8,250,000 Shares of Unilife Corporation Common Stock UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
Exhibit 1.1
EXECUTION COPY
8,250,000 Shares of
Unilife Corporation
Common Stock
November 16, 2011
XXXXXXXXX & COMPANY, INC.
As Representative of the several Underwriters
c/o JEFFERIES & COMPANY, INC.
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
As Representative of the several Underwriters
c/o JEFFERIES & COMPANY, INC.
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Introductory. Unilife Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue
and sell to the several underwriters named in Schedule A (the “Underwriters”) an aggregate
of 8,250,000 shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Shares”). The 8,250,000
Shares to be sold by the Company are called the “Firm Shares.” In addition, the Company has
granted to the Underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 1,237,500 Shares as provided
in Section 2. The additional 1,237,500 Shares to be sold by the Company pursuant to such option
are collectively called the “Optional Shares.” The Firm Shares and, if and to the extent such
option is exercised, the Optional Shares are collectively called the “Offered Shares.” Jefferies &
Company, Inc. (“Jefferies”) has agreed to act as representative of the several Underwriters (in
such capacity, the “Representative”) in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered
Shares. To the extent there are no additional underwriters listed on Schedule A, the term
“Representative” as used herein shall mean you, as Underwriter.
The Company has prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission”) a shelf registration statement on Form S-3, File No. 333-173195, including a base
prospectus (the “Base Prospectus”) to be used in connection with the public offering and sale of
the Offered Shares. Such registration statement, as amended, including the financial statements,
exhibits and schedules thereto, in the form in which it became effective under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (collectively, the
"Securities Act”), including all documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference
therein and any information deemed to be a part thereof at the time of effectiveness pursuant to
Rule 430B under the Securities Act, is called the “Registration Statement.” Any registration
statement filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act in connection with
the offer and sale of the Offered Shares is called the “Rule 462(b) Registration Statement,” and
from and after the date and time of filing of any such Rule 462(b) Registration Statement the term
“Registration Statement” shall include the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement. The preliminary
prospectus supplement dated November 15, 2011 describing the Offered Shares and the offering
thereof (the “Preliminary Prospectus Supplement”), together with the Base Prospectus, is called the
"Preliminary Prospectus,” and the Preliminary Prospectus and any other prospectus supplement to the
Base Prospectus in preliminary form that describes the Offered Shares and the offering thereof and
is used prior to the filing of the
Prospectus (as defined below), together with the Base
Prospectus, is called a “preliminary prospectus.” As used herein, the term “Prospectus” shall mean the final
prospectus supplement to the Base Prospectus that describes the Offered Shares and the offering
thereof (the “Final Prospectus Supplement”), together with the Base Prospectus, in the form first
used by the Underwriters to confirm sales of the Offered Shares or in the form first made available
to the Underwriters by the Company to meet requests of purchasers pursuant to Rule 173 under the
Securities Act. References herein to the Preliminary Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus and
the Prospectus shall refer to both the prospectus supplement and the Base Prospectus components of
such prospectus. As used herein, “Applicable Time” is 8:00a.m. (New York time) on November 16,
2011. As used herein, “free writing prospectus” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the
Securities Act, and “Time of Sale Prospectus” means the Preliminary Prospectus, as amended or
supplemented immediately prior to the Applicable Time, together with the free writing prospectuses,
if any, identified in Schedule C. As used herein, “Road Show” means a “road show” (as
defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act) relating to the offering of the Offered Shares
contemplated hereby that is a “written communication” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities
Act). As used herein, the terms “Registration Statement,” “Preliminary Prospectus” “preliminary
prospectus,” “Base Prospectus” and “Prospectus” shall include the documents incorporated or deemed
to be incorporated by reference therein. All references in this Agreement to financial statements
and schedules and other information which are “contained,” “included” or “stated” in the
Registration Statement, the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any
preliminary prospectus, the Base Prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus, and all
other references of like import, shall be deemed to mean and include all such financial statements
and schedules and other information which is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any
preliminary prospectus, the Base Prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the
case may be. All references in this Agreement to amendments or supplements to the Registration
Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus, the Base Prospectus, the Time of
Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to mean and include the filing of any document
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder (collectively, the “Exchange Act”) that is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference
in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus, the Base
Prospectus, or the Prospectus, as the case may be. All references in this Agreement to (i) the
Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus, the Base Prospectus
or the Prospectus, any amendments or supplements to any of the foregoing, or any free writing
prospectus, shall include any copy thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to its Electronic
Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System (“XXXXX”) and (ii) the Prospectus shall be deemed to
include any “electronic Prospectus” provided for use in connection with the offering of the Offered
Shares as contemplated by Section 3(n) of this Agreement.
In the event that the Company has only one subsidiary, then all references herein to
“subsidiaries” of the Company shall be deemed to refer to such single subsidiary, mutatis
mutandis.
The Company hereby confirms its agreement with the Underwriters as follows:
Section 1. Representations and Warranties of the Company.
The Company hereby represents, warrants and covenants to each Underwriter, as of the date
of this Agreement, as of the First Closing Date (as hereinafter defined) and as of each Option
Closing Date (as hereinafter defined), if any, as follows:
(a) Compliance with Registration Requirements. The Registration Statement has become
effective under the Securities Act. The Company has complied to the Commission’s satisfaction with
all requests of the Commission for additional or supplemental information, if any, relating to the
Registration Statement. No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement
is in effect and no proceedings for such purpose have been instituted or are pending or, to the
best knowledge of the Company, are contemplated or threatened by the Commission.
At the time the Registration Statement was originally filed with the Commission and at the
time the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2011 (the “Annual
Report”) was filed with the Commission, the Company met the then-applicable requirements for use of
Form S-3 under the Securities Act.
The documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, at the time they were or hereafter are
filed with the Commission, or became effective under the Exchange Act, as the case may be, complied
and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act.
(b) Disclosure. Each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus when filed complied in all
material respects with the Securities Act and, if filed by electronic transmission pursuant to
XXXXX, was identical (except as may be permitted by Regulation S-T under the Securities Act) to the
copy thereof delivered to the Underwriters for use in connection with the offer and sale of the
Offered Shares. Each of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, at
the time it became or becomes effective and at all subsequent times, complied and will comply in
all material respects with the Securities Act and did not and will not contain any untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein not misleading. As of the Applicable Time, the Time of Sale Prospectus
(including any preliminary prospectus wrapper) did not, and at the time of each sale of the
Offered Shares and at the First Closing Date (as defined in Section 2), the Time of Sale
Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented by the Company, if applicable, will not, contain any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
The Prospectus (including any Prospectus wrapper), as of its date and (as then amended or
supplemented) at all subsequent times, did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein,
in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The representations
and warranties set forth in the three immediately preceding sentences do not apply to statements in
or omissions from the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto, or the
Prospectus or the Time of Sale Prospectus, or any amendments or supplements thereto, made in
reliance upon and in conformity with written information relating to any Underwriter furnished to
the Company in writing by the Representative expressly for use therein, it being understood and
agreed that the only such information consists of the information described in Section 9(b) below.
There are no contracts or other documents required to be described in the Time of Sale Prospectus
or the Prospectus or to be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement which have not been
described or filed as required.
(c) Free Writing Prospectuses; Road Show. As of the determination date referenced in Rule
164(h) under the Securities Act, the Company was not, is not or will not be (as applicable) an
“ineligible issuer” in connection with the offering of the Offered Shares pursuant to Rules 164,
405 and 433 under the Securities Act. Each free writing prospectus that the
Company is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act has been, or will
be, filed with the Commission in accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act. Each free
writing prospectus that the Company has filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d)
under the Securities Act or that was prepared by or on behalf of or used or referred to by the
Company complies or will comply in all material respects with the requirements of Rule 433 under
the Securities Act, including timely filing with the Commission or retention where required and
legending, and each such free writing prospectus, as of its issue date and at all subsequent times
through the completion of the public offer and sale of the Offered Shares did not, does not and
will not include any information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the information
contained in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any preliminary prospectus and not
superseded or modified. Except for the free writing prospectuses, if any, identified in
Schedule C, and electronic road shows, if any, furnished to you before first use, the
Company has not prepared, used or referred to, and will not, without your prior written consent,
prepare, use or refer to, any free writing prospectus. Each Road Show that is a “bona fide
electronic road show” as defined in Rule 433(h)(5) under the Securities Act that has been made
available without restriction to any person, when considered together with the Time of Sale
Prospectus, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they
were made, not misleading.
(d) Offering Materials Furnished to Underwriters. The Company has made available to the
Representative two complete copies of the Registration Statement and each amendment thereto
(including, in each case, exhibits) and each consent and certificate of experts filed as a part
thereof, and additional copies of the Registration Statement and each amendment thereto (without
exhibits) and each preliminary prospectus and any free writing prospectus reviewed and consented to
by the Representative, in such quantities and at such places as the Representative has reasonably
requested for each of the Underwriters. Upon request of the Representative, the Company will
provide to the underwriters two complete, manually signed copies of the Registration Statement and
each amendment thereto.
(e) Distribution of Offering Material By the Company. The Company has not distributed and
will not distribute, prior to the later of (i) the expiration or termination of the option granted
to the several Underwriters in Section 2, and (ii) the completion of the Underwriters’
distribution of the Offered Shares, any offering material in connection with the offering and sale
of the Offered Shares other than the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the
Prospectus.
(f) The Underwriting Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Company.
(g) Authorization of the Offered Shares. The Offered Shares have been duly authorized for
issuance and sale pursuant to this Agreement and, when issued and delivered by the Company against
payment therefor pursuant to this Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable,
and the issuance and sale of the Offered Shares is not subject to any preemptive rights, rights of
first refusal or other similar rights to subscribe for or purchase the Offered Shares.
(h) No Applicable Registration or Other Similar Rights. There are no persons with
registration or other similar rights to have any equity or debt securities registered for sale
under the Registration Statement or included in the offering contemplated by this Agreement, except
for such rights as have been duly waived.
(i) No Material Adverse Change. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement,
the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, subsequent to the respective dates as of which
information is given in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus:
(i) there has been no material adverse change, or any development that could be expected to result
in a material adverse change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings,
business, properties, operations or prospects, whether or not arising from transactions in the
ordinary course of business, of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one entity (any
such change being referred to herein as a “Material Adverse Change”); (ii) the Company and its
subsidiaries, considered as one entity, have not incurred any material liability or obligation,
indirect, direct or contingent, not in the ordinary course of business nor entered into any
material transaction or agreement not in the ordinary course of business; and (iii) there has been
no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company or, except for
dividends paid to the Company or other subsidiaries, any of its subsidiaries on any class of
capital stock or repurchase or redemption by the Company or any of its subsidiaries of any class of
capital stock.
(j) Independent Accountants. Each of KPMG LLP and BDO Audit (WA) Pty Ltd, which have
expressed their opinion with respect to the financial statements (which term as used in this
Agreement includes the related notes thereto) filed with the Commission as a part of and
incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the
Prospectus, is (i) an independent registered public accounting firm as required by the Exchange
Act, and the rules of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”), (ii) in compliance
with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of
Regulation S-X under the Securities Act and (iii) a registered public accounting firm as defined by
the PCAOB whose registration has not been suspended or revoked and, to the knowledge of the
Company, who has not requested such registration to be withdrawn.
(k) Financial Statements. The financial statements filed with the Commission as incorporated
by reference into the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus
present fairly the consolidated financial position of the Company and its subsidiaries as of the
dates indicated and the results of their operations, changes in stockholders’ equity and cash flows
for the periods specified, provided, however, that unaudited interim financial statements are
subject to normal and recurring audit adjustments, which are not, individually or in the aggregate,
expected to be material. Such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally
accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States applied on a consistent basis
throughout the periods involved, except as may be expressly stated in the related notes thereto.
No other financial statements are required to be included in the Registration Statement, the Time
of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus. The financial data set forth in each of the Registration
Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus under the caption “Selected Financial
Data” fairly present the information set forth therein on a basis consistent with that of the
audited financial statements contained in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus
and the Prospectus, subject to normal and recurring audit adjustments, which are not, individually
or in the aggregate, expected to be material. To the Company’s knowledge, no person who has been
suspended or barred from being associated with a registered public accounting firm, or who has
failed to comply with any sanction pursuant to Rule 5300 promulgated by the PCAOB, has participated
in or otherwise aided the preparation of, or audited, the financial statements or other financial
data filed with the Commission as a part of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus
and the Prospectus.
(l) Company’s Accounting System. The Company and each of its subsidiaries make and keep
accurate books and records and maintain a system of internal accounting controls
sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance
with management’s general or specific authorization; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to
permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting
principles as applied in the United States and to maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access
to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and
(iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable
intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
(m) Disclosure Controls and Procedures; Deficiencies in or Changes to Internal Control Over
Financial Reporting. The Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures
(as defined in Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act), which (i) are designed to ensure
that material information relating to the Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made
known to the Company’s principal executive officer and its principal financial officer by others
within those entities, particularly during the periods in which the periodic reports required under
the Exchange Act are being prepared; (ii) have been evaluated by management of the Company for
effectiveness as of the end of the Company’s most recent fiscal quarter; and (iii) are effective in
all material respects to perform the functions for which they were established at the reasonable
assurance level. Since the end of the Company’s most recent audited fiscal year, there have been
no significant deficiencies or material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting (whether or not remediated) and 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 is not aware of any change in its
internal control over financial reporting that has occurred during its most recent fiscal quarter
that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal
control over financial reporting.
(n) Incorporation and Good Standing of the Company. The Company has been duly incorporated
and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its
incorporation and has the corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties
and to conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus
and the Prospectus and to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement. The Company
is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business and in good standing in the State
of Delaware and each other jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason
of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business.
(o) Subsidiaries. Each of the Company’s “subsidiaries” (for purposes of this Agreement, as
defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) has been duly incorporated or organized, as the case
may be, and is validly existing as a corporation, partnership or limited liability company, as
applicable, in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or
organization and has the power and authority (corporate or other) to own, lease and operate its
properties and to conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale
Prospectus and the Prospectus. Each of the Company’s subsidiaries is duly qualified as a foreign
corporation, partnership or limited liability company, as applicable, to transact business and is
in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of
the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business. All of the issued and outstanding
capital stock or other equity or ownership interests of each of the Company’s subsidiaries have
been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable and are owned by the
Company, directly or through subsidiaries and are, except as could not be expected, individually or
in the aggregate, to have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or other),
earnings, business, properties, operations or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries,
considered as one entity (a “Material Adverse Effect”), free and
clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien, encumbrance or adverse claim. The
Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any corporation, association or other
entity other than the subsidiaries listed in Exhibit 21 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011.
(p) Capitalization and Other Capital Stock Matters. The authorized, issued and outstanding
capital stock of the Company is as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale
Prospectus and the Prospectus (other than for subsequent issuances, if any, pursuant to employee
benefit plans, or upon the exercise of outstanding options or warrants, in each case described in
the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus). The Shares (including
the Offered Shares) conform in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the
Time of Sale Prospectus. All of the issued and outstanding Shares have been duly authorized and
validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable and have been issued in compliance with all
federal and state securities laws. None of the outstanding Shares was issued in violation of any
preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other similar rights to subscribe for or purchase
securities of the Company. There are no authorized or outstanding options, warrants, preemptive
rights, rights of first refusal or other rights to purchase, or equity or debt securities
convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for, any capital stock of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries other than those described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus
and the Prospectus. The description of the Company’s stock option, stock bonus and other stock
plans or arrangements, and the options or other rights granted thereunder, set forth in the
Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus accurately and fairly
presents the information required to be shown with respect to such plans, arrangements, options and
rights.
(q) Stock Exchange Listing. The Shares are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the
Exchange Act and are listed on The NASDAQ Global Market (the “NASDAQ”), and the Company has taken
no action designed to, or likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Shares
under the Exchange Act or delisting the Shares from the NASDAQ, nor has the Company received any
notification that the Commission or the NASDAQ is contemplating terminating such registration or
listing. To the Company’s knowledge, it is in compliance with all applicable listing requirements
of NASDAQ.
(r) Non-Contravention of Existing Instruments; No Further Authorizations or Approvals
Required. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of its charter or
by-laws, partnership agreement or operating agreement or similar organizational documents, as
applicable, or is in default (or, with the giving of notice or lapse of time, would be in default)
(“Default”) under any indenture, loan, credit agreement, note, lease, license agreement, contract,
franchise or other instrument (including, without limitation, any pledge agreement, security
agreement, mortgage or other instrument or agreement evidencing, guaranteeing, securing or relating
to indebtedness) to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any
of them may be bound, or to which any of their respective properties or assets are subject (each,
an “Existing Instrument”), except for such Defaults as could not be expected, individually or in
the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company’s execution, delivery and performance
of this Agreement, consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the Registration
Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus and the issuance and sale of the Offered
Shares (i) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and will not result in any
violation of the provisions of the charter or by-laws, partnership agreement or operating agreement
or similar organizational documents, as applicable, of the Company or any subsidiary (ii) will not
conflict with or constitute a breach of,
or Default or a Debt Repayment Triggering Event (as
defined below) under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or
any of its subsidiaries pursuant to, or require the consent of any other party to, any Existing
Instrument and (iii) will not result in any violation of any law, administrative regulation or
administrative or court decree applicable to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, except, in the
case of clause (ii), where such breaches, Defaults, results or violations as could not be expected,
individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No consent, approval,
authorization or other order of, or registration or filing with, any court or other governmental or
regulatory authority or agency, is required for the Company’s execution, delivery and performance
of this Agreement and consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the Registration
Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, except such as have been obtained or
made by the Company and are in full force and effect under the Securities Act and such as may be
required under applicable state securities or blue sky laws or the Financial Industry Regulatory
Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”). As used herein, a “Debt Repayment Triggering Event” means any event or
condition which 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.
(s) Compliance with Laws. The Company and its subsidiaries have been and are in compliance
with all applicable laws, rules and regulations, except where failure to be so in compliance could
not be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(t) No Material Actions or Proceedings. There is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or
investigation brought by or before any governmental entity now pending or, to the knowledge of the
Company, threatened, against or affecting the Company or any of its subsidiaries, which could be
expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect or materially and
adversely affect the consummation of the transaction contemplated by this Agreement or the
performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder; and the aggregate of all pending legal or
governmental proceedings to which the Company or any such subsidiary is a party or of which any of
their respective properties or assets is the subject, including ordinary routine litigation
incidental to the business, if determined adversely to the Company, could not be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect. No material labor dispute with the employees of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries, or with the employees of any principal supplier, manufacturer, customer or contractor
of the Company, exists or, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, is threatened or imminent.
(u) Intellectual Property Rights. The Company and its subsidiaries own, or have obtained valid
and enforceable licenses for the inventions, patent applications, patents, trademarks, trade names,
service names, copyrights, trade secrets and other intellectual property described in the
Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus as being owned or licensed
by them or which are necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses as currently
conducted or as currently proposed to be conducted (collectively, “Intellectual Property”)
except for such exceptions as could not be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in
a Material Adverse Effect. To the Company’s knowledge: (i) there are no third parties who have
rights to any Intellectual Property, except for customary reversionary rights of third-party
licensors with respect to Intellectual Property that is disclosed in the Registration Statement,
the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus as licensed to the Company or one or more of its
subsidiaries; and (ii) there is no infringement by third parties of any Intellectual Property.
There is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by
others: (A) challenging the Company’s rights in or to any Intellectual
Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any
such action, suit, proceeding or claim; (B) challenging the validity, enforceability or scope of
any Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable
basis for any such action, suit, proceeding or claim; (C) asserting that the Company or any of its
subsidiaries infringes or otherwise violates, or would, upon the commercialization of any product
or service described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus
as under development, infringe or violate, any patent, trademark, trade name, service name,
copyright, trade secret or other proprietary rights of others, and the Company is unaware of any
facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such action, suit, proceeding or claim; or (D)
challenging the validity or enforceability of any of the Intellectual Property. The Company and
its subsidiaries have complied in all material respects with the terms of each agreement pursuant
to which Intellectual Property has been licensed to the Company or any subsidiary, and all such
agreements are in full force and effect. The product candidates described in the Registration
Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus as under development by the Company or
any subsidiary fall within the scope of the claims of one or more patents owned by, or exclusively
licensed to, the Company or any subsidiary.
(v) All Necessary Permits, etc. The Company and its subsidiaries possess such valid and
current certificates, authorizations or permits required by state, federal or foreign regulatory
agencies or bodies to conduct their respective businesses as currently conducted and as described
in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus (“Permits”). Neither
the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of, or in default under, any of the Permits
(a “Permit Violation”) or has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or
modification of, or non-compliance with, any such Permit (a “Permit Notice”), except such
violations, defaults or notices as could not be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to
result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Company is not aware of any Permit Violations or Permit
Notices.
(w) Title to Properties. The Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title to
all of the real and personal property and other assets reflected as owned in the financial
statements referred to in Section 1(k) above (or elsewhere in the Registration Statement, the Time
of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus), in each case free and clear of any security interests,
mortgages, liens, encumbrances, equities, adverse claims and other defects, except for such
mortgages, liens, encumbrances, equities, adverse claims and other defects as are described in the
Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus. The real property,
improvements, equipment and personal property held under lease by the Company or any of its
subsidiaries are held under valid and enforceable leases, with such exceptions as are not material
and do not materially interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such real property,
improvements, equipment or personal property by the Company or such subsidiary.
(x) Tax Law Compliance. The Company and its subsidiaries have filed all necessary federal,
state and foreign income and franchise tax returns (each a “Tax Return”) or have properly requested
extensions thereof and have paid all taxes required to be paid by any of them and, if due and
payable, any related or similar assessment, fine or penalty levied against any of them (each a
“Required Tax Payment”) except as may be being contested in good faith and by appropriate
proceedings, and except for such exceptions as could not be expected, individually or in the
aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Company is not aware of any claims by any
taxing authority that the Company has failed to file or request an extension to file any Tax Return
or has failed to make any Required Tax Payment. The Company has made adequate charges, accruals
and reserves in the applicable financial statements referred to in Section 1(k)
above in respect of all federal, state and foreign income and franchise taxes for all periods
as to which the tax liability of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has not been finally
determined.
(y) Insurance. Each of the Company and its subsidiaries are insured by recognized,
financially sound and reputable institutions with policies in such amounts and with such
deductibles and covering such risks as, in the reasonable judgment of the Company and its
subsidiaries, are adequate for their businesses including, but not limited to, policies covering
real and personal property owned or leased by the Company and its subsidiaries against theft,
damage, destruction, acts of vandalism and earthquakes and policies covering the Company and its
subsidiaries for product liability claims and clinical trial liability claims. The Company has no
reason to believe that it or any of its subsidiaries 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 could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Since July
1, 2009, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has been denied any insurance coverage
which it has sought or for which it has applied.
(z) Compliance with Environmental Laws. Except as could not be reasonably expected,
individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect: (i) neither the Company nor
any of its subsidiaries is in violation of any federal, state, local or foreign statute, law, rule,
regulation, ordinance, code, policy or rule of common law or any judicial or administrative
interpretation thereof, including any judicial or administrative order, consent, decree or
judgment, relating to pollution or protection of human health, the environment (including, without
limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata) or
wildlife, including, without limitation, laws and regulations relating to the release or threatened
release of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, wastes, toxic substances, hazardous substances,
petroleum or petroleum products (collectively, “Hazardous Materials”) or to the manufacture,
processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous
Materials (collectively, “Environmental Laws”); (ii) the Company and its subsidiaries have all
permits, authorizations and approvals required under any applicable Environmental Laws and are each
in compliance with their requirements; (iii) there are no pending or threatened administrative,
regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of
noncompliance or violation, investigation or proceedings relating to any Environmental Law against
the Company or any of its subsidiaries and (iv) to the Company’s knowledge, there are no events or
circumstances that might reasonably be expected to form the basis of an order for clean-up or
remediation, or an action, suit or proceeding by any private party or governmental body or agency,
against or affecting the Company or any of its subsidiaries relating to Hazardous Materials or any
Environmental Laws.
(aa) ERISA Compliance. The Company and its subsidiaries and any “employee benefit plan” (as
defined under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and the regulations
and published interpretations thereunder (collectively, “ERISA”)) established or maintained by the
Company, its subsidiaries or their “ERISA Affiliates” (as defined below) are in compliance in all
material respects with ERISA. “ERISA Affiliate” means, with respect to the Company or any of its
subsidiaries, any member of any group of organizations described in Sections 414(b), (c), (m) or
(o) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations and published
interpretations thereunder (the “Code”) of which the Company or such subsidiary is a member. No
“reportable event” (as defined under ERISA) has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur with
respect to any “employee benefit plan” established or maintained by the Company, its subsidiaries
or any of their ERISA Affiliates. No “employee benefit plan” established or maintained by the
Company, its subsidiaries or any of
their ERISA Affiliates, if such “employee benefit plan” were terminated, would have any
“amount of unfunded benefit liabilities” (as defined under ERISA). Neither the Company, its
subsidiaries nor any of their ERISA Affiliates has incurred or reasonably expects to incur any
liability under (i) Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal from, any
“employee benefit plan” or (ii) Sections 412, 4971, 4975 or 4980B of the Code. Each employee
benefit plan established or maintained by the Company, its subsidiaries or any of their ERISA
Affiliates that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified and
nothing has occurred, whether by action or failure to act, which would cause the loss of such
qualification.
(bb) Company Not an “Investment Company.” The Company is not, and will not be, either after
receipt of payment for the Offered Shares or after the application of the proceeds therefrom as
described under “Use of Proceeds” in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the
Prospectus, required to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”).
(cc) No Price Stabilization or Manipulation; Compliance with Regulation M. Neither the
Company nor any of its subsidiaries has taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or
that might be reasonably expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price
of the Shares or of any “reference security” (as defined in Rule 100 of Regulation M under the
Exchange Act (“Regulation M”)) with respect to the Shares, whether to facilitate the sale or resale
of the Offered Shares or otherwise, and has taken no action which would directly or indirectly
violate Regulation M.
(dd) Related-Party Transactions. There are no business relationships or related-party
transactions involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any other person required to be
described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus that have
not been described as required.
(ee) FINRA Matters. All of the information provided to the Underwriters or to counsel for the
Underwriters by or on behalf of the Company, and, to the Company’s knowledge, all of the
information provided by the Company’s officers and directors and the holders of any securities
(debt or equity) or options to acquire any securities of the Company in connection with information
provided to FINRA pursuant to FINRA Rules or NASD Conduct Rules is true, complete and correct in
all material respects.
(ff) Parties to Lock-Up Agreements. The Company has furnished to the Underwriters a letter
agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C (the “Lock-up Agreement”) from each of
the persons listed on Exhibit D. Such Exhibit D lists under an appropriate caption
the directors and officers of the Company. If any additional persons shall become directors or
officers of the Company prior to the end of the Company Lock-up Period (as defined below), the
Company shall cause each such person, prior to or contemporaneously with their appointment or
election as a director or executive officer of the Company, to execute and deliver to Jefferies a
Lock-up Agreement.
(gg) Statistical and Market-Related Data. All statistical, demographic and market-related
data included in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus are
based on or derived from sources that the Company believes, after reasonable inquiry, to be
reliable and accurate. To the Company’s knowledge, after reasonable investigation, it does not
require the consent of any third party for the use of any such data.
(hh) No Unlawful Contributions or Other Payments. Neither the Company nor any of its
subsidiaries nor, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, any employee or agent of the Company or
any subsidiary, has made any contribution or other payment to any official of, or candidate for,
any federal, state or foreign office in violation of any law or of the character required to be
disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus.
(ii) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to
the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee, affiliate or other person
acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is aware of or has taken any action,
directly or indirectly, that has resulted or would result in a violation of the Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “FCPA”),
including, without limitation, making use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of
interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay or authorization
of the payment of any money, or other property, gift, promise to give, or authorization of the
giving of anything of value to any “foreign official” (as such term is defined in the FCPA) or any
foreign political party or official thereof or any candidate for foreign political office, in
contravention of the FCPA; and the Company and its subsidiaries and, to the knowledge of the
Company, the Company’s affiliates have conducted their respective businesses in compliance with the
FCPA and have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to ensure, and which are
reasonably expected to continue to ensure, continued compliance therewith.
(jj) Money Laundering Laws. The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are, and have
been conducted at all times, in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting
requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money
laundering statutes of all applicable jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any
related or similar applicable rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by
any governmental agency (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”) 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 best knowledge of the Company, threatened.
(kk) OFAC. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the
Company, any director, officer, agent, employee, affiliate or person acting on behalf 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 this offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make
available such proceeds to any subsidiary, or any 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.
(ll) Brokers. Except pursuant to this Agreement, there is no broker, finder or other party
that is entitled to receive from the Company any brokerage or finder’s fee or other fee or
commission as a result of any transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(mm) Forward-Looking Statements. Each financial or operational projection or other
“forward-looking statement” (as defined by Section 27A of the Securities Act or Section 21E of the
Exchange Act) contained in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the
Prospectus (i) was so included by the Company in good faith and with reasonable basis after due
consideration by the Company of the underlying assumptions, estimates and other applicable
facts and circumstances and (ii) is accompanied by meaningful cautionary statements
identifying those factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such
forward-looking statement. No such statement was made with the knowledge of an executive officer
or director of the Company that is false or misleading.
(nn) Regulatory Compliance. The Company and its subsidiaries have each operated and
currently are in compliance in all material respects with all applicable rules, regulations and
policies of the Food and Drug Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or
any committee thereof or from any other U.S. or foreign government or drug or medical device
regulatory agency (collectively, the “Regulatory Agencies”).
(oo) No Rights to Purchase Preferred Stock. The issuance and sale of the Shares as
contemplated hereby will not cause any holder of any shares of capital stock, securities
convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for capital stock or options, warrants or other
rights to purchase capital stock or any other securities of the Company to have any right to
acquire any shares of preferred stock of the Company.
(pp) No Contract Terminations. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiary has sent or
received any communication regarding termination of, or intent not to renew, any of the contracts
or agreements referred to or described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus
or the Prospectus, or referred to or described in, or filed as an exhibit to, the Registration
Statement, and no such termination or non-renewal has been threatened by the Company or any of its
subsidiaries or, to the Company’s knowledge, any other party to any such contract or agreement,
which threat of termination or non-renewal has not been rescinded as of the date hereof.
(qq) Dividend Restrictions. No subsidiary of the Company is prohibited or restricted,
directly or indirectly, from paying dividends to the Company, or from making any other distribution
with respect to such subsidiary’s equity securities or from repaying to the Company or any other
subsidiary of the Company any amounts that may from time to time become due under any loans or
advances to such subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any property or assets to the
Company or to any other subsidiary.
Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company or any of its subsidiaries and delivered
to any Underwriter or to counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the offering, or the
purchase and sale, of the Offered Shares shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the
Company to each Underwriter as to the matters covered thereby.
The Company acknowledges that the Underwriters and, for purposes of the opinions to be
delivered pursuant to Section 6 hereof, counsel to the Company and counsel to the Underwriters,
will rely upon the accuracy and truthfulness of the foregoing representations and hereby consents
to such reliance.
Section 2. Purchase, Sale and Delivery of the Offered Shares.
(a) The Firm Shares. Upon the terms herein set forth, the Company agrees to issue and sell to
the several Underwriters an aggregate of 8,250,000 Firm Shares. On the basis of the
representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, and upon the terms but subject to the
conditions herein set forth, the Underwriters agree, severally and not jointly, to purchase from
the Company the respective number of Firm Shares set forth opposite their names on Schedule
A.
The purchase price per Firm Share to be paid by the several Underwriters to the Company shall
be $4.1325 per share.
(b) The First Closing Date. Delivery of certificates for the Firm Shares to be purchased by
the Underwriters and payment therefor shall be made at the offices of Xxxxx & XxXxxxx LLP (or such
other place as may be agreed to by the Company and the Representative) at 9:00 a.m. New York time,
on November 21, 2011 or such other time and date not later than 1:30 p.m. New York time, on
December 5, 2011 as the Representative shall designate by notice to the Company (the time and date
of such closing are called the “First Closing Date”). The Company hereby acknowledges that
circumstances under which the Representative may provide notice to postpone the First Closing Date
as originally scheduled include, but are not limited to, any determination by the Company or the
Representative to recirculate to the public copies of an amended or supplemented Prospectus or a
delay as contemplated by the provisions of Section 11.
(c) The Optional Shares; Option Closing Date. In addition, on the basis of the
representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, and upon the terms but subject to the
conditions herein set forth, the Company hereby grants an option to the several Underwriters to
purchase, severally and not jointly, up to an aggregate of 1,237,500 Optional Shares from the
Company at the purchase price per share to be paid by the Underwriters for the Firm Shares, less an
amount per share equal to any dividend or distribution declared by the Company and payable on the
Firm Shares but not payable on Optional Shares. The option granted hereunder is for use by the
Underwriters solely in covering any over-allotments in connection with the sale and distribution of
the Firm Shares. The option granted hereunder may be exercised at any time and from time to time
in whole or in part upon notice by the Representative to the Company, which notice may be given at
any time within 30 days from the date of this Agreement. Such notice shall set forth (i) the
aggregate number of Optional Shares as to which the Underwriters are exercising the option and (ii)
the time, date and place at which certificates for the Optional Shares will be delivered (which
time and date may be simultaneous with, but not earlier than, the First Closing Date; and in the
event that such time and date are simultaneous with the First Closing Date, the term “First Closing
Date” shall refer to the time and date of delivery of certificates for the Firm Shares and such
Optional Shares). Any such time and date of delivery, if subsequent to the First Closing Date, is
called an “Option Closing Date,” and shall be determined by the Representative and shall not be
earlier than three or later than five full business days after delivery of such notice of exercise.
If any Optional Shares are to be purchased, each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to
purchase the number of Optional Shares (subject to such adjustments to eliminate fractional shares
as the Representative may determine) that bears the same proportion to the total number of Optional
Shares to be purchased as the number of Firm Shares set forth on Schedule A opposite the
name of such Underwriter bears to the total number of Firm Shares. The Representative may cancel
the option at any time prior to its expiration by giving written notice of such cancellation to the
Company. Per the rules of the Australian Stock Exchange (the “ASX”), for such time as the option
is outstanding, the Underwriters will not participate as investors in subsequent new issues of
securities by the Company without first exercising the option granted hereunder. In the event of a
reorganization of capital of the Company, the rights of the Underwriters under the option granted
hereunder will be changed to the extent necessary to comply with the ASX Listing Rules applying to
a reorganization of capital at the time of the reorganization. The Company will not engage in any
reorganization of the capital of the Company (as such term is used for purposes of the rules of the
ASX) until such time as (i) the option granted hereunder has been exercised in full and the
Optional Shares delivered to the Underwriters pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or (ii) the
option granted hereunder has expired by its terms or has been irrevocably terminated by the Company
and the Underwriters.
(d) Public Offering of the Offered Shares. The Representative hereby advises the Company that
the Underwriters intend to offer for sale to the public, initially on the terms set forth in the
Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, their respective portions
of the Offered Shares as soon after this Agreement has been executed as the Representative, in its
sole judgment, has determined is advisable and practicable.
(e) Payment for the Offered Shares. (i) Payment for the Offered Shares shall be made at the
First Closing Date (and, if applicable, at each Option Closing Date) by wire transfer of
immediately available funds to the order of the Company
(ii) It is understood that the Representative has been authorized, for its own account and the
accounts of the several Underwriters, to accept delivery of and receipt for, and make payment of
the purchase price for, the Firm Shares and any Optional Shares the Underwriters have agreed to
purchase. Jefferies, individually and not as the Representative of the Underwriters, may (but
shall not be obligated to) make payment for any Offered Shares to be purchased by any Underwriter
whose funds shall not have been received by the Representative by the First Closing Date or the
applicable Option Closing Date, as the case may be, for the account of such Underwriter, but any
such payment shall not relieve such Underwriter from any of its obligations under this Agreement.
(f) Delivery of the Offered Shares. The Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered,
through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), to the Representative for the
accounts of the several Underwriters certificates for the Firm Shares at the First Closing Date,
against the irrevocable release of a wire transfer of immediately available funds for the amount of
the purchase price therefor. The Company shall also deliver, or cause to be delivered, through the
facilities of DTC, to the Representative for the accounts of the several Underwriters, certificates
for the Optional Shares the Underwriters have agreed to purchase at the First Closing Date or the
applicable Option Closing Date, as the case may be, against the irrevocable release of a wire
transfer of immediately available funds for the amount of the purchase price therefor. The
certificates for the Offered Shares shall be registered in such names and denominations as the
Representative shall have requested at least two full business days prior to the First Closing Date
(or the applicable Option Closing Date, as the case may be) and shall be made available for
inspection on the business day preceding the First Closing Date (or the applicable Option Closing
Date, as the case may be) at a location in New York City as the Representative may designate.
Subject to Section 11, time shall be of the essence, and delivery at the time and place specified
in this Agreement is a further condition to the obligations of the Underwriters.
Section 3. Additional Covenants of the Company.
The Company further covenants and agrees with each Underwriter as follows:
(a) Delivery of Registration Statement, Time of Sale Prospectus and Prospectus. The Company
shall furnish to you in New York City, without charge, prior to 10:00 a.m. New York City time on
the business day next succeeding the date of this Agreement and during the period when a prospectus
is required by the Securities Act to be delivered (whether physically or through compliance with
Rule 172 under the Securities Act or any similar rule) in connection with sales of the Offered
Shares, as many copies of the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus and any supplements and
amendments thereto or to the Registration Statement as you may reasonably request.
(b) Representative’s Review of Proposed Amendments and Supplements. During the period when a
prospectus is required by the Securities Act to be delivered (whether physically or through
compliance with Rule 172 under the Securities Act or any similar rule), the Company (i) will
furnish to the Representative for review, a reasonable period of time prior to the proposed time of
filing of any proposed amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement, a copy of each such
amendment or supplement and (ii) will not amend or supplement the Registration Statement (including
any amendment or supplement through incorporation of any report filed under the Exchange Act)
without the Representative’s prior written consent. Prior to amending or supplementing, any
preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus (including any amendment or
supplement through incorporation of any report filed under the Exchange Act), the Company shall
furnish to the Representative for review, a reasonable amount of time prior to the time of filing
or use of the proposed amendment or supplement, a copy of each such proposed amendment or
supplement. The Company shall not file or use any such proposed amendment or supplement without
the Representative’s prior written consent. The Company shall file with the Commission within the
applicable period specified in Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act any prospectus required to be
filed pursuant to such Rule.
(c) Free Writing Prospectuses. The Company shall furnish to the Representative for review, a
reasonable amount of time prior to the proposed time of filing or use thereof, a copy of each
proposed free writing prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto to be prepared by or on
behalf of, used by, or referred to by the Company, and the Company shall not file, use or refer to
any proposed free writing prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto without the
Representative’s prior written consent. The Company shall furnish to each Underwriter, without
charge, as many copies of any free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of, or used by the
Company, as such Underwriter may reasonably request. If at any time when a prospectus is required
by the Securities Act to be delivered (whether physically or through compliance with Rule 172 under
the Securities Act or any similar rule) in connection with sales of the Offered Shares (but in any
event if at any time through and including the First Closing Date) there occurred or occurs an
event or development as a result of which any free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of,
used by, or referred to by the Company conflicted or would conflict with the information contained
in the Registration Statement or included or would include an untrue statement of a material fact
or omitted or would omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances prevailing at such time, not misleading, the Company
shall promptly amend or supplement such free writing prospectus to eliminate or correct such
conflict so that the statements in such free writing prospectus as so amended or supplemented will
not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances prevailing at such time,
not misleading, as the case may be; provided, however, that prior to amending or supplementing any
such free writing prospectus, the Company shall furnish to the Representative for review, a
reasonable amount of time prior to the proposed time of filing or use thereof, a copy of such
proposed amended or supplemented free writing prospectus, and the Company shall not file, use or
refer to any such amended or supplemented free writing prospectus without the Representative’s
prior written consent.
(d) Filing of Underwriter Free Writing Prospectuses. The Company shall not take any action
that would result in an Underwriter or the Company being required to file with the Commission
pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf
of the Underwriter that the Underwriter otherwise would not have been required to file thereunder.
(e) Amendments and Supplements to Time of Sale Prospectus. If the Time of Sale Prospectus is
being used to solicit offers to buy the Offered Shares at a time when the Prospectus is not yet
available to prospective purchasers, and any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of
which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Time of Sale Prospectus so that the Time of Sale
Prospectus does not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances when delivered
to a prospective purchaser, not misleading, or if any event shall occur or condition exist as a
result of which the Time of Sale Prospectus conflicts with the information contained in the
Registration Statement, or if, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, it is necessary to
amend or supplement the Time of Sale Prospectus to comply with applicable law, the Company shall
(subject to Section 3(b) and Section 3(c) hereof) promptly prepare, file with the Commission and
furnish, at its own expense, to the Underwriters and to any dealer upon request, either amendments
or supplements to the Time of Sale Prospectus so that the statements in the Time of Sale Prospectus
as so amended or supplemented will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances when delivered to a prospective purchaser, not misleading or so that the Time of Sale
Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will no longer conflict with the information contained in
the Registration Statement, or so that the Time of Sale Prospectus, as amended or supplemented,
will comply with applicable law.
(f) Certain Notifications and Required Actions. After the date of this Agreement, and during
the period when a prospectus is required by the Securities Act to be delivered, the Company shall
promptly advise the Representative in writing (i) of the receipt of any comments of, or requests
for additional or supplemental information from, the Commission, (ii) of the time and date of any
filing of any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement
to any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, any free writing prospectus or the
Prospectus, (iii) of the time and date that any post-effective amendment to the Registration
Statement becomes effective and (iv) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending
the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto or any
amendment or supplement to any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the
Prospectus or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus, the Time
of Sale Prospectus, any free writing prospectus or the Prospectus, or of any proceedings to remove,
suspend or terminate from listing or quotation the Shares from any securities exchange upon which
they are listed for trading or included or designated for quotation, or of the threatening or
initiation of any proceedings for any of such purposes. If the Commission shall enter any such
stop order at any time, the Company will use its best efforts to obtain the lifting of such order
at the earliest possible moment. Additionally, the Company agrees that it shall comply with all
applicable provisions of Rule 424(b), Rule 433 and Rule 430B under the Securities Act and will use
its reasonable efforts to confirm that any filings made by the Company under Rule 424(b) or Rule
433 were received in a timely manner by the Commission.
(g) Amendments and Supplements to the Prospectus and Other Securities Act Matters. If any
event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement
the Prospectus so that the Prospectus does not include an untrue statement of a material fact or
omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of
the circumstances when the Prospectus is delivered (whether physically or through compliance with
Rule 172 under the Securities Act or any similar rule) to a purchaser, not misleading, or if in the
opinion of the Representative or counsel for the Underwriters it is otherwise necessary to amend or
supplement the Prospectus to comply with applicable law, the Company agrees (subject to Section
3(b) and Section 3(c)) hereof to promptly prepare, file with
the Commission and furnish, at its own expense, to the Underwriters and to any dealer upon
request, amendments or supplements to the Prospectus so that the statements in the Prospectus as so
amended or supplemented will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a
material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances
when the Prospectus is delivered (whether physically or through compliance with Rule 172 under the
Securities Act or any similar rule) to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the Prospectus, as
amended or supplemented, will comply with applicable law. Neither the Representative’s consent to,
nor delivery of, any such amendment or supplement shall constitute a waiver of any of the Company’s
obligations under Section 3(b) or Section 3(c).
(h) Blue Sky Compliance. The Company shall cooperate with the Representative and counsel for
the Underwriters to qualify or register the Offered Shares for sale under (or obtain exemptions
from the application of) the state securities or blue sky laws or Canadian provincial securities
laws (or other foreign laws) of those jurisdictions designated by the Representative, shall comply
with such laws and shall continue such qualifications, registrations and exemptions in effect so
long as required for the distribution of the Offered Shares. The Company shall not be required to
qualify as a foreign corporation or to take any action that would subject it to general service of
process in any such jurisdiction where it is not presently qualified or where it would be subject
to taxation as a foreign corporation. The Company will advise the Representative promptly of the
suspension of the qualification or registration of (or any such exemption relating to) the Offered
Shares for offering, sale or trading in any jurisdiction or any initiation or threat of any
proceeding for any such purpose, and in the event of the issuance of any order suspending such
qualification, registration or exemption, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to
obtain the withdrawal thereof at the earliest possible moment.
(i) Use of Proceeds. The Company shall apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Offered
Shares sold by it in the manner described under the caption “Use of Proceeds” in the Registration
Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus.
(j) Transfer Agent. The Company shall engage and maintain, at its expense, a registrar and
transfer agent for the Shares.
(k) Earnings Statement. The Company will make generally available to its security holders and
to the Representative as soon as practicable an earnings statement (which need not be audited)
covering a period of at least twelve months beginning with the first fiscal quarter of the Company
commencing after the date of this Agreement that will satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of
the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.
(l) Continued Compliance with Securities Laws. The Company will comply with the Securities
Act and the Exchange Act so as to permit the completion of the distribution of the Offered Share as
contemplated by this Agreement, the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the
Prospectus. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company will, during the period
when a prospectus is required by the Securities Act to be delivered (whether physically or through
compliance with Rule 172 under the Securities Act or any similar rule, file on a timely basis with
the Commission and the NASDAQ all reports and documents required to be filed under the Exchange
Act.
(m) Listing. The Company will use its best efforts to list, subject to notice of issuance,
the Offered Shares on the NASDAQ.
(n) Company to Provide Copy of the Prospectus in Form That May be Downloaded from the
Internet. If requested by the Representative, the Company shall cause to be prepared and
delivered, at its expense, within one business day from the effective date of this Agreement, to
Jefferies an “electronic Prospectus” to be used by the Underwriters in connection with the offering
and sale of the Offered Shares. As used herein, the term “electronic Prospectus” means a form of
Time of Sale Prospectus, and any amendment or supplement thereto, that meets each of the following
conditions: (i) it shall be encoded in an electronic format, reasonably satisfactory to Jefferies,
that may be transmitted electronically by Jefferies and the other Underwriters to offerees and
purchasers of the Offered Shares; (ii) it shall disclose the same information as the paper Time of
Sale Prospectus, except to the extent that graphic and image material cannot be disseminated
electronically, in which case such graphic and image material shall be replaced in the electronic
Prospectus with a fair and accurate narrative description or tabular representation of such
material, as appropriate; and (iii) it shall be in or convertible into a paper format or an
electronic format, reasonably satisfactory to Jefferies, that will allow investors to store and
have continuously ready access to the Time of Sale Prospectus at any future time, without charge to
investors (other than any fee charged for subscription to the Internet as a whole and for on-line
time). The Company hereby confirms that it has included or will include in the Prospectus filed
pursuant to XXXXX or otherwise with the Commission and in the Registration Statement at the time it
was declared effective an undertaking that, upon receipt of a request by an investor or his or her
representative, the Company shall transmit or cause to be transmitted promptly, without charge, a
paper copy of the Time of Sale Prospectus.
(o) Agreement Not to Offer or Sell Additional Shares. During the period commencing on and
including the date hereof and continuing through and including the 90th day following the date of
the Prospectus (as the same may be extended as described below, the “Lock-up Period”), the Company
will not, without the prior written consent of Jefferies (which consent may be withheld in its sole
discretion), directly or indirectly: (i) sell, offer to sell, contract to sell or lend; (ii)
effect any short sale or establish or increase any “put equivalent position” (as defined in Rule
16a-1(h) under the Exchange Act) or liquidate or decrease any “call equivalent position “ (as
defined in Rule 16a-1(b) under the Exchange Act); (iii) pledge, hypothecate or grant any security
interest in; (iv) in any other way transfer or dispose of Shares or Related Securities (as defined
below ); (v) enter into any swap, hedge or similar arrangement or agreement that transfers, in
whole or in part, the economic risk of ownership of Shares or Related Securities, regardless of
whether any such transaction is to be settled in securities, in cash or otherwise; or (vi) announce
the offering of any Shares or Related Securities; (vii) file any registration statement under the
Securities Act in respect of any Shares or Related Securities (other than as contemplated by this
Agreement with respect to the Offered Shares); or (viii) publicly announce the intention to do any
of the foregoing; provided, however, that the Company may (i) issue Shares upon exercise of
outstanding options or warrants or (ii) issue options or other equity awards pursuant to any stock
option, stock bonus or stock plan or arrangement, so long as, in the case of (i), the outstanding
options or warrants are described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and
the Prospectus and, in the case of (ii), except for the awards described in the next succeeding
sentence, such awards do not vest or do not become exercisable during the lock-up period and the
plans or arrangements under which they are made are described in the Registration Statement, the
Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus. The Company may issue compensatory stock awards to its
directors, including the director who also serves as chief executive officer, as contemplated by
its proxy statement filed on October 14, 2011, so long as each recipient of any such award shall
have executed for the benefit of the Underwriters a Lock-Up Agreement. For purposes of the
foregoing, “Related Securities” shall mean any options or warrants or other rights to acquire
Shares or any securities exchangeable or exercisable for or convertible into Shares, or to acquire
other securities or rights ultimately exchangeable or
exercisable for, or convertible into, Shares. If (i) during the last 17 days of the 90-day
initial lock-up period, the Company issues an earnings release or discloses material news or a
material event relating to the Company occurs, or (ii) prior to the expiration of such period, the
Company announces that it will release earnings results during the 16-day period beginning on the
last day of such period, then in each case the Lock-up Period will be extended until the expiration
of the 18-day period beginning on the date of the issuance of the earnings release or the
disclosure of the material news or occurrence of the material event, as applicable, unless
Jefferies waives, in writing, such extension (which waiver may be withheld in its sole discretion.
The Company will provide the Representative with prior notice of any such announcement that gives
rise to an extension of the Lock-up Period.
(p) Future Reports to the Representative. During the period of five years hereafter, the
Company will furnish to the Representative, c/x Xxxxxxxxx, at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx
Xxxx Attention: Global Head of Syndicate: (i) as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal
year, copies of the Annual Report of the Company containing the balance sheet of the Company as of
the close of such fiscal year and statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the
year then ended and the opinion thereon of the Company’s independent public or certified public
accountants; (ii) as soon as practicable after the filing thereof, copies of each proxy statement,
Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, Current Report on Form 8-K or other
report filed by the Company with the Commission or any securities exchange; and (iii) as soon as
available, copies of any report or communication of the Company furnished or made available
generally to holders of its capital stock; provided, however, that the requirements of this Section
3(q) shall be satisfied to the extent that such reports, statement, communications, financial
statements or other documents are available on XXXXX.
(q) Investment Limitation. The Company shall not invest or otherwise use the proceeds
received by the Company from its sale of the Offered Shares in such a manner as would require the
Company or any of its subsidiaries to register as an investment company under the Investment
Company Act.
(r) No Stabilization or Manipulation; Compliance with Regulation M. The Company will not
take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that might be reasonably expected to cause
or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Shares or any reference security (as
such term is defined in Regulation M) with respect to the Shares, whether to facilitate the sale or
resale of the Offered Shares or otherwise, and the Company will, and shall cause each of its
affiliates to, comply with all applicable provisions of Regulation M.
(s) Enforce Lock-Up Agreements. During the Lock-up Period, the Company will enforce all
agreements between the Company and any of its security holders that restrict or prohibit, expressly
or in operation, the offer, sale or transfer of Shares or Related Securities or any of the other
actions restricted or prohibited under the terms of the form of Lock-up Agreement. In addition,
the Company will direct the transfer agent to place stop transfer restrictions upon any such
securities of the Company that are bound by such “lock-up” agreements for the duration of the
periods contemplated in such agreements, including, without limitation, “lock-up” agreements
entered into by the Company’s officers and directors pursuant to Section 6(i) hereof.
(t) Company to Provide Interim Financial Statements. Prior to the Closing Date, the Company
will furnish the Underwriters, as soon as they have been prepared by or are available to the
Company, a copy of any unaudited interim financial statements of the Company
for any period subsequent to the period covered by the most recent financial statements
appearing in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
(u) Announcement Regarding Lock-ups. The Company agrees to announce the Underwriters’
intention to release any director or “officer” (within the meaning of Rule 16a-1(f) under the
Exchange Act) of the Company from any of the restrictions imposed by any Lock-Up Agreement, by
issuing, through a major news service, a press release in form and substance satisfactory to the
Representative promptly following the Company’s receipt of any notification from the Representative
in which such intention is indicated, but in any case not later than the close of the third
business day prior to the date on which such release or waiver is to become effective; provided,
however, that nothing shall prevent the Representative, on behalf of the Underwriters, from
announcing the same through a major news service, irrespective of whether the Company has made the
required announcement, and the Company expressly agrees and consents that the Representative will
be entitled to do so; and further provided that no such announcement shall be made of any release
or waiver granted solely to permit a transfer of securities that is not for consideration and where
the transferee has agreed in writing to be bound by the terms of a Lock-Up Agreement in the form
set forth as Exhibit C hereto.
Section 4. Payment of Expenses. The Company agrees to pay all costs, fees and expenses
incurred in connection with the performance of its obligations hereunder and in connection with the
transactions contemplated hereby, including without limitation (i) all expenses incident to the
issuance and delivery of the Offered Shares (including all printing and engraving costs), (ii) all
fees and expenses of the registrar and transfer agent of the Shares, (iii) all necessary issue,
transfer and other stamp taxes in connection with the issuance and sale of the Offered Shares to
the Underwriters, (iv) all fees and expenses of the Company’s counsel, independent public or
certified public accountants and other advisors, (v) all costs and expenses incurred in connection
with the preparation, printing, filing, shipping and distribution of the Registration Statement
(including financial statements, exhibits, schedules, consents and certificates of experts), the
Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus, each free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of,
used by, or referred to by the Company, and each preliminary prospectus, and all amendments and
supplements thereto, and this Agreement, (vi) all filing fees, attorneys’ fees and expenses
incurred by the Company or the Underwriters in connection with qualifying or registering (or
obtaining exemptions from the qualification or registration of) all or any part of the Offered
Shares for offer and sale under the state securities or blue sky laws or the provincial securities
laws of Canada, and, if requested by the Representative, preparing and printing a “Blue Sky Survey”
or memorandum and a “Canadian wrapper”, and any supplements thereto, advising the Underwriters of
such qualifications, registrations, determinations and exemptions, provided, however, that the
Company shall not be responsible for any fees and expenses related to this clause (vi) in excess of
$20,000 in the aggregate, (vii) the costs, fees and expenses incurred by the Underwriters in
connection with determining their compliance with the rules and regulations of FINRA related to the
Underwriters’ participation in the offering and distribution of the Offered Shares, including any
related filing fees and the legal fees of, and disbursements by, counsel to the Underwriters,
provided, however, that the Company shall not be responsible for any fees and expenses related to
this clause (vii) in excess of $20,000 in the aggregate, (viii) the costs and expenses of the
Company relating to investor presentations on any “road show” undertaken in connection with the
offering of the Offered Shares, including, without limitation, expenses associated with the
preparation or dissemination of any electronic road show, expenses associated with the production
of road show slides and graphics, fees and expenses of any consultants engaged in connection with
the road show presentations with the prior approval of the Company, and travel and lodging expenses
of the representatives, employees and officers of the Company and any such consultants, (ix) the
fees and expenses associated with listing the
Offered Shares on the NASDAQ, and (x) all other fees, costs and expenses of the nature
referred to in Item 14 of Part II of the Registration Statement. Except as provided in this
Section 4 or in Section 7, Section 9 or Section 10 hereof, the Underwriters shall pay their own
expenses, including the fees and disbursements of their counsel.
Section 5. Covenant of the Underwriters. Each Underwriter severally and not jointly covenants
with the Company not to take any action that would result in the Company being required to file
with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act a free writing prospectus
prepared by or on behalf of such Underwriter that otherwise would not, but for such actions, be
required to be filed by the Company under Rule 433(d).
Section 6. Conditions of the Obligations of the Underwriters. The obligations of the several
Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Offered Shares as provided herein on the First Closing
Date and, with respect to the Optional Shares, each Option Closing Date, shall be subject to the
accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company set forth in Section 1
hereof as of the date hereof and as of the First Closing Date as though then made and, with respect
to the Optional Shares, as of each Option Closing Date as though then made, to the timely
performance by the Company of its covenants and other obligations hereunder, and to each of the
following additional conditions:
(a) Comfort Letter. On the date hereof, the Representative shall have received from KPMG LLP
and BDO Audit (WA) Pty Ltd, a letter dated the date hereof addressed to the Underwriters, in form
and substance satisfactory to the Representative, with executed copies for each of the other
Underwriters named on the Prospectus cover page, containing statements and information of the type
ordinarily included in accountant’s “comfort letters” to underwriters, delivered according to
Statement of Auditing Standards No. 72 (or any successor bulletin), with respect to the audited and
unaudited financial statements audited or reviewed by them and certain financial information
contained in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus, and each free writing
prospectus, if any.
(b) Compliance with Registration Requirements; No Stop Order; No Objection from FINRA.
(i) The Company shall have filed the Prospectus with the Commission (including the information
previously omitted from the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430B under the Securities Act)
in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act; or the
Company shall have filed a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement containing the
information previously omitted pursuant to such Rule 430B, and such post-effective amendment shall
have become effective.
(ii) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any
post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement shall be in effect, and no proceedings for
such purpose shall have been instituted or threatened by the Commission.
(iii) If a filing has been made with FINRA, FINRA shall have raised no objection to the
fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.
(c) No Material Adverse Change. For the period from and after the date of this Agreement and
through and including the First Closing Date and, with respect to any Optional
Shares purchased after the First Closing Date, each Option Closing Date, in the judgment of
the Representative, there shall not have occurred any Material Adverse Change.
(d) Opinion of Counsel for the Company. On each of the First Closing Date and each Option
Closing Date the Representative shall have received the opinion and negative assurance letter of
DLA Piper LLP (US), U.S. counsel for the Company and DLA Piper Australia, Australian counsel for
the Company, dated as of such date, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A-1 and
Exhibit A-2, respectively, with executed copies for each of the other Underwriters named on
the Prospectus cover page.
(e) Opinion of IP and Patent Counsel for the Company. On each of the First Closing Date and
each Option Closing Date, the Representative shall have received the opinion of Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx
Patent and Trademark Attorneys, patent, counsel for the Company with respect to the Company’s IP
and patents in the U.S., dated as of such date, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B,
with executed copies for each of the other Underwriters named on the Prospectus cover page.
(f) Opinion of Counsel for the Underwriters. On each of the First Closing Date and each
Option Closing Date the Representative shall have received the opinion of Xxxxx & XxXxxxx LLP,
counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the offer and sale of the Offered Shares, in form
and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters, dated as of such date, with executed copies for
each of the other Underwriters named on the Prospectus cover page.
(g) Officers’ Certificate. On each of the First Closing Date and each Option Closing Date,
the Representative shall have received a certificate executed by the Chief Executive Officer or
President of the Company and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of such date,
solely in such person’s capacity as an officer of the Company and not in his individual capacity,
with executed copies for each of the other Underwriters named on the Prospectus cover page, to the
effect set forth in Section 6(b)(ii) and further to the effect that:
(i) for the period from and including the date of this Agreement through and including such
date, there has not occurred any Material Adverse Change;
(ii) the representations, warranties and covenants of the Company set forth in Section 1 of
this Agreement are true and correct with the same force and effect as though expressly made on and
as of such date; and
(iii) the Company has complied with all the agreements hereunder and satisfied all the
conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to such date.
(h) Bring-down Comfort Letter. On each of the First Closing Date and each Option Closing Date
the Representative shall have received from KPMG LLP and BDO Audit (WA) Pty Ltd., independent
registered public accountants for the Company, a letter dated such date, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Representative, with executed copies for each of the other Underwriters named
on the Prospectus cover page, which letter shall (i) reaffirm the statements made in the letter
furnished by them pursuant to Section 6(a), except that the specified date referred to therein for
the carrying out of procedures shall be no more than three business days prior to the First Closing
Date or the applicable Option Closing Date, as the case may be; and (ii) cover certain financial
information contained in the Prospectus.
(i) Lock-Up Agreements. On or prior to the date hereof, the Company shall have furnished to
the Representative an agreement in the form of Exhibit C hereto from each of the persons
listed on Exhibit D hereto, and each such agreement shall be in full force and effect on each of
the First Closing Date and each Option Closing Date.
(j) Additional Documents. On or before each of the First Closing Date and each Option Closing
Date, the Representative and counsel for the Underwriters shall have received such information,
documents and opinions as they may reasonably request for the purposes of enabling them to pass
upon the issuance and sale of the Offered Shares as contemplated herein, or in order to evidence
the accuracy of any of the representations and warranties, or the satisfaction of any of the
conditions or agreements, herein contained; and all proceedings taken by the Company in connection
with the issuance and sale of the Offered Shares as contemplated herein and in connection with the
other transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and
substance to the Representative and counsel for the Underwriters.
If any condition specified in this Section 6 is not satisfied when and as required to be
satisfied and is waived by the Representative (any such waiver to be within its complete and sole
discretion) this Agreement may be terminated by the Representative by notice from Jefferies to the
Company at any time on or prior to the First Closing Date and, with respect to the Optional Shares,
at any time on or prior to the applicable Option Closing Date, which termination shall be without
liability on the part of any party to any other party, except that Section 4, Section 7, Section
9 and Section 10 shall at all times be effective and shall survive such termination.
Section 7. Reimbursement of Underwriters’ Expenses. If this Agreement is terminated by the
Representative pursuant to Section 6, Section 11 or Section 12, or if the sale to the
Underwriters of the Offered Shares on the First Closing Date is not consummated because of any
refusal, inability or failure on the part of the Company to perform any agreement herein or to
comply with any provision hereof, the Company agrees to reimburse the Representative and the other
Underwriters (or such Underwriters as have terminated this Agreement with respect to themselves),
severally, upon demand for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses that shall have been reasonably
incurred by the Representative and the Underwriters in connection with the proposed purchase and
the offering and sale of the Offered Shares, including but not limited to fees and disbursements of
counsel, printing expenses, travel expenses, postage, facsimile and telephone charges.
Section 8. Effectiveness of this Agreement. This Agreement shall become effective upon the
execution and delivery hereof by the parties hereto.
Section 9. Indemnification.
(a) Indemnification of the Underwriters. The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless
each Underwriter, its affiliates, directors, officers, employees and agents, and each person, if
any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act
against any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense, as incurred, to which such Underwriter or
such affiliate, director, officer, employee or controlling person may become subject, under the
Securities Act, the Exchange Act, other federal or state statutory law or regulation, or the laws
or regulations of foreign jurisdictions where Offered Shares have been offered or sold or at common
law or otherwise (including in settlement of any litigation, if such settlement is effected with
the written consent of the Company), insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or expense (or
actions in respect thereof as contemplated below) arises out of
or is based upon (A) (i) any untrue
statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereto, or the omission or alleged omission
to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading; or (ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact
included in any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, any free writing prospectus
that the Company has used, referred to or filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) of
the Securities Act, or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement to the foregoing), or the
omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; or (B)
the violation of any laws or regulations of foreign jurisdictions where Offered Shares have been
offered or sold; and to reimburse each Underwriter and each such affiliate, director, officer,
employee, agent and controlling person for any and all expenses (including the reasonable fees and
disbursements of counsel) as such expenses are reasonably incurred by such Underwriter or such
affiliate, officer, employee, agent or controlling person in connection with investigating,
defending, settling, compromising or paying any such loss, claim, damage, liability, expense or
action; provided, however, that the foregoing indemnity agreement shall not apply to any loss,
claim, damage, liability or expense to the extent, but only to the extent, arising out of or based
upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in
reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the
Company by the Representative in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any
preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, any such free writing prospectus or the
Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), it being understood and agreed that the only
such information consists of the information described in Section 9(b) below. The indemnity
agreement set forth in this Section 9(a) shall be in addition to any liabilities that the Company
may otherwise have.
(b) Indemnification of the Company, its Directors and Officers. Each Underwriter agrees,
severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, each of its directors, each
of its officers who signed the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the
Company within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, against any loss, claim,
damage, liability or expense, as incurred, to which the Company, or any such director, officer or
controlling person may become subject, under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, or other federal
or state statutory law or regulation, or at common law or otherwise (including in settlement of any
litigation, if such settlement is effected with the written consent of such Underwriter), insofar
as such loss, claim, damage, liability or expense (or actions in respect thereof as contemplated
below) arises out of or is based upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a
material fact contained in the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereto, or the omission or
alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein not misleading or (ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement
of a material fact included in any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, any free
writing prospectus that the Company has used, referred to or filed, or is required to file,
pursuant to Rule 433 of the Securities Act, or the Prospectus (or any such amendment or supplement)
or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in the
case of each of clauses (i) and (ii) to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue
statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in the Registration
Statement, such preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, such free writing prospectus,
the Prospectus (or any such amendment or supplement), in reliance upon and in conformity with
information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company by the Representative in writing
expressly for use therein; and to reimburse the Company, or any such director, officer or
controlling person for any and all expenses (including the fees and disbursements of counsel) as
such expenses are reasonably incurred by the Company,
or any such director, officer or controlling person in connection with investigating,
defending, settling, compromising or paying any such loss, claim, damage, liability, expense or
action. The Company hereby acknowledges that the only information that the Representative has
furnished to the Company expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary
prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, any free writing prospectus that the Company has filed, or
is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Securities Act, or the Prospectus (or any
amendment or supplement to the foregoing) are the statements set forth in the third and fourth
paragraph under the caption “Underwriting”, the first paragraph under the caption “Underwriting —
Commission and Expenses” and the first four paragraphs under the caption “Underwriting —
Stabilization” in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the Final Prospectus Supplement. The
indemnity agreement set forth in this Section 9(b) shall be in addition to any liabilities that
each Underwriter may otherwise have.
(c) Notifications and Other Indemnification Procedures. Promptly after receipt by an
indemnified party under this Section 9 of notice of the commencement of any action, such
indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against an indemnifying party
under this Section 9, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof, but
the omission so to notify the indemnifying party will not relieve the indemnifying party from any
liability which it may have to any indemnified party to the extent the indemnifying party is not
materially prejudiced as a proximate result of such failure and shall not in any event relieve the
indemnifying party from any liability that it may have otherwise than on account of this indemnity
agreement. In case any such action is brought against any indemnified party and such indemnified
party seeks or intends to seek indemnity from an indemnifying party, the indemnifying party will be
entitled to participate in, and, to the extent that it shall elect, jointly with all other
indemnifying parties similarly notified, by written notice delivered to the indemnified party
promptly after receiving the aforesaid notice from such indemnified party, to assume the defense
thereof with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party; provided, however, that if
the defendants in any such action include both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party and
the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that a conflict may arise between the
positions of the indemnifying party and the indemnified party in conducting the defense of any such
action or that there may be legal defenses available to it and/or other indemnified parties which
are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, the indemnified
party or parties shall have the right to select separate counsel to assume such legal defenses and
to otherwise participate in the defense of such action on behalf of such indemnified party or
parties. Upon receipt of notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of such
indemnifying party’s election so to assume the defense of such action and approval by the
indemnified party of counsel, the indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party
under this Section 9 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified
party in connection with the defense thereof unless (i) the indemnified party shall have employed
separate counsel in accordance with the proviso to the preceding sentence (it being understood,
however, that the indemnifying party shall not be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one
separate counsel (together with local counsel), representing the indemnified parties who are
parties to such action), which counsel (together with any local counsel) for the indemnified
parties shall be selected by Jefferies (in the case of counsel for the indemnified parties referred
to in Section 9(a) above) or by the Company (in the case of counsel for the indemnified parties
referred to in Section 9(b) above)) or (ii) the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel
satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time
after notice of commencement of the action or (iii) the indemnifying party has authorized in
writing the employment of counsel for the indemnified party at the expense of the indemnifying
party, in each of which cases the fees and expenses of counsel shall be at the expense of the
indemnifying party and shall be paid as they are incurred.
(d) Settlements. The indemnifying party under this Section 9 shall not be liable for any
settlement of any proceeding effected without its prior written consent, but if settled with such
consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the indemnifying party agrees to
indemnify the indemnified party against any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense by reason of
such settlement or judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an indemnified
party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and
expenses of counsel as contemplated by Section 9(c) hereof, the indemnifying party shall be liable
for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its prior written consent if (i) such
settlement is entered into more than 30 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the
aforesaid request and (ii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed the indemnified party
in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement. No indemnifying party shall,
without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement, compromise or
consent to the entry of judgment in any pending or threatened action, suit or proceeding in respect
of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity was or could have been
sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement, compromise or consent includes
an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the
subject matter of such action, suit or proceeding and does not include an admission of fault or
culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of such indemnified party.
Section 10. Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in Section 9 is for any reason
held to be unavailable to or otherwise insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in
respect of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses referred to therein, then each
indemnifying party shall contribute to the aggregate amount paid or payable by such indemnified
party, as incurred, as a result of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses referred to
therein (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the
Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, from the offering of the Offered
Shares pursuant to this Agreement or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not
permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative
benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company, on the one
hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the statements or omissions which
resulted in such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses, as well as any other relevant
equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the
Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the offering of the Offered Shares pursuant to
this Agreement shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the total proceeds from
the offering of the Offered Shares pursuant to this Agreement (before deducting expenses) received
by the Company, and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters,
in each case as set forth on the front cover page of the Prospectus, bear to the aggregate initial
public offering price of the Offered Shares as set forth on such cover. The relative fault of the
Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, shall be determined by reference
to, among other things, whether any such untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or
omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the
Company, on the one hand, or the Underwriters, on the other hand, and the parties’ relative intent,
knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.
The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the losses, claims, damages, liabilities
and expenses referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in
Section 9(c), any legal or other fees or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection
with investigating or defending any action or claim. The provisions set forth in Section 9(c)
with respect to notice of commencement of any action shall apply if a claim for
contribution is to be made under this Section 10; provided, however, that no additional
notice shall be required with respect to any action for which notice has been given under Section
9(c) for purposes of indemnification.
The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution
pursuant to this Section 10 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were
treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take
account of the equitable considerations referred to in this Section 10.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 10, no Underwriter shall be required to
contribute any amount in excess of the underwriting discounts and commissions received by such
Underwriter in connection with the Offered Shares underwritten by it and distributed to the public.
No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the
Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such
fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this
Section 10 are several, and not joint, in proportion to their respective underwriting commitments
as set forth opposite their respective names on Schedule A. For purposes of this Section
10, each affiliate, director, officer, employee and agent of an Underwriter and each person, if
any, who controls an Underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act shall
have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and each director of the Company, each
officer of the Company who signed the Registration Statement, and each person, if any, who controls
the Company with the meaning of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act shall have the same rights
to contribution as the Company.
Section 11. Default of One or More of the Several Underwriters. If, on the First Closing Date
or any Option Closing Date any one or more of the several Underwriters shall fail or refuse to
purchase Offered Shares that it or they have agreed to purchase hereunder on such date, and the
aggregate number of Offered Shares which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but
failed or refused to purchase does not exceed 10% of the aggregate number of the Offered Shares to
be purchased on such date, the Representative may make arrangements satisfactory to the Company for
the purchase of such Offered Shares by other persons, including any of the Underwriters, but if no
such arrangements are made by such date, the other Underwriters shall be obligated, severally and
not jointly, in the proportions that the number of Firm Shares set forth opposite their respective
names on Schedule A bears to the aggregate number of Firm Shares set forth opposite the
names of all such non-defaulting Underwriters, or in such other proportions as may be specified by
the Representative with the consent of the non-defaulting Underwriters, to purchase the Offered
Shares which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase
on such date. If, on the First Closing Date or any Option Closing Date any one or more of the
Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Offered Shares and the aggregate number of Offered
Shares with respect to which such default occurs exceeds 10% of the aggregate number of Offered
Shares to be purchased on such date, and arrangements satisfactory to the Representative and the
Company for the purchase of such Offered Shares are not made within 48 hours after such default,
this Agreement shall terminate without liability of any party to any other party except that the
provisions of Section 4, Section 7, Section 9 and Section 10 shall at all times be effective
and shall survive such termination. In any such case either the Representative or the Company
shall have the right to postpone the First Closing Date or the applicable Option Closing Date, as
the case may be, but in no event for longer than seven days in order that the required changes, if
any, to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or any other documents or arrangements may be
effected.
As used in this Agreement, the term “Underwriter” shall be deemed to include any person
substituted for a defaulting Underwriter under this Section 11. Any action taken under this
Section 11 shall not relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default
of such Underwriter under this Agreement.
Section 12. Termination of this Agreement. Prior to the purchase of the Firm Shares by the
Underwriters on the First Closing Date, this Agreement may be terminated by Jefferies by notice
given to the Company if at any time (i) trading or quotation in any of the Company’s securities
shall have been suspended or limited by the Commission or by the NASDAQ, or trading in securities
generally on either the NASDAQ or the NYSE shall have been suspended or limited, or minimum or
maximum prices shall have been generally established on any of such stock exchanges; (ii) a general
banking moratorium shall have been declared by any of federal, New York, Delaware or Pennsylvania
authorities; (iii) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of national or
international hostilities or any crisis or calamity, or any change in the United States or
international financial markets, or any substantial change or development involving a prospective
substantial change in United States’ or international political, financial or economic conditions,
as in the judgment of Jefferies is material and adverse and makes it impracticable to market the
Offered Shares in the manner and on the terms described in the Time of Sale Prospectus or the
Prospectus or to enforce contracts for the sale of securities; (iv) in the judgment of Jefferies
there shall have occurred any Material Adverse Change; or (v) the Company shall have sustained a
loss by strike, fire, flood, earthquake, accident or other calamity of such character as in the
judgment of Jefferies may interfere materially with the conduct of the business and operations of
the Company regardless of whether or not such loss shall have been insured. Any termination
pursuant to this Section 12 shall be without liability on the part of (a) the Company to any
Underwriter, except that the Company shall be obligated to reimburse the expenses of the
Representative and the Underwriters pursuant to Section 4 or Section 7 hereof or (b) any
Underwriter to the Company; provided, however, that the provisions of Section 9 and Section 10
shall at all times be effective and shall survive such termination.
Section 13. No Advisory or Fiduciary Relationship. The Company acknowledges and agrees that
(a) the purchase and sale of the Offered Shares pursuant to this Agreement, including the
determination of the public offering price of the Offered Shares and any related discounts and
commissions, is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and
the several Underwriters, on the other hand, (b) in connection with the offering contemplated
hereby and the process leading to such transaction, each Underwriter is and has been acting solely
as a principal and is not the agent or fiduciary of the Company, or its stockholders, or its
creditors, employees or any other party, (c) no Underwriter has assumed or will assume an advisory
or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company with respect to the offering contemplated
hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such Underwriter has advised or is
currently advising the Company on other matters) and no Underwriter has any obligation to the
Company with respect to the offering contemplated hereby except the obligations expressly set forth
in this Agreement, (d) the Underwriters and their respective affiliates may be engaged in a broad
range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the Company, and (e) the
Underwriters have not provided any legal, accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to the
offering contemplated hereby and the Company has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory
and tax advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate.
Section 14. Representations and Indemnities to Survive Delivery. The respective indemnities,
agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company, of its officers and of
the several Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to this
Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on
behalf of any Underwriter or the Company or any of its or their partners, officers or directors or
any controlling person, as the case may be, and, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding,
will survive delivery of and payment for the Offered Shares sold hereunder and any termination of
this Agreement.
Section 15. Notices. All communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be mailed,
hand delivered or telecopied and confirmed to the parties hereto as follows:
If to the Representative:
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Xxxxxxxxx & Company, Inc. 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 Facsimile: (000) 000-0000 Attention: General Counsel |
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with a copy to:
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Xxxxx & XxXxxxx LLP 0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000 |
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If to the Company:
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Unilife Corporation 000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx, XX 00000 Facsimile: (000) 000-0000 Attention: General Counsel |
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with a copy to:
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DLA Piper LLP (US) 0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000 Attention: Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx |
Any party hereto may change the address for receipt of communications by giving written notice to
the others.
Section 16. Successors. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the
parties hereto, including any substitute Underwriters pursuant to Section 11 hereof, and to the
benefit of the affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents and controlling persons referred
to in Section 9 and Section 10, and in each case their respective successors, and no other person
will have any right or obligation hereunder. The term “successors” shall not include any purchaser
of the Offered Shares as such from any of the Underwriters merely by reason of such purchase.
Section 17. Partial Unenforceability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any section,
paragraph or provision of this Agreement shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any
other section, paragraph or provision hereof. If any section, paragraph or provision of this
Agreement is for any reason determined to be invalid or unenforceable, there shall be deemed to be
made such minor changes (and only such minor changes) as are necessary to make it valid and
enforceable.
Section 18. Governing Law Provisions. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York applicable to
agreements made and to be performed in such state. Any legal suit, action or proceeding
arising out of or based upon this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby (“Related
Proceedings”) may be instituted in the federal courts of the United States of America located in
the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York or the courts of the State of New York in each
case located in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York (collectively, the “Specified
Courts”), and each party irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction (except for proceedings
instituted in regard to the enforcement of a judgment of any such court (a “Related Judgment”), as
to which such jurisdiction is non-exclusive) of such courts in any such suit, action or proceeding.
Service of any process, summons, notice or document by mail to such party’s address set forth
above shall be effective service of process for any suit, action or other proceeding brought in any
such court. The parties irrevocably and unconditionally waive any objection to the laying of venue
of any suit, action or other proceeding in the Specified Courts and irrevocably and unconditionally
waive and agree not to plead or claim in any such court that any such suit, action or other
proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
Section 19. General Provisions. 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. This
Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each one of which shall be an original, with
the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument. This
Agreement may not be amended or modified unless in writing by all of the parties hereto, and no
condition herein (express or implied) may be waived unless waived in writing by each party whom the
condition is meant to benefit. The section headings herein are for the convenience of the parties
only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.
Each of the parties hereto acknowledges that it is a sophisticated business person who was
adequately represented by counsel during negotiations regarding the provisions hereof, including,
without limitation, the indemnification provisions of Section 9 and the contribution provisions of
Section 10, and is fully informed regarding said provisions. Each of the parties hereto further
acknowledges that the provisions of Section 9 and Section 10 hereof fairly allocate the risks in
light of the ability of the parties to investigate the Company, its affairs and its business in
order to assure that adequate disclosure has been made in the Registration Statement, any
preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, each free writing prospectus and the
Prospectus (and any amendments and supplements to the foregoing), as contemplated by the Securities
Act and the Exchange Act.
If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, kindly sign and
return to the Company the enclosed copies hereof, whereupon this instrument, along with all
counterparts hereof, shall become a binding agreement in accordance with its terms.
Very truly yours, UNILIFE CORPORATION |
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By: | /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx | |||
Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |||
The foregoing Underwriting Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted by the Representative in
New York, New York as of the date first above written.
JEFFERIES & COMPANY, INC.
Acting individually and as Representative
of the other several Underwriters named in
the attached Schedule A.
Acting individually and as Representative
of the other several Underwriters named in
the attached Schedule A.
By:
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/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx | |||
Title: Managing Director |
Schedule A
Number of | ||||
Firm Shares | ||||
Underwriters | to be Purchased | |||
Xxxxxxxxx & Company, Inc. |
5,775,000 | |||
Leerink Xxxxx LLC |
1,650,000 | |||
Xxxxxxx Securities, Inc. |
825,000 | |||
Total |
8,250,000 | |||
Schedule C
Free Writing Prospectuses Included in the Time of Sale Prospectus
None.
Exhibit C
Form of Lock-up Agreement
November , 2011
Jefferies & Company, Inc.
As Representative of the Several Underwriters
c/o Jefferies & Company, Inc.
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
RE: Unilife Corporation (the “Company”)
Ladies & Gentlemen:
The undersigned is an owner of shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company
(“Shares”) or of securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Shares. The
Company proposes to conduct a public offering of Shares (the “Offering”) for which Jefferies &
Company, Inc. (“Jefferies”) will act as the representative of the underwriters. The undersigned
recognizes that the Offering will benefit each of the Company and the undersigned. The undersigned
acknowledges that you are relying on the representations and agreements of the undersigned
contained in this letter agreement in conducting the Offering and, at a subsequent date, in
entering into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) and other underwriting
arrangements with the Company with respect to the Offering.
Annex A sets forth definitions for capitalized terms used in this letter agreement that are not
defined in the body of this agreement. Those definitions are a part of this agreement.
In consideration of the foregoing, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the undersigned hereby agrees that, during the
Lock-up Period, the undersigned will not (and will cause any Family Member not to), without the
prior written consent of Jefferies, which may withhold its consent in its sole discretion:
• | Sell or Offer to Sell any Shares or Related Securities currently or hereafter owned either of record or beneficially (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by the undersigned or such Family Member, | ||
• | enter into any Swap, | ||
• | make any demand for, or exercise any right with respect to, the registration under the Securities Act of the offer and sale of any Shares or Related Securities, or cause to be filed a registration statement, prospectus or prospectus supplement (or an amendment or supplement thereto) with respect to any such registration, or | ||
• | publicly announce any intention to do any of the foregoing. |
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The foregoing will not apply to the registration of the offer and sale of the Shares, and the sale
of the Shares to you, in each case as contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement. In addition, the
foregoing restrictions shall not apply to the transfer of Shares or Related Securities by gift, or
by will or intestate succession; provided, however, that in any such case, it shall be a condition
to such transfer that:
• | each transferee executes and delivers to Jefferies an agreement in form and substance satisfactory to Jefferies stating that such transferee is receiving and holding such Shares and/or Related Securities subject to the provisions of this letter agreement and agrees not to Sell or Offer to Sell such Shares and/or Related Securities, engage in any Swap or engage in any other activities restricted under this letter agreement except in accordance with this letter agreement (as if such transferee had been an original signatory hereto), and | ||
• | prior to the expiration of the Lock-up Period, no public disclosure or filing under the Exchange Act by any party to the transfer (donor, donee, transferor or transferee) shall be required, or made voluntarily, reporting a reduction in beneficial ownership of Shares in connection with such transfer.1 |
The undersigned acknowledges and agrees that written notice by Jefferies to the Company of any
extension of the 90-day initial lock-up period will be deemed to have been given to, and received
by, the undersigned. The undersigned further agrees that, prior to engaging in any transaction or
taking any other action that is subject to the terms of this letter agreement during the period
from the date of this letter agreement through the close of trading on the date that is the 34th
day following the expiration of the 90-day initial lock-up period, the undersigned will give notice
thereof to the Company and will not consummate any such transaction or take any such action unless
the undersigned has received written confirmation from the Company that the Lock-Up Period has
expired.
In addition, if the undersigned is an officer or director of the Company, (i) Jefferies & Company,
Inc. agrees that, at least three business days before the effective date of any release or waiver
of the foregoing restrictions in connection with a transfer of Shares, Jefferies & Company, Inc.
will notify the Company of the impending release or waiver, and (ii) the Company (in accordance
with the provisions of the Underwriting Agreement entered into in connection with the Offering (the
"Underwriting Agreement”)) will announce the impending release or waiver by press release through a
major news service at least two business days before the effective date of the release or waiver.
Any release or waiver granted by Jefferies & Company, Inc. hereunder to any such officer or
director shall only be effective two business days after the publication date of such press
release. The provisions of this paragraph will not apply if both (a) the release or waiver is
effected solely to permit a transfer not for consideration and (b) the transferee has agreed in
writing to be bound by the same terms described in this letter agreement that are applicable to the
transferor to the extent and for the duration that such terms remain in effect at the time of the
transfer.
1 | The lock-up for chief executive officer Xxxx Xxxxxxxx adds the following sentence: “Notwithstanding the foregoing, the undersigned shall be entitled to transfer up to 216,876 shares of common stock to the Company in connection with any income tax liability incurred by the undersigned resulting from the vesting during the Lock-Up Period of up to 699,000 restricted shares of common stock owned by the undersigned, it being understood that no shares so transferred shall be sold by the Company during the Lock-Up Period.” |
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The undersigned also agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the
Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the transfer of Shares or Related Securities held by
the undersigned and the undersigned’s Family Members, if any, except in compliance with the
foregoing restrictions.2
With respect to the Offering only, the undersigned waives any registration rights relating to
registration under the Securities Act of the offer and sale of any Shares and/or any Related
Securities owned either of record or beneficially by the undersigned, including any rights to
receive notice of the Offering.
The undersigned confirms that the undersigned has not, and has no knowledge that any Family Member
has, directly or indirectly, taken any action designed to or that might reasonably be expected to
cause or result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to
facilitate the sale of the Shares. The undersigned will not, and will cause any Family Member not
to take, directly or indirectly, any such action.
Whether or not the Offering occurs as currently contemplated or at all depends on market conditions
and other factors. The Offering will only be made pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, the
terms of which are subject to negotiation between the Company and you.
If (i) the Company notifies Jefferies in writing that it does not intend to proceed with the
Offering, (ii) the Underwriting Agreement is not executed by February 29, 2012, or (iii) the
Underwriting Agreement (other than the provisions thereof which survive termination) shall
terminate or be terminated for any reason prior to payment for and delivery of any Shares to be
sold thereunder, then this letter agreement shall immediately be terminated and the undersigned
shall automatically be released from all of his or her obligations under this letter agreement.
The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the undersigned has full power, capacity and
authority to enter into this letter agreement. This letter agreement is irrevocable and will be
binding on the undersigned and the successors, heirs, personal representatives and assigns of the
undersigned.
This letter agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State
of New York.
2 | The lock-up for director Xxxx Xxxxxx adds the following sentence: “Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is understood that the chess depositary interests held by the undersigned in the Xxxxxx Superannuation Fund shall not be subject to the stop transfer requirements as stated in the above sentence.” |
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(Indicate capacity of person signing if
signing as custodian or trustee, or on behalf
of an entity) |
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Certain Defined Terms
Used in Lock-up Agreement
Used in Lock-up Agreement
For purposes of the letter agreement to which this Annex A is attached and of which it is made a
part:
• | “Call Equivalent Position” shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 16a-1(b) under the Exchange Act. |
• | “Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. |
• | “Family Member” shall mean the spouse of the undersigned, an immediate family member of the undersigned or an immediate family member of the undersigned’s spouse, in each case living in the undersigned’s household or whose principal residence is the undersigned’s household (regardless of whether such spouse or family member may at the time be living elsewhere due to educational activities, health care treatment, military service, temporary internship or employment or otherwise). “Immediate family member” as used above shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 16a-1(e) under the Exchange Act. |
• | “Lock-up Period” shall mean the period beginning on the date hereof and continuing through the close of trading on the date that is 90 days after the date of the Prospectus (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement); provided, that if (i) during the last 17 days of the 90-day initial lock-up period, the Company issues an earnings release or discloses material news or a material event relating to the Company occurs or (ii) prior to the expiration of such period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of such period, then in each case the Lock-up Period will be extended until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the date of the issuance of the earnings release or the disclosure of the material news or occurrence of the material event, as applicable, unless Jefferies waives, in writing, such extension. If the initial lock-up period is extended pursuant to the provisions above, “Lock-up Period” shall mean the period described in the first clause of this paragraph, as so extended. |
• | “Put Equivalent Position” shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 16a-1(h) under the Exchange Act. |
• | “Related Securities” shall mean any options or warrants or other rights to acquire Shares or any securities exchangeable or exercisable for or convertible into Shares, or to acquire other securities or rights ultimately exchangeable or exercisable for or convertible into Shares. | ||
• | “Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1934, as amended. |
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• | “Sell or Offer to Sell” shall mean to: |
• | sell, offer to sell, contract to sell or lend, | ||
• | effect any short sale or establish or increase a Put Equivalent Position or liquidate or decrease any Call Equivalent Position | ||
• | pledge, hypothecate or grant any security interest in, or | ||
• | in any other way transfer or dispose of, in each case whether effected directly or indirectly. |
• | “Swap” shall mean any swap, hedge or similar arrangement or agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, the economic risk of ownership of Shares or Related Securities, regardless of whether any such transaction is to be settled in securities, in cash or otherwise. |
Capitalized terms not defined in this Annex A shall have the meanings given to them in the body of
this lock-up agreement.
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Exhibit D
Directors, Officers and Others
Signing Lock-up Agreement
Signing Lock-up Agreement
Directors:
Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Officers:
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx
R. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx XX
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
X. Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxx
R. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx XX
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
X. Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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