Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2006 UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
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$125,000,000
% Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2006
[ ], 2001
XXXXXX
BROTHERS INC.
BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC
XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX, INC.
UBS WARBURG LLC
As Managing Underwriters
c/x Xxxxxx Brothers Inc.
3 World Financial Center
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
InterMune, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), proposes to issue and sell to the underwriters named in Schedule A annexed hereto (the "Underwriters") $125,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Company's % Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2006 (the "Firm Notes"). In addition, solely for the purpose of covering over-allotments, the Company proposes to grant to the Underwriters the option to purchase from the Company up to $18,750,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Company's % Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2006 (the "Additional Notes"). The Firm Notes and the Additional Notes are hereinafter collectively sometimes referred to as the "Notes." The Notes are to be issued pursuant to an Indenture (the "Indenture") to be entered into between the Company and The Bank of New York, as trustee (the "Trustee"). The Notes will be convertible into fully paid, nonassessable shares of the Company's Common Stock, $0.001 par value (the "Common Stock"), initially at a conversion rate of shares per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Indenture. As used herein, "Conversion Shares" means the shares of Common Stock into which the Notes are convertible. The Notes are further described in the Prospectus, which is referred to below.
The Company has filed, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (collectively called the "Securities Act"), with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-62274), including a prospectus, relating to the Notes. The Company has furnished to you, for use by the Underwriters and by dealers, copies of one or more preliminary prospectuses (each thereof being herein called a "Preliminary Prospectus") relating to the Notes. Except where the context otherwise requires, the registration statement, as amended when it becomes effective, including all documents filed as a part thereof and any documents incorporated by reference therein at such time and including any information contained in a prospectus subsequently filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act and deemed to be part of the registration statement at the time of effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430A under the Securities Act and also including any registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, is herein called the Registration Statement, and the prospectus relating to the Notes in the form filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act on or before the second business day after the date hereof (or such earlier time as may be required under the Securities Act) or, if no such filing is required, the form of final prospectus included in the Registration Statement at the time it became effective, is herein called the "Prospectus." Reference made herein to any Preliminary Prospectus or to the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any 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 the Prospectus, as the case may be, and any reference to any amendment or supplement to any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any document filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the "Exchange Act") after the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be, and incorporated by reference in such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be; and any reference to any amendment to the Registration Statement
shall be deemed to include any annual report of the Company filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the effective date of the Registration Statement that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.
The Company and the Underwriters agree as follows:
1. Sale and Purchase. Upon the basis of the warranties and representations and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to sell to the respective Underwriters and each of the Underwriters, severally and not jointly, agrees to purchase from the Company the respective principal amount of Firm Notes which bears the same proportion to the principal amount of Firm Notes to be sold by the Company as the principal amount of Firm Notes set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule A annexed hereto bears to the aggregate principal amount of Firm Notes to be sold by the Company, in each case at a purchase price of [ %] of the principal amount thereof. The Company is advised by you that the Underwriters intend (i) to make a public offering of their respective portions of the Firm Notes as soon after the effective date of the Registration Statement as in your judgment is advisable and (ii) initially to offer the Firm Notes upon the terms set forth in the Prospectus. You may from time to time increase or decrease the public offering price after the initial public offering to such extent as you may determine.
In addition, the Company hereby grants to the several Underwriters the option to purchase, and upon the basis of the warranties and representations and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Underwriters shall have the right to purchase, severally and not jointly, from the Company, ratably in accordance with the principal amount of Firm Notes to be purchased by each of them, all or a portion of the Additional Notes as may be necessary to cover over-allotments made in connection with the offering of the Firm Notes, at the same purchase price per Note to be paid by the Underwriters to the Company for the Firm Notes. This option may be exercised by you on behalf of the several Underwriters at any time (but not more than once) on or before the thirtieth day following the date hereof, by written notice to the Company. Such notice shall set forth the aggregate principal amount of Additional Notes as to which the option is being exercised, and the date and time when the Additional Notes are to be delivered (such date and time being herein referred to as the additional time of purchase); provided, however, that the additional time of purchase shall not be earlier than the time of purchase (as defined below) nor earlier than the second business day(1) after the date on which the option shall have been exercised nor later than the tenth business day after the date on which the option shall have been exercised. The principal amount of Additional Notes to be sold to each Underwriter shall be the principal amount which bears the same proportion to the aggregate principal amount of Additional Notes being purchased as the principal amount of Firm Notes set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter on Schedule A hereto bears to the aggregate principal amount of Firm Notes.
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- As used herein "business day" shall mean a day on which the New York Stock Exchange is open for trading.
2. Payment and Delivery. Payment of the purchase price for the Firm Notes shall be made to the Company by Federal Funds wire transfer, against delivery of the Firm Notes to you through the facilities of the Depository Trust Company (the "DTC") for the respective accounts of the Underwriters. Such payment and delivery shall be made at 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on [ , 2001] (unless another time shall be agreed to by you and the Company or unless postponed in accordance with the provisions of Section 10 hereof). The time at which such payment and delivery are actually made is hereinafter sometimes called the time of purchase. The Company will deliver against payment of the purchase price the Firm Notes in the form of one or more permanent global certificates (the "Global Firm Notes"), registered in the name of , as nominee for DTC. Beneficial interests in the Firm Notes will be shown on, and transfers thereof will be effected only through, records maintained in book-entry form by DTC and its participants. The Global
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Firm Notes will be made available, at your request, for checking at least one full business day preceding the time of purchase.
Payment of the purchase price for the Additional Notes shall be made at the additional time of purchase in the same manner and at the same office as the payment for the Firm Notes. The Company will deliver against payment of the purchase price the Additional Notes in the form of one or more permanent global certificates (the "Global Additional Notes"), registered in the name of , as nominee for DTC. Beneficial interests in the Additional Notes will be shown on, and transfers thereof will be effected only through, records maintained in book-entry form by DTC and its participants. The Global Additional Notes will be made available, at your request, for checking at least one full business day preceding the additional time of purchase.
3. Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and warrants to each of the Underwriters that:
(a) the Company has not received, and has no notice of, any order of the Commission preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, or instituting proceedings for that purpose, and each Preliminary Prospectus, at the time of filing thereof, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act when the Registration Statement becomes effective, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus will fully comply in all material respects with the provisions of the Securities Act, and the Registration Statement will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and the Prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; any statutes, regulations, contracts or other documents that are required to be described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to or incorporated by reference as exhibits into the Registration Statement have been so described or filed; provided, however, that the Company makes no warranty or representation with respect to any statement contained in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with information concerning the Underwriters and furnished in writing by or on behalf of any Underwriter through you to the Company expressly for use in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus; and the Company has not distributed any offering material in connection with the offering or sale of the Notes other than the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any other materials, if any, permitted by the Securities Act;
(b) as of the date of this Agreement, the Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth under the heading entitled "Actual" in the section of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus entitled "Capitalization" and, as of the time of purchase, the Company shall have an authorized capitalization as set forth under the heading entitled "Pro forma as adjusted" in the section of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus entitled "Capitalization"; all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable, have been issued in compliance with all federal and state securities laws and were not issued in violation of any preemptive right, resale right, right of first refusal or similar right;
(c) the Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with full power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement;
(d) the Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in each jurisdiction where the ownership or leasing of its properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to so qualify would not have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, financial condition or results of operation of the
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Company (a "Material Adverse Effect"). The Company has no subsidiaries (as defined in the Rules and Regulations). The Company does not own, directly or indirectly, any shares of stock or any other equity or long-term debt securities of any corporation or have any equity interest in any firm, partnership, joint venture, association or other entity; complete and correct copies of the certificate of incorporation and of the by-laws (or other equivalent corporate governance documents) of the Company and all amendments thereto have been delivered to you, and except as set forth in the exhibits to the Registration Statement no changes therein will be made subsequent to the date hereof and prior to the time of purchase or, if later, the additional time of purchase.
(e) the Company is duly qualified or licensed by and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which it conducts its business and in which the failure, individually or in the aggregate, to be so licensed or qualified could have a Material Adverse Effect; and the Company is in compliance in all material respects with the laws, orders, rules, regulations and directives issued or administered by such jurisdictions;
(f) the Company is not in breach of, or in default under (nor has any event occurred which with notice, lapse of time, or both would result in any breach of, or constitute a default under), its certificate of incorporation or by-laws or equivalent corporate governance documents, as the case may be, or in the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, bank loan or credit agreement or other evidence of indebtedness, or any lease, contract or other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound, and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Indenture and the Notes, the issuance and sale of the Notes, compliance by the Company with the provisions of this Agreement, the Indenture and the Notes, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not conflict with, or result in any breach of or constitute a default under (nor constitute any event which with notice, lapse of time, or both would result in any breach of, or constitute a default under), any provisions of the charter or by-laws, of the Company or under any provision of any license, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, bank loan or credit agreement or other evidence of indebtedness, or any lease, contract or other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it or its property may be bound or affected, or under any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule or any decree, judgment or order applicable to the Company;
(g) this Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and is a legal, valid and binding agreement of the Company enforceable in accordance with its terms; the Indenture has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and is a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally and by general equitable principles (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); the Indenture (i) has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the "Trust Indenture Act of 1939"), (ii) complies as to form with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and (iii) conforms to the description thereof in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; the Notes have been duly and validly authorized by the Company for issuance and sale to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement and, when executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee in accordance with the Indenture and delivered to the Underwriters against payment therefor in accordance with the terms hereof, will have been validly issued and delivered, free of any preemptive or similar rights to subscribe to or purchase the same arising by operation of law or under the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the Company or otherwise, and will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits of the Indenture and enforceable in accordance with their terms, except as enforcement thereof may be
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limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar laws relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and by general equitable principles, and the Notes conform, or will conform, to the description thereof in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; the Company has all requisite corporate power and authority to issue, sell and deliver the Notes in accordance with and upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; all corporate action required to be taken by the Company for the authorization, issuance, sale and delivery of the Notes to be sold by the Company hereunder has been validly and sufficiently taken; as of each of the time of purchase and the additional time of purchase, as applicable, no event has occurred nor has any circumstance arisen which, had the Notes been issued on such date, would constitute a Default or an Event of Default (as each such term is defined in the Indenture);
(h) the capital stock of the Company conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in or incorporated into the Registration Statement and Prospectus and the certificates for the Conversion Shares will be in due and proper form when issued and the holders of the Conversion Shares will not be subject to personal liability by reason of being such holders;
(i) the Conversion Shares have been duly and validly authorized and reserved for issuance upon conversion of the Notes and are free of preemptive rights; and all Conversion Shares, when issued and delivered upon such conversion in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, will be duly and validly authorized and issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims and will conform to the description thereof contained in or incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and Prospectus;
(j) no approval, authorization, consent or order of or filing with any national, state or local governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, authority or agency is required in connection with the issuance and sale of the Notes or the consummation by the Company of the transactions as contemplated hereby other than registration of the Notes and the Conversion Shares under the Securities Act, the filing of a Notification Form for Listing of Additional Shares with the Nasdaq Stock Market and any necessary qualification under the securities or blue sky laws of the various jurisdictions in which the Notes are being offered by the Underwriters or under the rules and regulations of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the "NASD") or under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939;
(k) no person has the right, contractual or otherwise, to cause the Company to issue to it, or register pursuant to the Securities Act, any shares of capital stock of the Company upon the issue and sale of the Notes to the Underwriters hereunder, nor does any person have preemptive rights, co-sale rights, rights of first refusal or other rights to purchase any of the Notes other than those that have been expressly waived prior to the dates hereof;
(l) Ernst & Young LLP, whose reports on the financial statements of the Company are filed with the Commission as part of the Registration Statement and Prospectus, are independent certified public accountants as required by the Securities Act;
(m) the Company has all necessary licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals and has made all necessary filings required under any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule, and has obtained all necessary authorizations, consents and approvals from other persons, in order to conduct its business; the Company is not in violation of, or in default under, any such license, authorization, consent or approval or any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule or any decree, order or judgment applicable to the Company the effect of which could have a Material Adverse Effect;
(n) all legal or governmental proceedings, contracts, leases or documents of a character required to be described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or to be filed or
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incorporated by reference as an exhibit to the Registration Statement have been so described or filed or incorporated as required;
(o) the documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, when they became effective or were filed with the Commission, as the case may be, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and none of such documents contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading and any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, when such documents become effective or are filed with the Commission, as the case may be, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading;
(p) the conditions for use of Form S-3, as set forth in the General Instructions thereto, including, without limitation, the timely filing of all reports and definitive proxy or information statements required to be filed pursuant to the Exchange Act, have been satisfied;
(q) there are no actions, suits, claims, investigations or proceedings pending or threatened to which the Company or any of its officers is a party or of which any of its properties is subject at law or in equity, or before or by any federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, authority or agency which could result in a judgment, decree or order having a Material Adverse Effect or prevent consummation of the transaction contemplated hereby;
(r) the audited and unaudited financial statements included in or incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and the Prospectus present fairly the financial position of the Company as of the dates indicated and the results of operations and cash flows of the Company for the periods specified; the supporting schedules included in or incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement present fairly the information required to be stated therein; such financial statements and supporting schedules have been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved; no other financial statements or supporting schedules are required to be included in the Registration Statement; the financial data set forth in the Prospectus under the captions "Summary—Summary Financial Data", "Capitalization", "Selected Financial Data" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" fairly present the information set forth therein on a basis consistent with that of the audited and unaudited financial statements contained in the Registration Statement;
(s) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been (i) any material adverse change, or any development which, in the Company's reasonable judgment, is likely to cause a material adverse change, in the business, properties or assets described or referred to in the Registration Statement, or the results of operations, condition (financial or otherwise), business or operations of the Company, (ii) any transaction which is material to the Company, except transactions in the ordinary course of business, (iii) any obligation, direct or contingent, which is material to the Company, incurred by the Company, except obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business, (iv) any change in the capital stock or outstanding indebtedness of the Company or (v) any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made on the capital stock of the Company. The Company does not have any material contingent obligation which is not disclosed in the Registration Statement.
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(t) the Company has obtained the agreement of each of its directors and officers and certain of its other stockholders not to sell, offer to sell, contract to sell, hypothecate grant any option to sell or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Common Stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable for Common Stock or warrants or other rights to purchase Common Stock for a period of 90 days after the date of the Prospectus;
(u) the Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Notes, will not be an "investment company" or an entity "controlled" by an "investment company," as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "Investment Company Act");
(v) except as described in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, the Company owns, or has obtained valid and enforceable licenses for, or other rights to use, the inventions, patent applications, patents, trademarks (both registered and unregistered), tradenames, copyrights and trade secrets described in the Registration Statement and Prospectus as being owned or licensed by it, which the Company reasonably believes are necessary for the conduct of its business (collectively, "Intellectual Property") and which the failure to own, license or have such rights could have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as described in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, (i) the Company believes that there are no third parties who have or will be able to establish their rights to any Intellectual Property, except for the ownership rights of the owners of the Intellectual Property which is licensed to the Company; (ii) to the Company's knowledge there is no infringement by third parties of any Intellectual Property; (iii) there is no pending or, to the Company's knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the Company's rights in or to any Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; (iv) there is no pending or, to the Company's knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the validity or scope of any Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; (v) there is no pending or, to the Company's knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the Company infringes or otherwise violates any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary rights of others, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; (vi) to the Company's knowledge there is no patent or patent application which contains claims that interfere with the issued or pending claims of any of the Intellectual Property which could have a Material Adverse Effect; and (vii) there is no prior art of which the Company is aware that may render any patent application owned by the Company of the Intellectual Property unpatentable which has not been disclosed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office which could have a Material Adverse Effect;
(w) the Company has filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the "FDA"), and all applicable foreign, state and local regulatory bodies for and received approval of all registrations, applications, licenses, requests for exemptions, permits and other regulatory authorizations necessary to conduct the Company's business as it is described in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; the Company is in compliance in all material respects with all such registrations, applications, licenses, requests for exemptions, permits and other regulatory authorizations, and all applicable FDA, foreign, state and local rules, regulations, guidelines and policies, including, but not limited to, applicable FDA, foreign, state and local rules, regulations and policies relating to good manufacturing practice ("GMP") and good laboratory practice ("GLP"); the Company has no reason to believe that any party granting any such registration, application, license, request for exemption, permit or other authorization is considering limiting, suspending or revoking the same and knows of no basis for any such limitation, suspension or revocation;
(x) the human clinical trials, animal studies and other preclinical tests conducted by the Company or in which the Company has participated that are described in the Registration
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Statement and Prospectus or the results of which are referred to in the Registration Statement or Prospectus, and such studies and tests conducted on behalf of the Company, were and, if still pending, are being conducted in all material respects in accordance with experimental protocols, procedures and controls generally used by qualified experts in the preclinical or clinical study of new drugs or diagnostics as applied to comparable products to those being developed by the Company; the descriptions of the results of such studies, test and trials contained in the Registration Statement and Prospectus are accurate and complete in all material respects, and except as set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, the Company has no knowledge of any other trials, studies or tests, the results of which the Company believes reasonably call into question the clinical trial results described or referred to in the Registration Statement and Prospectus when viewed in the context in which such results are described and the clinical state of development; and the Company has not received any notices or correspondence from the FDA or any other domestic or foreign governmental agency requiring the termination, suspension or modification (other than such modifications as are normal in the regulations, any such modifications which are material have been disclosed to you) of any animal studies, preclinical tests or clinical trials conducted by or on behalf of the Company or in which the Company has participated that are described in the Registration Statement or Prospectus or the results of which are referred to in the Registration Statement or Prospectus.
(y) the Company has good and marketable title to all the properties and assets reflected as owned in the financial statements referred to in Section 3(r) above (or elsewhere in the Prospectus), in each case free and clear of any security interests, mortgages, liens, encumbrances, equities, claims and other defects, except such as do not materially and adversely affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such property by the Company. The real property, improvements, equipment and personal property held under lease by the Company are held under valid and enforceable leases, with such exceptions as are not material to the Company, and the Company does not have any notice of any claim of any sort that has been asserted by anyone adverse to the rights of the Company under any of the leases or subleases referred to above, or affecting or questioning the rights of the Company to the continued possession of the leased or subleased premises under any such lease or sublease, except for such notices or claims as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(z) the Company has filed all necessary federal, state and foreign income and franchise tax returns and has paid all taxes required to be paid by it and, if due and payable, any related or similar assessment, fine or penalty levied against it. The Company has made adequate charges, accruals and reserves in the applicable financial statements referred to in Section 3(r) above in respect of all federal, state and foreign income and franchise taxes for all periods as to which the tax liability of the Company has not been finally determined;
(aa) the Company is insured by recognized, financially sound and reputable institutions with policies in such amounts and with such deductibles and covering such risks as are generally deemed adequate and customary for its business including, but not limited to, policies covering real and personal property owned or leased by the Company against theft, damage, destruction, acts of vandalism and earthquakes. The Company has no reason to believe that it will not be able (i) to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such policies expire or (ii) to obtain comparable coverage from similar institutions as may be necessary or appropriate to conduct its business as now conducted and at a cost that would not have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company has not been denied any insurance coverage which it has sought or for which it has applied;
(bb) the Company has not taken and will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that might be reasonably expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the
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price of the Notes or the Common Stock to facilitate the sale or resale of the Notes or the Conversion Shares;
(cc) there are no business relationships or related-party transactions involving the Company or any other person required to be described in the Prospectus which have not been described as required;
(dd) neither the Company nor, to the best of the Company's knowledge, any employee or agent of the Company, 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;
(ee) the Company maintains a system of 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 financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States 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;
(ff) except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect: (i) the Company is not in violation of any federal, state, local or foreign law or regulation relating to pollution or protection of human health or the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata) or wildlife, including without limitation, laws and regulations relating to emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, wastes, toxic substances, hazardous substances, petroleum and petroleum products (collectively, "Hazardous Materials"), or otherwise relating to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials (collectively, "Environmental Laws"), which violation includes, but is not limited to, noncompliance with any permits or other governmental authorizations required for the operation of the business of the Company under applicable Environmental Laws, or noncompliance with the terms and conditions thereof, nor has the Company received any written communication, whether from a governmental authority, citizens group, employee or otherwise, that alleges that the Company is in violation of any Environmental Law; (ii) there is no claim, action or cause of action filed with a court or governmental authority, no investigation with respect to which the Company has received written notice, and no written notice by any person or entity alleging potential liability for investigatory costs, cleanup costs, governmental responses costs, natural resources damages, property damages, personal injuries, attorneys' fees or penalties arising out of, based on or resulting from the presence, or release into the environment, of any Hazardous Materials at any location owned, leased or operated by the Company, now or in the past (collectively, "Environmental Claims"), pending or, to the best of the Company's knowledge, threatened against the Company or any person or entity whose liability for any Environmental Claim the Company has retained or assumed either contractually or by operation of law; (iii) the Company has all permits, authorizations and approvals required under any applicable Environmental Laws and is in compliance with their requirements; and (iv) to the best of the Company's knowledge, there are no past or present actions, activities, circumstances, conditions, events or incidents, including, without limitation, the release, emission, discharge, presence or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, that reasonably could result in a violation of any Environmental Law or form the basis of a potential Environmental Claim against the Company or against any person or entity whose liability for any Environmental Claim the Company has retained or assumed either contractually or by operation of law;
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(gg) the Company and any "employee benefit plan" (as defined under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (collectively, "ERISA")) established or maintained by the Company or its "ERISA Affiliates" (as defined below) are in compliance in all material respects with ERISA. "ERISA Affiliate" means, with respect to the Company, any member of any group of organizations described in Sections 414(b),(c),(m) or (o) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (the "Code") of which the Company is a member. No "reportable event" (as defined under ERISA) has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any "employee benefit plan" established or maintained by the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates. No "employee benefit plan" established or maintained by the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates, if such "employee benefit plan" were terminated, would have any "amount of unfunded benefit liabilities" (as defined under ERISA). Neither the Company nor any of its ERISA Affiliates has incurred or reasonably expects to incur any liability under (i) Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal from, any "employee benefit plan" or (ii) Sections 412, 4971, 4975 or 4980B of the Code. Each "employee benefit plan" established or maintained by the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified and nothing has occurred, whether by action or failure to act, which would cause the loss of such qualification;
(hh) the Conversion Shares have been approved for listing on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation National Market System ("Nasdaq"), subject only to official notice of issuance.
4. Representations and Warranties of the Selling Stockholders. Intentionally Omitted.
5. Certain Covenants of the Company. The Company hereby agrees:
(a) to furnish such information as may be required and otherwise to cooperate in qualifying the Notes for offering and sale under the securities or blue sky laws of such states as you may designate and to maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution of the Notes; provided that the Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or to consent to the service of process under the laws of any such state (except service of process with respect to the offering and sale of the Notes); and to promptly advise you of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Notes for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose;
(b) to make available to the Underwriters in New York City, as soon as practicable after the Registration Statement becomes effective, and thereafter from time to time to furnish to the Underwriters, as many copies of the Prospectus (or of the Prospectus as amended or supplemented if the Company shall have made any amendments or supplements thereto after the effective date of the Registration Statement) as the Underwriters may request for the purposes contemplated by the Securities Act; in case any Underwriter is required to deliver a prospectus within the nine-month period referred to in Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act in connection with the sale of the Notes, the Company will prepare promptly upon request, but at the expense of such Underwriter, such amendment or amendments to the Registration Statement and such prospectuses as may be necessary to permit compliance with the requirements of Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
(c) to advise you promptly and (if requested by you) to confirm such advice in writing, (i) when the Registration Statement has become effective and when any post-effective amendment thereto becomes effective and (ii) if Rule 430A under the Securities Act is used, when the Prospectus is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act (which the Company agrees to file in a timely manner under such Rules);
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(d) to advise you promptly, confirming such advice in writing, of any request by the Commission for amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or Prospectus or any document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, or for additional information with respect thereto, or of notice of institution of proceedings for, or the entry of a stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and, if the Commission should enter a stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, to make every reasonable effort to obtain the lifting or removal of such order as soon as possible; to advise you promptly of any proposal to amend or supplement the Registration Statement or Prospectus or any document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus and to file no such amendment or supplement to which you shall object in writing;
(e) to file promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or information statements required to be filed by the Company with the Commission in order to comply with 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 Notes, and to promptly notify you of such filing;
(f) if necessary or appropriate, to file a registration statement pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act;
(g) to furnish to you and, upon request, to each of the other Underwriters for a period of five years from the date of this Agreement (i) copies of any reports or other communications which the Company shall send to its stockholders or shall from time to time publish or publicly disseminate, (ii) copies of all annual, quarterly and current reports filed with the Commission on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K, or such other similar form as may be designated by the Commission, (iii) copies of documents or reports filed with any national securities exchange or over-the-counter market on which any class of securities of the Company is listed, and (iv) such other information as you may reasonably request regarding the Company, in each case as soon as such communications, documents or information becomes available;
(h) to advise the Underwriters promptly of the happening of any event known to the Company within the time during which a Prospectus relating to the Notes is required to be delivered under the Securities Act which, in the judgment of the Company, would require the making of any change in the Prospectus then being used so that the Prospectus would not include an untrue statement of material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading, and, during such time, to prepare and furnish, at the Company's expense, to the Underwriters promptly such amendments or supplements to such Prospectus as may be necessary to reflect any such change and to furnish you a copy of such proposed amendment or supplement before filing any such amendment or supplement with the Commission;
(i) to make generally available to its security holders, and to deliver to you, an earnings statement of the Company (which will satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act) covering a period of at least twelve months beginning after the effective date of the Registration Statement (as defined in Rule 158(c) of the Securities Act) as soon as is reasonably practicable after the termination of such twelve-month period but not later than the forty-fifth (45th) day following the end of the fiscal quarter first occurring after the first anniversary of the effective date of the registration statement;
(j) to furnish to its shareholders as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year an annual report (including a balance sheet and statements of income, shareholders' equity and of cash flow of the Company for such fiscal year, accompanied by a copy of the certificate or report thereon of nationally recognized independent certified public accountants);
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(k) to furnish to you four (4) signed copies of the Registration Statement, as initially filed with the Commission, and of all amendments thereto (including all exhibits thereto) and sufficient conformed copies of the foregoing (other than exhibits) for distribution of a copy to each of the other Underwriters;
(l) to furnish to you as early as practicable prior to the time of purchase and the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, but not later than two business days prior thereto, a copy of the latest available unaudited interim financial statements, if any, of the Company which have been read by the Company's independent certified public accountants, as stated in their letter to be furnished pursuant to Section 8(d) hereof;
(m) to apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes in the manner set forth under the caption "Use of Proceeds" in the Prospectus;
(n) to furnish to you, before filing with the Commission subsequent to the effective date of the Registration Statement and during the period referred to in paragraph (g) above, a copy of any document proposed to be filed pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act;
(o) not to sell, offer or agree to sell, contract to sell, grant any option to sell or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Common Stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Common Stock or warrants or other rights to purchase Common Stock or any other securities of the Company that are substantially similar to Common Stock or permit the registration under the Securities Act of any shares of Common Stock, except for the registration of the Notes and the sales to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement and except for issuances of Common Stock upon the exercise of outstanding options, warrants and debentures, for a period of ninety (90) days after the date hereof, without the prior written consent of Xxxxxx Brothers Inc. ("Xxxxxx");
(p) to cause the Conversion Shares to be listed for quotation on the Nasdaq National Market; and
(q) to use its best efforts to cause the Notes to be accepted for clearance and settlement through the facilities of DTC.
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6. Fees and Expenses. The Company will pay all expenses, fees and taxes (other than any transfer taxes and fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters except as set forth under Section 7 hereof or (iii) or (iv) below) in connection with (i) the preparation and filing of the Registration Statement, each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, the Indenture, the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification of the Trustee on Form T-1 filed with the Commission (the "Form T-1"), and any amendments or supplements thereto or to any documents incorporated by reference therein, and the printing and furnishing of copies of each thereof to the Underwriters and to dealers (including costs of mailing and shipment), (ii) the issuance, sale and delivery of the Notes and the Conversion Shares by the Company, (iii) the word processing and/or printing of this Agreement, any Agreement Among Underwriters, any dealer agreements, any Statements of Information, and the reproduction and/or printing and furnishing of copies of each thereof to the Underwriters and to dealers (including costs of mailing and shipment), (iv) the qualification of the Notes for offering and sale under state laws and the determination of their eligibility for investment under state law as aforesaid (including the legal fees and filing fees and other disbursements of counsel to the Underwriters) and the printing and furnishing of copies of any blue sky surveys or legal investment surveys to the Underwriters and to dealers, (v) any fees required to be paid to rating agencies incurred in connection with the rating of the Notes, (vi) the fees, costs and charges of the Trustee, including the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Trustee, and the costs and charges of any registrar, transfer agent, paying agent or conversion agent, (vii) any listing of the Conversion Shares on any securities exchange or qualification of the Conversion Shares for quotation on Nasdaq and any registration thereof under the Exchange Act, (viii) the filing for review of the public offering of the Notes by the NASD, and (ix) the performance of the Company's other obligations hereunder.
7. Reimbursement of Underwriters' Expenses. If the Notes are not delivered for any reason other than the termination of this Agreement pursuant to the second paragraph of Section 9 hereof or the default by one or more of the Underwriters in its or their respective obligations hereunder, the Company shall, in addition to paying the amounts described in Section 6 hereof, reimburse the Underwriters for all of their out-of-pocket expenses, including the fees and disbursements of their counsel.
8. Conditions of Underwriters' Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company on the date hereof and at the time of purchase (and the several obligations of the Underwriters at the additional time of purchase are subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company on the date hereof and at the time of purchase (unless previously waived) and at the additional time of purchase, as the case may be), the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedent:
(a) The Company shall furnish to you at the time of purchase and at the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, an opinion of Xxxxxx Godward LLP, counsel for the Company, addressed to the Underwriters, and dated the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, with reproduced copies for each of the other Underwriters in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, with any changes to be reasonably satisfactory to Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. ("Xxxxx Xxxxx"), counsel for the Underwriters, stating that:
(i) the Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with full corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, to execute and deliver this Agreement, the Indenture and the Notes and to issue, sell and deliver the Notes and the Conversion Shares as herein contemplated;
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(ii) the Company is duly qualified or licensed to do business in the State of California, and to the best of such counsel's knowledge in each other jurisdiction of the United States, if any, in which it conducts its business and in which the failure, individually or in the aggregate, to be so licensed or qualified could have a Material Adverse Effect and, to the best of such counsel's knowledge, is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified would not have a Material Adverse Effect;
(iii) this Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company;
(iv) the Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and is a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally and by general equitable principles (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); and the Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and the rules and regulations thereunder;
(v) the Notes have been duly authorized and executed by the Company for issuance and sale to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement and, assuming due authentication of the Notes by the Trustee, upon delivery to the Underwriters against payment therefor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, will have been validly issued and delivered, will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture and will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally and by general equitable principles (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law);
(vi) the Indenture and the Notes conform in all material respects as to legal matters to the respective statements concerning them contained in the Registration Statement and Prospectus;
(vii) the Conversion Shares have been duly and validly authorized and reserved for issuance upon conversion of the Notes and are free of preemptive rights; and all Conversion Shares, when issued and delivered upon such conversion in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, will be duly and validly authorized and issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims and will conform to the description thereof contained in or incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and Prospectus;
(viii) the Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth under the caption "Capitalization" in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, and are fully paid, nonassessable and free of statutory and contractual preemptive rights; the Conversion Shares when issued will be free of statutory and contractual preemptive rights, resale rights, rights of first refusal and similar rights, and the certificates for the Conversion Shares will be in due and proper form under the Delaware General Corporation Law when issued, and the holders of the Conversion Shares will not be subject to personal liability by reason of being such holders;
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(ix) such counsel has reviewed the Company's corporate records and, to the best of such counsel's knowledge, the Company does not own or control or have any equity interest in, directly or indirectly, any corporation, association or other entity;
(x) the capital stock of the Company conforms to the description thereof contained in or incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and Prospectus;
(xi) the Company is eligible to use a registration statement on Form S-3 to register the Notes and the Conversion Shares;
(xii) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (except as to the financial statements and schedules and other financial and statistical data contained therein, as to which such counsel need express no opinion) comply as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Trust Indenture Act, and the documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus and any further amendment or supplement to any such incorporated document made by the Company prior to the time of purchase (other than the financial statements and related schedules therein, as to which such counsel need express no opinion), when they became effective or were filed with the Commission, as the case may be, complied as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder;
(xiii) the Registration Statement has become effective under the Securities Act and, to the best of such counsel's knowledge, no stop order proceedings with respect thereto are pending or threatened under the Securities Act, and any required filing of the Prospectus and any supplement thereto pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act has been made in the manner and within the time period required by such Rule 424;
(xiv) no approval, authorization, consent or order of or filing with any national, state or local governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, authority or agency is required in connection with the issuance and sale of the Notes and consummation by the Company of the transactions as contemplated hereby other than registration of the Notes and the Conversion Shares under the Securities Act, the filing of a Notification Form for Listing of Additional Shares with the Nasdaq Stock Market, the qualification for the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and the filing of a Statement of Eligibility of Trustee pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (except such counsel need express no opinion as to any necessary qualification under the state securities or blue sky laws of the various jurisdictions in which the Notes are being offered by the Underwriters or as to compliance of the terms of the underwriting arrangement with the conduct rules of the NASD);
(xv) the execution, delivery and performance of each of this Agreement, the Indenture and the Notes by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do not and will not conflict with, nor result in any breach of, nor constitute a default under (nor constitute any event which with notice, lapse of time, or both, would result in any breach of or constitute a default under), any provisions of the certificate of incorporation or by-laws or other equivalent corporate governance documents, as the case may be, of the Company or under any provision of any license, indenture, mortgage, lease, deed of trust, bank loan, credit agreement or other evidence of indebtedness or other material agreement known to such counsel to which the Company is a party or by which its properties may be bound or affected;
(xvi) the Company is not in violation of its certificate of incorporation or by-laws or other equivalent corporate governance documents, as the case may be, and to the best of such counsel's knowledge, the Company has not received any notice of any breach of or default under any license, indenture, mortgage, lease, deed of trust, bank loan or any other material
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agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which its properties may be bound or affected or of any violation under any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule or any decree, judgment or order applicable to the Company;
(xvii) to the best of such counsel's knowledge, there are no contracts, licenses, agreements, leases or documents of a character which are required (a) to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement, the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2000, as amended, the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2001, or the Company's Current Reports on Form 8-K filed to date since December 31, 2000, or (b) to be summarized or described in the Prospectus, which have not been so filed, summarized or described and the summaries thereof and references thereto are correct in all material respects;
(xviii) to the best of such counsel's knowledge, there are no actions, suits, claims, investigations or proceedings pending or overtly threatened or overtly contemplated to which the Company is subject or of which any of its properties, is subject at law or in equity or before or by any federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, authority or agency which are required to be described in the Prospectus but are not so described;
(xix) the statements in (a) the Prospectus under the captions "Risk factors—We have implemented anti-takeover provisions which could discourage, prevent or delay a takeover, even if the acquisition would be beneficial to our stockholders" and "—Substantial sales of shares may impact the market price of our common stock," and (b) in Item 15 of the Registration Statement, insofar as such statements constitute matters of law, summaries of legal matters, provisions of the Company's certificate of incorporation or by-laws or other equivalent corporate governance documents, documents or legal proceedings, or legal conclusions, have been reviewed by such counsel and fairly present and summarize, in all material respects, the matters referred to therein;
(xx) to the best of such counsel's knowledge, there are no persons with registration or other similar rights to have any equity or debt securities registered for sale under the Registration Statement or included in the offering contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement, except for such rights as have been duly waived;
(xxi) the Conversion Shares have been approved for listing on the Nasdaq National Market, subject only to official notice of issuance; and
(xxii) such counsel have participated in conferences with officers and other representatives of the Company, representatives of the independent public accountants of the Company and representatives of the Underwriters at which the contents of the Registration Statement and Prospectus were discussed and, although such counsel is not passing upon and does not assume responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in the Registration Statement or Prospectus (except as and to the extent stated in subparagraphs (viii), (x) and (xix) above), on the basis of the foregoing nothing has come to the attention of such counsel that causes them to believe that the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto at the time such Registration Statement or amendment became effective contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or that the Prospectus or any supplement thereto at the date of such Prospectus or such supplement, and at all times up to and including the time of purchase or additional time of purchase, as the case may be, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (it being understood that such counsel need
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express no opinion with respect to the financial statements and schedules and other financial and statistical data included in the Registration Statement or Prospectus).
(b) The Company shall furnish to you at the time of purchase and at the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, an opinion of (i) Iota Pi Law Group and (ii) Xxxxxx Godward LLP, each in its capacity as intellectual property counsel for the Company, addressed to the Underwriters, and dated the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, with reproduced copies for each of the other Underwriters, substantially in the forms attached hereto as Exhibit B-1 and Exhibit B-2, respectively, and satisfactory to Xxxxx Xxxxx, counsel for the Underwriters.
(c) The Company shall furnish to you at the time of purchase and at the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, an opinion of Xxxxx, Xxxxxx & XxXxxxxx, P.C., regulatory counsel for the Company, addressed to the Underwriters, and dated the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, with reproduced copies for each of the other Underwriters, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C and satisfactory to Xxxxx Xxxxx, counsel for the Underwriters.
(d) You shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP, letters dated, respectively, the date of this Agreement and the time of purchase and additional time of purchase, as the case may be, and addressed to the Underwriters (with reproduced copies for each of the Underwriters) in the forms heretofore approved by Xxxxxx.
(e) You shall have received at the time of purchase and at the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, the favorable opinion of Xxxxx Xxxxx, counsel for the Underwriters, dated the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, as to the matters referred to in subparagraphs (x) (with respect to the Conversion Shares only), (xi) and (xii) of paragraph (a) of this Section 8.
In addition, such counsel shall state that such counsel have participated in conferences with officers and other representatives of the Company, counsel for the Company, representatives of the independent public accountants of the Company and representatives of the Underwriters at which the contents of the Registration Statement and Prospectus and related matters were discussed and, although such counsel is not passing upon and does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in the Registration Statement and Prospectus (except as to matters referred to with respect to the Conversion Shares under subparagraph (x) of paragraph (a) of this Section 8), on the basis of the foregoing (relying as to materiality to a large extent upon the opinions of officers and other representatives of the Company), no facts have come to the attention of such counsel which lead them to believe that the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto at the time such Registration Statement or amendment became effective contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or that the Prospectus as of its date or any supplement thereto as of its date contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (it being understood that such counsel need express no comment with respect to the financial statements and schedules and other financial and statistical data included in the Registration Statement or Prospectus).
(f) No amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or Prospectus shall be filed prior to the time the Registration Statement becomes effective to which you object in writing.
(g) The Registration Statement shall become effective, or if Rule 430A under the Securities Act is used, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b)
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under the Securities Act, at or before 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement, unless a later time (but not later than 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on the second full business day after the date of this Agreement) shall be agreed to by the Company and you in writing or by telephone, confirmed in writing; provided, however, that the Company and you and any group of Underwriters, including you, who have agreed hereunder to purchase in the aggregate at least 50% of the aggregate principal amount of Firm Notes, may from time to time agree on a later date.
(h) Prior to the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, (i) no stop order with respect to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued under the Securities Act or proceedings initiated under Section 8(d) or 8(e) of the Securities Act; (ii) the Registration Statement and all amendments thereto, or modifications thereof, if any, shall not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and (iii) the Prospectus and all amendments or supplements thereto, or modifications thereof, if any, shall not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.
(i) Between the time of execution of this Agreement and the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, (i) no material and unfavorable change, financial or otherwise (other than as referred to in the Registration Statement and Prospectus), in the business, condition or prospects of the Company shall occur or become known and (ii) no transaction which is material and unfavorable to the Company shall have been entered into by the Company.
(j) The Company will, at the time of purchase or additional time of purchase, as the case may be, deliver to you a certificate of two of its executive officers to the effect that the representations and warranties of the Company as set forth in this Agreement are true and correct as of each such date, that the Company shall perform such of its obligations under this Agreement as are to be performed at or before the time of purchase and at or before the additional time of purchase, as the case may be and the conditions set forth in paragraphs (h) and (i) of this Section 8 have been met.
(k) You shall have received signed letters, dated the date of this Agreement, from each of the directors and officers of the Company and certain of its other stockholders to the effect that such persons shall not sell, offer or agree to sell, contract to sell, grant any option to sell or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Common Stock of the Company or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Common Stock or warrants or other rights to purchase Common Stock for a period of 90 days after the date of the Prospectus without Xxxxxx'x prior written consent.
(l) The Company shall have furnished to you such other documents and certificates as to the accuracy and completeness of any statement in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as of the time of purchase and the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, as you may reasonably request.
(m) The Conversion Shares shall have been approved for listing for quotation on the Nasdaq National Market, subject only to notice of issuance at or prior to the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be.
(n) [Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded the Company's debt securities by any "nationally recognized statistical rating organization", as that term is defined by the Commission for purposes of
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Rule 436(g)(2) of the Securities Act and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any of the Company's debt securities.]
(o) The Indenture (in form and substance satisfactory to you) shall have been duly executed and delivered by the Company and the Trustee and the Notes shall have been duly executed and delivered by the Company and duly authenticated by the Trustee.
9. Effective Date of Agreement; Termination. This Agreement shall become effective (i) if Rule 430A under the Securities Act is not used, when you shall have received notification of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, or (ii) if Rule 430A under the Securities Act is used, when the parties hereto have executed and delivered this Agreement.
The obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder shall be subject to termination in the absolute discretion of you or any group of Underwriters (which may include you) which has agreed to purchase in the aggregate at least 50% of the aggregate principal amount of the Firm Notes, if, since the time of execution of this Agreement or the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, there has been any material adverse and unfavorable change, financial or otherwise (other than as referred to in the Registration Statement and Prospectus), in the operations, business, condition or prospects of the Company which would, in your judgment or in the judgment of such group of Underwriters, make it impracticable to market the Notes, or, if, at any time prior to the time of purchase or, with respect to the purchase of any Additional Notes, the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, trading in securities on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq National Market shall have been suspended or limitations or minimum prices shall have been established on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq National Market or if a banking moratorium shall have been declared either by the United States or New York State authorities, or if the United States shall have declared war in accordance with its constitutional processes or there shall have occurred any material outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or international calamity or crisis of such magnitude in its effect on the financial markets of the United States as, in your judgment or in the judgment of such group of Underwriters, to make it impracticable to market the Notes.
If you or any group of Underwriters elects to terminate this Agreement as provided in this Section 9, the Company and each other Underwriter shall be notified promptly by letter or telegram.
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If the sale to the Underwriters of the Notes, as contemplated by this Agreement, is not carried out by the Underwriters for any reason permitted under this Agreement or if such sale is not carried out because the Company shall be unable to comply with any of the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall not be under any obligation or liability under this Agreement (except to the extent provided in Sections 6, 7 and 11 hereof), and the Underwriters shall be under no obligation or liability to the Company under this Agreement (except to the extent provided in Section 11 hereof) or to one another hereunder.
10. Increase in Underwriters' Commitments. Subject to Sections 8 and 9, if any Underwriter shall default in its obligation to take up and pay for the Firm Notes to be purchased by it hereunder (otherwise than for reasons sufficient to justify the termination of this Agreement under the provisions of Section 9 hereof) and if the principal amount of Firm Notes which all Underwriters so defaulting shall have agreed but failed to take up and pay for does not exceed 10% of the aggregate principal amount of Firm Notes, the non-defaulting Underwriters shall take up and pay for (in addition to the principal amount of Firm Notes they are obligated to purchase pursuant to Section 1 hereof) the principal amount of Firm Notes agreed to be purchased by all such defaulting Underwriters, as hereinafter provided. Such Firm Notes shall be taken up and paid for by such non-defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters in such principal amount or amounts as you may designate with the consent of each Underwriter so designated or, in the event no such designation is made, such Firm Notes shall be taken up and paid for by all non-defaulting Underwriters pro rata in proportion to the aggregate principal amount of Firm Notes set opposite the names of such non-defaulting Underwriters in Schedule A.
Without relieving any defaulting Underwriter from its obligations hereunder, the Company agrees with the non-defaulting Underwriters that they will not sell any Firm Notes hereunder unless all of the Firm Notes are purchased by the Underwriters (or by substituted Underwriters selected by you with the approval of the Company or selected by the Company with your approval).
If a new Underwriter or Underwriters are substituted by the Underwriters or by the Company for a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters in accordance with the foregoing provision, the Company or you shall have the right to postpone the time of purchase for a period not exceeding five business days in order that any necessary changes in the Registration Statement and Prospectus and other documents may be effected.
The term Underwriter as used in this agreement shall refer to and include any Underwriter substituted under this Section 10 with like effect as if such substituted Underwriter had originally been named in Schedule A.
If the aggregate principal amount of Notes which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed to purchase exceeds 10% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes which all Underwriters agreed to purchase hereunder, and if neither the non-defaulting Underwriters nor the Company shall make arrangements within the five business day period stated above for the purchase of all the Notes which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed to purchase hereunder, this Agreement shall be terminated without further act or deed and without any liability on the part of the Company to any non-defaulting Underwriter and without any liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter to the Company. Nothing in this paragraph, and no action taken hereunder, shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of such Underwriter under this Agreement.
11. Indemnification and Contribution.
(a) The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its officers and employees and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act, from and against any loss, claim, damage or liability, joint or several, or any action in respect thereof (including, but not limited to, any loss, claim, damage, liability or action relating to purchases and sales
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of Notes), to which that Underwriter, officer, employee or controlling person 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 (A) in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto, or (B) in any materials or information provided to investors by, or with the approval of, the Company in connection with the marketing of the offering of the Notes ("Marketing Materials"), including any roadshow or investor presentation made to investors by the Company (whether in person or electronically), (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto, or in any Marketing Materials any 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 Notes or the offering contemplated hereby, and which 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 under 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 acts or failures to act undertaken or omitted to be taken by such Underwriter through its gross negligence or willful misconduct), and shall reimburse each Underwriter and each such officer, employee or controlling person promptly upon demand for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by that Underwriter, officer, employee or controlling person in connection with investigating or defending or preparing to defend against 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, any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any such amendment or supplement, or in any blue sky application or other document prepared or executed by the Company (or based upon any written information furnished by the Company) specifically for the purpose of qualifying any or all of the Notes under the securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction (any such application, document or information being hereinafter called a "Blue Sky Application"), in reliance upon and in conformity with written information concerning such Underwriter furnished to the Company through Xxxxxx, Banc of America Securities LLC, Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Inc. and UBS Warburg LLC as managing underwriters (the "Managing Underwriters") by or on behalf of any Underwriter specifically for inclusion therein which information consists solely of the information specified in Section 11(e). The foregoing indemnity agreement is in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have to any Underwriter or to any officer, employee or controlling person of that Underwriter. The Company shall not be liable in any case arising under Section 11(a) with respect to any Preliminary Prospectus if at or prior to written confirmation of the sale of the Notes a copy of the Prospectus (or the Prospectus as amended or supplemented) was not sent or delivered to such person making the claim and the untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission in the Preliminary Prospectus was corrected in the Prospectus (or the Prospectus as amended or supplemented), unless the failure is the result of noncompliance by the Company with Section 5(c) hereof.
(b) Each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its officers and employees, each of its directors, and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act, from and against any loss, claim, damage or liability, joint or several, or any action in respect thereof, to which the Company or any such director, officer, employee or controlling person 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 (A) in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto, or (B) in any Blue Sky
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Application or (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto, or in any Blue Sky Application any 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 concerning such Underwriter furnished to the Company through the Managing Underwriters by or on behalf of that Underwriter specifically for inclusion therein, and shall reimburse the Company and any such director, officer, employee or controlling person for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company or any such director, officer or controlling person in connection with investigating or defending or preparing to defend against any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred. The foregoing indemnity agreement is in addition to any liability which any Underwriter may otherwise have to the Company or any such director, officer, employee or controlling person under applicable law.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 11 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 11, 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 which it may have under this Section 11 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 which it may have to an indemnified party otherwise than under this Section 11. 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 11 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 the Managing Underwriters shall have the right to employ counsel to represent jointly the Managing Underwriters and those other Underwriters and their respective officers, employees and controlling persons who may be subject to liability arising out of any claim in respect of which indemnity may be sought by the Underwriters against the Company under this Section 11 if, in the reasonable judgment of the Managing Underwriters, it is advisable for the Managing Underwriters and those Underwriters, officers, employees and controlling persons to be jointly represented by separate counsel, and in that event the fees and expenses of such separate counsel shall be paid by the Company. No indemnifying party shall (i) without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to any pending or threatened claim, action, suit or proceeding in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties to such claim or action) unless such settlement, compromise or consent includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all liability arising out of such claim, action, suit or proceeding, or (ii) 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 the consent of the indemnifying party or if there is 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 the indemnification provided for in this Section 11 shall for any reason be unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under Section 11(a) or 11(b) in respect of any loss, claim, damage or liability, or any action in respect thereof, referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party, contribute to the amount paid or payable by
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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 Notes 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 which 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 Notes purchased under this Agreement (before deducting expenses) received by the Company, on the one hand, and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters with respect to the Notes purchased under this Agreement, on the other hand, bear to the total gross proceeds from the offering of the Notes 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 whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or the Underwriters, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contributions pursuant to this Section 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 which 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 shall be deemed to include, for purposes of this Section 11(d), 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 11(d), no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Notes underwritten by it and distributed to the public was offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages which 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 11(d) are several in proportion to their respective underwriting obligations and not joint.
(e) The Underwriters severally confirm and the Company acknowledges that the statements with respect to the public offering of the Notes by the Underwriters set forth on the cover page of, the legend concerning over-allotments on the inside front cover page of and the concession and reallowance figures appearing under the caption "Underwriting" in the Prospectus are correct and constitute the only information concerning such Underwriters furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of the Underwriters specifically for inclusion in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
12. Notices. Except as otherwise herein provided, all statements, requests, notices and agreements shall be in writing or by telegram and, if to the Underwriters, shall be sufficient in all respects if delivered or sent to Xxxxxx Brothers Inc., 0 Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Syndicate Department, and if to the Company, shall be sufficient in all respects if delivered or sent to the Company at the offices of the Company at 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Chief Executive Officer.
13. Governing Law; Construction. This Agreement and any claim, counterclaim or dispute of any kind or nature whatsoever arising out of or in any way relating to this Agreement ("Claim"), directly or
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indirectly, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York. The Section headings in this Agreement have been inserted as a matter of convenience of reference and are not a part of this Agreement.
14. Submission to Jurisdiction. Except as set forth below, no Claim may be commenced, prosecuted or continued in any court other than the courts of the State of New York located in the City and County of New York or in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which courts shall have jurisdiction over the adjudication of such matters, and the Company consents to the jurisdiction of such courts and personal service with respect thereto. The Company hereby consents to personal jurisdiction, service and venue in any court in which any Claim arising out of or in any way relating to this Agreement is brought by any third party against Xxxxxx or any indemnified party. Each of Xxxxxx and the Company (on its behalf and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, on behalf of its stockholders and affiliates) waives all right to trial by jury in any action, proceeding or counterclaim (whether based upon contract, tort or otherwise) in any way arising out of or relating to this Agreement. The Company agrees that a final judgment in any such action, proceeding or counterclaim brought in any such court shall be conclusive and binding upon the Company and may be enforced in any other courts in the jurisdiction of which the Company is or may be subject, by suit upon such judgment.
15. Parties at Interest. The Agreement herein set forth has been and is made solely for the benefit of the Underwriters and the Company, and, to the extent provided in Section 11 hereof, the controlling persons, directors and officers referred to in such Section, and their respective successors, assigns, heirs, pursuant representatives and executors and administrators. No other person, partnership, association or corporation (including a purchaser, as such purchaser, from any of the Underwriters) shall acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement.
16. Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed by the parties in one or more counterparts which together shall constitute one and the same agreement among the parties.
17. Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon the Underwriters and the Company and their successors and assigns and any successor or assign of any substantial portion of the Company's and any of the Underwriters' respective businesses and/or assets.
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If the foregoing correctly sets forth the understanding among the Company and the Underwriters, please so indicate in the space provided below for the purpose, whereupon this letter and your acceptance shall constitute a binding agreement among the Company and the Underwriters, severally.
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XXXXXX BROTHERS INC. BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX, INC. UBS WARBURG LLC |
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EXHIBIT A
Form of Opinion of Corporate Counsel for the Company
The final opinion in draft form should be attached as Exhibit A at the time this Agreement is executed pursuant to Section 8(a) of the Underwriting Agreement.
EXHIBIT B-1
Form of Opinion of Intellectual Property Counsel for the Company
The final opinion in draft form should be attached as Exhibit B-1 at the time this Agreement is executed pursuant to Section 8(b) of the Underwriting Agreement.
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EXHIBIT B-2
Form of Opinion of Intellectual Property Counsel for the Company
The final opinion in draft form should be attached as Exhibit B-2 at the time this Agreement is executed pursuant to Section 8(b) of the Underwriting Agreement.
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EXHIBIT C
Form of Opinion of Regulatory Counsel for the Company
The final opinion in draft form should be attached as Exhibit C at the time this Agreement is executed pursuant to Section 8(c) of the Underwriting Agreement.
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Exhibit 1.3
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
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SCHEDULE A
EXHIBIT A Form of Opinion of Corporate Counsel for the Company
EXHIBIT B-1 Form of Opinion of Intellectual Property Counsel for the Company
EXHIBIT B-2 Form of Opinion of Intellectual Property Counsel for the Company
EXHIBIT C Form of Opinion of Regulatory Counsel for the Company