Offering by Underwriter. (a) It is understood that the Underwriter proposes to offer the Certificates for sale as set forth in the Prospectus and that the Underwriter will not offer, sell or otherwise distribute the Certificates (except for the sale thereof in exempt transactions) in any state in which the Certificates are not exempt from registration under state securities laws or Blue Sky laws (except where the Certificates will have been qualified for offering and sale at the direction of the Underwriter under such state securities laws or Blue Sky laws). In connection with such offering(s), the Underwriter agrees to provide WFASC with information related to the offer and sale of the Certificates that is reasonably requested by WFASC, from time to time (but not in excess of three years from the Closing Date), and necessary for complying with its tax reporting obligations, including, without limitation, the issue price of the Certificates. (b) The Underwriter agrees that it will not sell or transfer any Certificate or interest therein in the initial sale or transfer of such Certificate by the Underwriter in an amount less than the minimum denomination for such Certificate to be set forth in the Prospectus Supplement. (c) The Underwriter agrees that (i) if it delivers to an investor the Prospectus in portable document format ("PDF"), upon the Underwriter's receipt of a request from the investor within the period for which delivery of the Prospectus is required, the Underwriter will promptly deliver or cause to be delivered to the investor, without charge, a paper copy of the Prospectus and (ii) it will provide to WFASC any Underwriter Free Writing Prospectuses (as defined in Section 9(a)), or portions thereof, which WFASC is required to file with the Commission in electronic format and will use reasonable efforts to provide to WFASC such Free Writing Prospectuses, or portions thereof, in either Microsoft Word(R) or Microsoft Excel(R) format and not in a PDF, except to the extent that WFASC, in its sole discretion, waives such requirements. (d) The Underwriter represents and warrants to, and agrees with, WFASC, as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that: (i) In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a "Relevant Member State"), it has not made and will not make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to the Certificates which has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that it may, with effect from and including the relevant implementation date, make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time: (A) to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities; (B) to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than (euro)43,000,000; and (3) an annual net turnover of more than (euro)50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or (C) in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the issuer of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive. For the purposes of this representation, the expression an "offer of Certificates to the public" in relation to any Certificates in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Certificates to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Certificates, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, and the expression "Prospectus Directive" means the European Commission Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State. (ii) It has only communicated or cause to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the United Kingdom Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "FSMA")) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of the Certificates in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the issuer. (iii) It has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Certificates in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.
Appears in 87 contracts
Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Wells Fargo Alternative Loan 2007-Pa5 Trust), Underwriting Agreement (Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed Securities 2007-8 Trust), Underwriting Agreement (Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed Securities 2006-12 Trust)
Offering by Underwriter. (a) It is understood that the Underwriter proposes to offer the Certificates for sale as set forth in the Prospectus and that the Underwriter will not offer, sell or otherwise distribute the Certificates (except for the sale thereof in exempt transactions) in any state in which the Certificates are not exempt from registration under state securities laws or Blue Sky laws (except where the Certificates will have been qualified for offering and sale at the direction of the Underwriter under such state securities laws or Blue Sky laws). In connection with such offering(s), the Underwriter agrees to provide WFASC with information related to the offer and sale of the Certificates that is reasonably requested by WFASC, from time to time (but not in excess of three years from the Closing Date), and necessary for complying with its tax reporting obligations, including, without limitation, the issue price of the Certificates.
(b) . The Underwriter agrees that it will not sell or transfer any Certificate or interest therein in the initial sale or transfer of such Certificate by the Underwriter in an amount less than the minimum denomination for such Certificate to be set forth in the Prospectus Supplement.
(c) . The Underwriter further agrees that (i) if it delivers to an investor the Prospectus in portable document format ("PDF"), upon the Underwriter's receipt of a request from the investor within the period for which delivery of the Prospectus is required, the Underwriter will promptly deliver or cause to be delivered to the investor, without charge, a paper copy of the Prospectus and (ii) it will provide to WFASC any Underwriter Free Writing Prospectuses (as defined in Section 9(a)), or portions thereof, which WFASC is required to file with the Commission in electronic format and will use reasonable efforts to provide to WFASC such Free Writing Prospectuses, or portions thereof, in either Microsoft Word(R) or Microsoft Excel(R) format and not in a PDF, except to the extent that WFASC, in its sole discretion, waives such requirements.
(d) The Underwriter represents and warrants to, and agrees with, WFASC, as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:
(i) In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a "Relevant Member State"), it has not made and will not make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to the Certificates which has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that it may, with effect from and including the relevant implementation date, make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time:
(A) to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;
(B) to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than (euro)43,000,000; and (3) an annual net turnover of more than (euro)50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or
(C) in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the issuer of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive. For the purposes of this representation, the expression an "offer of Certificates to the public" in relation to any Certificates in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Certificates to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Certificates, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, and the expression "Prospectus Directive" means the European Commission Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.
(ii) It has only communicated or cause to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the United Kingdom Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "FSMA")) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of the Certificates in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the issuer.
(iii) It has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Certificates in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.
Appears in 7 contracts
Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed Securities 2006-Ar3 Trust), Underwriting Agreement (Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed Securities 2006-1 Trust), Underwriting Agreement (Wells Fargo Asset Securities Corp)
Offering by Underwriter. (a) It is understood that the Underwriter proposes to offer and/or solicit offers for the Certificates to be purchased by it for sale to the public as set forth in the Prospectus and that the Underwriter will not offer, sell or otherwise distribute the Certificates (except for the sale thereof in exempt transactions) in any state in which the Certificates are not exempt from registration under state securities laws or Blue Sky laws (except where the Certificates will have been qualified for offering and sale at the direction of the Underwriter under such state securities laws or Blue Sky laws). In connection with such offering(s), the Underwriter agrees to provide WFASC that all such offers, solicitations and sales by it shall be made in compliance with information related all applicable laws and regulations. Prior to the offer and sale date hereof, you have not offered, pledged, sold, disposed of or otherwise transferred any Certificate or any security backed by the Certificates that is reasonably requested by WFASCMortgage Loans, from time to time (but not any interest in excess of three years from the Closing Date), and necessary for complying with its tax reporting obligations, including, without limitation, the issue price of the Certificatesany Certificate or such security or any Mortgage Loan.
(b) The It is understood that the Underwriter agrees will solicit offers to purchase the Certificates as follows:
(1) Prior to the time you have received the Definitive Free Writing Prospectus you may, in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, solicit offers to purchase Certificates; provided, that it will you shall not sell accept any such offer to purchase a Certificate or transfer any interest in any Certificate or Mortgage Loan or otherwise enter into any Contract of Sale for any Certificate, any interest therein in any Certificate or any Mortgage Loan prior to the initial sale or transfer investor’s receipt of such Certificate by the Underwriter in an amount less than the minimum denomination for such Certificate to be set forth in the Prospectus SupplementDefinitive Free Writing Prospectus.
(c2) Any Free Writing Prospectus (other than the Definitive Free Writing Prospectus) relating to the Certificates used by an Underwriter in compliance with the terms of this Agreement prior to the time such Underwriter has entered into a Contract of Sale for Certificates shall prominently set forth substantially the following statement: The Underwriter agrees that (i) if it delivers information in this free writing prospectus is preliminary, and will be superseded by the Definitive Free Writing Prospectus. This free writing prospectus is being delivered to an investor you solely to provide you with information about the Prospectus in portable document format ("PDF"), upon the Underwriter's receipt of a request from the investor within the period for which delivery offering of the Prospectus is requiredCertificates referred to in this free writing prospectus and to solicit an offer to purchase the Certificates, the Underwriter will promptly deliver or cause to be delivered to the investor, without charge, a paper copy of the Prospectus and (ii) it will provide to WFASC any Underwriter Free Writing Prospectuses (as defined in Section 9(a)), or portions thereof, which WFASC is required to file with the Commission in electronic format and will use reasonable efforts to provide to WFASC such Free Writing Prospectuses, or portions thereof, in either Microsoft Word(R) or Microsoft Excel(R) format and not in a PDF, except to the extent that WFASC, in its sole discretion, waives such requirements.
(d) The Underwriter represents and warrants to, and agrees with, WFASCwhen, as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:
(i) In relation if issued. Any such offer to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a "Relevant Member State"), it has purchase made by you will not made be accepted and will not make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of constitute a prospectus in relation to the Certificates which has been approved contractual commitment by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that it may, with effect from and including the relevant implementation date, make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time:
(A) to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;
(B) to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than (euro)43,000,000; and (3) an annual net turnover of more than (euro)50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or
(C) in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the issuer of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive. For the purposes of this representation, the expression an "offer of Certificates to the public" in relation to any Certificates in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Certificates to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide you to purchase or subscribe the Certificates, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, and the expression "Prospectus Directive" means the European Commission Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.
(ii) It has only communicated or cause to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the United Kingdom Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "FSMA")) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of the Certificates in circumstances in which Section 21(1) until we have accepted your offer to purchase Certificates. We will not accept any offer by you to purchase Certificates, and you will not have any contractual commitment to purchase any of the FSMA does not apply Certificates until after you have received the Definitive Free Writing Prospectus. You may withdraw your offer to the issuerpurchase Certificates at any time prior to our acceptance of your offer.
(iii) It has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Certificates in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.
Appears in 7 contracts
Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Home Equity Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-3), Underwriting Agreement (CSMC Asset-Backed Trust 2007-Nc1), Underwriting Agreement (Home Equity Mortgage Trust 2006-5)
Offering by Underwriter. (a) It is understood that the Underwriter proposes to offer the Certificates for sale as set forth in the Prospectus and that the Underwriter will not offer, sell or otherwise distribute the Certificates (except for the sale thereof in exempt transactions) in any state in which the Certificates are not exempt from registration under state securities laws or Blue Sky laws (except where the Certificates will have been qualified for offering and sale at the direction of the Underwriter under such state securities laws or Blue Sky laws). In connection with such offering(s), the Underwriter agrees to provide WFASC with information related to the offer and sale of the Certificates that is reasonably requested by WFASC, from time to time (but not in excess of three years from the Closing Date), and necessary for complying with its tax reporting obligations, including, without limitation, the issue price of the Certificates.
(b) . The Underwriter agrees that it will not sell or transfer any Certificate or interest therein in the initial sale or transfer of such Certificate by the Underwriter in an amount less than the minimum denomination for such Certificate to be set forth in the Prospectus Supplement.
(c) . The Underwriter further agrees that (i) if it delivers to an investor the Prospectus in portable document format ("PDF"), upon the Underwriter's receipt of a request from the investor within the period for which delivery of the Prospectus is required, the Underwriter will promptly deliver or cause to be delivered to the investor, without charge, a paper copy of the Prospectus and (ii) it will provide to WFASC any Underwriter Free Writing Prospectuses (as defined in Section 9(a9(b)), or portions thereof, which WFASC is required to file with the Commission in electronic format and will use reasonable efforts to provide to WFASC such Free Writing Prospectuses, or portions thereof, in either Microsoft Word(R) or Microsoft Excel(R) format and not in a PDF, except to the extent that WFASC, in its sole discretion, waives such requirements.
(d) The Underwriter represents and warrants to, and agrees with, WFASC, as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:
(i) In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a "Relevant Member State"), it has not made and will not make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to the Certificates which has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that it may, with effect from and including the relevant implementation date, make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time:
(A) to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;
(B) to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than (euro)43,000,000; and (3) an annual net turnover of more than (euro)50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or
(C) in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the issuer of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive. For the purposes of this representation, the expression an "offer of Certificates to the public" in relation to any Certificates in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Certificates to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Certificates, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, and the expression "Prospectus Directive" means the European Commission Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.
(ii) It has only communicated or cause to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the United Kingdom Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "FSMA")) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of the Certificates in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the issuer.
(iii) It has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Certificates in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.
Appears in 6 contracts
Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed Securities 2006-Ar3 Trust), Underwriting Agreement (Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed Securities 2006-1 Trust), Underwriting Agreement (Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed Securities 2006-Ar1 Trust)
Offering by Underwriter. (a) It is understood that the Underwriter proposes to offer the Certificates for sale as set forth in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus and that the Underwriter will not offer, sell or otherwise distribute the Certificates (except for the sale thereof in exempt transactions) in any state in which the Certificates are not exempt from registration under state securities laws or Blue Sky laws (except where the Certificates will have been qualified for offering and sale at the direction of the Underwriter under such state securities laws or Blue Sky laws). In connection with such offering(s), the Underwriter agrees to provide WFASC with information related to the offer and sale of the Certificates that is reasonably requested by WFASC, from time to time (but not in excess of three years from the Closing Date), and necessary for complying with its tax reporting obligations, including, without limitation, the issue price of the Certificates.
(b) The Underwriter agrees that it will not sell or transfer any Certificate or interest therein in the initial sale or transfer of such Certificate by the Underwriter in an amount less than the minimum denomination for such Certificate to be set forth in the Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement.
(c) The Underwriter further agrees that (i) if it delivers to an investor the Prospectus in portable document format ("PDF"), upon the Underwriter's receipt of a request from the investor within the period for which delivery of the Prospectus is required, the Underwriter will promptly deliver or cause to be delivered to the investor, without charge, a paper copy of the Prospectus and (ii) it will provide to WFASC any Underwriter Free Writing Prospectuses (as defined in Section 9(a)), or portions thereof, which WFASC is required to file with the Commission in electronic format and will use reasonable efforts to provide to WFASC such Underwriter Free Writing Prospectuses, or portions thereof, in either Microsoft Word(R) or Microsoft Excel(R) format and not in a PDF, except to the extent that WFASC, in its sole discretion, waives such requirements.
(d) The Underwriter represents and warrants to, and agrees with, WFASC, as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:
(i) In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a "Relevant Member State"), it has not made and will not make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to the Certificates which has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that it may, with effect from and including the relevant implementation date, make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time:
(A) to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;
(B) to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than (euro)43,000,000; euro)43,000,000 and (3) an annual net turnover of more than (euro)50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or
(C) in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the issuer of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive. For the purposes of this representation, the expression an "offer of Certificates to the public" in relation to any Certificates in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Certificates to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Certificates, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, and the expression "Prospectus Directive" means the European Commission Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.
(ii) It has only communicated or cause caused to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the United Kingdom Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "FSMA")) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of the Certificates in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the issuer.
(iii) It has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Certificates in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.
Appears in 5 contracts
Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Wells Fargo Home Equity Asset-Backed Securities 2007-1 Trust), Underwriting Agreement (Wells Fargo Home Equity Asset-Backed Securities 2006-3 Trust), Underwriting Agreement (Wells Fargo Home Equity Asset-Backed Securities 2006-2 Trust)
Offering by Underwriter. (a) 4.1 It is understood that the Underwriter proposes propose to offer the Certificates for sale to the public as set forth in the Prospectus and that the Underwriter will not offer, sell or otherwise distribute the Certificates (except for the sale thereof in exempt transactions) in any state in which the Certificates are not exempt from registration under Blue Sky laws or state securities laws or Blue Sky laws (except where the Certificates will have been qualified for offering and sale at the your direction of the Underwriter under such Blue Sky laws or state securities laws or Blue Sky laws). In connection with Prior to the date of the first contract of sale made based on the Definitive Free Writing Prospectus, you have not offered, pledged, sold, disposed of or otherwise transferred any Certificate or any security backed by the Mortgage Loans, any interest in any Certificate or such offering(s), security or any Mortgage Loan except as set forth in Section 4.2.
4.2 It is understood that the Underwriter agrees will solicit offers to provide WFASC with information related purchase the Certificates as follows:
(a) Prior to the time you have received the Definitive Free Writing Prospectus you may, in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, solicit offers to purchase Certificates; provided, that you shall not accept any such offer and sale to purchase a Certificate or any interest in any Certificate or Mortgage Loan or otherwise enter into any Contract of Sale for any Certificate, any interest in any Certificate or any Mortgage Loan prior to the Certificates that is reasonably requested by WFASC, from time to time (but not in excess investor's receipt of three years from the Closing Date), and necessary for complying with its tax reporting obligations, including, without limitation, the issue price of the CertificatesDefinitive Free Writing Prospectus.
(b) The Underwriter agrees that it will not sell or transfer any Certificate or interest therein in Any Free Writing Prospectus (other than the initial sale or transfer of such Certificate Definitive Free Writing Prospectus) relating to the Certificates used by the Underwriter in an amount less than compliance with the minimum denomination terms of this Agreement prior to the time such Underwriter has entered into a Contract of Sale for such Certificate to be Certificates shall prominently set forth substantially the following statement: The information in this free writing prospectus is preliminary, and will be superseded by the Prospectus Supplement.
(c) The Underwriter agrees that (i) if it delivers Definitive Free Writing Prospectus. This free writing prospectus is being delivered to an investor you solely to provide you with information about the Prospectus in portable document format ("PDF"), upon the Underwriter's receipt of a request from the investor within the period for which delivery offering of the Prospectus is requiredCertificates referred to in this free writing prospectus and to solicit an offer to purchase the Certificates, the Underwriter will promptly deliver or cause to be delivered to the investor, without charge, a paper copy of the Prospectus and (ii) it will provide to WFASC any Underwriter Free Writing Prospectuses (as defined in Section 9(a)), or portions thereof, which WFASC is required to file with the Commission in electronic format and will use reasonable efforts to provide to WFASC such Free Writing Prospectuses, or portions thereof, in either Microsoft Word(R) or Microsoft Excel(R) format and not in a PDF, except to the extent that WFASC, in its sole discretion, waives such requirements.
(d) The Underwriter represents and warrants to, and agrees with, WFASCwhen, as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:
(i) In relation if issued. Any such offer to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a "Relevant Member State"), it has purchase made by you will not made be accepted and will not make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of constitute a prospectus in relation to the Certificates which has been approved contractual commitment by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that it may, with effect from and including the relevant implementation date, make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time:
(A) to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;
(B) to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than (euro)43,000,000; and (3) an annual net turnover of more than (euro)50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or
(C) in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the issuer of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive. For the purposes of this representation, the expression an "offer of Certificates to the public" in relation to any Certificates in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Certificates to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide you to purchase or subscribe the Certificates, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, and the expression "Prospectus Directive" means the European Commission Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.
(ii) It has only communicated or cause to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the United Kingdom Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "FSMA")) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of the Certificates in circumstances in which Section 21(1) until we have accepted your offer to purchase Certificates. We will not accept any offer by you to purchase Certificates, and you will not have any contractual commitment to purchase any of the FSMA does not apply Certificates until after you have received the Definitive Free Writing Prospectus. You may withdraw your offer to the issuerpurchase Certificates at any time prior to our acceptance of your offer.
(iii) It has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Certificates in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.
Appears in 4 contracts
Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Opteum Mortgage Acceptance CORP), Underwriting Agreement (American Home Mortgage Securities LLC), Underwriting Agreement (MILA Mortgage Acceptance, Inc.)
Offering by Underwriter. (a) It is understood that the Underwriter proposes to offer the Certificates for sale as set forth in the Prospectus and that the Underwriter will not offer, sell or otherwise distribute the Certificates (except for the sale thereof in exempt transactions) in any state in which the Certificates are not exempt from registration under state securities laws or Blue Sky laws (except where the Certificates will have been qualified for offering and sale at the direction of the Underwriter under such state securities laws or Blue Sky laws). In connection with such offering(s), the Underwriter agrees to provide WFASC with information related to the offer and sale of the Certificates that is reasonably requested by WFASC, from time to time (but not in excess of three years from the Closing Date), and necessary for complying with its tax reporting obligations, including, without limitation, the issue price of the Certificates.
(b) The Underwriter agrees that it will not sell or transfer any Certificate or interest therein in the initial sale or transfer of such Certificate by the Underwriter in an amount less than the minimum denomination for such Certificate to be set forth in the Prospectus Supplement.
(c) The Underwriter agrees that (i) if it delivers to an investor the Prospectus in portable document format ("PDF"), upon the Underwriter's receipt of a request from the investor within the period for which delivery of the Prospectus is required, the Underwriter will promptly deliver or cause to be delivered to the investor, without charge, a paper copy of the Prospectus and (ii) it will provide to WFASC any Underwriter Free Writing Prospectuses (as defined in Section 9(a)), or portions thereof, which WFASC is required to file with the Commission in electronic format and will use reasonable efforts to provide to WFASC such Free Writing Prospectuses, or portions thereof, in either Microsoft Word(R) or Microsoft Excel(R) format and not in a PDF, except to the extent that WFASC, in its sole discretion, waives such requirements.
(d) The Underwriter represents and warrants to, and agrees with, WFASC, as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:
(i) In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a "Relevant Member State"), it has not made and will not make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to the Certificates which has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that it may, with effect from and including the relevant implementation date, make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time:
(A) to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;
(B) to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than (euro)43,000,000E43,000,000; and (3) an annual net turnover of more than (euro)50,000,000E50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or
(C) in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the issuer of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive. For the purposes of this representation, the expression an "offer of Certificates to the public" in relation to any Certificates in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Certificates to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Certificates, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, and the expression "Prospectus Directive" means the European Commission Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.
(ii) It has only communicated or cause to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the United Kingdom Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "FSMA")) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of the Certificates in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the issuer.
(iii) It has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Certificates in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed Securities 2007-7 Trust), Underwriting Agreement (Wells Fargo Asset Securities Corp)
Offering by Underwriter. (a) It is understood that the Underwriter proposes to offer the Certificates for sale as set forth in the Prospectus and that the Underwriter will not offer, sell or otherwise distribute the Certificates (except for the sale thereof in exempt transactions) in any state in which the Certificates are not exempt from registration under state securities laws or Blue Sky laws (except where the Certificates will have been qualified for offering and sale at the direction of the Underwriter under such state securities laws or Blue Sky laws). In connection with such offering(s), the Underwriter agrees to provide WFASC with information related to the offer and sale of the Certificates that is reasonably requested by WFASC, from time to time (but not in excess of three years one year from the Closing Date), and necessary for complying with its tax reporting obligations, including, without limitation, the issue price of the Certificates.
(b) . The Underwriter agrees that it will not sell or transfer any Certificate or interest therein in the initial sale or transfer of such Certificate by the Underwriter in an amount less than the minimum denomination for such Certificate to be set forth in the Prospectus Supplement.
(c) . The Underwriter further agrees that (i) if it delivers to an investor the Prospectus in portable document format ("PDF"), upon the Underwriter's receipt of a request from the investor within the period for which delivery of the Prospectus is required, the Underwriter will promptly deliver or cause to be delivered to the investor, without charge, a paper copy of the Prospectus and (ii) it will provide to WFASC any Underwriter Free Writing Prospectuses Computational Materials (as defined in Section 9(a)), or portions thereof, which WFASC is required to file with the Commission 9) in electronic format and will use reasonable efforts to provide to WFASC such Free Writing Prospectuses, or portions thereof, Computational Materials in either Microsoft Word(R) or Microsoft Excel(R) format and not in a PDF, except to the extent that WFASC, in its sole discretion, waives such requirements.
(d) The Underwriter represents and warrants to, and agrees with, WFASC, as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:
(i) In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a "Relevant Member State"), it has not made and will not make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to the Certificates which has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that it may, with effect from and including the relevant implementation date, make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time:
(A) to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;
(B) to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than (euro)43,000,000; and (3) an annual net turnover of more than (euro)50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or
(C) in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the issuer of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive. For the purposes of this representation, the expression an "offer of Certificates to the public" in relation to any Certificates in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Certificates to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Certificates, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, and the expression "Prospectus Directive" means the European Commission Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.
(ii) It has only communicated or cause to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the United Kingdom Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "FSMA")) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of the Certificates in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the issuer.
(iii) It has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Certificates in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Wells Fargo Asset Securities Corp)
Offering by Underwriter. (a) It is understood that the Underwriter proposes to offer the Certificates Notes for sale to the public as set forth in the Time of Sale Prospectus and that the Underwriter will not offer, sell or otherwise distribute the Certificates (except for the sale thereof in exempt transactions) in any state in which the Certificates are not exempt from registration under state securities laws or Blue Sky laws (except where the Certificates will have been qualified for offering and sale at the direction of the Underwriter under such state securities laws or Blue Sky laws). In connection with such offering(s), the Underwriter agrees to provide WFASC with information related to the offer and sale of the Certificates that is reasonably requested by WFASC, from time to time (but not in excess of three years from the Closing Date), and necessary for complying with its tax reporting obligations, including, without limitation, the issue price of the CertificatesFinal Prospectus.
(b) The Underwriter agrees It is understood that it will not sell at or transfer any Certificate or interest therein in prior to the initial sale or transfer Time of such Certificate by Sale, the Underwriter will have provided to prospective investors the Time of Sale Prospectus in an amount less than connection with their offering of the minimum denomination for such Certificate to be set forth in the Prospectus SupplementNotes.
(c) The Underwriter agrees that (i) if it delivers to an shall not enter into a Contract of Sale with any potential investor the Prospectus in portable document format ("PDF"), upon the Underwriter's receipt of a request from the investor within the period for which delivery of the Prospectus is required, unless the Underwriter will promptly deliver or cause has conveyed the Time of Sale Prospectus to be delivered such potential investor prior to the investor, without charge, a paper copy such Contract of the Prospectus and (ii) it will provide to WFASC any Underwriter Free Writing Prospectuses (as defined in Section 9(a)), or portions thereof, which WFASC is required to file with the Commission in electronic format and will use reasonable efforts to provide to WFASC such Free Writing Prospectuses, or portions thereof, in either Microsoft Word(R) or Microsoft Excel(R) format and not in a PDF, except to the extent that WFASC, in its sole discretion, waives such requirementsSale.
(d) The Underwriter represents and warrants to, and agrees with, WFASC, as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:
(i) In relation to each Member State Unless preceded or accompanied by a prospectus satisfying the requirements of Section 10(a) of the European Economic Area which has implemented Securities Act, the Prospectus Directive (each, a "Relevant Member State"), it has Underwriter shall not made and will not make an offer of Certificates convey or deliver any written communication to the public any person in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to the Certificates which has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance connection with the Prospectus Directiveinitial offering of the Notes, except that it may, with effect from and including the relevant implementation date, make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time:
(A) to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;
(B) to any legal entity which has two or more of unless such written communication (1) an average of at least 250 employees during is made in reliance on Rule 134 under the last financial year; Securities Act, (2) constitutes a total balance sheet prospectus satisfying the requirements of more than (euro)43,000,000; and Rule 430B under the Securities Act, (3) an annual net turnover of more than constitutes ABS ICM or (euro)50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or
(C4) in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the issuer of constitutes a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive. For the purposes of this representation, the expression an "offer of Certificates to the public" in relation to any Certificates in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Certificates to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Certificates, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, and the expression "Prospectus Directive" means the European Commission Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member StateFree Writing Prospectus.
(ii) It has The Underwriter will deliver to the Company, no later than one business day prior to the filing date thereof, (A) any Free Writing Prospectus prepared by or on behalf of such Underwriter that contains any Issuer Information not included in the Term Sheet and (B) any Free Writing Prospectus or portion thereof that contains only communicated or cause to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 a description of the United Kingdom Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "FSMA")) received by it in connection with the issue or sale final terms of the Certificates in circumstances in which Section 21(1Notes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Free Writing Prospectus that contains only ABS ICM may be delivered by the Underwriter to the Company or its counsel not later than the later of (1) one business day prior to the due date for filing of the FSMA does not apply Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the issuerAct or (2) the date of first use of such Free Writing Prospectus.
(iii) It has complied The Underwriter may disseminate information on Bloomberg and will comply with all applicable provisions any other similar proprietary system to prospective investors relating solely to (i) information of the FSMA type identified in Rule 134 of the Act, (ii) information included in the Time of Sale Prospectus, (iii) the status of allocations and subscriptions of the Notes and information relating to the class, size, rating, price, CUSIPS, coupon, yield, spread, benchmark, status and/or legal maturity date of the Offered Notes, the weighted average life, expected final payment date, the trade date and payment window of one or more classes of the Notes, the eligibility of the Notes to be purchased by ERISA plans and a column or other entry showing the status of the subscriptions for the Notes (both for the issuance as a whole and for the Underwriter's retention) and/or expected pricing parameters of the Notes, and (iv) information constituting final terms of the Notes within the meaning of Rule 433(d)(5)(ii) under the Act; provided, however, that any information described in this Section 4(d)(iii) shall contain a legend in substantially the form described in Section 4(e) below and either shall be information that is in a term sheet or free writing prospectus filed by the Company with respect the Commission or (y) if such information is required to anything done be filed, shall be delivered to the Company for filing. The Underwriter may, or if requested by the Company shall, provide copies of the foregoing in a consolidated or aggregated form including all information described above.
(e) The Company and the Underwriter agree that:
(i) any Free Writing Prospectus prepared by it will contain a legend in relation substantially the following form: THE ISSUING ENTITY HAS FILED A REGISTRATION STATEMENT (INCLUDING A PROSPECTUS) WITH THE SEC FOR THE OFFERING TO WHICH THIS FREE WRITING PROSPECTUS RELATES. BEFORE YOU INVEST, YOU SHOULD READ THE PROSPECTUS IN THAT REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND OTHER DOCUMENTS THE ISSUING ENTITY HAS FILED WITH THE SEC FOR MORE COMPLETE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ISSUER AND THIS OFFERING. YOU MAY GET THESE DOCUMENTS FOR FREE BY VISITING XXXXX ON THE SEC WEB SITE AT XXX.XXX.XXX. ALTERNATIVELY, THE DEPOSITOR, ANY UNDERWRITER OR ANY DEALER PARTICIPATING IN THE OFFERING WILL ARRANGE TO SEND YOU THE PROSPECTUS IF YOU REQUEST IT BY CALLING TOLL-FREE 0-000-000-0000, EXT.9519.
(ii) Notwithstanding any other provisions herein, the Issuer will not be required to the Certificates in, file any Free Writing Prospectus that does not contain substantive changes from or otherwise involving additions to a Free Writing Prospectus previously filed with the United KingdomCommission.
(iii) The Issuer and the Underwriter agree that the Term Sheet constitutes an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.
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Offering by Underwriter. (a) It is understood that the Underwriter proposes to offer the Certificates for sale as set forth in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus and that the Underwriter will not offer, sell or otherwise distribute the Certificates (except for the sale thereof in exempt transactions) in any state in which the Certificates are not exempt from registration under state securities laws or Blue Sky laws (except where the Certificates will have been qualified for offering and sale at the direction of the Underwriter under such state securities laws or Blue Sky laws). In connection with such offering(s), the Underwriter agrees to provide WFASC with information related to the offer and sale of the Certificates that is reasonably requested by WFASC, from time to time (but not in excess of three years from the Closing Date), and necessary for complying with its tax reporting obligations, including, without limitation, the issue price of the Certificates.
(b) The Underwriter agrees that it will not sell or transfer any Certificate or interest therein in the initial sale or transfer of such Certificate by the Underwriter in an amount less than the minimum denomination for such Certificate to be set forth in the Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement.
(c) The Underwriter further agrees that (i) if it delivers to an investor the Prospectus in portable document format ("PDF"), upon the Underwriter's receipt of a request from the investor within the period for which delivery of the Prospectus is required, the Underwriter will promptly deliver or cause to be delivered to the investor, without charge, a paper copy of the Prospectus and (ii) it will provide to WFASC any Underwriter Free Writing Prospectuses (as defined in Section 9(a)), or portions thereof, which WFASC is required to file with the Commission in electronic format and will use reasonable efforts to provide to WFASC such Underwriter Free Writing Prospectuses, or portions thereof, in either Microsoft Word(R) or Microsoft Excel(R) format and not in a PDF, except to the extent that WFASC, in its sole discretion, waives such requirements.
(d) The Underwriter represents and warrants to, and agrees with, WFASC, as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:
(i) In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a "Relevant Member State"), it has not made and will not make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to the Certificates which has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that it may, with effect from and including the relevant implementation date, make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time:
(A) to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;
(B) to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than (euro)43,000,000; euro)43,000,000 and (3) an annual net turnover of more than (euro)50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or
(C) in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the issuer of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive. For the purposes of this representation, the expression an "offer of Certificates to the public" in relation to any Certificates in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Certificates to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Certificates, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, State and the expression "Prospectus Directive" means the European Commission Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.
(ii) It has only communicated or cause caused to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the United Kingdom Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "FSMA")) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of the Certificates in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the issuer.
(iii) It has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Certificates in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Wells Fargo Asset Securities Corp)
Offering by Underwriter. (a) It is understood that the Underwriter proposes to offer the Certificates for sale as set forth in the Prospectus and that the Underwriter will not offer, sell or otherwise distribute the Certificates (except for the sale thereof in exempt transactions) in any state in which the Certificates are not exempt from registration under state securities laws or Blue Sky laws (except where the Certificates will have been qualified for offering and sale at the direction of the Underwriter under such state securities laws or Blue Sky laws). In connection with such offering(s), the Underwriter agrees to provide WFASC with information related to the offer and sale of the Certificates that is reasonably requested by WFASC, from time to time (but not in excess of three years from the Closing Date), and necessary for complying with its tax reporting obligations, including, without limitation, the issue price of the Certificates.
(b) . The Underwriter agrees that it will not sell or transfer any Certificate or interest therein in the initial sale or transfer of such Certificate by the Underwriter in an amount less than the minimum denomination for such Certificate to be set forth in the Prospectus Supplement.
(c) . The Underwriter further agrees that (i) if it delivers to an investor the Prospectus in portable document format ("PDF"), upon the Underwriter's receipt of a request from the investor within the period for which delivery of the Prospectus is required, the Underwriter will promptly deliver or cause to be delivered to the investor, without charge, a paper copy of the Prospectus and (ii) it will provide to WFASC any Underwriter Free Writing Prospectuses (as defined in Section 9(a)), or portions thereof, which WFASC is required to file with the Commission in electronic format and will use reasonable efforts to provide to WFASC such Free Writing Prospectuses, or portions thereof, in either Microsoft Word(R) or Microsoft Excel(R) format and not in a PDF, except to the extent that WFASC, in its sole discretion, waives such requirements.
(d) The Underwriter represents and warrants to, and agrees with, WFASC, as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:
(i) In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a "Relevant Member State"), it has not made and will not make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to the Certificates which has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that it may, with effect from and including the relevant implementation date, make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time:
(A) to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;
(B) to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than (euro)43,000,000; and (3) an annual net turnover of more than (euro)50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or
(C) in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the issuer of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive. For the purposes of this representation, the expression an "offer of Certificates to the public" in relation to any Certificates in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Certificates to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Certificates, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, and the expression "Prospectus Directive" means the European Commission Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.
(ii) It has only communicated or cause to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the United Kingdom Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "FSMA")) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of the Certificates in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the issuer.
(iii) It has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Certificates in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Wells Fargo Asset Securities Corp)
Offering by Underwriter. (a) It is understood that The Company and the Issuer authorize the Underwriter to take all such action as it may deem advisable in respect of all matters pertaining to sales of the Notes to dealers and to retail purchasers and to member firms and specialists, including the right to make variations in the selling arrangements with respect to such sales; provided, however, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Underwriter represents that, prior to the date hereof, it has not made a public announcement through one or more media within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1275-2(k) pertaining to offers or sales of the Notes unless it has obtained the prior written approval of the Company, the Issuer and the Seller. Upon the authorization by the Underwriter of the release of the Notes, the Underwriter proposes to offer the Certificates Notes for sale as upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus. If the Prospectus and that specifies an initial public offering price or a method by which the price at which such Notes are to be sold, then after the Notes are released for sale to the public, the Underwriter may vary from time to time the public offering price, selling concessions and reallowances to dealers that are members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. and other terms of sale hereunder and under such selling arrangements.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Underwriter agrees that it will not offer or sell any Notes within the United States, its territories or possessions or to persons who are citizens thereof or residents therein, except in transactions that are not prohibited by any applicable securities, bank regulatory or other applicable law.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Underwriter agrees that it will not offer or sell any Notes in any country, its territories or possessions or to persons who are citizens thereof or residents therein, except in transactions that are not prohibited by any applicable securities laws of such country, territory or possession.
(d) The Underwriter agrees that:
(i) it has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the Financial Services and Markets Xxx 0000 (as amended, the “FSMA”) with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Notes in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom;
(ii) it has only communicated or caused to be communicated and it will only communicate or cause to be communicated any invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the FSMA) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of any Notes in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the Issuer; and
(iii) if specified in the applicable Terms Agreement, after the Closing Date, it will provide the Company with a list of any foreign jurisdictions related to any written confirmations of sale of Notes it has sent. Further, the Underwriter has represented and agreed that it has not offered, sold or otherwise made available and will not offer, sell or otherwise distribute the Certificates (except for the sale thereof in exempt transactions) in make available any state in which the Certificates are not exempt from registration under state securities laws or Blue Sky laws (except where the Certificates will have been qualified for offering and sale at the direction of the Underwriter under such state securities laws or Blue Sky laws). In connection with such offering(s), the Underwriter agrees Notes to provide WFASC with information related to the offer and sale of the Certificates that is reasonably requested by WFASC, from time to time (but not any retail investor in excess of three years from the Closing Date), and necessary for complying with its tax reporting obligations, including, without limitation, the issue price of the Certificates.
(b) The Underwriter agrees that it will not sell or transfer any Certificate or interest therein in the initial sale or transfer of such Certificate by the Underwriter in an amount less than the minimum denomination for such Certificate to be set forth in the Prospectus Supplement.
(c) The Underwriter agrees that (i) if it delivers to an investor the Prospectus in portable document format ("PDF"), upon the Underwriter's receipt of a request from the investor within the period for which delivery of the Prospectus is required, the Underwriter will promptly deliver or cause to be delivered to the investor, without charge, a paper copy of the Prospectus and (ii) it will provide to WFASC any Underwriter Free Writing Prospectuses (as defined in Section 9(a)), or portions thereof, which WFASC is required to file with the Commission in electronic format and will use reasonable efforts to provide to WFASC such Free Writing Prospectuses, or portions thereof, in either Microsoft Word(R) or Microsoft Excel(R) format and not in a PDF, except to the extent that WFASC, in its sole discretion, waives such requirements.
(d) The Underwriter represents and warrants to, and agrees with, WFASC, as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:
(i) In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a "Relevant Member State"), it has not made and will not make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to the Certificates which has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that it may, with effect from and including the relevant implementation date, make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time:
(A) to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;
(B) to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than (euro)43,000,000; and (3) an annual net turnover of more than (euro)50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or
(C) in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the issuer of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus DirectiveArea. For the purposes of this representationthe immediately preceding sentence: (i) the expression “retail investor” means a person who is one (or more) of the following: (A) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, “MiFID II”), (B) a customer within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/97 (as amended, the “Insurance Distribution Directive”), where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of XxXXX XX or (C) not a qualified investor as defined in Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2017/1129 (as amended); and (ii) the expression an "offer of Certificates to the public" in relation to any Certificates in any Relevant Member State means “offer” includes the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Certificates Notes to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe for the Notes. Further, the Underwriter has represented and agreed that it has not offered, sold or otherwise made available and will not offer, sell or otherwise make available any of the Notes to any retail investor in the United Kingdom. For the purposes of the immediately preceding sentence: (i) the expression on “retail investor” means a person who is one (or more) of the following: (A) a retail client as defined in point (8) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 2017/565 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA, (B) a customer within the meaning of the provisions of the FSMA and any rules or regulations made under the FSMA to implement the Insurance Distribution Directive, where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (8) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA or (C) not a qualified investor as defined in Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA; and (ii) the expression “offer” includes the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Notes to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Certificates, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, and the expression "Prospectus Directive" means the European Commission Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member StateNotes.
(iie) It The Underwriter agrees that on or prior to the Closing Date it has only communicated not and it will not provide any Rating Information (as defined below) to a Hired NRSRO or cause to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity other “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (within the meaning of Section 21 the Exchange Act), unless a designated representative from the Company participated in or participates in such communication; provided, however, that if the Underwriter received or receives an oral communication from a Hired NRSRO, the Underwriter was and is authorized to inform such Hired NRSRO that it will respond to the oral communication with a designated representative from the Company or refer such Hired NRSRO to the Company, who will respond to the oral communication. For purposes of this paragraph, “Rating Information” means any information provided for the United Kingdom Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 purpose of determining the initial credit rating for the Notes or undertaking credit rating surveillance on the Notes (the "FSMA")) received as contemplated by it in connection with the issue or sale of the Certificates in circumstances in which Section 21(1paragraph (a)(3)(iii)(C) of the FSMA does not apply to the issuerRule 17g-5).
(iii) It has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Certificates in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.
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Offering by Underwriter. The Underwriter hereby agrees with MRU Holdings and the Depositor as follows:
(a) It is understood that the The Underwriter proposes to offer and/or solicit offers for the Certificates Notes to be purchased by it for sale to the public as set forth in the Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus and that the Underwriter will not offer, sell or otherwise distribute the Certificates (except for the sale thereof in exempt transactions) in any state in which the Certificates are not exempt from registration under state securities laws or Blue Sky laws (except where the Certificates will have been qualified for offering and sale at the direction of the Underwriter under such state securities laws or Blue Sky laws). In connection with such offering(s), the Underwriter agrees that all such offers, solicitations and sales by it shall be made in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. The Underwriter will enter into a Contract of Sale (within the meaning of Rule 159 under the Securities Act) with an investor only after delivery of the Disclosure Package to provide WFASC with information related such investor. The Underwriter shall keep sufficient records to document its delivery of the Disclosure Package to each investor prior to the offer and sale related Contract of the Certificates that is reasonably requested by WFASC, from time to time (but not in excess of three years from the Closing Date), and necessary for complying with its tax reporting obligations, including, without limitation, the issue price of the CertificatesSale.
(b) The Underwriter agrees that it will not sell or transfer any Certificate or interest therein in the initial sale or transfer of such Certificate by the Underwriter in an amount less than the minimum denomination for such Certificate to be set forth in the Prospectus Supplement.
(c) The Underwriter agrees that (i) if it delivers to an investor the Prospectus in portable document format ("PDF"), upon the Underwriter's receipt of a request from the investor within the period for which delivery of the Prospectus is required, the Underwriter will promptly deliver or cause to be delivered to the investor, without charge, a paper copy of the Prospectus may prepare and (ii) it will provide to WFASC any Underwriter investors certain Free Writing Prospectuses (as defined in Section 9(a)below), or portions thereof, which WFASC is required to file with the Commission in electronic format and will use reasonable efforts to provide to WFASC such Free Writing Prospectuses, or portions thereof, in either Microsoft Word(R) or Microsoft Excel(R) format and not in a PDF, except subject to the extent that WFASC, in its sole discretion, waives such requirements.
(d) The Underwriter represents and warrants to, and agrees with, WFASC, as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and as of the Closing Date, thatfollowing conditions:
(i) In relation to each Member State Unless preceded or accompanied by a prospectus satisfying the requirements of Section 10(a) of the European Economic Area which has implemented Securities Act, an Underwriter shall not convey or deliver any Written Communication (as such term is defined in Rule 405 of the Prospectus Directive Securities Act) to any person in connection with the initial offering of the Notes, unless such Written Communication (eachi) is made in reliance on Rule 134 under the Securities Act, a "Relevant Member State"), it has not made and will not make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of (ii) constitutes a prospectus in relation to satisfying the Certificates which has been approved by requirements of Rule 430B under the competent authority in that Relevant Member State orSecurities Act, where appropriate(iii) is the Initial FWP or the Term Sheet, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that it may, with effect from and including the relevant implementation date, make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time:
or (iv) both (A) to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate constitutes a Free Writing Prospectus used in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;
reliance on Rule 164 and (B) to any legal entity which has two includes only information that is within the definition of either (x) “ABS Informational and Computational Materials” as defined in Item 1100 of Regulation AB or more of (1y) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; Permitted Additional Materials (2) a total balance sheet of more than (euro)43,000,000; and (3) an annual net turnover of more than (euro)50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or
(C) in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the issuer of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive. For the purposes of this representation, the expression an "offer of Certificates to the public" in relation to any Certificates in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Certificates to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Certificates, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, and the expression "Prospectus Directive" means the European Commission Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member Statedefined herein).
(ii) It has only communicated or cause to be communicated The Underwriter shall comply with all applicable laws and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the United Kingdom Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "FSMA")) received by it regulations in connection with the issue or sale use of Free Writing Prospectuses, including but not limited to Rules 164 and 433 under the Certificates in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the issuerSecurities Act.
(iii) It For purposes hereof, “Free Writing Prospectus” shall have the meaning given such term in Rules 405 and 433 under the Securities Act. “Issuer Information” shall mean information included in a Free Writing Prospectus that both (i) is within the types of information specified in clauses (1) to (5) of footnote 271 of Commission Release No. 33-8591 (Securities Offering Reform) and (ii) has complied been either prepared by, or reviewed and will comply with all applicable provisions approved by, MRU Holdings. Information contained in the Disclosure Package shall be deemed to be approved by MRU Holdings for purposes of the FSMA definition of Issuer Information and consented to for purposes of the definition of Permitted Additional Materials. “Underwriter Derived Information” shall refer to information of the type described in clause (5) of such footnote 271 when prepared by the Underwriter. “Permitted Additional Materials” shall mean information that is not ABS Informational and Computational Materials and (A) that are referred to in Section 4(b)(vi), (B) that constitute price, yield, weighted average life, subscription or allocation information, or a trade confirmation, or (C) otherwise with respect to anything done by it in relation which MRU Holdings has provided written consent to the Certificates in, from or otherwise involving the United KingdomUnderwriter to include in a Free Writing Prospectus.
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Offering by Underwriter. (a) It is understood that the Underwriter proposes to offer the Certificates Notes for sale to the public as set forth in the Time of Sale Prospectus and that the Underwriter will not offer, sell or otherwise distribute the Certificates (except for the sale thereof in exempt transactions) in any state in which the Certificates are not exempt from registration under state securities laws or Blue Sky laws (except where the Certificates will have been qualified for offering and sale at the direction of the Underwriter under such state securities laws or Blue Sky laws). In connection with such offering(s), the Underwriter agrees to provide WFASC with information related to the offer and sale of the Certificates that is reasonably requested by WFASC, from time to time (but not in excess of three years from the Closing Date), and necessary for complying with its tax reporting obligations, including, without limitation, the issue price of the CertificatesFinal Prospectus.
(b) The Underwriter agrees It is understood that it will not sell at or transfer any Certificate or interest therein in prior to the initial sale or transfer Time of such Certificate by Sale, the Underwriter will have provided to prospective investors the Time of Sale Prospectus in an amount less than connection with their offering of the minimum denomination for such Certificate to be set forth in the Prospectus SupplementNotes.
(c) The Underwriter agrees that (i) if it delivers to an shall not enter into a Contract of Sale with any potential investor the Prospectus in portable document format ("PDF"), upon the Underwriter's receipt of a request from the investor within the period for which delivery of the Prospectus is required, unless the Underwriter will promptly deliver or cause has conveyed the Time of Sale Prospectus to be delivered such potential investor prior to the investor, without charge, a paper copy such Contract of the Prospectus and (ii) it will provide to WFASC any Underwriter Free Writing Prospectuses (as defined in Section 9(a)), or portions thereof, which WFASC is required to file with the Commission in electronic format and will use reasonable efforts to provide to WFASC such Free Writing Prospectuses, or portions thereof, in either Microsoft Word(R) or Microsoft Excel(R) format and not in a PDF, except to the extent that WFASC, in its sole discretion, waives such requirementsSale.
(d) The Underwriter represents and warrants to, and agrees with, WFASC, as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:
(i) In relation to each Member State Unless preceded or accompanied by a prospectus satisfying the requirements of Section 10(a) of the European Economic Area which has implemented Securities Act, the Prospectus Directive (each, a "Relevant Member State"), it has Underwriter shall not made and will not make an offer of Certificates convey or deliver any written communication to the public any person in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to the Certificates which has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance connection with the Prospectus Directiveinitial offering of the Notes, except that it may, with effect from and including the relevant implementation date, make an offer of Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time:
(A) to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;
(B) to any legal entity which has two or more of unless such written communication (1) an average of at least 250 employees during is made in reliance on Rule 134 under the last financial year; Securities Act, (2) constitutes a total balance sheet prospectus satisfying the requirements of more than (euro)43,000,000; and Rule 430B under the Securities Act, (3) an annual net turnover of more than constitutes ABS ICM or (euro)50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or
(C4) in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the issuer of constitutes a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive. For the purposes of this representation, the expression an "offer of Certificates to the public" in relation to any Certificates in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Certificates to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Certificates, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, and the expression "Prospectus Directive" means the European Commission Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member StateFree Writing Prospectus.
(ii) It has The Underwriter will deliver to the Company, no later than one business day prior to the filing date thereof, (A) any Free Writing Prospectus prepared by or on behalf of such Underwriter that contains any Issuer Information not included in the Term Sheet and (B) any Free Writing Prospectus or portion thereof that contains only communicated or cause to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 a description of the United Kingdom Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "FSMA")) received by it in connection with the issue or sale final terms of the Certificates in circumstances in which Section 21(1Notes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Free Writing Prospectus that contains only ABS ICM may be delivered by the Underwriter to the Company or its counsel not later than the later of (1) one business day prior to the due date for filing of the FSMA does not apply Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the issuerAct or (2) the date of first use of such Free Writing Prospectus.
(iii) It has complied The Underwriter may disseminate information on Bloomberg and will comply with all applicable provisions any other similar proprietary system to prospective investors relating solely to (i) information of the FSMA type identified in Rule 134 of the Act, (ii) information included in the Time of Sale Prospectus, (iii) the status of allocations and subscriptions of the Notes and information relating to the class, size, rating, price, CUSIPS, coupon, yield, spread, benchmark, status and/or legal maturity date of the Offered Notes, the weighted average life, expected final payment date, the trade date and payment window of one or more classes of the Notes, the eligibility of the Notes to be purchased by ERISA plans and a column or other entry showing the status of the subscriptions for the Notes (both for the issuance as a whole and for the Underwriter's retention) and/or expected pricing parameters of the Notes, and (iv) information constituting final terms of the Notes within the meaning of Rule 433(d)(5)(ii) under the Act; provided, however, that any information described in this Section 4(d)(iii) shall contain a legend in substantially the form described in Section 4(e) below and either shall be information that is in a term sheet or free writing prospectus filed by the Company with respect the Commission or (y) if such information is required to anything done be filed, shall be delivered to the Company for filing. The Underwriter may, or if requested by the Company shall, provide copies of the foregoing in a consolidated or aggregated form including all information described above.
(e) The Company and the Underwriter agree that:
(i) any Free Writing Prospectus prepared by it will contain a legend in relation substantially the following form: THE ISSUING ENTITY HAS FILED A REGISTRATION STATEMENT (INCLUDING A PROSPECTUS) WITH THE SEC FOR THE OFFERING TO WHICH THIS FREE WRITING PROSPECTUS RELATES. BEFORE YOU INVEST, YOU SHOULD READ THE PROSPECTUS IN THAT REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND OTHER DOCUMENTS THE ISSUING ENTITY HAS FILED WITH THE SEC FOR MORE COMPLETE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ISSUER AND THIS OFFERING. YOU MAY GET THESE DOCUMENTS FOR FREE BY VISITING XXXXX ON THE SEC WEB SITE AT XXX.XXX.XXX. ALTERNATIVELY, THE DEPOSITOR, ANY UNDERWRITER OR ANY DEALER PARTICIPATING IN THE OFFERING WILL ARRANGE TO SEND YOU THE PROSPECTUS IF YOU REQUEST IT BY CALLING TOLL-FREE 1-877-858-5407.
(ii) Notwithstanding any other provisions herein, the Issuer will not be required to the Certificates in, file any Free Writing Prospectus that does not contain substantive changes from or otherwise involving additions to a Free Writing Prospectus previously filed with the United KingdomCommission.
(iii) The Issuer and the Underwriter agree that the Term Sheet constitutes an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.
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Samples: Underwriting Agreement (Origen Residential Securities, Inc.)