13,888,889 Shares of Common Stock par value $0.001 2,083,333 Over-Allotment Shares ANADYS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
Exhibit 1.1
Execution Copy
13,888,889 Shares of Common Stock
par value $0.001
2,083,333 Over-Allotment Shares
ANADYS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
October 15, 2010
Lazard Capital Markets LLC
00 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Dear Sirs:
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 Lazard Capital Markets LLC (“LCM” or the “Underwriter”),
pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Underwriting Agreement (this “Agreement”), an
aggregate of 13,888,889 shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “Common Stock”)
of the Company (the “Firm Shares). The Company hereby confirms its agreement with LCM to act as
the Underwriter in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof.
The Company also proposes to issue and sell to the Underwriter not more than an additional
2,083,333 shares of its Common Stock (the “Additional Shares”) if and to the extent that you, as
Underwriter, shall have determined to exercise your right to purchase such shares of Common Stock
granted to you. The Firm Shares and the Additional Shares are hereinafter collectively referred to
as the “Shares.” The offering an sale of the Firms Shares and the Additional Shares by the Company
to the Underwriter is hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Offering.”
The Underwriter may exercise its over-allotment purchase right in whole or from time to time
in part by giving written notice not later than thirty (30) days after the date of this Agreement.
Any exercise notice shall specify the number of Additional Shares to be purchased by the
Underwriter and the date on which such shares are to be purchased. If any Additional Shares are to
be purchased, the number of Additional Shares to be purchased by the Underwriter shall be the
number of Additional Shares which bears the same ratio to the aggregate number of Additional Shares
being purchased as the number of Firm Shares purchased by the Underwriter bears to the aggregate
number of Firm Shares purchased from the Company by the Underwriter, subject, however, to such
adjustments to eliminate any fractional Shares as the Underwriter in its sole discretion shall
make. Each purchase date must be at least three business day after the written notice is given and may not be earlier than the Closing Date for the Firm Shares nor
later than seven business days after the date of such notice (except where such notice is delivered
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prior to the Closing Date (as defined below), in which case the notice must be given at least one
business day prior to the Closing Date and the closings for the Firm Shares and Additional Shares
shall take place concurrently). Additional Shares may be purchased hereby solely for the purpose
of covering over-allotments made in connection with the offering of the Firm Shares. On each day,
if any, that Additional Shares are to be purchased (an “Option Closing Date”).
2. delivery and payment. On the basis of the representations, warranties
and agreements of the Company herein contained, and subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement:
2.1 The Company agrees to issue and sell and the Underwriter agrees to purchase from
the Company an aggregate of 13,888,889 Firm Shares at a purchase
price of $1.6965 per share
of Common Stock (the “Purchase Price”). The Company has been advised by you that you
propose to make a public offering of the Shares as soon after this Agreement has become
effective as in your judgment is advisable. The Company is further advised by you that the
Shares are to be offered to the public initially at $1.80 per share.
2.2 Payment of the Purchase Price for, and delivery of, the Firm Shares shall be made
at the time and date of closing and delivery of the documents required to be delivered to
the Underwriter pursuant to Sections 4 and 6 hereof shall be at 11:00 A.M., New York time,
on October 20, 2010 (the “Closing Date”) at the office of Xxxxxx LLP, 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx,
Xxx Xxxxx, XX 00000 or at such other time and date as the Underwriter and the Company
determine pursuant to Rule 15c6-1(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(the “Exchange Act”), the Company shall deliver the Firm Shares, which shall be registered
in the name or names and shall be in such denominations as the Underwriter may request at
least one (1) business day before the Closing Date, to the Underwriter, which delivery shall
be made through the facilities of the Depository Trust Company’s DWAC delivery system.
2.3 Payment of the Purchase Price for, and delivery of, any Additional Shares shall be
made at the Option Closing Date or at such other time and date as the Underwriter and the
Company determine pursuant to Rule 15c6-1(a) under the Exchange Act, the Company shall
deliver the Additional Shares, which shall be registered in the name or names and shall be
in such denominations as the Underwriter may request at least one (1) business day before
the Option Closing Date, to the Underwriter, which delivery shall be made through the
facilities of the Depository Trust Company’s DWAC system. The Option Closing Date may be
simultaneous with, but not earlier than, the Closing Date; and in the event that such time
and date are simultaneous with the Closing Date, the term “Closing Date” shall refer to the
time and date of delivery of the Firm Shares and Additional Shares.
2.4 No Shares which the Company has agreed to sell pursuant to this Agreement shall be
deemed to have been purchased and paid for, or sold by the Company, until such Shares shall
have been delivered to the Underwriter thereof against payment by each of the Underwriter.
If the Company shall default in its obligations to deliver any Shares to the Underwriter,
the Company shall indemnify and hold the
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Underwriter 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
7(c) herein.
3. Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents
and warrants to each of the Underwriter and agrees with each of the Underwriter that:
(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 Underwriter by the Company for use in connection with the offering and sale
of the Shares 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 Underwriter for such use (or in the form first made available to the Underwriter by the
Company to meet requests of prospective purchasers pursuant to Rule 173 under the Securities
Act). 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,”
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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 Registration Statement
shall also be deemed to include such 462(b) Registration Statement.
(b) As of the Applicable Time (as defined below), 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 any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted 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 by the Underwriter
specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to
the Underwriter’s Information (as defined in Section 17). As used in this
paragraph (b) and elsewhere in this Agreement:
“Applicable
Time” means 8:05 A.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 Shares 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, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and any prospectus
supplement deemed to be a part thereof.
(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
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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 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 by the Underwriter specifically for inclusion
therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Underwriter’s
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 and any
Option Closing Date, the 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 and any Option 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 by the Underwriter specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties
hereto agree is limited to the Underwriter’s Information (as defined in Section 17).
The Prospectus contains all required information under the Securities Act with respect to
the Shares and the distribution of the Shares.
(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 Shares or until
any earlier date that the Company notified or notifies the Underwriter as described in
Section 4(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
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with, written information furnished to the Company by the Underwriter specifically for
inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the
Underwriter’s Information (as defined in Section 17).
(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 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 4(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, singly 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.
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(i) The Company has the full right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement,
and to perform and to discharge its obligations hereunder and thereunder; and this Agreement
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 Shares to be issued and sold by the Company to the Underwriter hereunder have
been duly and validly authorized and, when issued and delivered against payment therefor as
provided herein, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free of
any preemptive or similar rights and will conform to the description thereof contained in
the 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 by the Company, the
issuance and sale of the Firm Shares or any Additional Shares 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 Shares 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 Shares 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 by the Company, the offer or sale of the Shares 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 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
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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, singly 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, singly or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(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
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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, singly 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, singly 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.
(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
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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, singly 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, singly 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 employees of the Company
or any subsidiary voluntarily plans to terminate employment with the Company or any such
subsidiary.
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(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, singly
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,
singly 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, 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
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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, singly 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 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
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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 Underwriter and counsel for the Underwriter,
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,
singly 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 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.
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(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 Shares 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
Shares 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 the Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee
or like payment in connection with the offering and sale of the Shares 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 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
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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) Neither the Company nor any subsidiary nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any
of their affiliates (within the meaning of FINRA’s NASD Conduct Rule 2720(f)(1)) directly or
indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, or is an associated
person (within the meaning of Article I, Section 1(ee) of the By-laws of FINRA) of, any
member firm of FINRA.
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(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 Underwriter the Shares.
Any certificate signed by or on behalf of the Company and delivered to the Underwriter or to
counsel for the Underwriter shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Company to
the Underwriter as to the matters covered thereby.
4. Further Agreements of the Company. The Company agrees with the
Underwriter:
(a) To prepare the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if necessary, in a form approved
by the Underwriter 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 Underwriter 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
(2nd) business 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 Underwriter 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 Underwriter shall reasonably object by notice to the Company
after a reasonable period to review; to advise the Underwriter, 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 Underwriter 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 Shares; to advise the Underwriter,
promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the issuance by the Commission of any stop
order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus, of the suspension of the qualification of
the Shares 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.
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(b) The Company represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the
Underwriter, it has not made and will not, make any offer relating to the Shares 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 Underwriter 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 the Underwriter 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 Underwriter that the Underwriter
otherwise would not have been required to file thereunder.
(c) If at any time when a Prospectus relating to the Shares 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 Underwriter, and upon the
Underwriter’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 Underwriter, without charge, such number of copies thereof as the Underwriter
may reasonably request. The Company consents to the use of the Prospectus or any amendment
or supplement thereto by the Underwriter.
(d) If the General Disclosure Package is being used to solicit offers to buy the Shares
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 Underwriter, 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 Underwriter and any dealers an appropriate amendment or
supplement
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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 Underwriter 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 by the
Underwriter specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree
is limited to the Underwriter’s Information (as defined in Section 17).
(f) To furnish promptly to the Underwriter and to counsel for the Underwriter, 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
Underwriter such number of the following documents as the Underwriter shall reasonably
request: (i) conformed copies of the Registration Statement as originally filed with the
Commission (in each case excluding exhibits), (ii) 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
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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 Underwriter
may reasonably request to qualify the Shares for offering and sale under the securities or
Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions (domestic or foreign) as the Underwriter 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 Underwriter, (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 Shares 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
Underwriter.
(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 Underwriter,
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 Shares hereunder,
(ii) the issuance of restricted Common Stock or options to acquire Common Stock pursuant to
the Company’s employee benefit plans, qualified stock 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
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executive officer and director listed in Schedule B to furnish to the Underwriter,
prior to the Closing Date, a letter, substantially in the form of Exhibit A 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 Underwriter, 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 Underwriter with copies of all correspondence to and from, and all
documents issued to and by, the Commission in connection with the registration of the Shares
under the Securities Act.
(m) Prior to the Closing Date, to furnish to the Underwriter, 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 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 Underwriter is notified
in advance), without the prior written consent of the Underwriter, unless in the judgment of
the Company and its counsel, and after notification to the Underwriter, such press release
or communication is required by law.
(o) Until the Underwriter 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 Shares, or attempt to induce any person to purchase any
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Shares; 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 Shares.
(p) Not to take any action prior to the Closing Date that would require the Prospectus
to be amended or supplemented pursuant to Section 4.
(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 Shares as set forth in the
Prospectus under the heading “Use of Proceeds.”
(s) To use its reasonable best efforts to assist the Underwriter or its counsel with
any filings with FINRA in obtaining a “Conditional No Objections” letter and final clearance
from FINRA with respect to the Registration Statement and Base Prospectus, any prospectus
supplement to the Registration Statement relating to the Offering and the amount of
compensation allowable or payable to the Underwriter in connection with the Offering.
(t) To use its best efforts to list, effect and maintain, subject to notice of
issuance, the Common Stock on the Nasdaq GM.
(u) To use its reasonable 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 or any Option
Closing Date and to satisfy all conditions precedent to the delivery of the Firm Shares and
any Additional Shares, if any.
5. Payment of Expenses. The Company agrees to pay, or reimburse if paid by
the Underwriter, upon consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby: (a) the costs incident
to the authorization, issuance, sale, preparation and delivery of the Shares to the Underwriter and
any taxes payable in that connection; (b) the costs incident to the registration of the Shares
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 Underwriter, if any) incurred in connection with securing any required
review by FINRA of the terms of the sale of the Shares 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 of counsel to the Underwriter) of qualifying the
Shares under the securities laws of the several jurisdictions as provided in Section 4(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 Shares, (i) the reasonable and documented fees,
disbursements and expenses of counsel to the Underwriter and
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(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 Underwriter’s personnel in connection with any “road show”
including, without limitation, any expenses advanced by the Underwriter 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
Underwriter and/or its counsel in excess of $55,000 in the aggregate; provided further that, except
to the extent otherwise provided in this Section 5 and in Section 9, the
Underwriter shall pay their own costs and expenses, including the fees and expenses of its counsel
and the expenses of advertising any offering of the Shares made by the Underwriter.
6. Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriter, and the Sale of the
Shares. The respective obligations of the Underwriter hereunder, and the closing of the sale
of the Shares, are subject to the accuracy, when made and as of the Applicable Time and on the
Closing Date and any Option 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 Underwriter; 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 4(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 Underwriter shall not have discovered and disclosed to the Company on or prior
to the Closing Date and any Option Closing Date that the Registration Statement or any
amendment or supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of a fact that, in the opinion
of counsel for the Underwriter, 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
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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 Shares, 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
Underwriter, 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 Underwriter, such counsel’s written opinion
and negative assurances letter, as counsel to the Company, each addressed to the Underwriter
and dated the Closing Date and any Option Closing Date (if such date is other than the
Closing Date), in the form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriter.
(e) Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Lodge & Hutz LLP, special intellectual property counsel to the
Company, shall have furnished to the Underwriter such counsel’s written opinion, addressed
to the Underwriter and dated the Closing Date and any Option Closing Date (if such date is
other than the Closing Date), in the form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Underwriter.
(f) The
Underwriter shall have received from Proskauer Rose LLP, counsel for the Underwriter, such opinion or opinions and negative assurances statement, addressed to the
Underwriter dated the Closing Date and any Option Closing Date (if such date is other than
the Closing Date), with respect to such matters as the Underwriter 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 Underwriter shall have received
from Ernst & Young LLP, a letter, addressed to the Underwriter, executed and dated such
date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter (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 Underwriter, 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.
(h) On the effective date of any post-effective amendment to any Registration Statement
and on the Closing Date and any Option Closing Date (if such date is other than the Closing
Date), the Underwriter shall have received a letter (the “Bring-Down Letter”) from Ernst &
Young LLP addressed to the Underwriter and dated the Closing
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Date and any Option Closing Date (if such date is other than 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 Underwriter concurrently with the execution
of this Agreement pursuant to paragraph (g) of this Section 6.
(i) The Company shall have furnished to the Underwriter a certificate, dated the
Closing Date and any Option Closing Date (if such date is other than 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 and any Option Closing Date (if such date is
other than 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, singly 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.
(j) Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the General
Disclosure Package or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure
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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 Underwriter, so
material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale or
delivery of the Shares 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 Shares 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 Shares 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 judgment of the Underwriter,
impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale or
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delivery of the Shares 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) FINRA shall have provided a “Conditional No Objections” letter and the Underwriter
or its counsel shall not have received any unresolved objection from FINRA regarding the
terms of the Offering or the compensation allowable or payable to the Underwriter in
connection with the Offering.
(o) The Underwriter shall have received the written agreements, substantially in the
form of Exhibit A hereto, of the executive officers and directors of the Company
listed in Schedule B to this Agreement.
(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.
(q) On or prior to the Closing Date and any Option Closing Date (if such date is other
than the Closing Date), the Company shall have furnished to the Underwriter such further
information, documents as it may reasonably request with respect to the good standing of the
Company, certificates, letters or other documents as the Underwriter 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 Underwriter.
7. Indemnification and Contribution.
(a) The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriter, 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 the Underwriter
within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act
(collectively the “Underwriter Indemnified Parties,” and each a “Underwriter 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
Underwriter 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
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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 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 the Underwriter in connection with, or relating in any manner to, the
Shares 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 7(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 the Underwriter through its gross
negligence or willful misconduct), and shall reimburse each Underwriter Indemnified Party
promptly upon demand for any legal fees or other expenses reasonably incurred by that
Underwriter Indemnified Party in connection with investigating, or preparing to defend, or
defending against, or appearing as a third party witness in 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 by the Underwriter specifically for use therein, which
information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Underwriter’s Information (as defined
in Section 17). The indemnity agreement in this Section 7(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 Underwriter Indemnified Party.
(b) The Underwriter 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) 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
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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 (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 by the Underwriter by specifically for use
therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Underwriter’s
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 7(b), in no event shall any indemnity by the Underwriter under this
Section 7(b) exceed the total discount and commission received by the Underwriter in
connection with this Offering. This indemnity agreement is not exclusive and will be in
addition to any liability which the Underwriter 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 7 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 7, 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 7 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 7. 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 7 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 7(a) or Section 2.4 or the Underwriter in the case of a claim for
indemnification under Section 7(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 Underwriter if the indemnified parties under this Section 7
consist of any Underwriter Indemnified Party or by the Company if the indemnified parties
under this Section 7 consist of any Company Indemnified Parties. Subject to this
Section 7(c), the amount payable by an indemnifying party under Section 7
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
7 (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 7 is unavailable or
insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under Section 7(a) or Section
7(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 Underwriter on the other hand from the Offering, or (ii) if the allocation
provided by clause (i) of this Section 7(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 7(d) but also the relative fault of the Company on the
one hand and the Underwriter 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 Underwriter 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 discount and commission received by the Underwriter 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 Underwriter 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
Underwriter 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 Underwriter for use in any Preliminary Prospectus, any
Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto,
consists solely of the Underwriter’s Information as defined in Section 17. The
Company and the Underwriter agree that it would not be just and equitable if contributions
pursuant to this Section 7(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 7(d) shall be deemed to include, for purposes of this
Section 7(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
witness in respect of, or otherwise incurred in connection with, any such loss, claim,
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damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding. Notwithstanding the
provisions of this Section 7(d), the Underwriter shall not be required to contribute
any amount in excess of the total discount and commission received by the Underwriter in
connection with this Offering less the amount of any damages which the Underwriter 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.
8. Termination. The obligations of the Underwriter hereunder may be
terminated by the Underwriter, in its absolute discretion by notice given to the Company prior to
delivery of and payment for the Shares if, prior to that time, any of the events described in
Section 6(j), Section 6(k) or Section 6(l) have occurred or if the
Underwriter shall decline to purchase the Shares for any reason permitted under this Agreement.
9. Reimbursement of Underwriter’s Expenses. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Agreement, if (a) this Agreement shall have been terminated pursuant to
Section 8, (b) the Company shall fail to tender the Firm Shares or the Additional Shares,
as the case may be, for delivery to the Underwriter for any reason not permitted under this
Agreement, (c) the Underwriter shall decline to purchase the Firm Shares or the Additional Shares,
as the case may be, for any reason permitted under this Agreement or (d) the sale of the Firm
Shares or the Additional Shares, as the case may be, is not consummated because any condition to
the obligations of the Underwriter 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 5, the Company shall reimburse the Underwriter for the fees and
expenses of the Underwriter’s 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 Firm Shares or the proposed purchase of the Additional Shares, as the case may be,
and upon demand the Company shall pay the full amount thereof to the Underwriter. For the purpose
of clarity, in connection with this Section 9, if the Additional Shares are not purchased on the
Closing Date, then following the Closing Date the Company shall only be responsible for any
additional costs, fees and expenses set forth above that are related to the purchase of the
Additional Shares.
10. Effectiveness. This Agreement shall become effective upon the execution
and delivery hereof by the parties hereto.
11. Absence of Fiduciary Relationship. The Company acknowledges and agrees that:
(a) the Underwriter’s responsibility to the Company is solely contractual in nature,
the Underwriter have been retained solely to act as Underwriter in connection with the
Offering and no fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship between the Company and the
Underwriter has been created in respect of any of the transactions
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contemplated by this Agreement, irrespective of whether the Underwriter or Lazard Frères &
Co. LLC have advised or are advising the Company on other matters;
(b) the price of the Shares set forth in this Agreement was established by the Company
following discussions and arms-length negotiations with the Underwriter, 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 Underwriter 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 Underwriter 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 Underwriter for breach of fiduciary duty or alleged breach of fiduciary duty and agrees
that the Underwriter 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.
12. Successors; Persons Entitled to Benefit of Agreement. This Agreement
shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Underwriter, the Company, and their
respective successors and assigns. This Agreement shall also inure to the benefit of Lazard Frères
& Co. LLC, the Underwriter, and each of their respective successors and assigns, which shall be
third party beneficiaries hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the determination as to whether
any condition in Section 6 hereof shall have been satisfied, and the waiver of any
condition in Section 6 hereof, may be made by the Underwriter in its sole discretion.
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 Underwriter Indemnified Parties and the indemnities
of the Underwriter shall be for the benefit of the Company Indemnified Parties. It is understood
that the Underwriter’s responsibility to the Company is solely contractual in nature and the
Underwriter does not owe the Company, or any other party, any fiduciary duty as a result of this
Agreement.
13. Survival of Indemnities, Representations, Warranties, etc. The
respective indemnities, covenants, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of
the Company and the Underwriter, 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 Underwriter, the Company or any person controlling any of them and
shall survive delivery of and payment for the Shares. Notwithstanding any termination of this
Agreement, including without limitation any termination pursuant to Section 8, the
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indemnity and contribution and reimbursement agreements contained in Sections 7 and
9 and the covenants, representations, warranties set forth in this Agreement shall not
terminate and shall remain in full force and effect at all times.
14. Notices. All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder
shall be in writing, and:
(a) if to the Underwriter 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: 000-000-0000, with a copy to Xxxxxx LLP, 0000 Xxxxxxxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx, Esq.;
provided, however, that any notice to the Underwriter pursuant to Section 7 shall be
delivered or sent by mail or facsimile transmission to the Underwriter at its address set forth in
its acceptance communication to the Underwriter, which address will be supplied to any other party
hereto by the Underwriter 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 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 Underwriter each hereby consent to the jurisdiction of such courts and
personal service with respect thereto. The Company and the Underwriter 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 Underwriter 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. Underwriter’s Information. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree
that, for all purposes of this Agreement, the Underwriter’s Information consists solely of the
following
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information in the Prospectus: (i) the last paragraph on the front cover page concerning the terms
of the offering by the Underwriter; and (ii) the statements concerning the Underwriter contained in
the first paragraph, concerning the Underwriter and Lazard Frères & Co. LLC in the eighth
paragraph, concerning stabilization by the Underwriter in the thirteenth paragraph, and concerning
electronic distributions in the fourteenth paragraph, in each case under the heading
“Underwriting.”
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 Underwriter.
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 Underwriter, 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 Underwriting Agreement]
Accepted as of the date
first above written:
first above written:
LAZARD CAPITAL MARKETS LLC
By: | /s/ Xxxxx X. XxXxxxxx, Xx. | |||
Name: | Xxxxx X. XxXxxxxx, Xx. | |||
Title: | Managing Director | |||
[Signature Page to Anadys Underwriting Agreement]
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
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx
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 Lock Up Agreement
October __, 2010
LAZARD CAPITAL MARKETS LLC
00 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
00 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Re: Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. — Public Offering of Common Stock
Dear Sirs:
This Agreement is being delivered to you in connection with the Underwriting Agreement (the
“Underwriting Agreement”) among Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
“Company”) and Lazard Capital Markets LLC (“LCM” or the “Underwriter”), relating to the proposed
public offering of shares of the common stock (the “Offering”), par value $0.001 per share (the
“Common Stock”), of the Company.
In order to induce you to enter into the Underwriting Agreement, and in light of the benefits
that the Offering 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
Underwriter that, for a period (the “Lock-up Period”) of ninety (90) days following the date of the
final prospectus filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection
with the Offering, 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 Underwriting Agreement is not executed by October 31, 2010, (ii) the Company
notifies you in writing prior to the execution of the Underwriting agreement 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, (iv) ) the Company enters into a definitive agreement that
contemplates a Fundamental Transaction (as defined below) or (v) the Underwriting 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.
For purposes of this Lock-Up Agreement, a “Fundamental Transaction” means that the Company
shall, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions, (i) consolidate or merge with
or into (where the Company is not the surviving corporation) another business entity, (ii) sell,
assign, transfer, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the properties or
assets of the Company to another business entity, (iii) allow another business entity to make a
purchase, tender or exchange offer that includes as a condition of such purchase, tender or
exchange that it be accepted by the holders of more than the 50% of the outstanding shares of
Common Stock of the Company (not including any shares of Common Stock held by the business entity
making or party to such purchase, tender or exchange offer), or (iv) consummate a stock purchase
agreement or other business combination (including, without limitation, a reorganization,
recapitalization, spin-off or scheme of arrangement) with another business entity whereby such
other business entity acquires more than the 50% of the then outstanding shares of Common Stock of
the Company (not including any shares of Common Stock held by the business entity making or party
to such stock purchase agreement or other business combination).
This agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State
of New York.
Very truly yours, |
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(Name of Stockholder — Please Print) | ||||
(Signature) | ||||
Address: | ||||