5,813,954 Stock ANADYS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. PLACEMENT AGENT AGREEMENT
Exhibit 1.1
Execution Copy
5,813,954 Stock
ANADYS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
PLACEMENT AGENT AGREEMENT
May 25, 2010
Lazard Capital Markets LLC
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co.
c/o Lazard Capital Markets LLC
00 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co.
c/o Lazard Capital Markets LLC
00 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Dear Sirs:
1. Introduction. Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
“Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the purchasers, pursuant to the terms and conditions of
this Placement Agent Agreement (this “Agreement”) and the Subscription Agreements in the form of
Exhibit A attached hereto (the “Subscription Agreements”) entered into with the purchasers
identified therein (each a “Purchaser” and collectively, the “Purchasers”), up to an aggregate of
5,813,954 shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “Common Stock”) of the Company.
The aggregate of 5,813,954 shares so proposed to be sold is hereinafter referred to as the “Stock.”
The Company hereby confirms its agreement with Lazard Capital Markets LLC (“LCM”) and Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx & Co. (“Piper”, together with LCM, the “Placement Agents”) to act as Placement Agents in
accordance with the terms and conditions hereof. LCM is acting as the representative of the
Placement Agents and in such capacity is hereinafter referred to as the “Representative.”
2. Agreement to Act as Placement Agents; Placement of Stock. On the basis
of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company herein contained, and subject to
all the terms and conditions of this Agreement:
2.1 The Company has authorized and hereby acknowledges that the Placement Agents have
acted as its exclusive agents to solicit offers for the purchase of all or part of the Stock
from the Company in connection with the proposed offering of the Stock (the “Offering”).
Until the Closing Date (as defined in Section 4 hereof), the Company shall not,
without the prior written consent of the Representative, solicit or accept offers to
purchase Stock otherwise than through the Placement Agents. LCM may utilize the expertise
of Lazard Frères & Co. LLC in connection with LCM’s placement agent activities.
2.2 The Company hereby acknowledges that the Placement Agents, as agents of the
Company, used their reasonable best efforts to solicit offers to purchase the Stock
from the Company on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Prospectus
(as defined below). The Placement Agents shall use commercially reasonable efforts to assist
the Company in obtaining performance by each Purchaser whose offer to purchase Stock was
solicited by the Placement Agents and accepted by the Company, including the prompt
execution by each Purchaser of a Subscription Agreement to purchase Stock, but the Placement
Agents shall not, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, be obligated to disclose
the identity of any potential purchaser or have any liability to the Company in the event
any such purchase is not consummated for any reason. Under no circumstances will the
Placement Agents be obligated to underwrite or purchase any Stock for their own accounts
and, in soliciting purchases of Stock, the Placement Agents acted solely as the Company’s
agents and not as principals. Notwithstanding the foregoing and except as otherwise provided
in Section 2.3, it is understood and agreed that the Placement Agents (or their
affiliates) may, solely at their discretion and without any obligation to do so, purchase
Stock as principals.
2.3 Subject to the provisions of this Section 2, offers for the purchase of
Stock were and shall be solicited by the Placement Agents as agents for the Company at such
times and in such amounts as the Placement Agents deem advisable. Each Placement Agent
shall communicate to the Company, orally or in writing, each reasonable offer to purchase
Stock received by it as agent of the Company. The Company shall have the sole right to
accept offers to purchase the Stock and may reject any such offer, in whole or in part. Each
Placement Agent shall have the right, in its discretion reasonably exercised, without notice
to the Company, to reject any offer to purchase Stock received by it, in whole or in part,
and any such rejection shall not be deemed a breach of this Agreement.
2.4 The Stock is being sold to the Purchasers at a price of $2.15 per share. The
purchases of the Stock by the Purchasers shall be evidenced by the execution of Subscription
Agreements by each of the Purchasers and the Company.
2.5 As compensation for services rendered, on the Closing Date (as defined in
Section 4 hereof), the Company shall pay to the Placement Agents by wire transfer of
immediately available funds to an account or accounts designated by the Representative, an
aggregate amount equal to 6.38% of the gross proceeds received by the Company from the sale
of the Stock on such Closing Date (the “Placement Fee”).
2.6 No Stock which the Company has agreed to sell pursuant to this Agreement and the
Subscription Agreements shall be deemed to have been purchased and paid for, or sold by the
Company, until such Stock shall have been delivered to the Purchaser thereof against payment
by such Purchaser. If the Company shall default in its obligations to deliver Stock to a
Purchaser whose offer it has accepted, the Company shall indemnify and hold the Placement
Agents harmless against any loss, claim, damage or expense arising from or as a result of
such default by the Company in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section
8(c) herein.
3. Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents
and warrants to, and agrees with, the Placement Agents and the Purchasers that:
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(a) The Company has prepared and filed in conformity with the requirements of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and published rules and
regulations thereunder (the “Rules and Regulations”) adopted by the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “Commission”) a “shelf” Registration Statement (as hereinafter defined) on
Form S-3 (File No. 333-158342), which became effective as of April 23, 2009 (the “Effective
Date”), including a base prospectus relating to the securities registered pursuant to such
Registration Statement (the “Base Prospectus”), and such amendments and supplements thereto
as may have been required to the date of this Agreement. The term “Registration Statement”
as used in this Agreement means the registration statement (including all exhibits,
financial schedules and all documents and information deemed to be a part of the
Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430A of the Rules and Regulations), as amended
and/or supplemented to the date of this Agreement, including the Base Prospectus. The
Registration Statement is effective under the Securities Act and no stop order preventing or
suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or suspending or preventing the
use of the Prospectus has been issued by the Commission and no proceedings for that purpose
have been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, are threatened by the Commission.
The Company, if required by the Rules and Regulations of the Commission, will file the
Prospectus (as defined below), with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and
Regulations. The term “Prospectus” as used in this Agreement means the Prospectus, in the
form in which it is to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and
Regulations, or, if the Prospectus is not to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule
424(b), the Prospectus in the form included as part of the Registration Statement as of the
Effective Date, except that if any revised prospectus or prospectus supplement shall be
provided to the Representative by the Company for use in connection with the offering and
sale of the Stock which differs from the Prospectus (whether or not such revised prospectus
or prospectus supplement is required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 424(b) of
the Rules and Regulations), the term “Prospectus” shall refer to such revised prospectus or
prospectus supplement, as the case may be, from and after the time it is first provided to
the Placement Agents for such use. Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus subject to
completion included in the Registration Statement or filed with the Commission pursuant to
Rule 424 of the Rules and Regulations is hereafter called a “Preliminary Prospectus.” Any
reference herein to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus
shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein
pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 which were filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended (the “Exchange Act”), on or before the last to occur of the Effective Date, the
date of the Preliminary Prospectus, or the date of the Prospectus, and any reference herein
to the terms “amend,” “amendment,” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration
Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and
include (i) the filing of any document under the Exchange Act after the Effective Date, the
date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the date of the Prospectus, as the case may be, which
is incorporated by reference and (ii) any such document so filed. If the Company has filed
an abbreviated registration statement to register additional securities pursuant to Rule
462(b) under the Rules and Regulations (the “462(b) Registration Statement”), then any
reference herein to the
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Registration Statement shall also be deemed to include such 462(b) Registration
Statement.
(b) As of the Applicable Time (as defined below) and as of the Closing Date, neither
(i) any General Use Free Writing Prospectus (as defined below) issued at or prior to the
Applicable Time, and the Pricing Prospectus (as defined below), all considered together
(collectively, the “General Disclosure Package”), (ii) any individual Limited Use Free
Writing Prospectus (as defined below) issued at or prior to the Applicable Time, nor (iii)
the bona fide electronic road show (as defined in Rule 433(h)(5) of the Rules and
Regulations), if any, that has been made available without restriction to any person, when
considered together with the General Disclosure Package, included or will include, any
untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or as of the Closing Date will omit, to state
a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the
Company makes no representations or warranties as to information contained in or omitted
from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Pricing Prospectus, in reliance upon, and in
conformity with, written information furnished to the Company through the Representative by
or on behalf of any Placement Agent specifically for inclusion therein, which information
the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agents’ Information (as defined in
Section 17). As used in this paragraph (b) and elsewhere in this Agreement:
“Applicable Time” means 11:50 P.M., New York time, on the date of this Agreement.
“General Use Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is
identified on Schedule A to this Agreement.
“Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in
Rule 433 of the Rules and Regulations relating to the Stock in the form filed or required to
be filed with the Commission or, if not required to be filed, in the form retained in the
Company’s records pursuant to Rule 433(g) of the Rules and Regulations.
“Limited Use Free Writing Prospectuses” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is not
a General Use Free Writing Prospectus.
“Pricing Prospectus” means the Preliminary Prospectus, if any, and the Base Prospectus, each
as amended and supplemented immediately prior to the Applicable Time, including any document
incorporated by reference therein and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a part thereof,
including the final prospectus supplement dated the date hereof.
(c) No order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus relating to the Offering has been issued by the
Commission, and no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities
Act has been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission,
and any Preliminary Prospectus, at the time of filing thereof, conformed in all material
respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations, and did
not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
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state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
provided, however, that the Company makes no representations or warranties as to information
contained in or omitted from any Preliminary Prospectus, in reliance upon, and in conformity
with, written information furnished to the Company through the Representative by or on
behalf of any Placement Agent specifically for inclusion therein, which information the
parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agents’ Information (as defined in
Section 17).
(d) At the respective times the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto
became or become effective, at the date of this Agreement and at the Closing Date, each
Registration Statement and any amendments thereto conformed and will conform in all material
respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and did not
and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material
fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading; and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, at the time the
Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto was issued and at the Closing Date,
conformed and will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities
Act and the Rules and Regulations and did not and will not contain an untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided,
however, that the foregoing representations and warranties in this paragraph (d)
shall not apply to information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement or
the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, in reliance upon, and in conformity
with, written information furnished to the Company through the Representative by or on
behalf of any Placement Agent specifically for inclusion therein, which information the
parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agents’ Information (as defined in
Section 17). The Prospectus contains all required information under the Securities
Act with respect to the Stock and the distribution of the Stock.
(e) Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, if any, as of its issue date and at all
subsequent times through the completion of the public offer and sale of the Stock or until
any earlier date that the Company notified or notifies the Representative as described in
Section 5(e), did not, does not and will not include any information that
conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the information contained in the Registration
Statement, Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, including any document incorporated by
reference therein and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a part thereof that has not
been superseded or modified, or includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted
or would omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order
to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading. The foregoing sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions
from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written
information furnished to the Company through the Representative by or on behalf of any
Placement Agent specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto
agree is limited to the Placement Agents’ Information (as defined in Section 17).
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(f) The documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, when they were filed
with the Commission, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the
Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the
Commission thereunder and none of such documents contained any untrue statement of a
material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in light of the circumstances under
which they were made; and any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in
the Prospectus, when such documents are filed with the Commission 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
any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in light of the
circumstances under which they were made.
(g) At the time of filing the initial Registration Statement, any 462(b) Registration
Statement and any post-effective amendments thereto, and at the date hereof, the Company was
not, and the Company currently is not, an “ineligible issuer,” as defined in Rule 405 of the
Rules and Regulations. The Company has not, directly or indirectly, distributed and will
not distribute any offering material in connection with the Offering other than any
Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and other materials, if any, permitted under the
Securities Act and consistent with Section 5(b) below. The Company will file with
the Commission all Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses (other than a “road show,” as described
in Rule 433(d)(8) of the Rules and Regulations), if any, in the time and manner required
under Rules 163(b)(2) and 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations.
(h) The Company and each of its subsidiaries (as defined in Section 14) has
been duly organized and is validly existing as corporations or other legal entities in good
standing (or the foreign equivalent thereof) under the laws of their respective
jurisdictions of organization. The Company and each of its subsidiaries is duly qualified
to do business and is in good standing as foreign corporations or other legal entities in
each jurisdiction in which their respective ownership or lease of property or the conduct of
their respective businesses require such qualification and have all power and authority
necessary to own or hold their respective properties and to conduct the businesses in which
each is engaged, except where the failure to so qualify or have such power or authority (i)
would not have, singularly or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the condition
(financial or otherwise), results of operations, assets, business or prospects of the
Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, or (ii) impair in any material respect the
ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this Agreement or to consummate any
transactions contemplated by this Agreement (any such effect as described in clauses (i) or
(ii), a “Material Adverse Effect”). The Company owns or controls, directly or indirectly,
only the following corporations, partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited
liability companies, associations or other entities: (i) Anadys Pharmaceuticals Europe GmbH
and (ii) Anadys Development Limited.
(i) The Company has the full right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement
and each of the Subscription Agreements, and to perform and to discharge its
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obligations hereunder and thereunder; and each of this Agreement and each of the
Subscription Agreements has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company, and
constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable in accordance with its
terms; except that such enforcement may be subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws, now or hereafter in effect, affecting
creditors’ rights generally.
(j) The Stock to be issued and sold by the Company to the Purchasers hereunder and
under the Subscription Agreements has been duly and validly authorized and, when issued and
delivered against payment therefor as provided herein and the Subscription Agreements, will
be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free of any preemptive or
similar rights and will conform to the description thereof contained in the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(k) The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the General Disclosure
Package, and all of the issued shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly and
validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable, have been issued in
compliance with federal and state securities laws, and conform to the description thereof
contained in the General Disclosure Package. None of the outstanding shares of Common Stock
was issued in violation of any preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other similar
rights to subscribe for or purchase securities of the Company. As of the date set forth in
the General Disclosure Package, there were no authorized or outstanding options, warrants,
preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other rights to purchase, or equity or debt
securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for, any capital stock of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries other than those accurately described in the General
Disclosure Package. Since such date, the Company has not issued any securities other than
Common Stock issued pursuant to the exercise of warrants or upon the exercise of stock
options previously outstanding under the Company’s stock option plans and the issuance of
Common Stock pursuant to employee stock purchase plans.
(l) All the outstanding shares of capital stock of each subsidiary of the Company have
been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable and, except to the
extent set forth in the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, are owned by the
Company directly or indirectly through one or more wholly-owned subsidiaries, free and clear
of any claim, lien, encumbrance, security interest, restriction upon voting or transfer or
any other claim of any third party.
(m) The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Subscription
Agreements by the Company, the issue and sale of the Stock by the Company and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby will not (with or without
notice or lapse of time or both) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of
the terms or provisions of, constitute a default or Debt Repayment Triggering Event (as
defined below) under, give rise to any right of termination or other right or the
cancellation or acceleration of any right or obligation or loss of a benefit under, or give
rise to the creation or imposition of any lien, encumbrance, security interest, claim or
charge upon any property or assets of the Company or any subsidiary
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pursuant to, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement
or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the
Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, nor will such actions result in any violation
of the provisions of the charter or by-laws (or analogous governing instruments, as
applicable) of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any law, statute, rule, regulation,
judgment, order or decree of any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign,
having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their properties
or assets. A “Debt Repayment Triggering Event” means any event or condition that gives, or
with the giving of notice or lapse of time would give the holder of any note, debenture or
other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to
require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by
the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
(n) Except for the registration of the Stock under the Securities Act and such
consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations or qualifications as may be required
under the Exchange Act and applicable state or foreign securities laws, the Financial
Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) and the Nasdaq Global Market (“Nasdaq GM”) in
connection with the offering and sale of the Stock by the Company, no consent, approval,
authorization or order of, or filing, qualification or registration with, any court or
governmental agency or body, foreign or domestic, which has not been made, obtained or taken
and is not in full force and effect, is required for the execution, delivery and performance
of this Agreement and the Subscription Agreements by the Company, the offer or sale of the
Stock or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.
(o) Ernst & Young LLP, who have certified certain financial statements and related
schedules included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and have audited the Company’s internal control over
financial reporting, is an independent registered public
accounting firm as required by the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and the
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (the “PCAOB”). Except as
pre-approved in accordance with the requirements set forth in Section 10A of the Exchange
Act, Ernst & Young LLP has not been engaged by the Company to perform any “prohibited
activities” (as defined in Section 10A of the Exchange Act).
(p) The financial statements, together with the related notes and schedules, included
or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and in the
Registration Statement fairly present the financial position and the results of operations
and changes in financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries at the
respective dates or for the respective periods therein specified. Such statements and
related notes and schedules have been prepared in accordance with the generally accepted
accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis throughout
the periods involved except as may be set forth in the related notes included or
incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package. The financial statements,
together with the related notes and schedules, included or
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incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus comply
in all material respects with the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, and the Rules and
Regulations and the rules and regulations under the Exchange Act. No other financial
statements or supporting schedules or exhibits are required by the Securities Act or the
Rules and Regulations to be described, or included or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus.
(q) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained, since the date of
the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the General
Disclosure Package, any material loss or interference with its business from fire,
explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor
dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or
contemplated in the General Disclosure Package; and, since such date, there has not been any
change in the capital stock (other than Common Stock of the Company issued pursuant to the
exercise of warrants or upon the exercise of stock options previously outstanding under the
Company’s stock option plans and the issuance of Common Stock pursuant to employee stock
purchase plans) or long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any material
adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or
affecting the business, assets, general affairs, management, financial position, prospects,
stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a
whole, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the General Disclosure Package.
(r) Except as set forth in the General Disclosure Package, there is no legal or
governmental action, suit, claim or proceeding pending to which the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is a party or of which any property or assets of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is the subject that is required to be described in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or a document incorporated by reference
therein and is not described therein, or which, singularly or in the aggregate, if
determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, might have a Material
Adverse Effect or would prevent or adversely affect the ability of the Company to perform
its obligations under this Agreement; and to the best of the Company’s knowledge, no such
proceedings are threatened or contemplated by governmental authorities or threatened by
others.
(s) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in (i) violation of its charter
or by-laws (or analogous governing instrument, as applicable), (ii) default in any respect,
and no event has occurred which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such
a default, in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or condition contained
in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease or other agreement or
instrument to which it is a party or by which it is bound or to which any of its property or
assets is subject or (iii) violation in any respect of any law, ordinance, governmental
rule, regulation or court order, decree or judgment to which it or its property or assets
may be subject except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph (s), for any
violations or defaults which, singularly or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(t) The clinical trials conducted by or on behalf of or sponsored by the Company or in
which the Company or its product candidates have participated that are described in the
General Disclosure Package and Prospectus or the results of which are referred to in the
General Disclosure Package or Prospectus were and, if still pending, are being conducted in
all material respects in accordance with medical and scientific research procedures that the
Company reasonably believes are appropriate. The descriptions in the General Disclosure
Package and Prospectus of the results of such clinical trials are accurate and fairly
present the data derived from such clinical trials, and the Company has no knowledge of any
studies or tests performed by or on behalf of the Company the results of which are
materially inconsistent with or otherwise materially call into question the results
described or referred to in the General Disclosure Package and Prospectus. Except to the
extent disclosed in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company has not
received any notices or other correspondence from the United States Food and Drug
Administration (“FDA”) or any other governmental agency requiring the termination,
suspension or modification of any clinical trials that are described in the General
Disclosure Package or Prospectus or the results of which are referred to in the General
Disclosure Package or Prospectus.
(u) The Company and each of its subsidiaries possess all licenses, certificates,
authorizations and permits issued by, and have made all declarations and filings with, the
appropriate local, state, federal or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies which are
necessary or desirable for the ownership of their respective properties or the conduct of
their respective businesses as described in the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus (collectively, the “Governmental Permits”), except where any failures to possess
or make the same, singularly or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
The Company and its subsidiaries are in material compliance with all such Governmental
Permits; all such Governmental Permits are valid and in full force and effect, except where
the validity or failure to be in full force and effect would not, singularly or in the
aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any subsidiary has
received notification of any revocation or modification (or proceedings related thereto) of
any such Governmental Permit and the Company has no reason to believe that any such
Governmental Permit will not be renewed.
(v) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is or, after giving effect to the
Offering and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the General Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus, will become an “investment company” within the meaning of the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission
thereunder.
(w) Neither the Company, its subsidiaries nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any of the
Company’s or its subsidiaries’ officers, directors or affiliates has taken or will take,
directly or indirectly, any action designed or intended to stabilize or manipulate the price
of any security of the Company, or which caused or resulted in, or which might in the future
reasonably be expected to cause or result in, stabilization or manipulation of the price of
any security of the Company.
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(x) The Company and its subsidiaries own, possess or can timely acquire on reasonable
terms the right to use all patents, trademarks, trademark registrations, service marks,
service xxxx registrations, trade names, copyrights, licenses, inventions, trade secrets and
rights necessary to carry on their respective businesses as now conducted and as described
in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, except to the extent the failure to
own, possess or acquire such intellectual property rights could not be reasonably expected
to result in a Material Adverse Effect, and the Company is not aware of any claim to the
contrary or any challenge by any other person to the rights of the Company and its
subsidiaries with respect to the foregoing. To the Company’s knowledge, the Company’s
business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted does not and will not infringe or
conflict with any patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, trade
secrets, licenses or other intellectual property or franchise right of any person except as
would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect. Except as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, no
claim has been made against the Company alleging the infringement by the Company of any
patent, trademark, service xxxx, trade name, copyright, trade secret, license in or other
intellectual property right or franchise right of any person, except as would not,
individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect. The Company and each of its subsidiaries has at all times complied in all material
respects with all applicable laws relating to privacy, data protection, and the collection
and use of personal information collected, used, or held for use by the Company or its
subsidiaries in the conduct of the Company’s for any of its subsidiary’s business, except as
could not, singularly or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect.
(y) The Company and each of its subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee
simple to, or have valid rights to lease or otherwise use, all items of real or personal
property that are material to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a
whole, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, security interests, claims
and defects that do not, singularly or in the aggregate, materially affect the value of such
property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such
property by the Company or any of its subsidiaries; and all of the leases and subleases
material to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise,
and under which the Company or any of its subsidiaries holds properties described in the
General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, are in full force and effect, and neither the
Company nor any subsidiary has received any notice of any material claim of any sort that
has been asserted by anyone adverse to the rights of the Company or any subsidiary under any
of the leases or subleases mentioned above, or negatively affecting or questioning the
rights of the Company or such subsidiary to the continued possession of the leased or
subleased premises under any such lease or sublease.
(z) No labor disturbance by the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries
exists or, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, is imminent that might be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as set forth in the General Disclosure Package, the
Company is not aware that any key employee or significant group of
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employees of the Company or any subsidiary voluntarily plans to terminate employment
with the Company or any such subsidiary.
(aa) No “prohibited transaction” (as defined in Section 406 of the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, including the regulations and published
interpretations thereunder (“ERISA”), or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended from time to time (the “Code”)) or “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined
in Section 302 of ERISA) or any of the events set forth in Section 4043(b) of ERISA (other
than events with respect to which the thirty (30)-day notice requirement under Section 4043
of ERISA has been waived) has occurred or could reasonably be expected to occur with respect
to any employee benefit plan of the Company or any of its subsidiaries which could,
singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. Each employee benefit plan
of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is in compliance in all material respects with
applicable law, including ERISA and the Code. The Company and its subsidiaries have not
incurred and could not reasonably be expected to incur liability under Title IV of ERISA
with respect to the termination of, or withdrawal from, any pension plan (as defined in
ERISA). Each pension plan for which the Company or any of its subsidiaries would have any
liability that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified
in all material respects, and nothing has occurred, whether by action or by failure to act,
which could, singularly or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to cause the loss of
such qualification.
(bb) The Company and its subsidiaries are in compliance with all foreign, federal,
state and local statute, law (including the common law), ordinance, rule, regulation,
order, judgment, decree or Governmental Permit, relating to the use, treatment, storage and
disposal of hazardous or toxic substances, materials or wastes and the protection of health
and safety or the environment which are applicable to their businesses (“Environmental
Laws”), except where the failure to comply would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a
Material Adverse Effect. There has been no storage, generation, transportation, handling,
treatment, disposal, discharge, emission, or other release of any kind of hazardous or toxic
substances, materials or wastes by, due to, or caused by the Company or any of its
subsidiaries (or, to the Company’s knowledge, any other entity for whose acts or omissions
the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may otherwise be liable) upon any of the
property now or previously owned or leased by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or
upon any other property, in violation of, or which would give rise to any liability under,
any Environmental Law, except for any violation or liability which would not have, singly or
in the aggregate with all such violations and liabilities, a Material Adverse Effect; and
there has been no disposal, discharge, emission or other release of any kind onto such
property or into the environment surrounding such property of any hazardous or toxic
substances, materials or wastes with respect to which the Company has knowledge, except for
any such disposal, discharge, emission, or other release of any kind which would not have,
singly or in the aggregate with all such discharges and other releases, a Material Adverse
Effect.
(cc) The Company and its subsidiaries, each (i) has timely filed all necessary federal,
state, local and foreign tax returns or have properly requested extensions thereof,
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and all such returns were true, complete and correct in all material respects, (ii) has
paid all federal, state, local and foreign taxes, assessments, governmental or other charges
due and payable for which it is liable, including, without limitation, all sales and use
taxes and all taxes which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is obligated to withhold
from amounts owing to employees, creditors and third parties, except as may be being
contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings, and (iii) does not have any tax
deficiency or claims outstanding or assessed or, to the best of the Company’s knowledge,
proposed against any of them, except those, in each of the cases described in clauses (i),
(ii) and (iii) of this paragraph (cc), that could not, singularly or in the aggregate,
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and its subsidiaries,
each has not engaged in any transaction which is a corporate tax shelter or which could
reasonably be characterized as such by the Internal Revenue Service or any other taxing
authority. The accruals and reserves on the books and records of the Company and its
subsidiaries in respect of tax liabilities for any taxable period not yet finally determined
are adequate to meet any assessments and related liabilities for any such period, and since
December 31, 2009, the Company and its subsidiaries each has not incurred any liability for
taxes other than in the ordinary course.
(dd) The Company and each of its subsidiaries carry, or are covered by, insurance in
such amounts and covering such risks as is adequate for the conduct of their respective
businesses and the value of their respective properties and as is customary for companies
engaged in similar businesses in similar industries. The Company has no reason to believe
that it or any subsidiary 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 reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(ee) The Company and each of its subsidiaries maintains a system of internal control
over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15 of the General Rules and
Regulations under the Exchange Act (the “Exchange Act Rules”)) that complies with the
requirements of the Exchange Act and has been designed to provide reasonable assurances that
(i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific
authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of
financial statements in conformity with GAAP 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. Except as described in the General Disclosure Package, since the end of the
Company’s most recent audited fiscal year, there as been (A) no material weakness in the
Company’s internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) and (B) no
change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially
affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over
financial reporting. The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such is
defined in Rule 13a-15 of the Exchange Act Rules) that comply with the requirements of the
Exchange Act; such disclosure controls and procedures have been designed to ensure that
information required to be
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disclosed by the Company and its subsidiaries is accumulated and communicated to the
Company’s management, including the Company’s principal executive officer and principal
financial officer by others within those entities, such disclosure controls and procedures
are effective in all material respects to perform the functions for which they were
established.
(ff) The minute books of the Company and each of its subsidiaries that would be a
“significant subsidiary” within the meaning of Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the
Exchange Act have been made available to the Placement Agents and counsel for the Placement
Agents, and such books (i) contain a complete summary of all meetings and actions of the
board of directors (including each board committee) and stockholders of the Company, and
each of such subsidiaries since the time of its respective incorporation or organization
through the date of the latest meeting and action, and (ii) accurately in all material
respects reflect all transactions referred to in such minutes or written consents.
(gg) There is no franchise, lease, contract, agreement or document required by the
Securities Act or by the Rules and Regulations to be described in the General Disclosure
Package and in the Prospectus or a document incorporated by reference therein or to be filed
as an exhibit to the Registration Statement or a document incorporated by reference therein
which is not described or filed therein as required; and all descriptions of any such
franchises, leases, contracts, agreements or documents contained in the Registration
Statement or the General Disclosure Package or in any document incorporated by reference
therein are accurate and complete descriptions of such documents in all material respects.
Other than as described in the General Disclosure Package, no such franchise, lease,
contract or agreement has been suspended or terminated for convenience or default by the
Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of the other parties thereto, and neither the
Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received notice nor does the Company have any other
knowledge of any such pending or threatened suspension or termination, except for such
pending or threatened suspensions or terminations that would not reasonably be expected to,
singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
(hh) No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company and any
of its subsidiaries on the one hand, and the directors, officers, stockholders, customers or
suppliers of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their affiliates on the other
hand that is required to be described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus
or a document incorporated by reference therein and that is not so described.
(ii) No person or entity has the right to require registration of shares of Common
Stock or other securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries because of the filing or
effectiveness of the Registration Statement or otherwise, except for persons and entities
who have expressly waived such right in writing or who have been given timely and proper
written notice and have failed to exercise such right within the time or times required
under the terms and conditions of such right. Except as described in the General Disclosure
Package, there are no persons with registration rights or similar rights
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to have any securities registered for sale under the Registration Statement or to
include such securities in the Offering, except for such rights as have been duly waived.
(jj) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries own any “margin securities” as
that term is defined in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
(the “Federal Reserve Board”), and none of the proceeds of the sale of the Stock will be
used, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any margin security,
for the purpose of reducing or retiring any indebtedness which was originally incurred to
purchase or carry any margin security or for any other purpose which might cause any of the
Stock to be considered a “purpose credit” within the meanings of Regulation T, U or X of the
Federal Reserve Board.
(kk) Other than this Agreement, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a
party to any contract, agreement or understanding with any person that would give rise to a
valid claim against the Company or any Placement Agent for a brokerage commission, finder’s
fee or like payment in connection with the offering and sale of the Stock or any transaction
contemplated by this Agreement, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package
or the Prospectus.
(ll) No forward-looking statement (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities
Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act) contained in either the General Disclosure Package
or the Prospectus has been made or reaffirmed without a reasonable basis or has been
disclosed other than in good faith.
(mm) The Company is subject to and in compliance in all material respects with the
reporting requirements of Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act. The Common Stock
is registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and is listed on the Nasdaq GM,
and the Company has taken no action designed to, or reasonably likely to have the effect of,
terminating the registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act or delisting the
Common Stock from the Nasdaq GM, nor has the Company received any notification that the
Commission or FINRA is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. No consent,
approval, authorization or order of, or filing, notification or registration with, the
Nasdaq GM is required for the listing and trading of the shares of Common Stock on the
Nasdaq GM, except such as will have been obtained or made, as the case may be, prior to the
Closing Date.
(nn) The Company is in material compliance with all applicable provisions of the
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and all applicable rules and regulations promulgated thereunder
or implementing the provisions thereof (the “Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act”).
(oo) The Company is in material compliance with all applicable corporate governance
requirements set forth in the Nasdaq Global Marketplace Rules.
(pp) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the Company’s knowledge,
any employee or agent of the Company or any subsidiary, has (i) used any corporate funds for
unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses relating to
political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or
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domestic government officials or employees or to foreign or domestic political parties
or campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) violated any provision of the Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or (iv) made any other unlawful payment, or of the
character required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure
Package or the Prospectus or a document incorporated by reference therein.
(qq) There are no transactions, arrangements or other relationships between and/or
among the Company, any of its affiliates (as such term is defined in Rule 405 of the
Securities Act) and any unconsolidated entity, including, but not limited to, any structured
finance, special purpose or limited purpose entity that could reasonably be expected to
materially affect the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ liquidity or the availability of
or requirements for their capital resources, which transaction, arrangement or other
relationship is required to be described in the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus or any document incorporated by reference therein that has not been described as
required.
(rr) There are no outstanding loans, advances (except normal advances for business
expense in the ordinary course of business) or guarantees of indebtedness by the Company to
or for the benefit of any of the officers or directors of the Company, except as disclosed
in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus..
(ss) The statistical and market related data included in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that
the Company believes to be reliable and accurate, and such data agree with the sources from
which they are derived.
(tt) The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at
all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements
of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, applicable money
laundering statutes and applicable rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the
“Money Laundering Laws”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or
governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its
subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending, or to the Company
knowledge, threatened.
(uu) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the Company’s knowledge,
any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of
Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”); and the Company will not
directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the Offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise
make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or
entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any
U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.
(vv) The Company, within sixty (60) days of the date hereof, had a non-affiliate,
public common equity float of at least $100 million, annual trading volume of at
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least three million shares and has been subject to the Exchange Act reporting
requirements for a period of 36 months.
(ww) No approval of the stockholders of the Company under the rules and regulations of
Nasdaq (including Rule 5635 of the Nasdaq Global Marketplace Rules) is required for the
Company to issue and deliver to the Purchasers the Stock.
Any certificate signed by or on behalf of the Company and delivered to the Representative or
to counsel for the Placement Agents shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the
Company to the Placement Agents and the Purchasers as to the matters covered thereby.
4. The Closing. The time and date of closing and delivery of the documents
required to be delivered to the Placement Agents pursuant to Sections 5 and 7
hereof shall be at 10:00 A.M., New York time, on June 1, 2010 (the “Closing Date”) at the office of
Xxxxxx LLP, 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx, Esq.
5. Further Agreements of the Company. The Company agrees with the Placement
Agents and the Purchasers:
(a) To prepare the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if necessary, in a form approved
by the Representative and file such Rule 462(b) Registration Statement with the Commission
on the date hereof; to prepare the Prospectus in a form approved by the Representative
containing information previously omitted at the time of effectiveness of the Registration
Statement in reliance on rules 430A, 430B or 430C of the Rules and Regulations and to file
such Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations not later than the
second business (2nd) day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement
or, if applicable, such earlier time as may be required by Rule 430A of the Rules and
Regulations; to notify the Representative promptly of the Company’s intention to file or
prepare any supplement or amendment to any Registration Statement or to the Prospectus and
to make no amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure
Package or to the Prospectus to which the Representative shall reasonably object by notice
to the Company after a reasonable period to review; to advise the Representative, promptly
after it receives notice thereof, of the time when any amendment to any Registration
Statement has been filed or becomes effective or any supplement to the General Disclosure
Package or the Prospectus or any amended Prospectus has been filed and to furnish the
Representative with copies thereof; to file within the time periods prescribed by the
Exchange Act, including any extension thereof, all material required to be filed by the
Company with the Commission pursuant to Rules 433(d) or 163(b)(2) of the Rules and
Regulations, as the case may be; to file promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or
information statements required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to
Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of the
Prospectus and for so long as the delivery of a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice
referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Rules and Regulations) is required in connection with the
offering or sale of the Stock; to advise the Representative, promptly after it receives
notice thereof, of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of any order
preventing or
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suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or
the Prospectus, of the suspension of the qualification of the Stock for offering or sale in
any jurisdiction, of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose,
or of any request by the Commission for the amending or supplementing of the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or for additional information;
and, in the event of the issuance of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending
the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus
or suspending any such qualification, and promptly to use its best efforts to obtain the
withdrawal of such order.
(b) The Company represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the
Representative, it has not made and will not, make any offer relating to the Stock that
would constitute a “free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 405 of the Rules and
Regulations (each, a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus”); provided that the prior written
consent of the Representative hereto shall be deemed to have been given in respect of the
General Use Free Writing Prospectus, if any, included in Schedule A hereto. The
Company represents that it has treated and agrees that it will treat each Permitted Free
Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, comply with the requirements of
Rules 164 and 433 of the Rules and Regulations applicable to any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, including the requirements relating to timely filing with the Commission,
legending and record keeping and will not take any action that would result in any Placement
Agent or the Company being required to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) of
the Rules and Regulations a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of the
Placement Agents that such Placement Agent otherwise would not have been required to file
thereunder.
(c) If at any time when a Prospectus relating to the Stock is required to be delivered
under the Securities Act, any event occurs or condition exists as a result of which the
Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented, would include any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or the
Registration Statement, as then amended or supplemented, would include any untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein
not misleading, or if for any other reason it is necessary at any time to amend or
supplement any Registration Statement or the Prospectus or to file under the Exchange Act
any document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus to comply with the Securities Act
or the Exchange Act, the Company will promptly notify the Representative, and upon the
Representative’s request, the Company will promptly prepare and file with the Commission, at
the Company’s expense, an amendment to the Registration Statement or an amendment or
supplement to the Prospectus or make an appropriate filing under Section 13 or 14 of the
Exchange Act that corrects such statement or omission or effects such compliance and will
deliver to the Placement Agents, without charge, such number of copies thereof as the
Placement Agents may reasonably request. The Company consents to the use of the Prospectus
or any amendment or supplement thereto by the Placement Agents.
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(d) If the General Disclosure Package is being used to solicit offers to buy the Stock
at a time when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers and any event
shall occur as a result of which, in the judgment of the Company or in the reasonable
opinion of the Representative, it becomes necessary to amend or supplement the General
Disclosure Package in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or to make the statements therein
not conflict with the information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement then on file and not superseded or modified, or if it is necessary at any time to
amend or supplement the General Disclosure Package to comply with any law, the Company
promptly will either (i) prepare, file with the Commission (if required) and furnish to the
Placement Agents and any dealers an appropriate amendment or supplement to the General
Disclosure Package or (ii) prepare and file with the Commission an appropriate filing under
the Exchange Act which shall be incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package
so that the General Disclosure Package as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light
of the circumstances under which they were made, be misleading or conflict with the
Registration Statement then on file, or so that the General Disclosure Package will comply
with law.
(e) If at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in
connection with the Offering there occurred or occurs an event or development as a result of
which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or will conflict with the information
contained in the Registration Statement, Pricing Prospectus or Prospectus, including any
document incorporated by reference therein and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a part
thereof and not superseded or modified or included or would include an untrue statement of a
material fact or omitted or would omit to state a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, the Company has promptly notified
or will promptly notify the Representative so that any use of the Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus may cease until it is amended or supplemented and has promptly amended or will
promptly amend or supplement, at its own expense, such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to
eliminate or correct such conflict, untrue statement or omission. The foregoing sentence
does not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in
reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company through
the Representative by or on behalf of any Placement Agent specifically for inclusion
therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agents’
Information (as defined in Section 17).
(f) To furnish promptly to the Placement Agents and to counsel for the Placement
Agents, upon request, a signed copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed with
the Commission, and of each amendment thereto filed with the Commission, including all
consents and exhibits filed therewith.
(g) To the extent not available on the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis
and Retrieval (“XXXXX”) system or any successor system, to deliver promptly to the
Representative such number of the following documents as the Representative shall reasonably
request: (i) conformed copies of the Registration Statement as originally filed with the
Commission (in each case excluding exhibits), (ii)
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any Preliminary Prospectus, (iii) any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, (iv) the
Prospectus (the delivery of the documents referred to in clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
of this paragraph (g) to be made not later than 10:00 A.M., New York time, on the
business day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement), (v) conformed copies
of any amendment to the Registration Statement (excluding exhibits), (vi) any amendment or
supplement to the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (the delivery of the
documents referred to in clauses (v) and (vi) of this paragraph (g) to be made not
later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the business day following the date of such
amendment or supplement) and (vii) any document incorporated by reference in the General
Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (excluding exhibits thereto) (the delivery of the
documents referred to in clause (vi) of this paragraph (g) to be made not later than
10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the business day following the date of such document).
(h) To make generally available to its stockholders as soon as practicable, but in any
event not later than eighteen (18) months after the effective date of each Registration
Statement, an earning statement (as defined in Rule 158(c) of the Securities Act) of the
Company and its subsidiaries (which need not be audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the
Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations (including, at the option of the Company, Rule
158).
(i) The Company will promptly take from time to time such actions as the Representative
may reasonably request to qualify the Stock for offering and sale under the securities or
Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions (domestic or foreign) as the Representative may
designate and to continue such qualifications in effect for so long as required for the
distribution of the Securities; provided that the Company and its subsidiaries shall not be
obligated to qualify as foreign corporations in any jurisdiction in which they are not so
qualified or to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction.
(j) Upon request, during the period of five years from the date hereof, the Company
will deliver to the Placement Agents, (i) upon request, copies of all reports or other
communications furnished to stockholders and (ii) upon request, copies of any reports and
financial statements furnished or filed with the Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act or
any national securities exchange or automatic quotation system on which the Stock is listed
or quoted; however, so long as the Company is subject to the reporting requirements of
either Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act and is timely filing reports with the
Commission on XXXXX, it is not required to furnish such reports or statements to the
Placement Agents.
(k) That the Company will not, for a period of ninety (90) days from the date of this
Agreement, (the “Lock-Up Period”) without the prior written consent of the Representative,
directly or indirectly offer, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, contract to sell, or otherwise
dispose of, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or
exchangeable for Common Stock, other than (i) the Company’s sale of the Stock hereunder,
(ii) the issuance of restricted Common Stock or options to acquire Common Stock pursuant to
the Company’s employee benefit plans, qualified stock
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option plans or other employee compensation plans as such plans are in existence on the
date hereof and described in the Prospectus, (iii) the issuance of Common Stock pursuant to
the valid exercises of options, warrants or rights outstanding on the date hereof, and (iv)
the issuance of Common Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable
for Common Stock (and the issuance of Common Stock pursuant to the terms of such securities
convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock) in connection with
strategic transactions involving the Company and other entities, including without
limitation, (A) joint venture, licensing, collaboration, manufacturing, development,
marketing, co-promotion or distribution arrangements or (B) technology transfers or
development arrangements, except that any such issuances of securities under this sub-clause
(iv) shall be limited to an aggregate of 5% of the Company’s outstanding shares of Common
Stock. The Company will cause each executive officer and director listed in Schedule
B to furnish to the Representative, prior to the Closing Date, a letter, substantially
in the form of Exhibit B hereto. The Company also agrees that during such period,
the Company will not file any registration statement, preliminary prospectus or prospectus,
or any amendment or supplement thereto, under the Securities Act for any such transaction or
which registers, or offers for sale, Common Stock or any securities convertible into or
exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, except for a registration statement on Form
S-8 relating to employee benefit plans. The Company hereby agrees that (i) if it issues an
earnings release or material news, or if a material event relating to the Company occurs,
during the last seventeen (17) days of the Lock-Up Period, or (ii) if prior to the
expiration of the Lock-Up Period, the Company announces that it will release earnings
results during the sixteen (16)-day period beginning on the last day of the Lock-Up Period,
unless waived by the Representative, the restrictions imposed by this paragraph (k)
or the letter shall continue to apply until the expiration of the eighteen (18)-day period
beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the material news or
material event, as applicable, except that such extension will not apply if, (x) the shares
of Common Stock are “actively traded securities” (as defined in Regulation M), (y) the
Company meets the applicable requirements of paragraph (a)(1) of Rule 139 under the
Securities Act in the manner contemplated by FINRA’s NASD Conduct Rule 2711(f)(4), and (z)
the provisions of FINRA’s NASD Conduct Rule 2711(f)(4) do not restrict the publishing or
distribution of any research reports relating to the Company during the 15 days before or
after the last day of the Lock-up Period (before giving effect to such extension).
(l) To supply the Representative with copies of all correspondence to and from, and all
documents issued to and by, the Commission in connection with the registration of the Stock
under the Securities Act.
(m) Prior to the Closing Date, to furnish to the Representative, promptly after they
have been prepared, copies of any unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of the
Company for any periods subsequent to the periods covered by the financial statements
appearing in or incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus.
(n) Prior to the Closing Date, not to issue any press release or other communication
directly or indirectly or hold any press conference with respect to the
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Company, its condition, financial or otherwise, or earnings, business affairs or
business prospects (except for routine oral marketing communications in the ordinary course
of business and consistent with the past practices of the Company and of which the
Representative is notified in advance), without the prior written consent of the
Representative, unless in the judgment of the Company and its counsel, and after
notification to the Representative, such press release or communication is required by law.
(o) Until the Representative shall have notified the Company of the completion of the
Offering, the Company will not, and will cause its affiliated purchasers (as defined in
Regulation M under the Exchange Act) not to, either alone or with one or more other persons,
bid for or purchase, for any account in which it or any of its affiliated purchasers has a
beneficial interest, any Stock, or attempt to induce any person to purchase any Stock; and
not to, and to cause its affiliated purchasers not to, make bids or purchase for the purpose
of creating actual, or apparent, active trading in or of raising the price of the Stock.
(p) Not to take any action prior to the Closing Date that would require the Prospectus
to be amended or supplemented pursuant to Section 5.
(q) To at all times comply with all applicable provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act in
effect from time to time.
(r) To apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Stock as set forth in the Prospectus
under the heading “Use of Proceeds.”
(s) To use its best efforts to list, effect and maintain, subject to notice of
issuance, the Common Stock on the Nasdaq GM.
(t) To use its best efforts to do and perform all things required to be done or
performed under this Agreement by the Company prior to the Closing Date and to satisfy all
conditions precedent to the delivery of the Stock.
6. Payment of Expenses . The Company agrees to pay, or reimburse if paid by the Placement Agents, whether or not the
transactions contemplated hereby are consummated or this Agreement is terminated: (a) the costs
incident to the authorization, issuance, sale, preparation and delivery of the Stock to the
Purchasers and any taxes payable in that connection; (b) the costs incident to the registration of
the Stock under the Securities Act; (c) the costs incident to the preparation, printing and
distribution of the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any amendments,
supplements and exhibits thereto or any document incorporated by reference therein and the costs of
printing, reproducing and distributing any transaction document by mail, telex or other means of
communications; (d) the reasonable and documented fees and expenses (including related fees and
expenses of counsel for the Placement Agents) incurred in connection with securing any required
review by FINRA of the terms of the sale of the Stock and any filings made with FINRA, if any; (e)
any applicable listing, quotation or other fees; (f) the reasonable and documented fees and
expenses (including related fees and expenses
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of counsel to the Placement Agents) of qualifying the Stock under the securities laws of the
several jurisdictions as provided in Section 5(i) and of preparing, printing and
distributing wrappers, Blue Sky Memoranda and Legal Investment Surveys (if any); (g) the cost of
preparing and printing stock certificates; (h) all fees and expenses of the registrar and transfer
agent of the Stock, (i) the reasonable and documented fees, disbursements and expenses of counsel
to the Placement Agents and (j) all other costs and expenses incident to the Offering by, or the
performance of the obligations of, the Company under this Agreement (including, without limitation,
the fees and expenses of the Company’s counsel and the Company’s independent accountants and the
travel and other expenses actually incurred by Company and the Placement Agents’ personnel in
connection with any “road show” including, without limitation, any expenses advanced by the
Placement Agents on the Company’s behalf (which will be promptly reimbursed)); provided, however,
that notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be obligated to pay any such fees, costs,
expenses and disbursements to the Placement Agents and/or its counsel in excess of $75,000 in the
aggregate; provided further that, except to the extent otherwise provided in this Section 6 and in
Section 10, the Placement Agents shall pay their own costs and expenses, including the fees and
expenses of its counsel and the expenses of advertising any offering of the Stock made by the
Placement Agents.
7. Conditions to the Obligations of the Placement Agents and the Purchasers, and
the Sale of the Stock . The respective obligations of the Placement Agents hereunder and the Purchasers under the
Subscription Agreements, and the Closing of the sale of the Stock, are subject to the accuracy,
when made and as of the Applicable Time and on the Closing Date, of the representations and
warranties of the Company contained herein, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company made
in any certificates pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of its
obligations hereunder, and to each of the following additional terms and conditions:
(a) The Registration Statement is effective under the Securities Act, and no stop order
suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, preventing
or suspending the use of any Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or
any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus or any part thereof shall have been issued and no
proceedings for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A under the Securities Act shall have
been initiated or threatened by the Commission, and all requests for additional information
on the part of the Commission (to be included or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Representative; the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if
any, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and the Prospectus shall have been filed with the
Commission within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by, and in
compliance with, the Rules and Regulations and in accordance with Section 5(a), and
the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, shall have become effective immediately upon
its filing with the Commission; and, if applicable, FINRA shall have raised no objection to
the fairness and reasonableness of the terms of this Agreement or the transactions
contemplated hereby.
(b) The Placement Agents shall not have discovered and disclosed to the Company on or
prior to the Closing Date that the Registration Statement or any
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amendment or supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of a fact that, in the
opinion of counsel for the Placement Agents, is material or omits to state any fact which,
in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is required to be stated therein or is
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or that the General Disclosure
Package, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement
thereto contains an untrue statement of fact that, in the opinion of such counsel, is
material or omits to state any fact that, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is
necessary in order to make the statements, in the light of the circumstances in which they
were made, not misleading.
(c) All corporate proceedings and other legal matters incident to the authorization,
form and validity of each of this Agreement, the Subscription Agreements, the Stock, the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus,
if any, and the Prospectus and all other legal matters relating to this Agreement and the
transactions contemplated hereby shall be reasonably satisfactory in all material respects
to counsel for the Placement Agents, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel
all documents and information that they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon
such matters.
(d) Xxxxxx LLP shall have furnished to the Representative, such counsel’s written
opinion and negative assurances letter, as counsel to the Company, each addressed to the
Placement Agents and dated the Closing Date, in the form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Representative.
(e) Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Lodge & Hutz LLP, special intellectual property counsel to the
Company, shall have furnished to the Representative such counsel’s written opinion,
addressed to the Placement Agents and dated the Closing Date, in the form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Representative.
(f) The Representative shall have received from Proskauer Rose LLP, counsel for the
Placement Agents, such opinion or opinions, addressed to the Placement Agents dated the
Closing Date, with respect to such matters as the Representative may reasonably require, and
the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they reasonably request
for enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(g) At the time of the execution of this Agreement, the Representative shall have
received from Ernst & Young LLP, a letter, addressed to the Placement Agents, executed and
dated such date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative (i) confirming
that they are an independent registered accounting firm with respect to the Company and its
subsidiaries within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and the
PCAOB and (ii) stating the conclusions and findings of such firm, of the type ordinarily
included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters, with respect to the financial
statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
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(h) On the effective date of any post-effective amendment to any Registration Statement
and on the Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a letter (the “Bring-Down
Letter”) from Ernst & Young LLP addressed to the Placement Agents and dated the Closing Date
confirming, as of the date of the Bring-Down Letter (or, with respect to matters involving
changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial
information is given in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, as the case may
be, as of a date not more than three (3) business days prior to the date of the Bring-Down
Letter), the conclusions and findings of such firm, of the type ordinarily included in
accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters, with respect to the financial information
and other matters covered by its letter delivered to the Representative concurrently with
the execution of this Agreement pursuant to paragraph (g) of this Section 7.
(i) The Company shall have furnished to the Representative a certificate, dated the
Closing Date, of its Chief Executive Officer or President and its Vice President, Finance
and Operations stating in their capacities as officers of the Company that (i) such officers
have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, any
Permitted Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and, in their opinion, the Registration
Statement and each amendment thereto, at the Applicable Time and as of the date of this
Agreement and as of the Closing Date did not include any untrue statement of a material fact
and did not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make
the statements therein not misleading, and the General Disclosure Package, as of the
Applicable Time and as of the Closing Date, any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as of its
date and as of the Closing Date, the Prospectus and each amendment or supplement thereto, as
of the respective date thereof and as of the Closing Date, did not include any untrue
statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact necessary in order to
make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances in which they were made, not
misleading, (ii) since the effective date of the initial Registration Statement, no event
has occurred that should have been set forth in a supplement or amendment to the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus that was not so set
forth therein, (iii) to the best of their knowledge, as of the Closing Date, the
representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct in all
material respects, (except that any such representation and warranty shall be true and
correct in all respects where such representation and warranty is qualified with respect to
materiality), and the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions
on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date, and (iv)
there has not been, subsequent to the date of the most recent audited financial statements
included or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package, any material
adverse change in the financial position or results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries taken as a whole, or any change or development that, singularly or in the
aggregate, would reasonably be expected to involve a material adverse change or a
prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise),
results of operations, business, assets or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries
taken as a whole, except as set forth in the Prospectus.
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(j) Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the General
Disclosure Package or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package as of the
date hereof, (i) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall have sustained any
loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity,
whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental
action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth in the General Disclosure Package, and
(ii) there shall not have been any change in the capital stock (other than issuance of
options in the ordinary course of business and pursuant to the Company’s stock option plans
described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or Common Stock issued
pursuant to the exercise of warrants or upon the exercise of stock options previously
outstanding under the Company’s stock option plans and the issuance of Common Stock pursuant
to employee stock purchase plans) or long-term debt of the Company nor any of its
subsidiaries, or any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or
affecting the business, general affairs, management, financial position, stockholders’
equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, otherwise than as set
forth in the General Disclosure Package, the effect of which, in any such case described in
clause (i) or (ii) of this paragraph (j), is, in the judgment of the Representative, so
material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale or
delivery of the Stock on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the General Disclosure
Package.
(k) No action shall have been taken and no law, statute, rule, regulation or order
shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any governmental agency or body which would
prevent the issuance or sale of the Stock or materially and adversely affect or potentially
materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole; and no injunction, restraining order or order of any other
nature by any federal or state court of competent jurisdiction shall have been issued which
would prevent the issuance or sale of the Stock or materially and adversely affect or
potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company and
its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(l) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement there shall not have
occurred any of the following: (i) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock
Exchange, Nasdaq GM or the NYSE Amex LLC or in the over-the-counter market, or trading in
any securities of the Company on any exchange or in the over-the-counter market, shall have
been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or maximum prices or maximum range for
prices shall have been established on any such exchange or such market by the Commission, by
such exchange or market or by any other regulatory body or governmental authority having
jurisdiction, (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared by Federal or state
authorities or a material disruption has occurred in commercial banking or securities
settlement or clearance services in the United States, (iii) the United States shall have
become engaged in hostilities, or the subject of an act of terrorism, or there shall have
been an outbreak of or escalation in hostilities involving the United States, or there shall
have been a declaration of a national emergency or war by the United States or (iv) there
shall have occurred such a material adverse change in general economic, political or
financial conditions (or the effect of international conditions on the financial markets in
the United States shall be such) as to make it, in the
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judgment of the Representative, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale
or delivery of the Stock on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(m) The Company shall have filed an Application for Listing of Additional Shares
covering the Shares with the Nasdaq GM and the Nasdaq GM shall not have rejected such
Application.
(n) The Placement Agents shall have received the written agreements, substantially in
the form of Exhibit B hereto, of the executive officers and directors of the Company
listed in Schedule B to this Agreement.
(o) The Company shall have entered into Subscription Agreements with each of the
Purchasers and such agreements shall be in full force and effect.
(p) The Company shall have prepared and filed with the Commission a Current Report on
Form 8-K with respect to the Offering, which shall include as an exhibit thereto this
Agreement and the Subscription Agreement.
(q) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Placement
Agents such further information, opinions, certificates, letters or documents as the
Representative shall have reasonably requested.
All opinions, letters, evidence and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this
Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in form
and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Placement Agents.
8. Indemnification and Contribution.
(a) The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless each Placement Agent, each of its
affiliates and each of its and their respective directors, officers, members, employees,
representatives and agents (including, without limitation Lazard Frères & Co. LLC, which
will provide services to LCM, and its affiliates, and each of its and their respective
directors, officers, members, employees, representatives and agents and each person, if any,
who controls Lazard Frères & Co. LLC within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act
or Section 20 of the Exchange Act) and each person, if any, who controls such Placement
Agent within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange
Act (collectively the “Placement Agent Indemnified Parties,” and each a “Placement Agent
Indemnified Party”) against any loss, claim, damage, expense or liability whatsoever (or any
action, investigation or proceeding in respect thereof), joint or several, to which such
Placement Agent Indemnified Party may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise,
insofar as such loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding
arises out of or is based upon (A) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a
material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus,
any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules
and Regulations, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or
supplement thereto or document incorporated by reference therein, (B) the omission or
alleged omission to
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state in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer
information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and
Regulations, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement
thereto or document incorporated by reference therein, a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein in light of (other than in the case of
any Registration Statement) the circumstances under which they are made not misleading, or
(C) any breach of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein or the
failure of the Company to perform its obligations hereunder or pursuant to any law, any act
or failure to act, or any alleged act or failure to act, by any Placement Agent in
connection with, or relating in any manner to, the Stock or the Offering, and which is
included as part of or referred to in any loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action,
investigation or proceeding arising out of or based upon matters covered by subclause (A),
(B) or (C) above of this Section 8(a) (provided that the Company shall not be liable
in the case of any matter covered by this subclause (C) to the extent that it is determined
in a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction that such loss, claim, damage,
expense or liability resulted primarily from any such act, or failure to act, undertaken or
omitted to be taken by any Placement Agent through its gross negligence or willful
misconduct), and shall reimburse each Placement Agent Indemnified Party promptly upon demand
for any legal fees or other expenses reasonably incurred by that Placement Agent Indemnified
Party in connection with investigating, or preparing to defend, or defending against, or
appearing as a third party witness in respect of, or otherwise incurred in connection with,
any such loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding, as
such fees and 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, expense or liability
arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement in, or
omission or alleged omission from any Preliminary Prospectus, any Registration Statement or
the Prospectus, or any such amendment or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the
Company through the Representative by or on behalf of any Placement Agent specifically for
use therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agents’
Information (as defined in Section 17). The indemnity agreement in this Section
8(a) is not exclusive and is and will be in addition to any liability, which the Company
might otherwise have and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be
available at law or in equity to each Placement Agent Indemnified Party.
(b) Each Placement Agent, severally and not jointly, shall indemnify and hold harmless
the Company and its directors, its officers who signed the Registration Statement and each
person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities
Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (collectively the “Company Indemnified Parties” and
each a “Company Indemnified Party”) against any loss, claim, damage, expense or liability
whatsoever (or any action, investigation or proceeding in respect thereof), joint or
several, to which such Company Indemnified Party may become subject, under the Securities
Act or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action,
investigation or proceeding arises out of or is based upon (i) any untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer
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information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and
Regulations, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement
thereto, or (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state in any Preliminary Prospectus,
any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed
pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations, any Registration Statement or the
Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto, a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein in light of (other than in the case of
any Registration Statement) the circumstances under which they are made not misleading, but
in each case only to the extent that the untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or
omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written
information furnished to the Company through the Representative by or on behalf of any
Placement Agent specifically for use therein, which information the parties hereto agree is
limited to the Placement Agents’ Information (as defined in Section 17), and shall
reimburse the Company Indemnified Parties for any legal or other expenses reasonably
incurred by such party in connection with investigating or preparing to defend or defending
against or appearing as third party witness in connection with any such loss, claim, damage,
liability, action, investigation or proceeding, as such fees and expenses are incurred.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 8(b), in no event shall any indemnity
by any Placement Agent under this Section 8(b) exceed the total compensation
received by such Placement Agent in accordance with Section 2.5. This indemnity
agreement is not exclusive and will be in addition to any liability which any Placement
Agent might otherwise have and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be
available under this Agreement, at law or in equity to the Company Indemnified Parties.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 8 of
notice of the commencement of any action, the indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect
thereof is to be made against an indemnifying party under this Section 8, notify
such indemnifying party in writing of 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 8 except to the extent it has been materially
prejudiced by such failure; and, provided, further, that the failure to notify an
indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have to an
indemnified party otherwise than under this Section 8. If any such 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
of such action with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party (which counsel
shall not, except with the written consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the
indemnifying party). After notice from the indemnifying party to the indemnified party of
its election to assume the defense of such action, except as provided herein, the
indemnifying party shall not be liable to the indemnified party under Section 8 for
any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by the indemnified party in connection
with the defense of such action other than reasonable costs of investigation; provided,
however, that any indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any
such action and to participate in the defense of such action but the fees and expenses of
such counsel (other than reasonable costs of investigation) shall be at the
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expense of such indemnified party unless (i) the employment thereof has been
specifically authorized in writing by the Company in the case of a claim for indemnification
under Section 8(a) or Section 2.6 or the Representative in the case of a
claim for indemnification under Section 8(b), (ii) such indemnified party shall have
been advised by its counsel that there may be one or more legal defenses available to it
which are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, or
(iii) the indemnifying party has failed to assume the defense of such action and employ
counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party within a reasonable period of time
after notice of the commencement of the action or the indemnifying party does not diligently
defend the action after assumption of the defense, in which case, if such indemnified party
notifies the indemnifying party in writing that it elects to employ separate counsel at the
expense of the indemnifying party, the indemnifying party shall not have the right to assume
the defense of (or, in the case of a failure to diligently defend the action after
assumption of the defense, to continue to defend) such action on behalf of such indemnified
party and the indemnifying party shall be responsible for legal or other expenses
subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense of such
action; provided, however, that the indemnifying party shall not, in connection with any one
such action or separate but substantially similar or related actions in the same
jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances, be liable for the
reasonable fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys at any time for all
such indemnified parties (in addition to any local counsel), which firm shall be designated
in writing by the Representative if the indemnified parties under this Section 8
consist of any Placement Agent Indemnified Party or by the Company if the indemnified
parties under this Section 8 consist of any Company Indemnified Parties. Subject to
this Section 8(c), the amount payable by an indemnifying party under Section
8 shall include, but not be limited to, (x) reasonable legal fees and expenses of
counsel to the indemnified party and any other expenses in investigating, or preparing to
defend or defending against, or appearing as a third party witness in respect of, or
otherwise incurred in connection with, any action, investigation, proceeding or claim, and
(y) all amounts paid in settlement of any of the foregoing. No indemnifying party shall,
without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or
consent to the entry of judgment with respect to any pending or threatened action or any
claim whatsoever, in respect of which indemnification or contribution could be sought under
this Section 8 (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential
parties thereto), unless such settlement, compromise or consent (i) includes an
unconditional release of each indemnified party in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to such indemnified party from all liability arising out of such action or
claim and (ii) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a
failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party. Subject to the provisions of the
following sentence, no indemnifying party shall be liable for settlement of any pending or
threatened action or any claim whatsoever that is effected without its written consent
(which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), but if settled with its
written consent, if its consent has been unreasonably withheld or delayed or if there be a
judgment for the plaintiff in any such matter, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify
and hold harmless any indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by reason of
such settlement or judgment. In addition, if at any time an indemnified party shall have
requested that an
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indemnifying party reimburse the indemnified party for reasonable fees and expenses of
counsel, such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of the
nature contemplated herein effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is
entered into more than forty-five (45) days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the
request for reimbursement, (ii) such indemnifying party shall have received notice of the
terms of such settlement at least thirty (30) days prior to such settlement being entered
into and (iii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed such indemnified party in
accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement.
(d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 8 is unavailable or
insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under Section 8(a) or Section
8(b), then each indemnifying party shall, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified
party, contribute to the amount paid, payable or otherwise incurred by such indemnified
party as a result of such loss, claim, damage, expense or liability (or any action,
investigation or proceeding in respect thereof), as incurred, (i) in such proportion as
shall be appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one
hand and the Placement Agents on the other hand from the Offering, or (ii) if the allocation
provided by clause (i) of this Section 8(d) is not permitted by applicable law, in such
proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause
(i) of this Section 8(d) but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand
and the Placement Agents on the other with respect to the statements, omissions, acts or
failures to act which resulted in such loss, claim, damage, expense or liability (or any
action, investigation or proceeding in respect thereof) as well as any other relevant
equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and
the Placement Agents 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 (before deducting expenses)
received by the Company bear to the total Placement Fee received by the Placement Agents in
connection with the Offering, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover page of
the Prospectus. The relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Placement Agents
on the other shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or
alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a
material fact relates to information supplied by the Company on the one hand or the
Placement Agents on the other, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge,
access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement, omission,
act or failure to act; provided that the parties hereto agree that the written information
furnished to the Company by the Representative by and on behalf of the Placement Agents for
use in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any
amendment or supplement thereto, consists solely of the Placement Agents’ Information as
defined in Section 17. The Company and the Placement Agents agree that it would not
be just and equitable if contributions pursuant to this Section 8(d) were to be
determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation that does not take
into account the equitable considerations referred to herein. The amount paid or payable by
an indemnified party as a result of the loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action,
investigation or proceeding referred to above in this Section 8(d) shall be deemed
to include, for purposes of this Section 8(d), any legal or other expenses
reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating, preparing to
defend or defending against or appearing as a third party
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witness in respect of, or otherwise incurred in connection with, any such loss, claim,
damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding. Notwithstanding the
provisions of this Section 8(d), no Placement Agent shall be required to contribute
any amount in excess of the total compensation received by such Placement Agent in
accordance with Section 2.5 less the amount of any damages which such Placement
Agent has otherwise paid or become liable to pay by reason of any untrue or alleged untrue
statement, omission or alleged omission, act or alleged act or failure to act or alleged
failure to act. 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 Placement Agents’ obligations to
contribute as provided in this Section 8(d) are several in proportion to the amount
of the Placement Fee received by each of them and not joint.
9. Termination . The obligations of the Placement Agents and the Purchasers hereunder and under the
Subscription Agreements may be terminated by the Representative, in its absolute discretion by
notice given to the Company prior to delivery of and payment for the Stock if, prior to that time,
any of the events described in Section (7j), Section 7(k) or Section 7(l)
have occurred or if the Purchasers shall decline to purchase the Stock for any reason permitted
under this Agreement or the Subscription Agreements.
10. Reimbursement of Placement Agents’ Expenses . Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if (a) this Agreement shall
have been terminated pursuant to Section 9, (b) the Company shall fail to tender the Stock
for delivery to the Purchasers for any reason not permitted under this Agreement, (c) the
Purchasers shall decline to purchase the Stock for any reason permitted under this Agreement or (d)
the sale of the Stock is not consummated because any condition to the obligations of the Purchasers
or the Placement Agents set forth herein is not satisfied or because of the refusal, inability or
failure on the part of the Company to perform any agreement herein or to satisfy any condition or
to comply with the provisions hereof, then in addition to the payment of amounts in accordance with
Section 6, the Company shall reimburse the Placement Agents for the fees and expenses of
the Placement Agents’ counsel and for such other accountable out-of-pocket expenses as shall have
been reasonably incurred by them in connection with this Agreement and the proposed purchase of the
Stock, and upon demand the Company shall pay the full amount thereof to the Placement Agents.
11. Authority of the Representative . Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. (“Piper”) consents and agree that LCM will act as Representative of the
Placement Agents under this Agreement and with respect to the sale of the Stock. Accordingly,
Piper authorizes LCM to manage the Offering and the sale of the Stock and to take such action in
connection therewith as LCM in its sole discretion deems appropriate or desirable, consistent with
the provisions of each Agreement Among Underwriters previously entered into between LCM and Piper,
respectively, taking into account that the Offering will be in the form of a best efforts placement
and not a firm commitment underwriting. Piper agrees to comply with such Agreement Among
Underwriters and that any action taken under this Agreement by the Representative shall be binding
upon all of the Placement Agents.
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12.
Absence of Fiduciary Relationship . The Company acknowledges and agrees that:
(a) the Placement Agents’ responsibility to the Company is solely contractual in
nature, the Placement Agents have been retained solely to act as placement agents in
connection with the Offering and no fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship between the
Company and the Placement Agents has been created in respect of any of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, irrespective of whether the Placement Agents or Lazard
Frères & Co. LLC have advised or are advising the Company on other matters;
(b) the price of the Stock set forth in this Agreement was established by the Company
following discussions and arms-length negotiations with the Placement Agents, and the
Company is capable of evaluating and understanding, and understands and accepts, the terms,
risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;
(c) it has been advised that the Placement Agents and Lazard Frères & Co. LLC and their
affiliates are engaged in a broad range of transactions which may involve interests that
differ from those of the Company and that the Placement Agents have no obligation to
disclose such interests and transactions to the Company by virtue of any fiduciary, advisory
or agency relationship; and
(d) it waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims it may have against
the Placement Agents for breach of fiduciary duty or alleged breach of fiduciary duty and
agrees that the Placement Agents shall have no liability (whether direct or indirect) to the
Company in respect of such a fiduciary duty claim or to any person asserting a fiduciary
duty claim on behalf of or in right of the Company, including stockholders, employees or
creditors of the Company.
13. Successors; Persons Entitled to Benefit of Agreement. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Placement Agents, the
Company, and their respective successors and assigns. This Agreement shall also inure to the
benefit of Lazard Frères & Co. LLC, the Purchasers, and each of their respective successors and
assigns, which shall be third party beneficiaries hereof. As provided in the Subscription
Agreements, the determination as to whether any condition in Section 7 hereof shall have
been satisfied, and the waiver of any condition in Section 7 hereof, may be made by the
Representative in its sole discretion, and any such determination or waiver shall be binding on
each of the Purchasers and shall not require the consent of any Purchaser. Nothing expressed or
mentioned in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person, other than the
persons mentioned in the preceding sentences, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under
or in respect of this Agreement, or any provisions herein contained, this Agreement and all
conditions and provisions hereof being intended to be and being for the sole and exclusive benefit
of such persons and for the benefit of no other person; except that the representations,
warranties, covenants, agreements and indemnities of the Company contained in this Agreement shall
also be for the benefit of the Placement Agent Indemnified Parties and the indemnities of each
Placement Agent shall be for the benefit of the Company Indemnified Parties. It is understood
that the Placement Agents’ responsibility to the Company is solely contractual in nature and
the
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Placement Agents do not owe the Company, or any other party, any fiduciary duty as a result of
this Agreement. No Purchaser shall be deemed to be a successor or assign by reason merely of such
purchase.
14. Survival of Indemnities, Representations, Warranties, etc. The respective indemnities, covenants, agreements, representations, warranties and other
statements of the Company and the Placement Agents, as set forth in this Agreement or made by them
respectively, pursuant to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any
investigation made by or on behalf of the Placement Agents, the Company, the Purchasers or any
person controlling any of them and shall survive delivery of and payment for the Stock; provided,
however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to the Purchasers, such survivability
shall be limited as set forth in the Subscription Agreements. Notwithstanding any termination of
this Agreement, including without limitation any termination pursuant to Sections 9 or
10, the indemnity and contribution agreements contained in Section 8 and the
covenants, representations, warranties set forth in this Agreement shall not terminate and shall
remain in full force and effect at all times.
Notices. All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall be in writing, and:
(a) if to the Placement Agent, shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex, facsimile
transmission or email to Lazard Capital Markets LLC, 00 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx
Xxxx 00000, Attention: General Counsel, Fax: 000-000-0000; and
(b) if to the Company, shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex, facsimile
transmission or overnight courier to Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx
000, Xxx Xxxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxx, Senior Vice President, Legal
Affairs and General Counsel, Fax: (858) , 000-0000, with a copy to Xxxxxx LLP, 0000 Xxxxxxxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx, Esq.;
provided, however, that any notice to any Placement Agent pursuant to Section 8 shall be
delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to such Placement Agent at its address
set forth in its acceptance telex to the Placement Agents, which address will be supplied to any
other party hereto by the Representative upon request. Any such statements, requests, notices or
agreements shall take effect at the time of receipt thereof, except that any such statement,
request, notice or agreement delivered or sent by email shall take effect at the time of
confirmation of receipt thereof by the recipient thereof.
15. Definition of Certain Terms. For purposes of this Agreement, (a) “business day” means any day on which the New York
Stock Exchange, Inc. is open for trading, (b) “knowledge” means the knowledge of the officers of
the Company after reasonable inquiry and (c) “subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 of
the Rules and Regulations.
16. Governing Law, Agent for Service and Jurisdiction. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State
of New York, including without limitation Section 5-1401 of the New York General Obligations Law.
No legal proceeding may be commenced, prosecuted or continued in any court other than the courts
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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 and the Placement Agents each hereby consent to the
jurisdiction of such courts and personal service with respect thereto. The Company and the
Placement Agents each hereby consent to personal jurisdiction, service and venue in any court in
which any legal proceeding arising out of or in any way relating to this Agreement is brought by
any third party against the Company or the Placement Agents. The Company and the Placement Agents
each hereby waive all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding (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 legal proceeding brought in any such court shall be conclusive
and binding upon the Company and the Placement Agents 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.
17. Placement Agents’ Information. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that, for all purposes of this Agreement, the
Placement Agents’ Information consists solely of the following information in the Prospectus: (i)
the last paragraph on the front cover page concerning the terms of the offering by the Placement
Agents; and (ii) the statements concerning the Placement Agents contained in the first and seventh
paragraphs under the heading “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus Supplement.
18. Partial Unenforceability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any section, paragraph, clause or provision of this
Agreement shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other section, paragraph, clause
or provision hereof. If any section, paragraph, clause or provision of this Agreement is for any
reason determined to be invalid or unenforceable, there shall be deemed to be made such minor
changes (and only such minor changes) as are necessary to make it valid and enforceable.
19. General. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties to this Agreement and
supersedes all prior written or oral and all contemporaneous oral agreements, understandings and
negotiations with respect to the subject matter hereof. In this Agreement, the masculine, feminine
and neuter genders and the singular and the plural include one another. The section headings in
this Agreement are for the convenience of the parties only and will not affect the construction or
interpretation of this Agreement. This Agreement may be amended or modified, and the observance of
any term of this Agreement may be waived, only by a writing signed by the Company and the Placement
Agents.
20. Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an
original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same
instrument and such signatures may be delivered by facsimile or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf”
format data file.
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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of the agreement between the Company
and the Placement Agents, kindly indicate your acceptance in the space provided for that purpose
below.
Very truly yours, ANADYS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
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By: | /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx | |||
Title: | Vice President, Finance and Operations | |||
[Signature Page to Anadys Placement Agent Agreement]
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Accepted as of the date first above written: LAZARD CAPITAL MARKETS LLC |
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By: | /s/ Xxxxx X. XxXxxxxx, Xx. | |||
Name: Xxxxx X. XxXxxxxx, Xx. | ||||
Title: Managing Director | ||||
[Signature Page to Anadys Placement Agent Agreement]
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XXXXX XXXXXXX & CO. |
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By: | /s/ Stuart Duty | |||
Name: Stuart Duty | ||||
Title: Managing Director | ||||
[Signature Page to Anadys Placement Agent Agreement]
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SCHEDULE A
General Use Free Writing Prospectuses
None.
SCHEDULE B
List of officers and directors subject to Section 5
Directors
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxx
Section 16 Officers
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxx
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxx
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
EXHIBIT A
Form of Subscription Agreement
Exhibit B
Form of Lock Up Agreement
May 25, 2010
LAZARD CAPITAL MARKETS LLC
as Representative of the several Placement Agents
0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Re: Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. — Registered Offering of Common Stock
Dear Sirs:
This Agreement is being delivered to you in connection with the proposed Placement Agent
Agreement (the “Placement Agent Agreement”) among Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the “Company”) and Lazard Capital Markets LLC (“LCM” or the “Representative”) as
Representative of the several placement agents (the “Placement Agents”), relating to the proposed
offering of shares of the common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), and
possibly warrants to acquire Common Stock, of the Company.
In order to induce you to enter into the Placement Agent Agreement, and in light of the
benefits that the offering of the Common Stock will confer upon the undersigned in his or her
capacity as a security holder and/or an officer, director or employee of the Company, and for good
and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the
undersigned agrees with the Placement Agents that, during the period beginning on and including the
date of the Placement Agent Agreement through and including the date that is the 90th day after the
date of the Placement Agent Agreement (the “Lock-Up Period”), the undersigned will not, without the
prior written consent of LCM, directly or indirectly, (i) offer, sell, assign, transfer, pledge,
contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of, or announce the intention to otherwise dispose of, any
Common Stock (including, without limitation, Common Stock which may be deemed to be beneficially
owned by the undersigned in accordance with the rules and regulations promulgated under the
Securities Act of 1933, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time (such shares,
the “Beneficially Owned Shares”)) or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for
Common Stock; (ii) enter into any swap, hedge or similar agreement or arrangement that transfers in
whole or in part, the economic risk of ownership of the Beneficially Owned Shares or securities
convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, whether now owned or hereafter
acquired by the undersigned or with respect to which the undersigned has or hereafter acquires the
power of disposition, or (iii) engage in any short selling of the Common Stock or securities
convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock. To the extent you are at such
time providing research coverage to the Company and subject to the restrictions set forth in FINRA
Rule 2711(f)(4), then if (i) the Company issues an earnings release or material news or a material
event relating to the Company occurs during the last 17 days of the Lock-Up Period, or (ii) prior
to the expiration of the Lock-Up Period, the Company announces that it will release earnings
results during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the Lock-Up Period, then in each case
the Lock-Up Period shall be extended and the restrictions imposed by this Agreement shall
continue to apply until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the date of the
issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the material news or material event.
The restrictions set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph shall not apply to any
transfers made by the undersigned (i) as a bona fide gift to any member of the immediate family (as
defined below) of the undersigned or to a trust the beneficiaries of which are exclusively the
undersigned or members of the undersigned’s immediate family, (ii) by will or intestate succession
upon the death of the undersigned, (iii) as a bona fide gift to a charity or educational
institution or (iv) by disposition of Common Stock or Beneficially Owned Shares pursuant to any
trading plan designed to meet the requirements of the safe harbor of Rule 10b5-1 under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, existing prior to the Lock-up Period or entered into
in renewal or replacement of such an existing plan upon its expiration on substantially similar
terms, provided, however, that in the case of any transfer described in clauses (i) and (ii) above,
it shall be a condition to the transfer that (A) the transferee executes and delivers to LCM, not
later than one business day prior to such transfer, a written agreement, in substantially the form
of this agreement (it being understood that any references to “immediate family” in the agreement
executed by such transferee shall expressly refer only to the immediate family of the undersigned
and not to the immediate family of the transferee) and otherwise satisfactory in form and substance
to LCM, and (B) if the undersigned is required to file a report under Section 16(a) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, reporting a reduction in beneficial ownership of
Common Stock or Beneficially Owned Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or
exchangeable for Common Stock or Beneficially Owned Shares during the Lock-Up Period (as the same
may be extended as described above), the undersigned shall include a statement in such report to
the effect that such transfer is being made as a gift or by will or intestate succession. For
purposes of this paragraph, “immediate family” shall mean a spouse, child, grandchild or other
lineal descendant (including by adoption), father, mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother or
sister of the undersigned; and “affiliate” shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Any Common Stock or Beneficially Owned Shares acquired by the undersigned in the open market
after the date of this Agreement will not be subject to the restrictions set forth in this
agreement. After the date of this agreement, the undersigned may at any time enter into a written
plan meeting the requirements of Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
relating to the sale of Common Stock or Beneficially Owned Shares, if then permitted by the
Company, provided, however, that the shares subject to such plan shall be subject to the
restrictions set forth in this agreement.
In order to enable this covenant to be enforced, the undersigned hereby consents to the
placing of legends or stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent with respect to
any Common Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock.
The undersigned further agrees that (i) it will not, during the Lock-Up Period (as the same
may be extended as described above), make any demand or request for or exercise any right with
respect to the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of any Common Stock or
other Beneficially Owned Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable
for Common Stock or other Beneficially Owned Shares, and (ii) the Company may, with respect to any
Common Stock or other Beneficially Owned Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable
or exchangeable for Common Stock or other
Beneficially Owned Shares owned or held (of record or beneficially) by the undersigned, cause
the transfer agent or other registrar to enter stop transfer instructions and implement stop
transfer procedures with respect to such securities during the Lock-Up Period (as the same may be
extended as described above).
The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the undersigned has full power and
authority to enter into this agreement and that this agreement has been duly executed and delivered
by the undersigned and is a valid and binding agreement of the undersigned. This agreement and all
authority herein conferred are irrevocable and shall survive the death or incapacity of the
undersigned and shall be binding upon the undersigned and upon the heirs, personal representatives,
successors and assigns of the undersigned.
The undersigned acknowledges and agrees that whether or not any offering of Common Stock
actually occurs depends on a number of factors, including market conditions. It is understood and
agreed that if (i) the Placement Agent Agreement is not executed by June 18, 2010, (ii) the Company
notifies you in writing that it does not intend to proceed with the offering of Common Stock, (iii)
the undersigned ceases to serve as an officer or director of the Company, or (iv) the Placement
Agent Agreement shall be terminated (other than the provisions that survive termination thereof)
prior to payment for and delivery of the securities to be sold pursuant thereto, the undersigned
shall be released from his or her obligations under the provisions of this agreement.
This agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State
of New York.
Very truly yours, | ||
(Name of Stockholder — Please Print) | ||
(Signature) | ||
Address: |
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