6,685,183 Shares Warrants to Purchase 3,342,589 Shares ALEXZA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. Common Stock PLACEMENT AGENT AGREEMENT

Exhibit 1.1

6,685,183 Shares

Warrants to Purchase 3,342,589 Shares

ALEXZA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
Common Stock
PLACEMENT AGENT AGREEMENT

August 4, 2010

RBC CAPITAL MARKETS CORPORATION
JMP SECURITIES LLC

c/o RBC CAPITAL MARKETS CORPORATION
Three World Financial Center, 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000

Ladies and Gentlemen:

1. Introduction. Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the purchasers, pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Placement Agent Agreement (this “Agreement”) and the Subscription Agreements in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto (the “Subscription Agreements”) entered into with the purchasers identified therein (each a “Purchaser” and, collectively, the “Purchasers”), up to an aggregate of (i) 6,685,183 shares (the “Stock”) of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company and (ii) warrants to purchase up to 3,342,589 shares of Common Stock (the “Warrants”, and together with the Stock, the “Securities”). The shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants are hereinafter referred to as the “Warrant Stock.” The Company hereby confirms that RBC Capital Markets Corporation (“RBCCM”) and JMP Securities LLC (“JMP”, and together with RBCCM, the “Placement Agents”) acted as placement agents in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof. RBCCM is acting as the representative of the Placement Agents and in such capacity is hereinafter referred to as the “Representative”.

2. Agreement to Act as Placement Agents; Placement of Securities. On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company herein contained, and subject to all the terms and conditions of this Agreement:

2.1 The Company has authorized and hereby acknowledges that the Placement Agents have acted as its exclusive agents to solicit offers for the purchase of all or part of the Securities from the Company in connection with the proposed offering of the Securities (the “Offering”). Until the Closing Date (as defined in Section 4 hereof), the Company shall not, without the prior written consent of the Representative, solicit or accept offers to purchase Securities otherwise than through the Placement Agents.

2.2 The Placement Agents shall use commercially reasonable efforts to assist the Company in obtaining performance by each Purchaser whose offer to purchase

Securities was solicited by the Placement Agents and accepted by the Company, but the Placement Agents shall not, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, be obligated to disclose the identity of any potential purchaser or have any liability to the Company in the event any such purchase is not consummated for any reason. Under no circumstances will the Placement Agents be obligated to underwrite or purchase any Securities for their own respective accounts and, in soliciting purchases of Securities, the Placement Agents acted solely as the Company’s agents and not as principals. Notwithstanding the foregoing and except as otherwise provided in Section 2.3, it is understood and agreed that the Placement Agents (or their respective affiliates) may, solely at their discretion and without any obligation to do so, purchase Securities as principals, on the same terms, and subject to the same conditions, as set forth in the Prospectus.

2.3 Subject to the provisions of this Section 2, offers for the purchase of Securities were solicited by the Placement Agents as agents for the Company at such times and in such amounts as the Placement Agents deemed advisable. The Placement Agents communicated to the Company, orally or in writing, each reasonable offer to purchase Securities received by them as agents of the Company. The Company shall have the sole right to accept offers to purchase the Securities and may reject any such offer, in whole or in part. The Representative has the right, in its discretion reasonably exercised, without notice to the Company, to reject any offer to purchase Securities received by the Placement Agents, in whole or in part, and any such rejection shall not be deemed a breach of this Agreement.

2.4 The Securities are being sold to the Purchasers at a price of $2.70 per unit (each unit consisting of one share of Common Stock and one warrant to purchase 0.5 of a share of Common Stock). The purchases of the Securities by the Purchasers shall be evidenced by the execution of Subscription Agreements by each of the respective Purchasers and the Company.

2.5 As compensation for services rendered, on the Closing Date, the Company shall pay to the Representative by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account or accounts designated by the Representative, an aggregate amount (the “Placement Fee”) equal to six percent (6%) of the gross proceeds received by the Company from the sale of the Securities on such Closing Date. The Placement Agents agree that the foregoing compensation to be paid to the Representative, together with any expense reimbursement payable hereunder, constitutes all of the compensation that the Placement Agents are entitled to receive in connection with the Offering contemplated by this Agreement.

2.6 No Securities which the Company has agreed to sell pursuant to this Agreement and the Subscription Agreements shall be deemed to have been purchased and paid for, or sold by the Company, until such Securities shall have been delivered to the Purchaser thereof against payment by such Purchaser. If the Company shall default in its obligations to deliver Stock to a Purchaser whose offer it has accepted, the Company shall indemnify and hold the Placement Agents harmless against any loss, claim, obligation, contingency, damage, cost, liability or expense (including reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses), including all judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court

costs and costs of preparation and investigation (each, a “Loss”) arising from or as a result of such default by the Company in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 8(c) herein.

3. Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the Placement Agents and the Purchasers that:

(a) The Company has prepared and filed in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and published rules and regulations thereunder (the “Rules and Regulations”) adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a “shelf” Registration Statement (as hereinafter defined) on Form S-3 (File No. 333-166514), which became effective as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time on May 20, 2010 (the “Effective Date”), including a base prospectus relating to the Securities and the Warrant Stock (the “Base Prospectus”), and such amendments and supplements thereto as may have been required to the date of this Agreement. The term “Registration Statement” as used in this Agreement means the registration statement described in the foregoing sentence (including all exhibits, financial schedules and all documents and information deemed to be a part of such registration statement pursuant to Rule 430A of the Rules and Regulations), as amended and/or supplemented to the date of this Agreement, including the Base Prospectus. The Registration Statement is effective under the Securities Act and no stop order preventing or suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or suspending or preventing the use of the Prospectus has been issued by the Commission and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, are threatened by the Commission. The Company, if required by the Rules and Regulations, will file the Prospectus (as defined below), with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations. The term “Prospectus” as used in this Agreement means the prospectus, in the form in which it is to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations, or, if the prospectus is not to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b), the prospectus in the form included as part of the Registration Statement as of the Effective Date, except that if any revised prospectus or prospectus supplement shall be provided to the Placement Agents by the Company for use in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities which differs from the Prospectus (whether or not such revised prospectus or prospectus supplement is required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations), the term “Prospectus” shall refer to such revised prospectus or prospectus supplement, as the case may be, from and after the time it is first provided to the Placement Agents for such use. Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus subject to completion included in the Registration Statement or filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424 of the Rules and Regulations is hereafter called a “Preliminary Prospectus.” Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 which were filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), on or before the last to occur of the Effective Date, the date of the Preliminary Prospectus, if any, or the date of the Prospectus, and any reference herein to the terms “amend,” “amendment,” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to

refer to and include (i) the filing of any document under the Exchange Act after the Effective Date, the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the date of the Prospectus, as the case may be, which is incorporated by reference therein, and (ii) any such document so filed. If the Company has filed an abbreviated registration statement to register additional securities pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Rules and Regulations (the “462(b) Registration Statement”), then any reference herein to the Registration Statement shall also be deemed to include such 462(b) Registration Statement.

(b) As of the Applicable Time (as defined below) and as of the Closing Date, neither (i) any General Use Free Writing Prospectus (as defined below) issued at or prior to the Applicable Time, and the Pricing Prospectus (as defined below) and the information included on Schedule A hereto, all considered together (collectively, the “General Disclosure Package”), (ii) any individual Limited Use Free Writing Prospectus (as defined below) nor (iii) the bona fide electronic road show (as defined in Rule 433(h)(5) of the Rules and Regulations), if any, that has been made available without restriction to any person, when considered together with the General Disclosure Package, included or will include, any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or as of the Closing Date will omit, to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the Company makes no representations or warranties as to information contained in or omitted from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company by the Placement Agents specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agents’ Information (as defined in Section 18). As used in this paragraph (b) and elsewhere in this Agreement:

“Applicable Time” means 11:59 p.m., New York time, on the date of this Agreement.

“General Use Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is identified on Schedule A to this Agreement.

“Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433 of the Rules and Regulations relating to the Securities in the form filed or required to be filed with the Commission or, if not required to be filed, in the form retained in the Company’s records pursuant to Rule 433(g) of the Rules and Regulations.

“Limited Use Free Writing Prospectuses” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is not a General Use Free Writing Prospectus.

“Pricing Prospectus” means the Preliminary Prospectus, if any, and the Base Prospectus, each as amended and supplemented immediately prior to the Applicable Time, including any document incorporated by reference therein and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a part thereof.

(c) No order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus relating to the Offering has been issued by the Commission, and no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act has been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission, and each Preliminary Prospectus (if any), at the time of filing thereof, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations, and did not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the Company makes no representations or warranties as to information contained in or omitted from any Preliminary Prospectus, in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company by the Placement Agents specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agents’ Information.

(d) At the time the Registration Statement became effective, at the date of this Agreement and at the Closing Date, the Registration Statement conformed and will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; the Prospectus, at the time the Prospectus was issued and at the Closing Date, conformed and will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and did not and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the foregoing representations and warranties in this paragraph (d) shall not apply to information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement or the Prospectus in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company by the Placement Agents specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agents’ Information. At the time the Registration Statement was filed with and declared effective by the Commission, the Company was eligible to register the Stock issued in connection with the Offering contemplated by this Agreement on Form S-3 promulgated under the Securities Act, and as of the date hereof, remains eligible to use the Registration Statement.

(e) Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, if any, as of its issue date and at all subsequent times through the completion of the public offer and sale of the Securities or until any earlier date that the Company notified or notifies the Representative as described in Section 5(e), did not, does not and will not include any information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus, if any, or the Prospectus, including any document incorporated by reference therein and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a part thereof that has not been superseded or modified, or includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The foregoing sentence does not apply to

statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company by the Placement Agents specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agents’ Information.

(f) The documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, when they became effective or were filed with the Commission, as the case may be, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and none of such documents contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, when such documents become effective or are filed with the Commission, as the case may be, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

(g) The Company has not, directly or indirectly, distributed and will not distribute any offering material in connection with the Offering other than any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and other materials, if any, permitted under the Securities Act and consistent with Section 5(b) below. The Company is not an “ineligible issuer” in connection with the offering pursuant to Rules 164, 405 and 433 under the Securities Act. The Company will file with the Commission all Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses (other than a “road show,” as defined in Rule 433(h)(4) of the Rules and Regulations), if any, in the time and manner required under Rules 163(b)(2) and 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations.

(h) The Company and each of its subsidiaries (as defined in Section 16) have been duly organized and are validly existing as corporations or other legal entities, as the case may be, in good standing (or the foreign equivalent thereof) under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of organization. The Company and each of its subsidiaries is duly qualified to do business and are in good standing as foreign corporations or other legal entities, as the case may be, in each jurisdiction in which their respective ownership or lease of property or the conduct of their respective businesses requires such qualification and have all power and authority (corporate or other) necessary to own or hold their respective properties and to conduct the businesses in which they are engaged, except where the failure to so qualify or have such power or authority (i) would not have, singularly or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, assets, business or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, or (ii) impair in any material respect the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this Agreement or to consummate any transactions contemplated by the Agreement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (any such effect as described in clauses (i) or (ii), a “Material Adverse Effect”).

(i) The Company has the full right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement, each of the Subscription Agreements and that certain Escrow Agreement (the “Escrow Agreement”) dated as of the date hereof by and among the Company, the Placement Agents and the escrow agent named therein, and to perform and to discharge its obligations hereunder and thereunder; and each of this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement and each of the Subscription Agreements has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company, and constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable in accordance with its terms, except (i) as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ and contracting parties’ rights generally, and (ii) as enforceability may be subject to general principles of equity and except as rights to indemnity and contribution may be limited by state or federal securities laws or public policy underlying such laws.

(j) The Stock to be issued and sold by the Company to the Purchasers hereunder and under the Subscription Agreements has been duly and validly authorized and, when issued and delivered against payment therefor as provided herein and the Subscription Agreements, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable free and clear of all lien, charge, claim, encumbrance, security interest, right of first refusal, preemptive right or other restrictions of any kind, other than restrictions on transfer of securities arising under federal or state securities laws and regulations (collectively, “Liens”) and free of any preemptive or similar rights and will conform to the description thereof contained in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. The Warrants have been duly authorized, and when executed and delivered by the Company, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, except (i) as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ and contracting parties’ rights generally, and (ii) as enforceability may be subject to general principles of equity and except as rights to indemnity and contribution may be limited by state or federal securities laws or public policy underlying such laws. The Warrant Stock has been duly authorized and reserved for issuance pursuant to the terms of the Warrants, and when issued by the Company upon valid exercise of the Warrants and payment of the exercise price, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens and free of any preemptive or similar rights and will conform to the description thereof contained in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(k) The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009, and all of the issued shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable, have been issued in compliance with federal and state securities laws, and conform to the description thereof contained in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. As of July 30, 2010, there were 52,933,709 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding and no shares of Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company issued and outstanding and 19,072,426 shares of Common Stock were issuable upon the exercise, conversion or settlement of all options, warrants, convertible securities and restricted stock units

outstanding as of such date. Since such date, the Company has not issued any securities, other than Common Stock issued pursuant to the exercise of stock options previously outstanding under the Company’s stock option plans, Common Stock issued pursuant to the exercise of warrants and other rights to purchase or exchange any securities for shares of Common Stock previously outstanding or the issuance of Common Stock in accordance with the settlement of previously outstanding restricted stock units. All of the Company’s options, warrants and other rights to purchase or exchange any securities for shares of the Company’s capital stock have been duly authorized and validly issued and were issued in compliance with U.S. federal and state securities laws. None of the outstanding shares of Common Stock were issued in violation of any preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities of the Company. There are no authorized or outstanding shares of capital stock, options, warrants, preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other rights to purchase, or equity or debt securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for, any capital stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries other than those described above or accurately described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. The description of the Company’s stock option, stock bonus and other stock plans or arrangements, and the options or other rights granted thereunder, as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, accurately and fairly present the information required to be shown therein with respect to such plans, arrangements, options and rights. The issue and sale of the Stock will not, immediately or with the passage of time, obligate the Company to issue shares of Common Stock or other securities to any person (other than the Purchasers) and will not result in a right of any holder of Company securities to adjust the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price under such securities.

(l) All the outstanding shares of capital stock of each subsidiary of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable and, except as set forth in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on May 5, 2010 and described in Note 10 to the unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Company contained in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2010, are owned by the Company directly or indirectly through one or more wholly-owned subsidiaries, free and clear of any Lien.

(m) The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Subscription Agreements and the Escrow Agreement by the Company, the issue and sale of the Securities by the Company and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, and the issuance of the Warrant Stock upon due exercise of the Warrants in accordance with their terms, will not (with or without notice or lapse of time or both) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, constitute a default or Debt Repayment Triggering Event (as defined below) under, give rise to any right of termination or other right or the cancellation or acceleration of any right or obligation or loss of a benefit under, or give rise to the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any property or assets of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company pursuant to, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or

assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, nor will such actions result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or by-laws (or analogous governing instruments, as applicable) of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree of any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their properties or assets. A “Debt Repayment Triggering Event” means any event or condition that gives, or with the giving of notice or lapse of time would give, the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

(n) Except for the registration of the Securities under the Securities Act and such consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations or qualifications as may be required under the Exchange Act and applicable state or foreign securities laws and the rules and regulations of The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities by the Company, no consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing, qualification or registration with, any court or governmental agency or body, foreign or domestic, which has not been made, obtained or taken and is not in full force and effect, is required for the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Subscription Agreements and the Escrow Agreement by the Company, the offer or sale of the Securities or the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or in connection with the issuance of the Warrant Stock upon due exercise of the Warrants in accordance with their terms.

(o) Ernst & Young LLP, who have audited the Company’s consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 and the consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009, and for the period from December 19, 2000 (inception) to December 31, 2009 and the Company’s internal control over financial reporting, is an independent registered public accounting firm as required by the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (the “PCAOB”). Except as pre-approved in accordance with the requirements set forth in Section 10A of the Exchange Act, Ernst & Young LLP have not been engaged by the Company to perform any “prohibited activities” (as defined in Section 10A of the Exchange Act).

(p) The financial statements, together with the related notes , included or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and in the Registration Statement fairly present, in all material respects, the financial position and the results of operations and changes in financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries and other consolidated entities at the respective dates or for the respective periods therein specified. Such statements and related notes have been prepared in accordance with the generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods. The financial statements, together with the related notes, included or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus comply in all material respects with the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, and the Rules and Regulations and the rules and

regulations under the Exchange Act. No other financial statements or supporting schedules or exhibits are required by the Securities Act or the Rules and Regulations to be described, or included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus. There is no pro forma or as adjusted financial information which is required to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, or the Prospectus or a document incorporated by reference therein in accordance with the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations which has not been included or incorporated as so required. The pro forma and pro forma as adjusted financial information and the related notes included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus have been properly compiled and prepared in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and present fairly the information shown therein, and the assumptions used in the preparation thereof are reasonable and the adjustments used therein are appropriate to give effect to the transactions and circumstances referred to therein.

(q) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package, any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree; and, since such date, with respect to clauses (i), (iii), (iv) and (v) of this paragraph (q), otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (i) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has incurred any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, or entered into any material transactions, other than in the ordinary course of business and required to be reflected in the Company’s consolidated financial statements pursuant to GAAP or as required to be disclosed in filings made by the Company with the Commission, (ii) the Company has not declared or paid any dividends or made any distribution of any kind with respect to its capital stock; (iii) there has not been any change in the capital stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (other than a change in the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise of options or warrants or in accordance with the settlement of restricted stock awards or restricted stock units previously outstanding under the Company’s existing stock awards plans, or any new grants thereof in the ordinary course of business, or the issuance of shares under the Company’s employee stock purchase plan), (iv) there has not been any material change in the Company’s long-term or short-term debt required to be reflected in the Company’s consolidated financial statements pursuant to GAAP or required to be disclosed in filings made by the Company with the Commission, and (v) there has not been an occurrence that has had or could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

(r) There is no Action (as defined below) to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or of which any property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is the subject which is required to be described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or a document incorporated by reference therein and is not described therein, or which, singularly or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, could have a Material

Adverse Effect or prevent the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby. “Action” means any action, claim, suit, inquiry, notice of violation, proceeding (including any partial proceeding such as a deposition) or investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, against the Company or any subsidiary of the Company or any of their respective properties before or by any court, arbitrator, governmental or administrative agency or regulatory authority (federal, state, county, local or foreign).

(s) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in (i) violation of its charter or by-laws (or analogous governing instrument, as applicable), (ii) default in any respect, and no event has occurred which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default, in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it is bound or to which any of its property or assets is subject or (iii) violation in any respect of any law, ordinance, governmental rule, regulation or court order, decree or judgment to which it or its property or assets may be subject except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph (s), for any violations or defaults (1) described in Note 10 to the unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Company contained in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2010 or (2) that, singularly or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

(t) The Company and each of its subsidiaries possesses, or has applied for and is pursuing in due course, all licenses, certificates, authorizations and permits issued by, and have made all declarations and filings with, the appropriate local, state, federal or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies which are necessary or desirable for the ownership of their respective properties or the conduct of their respective businesses as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (collectively, the “Governmental Permits”) except where any failures to possess, apply for, pursue or make the same, singularly or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and its subsidiaries are in compliance with all such issued Governmental Permits; all such issued Governmental Permits are valid and in full force and effect and, as to pending applications therefor, are not based on any misrepresentation or omission of any material fact, except where the validity, misrepresentation, omission, or failure to be in full force and effect would not, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. All such issued Governmental Permits are, and if issued on pending applications are expected to be, free and clear of any restriction or condition that are in addition to, or materially different from those normally applicable to similar licenses, certificates, authorizations and permits. Neither the Company nor any subsidiary has received notification of any revocation or modification (or proceedings related thereto) of any such Governmental Permit and the Company has no reason to believe that any such issued Governmental Permit will not be renewed or, as to any pending application for a Governmental Permit, that such Permit will not be issued. The Company and its subsidiaries, as appropriate, are in compliance with any post-issuance requirements of such issued Governmental Permits and, as to pending applications thereof, expect to be able to comply (or ensure that third parties acting for the Company and its subsidiaries comply) with any such requirements including, without limitation, any such requirements set forth in applicable sections of

21 C.F.R. Parts 211 and 820 as to quality controls and Good Manufacturing Practices, or, alternatively, the Company and its subsidiaries have determined that such compliance is not required by applicable law.

(u) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is or, after giving effect to the offering of the Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, will become an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

(v) Neither the Company, its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any of the Company’s or its subsidiaries’ officers, directors or affiliates has taken or will take, directly or indirectly, any action designed or intended to stabilize or manipulate the price of any security of the Company, or which caused or resulted in, or which could in the future reasonably be expected to cause or result in, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company.

(w) To the knowledge of the Company, the Company and its subsidiaries own or possess the right to use all patents, trademarks, trademark registrations, service marks, service mark registrations, trade names, copyrights, licenses, inventions, software, databases, know-how, Internet domain names, trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures, and other intellectual property (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) necessary to carry on their respective businesses as currently conducted and as proposed to be conducted as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and the Company is not aware of any claim to the contrary or any challenge by any other person to the rights of the Company and its subsidiaries with respect to the foregoing except for those that could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Intellectual Property licenses described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus are valid, binding upon, and enforceable by or against the parties thereto in accordance to its terms. The Company and each of its subsidiaries has complied in all material respects with, and is not in breach nor has received any asserted or threatened claim of breach of, any such Intellectual Property license, and the Company has no knowledge of any breach or anticipated breach by any other person to any such Intellectual Property license. To the knowledge of the Company, the Company’s and each of its subsidiaries’ businesses as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus do not infringe or conflict with any patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, trade secrets, licenses or other Intellectual Property or franchise right of any person. No claim has been made against the Company or any of its subsidiaries alleging the infringement by the Company or any of its subsidiaries of any patent, trademark, service mark, trade name, copyright, trade secret, license in or other intellectual property right or franchise right of any person. The Company and each of its subsidiaries has taken all reasonable steps to protect, maintain and safeguard its rights in all material Intellectual Property, including the execution of appropriate nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not result in the loss or impairment of or payment of any additional amounts with respect to, nor require the consent of any

other person in respect of, the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ right to own, use, or hold for use any of the Intellectual Property as owned, used or held for use in the conduct of the businesses as currently conducted. With respect to the use of the software in the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ businesses as they are currently conducted, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has experienced any material defects in such software including any material error or omission in the processing of any transactions other than defects which have been corrected, and to the knowledge of the Company, no such software contains any device or feature designed to disrupt, disable, or otherwise impair the functioning of any software or, if owned by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, is subject to the terms of any “open source” or other similar license that provides for the source code of the software to be publicly distributed or dedicated to the public. The Company and each of its subsidiaries has at all times complied in all material respects with all applicable laws relating to privacy, data protection, and the collection and use of personal information collected, used, or held for use by the Company and any of its subsidiaries in the conduct of the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ businesses. No claims have been asserted or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or any of its subsidiaries alleging a violation of any person’s privacy or personal information or data rights and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not breach or otherwise cause any violation of any law related to privacy, data protection, or the collection and use of personal information collected, used, or held for use by the Company or any of its subsidiaries in the conduct of the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ businesses. The Company and each of its subsidiaries takes reasonable measures to ensure that such information is protected against unauthorized access, use, modification, or other misuse.

(x) Except as set forth in that certain Master Security Agreement between the Company and General Electric Capital Corporation dated May 17, 2005, as amended on May 18, 2005, or in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on May 5, 2010 and described in Note 10 to the unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Company contained in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2010, the Company and each of its subsidiaries has good and marketable title in fee simple to, or have valid rights to lease or otherwise use, all items of real or personal property which are material to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, security interests, claims and defects that do not, singularly or in the aggregate, materially affect the value of such property and do not interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company or any of its subsidiaries; and all of the real property leases and subleases material to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, and under which the Company or any of its subsidiaries holds properties described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, are in full force and effect, and neither the Company nor any subsidiary has received any notice of any material claim of any sort that has been asserted by anyone adverse to the rights of the Company or any subsidiary under any of the real property leases or subleases mentioned above, or affecting or questioning the rights of the Company or such subsidiary to the continued possession of the leased or subleased premises under any such lease or sublease.

(y) No labor disturbance by the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, is imminent, and the Company is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of any of its or its subsidiaries’ principal suppliers, manufacturers, customers or contractors, that could reasonably be expected, singularly or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company is not aware that any key employee or significant group of employees of the Company or any subsidiary plans to terminate employment with the Company or any such subsidiary. No executive officer, to the knowledge of the Company, is, or is now expected to be, in violation of any material term of any employment contract, confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information agreement or non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or any restrictive covenant in favor of any third party, and, to the knowledge of the Company, the continued employment of each such executive officer does not subject the Company or any of its subsidiaries to any liability with respect to any of the foregoing matters. The Company and its subsidiaries are in compliance with all U.S. federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations relating to employment and employment practices, terms and conditions of employment and wages and hours, except where the failure to be in compliance has not had and could not, individually or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(z) No “prohibited transaction” (as defined in Section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, including the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (“ERISA”), or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time (the “Code”)) or “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA) or any of the events set forth in Section 4043(b) of ERISA (other than events with respect to which the thirty (30)-day notice requirement under Section 4043 of ERISA has been waived) has occurred or could reasonably be expected to occur with respect to any employee benefit plan of the Company or any of its subsidiaries which could reasonably be expected to have, singularly or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. Each employee benefit plan of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is in compliance in all material respects with applicable law, including ERISA and the Code. The Company and its subsidiaries have not incurred and could not reasonably be expected to incur liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of, or withdrawal from, any pension plan (as defined in ERISA). Each pension plan for which the Company or any of its subsidiaries would have any liability that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified, and nothing has occurred, whether by action or by failure to act, which could reasonably be expected to cause, singularly or in the aggregate, the loss of such qualification.

(aa) The Company and its subsidiaries are in compliance with all foreign, federal, state and local rules, laws and regulations relating to the use, treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous or toxic substances or waste and protection of health and safety or the environment which are applicable to their businesses (“Environmental Laws”), except where the failure to comply would not, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. There has been no storage, generation, transportation, handling, treatment, disposal, discharge, emission, or other release of any kind of toxic or other

wastes or other hazardous substances by, due to, or caused by the Company or any of its subsidiaries (or, to the Company’s knowledge, any other entity for whose acts or omissions the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may otherwise be liable) upon any of the property now or previously owned or leased by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or upon any other property, in violation of any law, statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit which would, under any law, statute, ordinance, rule (including rule of common law), regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit, give rise to any liability, except for any violation or liability which would not have, singularly or in the aggregate with all such violations and liabilities, a Material Adverse Effect; and there has been no disposal, discharge, emission or other release of any kind onto such property or into the environment surrounding such property of any toxic or other wastes or other hazardous substances with respect to which the Company has knowledge, except for any such disposal, discharge, emission, or other release of any kind which would not have, singularly or in the aggregate with all such discharges and other releases, a Material Adverse Effect. In the ordinary course of business, the Company and its subsidiaries conduct periodic reviews of the effect of Environmental Laws on their business and assets, in the course of which they identify and evaluate associated costs and liabilities (including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for clean-up, closure of properties or compliance with Environmental Laws or Governmental Permits issued thereunder, any related constraints on operating activities and any potential liabilities to third parties). On the basis of such reviews, the Company and its subsidiaries have reasonably concluded that such associated costs and liabilities would not have, singularly or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

(bb) The Company and its subsidiaries, each (i) has timely filed all necessary federal, state, local and foreign tax returns, and all such returns were true, complete and correct, (ii) has paid all federal, state, local and foreign taxes, assessments, governmental or other charges due and payable for which it is liable, including, without limitation, all sales and use taxes and all taxes which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is obligated to withhold from amounts owing to employees, creditors and third parties, and (iii) does not have any tax deficiency or claims outstanding or assessed or, to the best of its knowledge, proposed against any of them, except those, in each of the cases described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph (bb), that would not, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect or are in good faith disputed and for which adequate reserves have been established on the Company’s balance sheet in accordance with GAAP. The Company and its subsidiaries, each has not engaged in any transaction which is a corporate tax shelter or which could reasonably be characterized as such by the Internal Revenue Service or any other taxing authority. The accruals and reserves on the books and records of the Company and its subsidiaries in respect of tax liabilities for any taxable period not yet finally determined are adequate to meet any assessments and related liabilities for any such period, and since December 31, 2009, the Company and its subsidiaries each has not incurred any liability for taxes other than in the ordinary course. The term “taxes” mean all federal, state, local, foreign, and other net income, gross income, gross receipts, sales, use, ad valorem, transfer, franchise, profits, license, lease, service, service use, withholding, payroll, employment, excise, severance, stamp, occupation, premium, property, windfall profits, customs, duties or other taxes, fees,

assessments, or charges of any kind whatever, together with any interest and any penalties, additions to tax, or additional amounts with respect thereto. The term “returns” means all returns, declarations, reports, statements, and other documents required to be filed in respect to taxes.

(cc) The Company and each of its subsidiaries carries, or is covered by, insurance provided by recognized, financially sound and reputable institutions with policies in such amounts and covering such risks as is reasonably believed by the Company to be adequate for the conduct of their respective businesses and the value of their respective properties and as is customary for companies engaged in similar businesses in similar industries. The Company has no reason to believe that it or any subsidiary will not be able (i) to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such policies expire or (ii) to obtain comparable coverage from similar institutions as may be necessary or appropriate to conduct its business as now conducted and at a cost that would not result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has been denied any insurance coverage that they have sought or for which they have applied.

(dd) The Company and its subsidiaries each maintains a system of internal accounting and other controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. Except as described in the General Disclosure Package, since the end of the Company’s most recent audited fiscal year, there has been (A) no material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) and (B) no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. The Company has established disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the Company and designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms.

(ee) The minute books of the Company and each of its subsidiaries that would be a “significant subsidiary” within the meaning of Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act (such a significant subsidiary of the Company, a “Significant Subsidiary”) have been made available to the Placement Agents and counsel for the Placement Agents, and such books (i) contain a complete summary in all material respects of all meetings and actions of the board of directors (including each board committee) and stockholders of the Company (or analogous governing bodies and interest holders, as applicable), and each of its Significant Subsidiaries since the time of its respective incorporation or organization through the date of the latest meeting and

action, and (ii) accurately in all material respects reflect all transactions referred to in such minutes.

(ff) All agreements and other documents that were required to be filed as exhibits to all reports required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof, since January 1, 2007 (collectively, the “SEC Reports”) under Item 601 of Regulation S-K to which the Company or any subsidiary of the Company is a party, have been filed by the Company as exhibits to the SEC Reports. All agreements referenced in the foregoing sentence pursuant to which the Company or any subsidiary of the Company, on the one hand, or any third party, on the other hand, have continuing rights or obligations as of the date of this Agreement (“Material Agreements”) are valid and enforceable against the Company, and to the knowledge of the Company, against the other parties thereto, in accordance with their respective terms, except (i) as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ and contracting parties’ rights generally, and (ii) as enforceability may be subject to general principles of equity and except as rights to indemnity and contribution may be limited by state or federal securities laws or public policy underlying such laws. The Company is not in breach of or default under any of the Material Agreements, and to the knowledge of the Company, no other party to a Material Agreement is in breach of or default under such Material Agreement, except for any breaches or defaults described in Note 10 to the unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Company contained in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2010. The Company has not received a notice of termination nor is the Company otherwise aware of any threats to terminate any of the Material Agreements. Neither the Company, its subsidiaries nor, to its knowledge, any other party is in violation, breach or default of any Material Agreement that is reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(gg) No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company and any of its subsidiaries on the one hand, and the directors, officers, stockholders (or analogous interest holders), customers or suppliers of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their affiliates on the other hand, which is required to be described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or a document incorporated by reference therein and which is not so described.

(hh) No person or entity has the right to require registration of shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries because of the filing or effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the issuance and sale of the Securities pursuant hereto, except for persons and entities who have expressly waived such right in writing or who have been given timely and proper written notice and have failed to exercise such right within the time or times required under the terms and conditions of such right. Except as described in the General Disclosure Package, there are no persons with registration rights or similar rights to have any securities registered by the Company or any of its subsidiaries under the Securities Act.

(ii) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries own any “margin securities” as that term is defined in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve Board”), and none of the proceeds of the sale of the Securities will be used, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any margin security, for the purpose of reducing or retiring any indebtedness which was originally incurred to purchase or carry any margin security or for any other purpose which could reasonably be expected to cause any of the Securities to be considered a “purpose credit” within the meanings of Regulation T, U or X of the Federal Reserve Board.

(jj) Except as set forth in Item 1.01 and Item 9.01 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K and the exhibit attached thereto filed with the Commission on May 26, 2010, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to any contract, agreement or understanding with any person that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or the Placement Agents for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or like payment in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities or any transaction contemplated by this Agreement, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus.

(kk) No forward-looking statement (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act) contained in either the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus has been made or reaffirmed by the Company without a reasonable basis or has been disclosed by the Company other than in good faith.

(ll) The Company is subject to and in compliance in all material respects with the reporting requirements of Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act. The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is listed on The Nasdaq Global Market (the “NGM”), and the Company has taken no action designed to, or reasonably likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act or delisting the Common Stock from the NGM, nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission or FINRA is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. No consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing, notification or registration with, the NGM is required for the listing and trading of the Stock on the NGM that will not have been obtained or filed as of the Closing.

(mm) The Company is in compliance with all applicable provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder or implementing the provisions thereof (the “Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act”) that are in effect as of the date of this Agreement.

(nn) The Company is in compliance with all applicable corporate governance requirements set forth in the Nasdaq Listing Rules that are in effect as of the date of this Agreement.

(oo) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any employee or agent of the Company or any subsidiary, has made any contribution or other payment to any official of, or candidate for, any federal, state, local or foreign office in violation of any applicable law (including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended) or of the character required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or a document incorporated by reference therein.

(pp) There are no transactions, arrangements or other relationships between and/or among the Company, any of its affiliates (as such term is defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act) and any unconsolidated entity, including, but not limited to, any structured finance, special purpose or limited purpose entity that could reasonably be expected to materially affect the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ liquidity or the availability of or requirements for their capital resources required to be described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or a document incorporated by reference therein which have not been described as required.

(qq) There are no outstanding loans, advances (except normal advances for business expenses in the ordinary course of business) or guarantees or indebtedness by the Company or any of its subsidiaries to or for the benefit of any of the officers or directors of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective family members, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(rr) The statistical and market related data included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the Company believes to be reliable and accurate, and such data agree with the sources from which they are derived.

(ss) The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance in all material respects with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, applicable money laundering statutes and applicable rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending, or to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.

(tt) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the Offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.

(uu) The Company satisfies the pre-1992 eligibility requirements for the use of a registration statement on Form S-3 in connection with the Offering contemplated thereby (the pre-1992 eligibility requirements for the use of the registration statement on Form S-3 include (i) having a non-affiliate, public common equity float of at least $150 million or a non-affiliate, public common equity float of at least $100 million and annual trading volume of at least three million shares and (ii) having been subject to the Exchange Act reporting requirements for a period of 36 months).

(vv) The clinical trials conducted by or on behalf of the Company and its subsidiaries that are described in the SEC Reports or the results of which are referred to in the documents relating to this Agreement and the purchase of the Securities, are the only clinical trials currently being conducted by or on behalf of the Company and its subsidiaries. Nothing has come to the attention of the Company or its subsidiaries that has caused the Company or its subsidiaries to believe that such studies and tests were and, if still pending, are being, conducted not in accordance with experimental protocols, procedures and controls pursuant to accepted professional scientific standards and applicable local, state and federal laws, rules, regulations and guidances, including, but not limited to, the principles of Good Clinical Practice, the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and implementing regulations at 21 C.F.R. Parts 50, 54, 56, 58 and 312, and has made all reports, filings and notifications to authorities (“Governmental Authorities”) required thereunder, including, but not limited to, adverse events (whether or not statistically significant) and other reports required by 21 C.F.R. § 312.32. In such reports, the Company and its subsidiaries have accurately described in all material respects the experimental protocols, procedures and controls used in conducting such clinical trials as well as clinical results, adverse events and data analyses obtained therefrom. The descriptions of the results of such studies, tests and trials (including adverse events) contained in the SEC Reports, if any, are not inconsistent with the description made to Governmental Authorities of such results in any material respects. Except as described in the SEC Reports, no results of any other studies or tests have come to the attention of the Company or its subsidiaries that have caused the Company or its subsidiaries to believe that such results call into question the results described in the SEC Reports of the clinical trials. The Company and its subsidiaries have not received any notices or correspondence from the FDA or any other governmental agency requiring the termination, suspension or modification of any clinical trials currently conducted by, or on behalf of, the Company or its subsidiaries or in which the Company or its subsidiaries have participated that are described in the SEC Reports, if any, or the results of which are referred to in the SEC Reports. Nothing has come to the attention of the Company or its subsidiaries that has caused the Company to believe that the clinical trials previously conducted by or on behalf of the Company or its subsidiaries while conducted by or on behalf of the Company or its subsidiaries, were not conducted in accordance with experimental protocols, procedures and controls pursuant to accepted professional scientific standards; the descriptions of the results of such studies, tests and trials contained in the SEC Reports, if any, are consistent with such results.

(ww) The Company and its Board of Directors have taken all necessary action, if any, to render inapplicable any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover

provision under the Company’s certificate of incorporation or the laws of the State of Delaware that is or could become applicable to any of the Purchasers as of result of the Purchasers and the Company fulfilling their obligations or exercising their rights under this Agreement, including without limitation, as a result of the Company’s issuance of the Securities and the Purchasers’ ownership of the Stock; provided, however, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company and its Board of Directors have not taken any action to preclude any Purchaser from becoming an “interested stockholder” (as defined in Section 203 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware) as a result of acquisition of the Securities.

(xx) Based on the Company’s reasonable expectations as to the financial condition of the Company as of the Closing Date (and assuming the Closing shall have occurred), as of the date of this Agreement (i) the Company’s fair saleable value of its assets exceeds the amount that will be required to be paid or in respect of the Company’s existing debts and other liabilities (including known contingent liabilities) as they mature; (ii) the Company’s assets do not constitute unreasonably small capital to carry on its business for the current fiscal year as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted including its capital needs taking into account the particular capital requirements of the business conducted by the Company, and projected capital requirements and capital availability thereof; and (iii) the current cash flow of the Company, together with the proceeds the Company would receive at the Closing, were it to liquidate all of its assets, after taking into account all anticipated uses of the cash, would be sufficient to pay all amounts on or in respect of its debt when such amounts are required to be paid. The Company does not intend to incur debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as they mature (taking into account the timing and amounts of cash to be payable on or in respect of its debt).

(yy) No approval of the stockholders of the Company under the rules and regulations of Nasdaq (including Rule 5635 of the Nasdaq Listing Rules) is required for the Company to issue and deliver to the Purchasers the Securities. Any certificate signed by or on behalf of the Company and delivered to the Placement Agents or to counsel for the Placement Agents shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Company to the Placement Agents and the Purchasers as to the matters covered thereby.

4. The Closing. The time and date of closing and delivery of the documents required to be delivered to the Placement Agents pursuant to Sections 5 and 7 hereof shall be at 10:00 A.M., New York time, on August 10, 2010 (the “Closing Date”) at the office of DLA Piper LLP (US), 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000 and may be affected telephonically and/or by e-mail with exchange of original signatures by overnight mail.

5. Further Agreements of the Company. The Company agrees with the Placement Agents and the Purchasers:

(a) To prepare the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if necessary, in a form approved by the Placement Agents and file such Rule 462(b) Registration Statement with the Commission on the date hereof; to prepare the Prospectus in a form approved by the Placement Agents containing information previously omitted at the time of effectiveness

of the Registration Statement in reliance on Rules 430A, 430B and 430C of the Rules and Regulations and to file such Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations not later than the second (2^nd) business day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if applicable, such earlier time as may be required by Rule 430A of the Rules and Regulations; to notify the Representative immediately of the Company’s intention to file or prepare any supplement or amendment to the Registration Statement or to the Prospectus and to make no amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or to the Prospectus to which the Representative shall reasonably object by notice to the Company after a reasonable period to review; to advise the Representative, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the time when any amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective or any supplement to the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or any amended Prospectus has been filed and to furnish the Placement Agents copies thereof; to file promptly all material required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) or 163(b)(2), as the case may be; to file promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or information statements required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of the Prospectus and for so long as the delivery of a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Rules and Regulations) is required in connection with the offering or sale of the Securities; to advise the Representative, promptly after the Company receives notice thereof, of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus, of the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose, or of any request by the Commission for the amending or supplementing of the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or for additional information; and, in the event of the issuance of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus or suspending any such qualification, and promptly to use its best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of such order.

(b) The Company represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the Representative, and each Placement Agent represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the Representative and the Company, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute a “free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 405 of the Rules and Regulations (each, a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus”); provided that the prior written consent of the Representative hereto shall be deemed to have been given in respect of the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses included in Schedule A hereto. The Company represents that it has treated and agrees that it will treat each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, comply with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 of the Rules and Regulations applicable to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including the requirements relating to timely filing with the Commission, legending and record keeping, and will not take any action that would result in the Placement Agents or the Company being required to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of such

Placement Agents that such Placement Agents otherwise would not have been required to file thereunder.

(c) If at any time when a Prospectus relating to the Securities is required to be delivered under the Securities Act, any event occurs or condition exists as a result of which the Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented, would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or the Registration Statement, as then amended or supplemented, would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or if for any other reason it is necessary at any time to amend or supplement the Registration Statement or the Prospectus to comply with the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, the Company will promptly notify the Representative, and upon the Representative’s request, the Company will promptly prepare and file with the Commission, at the Company’s expense, an amendment to the Registration Statement or an amendment or supplement to the Prospectus that corrects such statement or omission or effects such compliance and will deliver to the Placement Agents, without charge, such number of copies thereof as the Placement Agents may reasonably request. The Company consents to the use of the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto by the Placement Agents.

(d) If the General Disclosure Package is being used to solicit offers to buy the Securities at a time when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers and any event shall occur as a result of which, in the judgment of the Company or in the reasonable opinion of the Representative, it becomes necessary to amend or supplement the General Disclosure Package in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or to make the statements therein not conflict with the information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement then on file and not superseded or modified, or if it is necessary at any time to amend or supplement the General Disclosure Package to comply with any law, the Company promptly will either (i) prepare, file with the Commission (if required) and furnish to the Placement Agents and any dealers an appropriate amendment or supplement to the General Disclosure Package or (ii) prepare and file with the Commission an appropriate filing under the Exchange Act which shall be incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package so that the General Disclosure Package as so amended or supplemented will not include statements that, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, will be misleading or conflict with the Registration Statement then on file, or so that the General Disclosure Package will comply with law.

(e) If at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus there occurred or occurs an event or development as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or will conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, Pricing Prospectus, if any, or Prospectus, including any document incorporated by reference therein and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a part thereof and not superseded or modified or included, or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit to state a material fact required to be stated

therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, the Company has promptly notified or will promptly notify the Representative so that any use of the Issuer Free Writing Prospectus may cease until it is amended or supplemented and has promptly amended or will promptly amend or supplement, at its own expense, such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict, untrue statement or omission. The foregoing sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company by the Placement Agents specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agents’ Information.

(f) Upon request, to the extent not available on the Commission’s XXXXX system, to furnish promptly to the Placement Agents and to counsel for the Placement Agents a signed copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed with the Commission, and of each amendment thereto filed with the Commission, including all consents and exhibits filed therewith.

(g) To the extent not available on the Commission’s XXXXX system, to deliver promptly to the Placement Agents in New York City such number of the following documents as the Placement Agents shall reasonably request: (i) conformed copies of the Registration Statement as originally filed with the Commission (in each case excluding exhibits), (ii) each Preliminary Prospectus, if any, (iii) any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, (iv) the Prospectus (the delivery of the documents referred to in clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) of this paragraph (g) to be made not later than 10:00 A.M., New York time, on the business day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement), (v) conformed copies of any amendment to the Registration Statement (excluding exhibits), (vi) any amendment or supplement to the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (the delivery of the documents referred to in clauses (v) and (vi) of this paragraph (g) to be made not later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the business day following the date of such amendment or supplement) and (vii) any document incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (excluding exhibits thereto) (the delivery of the documents referred to in clause (vii) of this paragraph (g) to be made not later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the business day following the later of the date of such document and the date of this Agreement).

(h) To make generally available to its stockholders as soon as practicable, but in any event not later than eighteen (18) months after the effective date of the Registration Statement (as defined in Rule 158(c) of the Rules and Regulations), an earnings statement of the Company and its subsidiaries (which need not be audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations (including, at the option of the Company, Rule 158); and to furnish to its stockholders as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year an annual report (including a balance sheet and statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries certified by independent public accountants) and as soon as possible after each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year (beginning with the

first fiscal quarter after the effective date of such Registration Statement), consolidated summary financial information of the Company and its subsidiaries for such quarter in reasonable detail.

(i) To take promptly from time to time such actions as the Representative may reasonably request to qualify the Securities for offering and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions (domestic or foreign) as the Representative may designate and to continue such qualifications in effect, and to comply with such laws, for so long as required to permit the offer and sale of Securities in such jurisdictions; provided that the Company and its subsidiaries shall not be obligated to qualify as foreign corporations in any jurisdiction in which they are not so qualified or to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction.

(j) Upon request, during the period of one (1) year from the date hereof, to the extent not available on the Commission’s XXXXX system, to deliver to the Placement Agents, (i) as soon as they are available, copies of all reports or other communications furnished to stockholders, and (ii) as soon as they are available, copies of any reports and financial statements furnished or filed with the Commission or any national securities exchange or automatic quotation system on which the Stock is listed or quoted.

(k) That the Company will not, for a period (the “Lock-Up Period”) beginning on the date of the Prospectus and ending on the earlier to occur of (a) the close of trading on the NGM on the date that is two business days following the date of public announcement that the FDA has approved AZ-004 for marketing in the United States (the date of such public announcement, the “Announcement Date”) and (b) the date that is ninety (90) days from the date of the Prospectus, without the prior written consent of the Representative, directly or indirectly offer, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, other than the Company’s sale of the Securities hereunder and the issuance of Common Stock, restricted stock units or options to acquire Common Stock pursuant to the Company’s employee benefit plans, equity incentive plans or other employee or director compensation plans as such plans are in existence on the date hereof and described in the Prospectus, the issuance of shares of Common Stock pursuant to the Company’s employee stock purchase plan, the issuance of shares of Common Stock in accordance with the settlement of restricted stock units outstanding as of the date hereof and the issuance of Common Stock pursuant to the valid exercises of options, warrants or rights outstanding on the date hereof. The Company will cause each executive officer, director, stockholder, optionholder and warrantholder listed in Schedule B to furnish to the Representative, prior to the Closing Date, a letter, substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto, pursuant to which each such person shall agree, among other things and subject to the terms set forth on Exhibit B hereto, not to directly or indirectly offer, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, not to engage in any swap or other agreement or arrangement that transfers, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, the economic risk of ownership of Common Stock or any such securities and not to engage in any short selling of any Common Stock or any such securities, for a period of ninety (90) days from the

date of the Prospectus, without the prior written consent of the Representative. The Company also agrees that during the Lock-Up Period, the Company will not file any registration statement, preliminary prospectus or prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, under the Securities Act for any such transaction or which registers, or offers for sale, Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, except for (i) a registration statement on Form S-8 relating to employee benefit plans and (ii) a registration statement on Form S-1 or Form S-3 registering for resale up to 376,394 shares of restricted Common Stock. The Company hereby agrees that (x) if it issues an earnings release or material news, or if a material event relating to the Company occurs, during the last seventeen (17) days of the Lock-Up Period, or (y) if prior to the expiration of the Lock-Up Period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results during the sixteen (16)-day period beginning on the last day of the Lock-Up Period, the restrictions imposed by this paragraph (k) on the Company shall continue to apply until the earlier of (1) expiration of the eighteen (18)-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the material news or material event and (2) the close of trading on the NGM on the date that is two business days following the Announcement Date.

(l) To the extent not available on the Commission’s XXXXX system, to supply the Representative with copies of all correspondence to and from, and all documents issued to and by, the Commission in connection with the registration of the Securities under the Securities Act or the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto or document incorporated by reference therein.

(m) Prior to the Closing Date, to furnish to the Placement Agents, as soon as they have been prepared and only if they have been prepared between the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date, copies of any unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of the Company for any periods subsequent to the periods covered by the financial statements appearing in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.

(n) Prior to the Closing Date, not to issue any press release or other communication directly or indirectly or hold any press conference with respect to the Company, its condition, financial or otherwise, or earnings, business affairs or business prospects (except for routine oral marketing communications in the ordinary course of business and consistent with the past practices of the Company and of which the Representative is notified), without the prior written consent of the Representative, unless in the judgment of the Company and its counsel, and after notification to the Representative, such press release or communication is required by law.

(o) Until the Representative shall have notified the Company of the completion of the offering of the Securities, that the Company will not, and will cause its affiliated purchasers (as defined in Regulation M under the Exchange Act) not to, either alone or with one or more other persons, bid for or purchase, for any account in which it or any of its affiliated purchasers has a beneficial interest, any Securities, or attempt to induce any person to purchase any Securities; and not to, and to cause its affiliated

purchasers not to, make bids or purchase for the purpose of creating actual, or apparent, active trading in or of raising the price of the Securities.

(p) Not to take any action prior to the Closing Date which would require the Prospectus to be amended or supplemented pursuant to Section 5.

(q) To use its best efforts to at all times comply with all applicable provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act in effect from time to time.

(r) To apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities as set forth in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the heading “Use of Proceeds.”

(s) To use its best efforts to list, subject to notice of issuance, the Stock and the Warrant Stock on the NGM and effect and maintain the quotation of the Stock and the Warrant Stock on the NGM.

(t) To use its best efforts to assist the Placement Agents with any filings with FINRA and obtaining clearance from FINRA as to the amount of compensation allowable or payable to the Placement Agents, if necessary.

(u) To reserve and keep available at all times a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to issue the Warrant Stock.

(v) To use its best efforts to do and perform all things required to be done or performed under this Agreement by the Company prior to the Closing Date and to satisfy all conditions precedent to the delivery of the Securities.

6. Payment of Expenses. The Company agrees to pay, or reimburse if paid by the Placement Agents, whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated or this Agreement is terminated: (a) the costs incident to the authorization, issuance, sale, preparation and delivery of the Securities to the Purchasers and any taxes payable in that connection; (b) the costs incident to the registration of the Securities under the Securities Act; (c) the costs incident to the preparation, printing and distribution of the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any amendments, supplements and exhibits thereto or any document incorporated by reference therein and the costs of printing, reproducing and distributing any transaction document by mail, telex or other means of communications; (d) the fees and expenses (including reasonable related fees and expenses of counsel for the Placement Agents) incurred in connection with securing any required review by FINRA of the terms of the sale of the Securities and any filings made with FINRA; (e) any applicable listing, quotation or other fees; (f) the cost of preparing and printing stock certificates; (g) all fees and expenses of the registrar and transfer agent of the Stock and the Warrant Stock; (h) except as set forth below, the fees, disbursements and expenses of counsel to the Placement Agents and (i) except as set forth below, all other costs and expenses incident to the offering of the Securities or the performance of the obligations of the Company under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the fees and expenses of the Company’s counsel and the Company’s independent accountants and the travel and other expenses incurred by Company personnel in connection with any “road show”

including, without limitation, any expenses advanced by the Placement Agents on the Company’s behalf (which will be promptly reimbursed)). Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) the Placement Agents agree to pay, or reimburse if paid by the Company, whether nor not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, the fees and expenses (including related fees and expenses of counsel to the Company) of qualifying the Securities under the securities laws of the several jurisdictions as provided in Section 5(i) and of preparing, printing and distributing wrappers, Blue Sky Memoranda and Legal Investment Surveys, and (y) in no event shall the Company be obligated to reimburse the Placement Agents pursuant to this Section 6 in an amount in excess of $125,000.

7. Conditions to the Obligations of the Placement Agents and the Purchasers, and the Sale of the Securities. The respective obligations of the Placement Agents hereunder and the Purchasers under the Subscription Agreements, and the Closing of the sale of the Securities, are subject to the accuracy, when made and as of the Applicable Time and on the Closing Date, of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company made in any certificates pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and to each of the following additional terms and conditions:

(a) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, preventing or suspending the use of any Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus or any part thereof shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A under the Securities Act shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, and all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission (to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Placement Agents; the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, if any, and the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by, and in compliance with, the Rules and Regulations and in accordance with 5(a), and the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, shall have become effective immediately upon its filing with the Commission; and, if applicable, FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the terms of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby that shall not have been resolved.

(b) The Placement Agents shall not have discovered and disclosed to the Company on or prior to the Closing Date that the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of a fact which, in the opinion of counsel for the Placement Agents, is material or omits to state any fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or that the General Disclosure Package, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material or omits to state any fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is necessary in order to make the statements, in the light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading.

(c) All corporate proceedings and other legal matters incident to the authorization, form and validity of each of this Agreement, the Subscription Agreements, the Escrow Agreement, the Stock, the Warrants, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, if any, and the Prospectus and all other legal matters relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be reasonably satisfactory in all material respects to counsel for the Placement Agents, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel all documents and information that they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.

(d) Xxxxxx LLP and Hogan Lovells US LLP shall have each furnished to the Placement Agents such counsels’ written opinion, as counsel to the Company, and negative assurances statement, addressed to the Placement Agents and dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Placement Agents.

(e) The Placement Agents shall have received from DLA Piper LLP (US), counsel for the Placement Agents, such opinion or opinions and negative assurances statement, dated the Closing Date, with respect to such matters as the Placement Agents may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they reasonably request for enabling them to pass upon such matters.

(f) At the time of the execution of this Agreement, the Placement Agents shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a letter, addressed to the Placement Agents, executed and dated such date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Placement Agents (i) confirming that they are an independent registered accounting firm with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and PCAOB and (ii) stating the conclusions and findings of such firm, of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters, with respect to the consolidated financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(g) On the effective date of any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement and on the Closing Date, the Placement Agents shall have received a letter (the “Bring-Down Letter”) from Xxxxx & Young LLP addressed to the Placement Agents and dated the Closing Date confirming, as of the date of the Bring-Down Letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, as the case may be, as of a date not more than three (3) business days prior to the date of the Bring-Down Letter), the conclusions and findings of such firm, of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters, with respect to the financial information and other matters covered by its letter delivered to the Placement Agents concurrently with the execution of this Agreement pursuant to paragraph (f) of this Section 7.

(h) The Company shall have furnished to the Placement Agents and the Purchasers a certificate, dated the Closing Date, of its Chief Executive Officer and its

Chief Financial Officer stating that (i) such officers have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and, in their opinion, the Registration Statement and each amendment thereto, at the Applicable Time and as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and the General Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time and as of the Closing Date, any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as of its date and as of the Closing Date, the Prospectus and each amendment or supplement thereto, as of the respective date thereof and as of the Closing Date, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading, (ii) since the effective date of the Registration Statement, no event has occurred which should have been but was not set forth in a supplement or amendment to the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, (iii) to the best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation, as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct and the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date except to the extent any such agreements or conditions have been waived by the Representative and (iv) there has not been, subsequent to the date of the most recent audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package, any material adverse change in the financial position or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, or any change or development that, singularly or in the aggregate, would involve a material adverse change or a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business, assets or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, except as set forth in the Prospectus.

(i) Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the General Disclosure Package or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package as of the date hereof, (i) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall have sustained any loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth in the General Disclosure Package, and (ii) there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business, general affairs, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in each case, otherwise than as set forth in the General Disclosure Package, the effect of which, in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii) of this paragraph (j), is, in the reasonable judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale or delivery of the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(j) No action shall have been taken and no law, statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any governmental agency or body which would prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or could reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; and no injunction, restraining order or order of any other nature by any federal or state court of competent jurisdiction shall have been issued which would prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and adversely affect or could reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.

(k) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement there shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange, NGM or the NYSE Amex or in the over-the-counter market, or trading in any securities of the Company on any exchange or in the over-the-counter market, shall have been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or maximum prices or maximum range for prices shall have been established on any such exchange or such market by the Commission, by such exchange or market or by any other regulatory body or governmental authority having jurisdiction, (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared by Federal or state authorities or a material disruption has occurred in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States, (iii) the United States shall have become engaged in hostilities, or the subject of an act of terrorism, or there shall have been an outbreak of or escalation in hostilities involving the United States, or there shall have been a declaration of a national emergency or war by the United States or (iv) there shall have occurred such a material adverse change in general economic, political or financial conditions (or the effect of international conditions on the financial markets in the United States shall be such) as to make it, in the reasonable judgment of the Placement Agents, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale or delivery of the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(l) The Company shall have filed an application for additional listing of the Stock with the NGM.

(m) The Placement Agents shall have received the written agreements, substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto, of the executive officers, directors, stockholders, optionholders and warrantholders of the Company listed in Schedule B to this Agreement.

(n) The Company shall have entered into Subscription Agreements with each of the Purchasers and such agreements shall be in full force and effect.

(o) The Company shall have entered into the Escrow Agreement and such agreement shall be in full force and effect.

(p) The Placement Agents shall have received clearance from FINRA, if applicable, as to the amount of compensation allowable or payable to the Placement Agents as described in the Pricing Prospectus.

(q) Prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Placement Agents such further information, opinions, certificates, letters or documents as the Placement Agents shall have reasonably requested.

All opinions, letters, evidence and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Placement Agents.

8. Indemnification and Contribution.

(a) The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless the Placement Agents, each of their affiliates, each of their respective directors, officers, members, employees, representatives and agents and each person, if any, who controls the Placement Agents within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (collectively, the “Placement Agents Indemnified Parties,” and each a “Placement Agents Indemnified Party”) against any Loss, joint or several, to which such Placement Agents Indemnified Party may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such Loss arises out of or is based upon (A) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto or document incorporated by reference therein, or (B) the omission or alleged omission to state in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto or document incorporated by reference therein, a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading and (C) any breach of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein, and failure of the Company to perform its obligations hereunder or pursuant to any applicable law, any act or failure to act, or any alleged act or failure to act, by the Placement Agents in connection with, or relating in any manner to, the Securities, the Escrow Agreement or the Offering, and which is included as part of or referred to in any Loss arising out of or based upon matters covered by subclause (A), (B) or (C) above of this Section 8(a) (provided that the Company shall not be liable in the case of any matter covered by this subclause (C) to the extent that it is determined in a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction that such Loss resulted directly from any such act or failure to act undertaken or omitted to be taken by such Placement Agents through its gross negligence or willful misconduct), and shall reimburse the Placement Agents Indemnified Party promptly upon demand for any legal fees or other expenses reasonably incurred by that Placement Agents Indemnified Party in connection with investigating, or preparing to defend, or defending against, or appearing as a third party witness in respect of, or otherwise incurred in connection with, any such Loss, as such fees or expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the

Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such Loss arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement in, or omission or alleged omission from any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or any such amendment or supplement thereto, made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Placement Agents specifically for use therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agents’ Information. This indemnity agreement is not exclusive and will be in addition to any liability that the Company might otherwise have and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available at law or in equity to each Placement Agents Indemnified Party.

(b) The Placement Agents shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its directors, its officers who signed the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (collectively, the “Company Indemnified Parties,” and each a “Company Indemnified Party”) against any Loss, joint or several, to which such Company Indemnified Party may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such Loss arises out of or is based upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto, or (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto, a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, but in each case only to the extent that the untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Placement Agents specifically for use therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agents’ Information, and shall reimburse the Company Indemnified Party promptly upon demand for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with investigating or preparing to defend or defending against or appearing as third party witness in respect of or otherwise incurred in connection with any such Loss, as such fees or expenses are incurred. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 8(b), in no event shall any indemnity by the Placement Agents under this Section 8(b) exceed the total compensation received by such Placement Agents in accordance with Section 2.5.

(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 8 of notice of the commencement of any action, the indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against an indemnifying party under this Section 8, notify such indemnifying party in writing of the commencement of that action; provided, however, that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have under this Section 8 except to the extent it has been materially prejudiced by such failure; and, provided, further, that the failure to notify an indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have to an

indemnified party otherwise than under this Section 8. If any such action shall be brought against an indemnified party, and it shall notify the indemnifying party thereof, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it wishes, jointly with any other similarly notified indemnifying party, to assume the defense of such action with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party (which counsel shall not, except with the written consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party). After notice from the indemnifying party to the indemnified party of its election to assume the defense of such action, except as provided herein, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to the indemnified party under this Section 8 for any reasonable legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by the indemnified party in connection with the defense of such action other than reasonable costs of investigation; provided, however, that any indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and to participate in the defense of such action but the fees and expenses of such counsel (other than reasonable costs of investigation) shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized in writing by the Company in the case of a claim for indemnification under Section 8(a) or Section 2.6 or the Representative in the case of a claim for indemnification under Section 8(b), (ii) such indemnified party shall have been advised by its counsel that there may be one or more legal defenses available to it which are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, or (iii) the indemnifying party has failed to assume the defense of such action and employ counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party within a reasonable period of time after notice of the commencement of the action or the indemnifying party does not diligently defend the action after assumption of the defense, in which case, if such indemnified party notifies the indemnifying party in writing that it elects to employ separate counsel at the expense of the indemnifying party, the indemnifying party shall not have the right to assume the defense of (or, in the case of a failure to diligently defend the action after assumption of the defense, to continue to defend) such action on behalf of such indemnified party and the indemnifying party shall be responsible for legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense of such action; provided, however, that the indemnifying party shall not, in connection with any one such action or separate but substantially similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances, be liable for the reasonable fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys at any time for all such indemnified parties (in addition to any local counsel), which firm shall be designated in writing by the Representative if the indemnified parties under this Section 8 consist of any Placement Agents Indemnified Parties or by the Company if the indemnified parties under this Section 8 consist of any Company Indemnified Parties. Subject to this Section 8(c), the amount payable by an indemnifying party under this Section 8 shall include, but not be limited to, (x) reasonable legal fees and expenses of counsel to the indemnified party and any other reasonable expenses incurred in investigating, or preparing to defend or defending against, or appearing as a third party witness in respect of, or otherwise incurred in connection with, any action, investigation, proceeding or claim, and (y) all amounts paid in settlement of any of the foregoing. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of judgment with respect to any pending or

threatened action or any claim whatsoever, in respect of which indemnification or contribution could reasonably be expected to be sought under this Section 8 (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties thereto), unless such settlement, compromise or consent (i) includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party from all liability arising out of such action or claim and (ii) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party. Subject to the provisions of the following sentence, no indemnifying party shall be liable for settlement of any pending or threatened action or any claim whatsoever that is effected without its written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), but if settled with its written consent, if its consent has been unreasonably withheld or delayed or if there be a judgment for the plaintiff in any such matter, subject to the first sentence of this Section 8(c), the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify and hold harmless any indemnified party from and against any Loss by reason of such settlement or judgment. In addition, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested that an indemnifying party reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel for which such indemnified party is entitled to reimbursement under this Section 8, such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of the nature contemplated herein effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than forty-five (45) days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the request for reimbursement, (ii) such indemnifying party shall have received notice of the terms of such settlement at least thirty (30) days prior to such settlement being entered into and (iii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement.

(d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 8 is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under Section 8(a) or Section 8(b), then each indemnifying party shall, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party, contribute to the amount paid, payable or otherwise incurred by such indemnified party as a result of such Loss, as incurred, (i) in such proportion as shall be appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Placement Agents on the other hand from the offering of the Securities, or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) of this Section 8(d) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) of this Section 8(d) but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Placement Agents on the other with respect to the statements, omissions, acts or failures to act which resulted in such Loss as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Placement Agents on the other with respect to such offering shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering of the Securities purchased under this Agreement (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total Placement Fee received by the Placement Agents in connection with the Offering, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover page of the Prospectus. The relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Placement Agents on the other shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company on the one hand or the Placement Agents on the other, the intent of the parties

and their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement, omission, act or failure to act; provided that the parties hereto agree that the written information furnished to the Company by the Placement Agents for use in the Preliminary Prospectus, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto, consists solely of the Placement Agents’ Information. The Company and the Placement Agents agree that it would not be just and equitable if contributions pursuant to this Section 8(d) were to be determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation that does not take into account the equitable considerations referred to herein. The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the Loss referred to above in this Section 8(d) shall be deemed to include, for purposes of this Section 8(d), any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating, preparing to defend or defending against or appearing as a third party witness in respect of, or otherwise incurred in connection with, any such Loss. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 8(d), the Placement Agents shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the total compensation received by the Placement Agents in accordance with Section 2.5 less the amount of any damages which the Placement Agents have otherwise paid or become liable to pay by reason of any untrue or alleged untrue statement, omission or alleged omission, act or alleged act or failure to act or alleged failure to act. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution hereunder from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Placement Agents’ obligations to contribute as provided in this Section 8(d) are several in proportion to the amount of the Placement Fee received by each of them and not joint.

9. Termination. The obligations of the Placement Agents and the Purchasers hereunder and under the Subscription Agreements may be terminated by the Representative, in its absolute discretion, by notice given to the Company prior to delivery of and payment for the Securities if, prior to that time, any of the events described in Sections 7(i) or 7(k), have occurred or if the Purchasers shall decline to purchase the Securities for any reason permitted under this Agreement or the Subscription Agreements.

10. Intentionally Omitted.

11. Authority of the Representative. JMP consents and agrees that RBCCM will act as Representative of the Placement Agents under this Agreement and with respect to the sale of the Securities. Accordingly, JMP authorizes RBCCM to manage the Offering and the sale of the Securities and to take such action in connection therewith as RBCCM in its sole discretion deems appropriate or desirable.

12. Absence of Fiduciary Relationship. The Company acknowledges and agrees that:

(a) the Placement Agents’ responsibility to the Company is solely contractual in nature, the Placement Agents have been retained solely to act as Placement Agents in connection with the Offering and no fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship between the Company and the Placement Agents have been created in respect of any of the

transactions contemplated by this Agreement, irrespective of whether the Placement Agents have advised or is advising the Company on other matters;

(b) the price of the Securities set forth in this Agreement was established by the Company following discussions and arms-length negotiations with the Placement Agents, and the Company is capable of evaluating and understanding, and understands and accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;

(c) it has been advised that the Placement Agents and its affiliates are engaged in a broad range of transactions which may involve interests that differ from those of the Company and that the Placement Agents have no obligation to disclose such interests and transactions to the Company by virtue of any fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship; and

(d) it waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims it may have against the Placement Agents for breach of fiduciary duty or alleged breach of fiduciary duty and agrees that the Placement Agents shall have no liability (whether direct or indirect) to the Company in respect of such a fiduciary duty claim or to any person asserting a fiduciary duty claim on behalf of or in right of the Company, including stockholders, employees or creditors of the Company.

13. Successors; Persons Entitled to Benefit of Agreement. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Placement Agents, the Company, and their respective successors and assigns. This Agreement shall also inure to the benefit of the Purchasers and each of their respective successors and assigns, which shall be third party beneficiaries hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, as provided in the Subscription Agreements, the determination as to whether any condition in Section 7 hereof shall have been satisfied, and the waiver of any condition in Section 7 hereof, may be made by the Representative in its sole discretion, and any such determination or waiver shall be binding on each of the Purchasers and shall not require the consent of any Purchaser. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person, other than the persons mentioned in the preceding sentences, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement, or any provisions herein contained, this Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof being intended to be and being for the sole and exclusive benefit of such persons and for the benefit of no other person; except that the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements and indemnities of the Company contained in this Agreement shall also be for the benefit of the Placement Agents Indemnified Parties and the agreements and indemnities of the Placement Agents shall be for the benefit of the Company Indemnified Parties. It is understood that the Placement Agents’ responsibility to the Company is solely contractual in nature and the Placement Agents do not owe the Company, or any other party, any fiduciary duty as a result of this Agreement.

14. Survival of Indemnities, Representations, Warranties, etc. The respective indemnities, covenants, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company and the Placement Agents, as set forth in this Agreement or made by them respectively, pursuant to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any

investigation made by or on behalf of the Placement Agents, the Company, the Purchasers or any person controlling any of them and shall survive delivery of and payment for the Securities. Notwithstanding any termination of this Agreement, including without limitation any termination pursuant to Section 9, the indemnity and contribution agreements contained in Section 8 and the covenants, representations, warranties set forth in this Agreement shall not terminate and shall remain in full force and effect at all times.

15. Notices. All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall be in writing, and:

(a) if to the Placement Agents or the Representative, shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex, facsimile transmission or email to the Representative, Attention: Xxx Xxxxx, Syndicate Director, Fax: (000) 000-0000; with a copy to DLA Piper LLP (US), 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Wm. Xxxxx Xxxxx, Esq., Fax: (000) 000-0000; and

(b) if to the Company, shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex, facsimile transmission or email to Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxx, Chief Executive Officer, Fax: (000) 000-0000; with a copy to Xxxxxx LLP, 000 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Esq., Fax: (000) 000-0000.

Any such statements, requests, notices or agreements shall take effect at the time of receipt thereof, except that any such statement, request, notice or agreement delivered or sent by email shall take effect at the time of confirmation of receipt thereof by the recipient thereof.

16. Definition of Certain Terms. For purposes of this Agreement, (a) “business day” means any day on which the NGM is open for trading and (b) “subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 of the Rules and Regulations.

17. Governing Law, Agent for Service and Jurisdiction. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, including without limitation Section 5-1401 of the New York General Obligations Law. No legal proceeding arising out of or in any way relating to this Agreement may be commenced, prosecuted or continued by any party hereto in any court other than the courts of the State of New York located in the City and County of New York or in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which courts shall have jurisdiction over the adjudication of such matters, and the Company and the Placement Agents each hereby consent to the jurisdiction of such courts and personal service with respect thereto. The Company and the Placement Agents each hereby waive all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding (whether based upon contract, tort or otherwise) in any way arising out of or relating to this Agreement. The Company and the Placement Agents agree that a final judgment in any such legal proceeding brought in any court of the State of New York located in the City and County of New York or in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York shall be conclusive and binding upon the Company and the Placement Agents and may be enforced in any other courts in the jurisdiction of which the Company or the Placement Agents are or may be subject, by suit upon such judgment.

18. Placement Agents’ Information. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that, for all purposes of this Agreement, the Placement Agents’ Information consists solely of the following information in the Prospectus: (i) the second paragraph on the front cover page; (ii) the statements concerning the Placement Agents and their affiliates contained in the first, twelfth and thirteenth paragraphs under the heading “Plan of Distribution” and the statements included under the heading “Plan of Distribution—Certain Selling Restrictions”.

19. Partial Unenforceability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any section, paragraph, clause or provision of this Agreement shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other section, paragraph, clause or provision hereof. If any section, paragraph, clause or provision of this Agreement is for any reason determined to be invalid or unenforceable, there shall be deemed to be made such minor changes (and only such minor changes) as are necessary to make it valid and enforceable.

20. General. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties to this Agreement and supersedes all prior written or oral and all contemporaneous oral agreements, understandings and negotiations with respect to the subject matter hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) the rights and obligations of the Company and RBCCM set forth in Section 9 of that certain letter agreement between the Company and RBCCM dated August 2, 2010 shall survive execution of this Agreement and (b) the obligations of .JMP set forth in that certain letter agreement between the Company and JMP dated on or about the date hereof regarding certain confidentiality and other obligations of JMP shall survive execution of this Agreement. In this Agreement, the masculine, feminine and neuter genders and the singular and the plural include one another. The section headings in this Agreement are for the convenience of the parties only and will not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement. Except as set forth in Section 13, this Agreement may be amended or modified, and the observance of any term of this Agreement may be waived, only by a writing signed by the Company and the Placement Agents.

21. Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument and such signatures may be delivered by facsimile or emailed PDF.

If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of the agreement between the Company and the Placement Agents, kindly indicate your acceptance in the space provided for that purpose below.


Very truly yours, XXXXXX PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
By:	/s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
	Name:	Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
	Title:	Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer


Accepted as of the date
first above written:

RBC CAPITAL MARKETS CORPORATION

By:		/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
		Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
		Title: Managing Director

JMP SECURITIES LLC

By:		/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
		Name: Xxxxxx (Xxx) Xxxxxxxx
		Title: Managing Director, CCO

SCHEDULE A

General Use Free Writing Prospectuses

None.

SCHEDULE B

List of officers, directors, stockholders, optionholders and
warrantholders subject to Section 5(k)

Xxxxxx X. Xxxx

Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx

Xxx X. Xxxxxx

Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx

Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx

Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx

Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxx

X. Xxxxxxxx Read

Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx

Xxxxx Xxxxx

Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx

Xxxx X. Xxx

Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx

Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx

EXHIBIT A

[Form of Subscription Agreement]

EXHIBIT B

August 4, 2010

RBC CAPITAL MARKETS CORPORATION
Three World Financial Center, 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000

Re: Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock

Dear Sirs:

In order to induce RBC Capital Markets Corporation (“RBCCM”) to enter in to a certain Placement Agent Agreement with Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), with respect to the public offering of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), the undersigned hereby agrees that for a period (the “lock-up period”) beginning on the date of the final prospectus filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with such public offering and ending on the date that is ninety (90) days following the date of such final prospectus, the undersigned will not, without the prior written consent of RBCCM, directly or indirectly, (i) offer, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of, any shares of Common Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock (including, without limitation, shares of Common Stock or any such securities that may be deemed to be beneficially owned by the undersigned in accordance with the Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (such shares or securities, the “Beneficially Owned Shares”)), (ii) enter into any swap, hedge or other agreement or arrangement that transfers in whole or in part, the economic risk of ownership of any Beneficially Owned Shares, Common Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock from the undersigned to any other person or entity or (iii) engage in any short selling of any Beneficially Owned Shares, Common Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing contained herein will be deemed to restrict or prohibit the transfer of Beneficially Owned Shares, Common Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock (a) as a bona fide gift or gifts, (b) to a trust, family limited partnership or family limited liability company for the direct or indirect benefit of the undersigned or the immediate family of the undersigned or (c) by will or intestacy to the undersigned’s legal representative, heir or immediate family; provided in each of cases (a), (b) and (c) that the donees, distributees or transferees thereof agree in writing to be bound by the terms hereof. For purposes of this letter agreement, “immediate family” shall mean any relationship by blood, marriage or adoption, not more remote than first cousin.

In addition, notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing contained herein will be deemed to restrict or prohibit, at any time, (a) the sale of Beneficially Owned Shares, Common Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock pursuant to a written plan for trading securities that is designed to satisfy the requirements of Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (a “10b-5 Plan”), and that is attached hereto as Exhibit A, if any, or (b) the entry into or, in the case of any 10b-5 Plan attached hereto

as Exhibit A, modification of a 10b-5 Plan (other than the entry into or modification of such a plan in such a manner as to cause the sale of Beneficially Owned Shares, Common Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock within the lock-up period).

If (i) the Company issues an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to the Company occurs during the last seventeen (17) days of the lock-up period, or (ii) prior to the expiration of the lock-up period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results during the sixteen (16)-day period beginning on the last day of the lock-up period, the restrictions imposed by this letter agreement shall continue to apply until the earlier of (a) expiration of the eighteen (18)-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the material news or material event and (b) the close of trading on The Nasdaq Global Market on the date that is two trading days following the Announcement Date.

In addition, the undersigned hereby waives, from the date hereof until the expiration of the lock-up period, any and all rights, if any, to request or demand registration pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of any shares of Common Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock that are registered in the name of the undersigned or that are Beneficially Owned Shares. In order to enable the aforesaid covenants to be enforced, the undersigned hereby consents to the placing of legends and/or stop transfer orders with the transfer agent of the Common Stock with respect to any shares of Common Stock, securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock or Beneficially Owned Shares.

If the Company notifies the undersigned that it does not intend to proceed with the offering described herein or such offering is not closed on or before September 3, 2010, this letter agreement shall be terminated and the undersigned shall be released from its obligations hereunder.


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