Further Agreements of the Company and the Underwriters (a) The Company agrees:
(i) To prepare the Prospectus in a form approved by the Representative and to file such Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act not later than the Commission’s close of business on the second business day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement; to make no further amendment or any supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus prior to the last Delivery Date except as provided herein; to advise the Representative, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the time when any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus has been filed and to furnish the Representative with copies thereof; to advise the Representative, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, of the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding or examination for any such purpose or of any request by the Commission for the amending or supplementing of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or for additional information; and, in the event of the issuance of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or suspending any such qualification, to use promptly its best efforts to obtain its withdrawal.
(ii) To furnish promptly to the Representative and to counsel for the Underwriters a conformed copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed with the Commission, and each amendment thereto filed with the Commission, including all consents and exhibits filed therewith.
(iii) To deliver promptly, without charge, to the Representative such number of the following documents as the Representative shall reasonably request: (A) conformed copies of the Registration Statement as originally filed with the Commission and each amendment thereto (in each case excluding exhibits other than this Agreement and the computation of per share earnings), (B) each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and any amended or supplemented Prospectus, and (C) each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus; and, if the delivery of a prospectus is required at any time after the date hereof in connection with the offering or sale of the Securities or any other securities relating thereto and if at such time any events shall have occurred as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include an untrue statement of a material fact or 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 when such Prospectus is delivered, not misleading, or, if for any other reason it shall be necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to comply with the Securities Act, to notify the Representative and to file such document and, upon their request, to prepare and furnish without charge to each Underwriter and to any dealer in securities as many copies as the Representative may from time to time reasonably request of an amended or supplemented Prospectus that will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance.
(iv) To file promptly with the Commission any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus that may, in the judgment of the Company or the Representative, be required by the Securities Act or requested by the Commission.
(v) Prior to filing with the Commission any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, to furnish a copy thereof to the Representative and counsel for the Underwriters and consult in good faith with the Representative to the filing.
(vi) Not to make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus without the prior written consent of the Representative.
(vii) To comply with all applicable requirements of Rule 433 under the Securities Act with respect to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus. If at any time after the date hereof any events shall have occurred as a result of which any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented, would conflict with the information in the Registration Statement, the most recent Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or 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, or, if for any other reason it shall be necessary to amend or supplement any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, to notify the Representative and to file such document and, upon their request, to prepare and furnish without charge to each Underwriter as many copies as the Representative may from time to time reasonably request of an amended or supplemented Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that will correct such conflict, statement or omission or effect such compliance.
(viii) To make generally available to the Company’s security holders and to the Representative as soon as practicable but no later than the Availability Date (as defined below), an earnings statement covering a period of at least twelve months beginning with the first fiscal quarter of the Company occurring after the date of this Agreement, which shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (including but not limited to Rule 158 under the Securities Act). For the purpose of the preceding sentence, “Availability Date” means the 60th day after the end of the fourth fiscal quarter following the fiscal quarter that includes such Effective Time, except that, if such fourth fiscal quarter is the last quarter of the Company’s fiscal year, “Availability Date” means the 120th day after the end of such fourth fiscal quarter.
Other Agreements of the Parties (a) Securities may only be disposed of in compliance with state and federal securities laws. In connection with any transfer of the Securities other than pursuant to an effective registration statement, to the Company, to an Affiliate of an Investor or in connection with a pledge as contemplated in Section 4.1(b), the Company may require the transferor thereof to provide to the Company an opinion of counsel selected by the transferor, the form and substance of which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that such transfer does not require registration of such transferred Securities under the Securities Act.
(b) Certificates evidencing the Securities will contain the following legend, until such time as they are not required under Section 4.1(c): [NEITHER THESE SECURITIES NOR THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THESE SECURITIES HAVE BEEN REGISTERED] [THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED] WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY. [THESE SECURITIES AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THESE SECURITIES] [THESE SECURITIES] MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES. The Company acknowledges and agrees that an Investor may from time to time pledge, and/or grant a security interest in some or all of the Securities pursuant to a bona fide margin agreement in connection with a bona fide margin account and, if required under the terms of such agreement or account, such Investor may transfer pledged or secured Securities to the pledgees or secured parties. Such a pledge or transfer would not be subject to approval or consent of the Company and no legal opinion of legal counsel to the pledgee, secured party or pledgor shall be required in connection with the pledge, but such legal opinion may be required in connection with a subsequent transfer following default by the Investor transferee of the pledge. No notice shall be required of such pledge. At the appropriate Investor's expense, the Company will execute and deliver such reasonable documentation as a pledgee or secured party of Securities may reasonably request in connection with a pledge or transfer of the Securities including the preparation and filing of any required prospectus supplement under Rule 424(b)(3) of the Securities Act or other applicable provision of the Securities Act to appropriately amend the list of Selling Stockholders thereunder.
(c) Certificates evidencing the Shares, Warrant Shares and Additional Investment Rights Shares shall not contain any legend (including the legend set forth in Section 4.1(b)): (i) following a sale of such Securities pursuant to an effective registration statement (including the Registration Statement), or (ii) following a sale of such Shares, Warrant Shares or Additional Investment Rights Shares pursuant to Rule 144, or (iii) while such Shares, Warrant Shares or Additional Investment Rights Shares are eligible for sale under Rule 144(k), or (iv) if such legend is not required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the Staff of the Commission). Following such time as restrictive legends are not required to be placed on certificates representing Shares, Warrant Shares or Additional Investment Rights Shares, the Company will, no later than three Trading Days following the delivery by an Investor to the Company or the Company's transfer agent of a certificate representing Shares, Warrant Shares or Additional Investment Rights Shares containing a restrictive legend, deliver or cause to be delivered to such Investor a certificate representing such Shares, Warrant Shares or Additional Investment Rights Shares that is free from all restrictive and other legends. The Company may not make any notation on its records or give instructions to any transfer agent of the Company that enlarge the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section.
Agreements of the Parties (a) If the registration statement relating to the Shares has not yet become effective, the Trust will promptly file the Final Amendment, if not previously filed, with the Commission, and will use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective and, as soon as the Trust is advised, will advise the Representative when the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto has become effective. If the Registration Statement has become effective and the Prospectus contained therein omits certain information at the time of effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430A of the Securities Act Rules, the Trust will file a 430A Prospectus pursuant to Rule 497(h) of the Securities Act Rules as promptly as practicable, but no later than the second business day following the earlier of the date of the determination of the offering price of the Shares or the date the Prospectus is first used after the Effective Date. If the Registration Statement has become effective and the Prospectus contained therein does not so omit such information, the Trust will file a Prospectus pursuant to Rule 497(b) or (j) of the Securities Act Rules as promptly as practicable, but no later than the fifth business day following the date of the later of the Effective Date or the commencement of the public offering of the Shares after the Effective Date. In either case, the Trust will provide the Representatives satisfactory evidence of the filing. The Trust will not file with the Commission any Prospectus or any other amendment (except any post-effective amendment which is filed with the Commission 15 after the later of (x) one year from the date of this Underwriting Agreement or (y) the date on which distribution of the Shares is completed) or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus unless a copy has first been submitted to the Managing Representative a reasonable time before its filing and the Managing Representative has not objected to it in writing within a reasonable time after receiving the copy.
(b) For the period of three years from the date hereof, the Trust will advise the Representatives promptly (1) of the issuance by the Commission of any order in respect of the Trust or the Investment Adviser which relates to the Trust, or which relates to any material arrangements or proposed material arrangements involving the Trust or the Investment Adviser, (2) of the initiation or threatening of any proceedings for, or receipt by the Trust of any notice with respect to, the suspension of the qualification of the Shares for sale in any jurisdiction or the issuance of any order by the Commission suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, (3) of receipt by the Trust, or any representative or attorney of the Trust, of any other communication from the Commission relating in any material way to the Trust, the Registration Statement, the Notification, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or to the transactions contemplated by this Underwriting Agreement and (4) the issuance by any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental agency or body, whether foreign or domestic, of any order, ruling or decree, or the threat to initiate any proceedings with respect thereto, regarding the Trust, which relates in any material way to the Trust or any material arrangements or proposed material arrangements involving the Trust. The Trust will make every reasonable effort to prevent the issuance of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and, if any such order is issued, to obtain its lifting as soon as possible.
(c) If not delivered prior to the date of this Underwriting Agreement, the Trust will deliver to the Representatives, without charge, a signed copy of the registration statement and the Notification and of any amendments (except any post-effective amendment which is filed with the Commission after the later of (x) one year from the date of this Underwriting Agreement or (y) the date on which the distribution of the Shares is completed) to either the Registration Statement or the Notification (including all exhibits filed with any such document) and as many conformed copies of the registration statement and any amendments thereto (except any post-effective amendment which is filed with the Commission after the later of (x) one year from the date of this Underwriting Agreement or (y) the date on which the distribution of the Shares is completed) (excluding exhibits) as the Representatives may reasonably request. 16
(d) During such period as a prospectus is required by law to be delivered by an underwriter or a dealer, the Trust will deliver, without charge, to the Representatives, the Underwriters and any dealers, at such office or offices as the Representatives may designate, as many copies of the Prospectus as the Representatives may reasonably request, and, if any event occurs during such period as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus, in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances existing when such Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser of Shares, not misleading in any material respect, or if during such period it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with the Securities Act, the Investment Company Act, the Securities Act Rules or the Investment Company Act Rules, the Trust promptly will prepare, submit to the Managing Representative, file with the Commission and deliver, without charge, to the Underwriters and to dealers (whose names and addresses the Representatives will furnish to the Trust) to whom Shares may have been sold by the Underwriters, and to other dealers on request, amendments or supplements to the Prospectus so that the statements in such Prospectus, as so amended or supplemented, will not, in light of the circumstances existing when such Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading in any material respect and will comply with the Securities Act, the Investment Company Act, the Securities Act Rules and the Investment Company Act Rules. Delivery by the Underwriters of any such amendments or supplements to the Prospectus will not constitute a waiver of any of the conditions in Section 6 hereof.
(e) The Trust will make generally available to holders of the Trust's securities, as soon as practicable but in no event later than the last day of the 18th full calendar month following the calendar quarter in which the Effective Date falls, an earnings statement, if applicable, satisfying the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and, at the option of the Trust, Rule 158 of the Securities Act Rules.
(f) The Trust will take such actions as the Representatives reasonably request in order to qualify the Shares for offer and sale under the securities or "blue sky" laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives reasonably designate; provided that the Trust shall not be required in connection therewith or as a condition thereof to qualify as a foreign corporation or to execute a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction.
(g) If the transactions contemplated by this Underwriting Agreement are consummated, the Trust shall pay all costs and expenses incident to 17 the performance of the obligations of the Trust under this Underwriting Agreement (to the extent such expenses do not, in the aggregate, exceed $0.03 per Share), including but not limited to costs and expenses of or relating to
(1) the preparation, printing and filing of the registration statement and exhibits to it, each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and all amendments and supplements thereto, (2) the issuance of the Shares and the preparation and delivery of certificates for the Shares, (3) the registration or qualification of the Shares for offer and sale under the securities or "blue sky" laws of the jurisdictions referred to in the foregoing paragraph, including the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in that connection, and the preparation and printing of preliminary and supplemental "blue sky" memoranda, (4) the furnishing (including costs of design, production, shipping and mailing) to the Underwriters and dealers of copies of each Preliminary Prospectus relating to the Shares, the sales materials, the Prospectus, and all amendments or supplements to the Prospectus, and of the other documents required by this Section to be so furnished, (5) the filing requirements of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., in connection with its review of the financing, including filing fees and the fees, disbursements and other charges of counsel for the Underwriters in that connection, (6) all transfer taxes, if any, with respect to the sale and delivery of the Shares to the Underwriters, (7) the listing of the Shares on the New York Stock Exchange, (8) the transfer agent for the Shares, and (9) in addition to the foregoing, an aggregate reimbursement of up to [ ] as partial reimbursement of the costs and expenses of the Underwriters. To the extent the foregoing costs and expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the Trust under this Underwriting Agreement exceed, in the aggregate, $0.03 per Share, Eatox Xxxxx xx an affiliate will pay all such excess costs and expenses.
(h) If the transactions contemplated by this Underwriting Agreement are not consummated, except as otherwise provided herein, no party will be under any liability to any other party, except that (1) if this Underwriting Agreement is terminated by (x) the Trust or the Investment Adviser pursuant to any of the provisions hereof (otherwise than pursuant to Section 8 hereof) or (y) by the Representatives or the Underwriters because of any inability, failure or refusal on the part of the Trust or the Investment Adviser to comply with any material terms or because any of the conditions in Section 6 are not satisfied, Eatox Xxxxx xx an affiliate and the Trust, jointly and severally, will reimburse the Underwriters for all out-of-pocket expenses (including the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of their counsel) reasonably incurred by them in connection with the proposed purchase and sale of the Shares and (2) no Underwriter who has failed or refused to purchase the Shares agreed to be purchased by it under this Underwriting Agreement, in breach of its obli- 18 gations pursuant to this Underwriting Agreement, will be relieved of liability to the Trust and the Investment Adviser and the other Underwriters for damages occasioned by its default.
(i) Without the prior written consent of the Representatives, the Trust will not offer, sell or register with the Commission, or announce an offering of, any equity securities of the Trust, within 180 days after the Effective Date, except for the Shares as described in the Prospectus and any issuances of Shares of Beneficial Interest pursuant to the dividend reinvestment plan established by the Trust and except in connection with any offering of preferred shares of beneficial interest as contemplated by the Prospectus.
(j) The Trust will use its best efforts to list the Shares on the New York Stock Exchange and comply with the rules and regulations of such exchange.
(k) The Trust will direct the investment of the net proceeds of the offering of the Shares in such a manner as to comply with the investment objective and policies of the Trust as described in the Prospectus.
