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the First Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the Representative several Underwriters, the opinion of Paul, Hastings, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Selling Stockholders, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, in substantially the form attached hereto on Annex II.
(f) On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, the opinion of Xxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP, special regulatory counsel for the Company, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, in substantially the form attached hereto on Annex III.
(g) On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, the opinion of Xxxxxx Martens Xxxxx & Bear LLP, special intellectual property counsel for the Company, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, in substantially the form attached hereto on Annex IV.
(h) On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, such opinion or opinions from Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the several Underwriters, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, with respect to the formation of the Company, the validity of the Securities, the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus and other related matters as you reasonably may request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.
(i) On the date hereof and each Closing Date you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB of Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each Xxxxxxxx LLP, dated such date, Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counselyou, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all are in compliance with the applicable rules and regulationsrequirements relating to the qualifications of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, and stating, as of the date of such date letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the ProspectusTime of Sale Disclosure Package, as of a date not prior to the date hereof or more than five (5) days prior to the date of such dateletter), the conclusions and findings of such said firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by its letter delivered to you concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, and the effect of the letter so to be delivered on such Closing Date shall be to confirm the conclusions and findings set forth in such prior letter.
(fj) Subsequent On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the Underwriters, a certificate, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, signed by the chief executive officer and by the chief financial officer of the Company, to the execution effect that:
(i) The representations and delivery warranties of the Company in this Agreement orare true and correct, in all material respects, as if earliermade at and as of such Closing Date, and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part required under this Agreement to be performed or satisfied at or prior to such Closing Date;
(ii) No stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof or any amendment thereof or the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale, nor suspending or preventing the use of the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer-Represented Free Writing Prospectus, has been issued, and, to the best of their knowledge, no proceeding for that purpose has been instituted or is contemplated by the Commission or any state or regulatory body; and
(iii) The signers of said certificate have examined the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto, and (A) each part of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto contain, and contained when such part of the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, became effective, all statements and information required to be included therein, the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, does not contain and did not contain when such part of the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, became effective, any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, does not include and did not include as of its date or the time of first use within the meaning of the Rules and Regulations, any untrue statement of material fact or omit to state and did not omit to state as of its date or the time of first use within the meaning of the rules and Regulations a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, (B) neither (1) the Time of Sale Disclosure Package nor (2) any individual Issuer-Represented Limited-Use Free Writing Prospectus, when considered together with the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, include, nor included as of the Time of Sale any untrue statement of a material fact or omits, or omitted as of the Time of Sale, to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, (C) since the Time of Sale there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amended or supplemented prospectus which has not been so set forth, (D) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive Time of Sale Disclosure Package, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has incurred any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, or entered into any material transactions, not in the ordinary course of business, or declared or paid any dividends or made any distribution of any amendment thereof) kind with respect to its capital stock, and except as disclosed in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto)Prospectus, there shall has not have been any change in the capital stock (other than a change in the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise of outstanding options or warrants), or any material change in the short-term or long-term debt debt, or any issuance of options, warrants, convertible securities or other rights to purchase the capital stock, of the Company Company, or any change of its subsidiaries, or any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a change, prospective Material Adverse Change (whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business), and (E) except as stated in the businessTime of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, condition (financial or otherwise)there is not pending, results of operationsor, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects to the knowledge of the Company, taken as threatened or contemplated, any action, suit or proceeding to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a wholeparty before or by any court or Governmental Authority, including but not limited or any arbitrator, which would reasonably be expected to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, result in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanyMaterial Adverse Change.
(k) The Company Underwriters shall have furnished received all the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requestedLock-Up Agreements referenced in Section 4(a)(xi).
(l) The Company On each Closing Date, there shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Companybeen furnished to you, as warrant agent Representatives of the several Underwriters, a certificate or certificates, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, signed by each of the Selling Stockholders or either of such Selling Stockholder’s Attorneys-in-Fact to the effect that the representations and warranties of such Selling Stockholder contained in this Agreement are true and correct as if made at and as of such Closing Date, and that such Selling Stockholder has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on such Selling Stockholder’s part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to such Closing Date.
(m) At each Closing Date, counsel for the Warrants. If Underwriters shall have been furnished with such information, certificates and documents as they may reasonably require for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Securities as contemplated herein and related proceedings, or to evidence the accuracy of any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreementrepresentations or warranties, or if the fulfillment of any of the conditions, herein contained, or otherwise in connection with the offering of the Securities contemplated hereby.
(n) The NASDAQ Global Market shall have approved the Securities for listing, subject only to official notice of issuance. All such opinions, certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to and other documents mentioned above and elsewhere in this Agreement will be in compliance with the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to you and counsel for the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice The Company will furnish you with such conformed copies of such cancellation opinions, certificates, letters and other documents as you shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingreasonably request.
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Samples: Purchase Agreement (Masimo Corp)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase the accuracy, as of the date hereof, the Closing Date and pay for any settlement date (as if made at the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants Closing Date or any Option Securitiessettlement date, as the case may be), as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedcontained herein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form Section 4(a) hereof; all filings required by Rule 424(b) or Rule 433 of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities Rules and the method of distribution and similar matters Regulations shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) made within the applicable time period; andperiods prescribed by such Rules, at or prior to and no such filings will have been made without the Closing Date and the actual time consent of the Closing, Representatives; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofamendment or supplement thereto, preventing or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Packageany Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or suspending the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of any such an order shall have been initiated or threatenedthreatened pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act; all requests no notice of objection of the Commission to use the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto shall have been received by the Company; and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been disclosed to the Representatives and complied with to the Representatives’ satisfaction.
(b) No Underwriter shall have been advised by the Company, or shall have discovered and disclosed to the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Packagemost recent Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, thereto contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of the Representatives or of counsel to the Underwriters, is material, or omits to state a any fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of counsel to the Underwriters, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative Representatives shall have received the favorable written opinionsfrom Skadden, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii)Arps, including customary negative assurance language)Slate, of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx Xxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and opinion or opinions, addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel dated the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Company, dated as Representatives and substantially in the form of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.Exhibit B.
(d) The Representative Representatives shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of from the Company’s General Counsel the opinion or opinions, addressed to the Underwriters, dated as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives and substantially in the form of Exhibit C.
(e) The Representatives shall have received from Cravath, Swaine & Xxxxx LLP, counsel to the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, addressed to the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, with respect to the Securities, Registration Statement, Prospectus and Disclosure Package and other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(f) The Representatives shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date, signed by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or any Vice President of the Company and by the Chief Financial Officer or Chief Accounting Officer of the Company to the effect that: (i) there shall not have been, since the conditions set forth date hereof, since the Applicable Time or since the respective dates as of which information is given in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfiedthe Prospectus or the Disclosure Package, any Company Material Adverse Effect or to the Company’s knowledge, any Seller Material Adverse Effect; (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 1 hereof are accuratetrue and correct with the same force and effect as though expressly made at and as of Closing Date, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company has complied with this Agreement and satisfied all conditions to be performed or complied with satisfied hereunder on at or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, to the Closing Date and (iv) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and, to their knowledge, no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or contemplated by the Commission.
(g) Except as described in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, (i) neither the Company has not sustained nor any material of the Company’s subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, the Seller, shall have sustained, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, any loss or interference with its businessesbusiness from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal court or governmental proceedingaction, order or decree or (vii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of since such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change of the Company’s subsidiaries or any change, or any development involving a prospective change, whether in or not arising from transactions in affecting the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholdersstockholders’ equity, properties properties, business or prospects of the Company and the Company, ’s subsidiaries taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described abovein clause (i) or (ii), is, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeRepresentatives, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale offering of the Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by on the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially terms and in the form attached as Annex IImanner contemplated in the Prospectus.
(h) The Common Stock Concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, the Representatives shall have received with respect to each of the Company, Health Net and the Warrants Seller from KPMG LLP, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, or Deloitte & Touche, LLP, the independent registered public accounting firm of Health Net and the Seller, as applicable, a “comfort” letter (the “initial comfort letters”) addressed to the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, dated the date hereof, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, each (i) confirming that they are an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and are in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Exchange Act andCommission (except in the case of Deloitte & Touche’s comfort letter with respect to the Seller) and (ii) stating, as of the Closing Datedate hereof (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified historical and pro forma financial information of the Company, Health Net and the Purchased Assets, as applicable, is given in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, as of a date not more than three days prior to the date hereof), the Common Stock conclusions and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence findings of such action shall have been provided firm with respect to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleunderwriters in connection with registered public offerings.
(i) FINRA The Representatives shall have confirmed received a “bring-down comfort” letter with respect to each of the Company, Health Net and the Seller from KPMG LLP, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, and Deloitte & Touche, LLP, the independent registered public accounting firm of Health Net and the Seller, as applicable (the “bring-down comfort letters”), addressed to the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, each (i) confirming that it has not raised any objection they are an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and are in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission (except in the case of Deloitte & Touche’s comfort letter with respect to the fairness and reasonableness Seller), (ii) stating, as of the underwriting terms date of the bring-down comfort letters (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified historical and arrangements. In additionpro forma financial information of the Company, Health Net and the Purchased Assets, as applicable, is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than three days prior to the date of the bring-down comfort letters), the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the Registration Statement financial information and pay other matters covered by the initial comfort letters and (iii) confirming in all filing fees required material respects the conclusions and findings set forth in connection therewiththe initial comfort letters.
(j) No action Prior to or on the Closing Date or any settlement date, the Representatives shall have been taken furnished by the Company such additional documents and no statute, rule, regulation certificates as the Representatives or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of counsel for the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanyUnderwriters may reasonably request.
(k) The Company Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, (i) no downgrading shall have furnished occurred in the Underwriters rating accorded to the debt securities of the Company, or any of the Company’s subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as that term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act), and Underwriters’ Counsel (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requestedpossible negative implications its rating of any of the Company’s debt securities.
(l) The Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, there shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Global Market or the American Stock Exchange or in the over-the-counter market, or trading in any securities of the Company on any exchange or in the over-the-counter market, shall have entered into been suspended or materially limited or the settlement of such trading generally shall have been materially disrupted or minimum prices shall have been established on any such exchange or such market by the Commission, by such exchange or by any other regulatory body or governmental authority having jurisdiction; (ii) a warrant agreement banking moratorium shall have been declared by federal or state authorities; (iii) the United States shall have become engaged in hostilities, there shall have been an escalation in hostilities involving the United States or there shall have been a declaration of a national emergency or war by the United States; or (iv) there shall have occurred such a material adverse change in general economic, political or financial conditions, including, without limitation, as a result of terrorist activities after the date hereof (or the effect of international conditions on the financial markets in the United States shall be such) as to make it, in the judgment of the Representatives, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering of the Securities or on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus.
(m) The New York Stock Exchange shall have approved the Securities for listing, subject only to official notice of issuance.
(n) A letter or letters, substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto (the “Warrant AgreementLock-Up Agreements”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified listed directors and officers of the Company set forth on Schedule IV, delivered to the Underwriter on or before the date of this Agreement, shall be in full force and effect on the Closing Date. All opinions, certificates, letters and documents referred to in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by 6 will be in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, or Agreement only if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Representatives and to counsel for the Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of . The Company will furnish to the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice Representatives conformed copies of such cancellation shall be given to opinions, certificates, letters and other documents in such number as the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingRepresentatives will reasonably request.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares Shares, and Firm Warrants or any the Underwriters’ option to purchase the Option Securities, as the case may beShares, as provided herein herein, shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, or for any Additional Closing, as of any Additional Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative Underwriters or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing DateClosing” and “Additional Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for closing of the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option SecuritiesShares, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closingrespectively.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 [5:30] P.M., New York City timeEastern Time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the RepresentativeUnderwriters. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date Date, any Additional Closing Date, and the actual time of the Closing or any Additional Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure PackageMaterials, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure PackageMaterials, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s Underwriters’ satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative Underwriters shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package Materials, or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s Underwriters’ reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s Underwriters’ reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative Underwriters shall have received the favorable written opinionsreceived, in each case in form reasonably satisfactory to the Representative Underwriters and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) legal opinions from Xxxxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxxxx, Cayman Islands counsel to the Company dated as of the Closing Date, or for any Additional Closing, as of any Additional Closing Date and addressed to the Representative, (ii), including customary ) legal opinions and negative assurance language), of (i) letter from Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLPLi LLC, the U.S. securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, or for any Additional Closing, as of any Additional Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; Representative, and (iiiii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPlegal opinions from Guantao Law Firm Hangzhou Office, patent PRC legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLCDate, trademark legal counsel or for the Companyany Additional Closing, dated as of the any Additional Closing Date and addressed to the UnderwritersCompany. A copy of such opinion shall have been provided to the Underwriters with consent from such counsel.
(d) The Representative Underwriters shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the CompanyCompany (the “Officers’ Certificate”), substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex I and dated as of the Closing Date, or for any Additional Closing, as of any Additional Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, or for any Additional Closing, as of any Additional Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, or for any Additional Closing, as of any Additional Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) except as disclosed in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement Statement, the Disclosure Materials, and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) At each of the Closing Date, or for any Additional Closing, as of any Additional Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received a certificate of the Company signed by the Secretary of the Company (the “Secretary’s Certificate”), substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex II and dated the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, certifying: (i) that the Charter is true and complete, has not been modified and is in full force and effect; (ii) that the resolutions of the Company’s board of directors relating to the Offering are in full force and effect and have not been modified; (iii) the good standing of the Company; and (iv) as to the incumbency of the officers of the Company. The documents referred to in such certificate shall be attached to such certificate.
(f) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, or for any Additional Closing, on any Additional Closing Date, the Representative Underwriters shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx WWC, P.C. (the “Auditor Comfort Letter”) as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulationsRegulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five three (53) business days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(fg) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, or for any Additional Closing, on any Additional Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Representative, a certificate on behalf of the Company, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof and addressed to the Underwriters, of its Chief Financial Officer with respect to certain financial date contained in the Registration Statement and Prospectus (the “CFO Certificate”), providing “management comfort” with respect to such information, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative, substantially in the form attached hereto as Xxxxx XXX.
(h) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock shares or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeUnderwriters, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(gi) The Representative Underwriters shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex IIIV.
(hj) The Common Stock and the Warrants Securities are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, or for any Additional Closing, as of any Additional Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants Securities shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Nasdaq Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the RepresentativeUnderwriters. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants Securities under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants Securities from trading on the NASDAQ Nasdaq Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Nasdaq Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities Firm Shares shall be DTC eligible.
(ik) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(jl) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, or for any Additional Closing, as of any Additional Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, or for any Additional Closing, as of any Additional Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(km) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Zhengye Biotechnology Holding LTD)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as Designated Securities they have severally agreed to purchase under this Agreement on the case may be, as provided herein shall be Closing Date are subject to: (i) to the accuracy in all material respects of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, and the Guarantor contained in this Agreement as of the date hereof of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel accuracy in all material respects of the statements of the Company and the Guarantor made in any certificates pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement the provisions hereof delivered prior to or omissionconcurrently with such purchase, (iii) to the performance by the Company and the Guarantor of its their obligations hereunderunder this Agreement, and (iv) each of to the following additional further conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof; all filings (including, without limitation, the terms thereof and a form final term sheet prepared pursuant to Section 5(a) hereof) required by Rule 424(b) or Rule 433 of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities Rules and the method of distribution and similar matters Regulations shall have been filed with made, and no such filings will have been made without the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time consent of the Closing, Representative(s); no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofamendment or supplement thereto, preventing or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure PackagePreliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or suspending the qualification of the Designated Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of any such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests no notice of objection of the Commission to use the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the Rules and Regulations shall have been received by the Company; and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, Statement or the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been disclosed to the Underwriters and complied with to the Representative’s Underwriters’ satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative No Underwriter shall not have reasonably determined, been advised by the Company or shall have discovered and advised disclosed to the Company, Company that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, which in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of the Underwriters, or in the opinion of counsel to the Underwriters, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of the Underwriters, or in the opinion of counsel to the Underwriters, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative At the Closing Date, if from the Applicable Time to the Closing Date there is no Downgrade Event or Review Event (each as defined below), the Underwriters shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Companya certificate, dated as of the Closing Date, of the Guarantor signed by the principal financial or accounting officer of the Guarantor, certifying, with respect to the effect that: Guarantor, that at the Closing Date and subsequent to the dates as of which information is given in the Disclosure Package, (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued shall be in effect, and no proceedings therefor have been initiated for such purpose shall be pending before or threatened by the Commission, Commission (viii) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any material adverse change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a changefinancial condition, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties earnings or prospects of the CompanyGuarantor and its subsidiaries, taken considered as a wholeone enterprise, including but (iii) since the Applicable Time, there shall not limited have been, with respect to the occurrence rating of any firedebt securities or preferred stock of the Guarantor or debt securities or preferred stock unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor, flooda downgrade by Xxxxx’x Investor Services, stormInc. (“Moody’s”), explosionFitch Ratings Ltd. (“Fitch”); or Standard and Poor’s Corporation (“S&P”) (any such event, accidenta “Downgrade Event”), act or any public announcement that either Moody’s, Fitch, or S&P has under surveillance or review its rating of war any debt securities or terrorism preferred stock of the Guarantor or debt securities or preferred stock unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor (other calamitythan an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading, and no implication of a possible downgrading, of such rating, and any announcement made prior to the Applicable Time) (any such event, a “Review Event”), (iv) each of the Company and the Guarantor shall have complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its respective part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date, and (v) the representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantor set forth in Section 1 above and in the applicable Underwriting Agreement, if any, are accurate in all material respects as though expressly made at and as of the Closing Date. If, however, from the Applicable Time to the Closing Date, there is a Downgrade Event or a Review Event, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative Underwriters shall have received at the Closing Date a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partycertificate, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, dated as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock Guarantor signed by the principal financial or accounting officer of the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital MarketGuarantor, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection certifying, with respect to the fairness Guarantor, solely the matters set forth in Section 6(c)(i), (ii), (iv) and reasonableness (v), unless the Representatives, on behalf of the underwriting terms Underwriters, shall have notified in writing to the Company and arrangementsthe Guarantor, by the earlier of 48 hours from the occurrence of the Downgrade Event or Review Event, as the case may be, or the Closing Date, that in their good faith and judgment such Downgrade Event or Review Event makes it impracticable or inadvisable to consummate the offering of the Designated Securities. In addition, at the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received a certificate dated as of the Closing Date of the Company shallsigned by a director of the Company certifying, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement Company, the matters set forth in this Section 6(c)(iv) and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith(v).
(jd) No action At the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have been taken and no statutereceived a signed opinion or opinions of counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters, ruledated as of the Closing Date.
(e) At the Applicable Time, regulation or order the Underwriters shall have been enactedreceived letters of accountants, adopted ordinarily referred to as “comfort letters”, confirming information as specified in the applicable Underwriting Agreement and dated the date on which the Term Sheets and/or the Prospectus are dated, as applicable from those accountants of the Guarantor or issued by any federalof its subsidiaries as specified in the applicable Underwriting Agreement.
(f) At the Closing Date, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, the Underwriters shall have received letters of accountants dated as of the Closing Date, prevent confirming information as specified in the issuance or sale comfort letters delivered pursuant to Section 6(e) above, from those accountants of the Securities; and no injunction Guarantor or order any of any federal, state its subsidiaries as specified in the applicable Underwriting Agreement.
(g) At or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of prior to the Closing Date, prevent (i) the issuance or sale public deed in respect to the Designated Securities shall have been registered in the Madrid Mercantile Registry; and (ii) the announcement related to the issue of the Designated Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect shall have been published in the business or operations Official Gazette of the Company.
Mercantile Registry (k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the WarrantsBoletin Oficial del Registro Mercantil). If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 or in Section 2 of the applicable Underwriting Agreement shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects when and as required by this AgreementAgreement to be fulfilled, or if any of this Agreement may be terminated by the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished Underwriters upon notice to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form Company and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or Guarantor at any time at or prior toto the Closing Date, and such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party except as provided in Section 7 herein. Notwithstanding any such termination, the consummation provisions of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation Sections 8, 9, 10, 14 and 16 herein shall be given to the Company remain in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingeffect.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be on the First Closing Date and, with respect to the Option Shares, the Subsequent Closing Date, are subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedaccuracy, as of the date hereof and as at each of the First Closing Date and, with respect to the Option Shares, the Subsequent Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omissionif any, (iii) as if made at such Closing Date), of and compliance with all representations, warranties and agreements of the Company and the Selling Stockholders contained herein, to the performance by the Company and the Selling Stockholders of its their respective obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.5:00 p.m., New York City Central time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, shall approve and all filings required by Rules 424, 430A and 433 of the Rules and Regulations shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon timely made (without reliance on Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to 424(b)(8) or Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period164(b)); and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, thereof or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s your satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative No Underwriter shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, Company that (i) the Registration StatementStatement or any amendment thereof or supplement thereof contains an untrue statement of a material fact which, in your opinion, is material, or omits to state a material fact which, in your opinion, is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the General statements therein not misleading, or (ii) the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, Prospectus contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable your opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable your opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received Except as contemplated in the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the case of (i) and (ii)Prospectus, including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall have incurred any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, or entered into any material transactions, or declared or paid any dividends or made any distribution of any kind with respect to its capital stock; and there has shall not have been any change in the capital stock (other than a change in the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise or conversion of outstanding securities), or any material change in the short-term or long-term debt of the Company, or any issuance of options, warrants, convertible securities or other rights to purchase the capital stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (other than issuances of options, restricted stock or other rights to acquire capital stock under the Company’s 2003 Equity Incentive Plan, the Company’s 2007 Equity Incentive Plan or the Company’s 2007 Employee Stock Purchase Plan), or any other Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, Change (whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business), that, in your judgment, makes it impractical or inadvisable to offer or deliver the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus.
(d) On or after the Time of Sale no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded the Company’s debt securities or preferred stock by any “nationally recognized statistical organization,” as that term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the Act;
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the Representative several Underwriters, (i) the opinion of Xxxxxx Godward Kronish LLP, counsel for the Company, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-1 and (ii) the negative assurance letter of Xxxxxx Godward Kronish LLP, counsel for the Company, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-2.
(f) On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, the opinion of Fenwick & West LLP, special intellectual property counsel for the Company, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C.
(g) On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, the opinion of Xxxxx, Xxxxxx & XxXxxxxx, PC, special FDA regulatory counsel for the Company, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D.
(h) On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, such opinion or opinions from Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the several Underwriters, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, with respect to the formation of the Company, the validity of the Securities, the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus and other related matters as you reasonably may request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they request to enable them to pass upon such matters.
(i) On the date hereof and on each Closing Date you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each Ernst & Young LLP, dated such date, date and addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counselyou, confirming that they are it is an independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and all is in compliance with the applicable rules and regulationsrequirements relating to the qualifications of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, and stating, as of the date of such date letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the ProspectusTime of Sale Disclosure Package, as of a date not prior to the date hereof or more than five (5) business days prior to the date of such dateletter), the conclusions and findings of such said firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating covered by its letter delivered to you concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, and there shall not have been any change or decrease specified in the letter delivered on such Closing Date which is, in the sole judgment of the Representatives, so material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or delivery of the Securities as contemplated by the Registration Statement covered by such letterand the Prospectus.
(fj) Subsequent On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the Underwriters, a certificate, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, signed by the chief executive officer and by the chief financial officer of the Company, to the execution effect that:
(i) The representations and delivery warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct as if made at and as of such Closing Date, and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to such Closing Date;
(ii) No stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof or the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale, nor suspending or preventing the use of the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, has been issued, and no proceeding for that purpose has been instituted or, if earlierto the best of their knowledge, is contemplated by the Commission or any state or regulatory body; and
(iii) The signers of said certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto, and (A) each part of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto contain, and contained when such part of the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, became effective, all statements and information required to be included therein, the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, does not contain and did not contain when such part of the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, became effective, any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, does not include and did not include as of its date or the time of first use within the meaning of the Rules and Regulations, any untrue statement of material fact or omit to state and did not omit to state as of its date or the time of first use within the meaning of the rules and Regulations a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, (B) neither (1) the Time of Sale Disclosure Package nor (2) any individual Issuer Limited-Use Free Writing Prospectus, when considered together with the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, include, nor included as of the Time of Sale any untrue statement of a material fact or omits, or omitted as of the Time of Sale, to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, (C) since the Time of Sale there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amended or supplemented prospectus which has not been so set forth, (D) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any subsidiary has incurred any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, or entered into any material transactions, not in the ordinary course of business, or declared or paid any dividends or made any distribution of any amendment thereof) kind with respect to its capital stock, and except as disclosed in the Prospectus (exclusive Time of any supplement thereto)Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, there shall has not have been any change in the capital stock (other than a change in the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise or conversion of outstanding securities), or any material change in the short-term or long-term debt debt, or any issuance of options, warrants, convertible securities or other rights to purchase the capital stock (other than issuances of options, restricted or other rights to acquire capital stock under the Company’s 2003 Equity Incentive Plan, the Company’s 2007 Equity Incentive Plan or the Company’s 2007 Employee Stock Purchase Plan) of the Company Company, or any change of its subsidiaries, or any other Material Adverse Change or any development involving a change, which could reasonably be expected to result in any Material Adverse Change (whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business), and (E) except as stated in the businessTime of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, condition (financial or otherwise)there is not pending, results of operationsor, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects to the knowledge of the Company, taken as threatened or contemplated, any action, suit or proceeding to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a wholeparty before or by any court, including but not limited Governmental Authority or any arbitrator, which could reasonably be expected to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, result in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanyMaterial Adverse Change.
(k) The Company At the Second Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, the opinion of White and Xxx LLP, counsel for the Selling Stockholders, dated the Second Closing Date and addressed to you in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit E.
(l) On the Second Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, a certificate or certificates, dated the Second Closing Date and addressed to you, signed by each of the Selling Stockholders or either of such Selling Stockholder’s Attorneys-in-Fact to the effect that the representations and warranties of such Selling Stockholder contained in this Agreement are true and correct as if made at and as of such Closing Date, and that such Selling Stockholder has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on such Selling Stockholder’s part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to such Closing Date.
(m) The Underwriters shall have received all of the Lock-Up Agreements referenced in Section 4(a)(x).
(n) The Securities shall have been approved for inclusion on NASDAQ, subject only to official notice of issuance.
(o) At each Closing Date, counsel for the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel shall have been furnished with such other certificatesinformation, opinions or certificates and documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent request for the Warrants. If purpose of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Securities as contemplated herein and related proceedings, or to evidence the accuracy of any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreementrepresentations or warranties, or if the fulfillment of any of the conditions, herein contained, or otherwise in connection with the offering of the Securities contemplated hereby. All such opinions, certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to and other documents will be in compliance with the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to you and counsel for the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice The Company will furnish you with such conformed copies of such cancellation opinions, certificates, letters and other documents as you shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingreasonably request.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securitiesaccuracy, as of the case may bedate hereof and the Closing Date (as if made at the Closing Date), as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedcontained herein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with Section 4(a) hereof; all filings (including, without limitation, the terms thereof and a form Final Term Sheet) required by Rule 424(b) or Rule 433 of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities Rules and the method of distribution and similar matters Regulations shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) made within the applicable time periodperiods prescribed by such Rules, and no such filings will have been made without the consent of each Representative; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofamendment or supplement thereto, preventing or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Packageany Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or suspending the qualification of the Notes for offering or sale in any jurisdiction shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of any such an order shall have been initiated or threatenedthreatened pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act; all requests no notice of objection of the Commission to use the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto shall have been received by the Company; and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been disclosed to the Representatives and complied with to the Representatives’ satisfaction.
(b) No Underwriter shall have been advised by the Company, or shall have discovered and disclosed to the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Packagemost recent Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, thereto contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of each Representative or of counsel to the Underwriters, is material, or omits to state a any fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of each Representative or of counsel to the Underwriters, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representatives shall have received from Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel to the Underwriters, their opinion and negative assurance letter, addressed to the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, with respect to the Notes, Indenture, Registration Statement, Prospectus and Disclosure Package and other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(d) The Representatives shall have received from Fried, Xxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, special counsel to the Company, their opinion, addressed to the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A to this Agreement.
(e) The Representatives shall have received from Holland & Knight LLP, counsel to the Company, their opinion and negative assurance letter, addressed to the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit B to this Agreement.
(f) The Representatives shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date, signed by an executive officer of the Company, to the effect that: (i) the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct, as if made at and as of the Closing Date, and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be complied with or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date; (ii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued, no proceedings for any such purpose have been initiated or, to the knowledge of such officers, threatened; and the Commission has not notified the Company of any objection to the use of the form of Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto; (iii) all filings required by Rule 424(b) or Rule 433 of the Rules and Regulations have been made within the time periods prescribed by such Rules; (iv) the signer of such certificate has carefully examined the Registration Statement, the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto (including any documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference into the most recent Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus), and, in such signer’s opinion, the Registration Statement as of the Effective Date, the Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time, and the Prospectus, as of its date, did not and, on the Closing Date, do not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; (v) since the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement, the most recent Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus which has not been so set forth and there has been no document required to be filed under the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations or the Exchange Act and the Exchange Act Regulations that upon such filing would be deemed to be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement, the most recent Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus that has not been so filed; and (vi) no event contemplated by Section 6(g) hereof has occurred.
(cg) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory Subsequent to the Representative execution and Underwriters’ counsel (delivery of this Agreement and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed prior to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 there shall not have been satisfiedoccurred any change, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changechange, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of business.
(e) On the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, from that set forth in the Disclosure Package as of the date of this Agreement that, in the Representatives’ respective judgment, is material and adverse and that makes it, in the Representatives’ respective judgment, impracticable to market the Notes on the Closing Dateterms and in the manner contemplated in the Disclosure Package.
(h) Concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, the Representative Representatives shall have received from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, (the “initial PwC comfort letter”) addressed to the Underwriters Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, dated the date hereof, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, Representatives (i) confirming that they are an independent certified registered public accountants with respect to the Company accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and all are in compliance with the applicable rules requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission and regulations, and (ii) stating, as of the date hereof (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, as of a date not more than three days prior to the date hereof), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters in connection with registered public offerings.
(i) Concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, the Representatives shall have received from BDO USA, LLP, a “comfort” letter (the “initial BDO comfort letter”) addressed to the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, dated the date hereof, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives (i) confirming that they are an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and are in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission and (ii) stating, as of the date hereof (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, as of a date not more than three days prior to the date hereof), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters in connection with registered public offerings.
(j) Concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, the Representatives shall have received from Deloitte & Touch LLP, IEA LLC’s independent registered public accounting firm, a “comfort” letter (the “initial Deloitte comfort letter” together with the initial PwC comfort letter and the initial BDO comfort letter, the “initial comfort letters”) addressed to the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, dated the date hereof, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives (i) confirming that they are an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and are in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission and (ii) stating, as of the date hereof (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, as of a date not more than three days prior to the date hereof), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters in connection with registered public offerings.
(k) The Representatives shall have received a “bring-down comfort” letters (the “bring-down comfort letters”) from each of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, BDO USA, LLP and Deloitte & Touche, LLP, addressed to the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives (i) confirming that they are each an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and are in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, (ii) stating, as of the date of each bring-down comfort letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) three days prior to the date of such datebring-down comfort letter), the conclusions and findings of such each firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letterthe initial comfort letters and (iii) confirming in all material respects the conclusions and findings set forth in the initial comfort letters.
(fl) The Representatives shall have received a certificate, on and dated as of each of the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date, of the chief financial officer of the Company with respect to certain financial data contained in the Registration Statement, Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, providing “management comfort” with respect to such information, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
(m) Prior to or on the Closing Date, the Representatives shall have been furnished by the Company such additional documents and certificates as the Representatives or counsel for the Underwriters may reasonably request.
(n) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement orAgreement, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the Registration Statement rating accorded to the debt securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (exclusive as that term is defined in Rule 436(g)(2) of the Rules and Regulations), and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has any amendment thereofsuch debt securities under surveillance or review with possible negative implications.
(o) Subsequent to the execution and the Prospectus (exclusive delivery of any supplement thereto)this Agreement, there shall not have been occurred any change of the following: (i) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange or the American Stock Exchange or in the capital stock over-the-counter market, or long-term debt trading in any securities of the Company on any exchange or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course over-the-counter market, shall have been suspended or materially limited or the settlement of businesssuch trading generally shall have been materially disrupted or minimum prices shall have been established on any such exchange or such market by the Commission, by such exchange or by any other regulatory body or governmental authority having jurisdiction; (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared by federal or state authorities; (iii) the United States shall have become engaged in hostilities, there shall have been an escalation in hostilities involving the United States or there shall have been a declaration of a national emergency or war by the United States; or (iv) there shall have occurred such a material adverse change in general economic, political or financial conditions, including, without limitation, as a result of terrorist activities after the date hereof (or the effect of international conditions on the financial markets in the United States shall be such) as to make it, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable respective judgment of the RepresentativeRepresentatives, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale offering of Securities the Notes or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by on the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially terms and in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and manner contemplated in the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act andProspectus. All opinions, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or letters and documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified referred to in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by 6 will be in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, or Agreement only if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Representatives and to counsel for the Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of . The Company will furnish to the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice Representatives conformed copies of such cancellation shall be given to opinions, certificates, letters and other documents in such number as the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingRepresentatives will reasonably request.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Mastec Inc)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The Except as otherwise provided in Schedule II, the obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be Offered Securities hereunder are subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein contained, as or in certificates of any officer of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from Company or any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished Subsidiary delivered pursuant to the Representative or provisions hereof, to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its covenants and other obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of to the following additional further conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to At the Closing Date and the actual time of the ClosingTime, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus Rule 462(b) Registration Statement shall have been issued; issued 15 14 under the 1933 Act and no proceedings for the issuance of such an order that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests threatened by the Commission, and any request on the part of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to satisfaction of counsel for the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsUnderwriters.
(b) The Representative At the Closing Time, you shall not have reasonably determinedreceived a signed opinion, and advised dated as of the Closing Time, of Vinsxx & Xlkixx X.X.P., counsel for the Company, that in form and substance satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters, together with signed or reproduced copies of such opinion for each of the other Underwriters, to the effect set forth in Exhibit A hereto and to such further effect as counsel to the Underwriters may reasonably request.
(c) At the Closing Time, you shall have received a signed opinion, dated the Closing Time, of Martxx X. Xxxxxx, Xxce President and General Counsel for the Company, in form and substance satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters, together with signed or reproduced copies of such opinion for each of the other Underwriters, to the effect set forth in Exhibit B hereto and to such further effect as counsel to the Underwriters may reasonably request.
(d) At the Closing Time, you shall have received signed opinions, dated as of the Closing Time, of local counsel in each of Colorado, Kansas and Wyoming, in each case in form and substance satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters, together with signed or reproduced copies of each such opinion for each of the other Underwriters, to the effect set forth in Exhibit C hereto and to such further effect as counsel to the Underwriters may reasonably request.
(f) At the Closing Time, (i) the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or Statement and the Prospectus, as they may then be amended or any amendment thereof or supplement theretosupplemented, or any Issuer Free Writing shall contain all statements that are required to be stated therein under the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations and in all material respects shall conform to the requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations and the 1939 Act and the 1939 Act Regulations, and neither the Registration Statement nor the Prospectus, contains as they may then be amended or supplemented, shall contain an untrue statement of a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits omit to state a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative ; provided, however, that the Company shall have received the favorable written opinions, no liability for any statements or omissions made in each case reliance upon and in form satisfactory conformity with information furnished in writing to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter, directly or through you, expressly for use in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfiedRegistration Statement or Prospectus, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Datethere shall not have been, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Statement, any material adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and the Prospectusits subsidiaries, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changeconsidered as one enterprise, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, (iii) no action, suit or proceeding at law or in equity shall be pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or any Subsidiary that would be required to be set forth in the businessProspectus other than as set forth therein and no proceedings shall be pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or any Subsidiary before or by any federal, state or other commission, board or administrative agency wherein an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding could materially adversely affect the condition (financial or otherwise), results earnings, business affairs or business prospects of operationsthe Company and its subsidiaries, shareholders’ equityconsidered as one enterprise, properties other than as set forth in the Prospectus, (iv) the Company shall have complied with and satisfied all conditions on its part under this Agreement to be performed and satisfied at or prospects prior to the Closing Time and (v) the other representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 1(a) shall be accurate as though expressly made at and as of the Closing Time. At the Closing Time, you shall have received a certificate of the Chairman, the President, any Vice President or the Treasurer, of the Company, taken dated as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeClosing Time, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebysuch effect.
(g) The Representative You shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, letter or letters specified in each case substantially Sections 1 and 2 of Exhibit D at the date hereof and the letter specified in Section 3 of Exhibit D hereto at the form attached as Annex IIClosing Time.
(h) The Common Stock and indicating a materially greater likelihood of a downgrading of the Warrants are registered under type described in clause (i) above occurring than was the Exchange Act and, case as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence date of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligiblethis Agreement.
(i) FINRA At the Closing Time, counsel for the Underwriters shall have confirmed that it has not raised been furnished with all such documents, certificates and opinions as they may request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Offered Securities as herein contemplated and the matters referred to in Section 5(e) and in order to evidence the accuracy and completeness of any objection with respect of the representations, warranties or statements of the Company, the performance of any of the covenants of the Company, or the fulfillment of any of the conditions herein contained; and all proceedings taken by the Company at or prior to the fairness Closing Time in connection with the authorization, issuance and reasonableness sale of the underwriting terms Offered Securities as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and arrangements. In addition, substance to the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize Underwriters and to counsel for the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action If listing is specified in Schedule II, the Securities shall have been taken duly authorized for listing by the New York Stock Exchange, subject only to official notice of issuance and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as notice of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrantssatisfactory distribution. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 5 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this AgreementAgreement to be fulfilled, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished this Agreement may be terminated by you on notice to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or Company at any time at or prior toto the Closing Time, and such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party, except as provided in Section 4. Notwithstanding any such termination, the consummation provisions of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation Sections 6, 7 and 8 shall be given to the Company remain in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingeffect.
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Samples: Purchase Agreement (K N Energy Inc)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters Underwriter hereunder are subject to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedaccuracy, as of the date hereof and at the Closing Date (as if made at such closing date), of and compliance with all representations, warranties and agreements of the Closing DateCompany contained herein, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on If filing of the date of this AgreementProspectus, or at such later time any amendment or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, is required under the Securities Act or the Rules and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If Regulations, the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, filed the Prospectus shall have been filed (or such amendment or supplement) or such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof manner and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodperiod so required (without reliance on Rule 424(b)(8) or Rule 164(b)); and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, Registration Statement shall remain effective; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness satisfaction of the underwriting terms and arrangementsUnderwriter.
(b) The Representative Underwriter shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, Company that (i) the Registration StatementStatement or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of a material fact which, in the General opinion of the Underwriter, is material or omits to state a material fact which, in the opinion of the Underwriter, is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or (ii) the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, Prospectus contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of the Underwriter, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of the Underwriter, is material and is required to be stated therein therein, or necessary to make the statements therein therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received Except as contemplated in the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the case of (i) and (ii)Prospectus, including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Time of Sale Disclosure Package, neither the Company nor any subsidiary shall have incurred any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, or entered into any material transactions, or declared or paid any dividends or made any distribution of any kind with respect to its capital stock; and there shall not have been any change in the Prospectuscapital stock (other than a change in the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise of outstanding options or warrants), there has not been or any material change in the short-term or long-term debt of the Company, or any issuance of options, warrants, convertible securities or other rights to purchase the capital stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any Material Adverse Change or any development involving reasonably likely to result in a prospective Material Adverse Change, Change (whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business), that, in the judgment of the Underwriter, makes it impractical or inadvisable to offer or deliver the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus.
(d) On the Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to the Underwriter, the opinion and letter of negative assurance of Faegre & Xxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, dated such closing date and addressed to the Underwriter in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter.
(e) On the Closing Date, as the case may be, there shall have been furnished to the Underwriter, the opinion of Xxxxxxx Procter LLP, counsel for the Underwriter, dated such closing date with respect to the formation of the Company, the validity of the Securities, the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Underwriter reasonably may request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they request to enable them to pass upon such matters.
(f) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative Underwriters shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each Deloitte, dated such date, date and addressed to the Underwriters Underwriter and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ CounselCompany’s board of directors, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all are in compliance with the applicable rules and regulationsrequirements relating to the qualifications of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, and stating, as of the date of such date letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the ProspectusTime of Sale Disclosure Package, as of a date not prior to the date hereof or more than five (5) days prior to the date of such dateletter), the conclusions and findings of such said firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating covered by its letter delivered to the Registration Statement covered by Underwriter concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, and the effect of the letter so to be delivered on the Closing Date, shall be to confirm the conclusions and findings set forth in such prior letter.
(fg) Subsequent On the Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to the execution Underwriter, a certificate, dated such closing date and delivery addressed to the Underwriter, signed by the chief executive officer and by the chief financial officer of the Company, to the effect that:
(i) The representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct, as if made at and as of such closing date, and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to such closing date;
(ii) No stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof or any amendment thereof or the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale, nor suspending or preventing the use of the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, has been issued, and no proceeding for that purpose has been instituted or, if earlierto the best of their knowledge, is contemplated by the Commission or any state or regulatory body; and
(iii) The signers of said certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto, and
(A) each part of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto contain, and contained when such part of the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, became effective, all statements and information required to be included therein, the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, does not contain and did not contain when such part of the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, became effective, any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except that such statement shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Underwriter specifically for use therein, and the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, does not include and did not include as of its date or the time of first use within the meaning of the Rules and Regulations, any untrue statement of material fact or omit to state and did not omit to state as of its date or the time of first use within the meaning of the Rules and Regulations a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, except that such statement shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Underwriter specifically for use therein,
(B) neither (1) the Time of Sale Disclosure Package nor (2) any individual Issuer Limited-Use Free Writing Prospectus, when considered together with the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, include, nor included as of the Time of Sale any untrue statement of a material fact or omits, or omitted as of the Time of Sale, to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, except that such statement shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or any Individual Limited-Use Free Writing Prospectus based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Underwriter specifically for use therein,
(C) since the Time of Sale there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amended or supplemented prospectus which has not been so set forth,
(D) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and Prospectus, the Company has not incurred any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, or entered into any material transactions, not in the ordinary course of business, or declared or paid any dividends or made any distribution of any amendment thereof) kind with respect to its capital stock, and except as disclosed in the Prospectus (exclusive Time of any supplement thereto)Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, there shall has not have been any change in the capital stock (other than a change in the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise of outstanding options or long-warrants), or any material change in the short term debt or long term debt, or any issuance of options, warrants, convertible securities or other rights to purchase the capital stock, of the Company (other than issuances of options under the Company’s existing stock option plans) or any change Material Adverse Change or any development involving a change, prospective Material Adverse Change (whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business), and
(E) except as stated in the businessRegistration Statement, condition (financial or otherwise)the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, results of operationsthere is not pending, shareholders’ equityor, properties or prospects to the knowledge of the Company, taken as threatened or contemplated, any action, suit or proceeding to which the Company is a wholeparty before or by any court or governmental agency, including but not limited authority or body, or any arbitrator, which could reasonably be expected to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, result in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex IIMaterial Adverse Change.
(h) The Common Stock Underwriter shall have received all the Lock-Up Agreements referenced in Section 4(xi).
(i) The Company shall have furnished to the Underwriter such additional documents, certificates and evidence as the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of Underwriter may have reasonably requested.
(j) At the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed submitted to terminate, or likely NASDAQ a Notification Form: Listing of Additional Shares related to the Securities.
(k) The Underwriter shall have received on the effect of terminating, the registration Closing Date a certificate of the Common Stock or Secretary of the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company Company.
(l) The Underwriter shall not have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) unresolved objection from FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect as to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, amount of compensation allowable or payable to the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing Underwriter in connection with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to issuance and sale of the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithSecurities.
(jm) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of At the Closing Date, prevent counsel for the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court Underwriter shall have been issued that wouldfurnished with such information, certificates and documents as it may reasonably require for the purpose of the Closing Date, prevent enabling it to pass upon the issuance or and sale of the Securities as contemplated herein and related proceedings, or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect to evidence the business or operations accuracy of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreementrepresentations or warranties, or if the fulfillment of any of the conditions, herein contained, or otherwise in connection with the offering of the Securities contemplated hereby. All such opinions, certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to and other documents mentioned above and elsewhere in this Agreement will be in compliance with the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Underwriter and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of counsel for the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by Underwriter. The Company will furnish the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice Underwriter with such conformed copies of such cancellation opinions, certificates, letters and other documents as the Underwriter shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingreasonably request.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beAdditional Shares, as provided herein herein, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, Date (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For for purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securitiesany Additional Closing Date, as if different, for the case may beAdditional Shares), to the performance by the Company of all of its obligations hereunder, and to each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.additional conditions:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(bSection 4(a) within the applicable time periodhereof; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofpost-effective amendment thereto, or any amendment thereof, nor and no stop order suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) the Prospectus, shall have been issued by the Commission and no proceedings therefor shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission; all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission shall have been complied with to the Representative’s your reasonable satisfaction; and FINRA if the Company has elected to rely on Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement shall have raised no objection to become effective by 10:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fairness date of this Agreement; and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsall necessary regulatory or stock exchange approvals shall have been received.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised At the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative Closing Date you shall have received the favorable written opinionsopinion of TroyGould PC, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; , in form and substance satisfactory to you, to the effect set forth in Exhibit B hereto.
(iic) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPAt the Closing Date you shall have received the written opinion of Xxxxxx McKonkie, patent legal intellectual property counsel to for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; , in form and substance satisfactory to you, to the effect set forth in Exhibit C hereto.
(iiid) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLCAt the Closing Date you shall have received the written opinion of [Firm Name TBD], trademark legal regulatory counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance satisfactory to you, to the effect set forth in Exhibit D hereto.
(de) The Representative At the Closing Date, you shall have received certificates the written opinion of each Underwriters’ Counsel, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance satisfactory to you, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Shares, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and such other matters as you may require, and the Company shall have furnished to Underwriters’ Counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(f) At the Closing Date you shall have received a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to you, as to the effect that: (i) accuracy of the conditions representations and warranties of the Company set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) 1 hereof as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, as to the representations and warranties of performance by the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of all of its obligations hereunder to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of as to the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied withmatters set forth in subsections (a), (ivh) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, and (vi) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so includedthis Section 7, and (vii) subsequent as to the respective dates such other matters as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of businessyou may reasonably request.
(eg) On At the time this Agreement is executed and at the Closing Date, you shall have received a comfort letter, from KMJ Xxxxxx & Company, independent public accountants for the Company, dated, respectively, as of the date of this Agreement and on as of the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning containing statements and information of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information and other matters relating to contained in the Registration Statement covered by such letterStatement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(fh) Subsequent to the execution and delivery No event or condition of this Agreement ora type described in Section 1(k) hereof shall have occurred or shall exist, if earlier, the dates as of which information event or condition is given not described in the Registration Statement Pricing Disclosure Package (exclusive of excluding any amendment thereofor supplement thereto) and the Prospectus (exclusive of excluding any amendment or supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, ) and the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, which in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make Representatives makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of Securities the Shares on the Closing Date or Offering the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, on the terms and in the manner contemplated herebyby this Agreement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(gi) On or after the Applicable Time, (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded any securities of the Company’s by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as such term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the Securities Act, and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any securities of the Company.
(j) No Underwriter shall have discovered and disclosed to the Company on or prior to such Closing Date that the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, contains an untrue statement of a fact which, in the opinion of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, is material or omits to state a fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(k) The Representative Representatives shall have received a lock-up agreement from each duly executed Lock-Up Party, duly executed by Agreement from each person who is a director or officer of the applicable Lock-Up PartyCompany and each shareholder and other person or entity listed on Schedule V hereto, in each case substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex II.Exhibit E.
(hl) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of At the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action Shares shall have been provided approved for quotation on NASDAQ, subject only to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect official notice of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleissuance.
(im) At the Closing Date, FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, arrangements for the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanyOffering.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative you or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Representatives and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative Representatives at, or at any time prior to, the consummation Closing Date and the obligations of the ClosingUnderwriters to purchase the Additional Shares may be cancelled by the Representatives at, or at any time prior to, the Additional Closing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The respective obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase the accuracy, at and pay for as of the Firm Shares date hereof and Firm Warrants or any Option the First Closing Date (as if made at the First Closing Date) and, with respect to the Optional Securities, the Option Closing Date (as if made at the case may beOption Closing Date), as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedcontained herein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.4 p.m., New York City Eastern time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as the Representative shall approve and all filings required by Rules 424, 430A and 433 under the Securities Act shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodmade; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative No Underwriter shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, Company that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable Representatives opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(c) On each Closing Date, the Representative shall have received the favorable opinion of Pillsbury Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, LLP counsel for the Company, dated as of such Closing Date, the form of which is attached as Exhibit C and the favorable written opinion of XxxXxxxxx Law Offices, legal counsel for the Company with respect to the laws of the PRC dated as of the Closing Date, addressed to the Underwriters in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D.
(d) On each Closing Date the Representative shall have received the favorable opinion of Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx, P.C., counsel for the Underwriters, dated as of such Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative.
(e) There shall have been furnished to the Representative a certificate of the Company, dated as of each Closing Date and addressed to the Representative, signed by the Chief Executive Officer and by the Chief Financial Officer of the Company to the effect that:
(i) The representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct, as if made at and as of such Closing Date, and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to such Closing Date;
(ii) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued, and no proceedings for that purpose have been initiated or are pending or, to their knowledge, contemplated;
(iii) Any and all filings required by Rules 424, 430A, 430B and 430C under the Securities Act have been timely made;
(iv) The signers of said certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement and the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto, and such documents contain all statements and information required to be included therein; the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto does not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.; and the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or any supplements thereto do not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
(cv) The Representative shall have received Since the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as effective date of the Closing Date and addressed Registration Statement, there has occurred no event required to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions be set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company an amendment or supplement to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus which has not been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, so set forth; and
(vi) Since the effective date of the Registration Statement, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall have sustained any loss by strike, fire, flood, accident or other calamity (whether or not insured), or shall have become a party to or the subject of any litigation, which is material to the Company or its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, nor shall there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included have been a material adverse change in the Registration Statement general affairs, business, key personnel, capitalization, financial position, earnings or net worth of the Company and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changeits Subsidiaries, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, which loss, litigation or change, in the Representative’s judgment, shall render it inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of the Securities.
(ef) On the date of this Agreement hereof, and on the each Closing Date, the Representative shall have received from MaloneBailey LLP, independent public or certified public accountants for the Company, a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, dated the date hereof addressed to the Underwriters and Representative, on behalf of the several Underwriters, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative Representative, containing statements and Underwriters’ Counselinformation of the type ordinarily included in accountant’s “comfort letters” to underwriters, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants delivered according to Statement of Auditing Standards No. 72 (or any successor bulletin), with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act audited and all applicable rules unaudited financial statements and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified certain financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given contained in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive and the Representative shall have received an additional five conformed copies of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt such accountants’ letter for each of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwiseseveral Underwriters), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a “lock-up agreement from up” agreements between the Representatives and the stockholders, officers and directors of the Company listed on Schedule II, delivered to the Representative on or before the date hereof, shall be in full force and effect on each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex IIClosing Date.
(h) The Common Stock and Since the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as date of the Prospectus, there has not been a Material Adverse Effect.
(i) On or before each Closing Date, the Representative and counsel for the Underwriters shall have received such information, certificates, agreements, opinions and other documents as they may reasonably require.
(j) On or before the First Closing Date, the Units, Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized have been approved for trading listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Global Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(ik) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In additionAll such opinions, certificates, letters and documents shall be in compliance with the Company shall, provisions hereof only if requested by they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative, make or authorize Representative and to counsel for the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) . The Company shall have furnished furnish the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel Representative with such other conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, opinions or letters and other documents as they may have the Representative shall reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrantsrequest. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form Agreement and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative canceled at, or at any time prior to, the consummation First Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, by the Representative. Any such cancellation shall be without liability of the ClosingUnderwriters to the Company. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing writing, or orally. Any such oral notice shall be by telegraph or telephone and confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beNotes, as provided herein herein, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) to the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative you or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) to each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become become, and shall remain, effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time Agreement and date as shall have been consented to in writing by through the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, Closing Date; the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof Section 4(a) hereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities Notes and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any post-effective amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings for the issuance of such an order therefor shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of threatened by the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsCommission.
(b) The Representative All the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement shall not have reasonably determined, be true and advised correct on the Company, that Closing Date with the Registration Statement, same force and effect as if made on and as of the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleadingClosing Date.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory Subsequent to the Representative execution and Underwriters’ counsel (delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date, there shall not have been any downgrading, nor shall any notice have been given of any intended or potential downgrading in the case rating accorded any of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company’s debt securities by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, dated as that term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the Closing Date Securities Act, or any public announcement that any such organization has under surveillance or review its rating of any such securities (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading, and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as no implication of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as a possible downgrading of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriterssuch rating).
(d) The Representative At the Closing Date you shall have received certificates of each a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, Date to the effect that: that (i) the conditions condition set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have 6 has been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 1 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, Date all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, in all material respects, (iv) the Company has and the Subsidiaries have not sustained any material loss or interference with its businessestheir respective businesses or properties from fire, flood, hurricane, accident or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, Commission and (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, Prospectus there has not been any Material Adverse Change material adverse change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changematerial adverse change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in or affecting (x) the business, assets, properties, financial condition, results of operations, stockholders’ equity or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole; (y) the long-term debt or capital stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; or (z) the Offering or consummation of any of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
(e) On At the Closing Date you shall have received the favorable written opinion of Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, addressed to the Underwriters in the form attached hereto as Annex I and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters.
(f) At the Closing Date you shall have received the favorable written opinion of Lxxxxxx, Street and Deinard Professional Association, special regulatory counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, addressed to the Underwriters in the form attached hereto as Annex II and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters.
(g) At the Closing Date you shall have received the favorable written opinion of Dxxxxx Xxxxxxx, the Company’s general counsel, dated the Closing Date, addressed to the Underwriters in the form attached hereto as Annex III and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters.
(h) At the Closing Date you shall have received the favorable written opinion of Bxxxx & Company, Canadian local counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, addressed to the Underwriters in the form attached hereto as Annex IV and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters.
(i) All proceedings taken in connection with the sale of the Notes as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and substance to you and to Underwriters’ Counsel, and the Underwriters shall have received from Underwriters’ Counsel a favorable written opinion, dated as of the Closing Date, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Notes, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and such other related matters as you may require, and the Company shall have furnished to Underwriters’ Counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(j) At the time this Agreement is executed and at the Closing Date, you shall have received a comfort letter, from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent public accountants for the Company, dated, respectively, as of the date of this Agreement and on as of the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, Date addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(fk) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change of the Subsidiaries or any change, or any development involving a prospective change, whether in or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in affecting the business, condition (assets, properties, financial or otherwise)condition, results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties operations or prospects of the Company, Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war whole or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeUnderwriters, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale public offering or the delivery of Securities or Offering as the Notes on the terms and in the manner contemplated herebyin the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement).
(gl) The Representative Company shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by complied with the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in provisions of Section 4(c) hereof with respect to the form attached as Annex IIfurnishing of Prospectuses on the next business day succeeding the date of this Agreement.
(hm) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of On or prior to the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action DTC shall have been provided to accepted the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleNotes for clearance.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(kn) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(lo) The On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall have obtained the consent of its senior lenders under that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of August 29, 2001, as amended, among the Company and various senior lenders, and entered into an amendment, in a warrant agreement (form satisfactory to the “Warrant Agreement”) Underwriters, in connection with Nevada Agency the Offering and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrantstransactions contemplated by the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative you or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 shall not be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative you and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative you at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the ClosingClosing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing writing, or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Lodgenet Entertainment Corp)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Issuers on the date hereof and at the time of purchase, the performance by the Issuers of their obligations hereunder and the following additional conditions precedent:
(a) The Company shall furnish to you at the time of purchase and pay an opinion of Paul, Hastings, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, LLP, counsel for the Firm Shares Company, addressed to the Underwriters and Firm Warrants dated the time of purchase in form and substance satisfactory to Xxxxxx Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx, counsel for the Underwriters, stating that:
(i) the Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with full corporate power and authority to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, to execute and deliver this Agreement and to issue, sell and deliver the Notes as herein contemplated;
(ii) all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of each of the Corporate Subsidiaries have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable and the partnership interests which the Company owns in the Partnership Subsidiary have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable, and both the capital stock of the Corporate Subsidiaries and the partnership interests in the Partnership Subsidiary are owned by the Company or one or more of the Subsidiaries and, to the best knowledge of such counsel, free and clear of any Option Securitiespledge, lien, encumbrance, security interest, preemptive rights or other claim; except as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and, to the best knowledge of such counsel, there are no outstanding rights, subscriptions, warrants, calls, options or other agreements of any kind with respect to the capital stock or the partnership interests of the Subsidiaries;
(iii) each of the Corporate Subsidiaries has been duly incorporated and the Partnership Subsidiary has been duly formed, and is validly existing as a corporation, in the case of the Corporate Subsidiaries, or as a limited partnership, in the case of the Partnership Subsidiary, in good standing under the laws of its respective jurisdiction of incorporation or formation, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements with full corporate or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securitiespartnership power, as the case may be, and authority to own its respective properties and conduct its respective business as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and to execute and deliver the Indenture and the Guarantees;
(iv) the Company and the Subsidiaries are duly qualified, and are in good standing, in each jurisdiction in which the nature of its business or its ownership or its leasing of property requires such qualification, except where the failure, individually or in the aggregate, to be so qualified could have a Material Adverse Effect;
(v) this Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the Guarantors;
(vi) the Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each of the foregoing Company and following conditions must be satisfied as each of the Guarantors, and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Trustee, are legal, valid and binding agreements of each Closing.of the Company and each of the Guarantors enforceable in accordance with their terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium or similar laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally and general principles of equity;
(avii) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall the Notes have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on duly authorized by the date of this Agreement, or at such later time Company and date as shall the Guarantees have been consented to in writing duly authorized by each of the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities ActGuarantors and, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion when executed and authenticated in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters, will be legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company and the Guarantees will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of each Guarantor, in each case enforceable in accordance with their terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium or similar laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally and a general principles of equity;
(viii) the Notes, Guarantees, the Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture, conform in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Registration Statement and Prospectus;
(ix) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (except as to the financial statements and schedules and other financial and statistical data contained or incorporated by reference therein, as to which such counsel need express no opinion) comply as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Act;
(x) the Registration Statement has become effective under the Act and, to the best of such counsel's knowledge, no stop order proceedings with respect thereto are pending or threatened under the Act and any required filing of the Prospectus containing information relating and any supplement thereto pursuant to Rule 424 under the description Act has been made in the manner and within the time period required by such Rule 424;
(xi) no approval, authorization, consent or order of or filing with any national, state or local governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, authority or agency is required in connection with the issuance and sale of the Securities or the consummation by the Company of the transactions as contemplated hereby other than registration of the Securities under the Act (except such counsel need express no opinion as to any necessary qualification under the state securities or blue sky laws of the various jurisdictions in which the Securities are being offered by the Underwriters);
(xii) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company and the method consummation by the Company of distribution the transactions contemplated hereby do not and similar matters shall will not conflict with, or result in a breach of, or constitute a default under (nor constitute any event which with notice, lapse of time, or both, would constitute a breach of or default under), any provisions of the charter or by-laws of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or under any provisions of any license, indenture, lease, mortgage, deed of trust, bank loan, credit agreement or other agreement or instrument known to such counsel to which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is a party or by which any of them or their respective properties may be bound or affected, except any such breach or default as has been waived prior to the date hereof, or under any law, regulation or rule or any decree, judgment or order known to such counsel applicable to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries;
(xiii) to the best of such counsel's knowledge, there are no contracts, licenses, agreements, leases or documents of a character which are required to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement or to be summarized or described in the Prospectus which have not been so filed, summarized or described;
(xiv) to the best of such counsel's knowledge, there are no actions, suits, claims, investigations or proceedings pending, threatened or contemplated to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is subject or of which any of their respective properties is subject, at law or in equity, or before or by any federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, authority or agency which are required to be described in the Prospectus but are not so described;
(xv) the documents incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, when they were filed (or, if an amendment with respect to any such document was filed when such amendment was filed) with the Commission, complied as to form in all material respects with the Act or the Exchange Act (except as to the financial statements and schedules and other financial and statistical data contained or incorporated by reference therein, as to which such counsel need express no opinion);
(xvi) the Company will not, upon consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, be an "investment company," or a "promoter" or "principal underwriter" for a "registered investment company," as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended;
(xvii) the Indenture is qualified under the Trust Indenture Act;
(xviii) the Notes have been filed with approved for listing on the Commission pursuant New York Stock Exchange, subject only to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, notice of issuance at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of purchase; and
(xix) such counsel has participated in conferences with officers and other representatives of the ClosingCompany, no stop order suspending representatives of the effectiveness independent public accountants of the Company and representatives of the Underwriters at which the contents of the Registration Statement and Prospectus were discussed and, although such counsel is not passing upon and does not assume responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in the Registration Statement or Prospectus (except as and to the extent stated in subparagraph (viii) above), on the basis of the foregoing nothing has come to the attention of such counsel that causes them to believe that the Registration Statement or any part thereof, amendment thereto at the time such Registration Statement or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains became effective contained an untrue statement of a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits omitted to state a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or that the Prospectus or any supplement thereto at the date of such Prospectus or such supplement, and at all times up to and including the time of purchase contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (it being understood that such counsel need express no opinion with respect to the financial statements and schedules and other financial and statistical data derived from the internal financial records of the Issuers included in the Registration Statement or Prospectus).
(b) You shall have received from Deloitte & Touche LLP letters dated, respectively, the date of this Agreement and the time of purchase and addressed to the Underwriters (with reproduced copies for each of the Underwriters) in the forms approved by you.
(c) The Representative You shall have received at the time of purchase the favorable written opinionsopinion of Xxxxxx Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx, in each case in form satisfactory counsel for the Underwriters, dated the time of purchase, as to customary matters.
(d) No amendment or supplement to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel Registration Statement or Prospectus, including documents deemed to be incorporated by reference therein, shall be filed to which you object in writing.
(and in e) The Prospectus shall have been timely filed with the case Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act.
(f) Prior to the time of purchase, (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, no stop order with respect to the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as effectiveness of the Closing Date and addressed to Registration Statement shall have been issued under the UnderwritersAct or proceedings initiated under Section 8(d) or 8(e) of the Act; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPthe Registration Statement and all amendments thereto, patent legal counsel or modifications thereof, if any, shall not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwritersstatements therein not misleading; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLCthe Prospectus shall not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, trademark legal counsel for in the Company, dated as light of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriterscircumstances under which they are made, not misleading.
(dg) Between the time of execution of this Agreement and the time of purchase (i) no material and unfavorable change, financial or otherwise (other than as referred to in the Registration Statement and Prospectus), in the business, condition or prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole shall occur or become known and (ii) no transaction which is material and unfavorable to the Company shall have been entered into by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(h) The Representative shall have received certificates Company will, at the time of each purchase, deliver to you a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer two of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, its executive officers to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, that the representations and warranties of the Company as set forth in Section 2 hereof this Agreement are accurate, (iii) true and correct as of each such date, that the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and Issuers have performed such of their obligations of the Company under this Agreement as are to be performed at or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto before the time of purchase and that the conditions set forth in paragraphs (e), (f) and (k) of this Section 6 have been duly performed or complied with, met.
(ivi) The Company shall have furnished to you such other documents and certificates as to the Company has not sustained accuracy and completeness of any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included statement in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course time of businesspurchase as you may reasonably request.
(ej) On The Notes shall have been approved for listing on the date New York Stock Exchange, subject only to notice of issuance at or prior to the time of purchase.
(k) Between the time of execution of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as time of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto)purchase, there shall not have occurred any downgrading, nor shall any notice or announcement have been given or made of (i) any intended or potential downgrading or (ii) any review or possible change that does not indicate an improvement, in the capital stock rating accorded any securities of or long-term debt of guaranteed by the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions Subsidiary by any "nationally recognized statistical rating organization," as that term is defined in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(gRule 436(g)(2) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleAct.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beAdditional Shares, as provided herein herein, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company and the Manager herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, Date (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For for purposes of this Section 78, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securitiesany Additional Closing Date, as if different, for the case may beAdditional Shares), and to the performance by each of the foregoing Company and the Manager of all of its obligations hereunder, and to each of the following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.additional conditions:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(bSection 5(a) within the applicable time periodhereof; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofpost-effective amendment thereto, or any amendment thereof, nor and no stop order suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) the Prospectus, shall have been issued by the Commission and no proceedings therefor shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission; all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission shall have been complied with to the Representative’s your reasonable satisfaction; and FINRA if the Company has elected to rely on Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement shall have raised no objection to become effective by 10:00 p.m. (Washington, D.C. time) on the fairness date of this Agreement; and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsall necessary regulatory or stock exchange approvals shall have been received.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised At the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative Closing Date you shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case opinions of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Hunton & Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the CompanyCompany and the Manager, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel in form and substance satisfactory to you, to the Companyeffect set forth in Annex I hereto.
(c) At the Closing Date, you shall have received the written opinion of Underwriters’ Counsel, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; , in form and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLCsubstance satisfactory to you, trademark legal counsel with respect to the issuance and sale of the Shares, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and such other matters as you may require, and the Company and the Manager shall have furnished to Underwriters’ Counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the Company, dated as purpose of the Closing Date and addressed enabling them to the Underwriterspass upon such matters.
(d) The Representative At the Closing Date you shall have received certificates of each a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to you, as to the effect that: (i) accuracy of the conditions representations and warranties of the Company set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) 1 hereof as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, as to the performance by the Company of all of its obligations hereunder to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date, as to the matters set forth in subsections (a) and (g) of this Section 8, and as to such other matters as you may reasonably request.
(e) At the Closing Date you shall have received a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Manager, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to you, as to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company of the Manager set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, as to the performance by the Manager of all agreements, conditions and of its obligations of the Company hereunder to be performed or complied with hereunder on at or prior thereto to the Closing Date, and as to such other matters as you may reasonably request.
(f) At the time this Agreement is executed and at the Closing Date, you shall have been duly performed received a comfort letter, from Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent public accountants for the Company, dated, respectively, as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel.
(g) (i) None of the Company, its Subsidiaries or complied withthe Manager shall have sustained, (iv) since the Company has not sustained date of the latest audited financial statements included in the Pricing Prospectus, any material loss or interference with its businessesbusiness or properties from fire, explosion, flood, hurricane, accident or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or other than as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included set forth in the Registration Statement and the Pricing Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, (exclusive of any supplement thereto); and (viiii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereofthereto subsequent to the date hereof) and the Pricing Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been (A) any change in the capital stock or long-term or short-term debt of the Company or any Subsidiary, or (B) any change or any development involving a prospective change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in or affecting the business, general affairs, management, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholdersoperations or stockholders’ equity, properties or prospects equity of the CompanyCompany and the Subsidiaries, in each case, individually or taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeLead Managers, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by on the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially terms and in the form attached as Annex IImanner contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus (exclusive of any such supplement).
(h) The Common Stock You shall have received a duly executed lock-up agreement in the form of Annex II hereto from (i) each of the Company’s executive officers and directors, (ii) each Directed Share Participant who purchases Reserved Shares for a purchase price of $100,000 or more, and (iii) to the Warrants extent such person or entity holds Relevant Securities, each of the Manager’s officers, directors, managers and members of its investment committee, Sharpridge Capital Management, L.P. and its general partner, officers, and directors and Cypress Advisors, Inc. and its partners, officers, and directors. Each of aforementioned persons and entities are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of listed in Schedule II hereto.
(i) At the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action Shares shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect approved for listing upon notice of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading issuance on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleNYSE.
(ij) At the Closing Date, the FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, arrangements for the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanyOffering.
(k) The Company and the Manager shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 8 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative you or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 8 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Lead Managers and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative Lead Managers at, or at any time prior to, the consummation Closing Date and the obligations of the ClosingUnderwriters to purchase the Additional Shares may be cancelled by the Lead Managers at, or at any time prior to, the Additional Closing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Cypress Sharpridge Investments, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The respective obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein on the First Closing Date and, with respect to the Option Shares, the Option Closing Date, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company herein contained, set forth in Section 1 hereof as of the date hereof and as of the First Closing DateDate as though then made and, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished with respect to the Representative or Option Shares, as of the Option Closing Date as though then made, to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the timely performance by the Company of its covenants and obligations hereunder, and (iv) to each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on prior to the date execution of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been be consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodUnderwriters; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings for the issuance of such an order that purpose shall have been initiated or, to the Knowledge of the Company or threatenedany Underwriter, threatened by the Commission; all requests any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Pricing Prospectus, the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfactionsatisfaction of Underwriters’ Counsel; and the FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements; and no amendment to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, or the Prospectus to which the Underwriters or Underwriters’ Counsel shall have reasonably objected, after having received reasonable notice of a proposal to file the same, shall have been filed.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determinedAll corporate proceedings and other legal matters in connection with this Agreement, and advised the Company, that the form of Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the any Preliminary Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Pricing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement and the Prospectus and the registration, authorization, issue, sale and delivery of fact whichthe Shares, shall have been reasonably satisfactory to Underwriters’ Counsel, and such counsel shall have been furnished with such papers and information as they may reasonably have requested to enable them to pass upon the matters referred to in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleadingthis Section 7.
(c) The Representative Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the First Closing Date, and on the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, there shall not have occurred any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Company, taken as a whole, from that set forth in the Pricing Disclosure Package that, in the judgment of either of the Representatives, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect and that makes it, in the reasonable judgment of either of the Representatives, impracticable or inadvisable to market the Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Pricing Disclosure Package.
(d) At the First Closing Date and on the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, the Underwriters shall have received the favorable written opinionsfrom Johnson, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii)Pope, including customary negative assurance language)Bxxxx, of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Rxxxxx & Xxxxx LLPBxxxx, the securities legal LLP counsel for the CompanyCompany (“Company Counsel”), a signed opinion dated as of such Closing Date, reasonably satisfactory to Underwriters’ Counsel, in the Closing Date form and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPsubstance of Exhibit B annexed hereto, patent legal counsel to the Company, including a signed negative assurance statement dated as of such Closing Date, reasonably satisfactory to Underwriters’ Counsel, in the form and substance reflected in Exhibit B.
(e) At the First Closing Date Date, and addressed to on the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, the Underwriters shall have received from Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, ’ Counsel a signed opinion dated as of the such Closing Date in a form and addressed substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters.
(df) The Representative Underwriters shall have received, on each of the date hereof and the Closing Date, a letter dated the date hereof or the Closing Date, as the case may be, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters, from Wxxx & Company, P.A., independent public accountants, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, and the Prospectus; provided, however, that the letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off date” not earlier than three business days before the Closing Date.
(g) The Underwriters shall have received certificates on the First Closing Date and on the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, a certificate of each of the Company, dated the First Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, signed by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Daterespectively, to the effect that: , and the Representatives shall be satisfied that:
(i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the The representations and warranties of the Company set forth Company, respectively, in Section 2 hereof this Agreement are accuratetrue and correct, (iii) as if made on and as of the First Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, all agreementsas the case may be, conditions and obligations of the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions in this Agreement on its part to be performed or complied with hereunder on satisfied at or prior thereto have been duly performed to the First Closing Date or complied withthe Option Closing Date, as the case may be;
(ivii) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of When the Registration Statement became effective and at all times subsequent thereto up to the delivery of such certificate, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, and any amendments or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commissionsupplements thereto, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are contained all material information required to be included in therein by the Registration Statement Act and the Prospectus pursuant applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, as the case may be, and in all material respects conformed to the requirements of the Act and the applicable Rules and Regulations which are not so includedthereunder, the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto, did not and does not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made (viiexcept with respect to the Registration Statement), not misleading; and, since the effective date of the Registration Statement, there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amended or supplemented Prospectus which has not been so set forth; and
(iii) subsequent Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, and the Prospectus, there has not been or occurred, as the case may be: (A) any Material Adverse Change or Effect; (B) any development involving transaction that is material to the Company and its Subsidiaries considered as a prospective Material Adverse Changewhole, whether or not arising from except transactions entered into in the ordinary course of business.
; (eC) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Dateany obligation, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such datedirect or contingent, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect is material to the Company within and its Subsidiaries considered as a whole, incurred by the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulationsCompany or its subsidiaries, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given except obligations incurred in the Prospectus, as ordinary course of a date not more than five business; (5D) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt increase in outstanding indebtedness of the Company or any change of its Subsidiaries that is material to the Company and its Subsidiaries considered as a whole; (E) any dividend or development involving a changedistribution of any kind declared, paid or made on the capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; or (F) any loss or damage (whether or not arising from transactions in insured) to the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects property of the Company, taken as Company or any of its Subsidiaries which has been sustained or will have been sustained which has a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex IIMaterial Adverse Effect.
(h) The Common Stock Company shall have obtained and delivered to the Warrants are registered under Underwriters an agreement, substantially in the Exchange Act andform of Exhibit A attached hereto, as from each officer and director of the Closing Date, Company and each owner of the Common Stock and Company’s outstanding stock listed on Schedule C hereto. All of the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on certificates representing the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action Shares shall have been provided to tendered for delivery in accordance with the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect terms and provisions of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligiblethis Agreement.
(i) FINRA The Shares shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make be listed on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant Nasdaq Capital Market, subject only to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithofficial notice of issuance.
(j) No action The Company shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as complied with the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale furnishing of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanyProspectuses.
(k) The Company shall have furnished On or before each of the First Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with shall have received such other certificatesinformation, documents and opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent require for the Warrants. If purposes of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Shares as contemplated herein, or in order to evidence the accuracy of any of the representations and warranties, or the satisfaction of any of the conditions or agreements, herein contained. If any condition specified in this Section 7 shall is not have been fulfilled satisfied when and as required to be satisfied, this Agreement may be terminated by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, Underwriters by written statements or letters furnished notice to the Representative Company at any time on or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance prior to the Representative and First Closing Date and, with respect to Underwriters’ Counselthe Option Shares, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior toto the Option Closing Date, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation which termination shall be given without liability on the part of any party to any other party, except for the Company expenses described in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingSection 11 of this Agreement.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securitieshereunder, as to the case may beShares to be delivered at each Time of Delivery, as provided herein shall be subject to: subject, to the condition (iwhich condition may be waived by the Underwriters) the accuracy of the that all representations and warranties and other statements of the Company herein containedare, as of the date hereof at and as of such Time of Delivery, true and correct, the Closing Date, (ii) condition that the absence from statements of the Company and its officers made in any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel certificate delivered pursuant to this Section 7 Agreement shall be, at and as of any misstatement or omissionsuch Time of Delivery, (iii) true and correct, the performance by condition that the Company shall have performed all of its obligations hereunderhereunder theretofore to be performed, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodperiod prescribed for such filing by the rules and regulations under the Act and in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or Statement, any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure PackagePreliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings proceeding for the issuance of such an order that purpose shall have been initiated or threatenedthreatened by the Commission; all material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by Rule 433 under the Act; and all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s reasonable satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.;
(b) The Representative DLA Piper LLP (US), counsel to the Underwriters, shall not have reasonably determinedfurnished to the Underwriters such opinion or opinions, and advised the Companydated such Time of Delivery, that with respect to this Agreement, the Registration Statement, the General Pricing Disclosure Package or Package, the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in Prospectus and other related matters as the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.Underwriters may reasonably request;
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Fenwick & Xxxxx West LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, shall have furnished to the Underwriters their written opinion and letter, each dated as such Time of the Closing Date Delivery, in form and addressed substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.;
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of On the date hereof and as also at each Time of Delivery, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, shall have furnished to the Underwriters a letter or letters, each dated the respective date of delivery thereof, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters;
(i) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall have sustained since the date of the Closing Date, latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained Pricing Prospectus any material loss or interference with its businessesbusiness from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal court or governmental proceedingaction, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated decree, otherwise than as set forth or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included contemplated in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so includedPricing Prospectus, and (viiii) subsequent to since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Pricing Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock (other than the issuance of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of stock options or warrants, the issuance of stock options or restricted stock units under the Company’s existing equity incentive plans or the conversion of notes, pursuant to contractual obligations described in the Registration Statement and the Pricing Prospectus) or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fireMaterial Adverse Effect, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war otherwise than as set forth or terrorism or other calamitycontemplated in the Pricing Prospectus, the effect of which, in any such case described abovein clause (i) or (ii), is, is in the reasonable sole judgment of the Representative, Representative so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale public offering or the delivery of Securities the Shares being delivered at such Time of Delivery on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus;
(f) On or Offering as after the date hereof there shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) additional material governmental restrictions, not in force and effect on the date hereof, shall have been imposed upon trading in securities generally or minimum or maximum prices shall have been generally established on the New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Global Market, the NYSE Amex or in the over-the-counter market by FINRA, or trading in securities generally shall have been suspended on the New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Global Market, the NYSE Amex or in the over the counter market by FINRA, or a general banking moratorium shall have been established by federal or New York authorities, (ii) a suspension or material limitation in trading in securities generally on The NASDAQ Global Market, (iii) a suspension or material limitation in trading in the Company’s securities on The NASDAQ Global Market, (iv) an outbreak of major hostilities or other national or international calamity or any substantial change in political, financial or economic conditions shall have occurred or shall have accelerated or escalated to such an extent, as, in the sole judgment of the Representative, to affect materially and adversely the marketability of the Shares or (v) there shall be any action, suit or proceeding pending or threatened, or there shall have been any development or prospective development involving particularly the business or properties or securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or the transactions contemplated hereby.by this Agreement, which, in the sole judgment of the Representative, has materially and adversely affected the Company’s business or earnings and makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Shares being delivered at such Time of Delivery on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus;
(g) The Representative Shares to be sold at such Time of Delivery shall have received been duly listed, subject to notice of issuance, on The NASDAQ Global Market;
(h) Each director and executive officer of the Company, in their capacities as such, shall have executed and delivered to the Underwriters a lock-up agreement from in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters;
(i) The Underwriters shall have received on and as of each Lock-Up PartyTime of Delivery, duly executed by as the applicable Lock-Up Partycase may be, satisfactory evidence of the good standing of the Company in its jurisdiction of organization and its good standing as a foreign entity in the jurisdictions set forth on Schedule III hereto, in each case substantially in writing or any standard form of telecommunication from the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence appropriate governmental authorities of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.jurisdictions;
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of each Time of Delivery, as the Closing Datecase may be, prevent the issuance or sale of the SecuritiesShares; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of each Time of Delivery, as the Closing Datecase may be, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.Shares; and
(k) The Company shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to the Underwriters at such Time of Delivery certificates of officers of the Company, in their capacities as such, reasonably satisfactory to the Representative, as to the accuracy of the representations and Underwriters’ Counsel with warranties of the Company herein, at and as of such Time of Delivery, as to the performance by the Company of all of its obligations hereunder to be performed at or prior to such Time of Delivery, and as to such other certificatesmatters as the Underwriters may reasonably request, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The and the Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement furnished or caused to be furnished certificates as to the matters set forth in subsections (the “Warrant Agreement”a) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company(e) of this Section, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to such other matters as the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be may reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingrequest.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters and the Independent Underwriter to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be Notes under this Agreement are subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 satisfaction of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become become, and shall remain, effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time Agreement and date as shall have been consented to in writing by through the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, Closing Date; the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(bSection 4(b) within the applicable time periodhereof; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any post-effective amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings for the issuance of such an order therefor shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of threatened by the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsCommission.
(b) The Representative All the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement shall not have reasonably determined, be true and advised correct on the Company, that Closing Date with the Registration Statement, same force and effect as if made on and as of the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleadingClosing Date.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory Subsequent to the Representative execution and Underwriters’ counsel (delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date, there shall not have been any downgrading, nor shall any notice have been given of any intended or potential downgrading in the case rating accorded any of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company's securities by any nationally recognized securities rating organization, dated as or any public announcement that any such organization has under surveillance or review its rating of the Closing Date any such securities (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading, and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as no implication of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as a possible downgrading of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriterssuch rating).
(d) The Representative (i) Since the date of the latest balance sheet included in the Prospectus, there shall not have been any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in the business prospects, financial condition or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, except as otherwise described in the Registration Statement or Prospectus, (ii) as of the Closing Date, the obligations of the Company to be performed hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed, (iii) since the date of the latest balance sheet included in the Prospectus there shall not have been any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in the capital stock or in the long-term debt of the Company from that set forth in the Prospectus, except as otherwise described in the Registration Statement or Prospectus, (iv) the Company and its subsidiaries shall have no liability or obligation, direct or contingent, which is material to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, other than those in the Registration Statement or Prospectus, and (v) on the Closing Date you shall have received certificates of each a certificate dated the Closing Date, signed by C. Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, in his capacity as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Officer, and by Xxxx X. Xxxxx, Xx., in his capacity as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, confirming the matters set forth in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this Section 6.
(e) At the Closing Date you shall have received the written opinion of Xxxxxxxx & Worcester LLP, counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, addressed to the effect that: Underwriters in the form attached hereto as Annex I and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters and Underwriters' Counsel.
(f) At the Closing Date you shall have received the written opinion of Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Esq., General Counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, addressed to the Underwriters in the form attached hereto as Annex II and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters and Underwriters' Counsel.
(g) At the Closing Date you shall have received the written opinion of Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Ingersoll, LLP, special Pennsylvania counsel to the Company, dated the Closing Date, addressed to the Underwriters in the form attached hereto as Annex III and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters and Underwriters' Counsel.
(h) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date the written opinion of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, as to such matters as the Underwriters shall reasonably request.
(i) the conditions set forth in subsection The Underwriters shall have received (ai) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) a letter or letters on and as of the date hereof of this Agreement (each, an "INITIAL LETTER"), in form and substance satisfactory to you, from each of Deloitte & Touche LLP (with respect to Iron Mountain Incorporated) and RSM Xxxxxx Xxxxxx (with respect to Iron Mountain Europe Limited), each independent public accountants, with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Prospectus and letters on and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to you, from each of Deloitte & Touche LLP and RSM Xxxxxx Xxxxxx confirming the Representative information contained in the initial letter or letters provided by such accountants, and Underwriters’ Counsel(ii) a certificate dated as of the date of this Agreement, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants signed by C. Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, in his capacity as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and by Xxxx X. Xxxxx, Xx., in his capacity as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, with respect to the Company within the meaning consolidated financial statements, and related schedules and notes, of the Securities Act Company audited by Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement covered by such letterStatement.
(fj) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change of its subsidiaries or any change, or any development involving a prospective change, whether in or not arising from transactions in affecting the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equitybusiness, properties or prospects of the Company, Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeUnderwriters and the Independent Underwriter, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale public offering or the delivery of Securities or Offering as the Notes on the terms and in the manner contemplated herebyin the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement).
(gk) The Representative Company shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by complied with the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in provisions of Section 4(b) hereof with respect to the form attached as Annex IIfurnishing of Prospectuses on the next business day succeeding the date of this Agreement.
(hl) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of On or prior to the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Depository Trust Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have accepted the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleNotes for clearance.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(km) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ ' Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative you or to Underwriters’ ' Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 shall not be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative you and to Underwriters’ ' Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters and the Independent Underwriter hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative you at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the ClosingClosing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing writing, or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beprovided herein, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) to the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished pursuant to this SECTION 7 to the Representative Underwriters or to Underwriters’ ' Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) omission and to the performance by the Company satisfaction of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) All of the representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantors contained herein shall be true and correct on the date hereof and on the Closing Date with the same force and effect as if made on and as of the date hereof and the Closing Date. Each of the Company and the Guarantors shall have performed or complied with all of its agreements herein contained and required to be performed or complied with by it at or prior to the Closing Date.
(b) The Registration Statement (including the Statement of Eligibility of the Trustee on Form T-1) shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals (or if a post-effective amendment is required to be filed pursuant to Rule 430A under the Securities Act Regulations, such post effective amendment shall have been received become effective) not later than 5:30 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, Agreement or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at At or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the ClosingDate, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any post-effective amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement ; and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which every request for additional information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning part of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulationsCommission (including, and statingwithout limitation, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes any request or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 comment with respect to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus) shall have been complied with in all material respects. No stop order suspending the sale of the Securities in any jurisdiction designated by the Representative shall have been issued and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithno proceedings for that purpose shall have been commenced or be pending or, to the knowledge of the Company or any of the Guarantors, be contemplated.
(jc) No action shall have been taken and no law, statute, rule, rule or regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that agency which would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction injunction, restraining order or order of any federal, nature by a federal or state or foreign court of competent jurisdiction shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, which would prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities Securities; no action, suit or materially proceeding shall have been commenced and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect be pending against, or, to the business or operations best knowledge of the Company and the Guarantors threatened against, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries before any court or arbitrator or any governmental body, agency or official which, if adversely determined, might result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(d) Since the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, (i) there shall not have been any material adverse change or any development that might result in a material adverse change in the business, prospects, properties, assets, operations, condition (financial or otherwise), net worth or results of operation, or any material change in the capital stock or the long-term debt, or material increase in the short-term debt, of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from that set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, (ii) no dividend or distribution of any kind shall have been declared, paid or made by the Company on any class of its membership or partnership interests or capital stock, as applicable, and (iii) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall have incurred any liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, that are material, individually or in the aggregate, to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and that are required to be disclosed on a balance sheet or notes thereto in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and are not disclosed on the latest balance sheet or notes thereto included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
(e) After the execution and delivery of this Agreement, there shall not have been (i) any downgrading by Standard & Poor's Ratings Group ("S&P") in the rating of the Securities below __; (ii) any downgrading by Moodx'x Xxxestors Service Inc. ("MOODY's") in the rating of the Securities below __; or (iii) any notice given by S&P or Moody's of any intended or potential downgrading in any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the direction of the possible change.
(f) The Underwriters shall have received a certificate executed by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of each of the Company and the Guarantors, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the
(i) confirming the matters set forth in PARAGRAPHS (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) of this SECTION 7 and (ii) stating that each signer of such certificate has examined the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and (A) as of the date of such certificate, such documents do not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein (in the case of the Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, (B) since the Effective Date no event has occurred as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Registration Statement or Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not untrue or misleading in any material respect and (C) since the Effective Date there has not been any change, or any development involving a prospective change, which might have a Material Adverse Effect.
(g) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion, dated the Closing Date, of Goodxxx, Xxocter & Hoar XXX, counsel for the Company addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters and Underwriters' Counsel to the effect set forth in EXHIBIT A hereto.
(h) All proceedings taken in connection with the sale of the Securities as herein contemplated shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Underwriters and to Underwriters' Counsel, and the Underwriters shall have received from Underwriters' Counsel a favorable opinion, dated as of the Closing Date, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Securities, as to such matters as the Underwriters may reasonably require, and the Company and the Guarantors shall have furnished to Underwriters' Counsel such documents, in addition to those set forth above, as they may reasonably require for the purpose of enabling them to review or pass upon the matters referred to in this SECTION 7 and in order to evidence the accuracy, completeness or satisfaction in all material respects of any of the representations, warranties or conditions herein contained.
(i) At the time this Agreement is executed and at the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received a letter or letters from KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, independent public accountants for the Company and its Subsidiaries, dated as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters and Underwriters' Counsel (a) confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries within the meaning of the Act and the Regulations and the answer to Item 10 of the Registration Statement form is correct insofar as it relates to them; (b) stating that in their opinion, the financial statements and schedules examined by them and included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and the Exchange Act and the published rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder; and (c) containing such other statements and information as is ordinarily included in accountants' "comfort letters" to Underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial and statistical information contained in the Registration Statement and Prospectus.
(j) The Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee shall have entered into the Indenture and the Underwriters shall have received counterparts, conformed as executed, thereof.
(k) The Company Company, the Guarantors and the Banks shall have furnished entered into the Amended Credit Facility in the form delivered to and approved by the Underwriters as of the date hereof with no material changes except as are satisfactory to the Underwriters in the Underwriters' sole discretion and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificatesthe Underwriters shall have received counterparts, opinions or documents conformed as they may have reasonably requestedexecuted, thereof.
(l) The Prior to the Closing Date, the Company and the Guarantors shall have entered into a warrant agreement (furnished to the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency Underwriters such further information, certificates and Trust Company, documents as warrant agent for the WarrantsUnderwriters may reasonably request. If any of the conditions specified in this Section SECTION 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative Underwriters or to Underwriters’ ' Counsel pursuant to this Section SECTION 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ ' Counsel, all of the obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative Underwriters at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the ClosingClosing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing writing, or orally. Any such oral notice shall be by telephone, telecopy, telex or telegraph, confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Baker J Inc)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beAdditional Shares, as provided herein herein, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date (for purposes of this Section 7 "Closing Date" shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and any Additional Closing Date, (ii) if different, for the Additional Shares), to the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative Representatives or to Underwriters’ ' Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) to the performance by the Company and the Selling Stockholders of its their respective obligations hereunder, and (iv) to each of the following additional terms and conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If Representatives; if the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under or Rule 434 of the Securities ActRegulations, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof Section 5(a) hereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities Shares and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any post-effective amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings for the issuance of such an order therefor shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of threatened by the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsCommission.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised At the Company, that the Registration StatementClosing Date, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative Representatives shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) the written opinion of Troy & Gould Professional Corporation, counsel for the Company and the Xxxlinx Xxxckholders, dated the Closing Date addressed to the Underwriters in the form attached hereto as Annex I and (ii)) the written opinion of S. Page Todd, including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal in house counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date addressxx xo the Underwriters in the form attached hereto as Annex II.
(c) At the Closing Date, the Representatives shall have received (i) the written opinion of Goodmans LLP, Canadian counsel for the Company and its Subsidiaries, dated the Closing Date addressed to the Underwriters; Underwriters in the form attached hereto as Annex III and (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPthe written opinion of Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales, patent legal Canadian counsel for the Company and xxx Xxxxxxxxxxxs, dated the Closing Date addressed to the CompanyUnderwriters in the form attached hereto as Annex IV.
(d) All proceedings taken in connection with the sale of the Firm Shares and the Additional Shares as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives and to Underwriters' Counsel, and the Underwriters shall have received from Underwriters' Counsel a favorable opinion, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed Date, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Shares, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and such other related matters as the Representatives may require, and the Company shall have furnished to Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel ' Counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the Company, dated as purpose of the Closing Date and addressed enabling them to the Underwriterspass upon such matters.
(de) The Representative At the Closing Date, the Representatives shall have received certificates of each a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, Date to the effect that: that (i) the conditions condition set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have has been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 1 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, Date all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has and the Subsidiaries have not sustained any material loss or interference with its businessestheir respective businesses or properties from fire, flood, hurricane, accident or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, Prospectus there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether except in each case as described in or not arising from transactions contemplated by the Prospectus, and (vi) there are no historical or pro forma financial statements which are required to be included in the ordinary course of businessRegistration Statement and Prospectus in accordance with Regulation S-X which have not been included as so required.
(ef) On The Representatives shall have received a comfort letter from each of (i) Ernst & Young LLP, independent public accountants for the Company, and (ii) Singer Lewak Greenbaum and Goldstein, LLP, independent public accountants for Video Xxxxxx, at thx xxxx xxis Agreement is executed and at the Closing Date, dated as of the date of this Agreement and on as of the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such daterespectively, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel' counsel; provided, confirming however, that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within comfort letters delivered on the meaning of Closing Date shall use a "cut-off date" not earlier than the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letterhereof.
(fg) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change of the Subsidiaries or any change, or any development involving a prospective change, whether in or not arising from transactions in affecting the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equitybusiness, properties or prospects of the Company, Company and the Subsidiaries individually or taken as a whole, including but not limited to including, without limitation, the occurrence of any a fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism explosion or other calamitycalamity at any of the properties owned or leased by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeUnderwriters, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale public offering or the delivery of Securities or Offering as the Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated herebyin the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement).
(gh) The Representative Representatives shall have also received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed person who is a director of the Company and each stockholder as shall have been heretofore designated by the applicable Lock-Up PartyRepresentatives and listed on Schedule III hereto, in each case substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex IIV, and each such lock-up agreement shall be in full force and effect on the Closing Date.
(hi) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of At the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action Shares shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading approved for quotation on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleNASDAQ.
(ij) FINRA At the Closing Date, the NASD shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the .
(k) The Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing shall have complied with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 provisions of Section 5(c) hereof with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithfurnishing of prospectuses on the next business day succeeding the date of this Agreement.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(kl) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ ' Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(lm) The Company Representatives shall have entered into received on the Closing Date and the Additional Closing Date, if applicable, a warrant agreement (certificate, dated the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust CompanyClosing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as warrant agent applicable, and signed by the Attorney-in-Fact of each Selling Stockholder, to the effect that the representations and warranties of the Selling Stockholders contained in this Agreement are true and correct as of the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as applicable, and that the Selling Stockholders have complied with all of the agreements and satisfied all of the conditions on their part to be performed or satisfied hereunder on or before the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as applicable.
(n) On the date hereof, the Company and the Selling Stockholders shall have furnished for review by the WarrantsRepresentatives copies of the Powers of Attorney and Custody Agreements executed by each of the Selling Stockholders and such further information, certificates and documents as the Representatives may reasonably request.
(o) In the event the Underwriters exercise their option to purchase the Additional Shares, all of the conditions in this Section 7 must be satisfied in connection with such Additional Shares on or prior to the Additional Closing Date. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative Representatives or to Underwriters’ ' Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Representatives and to Underwriters’ ' Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative Representatives at, or at any time prior to, the consummation Closing Date and the obligations of the ClosingUnderwriters to purchase the Additional Shares may be cancelled by the Representatives at, or at any time prior to, the Additional Closing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing writing, or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be hereunder are subject to: , (i) the accuracy in all respects of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein containedthat are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect and the accuracy in all material respects of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein that are not so qualified, in each case as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date (as if made at the Closing Date, ) and (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional terms and conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form Section 3(a) hereof; all filings required by Rule 424(b) or Rule 433 of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities Rules and the method of distribution and similar matters Regulations shall have been filed made within the time periods prescribed by such Rules, and no such filings will have been made without the consent of the Representatives in accordance with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodterms of this Agreement; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofamendment or supplement thereto, preventing or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Packageany Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or suspending the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of any such an order shall have been initiated or threatenedthreatened pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act; all requests no notice from the Commission of any stop order or any order preventing or suspending the use of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto shall have been received by the Company; and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been disclosed to the Representatives and complied with to each of the Representative’s satisfaction.
(b) No Underwriter shall have been advised by the Company, or shall have discovered and disclosed to the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Packagemost recent Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, thereto contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of counsel to the Underwriters, is material, or omits to state a any fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of counsel to the Underwriters, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory All corporate proceedings and other legal matters incident to the Representative authorization, form and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case validity of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLPthis Agreement, the securities Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and all other legal matters relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be reasonably satisfactory in all material respects to counsel for the CompanyUnderwriters, dated as of and the Closing Date Company shall have furnished to such counsel all documents and addressed information that they may reasonably request to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel enable them to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriterspass upon such matters.
(d) The Representative Representatives shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of from Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, its written opinion and negative assurance statement, addressed to the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
(e) The Representatives shall have received from Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Esq., General Counsel for the Company, his written opinion, addressed to the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, substantially in the form of Exhibit C.
(f) The Representatives shall have received from Xxxxx & XxXxxxx LLP, counsel to the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, addressed to the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, with respect to the Securities, Registration Statement, Prospectus and Disclosure Package and other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(g) The Representatives shall have received from the Company a certificate, dated the Closing Date, of its Senior Vice President, Treasurer and Investor Relations and Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary stating that, to the effect thattheir knowledge after reasonable investigation: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as representations and warranties of the date hereof Company in this Agreement are true and correct, as if made at and as of the Closing Date, the or true and correct in all material respects where such representations and warranties are not qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, and the Company has complied in all material respects with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be complied with or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date; (ii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurateRegistration Statement has been issued, no proceedings for any such purpose have been initiated or, to the knowledge of such officers, threatened; (iii) the signers of such certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto (including any documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference into the most recent Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus), and, in their opinion, the Registration Statement as of the Effective Date, the Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time, and the Prospectus, as of its date, did not and, on the Closing Date, all agreementsdoes not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus only (and any amendments or supplements thereto), conditions in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading; and obligations (iv) since the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement, the most recent Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus which has not been so set forth.
(h) The Representatives shall have received a certificate from the Chief Financial Officer of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have stating that the financial information attached as Schedule A thereto, contained in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus has been duly performed or complied with, (iv) derived from the records of the Company and to the best of his knowledge and belief is accurate as of the dates set forth in the documents in which they are contained.
(i) The Representatives shall have received a certificate from the Chief Financial Officer of Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx B.V. stating that the financial information attached as Schedule A thereto, contained in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus has not sustained been derived from the records of Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx B.V. and to the best of his knowledge and belief is accurate as of the dates set forth in the documents in which they are contained.
(j) Neither the Company nor any material of its Material Subsidiaries nor the TH Group shall have sustained, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, any loss or interference with its businessesbusiness from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal court or governmental proceedingaction, order or decree or (vii) no stop order suspending except for the effectiveness grant of equity pursuant to its existing stock incentive plans, and borrowings and letters of credit issued under the Company’s existing revolving credit facility, since such date there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Registration Statement Company or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated of its Material Subsidiaries or threatened by the CommissionTH Group or any change, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changechange, whether in or not arising from transactions affecting the financial condition, business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or the TH Group, the effect of which, in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii), is, in the ordinary course reasonable judgment of businessthe Representatives, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or the delivery of the Securities or on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus.
(ek) On Concurrently with the date execution of this Agreement and on the Closing DateAgreement, the Representative Representatives shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, (the “initial E&Y comfort letter”) addressed to the Underwriters Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, dated the date hereof, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, Representatives (i) confirming that they are an independent certified registered public accountants with respect to the Company accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and all are in compliance with the applicable rules and regulationsrequirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, and (ii) stating, as of the date hereof (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, as of a date not more than three days prior to the date hereof), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters in connection with registered public offerings.
(l) The Representatives shall have received a “bring-down comfort” letter (the “E&Y bring-down comfort letter”) from Ernst & Young LLP, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, addressed to the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives (i) confirming that they are an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and are in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, (ii) stating, as of the date of the E&Y bring-down comfort letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) three days prior to such datethe date of the E&Y bring-down comfort letter), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such the initial E&Y comfort letter and (iii) confirming in all material respects the conclusions and findings set forth in the initial E&Y comfort letter.
(fm) Concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, the Representatives shall have received from PricewaterhouseCoopers Accountants N.V., the Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx B.V. independent registered public accounting firm, a “comfort” letter (the “initial PWC comfort letter”) addressed to the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, dated the date hereof, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives (i) confirming that they are an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning Rule 101 of the Code of Professional Conduct of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, (ii) stating, as of the date hereof (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, as of a date not more than three business days prior to the date hereof), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters in connection with registered public offerings.
(n) The Representatives shall have received a “bring-down comfort” letter (the “PWC bring-down comfort letter”) from PricewaterhouseCoopers Accountants N.V., the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, addressed to the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives reaffirming, as of the date of the PWC bring-down comfort letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than three business days prior to the date of the PWC bring-down comfort letter), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters covered by the initial PWC comfort letter.
(o) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement orAgreement, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the Registration Statement rating accorded to the debt securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (exclusive as that term is defined in Rule 436(g)(2) of the Rules and Regulations), and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has any amendment thereofsuch debt securities under surveillance or review with possible negative implications (other than as has been publicly announced on or prior to the date of this Agreement).
(p) Subsequent to the execution and the Prospectus (exclusive delivery of any supplement thereto)this Agreement, there shall not have been occurred any change of the following: (i) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange or in the capital stock over-the-counter market, or long-term debt trading in any securities of the Company on any exchange or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course over-the-counter market, shall have been suspended or materially limited or the settlement of businesssuch trading generally shall have been materially disrupted or minimum prices shall have been established on any such exchange or such market by the Commission, by such exchange or by any other regulatory body or governmental authority having jurisdiction; (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared by federal or state authorities; (iii) the United States shall have become engaged in hostilities except for existing hostilities in Iraq and Afghanistan, there shall have been an escalation in hostilities involving the United States or there shall have been a declaration of a national emergency or war by the United States; or (iv) there shall have occurred such a material adverse change in general economic, political or financial conditions, including, without limitation, as a result of terrorist activities after the date hereof (or the effect of international conditions on the financial markets in the United States shall be such) as to make it, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeRepresentatives, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale offering of the Securities or Offering as on the terms and in the manner contemplated herebyin the Prospectus.
(gq) The Representative At the Closing Date, the Securities shall have been approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange, subject only to official notice of issuance.
(r) At the date of this Agreement, the Representatives shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex IIExhibit D hereto signed by the persons listed on Schedule D hereto.
(hs) The Common Stock and Since the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act andexecution of this Agreement, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 there shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, any decrease in or if withdrawal of the rating of any securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under the certificates, opinions, written statements 0000 Xxx) or letters furnished to any notice given of any intended or potential decrease in or withdrawal of any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations direction of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingpossible change.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares as provided herein shall be subject to the accuracy, as of the date hereof and Firm Warrants or any the Closing Date and the date on which Option SecuritiesShares are to be purchased, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 2:00 P.M., New York City California time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been be consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof you; and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings for the issuance of such an order that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests threatened by the Commission, and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, Statement or the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness satisfaction of the underwriting terms and arrangementsUnderwriters' Counsel.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, All corporate proceedings and advised the Company, that the Registration Statementother legal matters in connection with this Agreement, the General Disclosure Package or form of Registration Statement and the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement theretoand the registration, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectusauthorization, contains an untrue statement issuance, sale and delivery of fact whichthe Shares, shall have been reasonably satisfactory to Underwriters' Counsel, and such counsel shall have been furnished with such documents and information as they may reasonably have requested to enable them to pass upon the matters referred to in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleadingthis Section.
(c) The Representative You shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements satisfied that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(ei) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company other than pursuant to the exercise of outstanding options, warrants or other convertible securities disclosed in the Registration Statement and Prospectus or any material adverse change in the indebtedness of the Company, (ii) except as set forth or development involving a changecontemplated by the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, whether no material verbal or written agreement or other transaction shall have been entered into by the Company, which is not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business and which would have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, in financial condition and operating results, (iii) no loss or damage (whether or not insured) to the businessproperty of the Company shall have been sustained which materially and adversely affects the financial condition, condition (financial business or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects operations of the Company, taken as a whole(iv) no legal or governmental action, including but suit or proceeding affecting the Company which materially and adversely affects the Company, or which affects or may affect the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, shall have been instituted or threatened and (v) there shall not limited to have been any material change in the occurrence financial condition, business, or results of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act operations of war the Company which makes it impractical or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, inadvisable in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable Representatives to proceed with the sale of Securities public offering or Offering purchase the Shares as contemplated hereby.
(gd) The Representative You shall have received a lock-up agreement on the Closing Date and on any later date on which Option Shares are purchased, as the case may be, an opinion from each Lockof Bartxx Xxx Linn & Schrxxxx, xxneral counsel to the Company, and Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP, special counsel for the Company, (which opinion of special counsel need not include subparagraphs (ii), (iii), (iv) or (xx) below) dated the Closing Date or such later date on which Option Shares are purchased, addressed to the Underwriters (and stating that subparagraphs (v), (viii), (ix), (xi), (xvii) and (xviii) may be relied upon by Underwriters' Counsel in rendering its opinion pursuant to Section 8(j) of this Agreement) and with reproduced copies or signed counterparts thereof for each of the Underwriters, substantially to the effect that:
(i) The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation;
(ii) The Company has full corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement;
(iii) The Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing in each United States jurisdiction, if any, in which the ownership or leasing of its properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not have a material adverse effect on the financial condition results of operations or business of the Company taken as a whole. To such counsel's knowledge, Company has no subsidiaries or other than as listed in Exhibit 21 to the Registration Statement;
(iv) The authorized, issued and outstanding capital stock of the Company is as set forth in the Prospectus under the caption "Capitalization"; all outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly and validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable, and, to such counsel's knowledge, have not been issued in violation of or subject to any preemptive right, co-Up Partysale right, registration right, right of first refusal or other similar right; without limiting the foregoing, to such counsel's knowledge, there are no preemptive or other rights to subscribe for or purchase any of the Shares;
(v) The certificates evidencing the Shares to be delivered hereunder are in due and proper form under Delaware law and when duly countersigned by the Company's transfer agent and registrar and delivered to the Underwriters against payment of the agreed compensation in accordance with this Agreement, the Firm Shares and the Option Shares, represented thereby will be duly and validly issued and fully paid and nonassessable, and will not have been issued in violation of or subject to any preemptive right, co-sale right, registration right, right of first refusal or other similar right of shareholders and will conform in all respects to the description thereof in the Registration Statement;
(vi) the Company has the corporate power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to issue, sell and deliver to the Underwriters the Shares to be issued and sold by it hereunder;
(vii) The Company has the corporate power and authority to enter into the Representatives' Warrant Agreement and to issue, sell and deliver to the Representatives the Representatives' Warrants to be issued and sold by it thereunder;
(viii) Each of this Agreement, the Representatives' Warrant Agreement and the Representatives' Warrants has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company and has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by you, is a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable Lock-Up Partylaw and except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally or by general equitable principles;
(hix) The Common Stock Registration Statement has become effective under the Act and, to such counsel's knowledge, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or threatened under the Act;
(x) The Registration Statement and the Warrants are registered under Prospectus, and each amendment or supplement thereto (other than the Exchange Act andfinancial statements and notes thereto, the financial statement schedules and other financial or statistical data included therein as to which such counsel need express no opinion), as of the Closing Dateeffective date of the Registration Statement, complied as to form in all material respects with the Common Stock requirements of the Act and the Warrants shall be listed applicable Rules and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.Regulations;
(ixi) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to The statements in the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required Prospectus in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken the Sections captioned "Management--1998 Stock Option Plan," "Management--Employment Agreements," "Management--Compensation Committee Interlocks and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, Insider Participation," "Management--Limitation of Liability and Indemnification Matters," "Certain Transactions," "Description of Capital Stock" and "Shares Eligible For Future Sale," in each case insofar as such statements reflect a summary of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions material legal matters or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
referred to therein, are accurate and fairly present the information required to be disclosed therein (l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (other than the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency financial statements and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior tonotes thereto, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of financial statement schedules and other financial or statistical data included therein as to which such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.counsel need express no opinion);
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for Securities pursuant to the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be Terms Agreement are subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company herein contained, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company’s officers made in any certificate furnished pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of all of its covenants and other obligations hereunder and to the following further conditions:
(a) The Company shall have requested and caused the delivery of written opinions, substantially in the forms contemplated by the Terms Agreement.
(b) The Company shall have requested and caused Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Auditores Independentes, independent auditors for the Company, and such other independent auditors as may be specified in the Terms Agreement, to have furnished to you, at the Execution Time and at the Closing Date, letters, (which may refer to letters previously delivered to one or more of you), dated respectively as of the date hereof Execution Time and as of the Closing Date, (ii) in form and substance satisfactory to you, confirming that they are an independent registered public accounting firm within the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each meaning of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, Act and the terms Exchange Act and covering the matters that are ordinarily covered by “Closing Datecomfort letters” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion drafted in accordance with the terms thereof and a form Statement of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleadingAuditing Standards No. 72.
(c) The Representative Company shall have received the favorable written opinionsfurnished to you a certificate, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as signed by two executive officers of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as Company with specific knowledge of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer financial matters of the Company, reasonably satisfactory to you, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that the signers of such certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, and the Terms Agreement and that: :
(i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof the Agreement are accurate, (iii) true and correct on and as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions Date with the same effect as if made on the Closing Date and obligations of the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or complied with hereunder on satisfied at or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, to the Closing Date;
(iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (vii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor for that purpose or under Section 8A of the Act have been initiated or threatened by instituted or, to the CommissionCompany’s knowledge, threatened; and
(viiii) there are no pro forma or as adjusted since the date of the most recent financial statements that are required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus pursuant to (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there has been no material adverse effect on the Rules condition (financial or otherwise), prospects, earnings, business or properties of the Company and Regulations which are not so includedits Subsidiaries, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates except as of which information is given set forth in or contemplated in the Registration Statement Disclosure Package and the ProspectusFinal Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(iv) since the Execution Time, there has not been any Material Adverse Change decrease in the rating of any of the debt securities issued by or guaranteed by the Company by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under the Act) or any development involving notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or possible change in any such rating that does not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of businessindicate an improvement.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(fd) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement Execution Time or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof), the Disclosure Package (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the capital stock condition (financial or long-term debt otherwise), earnings, business or properties of the Company or any change or development involving and its Subsidiaries, taken as a changewhole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the business, condition Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence exclusive of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, supplement thereto) the effect of which, in any such case described above, which is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representativeyour sole judgment, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the sale offering or delivery of the Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyby the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(e) Since the Execution Time, there has not been any decrease in the rating of any of the debt securities issued by or guaranteed by the Company by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under the Act) or any notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate an improvement.
(f) Subsequent to the Execution Time, there shall not have been any decrease in the rating of any of the debt securities issued by or guaranteed by the Company by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under the Act) or any notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the direction of the possible change.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of Prior to the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished to the Underwriters such further information, certificates and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingreasonably request.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters Underwriter hereunder are subject to purchase the accuracy, at and pay for as of the Firm Shares date hereof and Firm Warrants or any the First Closing Date (as if made at the First Closing Date) and, with respect to the Optional Shares, each Option SecuritiesClosing Date (as if made at the Option Closing Date), as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedcontained herein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become be effective and all necessary regulatory filings required by Rules 424, 430A and listing approvals 433 under the Securities Act shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodmade; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the RepresentativeUnderwriter’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative Underwriter shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, Company that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the RepresentativeUnderwriter’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the RepresentativeUnderwriter’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(c) On each Closing Date, the Underwriter shall have received the opinion and 10b-5 statement of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx L.L.P., counsel for the Company, addressed to the Underwriter and dated as of such Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriter and to counsel to the Underwriter, substantially in the form of Exhibit C attached hereto.
(d) On each Closing Date the Underwriter shall have received the favorable opinion of Xxxxxxx Xxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriter, dated as of such Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter.
(e) There shall have been furnished to the Underwriter a certificate of the Company, dated as of each Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriter, signed by the Chief Executive Officer and by the Chief Financial Officer of the Company to the effect that:
(i) The representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct, as if made at and as of such Closing Date, and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to such Closing Date;
(ii) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued, and no proceedings for that purpose have been initiated or are pending or, to their knowledge, contemplated;
(iii) Any and all filings required by Rules 424, 430A, 430B and 430C under the Securities Act have been timely made;
(iv) The signers of said certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement and the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto, and such documents contain all statements and information required to be included therein; the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto does not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or any supplements thereto do not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and
(v) Since the effective date of the Registration Statement, there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus which has not been so set forth.
(cf) The Representative Since the effective date of the Registration Statement, neither the Company nor any of its consolidated subsidiaries shall have sustained any loss by strike, fire, flood, accident or other calamity (whether or not insured), which has a material adverse effect on the Company or its consolidated subsidiaries taken as a whole, nor shall have become a party to or the subject of any litigation that would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries taken as a whole, nor shall there have been a material adverse change in the general affairs, business, key personnel, capitalization, financial position, earnings or net worth of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, which loss, litigation or change, in the Underwriter’s judgment, shall render it inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of the Securities.
(g) On the date hereof, and on each Closing Date, the Underwriter shall have received the favorable written opinionsfrom Xxxx, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel independent public or certified public accountants for the Company, a letter dated as of the Closing Date and date hereof addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel Underwriter in form and substance satisfactory to the CompanyUnderwriter, dated as containing statements and information of the Closing Date and addressed type ordinarily included in accountant’s “comfort letters” to Underwriter, delivered according to Statement of Auditing Standards No. 72 (or any successor bulletin), with respect to the Underwriters; respective audited and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted unaudited financial statements that are required to be included and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to for which such accountant was engaged by the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of businessCompany.
(eh) On Since the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleMaterial Adverse Effect.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness The Lock-Up Agreements required by Section 5(i) of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action this Agreement shall have been taken delivered to the Underwriter and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the be in full force and effect on such Closing Date. All such opinions, prevent certificates, letters and documents shall be in compliance with the issuance or sale of provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Securities; Underwriter and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of to counsel for the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) Underwriter. The Company shall have furnished furnish the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel Underwriter with such other conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, opinions or letters and other documents as they may have the Underwriter shall reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrantsrequest. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form Agreement and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters Underwriter hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative canceled at, or at any time prior to, the consummation First Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as the case may be, by the Underwriter. Any such cancellation shall be without liability of the ClosingUnderwriter to the Company. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing writing, or orally. Any such oral notice shall be by telegraph or telephone and confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The respective obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein on the First Closing Date and, with respect to the Option Shares, the Option Closing Date, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company herein contained, set forth in Section 1 hereof as of the date hereof and as of the First Closing DateDate as though then made and, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished with respect to the Representative or Option Shares, as of the Option Closing Date as though then made, to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the timely performance by the Company of its covenants and obligations hereunder, and (iv) to each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on prior to the date execution of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been be consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodUnderwriters; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings for the issuance of such an order that purpose shall have been initiated or, to the Knowledge of the Company or threatenedany Underwriter, threatened by the Commission; all requests any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Pricing Prospectus, the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfactionsatisfaction of Underwriters’ Counsel; and the FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements; and no amendment to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, or the Prospectus to which the Underwriters or Underwriters’ Counsel shall have reasonably objected, after having received reasonable notice of a proposal to file the same, shall have been filed.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determinedAll corporate proceedings and other legal matters in connection with this Agreement, and advised the Company, that the form of Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the any Preliminary Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Pricing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement and the Prospectus and the registration, authorization, issue, sale and delivery of fact whichthe Shares, shall have been reasonably satisfactory to Underwriters’ Counsel, and such counsel shall have been furnished with such papers and information as they may reasonably have requested to enable them to pass upon the matters referred to in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleadingthis Section 7.
(c) The Representative Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the First Closing Date, and on the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, there shall not have occurred any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Company, taken as a whole, from that set forth in the Pricing Disclosure Package that, in the judgment of either of the Representatives, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect and that makes it, in the reasonable judgment of either of the Representatives, impracticable or inadvisable to market the Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Pricing Disclosure Package.
(d) At the First Closing Date and on the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, the Underwriters shall have received the favorable written opinionsfrom Squire, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal Xxxxxxx L.L.P. counsel for the CompanyCompany (“Company Counsel”), a signed opinion dated as of such Closing Date, reasonably satisfactory to Underwriters’ Counsel, in the Closing Date form and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPsubstance of Exhibit B annexed hereto, patent legal counsel to the Company, including a signed negative assurance statement dated as of such Closing Date, reasonably satisfactory to Underwriters’ Counsel, in the form and substance reflected in Exhibit B.
(e) At the First Closing Date Date, and addressed to on the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, the Underwriters shall have received from Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, ’ Counsel a signed opinion dated as of the such Closing Date in a form and addressed substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters.
(df) The Representative Underwriters shall have received, on each of the date hereof and the Closing Date, a letter dated the date hereof or the Closing Date, as the case may be, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters, from BDO Xxxxxxx, LLP, independent public accountants, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, and the Prospectus; provided, however, that the letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off date” not earlier than three business days before the Closing Date.
(g) The Underwriters shall have received certificates on the First Closing Date and on the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, a certificate of each of the Company, dated the First Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, signed by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Daterespectively, to the effect that: , and the Representatives shall be satisfied that:
(i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the The representations and warranties of the Company set forth Company, respectively, in Section 2 hereof this Agreement are accuratetrue and correct, (iii) as if made on and as of the First Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, all agreementsas the case may be, conditions and obligations of the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions in this Agreement on its part to be performed or complied with hereunder on satisfied at or prior thereto have been duly performed to the First Closing Date or complied withthe Option Closing Date, as the case may be;
(ivii) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of When the Registration Statement became effective and at all times subsequent thereto up to the delivery of such certificate, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, and any amendments or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commissionsupplements thereto, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are contained all material information required to be included in therein by the Registration Statement Act and the Prospectus pursuant applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, as the case may be, and in all material respects conformed to the requirements of the Act and the applicable Rules and Regulations which are not so includedthereunder, the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto, did not and does not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made (viiexcept with respect to the Registration Statement), not misleading; and, since the effective date of the Registration Statement, there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amended or supplemented Prospectus which has not been so set forth; and
(iii) subsequent Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, and the Prospectus, there has not been or occurred, as the case may be: (A) any Material Adverse Change or Effect; (B) any development involving transaction that is material to the Company and its Subsidiaries considered as a prospective Material Adverse Changewhole, whether or not arising from except transactions entered into in the ordinary course of business.
; (eC) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Dateany obligation, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such datedirect or contingent, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect is material to the Company within and its Subsidiaries considered as a whole, incurred by the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulationsCompany or its subsidiaries, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given except obligations incurred in the Prospectus, as ordinary course of a date not more than five business; (5D) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt increase in outstanding indebtedness of the Company or any change of its Subsidiaries that is material to the Company and its Subsidiaries considered as a whole; (E) any dividend or development involving a changedistribution of any kind declared, paid or made on the capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; or (F) any loss or damage (whether or not arising from transactions in insured) to the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects property of the Company, taken as Company or any of its Subsidiaries which has been sustained or will have been sustained which has a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex IIMaterial Adverse Effect.
(h) The Common Stock Company shall have obtained and delivered to the Warrants are registered under Underwriters an agreement, substantially in the Exchange Act andform of Exhibit A attached hereto, as from each officer and director of the Closing Date, Company and each owner of record of five percent (5%) or more of the Common Stock and Company’s outstanding stock. All of the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on certificates representing the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action Shares shall have been provided to tendered for delivery in accordance with the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect terms and provisions of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligiblethis Agreement.
(i) FINRA The Shares shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make be listed on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant NASDAQ Global Market, subject only to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithofficial notice of issuance.
(j) No action The Company shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as complied with the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale furnishing of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanyProspectuses.
(k) The Company’s call right pursuant to the Put/Call Agreement has been exercised and H&W has transferred the Put/Call Interests (as defined in the Put/Call Agreement) into escrow pending completion of the offering pursuant to the Escrow Agreement dated ___, 2010, by and among H&W, TFD Holdings and Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association.
(l) Prior to the First Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished has issued to Eton Park CLO Management 0, Xxxx Xxxx XXX Xxxxxxxxxx 0, Xxxx Xxxx Master Fund, Ltd., and Eton Park Fund, L.P. (collectively “Eton Park”), an amount of shares of Common Stock equal to $1.5 million based on the Public Offering Price (subject to rounding and adjustment) as satisfaction of certain of the Company’s obligations to Eton Park under the Company’s second lien notes.
(m) On or before each of the First Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with shall have received such other certificatesinformation, documents and opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent require for the Warrants. If purposes of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Shares as contemplated herein, or in order to evidence the accuracy of any of the representations and warranties, or the satisfaction of any of the conditions or agreements, herein contained. If any condition specified in this Section 7 shall is not have been fulfilled satisfied when and as required to be satisfied, this Agreement may be terminated by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, Underwriters by written statements or letters furnished notice to the Representative Company at any time on or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance prior to the Representative and First Closing Date and, with respect to Underwriters’ Counselthe Option Shares, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior toto the Option Closing Date, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation which termination shall be given without liability on the part of any party to any other party, except for the Company expenses described in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingSection 11 of this Agreement.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Film Department Holdings, Inc.)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several --------------------------------------- obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for Securities pursuant to the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be terms hereof are subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company herein contained, as to the accuracy of the date hereof and as statements of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from Company's officers made in any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters certificate furnished pursuant to the Representative or provisions hereof, to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of all of its covenants and other obligations hereunder, set forth herein and (iv) each of to the following additional further conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The At the Closing Time (i) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have become effective been issued under the 1933 Act or proceedings therefor initiated or threatened by the Commission, (ii) the rating assigned by Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc. and all Standard & Poor's Corporation to any long-term debt securities of the Company shall not have been lowered since the execution of this Agreement and (iii) there shall not have come to the Representatives' attention any facts that would cause the Representatives to believe that the Prospectus, together with the applicable Prospectus Supplement, at the time it was required to be delivered to a purchaser of the Securities, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary regulatory and listing approvals in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing at such time, not misleading.
(b) At the Closing Time, the Representatives shall have received:
(1) The written opinion, dated as of the Closing Time, of counsel for the Company, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, to the effect that:
(i) The Company is a corporation duly incorporated and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware.
(ii) This Agreement has been received not later than 5:30 P.M.duly authorized, New York City timeexecuted and delivered by the Company.
(iii) The Indenture pursuant to which the Securities are being issued has been duly authorized, on executed and delivered by the date Company and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Trustee, constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar laws affecting enforcement of creditors' rights generally and except as enforcement thereof is subject to general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and except as enforcement thereof is subject, in the case of Securities denominated in a foreign currency or currency unit, to provisions of law that require that a judgment for money damages rendered by a court in the United States be expressed only in United States dollars.
(iv) The Securities have been duly authorized by the Company and, when executed and authenticated as specified in the Indenture and delivered against payment pursuant to this Agreement, the Securities will be valid and binding obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits of the Indenture, and enforceable in accordance with their terms, except as enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar laws affecting enforcement of creditors' rights generally and except as enforcement thereof is subject to general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at such later time law) and date except as shall enforcement thereof is subject, in the case of Securities being denominated in a foreign currency or currency unit, to provisions of law that require that a judgment for money damages rendered by a court in the United States be expressed only in United States dollars.
(v) The Securities and the Indenture conform in all material respects as to legal matters to the descriptions thereof in the Prospectus.
(vi) The Indenture has been duly qualified under the 0000 Xxx.
(vii) If the Securities are convertible into shares of Common Stock, the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion thereof have been consented to in writing duly authorized and reserved for issuance upon such conversion by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion all necessary corporate action and when issued and delivered in accordance with the terms thereof provisions of this Agreement relating thereto, will be validly issued, fully paid and a form non- assessable, and the issuance of such shares upon such conversion will not be subject to preemptive rights.
(viii) The Registration Statement is effective under the Prospectus containing information relating 1933 Act and, to the description best of the Securities their knowledge and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closinginformation, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued under the 1933 Act or any part thereofproceedings therefor initiated or threatened by the Commission.
(ix) The Registration Statement and Prospectus, and each amendment or supplement thereto (except for the financial statements and other financial data included therein or omitted therefrom and the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of the Trustee on Form T-1, as to which such counsel need express no opinion), as of their respective effective or issue dates, appear on their face to have been appropriately responsive in all material respects to the requirements of the 1933 Act, the 1939 Act and the Regulations.
(x) The documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus (except for the financial statements and other financial data included therein or omitted therefrom, as to which such counsel need express no opinion), as of the dates they were filed with the Commission, appear on their face to have been appropriately responsive in all material respects to the requirements of the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.
(xi) The execution and delivery of this Agreement, the fulfillment of the terms herein set forth and the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated will not conflict with the charter or by-laws of the Company.
(i) that the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof, nor suspending thereto (except for the financial statements and other financial data included therein or preventing omitted therefrom and the use Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of the General Disclosure PackageTrustee on Form T-1, as to which such counsel need not comment), at the Prospectus time the Registration Statement or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statementamendment became effective, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains contained an untrue statement of a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits omitted to state a material fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or (ii) that the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto (except for the financial statements and other financial data included therein or omitted therefrom, as to which such counsel need not comment), at the time the Prospectus (together with any such amendment or supplement relating to the Securities) was issued or at the Closing Time, included or includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(c2) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Companyopinion, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed Time, of the General Counsel of the Company to the Underwriters; effect that (i) the Company is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing in the states in which such qualification is required, and (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPthe execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Indenture, patent legal the fulfillment of the terms herein and therein set forth and the consummation of the transactions herein and therein contemplated will not conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default under, the charter or by-laws of the Company or any agreement, indenture or other instrument known to such counsel of which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any of them is bound, or any law, administrative regulation or administrative or court order known to him to be applicable to the Company.
(3) The written opinion, dated as of the applicable Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLCTime, trademark legal of [____________], counsel for the CompanyUnderwriters, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed with respect to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company matters set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate4(b)(1)(i) to Section 4(b)(1)(vi), inclusive, Section 4(b)(1)(viii), Section 4(b)(1)(ix) and Section 4(b)(1)(xi) of this Agreement.
(iiic) as of At the Closing DateTime, all agreementsthere shall not have been, conditions and obligations of since the Company to be performed date hereof or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Statement, any material adverse change in the financial condition of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, or in the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change results of operations or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changebusiness prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On , and the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative Representatives shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx certificate of the President or a Vice President of the Company, dated as of each such datethe Closing Time, addressed to the Underwriters effect that (i) there has been no such material adverse change and (ii) the other representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 1 hereof are true and correct with the same force and effect as though expressly made at and as of the Closing Time.
(d) The Representatives shall have received from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP or other independent certified public accountants acceptable to the Representatives a letter, dated the date hereof, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative Representatives containing statements and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are information of the type ordinarily included in accountants' "comfort letters" to underwriters with respect to financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
(e) The Representatives shall have received from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP or other independent certified public accountants with respect acceptable to the Company within Representatives a letter, dated the meaning of Closing Time, reconfirming or updating the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5letter required by Section 4(d) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect above to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall extent that may be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if reasonably requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions condition specified in this Section 7 4 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by to be fulfilled, this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder Agreement may be cancelled terminated by the Representative at, or by notice to the Company at any time at or prior toto the Closing Time, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of and such cancellation termination shall be given without liability of any party to the Company any other party except as provided in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingSection 5.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beBonds, as provided herein herein, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy accuracy, as of the date hereof, as of the Applicable Time and as of the Closing Date, of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedherein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement Company shall have become effective filed any preliminary prospectus and all necessary regulatory the Prospectus with the Commission (including the information required by Rule 430B under the Act) in the manner and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on within the date of this Agreement, time period required by Rule 424(b) under the Act; or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected filed a post-effective amendment to rely upon the Registration Statement containing the information required by Rule 430A 430B, and such post-effective amendment shall have become effective.
(b) The Final Term Sheet, and any other material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no periods prescribed for such filings under Rule 433.
(c) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofStatement, or any post-effective amendment thereofto the Registration Statement, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall be in effect and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been issuedinstituted or, to the knowledge of the Company or any Underwriter, threatened by the Commission; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, Statement or the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s your satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(bd) The Representative No Underwriter shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, Company that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, which in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, your opinion is material, material or omits to state a fact which, which in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, your opinion is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(ce) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and Except as contemplated in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement Disclosure Package and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so includedProspectus, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing DateStatement, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement theretoamendments or supplements thereto subsequent to the date of this Agreement), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change adverse change, or any development involving a prospective adverse change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the business, net worth or results of operations of the Company from that set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any amendments or supplements thereto subsequent to the date of this Agreement) that, in your judgment makes it impractical or inadvisable to offer or deliver the Bonds on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(f) On the Closing Date, you shall have received the opinion of XxXxxx Law Firm, P.A., counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.
(g) On the Closing Date, you shall have received the opinion of Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esquire, an Associate General Counsel of the Company, dated the Closing Date, in the form of Exhibit B attached hereto.
(h) On the Closing Date, you shall have received from Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the several Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date, as you may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters. In rendering their opinion, such counsel may rely upon the opinion of Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esquire, referred to above, as to all matters governed by South Carolina law.
(i) On or prior to the date hereof, you shall have received a letter from Deloitte & Touche LLP, dated the date of the execution and delivery of this Agreement, and specifying procedures completed not more than three business days prior to the date of the execution and delivery of this Agreement, addressed to you and in form and substance satisfactory to you, (1) confirming that they are independent accountants with respect to the Company as required by the Act and (2) with respect to the accounting, financing, or statistical information (which is limited to accounting, financial or statistical information derived from the general accounting records of the Company) contained in the Registration Statement or incorporated by reference therein, and containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ SAS 72, as amended by SAS 86, “Comfort Letters” to underwriters, with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in or incorporated by reference into the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, including any pro forma financial information. At the Closing Date, you shall have received a letter from Deloitte & Touche LLP, dated the date of its delivery, which shall reaffirm and, if necessary, update, on the basis of a review in accordance with the procedures set forth in the letter from Deloitte & Touche LLP, during the period from the date of the letter referred to in the prior sentence to a date (specified in the letter) not more than three business days prior to the Closing Date.
(j) On the Closing Date, you shall have received from the Company a certificate, signed by its Chairman, President or a Vice President and by its Treasurer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer, dated the Closing Date, to the effect that, to the best of their knowledge based on a reasonable investigation:
(i) the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct in all material respects, as if made on and as of the Closing Date, and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied on or prior to the Closing Date;
(ii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, or any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement, shall be in effect and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or threatened by the Commission;
(iii) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto, contain all statements and information required to be included therein; the Registration Statement or any amendments thereto, at the time the Registration Statement or such amendments became effective and at the Execution Time, did not contain an untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; the Prospectus, as of its date and at the Closing Date did not and does not contain an untrue statement of a material fact and did not and does not omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; the Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time, did not contain any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (provided, however, that in each case, no representation is made, as applicable, as to any statements in or omissions from the Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1 filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, the Book-Entry Information, or information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company by you, or by any Underwriter through you, specifically for use in the preparation thereof); and, since the date hereof there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amended or supplemented prospectus which has not been so set forth and there has been no document required to be filed under the Exchange Act and which upon such filing would be deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, which has not been so filed; and
(iv) since the date of the most recent financial statements included in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto dated after the Execution Time), there has been no material adverse change, or any development which the Company has reasonable cause to believe will involve a prospective material adverse change, in the condition (financial or other), earnings, business or properties of the Company, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock Disclosure Package and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanyProspectus.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters to you such further certificates and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may you shall have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company There shall not have entered into occurred after the date hereof any downgrading, nor shall any notice have been given of any intended or potential downgrading or of any review for a warrant agreement (possible change that indicates a negative change or does not indicate the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Companydirection of the possible change, as warrant agent for in the Warrants. If rating accorded any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and Company’s securities by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization,” as required by this Agreementsuch term is defined for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the Act. All such opinions, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to and other documents will be in compliance with the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closingyou. Notice The Company will furnish you with such conformed copies of such cancellation opinions, certificates, letters and other documents as you shall reasonably request, and the opinions referred to in paragraphs (f) and (g) shall be given deemed satisfactory provided they are substantially in the forms attached as exhibits to this Agreement. The documents required to be delivered by this Section 5 shall be delivered to the Company in writing office of XxXxxx Law Firm, P.A., counsel for the Company, 0000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx 00000, on or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingprior to the Closing Date.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (South Carolina Electric & Gas Co)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedaccuracy, as of the date hereof and as at each of the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date (as if made at such Closing Date), (ii) of and compliance with all representations, warranties and agreements of the absence from any certificatesCompany and the Selling Shareholders contained herein, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company and the Selling Shareholders of its their obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.5:00 p.m., New York City Central time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, shall approve and all filings required by Rules 424, 430A and 434 of the Rules and Regulations shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodmade; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, Statement or the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s your satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determinedlegality and sufficiency of the sale of the Securities hereunder and the validity and form of the certificates representing the Securities, all corporate proceedings and other legal matters incident to the foregoing, and the form of the Registration Statement and of the Prospectus (except as to the financial statements contained therein), shall have been approved at or prior to the Closing Date by Faegre & Xxxxxx LLP, U.S. counsel for the Underwriters, and Xxxxx Xxxxx & Co., Israeli counsel for the Underwriters.
(c) No Underwriter shall have advised the Company, Company that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package Statement or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or thereto (including any Issuer Free Writing Prospectusterm sheet within the meaning of Rule 434 of the Rules and Regulations), contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable your opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable your opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(cd) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and Except as contemplated in the case of (i) and (ii)Prospectus, including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall have incurred any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, or entered into any material transactions, or declared or paid any dividends or made any distribution of any kind with respect to its share capital; and there has shall not have been any Material Adverse Change change in the share capital (other than a change in the number of outstanding Ordinary Shares due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise of outstanding options or warrants), or any material change in the short-term or long-term debt of the Company, or any issuance of options, warrants, convertible securities or other rights to purchase the equity securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any material adverse change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, material adverse change (whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business), in the general affairs, condition (financial or otherwise), business, key personnel, property, prospects, net worth or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, that, in your judgment, makes it impractical or inadvisable to offer or deliver the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the Representative several Underwriters, the opinion of McCutchen, Doyle, Xxxxx & Xxxxxxx, LLP, U.S. counsel for the Company, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, covering the matters set forth in Schedule III hereto. In rendering such opinion such counsel may rely (i) as to matters of law other than California and federal law, upon the opinion or opinions of local counsel provided that the extent of such reliance is specified in such opinion and that such counsel shall state that such opinion or opinions of local counsel are satisfactory to them and that they believe they and you are justified in relying thereon and (ii) as to matters of fact, to the extent such counsel deems reasonable upon certificates of officers of the Company and its subsidiaries provided that the extent of such reliance is specified in such opinion.
(f) On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, the opinion of Naschitz, Xxxxxxx & Co, Israeli counsel for the Company, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, covering the matters set forth in Schedule IV hereto. In rendering such opinion such counsel may rely (i) as to matters of law other than Israeli law, upon the opinion or opinions of local counsel provided that the extent of such reliance is specified in such opinion and that such counsel shall state that such opinion or opinions of local counsel are satisfactory to them and that they believe they and you are Justified in relying thereon and (ii) as to matters of fact, to the extent such counsel deems reasonable upon certificates of officers of the Company and its subsidiaries provided that the extent of such reliance is specified in such opinion.
(g) On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, such opinion or opinions from Faegre & Xxxxxx LLP, U.S. counsel for the several Underwriters, and Xxxxx Xxxxx & Co., Israeli counsel for the several Underwriters, dated such Closing Date and addressed to you, with respect to the validity of the Securities, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and other related matters as you reasonably may request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they request to enable them to pass upon such matters.
(h) On each Closing Date you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB of Xxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as & Xxxxxx (a member of each Ernst & Young International), dated such date, Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, you:
(i) confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and are in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualifications of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission,
(ii) stating that, in their opinion, the audited consolidated financial statements and schedules examined by them and included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus comply in form in all material respects with the applicable rules accounting requirements of the Act and regulations, the Rules and Regulations,
(iii) stating, as of the date of such date letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to the date of such dateletter), the conclusions and findings of such said firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating covered by its letter delivered to you concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, and the effect of the letter so to be delivered on such Closing Date shall be to confirm the conclusions and findings set forth in such prior letter,
(iv) stating that, at a specific date not more than five business days prior to the Registration Statement covered by date of such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given there were any changes in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the share capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change decrease in net current assets or development involving a changeshareholders' equity of the Company in each case compared with amounts shown on the December 31, whether or not arising from transactions 1999 audited consolidated balance sheet included in the ordinary course Registration Statement and the Prospectus, or for the period from January 1, 2000 to such specified date there were any decreases, as compared with the comparable period of businessthe prior fiscal quarter, in the businesstotal sales of services and license fees, condition (financial income before taxes or otherwise), results total or per share amounts of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects net income of the Company, taken as a wholeexcept in all instances for changes, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war decreases or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, increases set forth in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.letter,
(gv) The Representative shall stating that they have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partycarried out certain specified procedures, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Partynot constituting an audit, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to certain amounts, percentages and financial information that are derived from the fairness and reasonableness general accounting records of the underwriting terms Company and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to are included in the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall the Prospectus, including the amounts, percentages and financial information included under the captions "Summary Consolidated Financial and Operating Data," "Capitalization," "Selected Consolidated Financial and Operating Data" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," and have been taken compared such amounts, percentages and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as financial information with such records of the Closing DateCompany and with information derived from such records and have found them to be in agreement, prevent the issuance or sale excluding any questions of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Companylegal interpretation.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters Underwriter to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beAdditional Shares, as provided herein herein, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date (for purposes of this Section 7 “Closing Date” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and any Additional Closing Date, (ii) if different, for the Additional Shares), to the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative you or to Underwriters’ Underwriter’s Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any material misstatement or omission, (iii) to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) to each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(bSection 4(a) within the applicable time periodhereof; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofpost-effective amendment thereto, or any amendment thereof, nor and no stop order suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwisethe Prospectus, shall have been issued by the Commission and no proceedings therefor shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission; no notice of objection to the use of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act shall have been issued by the Commission; all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission shall have been complied with to the Representative’s your reasonable satisfaction; and FINRA if the Company has elected to rely on Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement shall have raised no objection to become effective by 10:00 p.m. (Washington, D.C. time) on the fairness date of this Agreement; and reasonableness of the underwriting terms all necessary foreign and arrangementsdomestic regulatory or stock exchange approvals shall have been received.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised At the Company, that the Registration StatementClosing Date, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative Underwriter shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case opinion of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx Xxxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; Underwriter in the form attached hereto as Annex I.
(iic) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLPAt the Closing Date, patent legal the Underwriter shall have received the written opinion of Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Bailhache, Bermuda counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date addressed to the CompanyUnderwriter in the form attached hereto as Annex II.
(d) All proceedings taken in connection with the sale of the Firm Shares and the Additional Shares as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Underwriter and to Underwriter’s Counsel, and the Underwriter shall have received from Underwriter’s Counsel a favorable written opinion, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed Date, with respect to the Underwriters; issuance and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLCsale of the Shares, trademark legal counsel the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and such other related matters as the Underwriter may require, and the Company shall have furnished to Underwriter’s Counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the Company, dated as purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(e) At the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative you shall have received certificates of each a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, Date to the effect that: that (i) the conditions condition set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have has been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 1 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, Date all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Pricing Disclosure Package (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businessestheir respective businesses or properties from fire, flood, hurricane, accident or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and Statement, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are that have not so includedbeen included or incorporated therein as required, and (viivi) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, Pricing Disclosure Package (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto) there has not been any Material Adverse Change material adverse change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changematerial adverse change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in or affecting (x) the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, stockholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company; (y) the long-term debt or share capital of the Company; or (z) the Offering or consummation of any of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and (vii) certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus is accurate.
(ef) On At the time this Agreement is executed and at the Closing Date, you shall have received a comfort letter, from Deloitte AS, independent registered public accounting firm, dated, respectively, as of the date of this Agreement and on as of the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, Date addressed to the Underwriters Underwriter and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative Underwriter and Underwriters’ Underwriter’s Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(fg) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus Pricing Disclosure Package (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the share capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholdersstockholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism accident or other calamitycalamity at any of the properties owned or leased by the Company, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeUnderwriter, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale Offering on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Pricing Disclosure Package (exclusive of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyany supplement).
(gh) The Representative the Underwriter shall have received a duly executed lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by person who is a director or officer of the applicable Lock-Up PartyCompany and each employee of Scandic American Shipping Ltd. listed under the caption “Management” in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, in each case substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex IIIII.
(hi) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of At the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action Shares shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect approved for listing upon notice of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading issuance on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleNYSE.
(ij) At the Closing Date, the Underwriter shall continue to be eligible to rely on an exemption from filing with the FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithOffering.
(jk) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the SecuritiesShares; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requestedShares.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (furnished the “Warrant Agreement”) Underwriter and Underwriter’s Counsel with Nevada Agency and Trust Companysuch other certificates, opinions or other documents as warrant agent for the Warrantsthey may have reasonably requested. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative Underwriter or to Underwriters’ Underwriter’s Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Underwriter and to Underwriters’ Underwriter’s Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters Underwriter hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closingcancelled. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing writing, or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Nordic American Tanker Shipping LTD)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The respective obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase the accuracy, at and pay for as of the Firm Shares date hereof and Firm Warrants or any Option the First Closing Date (as if made at the First Closing Date) and, with respect to the Optional Securities, the Option Closing Date (as if made at the case may beOption Closing Date), as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedcontained herein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.4 p.m., New York City Eastern time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as the Representative shall approve and all filings required by Rules 424, 430A and 433 under the Securities Act shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time periodmade; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative No Underwriter shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, Company that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable Representatives opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(c) On each Closing Date, the Representative shall have received the favorable opinion of Xxxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, dated as of such Closing Date, the form of which is attached as Exhibit C.
(d) On each Closing Date the Representative shall have received the favorable opinion of Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, counsel for the Underwriters, dated as of such Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative.
(e) There shall have been furnished to the Representative a certificate of the Company, dated as of each Closing Date and addressed to the Representative, signed by the Chief Executive Officer and by the Chief Financial Officer of the Company to the effect that:
(i) The representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct, as if made at and as of such Closing Date, and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to such Closing Date;
(ii) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued, and no proceedings for that purpose have been initiated or are pending or, to their knowledge, contemplated;
(iii) Any and all filings required by Rules 424, 430A, 430B and 430C under the Securities Act have been timely made;
(iv) The signers of said certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement and the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto, and such documents contain all statements and information required to be included therein; the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto does not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.; and the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or any supplements thereto do not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
(cv) The Representative shall have received Since the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as effective date of the Closing Date and addressed Registration Statement, there has occurred no event required to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions be set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company an amendment or supplement to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus which has not been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, so set forth; and
(vi) Since the effective date of the Registration Statement, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall have sustained any loss by strike, fire, flood, accident or other calamity (whether or not insured), or shall have become a party to or the subject of any litigation, which is material to the Company or its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, nor shall there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included have been a material adverse change in the Registration Statement general affairs, business, key personnel, capitalization, financial position, earnings or net worth of the Company and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changeits Subsidiaries, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, which loss, litigation or change, in the Representative’s judgment, shall render it inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of the Securities.
(ef) On the date of this Agreement hereof, and on the each Closing Date, the Representative shall have received from Sherb & Co. LLP, independent public or certified public accountants for the Company, a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, dated the date hereof addressed to the Underwriters and Representative, on behalf of the several Underwriters, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative Representative, containing statements and Underwriters’ Counselinformation of the type ordinarily included in accountant’s “comfort letters” to underwriters, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants delivered according to Statement of Auditing Standards No. 72 (or any successor bulletin), with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act audited and all applicable rules unaudited financial statements and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified certain financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given contained in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive and the Representative shall have received an additional five conformed copies of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt such accountants’ letter for each of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwiseseveral Underwriters), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a “lock-up agreement from up” agreements between the Representatives and the stockholders, officers and directors of the Company listed on Schedule II, delivered to the Representative on or before the date hereof, shall be in full force and effect on each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex IIClosing Date.
(h) The Common Stock On or before each Closing Date, the Representative and counsel for the Warrants are registered under Underwriters shall have received such information, certificates, agreements, opinions and other documents as they may reasonably require.
(i) On or before the Exchange Act and, as of the First Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading approved for listing on the NASDAQ Nasdaq Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation On or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of before the First Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale Company and the Warrant Agent shall have executed and delivered counterparts of the Securities; Warrant Agreement. All such opinions, certificates, letters and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court documents shall have been issued that would, as of be in compliance with the Closing Date, prevent provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to the issuance or sale of Representative and to counsel for the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) Underwriters. The Company shall have furnished furnish the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel Representative with such other conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, opinions or letters and other documents as they may have the Representative shall reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrantsrequest. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form Agreement and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative canceled at, or at any time prior to, the consummation First Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, by the Representative. Any such cancellation shall be without liability of the ClosingUnderwriters to the Company. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing writing, or orally. Any such oral notice shall be by telegraph or telephone and confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative Underwriters or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s Representative reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative Underwriters shall have received the favorable written legal opinions, in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative Underwriters and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), Counsel of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Westwood & Xxxxx LLPRiegels, the securities legal Cayman Islands counsel for to the Company, Company dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; , (ii) Fish & Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent U.S. legal counsel to for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLCGrandall Law Firm, trademark PRC legal counsel for to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the UnderwritersCompany.
(d) The Representative Underwriters shall have received certificates of each of a certificate from the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) At each of the Closing Date and any Option Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received a certificate of the Company signed by a duly authorized executive officer of the Company, dated the Closing Date and Option Closing Date (if such date is other than the Closing Date), certifying: (i) that the M&A has not been modified and is in full force and effect; (ii) that the resolutions of the Company’s Board of Directors approving the Offering are in full force and effect and have not been modified; (iii) the good standing of the Company; and (iv) as to the incumbency of the officers of the Company. The documents referred to in such certificate shall be attached to such certificate.
(f) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative Underwriters shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx as of each such date, addressed to the Underwriters Underwriter and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulationsRegulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(fg) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) ), and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, or properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeUnderwriter, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(gh) The Representative Underwriters shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.I.
(hi) The Common Stock and the Warrants Shares are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants Shares shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the RepresentativeUnderwriter. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants Shares under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants Shares from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities Firm Shares and the Additional Shares shall be DTC eligible.
(ij) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(jk) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(kl) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase the accuracy, when made and pay for on the Firm Shares Closing Date and Firm Warrants or any Option Securitieson each Date of Delivery (if any), as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedTransaction Entities contained herein, as to the accuracy of the date hereof and as statements of the Closing Date, (ii) Company and the absence from Operating Partnership and their Subsidiaries made in any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished certificates delivered pursuant to the Representative or provisions hereof, to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company each Transaction Entity of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) to each of the following additional terms and conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The If, at the time this Agreement is executed and delivered, it is necessary for a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement to be declared effective before the offering of the Shares may commence, such post-effective amendment shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreementhereof, or at such later date and time and date as shall have been be consented to in writing by you, and all filings, if any, required by Rule 424 under the Representative. If Securities Act Regulations shall have been timely made; the Company shall have elected complied with all filing requirements applicable to rely upon Rule 430A under any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus used or referred to after the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time perioddate hereof; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending thereof or preventing or suspending the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings proceeding for the issuance of such an order that purpose shall have been initiated instituted or, to the knowledge of the Transaction Entities, or threatened; all requests the Representative, threatened by the Commission, and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, Statement or the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness satisfaction of the underwriting terms and arrangementsRepresentative.
(b) The Representative Subsequent to the effective date of this Agreement, there shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of occurred (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as any material adverse change in or affecting any of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed Properties or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so includedcondition, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as financial or otherwise, business, prospects, operations, management, consolidated financial position, net worth, stockholders’ equity or results of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changeoperations, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, of the Transaction Entities and the Subsidiaries and Joint Venture Entities considered as one enterprise or on the use or value of the Properties as a whole, (ii) any change or decrease specified in the letter referred to in paragraph (h) of this Section 8 which is, in the judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or delivery of the Shares as contemplated by the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (iii) any downgrading, or any notice have been given of any intended or potential downgrading or of any review for a possible change that does not indicate the direction of the possible change, in the rating accorded any securities of the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their Subsidiaries (other than the Reckson Operating Partnership) by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” as such term is defined for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the Securities Act, or (iv) any event or development relating to or involving any of the Transaction Entities, Subsidiaries, Joint Venture Entities, or any partner, officer, director or trustee thereof, which makes any statement of a material fact made in the Prospectus untrue or which, in the opinion of the Transaction Entities and their counsel or the Representative and counsel for the Underwriters, requires the making of any addition to or change in the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus in order to state a material fact required by the Securities Act or any other law to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading, if amending or supplementing the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus to reflect such event or development would, in your opinion, adversely affect the market for the Shares.
(c) All corporate proceedings and other legal matters incident to the authorization, form and validity of this Agreement, the Shares, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and all other legal matters relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel all documents and information that they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.
(d) Skadden, Arps, Slate, Xxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP shall have furnished to the Representative its written opinion and letter, as counsel to the Transaction Entities, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date and each Date of Delivery (if any), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative and counsel to the Underwriters, in the form set forth in Exhibit B hereto.
(e) On Xxxxxxx LLP shall have furnished to the date Representative its written opinion, as Maryland counsel to the Company, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date and each Date of Delivery (if any), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative and counsel to the Underwriters, in the form set forth in Exhibit C hereto.
(f) Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, LLP shall have furnished to the Representative its written opinion, as tax counsel to the Transaction Entities, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date and each Date of Delivery (if any), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative and counsel to the Underwriters, to the effect that:
i. Commencing with its taxable year ended December 31, 2001, the Company was organized and has been operated in conformity with the requirements for qualification and taxation as a REIT under the Code and the proposed method of operation of the Company will enable the Company to continue to meet the requirements for qualification and taxation as a REIT under the Code.
ii. The Operating Partnership is classified as a partnership and not as (a) an association taxable as a corporation or (b) a “publicly traded partnership” taxable as a corporation under Section 7704(a) of the Code.
iii. The statements contained in the Prospectus under the captions “Material United States Federal Income Tax Consequences” and “Restrictions on Ownership of Capital Stock,” that describe applicable U.S. federal income tax law are correct in all material respects as of the Closing Date and each Date of Delivery (if any).
(g) The Representative shall have received from Xxxxx & Xxxxxxx L.L.P., counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date and each Date of Delivery (if any), with respect to the issuance and sale of the Shares, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Representative may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(h) At the time of execution of this Agreement and on the Closing DateAgreement, the Representative shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a letter in connection with its auditing of the financial statements of the Company, Rock-Green, Inc. (“comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such dateRock-Green”) and Reckson Operating Partnership, addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative Representative, addressed to the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel, dated the date hereof (i) confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all are in compliance with the applicable rules and regulationsrequirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, and (ii) stating, as of such the date hereof (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) three business days prior to the date hereof), the conclusions and findings of such datefirm with respect to the Company’s, Rock-Green’s and Reckson Operating Partnership’s financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters in connection with registered public offerings as contemplated in the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 72.
(i) With respect to the letter of Ernst & Young LLP referred to in the preceding paragraph and delivered to the Representative concurrently with the execution of this Agreement (the “initial letter”), the Company shall have furnished to the Representative a letter (the “bring-down letter”) of such accountants, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date and each Date of Delivery (if any) (i) confirming that they are independent public accountants within the meaning of the Securities Act and are in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, (ii) stating, as of the date of the bring-down letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than three business days prior to the date of the bring-down letter), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
the initial letter and (fiii) Subsequent to confirming in all material respects the execution conclusions and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given findings set forth in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated hereby.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithinitial letter.
(j) No action The Company and the Operating Partnership shall have been taken furnished to the Representative a certificate, dated the Closing Date and no statuteeach Date of Delivery (if any), ruleof its, regulation or order shall its general partner’s, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer stating that:
(i) The representations, warranties and agreements of the Transaction Entities in Section 1 are true and correct as of the Closing Date or the Date of Delivery (if any), as applicable; the Company has complied with all its agreements contained herein; and the conditions set forth in Sections 8(a) and (b) have been enactedfulfilled; and
(ii) They have carefully examined the Registration Statement, adopted or issued by any federalthe Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that wouldand, in their opinion (A) (1) the Registration Statement, as of the Effective Date, (2) the Prospectus, as of its date and on the applicable Closing Date, prevent or (3) the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that wouldDisclosure Package, as of the Closing Applicable Time, did not and do not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not and do not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (except in the case of the Registration Statement, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, except, in the case of the Disclosure Package, that the price of the Shares and disclosures directly relating thereto are included in the Prospectus and (B) since the Effective Date, prevent no event has occurred which should have been set forth in a supplement or amendment to the issuance Registration Statement, the Prospectus or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Companyany Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that has not been so set forth.
(k) The Company On the Closing Date and each Date of Delivery (if any), counsel for the Underwriters shall have been furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, documents and opinions or documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent require for the Warrants. If purpose of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Shares as herein contemplated and related proceedings, or in order to evidence the accuracy of any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreementrepresentations or warranties, or if the fulfillment of any of the certificatesconditions, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to herein contained; and all proceedings taken by the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 Transaction Entities in connection with the issuance and sale of the Shares as herein contemplated shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to counsel for the Underwriters’ Counsel.
(l) At the date of this Agreement, all obligations the Representative shall have received a lock up agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto signed by each of the persons listed on Exhibit E hereto.
(m) The Company and the Operating Partnership shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to you such further certificates and documents as the Representative or counsel to the Underwriters hereunder may shall have reasonably requested.
(n) The Shares shall have been approved for listing, upon official notice of issuance, on the NYSE. All opinions, letters, evidence and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be cancelled deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters. Any certificate or document signed by any officer of the Transaction Entities or any of their Subsidiaries and delivered to the Representative, or to counsel for the Underwriters, shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given Transaction Entities to each Underwriter as to the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingstatements made therein.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares on the Closing Date and Firm Warrants the Option Shares, if any, on any Option Closing Date are subject to the condition that the Registration Statement and all post-effective amendments thereto shall have become effective under the Securities Act, to the accuracy, as of the Applicable Time, the Closing Date or any Option SecuritiesClosing Date, as the case may be, as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedTransaction Entities and the Advisor contained herein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company Transaction Entities and the Advisor of its their respective obligations hereunder, and (iv) to each of the following additional terms and conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective Subsequent to the execution and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date delivery of this Agreement, or at such later time Agreement and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closingor any Option Closing Date, no as applicable:
(i) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; issued under the Securities Act, and no proceedings for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the issuance of such an order Securities Act shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests threatened by the Commission, and any request on the part of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus Statement or otherwise) shall have been disclosed to the Representative and complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness reasonable satisfaction of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; ;
(ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: (i) the conditions set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with its businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to Since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change material adverse change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changematerial adverse change in or affecting the business, management, Properties, assets, rights, operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business; and
(iii) The Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that the Company is required to file pursuant to Rules 424, 430A, 430B, 430C or 433 of the Securities Act, as applicable, shall have been filed within the time period prescribed by, and in compliance with, the Securities Act Rules and Regulations.
(b) The Representative shall have received (i) a certificate, dated as of the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as the case may be, of the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company and (ii) a certificate, dated as of the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as the case may be, of the general partner of the Operating Partnership, in each case, to the effect set forth in Section 8(a) above and to the effect that the representations and warranties of the Transaction Entities contained in this Agreement are true and correct as of the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as the case may be, and that the Transaction Entities have complied with all of the agreements and satisfied all of the conditions on their part to be performed or satisfied hereunder on or before the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as the case may be. Any officer signing and delivering a certificate required pursuant to this Section 8(b) may rely upon the best of his or her knowledge as to proceedings threatened.
(c) The Representative shall have received a certificate, dated as of the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as the case may be, of the Chief Executive Officer of the Advisor, to the effect that the representations and warranties of the Advisor contained in Section 2 of this Agreement are true and correct as of the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as the case may be, and that the Advisor has complied with all of the agreements and satisfied all of the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder on or before the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as the case may be. Any officer signing and delivering a certificate required pursuant to this Section 8(c) may rely upon the best of his or her knowledge as to proceedings threatened.
(d) The Representative shall have received on the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as applicable, the opinion and Rule 10b-5 statement of Ledgewood, P.C., outside counsel for the Transaction Entities, dated the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as applicable, addressed to the Underwriters, substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the The Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx on the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as applicable, the favorable tax opinion of Ledgewood, P.C., tax counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as applicable, substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto.
(f) The Representative shall have received on the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as applicable, an opinion of Xxxxxxx LLP, Maryland counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as of each such dateapplicable, addressed to the Underwriters (and in form and substance satisfactory stating that it may be relied upon by counsel to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel), confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given substantially in the Prospectus, as form of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyExhibit D hereto.
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Partyon the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, duly executed by as applicable, an opinion and Rule 10b-5 statement of Hunton & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the applicable Lock-Up PartyUnderwriters, dated the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as applicable, addressed to the Underwriters, in each case substantially in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the form attached as Annex IIUnderwriters.
(h) The Common Stock Representative shall have received, on the date hereof, a letter dated the date hereof, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative, from Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP, independent public accountants, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Warrants are registered under Prospectus.
(i) On the Exchange Act Closing Date, and, if applicable, any Option Closing Date, the Representative shall have received from Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP a letter, dated as of the Closing Date, and, if applicable, any Option Closing Date, to the Common Stock and effect that they reaffirm the Warrants statements made in the letter furnished pursuant to subsection (h) of this Section 8, except that the specified date referred to shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided a date not more than three business days prior to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock Closing Date or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewithapplicable Option Closing Date.
(j) No action The Representative shall have been taken received, on the date hereof, a letter dated the date hereof, in form and no statutesubstance satisfactory to the Representative, rulefrom McGladrey LLP, regulation independent public accountants, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained or order incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus.
(k) On the Closing Date, and, if applicable, any Option Closing Date, the Representative shall have been enactedreceived from McGladrey LLP a letter, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, dated as of the Closing Date, prevent and, if applicable, any Option Closing Date, to the issuance effect that they reaffirm the statements made in the letter furnished pursuant to subsection (j) of this Section 8, except that the specified date referred to shall be a date not more than three business days prior to the Closing Date or sale the applicable Option Closing Date.
(l) The Representative shall have received, on the date hereof, a letter dated the date hereof, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative, from KPMG LLP, independent public accountants, containing statements and information of the Securities; type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and no injunction certain financial information contained or order incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus.
(m) On the Closing Date, and, if applicable, any federalOption Closing Date, state or foreign court the Representative shall have been issued that wouldreceived from KPMG LLP a letter, dated as of the Closing Date, prevent and, if applicable, any Option Closing Date, to the issuance effect that they reaffirm the statements made in the letter furnished pursuant to subsection (l) of this Section 8, except that the specified date referred to shall be a date not more than three business days prior to the Closing Date or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Companyapplicable Option Closing Date.
(kn) The “lock-up” agreements, each substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, between the Representative and the officers, directors and stockholders of the Company listed on Schedule III hereto, relating to sales and certain other dispositions of shares of Common Stock or certain other securities, delivered to the Representative on or before the date hereof, shall be in full force and effect on the Closing Date.
(o) The Common Stock shall have been approved for listing on the NYSE MKT, subject only to official notice of issuance.
(p) FINRA, upon review of the terms of the public offering of the Shares, shall not have objected to such offering, such terms or the Underwriters’ participation in the same and shall have issued a “no objections” letter evidencing such.
(q) The Company shall have furnished to the Underwriters Representative such further information, certificates and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or documents as the Representative may reasonably request. All opinions, letters, evidence and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they may have are in form and substance reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent satisfactory to counsel for the WarrantsUnderwriters. If any of the conditions specified hereinabove provided for in this Section 7 8 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled terminated by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, by notifying the consummation of the Closing. Notice Company of such cancellation shall be given termination in writing at or prior to the Company in writing Closing Date or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingany Option Closing Date, as the case may be.
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Samples: Equity Underwriting Agreement (Independence Realty Trust, Inc)
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may beAdditional Shares, as provided herein herein, shall be subject to: (i) to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date (for purposes of this Section 6 “Closing Date” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and any Additional Closing Date, (ii) if different, for the Additional Shares), to the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative you or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) to each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing or stock exchange approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If Lead Manager; if the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof Section 4(a) hereof and a form of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities Shares and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any post-effective amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus thereof shall have been issued; issued and no proceedings for the issuance of such an order therefor shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests of threatened by the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangementsCommission.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determinedAt the Closing Date, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative you shall have received the favorable written opinionsopinion of Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx, in each case in form satisfactory General Counsel of the Company, dated the Closing Date addressed to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and Underwriters in the case form attached hereto as Annex I.
(c) At the Closing Date you shall have received the favorable written opinion of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx Xxxx LLP, the securities legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; Underwriters in the form attached hereto as Annex II.
(iid) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel All proceedings taken in connection with the sale of the Firm Shares and the Additional Shares as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the CompanyLead Manager and to Underwriters’ Counsel, and the Underwriters shall have received from Underwriters’ Counsel a favorable written opinion, dated as of the Closing Date Date, with respect to such matters as the Lead Manager may require, and addressed the Company shall have furnished to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel ’ Counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the Company, dated as purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(e) At the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative you shall have received certificates of each a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that: that (i) the conditions condition set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have 6 has been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 1 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the Closing Date, Date all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has and the Subsidiaries have not sustained any material loss or interference with its businessestheir respective businesses or properties from fire, flood, hurricane, accident or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are that have not so included, been included as required and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, Prospectus there has not been any Material Adverse Change material adverse change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changematerial adverse change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in or affecting (x) the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, stockholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company and the Subsidiaries, individually or taken as a whole; (y) the long-term debt or capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; or (z) the Offering or consummation of any of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
(ef) On At the time this Agreement is executed and at the Closing Date, you shall have received a comfort letter, from KPMG LLP, independent public accountants for the Company, dated, respectively, as of the date of this Agreement and on as of the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, Date addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations, and stating, as of such date (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to such date), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(fg) At the time this Agreement is executed and at the Closing Date, you shall have received a comfort letter from Ernst & Young LLP, independent public accountants for Xxxxxx, dated, respectively as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel.
(h) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto) and except as disclosed in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any Subsidiary or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholdersstockholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the CompanyCompany and the Subsidiaries, individually or taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism accident or other calamitycalamity at any of the properties owned or leased by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeLead Manager, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale Offering on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus (exclusive of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyany supplement).
(gi) No downgrading shall have occurred in the Company’s corporate credit rating or the rating accorded the Company’s debt securities or preferred stock by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under the Securities Act) and no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any of the Company’s debt securities.
(j) The Representative Lead Manager shall have received a duly executed lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, person listed on Schedule II hereto in each case substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex IIIII.
(hk) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as of At the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action Shares shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading approved for listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligibleNYSE.
(il) FINRA At the Closing Date, if applicable, the NASD shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(jm) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the SecuritiesShares; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the CompanyShares.
(kn) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative you or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Lead Manager and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative Lead Manager at, or at any time prior to, the consummation Closing Date and the obligations of the ClosingUnderwriters to purchase the Additional Shares may be cancelled by the Lead Manager at, or at any time prior to, the Additional Closing Date. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing writing, or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are subject to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securitiesaccuracy, as of the case may bedate hereof and the Closing Date (as if made at the Closing Date), as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein containedcontained herein, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its their obligations hereunder, hereunder and (iv) each of to the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 7, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and all necessary regulatory and listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with Section 4(a) hereof; all filings (including, without limitation, the terms thereof and a form Final Term Sheet) required by Rule 424(b) or Rule 433 of the Prospectus containing information relating to the description of the Securities Rules and the method of distribution and similar matters Regulations shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) made within the applicable time period; andperiods prescribed by such Rules, at or prior to and no such filings will have been made without the Closing Date and the actual time consent of the Closing, Representatives; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereofamendment or supplement thereto, preventing or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Packageany Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or suspending the qualification of the Notes for offering or sale in any jurisdiction shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of any such an order shall have been initiated or threatenedthreatened pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act; all requests no notice of objection of the Commission to use the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto shall have been received by the Company; and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been disclosed to the Representatives and complied with to the Representatives’ satisfaction.
(b) No Underwriter shall have been advised by the Company, or shall have discovered and disclosed to the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Packagemost recent Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, thereto contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of the Representatives or of counsel to the Underwriters, is material, or omits to state a any fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinionopinion of the Representatives or of counsel to the Underwriters, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory All corporate proceedings and other legal matters incident to the Representative authorization, form and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case validity of (i) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLPthis Agreement, the securities Indenture, the Notes, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and all other legal matters relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be reasonably satisfactory in all material respects to counsel for the CompanyUnderwriters, dated as of and the Closing Date Company shall have furnished to such counsel all documents and addressed information that they may reasonably request to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel enable them to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriterspass upon such matters.
(d) The Representative Representatives shall have received certificates of each of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of from Xxxxx Xxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, the opinion or opinions, addressed to the Underwriters, dated as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives and substantially in the form of Exhibits B.
(e) The Representatives shall have received from the Company’s General Counsel the opinion or opinions, addressed to the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives and substantially in the form of Exhibit C.
(f) The Representatives shall have received from Xxxxx & XxXxxxx LLP, counsel to the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, addressed to the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, with respect to the Notes, Indenture, Registration Statement, Prospectus and Disclosure Package and other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(g) The Representatives shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date, signed by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or any Vice President of the Company and by the Chief Financial Officer or Chief Accounting Officer of the Company to the effect that: (i) there shall not have been, since the conditions set forth date hereof, since the Applicable Time or since the respective dates as of which information is given in subsection (a) the Prospectus or the Disclosure Package, any material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of this Section 7 have been satisfiedthe Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business; (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 1 hereof are accuratetrue and correct with the same force and effect as though expressly made at and as of Closing Date, (iii) as of the Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or complied with hereunder on satisfied at or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, to Closing Date and (iv) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and, to their knowledge, no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or contemplated by the Commission.
(h) Except as described in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, (i) neither the Company has not sustained nor any material of the Company’s Subsidiaries shall have sustained, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, any loss or interference with its businessesbusiness from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any legal court or governmental proceedingaction, order or decree or (vii) no stop order suspending since such date there shall not have been any change in the effectiveness capital stock or long-term debt of the Registration Statement Company or any amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated of the Company’s Subsidiaries or threatened by the Commissionany change, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so included, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Changechange, whether in or not arising from transactions affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, stockholders’ equity, properties, business or prospects of the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries taken as a whole, the effect of which, in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii), is, in the ordinary course judgment of businessthe Representatives, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering of the Notes or on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus.
(ei) On Concurrently with the date execution of this Agreement and on the Closing DateAgreement, the Representative Representatives shall have received from KPMG LLP, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, a “comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as of each such date, (the “initial comfort letter”) addressed to the Underwriters Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, dated the date hereof, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, Representatives (i) confirming that they are an independent certified registered public accountants with respect to the Company accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and all are in compliance with the applicable rules and regulationsrequirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, and (ii) stating, as of the date hereof (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, as of a date not more than three days prior to the date hereof), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters in connection with registered public offerings.
(j) The Representatives shall have received a “bring-down comfort” letter (the “bring-down comfort letter”) from KPMG LLP, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, addressed to the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives (i) confirming that they are an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and are in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, (ii) stating, as of the date of the bring-down comfort letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five (5) three days prior to such datethe date of the bring-down comfort letter), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such the initial comfort letter and (iii) confirming in all material respects the conclusions and findings set forth in the initial comfort letter.
(fk) Prior to or on the Closing Date, the Representatives shall have been furnished by the Company such additional documents and certificates as the Representatives or counsel for the Underwriters may reasonably request.
(l) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement orAgreement, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the Registration Statement rating accorded to the debt securities of the Company, or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (exclusive as that term is defined in Rule 436(g)(2) of the Rules and Regulations), and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has any amendment thereofsuch debt securities under surveillance or review with possible negative implications.
(m) Subsequent to the execution and the Prospectus (exclusive delivery of any supplement thereto)this Agreement, there shall not have been occurred any change of the following: (i) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange or the American Stock Exchange or in the capital stock over-the-counter market, or long-term debt trading in any securities of the Company on any exchange or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course over-the-counter market, shall have been suspended or materially limited or the settlement of businesssuch trading generally shall have been materially disrupted or minimum prices shall have been established on any such exchange or such market by the Commission, by such exchange or by any other regulatory body or governmental authority having jurisdiction; (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared by federal or state authorities; (iii) the United States shall have become engaged in hostilities, there shall have been an escalation in hostilities involving the United States or there shall have been a declaration of a national emergency or war by the United States; or (iv) there shall have occurred such a material adverse change in general economic, political or financial conditions, including, without limitation, as a result of terrorist activities after the date hereof (or the effect of international conditions on the financial markets in the United States shall be such) as to make it, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the Company, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable judgment of the RepresentativeRepresentatives, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale offering of Securities the Notes or Offering as on the terms and in the manner contemplated herebyin the Prospectus.
(gn) The Representative repurchase of $175,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 71/4 % senior notes due 2014 (the “2014 Notes”) shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by occurred or shall occur concurrently with the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and, as consummation of the Closing Dateoffering of the Notes pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the notice of redemption delivered to the holders of the 2014 Notes on April 26, 2011. Neither the Common Stock and the Warrants shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market and satisfactory evidence Company nor any of such action its Subsidiaries shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminate, or likely to have the effect of terminating, the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending the Common Stock or the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market, nor will the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection further obligations with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements2014 Notes. In additionAll opinions, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or letters and documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified referred to in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by 6 will be in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, or Agreement only if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 shall not be reasonably they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative Representatives and to counsel for the Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of . The Company will furnish to the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice Representatives conformed copies of such cancellation shall be given to opinions, certificates, letters and other documents in such number as the Company in writing or orally. Any such oral notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writingRepresentatives will reasonably request.
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Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or any Option Securities, as the case may be, Securities as provided herein shall be subject to: (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the absence from any certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 of any misstatement or omission, (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and (iv) each of the following additional conditions. For purposes of this Section 76, the terms “Closing Date” and “Closing” shall refer to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares and Firm Warrants or Option Securities, as the case may be, Securities and each of the foregoing and following conditions must be satisfied as of each Closing.
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become still be effective and all necessary regulatory and or listing approvals shall have been received not later than 5:30 P.M.p.m., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, or at such later time and date as shall have been consented to in writing by the Representative. If the Company shall have elected to rely upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act, the The Prospectus Supplement shall have been filed with the Commission in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof hereof and a form of the Prospectus Supplement containing information relating to the description of the Securities and the method of distribution and similar matters shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period; and, at or prior to the Closing Date and or the actual time of the Closing, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus Supplement shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or threatened; all requests any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure PackageProspectus Supplement, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Representative’s satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(b) The Representative shall not have reasonably determined, and advised the Company, that the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package Statement or the ProspectusProspectus Supplement, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, thereto contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Representative’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(c) The Representative shall have received the favorable written opinions, in each case in form satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ counsel (and in the case including, without limitation, a negative assurance letter of (ia) and (ii), including customary negative assurance language), of (i) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Chediak Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLPXxxxxx, the securities legal counsel for the Company, (b) intellectual property legal counsel and (c) regulatory legal counsel, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters; (ii) Fish & Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, patent legal counsel Underwriters in the forms reasonably acceptable to the Company, dated as of the Closing Date Representative and addressed to the Underwriters; and (iii) Xxxxxxxxxxxx O’Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kindness PLLC, trademark legal counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters.
(d) The Representative shall have received certificates of each a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the each Closing Date, Date to the effect that: (i) the conditions condition set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 7 have 6 has been satisfied, (ii) as of the date hereof and as of the applicable Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section Sections 1 and 2 hereof are accurate, (iii) as of the applicable Closing Date, all agreements, conditions and obligations of the Company to be performed or complied with hereunder on or prior thereto have been duly performed or complied with, (iv) the Company has and the Subsidiaries have not sustained any material loss or interference with its their respective businesses, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or disruption or any legal or governmental proceeding, (v) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereof has been issued and no proceedings therefor have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, (vi) there are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements that are required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus Supplement pursuant to the Rules and Regulations which are not so includedincluded or incorporated by reference, and (vii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, Prospectus Supplement there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development involving event that is reasonably likely to result in a prospective Material Adverse Change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a “cold comfort” letter from PMB Xxxxx Xxxxxxx BDO as of each such date, the date of delivery and addressed to the Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries within the meaning of the Securities Act and all applicable rules the Rules and regulationsRegulations, and stating, as of such the date of delivery (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the ProspectusProspectus Supplement, as of a date not more than five (5) days prior to the date of such dateletter), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters relating to the Registration Statement covered by such letter.
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any post-effective amendment thereof) and the Prospectus Supplement (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any Subsidiary or any change or development involving a change, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects of the CompanyCompany and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, including but not limited to the occurrence of any fire, flood, storm, explosion, accident, act of war or terrorism or other calamity, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the reasonable sole judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale Offering on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus Supplement (exclusive of Securities or Offering as contemplated herebyany supplement).
(g) The Representative shall have received a lock-up agreement from each Lock-Up Party, duly executed by the applicable Lock-Up Party, in each case substantially in the form attached as Annex II.[intentionally omitted]
(h) The Common Stock and the Warrants are is registered under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Common Stock and the Warrants Shares shall be listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the NASDAQ Nasdaq Capital Market and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representative. The Company shall have taken no action designed to terminateto, or likely to have the effect of terminating, terminating the registration of the Common Stock or the Warrants under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending from trading the Common Stock or from the Warrants from trading on the NASDAQ Nasdaq Capital Market, nor will has the Company have received any information suggesting that the Commission or the NASDAQ Nasdaq Capital Market is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Securities Shares and shares of Common Stock underlying the Warrants shall be DTC eligible.
(i) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. In addition, the Company shall, if requested by the Representative, make or authorize the Underwriters’ Counsel to make on the Company’s behalf behalf, an Issuer Filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all filing fees required in connection therewith.
(j) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(k) The Company shall have furnished the Underwriters and Underwriters’ Counsel with such other certificates, opinions or other documents as they may have reasonably requested.
(l) The Company shall have entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) with Nevada Agency and Trust Company, as warrant agent for the Warrants. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, or if any of the certificates, opinions, written statements or letters furnished to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel pursuant to this Section 7 6 shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and to Underwriters’ Counsel, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled by the Representative at, or at any time prior to, the consummation of the Closing. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or orallyby telephone. Any such oral telephone notice shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing.
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