__________ Shares
INVITROGEN CORPORATION
Common Stock
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
__________, 1999
XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXX & XXXXXXXX
SECURITIES CORPORATION
NATIONSBANC XXXXXXXXXX SECURITIES LLC
WARBURG DILLON READ LLC
As representatives of the
several Underwriters
named in Schedule I hereto
c/x Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx
Securities Corporation
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Dear Sirs:
Invitrogen Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "COMPANY"), proposes to
issue and sell ____________ shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per
share (the "FIRM SHARES"), to the several underwriters named in Schedule I
hereto (the "UNDERWRITERS"). The Company also proposes to issue and sell to
the several Underwriters not more than an additional _______ shares of its
common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "ADDITIONAL SHARES"), if requested
by the Underwriters as provided in Section 2 hereof. The Firm Shares and the
Additional Shares are hereinafter referred to collectively as the "SHARES". The
shares of common stock of the Company to be outstanding after giving effect to
the sales contemplated hereby are hereinafter referred to as the "COMMON STOCK".
SECTION 1. REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND PROSPECTUS. The Company has
prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"COMMISSION") in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder
(collectively, the "ACT"), a registration statement on Form S-1, including a
prospectus, relating to the Shares. The registration statement, as amended at
the time it became effective, including the information (if any) deemed to be
part of the registration statement at the time of effectiveness pursuant to Rule
430A under the Act, is hereinafter referred to as the "REGISTRATION STATEMENT";
and the prospectus in the form first used to confirm sales of Shares is
hereinafter referred to as the "PROSPECTUS". If the Company has filed or is
required pursuant to the terms hereof to file a registration statement pursuant
to Rule 462(b) under the Act registering additional shares of Common Stock (a
"RULE 462(b) REGISTRATION STATEMENT"), then, unless otherwise specified, any
reference herein to the term "Registration Statement" shall be deemed to include
such Rule 462(b) Registration Statement.
SECTION 2. AGREEMENTS TO SELL AND PURCHASE AND LOCK-UP AGREEMENTS. On the
basis of the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement, and
subject to its terms and conditions, the Company agrees to issue and sell, and
each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company
at a price per Share of $______ (the "PURCHASE PRICE") the number of Firm Shares
set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule I hereto.
On the basis of the representations and warranties contained in this
Agreement, and subject to its terms and conditions, the Company agrees to issue
and sell the Additional Shares and the Underwriters shall have the right to
purchase, severally and not jointly, up to _______ Additional Shares from the
Company at the Purchase Price. Additional Shares may be purchased solely for
the purpose of covering over-allotments made in connection with the offering of
the Firm Shares. The Underwriters may exercise their right to purchase
Additional Shares in whole or in part from time to time by giving written notice
thereof to the Company within 30 days after the date of this Agreement. You
shall give any such notice on behalf of the Underwriters and such notice shall
specify the aggregate number of Additional Shares to be purchased pursuant to
such exercise and the date for payment and delivery thereof, which date shall be
a business day (i) no earlier than two business days after such notice has been
given (and, in any event, no earlier than the Closing Date (as hereinafter
defined)) and (ii) no later than ten business days after such notice has been
given. If any Additional Shares are to be purchased, each Underwriter,
severally and not jointly, agrees to purchase from the Company the number of
Additional Shares (subject to such adjustments to eliminate fractional shares as
you may determine) which bears the same proportion to the total number of
Additional Shares to be purchased from the Company as the number of Firm Shares
set forth opposite the
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name of such Underwriter in Schedule I bears to the total number of Firm
Shares.
The Company hereby agrees not to (i) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell,
sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to
sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, or otherwise transfer or
dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Common Stock or any securities
convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock or (ii) enter
into any swap or other arrangement that transfers all or a portion of the
economic consequences associated with the ownership of any Common Stock
(regardless of whether any of the transactions described in clause (i) or (ii)
is to be settled by the delivery of Common Stock, or such other securities, in
cash or otherwise), except to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement, for a
period of 180 days after the date of the Prospectus without the prior written
consent of Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx Securities Corporation. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, during such period (i) the Company may grant stock options
pursuant to the Company's existing stock option plan and (ii) the Company may
issue shares of Common Stock upon the exercise of an option or warrant or the
conversion of a security outstanding on the date hereof. The Company also
agrees not to file any registration statement with respect to any shares of
Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable
for Common Stock for a period of 180 days after the date of the Prospectus
without the prior written consent of Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx Securities
Corporation. The Company shall, prior to or concurrently with the execution of
this Agreement, deliver an agreement executed by (i) each of the directors and
officers of the Company and (ii) each stockholder listed on Annex I hereto to
the effect that such person will not, during the period commencing on the date
such person signs such agreement and ending 180 days after the date of the
Prospectus, without the prior written consent of Xxxxxxxxx, Lufkin & Xxxxxxxx
Corporation, (A) engage in any of the transactions described in the first
sentence of this paragraph or (B) make any demand for, or exercise any right
with respect to, the registration of any shares of Common Stock or any
securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock.
SECTION 3. TERMS OF PUBLIC OFFERING. The Company is advised by you that
the Underwriters propose (i) to make a public offering of their respective
portions of the Shares as soon after the execution and delivery of this
Agreement as in your judgment is advisable and (ii) initially to offer the
Shares upon the terms set forth in the Prospectus.
SECTION 4. DELIVERY AND PAYMENT. The Shares shall be represented by
definitive certificates and shall be issued in such authorized denominations
and registered in such names as Xxxxxxxxx, Lufkin & Xxxxxxxx Securities
Corporation shall request no later than two business days prior to the
Closing Date or the applicable Option Closing Date (as defined below), as the
case may be. The Company shall deliver the Shares, with any transfer taxes
thereon duly paid by the
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respective Sellers, to Xxxxxxxxx, Lufkin & Xxxxxxxx Securities Corporation
through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company ("DTC"), for the
respective accounts of the several Underwriters, against payment to the
Company of the Purchase Price therefore by wire transfer of Federal or other
funds immediately available in New York City. The certificates representing
the Shares shall be made available for inspection not later than 9:30 A.M.,
New York City time, on the business day prior to the Closing Date or the
applicable Option Closing Date, as the case may be, at the office of DTC or
its designated custodian (the "DESIGNATED OFFICE"). The time and date of
delivery and payment for the Firm Shares shall be 9:00 A.M., New York City
time, on ________, 1999 or such other time on the same or such other date as
Xxxxxxxxx, Lufkin & Xxxxxxxx Securities Corporation and the Company shall
agree in writing. The time and date of delivery for the Firm Shares are
hereinafter referred to as the "CLOSING DATE". The time and date of delivery
and payment for any Additional Shares to be purchased by the Underwriters
shall be 9:00 A.M., New York City time, on the date specified in the
applicable exercise notice given by you pursuant to Section 2 or such other
time on the same or such other date as Xxxxxxxxx, Lufkin & Xxxxxxxx
Securities Corporation and the Company shall agree in writing. The time and
date of delivery for any Additional Shares are hereinafter referred to as an
"OPTION CLOSING DATE".
The documents to be delivered on the Closing Date or any Option Closing
Date on behalf of the parties hereto pursuant to Section 8 of this Agreement
shall be delivered at the offices of Venture Law Group, a Professional
Corporation, 0000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, and the
Shares shall be delivered at the Designated Office, all on the Closing Date
or such Option Closing Date, as the case may be.
SECTION 5. AGREEMENTS OF THE COMPANY . The Company agrees with you:
(a) To advise you promptly and, if requested by you, to confirm such
advice in writing, (i) of any request by the Commission for amendments to the
Registration Statement or amendments or supplements to the Prospectus or for
additional information, (ii) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop
order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of the
suspension of qualification of the Shares for offering or sale in any
jurisdiction, or the initiation of any proceeding for such purposes, (iii)
when any amendment to the Registration Statement becomes effective, (iv) if
the Company is required to file a Rule 462(b) Registration Statement after
the effectiveness of this Agreement, when the Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement has become effective and (v) of the happening of any event during
the period referred to in Section 5(d) below which makes any statement of a
material fact made in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus untrue or
which requires any additions to or changes in the
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Registration Statement or the Prospectus in order to make the statements
therein not misleading. If at any time the Commission shall issue any stop
order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, the Company
will use its best efforts to obtain the withdrawal or lifting of such order
at the earliest possible time.
(b) To furnish to you four signed copies of the Registration Statement
as first filed with the Commission and of each amendment to it, including all
exhibits, and to furnish to you and each Underwriter designated by you such
number of conformed copies of the Registration Statement as so filed and of
each amendment to it, without exhibits, as you may reasonably request.
(c) To prepare the Prospectus, the form and substance of which shall be
satisfactory to you, and to file the Prospectus in such form with the
Commission within the applicable period specified in Rule 424(b) under the
Act; during the period specified in Section 5(d) below, not to file any
further amendment to the Registration Statement and not to make any amendment
or supplement to the Prospectus of which you shall not previously have been
advised or to which you shall reasonably object after being so advised; and,
during such period, to prepare and file with the Commission, promptly upon
your reasonable request, any amendment to the Registration Statement or
amendment or supplement to the Prospectus which may be necessary or advisable
in connection with the distribution of the Shares by you, and to use its best
efforts to cause any such amendment to the Registration Statement to become
promptly effective.
(d) Prior to 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the first business day
after the date of this Agreement and from time to time thereafter for such
period as in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters a prospectus is
required by law to be delivered in connection with sales by an Underwriter or
a dealer, to furnish in New York City to each Underwriter and any dealer as
many copies of the Prospectus (and of any amendment or supplement to the
Prospectus) as such Underwriter or dealer may reasonably request.
(e) If during the period specified in Section 5(d), any event shall
occur or condition shall exist as a result of which, in the opinion of
counsel for the Underwriters, it becomes necessary to amend or supplement the
Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not
misleading, or if, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, it is
necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with applicable
law, forthwith to prepare and file with the Commission an appropriate
amendment or supplement to the Prospectus so that the statements in the
Prospectus, as so amended or supplemented, will not in the light of the
circumstances when it is so delivered, be misleading, or so that the
Prospectus will comply with applicable law, and to furnish to each
Underwriter
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and to any dealer as many copies thereof as such Underwriter or dealer may
reasonably request.
(f) Prior to any public offering of the Shares, to cooperate with you
and counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the registration or
qualification of the Shares for offer and sale by the several Underwriters
and by dealers under the state securities or Blue Sky laws of such
jurisdictions as you may request, to continue such registration or
qualification in effect so long as required for distribution of the Shares
and to file such consents to service of process or other documents as may be
necessary in order to effect such registration or qualification; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that the Company shall not be required in connection therewith to
qualify as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction in which it is not now
so qualified or to take any action that would subject it to general consent
to service of process or taxation other than as to matters and transactions
relating to the Prospectus, the Registration Statement, any preliminary
prospectus or the offering or sale of the Shares, in any jurisdiction in
which it is not now so subject.
(g) To mail and make generally available to its stockholders as soon as
practicable an earnings statement covering the twelve-month period ending
__________, 2000 that shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the
Act, and to advise you in writing when such statement has been so made
available.
(h) During the period of three years after the date of this Agreement,
to furnish to you as soon as available copies of all reports or other
communications furnished to the record holders of Common Stock or furnished
to or filed with the Commission or any national securities exchange on which
any class of securities of the Company is listed and such other publicly
available information concerning the Company and its subsidiaries as you may
reasonably request.
(i) Whether or not the transactions contemplated in this Agreement are
consummated or this Agreement is terminated, to pay or cause to be paid all
expenses incident to the performance of its obligations under this Agreement,
including: (i) the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Company's counsel
and the Company's accountants in connection with the registration and
delivery of the Shares under the Act and all other fees and expenses in
connection with the preparation, printing, filing and distribution of the
Registration Statement (including financial statements and exhibits), any
preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus and all amendments and supplements to
any of the foregoing, including the mailing and delivering of copies thereof
to the Underwriters and dealers in the quantities specified herein, (ii) all
costs and expenses related to the transfer and delivery of the Shares to the
Underwriters, including any transfer or other taxes payable thereon, (iii)
all costs of printing or producing this Agreement and any other agreements or
documents in connection with the offering, purchase,
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sale or delivery of the Shares, (iv) all expenses in connection with the
registration or qualification of the Shares for offer and sale under the
securities or Blue Sky laws of the several states and all costs of printing
or producing any Preliminary and Supplemental Blue Sky Memoranda in
connection therewith (including the filing fees and fees and disbursements of
counsel for the Underwriters in connection with such registration or
qualification and memoranda relating thereto), (v) the filing fees and
disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the review
and clearance of the offering of the Shares by the National Association of
Securities Dealers, Inc., (vi) all fees and expenses in connection with the
preparation and filing of the registration statement on Form 8-A relating to
the Common Stock and all costs and expenses incident to the listing of the
Shares on the Nasdaq National Market, (vii) the cost of printing certificates
representing the Shares, (viii) the costs and charges of any transfer agent,
registrar and/or depositary, and (ix) all other costs and expenses incident
to the performance of the obligations of the Company hereunder for which
provision is not otherwise made in this Section.
(j) To use its best efforts to list for quotation the Shares on the
Nasdaq National Market and to maintain the listing of the Shares on the
Nasdaq National Market for a period of three years after the date of this
Agreement.
(k) To use its best efforts to do and perform all things required or
necessary to be done and performed under this Agreement by the Company prior
to the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as the case may be, and to
satisfy all conditions precedent to the delivery of the Shares.
(l) If the Registration Statement at the time of the effectiveness of
this Agreement does not cover all of the Shares, to file a Rule 462(b)
Registration Statement with the Commission registering the Shares not so
covered in compliance with Rule 462(b) by 10:00 P.M., New York City time, on
the date of this Agreement and to pay to the Commission the filing fee for
such Rule 462(b) Registration Statement at the time of the filing thereof or
to give irrevocable instructions for the payment of such fee pursuant to Rule
111(b) under the Act.
SECTION 6. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY. The Company
represents and warrants to each Underwriter that:
(a) The Registration Statement has become effective (other than any Rule
462(b) Registration Statement to be filed by the Company after the
effectiveness of this Agreement); any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement
filed after the effectiveness of this Agreement will become effective no
later than 10:00 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement; and
no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement is
in effect, and no proceedings for such purpose are pending before or
threatened by the Commission.
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(b) (i) The Registration Statement (other than any Rule 462(b)
Registration Statement to be filed by the Company after the effectiveness of
this Agreement), when it became effective, did not contain and, as amended,
if applicable, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or
omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein not misleading, (ii) the Registration Statement
(other than any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement to be filed by the Company
after the effectiveness of this Agreement) and the Prospectus comply and, as
amended or supplemented, if applicable, will comply in all material respects
with the Act, (iii) if the Company is required to file a Rule 462(b)
Registration Statement after the effectiveness of this Agreement, such Rule
462(b) Registration Statement and any amendments thereto, when they become
effective (A) will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or
omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein not misleading and (B) will comply in all
material respects with the Act and (iv) the Prospectus does not contain and,
as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to
make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which
they were made, not misleading, except that the representations and
warranties set forth in this paragraph do not apply to statements or
omissions in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus based upon
information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing
by such Underwriter through you expressly for use therein.
(c) Each preliminary prospectus filed as part of the registration
statement as originally filed or as part of any amendment thereto, or filed
pursuant to Rule 424 under the Act, complied when so filed in all material
respects with the Act, 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, except that the representations
and warranties set forth in this paragraph do not apply to statements or
omissions in any preliminary prospectus based upon information relating to
any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter
through you expressly for use therein.
(d) Each of the Company and its subsidiaries has been duly
incorporated, is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the
laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation and has the corporate power and
authority to carry on its business as described in the Prospectus and to own,
lease and operate its properties, and each is duly qualified and is in good
standing as a foreign corporation authorized to do business in each
jurisdiction in which the nature of its business or its ownership or leasing
of property requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so
qualified would not have a material adverse effect on the business,
prospects, financial condition or results of operations of the
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Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(e) There are no outstanding subscriptions, rights, warrants, options,
calls, convertible securities, commitments of sale or liens granted or issued
by the Company or any of its subsidiaries relating to or entitling any person
to purchase or otherwise to acquire any shares of the capital stock of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries, except as otherwise disclosed in the
Registration Statement.
(f) All the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have
been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid, non-assessable
and not subject to any preemptive or similar rights; and the Shares have been
duly authorized and, when issued and delivered to the Underwriters against
payment therefor as provided by this Agreement, will be validly issued, fully
paid and non-assessable, and the issuance of such Shares will not be subject
to any preemptive or similar rights.
(g) All of the outstanding shares of capital stock of each of the
Company's subsidiaries have been duly authorized and validly issued and are
fully paid and non-assessable, and are owned by the Company, directly or
indirectly through one or more subsidiaries, free and clear of any security
interest, claim, lien, encumbrance or adverse interest of any nature.
(h) The authorized capital stock of the Company conforms as to legal
matters to the description thereof contained in the Prospectus.
(i) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of
its respective charter or by-laws or in default in the performance of any
obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, loan
agreement, mortgage, lease or other agreement or instrument that is material
to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to which the Company
or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its
subsidiaries or their respective property is bound.
(j) The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the
Company, the compliance by the Company with all the provisions hereof and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not (i) require any
consent, approval, authorization or other order of, or qualification with,
any court or governmental body or agency (except such as may be required
under the securities or Blue Sky laws of the various states), (ii) conflict
with or constitute a breach of any of the terms or provisions of, or a
default under, the charter or by-laws of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries or any indenture, loan agreement, mortgage, lease or other
agreement or instrument that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries,
taken as a whole, to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party
or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries or
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their respective property is bound, (iii) violate or conflict with any
applicable law or any rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree of any
court or any governmental body or agency having jurisdiction over the
Company, any of its subsidiaries or their respective property or (iv) result
in the suspension, termination or revocation of any Authorization (as defined
below) of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any other impairment of
the rights of the holder of any such Authorization.
(k) There are no legal or governmental proceedings pending or
threatened to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or could be a
party or to which any of their respective property is or could be subject
that are required to be described in the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus and are not so described; nor are there any statutes, regulations,
contracts or other documents that are required to be described in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the
Registration Statement that are not so described or filed as required.
(l) The Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title in
fee simple to all real property and good and marketable title to all personal
property owned by them which is material to the business of the Company and
its subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and
defects except such as are described in the Prospectus or such as do not
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 and its
subsidiaries; and any real property and buildings held under lease by the
Company and its subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and
enforceable leases with such exceptions as are not material and do not
interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property and
buildings by the Company and its subsidiaries, in each case except as
described in the Prospectus.
(m) The Company and its subsidiaries own or possess, or can acquire on
reasonable terms, all patents, patent rights, licenses, inventions,
copyrights, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or
unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures),
trademarks, service marks and trade names ("INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY") currently
employed by them in connection with the business now operated by them except
where the failure to own or possess or otherwise be able to acquire such
intellectual property would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a material
adverse effect on the business, prospects, financial condition or results of
operation of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole; and neither
the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notice of
infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to
any of such intellectual property which, singly or in the aggregate, if the
subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would have a material
adverse effect on the business, prospects, financial condition or
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results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(n) The Company and each of its subsidiaries are insured by insurers of
recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such
amounts as are prudent and customary in the businesses in which they are
engaged; and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries (i) has received
notice from any insurer or agent of such insurer that substantial capital
improvements or other material expenditures will have to be made in order to
continue such insurance or (ii) has any reason to believe that it will not be
able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage
expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers at a cost that
would not have a material adverse effect on the business, prospects,
financial conditions or results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(o) No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the
Company or any of its subsidiaries on the one hand, and the directors,
officers, stockholders, customers or suppliers of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries on the other hand, which is required by the Act to be described
in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus which is not so described.
(p) The Company and each of its subsidiaries maintains a system of
internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance 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 generally
accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset accountability; (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 the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate
action is taken with respect to any differences.
(q) All material tax returns required to be filed by the Company and
each of its subsidiaries in any jurisdiction have been filed, other than
those filings being contested in good faith, and all material taxes,
including withholding taxes, penalties and interest, assessments, fees and
other charges due pursuant to such returns or pursuant to any assessment
received by the Company or any of its subsidiaries have been paid, other than
those being contested in good faith and for which adequate reserves have been
provided.
(r) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has violated any
foreign, federal, state or local law or regulation relating to the protection
of human health and safety, the environment or hazardous or toxic substances
or wastes, pollutants or contaminants ("ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS"), any provisions
of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or any
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provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder, except for such violations which, singly or in the
aggregate, would not have a material adverse effect on the business,
prospects, financial condition or results of operation of the Company and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(s) Each of the Company and its subsidiaries has such permits,
licenses, consents, exemptions, franchises, authorizations and other
approvals (each, an "AUTHORIZATION") of, and has made all filings with and
notices to, all governmental or regulatory authorities and self-regulatory
organizations and all courts and other tribunals, including, without
limitation, under any applicable Environmental Laws, as are necessary to own,
lease, license and operate its respective properties and to conduct its
business, except where the failure to have any such Authorization or to make
any such filing or notice would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a
material adverse effect on the business, prospects, financial condition or
results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
Each such Authorization is valid and in full force and effect and each of the
Company and its subsidiaries is in compliance with all the terms and
conditions thereof and with the rules and regulations of the authorities and
governing bodies having jurisdiction with respect thereto; and no event has
occurred (including, without limitation, the receipt of any notice from any
authority or governing body) which allows or, after notice or lapse of time
or both, would allow, revocation, suspension or termination of any such
Authorization or results or, after notice or lapse of time or both, would
result in any other impairment of the rights of the holder of any such
Authorization; and such Authorizations contain no restrictions that are
burdensome to the Company or any of its subsidiaries; except where such
failure to be valid and in full force and effect or to be in compliance, the
occurrence of any such event or the presence of any such restriction would
not, singly or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the
business, prospects, financial condition or results of operations of the
Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(t) There are no costs or liabilities associated with Environmental
Laws (including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures
required for clean-up, closure of properties or compliance with Environmental
Laws or any Authorization, any related constraints on operating activities
and any potential liabilities to third parties) which would, singly or in the
aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the business, prospects,
financial condition or results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(u) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the
Company.
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(v) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx L.L.P. are independent public accountants with
respect to the Company and its subsidiaries as required by the Act.
(w) The consolidated financial statements included in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus (and any amendment or supplement thereto),
together with related schedules and notes, present fairly the consolidated
financial position, results of operations and changes in financial position
of the Company and its subsidiaries on the basis stated therein at the
respective dates or for the respective periods to which they apply; such
statements and related schedules and notes have been prepared in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied throughout
the periods involved, except as disclosed therein; the supporting schedules,
if any, included in the Registration Statement present fairly in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles the information required to be
stated therein; and the other financial and statistical information and data
set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (and any amendment
or supplement thereto) are, in all material respects, accurately presented
and prepared on a basis consistent with such financial statements and the
books and records of the Company.
(x) The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and
sale of the Shares and the application of the proceeds thereof as described
in the Prospectus, will not be, an "investment company" as such term is
defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(y) There are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the
Company and any person granting such person the right to require the Company
to file a registration statement under the Act with respect to any securities
of the Company or to require the Company to include such securities with the
Shares registered pursuant to the Registration Statement.
(z) Since the respective dates as of which information is given in the
Prospectus other than as set forth in the Prospectus (exclusive of any
amendments or supplements thereto subsequent to the date of this Agreement),
(i) there has not occurred any material adverse change or any development
involving a prospective material adverse change in the condition, financial
or otherwise, or the earnings, business, management or operations of the
Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (ii) there has not been any
material adverse change or any development involving a prospective material
adverse change in the capital stock or in the long-term debt of the Company
or any of its subsidiaries and (iii) neither the Company nor any of its
subsidiaries has incurred any material liability or obligation, direct or
contingent.
(aa) Each certificate signed by any officer of the Company and delivered
to the Underwriters or counsel for the Underwriters shall be deemed to be a
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representation and warranty by the Company to the Underwriters as to the
matters covered thereby.
SECTION 7. INDEMNIFICATION .
(a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter,
its directors, its officers and each person, if any, who controls any
Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "EXCHANGE ACT"), from and
against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and judgments
(including, without limitation, any legal or other expenses incurred in
connection with investigating or defending any matter, including any action,
that could give rise to any such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or
judgments) caused by any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a
material fact contained in the Registration Statement (or any amendment
thereto), the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or any
preliminary prospectus, or caused by any omission or alleged omission to
state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein not misleading, except insofar as such losses,
claims, damages, liabilities or judgments are caused by any such untrue
statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission based upon
information relating to any Underwriter furnished in writing to the Company
by such Underwriter through you expressly for use therein; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that the foregoing indemnity agreement with respect to any preliminary
prospectus shall not inure to the benefit of any Underwriter who failed to
deliver a Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented, (so long as the
Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto was provided by the
Company to the several Underwriters in the requisite quantity and on a timely
basis to permit proper delivery on or prior to the Closing Date) to the
person asserting any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or judgments caused
by any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact
contained in such preliminary prospectus, or caused by any omission or
alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, if such
material misstatement or omission or alleged material misstatement or
omission was cured in the Prospectus, as so amended or supplemented, and such
Prospectus was required by law to be delivered at or prior to the written
confirmation of sale to such person.
(b) Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify
and hold harmless the Company, its directors, its officers who sign the
Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company
within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange
Act, to the same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Company to such
Underwriter but only with reference to information relating to such
Underwriter furnished in writing to the Company by such Underwriter through
you expressly for use in the Registration
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Statement (or any amendment thereto), the Prospectus (or any amendment or
supplement thereto) or any preliminary prospectus.
(c) In case any action shall be commenced involving any person in
respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to Section 7(a) or 7(b)
(the "indemnified party"), the indemnified party shall promptly notify the
person against whom such indemnity may be sought (the "indemnifying party")
in writing and the indemnifying party shall assume the defense of such
action, including the employment of counsel reasonably satisfactory to the
indemnified party and the payment of all fees and expenses of such counsel,
as incurred (except that in the case of any action in respect of which
indemnity may be sought pursuant to both Sections 7(a) and 7(b), the
Underwriter shall not be required to assume the defense of such action
pursuant to this Section 7(c), but may employ separate counsel and
participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such
counsel, except as provided below, shall be at the expense of such
Underwriter). Any indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate
counsel in any such action and participate in the defense thereof, but the
fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of the indemnified
party unless (i) the employment of such counsel shall have been specifically
authorized in writing by the indemnifying party, (ii) the indemnifying party
shall have failed to assume the defense of such action or employ counsel
reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party or (iii) the named parties
to any such action (including any impleaded parties) include both the
indemnified party and the indemnifying party, and the indemnified party shall
have been advised by such 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 (in which case the indemnifying party
shall not have the right to assume the defense of such action on behalf of
the indemnified party). In any such case, the indemnifying party shall not,
in connection with any one 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 fees and expenses of more
than one separate firm of attorneys (in addition to any local counsel) for
all indemnified parties and all such fees and expenses shall e reimbursed as
they are incurred. Such firm shall be designated in writing by Xxxxxxxxx,
Lufkin & Xxxxxxxx Securities Corporation, in the case of parties indemnified
pursuant to Section 7(a), and by the Company, in the case of parties
indemnified pursuant to Section 7(b). The indemnifying party shall indemnify
and hold harmless the indemnified party from and against any and all losses,
claims, damages, liabilities and judgments by reason of any settlement of any
action (i) effected with its written consent or (ii) effected without its
written consent if the settlement is entered into more than twenty business
days after the indemnifying party shall have received a request from the
indemnified party for reimbursement for the fees and expenses of counsel (in
any case where such fees and expenses are at the expense of the indemnifying
party) and, prior to the date of such settlement, the indemnifying party
shall have failed
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to comply with such reimbursement request. No indemnifying party shall,
without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any
settlement or compromise of, or consent to the entry of judgment with
respect to, any pending or threatened action in respect of which the
indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity or contribution
may be or could have been sought hereunder by the indemnified party, unless
such settlement, compromise or judgment (i) includes an unconditional
release of the indemnified party from all liability on claims that are or
could have been the subject matter of such action 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 the indemnified party.
(d) To the extent the indemnification provided for in this Section 7 is
unavailable to an indemnified party or insufficient in respect of any losses,
claims, damages, liabilities or judgments referred to therein, then each
indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party, shall
contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a
result of such losses, claims, damages, liabilities and judgments (i) in such
proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the
Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand from the
offering of the Shares or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause 7(d)(i)
above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is
appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause
7(d)(i) above but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and
the Underwriters on the other hand in connection with the statements or
omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or
judgments, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The
relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the
Underwriters on the other hand shall be deemed to be in the same proportion
as the total net proceeds from the offering (after deducting underwriting
discounts and commissions, but before deducting expenses) received by the
Company, and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the
Underwriters, bear to the total price to the public of the Shares, 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 Underwriters on the
other hand shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether
the 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 or the Underwriters and the parties' relative intent, knowledge,
access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or
omission.
The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and
equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 7(d) were determined by pro
rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such
purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the
equitable considerations referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph.
The amount
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paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims,
damages, liabilities or judgments referred to in the immediately preceding
paragraph shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth
above, any legal or other expenses incurred by such indemnified party in
connection with investigating or defending any matter, including any action,
that could have given rise to such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or
judgments. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 7, no Underwriter
shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which
the total price at which the Shares underwritten by it and distributed to the
public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages which
such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue
or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person
guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f)
of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not
guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters' obligations
to contribute pursuant to this Section 7(d) are several in proportion to the
respective number of Shares purchased by each of the Underwriters hereunder
and not joint.
(e) The remedies provided for in this Section 7 are not exclusive and
shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available to
any indemnified party at law or in equity.
SECTION 8. CONDITIONS OF UNDERWRITERS' OBLIGATIONS . The several
obligations of the Underwriters to purchase the Firm Shares under this
Agreement are subject to the satisfaction of each of the following conditions:
(a) All the representations and warranties of the Company contained in
this Agreement shall be true and correct on the Closing Date with the same
force and effect as if made on and as of the Closing Date.
(b) If the Company is required to file a Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement after the effectiveness of this Agreement, such Rule 462(b)
Registration Statement shall have become effective by 10:00 P.M., New York
City time, on the date of this Agreement; and no stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no
proceedings for that purpose shall have been commenced or shall be pending
before or contemplated by the Commission.
(c) You shall have received on the Closing Date a certificate dated the
Closing Date, signed by Xxxx X. Xxxxxx and Xxx Xxxxx, in their capacities as
the President and CFO of the Company, confirming the matters set forth in
Sections 6(t), 8(a) and 8(b) and that the Company has complied with all of
the agreements and satisfied all of the conditions herein contained and
required to be complied with or satisfied by the Company on or prior to the
Closing Date.
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(d) Since the respective dates as of which information is given in the
Prospectus other than as set forth in the Prospectus (exclusive of any
amendments or supplements thereto subsequent to the date of this Agreement),
(i) there shall not have occurred any change or any development involving a
prospective change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or the earnings,
business, management or operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken
as a whole, (ii) there shall not have been any change or any development
involving a prospective change in the capital stock or in the long-term debt
of the Company or any of its subsidiaries and (iii) neither the Company nor
any of its subsidiaries shall have incurred any liability or obligation,
direct or contingent, the effect of which, in any such case described in
clause 8(d)(i), 8(d)(ii) or 8(d)(iii), in your judgment, is material and
adverse and, in your judgment, makes it impracticable to market the Shares on
the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus.
(e) You shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion
(satisfactory to you and counsel for the Underwriters), dated the Closing
Date, of Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx & Freidenrich, LLP, counsel for the Company, to the
effect that:
(i) each of the Company and its subsidiaries has been duly
incorporated, is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under
the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation and has the corporate power
and authority to carry on its business as described in the Prospectus and
to own, lease and operate its properties;
(ii) each of the Company and its subsidiaries is duly qualified
and is in good standing as a foreign corporation authorized to do business
in each jurisdiction in which the nature of its business or its ownership
or leasing of property requires such qualification, except where the
failure to be so qualified would not have a material adverse effect on the
business, prospects, financial condition or results of operations of the
Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(iii) all the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company
have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid,
non-assessable and not subject to any preemptive or similar rights;
(iv) the Shares have been duly authorized and, when issued and
delivered to the Underwriters against payment therefor as provided by this
Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, and the
issuance of such Shares will not be subject to any preemptive or similar
rights;
(v) all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of each of
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Company's subsidiaries have been duly authorized and validly issued and
are fully paid and non-assessable, and are owned by the Company, directly
or indirectly through one or more subsidiaries, free and clear of any
security interest, claim, lien, encumbrance or adverse interest of any
nature;
(vi) this Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Company;
(vii) the authorized capital stock of the Company conforms as to
legal matters to the description thereof contained in the Prospectus;
(viii) the Registration Statement has become effective under the
Act, no stop order suspending its effectiveness has been issued and no
proceedings for that purpose are, to the best of such counsel's knowledge
after due inquiry, pending before or contemplated by the Commission;
(ix) the statements under the captions "Patents and Proprietary
Technologies," "Government Regulation," "Stock Option Plans," "Employee
Stock Ownership Plan," 1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan," Section 401(k)
Plan, "Limitation of Liability and Indemnification Matters," "Shares
Eligible for Future Sale," "Description of Capital Stock" and
"Underwriting" in the Prospectus and Items 14 and 15 of Part II of the
Registration Statement, insofar as such statements constitute a summary of
the legal matters, documents or proceedings referred to therein, fairly
present the information called for with respect to such legal matters,
documents and proceedings;
(x) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in
violation of its respective charter or by-laws and, to the best of such
counsel's knowledge after due inquiry, neither the Company nor any of its
subsidiaries is in default in the performance of any obligation, agreement,
covenant or condition contained in any indenture, loan agreement, mortgage,
lease or other agreement or instrument that is material to the Company and
its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to which the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries
or their respective property is bound;
(xi) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by
the Company, the compliance by the Company with all the provisions hereof
and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not (A)
require any consent, approval, authorization or other order of, or
qualification with, any court or governmental body or agency (except such
as may be required under the securities or Blue Sky laws of the
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various states), (B) conflict with or constitute a breach of any of the
terms or provisions of, or a default under, the charter or by-laws of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries or any indenture, loan agreement,
mortgage, lease or other agreement or instrument that is material to the
Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to which the Company or any
of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its
subsidiaries or their respective property is bound, (C) violate or conflict
with any applicable law or any rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree
of any court or any governmental body or agency having jurisdiction over
the Company, any of its subsidiaries or their respective property or (D)
result in the suspension, termination or revocation of any Authorization of
the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any other impairment of the
rights of the holder of any such Authorization;
(xii) after due inquiry, such counsel does not know of any legal
or governmental proceedings pending or threatened to which the Company or
any of its subsidiaries is or could be a party or to which any of their
respective property is or could be subject that are required to be
described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus and are not so
described, or of any statutes, regulations, contracts or other documents
that are required to be described in the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement that
are not so described or filed as required;
(xiii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has violated
any Environmental Law, any provisions of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended, or any provisions of the Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act, or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, except
for such violations which, singly or in the aggregate, would not have a
material adverse effect on the business, prospects, financial condition or
results of operation of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(xiv) each of the Company and its subsidiaries has such
Authorizations of, and has made all filings with and notices to, all
governmental or regulatory authorities and self-regulatory organizations
and all courts and other tribunals, including, without limitation, under
any applicable Environmental Laws, as are necessary to own, lease, license
and operate its respective properties and to conduct its business, except
where the failure to have any such Authorization or to make any such filing
or notice would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a material adverse
effect on the business, prospects, financial condition or results of
operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole; each
such Authorization is valid and in full force and effect and each of the
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Company and its subsidiaries is in compliance with all the terms and
conditions thereof and with the rules and regulations of the authorities
and governing bodies having jurisdiction with respect thereto; and no event
has occurred (including, without limitation, the receipt of any notice from
any authority or governing body) which allows or, after notice or lapse of
time or both, would allow, revocation, suspension or termination of any
such Authorization or results or, after notice or lapse of time or both,
would result in any other impairment of the rights of the holder of any
such Authorization; and such Authorizations contain no restrictions that
are burdensome to the Company or any of its subsidiaries; except where such
failure to be valid and in full force and effect or to be in compliance,
the occurrence of any such event or the presence of any such restriction
would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on
the business, prospects, financial condition or results of operations of
the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(xv) the Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering
and sale of the Shares and the application of the proceeds thereof as
described in the Prospectus, will not be, an "investment company" as such
term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended;
(xvi) to the best of such counsel's knowledge after due inquiry,
there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company
and any person granting such person the right to require the Company to
file a registration statement under the Act with respect to any securities
of the Company or to require the Company to include such securities with
the Shares registered pursuant to the Registration Statement;
(xvii) the Company and its subsidiaries have good and
marketable title to all personal property owned by them which is
material to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries, in each
case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and defects except such
as are described in the Prospectus or such as do not 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 and its
subsidiaries; and any real property and buildings held under lease by
the Company and its subsidiaries are held by them under valid,
subsisting and enforceable leases with such exceptions as are not
material and do not interfere with the use made and proposed to be
made of such property and buildings by the Company and its
subsidiaries, in each case except as described in the Prospectus;
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(xviii) the Company and its subsidiaries own or possess, or can
acquire on reasonable terms, all patents, patent rights, licenses,
inventions, copyrights, know-how (including trade secrets and other
unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential
information, systems or procedures), trademarks, service marks and
trade names ("intellectual property") currently employed by them in
connection with the business now operated by them except where the
failure to own or possess or otherwise be able to acquire such
intellectual property would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a
material adverse effect on the business, prospects, financial
condition or results of operation of the Company and its subsidiaries,
taken as a whole; and, to the best of such counsel's knowledge after
due inquiry, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has
received any notice of infringement of or conflict with asserted
rights of others with respect to any of such intellectual property
which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable
decision, ruling or finding, would have a material adverse effect on
the business, prospects, financial condition or results of operations
of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole; and
(xix) (A) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and any
supplement or amendment thereto (except for the financial statements and
other financial data included therein as to which no opinion need be
expressed) comply as to form with the Act, (B) such counsel has no reason
to believe that at the time the Registration Statement became effective or
on the date of this Agreement, the Registration Statement and the
prospectus included therein (except for the financial statements and other
financial data as to which such counsel need not express any belief)
contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading and (C) such counsel has no reason to
believe that the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, if applicable
(except for the financial statements and other financial data, as
aforesaid) contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to
state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in
the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
The opinion of Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx & Freidenrich, LLP described in Section 8(e)
above shall be rendered to you at the request of the Company and shall so state
therein.
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(f) You shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion, dated the
Closing Date, of Venture Law Group, A Professional Corporation, counsel for the
Underwriters, as to the matters referred to in Sections 8(e)(iv), 8(e)(vi),
8(e)(ix) (but only with respect to the statements under the caption "Description
of Capital Stock" and "Underwriting") and 8(e)(xix).
In giving such opinions with respect to the matters covered by Section
8(e)(xvii) Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx & Freidenrich, LLP and Venture Law Group, A
Professional Corporation, may state that their opinion and belief are based upon
their participation in the preparation of the Registration Statement and
Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto and review and discussion
of the contents thereof, but are without independent check or verification
except as specified.
(g) You shall have received, on each of the date hereof and the Closing
Date, a letter dated the date hereof or the Closing Date, as the case may be, in
form and substance satisfactory to you, from Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx L.L.P., independent
public accountants, containing the information and statements of the type
ordinarily included in accountants' "comfort letters" to Underwriters with
respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained
in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
(h) The Company shall have delivered to you the agreements specified in
Section 2 hereof which agreements shall be in full force and effect on the
Closing Date.
(i) The Shares shall have been duly listed for quotation on the Nasdaq
National Market.
(j) The Company shall not have failed on or prior to the Closing Date to
perform or comply with any of the agreements herein contained and required to be
performed or complied with by the Company on or prior to the Closing Date.
The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase any Additional
Shares hereunder are subject to the delivery to you on the applicable Option
Closing Date of such documents as you may reasonably request with respect to the
good standing of the Company, the due authorization and issuance of such
Additional Shares and other matters related to the issuance of such Additional
Shares.
SECTION 9. EFFECTIVENESS OF AGREEMENT AND TERMINATION . This Agreement
shall become effective upon the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the
parties hereto.
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This Agreement may be terminated at any time on or prior to the Closing
Date by you by written notice to the Company if any of the following has
occurred: (i) any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or
international calamity or crisis or change in economic conditions or in the
financial markets of the United States or elsewhere that, in your judgment, is
material and adverse and, in your judgment, makes it impracticable to market the
Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus, (ii) the
suspension or material limitation of trading in securities or other instruments
on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, the Chicago Board
of Options Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade
or the Nasdaq National Market or limitation on prices for securities or other
instruments on any such exchange or the Nasdaq National Market, (iii) the
suspension of trading of any securities of the Company on any exchange or in the
over-the-counter market, (iv) the enactment, publication, decree or other
promulgation of any federal or state statute, regulation, rule or order of any
court or other governmental authority which in your opinion materially and
adversely affects, or will materially and adversely affect, the business,
prospects, financial condition or results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (v) the declaration of a banking moratorium by
either federal or New York State authorities or (vi) the taking of any action by
any federal, state or local government or agency in respect of its monetary or
fiscal affairs which in your opinion has a material adverse effect on the
financial markets in the United States.
If on the Closing Date or on an Option Closing Date, as the case may be,
any one or more of the Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase the Firm
Shares or Additional Shares, as the case may be, which it has or they have
agreed to purchase hereunder on such date and the aggregate number of Firm
Shares or Additional Shares, as the case may be, which such defaulting
Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase is not
more than one-tenth of the total number of Firm Shares or Additional Shares,
as the case may be, to be purchased on such date by all Underwriters, each
non-defaulting Underwriter shall be obligated severally, in the proportion
which the number of Firm Shares set forth opposite its name in Schedule I
bears to the total number of Firm Shares which all the non-defaulting
Underwriters have agreed to purchase, or in such other proportion as you may
specify, to purchase the Firm Shares or Additional Shares, as the case may
be, which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or
refused to purchase on such date; PROVIDED that in no event shall the number
of Firm Shares or Additional Shares, as the case may be, which any
Underwriter has agreed to purchase pursuant to Section 2 hereof be increased
pursuant to this Section 9 by an amount in excess of one-ninth of such number
of Firm Shares or Additional Shares, as the case may be, without the written
consent of such Underwriter. If on the Closing Date any Underwriter or
Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Firm Shares and the aggregate
number of Firm Shares with respect to which such default occurs is more than
one-tenth of the
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aggregate number of Firm Shares to be purchased by all Underwriters and
arrangements satisfactory to you and the Company for purchase of such Firm
Shares are not made within 48 hours after such default, this Agreement will
terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter and
the Company. In any such case which does not result in termination of this
Agreement, either you or the Company shall have the right to postpone the
Closing Date, but in no event for longer than seven days, in order that the
required changes, if any, in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or
any other documents or arrangements may be effected. If, on an Option Closing
Date, any Underwriter or Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase
Additional Shares and the aggregate number of Additional Shares with respect
to which such default occurs is more than one-tenth of the aggregate number
of Additional Shares to be purchased on such date, the non-defaulting
Underwriters shall have the option to (i) terminate their obligation
hereunder to purchase such Additional Shares or (ii) purchase not less than
the number of Additional Shares that such non-defaulting Underwriters would
have been obligated to purchase on such date in the absence of such default.
Any action taken under this paragraph shall not relieve any defaulting
Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of any such Underwriter
under this Agreement.
SECTION 10. MISCELLANEOUS. Notices given pursuant to any provision of
this Agreement shall be addressed as follows: (i) if to the Company, to
Invitrogen Corporation, 0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000, and (ii) if
to any Underwriter or to you, to you c/x Xxxxxxxxx, Lufkin & Xxxxxxxx
Securities Corporation, 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention:
Syndicate Department, or in any case to such other address as the person to
be notified may have requested in writing.
The respective indemnities, contribution agreements, representations,
warranties and other statements of the Company and the several Underwriters
set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement shall remain operative and in
full force and effect, and will survive delivery of and payment for the
Shares, regardless of (i) any investigation, or statement as to the results
thereof, made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, the officers or directors
of any Underwriter, any person controlling any Underwriter, the Company, the
officers or directors of the Company or any person controlling the Company,
(ii) acceptance of the Shares and payment for them hereunder and (iii)
termination of this Agreement.
If for any reason the Shares are not delivered by or on behalf of the
Company as provided herein (other than as a result of any termination of this
Agreement pursuant to Section 9), the Company agrees to reimburse the several
Underwriters for all out-of-pocket expenses (including the fees and
disbursements of counsel) incurred by them. Notwithstanding any termination
of this Agreement, the Company shall be liable for all expenses which it has
agreed to pay pursuant
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to Section 5(i) hereof. The Company also agrees to reimburse the several
Underwriters, their directors and officers and any persons controlling any of
the Underwriters for any and all fees and expenses (including, without
limitation, the fees disbursements of counsel) incurred by them in connection
with enforcing their rights hereunder (including, without limitation,
pursuant to Section 7 hereof).
Except as otherwise provided, this Agreement has been and is made solely
for the benefit of and shall be binding upon the Company, the Underwriters,
the Underwriters' directors and officers, any controlling persons referred to
herein, the Company's directors and the Company's officers who sign the
Registration Statement and their respective successors and assigns, all as
and to the extent provided in this Agreement, and no other person shall
acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement. The term
"successors and assigns" shall not include a purchaser of any of the Shares
from any of the several Underwriters merely because of such purchase.
This Agreement shall be governed and construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of New York.
This Agreement may be signed in various counterparts which together
shall constitute one and the same instrument.
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Please confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the agreement
between the Company and the several Underwriters.
Very truly yours,
INVITROGEN CORPORATION
By:
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[Name/Title]
XXXXXXXXX, LUFKIN & XXXXXXXX
SECURITIES CORPORATION
NATIONSBANC XXXXXXXXXX SECURITIES LLC
WARBURG DILLON READ LLC
Acting severally on behalf of
themselves and the several
Underwriters named in
Schedule I hereto
By: XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXX & XXXXXXXX
SECURITIES CORPORATION
By:
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[Name/Title]
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SCHEDULE I
Number of Firm Shares
Underwriters to be Purchased
Xxxxxxxxx, Lufkin & Xxxxxxxx Securities
Corporation
NationsBanc Xxxxxxxxxx Securities LLC
Warburg Dillon Read LLC
[Names of other Underwriters]
Total
Annex I
[INSERT NAMES OF STOCKHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY WHO WILL BE REQUIRED TO SIGN
LOCK-UPS]
