UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
, 1999
Brookstreet Securities Corporation
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:
Beta Oil & Gas, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the "Company"), proposes to
issue and sell a minimum of 800,000 (the "Minimum Offering") and a maximum of
1,500,000 shares (the "Maximum Offering") of its Common Stock for $6.00 per
share (the "Shares") on a best efforts basis (the "Offering") (exclusive of an
Over-Allotment Option granted to the underwriters to sell an additional 150,000
shares of the Common Stock at the public offering price, as described below).
The Company confirms as follows its agreement with you:
1. Registration Statement and Prospectus: The Company has prepared and
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") in
accordance with the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act") and the rules
and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder (the "Rules and
Regulations"), a registration statement on Form S-1, including a preliminary
prospectus, relating to the Securities. As used in this Agreement, the term
"Registration Statement" means such registration statement, including exhibits,
financial statements and schedules, as amended, when it becomes effective and
any information (if any) contained in the prospectus subsequently filed with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act, and the term "Prospectus"
means such prospectus in the final form filed on behalf of the Company with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act.
2. Agreement to Sell and Purchase: Upon the basis of the
representations, warranties and agreements herein contained and subject to all
the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you agree to use best efforts to
sell on behalf of the Company the aggregate principal amount of Securities which
are offered in this Offering. The Securities sold and the proceeds therefrom
will be placed in an escrow account. However, if the Company fails to receive
subscriptions for the Minimum Offering within 10 business days from the date of
the final Prospectus, the Offering will be terminated and any subscriptions
received will be promptly refunded to subscribers with interest thereon and
without any deduction therefrom and this Agreement shall terminate. You shall
receive an 8% cash commission for the sale of the Securities made by you after
the Minimum Offering has been sold (the "Commission").
The Company also agrees to pay to you a non-accountable expense
allowance equal to 2% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities sold by
you (the "Nonaccountable Expense Allowance"). In the event that the Offering is
terminated for any reason, the Company shall pay you for any reasonable
accountable expenses you have incurred.
In addition to the Commission and the Nonaccountable Expense Allowance,
you shall be entitled to receive (the "Selected Dealer Warrants") for the
purchase of an amount of shares of Common Stock of the Company equal to 10% of
the number of Securities actually sold by you in the public offering. The
Selected Dealer Warrants shall be issued in the form set forth in the Selected
Dealer Warrant included in the Registration Statement. The Selected Dealer
Warrants shall be exercisable, in whole or in part, for a period of four years
commencing one year from the date of the completion of the Offering at an
exercise price of $7.50 per share. The Selected Dealer Warrants shall be
non-exercisable for one year from the effective date of the Offering, and
non-transferable for one year(whether by sale, transfer, assignment, or
hypothecation) except for (i) transfers to officers of the broker/dealer who are
also shareholders of the broker/dealer; and (ii) transfers occurring by
operation of law.
It is understood that you may also execute Selected Dealer Agreements
providing for the sale of the Securities by other broker/dealers who are
registered as such with the Commission and who are members of the National
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. ("NASD") (the "Selected Dealers"). The
Selected Dealers shall receive the Commission, the Nonaccountable Expense
Allowance, and Selected Dealer Warrants in the appropriate amount for the
Securities actually sold by them.
3. Delivery and Payment: Delivery of and payment for any Shares
purchased in accordance with this Agreement shall be made after the effective
date of the Registration Statement (the "Effective Date") at such time, date and
place as may be agreed between you and the Company, but subscription for the
Shares sold in the Minimum Offering shall take place not more than 10 business
days after the Effective Date of the Registration Statement (such time and dates
are referred to herein as the "Initial Closing Date"). Delivery of and payment
for any Shares purchased after the Minimum Offering has occurred, shall occur at
interim periods thereafter (the "Interim Closings") until the Maximum Offering
is sold or the Offering is terminated at which time a final closing will be held
(the "Final Closing").
A list from each selling group member and an escrow statement will be sent by
Beta to Brookstreet for the underwriter's review and approval prior to each
closing and associated request for issuance of shares.
4. Agreements of the Company: The Company agrees with you as follows:
(a) The Company shall use its best efforts to cause the
Registration Statement and any amendments to become effective as promptly as
practicable and will not at any time, whether before or after the effective date
of the Registration Statement, file any amendment to the Registration Statement
or supplement to the Prospectus or file any document under the Act or the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") before
termination of the offering of the Shares by you of which you and your counsel
shall not previously have been advised and furnished with a copy, or to which
you or your counsel shall have objected (except if deemed necessary by counsel
for the Company, in which case you shall have the right to terminate this
Agreement upon prompt notice to the Company), or which is not in compliance with
the Act, the Exchange Act, or the Rules and Regulations.
As soon as the Company is advised or obtains knowledge thereof, the
Company will advise you, and as soon as practicable, confirm in writing, (i)
when the Registration Statement, as amended, becomes effective and, if the
provisions of Rule 430A promulgated under the Act will be relied upon, when the
Prospectus has been filed in accordance with said Rule 430A and when any
post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement becomes effective, (ii)
of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of the initiation, or the
threatening, of any proceeding suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement or any order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary
prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or the
institution of proceedings for that purpose, (iii) of the issuance by the
Commission or by any state securities commission of any proceedings for the
suspension of the qualification of any Shares for offering or sale in any
jurisdiction or of the initiation, or the threatening, of any proceeding for
that purpose, (iv) of the receipt of any comments from the Commission, and (v)
of any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement
or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or for additional information.
If the Commission or any state securities commission shall enter a stop order or
suspend such qualification at any time, the Company will make every effort to
obtain promptly the lifting of such order or suspension.
(b) The Company will furnish to you, without charge, three
signed copies of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment
thereto, including financial statements and schedules, and all exhibits.
(c) The Company will give you advance notice of its intention
to file any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or
supplement to the Prospectus, and will not file any such amendment or supplement
to which you shall reasonably object in writing or which is not in compliance
with the Act.
(d) From the date hereof, and thereafter from time to time,
the Company will deliver to you, without charge, as many copies of the
Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto as you may reasonably
request. The Company consents to the use of the Prospectus or any amendment or
supplement thereto by you and by all dealers to whom the Shares may be sold,
both in connection with the offering or sale of the Shares and for such period
of time thereafter as the Prospectus is required to be delivered under the Act
in connection therewith. If during such period of time any event shall occur
which in the reasonable judgment of the Company or your counsel should be set
forth in the Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in the light of
the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or if it is
necessary to supplement or amend the Prospectus to comply with law, the Company
will forthwith prepare and duly file with the Commission an appropriate
supplement or amendment thereto and will deliver to you, without charge, such
number of copies thereof as you may reasonably request.
(e) Prior to any public offering of the Shares by you, the
Company will cooperate with you and your counsel in connection with the
registration or qualification of the Shares for offer and sale under the
securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as you request. The Company
will pay all reasonable fees and expenses (including reasonable fees and
expenses of counsel) relating to qualification of the Shares under such
securities or blue sky laws and in connection with the determination of the
eligibility of the Shares for investments under the laws of such jurisdictions
as you may designate, including the reasonable expenses of any opinion of local
counsel required by any state securities or blue sky authorities.
(f) The Company will pay all expenses in connection with (1)
the preparation, printing and filing of the Registration Statement, each
preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, any legal investment memoranda and the
blue sky Survey, (2) the issuance and delivery of the Shares (other than
transfer taxes),(3) the rating of the Shares by rating agencies, (4) furnishing
such copies of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any preliminary
prospectus, all amendments and supplements thereto, as may reasonably be
requested for use in connection with the offering and sale of the Shares by you
or by dealers to whom Shares may be sold, and (5) filings with the "NASD".
(g) The Company will use the net proceeds from the sale of the
Shares in the manner specified in the Prospectus under the caption "Use of
Proceeds."
(h) The Company will appoint and retain, while any of the
Shares remain outstanding, a transfer agent for the Shares, and, if necessary, a
registrar for the Shares (who may be the transfer agent), and will make
arrangements to have available at the offices of the transfer agent certificates
for the Shares in such quantities as may, from time to time, be necessary. As of
the date of this Agreement, the transfer agent for the Shares of the Company is
Oxford Transfer and Registrar, 000 X.X. Xxxxx, #0000, Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000.
(i) The Company shall utilize its best efforts to obtain the
listing of the Shares on the NASDAQ Small Cap Market system.
(j) Neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries nor any of
their respective executive officers, directors, principal stockholders or
affiliates (within the meaning of the Rules and Regulations) will take, directly
or indirectly, any action designed to, or which might in the future reasonably
be expected to cause or result in, stabilization or manipulation of the price of
any Shares of the Company in violation of the Exchange Act.
5. Representations and Warranties of the Company: The Company
represents and warrants to you that:
(a) Each preliminary prospectus filed as part of any
Registration Statement as originally filed or as part to any amendment thereto,
or filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Act, complied when so filed in all
material respects with the Act, and when the Registration Statement becomes
effective and at all times subsequent thereto up to the Closing Date, the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and any supplements or amendments
thereto, will comply in all material respects with the provisions of the Act and
the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and any such supplement or
amendment thereto, at all such times will not contain an untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated herein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except that this
representation and warranty does not apply to statements or omissions in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus or any preliminary prospectus made in
reliance upon information furnished to the Company in writing by you expressly
for use therein.
(b) This Agreement has been duly authorized and validly
executed and delivered by the Company and constitutes a legal, valid and binding
agreement of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except that
(i) the enforceability hereof may be subject to bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws now or hereafter in effect,
relating to creditors' rights generally, (ii) the enforceability thereof may be
limited by the application of equitable principles (whether such enforceability
is considered in a proceeding at law or in equity) and (iii) rights to indemnity
and contribution hereunder may be limited by Federal or state securities laws.
(c) The Shares have been duly authorized, validly issued,
fully paid and nonassessable, and the Company has duly authorized and reserved
for issuance the number of shares of common stock required for the best efforts
offering and the over-allotment option. The Shares are not and will not be
subject to any preemptive or other similar rights of any security holder of the
Company or any of the Subsidiaries (as defined below); the holders thereof will
not be subject to any liability for the Company's acts or omissions solely as
such holders; all corporate action required to be taken for the authorization,
issuance and sale of the Shares has been duly and validly taken; and the
certificates representing the Shares will be in due and proper form. Upon the
issuance and delivery of the Shares pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, you
will acquire good and marketable title thereto free and clear of any lien,
charge, claim, encumbrance, pledge, security interest, defect or other
restriction or equity of any kind whatsoever resulting from the affirmative act
of the Company or from a judgment or nonconsensual lien rendered against the
Company.
(d) The Company is a corporation duly incorporated and validly
existing in good standing under the laws of the State of Nevada. The Company has
full corporate power and authority to own and occupy its properties and carry on
its business as presently conducted and as described in the Prospectus and holds
all licenses and permits and is duly registered or qualified to conduct
business, and is in good standing, in each jurisdiction in which it owns or
leases property or transacts business and in which such licensing, registration
or qualification is necessary except where the failure to be so licensed,
registered or qualified would not have a material adverse effect on the Company
and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. The Company has a duly authorized,
issued and outstanding capitalization as set forth in the Registration
Statement. All of the outstanding capital stock or other equity Shares of the
Company and each of the Subsidiaries has been duly and validly authorized and
issued, is fully paid and nonassessable; the holders thereof shall have no
rights of rescission with respect thereto and are not subject to personal
liability for the Company's acts or omissions solely by reason of being such
holders.
(e) There are no legal or governmental proceedings pending, or
to the knowledge of the Company, threatened or contemplated to which the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or of which the business or property of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is the subject which are material to the
Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as whole and which are not disclosed in the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and there is no contract or document
concerning the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of a character required to be
described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or to be filed as an
exhibit to the Registration Statement which is not described or filed as
required.
(f) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in
violation of its charter or by-laws or is in default in any respect in the
performance of any obligation, agreement or condition contained in any bond,
debenture, note or any other evidence of indebtedness or in any indenture,
mortgage, deed of trust or any other agreement or instrument of the Company or
of any such Subsidiary, which default would be material to the Company and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole and there exists, and at the Closing Date shall
exist, no condition which, with the passage of time or otherwise, would
constitute a default under any such document or instrument or result in the
imposition of any penalty or acceleration of any indebtedness which would be
material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. The execution
and delivery by the Company of this Agreement, the authorization, issuance and
sale of the Shares, the fulfillment by the Company of this Agreement and the
consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
will not conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default (with the passage
of time or otherwise) under, or result in the imposition of a lien on any
properties of the Company or its Subsidiaries or an acceleration of indebtedness
pursuant to, the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries, or any bond, debenture, note or any other evidence of
indebtedness or any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust or any other material
agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a
party or by which it or any of them is bound or to which any of the property or
assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, or any law,
administrative regulation or order of any court or governmental agency or
authority applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which in any
event would be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
No consent, approval, authorization or other order of any regulatory body,
administrative agency, or other governmental body is legally required by the
Company or its Subsidiaries for the valid issuance and sale of the Shares,
except such as may be required by the NASD or under the Act or the Shares or
blue sky laws of any jurisdiction.
(g) The consolidated financial statements of the Company and
its Subsidiaries together with the related notes and schedules included in the
Registration Statement and Prospectus comply in all material respects with the
requirements of the Act and fairly present the financial position, income,
change in stockholder's equity, cash flow and the results of operations of the
Company and the Subsidiaries at the respective dates and for the respective
periods to which they apply. There has been no adverse change or development
involving a material prospective change in the condition, financial or
otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs, position, prospects, value,
operation, properties, business or results of operations of the Company or any
of the Subsidiaries, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business,
since the date of the financial statements included in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus, except as set forth in the Registration Statement
and the Prospectus, and the outstanding debt, the property, both tangible and
intangible, and the businesses of each of the Company and the Subsidiaries
described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus conform in all
material respects to the descriptions thereof contained in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus. Such consolidated financial statements (including
the related notes and schedules) have been prepared in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis throughout the
periods involved except as otherwise stated therein.
(h) Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries (i) has paid all
federal, state and local taxes for which it is currently liable, including, but
not limited to, withholding taxes and amounts payable under Chapters 21 through
24 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), and has
furnished all information returns it is required to furnish pursuant to the
Code, (ii) has established adequate reserves for such taxes that are not due and
payable and (iii) does not have any tax deficiency or claims outstanding,
proposed or assessed against its respective business or assets.
(i) Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information
is set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, and except as may
otherwise be indicated or contemplated herein or therein, neither the Company
nor any of the Subsidiaries has (i) entered into any material transaction other
than in the ordinary course of business or (ii) declared or paid any dividend or
made any other distribution on or in respect of its capital stock of any class
and there has not been any change in the capital stock, debt (long or short
term) or liabilities or any material change in or affecting the general affairs,
management, financial operations, stockholders' equity or results of operations
of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries.
6. Indemnification: The Company agrees to indemnify you and hold you
harmless, and each person, if any, who controls you, within the meaning of
either Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act from and against
any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including
reasonable costs of investigation) arising out of or based upon any untrue
statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus or in any amendment or supplement
thereto or in any preliminary prospectus, or arising out of or based upon any
omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be
stated herein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
If any action or proceeding (including any governmental investigation)
shall be brought or asserted against you or any person controlling you in
respect of which indemnity may be sought from the Company, you or such
controlling person shall promptly notify the Company in writing, and the Company
shall assume the defense thereof, including the employment of counsel reasonably
satisfactory to you or such controlling person, as the case may be and the
payment of all expenses. You or any such controlling person shall have the right
to employ separate counsel in any such action and to participate in the defense
thereof at your own cost. The Company shall not be liable for any settlement of
any such action or proceeding effected without its written consent, but if
settled with its written consent, or if there be a final judgment for the
plaintiff in any such action or proceeding, the Company agrees as provided in
the preceding paragraph to indemnify you and hold you or such controlling person
harmless from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or
judgment.
You agree, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless
the Company, its directors and officers, and each person, if any, who controls
the Company within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of
the Exchange Act, to the same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Company
to you, but only with respect to information furnished in writing by you or on
your behalf expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, or
any amendment or supplement thereto, or any preliminary prospectus. In case any
action or proceeding shall be brought against the Company or its directors or
officers or any such controlling person, in respect of which indemnity may be
sought against you, you shall have the rights and duties given to the Company,
and the Company or its directors or officers or such controlling person shall
have the rights and duties given to you, by the preceding paragraph.
7. Conditions of Your Obligations: Your obligations hereunder shall be
subject to the continuing accuracy of the representations and warranties of the
Company herein as of the date hereof and as of each Closing Date as if they had
been made on and as of each Closing Date; the accuracy on and as of each Closing
Date of the statements of officers of the Company made pursuant to the
provisions hereof; and the performance by the Company on and as of each Closing
Date of its covenants and obligations hereunder and to the following further
conditions:
(a) Notification that the Registration Statement has become
effective and that the Prospectus has been filed with the Commission on a timely
basis pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act shall be received by you;
(b) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that
purpose shall be pending or contemplated by the Commission; and you shall have
received a certificate, dated as of each Closing Date and signed by the Chairman
or President of the Company (who may, as to proceedings contemplated, rely upon
the best of his information and belief), to that effect and to the effect set
forth in clause (g) of this Section 7;
(c) At each of the Closing Dates you shall have received a
certificate of the Company signed by the principal executive officer and by the
chief financial or chief accounting officer of the Company, dated as of each
Closing Date to the effect that each of such persons has examined the
Registration Statement, the Prospectus, and this Agreement, and that:
(i) the representations and warranties of the
Company in this Agreement are true and correct, as if made on and as of the
Closing Date and the Company has complied with all agreements and covenants
and satisfied all conditions contained in this Agreement on its part to be
performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date; (ii) no stop order
suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part
thereof has been issued, and no proceedings for that purpose have been
instituted or are pending or, to the best of each of such person's
knowledge after due inquiry, are contemplated or threatened under the Act;
(iii) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
and, if any, each amendment and each supplement
thereto, contain all statements and information required to be included therein,
and none of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any amendment or
supplement thereto includes any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to
state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading and none of the Preliminary Prospectus or any
supplement thereto included any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted
to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make
the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading; and
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(iv) subsequent to the respective dates as of which
information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus: (a)
neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries has incurred up to and including
the Closing Date, other than in the ordinary course of its business, any
material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent (except as otherwise
contemplated in subclause (d) of this clause (iv)); (b) neither the Company nor
any of the Subsidiaries has paid or declared any dividends or other
distributions on its capital stock; (c) neither the Company nor any of the
Subsidiaries has entered into any material transactions not in the ordinary
course of business; (d) neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries has
sustained any material loss or damage to its property or assets, whether or not
insured; (e) there is no material litigation which is pending or, to the best of
the Company's knowledge, threatened against the Company, any of the Subsidiaries
or any affiliated party of any of the foregoing which is required to be set
forth in an amended or supplemented Prospectus which has not been set forth; and
(f) there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amended or
supplemented Prospectus which has not been set forth.
(d) Prior to each Closing Date (i) there shall have been no
materially adverse change nor development involving a prospective change in the
condition, financial or otherwise, prospects, stockholders' equity or the
business activities of the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole,
whether or not in the ordinary course of business, from the latest dates as of
which such condition is set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus;
(ii) there shall have been no transaction, not in the ordinary course of
business, entered into by the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, from the
latest date as of which the financial condition of the Company and the
Subsidiaries is set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus which is
adverse to the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (iii) neither the
Company nor any of the Subsidiaries shall be in material default under any
provision of any instrument relating to any outstanding indebtedness; (iv)
neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries shall have issued any Shares
(other than the Shares or underlying common stock from the exercise of options
or warrants) or declared or paid any dividend or made any distribution in
respect of its capital stock of any class and there has not been any change in
the capital stock, or any change in the debt (long or short term) or liabilities
or obligations (contingent or otherwise) of the Company or any of the
Subsidiaries except as set forth in the Registration Statement or Prospectus or
agreed to in writing by you and the Company; (v) no material amount of the
assets of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries shall have been pledged or
mortgaged other than in the ordinary course of the Company's business, except as
set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) no action, suit or
proceeding, at law or in equity, shall have been pending or, to the best of the
Company's knowledge, threatened against the Company or any of the Subsidiaries,
or affecting any of their respective properties or businesses, before or by any
court or federal, state or foreign commission board or other administrative
agency wherein an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding may materially
adversely affect the business, operations, prospects, financial condition or
income of the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, except as set forth
in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; and (vii) no stop order shall have
been issued under the Act and no proceedings therefor shall have been initiated,
threatened or contemplated by the Commission or any state regulatory authority.
8. Effective Date of Agreement: This Agreement shall become effective
upon execution by both Parties hereto.
9. Notice. Any notice, request, instruction, or other document required
by the terms of this Agreement, or deemed by any of the Parties hereto to be
desirable, to be given to any other Party hereto shall be in writing and shall
be given by facsimile, personal delivery, overnight delivery, or mailed by
registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, with return receipt requested, to
the following addresses:
If to the Company:
Beta Oil & Gas, Inc.
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000
Fax: 949/000-0000
ATTN: Xxxxx Xxxxx, President
With a copy to:
Xxxxxxx & Xxxx
Xxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Fax: 949/000-0000
ATTN: Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Esq.
If to you:
Brookstreet Securities Corporation
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
FAX: 949/000-0000
ATTN: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, President
With a copy to:
Xxxxxxx & Xxxx
Xxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Fax: 949/000-0000
ATTN: Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Esq.
The persons and addresses set forth above may be changed from time to
time by a notice sent as aforesaid. If notice is given by facsimile, personal
delivery, or overnight delivery in accordance with the provisions of this
Section, said notice shall be conclusively deemed given at the time of such
delivery. If notice is given by mail in accordance with the provisions of this
Section, such notice shall be conclusively deemed given seven business days
after deposit thereof in the United States mail.
10. Termination: You shall have the right to terminate this Agreement
(i) if any domestic or international event or act or occurrence has or in your
reasonable opinion will in the immediate future have a material adverse effect
on the Company or the Shares market in general or (ii) if trading on the New
York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or in the NASDAQ exchange shall
have been suspended, or minimum or maximum prices for trading shall have been
fixed, or maximum ranges for prices for Shares shall have been required on the
over-the-counter market by the NASD or by order of the Commission or any other
government authority having jurisdiction; or (iii) if the United States shall
have become involved in a war or major hostilities, or there shall have been an
escalation in an existing war or major hostilities, or a national emergency
shall have been declared in the United States; or (iv) if a banking moratorium
has been declared by a state or federal authority; or (v) if a moratorium in
foreign exchange trading has been declared; or (vi) if the Company or any of the
Subsidiaries shall have sustained a loss material or substantial to the Company
or any of the Subsidiaries by fire, flood, accident, hurricane, earthquake,
theft, sabotage or other calamity or malicious act which, whether or not such
loss shall have been insured, will, in your reasonable opinion, make it
inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of the Shares; or (vii) if there shall
have been such a material adverse change in the conditions or prospects of the
Company or any of the Subsidiaries, or such material adverse change in the
general market, political or economic conditions in the United States or
elsewhere, as in your judgment would make it inadvisable to proceed with the
offering, sale and/or delivery of the Shares.
11. Representations and Agreements to Survive Delivery. All
representations, warranties and agreements contained in this Agreement or
contained in certificates of officers of the Company submitted pursuant hereto
shall be deemed to be representations, warranties and agreements at the Closing
Date, as the case may be, and such representations, warranties and agreements of
the Company and the respective indemnity agreements contained in Section 6
hereof shall remain operative and in full force and effect as of such dates,
regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of you, the Company, any of
the Subsidiaries or any controlling person, and shall survive termination of
this Agreement or the issuance and delivery of the Shares to you.
12. Entire Agreement; Amendments. This Agreement constitutes the entire
agreement of the parties hereto and supersedes all prior written or oral
agreements, understandings and negotiations with respect to the subject matter
hereof. This Agreement may not be amended except in a writing signed by you and
the Company.
13. Miscellaneous. This Agreement has been and is made solely for the
benefit of you and the Company and of the controlling persons, directors and
officers referred to in Section 6 hereof, and their respective successors and
assigns, and no other person shall acquire or have any right under or by virtue
of this Agreement. The term "successors and assigns" as used in this Agreement
shall not include a purchaser, as such purchaser, of Shares from you.
This Agreement may be signed in various counterparts which together
shall constitute one and the same agreement.
THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND
TO BE PERFORMED ENTIRELY WITHIN SUCH STATE.
Please confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the agreement
between the Company and you.
Very truly yours,
BETA OIL & GAS, INC.
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BY: Xxxxx Xxxxx
ITS: President
Confirmed as of the date first above mentioned:
BROOKSTREET SECURITIES CORPORATION
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BY: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
ITS: President
