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EXHIBIT 1.1
_________ SHARES
SELECTICA, INC.
COMMON STOCK, PAR VALUE $0.0001 PER SHARE
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
March __, 2000
CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON CORPORATION
XXXXXX XXXXXX PARTNERS LLC
U.S. BANCORP XXXXX XXXXXXX INC.
E*OFFERING CORP.,
As Representatives of the Several Underwriters,
c/o Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation,
Eleven Madison Avenue,
New York, N.Y. 10010-3629
Dear Sirs:
1. Introductory. Selectica, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Company"),
proposes to issue and sell 4,000,000 shares of its Common Stock, par value
$0.0001 per share ("Securities") (such 4,000,000 shares of Securities being
hereinafter referred to as the "Firm Securities"). The Company also proposes to
sell to the Underwriters, at the option of the Underwriters, an aggregate of not
more than 450,000 additional shares of its Securities, and Xx. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
(the "Selling Stockholder") also proposes to sell to the Underwriters, at the
option of the Underwriters, not more than 150,000 additional outstanding shares
of the Company's Securities, as set forth below (such 600,000 additional shares
being hereinafter referred to as the "Optional Securities"). The Firm Securities
and the Optional Securities are herein collectively called the "Offered
Securities". As part of the offering contemplated by this Agreement, E*OFFERING
Corp. (the "Designated Underwriter") has agreed to reserve out of the Firm
Securities purchased by it under this Agreement, up to 200,000 shares, for sale
to the Company's directors, officers, employees and other parties associated
with the Company (collectively, "Participants"), as set forth in the Prospectus
(as defined herein) under the heading "Underwriters" (the "Directed Share
Program"). The Firm Securities to be sold by the Designated Underwriter pursuant
to the Directed Share Program (the "Directed Shares") will be sold by the
Designated Underwriter pursuant to this Agreement at the public offering price.
Any Directed Shares not orally confirmed for purchase by a Participant by the
end of the business day on which this Agreement is executed will be offered to
the public by the Underwriters as set forth in the Prospectus. The Company and
the Selling Stockholder hereby agree with the several Underwriters named in
Schedule A hereto ("Underwriters") as follows:
2. Representations and Warranties of the Company and the Selling
Stockholder.
(a) The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the
several Underwriters that:
(i) A registration statement (No. 333-92545) relating
to the Offered Securities, including a form of prospectus, has been filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") and either (A) has been
declared effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended ("Act") and is
not proposed to be amended or (B) is proposed to be amended by amendment or
post-effective amendment. If such registration statement (the "initial
registration statement") has been declared effective, either (A) an additional
registration statement (the "additional registration statement") relating to the
Offered Securities may have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule
462(b) ("Rule 462(b)") under the Act and, if so filed, has become effective upon
filing pursuant to such Rule and the Offered Securities all have been duly
registered under the Act
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pursuant to the initial registration statement and, if applicable, the
additional registration statement or (B) such an additional registration
statement is proposed to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(b)
and will become effective upon filing pursuant to such Rule and upon such filing
the Offered Securities will all have been duly registered under the Act pursuant
to the initial registration statement and such additional registration
statement. If the Company does not propose to amend the initial registration
statement or if an additional registration statement has been filed and the
Company does not propose to amend it, and if any post-effective amendment to
either such registration statement has been filed with the Commission prior to
the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the most recent amendment (if any)
to each such registration statement has been declared effective by the
Commission or has become effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462(c) ("Rule
462(c)") under the Act or, in the case of the additional registration statement,
Rule 462(b). For purposes of this Agreement, "Effective Time" with respect to
the initial registration statement or, if filed prior to the execution and
delivery of this Agreement, the additional registration statement means (A) if
the Company has advised the Representatives that it does not propose to amend
such registration statement, the date and time as of which such registration
statement, or the most recent post-effective amendment thereto (if any) filed
prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, was declared effective by
the Commission or has become effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462(c), or
(B) if the Company has advised the Representatives that it proposes to file an
amendment or post-effective amendment to such registration statement, the date
and time as of which such registration statement, as amended by such amendment
or post-effective amendment, as the case may be, is declared effective by the
Commission. If an additional registration statement has not been filed prior to
the execution and delivery of this Agreement but the Company has advised the
Representatives that it proposes to file one, "Effective Time" with respect to
such additional registration statement means the date and time as of which such
registration statement is filed and becomes effective pursuant to Rule 462(b).
"Effective Date" with respect to the initial registration statement or the
additional registration statement (if any) means the date of the Effective Time
thereof. The initial registration statement, as amended at its Effective Time,
including all information contained in the additional registration statement (if
any) and deemed to be a part of the initial registration statement as of the
Effective Time of the additional registration statement pursuant to the General
Instructions of the Form on which it is filed and including all information (if
any) deemed to be a part of the initial registration statement as of its
Effective Time pursuant to Rule 430A(b) ("Rule 430A(b)") under the Act, is
hereinafter referred to as the "Initial Registration Statement". The additional
registration statement, as amended at its Effective Time, including the contents
of the initial registration statement incorporated by reference therein and
including all information (if any) deemed to be a part of the additional
registration statement as of its Effective Time pursuant to Rule 430A(b), is
hereinafter referred to as the "Additional Registration Statement". The Initial
Registration Statement and the Additional Registration Statement are hereinafter
referred to collectively as the "Registration Statements" and individually as a
"Registration Statement". The form of prospectus relating to the Offered
Securities, as first filed with the Commission pursuant to and in accordance
with Rule 424(b) ("Rule 424(b)") under the Act or (if no such filing is
required) as included in a Registration Statement, is hereinafter referred to as
the "Prospectus". No document has been or will be prepared or distributed in
reliance on Rule 434 under the Act.
(ii) If the Effective Time of the Initial Registration
Statement is prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement: (A) on the
Effective Date of the Initial Registration Statement, the Initial Registration
Statement conformed in all respects to the requirements of the Act and the rules
and regulations of the Commission ("Rules and Regulations") and did not include
any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading, (B) on the Effective Date of the Additional Registration Statement
(if any), each Registration Statement conformed, or will conform, in all
respects to the requirements of the Act and the Rules and Regulations and did
not include, or will not include, any untrue statement of a material fact and
did not omit, or will not omit, to state any material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading and (C) on
the date of this Agreement, the Initial Registration Statement and, if the
Effective Time of the Additional Registration Statement is prior to the
execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Additional Registration Statement
each conforms, and at the time of filing of the Prospectus pursuant to Rule
424(b) or (if no such filing is required) at the Effective Date of the
Additional Registration Statement in which the Prospectus is included, each
Registration Statement and the Prospectus will conform, in all respects to the
requirements of the Act and the Rules and Regulations, and neither of such
documents includes, or will include, any untrue statement of a material fact or
omits, or will omit, to state any material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. If the Effective Time
of the Initial Registration Statement is subsequent to the execution and
delivery of this Agreement: on the Effective Date of the Initial Registration
Statement, the Initial Registration Statement and the Prospectus will conform in
all respects to the requirements of the Act and
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the Rules and Regulations, neither of such documents will include any untrue
statement of a material fact or will omit to state any material fact required to
be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading,
and no Additional Registration Statement has been or will be filed. The two
preceding sentences do not apply to statements in or omissions from a
Registration Statement or the Prospectus based upon written information
furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives
specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such
information is that described as such in Section 7(c) hereof.
(iii) The Company has been duly incorporated and is an
existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware,
with power and authority (corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct
its business as described in the Prospectus; and the Company is duly qualified
to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other
jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its
business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so
qualified would not have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial
or other), business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries taken as a whole (a "Material Adverse Effect").
(iv) Each subsidiary of the Company has been duly
incorporated and is an existing corporation in good standing under the laws of
the jurisdiction of its incorporation, with power and authority (corporate and
other) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the
Prospectus; and each subsidiary of the Company is duly qualified to do business
as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which
its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such
qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified would not have a
Material Adverse Effect; all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of each
subsidiary of the Company has been duly authorized and validly issued and is
fully paid and nonassessable; and the capital stock of each subsidiary owned by
the Company, directly or through subsidiaries, is owned free from liens,
encumbrances and defects.
(v) The Offered Securities and all other outstanding
shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly authorized; all
outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are, and, when the Offered
Securities have been delivered and paid for in accordance with this Agreement on
each Closing Date (as defined below), such Offered Securities will have been,
validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and will conform to the description
thereof contained in the Prospectus; and the stockholders of the Company have no
preemptive rights with respect to the Securities.
(vi) Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, there are
no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any person
that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or any Underwriter for
a brokerage commission, finder's fee or other like payment in connection with
this offering.
(vii) Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, 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 owned or
to be owned by such person or to require the Company to include such securities
in the securities registered pursuant to a Registration Statement or in any
securities being registered pursuant to any other registration statement filed
by the Company under the Act.
(viii) The Offered Securities have been approved for
listing on The Nasdaq Stock Market's National Market, subject to notice of
issuance.
(ix) No consent, approval, authorization, or order of,
or filing with, any governmental agency or body or any court is required for the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in connection
with the issuance and sale of the Offered Securities by the Company, except such
as have been obtained and made under the Act and such as may be required under
state securities laws.
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(x) The execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement, and the issuance and sale of the Offered Securities will not result
in a breach or violation of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute a
default under, any statute, any rule, regulation or order of any governmental
agency or body or any court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the
Company or any subsidiary of the Company or any of their properties, or any
agreement or instrument to which the Company or any such subsidiary is a party
or by which the Company or any such subsidiary is bound or to which any of the
properties of the Company or any such subsidiary is subject, or the charter or
by-laws of the Company or any such subsidiary, and the Company has full power
and authority to authorize, issue and sell the Offered Securities as
contemplated by this Agreement.
(xi) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed
and delivered by the Company.
(xii) Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, the
Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all real
properties and all other properties and assets owned by them, in each case free
from liens, encumbrances and defects that would materially affect the value
thereof or materially interfere with the use made or to be made thereof by them;
and except as disclosed in the Prospectus, the Company and its subsidiaries hold
any leased real or personal property under valid and enforceable leases with no
exceptions that would materially interfere with the use made or to be made
thereof by them.
(xiii) The Company and its subsidiaries possess
adequate certificates, authorities or permits issued by appropriate governmental
agencies or bodies necessary to conduct the business now operated by them,
except for such certificates, authorities or permits the failure of which to
obtain would not have a Material Adverse Effect, and have not received any
notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such
certificate, authority or permit that, if determined adversely to the Company or
any of its subsidiaries, would individually or in the aggregate have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(xiv) No labor dispute with the employees of the
Company or any subsidiary exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is
imminent that might have a Material Adverse Effect.
(xv) The Company and its subsidiaries own, possess or
can acquire on reasonable terms, adequate trademarks, trade names and other
rights to inventions, know-how, patents, copyrights, confidential information
and other intellectual property, including applications licensed directly from
third parties (collectively, "intellectual property rights") necessary to
conduct the business now operated by them, or presently employed by them, and,
except as disclosed in the Prospectus, have not received any notice of
infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any
intellectual property rights that, if determined adversely to the Company or any
of its subsidiaries, would individually or in the aggregate have a Material
Adverse Effect. The discoveries, inventions, products or processes of the
Company referred to in the Prospectus do not, to the Company's knowledge,
infringe or conflict with any intellectual property right of any third party.
(xvi) Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, neither
the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of any statute, any
rule, regulation, decision or order of any governmental agency or body or any
court, domestic or foreign, relating to the use, disposal or release of
hazardous or toxic substances or relating to the protection or restoration of
the environment or human exposure to hazardous or toxic substances
(collectively, "environmental laws"), owns or operates any real property
contaminated with any substance that is subject to any environmental laws, is
liable for any off-site disposal or contamination pursuant to any environmental
laws, or is subject to any claim relating to any environmental laws, which
violation, contamination, liability or claim would individually or in the
aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect; and the Company is not aware of any
pending investigation which might lead to such a claim.
(xvii) Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, there
are no pending actions, suits or proceedings against or affecting the Company,
or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties that, if
determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, would
individually or in
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the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect, or would materially and adversely
affect the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this
Agreement, or which are otherwise material in the context of the sale of the
Offered Securities; and no such actions, suits or proceedings are threatened or,
to the Company's knowledge, contemplated.
(xviii) The financial statements included in each
Registration Statement and the Prospectus present fairly the financial position
of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates shown and their
results of operations and cash flows for the periods shown, and such financial
statements have been prepared in conformity with the generally accepted
accounting principles in the United States applied on a consistent basis and the
schedules included in each Registration Statement present fairly the information
required to be stated therein; and the assumptions used in preparing the pro
forma financial statements included in each Registration Statement and the
Prospectus provide a reasonable basis for presenting the significant effects
directly attributable to the transactions or events described therein, the
related pro forma adjustments give appropriate effect to those assumptions, and
the pro forma columns therein reflect the proper application of those
adjustments to the corresponding historical financial statement amounts.
(xix) Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, since the
date of the latest audited financial statements included in the Prospectus there
has been no material adverse change, nor any development or event involving a
prospective material adverse change in the condition (financial or other),
business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries taken as a whole, and, except as disclosed in or contemplated by
the Prospectus, there has been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared,
paid or made by the Company on any class of its capital stock.
(xx) The execution and delivery of the Agreement and
Plan of Merger dated as of January 19, 2000 (the "Merger Agreement") between
Selectica, Inc., a California corporation (the "California Corporation"), and
the Company, effecting the reincorporation of the California Corporation under
the laws of the State of Delaware, was duly authorized by all necessary
corporate action on the part of each of the California Corporation and the
Company. Each of the California Corporation and the Company had all corporate
power and authority to execute and deliver the Merger Agreement, to file the
Merger Agreement with the Secretary of State of California and the Secretary of
State of Delaware and to consummate the reincorporation contemplated by the
Merger Agreement, and the Merger Agreement at the time of execution and filing
constituted a valid and binding obligation of each of the California Corporation
and the Company.
(xxi) The Company is not and, after giving effect to
the offering and sale of the Offered Securities and the application of the
proceeds thereof as described in the Prospectus, will not be an "investment
company" as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940.
(xxii) The Company (i) has notified each holder of a
currently outstanding option issued under the Company's 1996 Stock Option Plan
and 1999 Equity Incentive Plan, and each person who has acquired Securities
pursuant to the exercise of any option granted under such option plans that
pursuant to the terms of such option plans, none of such options or shares may
be sold or otherwise transferred or disposed of for a period of 180 days after
the date of the initial public offering of the Offered Securities and (ii) has
imposed a stop-transfer instruction with the Company's transfer agent in order
to enforce the foregoing lock-up provision imposed pursuant to the Option Plan.
(xxiii) Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, all
outstanding Securities, and all securities convertible into or exercisable or
exchangeable for Securities, are subject to valid and binding agreements
(collectively, "Lock-up Agreements") that restrict the holders thereof from
selling, making any short sale of, granting any option for the purchase of, or
otherwise transferring or disposing of, any of such Securities, or any such
securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Securities, for a
period of 180 days after the date of the Prospectus without the prior written
consent of Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation ("CSFBC").
(xxiv) The Company (i) has notified each stockholder
who is party to the Amended and Restated Investors Rights Agreement dated June
16, 1999 (the "Rights Agreement"), that
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pursuant to the terms of the Rights Agreement, none of the shares of the
Company's capital stock held by such stockholder may be sold or otherwise
transferred or disposed of for a period of 180 days after the date of the
initial public offering of the Offered Securities and (ii) has imposed a
stop-transfer instruction with the Company's transfer agent in order to enforce
the foregoing lock-up provision imposed pursuant to the Rights Agreement.
(xxv) Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates
does business with the government of Cuba or with any person or affiliate
located in Cuba within the meaning of Section 517.075, Florida Statutes and the
Company agrees to comply with such Section if prior to the completion of the
distribution of the Offered Securities it commences doing such business.
(xxvi) The Company has not offered, or caused the
Underwriters to offer, any Offered Securities to any person pursuant to the
Directed Share Program with the specific intent to unlawfully influence (i) a
customer or supplier of the Company to alter the customer's or supplier's level
or type of business with the Company or (ii) a trade journalist or publication
to write or publish favorable information about the Company or its products.
(xxvii) The Company and each of its subsidiaries
maintain a system of internal accounting procedures and controls sufficient to
provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance
with management's general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions and
contract terms, including performance criteria and Company commitments, are
recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in
conformity with GAAP; and (iii) revenue is recorded on complex material
contracts only after review and approval by a senior executive in the finance
organization.
Furthermore, the Company represents and warrants to the Underwriters
that (i) the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any preliminary
prospectus comply, and any further amendments or supplements thereto will
comply, with any applicable laws or regulations of foreign jurisdictions in
which the Prospectus or any preliminary prospectus, as amended or supplemented,
if applicable, are distributed in connection with the Directed Share Program,
and that (ii) no authorization , approval, consent, license, order, registration
or qualification of or with any government, governmental instrumentality or
court, other than such as have been obtained, is necessary under the securities
law and regulations or foreign jurisdictions in which the Directed Shares are
offered outside the United States.
(b) The Selling Stockholder represents and warrants to, and agrees with,
the several Underwriters that:
(i) The Selling Stockholder has and on each Closing Date
hereinafter mentioned will have valid and unencumbered title to the Offered
Securities to be delivered by the Selling Stockholder on such Closing Date and
full right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to sell,
assign, transfer and deliver the Offered Securities to be delivered by the
Selling Stockholder on such Closing Date hereunder; and upon the delivery of and
payment for the Offered Securities on each Closing Date hereunder the several
Underwriters will acquire valid and unencumbered title to the Offered Securities
to be delivered by the Selling Stockholder on such Closing Date.
(ii) If the Effective Time of the Initial Registration
Statement is prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement: (A) on the
Effective Date of the Initial Registration Statement, the Initial Registration
Statement did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading, (B) on the Effective Date of the Additional
Registration Statement (if any), each Registration Statement did not include, or
will not include, any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit, or
will not omit, to state any material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and (C) on the date of
this Agreement, the Initial Registration Statement and, if the Effective Time of
the Additional Registration Statement is prior to the execution and delivery of
this Agreement, the Additional Registration Statement each conforms, and at the
time of filing of the Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) or (if no such filing
is required) at the Effective Date of the Additional Registration Statement in
which the Prospectus is included, neither the Registration Statement nor the
Prospectus includes, or will include, any untrue statement of a material fact or
omits, or will omit, to state any material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements
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therein not misleading. If the Effective Time of the Initial Registration
Statement is subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement: on the
Effective Date of the Initial Registration Statement, the Initial Registration
Statement and the Prospectus will conform in all respects to the requirements of
the Act and the Rules and Regulations, neither of such documents will include
any untrue statement of a material fact or will omit to state any material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading. The two preceding sentences do not apply to statements in or
omissions from a Registration Statement or the Prospectus based upon written
information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the
Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed
that the only such information is that described as such in Section 7(c).
(iii) Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, there are no
contracts, agreements or understandings between the Selling Stockholder and any
person that would give rise to a valid claim against the Selling Stockholder or
any Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder's fee or other like payment
in connection with this offering.
3. Purchase, Sale and Delivery of Offered Securities. On the basis of
the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, but subject to
the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to sell to the
Underwriters, and the Underwriters agree, severally and not jointly, to purchase
from the Company, at a purchase price of $[____] per share, the respective
numbers of shares of Firm Securities set forth opposite the names of the
Underwriters in Schedule A hereto.
The Company will deliver the Firm Securities to the Representatives for
the accounts of the Underwriters, at the office of CSFBC, Eleven Madison Avenue,
New York, New York, against payment of the purchase price in Federal (same day)
funds by official bank check or checks or wire transfer to an account at a bank
acceptable to CSFBC drawn to the order of the Company at the office of Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxx, LLP ("GDSVFH"), 000 Xxxxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, at 10:00 A.M., New York time, on March [__],
2000, or at such other time not later than seven full business days thereafter
as CSFBC and the Company determine, such time being herein referred to as the
"First Closing Date." For purposes of Rule 15c6-1 under the Exchange Act, the
First Closing Date (if later than the otherwise applicable settlement date)
shall be the settlement date for payment of funds and delivery of securities for
all the Offered Securities sold pursuant to the offering. The certificates for
the Firm Securities so to be delivered will be in definitive form, in such
denominations and registered in such names as CSFBC requests and will be made
available for checking and packaging at the above office of CSFBC in New York at
least 24 hours prior to the First Closing Date.
In addition, upon written notice from CSFBC given to the Company and the
Selling Stockholder from time to time not more than 30 days subsequent to the
date of the Prospectus, the Underwriters may purchase all or less than all of
the Optional Securities at the purchase price per Security to be paid for the
Firm Securities. The Company and the Selling Stockholder agree, severally and
not jointly, to sell to the Underwriters the respective numbers of Optional
Securities obtained by multiplying the number of shares specified in such notice
by a fraction the numerator of which is [______________] in the case of the
Company and [________________] in the case of the Selling Stockholder and the
denominator of which is the total number of Optional Securities (subject to
adjustment by CSFBC to eliminate fractions). Such Optional Securities shall be
purchased from the Company and the Selling Stockholder for the account of each
Underwriter in the same proportion as the number of shares of Firm Securities
set forth opposite such Underwriter's name bears to the total number of shares
of Firm Securities (subject to adjustment by CSFBC to eliminate fractions) and
may be purchased by the Underwriters only for the purpose of covering
over-allotments made in connection with the sale of the Firm Securities. No
Optional Securities shall be sold or delivered unless the Firm Securities
previously have been, or simultaneously are, sold and delivered. The right to
purchase the Optional Securities or any portion thereof may be exercised from
time to time and to the extent not previously exercised may be surrendered and
terminated at any time upon notice by CSFBC to the Company and the Selling
Stockholder.
Each time for the delivery of and payment for the Optional Securities,
being herein referred to as an "Optional Closing Date," which may be the First
Closing Date (the First Closing Date and each Optional Closing Date, if any,
being sometimes referred to as a "Closing Date"), shall be determined by CSFBC
but shall be not later than five full business days after written notice of
election to purchase
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Optional Securities is given. The Company and the Custodian will deliver the
Optional Securities being purchased on each Optional Closing Date to the
Representatives for the accounts of the several Underwriters, at the above
office of CSFBC in New York, against payment of the purchase price therefor in
Federal (same day) funds by official bank check or checks or wire transfer to an
account at a bank acceptable to CSFBC drawn to the order of the Company at the
above office of GDSVFH. The certificates for the Optional Securities being
purchased on each Optional Closing Date will be in definitive form, in such
denominations and registered in such names as CSFBC requests upon reasonable
notice prior to such Optional Closing Date and will be made available for
checking and packaging at the above office of CSFBC at a reasonable time in
advance of such Optional Closing Date.
Certificates in negotiable form for the Offered Securities to be sold by
the Selling Stockholder hereunder have been placed in custody, for delivery
under this Agreement, under Custody Agreement made with
[_________________________], as custodian ("Custodian"). The Selling Stockholder
agrees that the shares represented by the certificates held in custody for the
Selling Stockholder under such Custody Agreement are subject to the interests of
the Underwriters hereunder, that the arrangements made by the Selling
Stockholder for such custody are to that extent irrevocable, and that the
obligations of the Selling Stockholder hereunder shall not be terminated by
operation of law, whether by the death of the Selling Stockholder or the
occurrence of any other event. If the Selling Stockholder should die, or if any
other such event should occur, before the delivery of the Offered Securities
hereunder, certificates for such Offered Securities shall be delivered by the
Custodian in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement as if
such death or other event had not occurred, regardless of whether or not the
Custodian shall have received notice of such death or other event.
4. Offering by Underwriters. It is understood that the several
Underwriters propose to offer the Offered Securities for sale to the public as
set forth in the Prospectus.
5. Certain Agreements of the Company and the Selling Stockholder. The
Company agrees with the several Underwriters and the Selling Stockholder that:
(a) If the Effective Time of the Initial Registration Statement
is prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Company will file
the Prospectus with the Commission pursuant to and in accordance with
subparagraph (1) (or, if applicable and if consented to by CSFBC, subparagraph
(4)) of Rule 424(b) not later than the earlier of (A) the second business day
following the execution and delivery of this Agreement or (B) the fifteenth
business day after the Effective Date of the Initial Registration Statement.
The Company will advise CSFBC promptly of any such filing pursuant to
Rule 424(b). If the Effective Time of the Initial Registration Statement is
prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and an additional
registration statement is necessary to register a portion of the Offered
Securities under the Act but the Effective Time thereof has not occurred as of
such execution and delivery, the Company will file the additional registration
statement or, if filed, will file a post-effective amendment thereto with the
Commission pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 462(b) on or prior to 10:00
P.M., New York time, on the date of this Agreement or, if earlier, on or prior
to the time the Prospectus is printed and distributed to any Underwriter, or
will make such filing at such later date as shall have been consented to by
CSFBC.
(b) The Company will advise CSFBC promptly of any proposal to
amend or supplement the initial or any additional registration statement as
filed or the related prospectus or the Initial Registration Statement, the
Additional Registration Statement (if any) or the Prospectus and will not effect
such amendment or supplementation without CSFBC's consent; and the Company will
also advise CSFBC promptly of the effectiveness of each Registration Statement
(if its Effective Time is subsequent to the execution and delivery of this
Agreement) and of any amendment or supplementation of a Registration Statement
or the Prospectus and of the institution by the Commission of any stop order
proceedings in respect of a Registration Statement and will use its best efforts
to prevent the issuance of any such stop order and to obtain as soon as possible
its lifting, if issued.
(c) If, at any time when a prospectus relating to the Offered
Securities is required to be delivered under the Act in connection with sales by
any Underwriter or dealer, any event occurs as a
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result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include an
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary
to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they
were made, not misleading, or if it is necessary at any time to amend the
Prospectus to comply with the Act, the Company will promptly notify CSFBC of
such event and will promptly prepare and file with the Commission, at its own
expense, an amendment or supplement which will correct such statement or
omission or an amendment which will effect such compliance. Neither CSFBC's
consent to, nor the Underwriters' delivery of, any such amendment or supplement
shall constitute a waiver of any of the conditions set forth in Section 6.
(d) As soon as practicable, but not later than the Availability
Date (as defined below), the Company will make generally available to its
securityholders an earnings statement covering a period of at least 12 months
beginning after the Effective Date of the Initial Registration Statement (or, if
later, the Effective Date of the Additional Registration Statement) which will
satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Act. For the purpose of the
preceding sentence, "Availability Date" means the 45th day after the end of the
fourth fiscal quarter following the fiscal quarter that includes such Effective
Date, except that, if such fourth fiscal quarter is the last quarter of the
Company's fiscal year, "Availability Date" means the 90th day after the end of
such fourth fiscal quarter.
(e) The Company will furnish to the Representatives copies of
each Registration Statement (four of which will be signed and will include all
exhibits), each related preliminary prospectus, and, so long as a prospectus
relating to the Offered Securities is required to be delivered under the Act in
connection with sales by any Underwriter or dealer, the Prospectus and all
amendments and supplements to such documents, in each case in such quantities as
CSFBC requests. The Prospectus shall be so furnished on or prior to 3:00 P.M.,
New York time, on the business day following the later of the execution and
delivery of this Agreement or the Effective Time of the Initial Registration
Statement. All other such documents shall be so furnished as soon as available.
The Company will pay the expenses of printing and distributing to the
Underwriters all such documents.
(f) The Company will arrange for the qualification of the Offered
Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as CSFBC designates and
will continue such qualifications in effect so long as required for the
distribution; provided, however, that the Company will not be required to
arrange for the qualification of the Offered Securities in any jurisdiction in
which the Company would be required to execute a general consent to service of
process in effecting such qualification, unless the Company is already subject
to service of process in such jurisdiction.
(g) During the period of five years hereafter, the Company will
furnish to the Representatives and, upon request, to each of the other
Underwriters, as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year, a copy
of its annual report to stockholders for such year; and the Company will furnish
to the Representatives (i) as soon as available, a copy of each report and any
definitive proxy statement of the Company filed with the Commission under the
Exchange Act or mailed to stockholders, and (ii) from time to time, such other
information concerning the Company as CSFBC may reasonably request.
(h) The Company and the Selling Stockholder agree with the
several Underwriters that the Company and the Selling Stockholder will pay all
expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the Company and the
Selling Stockholder, as the case may be, under this Agreement, for any filing
fees and other expenses (including fees and disbursements of counsel) incurred
in connection with qualification of the Offered Securities for sale under the
laws of such jurisdictions as CSFBC designates and the printing of memoranda
relating thereto, for the filing fee incident to, and the reasonable fees and
disbursements of counsel to the Underwriters in connection with, the review by
the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. of the Offered Securities,
for any travel expenses of the Company's officers and employees and any other
expenses of the Company in connection with attending or hosting meetings with
prospective purchasers of the Offered Securities, for any transfer taxes on the
sale by the Selling Stockholder of the Offered Securities to the Underwriters
and for expenses incurred in distributing preliminary prospectuses and the
Prospectus (including any amendments and supplements thereto) to the
Underwriters.
(i) The Selling Stockholder agrees to deliver to CSFBC,
attention: Transactions Advisory Group on or prior to the First Closing Date, a
properly completed and executed United States
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Treasury Department Form W-9 (or other applicable form or statement specified by
Treasury Department regulations in lieu thereof).
(j) For a period of 180 days after the date of the initial public
offering of the Offered Securities, the Company will not offer, sell, contract
to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, or file with
the Commission a registration statement under the Act relating to, any
additional shares of its Securities or securities convertible into or
exchangeable or exercisable for any shares of its Securities, or publicly
disclose the intention to make any such offer, sale, pledge, disposition or
filing, without the prior written consent of CSFBC, except issuances of
Securities pursuant to the conversion of convertible securities or the exercise
of warrants or options, in each case outstanding on the date hereof, grants of
employee stock options pursuant to the terms of a plan in effect on the date
hereof, issuances of Securities pursuant to the exercise of such options,
pursuant to the Company's 1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan or the Company's
issuance of Securities to Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. and Dell USA L.P. in a private
placement to be consummated immediately following the First Closing.
(k) The Company agrees to use its best efforts to cause (i) each
of its directors, officers and stockholders and (ii) each person who acquires
Securities of the Company pursuant to the exercise of any option or right
granted under the Company's 1996 Stock Option Plan or the 1999 Equity Incentive
Plan and/or the purchase of Securities of the Company pursuant to the Company's
1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, to sign a Lock-up Agreement, which states
that such person will not offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge or otherwise
dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Securities or securities
convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for any shares of Securities, or
publicly disclose the intention to make any such offer, sale, pledge or
disposal, for a period of 180 days after the date of the Prospectus without the
prior written consent of CSFBC; and the Company will (i) enforce the terms of
each such Lock-up Agreement and (ii) issue and impose a stop-transfer
instruction with the Company's transfer agent in order to enforce the foregoing
Lock-up Agreements.
(l) Except with the prior written consent of CSFBC, the Company
agrees (i) not to amend or terminate, or waive any right under, any Lock-up
Agreement, or take any other action that would directly or indirectly have the
same effect as an amendment or termination, or waiver of any right under any
Lock-up Agreement, that would permit any holder of Securities, or any securities
convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, Securities, to make any
short sale of, grant any option for the purchase of, or otherwise transfer or
dispose of, any such Securities or other securities, prior to the expiration of
the 180 days after the date of the Prospectus and (ii) not to consent to any
sale, short sale, grant of an option for the purchase of, or other disposition
or transfer of shares of Securities, or securities convertible into or
exercisable or exchangeable for Securities, subject to a Lock-up Agreement.
(m) In connection with the Directed Share Program, the Company
will ensure that the Directed Shares will be restricted to the extent required
by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the "NASD") or the NASD
rules from sale, transfer, assignment, pledge or hypothecation for a period of
three months following the date of the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement. The Designated Underwriter will notify the Company as to which
Participants will need to be so restricted. The Company will direct the transfer
agent to place stop transfer instructions upon such securities for such period
of time.
(n) The Company will pay all fees and disbursements of counsel
incurred by the Underwriters in connection with the Directed Share Program and
stamp duties, similar taxes or duties or other taxes, if any, incurred by the
Underwriters in connection with the Directed Share Program.
(o) Prior to issuing any press release regarding the operating
results or financial condition with respect to the third fiscal quarter for
fiscal year 2000 or any of the Company's first three fiscal quarters in any of
fiscal years 2001 or 2002, and prior to filing a quarterly report on Form 10-Q
relating to any such fiscal quarters, the Company will retain Ernst & Young LLP,
or other independent public accountants of recognized national standing, who
shall review, in accordance with AICPA Statement on Auditing Standards No. 71,
the Company's unaudited consolidated financial statements at the end of each
such fiscal quarter; provided, however, that the Company's obligation under this
covenant may
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terminate after the third quarter of fiscal year 2001 at the discretion of the
Company's Board of Directors if the Company's Board of Directors determines in
good faith that adequate financial controls are in place.
Furthermore, the Company covenants with the Underwriters that the
Company will comply with all applicable securities and other applicable laws,
rules and regulations in each foreign jurisdiction in which the Directed Shares
are offered in connection with the Directed Share Program.
6. Conditions of the Obligations of the Underwriters. The obligations of
the several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Securities on the
First Closing Date and the Optional Securities to be purchased on each Optional
Closing Date will be subject to the accuracy of the representations and
warranties on the part of the Company and the Selling Stockholder herein, to the
accuracy of the statements of Company officers made pursuant to the provisions
hereof, to the performance by the Company and the Selling Stockholder of their
obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedent:
(a) The Representatives shall have received a letter, dated the
date of delivery thereof (which, if the Effective Time of the Initial
Registration Statement is prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement,
shall be on or prior to the date of this Agreement or, if the Effective Time of
the Initial Registration Statement is subsequent to the execution and delivery
of this Agreement, shall be prior to the filing of the amendment or
post-effective amendment to the registration statement to be filed shortly prior
to such Effective Time), of Ernst & Young LLP confirming that they are
independent public accountants within the meaning of the Act and the applicable
published Rules and Regulations thereunder and stating to the effect that:
(i) in their opinion the financial statements and
schedules examined by them and included in the Registration Statements comply as
to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of
the Act and the related published Rules and Regulations;
(ii) they have performed the procedures specified by
the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants for a review of interim
financial information as described in Statement of Auditing Standards No. 71,
Interim Financial Information, on the unaudited financial statements included in
the Registration Statements;
(iii) on the basis of the review referred to in clause
(ii) above, a reading of the latest available interim financial statements of
the Company, inquiries of officials of the Company who have responsibility for
financial and accounting matters and other specified procedures, nothing came to
their attention that caused them to believe that:
(A) the unaudited financial statements included in
the Registration Statements do not comply as to form in
all material respects with the applicable accounting
requirements of the Act and the related published Rules
and Regulations or any material modifications should be
made to such unaudited financial statements for them to
be in conformity with generally accepted accounting
principles;
(B) at the date of the latest available balance
sheet read by such accountants, or at a subsequent
specified date not more than three business days prior
to the date of such letter, there was any change in the
capital stock or any increase in short-term or long-term
debt, total or current liabilities or total
stockholders' deficit, or any decrease in current assets
or total assets of the Company and its consolidated
subsidiaries, as compared with amounts shown on the
latest balance sheet included in the Prospectus; or
(C) for the period from the closing date of the
latest statement of operations included in the
Prospectus to a specified date not more than three
business days prior to the date of such letter, there
were any decreases, as compared with the corresponding
period of the previous year and with the
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period of corresponding length in the previous quarter,
in total revenues, or increases in loss from operations,
comprehensive loss or the total or per share amounts of
basic net loss;
except in all cases set forth in clauses (B) and (C) above for changes,
increases or decreases which the Prospectus discloses have occurred or may occur
or which are described in such letter; and
(iv) they have compared specified dollar amounts (or
percentages derived from such dollar amounts) and other financial information
contained in the Registration Statements (in each case to the extent that such
dollar amounts, percentages and other financial and statistical information are
derived from the general accounting records of the Company and its subsidiaries
subject to the internal controls of the Company's accounting system or are
derived directly from such records by analysis or computation) with the results
obtained from inquiries, a reading of such general accounting records and other
procedures specified in such letter and have found such dollar amounts,
percentages and other financial and statistical information to be in agreement
with such results, except as otherwise specified in such letter.
For purposes of this subsection, (i) if the Effective Time of the
Initial Registration Statement is subsequent to the execution and delivery of
this Agreement, "Registration Statements" shall mean the initial registration
statement as proposed to be amended by the amendment or post-effective amendment
to be filed shortly prior to its Effective Time, (ii) if the Effective Time of
the Initial Registration Statement is prior to the execution and delivery of
this Agreement but the Effective Time of the Additional Registration Statement
is subsequent to such execution and delivery, "Registration Statements" shall
mean the Initial Registration Statement and the additional registration
statement as proposed to be filed or as proposed to be amended by the
post-effective amendment to be filed shortly prior to its Effective Time, and
(iii) "Prospectus" shall mean the prospectus included in the Registration
Statements.
(b) If the Effective Time of the Initial Registration Statement
is not prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, such Effective
Time shall have occurred not later than 10:00 P.M., New York time, on the date
of this Agreement or such later date as shall have been consented to by CSFBC.
If the Effective Time of the Additional Registration Statement (if any) is not
prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, such Effective Time shall
have occurred not later than 10:00 P.M., New York time, on the date of this
Agreement or, if earlier, the time the Prospectus is printed and distributed to
any Underwriter, or shall have occurred at such later date as shall have been
consented to by CSFBC. If the Effective Time of the Initial Registration
Statement is prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the
Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in accordance with the
Rules and Regulations and Section 5(a) of this Agreement. Prior to such Closing
Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement
shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been
instituted or, to the knowledge of the Selling Stockholder, the Company or the
Representatives, shall be contemplated by the Commission.
(c) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement,
there shall not have occurred (i) any change, or any development or event
involving a prospective change, in the condition (financial or other), business,
properties or results of operations of the Company or its subsidiaries taken as
one enterprise which, in the judgment of a majority in interest of the
Underwriters including the Representatives, is material and adverse and makes it
impractical or inadvisable to proceed with completion of the public offering or
the sale of and payment for the Offered Securities; (ii) any downgrading in the
rating of any debt securities of the Company by any "nationally recognized
statistical rating organization" (as defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under
the Act), or any public announcement that any such organization has under
surveillance or review its rating of any debt securities of the Company (other
than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading, and no
implication of a possible downgrading, of such rating); (iii) any material
suspension or material limitation of trading in securities generally on the New
York Stock Exchange, or any setting of minimum prices for trading on such
exchange, or any suspension of trading of any securities of the Company on any
exchange or in the over-the-counter market; (iv) any banking moratorium declared
by U.S. Federal or New York authorities; or (v) any outbreak or escalation of
major hostilities in which the United States is involved, any declaration of war
by Congress or any other substantial national or international calamity or
emergency if, in the
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judgment of a majority in interest of the Underwriters including the
Representatives, the effect of any such outbreak, escalation, declaration,
calamity or emergency makes it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with
completion of the public offering or the sale of and payment for the Offered
Securities.
(d) The Representatives shall have received an opinion, dated
such Closing Date, of GDSVFH, counsel for the Company, to the effect that:
(i) The Company has been duly incorporated and is an
existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware,
with corporate power and authority to own its properties and conduct its
business as described in the Prospectus; and the Company is duly qualified to do
business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other jurisdictions in
which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires
such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified would not have a
Material Adverse Effect.
(ii) The Offered Securities delivered on such Closing
Date and all other outstanding shares of the capital stock of the Company have
been duly authorized and validly issued and, to such counsel's knowledge, are
fully paid and nonassessable and conform to the description thereof contained in
the Prospectus; and the stockholders of the Company have no preemptive rights
with respect to the Securities;
(iii) Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, there are
no contracts, agreements or understandings known to such counsel 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 owned or to be owned by such person or to require the Company to
include such securities in the securities registered pursuant to the
Registration Statement or in any securities being registered pursuant to any
other registration statement filed by the Company under the Act;
(iv) The Company is not and, after giving effect to
the offering and sale of the Offered Securities and the application of the
proceeds thereof as described in the Prospectus, will not be an "investment
company" as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940.
(v) No consent, approval, authorization or order of,
or filing with, any governmental agency or body or any court is required to be
obtained or made by the Company or the Selling Stockholder for the consummation
of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Custody Agreement in
connection with the issuance or sale of the Offered Securities by the Company,
except such as have been obtained and made under the Act and such as may be
required under state securities laws;
(vi) The execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement or the Custody Agreement and the consummation of the transaction
herein or therein contemplated will not result in a breach or violation of any
of the terms and provisions of, or constitute a default under, any statute, any
rule, regulation or order of any governmental agency or body or any court having
jurisdiction over the Company or any subsidiary of the Company or any of their
properties, or any agreement or instrument filed as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement to which the Company or any such subsidiary is a party or
by which the Company or any such subsidiary is bound or to which any of the
properties of the Company or any such subsidiary is subject, or the charter or
by-laws of the Company or any such subsidiary, and the Company has full power
and authority to authorize, issue and sell the Offered Securities as
contemplated by this Agreement;
(vii) The Initial Registration Statement was declared
effective under the Act as of the date and time specified in such opinion, the
Additional Registration Statement (if any) was filed and became effective under
the Act as of the date and time (if determinable) specified in such opinion, the
Prospectus either was filed with the Commission pursuant to the subparagraph of
Rule 424(b) specified in such opinion on the date specified therein or was
included in the Initial Registration Statement or the Additional Registration
Statement (as the case may be), and, to the best of the knowledge of such
counsel, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement
or any part thereof has been issued
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and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or
contemplated under the Act, and each Registration Statement and the Prospectus,
and each amendment or supplement thereto, as of their respective effective or
issue dates, complied as to form in all material respects with the requirements
of the Act and the Rules and Regulations; such counsel have no reason to believe
that any part of a Registration Statement or any amendment thereto, as of its
effective date or as of such Closing Date, contained any untrue statement of a
material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or that the
Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, as of its issue date or as of
such Closing Date, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted
to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; the
descriptions in the Registration Statements and Prospectus of statutes, legal
and governmental proceedings and contracts and other documents are accurate and
fairly present the information required to be shown; and such counsel do not
know of any legal or governmental proceedings required to be described in a
Registration Statement or the Prospectus which are not described as required or
of any contracts or documents of a character required to be described in a
Registration Statement or the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to a
Registration Statement which are not described and filed as required; it being
understood that such counsel need express no opinion as to the financial
statements or other financial data contained in the Registration Statements or
the Prospectus;
(viii) The statements set forth under the heading
"Description of Capital Stock" in the Prospectus, insofar as such statements
purport to summarize certain provisions of the capital stock of the Company,
provide a fair summary of such provisions; and the statements set forth under
the headings "Risk Factors-We have implemented anti-takeover provisions that
could make it more difficult to acquire us," "Management-Board of
Directors-Director Compensation," "Management-Indemnification,"
"Management-Employee Benefit Plans," "Management-Employment Agreements,
Severance Agreements and Change of Control Arrangements," "Related Party
Transactions" and "Shares Eligible For Future Sale" in the Prospectus, insofar
as such statements constitute a summary of the legal matters, documents or
proceedings referred to therein, have been reviewed by such counsel and fairly
present the information called for with respect to such legal matters, documents
and proceedings in all material respects as required by the Act and the rules
and regulations thereunder;
(ix) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed
and delivered by the Company;
(x) The execution and delivery of the Merger
Agreement, effecting the reincorporation of the California Corporation under the
laws of the State of Delaware, was duly authorized by all necessary corporate
action on the part of each of the California Corporation and the Company; and
(xi) Based on certain no-action letters of the staff
of the Commission, such counsel believes that it is more likely than not that a
court of law, in considering whether or not the Company's issuance of Securities
to Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. and Dell USA L.P. in a private placement scheduled to
be consummated immediately following the First Closing (the "Private Placement")
should be integrated with the offering contemplated hereby in accordance with
the position of the staff in such no-action letters, would conclude that it is
consistent with the purposes of the Act and the protection of investors for the
Private Placement not to be deemed part of, or integrated with, the offering
contemplated hereby and for the Private Placement, even if consummated
simultaneously with the consummation of such offering, not to require
registration under the Act.
(e) The Representatives shall have received an opinion, dated
such Closing Date, of Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx, counsel for Selectica Configurators
India Private Limited ("Selectica India"), to the effect that:
(i) Selectica India has been duly incorporated and is
an existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of
its incorporation, with corporate power and authority to own its properties and
conduct its business as described in the Prospectus; and Selectica India is duly
qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other
jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its
business requires such qualification; all of the
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issued and outstanding capital stock of Selectica India has been duly authorized
and validly issued and is fully paid and nonassessable; and the capital stock of
Selectica India owned by the Company, direct or through subsidiaries, is owned
free from liens, encumbrances and defects; and
(ii) The execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement and the consummation of the transaction herein contemplated will not
result in a breach or violation of any of the terms and provisions of, or
constitute a default under, any statute, any rule, regulation or order of any
governmental agency or body or any court having jurisdiction over Selectica
India or any of its properties, or any agreement or instrument filed as an
exhibit to the Registration Statement to which Selectica India is a party or by
which Selectica India is bound or to which any of the properties of Selectica
India is subject, or the charter or by-laws of Selectica India.
(f) The Representatives shall have received the opinion dated the
date hereof of GDSVFH, counsel to the Selling Stockholder, to the effect that:
(i) The Selling Stockholder had valid and unencumbered
title to the Offered Securities delivered by the Selling Stockholder on such
Closing Date and had full right, power and authority to sell, assign, transfer
and deliver the Offered Securities delivered by the Selling Stockholder on such
Closing Date hereunder; and the several Underwriters have acquired valid and
unencumbered title to the Offered Securities purchased by them from the Selling
Stockholder on such Closing Date hereunder;
(ii) No consent, approval, authorization or order of,
or filing with, any governmental agency or body or any court is required to be
obtained or made by the Selling Stockholder for the consummation of the
transactions contemplated by the Custody Agreement or this Agreement in
connection with the sale of the Offered Securities sold by the Selling
Stockholder, except such as have been obtained and made under the Act and such
as may be required under state securities laws;
(iii) The execution, delivery and performance of the
Custody Agreement and this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions
therein and herein contemplated will not result in a breach or violation of any
of the terms and provisions of, or constitute a default under, any statute, any
rule, regulation or order of any governmental agency or body or any court having
jurisdiction over the Selling Stockholder or any of his properties or any
agreement or instrument to which the Selling Stockholder is a party or by which
the Selling Stockholder is bound or to which any of the properties of the
Selling Stockholder is subject;
(iv) The Power of Attorney and related Custody
Agreement with respect to the Selling Stockholder has been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by the Selling Stockholder and constitute valid and
legally binding obligations of the Selling Stockholder enforceable in accordance
with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer,
reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to
or affecting creditors' rights and to general equity principles; and
(v) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed
and delivered by the Selling Stockholder.
(g) The Representatives shall have received from Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated
such Closing Date, with respect to the incorporation of the Company, the
validity of the Offered Securities delivered on such Closing Date, the
Registration Statements, the Prospectus and other related matters as the
Representatives may require, and the Selling Stockholder and the Company shall
have furnished to such counsel such documents as they request for the purpose of
enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(h) The Representatives shall have received a certificate, dated
such Closing Date, of the President or any Vice President and a principal
financial or accounting officer of the Company in which such officers, to the
best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation, shall state that: the
representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and
correct; the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all
conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to
such Closing Date; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of any
Registration Statement
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has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are
contemplated by the Commission; the Additional Registration Statement (if any)
satisfying the requirements of subparagraphs (1) and (3) of Rule 462(b) was
filed pursuant to Rule 462(b), including payment of the applicable filing fee in
accordance with Rule 111(a) or (b) under the Act, prior to the time the
Prospectus was printed and distributed to any Underwriter; and, subsequent to
the date of the most recent financial statements in the Prospectus, there has
been no material adverse change, nor any development or event involving a
prospective material adverse change, in the condition (financial or other),
business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries taken as a whole except as set forth in or contemplated by the
Prospectus or as described in such certificate.
(i) The Representatives shall have received a letter, dated such
Closing Date, of Ernst & Young LLP which meets the requirements of subsection
(a) of this Section, except that the specified date referred to in such
subsection will be a date not more than three days prior to such Closing Date
for the purposes of this subsection.
The Selling Stockholder and the Company will furnish the Representatives
with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents
as the Representatives reasonably request. CSFBC may in its sole discretion
waive on behalf of the Underwriters compliance with any conditions to the
obligations of the Underwriters hereunder, whether in respect of an Optional
Closing Date or otherwise.
7. Indemnification and Contribution.
(a) The Company will indemnify and hold harmless each
Underwriter, its partners, directors and officers and each person, if any, who
controls such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act, against
any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such
Underwriter may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such
losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out
of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any
material fact contained in any Registration Statement, the Prospectus, or any
amendment or supplement thereto, or any related preliminary prospectus, or arise
out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading, and will reimburse each Underwriter for any legal or
other expenses reasonably incurred by such Underwriter in connection with
investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as
such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Company will not be
liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or
liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement in or omission or alleged omission from any of such documents in
reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the
Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use
therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished
by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in subsection
(c) below.
The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Designated
Underwriter and each person, if any, who controls the Designated Underwriter
within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange
Act (the "Designated Entities"), from and against any and all losses, claims,
damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, any legal or other
expenses reasonably incurred in connection with defending or investigating any
such action or claim) (i) caused by any untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement of a material fact contained in any material prepared by or with the
consent of the Company for distribution to Participants in connection with the
Directed Share Program 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; (ii) caused by the failure of any Participant
to pay for and accept delivery of Directed Shares that the Participant agreed to
purchase; or (iii) related to, arising out of, or in connection with the
Directed Share Program, other than losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or
expenses relating thereto) that are finally judicially determined to have
resulted from the bad faith or gross negligence of the Designated Entities.
(b) The Selling Stockholder will indemnify and hold harmless each
Underwriter, its partners, directors and officers and each person who controls
such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act, against any
losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such
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Underwriter may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such
losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out
of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any
material fact contained in any Registration Statement, the Prospectus, or any
amendment or supplement thereto, or any related preliminary prospectus, or arise
out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading, and will reimburse each Underwriter for any legal or
other expenses reasonably incurred by such Underwriter in connection with
investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as
such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Selling Stockholder will
not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage
or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged
untrue statement in or omission or alleged omission from any of such documents
in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the
Company by an Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use
therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished
by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in subsection
(c) below; provided, that the liability of the Selling Stockholder pursuant to
this subsection (a) shall be limited to an amount equal to the aggregate gross
proceeds (before deducting expenses) to the Selling Stockholder from the sale of
Securities by the Selling Stockholder.
In addition, the Company and each of the Underwriters agree with the
Selling Stockholder that any claim of such Underwriter against the Selling
Stockholder for indemnification, reimbursement or advancement of expenses
pursuant to this Section 7 (except for any breach of any representation or
warranty in Section 2 hereof) shall first be sought by such Underwriter to be
satisfied in full by the Company and shall be satisfied by the Selling
Stockholder only to the extent that such claim has not been satisfied in full by
the Company for any reason within the 30-day period following the date requested
for payment in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. The Company and the
Selling Stockholder may agree, as among themselves and without limiting the
rights of the Underwriters under this Agreement, as to the respective amounts of
such liability for which they each shall be responsible, including, without
limitation, allocating between the Company and the Selling Stockholder the
liability resulting from a breach of the representations and warranties of the
Company and the Selling Stockholder hereunder. The indemnity provided for in
this Section 7 shall be in addition to any liability which the Selling
Stockholder may otherwise have. The Selling Stockholder will, without the prior
written consent of the Representatives, settle or compromise or consent to the
entry of any judgment in any pending or threatened claim, action, suit or
proceeding in respect of which indemnification may be sought hereunder (whether
or not any such Representatives or any person who controls any such
Representatives is a party to such claim, action, suit or proceeding), unless
such settlement, compromise or consent includes an unconditional release of all
of the Underwriters and such controlling persons from all liability arising out
of such claim, action, suit or proceeding.
(c) Each Underwriter will severally and not jointly indemnify and
hold harmless the Company, its directors and officers and each person, if any
who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act, and the
Selling Stockholder against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which
the Company or the Selling Stockholder may become subject, under the Act or
otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in
respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged
untrue statement of any material fact contained in any Registration Statement,
the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any related
preliminary prospectus, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or the
alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein
or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in each case to the
extent, but only to the extent, that such 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 such Underwriter
through the Representatives specifically for use therein, and will reimburse any
legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company and the Selling
Stockholder in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim,
damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred, it being understood
and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists
of (i) the following information in the Prospectus furnished on behalf of each
Underwriter: the last paragraph at the bottom of the cover page concerning the
terms of the offering by the Underwriters, the legend concerning over-allotments
and stabilizing on the inside front cover page and the concession and
reallowance figures appearing in the fourth paragraph under the caption
"Underwriting" and the information regarding sales to
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discretionary accounts and stabilizing transactions contained in the seventh and
fourteenth paragraphs, respectively, under the caption "Underwriting"; and (ii)
the following information in the Prospectus furnished on behalf of Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Partners: the information contained in the thirteenth paragraph under the
caption "Underwriting".
(d) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this
Section of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party
will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party
under subsection (a), (b) or (c) above, notify the indemnifying party of the
commencement thereof; but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party will
not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party
otherwise than under subsection (a), (b) or (c) above. In case any such action
is brought against any indemnified party and it notifies the indemnifying party
of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party will be entitled to
participate therein and, to the extent that it may wish, jointly with any other
indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with
counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the
consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and
after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its
election so to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party will not be
liable to such indemnified party under this Section for any legal or other
expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the
defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation. Notwithstanding
anything contained herein to the contrary, if indemnity may be sought pursuant
to the last paragraph in Section 7(a) hereof in respect of such action or
proceeding, then in addition to such separate firm for the indemnified parties,
the indemnifying party shall be liable for the reasonable fees and expenses of
not more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for the
Designated Underwriter for the defense of any losses, claims, damages and
liabilities arising out of the Directed Share Program, and all persons, if any,
who control the Designated Underwriter within the meaning of either Section 15
of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act. No indemnifying party shall,
without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any
settlement of any pending or threatened action in respect of which any
indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been
sought hereunder by such indemnified party unless such settlement (i) includes
an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on any
claims that are 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 an indemnified party.
(e) If the indemnification provided for in this Section is
unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under
subsection (a), (b) or (c) above, then each indemnifying party shall contribute
to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of the
losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in subsection (a), (b) or (c)
above (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits
received by the Company and the Selling Stockholder on the one hand and the
Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Securities or (ii) if the
allocation provided by clause (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 (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company and
the Selling Stockholder on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other in
connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses,
claims, damages or liabilities as well as any other relevant equitable
considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company and the Selling
Stockholder on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be deemed to
be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering (before
deducting expenses) received by the Company and the Selling Stockholder bear to
the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters.
The relative fault 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, the Selling Stockholder or the Underwriters and the
parties' relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to
correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The amount paid by an
indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities
referred to in the first sentence of this subsection (e) shall be deemed to
include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified
party in connection with investigating or defending any action or claim which is
the subject of this subsection (e). Notwithstanding the provisions of this
subsection (e), no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in
excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Securities
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
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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 in this
subsection (e) to contribute are several in proportion to their respective
underwriting obligations and not joint.
(f) The obligations of the Company and the Selling Stockholder
under this Section shall be in addition to any liability which the Company and
the Selling Stockholder may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms
and conditions, to each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the
meaning of the Act; and the obligations of the Underwriters under this Section
shall be in addition to any liability which the respective Underwriters may
otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each
director of the Company, to each officer of the Company who has signed a
Registration Statement and to each person, if any, who controls the Company
within the meaning of the Act.
8. Default of Underwriters. If any Underwriter or Underwriters default
in their obligations to purchase Offered Securities hereunder on either the
First or any Optional Closing Date and the aggregate number of shares of Offered
Securities that such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to
purchase does not exceed 10% of the total number of shares of Offered Securities
that the Underwriters are obligated to purchase on such Closing Date, CSFBC may
make arrangements satisfactory to the Company and the Selling Stockholder for
the purchase of such Offered Securities by other persons, including any of the
Underwriters, but if no such arrangements are made by such Closing Date, the
non-defaulting Underwriters shall be obligated severally, in proportion to their
respective commitments hereunder, to purchase the Offered Securities that such
defaulting Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase on such Closing Date. If
any Underwriter or Underwriters so default and the aggregate number of shares of
Offered Securities with respect to which such default or defaults occur exceeds
10% of the total number of shares of Offered Securities that the Underwriters
are obligated to purchase on such Closing Date and arrangements satisfactory to
CSFBC, the Company and the Selling Stockholder for the purchase of such Offered
Securities by other persons are not made within 36 hours after such default,
this Agreement will terminate without liability on the part of any
non-defaulting Underwriter, the Company or the Selling Stockholder, except as
provided in Section 9 (provided that if such default occurs with respect to
Optional Securities after the First Closing Date, this Agreement will not
terminate as to the Firm Securities or any Optional Securities purchased prior
to such termination). As used in this Agreement, the term "Underwriter" includes
any person substituted for an Underwriter under this Section. Nothing herein
will relieve a defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default.
9. Survival of Certain Representations and Obligations. The respective
indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the
Selling Stockholder, of the Company or its officers and of the several
Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement will remain in full
force and effect, regardless of any investigation, or statement as to the
results thereof, made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, the Selling
Stockholder, the Company or any of their respective representatives, officers or
directors or any controlling person, and will survive delivery of and payment
for the Offered Securities. If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section
8 or if for any reason the purchase of the Offered Securities by the
Underwriters is not consummated, the Company and the Selling Stockholder shall
remain responsible for the expenses to be paid or reimbursed by them pursuant to
Section 5 and the respective obligations of the Company, the Selling
Stockholder, and the Underwriters pursuant to Section 7 shall remain in effect,
and if any Offered Securities have been purchased hereunder the representations
and warranties in Section 2 and all obligations under Section 5 shall also
remain in effect. If the purchase of the Offered Securities by the Underwriters
is not consummated for any reason other than solely because of the termination
of this Agreement pursuant to Section 8 or the occurrence of any event specified
in clause (iii), (iv) or (v) of Section 6(c), the Company and the Selling
Stockholder will, jointly and severally, reimburse the Underwriters for all
out-of-pocket expenses (including fees and disbursements of counsel) reasonably
incurred by them in connection with the offering of the Offered Securities.
10. Notices. All communications hereunder will be in writing and, if
sent to the Underwriters, will be mailed, delivered or telegraphed and confirmed
to the Representatives c/o Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation, Eleven
Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010-3629, Attention: Investment
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Banking Department--Transactions Advisory Group, or, if sent to the Company or
the Selling Stockholder, will be mailed, delivered or telegraphed and confirmed
to it at 0 Xxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx; provided, however, that any notice to an Underwriter pursuant to
Section 7 will be mailed, delivered or telegraphed and confirmed to such
Underwriter.
11. Successors. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be
binding upon the parties hereto and their respective personal representatives
and successors and the officers and directors and controlling persons referred
to in Section 7, and no other person will have any right or obligation
hereunder.
12. Representation of Underwriters. The Representatives will act for the
several Underwriters in connection with the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, and any action under this Agreement taken by the Representatives
jointly or by CSFBC will be binding upon all the Underwriters.
[_____________________] will act for the Selling Stockholder in connection with
such transactions, and any action under or in respect of this Agreement taken by
[______________________] will be binding upon the Selling Stockholder.
13. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such
counterparts shall together constitute one and the same Agreement.
14. APPLICABLE LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO
PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS.
The Company hereby submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the
Federal and state courts in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York in
any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the
transactions contemplated hereby.
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If the foregoing is in accordance with the Representatives'
understanding of our agreement, kindly sign and return to the Company one of the
counterparts hereof, whereupon it will become a binding agreement among the
Selling Stockholder, the Company and the several Underwriters in accordance with
its terms.
Very truly yours,
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By: Xx. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
SELECTICA, INC.
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By:
The foregoing Underwriting Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted as of the
date first above written.
CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON CORPORATION
XXXXXX XXXXXX PARTNERS LLC
U.S. BANCORP XXXXX XXXXXXX INC.
E*OFFERING CORP.,
Acting on behalf of themselves and as the
Representatives of the several
Underwriters
By: CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON CORPORATION
By:
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Title: Managing Director
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SCHEDULE A
NUMBER OF FIRM SECURITIES TOTAL
TO BE SOLD BY NUMBER OF
----------------------- FIRM SECURITIES
SELLING TO BE
UNDERWRITER COMPANY STOCKHOLDER PURCHASED
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Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation.......
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Partners Llc...................
U.S. Bancorp Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Inc...............
E*OFFERING Corp..............................
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Total................................
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SCHEDULE B
NUMBER OF NUMBER OF
FIRM OPTIONAL
SELLING STOCKHOLDER SECURITIES SECURITIES
TO BE TO BE
SOLD SOLD
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Xx. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx..................................... 0 150,000
