BOOKHAM, INC. Common Stock UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

8,000,000

Common Stock

__________, 2005

XX XXXXX & CO., LLC
XXXXXXXX CURHAN FORD & CO.
As Representatives of the several Underwriters
c/o XX Xxxxx & Co., LLC
0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000

Dear Sirs:

1. Introductory. Bookham, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to sell, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, to the several underwriters named in Schedule A hereto (the “Underwriters,” or, each, an “Underwriter”), an aggregate of 8,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”). The aggregate of 8,000,000 shares so proposed to be sold is hereinafter referred to as the “Firm Stock.” The Company also proposes to sell to the Underwriters, upon the terms and conditions set forth in Section 3 hereof, up to an additional 1,200,000 shares of Common Stock (the “Optional Stock”). The Firm Stock and the Optional Stock are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Stock.” XX Xxxxx & Co., LLC (“XX Xxxxx”) and Xxxxxxxx Curhan Ford & Co. are acting as representatives of the several Underwriters and in such capacity are hereinafter referred to as the “Representatives.”

2. Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the several Underwriters that:

(a) A registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-127546) in respect of the Stock has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”); such registration statement and the amendments thereto (the “Initial Registration Statement”), each in the form heretofore delivered to you for each of the other Underwriters and, excluding exhibits thereto, but including all documents incorporated by reference in the prospectus contained therein, have been declared effective by the Commission in such form; other than a registration statement, if any, increasing the size of the offering (a “Rule 462(b) Registration Statement”), filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (the “Rules and Regulations”), which became effective upon filing, no other document with respect to the Initial Registration Statement or document incorporated by reference therein has heretofore been filed with the Commission of which the Company has not advised you; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Initial Registration Statement, any post-effective amendment

thereto or the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, has been issued and no proceeding for that purpose has been initiated or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission (any preliminary prospectus included in the Initial Registration Statement or filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424 of the Rules and Regulations, is hereinafter referred to as a “Preliminary Prospectus”); the various parts of the Initial Registration Statement and the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, including all exhibits thereto and including (i) the information contained in the form of final prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations and deemed by virtue of Rule 430A of the Rules and Regulations to be part of the Initial Registration Statement at the time it was declared effective and (ii) the documents incorporated by reference in the prospectus contained in the Initial Registration Statement at the time such part of the Initial Registration Statement became effective, each as amended at the time such part of the Initial Registration Statement became effective or such part of the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, became or hereafter becomes effective, are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Registration Statements”; such final prospectus, in the form first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations, is hereinafter referred to as the “Prospectus” and any reference herein to any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act, as of the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus, as the case may be; any reference to any amendment or supplement to any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any documents filed after the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus, as the case may be, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and incorporated by reference in such Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus, as the case may be; and any reference to any amendment to the Registration Statements shall be deemed to refer to and include any annual report of the Company filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the effective date of the Initial Registration Statement that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statements. No document has been or will be prepared or distributed in reliance on Rule 434 under the Securities Act. No order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus has been issued by the Commission.

(b) The Initial Registration Statement, as amended or supplemented if the Company shall have filed with the Commission any amendment or supplement thereto, conforms (and the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements to either of the Registration Statements or the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented if the Company shall have filed with the Commission any amendment or supplement thereto, when they become effective or are filed with the Commission, as the case may be, will conform) in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and do not and will not, as of the applicable effective date (as to the Registration Statements and any amendment thereto) and as of the applicable filing date (as to the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto) contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided, however, that the foregoing representations and warranties shall not apply to information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statements or the Prospectus or any such

amendment or supplement thereto in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company through the Representatives by or on behalf of any Underwriter specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Underwriters’ Information (as defined in Section 17 hereof).

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

(d) The Company and each of its significant subsidiaries (as defined in Section 15 hereof) have been duly incorporated or organized and are validly existing as corporations or other entities in good standing under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of incorporation, are duly qualified to do business and are in good standing as foreign corporations in each jurisdiction in which their respective ownership or lease of property or the conduct of their respective businesses requires such qualification, and have all power and authority necessary to own or hold their respective properties and to conduct the businesses in which they are engaged, except where the failure to so qualify, be in good standing or have such power or authority would not have, singularly or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries (as defined in Section 15 hereof) taken as a whole (a “Material Adverse Effect”). The Company owns or controls, directly or indirectly, 100% of the capital stock of each of the significant subsidiaries.

(e) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.

(f) The Stock to be issued and sold by the Company to the Underwriters hereunder has been duly and validly authorized and, when issued and delivered against payment therefor as provided herein, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free of any preemptive or similar rights and will conform to the description thereof contained in the Prospectus in all material respects.

(g) The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the Prospectus, and all of the issued shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws, and conform in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Prospectus. None of the outstanding shares of

Common Stock was issued in violation of any preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities of the Company. There are no authorized or outstanding options, warrants, preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other rights to purchase, or equity or debt securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for, any capital stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries other than those described in the Prospectus and except for options granted under the Company’s stock option plans in the ordinary course of business. The description of the Company’s stock option, stock bonus and other stock plans or arrangements, and the options or other rights granted thereunder, included or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus accurately and fairly present, in all material respects, the information required to be shown with respect to such plans, arrangements, options and rights.

(h) All the outstanding shares of capital stock of each significant subsidiary have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable, to the extent applicable as a legal concept, and, except to the extent set forth in the Prospectus, are owned by the Company directly or indirectly through one or more wholly-owned subsidiaries, free and clear of any claim, lien, encumbrance, security interest, restriction upon voting or transfer or any other claim of any third party other than the security interest held by Nortel Networks Corporation in the capital stock of Bookham International Ltd.

(i) The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its significant subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its significant subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its significant subsidiaries is subject, nor will such actions result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or by-laws or comparable organizational documents of the Company or any of its significant subsidiaries or any statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its significant subsidiaries or any of their properties or assets.

(j) Except for the registration of the Stock under the Securities Act and such consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations or qualifications as may be required under the Exchange Act and applicable state securities laws, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. and the Nasdaq National Market in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Stock by the Underwriters, no consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing or registration with, any court or governmental or regulatory agency or body is required for the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

(k) Ernst & Young LLP, who have expressed their opinions on the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statements and the Prospectus, are independent registered public accountants as required by the Securities

Act and the Rules and Regulations, including Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Rules and Regulations.

(l) The financial statements, together with the related notes, included or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus and in each Registration Statement fairly present, in all material respects, the financial position and the results of operations and changes in financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries at the respective dates or for the respective periods therein specified. Such statements and related notes have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis except as may be set forth in the Prospectus. The financial statements, together with the related notes, included in the Prospectus comply in all material respects with the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations. No other financial statements or exhibits and no supporting schedules are required by the Securities Act, as applicable, or the Rules and Regulations thereunder to be included in the Prospectus.

(m) 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 Prospectus, any material loss or material interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus; and, since such date, there has not been any change in the capital stock (other than in connection with the grant or exercise of options under the Company’s stock option plans or exercise of warrants) or long-term debt of the Company or any of its significant subsidiaries or any material adverse change in or affecting the business, general affairs, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus.

(n) Except as set forth in the Prospectus, there is no legal or governmental proceeding pending to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or of which any property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is the subject that is required to be described in the Registration Statements or the Prospectus and is not described therein or that, singularly or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, would have a Material Adverse Effect or would prevent or adversely affect the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this Agreement; and to the Company’s knowledge, no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated by governmental authorities or threatened by others.

(o) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries (i) is in violation of its charter or by-laws (or similar organizational documents), (ii) is in default in any respect, and no event has occurred that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default, in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it is bound or to which any of its property or assets is subject or (iii) is in violation in any respect of any law, ordinance, governmental rule, regulation or court decree to which it or its property or assets may be subject,

except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, any violations or defaults that, singularly or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

(p) The Company and each of its subsidiaries possess all licenses, certificates, authorizations and permits issued by, and have made all declarations and filings with, the appropriate state, federal or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies that are necessary for the ownership of their respective properties or the conduct of their respective businesses as described in the Prospectus except where any failures to possess or make the same, singularly or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect, and the Company has not received notification of any revocation or modification of any such license, authorization or permit and has no reason to believe that any such license, certificate, authorization or permit will not be renewed, except where such revocation or modification or lack of renewal would not, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(q) The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering of the Stock and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Prospectus, will not be, an “investment company” or entity controlled by an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder; and none of the Company’s significant subsidiaries is or will be, after giving effect to the offering of the Stock and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Prospectus, required to register as an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

(r) Neither the Company nor any of its officers or directors has taken or will take, directly or indirectly, any action designed or intended to stabilize or manipulate the price of any security of the Company, or that caused or resulted in, or that might in the future reasonably be expected to cause or result in, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company.

(s) The Company and its subsidiaries own or possess the right to use all patents, trademarks, trademark registrations, service marks, service xxxx registrations, trade names, copyrights, licenses, inventions, know-how trade secrets and rights (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) described in the Prospectus as being owned or licensed by them for the conduct of their respective businesses, and the Company has not received written notice of any claim to the contrary or any challenge by any other person to the rights of the Company and its subsidiaries with respect to the foregoing. Except as described in the Prospectus, (i) to the Company’s knowledge, the Company’s conduct of its business does not and will not infringe or conflict with any Intellectual Property or franchise right of any person and (ii) no claim has been made against the Company alleging the infringement by the Company of any Intellectual Property or franchise right of any person, except for such as would not have a Material Adverse Effect. Each employee of and consultant to the Company and its subsidiaries has entered into a confidentiality and invention assignment agreement in favor of the Company or its applicable subsidiary as a condition of the employment or retention of services of such employee or consultant, except where failure to enter into such an agreement would not have a Material Adverse

Effect. Except for matters relating to third parties expressly identified and named in the Prospectus: (A) to the Company’s knowledge, there are no rights of third parties to any Intellectual Property owned by or licensed to the Company or any of its subsidiaries that conflict with the rights of the Company or its subsidiaries related to such Intellectual Property, except for any such rights that, singularly or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect; (B) to the Company’s knowledge, there is no infringement by third parties of any Intellectual Property owned by or licensed to the Company or its subsidiaries that would have a Material Adverse Effect; (C) other than in connection with assertions or inquiries made by patent office examiners in the ordinary course of the prosecution of the patent applications of the Company or its subsidiaries, there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or other claim by others challenging the rights of the Company or any of its subsidiaries in or to, or the validity or scope of, any Intellectual Property owned by or licensed to the Company or its subsidiaries, except for any such claim that would not have a Material Adverse Effect, and the Company is unaware of any facts that would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; (D) there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or other claim by others that the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or, to the Company’s knowledge, any of their respective licensees, infringes or otherwise violates, or would infringe or otherwise violate upon commercialization of its products and product candidates described in the Prospectus, any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary rights of others, and, to the Company’s knowledge, there are no facts that would form a reasonable basis for any such claim by others that the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any of their respective licensees, infringes or otherwise violates, or would infringe or otherwise violate upon commercialization of its products and product candidates described in the Prospectus, any Intellectual Property of others, except, in each case in this clause (D), for any such claims that would not have a Material Adverse Effect; and (E) to the Company’s knowledge, there is no patent or patent application that contains claims that conflict with any Intellectual Property described in the Prospectus as being owned by or licensed to the Company or any of its subsidiaries or that is necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses as currently or contemplated to be conducted, except for such as would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

(t) The Company and each of its subsidiaries have good and valid title to, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims and defects, except for those that would not result in a Material Adverse Effect, or have valid rights to lease or otherwise use, to the Company’s knowledge, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims and defects, except for those that would not result in a Material Adverse Effect, all items of real or personal property that are material to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.

(u) No labor disturbance by the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the Company’s knowledge, is imminent that might be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company is not aware that any key employee or significant group of employees of the Company or any subsidiary plans to terminate employment with the Company or any such subsidiary.

(v) No “prohibited transaction” (as defined in Section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, including the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (“ERISA”), or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time (the “Code”)) or “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA) or any of the events set forth in Section 4043(b) of ERISA (other than events with respect to which the 30-day notice requirement under Section 4043 of ERISA has been waived) has occurred with respect to any employee benefit plan that would have a Material Adverse Effect; each employee benefit plan is in compliance in all material respects with applicable law, including ERISA and the Code; the Company has not incurred and does not expect to incur liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of, or withdrawal from, any “pension plan”; and each “pension plan” (as defined in ERISA) for which the Company 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 could cause the loss of such qualification.

(w) Each of the Company and its subsidiaries is in compliance in all material respects with all rules, laws and regulation relating to the use, treatment, storage and disposal of toxic substances and protection of health or the environment (“Environmental Laws”) that are applicable to its business; neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any written notice from any governmental authority or third party of an asserted claim against the Company or any of its subsidiaries under Environmental Laws; each of the Company and its subsidiaries has received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of it under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct its business and is in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or approval, except for the lack of such permits, licenses or approvals or for such non-compliance as would not, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; to the knowledge of the Company, no facts currently exist that will require the Company or any of its subsidiaries to make future material capital expenditures to comply with Environmental Laws; there has been no storage, generation, transportation, handling, treatment, disposal, discharge, emission, or other release of any kind of toxic or other wastes or other hazardous substances by, due to, or, to the knowledge of the Company, caused by the Company or any of its subsidiaries (or, to the Company’s knowledge, any other entity for whose acts or omissions the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may be liable) upon any of the property now or previously owned or leased by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or upon any other property, in violation of any statute or any ordinance, rule, regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit or that would, under any statute or any ordinance, rule (including rule of common law), regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit, give rise to any liability, except for any violation or liability that would not have, singularly or in the aggregate with all such violations and liabilities, a Material Adverse Effect; and there has been no disposal, discharge, emission or other release of any kind onto such property or into the environment surrounding such property of any toxic or other wastes or other hazardous substances with respect to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries has knowledge, except for any such disposal, discharge, emission, or other release of any kind that would not have, singularly or in the aggregate with all such discharges and other releases, a Material Adverse Effect.

(x) Each of the Company and its subsidiaries (i) has filed all necessary federal, state and foreign income and franchise tax returns, (ii) has paid all federal state, local and foreign taxes due and payable for which it is liable and (iii) does not have any tax deficiency or claims outstanding or assessed or, to the Company’s knowledge, proposed against it other than those that would not, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(y) The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance 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 applicable jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar applicable rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”), except for any such non-compliance as would not, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, 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 it subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened.

(z) Neither the Company nor any of its significant subsidiaries nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any director, officer or employee of the Company or any of its significant subsidiaries, is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department; and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person reasonably known by the Company to be currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by such office.

(aa) The Company maintains insurance in such amounts and covering such risks as is adequate for the conduct of its business as currently conducted and the value of the properties of the Company and its significant subsidiaries, and as is customary for companies engaged in similar businesses in similar industries.

(bb) Except as otherwise disclosed in the Prospectus, the Company and each of its subsidiaries maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of the Company’s consolidated financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain accountability for assets, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.

(cc) The Company has made available to the Underwriters and counsel for the Underwriters the minute books of the Company and each of its significant subsidiaries. The minute books made available to the Underwriters and counsel for the Underwriters

contain minutes of all meetings of directors and stockholders and all actions by written consent without a meeting of the directors and stockholders since the respective dates of incorporation of the Company and each of its significant subsidiaries, and accurately reflect all actions by the directors (and any committees of directors) and stockholders with respect to all transactions referred to in such minutes in all material respects.

(dd) There is no franchise, lease, contract, agreement or document required by the Securities Act or by the Rules and Regulations to be described in the Prospectus or to be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statements that is not described or filed therein as required; and all descriptions of any such franchises, leases, contracts, agreements or documents contained in the Registration Statements are accurate and complete descriptions of such documents in all material respects. Other than as described in the Prospectus, no such franchise, lease, contract or agreement has been suspended or terminated for convenience or default by the Company or any of the other parties thereto, and the Company has not received notice of any such pending or threatened suspension or termination, except for such pending or threatened suspensions or terminations that would not reasonably be expected to, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(ee) No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company, on the one hand, and the directors, officers, stockholders, customers or suppliers of the Company, on the other hand, that is required to be described in the Prospectus and that is not so described.

(ff) No person or entity has the right to require registration of shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Company because of the filing or effectiveness of the Registration Statements or otherwise, except for persons and entities who have expressly waived such right or who have been given timely and proper notice and have failed to exercise such right within the time or times required under the terms and conditions of such right or whose rights to incidental registration are solely dependent on the inclusion of any such shares in such registration by persons or entities who have waived such rights and except as otherwise set forth in the Prospectus.

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

(hh) Except as contemplated by this Agreement, neither the Company nor any of its significant subsidiaries is a party to any contract, agreement or understanding with any person that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or the Underwriters for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or like payment in connection with the offering and sale of the Stock.

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

(jj) The Common Stock is quoted on the Nasdaq National Market.

(kk) The Company is in compliance with all applicable provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder or implementing the provisions thereof (collectively, the “Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act”) that are currently in effect.

(ll) The Company is in compliance with all applicable corporate governance requirements set forth in the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules that are currently in effect.

(mm) Neither the Company nor any of its significant subsidiaries nor, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, any employee or agent of the Company or any significant subsidiary, has made any contribution or other payment to any official of, or candidate for, any federal, state or foreign office in violation of any law or of the character required to be disclosed in the Prospectus.

(nn) There are no transactions, arrangements or other relationships between and/or among the Company, any of its affiliates (as such term is defined in Rule 405 of the Rules and Regulations) and any unconsolidated entity, including, without limitation, any structure finance, special purpose or limited purpose entity that could reasonably be expected to materially affect the Company’s liquidity or the availability of or requirements for its capital resources that is required to be described in the Prospectus and is not so described.

(oo) There are no outstanding loans, advances (except normal advances for business expense in the ordinary course of business) or guarantees or indebtedness by the Company to or for the benefit of any of the officers or directors of the Company, except as disclosed in the Prospectus.

3. Purchase Sale and Delivery of Offered Securities. On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, but subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees, to sell to each Underwriter, and each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company the number of shares of Stock set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule A hereto.

The purchase price per share to be paid by the Underwriters to the Company for the Stock will be [$___] per share (the “Purchase Price”).

The Company will deliver the Firm Stock to the Representatives for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters (in the form of definitive certificates, issued in such names and in such denominations as the Representatives may direct by notice in writing to the Company given at or prior to 12:00 Noon, New York time, on the second full business day preceding the First Closing Date (as defined below) against payment of the aggregate Purchase

Price therefor in federal (same day) funds by wire transfer to an account at a bank acceptable to XX Xxxxx, payable to the order of the Company, all at the offices of Pillsbury Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, 00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx. Time shall be of the essence, and delivery at the time and place specified pursuant to this Agreement is a further condition of the obligations of each Underwriter hereunder. The time and date of the delivery and closing shall be at 10:00 A.M., New York time, on [ ], 2005, in accordance with Rule 15c6-1 under the Exchange Act. The time and date of such payment and delivery are herein referred to as the “First Closing Date”. The First Closing Date and the location of delivery of, and the form of payment for, the Firm Stock may be varied by agreement between the Company and XX Xxxxx.

The Company shall make the certificates for the Firm Stock available to the Representatives for examination on behalf of the Underwriters in New York, New York at least twenty-four hours prior to the First Closing Date.

For the purpose of covering any over-allotments in connection with the distribution and sale of the Firm Stock as contemplated by the Prospectus, the Underwriters may purchase all or less than all of the Optional Stock. The price per share to be paid for the Optional Stock shall be the Purchase Price. The Company agrees to sell to the Underwriters the number of shares of Optional Stock specified in any written notice by XX Xxxxx described below and the Underwriters agree, severally and not jointly, to purchase such shares of Optional Stock. Such shares of Optional Stock shall be purchased from the Company for the account of each Underwriter in the same proportion as the number of shares of Firm Stock set forth opposite such Underwriter’s name bears to the total number of shares of Firm Stock (subject to adjustment by XX Xxxxx to eliminate fractions). The option granted hereby may be exercised as to all or any part of the Optional Stock at any time, and from time to time, not more than thirty (30) days subsequent to the date of this Agreement. No Optional Stock shall be sold and delivered unless the Firm Stock previously has been, or simultaneously is, sold and delivered. The right to purchase the Optional Stock or any portion thereof may be surrendered and terminated at any time upon notice by XX Xxxxx to the Company.

The option granted hereby may be exercised by written notice being given to the Company by XX Xxxxx setting forth the number of shares of the Optional Stock to be purchased by the Underwriters and the date and time for delivery of and payment for such Optional Stock. Each date and time for delivery of and payment for any Optional Stock (which may be the First Closing Date, but not earlier) is herein referred to as an “Option Closing Date” and shall in no event be earlier than two (2) business days nor later than five (5) business days after written notice is given. (Each Option Closing Date and the First Closing Date are herein referred to as the “Closing Dates.”)

The Company will deliver the Optional Stock specified in any written notice by XX Xxxxx described above to the Underwriters (in the form of definitive certificates, issued in such names and in such denominations as the Representatives may direct by notice in writing to the Company given at or prior to 12:00 Noon, New York time, on the second business day preceding the Option Closing Date for such Optional Stock) against payment of the aggregate Purchase Price therefor per share to be paid for such Optional Stock in federal (same day) funds by wire transfer to an account at a bank acceptable to XX Xxxxx payable to the order of the Company all

at the offices of Pillsbury Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, 00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx. Time shall be of the essence, and delivery at the time and place specified pursuant to this Agreement is a further condition of the obligations of each Underwriter hereunder. The Company shall make the certificates for such Optional Stock available to the Representatives for examination on behalf of the Underwriters in New York, New York not later than 10:00 A.M., New York time, on the business day preceding such Option Closing Date. Such Option Closing Date and the location of delivery of, and the form of payment for, such Optional Stock may be varied by agreement between the Company and XX Xxxxx.

The several Underwriters propose to offer the Stock for sale upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus.

4. Further Agreements of the Company. The Company agrees with the several Underwriters that:

(a) The Company will prepare the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if necessary, in a form approved by the Representatives and file such Rule 462(b) Registration Statement with the Commission on the date hereof; prepare the Prospectus in a form approved by the Representatives and file such Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations not later than the second business day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement; make no further amendment or any supplement to the Registration Statements or to the Prospectus prior to the Option Closing Date to which the Representatives shall reasonably object by notice to the Company after a reasonable period to review; advise the Representatives, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the time when any amendment to the Registration Statements has been filed or becomes effective or any supplement to the Prospectus or any amended Prospectus has been filed and to furnish the Representatives with copies thereof; file promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or information statements required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of the Prospectus and for so long as the delivery of a prospectus is required in connection with the offering or sale of the Stock; advise the Representatives, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus, of the suspension of the qualification of the Stock for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose, or of any request by the Commission for the amending or supplementing of the Registration Statements or the Prospectus or for additional information; and, in the event of the issuance of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus or suspending any such qualification, use promptly its best efforts to obtain its withdrawal.

(b) If at any time after the date of this Agreement when a prospectus relating to the Stock is required to be delivered any event occurs as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact, or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or if it is necessary at any time to amend the Prospectus or to file under the Exchange Act any document

incorporated by reference in the Prospectus to comply with the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, the Company will promptly notify the Representatives thereof and upon their request will prepare an amended or supplemented Prospectus or make an appropriate filing pursuant to Section 13 or 14 of the Exchange Act that will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance. The Company will furnish without charge to each Underwriter and to any dealer in securities as many copies as the Representatives may from time to time reasonably request of such amended or supplemented Prospectus. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Underwriter is required to deliver a prospectus relating to the Stock nine months or more after the date of this Agreement, the preparation and furnishing of such amended or supplemented Prospectus or the making of such filing shall be at the expense of such Underwriter.

(c) To furnish promptly to each of the Representatives and to counsel for the Underwriters a signed copy of each of the Registration Statements as originally filed with the Commission, and each amendment thereto filed with the Commission, including all consents and exhibits filed therewith.

(d) To deliver promptly to the Representatives in New York City such number of the following documents as the Representatives shall reasonably request: (i) conformed copies of the Registration Statements as originally filed with the Commission and each amendment thereto (in each case excluding exhibits), (ii) each preliminary prospectus, (iii) the Prospectus (not later than 10:00 A.M., New York time, of the business day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement) and any amended or supplemented Prospectus (not later than 10:00 A.M., New York time, on the business day following the date of such amendment or supplement) and (iv) any document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus (excluding exhibits thereto).

(e) To make generally available to its stockholders as soon as practicable, but in any event not later than eighteen months after the effective date of the Registration Statements (as defined in Rule 158(c) of the Rules and Regulations), an earnings statement of the Company and its subsidiaries (which need not be audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations (including, at the option of the Company, such Rule 158).

(f) The Company will promptly take from time to time such actions as the Representatives may reasonably request to qualify the Stock for offering and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives may designate and to continue such qualifications in effect for so long as required for the distribution of the Stock; provided that the Company and its subsidiaries shall not be obligated to qualify as foreign corporations in any jurisdiction in which they are not so qualified or to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction where it is not now so subject.

(g) During the period of five years from the date hereof, the Company will deliver to the Representatives and, upon request, to each of the other Underwriters, as soon as they are available, copies of (i) all reports or other communications furnished to stockholders and (ii) all reports and financial statements furnished or filed with the Commission

pursuant to the Exchange Act or any national securities exchange or automatic quotation system on which the Stock is listed or quoted.

(h) The Company will not directly or indirectly offer, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of any shares of or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, or announce the offering of, or file any registration statement under the Securities Act (other than a registration statement on Form S-8) in respect of, any shares of or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, in each case for a period of 90 days from the date of the Prospectus without the prior written consent of XX Xxxxx other than the Company’s sale of the Stock hereunder and the issuance of shares pursuant to the Company’s stock option and incentive plans or other employee stock purchase plans as in existence on the date hereof or pursuant to its currently outstanding options, warrants or rights, in each case as described in the Prospectus, all of which issuances will be made in compliance with the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations; provided, however, that if (A) the Company issues an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to the Company occurs during the last 17 days of such 90-day period or (B) prior to the expiration of such 90-day period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of such 90-day period, the restrictions imposed by this Section 4(h) shall continue to apply until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the issuance of such earnings release or the occurrence of such material news or material event. The Company will cause each officer, director and stockholder listed in Schedule B to furnish to the Representatives, prior to the First Closing Date, a letter, substantially in the form of Exhibit I hereto.

(i) The Company will supply the Representatives with copies of all correspondence to and from, and all documents issued to and by, the Commission in connection with the registration of the Stock under the Securities Act.

(j) Prior to each of the Closing Dates, the Company will furnish to the Representatives, as soon as they have been prepared, copies of any unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of the Company for any periods subsequent to the periods covered by the financial statements appearing in the Registration Statements and the Prospectus.

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

(l) In connection with the offering of the Stock, until XX Xxxxx shall have notified the Company of the completion of the resale of the Stock, the Company will not, and will

cause its affiliated purchasers (as defined in Regulation M under the Exchange Act) not to, either alone or with one or more other persons, bid for or purchase, for any account in which it or any of its affiliated purchasers has a beneficial interest, any Stock, or attempt to induce any person to purchase any Stock; and the Company will not, and will cause its affiliated purchasers not to, make bids or purchase for the purpose of creating actual, or apparent, active trading in or of raising the price of the Stock.

(m) The Company will not take any action prior to the Option Closing Date that would require the Prospectus to be amended or supplemented pursuant to Section 4(b).

(n) The Company shall at all times comply in all material respects with all applicable provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act in effect from time to time.

(o) The Company will apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Stock as set forth in the Prospectus under the heading “Use of Proceeds.”

(p) The Company will conduct its affairs in such a manner so as to ensure that the Company was not and will not be an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

5. Payment of Expenses. The Company agrees with the Underwriters to pay (a) the costs incident to the authorization, issuance, sale, preparation and delivery of the Stock and any taxes payable in that connection; (b) the costs incident to the registration of the Stock under the Securities Act; (c) the costs incident to the preparation, printing and distribution of the Registration Statements, any preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus any amendments and exhibits thereto or any document incorporated by reference therein, the costs of printing, reproducing and distributing, the “Agreement Among Underwriters” between the Representatives and the Underwriters, the Master Selected Dealers’ Agreement, the Underwriters’ Questionnaire and this Agreement by mail, telex or other means of communications; (d) the fees and expenses (including related reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters) incurred in connection with filings made with the National Association of Securities Dealers; (e) any applicable listing or other fees; (f) the fees and expenses of qualifying the Stock under the securities laws of the several jurisdictions as provided in Section 4(f) hereof and of preparing, printing and distributing Blue Sky Memoranda and Legal Investment Surveys (including related reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters); (g) all fees and expenses of the registrar and transfer agent of the Stock; (h) the costs and expenses relating to investor presentations on any “road show” undertaken in connection with the marketing of the offering of the Stock (including the reasonable costs and expenses of the Underwriters), including, without limitation, expenses associated with the production of road show slides and graphics, reasonable fees and expenses of any consultants engaged in connection with the road show presentations with the prior approval of the Company, reasonable travel and lodging expenses of representatives and officers of the Company, the Underwriters and any such consultants and the cost of any aircraft chartered with the Company’s prior approval in connection with such road show; and (i) all other costs and expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the Company under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the fees and expenses of the Company’s counsel and the Company’s independent accountants); provided that, except as otherwise provided in this Section 5 and in Section 9

hereof, the Underwriters shall pay their own costs and expenses, including the fees and expenses of their counsel, any transfer taxes on the Stock that they may sell and the expenses of advertising any offering of the Stock made by the Underwriters.

6. Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The respective obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder are subject to the accuracy, when made and on each of the Closing Dates, of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company made in any certificates pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and to each of the following additional terms and conditions:

(a) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statements shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, and any request for additional information on the part of the Commission (to be included in the Registration Statements or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Representatives. The Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, and the Prospectus shall have been timely filed with the Commission in accordance with Section 4(a).

(b) None of the Underwriters shall have discovered and disclosed to the Company on or prior to such Closing Date that the Registration Statements or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of a fact that, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, is material or omits to state any 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 not misleading.

(c) All corporate proceedings and other legal matters incident to the authorization, form and validity of each of this Agreement, the Stock, the Registration Statements and the Prospectus and all other legal matters relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be reasonably satisfactory in all material respects to counsel for the Underwriters, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel all documents and information that such counsel may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.

(d) Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx and Xxxx LLP shall have furnished to the Representatives such counsel’s written opinion, as counsel to the Company, addressed to the Underwriters and dated such Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, substantially in the form of Exhibit II hereto.

The Representatives shall have received a written opinion of Canadian, Chinese and Swiss counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, with respect to certain matters relating to the significant subsidiaries, substantially in the form of Exhibit III hereto.

Such counsel shall also have furnished to the Representatives a written statement, addressed to the Underwriters and dated such Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, to the effect that (x) such counsel has acted as counsel

for the Company in connection with the preparation of the Registration Statements (y) based on such counsel’s examination of the Registration Statements and such counsel’s investigations made in connection with the preparation of the Registration Statements and conferences with certain officers and employees of and auditors and counsel for the Company, and with you and counsel for the Underwriters, such counsel has no reason to believe that (i) the Registration Statements, as of their respective effective dates, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading, that the Prospectus as of the date it was filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations or at such Closing Date contained or contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state any 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 or (ii) any document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus or any further amendment or supplement to any such incorporated document made by the Company prior to such Closing Date, when they became effective or were filed with the Commission, as the case may be, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; it being understood that such counsel need express no opinion as to the financial statements or other financial data contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statements or the Prospectus.

The foregoing opinion and statement may be qualified by a statement to the effect that such counsel has not independently verified the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus and takes no responsibility therefor except to the extent set forth in the opinion described in clauses (vii) and (viii) above.

(e) The Representatives shall have received a written opinion from each of (i) Marks & Clerk; (ii) ABACUS and (iii) Xxx Xxxxx & Xxxxxx LLP, in each case, as counsel for the Company as to certain matters involving Intellectual Property of the Company and its significant subsidiaries, addressed to the Underwriters and dated such Closing Date, in substantially the forms thereof attached as (A) Exhibit III-A hereto, in the case of Marks & Clerk and ABACUS, and (B) Exhibit IV-B hereto, in the case of Xxx Xxxxx & Xxxxxx LLP.

(f) The Representatives shall have received from Pillsbury Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated such Closing Date, with respect to such matters as the Underwriters may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they request for enabling them to pass upon such matters.

(g) At the time of the execution of this Agreement, the Representatives shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a letter, addressed to the Underwriters and dated such date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives (i) confirming that they are independent registered public accountants with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and

(ii) stating the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, including statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters delivered in accordance with Statement of Auditing Standards No. 72 (or any successor thereto).

(h) On each Closing Date, the Representatives shall have received a letter (the “bring-down letter”) from Ernst & Young LLP addressed to the Underwriters and dated such Closing Date confirming, as of the date of such bring-down letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus as of a date not more than three business days prior to the date of such bring-down letter), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters covered by its letter delivered to the Representatives concurrently with the execution of this Agreement pursuant to Section 6(g) hereof.

(i) The Company shall have furnished to the Representatives a certificate, dated such Closing Date, of its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, in their corporate capacities, stating that (i) such officers have carefully examined the Registration Statements and the Prospectus and, in their opinion, the Registration Statements as of their respective effective dates and the Prospectus, as of its date or at such Closing Date, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (ii) since the effective date of the Initial Registration Statement no event has occurred that should have been set forth in a supplement or amendment to the Registration Statements or the Prospectus, (iii) to the best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation, as of such Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct and the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to such Closing Date, and (iv) subsequent to the date of the most recent financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, there has been no material adverse change in the financial position or results of operation of the Company and its subsidiaries, or any change, or any development including a prospective change, in or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, except as set forth in the Prospectus.

(j) 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 Prospectus (i) any loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus and (ii) since such date there shall not have been any change in the capital stock (other than in connection with the grant or exercise of options under the Company’s stock option plan or exercise of warrants) or long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business, general affairs, management, financial position, stockholders’

equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, other than as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus, the effect of which, in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii) above, is, in the judgment of the Representatives, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale or delivery of the Stock on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus.

(k) No action shall have been taken by any governmental agency or body and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any governmental agency or body that would, as of such Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Stock or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company; and no injunction, restraining order or order of any other nature by any federal or state court of competent jurisdiction shall have been issued as of such Closing Date that would prevent the issuance or sale of the Stock or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.

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

(m) The Nasdaq Stock Market shall have approved the Stock for inclusion in the Nasdaq National Market, subject only to official notice of issuance.

(n) XX Xxxxx shall have received the written agreements, substantially in the form of Exhibit I hereto, of the officers, directors and stockholders of the Company listed in Schedule B to this Agreement in accordance with Section 4(h) hereof.

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

7. Indemnification and Contribution.

(a) The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its members officers, employees, representatives and agents and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act (collectively the “Underwriter Indemnified Parties” and, each an “Underwriter Indemnified Party”) against any loss, claim, damage or liability, joint or several, or any action in respect thereof, to which that Underwriter Indemnified Party may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of or is based upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any preliminary prospectus, the Registration Statements or the Prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state in any preliminary prospectus, the Registration Statements or the Prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or (iii) any act or failure to act, or any alleged act or failure to act, by any Underwriter in connection with, or relating in any manner to, the Stock or the offering contemplated hereby, and that is included as part of or referred to in any loss, claim, damage, liability or action arising out of or based upon matters covered by clause (i) or (ii) above, (provided that the Company shall not be liable in the case of any matter covered by this clause (iii) to the extent that it is determined in a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction that such loss, claim, damage, liability or action resulted directly from any such act or failure to act undertaken or omitted to be taken by such Underwriter through its gross negligence or willful misconduct) and shall reimburse each Underwriter Indemnified Party promptly upon demand for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by that Underwriter Indemnified Party in connection with investigating or preparing to defend or defending against or appearing as a third party witness in connection with any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement in or omission or alleged omission from any preliminary prospectus, the Registration Statements or the Prospectus or any such amendment or supplement thereto in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company through the Representatives by or on behalf of any Underwriter specifically for use therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Underwriter’s Information (as defined in Section 17)

This indemnity agreement is not exclusive and will be in addition to any liability that the Company might otherwise have and shall not limit any rights or remedies that may otherwise be available at law or in equity to each Underwriter Indemnified Party.

(b) Each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its officers, employees, representatives and agents, each of its directors and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act (collectively the “Company Indemnified Parties” and each a “Company Indemnified Party”) against any loss, claim, damage or liability, joint or several, or any action in respect thereof, to which the Company Indemnified Parties may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of or is based upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a

material fact contained in any preliminary prospectus, the Registration Statements or the Prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or (ii) 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, but in each case only to the extent that the untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company through the Representatives by or on behalf of that Underwriter specifically for use therein, and shall reimburse the Company Indemnified Parties for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such parties in connection with investigating or preparing to defend or defending against or appearing as third party witness in connection with any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred; provided that the parties hereto hereby agree that such written information provided by the Underwriters consists solely of the Underwriter’s Information. This indemnity agreement is not exclusive and will be in addition to any liability that the Underwriters might otherwise have and shall not limit any rights or remedies that may otherwise be available at law or in equity to the Company Indemnified Parties.

(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 7 of notice of any claim or the commencement of any action, the indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under this Section 7, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the claim or the commencement of that action; provided, however, that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have under this Section 7 except to the extent it has been materially prejudiced by such failure; and, provided, further, that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to an indemnified party otherwise than under this Section 7. If any such claim or action shall be brought against an indemnified party, and it shall notify the indemnifying party thereof, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it wishes, jointly with any other similarly notified indemnifying party, to assume the defense thereof with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party. After notice from the indemnifying party to the indemnified party of its election to assume the defense of such claim or action, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to the indemnified party under this Section 7 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by the indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation; provided, however, that any indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and to participate in the defense thereof but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the indemnifying party in writing, (ii) such indemnified party shall have been advised by such counsel that there may be one or more legal defenses available to it that are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party and in the reasonable judgment of such counsel it is advisable for such indemnified party to employ separate counsel or (iii) the indemnifying party has failed to assume the defense of such action and employ counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party, in which case, if such indemnified party notifies the indemnifying party in writing that it elects to employ separate counsel at the expense of the indemnifying party, the indemnifying party shall not have the right to assume the defense of such action on behalf of such indemnified

party, it being understood, however, that the indemnifying party shall not, in connection with any one such action or separate but substantially similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances, be liable for the reasonable fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys at any time for all such indemnified parties, which firm shall be designated in writing by XX Xxxxx, if the indemnified parties under this Section 7 consist of any Underwriter Indemnified Party, or by the Company if the indemnified parties under this Section 7 consist of any Company Indemnified Parties. Each indemnified party, as a condition of the indemnity agreements contained in Sections 7(a) and 7(b) hereof, shall use all reasonable efforts to cooperate with the indemnifying party in the defense of any such action or claim. Subject to the provisions of Section 7(d) hereof, no indemnifying party shall be liable for any settlement of any such action effected without its written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), but if settled with its written consent or if there be a final judgment for 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.

(d) If at any time an indemnified party shall have requested that an indemnifying party reimburse the 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 this Section 7 effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 45 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the request for reimbursement, (ii) such indemnifying party shall have received notice of the terms of such settlement at least 30 days prior to such settlement being entered into and (iii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement.

(e) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 7 is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under Section 7(a) or 7(b) hereof, then each indemnifying party shall, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party, contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such loss, claim, damage or liability, or action in respect thereof, (i) in such proportion as shall be appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Stock or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other with respect to the statements or omissions that resulted in such loss, claim, damage or liability, or action in respect thereof, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other with respect to such offering shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering of the Stock purchased under this Agreement (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters with respect to the Stock purchased under this Agreement, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover page of the Prospectus. The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the

omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company on the one hand or the Underwriters on the other, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission; provided that the parties hereto agree that the written information furnished to the Company through the Representatives by or on behalf of the Underwriters for use in any preliminary prospectus, the Registration Statements or the Prospectus consists solely of the Underwriters’ Information. The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contributions pursuant to this Section 7(e) were to be determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take into account the equitable considerations referred to herein. The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the loss, claim, damage or liability, or action in respect thereof, referred to above in this Section 7(e) shall be deemed to include, for purposes of this Section 7(e), any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 7(e), no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Stock underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered to the public less the amount of any damages that such Underwriter has otherwise paid or become liable to pay by reason of any 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 Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.

The Underwriters’ obligations to contribute as provided in this Section 7(e) are several in proportion to their respective underwriting obligations and not joint.

8. Termination. The obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be terminated by XX Xxxxx, in its absolute discretion by notice given to and received by the Company prior to delivery of and payment for the Stock if, prior to that time, any of the events described in Section 6(j) or 6(l) hereof have occurred or if the Underwriters shall decline to purchase the Stock for any reason permitted under this Agreement.

9. Reimbursement of Underwriters’ Expenses. If (a) this Agreement shall have been terminated pursuant to Section 8 or 10 hereof, (b) the Company shall fail to tender the Stock for delivery to the Underwriters for any reason not permitted under this Agreement, or (c) the Underwriters shall decline to purchase the Stock due to the failure of any other conditions set forth in Section 6 of this Agreement, the Company shall reimburse the Underwriters for the reasonable fees and expenses of their counsel and for such other out-of-pocket expenses as shall have been reasonably incurred by them in connection with this Agreement and the proposed purchase of the Stock, and upon demand the Company shall pay the full amount thereof to the XX Xxxxx. If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 10 hereof by reason of the default of one or more Underwriters, the Company shall not be obligated to reimburse any defaulting Underwriter on account of those expenses.

10. Substitution of Underwriters. If any Underwriter or Underwriters shall default in its or their obligations to purchase shares of Stock hereunder and the aggregate number of shares

that such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase does not exceed ten percent (10%) of the total number of shares underwritten, the other Underwriters shall be obligated severally, in proportion to their respective commitments hereunder, to purchase the shares that such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase. If any Underwriter or Underwriters shall so default and the aggregate number of shares with respect to which such default or defaults occur is more than ten percent (10%) of the total number of shares underwritten and arrangements satisfactory to the Representatives and the Company for the purchase of such shares by other persons are not made within forty-eight (48) hours after such default, this Agreement shall terminate.

If the remaining Underwriters or substituted Underwriters are required hereby or agree to take up all or part of the shares of Stock of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters as provided in this Section 10, (i) the Company shall have the right to postpone the Closing Dates for a period of not more than five (5) full business days in order that the Company may effect whatever changes may thereby be made necessary in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any other documents or arrangements, and the Company agrees promptly to file any amendments to the Registration Statement or supplements to the Prospectus that may thereby be made necessary, and (ii) the respective numbers of shares to be purchased by the remaining Underwriters or substituted Underwriters shall be taken as the basis of their underwriting obligation for all purposes of this Agreement. Nothing herein contained shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter of its liability to the Company or the other Underwriters for damages occasioned by its default hereunder. Any termination of this Agreement pursuant to this Section 10 shall be without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter or the Company, except expenses to be paid or reimbursed pursuant to Sections 5 and 9 hereof and except the provisions of Section 7 hereof shall not terminate and shall remain in effect.

11. Successors; Persons Entitled to Benefit of Agreement. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the several Underwriters, the Company and their respective successors. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person other than the persons mentioned in the preceding sentence any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement, or any provisions herein contained, this Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof being intended to be and being for the sole and exclusive benefit of such persons and for the benefit of no other person; except that the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements and indemnities of the Company contained in this Agreement shall also be for the benefit of the Underwriter Indemnified Parties, and the indemnities of the several Underwriters shall also be for the benefit of the Company Indemnified Parties. It is understood that each Underwriter’s responsibility to the Company is solely contractual in nature and the Underwriters do not owe the Company, or any other party, any fiduciary duty as a result of this Agreement.

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

(a) each Underwriter’s responsibility to the Company is solely contractual in nature, the Representatives have been retained solely to act as underwriters in connection with the sale of the Stock and no fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship between the Company and the Representatives has been created in respect of any of the transactions

contemplated by this Agreement, irrespective of whether any of the Representatives has advised or is advising the Company on other matters;

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

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

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

13. Survival of Indemnities, Representations, Warranties, etc. The respective indemnities, covenants, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company and the several Underwriters, as set forth in this Agreement or made by them respectively, pursuant to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, the Company or any person controlling any of them and shall survive delivery of and payment for the Stock.

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

(a) if to the Underwriters, shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to XX Xxxxx & Co., LLC, Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Xxx Xxxxxxxx, Managing Director (Fax: (000) 000-0000), with a copy to XX Xxxxx & Co., LLC, 0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: General Counsel (Fax: (000) 000-0000) and to Pillsbury Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx LLP, 00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx (Fax (000) 000-0000); and

(b) if to the Company, shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to Bookham, Inc., 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Chief Financial Officer (Fax: (000) 000-0000), with a copy to Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx and Xxxx LLP, 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx (Fax: (000) 000-0000).

15. Definition of Certain Terms. For purposes of this Agreement, (a) “business day” means any day on which the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. is open for trading; (b) “significant

subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X of the Commission; and (c) “subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 of the Rules and Regulations.

16. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

17. Underwriters’ Information. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that, for all purposes of this Agreement, the “Underwriters’ Information” consists solely of the following information in the Prospectus: (i) the last paragraph on the front cover page of the Prospectus; and (ii) the statements contained in paragraph 3 and in the fourth sentence of paragraph 8 concerning the Underwriters in the Prospectus under the heading “Underwriting.”

18. Authority of the Representatives. In connection with this Agreement, you will act for and on behalf of the several Underwriters, and any action taken under this Agreement by the Representatives will be binding on all the Underwriters.

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

20. General. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties to this Agreement and supersedes all prior written or oral and all contemporaneous oral agreements, understandings and negotiations with respect to the subject matter hereof. In this Agreement, the masculine, feminine and neuter genders and the singular and the plural include one another. The section headings in this Agreement are for the convenience of the parties only and will not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement. This Agreement may be amended or modified, and the observance of any term of this Agreement may be waived, only by a writing signed by the Company and the Representatives.

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

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


	Very truly yours, BOOKHAM, INC.
	By:
		Name:
		Title:


Accepted as of the date first above written:
XX XXXXX & CO., LLC
XXXXXXXX CURHAN FORD & CO.
		Acting on their own behalf
		and as Representatives of the several
		Underwriters referred to in the
		foregoing Agreement.

By:		XX XXXXX & CO., LLC

By:

		Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx, Xx.
		Title: Head of Equity Capital Markets

SCHEDULE A


		Number of
		Firm Shares
		to be
Name		Purchased
XX Xxxxx & Co., LLC
Xxxxxxxx Curhan Ford & Co.

Total

SCHEDULE B

XX Xxxxx shall have received written agreements, substantially in the form of Exhibit I to this Agreement, of the following officers, directors and stockholders of the Company in accordance with Section 4(h) of this Agreement:

Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx

Xxxxxxx Xxxxx

Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx

Xxxxxxx Xxxxx

Xxx Xxxxxx

Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx

Xxxxxx Xxxx

Xxxx Xxxxxxx

Xxxx Xxxxx

W. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx

Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx

Xxxxx Xxxxxxx

Nortel Networks Corporation

Exhibit I

[Form of Lock-Up Agreement]

____________, 2005

XX Xxxxx & Co., LLC
Xxxxxxxx Curhan Ford & Co.
As representatives of the
several Underwriters
c/o XX Xxxxx & Co., LLC
0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Re: Bookham, Inc. – Public Offering of Shares of Common Stock

Dear Sirs:

In order to induce XX Xxxxx & Co., LLC (“XX Xxxxx”) and Xxxxxxxx Curhan Ford & Co., on their own behalf and as representatives of the several underwriters, to enter into a certain underwriting agreement with Bookham, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), with respect to the public offering (the “Offering”) of shares of the Company’s Common Stock, par value $.01 per share (“Common Stock”) registered under the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned hereby agrees that for a period from the date hereof until the expiration of 90 days following the date of the final prospectus supplement filed by the Company pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 in connection with the Offering (such period, subject to the next paragraph below, the “lock-up period”), the undersigned will not, without the prior written consent of XX Xxxxx, directly or indirectly, (i) offer, sell, assign, transfer, pledge or contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of, any shares of Common Stock or any other securities convertible into exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, that are currently or hereafter owned by the undersigned (including, without limitation, any such shares or other securities that either currently or hereafter are registered in the name of the undersigned or may be deemed to be beneficially owned by the undersigned in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) (any such shares or other securities, the “Securities”), (ii) enter into any swap, hedge or similar agreement or arrangement that transfers, in whole or in part, the economic risk of ownership of any of the Securities or (iii) engage in any short selling of any of the Securities.

If (i) the Company issues an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to the Company occurs during the last 17 days of the lock-up period or (ii) prior to the expiration of the lock-up period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the lock-up period, then the restrictions imposed by this Agreement shall continue to apply until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the issuance of such earnings release or the occurrence of such material news or material event.

The undersigned hereby acknowledges and agrees that written notice of confirmation of any extension of the lock-up period pursuant to the previous paragraph will be delivered by or on behalf of XX Xxxxx to the Company (in accordance with the notice provisions of the

underwriting agreement referred to in the first paragraph of this Agreement) and that any such notice properly delivered will be deemed to have been given to, and received by, the undersigned.

Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, any person to whom any of the Securities are transferred from the undersigned shall be bound by the terms of this Agreement. In addition, the undersigned hereby waives, from the date hereof until the expiration of the 90-day period following the date of the Company’s final prospectus supplement filed by the Company pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 in connection with the Offering, any and all rights, if any, to request or demand registration of any of the Securities under the Securities Act of 1933, whether as a result of the registration of the Offering thereunder or otherwise, including any rights to receive notice of the Offering or the registration thereof under the Securities Act of 1933. In order to enable the aforesaid covenants to be enforced, the undersigned hereby consents to the placing of legends and/or stop-transfer orders with the transfer agent for the Common Stock with respect to any of the Securities.


	[Signatory]
	By:
		Name:
		Title:

Exhibit II

[Form of Opinion of Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx and Xxxx LLP]

Exhibit III

[Form of Opinion of Canadian, Chinese and Swiss Counsel]

1. [Each of] [Name of subsidiary/subsidiaries] has been duly incorporated or organized and is validly existing as a [corporation] in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation; [and is duly qualified or licensed to do business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation in [name of jurisdiction].

2. All of the outstanding shares of capital stock of [each of] [name of subsidiary/subsidiaries] have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are held of record by the Company [directly or indirectly through one or more wholly-owned subsidiaries].

Exhibit IV-A

[Form of Opinion of Marks & Clerk and ABACUS]

The Representative shall have received a written opinion or opinions of Marks & Clerk and ABACUS as to matters involving Intellectual Property of the Company as provided in Section 6(e) of this Agreement in substantially the following form:

1. Such counsel has reviewed and is familiar with the statements contained in the Prospectus that describe the Intellectual Property of the Company and its subsidiaries (the “Intellectual Property Disclosure”), including under the captions “Risk Factors—Our intellectual property rights may not be adequately protected,” “—Our products may infringe the intellectual property rights of others, which could result in expensive litigation or require us to obtain a license to use the technology from third parties,” “—If we fail to obtain the right to use the intellectual property rights of others necessary to operate our business, our ability to succeed will be adversely affected,” and “Business—Intellectual Property”; based on such review and familiarity, the Intellectual Property Disclosure, insofar as it constitute summaries of documents or matters of law or legal conclusions, is accurate and fairly presents such summaries, matters of law and legal conclusions, and based on such review, as well as such counsel’s representation in connection with any Intellectual Property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, such counsel has no reason to believe that the Intellectual Property Disclosure in the Registration Statement, as of its effective date, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading or that the Intellectual Property Disclosure in the Prospectus, as of the date it was filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations or such Closing Date, contained contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

2. Schedule A to such counsel’s opinion identifies all issued U.S. patents and all pending U.S. patent applications filed by the Company, and Schedule B to such counsel’s opinion identifies all issued foreign patents, and all pending foreign and Patent Cooperation Treaty (“PCT”) patent applications filed by the Company, known to such counsel in which the Company currently has an interest (collectively, the “Patent Rights”), and Schedule C attached to such counsel’s opinion identifies all registered U.S. and foreign trademarks, and all pending U.S. and foreign trademark applications, known to such counsel in which the Company currently has an interest (collectively the “Trademark Rights”). The Company is the sole owner of record of the Patent Rights and the Trademark Rights.

3. To such counsel’s knowledge, there is no pending action, suit or proceeding relating to the Company’s Patent Rights or Trademark Rights, other than U.S. or foreign patent and trademark office review of pending applications for patents and trademarks, and no such action, suit or proceeding is threatened or contemplated by government authorities or others.

4. To such counsel’s knowledge, there is no pending or threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the Company is misappropriating any trade secret or infringing any patent, mask work, copyright, or other intellectual property.

5. To such counsel’s knowledge, there is no infringement by others of any of the Company’s Patent Rights or Trademark Rights and the Company has not requested that such counsel render any advice regarding issues of infringement of any of the Company’s Patent Rights or Trademark Rights.

6. Such counsel is not aware of any fact or circumstance that would form a basis for the belief that any of the issued U.S. or foreign patents of the Patent Rights or any of the registered trademarks of the Trademark Rights are invalid or unenforceable.

7. Such counsel is not aware of third parties who have asserted any ownership rights in the patent and trademark applications included in the Patent Rights and Trademark Rights or any other inventorship challenges or interference that has been declared or provoked or any other material fact with respect to such applications that would preclude the issuance of patents or trademarks with respect thereto or would lead such counsel to conclude that such patents or trademarks, when issued, would not be valid and enforceable in accordance with applicable regulations.

Exhibit IV-B

[Form of Opinion of Xxx Xxxxx & Xxxxxx LLP]

The Representatives shall have received a written opinion or opinions of Xxx Xxxxx & Xxxxxx LLP as to matters involving Intellectual Property of the Company as provided in Section 6(e) of this Agreement in substantially the following form:

1. The Company is listed as the owner of record of each of the patents (the “Patents”) and patent applications (the “Applications” and, together with the Patents, the “Patent Rights”) listed on Schedule A to such counsel’s opinion. To such counsel’s knowledge and without independent investigation, there is no claim of any party other than the Company to any ownership interest or recorded lien with respect to any of the Patents Rights.

2. To such counsel’s knowledge and without independent investigation, there is no pending legal or governmental proceeding relating to the Patent Rights, and no such legal or governmental proceeding is threatened in writing by government authorities or others, other than U.S. or non-U.S. patent and trademark office review of pending applications for patents.

3. To such counsel’s knowledge and without independent investigation, there is not pending or threatened in writing any action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the Company is misappropriating any trade secret or infringing any patent, mask work, copyright, or other intellectual property.

Whenever a statement is qualified by “to such counsel’s knowledge,” it indicates that in the course of such counsel’s representation of the Company no information that would give such counsel current, actual knowledge of the inaccuracy of such statement has come to the attention of the attorneys in that firm who have rendered legal services in connection with the Patent Rights.

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