UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT FORTUNE VACATION TRAVEL, LTD.
Exhibit 1.1
FORTUNE VACATION TRAVEL, LTD.
2,000,000 Shares of Common Stock
July 20, 2011
Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corp.
0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxxx, XX 00000-0000
Gentlemen:
Fortune Vacation Travel, Ltd., a Nevada corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corp. (the “Underwriters”), (the “Representatives”) an aggregate of a minimum of 1,000,000 and a maximum of 2,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, of the Company (the “Underwritten Shares”) and, for the sole purpose of covering over-allotments in connection with the sale of the Underwritten Shares, at the option of the Underwriters, up to an additional 100,000 shares of Common Stock of the Company (the “Option Shares”). The Underwritten Shares and the Option Shares are herein referred to as the “Shares”. The shares of Common Stock of the Company to be outstanding after giving effect to the sale of the Shares are herein referred to as the “Stock”.
The Company has prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “Securities Act”), a registration statement, including a prospectus, relating to the Shares. The registration statement as amended at the time when it shall become effective, including information (if any) deemed to be part of the registration statement at the time of effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430A under the Securities Act, is referred to in this Agreement as the “Registration Statement”, and the prospectus in the form first used to confirm sales of Shares is referred to in this Agreement as the “Prospectus”. If the Company files or has filed on the date hereof an abbreviated registration statement pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act (the “Rule 462 Registration Statement”) in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, then any reference herein to the term “Registration Statement” shall be deemed to include such Rule 462 Registration Statement.
The Company hereby agrees with the Underwriters as follows:
1. The Company agrees to issue and sell the Underwritten Shares to the Underwriters as hereinafter provided, and each Underwriter, on the basis of the representations and warranties herein contained, but subject to the conditions hereinafter stated, agrees to purchase from the Company on a best efforts basis a minimum of 1,000,000 and a maximum of 2,000,000 of the Underwritten Shares at a purchase price per share of $0.46 (the “Purchase Price”).
In addition, the Company agrees to issue and sell the Option Shares to the Underwriters as hereinafter provided and the Underwriters shall have the option to purchase at their election up to 100,000 Option Shares for the sole purpose of covering over-allotments in the sale of the Underwritten Shares.
The Underwriters may exercise the option to purchase the Option Shares at any time (but not more than once) on or before the thirtieth day following the date of this Agreement, by written notice to the Company from Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corp. Such notice shall set forth the aggregate number of Option Shares as to which the option is being exercised and the date and time when the Option Shares are to be delivered and paid for, which may be the same date and time as the Closing Date (as hereinafter defined) but shall not be earlier than the Closing Date, nor later than the tenth full Business Day (as hereinafter defined) after the date of such notice (unless such time and date are postponed in accordance with the provisions of Section 9 hereof). Any such notice shall be given at least two Business Days prior to the date and time of delivery specified therein.
2. The Company understands that the several Underwriters intend (i) to make a public offering of their respective portions of the Shares as soon after (A) the Registration Statement has become effective and (B) the parties hereto have executed and delivered this Agreement, as in the judgment of the Representatives is advisable and (ii) initially to offer the Shares upon the terms set forth in the Prospectus.
3. Payment for the Shares shall be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account specified by the Company to the Representatives, in the case of the Underwritten Shares, at such time, not later than the fifth Business Day thereafter, as Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corp. and the Company may agree upon in writing or, in the case of the Option Shares, on the date and at the time specified by Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corp. in the written notice of the Underwriters’ election to purchase such Option Shares or at such other time on the same or such other date, not later than the fifth Business Day thereafter, as Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corp. and the Company may agree upon in writing. The time and date of such payment for the Underwritten Shares is referred to herein as the “Closing Date” and the time and date for such payment for the Option Shares, if other than the Closing Date, are herein referred to as the “Additional Closing Date”. The closing and additional closing, if any, shall take place at the offices
of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Esq., Spokane Washington. As used herein, the term “Business Day” means any day other than a day on which banks are permitted or required to be closed in New York City.
Payment for the Shares to be purchased on the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, shall be made only against delivery to the Representatives for the respective accounts of the Underwriter of the Shares to be purchased on such date, registered in such names and in such denominations as the Representatives shall request in writing not later than two full Business Days prior to the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, with any transfer taxes payable in connection with the transfer to the Underwriters of the Shares duly paid by the Company. The certificates for the Shares, if any, will be made available for inspection and packaging by the Representatives at the office of Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corp. set forth above not later than 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on the Business Day prior to the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be.
4. The Company represents and warrants to each Underwriter that:
(a) no order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus has been issued by the Commission, and each preliminary prospectus filed as part of the Registration Statement as originally filed or as part of any amendment thereto, or filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act, complied when so filed in all material respects with the Securities Act, and as of the date thereof did not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the foregoing representations and warranties shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein;
(b) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceeding for that purpose has been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission; the Registration Statement and Prospectus (and the Registration Statement and Prospectus as amended or supplemented, if the Company shall have furnished any amendments or supplements thereto) comply, and will comply, as of the applicable effective date as to the Registration Statement and any amendment thereto and as of the date of the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, in all material respects with the Securities Act and do not and will not, as of the applicable effective date as to the Registration Statement and any amendment thereto and as of the date of the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, at the Closing Date and the Additional Closing Date, if any, will not contain any untrue statement of a material
fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the foregoing representations and warranties shall not apply to statements or omissions in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein;
(c) the financial statements, and the related notes thereto, included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus present fairly the consolidated financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates indicated and the results of their operations and changes in their consolidated cash flows for the periods specified; said financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis, and the supporting schedules included in the Registration Statement present fairly the information required to be stated therein; and the pro forma financial information, and the related notes thereto, included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus has been prepared in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and is based upon good faith estimates and assumptions believed by the Company to be reasonable;
(d) the statistical and market-related data included in the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the Company believes are reliable and accurate;
(e) since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the general affairs, business, prospects, condition (financial or other), management, financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus (as it stood at the time of the execution and delivery of this Agreement) and except as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus (as it stood at the time of the execution and delivery of this Agreement) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has entered into any transaction or agreement (whether or not in the ordinary course of business) material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole;
(f) the Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, with power and authority (corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Prospectus, and has been duly qualified as a foreign corporation for the transaction of business and is in good standing under the
laws of each other jurisdiction in which it owns or leases properties, or conducts any business, so as to require such qualification, other than where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing would not have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(g) each of the Company’s subsidiaries has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, with power and authority (corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Prospectus, and has been duly qualified as a foreign corporation for the transaction of business and is in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction in which it owns or leases properties, or conducts any business, so as to require such qualification, other than where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing would not have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole; and all the outstanding shares of capital stock of each subsidiary of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully-paid and non-assessable, and upon consummation of the Transactions (as defined below) will be owned by the Company, directly or indirectly, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, security interests and claims;
(h) this Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company;
(i) the Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the Prospectus and such authorized capital stock conforms as to legal matters to the description thereof set forth in the Prospectus, and all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully-paid and non-assessable and are not subject to any pre-emptive or similar rights; and, except for this Agreement and as described in or expressly contemplated by the Prospectus, there are no outstanding rights (including, without limitation, pre-emptive rights), warrants or options to acquire, or instruments convertible into or exchangeable for, any shares of capital stock or other equity interest in the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any contract, commitment, agreement, understanding or arrangement of any kind relating to the issuance of any capital stock of the Company or any such subsidiary, any such convertible or exchangeable securities or any such rights, warrants or options;
(j) the shares of capital stock of the Company to be issued pursuant to (i) the transactions (the “Transactions”) described in the Prospectus under “Certain Transactions” and any options granted outside described thereunder have been duly authorized and, when issued, will be validly issued, fully-paid and non-assessable and will not be subject to any preemptive or similar rights;
(k) the Shares to be issued and sold by the Company hereunder have been duly authorized, and, when issued and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, will be duly issued and will be fully paid and non-assessable and will conform
to the descriptions thereof in the Prospectus; and the issuance of the Shares is not subject to any preemptive or similar rights that have not been waived;
(l) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is, or with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both, or after giving effect to the Transactions, would be, in violation of or in default under, its Certificate of Incorporation or By-Laws or 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 it or any of them or any of their respective properties is bound, except for such violations and defaults which individually and in the aggregate are not material to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole; the issue and sale of the Shares and the performance by the Company of its obligations under this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactions and the transactions contemplated hereby will not conflict with or result in a breach of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its 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, except for such conflicts, breaches or defaults which individually and in the aggregate are not material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; nor will any such action result in any violation of the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation or the By-Laws of the Company or any applicable law or statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company, its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties; and no consent, approval, authorization, order, license, registration or qualification of or with any such court or governmental agency or body is required for the issue and sale of the Shares or the consummation by the Company of the Transactions or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders, licenses, registrations or qualifications as have been obtained under the Securities Act and as may be required under state securities or Blue Sky Laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Shares by the Underwriters;
(m) there are no legal or governmental investigations, actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties or to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may be a party or to which any property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may be the subject which, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, could individually or in the aggregate have, or reasonably be expected to have, a material adverse effect on the general affairs, business, prospects, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated by governmental authorities or threatened by others; and there are no statutes, regulations, contracts or other documents that are required to be described in the Registration Statement or Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement that are not described or filed as required;
(n) the Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to all items of real property and good and marketable title to all personal property owned by them, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and defects except such as are described or referred to in the Prospectus or such as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its subsidiaries; and any real
property and buildings held under lease by the Company and its subsidiaries are held by them under valid, existing and enforceable leases with such exceptions as are not material and do not materially interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such property and buildings by the Company or its subsidiaries;
(o) no relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company or any or its subsidiaries on the one hand, and the directors, officers, stockholders, clients, publishers, content providers or suppliers of the Company or any entity with whom the Company has a strategic alliance or any of their subsidiaries on the other hand, which is required by the Securities Act to be described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus which is not so described;
(p) no person has the right to require the Company to register any securities for offering and sale under the Securities Act by reason of the filing of the Registration Statement with the Commission or the issue and sale of the Shares except as described in the Prospectus;
(q) the Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Shares, will not be an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment company”, as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”);
(r) Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx CPA P.C, who have certified certain financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries, are independent public accountants as required by the Securities Act;
(s) except as disclosed in the Prospectus, the Company and its subsidiaries have filed all federal, state, local and foreign tax returns which have been required to be filed and have paid all taxes shown thereon and all assessments received by them or any of them to the extent that such taxes have become due and are not being contested in good faith; and, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there is no tax deficiency which has been or might reasonably be expected to be asserted or threatened against the Company or any subsidiary, except for such deficiencies as will not have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the general affairs, business, prospects, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(t) the Company has not taken nor will it take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to, or that might be reasonably expected to, cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Common Stock;
(u) each of the Company and its subsidiaries owns, possesses or has obtained all licenses, permits, certificates, consents, orders, approvals and other authorizations from, and has made all declarations and filings with, all federal, state, local and other governmental authorities (including foreign regulatory agencies), all self-regulatory organizations and all courts and other tribunals, domestic or foreign, necessary to own or lease, as the case may be, and to operate its properties and to carry on its business as conducted as of the date hereof, except for such licenses, permits, certificates, consents, orders or other approvals, the absence of which will not have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the general affairs, business, prospects, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and neither the Company nor any such subsidiary has received any actual notice of any proceeding relating to revocation or modification of any such license, permit, certificate, consent, order, approval or other authorization, except as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; and each of the Company and its subsidiaries is in compliance with all laws and regulations relating to the conduct of its business as conducted as of the date hereof, except for such instances of non-compliance as shall not have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the general affairs, business, prospects, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(v) there are no existing or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened labor disputes with the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries which are likely to have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole;
(w) each employee benefit plan, within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, (“ERISA”) that is maintained, administered or contributed to by the Company or any of its affiliates for employees or former employees of the Company and its affiliates has been maintained in compliance in all material respects with its terms and the requirements of any applicable statutes, orders, rules and regulations, including but not limited to ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, (“Code”). No prohibited transaction, within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code has occurred with respect to any such plan excluding transactions effected pursuant to a statutory or administrative exemption. For each such plan which is subject to the funding rules of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA no “accumulated funding deficiency” as defined in Section 412 of the Code has been incurred, whether or not waived, and the fair market value of the assets of each such plan (excluding for these purposes accrued but unpaid contributions) exceeded the present value of all benefits accrued under such plan determined using reasonable actuarial assumptions.
(x) the Company owns or possesses adequate licenses or other rights to use all patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, service marks, trade names, technology, trade secrets and know-how (the “Intellectual Property”) necessary to conduct its business in the manner described in the Prospectus and the Company has not received any notice of infringement or conflict with (and the Company is not aware of any infringement or conflict with) asserted rights of others with respect to any patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, service marks, trade names, technology or know-how which could result in any material adverse effect upon the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; and the discoveries, inventions, products or processes of the Company necessary to conduct its business in the
manner described in the Prospectus do not, to the best knowledge of the Company, infringe or conflict with any right or patent of any third party, or any discovery, invention, product or process which is the subject of a patent application filed by any third party, known to the Company which could have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole;
(y) the Company maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (A) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (B) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset accountability; (C) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (D) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences;
(z) all outstanding shares of Common Stock, all shares of Common Stock that will become outstanding upon completion of the Transactions, and all securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, are subject to agreements (collectively, the “Lock-up Agreements”) executed by the holders thereof substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A;
(aa) upon completion of the offering of the Shares contemplated hereby, the Transactions will have been completed;
(bb) the Company has no subsidiary.
(cc) the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any preliminary prospectus comply, and any further amendments or supplements thereto will comply, with any applicable laws or regulations of foreign jurisdictions in which the Prospectus or any preliminary prospectus, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, are distributed.
(dd) no authorization, approval, consent, license, order, registration or qualification of or with any government, governmental instrumentality or court, other than such as have been obtained, is necessary under the securities laws and regulations of any foreign jurisdiction in which the Shares are offered outside the United States; and
(ee) the Company has not offered, or caused the Underwriters to offer, Shares to any person with the specific intent to unlawfully influence (i) a customer or supplier of the Company to alter the customer’s or supplier’s level or type of business with the Company, or (ii) a trade journalist or publication to write or publish favorable information about the Company or its products.
5. The Company covenants and agrees with each of the several Underwriters as follows:
(a) to use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to become effective at the earliest possible time and, if required, to file the final Prospectus with the Commission within the time periods specified by Rule 424(b) and Rule 430A under the Securities Act and to furnish copies of the Prospectus to the Underwriters in New York City prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Business Day next succeeding the date of this Agreement in such quantities as the Representatives may reasonably request;
(b) to deliver, at the expense of the Company, to the Representatives four signed copies of the Registration Statement (as originally filed) and each amendment thereto, in each case including exhibits, and to each other Underwriter a conformed copy of the Registration Statement (as originally filed) and each amendment thereto, in each case without exhibits and, during the period mentioned in Section 5 below, to each of the Underwriters as many copies of the Prospectus(including all amendments and supplements thereto) as the Representatives may reasonably request during the period specified in 5 below;
(c) before filing any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, whether before or after the time the Registration Statement becomes effective, to furnish to the Representatives a copy of the proposed amendment or supplement for review and not to file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which the Representatives reasonably object;
(d) to advise the Representatives promptly, and to confirm such advice in writing (i) when the Registration Statement has become effective, (ii when any amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective, (ii when any supplement to the Prospectus or any amended Prospectus has been filed and to furnish the Representatives with copies thereof, (iv of any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or for any additional information, (v) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose, (vi of the occurrence of any event, within the period referenced in Section 5 below, as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading, and (vi of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to any suspension of the qualification of the Shares for offer and sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; and to use its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order, or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus, or of any order suspending any such qualification of the shares, or notification of any such order thereof and, if issued, to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof;
(e) if, during such period of time after the first date of the public offering of the Shares as in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters a prospectus relating to the Shares is required by law to be delivered in connection with sales by the Underwriters or any dealer, any event shall occur as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading, or if it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with law, forthwith to prepare and furnish, at the expense of the Company, to the Underwriters and to the dealers (whose names and addresses the Representatives will furnish to the Company) to which Shares may have been sold by the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters and to any other dealers upon request, such amendments or supplements to the Prospectus as may be necessary so that the statements in the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the Prospectus will comply with law;
(f) to endeavor to qualify the Shares for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives shall reasonably request and to continue such qualification in effect so long as reasonably required for distribution of the Shares; provided that the Company shall not be required to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction;
(g) to make generally available to its security holders and to the Representatives as soon as practicable an earnings statement covering a period of at least twelve months beginning with the first fiscal quarter of the Company occurring after the effective date of the Registration Statement, which shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 of the Commission promulgated thereunder;
(h) for a period of three years after the Closing Date, to furnish to the Representatives copies of all reports or other communications (financial or other) furnished to holders of the Shares, and copies of any reports and financial statements furnished to or filed with the Commission or any national securities exchange;
(i) for a period of 180 days after the date of the initial public offering of the Shares, without the prior written consent of Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corp., not to (i) offer, pledge, announce the intention to sell, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, or file or cause to be filed a registration statement in respect of, any shares of Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Stock or (ii enter into any swap or other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Stock, whether any such transaction described in clause (i) or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of Stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise, other than (A) the Shares to be sold hereunder; (B) any shares of Stock of the Company issued upon the exercise of options granted under existing employee stock option plans; (C) shares of Stock of the Company issued in connection with the Transactions; (D)
options granted pursuant to the stock incentive plans described in the Prospectus and (E) the filing of a registration statement on Form S-8 in connection with the stock incentive plans described in the Prospectus;
(j) to use the net proceeds received by the Company from the sale of the Shares pursuant to this Agreement in the manner specified in the Prospectus under the caption “Use of Proceeds”;
(k) to use its best efforts to list for quotation the Shares on the OTC BB or higher trading market;
(l) to report the use of the proceeds of the sale of Shares contemplated hereby of the time and in the manner required by Rule 463 under the Securities Act;
(m) whether or not the transactions contemplated in this Agreement are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, to pay or cause to be paid all costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all costs and expenses (i) incident to the preparation, issuance, registration, transfer, execution and delivery of the Shares, including any transfer or other taxes payable thereon, (ii) incident to the preparation, printing and filing under the Securities Act of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any preliminary prospectus (including in each case all exhibits, amendments and supplements thereto), (iii) incurred in connection with the registration or qualification of the Shares under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives may designate (including fees of counsel for the Underwriters and its disbursements), (iv) in connection with the listing of the Shares on the Nasdaq National Market, (v) related to the filing with, and clearance of the offering by, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (including fees of counsel for the Underwriters and its disbursements), (vi) in connection with the printing (including word processing and duplication costs) and delivery of this Agreement, the Preliminary and Supplemental Blue Sky Memoranda and the furnishing to the Underwriters and dealers of copies of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, including mailing and shipping, as herein provided, (vii) any expenses incurred by the Company in connection with a “road show” presentation to potential investors, (viii) the cost of preparing stock certificates and (ix the cost and charges of any transfer agent and any registrar;
(n) to comply with all applicable securities and other applicable laws, rules and regulations in each foreign jurisdiction in which the Shares are offered.
6. The several obligations of the Underwriters hereunder to purchase the Shares on the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, are subject to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:
(a) the Registration Statement shall have become effective (or if a post-effective amendment is required to be filed under the Securities Act, such post-effective amendment shall have become effective) not later than 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on the date hereof; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post- effective amendment shall be in effect, and no proceedings for such purpose shall be pending before or threatened by the Commission; the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by the rules and regulations under the Securities Act and in accordance with Section 5 hereof; and all requests for additional information from the Commission shall have been complied with to the satisfaction of the Representatives;
(b) the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein are true and correct on and as of the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, as if made on and as of the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, and the Company shall have complied with all agreements and all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be;
(c) since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long- term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the general affairs, business, prospects, condition (financial or other), management, financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, otherwise than as set forth in or contemplated by the Prospectus (as it stood at the time of the execution and delivery of this Agreement), the effect of which in the judgment of the Representatives makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Shares on the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus (as it stood at the time of the execution and delivery of this Agreement); and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the Prospectus any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any employment or labor dispute, from any dispute relating to the use of Intellectual Property, or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus (as it stood at the time of the execution and delivery of this Agreement);
(d) the Representatives shall have received on and as of the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, a certificate of an executive officer of the Company, with specific knowledge about the Company’s financial matters, satisfactory to the Representatives to the effect set forth in subsections (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this Section (but only with respect to the respective representations, warranties, agreements and conditions of the Company) and to the further effect that there has not occurred any change in the capital stock or long term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the general affairs, business, prospects, condition (financial and other), management, financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries taken as a whole from that set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus (as it stood at the time of the execution and delivery of this Agreement);
(e) The Law Office of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, P.S., counsel for the Company, shall have furnished to the Representatives their written opinion, dated the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A hereto.
In rendering such opinions, such counsel may rely (A) as to matters involving the application of laws other than the laws of the United States and the State of Nevada, to the extent such counsel deems proper and to the extent specified in such opinion, if at all, upon an opinion or opinions (in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Underwriters’ counsel) of other counsel reasonably acceptable to the Underwriters’ counsel, familiar with the applicable laws and (B) as to matters of fact, to the extent such counsel deems proper, on certificates of responsible officers of the Company, the representations and warranties made by the Company herein, and certificates or other written statements of officials of jurisdictions having custody of documents respecting the corporate existence or good standing of the Company. The opinion of such counsel for the Company shall state that the opinion of any such other counsel upon which they relied is in form satisfactory to such counsel and, in such counsel’s opinion, the Underwriters and they are justified in relying thereon. With respect to the matters to be covered in Section above counsel may state their opinion and belief is based upon their participation in the preparation of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto and review and discussion of the contents thereof but is without independent check or verification except as specified.
The opinion of The Law Office of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, P.S described above shall be rendered to the Underwriters at the request of the Company and shall so state therein.
(f) the Representatives shall have received on and as of the Closing Date or Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, an opinion of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx, Esq. Ltd., counsel to the Underwriters, with respect to the due authorization and valid issuance of the Shares, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters;
(g) on or prior to the Closing Date or Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, the Company shall have furnished to the Representatives such further certificates and documents as the Representatives shall reasonably request;
7. The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, the legal fees and other expenses
incurred in connection with any suit, action or proceeding or any claim asserted) caused by any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus (as amended or supplemented if the Company shall have furnished any amendments or supplements thereto) or any preliminary prospectus, or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except (i) insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities are caused by any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein; provided, however, that the foregoing indemnity agreement with respect to any preliminary prospectus shall not inure to the benefit of any Underwriter from whom the person asserting any such losses, claims, damages or liabilities purchased Shares, or any person controlling such Underwriter, if a copy of the Prospectus (as then amended or supplemented, if the Company shall have furnished any amendments or supplements thereto) was not sent or given by or on behalf of such Underwriter to such person, if required by law so to have been delivered, at or prior to the written confirmation of the sale of the Shares to such person, and if the Prospectus (as so amended or supplemented) would have cured the defect giving rise to such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, unless such failure is the result of noncompliance by the Company with Section 5(b) hereof.
The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, any legal or other expenses incurred in connection with any suit, action or proceeding or any claim asserted) (i) caused by any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the prospectus wrapper material prepared by or with the consent of the Company for distribution in foreign jurisdictions in connection with the Directed Share Program attached to the Prospectus or any preliminary prospectus, or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, when considered in conjunction with the Prospectus or any applicable preliminary prospectus, not misleading; (ii) caused by the failure of any Participant to pay for and accept delivery of any Shares which, immediately following the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, were subject to a properly confirmed agreement to purchase; or (iii) related to, arising out of, or in connection with the Directed Share Program, provided that, the Company shall not be responsible under this subparagraph (iii) for any losses, claim, damages or liabilities (or expenses relating thereto) that are finally judicially determined to have resulted from the bad faith or gross negligence of the Underwriters.
Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, its officers who sign the Registration Statement and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act to the same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Company to each Underwriter, but only with reference to information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, any amendment or supplement thereto, or any preliminary prospectus.
If any suit, action, proceeding (including any governmental or regulatory investigation), claim or demand shall be brought or asserted against any person in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to either of the three preceding paragraphs, such person (the “Indemnified Person”) shall promptly notify the person against whom such indemnity may be sought (the “Indemnifying Person”) in writing, and the Indemnifying Person, upon request of the Indemnified Person, shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person to represent the Indemnified Person and any others the Indemnifying Person may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and expenses of such counsel related to such proceeding. In any such proceeding, any Indemnified Person shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Indemnified Person unless (i) the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person shall have mutual ly agreed to the contrary, (ii) the Indemnifying Person has failed within a reasonable time to retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person or (iii) the named parties in any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them. It is understood that the Indemnifying Person shall not, in respect of the legal expenses of any Indemnified Person in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, be liable for (i) the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all Underwriters and all persons, if any, who control any Underwriter within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act and (ii) the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for the Company, its directors, its officers who sign the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of either such Section, and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, if indemnity may be sought pursuant to the second paragraph of this Section 7 in respect of any action or proceeding of a type described in such paragraph, then in addition to such separate firm for the Underwriters and all such persons, if any, who so control any Underwriter, the Indemnifying Person shall be liable for the reasonable fees and expenses of not more than one additional separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for the Underwriters and all such persons, if any, who so control any Underwriter for the defense of any losses, claims, damages and liabilities arising out of the Directed Share Program and all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred. In the case of any such separate firm or firms for the Underwriters and such control persons of any Underwriters, such firm or firms shall be designated in writing by Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corp. In the case of any such separate firm for the Company, and such directors, officers and control persons of the Company, such firm shall be designated in writing by the Company. The Indemnifying Person shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the Indemnifying Person agrees to indemnify any Indemnified Person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an Indemnified Person shall have requested an Indemnifying Person to reimburse the Indemnified Person for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by the second, third and fourth sentences of this paragraph, the Indemnifying Person agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 30 days after receipt by such Indemnifying Person of the aforesaid request and (ii) such Indemnifying Person shall not have reimbursed the Indemnified Person in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement. No Indemnifying Person shall, without the prior written consent of the
Indemnified Person, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any Indemnified Person is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such Indemnified Person, unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Person from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding.
If the indemnification provided for in this Section 7 is unavailable to an Indemnified Person or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein, then each Indemnifying Person in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Person, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Person as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand from the offering of the Shares or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by the Company and the total underwriting discounts and the commissions received by the Underwriters, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover of the Prospectus, bear to the aggregate public offering price of the Shares. The relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or by the Underwriters, and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.
The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 7 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purposes) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph. The amount paid or payable by an Indemnified Person as a result of the losses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses incurred by such Indemnified Person in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 7, in no event shall an Underwriter be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Shares underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages that such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The
Underwriters’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 7 are several in proportion to the respective number of Shares set forth opposite their names in Schedule I hereto, and not joint.
The remedies provided for in this Section 7 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available to any indemnified party at law or in equity.
The indemnity and contribution agreements contained in this Section 7 and the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in this Agreement shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of (i) any termination of this Agreement, (ii) any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or any person controlling any Underwriter or by or on behalf of the Company, its officers or directors or any other person controlling the Company and (iii) acceptance of and payment for any of the Shares.
8. Notwithstanding anything herein contained, this Agreement (or the obligations of the several Underwriters with respect to the Option Shares) may be terminated in the absolute discretion of the Representatives, by notice given to the Company, if after the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date (or, in the case of the Option Shares, prior to the Additional Closing Date) (i) trading generally shall have been suspended or materially limited on or by, as the case may be, any of the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange or the Chicago Board of Trade, (ii) trading of any securities of or guaranteed by the Company shall have been suspended on any exchange or in any over-the-counter market, (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities in the United States, New York or Massachusetts shall have been declared by either Federal, New York State or Commonwealth of Massachusetts authorities, or (iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis that, in the judgment of the Representatives, is material and adverse and which, in the judgment of the Representatives, makes it impracticable to market the Shares being delivered at the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus.
9. This Agreement shall become effective upon the later of (x) execution and delivery hereof by the parties hereto and (y) release of notification of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement (or, if applicable, any post- effective amendment) by the Commission.
10. If this Agreement shall be terminated by the Underwriters, or any of them, because of any failure or refusal on the part of the Company to comply with the terms or to fulfill any of the conditions of this Agreement, or if for any reason the Company shall be unable to perform its obligations under this Agreement or any condition of the Underwriters’ obligations cannot be fulfilled, the Company agrees to reimburse the Underwriters or such Underwriters as have so terminated this Agreement with respect to themselves, severally, for all out-of- pocket expenses (including the fees and expenses of its counsel) reasonably incurred by the Underwriters in connection with this Agreement and the offering
contemplated hereunder.
11. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Company, the Underwriters, any controlling persons referred to herein and their respective successors and assigns. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any other person, firm or corporation any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision herein contained. No purchaser of Shares from any Underwriter shall be deemed to be a successor merely by reason of such purchase.
12. Any action by the Underwriters or the Representatives hereunder may be taken by the Representatives jointly or by Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corp. alone on behalf of the Underwriters or the Representatives, and any such action taken by the Representatives jointly or by Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corp. shall be binding upon the Underwriters. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if mailed or transmitted by any standard form of telecommunication.
13. This Agreement may be signed in counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
14. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO THE CONFLICTS OF LAWS PROVISIONS THEREOF.
If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please sign and return four counterparts hereof.
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