TRANSMETA CORPORATION 2,000,000 Units PLACEMENT AGENCY AGREEMENT
Exhibit 1.1
TRANSMETA CORPORATION
2,000,000 Units
September 20, 2007
X.X. Xxxxxxx & Sons, Inc.
Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xx. Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xx. Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
The undersigned, Transmeta Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), hereby
addresses you (the “Placement Agent”) and confirms its agreement with you as follows:
1. Description of Securities. The Company proposes, subject to the terms and conditions
stated herein and the Subscription Agreements in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto (the
“Subscription Agreements”) entered into with the investors specified therein (each, an
“Investor” and collectively, the “Investors”), to issue and sell up to an aggregate
of 2,000,000 units (the “Units”), each consisting of (i) one share (each, a “Share”
and collectively, the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.00001 per share
(the “Common Stock”), and (ii) one warrant to purchase 0.5 shares of Common Stock in the
form of Exhibit B attached hereto (each, a “Warrant” and collectively, the
“Warrants”) in a public offering under its registration statement (Registration No.
333-144476) on Form S-3. The shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants are
referred to herein as the “Warrant Shares” and, together with the Units, the Shares and the
Warrants, are collectively referred to herein as the “Securities.” The Company desires to
engage the Placement Agent as its placement agent in connection with such issuance and sale. The
Securities are more fully described in the Prospectus hereinafter defined.
2. Agreement to Act as Placement Agent; Delivery and Payment. On the basis of the
representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, but subject to the terms and
conditions herein set forth, the Placement Agent agrees to act as the Company’s exclusive placement
agent to assist the Company, on a best efforts basis, in connection with the proposed issuance and
sale by the Company of the Units to the Investors. The Company expressly acknowledges and agrees
that this Agreement does not in any way constitute a commitment by the Placement Agent to purchase
any of the Units and does not ensure successful placement of the Units or any portion thereof. The
Company shall pay to the Placement Agent concurrently with the Closing (as defined below) 6.0% of
the gross purchase price of the Units (excluding any consideration that may be paid in the future
upon exercise of the Warrants) (the “Placement Fee”).
Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 5 hereof, the closing of the sale and
issuance of the Units (the “Closing”) shall occur at the offices of Fenwick & West LLP, 801
California Street, Mountain View, California, or at such other place as may be agreed upon
between you and the Company (the “Place of Closing”), at 7:00 a.m., Pacific time, on
September 26, 2007, or at such other time and date not later than 5 full business days thereafter
as the Placement Agent and the Company may agree, such time and date of payment and delivery being
herein called the “Closing Date.”
The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Placement Agent shall act as an independent
contractor, and not as a fiduciary, and any duties of the Placement Agent with respect to
investment banking services to the Company, including the offering of the Units contemplated hereby
(including in connection with determining the terms of the offering), shall be contractual in
nature, as expressly set forth herein, and shall be owed solely to the Company. Each party
disclaims any intention to impose any fiduciary or similar duty on the other. Additionally, the
Placement Agent has not advised, nor is advising, the Company or any other person as to any legal,
tax, investment, accounting or regulatory matters in any jurisdiction with respect to the
transactions contemplated hereby. The Company shall consult with its own advisors concerning such
matters and shall be responsible for making its own independent investigation and appraisal of the
transactions contemplated hereby, and the Placement Agent shall have no responsibility or liability
to the Company with respect thereto. Any review by the Placement Agent of the Company, the
transactions contemplated hereby or other matters relating to such transactions has been and will
be performed solely for the benefit of the Placement Agent and has not been and shall not be on
behalf of the Company or any other person. It is understood that the Placement Agent has not and
will not be rendering an opinion to the Company as to the fairness of the terms of the offering.
Notwithstanding anything in this Placement Agent Agreement to the contrary, the Company
acknowledges that the Placement Agent may have financial interests in the success of the offering
contemplated hereby that are not limited to the Placement Fee. The Company hereby waives and
releases, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims that the Company may have against the
Placement Agent with respect to any breach or alleged breach of fiduciary duty.
It is understood that the Company proposes to offer the Units to the Investors upon the terms
and conditions set forth in the Registration Statement (hereinafter defined).
3. Representations, Warranties and Agreements of the Company.
(a) The Company represents and warrants to and agrees with the Placement Agent as of the date
hereof and as of the Closing Date and any other date specified below, that:
(i) At the time of filing the registration statement on Form S-3 (Registration No.
333-144476), the Company met the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the 1933 Act for a
primary offering. A registration statement (Registration No. 333-144476) on Form S-3 with
respect to the Securities, including a base prospectus (the “Base Prospectus”), and
such amendments to such registration statement as may have been required to the date of this
Agreement, has been carefully prepared by the Company pursuant to and in conformity with the
requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), and the
rules and regulations thereunder (the “1933 Act Rules and Regulations”) of the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and has been filed with the SEC under
the 1933 Act. Such registration statement has been declared effective by the SEC. Copies
of such registration statement, including any amendments
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thereto, each related preliminary prospectus (meeting the requirements of Rule 430,
430A or 430B of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations) contained therein, and the exhibits,
financial statements and schedules thereto have heretofore been delivered by the Company to
the Placement Agent (it being understood among the parties hereto that any reference to
“delivery,” “furnishing” or similar words or phrases by the Company to the Placement Agent
of any information that is on file with the SEC will be deemed to be so delivered in the
absence of an express request from the Placement Agent). A final prospectus supplement
containing information permitted to be omitted at the time of effectiveness by Rule 430A or
430B of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations will be filed promptly by the Company with the
SEC in accordance with Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations. The term
“Registration Statement” as used herein means the registration statement as amended
at the time it became effective by the SEC under the 1933 Act (the “Effective
Date”), including financial statements, all exhibits and all documents incorporated by
reference therein and, if applicable, the information deemed to be included by Rule 430A or
430B of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations. If an abbreviated registration statement is
prepared and filed with the SEC in accordance with Rule 462(b) under the 1933 Act (an
“Abbreviated Registration Statement”), the term “Registration Statement” as used in
this Agreement includes the Abbreviated Registration Statement. The term
“Prospectus” as used herein means, together with the Base Prospectus, (i) the final
prospectus supplement as first filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act
Rules and Regulations, or (ii) if no such filing is required, the form of final prospectus
included in the Registration Statement at the Effective Date, including, in each case, the
documents incorporated by reference therein. The term “Preliminary Prospectus” as
used herein shall mean a preliminary prospectus as contemplated by Rule 430, 430A or 430B of
the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations included at any time in the Registration Statement,
including the Base Prospectus and any preliminary prospectus supplement, and including in
each case the documents incorporated by reference therein. The term “Free Writing
Prospectus” as used herein shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 405 of the 1933 Act.
The term “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” as used herein shall have the meaning set
forth in Rule 433 of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations. The term “Disclosure
Package” as used herein shall mean the Preliminary Prospectus as most recently amended
or supplemented prior to the Initial Time of Sale (as defined below) together with the
Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses identified in Schedule I hereto, if any, and any other Free
Writing Prospectus that the parties hereto shall hereafter expressly agree to treat as part
of the Disclosure Package. The Preliminary Prospectus, if any, any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the 1933 Act Rules and
Regulations and the Prospectus delivered to the Placement Agent for use in connection with
the offering of the Units have been and will be identical to the respective versions thereof
transmitted to the SEC for filing via the Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval
System (“XXXXX”), except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T. For purposes of
this Agreement, the words “amend,” “amendment,” “amended,” “supplement” or “supplemented”
with respect to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus or
the Disclosure Package shall mean amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement,
the Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus or the Disclosure Package, as the case may be,
as well as documents filed after the date of this Agreement and prior to the
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completion of the distribution of the Units and incorporated by reference therein as
described above.
(ii) Neither the SEC nor any state or other jurisdiction or other regulatory body has
issued, and neither is, to the knowledge of the Company, threatening to issue, any stop
order under the 1933 Act or other order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement (as amended or supplemented) or preventing or suspending the use of any
Preliminary Prospectus, Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the Disclosure Package or the
Prospectus or suspending the qualification or registration of the Units for offering or sale
in any jurisdiction nor instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened to
institute proceedings for any such purpose. The Preliminary Prospectus at its date of issue
and as of 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on the date hereof (the “Initial Time of Sale”),
the Registration Statement at each effective date and the Initial Time of Sale, and the
Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto or to the Registration Statement when
they are filed with the SEC or become effective, as the case may be, contain or will
contain, as the case may be, all statements that are required to be stated therein by, and
in all material respects conform or will conform, as the case may be, to the requirements
of, the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations. Neither the Registration Statement
nor any amendment thereto, as of the applicable effective date, contains or will contain, as
the case may be, any untrue statement of a material fact or omits or will omit to state any
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, not
misleading. Neither the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus nor any supplement thereto
contains or will contain, as the case may be, any untrue statement of a material fact or
omits or will omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made,
not misleading. Neither the Disclosure Package nor any supplement thereto, at the Initial
Time of Sale, contains or will contain, as the case may be, any untrue statement of a
material fact or omits or will omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein
or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which
they were made, not misleading. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company makes no
representation or warranty as to information contained in or omitted from the Registration
Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any such amendment or supplement, in
reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company relating
to the Placement Agent by or on behalf of the Placement Agent expressly for use in the
preparation thereof (as provided in Section 12 hereof). There is no contract, agreement,
understanding or arrangement, whether written or oral, or document required to be described
in the Registration Statement, Disclosure Package or Prospectus or to be filed as an exhibit
to the Registration Statement that is not described or filed as required. The documents
incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus at the time they were
filed with the SEC, complied in all material respects with the requirements of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”), and the rules and
regulations adopted by the SEC thereunder (the “1934 Act Rules and Regulations”).
Any future documents incorporated by reference so filed, when they are filed, will comply in
all material respects with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the 1934 Act Rules and
Regulations; no such incorporated document contained or will contain any untrue statement of
a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to
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be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and, when
read together and with the other information in each of the Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, at the time the Registration Statement became effective, at the Initial Time of
Sale and at the Closing Date, each such incorporated document did not or will not, as the
case may be, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(iii) The Company is eligible to use Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses in connection
with the offering of the Securities pursuant to Rules 164 and 433 of the 1933 Act. Any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that the Company is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d)
of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations has been, or will be, timely filed with the SEC in
accordance with the requirements of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations. Each Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus that the Company has filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule
433(d) of the 1933 Act or that was prepared by or on behalf of or used by the Company
complies or will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the 1933 Act Rules
and Regulations, including but not limited to legending and recordkeeping requirements.
Except for the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, if any, identified in Schedule I hereto,
the Company has not prepared, used or referred to, and will not, without your prior consent,
prepare, use or refer to any Free Writing Prospectus. Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus,
as of its issue date and at all times through the completion of the offering and sale of the
Units, 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 Company
filed the Registration Statement with the SEC before using any Free Writing Prospectus. The
Company has satisfied and will satisfy the conditions of Rule 433 of the 1933 Act Rules and
Regulations such that any electronic road show need not be filed with the SEC.
(iv) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and
constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the
Company in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws
relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity
(the “Exceptions”).
(v) The Company and its Subsidiaries (as defined below) have been duly organized and
are validly existing as corporations in good standing under the laws of the states or other
jurisdictions in which they are incorporated, with full power and authority (corporate and
other) to own, lease and operate their properties and conduct their businesses as described
in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and, with respect to the Company, to
execute and deliver, and perform the Company’s obligations under, this Agreement; the
Company and its Subsidiaries are duly qualified to do business as foreign corporations in
good standing in each state or other jurisdiction in which their ownership or leasing of
property or conduct of business legally requires such qualification, except where the
failure to be so qualified, individually or in the aggregate, would not have a Material
Adverse Effect. The term “Material Adverse Effect” as used herein means any material
adverse effect on the condition (financial or other), net worth, business, affairs,
management, prospects, results of operations or cash flow of the
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Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. The Company has no significant
subsidiaries (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X promulgated by the
Commission) other than those Subsidiaries listed on Schedule II hereto (the
“Subsidiaries”).
(vi) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has sustained since the date of
the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the
Disclosure Package any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion,
flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or
court or governmental action, order or decree. Otherwise than as set forth in each of the
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and, since the respective dates as of which
information is given in the Disclosure Package, there has not been any change in the capital
stock or long-term debt of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Material Adverse
Change, or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Change, otherwise than
as set forth in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. The term “Material
Adverse Change” as used herein means any change that has a Material Adverse Effect.
(vii) The issuance and sale of the Securities and the execution, delivery and
performance by the Company of this Agreement, and the consummation of the transactions
herein contemplated, will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the
terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or
imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any properties or assets of the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or
other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or
by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the properties
or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, except to such extent as,
individually or in the aggregate, does not have a Material Adverse Effect, nor will such
action result in any violation of the provisions of the Company’s certificate of
incorporation or bylaws or any statute, rule, regulation or other law, or any order or
judgment, of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their properties; and no consent, approval,
authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any such court or
governmental agency or body is required for the execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement, the issuance and sale of the Securities or the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby, except such as have been, or will be prior to the Closing Date,
obtained under the 1933 Act or as may be required by the Financial Industry Regulatory
Authority (“FINRA”) and such consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations or
qualifications as may be required under state securities or blue sky laws in connection with
the purchase and distribution of the Securities to the Investors.
(viii) The Company has duly and validly authorized capital stock as set forth in each
of the Disclosure Package and Prospectus; as of the Initial Time of Sale, the Company shall
have an authorized and outstanding capitalization as set forth in the section of the
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus entitled “Capitalization” (and any similar sections or
information, if any, contained in any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus)
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(subject, in each case, to the issuance of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of
stock options and convertible preferred stock disclosed as outstanding in the Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus and the grant of options under existing stock option plans
described in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus). All outstanding shares of Common
Stock of the Company and the Shares and Warrant Shares conform, or when issued will conform,
to the description thereof in the Prospectus and have been, or, when issued and paid for in
the manner described herein or upon exercise of the Warrants upon payment of the exercise
price therefor, as the case may be, will be, duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and
non-assessable. The Warrants conform, or when issued will conform, to the description
thereof in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and have been duly and validly
authorized by the Company and upon delivery to the Investors at the Closing Date will be
valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms,
except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium or similar laws affecting the rights and remedies of creditors generally or
subject to general principles of equity. The issuance of the Units to be purchased from the
Company hereunder and the issuance of the Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Warrants are
not subject to preemptive or other similar rights, or any restriction upon the voting or
transfer thereof pursuant to applicable law or the Company’s certificate of incorporation,
by-laws or governing documents or any agreement to which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is a party or by which any of them may be bound. All corporate action required
to be taken by the Company for the authorization, issuance and sale of the Securities has
been duly and validly taken. Except as disclosed in each of the Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, there are no outstanding subscriptions, rights, warrants, options, calls,
convertible securities, commitments of sale or rights related to or entitling any person to
purchase or otherwise to acquire any shares of, or any security convertible into or
exchangeable or exercisable for, the capital stock of, or other ownership interest in, the
Company, except for such options or rights as may have been granted by the Company to
employees, directors or consultants pursuant to its stock option or stock purchase plans.
The outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company’s Subsidiaries have been duly
authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned by the
Company free and clear of any mortgage, pledge, lien, encumbrance, charge or adverse claim
and are not the subject of any agreement or understanding with any person and were not
issued in violation of any preemptive or similar rights; and there are no outstanding
subscriptions, rights, warrants, options, calls, convertible securities, commitments of sale
or instruments related to or entitling any person to purchase or otherwise acquire any
shares of, or any security convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for, the capital
stock of, or other ownership interest in any of the Subsidiaries.
(ix) The statements set forth in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus
describing the Securities and this Agreement, insofar as they purport to describe the
provisions of the laws and documents referred to therein, are accurate, complete and fair.
(x) Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is in possession of and is operating in
compliance with all franchises, grants, authorizations, licenses, certificates, permits,
easements, consents, orders and approvals (“Permits”) from all state, federal,
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foreign and other regulatory authorities, and has satisfied the requirements imposed by
regulatory bodies, administrative agencies or other governmental bodies, agencies or
officials, that are required for the Company and its Subsidiaries lawfully to own, lease and
operate their properties and conduct their businesses as described in each of the Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus, and, each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is conducting its
business in compliance with all of the laws, rules and regulations of each jurisdiction in
which it conducts its business, in each case with such exceptions, individually or in the
aggregate, as would not have a Material Adverse Effect; each of the Company and its
Subsidiaries has filed all notices, reports, documents or other information
(“Notices”) required to be filed under applicable laws, rules and regulations, in
each case, with such exceptions, individually or in the aggregate, as would not have a
Material Adverse Effect; and, except as otherwise specifically described in each of the
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has
received any notification from any court or governmental body, authority or agency, relating
to the revocation or modification of any such Permit or, to the effect that any additional
authorization, approval, order, consent, license, certificate, permit, registration or
qualification (“Approvals”) from such regulatory authority is needed to be obtained
by any of them, in any case where it could be reasonably expected that obtaining such
Approvals or the failure to obtain such Approvals, individually or in the aggregate, would
have a Material Adverse Effect.
(xi) The Company and its Subsidiaries have filed all necessary federal, state and
foreign income and franchise tax returns and paid all taxes shown as due thereon; all such
tax returns are complete and correct in all material respects; all tax liabilities are
adequately provided for on the books of the Company and its Subsidiaries except to such
extent as would not have a Material Adverse Effect; the Company and its Subsidiaries have
made all necessary payroll tax payments; and the Company and its Subsidiaries have no
knowledge of any tax proceeding or action pending or threatened against the Company or its
Subsidiaries that, individually or in the aggregate, might have a Material Adverse Effect.
(xii) The Company and its Subsidiaries own, or have obtained valid and enforceable
licenses for, or other rights to use, the inventions, patent applications, patents,
trademarks (both registered and unregistered), tradenames, service names, copyrights, trade
secrets and other proprietary information described in the Disclosure Package 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 proposed to be conducted (including
the commercialization of products, services or technology described in the Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus as under development), except where the failure to own, license
or have such rights would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse
Effect (collectively, “Intellectual Property”); (i) there are no third parties who
have or, to the Company’s knowledge, will be able to establish rights to any Intellectual
Property, except for, and to the extent of, the ownership rights of the owners of the
Intellectual Property which the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus disclose is licensed
to the Company or such as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect; (ii) except as disclosed in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there is no
pending action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the
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Company’s rights in or to any Intellectual Property; (iii) except as disclosed in the
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there is no pending action, suit, proceeding or claim
by others challenging the validity, enforceability or scope of any Intellectual Property
that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (iv) except as
disclosed in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there is no pending action, suit,
proceeding or claim by others that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries infringes or
otherwise violates, or would, upon the commercialization of any product, service or
technology described in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus as under development,
infringe or violate, any patent, trademark, tradename, service name, copyright, trade secret
or other proprietary rights of others; and (v) to the Company’s knowledge, none of the
patent applications owned or licensed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries would
reasonably be expected to be unenforceable or invalid if issued as patents, which
unenforceability or invalidity would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(xiii) The Company and its Subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to
all items of real property and good and marketable title to all personal property owned by
them, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, restrictions and defects
except such as are described in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or do not
materially affect the value of such property and do not interfere with the use made and
proposed to be made of such property; and any property held under lease or sublease by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries is held under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases or
subleases with such exceptions as are not material and do not interfere with the use made
and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its Subsidiaries; and neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any notice or knowledge of any material claim of
any sort that has been, or may be, asserted by anyone adverse to the Company’s or any of its
Subsidiaries rights as lessee or sublessee under any lease or sublease described above, or
affecting or questioning the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ rights to the continued
possession of the leased or subleased premises under any such lease or sublease in conflict
with the terms thereof.
(xiv) Except as described in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there
is no pending action, suit or other proceeding involving the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or any of their material assets for any failure of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, or any predecessor thereof, to comply with any requirements of federal, state
or local regulation relating to air, water, solid waste management, hazardous or toxic
substances, or the protection of health, safety or the environment. Except as described in
each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, none of the property owned or leased by
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is, to the best knowledge of the Company,
contaminated with any waste or hazardous or toxic substances, and neither the Company nor
any of its Subsidiaries may be deemed an “owner or operator” of a “facility” or “vessel”
that owns, possesses, transports, generates or disposes of a “hazardous substance” as those
terms are defined in §9601 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and
Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. §9601 et seq.
(xv) No labor disturbance exists with the employees of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or is imminent that, individually or in the aggregate, would have a
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Material Adverse Effect. None of the employees of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is represented by a union and, to the best knowledge of the Company and its
Subsidiaries, no union organizing activities are taking place. Neither the Company nor any
of its Subsidiaries has violated any federal, state or local law or foreign law relating to
discrimination in hiring, promotion or pay of employees, nor any applicable wage or hour
laws, or the rules and regulations thereunder, or analogous foreign laws and regulations,
that might, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(xvi) The Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with
all presently applicable provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as amended, including the regulations and published interpretations thereunder
(“ERISA”); no “reportable event” (as defined in ERISA) has occurred with respect to
any “pension plan” (as defined in ERISA) for which the Company and its Subsidiaries would
have any liability; the Company and its Subsidiaries have not incurred and do not expect to
incur liability under (i) Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal
from, any “pension plan” or (ii) Sections 412 or 4971 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended, including the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (the
“Code”); and each “pension plan” for which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
would have any liability that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code
is so qualified in all material respects, and nothing has occurred, whether by action or by
failure to act, that would cause the loss of such qualification.
(xvii) The Company and its Subsidiaries maintain insurance of the types and in the
amounts generally deemed adequate for its business, including, but not limited to,
directors’ and officers’ insurance, insurance covering real and personal property owned or
leased by the Company and its Subsidiaries against theft, damage, destruction, acts of
vandalism and all other risks customarily insured against, all of which insurance is in full
force and effect. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has been refused any
insurance coverage sought or applied for, and the Company has no reason to believe that it
and its Subsidiaries will not be able to renew their existing insurance coverage as and when
such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be
necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(xviii) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is, or with the giving of
notice or lapse of time or both would be, in default or violation with respect to its
certificate of incorporation or by-laws. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries
is, or with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both would be, in default in the
performance or observance of any material obligation, agreement, covenant or condition
contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease or other
agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by
which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the properties or
assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, or in violation of any
statutes, laws, ordinances or governmental rules or regulations or any orders or decrees to
which it is subject, including, without limitation, Section 13 of the 1934 Act, which
default or violation, individually or in the aggregate, would have a Material Adverse
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Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has, at any time during the
past five years, (A) made any unlawful contributions to any candidate for any political
office, or failed fully to disclose any contribution in violation of law, or (B) made any
payment to any state, federal or foreign government official, or other person charged with
similar public or quasi-public duty (other than payment required or permitted by applicable
law).
(xix) Other than as set forth in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus,
there are no legal or governmental proceedings pending to which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is a party or of which any property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
is the subject that, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries,
would individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect or that would
materially and adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or
that is required to be disclosed in each of the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus; to the
best of the Company’s knowledge, no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated.
(xx) The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Units,
will not be a “holding company,” or a “subsidiary company” of a “holding company,” or an
“affiliate” of a “holding company” or of a “subsidiary company,” as such terms are defined
in the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended (the “1935 Act”).
(xxi) The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the
Units, will not be an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment
company,” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the
“1940 Act”).
(xxii) At the earliest time after the filing of the Registration Statement at which the
Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule
164(a)(2) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations) and as of the date hereof, the Company was
not and is not an “ineligible issuer” as such term is defined in Rule 405 of the 1933 Act
Rules and Regulations, without taking account of any determination by the SEC that it is not
necessary that the Company be considered an “ineligible issuer.”
(xxiii) Each of Xxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP and Ernst & Young LLP, the accounting firms
that have certified the financial statements filed with or incorporated by reference in and
as a part of the Registration Statement, is an independent registered public accounting firm
within the meaning of the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations and the rules and
regulations of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) of the United
States. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries maintains a system of internal accounting
controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that: (1) transactions are executed in
accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (2) transactions are
recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with
generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain accountability for assets; (3)
access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific
authorization; and (4) the recorded accounts for assets is compared with the existing assets
at reasonable intervals and appropriate action
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is taken with respect thereto. The consolidated financial statements and schedules of
the Company, including the notes thereto, filed with (or incorporated by reference) and as a
part of the Registration Statement, Disclosure Package or Prospectus, are accurate in all
material respects and present fairly the financial condition of the Company and its
Subsidiaries as of the respective dates thereof and the consolidated results of operations
and changes in financial position and consolidated statements of cash flow for the
respective periods covered thereby, all in conformity with generally accepted accounting
principles applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved except as otherwise
disclosed therein. All adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of results for such
periods have been made. The selected financial data included or incorporated by reference
in the Registration Statement, Disclosure Package and Prospectus present fairly the
information shown therein and have been compiled on a basis consistent with that of the
audited financial statements. Any operating or other statistical data included or
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, Disclosure Package and Prospectus
comply in all material respects with the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations and
present fairly the information shown therein and are based on or derived from sources that
the Company reasonably and in good faith believes are reliable and accurate, and such data
agree with the sources from which they are derived. All non-GAAP financial information
included (or incorporated by reference) in the Registration Statement, Disclosure Package or
Prospectus complies with the requirements of Regulation G and Item 10 of Regulation S-K
under the 1933 Act.
(xxiv) Except as disclosed in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, no
holder of any security of the Company has any right to require registration of shares of
Common Stock or any other security of the Company because of the filing of the Registration
Statement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and, except as
disclosed in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, no person has the right to
require registration under the 1933 Act of any shares of Common Stock or other securities of
the Company. No person has the right, contractual or otherwise, to cause the Company to
permit such person to underwrite the sale of any of the Securities. Except for this
Agreement, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries and any person that would give rise to a valid claim against the
Company, its Subsidiaries or any Placement Agent for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or
like payment in connection with the issuance, purchase and sale of the Securities.
(xxv) The Company has not distributed and, prior to the later to occur of (A) the
Closing Date and (B) completion of the distribution of the Units, will not distribute any
offering material in connection with the offering and sale of the Units other than the
Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
identified in Schedule I hereto, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(xxvi) The Company has not taken and will not take, directly or indirectly, any action
designed to or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in stabilization or
manipulation of the price of the Company’s Common Stock, and the Company is not aware of any
such action taken or to be taken by affiliates of the Company.
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(xxvii) There is not currently and has not in the past been a failure on the part of
the Company or any of its respective directors or officers, in their capacities as such, to
comply with any applicable provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002
(“Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx”) and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection
therewith, including Sections 302, 402 and 906, and the statements contained in any
certification pursuant to such Act and related rules and regulations are complete and
correct.
(xxviii) The Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures
and internal control over financial reporting as are currently required (as such terms are
defined in Rule 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the 1934 Act); the Company’s disclosure controls and
procedures (i) are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the
Company in the reports that it files or submits under the 1934 Act is accumulated and
communicated to management, including the principal executive and principal financial
officer of the Company, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow
timely decisions regarding required disclosure, and that such information is recorded,
processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the 1934 Act Rules
and Regulations; (ii) have been evaluated for effectiveness; and (iii) are effective in all
material respects to perform the functions for which they were established.
(xxix) Except as discussed with the Company’s auditors and audit committee and as
disclosed in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (i) there are no significant
deficiencies or material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over
financial reporting that are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company’s ability to
record, process, summarize, and report financial data and (ii) there is, and there has been,
no fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a
role in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
(xxx) Since the date of the end of the last fiscal year for which audited financial
statements are included or incorporated by reference in each of the Disclosure Package and
the Prospectus, there have been no significant changes in internal control over financial
reporting or in other factors that could significantly affect internal control over
financial reporting, including any corrective actions with regard to significant
deficiencies and material weaknesses.
(xxxi) The Company has received no written comments from the SEC staff regarding its
periodic or current reports under the 1934 Act that remain unresolved and have not been
disclosed in the Registration Statement, Disclosure Package and Prospectus.
(xxxii) No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company and
any director, officer or stockholder of the Company, or any member of his or her immediate
family, or any customers or suppliers that is required to be described in the Registration
Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus and that is not so described and
described as required in material compliance with such requirement. There are no
outstanding loans, advances (except normal advances for business expenses in the
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ordinary course of business) or guarantees of indebtedness by the Company to or for the
benefit of any of the officers or directors of the Company or any member of their respective
immediate families, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus. The Company has not, in violation of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act,
directly or indirectly, extended or maintained credit, arranged for the extension of credit,
or renewed an extension of credit, in the form of a personal loan to or for any director or
executive officer of the Company.
(xxxiii) To the best knowledge of the Company, no change in any laws or regulations is
pending that could reasonably be expected to be adopted and if adopted, could reasonably be
expected to have, individually or in the aggregate with all such changes, a Material Adverse
Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in each of the Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus.
(xxxiv) The minute books of each of the Company and its Subsidiaries have been made
available to the Placement Agent and contain a complete summary of all meetings and other
actions of the directors and shareholders of each such entity in all material respects, and
reflect all transactions referred to in such minutes accurately in all material respects.
(xxxv) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries, nor any director, officer,
agent, employee or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries, has, directly or indirectly, used any corporate funds for any unlawful
contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity;
made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official
or employee or to foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds;
violated or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977;
or made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment.
(xxxvi) The operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries are and have been conducted
at all times in compliance in all material respects 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 jurisdictions, the rules and regulations
thereunder and any related or similar 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 knowledge of the Company, threatened.
(xxxvii) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the
Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of
Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”); and the Company
will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or
otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary,
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joint venture partner or other person or entity, which, to the Company’s knowledge,
will use such proceeds for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently
subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.
(xxxviii) The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the 1934 Act, and
the Company’s outstanding Common Stock is listed on the NASDAQ Global Market. The Company
has taken no action designed to, or likely to have the effect of, terminating the
registration of the Common Stock under the 1934 Act or the listing of the Common Stock on
the NASDAQ Global Market, nor has the Company received any notification that the SEC or the
NASDAQ Global Market is contemplating terminating such registration or quotation.
(xxxix) No customer of or supplier to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has ceased
purchases or shipments of merchandise to the Company or indicated, to the Company’s
knowledge, an interest in decreasing or ceasing its purchases from sales to the Company or
otherwise modifying its relationship with the Company, other than in the normal and ordinary
course of business consistent with past practices in a manner which would not, singly or in
the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company and delivered to the Placement Agent
or to counsel for the Placement Agent shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company
to the Placement Agent as to the matters covered thereby.
4. Additional Covenants. The Company covenants and agrees with the Placement Agent that:
(a) The Company will timely transmit copies of the Prospectus, and any amendments or
supplements thereto, to the SEC for filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act Rules and
Regulations.
(b) The Company has furnished or will deliver to the Placement Agent, and to counsel for the
Placement Agent (i) such number of signed copies of the Registration Statement as originally filed,
including copies of exhibits thereto (other than any exhibits incorporated by reference therein),
and any amendments and supplements to the Registration Statement (including all documents
incorporated by reference therein), as may be reasonably requested by the Placement Agent or
counsel for the Placement Agent and (ii) a signed copy of each consent and certificate included or
incorporated by reference in, or filed as an exhibit to, the Registration Statement as so amended
or supplemented; the Company will deliver to the Placement Agent as soon as practicable after the
date of this Agreement as many copies of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (including all
documents incorporated by reference therein) as the Placement Agent may reasonably request for the
purposes contemplated by the 1933 Act; the Company will promptly advise the Placement Agent of any
request of the SEC for amendment of the Registration Statement or for supplement to the Disclosure
Package or the Prospectus or for any additional information, and of the issuance by the SEC or any
state or other jurisdiction or other regulatory body of any stop order under the 1933 Act or other
order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement (as amended or supplemented) or
preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, Disclosure Package or the
Prospectus or suspending the
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qualification or registration of the Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, and
of the institution or threat of any proceedings therefor, of which the Company shall have received
notice or otherwise have knowledge prior to the completion of the distribution of the Units; and
the Company will use its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order or other order
and, if issued, to secure the prompt removal thereof.
(c) The Company will obtain the Placement Agent’s consent before taking, or failing to take,
any action that would cause the Company to make an offer of Securities that would constitute an
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or to be required to file a Free Writing Prospectus pursuant to Rule
433(d) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations, other than the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, if
any, listed on Schedule I hereto.
(d) The Company will not take any action that would result in the Placement Agent or the
Company being required to file with the SEC pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the 1933 Act Rules and
Regulations a Free Writing Prospectus prepared by or on behalf of the Placement Agent that the
Placement Agent otherwise would not have been required to file thereunder.
(e) If the Disclosure Package is being used to solicit offers to buy the Units 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 Disclosure Package
in writing in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which
they were made, not misleading, or if, in the opinion of counsel for the Placement Agent, it is
necessary to amend or supplement the Disclosure Package to comply with applicable law, forthwith to
prepare, file with the SEC and furnish, at its own expense, to the Placement Agent and to any
dealer upon request, either amendments or supplements to the Disclosure Package so that statements
in the Disclosure Package as so amended or supplemented will not, in light of the circumstances
when delivered to a prospective purchaser, be misleading or so that the Disclosure Package, as
amended or supplemented, will comply with law.
(f) The Company will not file any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement, the
Disclosure Package, the Prospectus (or any other prospectus relating to the Securities filed
pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations that differs from the Prospectus as
filed pursuant to such Rule 424(b)) and will not file any document under the 1934 Act before the
termination of the offering of the Units by the Company if the document would be deemed to be
incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, or the
Prospectus, of which the Placement Agent shall not previously have been advised and furnished with
a copy or to which the Placement Agent shall have reasonably objected or which is not in compliance
with the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations; and the Company will promptly notify the Placement Agent
after it shall have received notice thereof of the time when any amendment to the Registration
Statement becomes effective or when any supplement to, the Disclosure Package, the Prospectus has
been filed.
(g) During the period when a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice contemplated by Rule
173(a) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations) relating to any of the Units is required to be
delivered under the 1933 Act by any Placement Agent or dealer, the Company will comply, at its own
expense, with all requirements imposed by the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations, as
now and hereafter amended, and by the rules and regulations of the SEC
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thereunder, as from time to time in force, so far as necessary to permit the continuance of
sales of or dealing in the Units during such period in accordance with the provisions hereof and as
contemplated by the Prospectus.
(h) If, during the period when a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice contemplated by
Rule 173(a) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations) relating to any of the Units is required to be
delivered under the 1933 Act by any Placement Agent or dealer, (i) any event relating to or
affecting the Company or of which the Company shall be advised in writing by the Placement Agent
shall occur as a result of which, in the opinion of the Company or the Placement Agent, the
Disclosure Package or the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading,
(ii) any event shall occur as a result of which any Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or would
conflict with the information in the Registration Statement, or (iii) it shall be necessary to
amend or supplement the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus to comply
with the 1933 Act, the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations, the 1934 Act or the 1934 Act Rules and
Regulations, the Company will forthwith at its expense prepare and file with the SEC, and furnish
to the Placement Agent a reasonable number of copies of, such amendment or supplement or other
filing that will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance.
(i) During the period when a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice contemplated by Rule
173(a) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations) relating to any of the Units is required to be
delivered under the 1933 Act by any Placement Agent or dealer, the Company will furnish such proper
information as may be lawfully required and otherwise cooperate in qualifying the Securities for
offer and sale under the securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as the Placement Agent
may reasonably designate and will file and make in each year such statements or reports as are or
may be reasonably required by the laws of such jurisdictions; provided, however, that the Company
shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or shall be required to qualify as a
dealer in securities or to file a general consent to service of process under the laws of any
jurisdiction.
(j) In accordance with Section 11(a) of the 1933 Act and Rule 158 of the 1933 Act Rules and
Regulations, the Company will make generally available to its security holders and to holders of
the Units, as soon as practicable, an earning statement (which need not be audited) in reasonable
detail covering the 12 months beginning not later than the first day of the month next succeeding
the month in which occurred the effective date (within the meaning of Rule 158) of the Registration
Statement.
(k) The Company will apply the proceeds from the sale of the Units and upon exercise of the
Warrants as set forth in the description under “Use of Proceeds” in the Disclosure Package
and the Prospectus, which description complies in all respects with the requirements of Item 504 of
Regulation S-K.
(l) The Company will promptly provide the Placement Agent with copies of all correspondence to
and from, and all documents issued to and by, the SEC in connection with the
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registration of the Securities under the 1933 Act or relating to any documents incorporated by
reference into the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus.
(m) Prior to the Closing Date, the Company will furnish to the Placement Agent, as soon as
they have been prepared, copies of any unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of the
Company and its Subsidiaries for any periods subsequent to the periods covered by the financial
statements appearing in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or incorporated therein by
reference.
(n) The Company will use its best efforts to obtain approval for, and maintain the listing of
the Shares and Warrant Shares on, the NASDAQ Global Market.
(o) The Company will cause its directors and officers and each holder of 5% of shares of
Common Stock to furnish to the Placement Agent, on or prior to the date of this Agreement, a letter
or letters, in form and substance satisfactory to counsel for the Placement Agent, pursuant to
which each such person shall agree not to, and the Company will not, and will not publicly announce
any intention to, during the period ending 90 days after the date of the Prospectus, without the
prior written consent of the Placement Agent, directly or indirectly, (1) offer, pledge, sell,
contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell,
grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly
or indirectly, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or
exchangeable for Common Stock; (2) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to
another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Common Stock or
any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, whether any such
transaction described in clause (1) or (2) above is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or
such other securities, in cash or otherwise; or (3) file any registration statement with the SEC
relating to the offering of any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or
exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock.
The restrictions contained in the preceding paragraph shall not apply to (a) the issuance by the
Company of shares of Common Stock upon the exercise of an option or warrant or the conversion of a
security outstanding on the date hereof of which the Placement Agent has been advised in writing;
provided that the underlying shares of Common Stock issued to any person who has delivered a
lock-up agreement pursuant to this Section 4(o) hereto shall continue to be subject to the
restrictions contained in the immediately preceding paragraph or such lock-up agreement, as
applicable; (b) the issuance by the Company of shares of Common Stock or options to purchase shares
of Common Stock to, or the repurchase by the Company of unvested shares of Common Stock upon
termination of service from, an employee, director, consultant other service provider, pursuant to
the Company’s stock incentive plans in effect on the date hereof; provided that the shares of
Common Stock or options to purchase shares of Common Stock issued to the Company’s directors and
executive officers shall be subject to the restrictions contained in the lock-up agreements
delivered pursuant to this Section 4(o); and (c) the filing by the Company of any registration
statement with the Commission on Form S-8 relating to the offering of securities pursuant to the
terms of a stock incentive plan of the Company in effect on the date hereof.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, if (1) during the last 17 days of the 90-day restricted period the
Company issues an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to the Company
occurs; or (2) prior to the expiration of the 90-day restricted period, the Company announces that
it will release earnings results during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the 90-day
period, the restrictions imposed by this agreement shall continue to apply until the expiration of
the 18-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the
material news or material event. The Company shall promptly notify the Placement Agent of any
earnings release, news or event that may give rise to an extension of the initial 90-day restricted
period.
(p) The Company and its Subsidiaries will maintain and keep accurate books and records
reflecting their assets and maintain internal accounting controls that provide reasonable assurance
that (1) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific
authorization, (2) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit the preparation of the
Company’s consolidated financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting
principles and to maintain accountability for the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, (3)
access to the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries is permitted only in accordance with
management’s general or specific authorization, and (4) the recorded accounts of the assets of the
Company and its Subsidiaries are compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and
appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
(q) During any period in which a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, a notice contemplated by Rule
173(a) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations) is required by law to be delivered by the Placement
Agent or a dealer, the Company will promptly file all documents required to be filed with the SEC
pursuant to Sections 13, 14 or 15(d) of the 1934 Act. The Company will furnish to its security
holders annual reports containing financial statements audited by independent public accountants
and quarterly reports containing financial statements and financial information which may be
unaudited. The Company will deliver to the Placement Agent similar reports with respect to any
Subsidiaries that are not consolidated in the Company’s financial statements. Any report, document
or other information required to be furnished under this Section 4(q) shall be furnished as soon as
practicable after such report, document or information becomes available.
(r) The Company will comply with all applicable securities and other applicable laws, rules
and regulations, including, without limitation, the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, and will use its
best efforts to cause the Company’s directors and officers, in their capacities as such, to comply
with such laws, rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the provisions of the
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002.
(s) Except as required by law, prior to the Closing Date, the Company will issue no press
release or other communication, directly or indirectly, and will hold no press conferences with
respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the financial condition, results of operations,
business, properties, assets or liabilities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or the
offering of the Securities, without the Placement Agent’s prior written consent. In the event that
any such disclosure is required by law, the Company will promptly notify the Placement Agent of
such required disclosure prior to issuing any press release or other communication or holding any
press conference, and, to the extent reasonably practicable, the Company will permit the Placement
Agent to comment on any press release or other communication.
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(t) The Company shall reserve and keep available at all times a sufficient number of shares of
Common Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to issue the Warrant Shares upon the exercise
of the Warrants.
(u) If the Company elects to rely on Rule 462(b) under the 1933 Act, the Company shall both
file an Abbreviated Registration Statement with the SEC in compliance with Rule 462(b) and pay the
applicable fees in accordance with Rule 111 of the 1933 Act by the earlier of (i) 7:00 p.m.,
Pacific time, on the date of this Agreement, and (ii) the time that confirmations are given or
sent, as specified by Rule 462(b)(2).
5. Conditions of Closing. The Closing shall be subject to the accuracy, as of the date hereof
and as of the Closing Date, of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein,
to the performance by the Company of its covenants and obligations hereunder, and to the following
additional conditions, and the Company shall not issue or sell the Units unless and until all of
the conditions of this Section 5 shall have been satisfied or waived by the Placement Agent:
(a) The Registration Statement has been declared effective by the SEC and the offering of the
Securities by the Company complies with Rule 415 of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations. All
filings required by Rule 424, Rule 430A, Rule 430B and Rule 433(d) of the 1933 Act Rules and
Regulations will be promptly made. No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement, as amended from time to time, shall have been issued and no proceeding for that purpose
shall have been initiated or, to the knowledge of the Company or the Placement Agent, threatened or
contemplated by the SEC, and any request of the SEC for additional information (to be included in
the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been
complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Placement Agent.
(b) The Placement Agent shall not have advised the Company on or prior to the Closing Date,
that the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or Prospectus or any amendment or
supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of fact that, in the opinion of counsel to the
Placement Agent, is material, or omits to state a fact that, in the opinion of such counsel, is
material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein, in
the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(c) On the Closing Date, the Placement Agent shall have received the opinion of Fenwick & West
LLP, counsel for the Company, addressed to the Placement Agent and dated the Closing Date, in form
and substance as set forth on Exhibit C hereto.
(d) On the Closing Date, the Placement Agent shall have received the opinion of Xxxx X’Xxxx
Xxxxxxx, intellectual property litigation counsel for the Company, addressed to the Placement Agent
and dated the Closing Date, in substantially the form and substance as set forth on Exhibit D
hereto.
(e) On the Closing Date,
the Placement Agent shall have received the opinion of Xxxxxxxx, Xxx
& Xxxxxx LLP, intellectual property counsel for the Company,
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addressed to the Placement Agent and dated the Closing Date, in substantially the form and
substance as set forth on Exhibit E hereto.
(f) The Placement Agent shall have received on the Closing Date, from Pillsbury Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel to the Placement Agent, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date, with
respect to such matters as the Placement Agent may reasonably require; and the Company shall have
furnished to such counsel such documents as they may reasonably request for the purposes of
enabling them to review or pass on such matters.
(g) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Placement Agent shall have
received from each of Xxxx, Pilger & Xxxxx LLP and Ernst & Young LLP a letter or letters, dated the
date of this Agreement and the Closing Date, respectively, in form and substance satisfactory to
the Placement Agent and counsel for the Placement Agent, confirming that they are independent
registered public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the 1933 Act and
the published Rules and Regulations and the rules and regulations of the PCAOB, and stating the
conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters
ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to placement agents in connection with
registered public offerings.
(h) Except as contemplated in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (i) neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall have sustained since the date of the latest audited
financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus any loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other
calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental
action, order or decree; and (ii) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is
given in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company
nor any of its Subsidiaries shall have incurred any liability or obligation, direct or contingent,
or entered into any transactions, and there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or
short-term or long-term debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries or any change, or any development
involving or that might reasonably be expected to involve a prospective change in the condition
(financial or other), net worth, business, affairs, management, prospects, results of operations or
cash flow of the Company or its Subsidiaries, the effect of which, in any such case described in
clause (i) or (ii), is in the Placement Agent’s judgment so material or adverse as to make it
impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Units being
delivered on such Closing Date on the terms and in the manner contemplated in each of the
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(i) There shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) a suspension or material
limitation in trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ Global
Market or the American Stock Exchange or the establishing on such exchanges or market by the SEC or
by such exchanges or markets of minimum or maximum prices that are not in force and effect on the
date hereof; (ii) a suspension or material limitation in trading in the Company’s securities on the
NASDAQ Global Market or the establishing on such market by the SEC or by such market of minimum or
maximum prices that are not in force and effect on the date hereof; (iii) a general moratorium on
commercial banking activities declared by either federal or any state authorities; (iv) the
outbreak or escalation of hostilities involving the United States or the declaration by the United
States of a national emergency or war, which in the
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Placement Agent’s judgment makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public
offering or the delivery of the Units in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus; or (v) any
calamity or crisis, change in national, international or world affairs, act of God, change in the
international or domestic markets, or change in the existing financial, political or economic
conditions in the United States or elsewhere, that in the Placement Agent’s judgment makes it
impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Unites in
the manner contemplated in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(j) The Placement Agent shall have received certificates, dated the Closing Date and signed by
the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, in their capacities as
such, stating that:
(i) the condition set forth in Section 5(a) has been fully satisfied;
(ii) they have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package
and the Prospectus as amended or supplemented and all documents incorporated by reference
therein and nothing has come to their attention that would lead them to believe that any of
the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment or
supplement thereto or any documents incorporated by reference therein as of their respective
effective, issue or filing dates, contained, and the Prospectus as amended or supplemented
and all documents incorporated by reference therein and when read together with the
documents incorporated by reference therein, at such Closing Date, contains any untrue
statement of a material fact, or omits to state a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
(iii) since the Effective Date, there has occurred no event required to be set forth in
an amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the
Prospectus which has not been so set forth; there has been no Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
required to be filed under Rule 433(d) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations that has not
been so filed; and there has been no document required to be filed under the 1934 Act and
the 1934 Act Rules and Regulations that upon such filing would be deemed to be incorporated
by reference into the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus that has not been so filed;
(iv) all representations and warranties made herein by the Company are true and correct
at such Closing Date, with the same effect as if made on and as of such Closing Date, and
all agreements herein to be performed or complied with by the Company on or prior to such
Closing Date have been duly performed and complied with by the Company;
(v) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has sustained since the date of the
latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in each of the
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus any material loss or interference with its business
from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from
any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree; and
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(vi) except as disclosed in each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus,
subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration
Statement, each of the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of
its Subsidiaries has incurred any liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, other
than in the ordinary course of business, or entered into any transactions not in the
ordinary course of business, which in either case are material to the Company or such
Subsidiary; and there has not been any change in the capital stock or material increase in
the short-term debt or long term debt of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any
material adverse change or any development involving or that may reasonably be expected to
involve a prospective material adverse change, in the condition (financial or other), net
worth, business, affairs, management, prospects, results of operations or cash flow of the
Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole; and there has been no dividend or
distribution of any kind, paid or made by the Company on any class of its capital stock.
(k) The Company shall have furnished to the Placement Agent at the Closing Date such further
information, opinions, certificates, letters and documents as the Placement Agent may have
reasonably requested.
(l) The Shares and the Warrant Shares shall have been approved for trading upon official
notice of issuance on the NASDAQ Global Market.
(m) The Placement Agent shall have received duly and validly executed letter agreements
referred to in Section 4(o) hereof.
(n) FINRA shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the
fairness and reasonableness of the placement agency terms and conditions.
All such opinions, certificates, letters and documents will be in compliance with the
provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to the Placement Agent and to
Pillsbury Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Placement Agent. The Company will furnish the
Placement Agent with such signed and conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and
documents as the Placement Agent may request.
If any of the conditions specified above in this Section 5 shall not have been satisfied at or
prior to the Closing Date or waived by the Placement Agent in writing, this Agreement may be
terminated by the Placement Agent on notice to the Company, whereupon the Company shall not issue
or sell the Units.
6. Indemnification and Contribution.
(a) The Company will indemnify and hold harmless the Placement Agent from and against any
losses, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which the Placement Agent may become subject,
under the 1933 Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, damages or liabilities (or actions or
claims in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (i) an untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement of a material fact contained (A) in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration
Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that the Company has filed or is required to file
pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the 1933 Act Rules and Regulations, the Prospectus or
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any other prospectus relating to the Securities, or any amendment or supplement thereto, (B)
in any blue sky application or other document executed by the Company or based on any information
furnished in writing by the Company, filed in any state or other jurisdiction in order to qualify
any or all of the Securities under the securities laws thereof (the “Blue Sky Application”)
or (C) in any materials or information provided to investors by, or with the approval of, the
Company in connection with the marketing of the offering of the Securities (“Marketing
Materials”), including any road show or investor presentations made to investors by the Company
(whether in person or electronically), (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state in any
Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that the
Company has filed or is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the 1933 Act Rules and
Regulations, the Prospectus or any other prospectus relating to the Securities, or any amendment or
supplement thereto or in any Blue Sky Application or in any Marketing Materials a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or (iii)
any act or failure to act or any alleged act or failure to act by the Placement Agent in connection
with, or relating in any manner to, the Securities or the offering contemplated hereby, and that is
included as part of or referred to in any loss, damage or liabilities (or actions or claims in
respect thereof) arising out of or based upon matters covered by clause (i) or (ii) above (provided
that the Company shall not be liable under this clause (iii) to the extent that it is determined in
a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction that such loss, damage or liabilities (or
actions or claims in respect thereof) resulted directly from any such acts or failures to act
undertaken or omitted to be taken by the Placement Agent through its gross negligence or willful
misconduct), and will reimburse the Placement Agent promptly upon demand for any legal or other
expenses incurred by the Placement Agent in connection with investigating, preparing, pursuing or
defending against or appearing as a third party witness in connection with any such loss, damage,
liability or action or claim, including, without limitation, any investigation or proceeding by any
governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, including the reasonable fees and expenses of
counsel to the indemnified party, as such expenses are incurred (including such losses, damages,
liabilities or expenses to the extent of the aggregate amount paid in settlement of any such action
or claim, provided that (subject to Section 6(d) hereof) any such settlement is effected with the
written consent of the Company); provided, however, that the Company shall not be liable in any
such case to the extent, but only to the extent, that any such loss, damage or liability arises out
of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission
made in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
that the Company has filed or is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the 1933 Act Rules and
Regulations, the Prospectus or any other prospectus relating to the Securities, or any such
amendment or supplement, or in any Blue Sky Application or in any Marketing Materials, in reliance
upon and in conformity with written information relating to the Placement Agent furnished to the
Company by the Placement Agent expressly for use in the preparation thereof (as provided in Section
12 hereof).
(b) The Placement Agent will indemnify and hold harmless the Company from and against any
losses, damages or liabilities to which the Company may become subject, under the 1933 Act or
otherwise, insofar as such losses, damages or liabilities (or actions or claims in respect thereof)
arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact
contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus that the Company has filed or is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the 1933
Act Rules and Regulations, the Prospectus or any other prospectus relating to the
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Securities, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon 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, in each case to the extent, but only to
the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission
was made in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus that the Company has filed or is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the 1933
Act Rules and Regulations, the Prospectus or any other prospectus relating to the Securities, or
any such amendment or supplement, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information
relating to the Placement Agent furnished to the Company by the Placement Agent, expressly for use
in the preparation thereof (as provided in Section 12 hereof), and will reimburse the Company for
any legal or other expenses incurred by the Company in connection with investigating or defending
any such action or claim as such expenses are incurred (including such losses, damages, liabilities
or expenses to the extent of the aggregate amount paid in settlement of any such action or claim,
provided that (subject to Section 6(c) hereof) any such settlement is effected with the written
consent of the Placement Agent). Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 6(b), in no event
shall any indemnity by the Placement Agent under this Section 6(b) exceed the Placement Fee
received by the Placement Agent in accordance with this Agreement.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under Section 6(a) or 6(b) hereof of notice
of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is
to be made against an indemnifying party under Section 6(a) or 6(b)) hereof, notify each such
indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof, but the failure so to notify such
indemnifying party shall not relieve such indemnifying party from any liability except to the
extent that it has been prejudiced in any material respect by such failure or from any liability
that it may have to any such indemnified party otherwise than under Section 6(a) or 6(b) hereof.
In case any such action shall be brought against any such indemnified party and it shall notify
each indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, each such indemnifying party shall be entitled
to participate therein and, to the extent that it shall wish, jointly with any other indemnifying
party under Section 6(a) or 6(b) hereof similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with
counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the consent of such
indemnified party, be counsel to such indemnifying party), and, after notice from such indemnifying
party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof, such indemnifying
party shall not be liable to such indemnified party under Section 6(a) or 6(b) hereof for any
legal expenses of other counsel or any other expenses, in each case subsequently incurred by such
indemnified party, in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of
investigation. The indemnified party shall have the right to employ its own counsel in any such
action, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party
unless (i) the employment of counsel by such indemnified party at the expense of the indemnifying
party has been authorized by the indemnifying party, (ii) the indemnified party shall have been
advised by such counsel that there may be a conflict of interest between the indemnifying party and
the indemnified party in the conduct of the defense, or certain aspects of the defense, of such
action (in which case the indemnifying party shall not have the right to direct the defense of such
action with respect to those matters or aspects of the defense on which a conflict exists or may
exist on behalf of the indemnified party) or (iii) the indemnifying party shall not in fact have
employed counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party to assume the defense of such
action, in any of which events such fees and
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expenses to the extent applicable shall be borne, and shall be paid as incurred, by the
indemnifying party. If at any time such indemnified party shall have requested such indemnifying
party under Section 6(a) or 6(b) hereof to reimburse such indemnified party for fees and expenses
of counsel, such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of the nature
contemplated by Section 6(a) or 6(b) hereof effected without its written consent if (i) such
settlement is entered into more than 45 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of such
request for reimbursement, (ii) such indemnifying party shall have received notice of the terms of
such settlement at least 30 days prior to such settlement being entered into and (iii) such
indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request
for reimbursement prior to the date of such settlement. No such indemnifying party shall (i)
without the written consent of such indemnified party, effect the settlement or compromise of, or
consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to, any pending or threatened action, claim or
proceeding in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or
not such indemnified party is an actual or potential party to such action, claim or proceeding)
unless such settlement, compromise or judgment (A) includes an unconditional release of such
indemnified party from all liability arising out of such action, claim or proceeding and (B) does
not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act, by or on
behalf of any such indemnified party or (ii) be liable for any settlement or any such action
effected without its written consent, but if settled with the consent of the indemnifying party or
if there be a final judgment of the plaintiff in any such action, the indemnifying party agrees to
indemnify and hold harmless any indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by reason
of such settlement or judgment. In no event shall such indemnifying parties be liable for the fees
and expenses of more than one counsel, in addition to any local counsel, for all such indemnified
parties in connection with any one action or separate but similar or related actions in the same
jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances.
(d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 6 is by its terms due and owing but is
unavailable or insufficient to indemnify or hold harmless an indemnified party under Section 6(a)
or 6(b) hereof in respect of any losses, damages or liabilities (or actions or claims in respect
thereof) referred to therein, then each indemnifying party under Section 6(a) or 6(b) hereof shall
contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses,
damages or liabilities (or actions or claims in respect thereof) in such proportion as is
appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the
Placement Agent, on the other hand, from the offering of the Units. If, however, the allocation
provided by the immediately preceding sentence is not permitted by applicable law or if the
indemnified party failed to give the notice required under Section 6(c) hereof and such
indemnifying party was prejudiced in a material respect by such failure, then each such
indemnifying party shall contribute to such amount paid or payable by such indemnified party in
such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative
fault, as applicable, of the Company, on the one hand, and the Placement Agent, on the other hand,
in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, damages or liabilities
(or actions or claims in respect thereof), as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.
The relative benefits received by, as applicable, the Company, on the one hand, and the Placement
Agent, on the other hand, shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds
from such offering (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the Placement Fee
received by the Placement Agent. The relative fault, as applicable, of the
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Company, on the one hand, and the Placement Agent, on the other hand, shall be determined by
reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact
or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the
Company, on the one hand, or the Placement Agent, on the other hand, and the parties’ relative
intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or
omission. The Company and the Placement Agent agree that it would not be just and equitable if
contribution pursuant to this Section 6(d) were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other
method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above
in this Section 6(d). The amount paid or payable by such an indemnified party as a result of the
losses, damages or liabilities (or actions or claims in respect thereof) referred to above in this
Section 6(d) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses incurred by such indemnified
party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the
provisions of this Section 6(d), the Placement Agent shall not be required to contribute any amount
in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Units were sold to the Investors
exceeds the amount of any damages that the Placement Agent has otherwise been required to pay by
reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person
guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the 0000 Xxx) shall
be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent
misrepresentation.
(e) The obligations of the Company under this Section 6 shall be in addition to any liability
that the Company may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each
officer, director, employee, agent or other representative and to each person, if any, who controls
the Placement Agent within the meaning of the 1933 Act; and the obligations of the Placement Agent
under this Section 6 shall be in addition to any liability that the Placement Agent may otherwise
have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each officer and director of the
Company who signed the Registration Statement and to each person, if any, who controls the Company
within the meaning of the 1933 Act
(f) The parties to this Agreement hereby acknowledge that they are sophisticated business
persons who were represented by counsel during the negotiations regarding the provisions hereof,
including, without limitation, the provisions of this Section 6, and are fully informed regarding
such provisions. They further acknowledge that the provisions of this Section 6 fairly allocate
the risks in light of the ability of the parties to investigate the Company and its business in
order to assure that adequate disclosure is made in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary
Prospectus, the Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, and any supplement or amendment thereof, as
required by the 1933 Act.
7. Representations and Agreements to Survive Delivery. The respective representations,
warranties, agreements and statements of the Company and the Placement Agent, as set forth in this
Agreement or made by or on behalf of them, respectively, pursuant to this Agreement, shall remain
operative and in full force and effect regardless of any investigation (or any statement as to the
results thereof) made by or on behalf of the Placement Agent or any controlling person of the
Placement Agent, the Company or any of its officers, directors or any controlling persons, and
shall survive the Closing.
8. [Reserved]
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9. Effective Date and Termination. This Agreement may be terminated by the Placement Agent at any
time at or prior to the Closing Date (by telephone, facsimile or telegram, confirmed by letter) if
any condition specified in Section 5 hereof shall not have been satisfied on or prior to the
Closing Date; provided, however, that the provisions of this Section 9 and of Section 6 and Section
10 hereof shall at all times be effective. Any such termination shall be without liability of any
party to any other party except as provided in Section 6 or Section 10 hereof.
10. Costs and Expenses. The Company, whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are
consummated or this Agreement is terminated, will bear and pay the costs and expenses incident to
the registration of the Securities and offering thereof, including, without limitation, (a) all
expenses (including stock transfer taxes) incurred in connection with the delivery to the several
Investors of the Securities, the filing fees of the SEC, and the fees and expenses of the Company’s
counsel and accountants, (b) the preparation, printing, filing, delivery and shipping of the
Registration Statement, each Preliminary Prospectus, the Disclosure Package, any Free Writing
Prospectus, the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto and the printing, delivery and
shipping of this Agreement and other offering documents, including any Blue Sky Memoranda, and any
instruments or documents related to any of the foregoing, (c) the furnishing of copies of such
documents to the Placement Agent, (d) the registration or qualification of the Securities for
offering and sale under the securities laws of the various states and other jurisdictions, (e) the
filing fees of the FINRA, (f) the fees and disbursements of counsel to the Placement Agent relating
to the Units and the offering thereof, including, without limitation, relating to any review of the
offering by the FINRA, (g) all printing and engraving costs related to preparation of the
certificates for the Securities, including transfer agent and registrar fees, (h) all fees and
expenses relating to the authorization of the Shares and the Warrant Shares for trading on the
NASDAQ Global Market, (i) the costs and expenses relating to any investor presentations or any
“road show” undertaken in connection with the marketing of the offering of the Units, including,
without limitation, 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, travel and
lodging expenses of the representatives and officers or representatives of the Company or the
Placement Agent and any such consultants, and the cost of any aircraft chartered in connection with
the road show and (j) all of the other costs and expenses incident to the performance by the
Company of the registration and offering of the Securities; provided, that the Placement Agent will
bear and pay any advertising costs and expenses incurred by the Placement Agent incident to the
offering of the Units. The Company shall reimburse the Placement Agent within 10 days of receiving
an invoice (and such other supporting documentation as may be reasonably requested by the Company)
from the Placement Agent for such costs and expenses.
11. Notices. All notices or communications hereunder, except as herein otherwise specifically
provided, shall be in writing and, if sent to the Placement Agent, shall be mailed, delivered, sent
by facsimile transmission, or telegraphed and confirmed, to X.X. Xxxxxxx & Sons, Inc., Xxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xx. Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, III, facsimile number
(000) 000-0000, with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to, Pillsbury Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx
LLP, 0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxxx X. del Xxxxx, facsimile
number (000) 000-0000; or if sent to the Company shall be mailed, delivered, sent by facsimile
transmission, or telegraphed and confirmed to Transmeta
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Corporation, 0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention:
General Counsel, facsimile number (000) 000-0000, with a copy (which shall not constitute notice)
to Fenwick & West LLP, 000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxx
Xxxxx, facsimile number (000) 000-0000.
12. Information Furnished by Placement Agent. The statements set forth in the sixth paragraph
under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, solely to
the extent included in reliance upon and in conformity with written information related to the
Placement Agent furnished to the Company by the Placement Agent, expressly for use in the
preparation thereof, constitute the only information furnished by or on behalf of the Placement
Agent as such information is referred to herein.
13. Parties. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Placement
Agent, the Company and, to the extent provided in Sections 6 and 7, the officers and directors of
the Company and each person who controls the Company or the Placement Agent and their respective
heirs, executors, administrators, and successors. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement
is intended or shall be construed to give any person, corporation or other entity any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision herein
contained; this Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof being intended to be and being
for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and said
controlling persons and with respect to said Sections 6 and 7 said officers and directors, and for
the benefit of no other person, corporation or other entity.
14. Entire Agreement; Amendments and Waivers. This Agreement, together with that certain
Engagement Letter dated September 7, 2007, by and between the Company and the Placement Agent,
constitutes the entire agreement between the parties hereto pertaining to the subject matter hereof
and supersedes all prior agreements, understandings, negotiations and discussions, whether oral or
written, of the parties, and there are no warranties, representations or other agreements among the
parties in connection with the subject matter hereof except as set forth specifically herein or
contemplated hereby. No supplement, modification or waiver of this Agreement shall be binding
unless executed in writing by the party to be bound thereby. The failure of a party to exercise any
right or remedy shall not be deemed or constitute a waiver of such right or remedy in the future.
No waiver of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed or shall constitute a waiver
of any other provision hereof (regardless of whether similar), nor shall any such waiver constitute
a continuing waiver unless otherwise expressly provided.
15. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by any one or more of the parties hereto in
any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such
counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.
16. Pronouns. Whenever a pronoun of any gender or number is used herein, it shall, where
appropriate, be deemed to include any other gender and number.
17. Time of Essence. Time shall be of the essence of this Agreement.
18. Headings. The headings herein are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not
intended to be part of, or to affect the meaning or interpretation of, this Agreement.
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19. Applicable Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with,
the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to the choice of law or conflict of laws
principles thereof.
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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please so indicate in the space
provided below for that purpose, whereupon this letter shall constitute a binding agreement between
the Company and the Placement Agent.
TRANSMETA CORPORATION |
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By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||
Title: | President & CEO | |||
Accepted as of the date first above written. X.X. XXXXXXX & SONS, INC. |
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By: | /s/ X.X. Xxxxxxx | |||
Title: | Managing Director — Investment Banking | |||
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SCHEDULE I
FREE WRITING PROSPECTUSES
Final Term Sheet dated September 20, 2007
SCHEDULE II
SUBSIDIARIES
EXHIBIT A
FORM OF SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT B
FORM OF WARRANT
EXHIBIT C
FORM OF OPINION OF FENWICK & WEST LLP
C-1
EXHIBIT D
FORM OF OPINION OF XXXX X’XXXX XXXXXXX
X-0
EXHIBIT E
FORM OF OPINION OF XXXXXXXX, XXX & XXXXXX LLP
E-1