CAPSTONE TURBINE CORPORATION 40,000,000 Shares Warrants to Purchase 20,000,000 Shares Common Stock ($0.001 Par Value) PLACEMENT AGENCY AGREEMENT
Exhibit
1.1
CAPSTONE TURBINE CORPORATION
40,000,000 Shares
Warrants
to Purchase 20,000,000 Shares
Common Stock
($0.001 Par Value)
January 18, 2007
X.X. Xxxxxxx & Sons, Inc.
Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xx. Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xx. Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
The undersigned, Capstone Turbine Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”),
hereby addresses you (the “Placement Agent”) and confirms its agreement with you as
follows:
1. Description of Securities. The Company proposes, subject to the terms and
conditions stated herein, to issue and sell up to an aggregate of (i)
40,000,000 shares (the
“Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “Common
Stock”), and (ii) 20,000,000 warrants to purchase Common Stock (the “Warrants”, and
together with the Shares, the “Securities”), to certain investors (each an
“Investor” and, collectively, the “Investors”), in a direct offering under its
Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-128164). The Shares of Common Stock
issuable upon exercise of the Warrants are hereinafter referred to as the Warrant Shares. The
Company desires to engage the Placement Agent as its placement agent in connection with such
issuance and sale. The Securities are more fully described in the Prospectus hereinafter defined.
2. Agreement to Act as Placement Agent; Delivery and Payment. On the basis of the
representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, but subject to the terms and
conditions herein set forth, the Placement Agent agrees to act as the Company’s exclusive placement
agent to assist the Company, on a best efforts basis, in connection with the proposed issuance and
sale by the Company of the Securities to the Investors. The Company expressly acknowledges and
agrees that this Agreement does not in any way constitute a commitment by the Placement Agent to
purchase any of the Securities and does not ensure successful placement of the Securities or any
portion thereof. The Company shall pay to the Placement Agent concurrently with the Closing (as
defined below) 4.8% of the gross purchase price of the Securities, which gross purchase price does
not include any consideration that may be paid to the Company in the future upon exercise of the
Warrants (the “Placement Fee”).
Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 5 hereof, the closing of the sale and
issuance of the Securities (the “Closing”) shall occur at the offices of Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx & Xxxxx, LLP, 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, or at such other place as
may be agreed upon between the Placement Agent and the Company (the “Place of Closing”), at
10:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time, on January 24, 2007, or at such other time and date as the
Placement Agent and the Company may agree, such time and date of payment and delivery being herein
called the “Closing Date.”
Concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Company, the Placement
Agent and Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx PC, as escrow agent (the “Escrow Agent”), shall enter into an
escrow agreement (the “Escrow Agreement”), pursuant to which an escrow account (the
“Escrow Account”) will be established for the benefit of the Company and the Investors to
settle each purchase of the Securities, with the Shares being settled through the facilities of The
Depository Trust Company’s DWAC system and the Warrants being issued in registered physical form.
Prior to the Closing Date, each such Investor shall deposit into the Escrow Account an amount equal
to the product of (x) the number of Securities such Investor has agreed to purchase and (y) the
purchase price per share as set forth on the cover page of the Prospectus (the “Purchase
Amount”). The aggregate of all such Purchase Amounts is herein referred to as the “Escrow
Funds.” On the Closing Date, upon satisfaction or waiver of all the conditions to Closing, the
Escrow Agent will disburse the Escrow Funds from the Escrow Account to the Company and the
Placement Agent as provided in the Escrow Agreement, and the Company shall cause the Securities to
be delivered to the Investors, which, with respect to the Shares, shall be made through the
facilities of The Depository Trust Company’s DWAC system.
The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Placement Agent shall act as an independent
contractor, and not as a fiduciary, and any duties of the Placement Agent with respect to
investment banking services to the Company, including the offering of the Securities contemplated
hereby (including in connection with determining the terms of the offering), shall be contractual
in nature, as expressly set forth herein, and shall be owed solely to the Company. Each party
disclaims any intention to impose any fiduciary or similar duty on the other. Additionally, the
Placement Agent has not advised, nor is advising, the Company or any other person as to any legal,
tax, investment, accounting or regulatory matters in any jurisdiction with respect to the
transactions contemplated hereby. The Company shall consult with its own advisors concerning such
matters and shall be responsible for making its own independent investigation and appraisal of the
transactions contemplated hereby, and the Placement Agent shall have no responsibility or liability
to the Company with respect thereto. Any review by the Placement Agent of the Company, the
transactions contemplated hereby or other matters relating to such transactions has been and will
be performed solely for the benefit of the Placement Agent and has not been and shall not be on
behalf of the Company or any other person. It is understood that the Placement Agent has not and
will not be rendering an opinion to the Company as to the fairness of the terms of the offering.
Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the Company acknowledges that the
Placement Agent may have financial interests in the success of the offering contemplated hereby
that are not limited to the Placement Fee. The Company hereby waives and releases, to the fullest
extent permitted by law, any claims that the Company may have against the Placement Agent with
respect to any breach or alleged breach of fiduciary duty.
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It is understood that the Company proposes to offer the Securities to the Investors upon the
terms and conditions set forth in the Registration Statement (hereinafter defined).
3. Representations, Warranties and Agreements of the Company.
(a) The Company
represents and warrants to and agrees with the Placement Agent as of the date hereof and as of the
Closing Date and any other date specified below, that:
(i) At the time of filing the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-128164),
the Company met the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the 1933 Act for a primary
offering. A Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-128164) with respect
to the Securities, including a base prospectus (the “Base Prospectus”), and such
amendments to such registration statement as may have been required to the date of this
Agreement, has been carefully prepared by the Company pursuant to and in conformity with the
requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), and the
rules and regulations thereunder (the “1933 Act Rules and Regulations”) of the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and has been filed with the SEC under
the 1933 Act. Such registration statement has been declared effective by the SEC. Copies
of such registration statement, including any amendments thereto, each related preliminary
prospectus (meeting the requirements of Rule 430, 430A or 430B of the 1933 Act Rules and
Regulations) contained therein, and the exhibits, financial statements and schedules thereto
have heretofore been delivered by the Company to the Placement Agent (it being understood
among the parties hereto that any reference to “delivery,” “furnishing” or similar words or
phrases by the Company to the Placement Agent of any information that is on file with the
SEC will be deemed to be so delivered in the absence of an express request from the
Placement Agent). A final prospectus supplement containing information permitted to be
omitted at the time of effectiveness by Rule 430A or 430B of the 1933 Act Rules and
Regulations will be filed promptly by the Company with the SEC in accordance with Rule
424(b) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations. The term “Registration Statement” as
used herein means the registration statement as amended at the time it became effective by
the SEC under the 1933 Act (the “Effective Date”), including financial statements,
all exhibits and all documents incorporated by reference therein and, if applicable, the
information deemed to be included by Rule 430A or 430B of the 1933 Act Rules and
Regulations. If an abbreviated registration statement is prepared and filed with the SEC in
accordance with Rule 462(b) under the 1933 Act (an “Abbreviated Registration
Statement”), the term “Registration Statement” as used in this Agreement
includes the Abbreviated Registration Statement. The term “Prospectus”
as used herein means, together with the Base Prospectus, the final prospectus supplement as
first filed with the SEC in connection with the offering of the Securities pursuant to Rule
424(b) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations, including the documents incorporated by
reference therein. The term “Preliminary Prospectus” as used herein shall mean a
preliminary prospectus in connection with the offering of the Securities as contemplated by
Rule 430, 430A or 430B of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations included at any time in the
Registration Statement, including the Base Prospectus and any preliminary prospectus
supplement in connection with the offering of the Securities, and including in each case the
documents incorporated by reference therein. The term “Free Writing Prospectus” as
used herein
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shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 405 of the 1933 Act. The term
“Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” as used herein shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 433
of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations. The term “Disclosure Package” as used herein
shall mean the Preliminary Prospectus as most recently amended or supplemented prior to the
Initial Time of Sale (as defined below) together with the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses
identified in Schedule I hereto, if any, and any other Free Writing Prospectus that
the parties hereto shall hereafter expressly agree to treat as part of the Disclosure
Package. The Preliminary Prospectus, and, if any, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations and the
Prospectus delivered to the Placement Agent for use in connection with the offering of the
Securities have been and will be identical to the respective versions thereof transmitted to
the SEC for filing via the Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval System
(“XXXXX”), except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T. For purposes of this
Agreement, the words “amend,” “amendment,” “amended,” “supplement” or “supplemented” with
respect to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus or the
Disclosure Package shall mean amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement, the
Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus or the Disclosure Package, as the case may be, as
well as documents filed after the date of this Agreement and prior to the completion of the
distribution of the Securities and incorporated by reference therein as described above.
(ii) Neither the SEC nor any state or other jurisdiction or other regulatory body has
issued, and neither is, to the knowledge of the Company, threatening to issue, any stop
order under the 1933 Act or other order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement (as amended or supplemented) or preventing or suspending the use of any
Preliminary Prospectus, Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the Disclosure Package or the
Prospectus or suspending the qualification or registration of the Securities for offering or
sale in any jurisdiction nor instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened to
institute proceedings for any such purpose. The Preliminary Prospectus at its date of issue
and as of 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on the date hereof (the “Initial Time of
Sale”), the Registration Statement at each effective date and the Initial Time of Sale,
and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto or to the Registration
Statement when they are filed with the SEC or become effective, as the case may be, contain
or will contain, as the case may be, all statements that are required to be stated therein
by, and in all material respects conform or will conform, as the case may be, to the
requirements of, the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations. Neither the
Registration Statement nor any amendment thereto, as of the applicable effective date,
contains or will contain, as the case may be, any untrue statement of a material fact or
omits or will omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein, not misleading. Neither the Preliminary Prospectus, the
Prospectus nor any supplement thereto contains or will contain, as the case may be, any
untrue statement of a material fact or omits or will omit to state any material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of
the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Neither the Disclosure
Package nor any supplement thereto, at the Initial Time of Sale, contains or will contain,
as the case may be, any untrue statement of a material fact or omits or will omit to state
any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
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make the statements therein,
in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company makes no
representation or warranty as to information contained in or omitted from the Registration
Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any such amendment or supplement, in
reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company relating
to the Placement Agent by or on behalf of the Placement Agent expressly for use in the
preparation thereof (as provided in Section 12 hereof). There is no contract, agreement,
understanding or arrangement, whether written or oral, or document required to be described
in the Registration Statement, Disclosure Package or Prospectus or to be filed as an exhibit
to the Registration Statement that is not described or filed as required. The documents
incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus at the time they were
filed with the SEC, complied in all material respects with the requirements of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”), and the rules and
regulations adopted by the SEC thereunder (the “1934 Act Rules and Regulations”).
Any future documents incorporated by reference so filed, when they are filed, will comply in
all material respects with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the 1934 Act Rules and
Regulations.
(iii) The Company is eligible to use Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses in connection
with the offering of the Securities pursuant to Rules 164 and 433 of the 1933 Act. Any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that the Company is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d)
of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations has been, or will be, timely filed with the SEC in
accordance with the requirements of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations. Each Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus that the Company has filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule
433(d) of the 1933 Act or that was prepared by or on behalf of or used by the Company
complies or will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the 1933 Act Rules
and Regulations, including but not limited to legending and recordkeeping requirements.
Except for the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, if any, identified in Schedule I
hereto, the Company has not prepared, used or referred to, and will not, without your prior
consent, prepare, use or refer to any Free Writing Prospectus. Each Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, as of its issue date and at all times through the completion of the offering and
sale of the Securities, did not, does not and will not include any information that
conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the information contained in the Registration
Statement. The Company filed the Registration Statement with the SEC before using any Free
Writing Prospectus. The Company has satisfied and will satisfy the conditions of Rule 433
of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations such that any electronic road show need not be filed
with the SEC.
(iv) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and
constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the
Company in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws
relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity.
(v) The Company and its Subsidiaries have been duly organized and are validly existing
as corporations in good standing under the laws of the states or other
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jurisdictions in
which they are incorporated, with full power and authority (corporate
and other) to own, lease and operate their properties and conduct their businesses as
described in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and, with respect to the
Company, to execute and deliver, and perform the Company’s obligations under, this
Agreement; the Company and its Subsidiaries are duly qualified to do business as foreign
corporations in good standing in each state or other jurisdiction in which their ownership
or leasing of property or conduct of business legally requires such qualification, except
where the failure to be so qualified, individually or in the aggregate, would not have a
Material Adverse Effect. The term “Material Adverse Effect” as used herein means any
material adverse effect on the condition (financial or other), net worth, business, affairs,
management, results of operations or cash flow of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as
a whole. The Company has no significant subsidiaries (as such term is defined in Rule
1-02(w) of Regulation S-X promulgated by the Commission) other than those Subsidiaries
listed on Schedule II hereto (the “Subsidiaries”).
(vi) 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
Disclosure Package any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion,
flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or
court or governmental action, order or decree. otherwise than as set forth in each of the
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and, since the respective dates as of which
information is given in the Disclosure Package, there has not been any change in the capital
stock or long-term debt of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Material Adverse
Change, or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, otherwise than
as set forth in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. The term “Material
Adverse Change” as used herein means any change that has a Material Adverse Effect.
(vii) The issuance and sale of the Securities and the execution, delivery and
performance by the Company of this Agreement, and the consummation of the transactions
herein contemplated, will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the
terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or
imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any properties or assets of the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or
other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or
by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the properties
or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, except to such extent as,
individually or in the aggregate, does not have a Material Adverse Effect, nor will such
action result in any violation of the provisions of the Company’s certificate of
incorporation or bylaws or any statute, rule, regulation or other law, or any order or
judgment, of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their properties; and no consent, approval,
authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any such court or
governmental agency or body is required for the execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement, the issuance and sale of the Securities or the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby, except such as have been, or will be prior to the Closing Date,
obtained under the 1933 Act or as may be required by the
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National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc. (the “NASD”) and such consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations or qualifications as may be required under
state securities or blue sky laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the
Securities to the Investors.
(viii) The Company has duly and validly authorized capital stock as set forth in each
of the Disclosure Package and Prospectus; all outstanding shares of Common Stock of the
Company and the Shares conform, or when issued will conform, to the description thereof in
the Prospectus and have been, or, when issued and paid for in the manner described herein
will be, duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable; and the issuance of
the Securities to be purchased from the Company hereunder is not subject to preemptive or
other similar rights, or any restriction upon the voting or transfer thereof pursuant to
applicable law or the Company’s certificate of incorporation, by-laws or governing documents
or any agreement to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which any
of them may be bound. All corporate action required to be taken by the Company for the
authorization, issuance and sale of the Securities has been duly and validly taken. The
Warrants conform, or when issued will conform, to the description thereof in the Prospectus
and have been duly and validly authorized by the Company and upon delivery to the Investors
at the Closing Date will be valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in
accordance with their terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the rights and remedies of
creditors generally or subject to general principles of equity. The Warrant Shares initially
issuable upon exercise of the Warrants conform, or when issued will conform, to the
description thereof in the Prospectus and have been duly authorized and reserved for
issuance and when issued upon payment of the exercise price therefor will be validly issued,
fully paid and nonassessable. Except as disclosed in each of the Disclosure Package and
Prospectus, there are no outstanding subscriptions, rights, warrants, options, calls,
convertible securities, commitments of sale or rights related to or entitling any person to
purchase or otherwise to acquire any shares of, or any security convertible into or
exchangeable or exercisable for, the capital stock of, or other ownership interest in, the
Company, except for such options or rights as may have been granted by the Company to
employees, directors or consultants pursuant to its stock option or stock purchase plans.
The outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company’s Subsidiaries have been duly
authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned by the
Company free and clear of any mortgage, pledge, lien, encumbrance, charge or adverse claim
and are not the subject of any agreement or understanding with any person and were not
issued in violation of any preemptive or similar rights; and there are no outstanding
subscriptions, rights, warrants, options, calls, convertible securities, commitments of sale
or instruments related to or entitling any person to purchase or
otherwise acquire any shares of, or any security convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for, the capital
stock of, or other ownership interest in any of the Subsidiaries.
(ix) [Intentionally deleted].
(x) Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is in possession of and is operating in
compliance with all franchises, grants, authorizations, licenses, certificates,
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permits,
easements, consents, orders and approvals
(“Permits”) from all state, federal, foreign and other regulatory authorities, and has satisfied the requirements imposed by
regulatory bodies, administrative agencies or other governmental bodies, agencies or
officials, that are required for the Company and its Subsidiaries lawfully to own, lease and
operate their properties and conduct their businesses as described in each of the Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus, and each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is conducting its
business in compliance with all of the laws, rules and regulations of each jurisdiction in
which it conducts its business, in each case with such exceptions, individually or in the
aggregate, as would not have a Material Adverse Effect; each of the Company and its
Subsidiaries has filed all notices, reports, documents or other information
(“Notices”) required to be filed under applicable laws, rules and regulations, in
each case, with such exceptions, individually or in the aggregate, as would not have a
Material Adverse Effect; and, except as otherwise specifically described in each of the
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has
received any notification from any court or governmental body, authority or agency, relating
to the revocation or modification of any such Permit or to the effect that any additional
authorization, approval, order, consent, license, certificate, permit, registration or
qualification (“Approvals”) from such regulatory authority is needed to be obtained
by any of them, in any case where it is reasonably expected that obtaining such Approvals or
the failure to obtain such Approvals, individually or in the aggregate, would have a
Material Adverse Effect.
(xi) The Company and its Subsidiaries have filed all necessary federal, state and
foreign income and franchise tax returns required to be filed prior to the date hereof and
paid all taxes shown as due thereon; all such tax returns are complete and correct in all
material respects; all tax liabilities are adequately provided for on the books of the
Company and its Subsidiaries except to such extent as would not have a Material Adverse
Effect; the Company and its Subsidiaries have made all necessary payroll tax payments; and
the Company and its Subsidiaries have no knowledge of any tax proceeding or action pending
or threatened against the Company or its Subsidiaries that, individually or in the
aggregate, might have a Material Adverse Effect.
(xii) Except as described in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the
Company and its Subsidiaries own or possess, or can acquire on reasonable terms, adequate
patents, patent licenses, trademarks, service marks and trade names necessary to conduct the
business now operated by them, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has
received any notice of infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with
respect to any patents, patent licenses, trademarks, service marks or trade names that,
individually or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or
finding, would have a Material Adverse Effect.
(xiii) The Company and its Subsidiaries own no real property in fee simple. The
Company and its Subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all personal property owned
by them, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, restrictions and defects except such as
are described in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or do not materially
affect the value of such property and do not interfere with the use made and currently
proposed by the Company to be made of such property; and any
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property held under lease or
sublease by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is held under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases or subleases with such exceptions as are
not material and do not interfere with the use made and currently proposed by the Company to
be made of such property by the Company and its Subsidiaries; and neither the Company nor
any of its Subsidiaries has any notice or knowledge of any material claim of any sort that
has been, or may be, asserted by anyone adverse to the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’
rights as lessee or sublessee under any lease or sublease described above, or affecting or
questioning the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ rights to the continued possession of
the leased or subleased premises under any such lease or sublease in conflict with the terms
thereof.
(xiv) Except as described in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there
is no pending action, suit or other proceeding involving the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or any of their material assets for any failure of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, or any predecessor thereof, to comply with any requirements of federal, state
or local regulation relating to air, water, solid waste management, hazardous or toxic
substances, or the protection of health, safety or the environment. Except as described in
each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, none of the property owned or leased by
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is, to the best knowledge of the Company,
contaminated with waste or hazardous or toxic substances in material amounts or in amounts
that pose a threat to employees or visitors, and neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries may be deemed an “owner or operator” of a “facility” or “vessel” that owns,
possesses, transports, generates or disposes of a “hazardous substance” as those terms are
defined in §9601 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
of 1980, 42 U.S.C. §9601 et seq.
(xv) No labor disturbance exists with the employees of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or is imminent that, individually or in the aggregate, would have a Material
Adverse Effect. None of the employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is
represented by a union and, to the best knowledge of the Company and its Subsidiaries, no
union organizing activities are taking place. Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries has violated any federal, state or local law or foreign law relating to
discrimination in hiring, promotion or pay of employees, nor any applicable wage or hour
laws, or the rules and regulations thereunder, or analogous foreign laws and regulations,
that would, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(xvi) The Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with
all presently applicable provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as amended, including the regulations and published interpretations thereunder
(“ERISA”); no “reportable event” (as defined in ERISA) has occurred with respect to
any “pension plan” (as defined in ERISA) for which the Company and its Subsidiaries would
have any liability; the Company and its Subsidiaries have not incurred and do not expect to
incur liability under (i) Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal
from, any “pension plan” or (ii) Sections 412 or 4971 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended, including the regulations and published
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interpretations thereunder (the
“Code”); and each “pension plan” for which
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries would have any liability that is intended to be qualified
under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified in all material respects, and nothing has
occurred, whether by action or by failure to act, that would cause the loss of such
qualification.
(xvii) The Company and its Subsidiaries maintain insurance of the types and in the
amounts generally deemed adequate for its business, including, but not limited to,
directors’ and officers’ insurance, insurance covering real and personal property owned or
leased by the Company and its Subsidiaries against theft, damage, destruction, acts of
vandalism and all other risks customarily insured against, all of which insurance is in full
force and effect. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has been refused any
insurance coverage sought or applied for, and the Company has no reason to believe that it
and its Subsidiaries will not be able to renew their 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 have a Material Adverse Effect.
(xviii) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is, or with the giving of
notice or lapse of time or both would be, in default or violation with respect to its
certificate of incorporation or by-laws. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries
is, or with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both would be, in default in the
performance or observance of any material obligation, agreement, covenant or condition
contained in any material indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease or other
agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by
which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the properties or
assets owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, or in violation of any
statutes, laws, ordinances or governmental rules or regulations or any orders or decrees to
which it is subject, including, without limitation, Section 13 of the 1934 Act, which
default or violation, individually or in the aggregate, would have a Material Adverse
Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has, at any time during the past
five years, (A) made any unlawful contributions to any candidate for any political office,
or failed fully to disclose any contribution in violation of law, or (B) made any payment to
any state, federal or foreign government official, or other person charged with similar
public or quasi-public duty (other than payment required or permitted by applicable law).
(xix) Other than as set forth in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus,
there are no legal or governmental proceedings pending to which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is a party or of which any property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
is the subject that, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries,
would individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect or that would
materially and adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or
that is required to be disclosed in each of the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus; to the
best of the Company’s knowledge, no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated.
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(xx) The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the
Securities, will not be a “holding company,” or a “subsidiary company” of a “holding
company,” or an “affiliate” of a “holding company” or of a “subsidiary company,” as such
terms are defined in the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended (the
“1935 Act”).
(xxi) The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the
Securities, will not be an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment
company,” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the
“1940 Act”).
(xxii) At the earliest time after the filing of the Registration Statement at which the
Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule
164(a)(2) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations) and as of the date hereof, the Company was
not and is not an “ineligible issuer” as such term is defined in Rule 405 of the 1933 Act
Rules and Regulations, without taking account of any determination by the SEC that it is not
necessary that the Company be considered an “ineligible issuer.”
(xxiii)
Deloitte & Touche LLP, the accounting firm that has issued an opinion on the financial
statements filed with or incorporated by reference in and as a part of the Registration
Statement, is an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the
1933 Act and the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations and the rules and regulations of the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) of the United States. The Company and
each of its Subsidiaries maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to
provide reasonable assurance that: (1) transactions are executed in accordance with
management’s general or specific authorization; (2) transactions are recorded as necessary
to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted
accounting principles and to maintain accountability for assets; (3) access to assets is
permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (4)
the recorded accounts for assets are compared with the existing assets at reasonable
intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect thereto. The consolidated financial
statements and schedules of the Company, including the notes thereto, filed with (or
incorporated by reference) and as a part of the Registration Statement, Disclosure Package
or Prospectus, present fairly the financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries as
of the respective dates thereof and the consolidated results of operations and changes in
financial position and consolidated statements of cash flow for the respective periods
covered thereby, all in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on
a consistent basis throughout the periods involved except as otherwise disclosed therein.
All adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of results for such periods have been
made. The selected financial data included or incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement, Disclosure Package and Prospectus present fairly the information shown therein
and have been compiled on a basis consistent with that of the audited financial statements.
Any operating or other statistical data included or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, Disclosure Package and Prospectus comply in all material respects
with the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations and present fairly the information
shown therein and
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are based on or derived from sources that the Company reasonably and in good faith
believes are reliable and accurate, and such data agree with the sources from which they are
derived. All non-GAAP financial information included (or incorporated by reference) in the
Registration Statement, Disclosure Package or Prospectus complies in
all material respects with the requirements of
Regulation G and Item 10 of Regulation S-K under the 1933 Act.
(xxiv) Except as disclosed in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, no
holder of any security of the Company has any right to require registration of shares of
Common Stock or any other security of the Company because of the filing of the Registration
Statement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and, except as
disclosed in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, no person has the right to
require registration under the 1933 Act of any shares of Common Stock or other securities of
the Company. No person has the right, contractual or otherwise, to cause the Company to
permit such person to underwrite the sale of any of the Securities. Except for this
Agreement and that certain financial advisory agreement between the Company and First Albany
Capital, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries and any person that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company,
its Subsidiaries or any Placement Agent for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or like
payment in connection with the issuance, purchase and sale of the Securities.
(xxv) The Company has not distributed and, prior to the later to occur of (A) the
Closing Date and (B) completion of the distribution of the Securities, will not distribute
any offering material in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities other than
the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
identified in Schedule I hereto, the Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus.
(xxvi) The Company has not taken and will not take, directly or indirectly, any action
designed to or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in stabilization or
manipulation of the price of the Company’s Common Stock, and the Company is not aware of any
such action taken or to be taken by affiliates of the Company.
(xxvii) There is not currently and has not in the past been a failure on the part of
the Company or, to the Company’s knowledge, any of its respective directors or officers, in
their capacities as such, to comply with any applicable provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act
of 2002 (“Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx”) and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection
therewith, including Sections 302, 402 and 906, and the statements contained in any
certification pursuant to such Act and related rules and regulations are complete and
correct.
(xxviii) The Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures
and internal control over financial reporting as are currently required (as such terms are
defined in Rule 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the 1934 Act); the Company’s disclosure controls and
procedures (i) are designed to ensure that information required to
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be disclosed by the
Company in the reports that it files or submits under the 1934 Act is accumulated and communicated to management, including the principal executive and
principal financial officer of the Company, or persons performing similar functions, as
appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure, and that such
information is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods
specified in the 1934 Act Rules and Regulations; (ii) have been evaluated for effectiveness;
and (iii) are effective in all material respects to perform the functions for which they
were established.
(xxix) Except as discussed with the Company’s auditors and audit committee and as
disclosed in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (i) there are no significant
deficiencies or material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over
financial reporting that are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company’s ability to
record, process, summarize, and report financial data and (ii) there is, and there has been,
no fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a
role in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
(xxx) Since the date of the end of the last fiscal year for which audited financial
statements are included or incorporated by reference in each of the Disclosure Package and
the Prospectus, there have been no significant changes in internal control over financial
reporting or in other factors that could significantly affect internal control over
financial reporting, including any corrective actions with regard to significant
deficiencies and material weaknesses.
(xxxi) The Company has received no written comments from the SEC staff regarding its
periodic or current reports under the 1934 Act that remain unresolved and have not been
disclosed in the Registration Statement, Disclosure Package and Prospectus.
(xxxii) No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company and
any director, officer or stockholder of the Company, or any member of his or her immediate
family, or any customers or suppliers that is required to be described in the Registration
Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus and that is not so described and
described as required in material compliance with such requirement. There are no
outstanding loans, advances (except normal advances for business expenses in the ordinary
course of business) or guarantees of indebtedness by the Company to or for the benefit of
any of the officers or directors of the Company or any member of their respective immediate
families, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus. The Company has not, in violation of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act, directly or
indirectly, extended or maintained credit, arranged for the extension of credit, or renewed
an extension of credit, in the form of a personal loan to or for any director or executive
officer of the Company.
(xxxiii) To the best knowledge of the Company, no change in any laws or regulations is
pending that could reasonably be expected to be adopted and if adopted, is reasonably
expected to have, individually or in the aggregate with all such changes, a
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Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in each of the
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(xxxiv) The minute books of each of the Company and its Subsidiaries have been made
available to the Placement Agent and contain a complete summary of all meetings and other
actions of the directors and shareholders of each such entity in all material respects, and
reflect all transactions referred to in such minutes accurately in all material respects.
(xxxv) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries, nor, to the Company’s
knowledge, any director, officer, agent, employee or other person associated with or acting
on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, has, directly or indirectly, used any
corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense
relating to political activity; made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign
or domestic government official or employee or to foreign or domestic political parties or
campaigns from corporate funds; violated or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign
Corrupt Practices Act of 1977; or made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment,
kickback or other unlawful payment.
(xxxvi) The operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries are and have been conducted
at all times in compliance in all material respects with applicable financial recordkeeping
and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970,
as amended, the money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions, 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 or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to
the Money Laundering Laws is pending, or to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.
(xxxvii) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the
Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of
Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”); and the Company
will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or
otherwise make available such proceeds to any Subsidiary, joint venture partner or other
person or entity that, to the Company’s knowledge, will use such proceeds, for the purpose
of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions
administered by OFAC.
(xxxviii) No customer of or supplier to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has
ceased purchases or shipments of merchandise to the Company or indicated, to the Company’s
knowledge, an interest in decreasing or ceasing its purchases from the Company or otherwise
modifying its relationship with the Company, other than in the normal and ordinary course of
business consistent with past practices in a manner which would not, singly or in the
aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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(b) Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company and delivered to the Placement Agent
or to counsel for the Placement Agent shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company
to the Placement Agent as to the matters covered thereby.
4. Additional Covenants. The Company covenants and agrees with the Placement Agent
that:
(a) The Company will timely transmit copies of the Prospectus, and any amendments or
supplements thereto, to the SEC for filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act Rules and
Regulations.
(b) The Company has furnished or will deliver to the Placement Agent and to counsel for the
Placement Agent (i) such number of signed copies of the Registration Statement as originally filed,
including copies of exhibits thereto (other than any exhibits incorporated by reference therein),
and any amendments and supplements to the Registration Statement (including all documents
incorporated by reference therein), as may be reasonably requested by the Placement Agent or
counsel for the Placement Agent and (ii) a signed copy of each consent and certificate included or
incorporated by reference in, or filed as an exhibit to, the Registration Statement as so amended
or supplemented; the Company will deliver to the Placement Agent as soon as practicable after the
date of this Agreement as many copies of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (including all
documents incorporated by reference therein) as the Placement Agent may reasonably request for the
purposes contemplated by the 1933 Act; the Company will promptly advise the Placement Agent of any
request of the SEC for amendment of the Registration Statement or for supplement to the Disclosure
Package or the Prospectus or for any additional information, and of the issuance by the SEC or any
state or other jurisdiction or other regulatory body of any stop order under the 1933 Act or other
order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement (as amended or supplemented) or
preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, Disclosure Package or the
Prospectus or suspending the qualification or registration of the Securities or the Warrant Shares
for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, and of the institution or threat of any proceedings
therefor, of which the Company shall have received notice or otherwise have knowledge prior to the
completion of the distribution of the Securities; and the Company will use its best efforts to
prevent the issuance of any such stop order or other order and, if issued, to secure the prompt
removal thereof.
(c) The Company will obtain the Placement Agent’s consent before taking, or failing to take,
any action that would cause the Company to make an offer of Securities that would constitute an
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or to be required to file a Free
Writing Prospectus pursuant to Rule
433(d) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations, other than the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, if
any, listed on Schedule I hereto.
(d) The Company will not take any action that would result in the Placement Agent being
required to file with the SEC pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations a Free
Writing Prospectus prepared by or on behalf of the Placement Agent that the Placement Agent
otherwise would not have been required to file thereunder.
(e) If the Disclosure Package is being used to solicit offers to buy the Securities at a time
when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers
and any
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event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary to amend or
supplement the Disclosure Package in writing in order to make the statements therein, in light of
the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or if, in the opinion of counsel for
the Placement Agent, it is necessary to amend or supplement the Disclosure Package to comply with
applicable law, the Company will forthwith prepare, file with the SEC and furnish, at its own
expense, to the Placement Agent, either amendments or supplements to the Disclosure Package so that
statements in the Disclosure Package as so amended or supplemented will not, in light of the
circumstances when delivered to a prospective purchaser, be misleading or so that the Disclosure
Package, as amended or supplemented, will comply with law.
(f) The Company will not file any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement, the
Disclosure Package, the Prospectus (or any other prospectus relating to the Securities filed
pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations that differs from the Prospectus as
filed pursuant to such Rule 424(b)) and will not file any document under the 1934 Act before the
termination of the offering of the Securities by the Company if the document would be deemed to be
incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, or the
Prospectus, of which the Placement Agent shall not previously have been advised and furnished with
a copy or to which the Placement Agent shall have reasonably objected or which is not in compliance
with the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations; and the Company will promptly notify the Placement Agent
after it shall have received notice thereof of the time when any amendment to the Registration
Statement becomes effective or when any supplement to, the Disclosure Package, the Prospectus has
been filed.
(g) During the period when a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice contemplated by Rule
173(a) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations) relating to any of the Securities is required to be
delivered under the 1933 Act by any Placement Agent, the Company will comply, at
its own expense,
with all requirements imposed by the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations, as now and
hereafter amended, and by the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder, as from time to time in
force, as necessary to permit the continuance of sales of or dealing in the Securities during such
period in accordance with the provisions hereof and as contemplated by the Prospectus.
(h) If, during the period when a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice contemplated by
Rule 173(a) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations) relating to any of the Securities is required to
be delivered under the 1933 Act by any Placement Agent, (i) any event relating to or affecting the
Company or of which the Company shall be advised in writing by the Placement Agent shall occur as a
result of which, in the opinion of the Company or the Placement Agent, the Disclosure Package or
the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material
fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, (ii) any event shall occur
as a result of which any Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or would conflict with the information
in the Registration Statement, or (iii) it shall be necessary to amend or supplement the
Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus to comply with the 1933 Act, the
1933 Act Rules and Regulations, the 1934 Act or the 1934 Act Rules and Regulations, the Company
will forthwith at its expense prepare and file with the SEC, and furnish to the Placement Agent a
reasonable number of copies of, such
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amendment or supplement or other filing that will correct such statement or omission or effect
such compliance.
(i) During the period when a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice contemplated by Rule
173(a) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations) relating to any of the Securities is required to be
delivered under the 1933 Act by any Placement Agent, the Company will furnish such proper
information as may be lawfully required and otherwise cooperate in qualifying the Securities for
offer and sale under the securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as the Placement Agent
may reasonably designate and will file and make in each year such statements or reports as are or
may be reasonably required by the laws of such jurisdictions; provided, however, that the Company
shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or shall be required to qualify as a
dealer in securities or to file a general consent to service of process under the laws of any
jurisdiction.
(j) In accordance with Section 11(a) of the 1933 Act and Rule 158 of the 1933 Act Rules and
Regulations, the Company has made generally available to its security holders and to holders of the
Securities an earnings statement (which need not be audited) in reasonable detail covering the 12
months beginning not later than the first day of the month next succeeding the month in which
occurred the effective date (within the meaning of Rule 158) of the Registration Statement.
(k) The Company will apply the proceeds from the sale of the Securities as set forth in the
description under “Use of Proceeds” in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, which
description complies in all respects with the requirements of Item 504 of Regulation S-K.
(l) The Company will promptly provide the Placement Agent with copies of all correspondence to
and from, and all documents issued to and by, the SEC in connection with the registration of the
Securities under the 1933 Act or relating to any documents incorporated by reference into the
Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus.
(m) Prior to the Closing Date, the Company will furnish to the Placement Agent, as soon as
they have been prepared, copies of any unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of the
Company and its Subsidiaries for any periods subsequent to the periods covered by the financial
statements appearing in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or incorporated therein by
reference.
(n) The Company will use its best efforts to obtain approval for, and maintain the listing of
the Shares and the Warrant Shares for trading on, the Nasdaq Global Market.
(o) The Company will cause its directors and officers to furnish to the Placement Agent, on or
prior to the date of this Agreement, a letter or letters, in form and substance satisfactory to
counsel for the Placement Agent, pursuant to which each such person shall agree not to, and the
Company will not, and will not publicly announce any intention to, during the period ending 90 days
after the date of the Prospectus, without the prior written consent of the Placement Agent,
directly or indirectly, (1) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to
purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase,
lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares
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of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common
Stock; (2) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part,
any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Common Stock or any securities convertible
into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, whether any such transaction described in
clause (1) or (2) above is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other securities, in
cash or otherwise; or (3) file any registration statement with the SEC relating to the offering of
any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for
Common Stock.
(p) The restrictions contained in the preceding paragraph shall not apply to (a) the issuance
by the Company of shares of Common Stock upon the exercise of an option or warrant or the
conversion of a security outstanding on the date hereof of which the Placement Agent has been
advised in writing or the granting or exercise of options or stock purchase rights pursuant to the
Company’s stock option and stock purchase plans, whenever granted; provided that the underlying
shares of Common Stock issued to any person who has delivered a lock-up agreement pursuant to this
Section 4(o) hereto shall continue to be subject to the restrictions contained in the immediately
preceding paragraph or such lock-up agreement, as applicable; (b) the issuance by the Company of
shares of Common Stock or options to purchase shares of Common Stock to, or the repurchase by the
Company of unvested shares of Common Stock upon termination of service from, an employee, director,
consultant other service provider, pursuant to the Company’s stock option or stock purchase plans
in effect on the date hereof or approved by the stockholders before the date hereof; provided that
the shares of Common Stock or options to purchase shares of Common Stock issued to the Company’s
directors and executive officers shall be subject to the restrictions contained in the lock-up
agreements delivered pursuant to this Section 4(o); and (c) the filing by the Company of any
registration statement with the Commission on Form S-8 relating to the offering of securities
pursuant to the terms of a stock option or stock purchase plan of the Company in effect on the date
hereof or approved by the stockholders before the date hereof.
(q) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if (1) during the last 17 days of the 90-day restricted
period the Company issues an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to the
Company occurs; or (2) prior to the expiration of the 90-day restricted period, the Company
announces that it will release earnings results during the 16-day period beginning on the last day
of the 90-day period, the restrictions imposed by this agreement shall continue to apply until the
expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence
of the material news or material event. The Company shall promptly notify the Placement Agent of
any earnings release, news or event that may give rise to an extension of the initial 90-day
restricted period.
(r) The Company and its Subsidiaries will maintain and keep accurate books and records
reflecting their assets and maintain internal accounting controls that provide reasonable assurance
that (1) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific
authorization, (2) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit the preparation of the
Company’s consolidated financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting
principles and to maintain accountability for the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, (3)
access to the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries is permitted only in accordance with
management’s general or specific authorization, and (4) the recorded accounts
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of the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries are compared with existing assets at
reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
(s) During any period in which a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, a notice contemplated by Rule
173(a) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations) is required by law to be delivered by the Placement
Agent, the Company will promptly file all documents required to be filed with the SEC pursuant to
Sections 13, 14 or 15(d) of the 1934 Act and will furnish to its security holders annual reports
containing financial statements audited by independent public accountants and quarterly reports
containing financial statements and financial information, which may be unaudited. The Company
will deliver to the Placement Agent similar reports with respect to any significant Subsidiaries,
as that term is defined in the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations, that are not consolidated in the
Company’s financial statements. Any report, document or other information required to be furnished
under this paragraph(s) shall be furnished as soon as practicable after such report, document or
information becomes available.
(t) The Company will comply with all applicable securities and other applicable laws, rules
and regulations, including, without limitation, the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, and will use its
best efforts to cause the Company’s directors and officers, in their capacities as such, to comply
with such laws, rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the provisions of the
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002.
(u) Except as required by law, prior to the Closing Date, the Company will issue no press
release or other communication, directly or indirectly, and will hold no press conferences with
respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the financial condition, results of operations,
business, properties, assets or liabilities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or the
offering of the Securities, without the Placement Agent’s prior written consent which shall include
e-mail. In the event that any such disclosure is required by law, the Company will promptly notify
the Placement Agent of such required disclosure prior to issuing any press release or other
communication or holding any press conference, and, to the extent reasonably practicable, the
Company will permit the Placement Agent to comment on any press release or other communication.
(v) The Company shall reserve and keep available at all times a sufficient number of shares of
Common Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to issue shares of Common Stock upon the
exercise of the Warrants.
(w) If the Company elects to rely on Rule 462(b) under the 1933 Act, the Company shall both
file an Abbreviated Registration Statement with the SEC in compliance with Rule 462(b) and pay the
applicable fees in accordance with Rule 111 of the 1933 Act by the earlier of (i) 10:00 p.m.,
Eastern Standard time, on the date of this Agreement, and (ii) the time that confirmations are
given or sent, as specified by Rule 462(b)(2).
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5. Conditions of Closing. The Closing shall be subject to the accuracy, as of the date
hereof and as of the Closing Date, of the representations and warranties of the Company contained
herein, to the performance by the Company of its covenants and obligations hereunder, and to the
following additional conditions, and the Company shall not issue or
sell the Securities unless and until all of the conditions of this Section 5 shall have been satisfied or waived
by the Placement Agent:
(a) The Registration Statement has been declared effective by the SEC and the offering of the
Securities by the Company complies with Rule 415 of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations. All
filings required by Rule 424, Rule 430A, Rule 430B and Rule 433(d) of the 1933 Act Rules and
Regulations will be promptly made. No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement, as amended from time to time, shall have been issued and no proceeding for that purpose
shall have been initiated or, to the knowledge of the Company or the Placement Agent, threatened or
contemplated by the SEC, and any request of the SEC for additional information (to be included in
the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been
complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Placement Agent.
(b) The Placement Agent shall not have advised the Company on or prior to the Closing Date,
that the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or Prospectus or any amendment or
supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of fact that, in the opinion of counsel to the
Placement Agent, is material, or omits to state a fact that, in the opinion of such counsel, is
material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein, in
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(c) On the Closing Date, the Placement Agent shall have received the opinion of Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx & Xxxxx, LLP, counsel for the Company, addressed to the Placement Agent and the Investors
and dated the Closing Date, in substance as set forth on Exhibit A hereto. Such counsel
shall also have furnished to the Placement Agent a written statement, addressed to the Placement
Agent and dated the Closing Date, in substance as set forth on Exhibit B hereto.
(d) On the Closing Date, the Placement Agent shall have received the opinion of Xxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx PC, counsel to the Placement Agent, addressed to the Placement Agent and dated the Closing
Date, with respect to such matters as the Placement Agent may reasonably require; and the Company
shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as it may reasonably request for the purposes
of enabling it to review or pass on such matters.
(e) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Placement Agent shall have
received from Deloitte & Touche LLP, a letter or letters, dated the date of this Agreement and the
Closing Date, respectively, in form and substance satisfactory to the Placement Agent and counsel
for the Placement Agent, confirming that they are independent registered public accountants with
respect to the Company within the meaning of the 1933 Act and the published Rules and Regulations
and the rules and regulations of the PCAOB, and stating the conclusions and findings of such firm
with respect to the financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’
“comfort letters” to placement agents in connection with registered public offerings.
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(f) Except as contemplated in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (i) neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall have sustained since the date of the latest audited
financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus any loss or interference with its business from fire,
explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute
or court or governmental action, order or decree; and (ii) subsequent to the respective dates as of
which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall have incurred any liability or
obligation, direct or contingent, or entered into any transactions, and there shall not have been
any change in the capital stock or short-term or long-term debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries
or any change, or any development involving or which is reasonably expected to involve a
prospective change in the condition (financial or other), net worth, business, affairs, management,
results of operations or cash flow of the Company or its Subsidiaries, the effect of which, in any
such case described in clause (i) or (ii), is in your reasonable judgment so material or adverse as
to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the
Securities being delivered on such Closing Date on the terms and in the manner contemplated in each
of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(g) There shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) a suspension or material
limitation in trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange or The Nasdaq Global
Market or the establishing on such exchanges by the SEC or by such exchanges of minimum or maximum
prices that are not in force and effect on the date hereof; (ii) a suspension or material
limitation in trading in the Company’s securities on the Nasdaq Global Market or the establishing
on such exchange by the SEC or by such exchange of minimum or maximum prices that are not in force
and effect on the date hereof; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities declared
by either federal or any state authorities; (iv) the outbreak or escalation of hostilities
involving the United States or the declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war,
which in your reasonable judgment makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public
offering or the delivery of the Securities in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus; or (v) any
calamity or crisis, change in national, international or world affairs, act of God, change in the
international or domestic markets, or change in the existing financial, political or economic
conditions in the United States or elsewhere, that in your reasonable judgment makes it
impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Securities
in the manner contemplated in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(h) The Placement Agent shall have received certificates, dated the Closing Date and signed by
the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, in their capacities as
such, stating that:
(i) the conditions set forth in Section 5(a) have been fully satisfied;
(ii) they have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package
and the Prospectus as amended or supplemented and all documents incorporated by reference
therein and nothing has come to their attention that would lead them to believe that any of
the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment or
supplement thereto or any documents incorporated by
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reference
therein as of their respective effective, issue or filing dates,
contained, and the Prospectus as amended or supplemented and all
documents incorporated by reference therein and when read together
with the documents incorporated by reference therein, at such Closing Date, contains any untrue statement of a material fact, or omits to state
a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
(iii) since the Effective Date, there has occurred no event required to be set forth in
an amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the
Prospectus which has not been so set forth; there has been no Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
required to be filed under Rule 433(d) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations that has not
been so filed; and there has been no document required to be filed under the 1934 Act and
the 1934 Act Rules and Regulations that upon such filing would be deemed to be incorporated
by reference into the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus that has not been so filed;
(iv) all representations and warranties made herein by the Company are true and correct
in all material respects (except for those representations and warranties which are
qualified by materiality, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true
and correct in all respects) at such Closing Date, with the same effect as if made on and as
of such Closing Date, and all agreements herein to be performed or complied with by the
Company on or prior to such Closing Date have been duly performed and complied with by the
Company;
(v) 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 each of the
Disclosure Package and the 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; and
(vi) except as disclosed in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus,
subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration
Statement, each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of
its Subsidiaries has incurred any liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, other
than in the ordinary course of business, or entered into any transactions not in the
ordinary course of business, which in either case are material to the Company or such
Subsidiary; and there has not been any change in the capital stock or material increase in
the short-term debt or long-term debt of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any
material adverse change or any development involving or that is reasonably expected to
involve a prospective material adverse change, in the condition (financial or other), net
worth, business, affairs, management, results of operations or cash flow of the Company and
its Subsidiaries taken as a whole; and there has been no dividend or distribution of any
kind, paid or made by the Company on any class of its capital stock.
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(i) The Company shall have furnished to the Placement Agent at the Closing Date such further
information, opinions, certificates, letters and documents as the Placement Agent may have
reasonably requested.
(j) The Shares and the Warrant Shares shall have been listed for trading on The Nasdaq Global
Market.
(k) The Placement Agent shall have received duly and validly executed letter agreements
referred to in Section 4(p) hereof.
(l) The NASD shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the
fairness and reasonableness of the placement agency terms and conditions.
(m) All such opinions, certificates, letters and documents will be in compliance with the
provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Placement Agent and to
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx PC, counsel for the Placement Agent. The Company will furnish the Placement
Agent with such signed and conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents
as the Placement Agent may request.
(n) If any of the conditions specified above in this Section 5 shall not have been satisfied
at or prior to the Closing Date or waived by the Placement Agent in writing, this Agreement may be
terminated by the Placement Agent on written notice to the Company, whereupon the Company shall not
issue or sell the Securities.
6. Indemnification
and Contribution. (a) The Company will indemnify and hold harmless
the Placement Agent from and against any losses, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which
the Placement Agent may become subject, under the 1933 Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses,
damages or liabilities (or actions or claims in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (i)
an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained (A) in any Preliminary
Prospectus, the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that the Company has
filed or is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations, the
Prospectus or any other prospectus relating to the Securities, or any amendment or supplement
thereto, (B) in any blue sky application or other document executed by the Company or based on any
information furnished in writing by the Company, filed in any state or other jurisdiction in order
to qualify any or all of the Securities under the securities laws thereof (the “Blue Sky
Application”) or (C) in any materials or information provided to investors by, or with the
approval of, the Company in connection with the marketing of the offering of the Securities
(“Marketing Materials”), including any road show or investor presentations made to
investors by the Company (whether in person or electronically), when read together with the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus, (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state in any
Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that the
Company has filed or is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the 1933 Act Rules and
Regulations, the Prospectus or any other prospectus relating to the Securities, or any amendment or
supplement thereto or in any Blue Sky Application or in any Marketing Materials, when read together
with the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, a material fact
required to be stated therein or
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necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or (iii) any act or failure to act or
any alleged act or failure to act by the Placement Agent in connection with, or relating in any
manner to, the Securities or the offering contemplated hereby, and that is the result of the
matters giving rise to any loss, damage or liabilities (or actions or claims in respect thereof)
arising out of or based upon matters covered by clause (i) or (ii) above (provided that the Company
shall not be liable under this clause (iii) to the extent that it is determined in a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction that
such loss, damage or liabilities (or actions or claims in respect thereof) resulted directly from
any such acts or failures to act undertaken or omitted to be taken by the Placement Agent through
its gross negligence or willful misconduct), and will reimburse the Placement Agent promptly upon
demand for any legal or other expenses incurred by the Placement Agent in connection with
investigating, preparing, pursuing or defending against or appearing as a third party witness in
connection with any such loss, damage, liability or action or claim, including, without limitation,
any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened,
including the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel to the indemnified party, as such expenses
are incurred (including such losses, damages, liabilities or expenses to the extent of the
aggregate amount paid in settlement of any such action or claim, provided that (subject to Section
6(d) hereof) any such settlement is effected with the written consent of the Company); provided,
however, that the Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent, but only to the
extent, that any such loss, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement
or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in any Preliminary Prospectus, the
Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that the Company has filed or is
required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations, the Prospectus or
any other prospectus relating to the Securities, or any such amendment or supplement, or in any
Blue Sky Application or in any Marketing Materials, read together with the Registration Statement
and the Prospectus, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information relating to the
Placement Agent furnished to the Company by the Placement Agent expressly for use in the
preparation thereof (as provided in Section 12 hereof); provided, further, that the Company shall
not be liable in any such case to the extent, but only to the extent, that any such loss, damage or
liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or
omission or alleged omission made in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
listed on Schedule I hereto, the Prospectus or any other prospectus relating to the
Securities, or any such amendment or supplement, if the Placement Agent failed to convey the
Disclosure Package to the investor making the claim prior to the
Initial Time of Sale or if such untrue statement or omission was made
in a Preliminary Prospectus, such statement was corrected in the
Disclosure Package prior to such time.
(b) The Placement Agent will indemnify and hold harmless the Company from and against any
losses, damages or liabilities to which the Company may become subject, under the 1933 Act or
otherwise, insofar as such losses, damages or liabilities (or actions or claims in respect thereof)
arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact
contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus that the Company has filed or is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the 1933
Act Rules and Regulations, the Prospectus or any other prospectus relating to the Securities, or
any amendment or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged
omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to
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the extent, that such
untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in (i) any
Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that the
Company has filed or is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the 1933 Act Rules and
Regulations, the Prospectus or any other prospectus relating to the Securities, or any such
amendment or supplement, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information relating to
the Placement Agent furnished to the Company by the Placement Agent, expressly for use in the
preparation thereof (as provided in Section 12 hereof) or (ii) any Preliminary Prospectus, any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus listed on Schedule I
hereto, the Prospectus or any other prospectus relating to the Securities, or any such amendment or
supplement, if the Placement Agent failed to convey the Disclosure Package to the investor making
the claim prior to the Initial Time of Sale. The Placement Agent will reimburse the Company for
any legal or other expenses incurred by the Company in connection with investigating or defending
any such action or claim as such expenses are incurred (including such losses, damages, liabilities
or expenses to the extent of the aggregate amount paid in settlement of any such action or claim,
provided that (subject to Section 6(c) hereof) any such settlement is effected with the written
consent of the Placement Agent). Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 6(b), in no event
shall any indemnity by the Placement Agent under this Section 6(b) exceed the total compensation
received by such Placement Agent in accordance with this Agreement.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under Section 6(a) or 6(b) hereof of notice
of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is
to be made against an indemnifying party under Section 6(a) or 6(b) hereof, notify each such
indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof, but the failure so to notify such
indemnifying party shall not relieve such indemnifying party from any liability except to the
extent that it has been prejudiced in any material respect by such failure or from any liability
that it may have to any such indemnified party otherwise than under Section 6(a) or 6(b) hereof.
In case any such action shall be brought against any such indemnified party and it shall notify
each indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, each such indemnifying party shall be entitled
to participate therein and, to the extent that it shall wish, jointly with any other indemnifying
party under Section 6(a) or 6(b) hereof similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with
counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the consent of such
indemnified party, be counsel to such indemnifying party), and, after notice from such indemnifying
party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof, such indemnifying
party shall not be liable to such indemnified party under Section 6(a) or 6(b) hereof for any
legal expenses of other counsel or any other expenses, in each case subsequently incurred by such
indemnified party, in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of
investigation. The indemnified party shall have the right to employ its own counsel in any such
action, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party
unless (i) the employment of counsel by such indemnified party at the expense of the indemnifying
party has been authorized by the indemnifying party, (ii) the indemnified party shall have been
advised by such counsel that there may be a conflict of interest between the indemnifying party and
the indemnified party in the conduct of the defense, or certain aspects of the defense, of such
action (in which case the indemnifying party shall not have the right to direct the defense of such
action with respect to those matters or aspects of the defense on which a conflict exists or may
exist on behalf of the indemnified party) or (iii) the indemnifying party shall not in fact have
employed counsel reasonably satisfactory to such
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indemnified party to assume the defense of such
action, in any of which events such fees and expenses to the extent applicable shall be borne, and
shall be paid as incurred, by the indemnifying party. If at any time such indemnified party shall
have requested such indemnifying party under Section 6(a) or 6(b) hereof to reimburse such
indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel, such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be
liable for any settlement of the nature contemplated by Section 6(a) or 6(b) hereof effected
without its written consent if (I) such settlement is entered into more than 45 days after receipt
by such indemnifying party of such request for reimbursement, (II) such indemnifying party shall
have received notice of the terms of such settlement at least 30 days prior to such settlement
being entered into and (III) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed such indemnified
party in accordance with such request for reimbursement prior to the date of such settlement. No
such indemnifying party shall (1) without the written consent of such indemnified party, effect the
settlement or compromise of, or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to, any pending
or threatened action, claim or proceeding in respect of which indemnification or contribution may
be sought hereunder (whether or not such indemnified party is an actual or potential party to such
action, claim or proceeding) unless such settlement, compromise or judgment (A) includes an
unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability arising out of such action,
claim or proceeding and (B) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault,
culpability or a failure to act, by or on behalf of any such indemnified party or (2) be liable for
any settlement or any such action effected without its written consent, but if settled with the
consent of the indemnifying party or if there be a final judgment of the plaintiff in any such
action, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify and hold harmless any indemnified party from and
against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. In no event shall such
indemnifying parties be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one counsel, in addition to
any local counsel, for all such indemnified parties in connection with any one action or separate
but similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations
or circumstances.
(d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 6 is by its terms due and owing but is
unavailable or insufficient to indemnify or hold harmless an indemnified party under Section 6(a)
or 6(b) hereof in respect of any losses, damages or liabilities (or actions or claims in respect
thereof) referred to therein, then each indemnifying party under Section 6(a) or 6(b) hereof shall
contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses,
damages or liabilities (or actions or claims in respect thereof) in such proportion as is
appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the
Placement Agent, on the other hand, from the offering of the Securities. If, however, the
allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is not permitted by applicable law or if
the indemnified party failed to give the notice required under Section 6(c) hereof and such
indemnifying party was prejudiced in a material respect by such failure, then each such
indemnifying party shall contribute to such amount paid or payable by such indemnified party in
such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative
fault, as applicable, of the Company, on the one hand, and the Placement Agent, on the other hand,
in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, damages or liabilities
(or actions or claims in respect thereof), as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.
The relative benefits received by, as applicable, the Company, on the one hand, and the Placement
Agent, on the other hand, shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds
from such offering (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear
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to the portion of the
total Placement Fee received by the Placement Agent. The relative fault, as applicable, of the
Company, on the one hand, and the Placement Agent, on the other hand, shall be determined by
reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact
or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the
Company, on the one hand, or the Placement Agent, on the other hand, and the parties’ relative
intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or
omission. The Company and the Placement Agent agree that it would not be just and equitable if
contribution pursuant to this Section 6(d) were determined by
pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the
equitable considerations referred to above in this Section 6(d). The amount paid or payable by
such an indemnified party as a result of the losses, damages or liabilities (or actions or claims
in respect thereof) referred to above in this Section 6(d) shall be deemed to include any legal or
other expenses incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any
such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 6(d), the Placement Agent
shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at
which the Securities were sold to the Investors exceeds the amount of any damages that the
Placement Agent 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 1933 Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any
person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.
(e) The obligations of the Company under this Section 6 shall be in addition to any liability
that the Company may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each
officer, director, employee, agent or other representative and to each person, if any, who controls
the Placement Agent within the meaning of the 1933 Act; and the obligations of the Placement Agent
under this Section 6 shall be in addition to any liability that the Placement Agent may otherwise
have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each officer and director of the
Company who signed the Registration Statement and to each person, if any, who controls the Company
within the meaning of the 1933 Act.
(f) The parties to this Agreement hereby acknowledge that they are sophisticated business
persons who were represented by counsel during the negotiations regarding the provisions hereof,
including, without limitation, the provisions of this Section 6, and are fully informed regarding
such provisions. They further acknowledge that the provisions of this Section 6 fairly allocate
the risks in light of the ability of the parties to investigate the Company and its business in
order to assure that adequate disclosure is made in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary
Prospectus, the Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, and any supplement or amendment thereof, as
required by the 1933 Act.
7. Representations and Agreements to Survive Delivery. The respective representations,
warranties, agreements and statements of the Company and the Placement Agent, as set forth in this
Agreement or made by or on behalf of them, respectively, pursuant to this Agreement, shall remain
operative and in full force and effect regardless of any investigation (or any statement as to the
results thereof) made by or on behalf of the Placement Agent or any controlling person of the
Placement Agent, the Company or any of its officers, directors or any controlling persons, and
shall survive the Closing.
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8. [Reserved].
9. Effective
Date and Termination. This Agreement may be terminated by the Placement
Agent at any time at or prior to the Closing Date (by telephone, facsimile or telegram, confirmed
by letter) if any condition specified in Section 5 hereof shall not have been satisfied on or prior
to the Closing Date; provided, however, that the provisions of this Section 9 and of Section 6 and
Section 10 hereof shall at all times be effective. Any such
termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party except as provided in Section 6 or Section
10 hereof.
10. Costs and Expenses. The Company, whether or not the transactions contemplated
hereby are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, will bear and pay the costs and expenses
incident to the registration of the Securities and offering thereof, including, without limitation,
(a) all expenses (including stock transfer taxes) incurred in connection with the delivery to the
several Investors of the Securities, the filing fees of the SEC, and the fees and expenses of the
Company’s counsel and accountants, (b) the preparation, printing, filing, delivery and shipping of
the Registration Statement, each Preliminary Prospectus, the Disclosure Package, any Free Writing
Prospectus, the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto and the printing, delivery and
shipping of this Agreement and other offering documents, including the Blue Sky Memoranda, and any
instruments or documents related to any of the foregoing, (c) the furnishing of copies of such
documents to the Placement Agent, (d) the registration or qualification of the Securities for
offering and sale under the securities laws of the various states and other jurisdictions, (e) the
filing fees of the NASD (if any), (f) the fees and disbursements of counsel to the Placement Agent
relating to the Securities and the offering thereof, including, without limitation, relating to any
review of the offering by the NASD, (g) all printing and engraving costs related to preparation of
the certificates for the Securities, including transfer agent and registrar fees, (h) all fees and
expenses relating to the listing of the Shares and the Warrant Shares for trading on The Nasdaq
Global Market, (i) the costs and expenses relating to any investor presentations or any “road show”
undertaken in connection with the marketing of the offering of the Securities, including, without
limitation, expenses associated with the production of road show slides and graphics, fees and
expenses of any consultants engaged in connection with the road show presentations, travel and
lodging expenses of the representatives and officers or representatives of the Company or the
Placement Agent and any such consultants, and the cost of any aircraft chartered in connection with
the road show and (j) all of the other costs and expenses incident to the performance by the
Company of the registration and offering of the Securities; provided, that the Placement Agent will
bear and pay any advertising costs and expenses incurred by the Placement Agent incident to the
offering of the Securities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the Company be
obligated to reimburse the Placement Agent for fees and expenses in excess of $125,000 in the
aggregate. The Company shall reimburse the Placement Agent within 10 days of receiving an invoice
(and such other supporting documentation as may be reasonably requested by the Company) from the
Placement Agent for such costs and expenses.
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11. Notices.
All notices or communications hereunder, except as herein otherwise
specifically provided, shall be in writing and, if sent to the Placement Agent, shall be mailed,
delivered, sent by facsimile transmission, or telegraphed and confirmed, to X.X. Xxxxxxx & Sons,
Inc., Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xx. Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, III,
facsimile number (000) 000-0000, with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to: Xxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx PC, 0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx,
Esq., facsimile number (000) 000-0000; or if sent to the Company, shall be mailed, delivered, sent
by facsimile transmission, or telegraphed and confirmed to Capstone Turbine Corporation, 00000
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Chief Financial Officer, facsimile
number (000) 000-0000, with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx &
Xxxxx, LLP, 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxxx Xxxx, Esq.,
facsimile number (000) 000-0000.
12. Information
Furnished by Placement Agent. The statements set forth in the sixth and
seventh paragraphs under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Preliminary Prospectus,
Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, solely to the extent included in reliance upon and in
conformity with written information related to the Placement Agent furnished to the Company by the
Placement Agent, expressly for use in the preparation thereof, constitute the only information
furnished by or on behalf of the Placement Agent as such information is referred to herein.
13. Parties. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the
Placement Agent, the Company and, to the extent provided in Sections 6 and 7, the officers and
directors of the Company and each person who controls the Company or the Placement Agent and their
respective heirs, executors, administrators, and successors. Nothing expressed or mentioned in
this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person, corporation or other entity
any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any
provision herein contained; this Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof being intended
to be and being for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto and their respective
successors and said controlling persons and with respect to said Sections 6 and 7 said officers and
directors, and for the benefit of no other person, corporation or other entity.
14. Entire Agreement; Amendments and Waivers. This Agreement, together with that
certain Engagement Letter dated January 8, 2007, by and between the Company and the Placement
Agent, as amended on January 17, 2007, constitutes the entire agreement between the parties hereto pertaining to the subject matter
hereof and supersedes all prior agreements, understandings, negotiations and discussions, whether
oral or written, of the parties, and there are no warranties, representations or other agreements
among the parties in connection with the subject matter hereof except as set forth specifically
herein or contemplated hereby. No supplement, modification or waiver of this Agreement shall be
binding unless executed in writing by the party to be bound thereby. The failure of a party to
exercise any right or remedy shall not be deemed or constitute a waiver of such right or remedy in
the future. No waiver of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed or shall
constitute a waiver of any other provision hereof (regardless of whether similar), nor shall any
such waiver constitute a continuing waiver unless otherwise expressly provided.
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15. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by any one or more of the parties hereto in
any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such
counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.
16. Pronouns. Whenever a pronoun of any gender or number is used herein, it shall,
where appropriate, be deemed to include any other gender and number.
17. Time of Essence. Time shall be of the essence of this Agreement.
18. Headings. The headings herein are inserted for convenience of reference only and
are not intended to be part of, or to affect the meaning or interpretation of, this Agreement.
19. Applicable Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance
with, the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to the choice of law or conflict of
laws principles thereof.
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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please so indicate in the space
provided below for that purpose, whereupon this letter shall constitute a binding agreement between
the Company and the Placement Agent.
CAPSTONE TURBINE CORPORATION |
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By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X. XxXxxxx | |||
Name: Xxxxxx X. XxXxxxx | ||||
Title: EVP/CFO | ||||
Accepted as of the date
first above written.
first above written.
X.X. XXXXXXX & SONS, INC.
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, III | |||
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, XXX | ||||
Title: Managing Director |
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SCHEDULE I
FREE WRITING PROSPECTUSES
Final Term
Sheet dated January 18, 2007
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SCHEDULE II
SUBSIDIARIES
Capstone Turbine International, Inc.
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Exhibit A
Form of Company Counsel Legal Opinion
(i) The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good
standing under the laws of the State of Delaware with corporate power and authority to own, lease
and operate its properties and assets, and to conduct its business as described in the Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus and to carry out and perform its obligations under the Transaction
Documents.
(ii) The Company is duly qualified as a foreign corporation for the transaction of business and is
in good standing in the State of California.
(iii) The Company has an authorized equity capitalization as set forth in the Disclosure Package
and the Prospectus.
(iv) The shares of Common Stock to be issued and sold by the Company pursuant to the Placement
Agency Agreement and the Subscription Agreements have been duly authorized and reserved for
issuance and, when issued and delivered in accordance with the provisions of the Placement Agency
Agreement and the Subscription Agreements, will be duly and validly issued and fully paid and
non-assessable, and will conform in all material respects to the description thereof contained in
the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(v) The number of Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants based on the exercise price
in effect on the date hereof have been duly authorized and reserved for issuance and, when issued
and delivered upon exercise by a holder in accordance with the provisions of the Warrants, will be
duly and validly issued and fully paid and non-assessable.
(vi) There are no preemptive rights or similar rights to subscribe for or purchase, nor any
restrictions upon the voting or transfer of, the shares of Common Stock or the Warrant Shares
pursuant to the Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws, DGCL or Reviewed Agreements.
(vii) Each of the Placement Agreement and the Subscription Agreements has been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by the Company, and each of the Placement Agreement and the Subscription
Agreements is a valid and legally binding obligation of the Company, enforceable in accordance with
its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent
conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’
rights generally and by general principles of equity.
(viii) The Warrants being issued on the date hereof have been duly authorized by the Company and,
when executed by the Company and issued and delivered against payment of the purchase price
therefor specified in the Placement Agreement in accordance with the terms of the Placement
Agreement and the Subscription Agreements, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the
Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as enforceability
may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and
other similar laws
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relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity and will
conform in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Disclosure Package and
the Prospectus.
(ix) The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, including the issuance and sale of the
Securities being delivered on the date hereof, do not conflict with and do not result in a breach
or violation by the Company of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under,
any Reviewed Agreement (“Reviewed Agreement” means only a contract that is expressly identified on
Exhibit A hereto), nor will such actions result in any violation by the Company of (i) the
Certificate of Incorporation or the Bylaws, (ii) any U.S. federal or California state statute or
the DGCL, or (iii) any rule or any order, judgment, decree or regulation known to us of any U.S.
federal or California state court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the
Company or any of its properties.
(x) No consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any U.S.
federal or California or Delaware state court or governmental agency or body is required under
California law or the DGCL for the execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents
and the issue and sale of the Securities on the date hereof or the consummation by the Company of
the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, except (i) such as may have been
obtained or made under the Securities Act, (ii) such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders,
registrations or qualifications as may be required under applicable state securities or Blue Sky
laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Securities, and (iii) as may be
expressly contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
(xi) The statements set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under (1) the caption
“Description of Common Stock” with respect to the issuance of Common Stock pursuant to the
Placement Agreement and the Subscription Agreements and (2) the caption “Description of Warrants”
with respect to the issuance of Warrants pursuant to the Purchase Agency Agreement and the
Subscription Agreements, insofar as such statements purport to constitute summaries of the legal
matters, documents or proceedings referred to therein, fairly summarize in all material respects
the matters referred to therein.
(xii) To our knowledge, there are no legal or governmental proceedings pending against the Company
required to be disclosed in the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus by the Securities Act or the
Rules and Regulations, other than those described therein.
(xiii) As of immediately prior to the Closing Date, the Company is not required to register as an
“investment company,” as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(xiv) The Registration Statement is effective under the Securities Act and the Prospectus was filed
on January 19, 2007 pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations and, to our knowledge, no
stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no
proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or threatened by the Commission.
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Exhibit B
Form of Company Counsel Written Statement
We have participated in conferences with certain officers and other representatives of the
Company, representatives of the Placement Agent, counsel for the Placement Agent and
representatives of the independent certified public accountants of the Company, at which the
contents of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and related matters
were reviewed and discussed and, although we do not assume any responsibility for the accuracy,
completeness or fairness of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus,
and we have made no independent check or verification thereof, on the basis of the foregoing no
facts have come to our attention that have caused us to believe that:
(i) the Registration Statement, as of its most recent effective date, contained an
untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order
to make the statements therein not misleading (it being understood that we are not called
upon to and do not comment on the financial statements and the notes thereto and financial
statement schedules and other financial information derived from financial or accounting
records of the Company included therein or omitted therefrom),
(ii) the documents included in the Disclosure Package, all considered together, as of
5:00 P.M. EST on January 18, 2007 (the “Applicable Time”), contained an untrue statement
of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading (it being understood that we are not called upon to and do not comment on the
financial statements and the notes thereto and financial statement schedules and other
financial information derived from financial or accounting records of the Company included
therein or omitted therefrom), or
(iii) the Prospectus, as of its date or as of the date hereof, contained or contains
an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading (it being understood that we are not called upon to
and do not comment on the financial statements and the notes thereto and financial
statement schedules and other financial information derived from financial or accounting
records of the Company included therein or omitted therefrom).
In addition, we confirm to you that the Registration Statement, when it became effective, and
the Base Prospectus, as supplemented by the Final Prospectus Supplement, as of the date of the
Final Prospectus Supplement (it being understood that we are not called upon to and do not comment
on the financial statements and the notes thereto and financial statement schedules and other
financial information derived from financial or
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accounting records of the Company included therein or omitted therefrom), appeared on their
face to comply as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and
the applicable Rules and Regulations. For purposes of this paragraph, we have assumed that the
statements made in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package are
correct and complete.
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