Zillow Group, Inc.
Exhibit 1.2
1.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023
June 28, 2018
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Co. LLC
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
As representatives of the several Underwriters
named in Schedule I hereto
c/o Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
c/o Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Zillow Group, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of Washington (the “Company”), proposes, subject to the terms and conditions in this underwriting agreement (this “Agreement”), to issue and sell to the Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Co. LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), an aggregate of $325,000,000 principal amount of the 1.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 (the “Firm Securities”), which shall be convertible into shares of Class C Capital Stock of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share (“Stock”, and any shares of Stock issuable upon conversion of the Securities (as defined below), including, for the avoidance of doubt, any additional shares deliverable upon conversion in connection with a make-whole fundamental change, the “Underlying Securities”), cash or a combination of cash and Stock at the election of the Company, and, at the election of the Underwriters, up to an aggregate of $48,750,000 additional principal amount of the 1.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 (the “Optional Securities”). The Firm Securities and the Optional Securities that the Underwriters elect to purchase pursuant to Section 2 hereof are herein collectively referred to as the “Securities”.
In connection with the offering of the Firm Securities, the Company is entering into capped call transactions with certain of the Underwriters or their respective affiliates and/or other financial institutions (the “Option Counterparties”) pursuant to separate capped call transaction confirmations (the “Base Capped Call Confirmations”), each to be dated the date hereof, and in connection with any exercise by the Underwriters of their option to purchase any Optional Securities, the Company and the Option Counterparties may enter into additional capped call transactions pursuant to additional capped call transaction confirmations (the “Additional Capped Call Confirmations”) with each of the Option Counterparties, each to be dated the date on which the Underwriters exercise their option to purchase such Optional Securities. The Base Capped Call Confirmations and the Additional Capped Call Confirmations are referred to herein collectively as the “Capped Call Confirmations”.
1. Representations and Warranties. The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each of the Underwriters that:
(a) An “automatic shelf registration statement” as defined under Rule 405 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”) on Form S-3 (File No. 333-225918) in respect of the Securities and the Underlying Securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) not earlier than three years prior to the date hereof; such registration statement, and any post-effective amendment thereto, became effective on filing; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of such registration statement or any part thereof has been issued and no proceeding for that purpose has been initiated or threatened by the Commission, and no notice of objection of the Commission to the use of such registration statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Act has been received by the Company (the base prospectus filed as part of such registration statement, in the form in which it has most recently been filed with the Commission on or prior to the date of this Agreement, is hereinafter called the “Basic Prospectus”); any preliminary prospectus (including any preliminary prospectus supplement) relating to the Securities filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act is hereinafter called a “Preliminary Prospectus”; the various parts of such registration statement, including all exhibits thereto (but excluding Form T-1) and including any prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that is filed with the Commission and deemed by virtue of Rule 430B to be part of such registration statement, each as amended at the time such part of the registration statement became effective, are hereinafter collectively called the “Registration Statement”; the Basic Prospectus, as amended and supplemented immediately prior to the Applicable Time (as defined in Section 1(c) hereof), is hereinafter called the “Pricing Prospectus”; the form of the final prospectus relating to the Securities filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof is hereinafter called the “Prospectus”; any reference herein to the Basic Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Act, as of the date of such prospectus; any reference to any amendment or supplement to the Basic Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement, any prospectus supplement relating to the Securities filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act and any documents filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and incorporated therein, in each case after the date of the Basic Prospectus, such Preliminary Prospectus, or the Prospectus, as the case may be; any reference to any amendment to the Registration Statement shall be deemed to refer to and include any annual report of the Company filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the effective date of the Registration Statement that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement; and any “issuer free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 433 under the Act relating to the Securities is hereinafter called an “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus”;
(b) No order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus has been issued by the Commission, and each Preliminary Prospectus, at the time of filing thereof, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Act, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “Trust Indenture Act”), and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and did not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by an Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein;
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(c) For the purposes of this Agreement, the “Applicable Time” is 9:48 p.m. (Eastern time) on the date of this Agreement. The Pricing Prospectus, as supplemented by the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 5(a) hereof and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus listed on Schedule II(a) hereto, taken together (collectively, the “Pricing Disclosure Package”) as of the Applicable Time, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus listed on Schedule II(a) hereto does not conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus and each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as supplemented by and taken together with the Pricing Disclosure Package as of the Applicable Time, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to statements or omissions made in the Pricing Disclosure Package or in an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by an Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein;
(d) The documents incorporated by reference in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, when they became effective or were filed with the Commission, as the case may be, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and none of such documents contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Prospectus or any further amendment or supplement thereto, when such documents become effective or are filed with the Commission, as the case may be, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by an Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein; and no such documents were filed with the Commission since the Commission’s close of business on the business day immediately prior to the date of this Agreement and prior to the execution of this Agreement;
(e) The Registration Statement conformed at the time it became effective, and the Prospectus and any further amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus on the date when such prospectus, amendment or supplement is first filed will conform, in all material respects to the requirements of the Act and the Trust Indenture Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and do not and will not, as of the applicable effective date as to each part of the Registration Statement and as of the applicable filing date as to the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by an Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein;
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(f) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Pricing Prospectus any material loss or material interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus; and, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Pricing Prospectus, there has not been any change in the capital stock (other than the issuance of shares of capital stock upon (i) exercise of stock options and settlement of restricted stock units described as outstanding in, and the grant of options, restricted stock units and awards under existing equity incentive plans described in, the Pricing Prospectus and (ii) conversion of outstanding convertible debt of the Company described in the Pricing Prospectus) or increase in the long term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any material adverse change, or any development that is reasonably expected to result in a material adverse change, in or affecting the business, management, financial position, shareholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole (a “Material Adverse Effect”), otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus;
(g) The Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all real property and all personal property (other than Intellectual Property, which is addressed exclusively in Section 1(z) hereof) owned by them, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and defects except such as are described in the Pricing Prospectus or such as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and any real property and buildings held under lease by the Company and its subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(h) Each of the Company and the “significant subsidiary” of the Company (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X under the Act (hereinafter referred to as “Regulation S-X”)) (the “Subsidiary”) has been duly incorporated or organized and is validly existing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is chartered or organized and is in good standing if the laws of such jurisdiction require such qualification, with full corporate or similar power and authority to own or lease, as the case may be, and to operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction which requires such qualification, except, where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(i) The Company’s authorized equity capitalization is as set forth in the Pricing Prospectus under the heading “Capitalization”, and all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable; the maximum number of shares of Stock issuable upon conversion of the Securities (including the maximum number of additional shares of Stock by which the Conversion Rate (as such term is defined in the Indenture (defined below)) may be increased upon conversion in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change (as such term is defined in the Indenture) and assuming (x) the Company elects, upon each conversion of the Securities, to deliver solely
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shares of Stock, other than cash in lieu of any fractional shares, in settlement of such conversion and (y) the Underwriters exercise their option to purchase the Optional Securities in full (the “Maximum Number of Underlying Securities”)) have been duly authorized and, when issued upon conversion of the Securities in accordance with their terms, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable; the Board of Directors of the Company has duly and validly adopted resolutions reserving such shares of Stock for issuance upon conversion of the Securities; and the holders of outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are not entitled to preemptive or other rights to subscribe for the Securities or any shares of Stock issuable upon conversion thereof;;
(j) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company; the indenture to be dated on or around July 3, 2018 (the “Indenture”) between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee (the “Trustee”), under which the Securities are to be issued, which is substantially in the form filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, has been duly authorized and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery thereof by the Trustee, when executed and delivered by the Company, will constitute a legally valid and binding instrument enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms (subject, as to the enforcement of remedies, to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and to general principles of equity); the Securities have been duly authorized, and, when executed and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters, will have been duly executed and delivered by the Company and will constitute the legally valid and binding obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits of the Indenture (subject, as to the enforcement of remedies, to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and to general principles of equity) and will be convertible into cash, shares of Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Stock, at the election of the Company and in accordance with their terms and the Securities and the Indenture will conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus;
(k) The Base Capped Call Confirmations have been, and the Additional Capped Call Confirmations on the date of their execution, if any, will have been, duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming execution and delivery thereof by the Option Counterparties, will be valid and binding agreements of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency (including, without limitation, all laws relating to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and except as enforcement thereof is subject to general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).
(l) None of the execution and delivery of the Indenture, this Agreement, the Capped Call Confirmations, the issuance and sale of the Securities or the issuance of any Stock (or payment of cash in lieu thereof) upon conversion thereof, or the consummation of any other of the transactions contemplated in this Agreement and the Pricing Prospectus, or the fulfillment of the terms hereof or thereof will conflict with, result in a breach or violation of, or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to, (i) the charter or by-laws or comparable constituting documents of the Company or its Subsidiary; (ii) the terms of any indenture, contract, lease, mortgage, deed of
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trust, note agreement, loan agreement or other agreement, obligation, condition, covenant or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or bound or to which its or their property is subject; or (iii) any statute, law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree applicable to the Company or any of its subsidiaries of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency, governmental body, arbitrator or other authority having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of its or their properties, except, in the cases of clauses (ii) and (iii), for such breach or violation as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and as would not have a material adverse effect on the consummation on the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;
(m) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation or default of (i) any provision of its charter or bylaws or comparable constituting documents; (ii) the terms of any indenture, contract, lease, mortgage, deed of trust, note agreement, loan agreement or other agreement, obligation, condition, covenant or instrument to which it is a party or bound or to which its property is subject; or (iii) any statute, law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree applicable to the Company or any of its subsidiaries of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency, governmental body, arbitrator or other authority having jurisdiction over the Company or such subsidiary or any of its properties, as applicable, except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), for such breach or violation as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(n) The statements set forth in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus under the captions “Description of Notes” and “Description of Capital Stock”, insofar as they purport to constitute a summary of the terms of the Securities and the Stock, under the caption “Capped Call Transactions”, insofar as they purport to describe the provisions of the documents referenced therein, and under the captions “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations” and “Underwriting”, insofar as they purport to describe the provisions of the laws and documents referred to therein, accurately and fairly summarize the matters therein described in all material respects;
(o) No action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or its or their property is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened that (i) would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the performance of this Agreement, the Indenture, or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or (ii) would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto);
(p) The Company is not, and immediately after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Securities and the application of the net proceeds thereof as described in the Pricing Prospectus, including the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Capped Call Confirmations, will not be, an “investment company” as defined in the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended;
(q) (A) (i) At the time of filing the Registration Statement, (ii) at the time of the most recent amendment thereto for the purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Act (whether such amendment was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or form of prospectus), and (iii) at the time the Company or any person acting on its behalf (within the meaning, for this clause only, of Rule 163(c) under
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the Act) made any offer relating to the Securities in reliance on the exemption of Rule 163 under the Act, the Company was a “well-known seasoned issuer” as defined in Rule 405 under the Act; and (B) at the earliest time after the filing of the Registration Statement that the Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) under the Act) of the Securities, the Company was not an “ineligible issuer” as defined in Rule 405 under the Act;
(r) Deloitte & Touche LLP and Ernst & Young LLP, who have certified certain financial statements of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries and delivered their reports with respect to the audited consolidated financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Pricing Prospectus, are independent public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Act and the applicable published rules and regulations thereunder;
(s) The Company, considered together with its subsidiaries as may be required by applicable law, maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States and to maintain asset accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences; and (v) with respect to the Company only, the interactive data in XBRL included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement is in compliance in all material respects with the Commission’s published rules, regulations and guidelines applicable thereto. The internal controls over financial reporting of the Company, considered together with its subsidiaries as may be required by applicable law, are effective and the Company, considered together with its subsidiaries, are not aware of any material weakness in their internal control over financial reporting;
(t) Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Pricing Prospectus, there has been no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially and adversely affected, or is reasonably likely to materially and adversely affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting;
(u) The Company, considered together with its subsidiaries as may be required by applicable law, maintains “disclosure controls and procedures” (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act); such disclosure controls and procedures are effective;
(v) Nothing has come to the attention of the Company that has caused the Company to believe that the statistical and market-related data included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus is not based on or derived from sources that are reliable and accurate in all material respects, and, to the extent required by such sources, the Company has obtained the written consent to the use of such data from such sources;
(w) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee, affiliate or other person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is aware of or has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that could result in a violation or a sanction for violation by such persons of the Foreign Corrupt
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Practices Act of 1977 or the U.K. Xxxxxxx Xxx 0000, each as may be amended, or similar law of any other relevant jurisdiction, or the rules or regulations thereunder; and the Company and its subsidiaries have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance therewith. No part of the proceeds of the offering will be used, directly or indirectly, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 or the U.K. Xxxxxxx Xxx 0000, each as may be amended, or similar law of any other relevant jurisdiction, or the rules or regulations thereunder;
(x) The operations of the Company are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements and the money laundering statutes and the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened;
(y) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (i) is, or is controlled or 50% or more owned in the aggregate by or is acting on behalf of, one or more individuals or entities that are currently the subject of any sanctions administered or enforced by the United States (including any administered or enforced by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of State or the Bureau of Industry and Security of the U.S. Department of Commerce), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, a member state of the European Union (including sanctions administered or enforced by Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom) or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions” and such persons, “Sanctioned Persons” and each such person, a “Sanctioned Person”), (ii) is located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is, or whose government is, the subject of Sanctions that broadly prohibit dealings with that country or territory (collectively, “Sanctioned Countries” and each, a “Sanctioned Country”) or (iii) will, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of this offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other individual or entity in any manner that would result in a violation of any Sanctions by, or could result in the imposition of Sanctions against, any individual or entity (including any individual or entity participating in the offering, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise);
(z) The Company and its subsidiaries own, possess, license or have other rights to use all trade and service marks, trade and service xxxx registrations, trade names, copyrights, licenses, inventions, trade secrets, technology, know-how, other intellectual property, and, to the knowledge of the Company, all patents and patent applications necessary for the conduct of the Company and its subsidiaries’ respective businesses as now conducted in all material respects (collectively, the “Intellectual Property”). Except as set forth in the Pricing Prospectus, or where the failure of any of the following representations to be true would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect: (a) to the knowledge of the Company, there is no pending or threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ rights in or to any such Intellectual Property; (b) to the knowledge of the Company, there is no pending or threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the validity or scope of any Intellectual Property and none of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Interim Chief Financial Officer or General Counsel is aware of any facts that would form a reasonable basis for such claim; (c) there is no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company,
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threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the Company or any of its subsidiaries infringe or otherwise violate any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other intellectual property rights of others and none of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Interim Chief Financial Officer or General Counsel is aware of any facts that would form a reasonable basis for such claim; (d) to the knowledge of the Company, there is no U.S. patent or published U.S. patent application which contains claims that dominate or may dominate any Intellectual Property described in the Pricing Prospectus as being owned by the Company or any of its subsidiaries or that interferes with the issued or pending claims of any such Intellectual Property; and (e) there is no prior art of which the Company is aware that would render any U.S. patent held by the Company or any of its subsidiaries invalid or any U.S. patent application held by the Company or any of its subsidiaries unpatentable which has not been disclosed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office;
(aa) No labor problem or dispute with the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is threatened or imminent, and the Company is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of any of its or its subsidiaries’ principal suppliers, contractors or customers, that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto);
(bb) The Company and each of its subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such material losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary in the businesses in which they are engaged; all policies of insurance and fidelity or surety bonds insuring the Company or any of its subsidiaries or their respective businesses, assets, employees, officers and directors are, to the knowledge of the Company, in full force and effect; the Company and its subsidiaries are in compliance with the terms of such policies and instruments in all material respects; there are no claims by the Company or any of its subsidiaries under any such policy or instrument as to which any insurance company has informed the Company in writing that it is denying liability or defending under a reservation of rights clause except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; since June 1, 2015, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for; and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto);
(cc) Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and its subsidiaries possess all licenses, certificates, permits and other authorizations issued by all applicable authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses, and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such certificate, authorization or permit which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto);
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(dd) (i)(x) Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there has been no confirmed security breach of any of the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ information technology and computer systems, networks, hardware, software, equipment or technology (collectively, “IT Systems”), resulting in the unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification of the personal data of their respective customers, employees, suppliers, vendors and any third party data maintained by or on behalf of them (collectively, “Customer Personal Data”), and (y) the Company and its subsidiaries have not received notification of, and have no knowledge of any event or condition that would reasonably be expected to result in, any security breach of their IT Systems resulting in the unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification of Customer Personal Data, except as would not, in the case of this clause (i), individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (ii) the Company and its subsidiaries are presently in compliance with all applicable laws or statutes and all judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, internal policies and contractual obligations binding on the Company and its subsidiaries relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and to the protection of such IT Systems from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification, except as would not, in the case of this clause (ii), individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (iii) the Company and its subsidiaries have implemented reasonable backup and disaster recovery technology consistent in all material respects with generally accepted industry standards.
(ee) The Company has filed all tax returns that are required to be filed or has requested extensions thereof (except in any case in which the failure to so file would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto)) and has paid all taxes required to be paid by it and any other assessment, fine or penalty levied against it, to the extent that any of the foregoing is due and payable, except for any such assessment, fine or penalty that is currently being contested in good faith or as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto);
(ff) There are no transfer taxes or other similar fees or charges under Federal law or the laws of any state, or any political subdivision thereof, required to be paid in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the issuance by the Company or sale by the Company of the Securities or upon the issuance of any Stock upon the conversion thereof;
(gg) There is and has been no failure on the part of the Company or, to the knowledge of the Company, any of the Company’s directors or officers, in their capacities as such, to comply with any provision of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith (the “Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act”), including Section 402 relating to loans and Sections 302 and 906 relating to certifications;
(hh) The Company is subject to and in compliance in all material respects with the reporting requirements of Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act;
(ii) All the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Subsidiary have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable, and, except as otherwise set forth in the Pricing Prospectus, all outstanding shares of capital stock of the Subsidiary are owned by the Company either directly or through wholly owned subsidiaries free and clear of any security interest, claim, lien or encumbrance;
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(jj) No consent, approval, authorization, filing with or order of any court or governmental agency or body is required in connection with the transactions contemplated herein and in the Indenture, except such filings made or to be made with the Commission as described herein or as may be required under the blue sky laws of any jurisdiction in which the Securities are offered and sold;
(kk) Each of the Company and its subsidiaries owns or leases all such properties as are necessary to the conduct of its operations as presently conducted in all material respects;
(ll) The Subsidiary of the Company is not currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, from paying any dividends to the Company, from making any other distribution on such subsidiary’s capital stock, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any of such subsidiary’s property or assets to the Company or any other subsidiary of the Company, except as described in or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto) or as prohibited by law;
(mm) Neither the Company nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any of its affiliates has taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would constitute or that would reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities;
(nn) The Company and its subsidiaries (i) are in compliance with any and all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to the protection of human health and safety, the environment or hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants (collectively, “Environmental Laws”); (ii) have received and are in compliance with all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses; and (iii) have not received written notice of any actual or potential liability under any Environmental Law, in each case except where such non-compliance with Environmental Laws, failure to receive required permits, licenses or other approvals, or liability would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto). Except as set forth in the Pricing Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has been named as a “potentially responsible party” under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended;
(oo) There are no costs and liabilities associated with Environmental Laws (including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for clean-up, closure of properties or compliance with Environmental Laws, or any permit, license or approval, any related constraints on operating activities and any potential liabilities to third parties) that would, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;
(pp) All patent applications owned by the Company or any of its subsidiaries and filed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the “PTO”) or any foreign or international patent authority (the “Issuer Patent Applications”) have been duly and properly filed in all material respects; all inventions developed, reduced to practice and owned by the Company in which the U.S. Government has rights have been properly reported to the U.S. Government and those rights have been properly noticed in patent
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applications, patents and licenses relating thereto in all material respects; each of the Company and its subsidiaries has undertaken reasonable best efforts to ensure that it has complied with its duty of candor and disclosure to the PTO for the Issuer Patent Applications; the Company is not aware of any facts required to be disclosed to the PTO that were not disclosed to the PTO and which would preclude the grant of a patent for the Issuer Patent Applications; the Company has no knowledge of any facts which would preclude it from having clear title to the Issuer Patent Applications that have been identified by the Company in the Pricing Prospectus as being exclusively owned by the Company or any of its subsidiaries;
(qq) None of the following events has occurred or exists, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto): (i) a failure to fulfill the obligations, if any, under the minimum funding standards of Xxxxxxx 000 xx xxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder with respect to a Plan, determined without regard to any waiver of such obligations or extension of any amortization period; (ii) an audit or investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any other federal or state governmental agency or any foreign regulatory agency with respect to the employment or compensation of employees by any of the Company or any of its subsidiaries that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (iii) any breach of any contractual obligation, or any violation of law or applicable qualification standards, with respect to the employment or compensation of employees by the Company or any of its subsidiaries that could have a Material Adverse Effect. None of the following events has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur: (i) a material increase in the aggregate amount of contributions required to be made to all Plans in the current fiscal year of the Company and its subsidiaries compared to the amount of such contributions made in the most recently completed fiscal year of the Company and its subsidiaries; (ii) a material increase in the “accumulated post-retirement benefit obligations” (within the meaning of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 106) of the Company and its subsidiaries compared to the amount of such obligations in the most recently completed fiscal year of the Company and its subsidiaries; (iii) any event or condition giving rise to a liability under Title IV of ERISA that could have a Material Adverse Effect; or (iv) the filing of a claim by one or more employees or former employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries related to their employment that could have a Material Adverse Effect. For purposes of this paragraph, the term “Plan” means a plan (within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA) subject to Title IV of ERISA with respect to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries may have any liability;
(rr) Zillow, Inc. is the only “significant subsidiary” of the Company (as defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X);
(ss) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has engaged in any dealings or transactions with or for the benefit of a Sanctioned Person, or with or in a Sanctioned Country, in the preceding 3 years, nor does the Company or any of its subsidiaries have any plans to engage in dealings or transactions with or for the benefit of a Sanctioned Person, or with or in a Sanctioned Country;
(tt) Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company, including officers of the Company serving on an interim basis, and delivered to the Representative or counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the offering of the Securities shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company, as to matters covered thereby, to each Underwriter, solely in their capacities as such and not in their individual capacities; and
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(uu) Other than as described in the Registration Statement, Pricing Prospectus and 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. There are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any person granting such person the right to include such securities with the Shares registered pursuant to the Registration Statement, except for such rights as have been waived.
2. Subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth,
(a) the Company agrees to issue and sell to each of the Underwriters, and each of the Underwriters agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at a purchase price of 97.5% of the principal amount of the Securities, plus accrued interest, if any, from July 3, 2018 to the First Time of Delivery (as defined below) hereunder, the principal amount of Securities set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule I hereto; and
(b) in the event and to the extent that the Underwriters shall exercise the election to purchase Optional Securities as provided below, the Company agrees to sell to each of the Underwriters, and each of the Underwriters agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at the same purchase price set forth in clause (a) of this Section 2, that portion of the aggregate principal amount of Optional Securities as to which such election shall have been exercised (to be adjusted by you so as to eliminate fractions of $1,000) determined by multiplying such amount of Optional Securities by a fraction, the numerator of which is the maximum aggregate principal amount of Optional Securities that such Underwriter is entitled to purchase as set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule I hereto and the denominator of which is the maximum aggregate principal amount of Optional Securities that all of the Underwriters are entitled to purchase hereunder. The Company hereby grants to the Underwriters the right to purchase at their election up to $48,750,000 aggregate principal amount of Optional Securities, at the purchase price set forth in clause (a) of the paragraph above. Any such election to purchase Optional Securities may be exercised only by written notice from the Representatives to the Company, given within a period of 30 calendar days after the date of this Agreement and setting forth the aggregate principal amount of Optional Securities to be purchased and the date on which such Optional Securities are to be delivered, as determined by you but in no event earlier than the First Time of Delivery (as defined in Section 4 hereof) or, unless you and the Company otherwise agree in writing, earlier than two or later than ten business days after the date of such notice.
3. The several Underwriters propose to offer the Firm Securities for sale upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus.
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(a) The Securities to be purchased by each Underwriter hereunder will be represented by one or more definitive global Securities in book-entry form which will be deposited by or on behalf of the Company with The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or its designated custodian. The Company will deliver the Securities to the Representatives, for the
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account of each Underwriter, against payment by or on behalf of such Underwriter of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer of Federal (same-day) funds to the accounts specified by the Company to the Representatives at least forty-eight hours in advance, by causing DTC to credit the Securities to the securities account(s) at DTC designated by the Representatives. The Company will cause the certificates representing the Securities to be made available to the Representatives for checking at least twenty-four hours prior to the Time of Delivery (as defined below) with respect thereto at the office of DTC or its designated custodian (the “Designated Office”). The time and date of such delivery and payment shall be, with respect to the Firm Securities, 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on July 3, 2018, or such other time and date as the Representatives and the Company may agree upon in writing, and, with respect to the Optional Securities, 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date specified by the Representatives in the written notice given by the Representatives of the Underwriters’ election to purchase such Optional Securities, or such other time and date as the Representatives and the Company may agree upon in writing. Such time and date for delivery of the Firm Securities is herein called the “First Time of Delivery”, such time and date for delivery of the Optional Securities, if not the First Time of Delivery, is herein called the “Second Time of Delivery”, and each such time and date for delivery is herein called a “Time of Delivery”.
(b) The documents to be delivered at each Time of Delivery by or on behalf of the parties hereto pursuant to Section 8 hereof, including the cross-receipt for the Securities and any additional documents requested by the Underwriters pursuant to Section 8(l) hereof, will be delivered at the offices of Fenwick & West LLP, 0000 0xx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000 (the “Closing Location”), and the Securities will be delivered at the Designated Office, all at such Time of Delivery. A meeting will be held at the Closing Location at 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on the New York Business Day next preceding such Time of Delivery, or at such other time as the parties mutually agree, at which meeting the final drafts of the documents to be delivered pursuant to the preceding sentence will be available for review by the parties hereto. For the purposes of this Agreement, “New York Business Day” shall mean each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in New York City are generally authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
5. The Company agrees with each of the Underwriters:
(a) To prepare the Prospectus in a form reasonably approved by you and to file such Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act not later than the Commission’s close of business on the second business day following the date of this Agreement; to make no further amendment or any supplement to the Registration Statement, the Basic Prospectus or the Prospectus prior to the last Time of Delivery which shall be disapproved by you promptly after reasonable notice thereof; to advise you, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the time when any amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus has been filed and to furnish you with copies thereof; to prepare a final term sheet, containing a description of the Securities, in a form approved by you and to file such term sheet pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act within the time required by such Rule; to file promptly all other material required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act; to file promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or information statements required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of the Prospectus and for so long as the delivery of a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Act) is required in connection with the offering or sale of the Securities;
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to advise you, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or other prospectus in respect of the Securities, of any notice of objection of the Commission to the use of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Act, of the suspension of the qualification of the Securities or the Underlying Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose, or of any request by the Commission for the amending or supplementing of the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or for additional information; and, in the event of the issuance of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or other prospectus relating to the Securities or the Underlying Securities or suspending any such qualification, to promptly use its best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of such order; and in the event of any such issuance of a notice of objection, promptly to take such steps including, without limitation, amending the Registration Statement or filing a new registration statement, at its own expense, as may be necessary to permit offers and sales of the Securities by the Underwriters (references herein to the Registration Statement shall include any such amendment or new registration statement);
(b) If required by Rule 430B(h) under the Act, to prepare a form of prospectus in a form approved by you and to file such form of prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act not later than may be required by Rule 424(b) under the Act; and to make no further amendment or supplement to such form of prospectus which shall be disapproved by you promptly after reasonable notice thereof;
(c) If by the third anniversary (the “Renewal Deadline”) of the initial effective date of the Registration Statement, any of the Securities remain unsold by the Underwriters, the Company will, at the written request of the Representatives, file, if it has not already done so and is eligible to do so, a new automatic shelf registration statement relating to the Securities and the Underlying Securities, in a form satisfactory to you. If at the Renewal Deadline the Company is no longer eligible to file an automatic shelf registration statement, the Company will, if it has not already done so, file a new shelf registration statement relating to the Securities and the Underlying Securities, in a form satisfactory to you and will use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective within 180 days after the Renewal Deadline. The Company will take all other action necessary or appropriate to permit the public offering and sale of the Securities to continue as contemplated in the expired registration statement relating to the Securities and the Underlying Securities. References herein to the Registration Statement shall include such new automatic shelf registration statement or such new shelf registration statement, as the case may be;
(d) Promptly from time to time to take such action as you may reasonably request to qualify the Securities and the Underlying Securities for offering and sale under the securities laws of such jurisdictions as you may request and to comply with such laws so as to permit the continuance of sales and dealings therein in such jurisdictions for as long as may be necessary to complete the distribution of the Securities, provided that in connection therewith the Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction or to subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction in which it was not otherwise subject to taxation;
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(e) Prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the New York Business Day next succeeding the date of this Agreement (or such later time as may be agreed to by the Company and the Representatives) and from time to time, to furnish the Underwriters with written and electronic copies of the Prospectus in New York City in such quantities as you may reasonably request, and, if the delivery of a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Act) is required at any time prior to the expiration of nine months after the time of issue of the Prospectus in connection with the offering or sale of the Securities and the Underlying Securities and if at such time any event shall have occurred as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made when such Prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Act) is delivered, not misleading, or, if for any other reason it shall be necessary during such same period to amend or supplement the Prospectus or to file under the Exchange Act any document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus in order to comply with the Act, the Exchange Act or the Trust Indenture Act, to notify you and upon your request to file such document and to prepare and furnish without charge to each Underwriter and to any dealer in securities as many written and electronic copies as you may from time to time reasonably request of an amended Prospectus or a supplement to the Prospectus which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance; and in case any Underwriter is required to deliver a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Act) in connection with sales of any of the Securities and the Underlying Securities at any time nine months or more after the time of issue of the Prospectus, upon your request but at the expense of such Underwriter, to prepare and deliver to such Underwriter as many written and electronic copies as you may request of an amended or supplemented Prospectus complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Act;
(f) To make generally available to its securityholders as soon as practicable (which may be satisfied by filing with XXXXX), but in any event not later than sixteen months after the effective date of the Registration Statement (as defined in Rule 158(c) under the Act), an earnings statement of the Company and its subsidiaries (which need not be audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (including, at the option of the Company, Rule 158);
(g) During the period beginning from the date hereof and continuing to and including the date 60 days after the date hereof, not to, without the consent of the Representatives, directly or indirectly, offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, otherwise dispose of, enter into any transaction which is designed to, or might reasonably be expected to, result in the disposition (whether by actual disposition or effective economic disposition due to cash settlement or otherwise) by the Company or any affiliate of the Company, file (or participate in the filing of) a registration statement with the Commission in respect of (other than any registration statement on Form S-8 related to the Company’s equity incentive plans), or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act in respect of, any shares of capital stock of the Company or any securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, shares of capital stock of the Company (other than the Securities and the Underlying Securities), or publicly announce an intention to effect any such transaction; provided, however, that the Company may (A) issue and sell Class A Common Stock or Stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable for Class A Common Stock or Stock pursuant to any employee stock option or incentive plan, stock ownership plan or dividend reinvestment plan of the Company or its subsidiaries described in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus and in effect at the Applicable Time, (B) issue Class A Common Stock or Stock issuable upon the exercise or conversion of securities or the exercise of warrants outstanding at
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the Applicable Time and described in the Pricing Prospectus and Prospectus, (C) enter into an agreement providing for the Company to issue shares of Stock, or issue such shares of Stock, up to an aggregate of 10% of the shares of Class A Common Stock and Stock to be outstanding immediately following the sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement (assuming conversion of all outstanding shares of the Company’s Class B common stock) in connection with one or more acquisitions by the Company of the assets or capital stock of another person or entity, whether through merger, asset acquisition, stock purchase or otherwise, provided, however, that in the case of this clause (C), the issuance of such shares of Stock by the Company during such 60-day period shall be subject to the condition that each recipient of such shares has previously signed (or will enter into prior to or concurrently with such issuance) a lock-up agreement substantially in the form described in Section 8(k) of this Agreement, (D) enter into and perform its obligations pursuant to the Capped Call Confirmations, (E) issue the shares of Stock to be sold pursuant to that certain underwriting agreement dated on or about the date hereof by and among the Company and the Representatives relating to the sale of shares of Stock and (F) enter into arrangements relating to transactions described in the Pricing Prospectus and Prospectus under the heading “Use of Proceeds”, which may include the repurchase of certain securities and outstanding debt obligations of the Company and its subsidiaries;
(h) To pay the required Commission filing fees relating to the Securities within the time required by Rule 456(b)(1) under the Act without regard to the proviso therein and otherwise in accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r) under the Act;
(i) To use the net proceeds received by it from the sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement in the manner specified in the Pricing Prospectus under the caption “Use of Proceeds”;
(j) To reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights, shares of Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to satisfy any obligations to issue the maximum number of Underlying Securities issuable upon conversion of the Securities; and
(k) To use its best efforts to list, subject to notice of issuance, the Underlying Securities on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, as applicable.
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(i) The Company represents and agrees that, other than the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 5(a) hereof, without the prior consent of the Representatives, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute a “free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 405 under the Act;
(ii) each Underwriter represents and agrees that, without the prior consent of the Company and the Representatives, other than one or more term sheets relating to the Securities containing customary information (which, in their final form, will not be inconsistent with the final term sheet) and conveyed to purchasers of Securities, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute a free writing prospectus; and
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(iii) any such free writing prospectus the use of which has been consented to by the Company and the Representatives (including the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 5(a) hereof) is listed on Schedule II(a) hereto;
(b) The Company has complied and will comply with the requirements of Rule 433 under the Act applicable to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including timely filing with the Commission or retention where required and legending; and
(c) The Company agrees that if at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus any event occurred or occurs as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus would conflict with the information in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances then prevailing, not misleading, the Company will give prompt notice thereof to the Representatives and, if requested by the Representatives, will prepare and furnish without charge to each Underwriter an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or other document which will correct such conflict, statement or omission; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions in an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by an Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein.
7. The Company covenants and agrees with the several Underwriters that the Company will pay the costs and expenses relating to the following matters: (i) the preparation of the Indenture, the issuance of the Securities, the fees of the Trustee and the issuance of any Stock upon conversion of the Securities; (ii) the preparation, printing, reproduction and filing of the Registration Statement, the Basic Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and each amendment or supplement to any of them; (iii) the printing (or reproduction) and delivery (including postage, air freight charges and charges for counting and packaging) of such copies of the Registration Statement, the Basic Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and each amendment or supplement to either of them, as may, in each case, be reasonably requested for use in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities; (iv) the preparation, printing, authentication, issuance and delivery of the Securities; (v) any stamp or transfer taxes in connection with the original issuance and sale of the Securities; (vi) the printing (or reproduction) and delivery of this Agreement, any blue sky memorandum and all other agreements or documents printed (or reproduced) and delivered in connection with the offering of the Securities; (vii) any registration or qualification of the Securities for offer and sale under the securities or blue sky laws of the several states (including filing fees and the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters relating to such registration and qualification); (viii) the transportation and other expenses incurred by or on behalf of Company representatives in connection with presentations to prospective purchasers of the Securities; (ix) the fees and expenses of the Company’s accountants and the fees and expenses of counsel (including local and special counsel) for the Company; and (x) all expenses and application fees related to the listing of the Underlying Securities on the Exchange, if applicable. It is understood, however, that, except as provided in this Section 7, and Sections 9 and 12 hereof, the Underwriters will pay all of their own costs and expenses, including the fees of their counsel, transfer taxes on resale of any of the Securities by them, and any advertising and transportation expenses in connection with any offers or presentations they may make.
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8. The obligations of the Underwriters hereunder, as to the Securities to be delivered at each Time of Delivery, shall be subject, in their discretion, to the condition that all representations and warranties and other statements of the Company herein are, at and as of such Time of Delivery, true and correct, the condition that the Company shall have performed all of its obligations hereunder theretofore to be performed, and the following additional conditions:
(a) The Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by the rules and regulations under the Act and in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof; the final term sheet contemplated by Section 5(a) hereof, and any other material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act, shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time periods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof shall have been issued and no proceeding for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission and no notice of objection of the Commission to the use of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Act shall have been received; no stop order suspending or preventing the use of the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission; and all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission shall have been complied with to your reasonable satisfaction;
(b) Fenwick & West LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, shall have furnished to you such written opinion or opinions, dated such Time of Delivery, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Securities, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as well as such related matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters;
(c) Xxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, special counsel for the Underwriters, shall have furnished to you such written opinion or opinions, dated such Time of Delivery, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Securities, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as well as such related matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters;
(d) Xxxxxxx Coie LLP, counsel for the Company, shall have furnished to you their written opinion, dated such Time of Delivery, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
(e) On the date of the Prospectus at a time prior to the execution of this Agreement, at 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the effective date of any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement filed subsequent to the date of this Agreement and also at each Time of Delivery, (i) each of Deloitte & Touche LLP and Ernst & Young LLP shall have furnished to you their respective letter or letters, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof, in form and substance satisfactory to you, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus; and (ii) the Interim Chief Financial Officer of the Company, in her capacity as such, shall have furnished to you a letter or letters, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof, in form and substance satisfactory to you;
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(f) (i) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries taken as a whole shall have sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Pricing Prospectus any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus and, (ii) since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Pricing Prospectus, there shall not have been any material change in the capital stock (other than as a result of (A) the grant, vesting or exercise (including “net” and “cashless” exercise) of stock options or other equity incentives or settlement of restricted stock units pursuant to the Company’s equity incentive plans, or (B) the repurchase of shares or capital stock pursuant to agreements providing for an option to repurchase or a right of first refusal on behalf of the Company and (C) the issuance by the Company of shares of capital stock upon the exercise of warrants outstanding on the date hereof, in each case as such equity incentive plans, outstanding equity incentives and agreements are described in the Pricing Prospectus) or long term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any change, or any development reasonably be expected to result in a change, in or affecting the general affairs, management, financial position, shareholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus, the effect of which, in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii), is in your reasonable judgment so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Securities being delivered at such Time of Delivery on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus;
(g) On or after the Applicable Time (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded the Company’s debt securities by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as that term is defined under Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act, and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any of the Company’s debt securities (it being understood that as of the date hereof, the Company has no debt securities that are rated by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as that term is defined under Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act);
(h) On or after the Applicable Time there shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) a suspension or material limitation in trading in securities generally on The Nasdaq Global Select Market; (ii) a suspension or material limitation in trading in the Company’s securities on The Nasdaq Global Select Market; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities declared by either Federal or New York or Washington State authorities or a material disruption in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States; (iv) the outbreak or escalation of hostilities involving the United States or the declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war or (v) the occurrence of any other calamity or crisis or any change in financial, political or economic conditions in the United States or elsewhere, if the effect of any such event specified in clause (iv) or (v) in your reasonable judgment makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Securities being delivered at such Time of Delivery on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus;
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(i) The Company shall have complied with the provisions of Section 5(e) hereof with respect to the furnishing of prospectuses on the New York Business Day next succeeding the date of this Agreement;
(j) The Underlying Securities issuable upon conversion of the Securities shall have been approved for listing, subject to notice of issuance, by The Nasdaq Global Select Market, if applicable;
(k) The Company shall have obtained and delivered to the Underwriters executed copies of an agreement from each of the officers (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(f) under the Exchange Act) and directors of the Company substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto; and
(l) The Company shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to you at such Time of Delivery certificates of officers of the Company satisfactory to you as to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein at and as of such Time of Delivery, as to the performance by the Company of all of its obligations hereunder to be performed at or prior to such Time of Delivery and as to such other matters as you may reasonably request, and the Company shall have furnished or caused to be furnished certificates as to the matters set forth in subsections (a) and (f) of this Section.
9.
(a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, the directors, officers, employees, affiliates and selling agents of each Underwriter and each person who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which they or any of them may become subject under the Act, the Exchange Act or other U.S. federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common law 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 a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, the Basic Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act, 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, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and agrees to reimburse each such indemnified party, as incurred, for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by it in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action; 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 any such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made therein, in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representative specifically for inclusion therein. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability that the Company may otherwise have.
(b) Each Underwriter severally, and not jointly, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, each of its directors, each of its officers, and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act, to the same extent as the
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foregoing indemnity to each Underwriter, but only with reference to written information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Underwriter through the Representative specifically for inclusion in the documents referred to in the foregoing indemnity. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability that any Underwriter may otherwise have.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 9 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 this Section 9, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the failure so to notify the indemnifying party (i) will not relieve it from liability under paragraph (a) or (b) above unless and to the extent it did not otherwise learn of such action and such failure results in the forfeiture by the indemnifying party of substantial rights and defenses and (ii) will not, in any event, relieve the indemnifying party from any obligations to any indemnified party other than the indemnification obligation provided in paragraph (a) or (b) above. The indemnifying party shall be entitled to appoint counsel (including local counsel) of the indemnifying party’s choice at the indemnifying party’s expense to represent the indemnified party in any action for which indemnification is sought (in which case the indemnifying party shall not thereafter be responsible for the fees and expenses of any separate counsel, other than local counsel if not appointed by the indemnifying party, retained by the indemnified party or parties except as set forth below); provided, however, that such counsel shall be satisfactory to the indemnified party. Notwithstanding the indemnifying party’s election to appoint counsel (including local counsel) to represent the indemnified party in an action, the indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate counsel (including local counsel), and the indemnifying party shall bear the reasonable and documented fees, costs and expenses of such separate counsel if (i) the use of counsel chosen by the indemnifying party to represent the indemnified party would present such counsel with a conflict of interest; (ii) the actual or potential defendants in, or targets of, any such action include both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it and/or other indemnified parties that are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party; (iii) the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice of the institution of such action; or (iv) the indemnifying party shall authorize the indemnified party to employ separate counsel at the expense of the indemnifying party. It is understood and agreed that the indemnifying party shall not, in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all persons to be indemnified, and that all such fees and expenses shall be paid or reimbursed as they are incurred. Any such separate firm for any Underwriter, its affiliates, directors and officers and any control persons of such Underwriter shall be designated in writing by the Representatives. An indemnifying party will not, without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to any pending or threatened claim, action, suit or proceeding in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties to such claim or action) unless such settlement, compromise or consent: (i) includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all liability arising out of such claim, action, suit or proceeding and (ii) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act, by or on behalf of any indemnified party.
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(d) In the event that the indemnity provided in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section 9 is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party for any reason, the Company and the Underwriters severally agree to contribute to the aggregate losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending any loss, claim, damage, liability or action) (collectively “Losses”) to which the Company and one or more of the Underwriters may be subject in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and by the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Securities. If the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is unavailable for any reason, the Company and Underwriters severally shall contribute in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such Losses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. Benefits received by the Company shall be deemed to be equal to the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by it, and benefits received by the Underwriters shall be deemed to be equal to the total purchase discounts and commissions. Relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information provided by the Company on the one hand or the Underwriters on the other, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission.
(e) The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution were determined by pro rata allocation or any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph (e), in no event shall any Underwriter be required to contribute (unless otherwise specifically agreed to) any amount in excess of the amount by which the total purchase discounts and commissions received by such Underwriter with respect to the offering of the Securities exceeds the amount of any damages that such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes of this Section 9, each person who controls an Underwriter within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act and each director, officer, employee, affiliate and selling agent of an Underwriter shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act and each officer and director of the Company shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company, subject in each case to the applicable terms and conditions of this paragraph (e).
10.
(a) If any Underwriter shall default in its obligation to purchase the Securities which it has agreed to purchase hereunder at a Time of Delivery, you may in your discretion arrange for you or another party or other parties to purchase such Securities on the terms contained herein. If within thirty six hours after such default by any Underwriter you do not arrange for the purchase of such Securities, then the Company shall be entitled to a further period of thirty six hours within which to procure another party or other parties satisfactory to you to purchase such Securities on such terms. In the event that, within the respective prescribed periods, you notify the Company that you have so arranged for the purchase of such Securities, or the Company notifies you that it has so arranged for the purchase of such Securities, you or the Company shall have the right to
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postpone such Time of Delivery for a period of not more than seven days, in order to effect whatever changes may thereby be made necessary in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any other documents or arrangements, and the Company agrees to file promptly any amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus which in your opinion may thereby be made necessary. The term “Underwriter” as used in this Agreement shall include any person substituted under this Section with like effect as if such person had originally been a party to this Agreement with respect to such Securities.
(b) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by you and the Company as provided in subsection (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of such Securities which remains unpurchased does not exceed one eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of all the Securities to be purchased at such Time of Delivery, then the Company shall have the right to require each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase the principal amount of Securities which such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder at such Time of Delivery and, in addition, to require each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase its pro rata share (based on the principal amount of Securities which such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder) of the Securities of such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters for which such arrangements have not been made; but nothing herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default.
(c) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by you and the Company as provided in subsection (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of such Securities which remains unpurchased exceeds one eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of all the Securities to be purchased at such Time of Delivery, or if the Company shall not exercise the right described in subsection (b) above to require non-defaulting Underwriters to purchase Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters, then this Agreement (or, with respect to the Second Time of Delivery, the obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and of the Company to sell the Optional Securities) shall thereupon terminate, without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter or the Company, except for the expenses to be borne by the Company and the Underwriters as provided in Section 7 hereof and the indemnity and contribution agreements in Section 9 hereof; but nothing herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default.
11. The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company and the several Underwriters, as set forth in this Agreement or made by or on behalf of them, respectively, pursuant to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation (or any statement as to the results thereof) made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or any controlling person of any Underwriter, or the Company, or any officer or director or controlling person of the Company, and shall survive delivery of and payment for the Securities.
12. If this Agreement shall be terminated pursuant to Section 10 hereof, the Company shall not then be under any liability to any Underwriter except as provided in Sections 7 and 9 hereof; but, if for any other reason, any Securities are not delivered by or on behalf of the Company as provided herein, the Company will reimburse the Underwriters for all out-of-pocket expenses approved in writing by you, including fees and disbursements of counsel, reasonably incurred by the Underwriters in making preparations for the purchase, sale and delivery of the Securities not so delivered, but the Company shall then be under no further liability to any Underwriter except as provided in Sections 7 and 9 hereof.
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13. In all dealings hereunder, you shall act on behalf of each of the Underwriters, and the parties hereto shall be entitled to act and rely upon any statement, request, notice or agreement on behalf of any Underwriter made or given by the Representatives or, except as otherwise provided herein, by Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Co. LLC on behalf of the Representatives.
All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall be in writing, and if to the Underwriters shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to Xxxxxxx Sachs & Co. LLC, 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Registration Department; Citigroup Global Markets Inc., 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: General Counsel, facsimile number 0-000-000-0000; with a copy to Fenwick & West LLP, 0000 0xx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Xxxxx X. Xxxxx; with a copy to Xxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000 Attention: Xxx Xxxxxxx; if to the Company, shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to Zillow Group, Inc., 0000 0xx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00, Xxxxxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, or such other address of the Company set forth in the Registration Statement, with a copy to Xxxxxxx Coie LLP, 0000 0xx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx; provided, however, that any notice to an Underwriter pursuant to Section 9(c) hereof shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to such Underwriter at its address set forth in its Underwriters’ Questionnaire, or telex constituting such Questionnaire, which address will be supplied to the Company by you upon request. Any such statements, requests, notices or agreements shall take effect upon receipt thereof.
In accordance with the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), the Underwriters are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies their respective clients, including the Company, which information may include the name and address of their respective clients, as well as other information that will allow the Underwriters to properly identify their respective clients.
14. This Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure solely to the benefit of, the Underwriters, the Company and, to the extent provided in Sections 9 and 11 hereof, the officers and directors of the Company and each person who controls the Company or any Underwriter, and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, and no other person shall acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement. No purchaser of any of the Securities from any Underwriter shall be deemed a successor or assign by reason merely of such purchase.
15. Time shall be of the essence of this Agreement. As used herein, the term “business day” shall mean any day when the Commission’s office in Washington, D.C. is open for business.
16. The Company acknowledges and agrees that (i) the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and the several Underwriters, on the other, (ii) in connection therewith and with the process leading to such transaction each Underwriter is acting solely as a principal and not the agent or fiduciary of the Company, (iii) no Underwriter has assumed an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company with respect to the offering contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such Underwriter has advised or is currently advising the Company on other matters) or any other obligation to the Company except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement and (iv) the Company has consulted its own legal and financial advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate. The Company agrees that it will not claim that the Underwriters, or any of them, has rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owes a fiduciary or similar duty to the Company, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.
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17. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) among the Company and the Underwriters, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof.
18. THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY MATTERS RELATED TO THIS TRANSACTION SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF ANY LAW OTHER THAN THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. The Company agrees that any suit or proceeding arising in respect of this agreement or our engagement will be tried exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York or, if that court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, in any state court located in The City and County of New York and the Company agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of, and to venue in, such courts.
19. The Company and each of the Underwriters hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
20. This Agreement may be executed by any one or more of the parties hereto in any number of respective counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.
21. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company is authorized to disclose to any persons the U.S. federal and state income tax treatment and tax structure of the potential transaction and all materials of any kind (including tax opinions and other tax analyses) provided to the Company relating to that treatment and structure, without the Underwriters, imposing any limitation of any kind. However, any information relating to the tax treatment and tax structure shall remain confidential (and the foregoing sentence shall not apply) to the extent necessary to enable any person to comply with securities laws. For this purpose, “tax structure” is limited to any facts that may be relevant to that treatment.
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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please sign and return to us five (5) counterparts hereof and, upon the acceptance hereof by you, on behalf of each of the Underwriters, this letter and such acceptance hereof shall constitute a binding agreement among each of the Underwriters and the Company. It is understood that your acceptance of this letter on behalf of each of the Underwriters is pursuant to the authority set forth in a form of Agreement among Underwriters, the form of which shall be submitted to the Company for examination upon request, but without warranty on your part as to the authority of the signers thereof.
| Very truly yours, | ||
| Zillow Group, Inc. | ||
| By: | /s/ Xxxxxxxx Rock | |
| Name: Xxxxxxxx Rock | ||
| Title: Interim Chief Financial Officer and Interim Chief Accounting Officer | ||
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| Accepted as of the date hereof: | ||
| Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Co. LLC | ||
| By: | /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxx | |
| Name: Xxxxx Xxxxx | ||
| Title: Managing Director | ||
| Citigroup Global Markets Inc. | ||
| By: | /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | |
| Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||
| Title: Managing Director | ||
On behalf of each of the Underwriters
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SCHEDULE I
| Underwriter |
Principal Amount of Firm Securities to be Purchased |
Principal Amount of Optional Securities to be Purchased if Maximum Option is Exercised |
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| Xxxxxxx Sachs & Co. LLC |
$ | 195,000,000 | $ | 29,250,000 | ||||
| Citigroup Global Markets Inc. |
$ | 130,000,000 | $ | 19,500,000 | ||||
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| Total |
$ | 325,000,000 | $ | 48,750,000 | ||||
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SCHEDULE II
(a) Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses: Issuer Free Writing Prospectus dated June 29, 2018
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EXHIBIT A
Lock-Up Agreement
June [•], 2018
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Co. LLC
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
As representatives of the several Underwriters
| named in Schedule I to each of the Underwriting Agreements, |
| c/o | Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC |
| 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx |
| Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000 |
| c/o | Citigroup Global Markets Inc. 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000 |
Re: Zillow Group, Inc. - Lock-Up Agreement (the “Agreement”)
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned understands that Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Co. LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., as representatives, propose to enter into (a) an Underwriting Agreement (the “Debt Underwriting Agreement”), on behalf of the several Underwriters named in Schedule I to such agreement (collectively, the “Note Underwriters”), with Zillow Group, Inc., a Washington corporation (the “Company”), relating to a public offering of convertible notes (the “Note Offering”), which will be convertible into Class C capital stock, par value $0.0001 per share of the Company (the “Class C Capital Stock”), and (b) an Underwriting Agreement (the “Equity Underwriting Agreement” and together with the Debt Underwriting Agreement, the “Underwriting Agreements”), on behalf of the several Underwriters named in Schedule I to such agreement (collectively, the “Equity Underwriters” and together with the Note Underwriters, the “Underwriters”), with the Company, relating to a public offering of shares of Class C Capital Stock (the “Equity Offering” and together with the Note Offering, the “Offering”), pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3ASR to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
In consideration of the agreement by the Underwriters to offer and sell the convertible notes and the Class C Capital Stock, and of other good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the undersigned will not, without the prior written consent of Xxxxxxx Sachs & Co. LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., directly or indirectly, offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of, enter into any transaction which is designed to, or might reasonably be expected to, result in the disposition (whether by actual disposition or effective economic disposition due to cash settlement or otherwise) by the undersigned or any affiliate of the undersigned or any person in privity with the undersigned or any affiliate of the undersigned of, file (or participate in the filing of) a registration statement with the SEC in respect of, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder in respect of, any shares of capital stock of the Company or any securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for such capital stock (collectively, the “Securities”), or publicly announce an intention to effect any such transaction, for a period of 60 days (the “Lock-Up Period”) after the latest date set forth on the final prospectuses used to sell the convertible notes and shares of the Class C Capital Stock in the Offering (the “Offering Date”), other than:
| (a) | Securities disposed of by bona fide gift, will or intestacy or through transfer to an immediate family member or a trust formed for the benefit of an immediate family member; |
| (b) | if the undersigned is a business entity, distributions of Securities to (1) members, partners, stockholders or other equity owners of the undersigned or (2) wholly-owned subsidiaries or affiliated funds of the undersigned, which means with respect to a limited liability company or a limited partnership, a fund or entity managed by the same manager or managing member or general partner or management company; |
| (c) | if the undersigned is a trust, transfers of Securities to a trustor or beneficiary of the trust; |
| (d) | in connection with the conversion of any shares of the Company’s Class B Common Stock pursuant to the terms of the Company’s articles of incorporation into other shares of capital stock of the Company; provided that any such shares of capital stock received upon any such conversion shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement; |
| (e) | dispositions of Securities pursuant to a written plan meeting the requirements of Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act, relating to the sale of Securities, provided that such plan was established prior to or substantially contemporaneous with the execution of this Agreement by the undersigned and a copy of such plan has been provided to Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Co. LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and its counsel; and |
| (f) | in connection with the exercise of options to purchase Securities or the settlement of equity awards pursuant to employee benefit plans on the terms of such plans as described in the preliminary prospectuses and final prospectuses relating to the Offering or as incorporated by reference into such preliminary prospectuses or final prospectuses; provided that any such shares of Class C Capital Stock of the Company received upon any such exercise or settlement of equity awards shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement; |
provided that in the case of any transfer or distribution pursuant to clause (a), (b) or (c), above, each donee, transferee or distributee shall execute and deliver to Xxxxxxx Sachs & Co. LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., a lock-up letter agreement in the form of this Agreement and there shall be no disposition for value and no filing by any party under the Exchange Act reporting a reduction in beneficial ownership of Securities (other than a filing on a Form 5 made after the expiration of the Lock-Up Period); and provided, further, that in the case of any transaction pursuant to clause (d), Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Co. LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. shall receive notice from the undersigned of any filing by any party under the Exchange Act or other public announcement related to any such conversions at least one (1) business day prior to such filing or announcement. For purposes of this Agreement, “immediate family” means any relationship by blood, marriage, domestic partnership or adoption, no more remote than a first cousin. Any request by the undersigned for a release or waiver by Xxxxxxx Sachs & Co. LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. of the restrictions set forth herein must be made in writing and delivered by the undersigned to both Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Co. LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and the Company.
This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to contracts made and to be performed within the State of New York.
This Agreement shall automatically terminate and be of no further effect upon the earliest to occur, if any, of: (i) either Xxxxxxx Sachs & Co. LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. or the Company advising the other in writing, prior to execution of either of the Underwriting Agreements, that it has determined not to proceed with the Offering (provided, however, that if it has been determined to not proceed with either the Debt Offering or the Equity Offering, but continue to pursue the other Offering, this Agreement shall remain in effect), or (ii) the termination of the Underwriting Agreements prior to payment for and delivery of the convertible notes and the shares of Class C Capital Stock to be sold pursuant thereto.
Unless this Agreement is terminated pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence, this Agreement shall supersede and replace any prior market stand-off or lock-up agreements of the undersigned for the benefit of any underwriters in connection with the Offering, including, without limitation, any such agreements for which any such underwriters are intended third party beneficiaries.
[Signature page follows.]
| Very truly yours, | ||
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
[Signature Page to Lock-Up Agreement]
