Comtech Group, Inc. Shares Common Stock ($0.01 Par Value) UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
Exhibit 1.1
Comtech Group, Inc.
Shares
Common Stock
($0.01 Par Value)
July [ ], 2005
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July [ ], 2005
JMP Securities LLC
000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
X.X. Xxxxxxxxx, Towbin LLC
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
as Representatives of the several Underwriters
named in Schedule A annexed hereto
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Comtech Group, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell and the persons named in Schedule B annexed hereto (the “Selling Stockholders”) propose to sell the underwriters named in Schedule A annexed hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), an aggregate of shares (the “Firm Shares”) of Common Stock, $0.01 par value (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, of which shares are to be issued and sold by the Company and an aggregate of shares are to be sold by the Selling Stockholders in the respective amounts set forth under the caption “Firm Shares” in Schedule B annexed hereto. In addition, solely for the purpose of covering over-allotments, the Selling Stockholders propose to grant to the Underwriters the option to purchase from the Selling Stockholders up to an additional shares of Common Stock (the “Additional Shares”) in the respective amounts set forth under the caption “Additional Shares” in Schedule B hereto. The Firm Shares and the Additional Shares are hereinafter collectively sometimes referred to as the “Shares.” The Shares are described in the Prospectus which is referred to below.
The Company has filed, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the “Act”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-124201) including a prospectus, relating to the Shares. The Company has furnished to you, for use by the Underwriters and by dealers, copies of the preliminary prospectuses dated June 28, 2005 (the “Preliminary Prospectus”) relating to the Shares. Except where the context otherwise requires, the registration statement, as amended when it became or becomes effective, including all documents filed as a part thereof, and including any information contained in a prospectus subsequently filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act and deemed to be part of the registration statement at the time of effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430(A) under the Act and also including any registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Act, is herein called the “Registration Statement,” and the prospectus, in the form filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act on or before the second business day after the date hereof (or such earlier time as may be required under the Act) or, if no such filing is required, the form of final prospectus included in the Registration Statement at the time it became effective, is herein called the “Prospectus.” As used herein, “business day” shall mean a day on which the New York Stock Exchange is open for trading.
The Company, the Selling Stockholders and the Underwriters agree as follows:
1. | Sale and Purchase. Upon the basis of the representations and warranties and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company and each of the Selling Stockholders, severally and not jointly, agrees to issue and sell to the respective Underwriters and each of the Underwriters, |
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severally and not jointly, agrees to purchase from the Company and each Selling Stockholder the respective number of Firm Shares (subject to such adjustment as you may determine to avoid fractional shares) which bears the same proportion to the number of Firm Shares to be sold by the Company or by such Selling Stockholders, as the case may be, as the number of Firm Shares set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule A attached hereto, subject to adjustment in accordance with Section 8 hereof, in each case at a purchase price of $ per Share. The Company and each Selling Stockholder is advised by you that the Underwriters intend (i) to make a public offering of their respective portions of the Firm Shares as soon after the effective date of the Registration Statement as in your judgment is advisable and (ii) initially to offer the Firm Shares upon the terms set forth in the Prospectus. You may from time to time increase or decrease the public offering price after the public offering to such extent as you may determine. |
In addition, the Selling Stockholders hereby grant to the several Underwriters the option to purchase, and upon the basis of the representations and warranties and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Underwriters shall have the right to purchase, severally and not jointly, from the Selling Stockholders, ratably in accordance with the number of Firm Shares to be purchased by each of them, all or a portion of the Additional Shares as may be necessary to cover over-allotments made in connection with the offering of the Firm Shares, at the same purchase price per share to be paid by the Underwriters to the Selling Stockholders for the Firm Shares. This option may be exercised by the Representatives jointly on behalf of the several Underwriters at any time and from time to time on or before the thirtieth day following the date hereof, by written notice to the Selling Stockholders. Such notice shall set forth the aggregate number of Additional Shares as to which the option is being exercised, and the date and time when the Additional Shares are to be delivered (such date and time being herein referred to as the “additional time of purchase”); provided, however, that the additional time of purchase shall not be earlier than the time of purchase (as defined below) nor earlier than the second business day after the date on which the option shall have been exercised nor later than the tenth business day after the date on which the option shall have been exercised. The number of Additional Shares to be sold to each Underwriter shall be the number which bears the same proportion to the aggregate number of Additional Shares being purchased as the number of Firm Shares set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter on Schedule A hereto bears to the total number of Firm Shares (subject, in each case, to such adjustment as you may determine to eliminate fractional shares), subject to adjustment in accordance with Section 10 hereof. |
Pursuant to powers of attorney, which shall be satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters, granted by each Selling Stockholder, Xxxxxxx Xxxx and Hope Ni will act as representatives of the Selling Stockholders. The foregoing representatives (the “Representatives of the Selling Stockholders”) are authorized, on behalf of each Selling Stockholder, to execute any documents necessary or desirable in connection with the sale of the Shares to be sold hereunder by each Selling Stockholder (including the determination of the purchase price per Share), to make delivery of the certificates of such Shares, to receive the proceeds of the sale of such Shares, to give receipts for such proceeds, to pay therefrom the expenses to be borne by each Selling Stockholder in connection with the sale and public offering of the Shares, to distribute the balance of such proceeds to each Selling Stockholder in proportion to the number of Shares sold by each Selling Stockholder, to receive notices on behalf of each Selling Stockholder and to take such other action as may be necessary or desirable in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. |
2. | Payment and Delivery. Payment of the purchase price for the Firm Shares shall be made to the Company and each of the Selling Stockholders by Federal Funds wire transfer, against delivery of the certificates for the Firm Shares to you through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company |
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(DTC) for the respective accounts of the Underwriters. Such payment and delivery shall be made at 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on July [ ], 2005 (unless another time shall be agreed to by you and the Company and the Representatives of the Selling Stockholders or unless postponed in accordance with the provisions of Section 10 hereof). The time at which such payment and delivery are to be made is hereinafter sometimes called “the time of purchase.” Electronic transfer of the Firm Shares shall be made to you at the time of purchase in such names and in such denominations as you shall specify. |
Payment of the purchase price for the Additional Shares shall be made at the additional time of purchase in the same manner and at the same office as the payment for the Firm Shares. Electronic transfer of the Additional Shares shall be made to you at the additional time of purchase in such names and in such denominations as you shall specify. |
Deliveries of the documents described in Section 8 hereof with respect to the purchase of the Shares shall be made at the offices of Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, Professional Corporation, at 9:00 A.M., New York City time, on the date of the closing of the purchase of the Firm Shares or the Additional Shares, as the case may be. |
3. | Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and warrants to and agrees with each of the Underwriters that: |
(a) | The Registration Statement has been declared effective under the Act; no stop order of the Commission preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for such purpose have been instituted or, to the Company’s knowledge after due inquiry, are contemplated by the Commission; each Preliminary Prospectus, at the time of filing thereof, complied in all material respects to the requirements of the Act and the last Preliminary Prospectus distributed in connection with the offering of the Shares did not, as of its date, and does not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; the Registration Statement complied when it became effective, complies and will comply, at the time of purchase and any additional time of purchase, in all material respects with the requirements of the Act and the Prospectus will comply, as of its date and at the time of purchase and any additional times of purchase, in all material respects with the requirements of the Act and any statutes, regulations, contracts or other documents that are required to be described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement have been and will be so described or filed; the conditions to the use of Form S-1 have been satisfied; the Registration Statement did not when it became effective, does not and will not, at the time of purchase and any additional time of purchase, 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 and the Prospectus will not, as of its date and at the time of purchase and any additional time of purchase, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the Company makes no warranty or representation with respect to any statement contained in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with information concerning an Underwriter and furnished in writing by or on behalf of such Underwriter through you to the Company expressly for use in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus; and the Company has not distributed and will not distribute any offering |
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material in connection with the offering or sale of the Shares other than the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus; |
(b) | as of the date of this Agreement, [except the options that may be exercised after March 31, 2005] the Company has an authorized and outstanding capitalization as set forth in the section of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus under the heading “Capitalization” in the “Actual” portion of that section and, as of the time of purchase and the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, the Company shall have an authorized and outstanding capitalization as set forth in the section of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus under the heading “Capitalization” in the “Actual” or “Pro Forma” portion of that section, as the case may be; all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock, including the Common Stock, of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable, have been issued in compliance with all federal and state securities laws and were not issued in violation of any preemptive right, resale right, right of first refusal or similar right; |
(c) | the Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Maryland, with full corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, to execute and deliver this Agreement and to issue, sell and deliver the Shares as contemplated herein; |
(d) | the Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing in each jurisdiction where the ownership or leasing of its properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except that the Company is not in good standing in the State of New Jersey; |
(e) | the Company has no subsidiaries (as defined within the meaning of Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X under the Act) or consolidated entities other than Comtech Group, (“Comtech Cayman”), Comtech (China) Holding Limited, (“Comtech China”), Comtech (Hong Kong) Holding Limited (“Comtech Holding”) Comtech International (Hong Kong) Limited (“Comtech Hong Kong”), United Information Technology Co. Ltd. (“UIT”), OAM S.P.A. (“OAM”) and Comtech Broadband Corporation Limited (“Comtech Broadband”) (collectively “Foreign Subsidiaries”); and Shenzhen Comtech International Limited (“Shenzhen Comtech”), Comtech Communication Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited (“Comtech Communication”), Comtech Software Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited (“Comtech Software”), [UIT Shenzhen] and Shanghai E&T System Company Limited (“Shanghai E&T”), (collectively, “PRC Subsidiaries”); (the Foreign Subsidiaries and the PRC Subsidiaries, collectively, the “Subsidiaries”); the Company owns all of the outstanding equity interest in Comtech Cayman, Comtech China, Comtech Holding, Comtech Hong Kong, UIT, Comtech Communication, Comtech Software and [UIT Shenzhen] and 98.4% of the outstanding equity interest in OAM, and 55% of the outstanding equity interest in Comtech Broadband, and controls through enforceable contractual arrangements 100% of the outstanding equity interest in Shenzhen Comtech which owns 60% of the outstanding equity interest in Shanghai E&T; all of the outstanding equity interest of Shenzhen Comtech (the financial results of which are consolidated in the Company’s financial statements included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus), is 29% owned directly by Xxxxxxx Xxxx and 71% owned directly by Nan Ji (or will be owned directly by Xxxxxxx Xxxx and Huimo Chen upon the completion of the Equity Transfer Registration as defined in Section 6[x] below) in the amounts set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, is subject to no security interest, other encumbrance or adverse claims and is controlled by the Company through enforceable |
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contractual arrangements where Xxxxxxx Xxxx and Xxx Ji (or Xxxxxxx Xxxx and Huimo Chen upon the completion of the Equity Transfer Registration) agree to hold such equity interest in Shenzhen Comtech solely for the benefit of Comtech China and to apply all the dividends and other distributions they receive from Shenzhen Comtech with payment to Comtech China or its designated entities in accordance with the contractual agreements executed between Comtech China on one hand and Xxxxxxx Xxxx and Xxx Ji on the other hand, respectively on April 14, 2005 (or Xxxxxxx Xxxx and Huimo Chen on the other hand, respectively on July 14, 2005), as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; other than the equity interest in the Subsidiaries, the Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any shares of stock or any other equity or long-term debt securities of any corporation or have any controlling or equity interest in any firm, partnership, joint venture, association or other entity; complete and correct copies of the certificates of incorporation and the by-laws or similar organizational documents of the Company and the Subsidiaries and all amendments thereto have been delivered to you, and except as set forth in the exhibits to the Registration Statement no changes therein will be made subsequent to the date hereof and prior to the time of purchase or, if later, the additional time of purchase; each Subsidiary has been duly incorporated and is validly existing with full corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; each Subsidiary is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing in each jurisdiction where the ownership or leasing of its properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified and in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, financial condition, results of operation or prospects of the Company and the Subsidiaries (as hereinafter defined) taken as a whole (a “Material Adverse Effect”); each of Comtech Communications, Comtech Software and [UIT Shenzhen] is validly existing as wholly-foreign owned enterprises under the law of Peoples’ Republic of China (including Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan) (the “PRC”) and its business license is in full force and effect; all of the outstanding equity interests of each of the Subsidiaries have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and except as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, are owned by the Company subject to no security interest, other encumbrance or adverse claims; and no options, warrants or other rights to purchase, agreements or other obligations to issue or other rights to convert any obligation into shares of capital stock or ownership interests in the Subsidiaries are outstanding; |
(f) | the description set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, including, but not limited to, under the caption “Risk factors,” “Corporate structure” and “Related party transactions” of the events and transactions concerning (i) the equity transfer agreements executed between Nan Ji on one hand and Xxxxxxx Xxxx and Huimo Chen on the other hand, respectively on June 28, 2005, regarding the former’s equity interest in Shenzhen Comtech; and (ii) the Company’s arrangements with Xxxxxxx Xxxx and Xxx Ji, respectively dated April 14, 2005 (or with Xxxxxxx Xxxx and Huimo Chen, respectively dated July 14, 2005), regarding the latter’s equity interest in Shenzhen Comtech ((i) and (ii) collectively, the “Arrangements”) does not, and will not, as of the applicable effective date as to the Registration Statement and any amendment thereof and as of the applicable filing date of the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, contain an untrue statement of material fact required to be stated therein or that is necessary to an understanding of the Company’s corporate structure, financial condition and operating performance, as well as its prospects for the future; |
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(g) | all approvals, authorizations, consents, orders, registrations, filings and qualifications required for the Arrangements and the execution, delivery and performance of the agreements in connection therewith (the “Arrangements Agreements”) have been made or unconditionally obtained in writing and no such approval, authorization, consent, order, registration, filing or qualification has been withdrawn or is subject to any condition precedent which has not been fulfilled or performed; |
(h) | except as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, the Arrangements and the execution, delivery and performance of the Arrangements Agreements do not (A) contravene any provision of applicable law or statute, rule or regulation of any governmental agency having jurisdiction over the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, (B) contravene the Memorandum of Association, Articles of Association, the business license or other constituent documents of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, or (C) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any license, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is subject except in the case of (c) hereof, for any conflict, breach, violation or default that would not, individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect; |
(i) | each of the Arrangements Agreements has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by Comtech China, Xxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxx Ji and Huimo Chen, as the case may be, and assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by any other party thereto, constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation on Comtech China, Xxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxx Ji and Huimo Chen, as the case may be, enforceable in accordance with its terms; |
(j) | Xxxxxxx Xxxx and Huimo Chen respectively are currently PRC citizens and have not, and do not intend to become citizens of any other country for a period of 12 months after the date of this Agreement. To the best knowledge of the Company, no conditions, circumstances or facts concerning Xxxxxxx Xxxx and Huimo Chen currently exist or are expected to exist that would cause the application for the Equity Transfer Registration to be rejected by the appropriate PRC authorities or otherwise lead to the failure of such equity transfer to be approved by the appropriate PRC authority and to take place. The fact that Nan Ji became a citizen of Canada as of March 2004 would not, individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect or material adverse effect on the transactions contemplated hereby. |
(k) | There are no pending actions, suits, inquiries, investigations or proceedings before or brought by an court or governmental agency or body, federal, state, local or foreign, against or affecting the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties, or challenging the effectiveness of the Arrangements, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, would individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect, or would materially and adversely affect properties or assets thereof or the consummation of the transactions contemplated in this Agreement or the Arrangements Agreements or the ability of the Company to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder, or which are otherwise material in the context of the sale of the Shares; and no such actions, suits or proceedings are threatened or, to the Company’s knowledge, contemplated; |
(l) | the Shares have been duly and validly authorized and, when issued and delivered against payment therefor as provided herein, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and free of statutory and contractual preemptive rights, resale rights, rights of first refusal and similar rights; |
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(m) | the capital stock of the Company, including the Shares, conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and the certificates for the Shares are in due and proper form and the holders of the Shares will not be subject to personal liability by reason of being such holders; |
(n) | this Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company; |
(o) | neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is in breach or violation of or in default under (nor has any event occurred which with notice, lapse of time or both would result in any breach of, constitute a default under or give the holder of any indebtedness (or a person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a part of such indebtedness under) its respective charter or by-laws, or except where such breach, violation or default would not, individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, bank loan or credit agreement or other evidence of indebtedness, or any license, lease, contract or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is a party or by which any of them or any of their properties may be bound or affected; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the issuance and sale of the Shares and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not conflict with, result in any breach or violation of or constitute a default under (nor constitute any event which with notice, lapse of time or both would result in any breach of or constitute a default under) the charter or by-laws of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, or any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, bank loan or credit agreement or other evidence of indebtedness, or any license, lease, contract or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is a party or by which any of them or any of their respective properties may be bound or affected, or any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule or any decree, judgment or order applicable to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries; |
(p) | no approval, authorization, consent or order of or filing with any federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, authority or agency (including, without limitation, the China Securities Regulatory Commission) or with the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation National Market System (“NASDAQ”) is required in connection with the issuance and sale of the Shares or the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby other than registration of the Shares under the Act and the filing of an application for the listing of additional shares onto NASDAQ which have been made or will be effected, and any necessary qualification under the securities or blue sky laws of the various jurisdictions in which the Shares are being offered by the Underwriters or under the rules and regulations of the NASD; |
(q) | except as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, (i) no person has the right, contractual or otherwise, to cause the Company to issue or sell to it any shares of Common Stock or shares of any other capital stock or other equity interests of the Company, (ii) no person has any preemptive rights, resale rights, rights of first refusal or other rights to purchase any shares of Common Stock or shares of any other capital stock or other equity interests of the Company, and (iii) no person has the right to act as an underwriter or as a financial advisor to the Company in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares, in the case of each of the foregoing clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), whether as a result of the filing or effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the sale of the Shares as contemplated thereby or otherwise; except as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, no person has the right, contractual or otherwise, to cause the Company to |
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register under the Act any shares of Common Stock or shares of any other capital stock or other equity interests of the Company, or to include any such shares or interests in the Registration Statement or the offering contemplated thereby, whether as a result of the filing or effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the sale of the Shares as contemplated thereby or otherwise; |
(r) | each of the Company and the Subsidiaries has all necessary licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals and has made all necessary filings required under any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule, and except as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, has obtained all necessary authorizations, consents and approvals from other persons, in order to conduct its respective business; neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is in violation of, or in default under, or has received notice of any proceedings relating to revocation or modification of, any such license, authorization, consent or approval or any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule or any decree, order or judgment applicable to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, except where such violation, default, revocation or modification would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; |
(s) | all legal or governmental proceedings, related party transactions, off-balance sheet transactions, contracts, licenses, agreements, leases or documents of a character required to be described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or to be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement have been so described or filed as required; |
(t) | Except as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there are no actions, suits, claims, investigations or proceedings pending or threatened or, to the Company’s knowledge after due inquiry, contemplated to which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or any of their respective directors or officers is a party or of which any of their respective properties is subject at law or in equity, before or by any federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, authority or agency, except any such action, suit, claim, investigation or proceeding which would not result in a judgment, decree or order having, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect or preventing consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby; |
(u) | Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, whose report on the consolidated financial statements of the Company and the Subsidiaries is filed with the Commission as part of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, are independent public accountants as required by the Act and by Rule 3600T of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board; |
(v) | the audited financial statements included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, together with the related notes and schedules, present fairly the consolidated financial position of the Company and the Subsidiaries as of the dates indicated and the consolidated results of operations and cash flows of the Company and the Subsidiaries for the periods specified and have been prepared in compliance with the requirements of the Act and in conformity with United States generally accepted accounting principles (“US GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved; the other financial and statistical data, as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus are accurately presented and prepared on a basis consistent with the financial statements and books and records of the Company; there are no financial statements (historical or pro forma) that are required to be included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus that are not included as required; and; the Company and the Subsidiaries do not have any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent (including any off-balance sheet obligations), not disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. |
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(w) | subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been (i) any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in the business, properties, management, financial condition or results of operations of the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (ii) any transaction which is material to the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (iii) any obligation, direct or contingent (including any off-balance sheet obligations), incurred by the Company or the Subsidiaries, which is material to the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole (iv) any change in the capital stock or outstanding indebtedness of the Company or the Subsidiaries, which is material to the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole or (v) any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made on the capital stock of the Company; |
(x) | the Company has obtained for the benefit of the Underwriters the agreement (a “Lock-Up Agreement”), in the form provided by the Underwriters and were executed on June 28, 2005, by each of Xxxxxxx Xxxx (including Nan Ji and Comtech Global Investment Ltd. (“Comtech Global”) Ren Investment International, Ltd., Purple Mountain Holding, Ltd., and Hope Ni; |
(y) | the Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Shares, will not be an “investment company” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”); |
(z) | the Company and each of the Subsidiaries has good and marketable title to all property (real and personal) described the Registration Statement and in the Prospectus as being owned by each of them, free and clear of all liens, claims, security interests or other encumbrances; all the property described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as being held under lease by the Company or a Subsidiary is held thereby under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases; |
(aa) | the Company and the 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), trade names, copyrights, trade secrets and other proprietary information described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as being owned or licensed by them or which are necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses, except in the case of (ii) to (vii) below, 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 after due inquiry, will be able to establish rights to any Intellectual Property, except for the ownership rights of the owners of the Intellectual Property which is licensed to the Company; (ii) there is no infringement by third parties of any Intellectual Property; (iii) there is no pending or threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the Company’s rights in or to any Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which could form a reasonable basis for any such claim; (iv) there is no pending or threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the validity or scope of any Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which could form a reasonable basis for any such claim; (v) there is no pending or threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the Company infringes or otherwise violates any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary rights of others, and the Company is unaware of any facts which could form a reasonable basis for any such claim; (vi) there is no patent or patent application that contains claims that interfere with the issued or pending claims of any of the Intellectual Property; and (vii) there is no prior art that may render any patent application owned by the Company of the |
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Intellectual Property unpatentable that has not been disclosed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; |
(bb) | neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is engaged in any unfair labor practice; except for matters which would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) there is (A) no unfair labor practice complaint pending or, to the Company’s knowledge after due inquiry, threatened against the Company or any of the Subsidiaries before any competent government agency, and no grievance or arbitration proceeding arising out of or under collective bargaining agreements is pending or threatened, (B) no strike, labor dispute, slowdown or stoppage pending or, to the Company’s knowledge after due inquiry, threatened against the Company or any of the Subsidiaries and (C) no union representation dispute currently existing concerning the employees of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, and (ii) to the Company’s knowledge after due inquiry, (A) no union organizing activities are currently taking place concerning the employees of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries and (B) there has been no violation of any federal, state, local or foreign law relating to discrimination in the hiring, promotion or pay of employees, any applicable wage or hour laws or any provision of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder concerning the employees of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries; |
(cc) | the Company and the Subsidiaries and their properties, assets and operations are in compliance with, and hold all permits, authorizations and approvals required under, Environmental Laws (as defined below), except to the extent that failure to so comply or to hold such permits, authorizations or approvals would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; there are no past, present or, to the Company’s knowledge after due inquiry, reasonably anticipated future events, conditions, circumstances, activities, practices, actions, omissions or plans that could reasonably be expected to give rise to any material costs or liabilities to the Company or the Subsidiaries under, or to interfere with or prevent compliance by the Company or the Subsidiaries with, Environmental Laws; except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries (i) is the subject of any investigation, (ii) has received any notice or claim, (iii) is a party to or affected by any pending or threatened action, suit or proceeding, (iv) is bound by any judgment, decree or order or (v) has entered into any agreement, in each case relating to any alleged violation of any Environmental Law or any actual or alleged release or threatened release or cleanup at any location of any Hazardous Materials (as defined below) (as used herein, “Environmental Law” means any federal, state, local or foreign law, statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, decree, judgment, injunction, permit, license, authorization or other binding requirement, or common law, relating to health, safety or the protection, cleanup or restoration of the environment or natural resources, including those relating to the distribution, processing, generation, treatment, storage, disposal, transportation, other handling or release or threatened release of Hazardous Materials, and “Hazardous Materials” means any material (including, without limitation, pollutants, contaminants, hazardous or toxic substances or wastes) that is regulated by or may give rise to liability under any Environmental Law); |
(dd) | all federal, state, local and foreign tax returns required to be filed by the Company and each of the Subsidiaries have been filed, and all taxes and other assessments of a similar nature (whether imposed directly or through withholding) including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto due or claimed to be due from such entities have been |
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paid, other than those (i) currently payable without penalty or interest or (ii) in the case of both clauses (i) and (ii), being contested in good faith and for which adequate reserves have been provided on the books and records of the Company and the Subsidiaries and, [except where such failure to file would not individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect]; |
(ee) | the Company maintains insurance covering its properties, operations, personnel and businesses as the Company deems adequate and as previously disclosed to the Underwriters; such insurance insures against such losses and risks to an extent which is adequate in accordance with customary industry practice to protect the Company and the Subsidiaries and their businesses taken as a whole; all such insurance is fully in force on the date hereof and will be fully in force at the time of purchase and any additional time of purchase; |
(ff) | neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries has sustained since the date of the last audited financial statements included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus any loss or interference with its respective 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; |
(gg) | the Company has not sent or received any communication regarding termination of, or intent not to renew, any of the contracts or agreements referred to or described in, or filed as an exhibit to, the Registration Statement, and no such termination or non-renewal has been threatened by the Company or, to the Company’s knowledge after due inquiry, any other party to any such contract or agreement; |
(hh) | the Company and each of the Subsidiaries maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with US GAAP and to maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences; |
(ii) | the Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-14 and 15d-14 under the Exchange Act); such disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and its Chief Financial Officer by others within those entities, and such disclosure controls and procedures are effective to perform the functions for which they were established; the Company’s auditors and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors have been advised of: (i) any significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls which could adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize, and report financial data; and (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a role in the Company’s internal controls; any material weaknesses in internal controls have been identified for the Company’s auditors; and since the date of the most recent evaluation of such disclosure controls and procedures, there have been no significant changes in internal controls or in other factors that could significantly affect internal controls, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses. |
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(jj) | the Company has provided you true, correct, and complete copies of all documentation pertaining to any extension of credit in the form of a personal loan made, directly or indirectly, by the Company to any director or executive officer of the Company, or to any family member or affiliate of any director or executive officer of the Company; and since July 30, 2002 the Company has not, directly or indirectly, including through any subsidiary: (i) extended credit, arranged to extend credit, or renewed any extension of credit, in the form of a personal loan, to or for any director or executive officer of the Company, or to or for any family member or affiliate of any director or executive officer of the Company; or (ii) made any material modification, including any renewal thereof, to any term of any personal loan to any director or executive officer of the Company, or any family member or affiliate of any director or executive officer, which loan was outstanding on July 30, 2002; |
(kk) | any statistical and market-related data included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the Company believes to be reliable and accurate, and the Company has obtained the written consent to the use of such data from such sources to the extent required; |
(ll) | neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries nor, to the Company’s knowledge after due inquiry, any employee or agent of the Company or the Subsidiaries has made any payment of funds of the Company or the Subsidiaries or received or retained any funds in violation of any law, rule or regulation, which payment, receipt or retention of funds is of a character required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus; |
(mm) | neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries nor any of their respective directors, officers, affiliates or controlling persons has taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed, or which has constituted or might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Shares; |
(nn) | to the Company’s knowledge after due inquiry, there are no affiliations or associations within the meaning of Article 1, Section 1 (dd) of the Bylaws of the NASD between any member of the NASD and any of the Company’s officers, directors or 5% or greater securityholders, except as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; |
(oo) | the Company’s board of directors has validly appointed an audit committee, each of whose members is independent as specified in Section 10A(m)(3) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, as well as in any listing requirements of NASDAQ; |
(pp) | the Company, and each of its officers and directors, in their capacity as such, is in compliance with the provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder and has timely made all required disclosures and filings required thereby with the Commission; |
(qq) | Each of the Subsidiaries is not currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, from paying any dividends or other distributions to the Company (or to Xxxxxxx Xxxx and Nan Ji, in the case of Shenzhen Comtech, or to Shenzhen Comtech in the case of Shanghai E&T), from making any other distribution on the Subsidiary’s equity interest, or from transferring any of the Subsidiary’s property or assets to the Company under PRC law, including the Notice issued by PRC State Administration of Foreign Exchange on April 8, 2005, all dividends and other distributions declared and payable upon the equity interests in the Subsidiary to the Company, may be converted into foreign currency that may be freely transferred out of the PRC, and all such dividends and other distributions are not and except as set forth in |
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the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, will not be subject to withholding or other taxes under the laws and regulations of the PRC and are otherwise free and clear of any other tax, withholding or deduction in the PRC, in each case without the necessity of obtaining any governmental or regulatory authorization in the PRC. |
(rr) | neither the Company nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any director, officer, agent, employee or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company is using any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expenses; is making any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds; or is in violation of any provision of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977; or is making any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment; |
(ss) | the section entitled “Management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition results of operations” in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus accurately and fully describes (i) accounting policies that the Company believes are the most important in the portrayal of the Company’s financial condition and results of operations and that require management’s most difficult, subjective or complex judgments (“Critical Accounting Policies”); (ii) judgments and uncertainties affecting the application of critical accounting policies; and (iii) the likelihood that materially different amounts would be reported under different conditions or using different assumptions and an explanation thereof; |
(tt) | the Company’s directors and management have reviewed and agreed with the selection, application and disclosure of critical accounting policies and have consulted with its legal advisers and independent accountants with regards to such disclosure; |
(uu) | the Prospectus fairly and accurately describes all material trends, demands, commitments and events known to the Company, and uncertainties, and the potential effects thereof, that the Company believes would materially affect liquidity and are reasonably likely to occur. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is engaged in any transactions with, or have any obligations to, its unconsolidated entities (if any) that are contractually limited to narrow activities that facilitate the transfer of or access to assets by the Company or such Subsidiary, including, without limitation, structured finance entities and special purpose entities, or otherwise engage in, or have any obligations under, any off-balance sheet transactions or arrangements. As used herein, the phrase “reasonably likely” refers to a disclosure threshold lower than “more likely than not”; |
In addition, any certificate signed by any officer of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries and delivered to the Underwriters or counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the offering of the Shares shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Company or Subsidiary, as the case may be, as to matters covered thereby, to each Underwriter.
4. | Representations and Warranties of the Selling Stockholders. |
(a) | Each Selling Stockholder, severally and not jointly, represents and warrants to each Underwriter and the Company that: |
(i) | such Selling Stockholder now is and at the time of delivery of such Shares (whether the time of purchase or additional time of purchase, as the case may be) will be, the lawful owner of the number of Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder Shares free and clear of any pledge, lien, security interest, encumbrance, claim, equity interest, community property right, restriction on transfer or other defect in title other than pursuant to this Agreement and has and, at the time of delivery thereof, |
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will have valid and marketable title to such Shares, and upon delivery of and payment for such Shares (whether at the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be), the Underwriters will acquire valid and marketable title to such Shares free and clear of any pledge, lien, security interest, encumbrance, claim, equity interest, community property right, restriction on transfer or other defect in title; |
(ii) | such Selling Stockholder has and at the time of delivery of such Shares (whether the time of purchase or additional time of purchase, as the case may be) will have, full legal right, power and capacity, and any approval required by law (other than those imposed by the Act and the securities or blue sky laws of certain jurisdictions), to sell, assign, transfer and deliver such Shares in the manner provided in this Agreement; |
(iii) | the execution and delivery by such Selling Stockholder of, and the performance by such Selling Stockholder of its obligations under, this Agreement, the Custody Agreement (as defined below) and the Power of Attorney (as defined below) and the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated, will not contravene any provision of applicable law, or, if applicable, the articles of incorporation or by-laws of such Selling Stockholder or any agreement or other instrument binding upon such Selling Stockholder or any judgment, order or decree of any governmental body, agency or court having jurisdiction over such Selling Stockholder; |
(iv) | the Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder pursuant to this Agreement have been duly authorized and are validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable; |
(v) | this Agreement, the Custody Agreement among American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as custodian, and the Selling Stockholders (the “Custody Agreement”), and the Power of Attorney appointing the Representatives as attorneys-in-fact in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby (the “Power of Attorney”) have been duly executed and delivered by such Selling Stockholder and each is a legal, valid and binding agreement of such Selling Stockholder enforceable in accordance with its terms; |
(vi) | when the Registration Statement becomes effective and at all times subsequent thereto through the latest of the time of purchase, additional time of purchase or the termination of the offering of the Shares, the Registration Statement and Prospectus, and any supplements or amendments thereto as relate to such Selling Stockholder or the Shares that such Selling Stockholder proposes to sell will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; |
(vii) | such Selling Stockholder has duly and irrevocably authorized the Representatives of the Selling Stockholders, on behalf of such Selling Stockholder, to execute and deliver this Agreement and any other document necessary or desirable in connection with the transactions contemplated thereby and to deliver the Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder and receive payment therefor pursuant hereto; and each of the Selling Stockholders’ Representatives, acting alone, is authorized to execute any documents necessary or desirable in connection with the sale of the Shares to be sold hereunder by each Selling Stockholder (including the determination of the purchase price per Share), to make delivery of the certificates of such Shares, to receive the proceeds of the sale of such Shares, to give receipts for such proceeds, to pay therefrom the expenses to be borne by each Selling Stockholder in connection with |
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the sale and public offering of the Shares, to distribute the balance of such proceeds to each Selling Stockholder in proportion to the number of Shares sold by each Selling Stockholder, to receive notices on behalf of each Selling Stockholder and to take such other action as may be necessary or desirable in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; |
(viii) | the sale of such Selling Stockholder’s Shares pursuant to this Agreement is not prompted by any information concerning the Company or any of the Subsidiaries which is not set forth in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus; |
(ix) | all consents, approvals, authorizations and orders required for the execution and delivery by such Selling Stockholder of the Custody Agreement and Power of Attorney, the execution and delivery by or on behalf of such Selling Stockholder of this Agreement and the sale and delivery of the Shares under this Agreement (other than, at the time of the execution hereof (if the Registration Statement has not yet been declared effective by the Commission), the issuance of the order of the Commission declaring the Registration Statement effective and such consents, approvals, authorizations or orders as may be necessary under state or other securities or Blue Sky laws have been obtained and are in full force and effect; and such Selling Stockholder has full legal right, power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Custody Agreement and Power of Attorney, and to sell, assign, transfer and deliver the Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder under this Agreement; |
(x) | such Selling Stockholder 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 Common Stock to facilitate the sale or resale of the Shares; |
(xi) | such Selling Stockholder has not distributed and will not distribute any prospectus or other offering material in connection with the offering and sale of the Shares; |
(xii) | all information furnished by or on behalf of such Selling Stockholder relating to such Selling Stockholder and the Shares that are to be sold by such Selling Stockholder, that is contained in the representations and warranties of such Selling Stockholder in such Selling Stockholder’s Power of Attorney or set forth in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus is, and at the time the Registration Statement became or becomes, as the case may be, effective and at all times subsequent thereto up to and at the time of purchase, and on at later time of purchase at which the Additional Shares are to be purchased, was or will be, true, correct and complete, and does not, and at the time the Registration Statement became or becomes, as the case may be, effective and at all times subsequent thereto up to and at the time of purchase, and on at later time of purchase at which the Additional Shares are to be purchased, will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; |
(xiii) | such Selling Stockholder will review the Prospectus and will comply with all agreements and satisfy all conditions on its part to be complied with or satisfied pursuant to this Agreement on or prior to the time of purchase, or any later time of purchase at which the Additional Shares are to be purchased, as the case may be; |
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(xiv) | such Selling Stockholder does not have, or has waived prior to the date hereof, any preemptive right, co-sale right or right of first refusal or other similar right to purchase any of the Shares that are to be sold by the Company or any of the other Selling Stockholders to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement; such Selling Stockholder does not have, or has waived prior to the date hereof, any registration right or other similar right to have any equity or debt securities registered for sale by the Company under the Registration Statement or included in the offering contemplated by this Agreement; and such Selling Stockholder does not own any warrants, options or similar rights to acquire, and does not have any right or arrangement to acquire, any capital stock, rights, warrants, options or other securities from the Company, other than as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; |
(xv) | each of the Selling Stockholders is not aware that any of the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 3 above is untrue or inaccurate in any material respect; |
(xvi) | except as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, neither such Selling Stockholder nor any of his, her or its affiliates directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, or has any other association with (within the meaning of Article I, Section 1(dd) of the By-laws of the NASD), any member firm of the NASD; |
(xvii) | there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between such Selling Stockholder and any person that would give rise to a valid claim against such Selling Stockholder or any Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or other like payment in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares; |
(xviii) | no stamp or other issuance or transfer taxes or duties and no capital gains, income, withholding or other taxes are or will be payable by or on behalf of the Underwriters, or otherwise imposed on any payments made to the Underwriters, to the PRC government or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein in connection with: (i) the sale and delivery on behalf of the Selling Stockholders of the Shares to or for the respective accounts of the Underwriters as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, or (ii) any other transaction or payment contemplated by the Agreement; and |
(xix) | except as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, all expenses and other amounts that may be payable by such Selling Stockholder under this Agreement shall be made free and clear of, and without deduction for or on account of, any taxes imposed, assessed or levied by the PRC government or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein; there are no taxes imposed in the PRC on, or by virtue of, the execution or delivery of this Agreement. |
(b) | Comtech Global, as a selling stockholder, represents and warrants to and agrees with each of the Underwriters that the Registration Statement did not when it became effective, does not and will not, at the time of purchase and any additional time of purchase, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading and each Preliminary Prospectus did not at of its date and the Prospectus will not, as of its date and at the time of purchase and any additional time of purchase, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to |
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make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, provided, however, that Comtech Global makes no warranty or representation with respect to any statement contained in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with information concerning an Underwriter and furnished in writing by or on behalf of such Underwriter through you to the Company expressly for use in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus. |
5. | Certain Covenants of the Company. The Company hereby agrees: |
(a) | to furnish such information as may be reasonably required and otherwise to cooperate in qualifying the Shares for offering and sale under the securities or blue sky laws of such states or other jurisdictions as you may designate and to maintain such qualifications in effect so long as you may request for the distribution of the Shares; provided that the Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or to consent to the service of process under the laws of any such jurisdiction (except service of process with respect to the offering and sale of the Shares); and to promptly advise you of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Shares for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; |
(b) | to make available to the Underwriters in New York City, as soon as practicable after the Registration Statement becomes effective, and thereafter from time to time to furnish to the Underwriters, as many copies of the Prospectus (or of the Prospectus as amended or supplemented if the Company shall have made any amendments or supplements thereto after the effective date of the Registration Statement) as the Underwriters may reasonably request for the purposes contemplated by the Act; in case any Underwriter is required to deliver a prospectus after the nine-month period referred to in Section 10(a)(3) of the Act in connection with the sale of the Shares, the Company will prepare, at its expense, promptly upon request such amendment or amendments to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as may be necessary to permit compliance with the requirements of Section 10(a)(3) of the Act; |
(c) | if, at the time this Agreement is executed and delivered, it is necessary for the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto to be declared effective before the offering of the Shares may commence, the Company will endeavor to cause the Registration Statement or such post-effective amendment to become effective as soon as possible and the Company will advise you promptly and, if requested by you, will confirm such advice in writing, (i) when the Registration Statement and any such post-effective amendment thereto has become effective, and (ii) if Rule 430A under the Act is used, when the Prospectus is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act (which the Company agrees to file in a timely manner under such Rule); |
(d) | to advise you promptly, confirming such advice in writing, of any request by the Commission for amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or for additional information with respect thereto, or of notice of institution of proceedings for, or the entry of a stop order, suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and, if the Commission should enter a stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, to use its best efforts to obtain the lifting or removal of such order as soon as possible; to advise you promptly of any proposal to amend or supplement the Registration Statement or the Prospectus and to provide you and Underwriters’ counsel copies of any such documents for review and comment a reasonable |
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amount of time prior to any proposed filing and to file no such amendment or supplement to which you shall object in writing; |
(e) | subject to Section 5(d) hereof, to file promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or information statement required to be filed by the Company with the Commission in order to comply with the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of the Prospectus and for so long as the delivery of a prospectus is required in connection with the offering or sale of the Shares; to provide you with a copy of such reports and statements and other documents to be filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act during such period a reasonable amount of time prior to any proposed filing, and to promptly notify you of such filing; |
(f) | if necessary or appropriate, to file a registration statement pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Act; |
(g) | to advise the Underwriters promptly of the happening of any event within the time during which a prospectus relating to the Shares is required to be delivered under the Act which could require the making of any change in the Prospectus then being used so that the Prospectus would not include an untrue statement of material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading, and, during such time, subject to Section 5(d) hereof, to prepare and furnish, at the Company’s expense, to the Underwriters promptly such amendments or supplements to such Prospectus as may be necessary to reflect any such change; |
(h) | to make generally available to its security holders, and to deliver to you, an earnings statement of the Company (which will satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Act) covering a period of twelve months beginning after the effective date of the Registration Statement (as defined in Rule 158(c) of the Act) as soon as is reasonably practicable after the termination of such twelve-month period but not later than September , 2006; |
(i) | to furnish to its stockholders as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year an annual report (including a consolidated balance sheet and statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flow of the Company and the Subsidiaries for such fiscal year, accompanied by a copy of the certificate or report thereon of nationally recognized independent certified public accountants), to the extent required by the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations of NASDAQ; |
(j) | to furnish to you four (4) copies of the Registration Statement, as initially filed with the Commission, and of all amendments thereto (including all exhibits thereto) and sufficient copies of the foregoing (other than exhibits) for distribution of a copy to each of the other Underwriters; |
(k) | to furnish to you promptly and, upon request, to each of the other Underwriters for a period of three years from the date of this Agreement (i) copies of any reports or other communications which the Company shall send to its stockholders or shall from time to time publish or publicly disseminate, (ii) copies of all annual reports filed with the Commission on Forms 10-K, and (iii) such other information as you may reasonably request regarding the Company or the Subsidiaries; |
(l) | to furnish to you as early as practicable prior to the time of purchase and any additional time of purchase, as the case may be, but not later than two business days prior thereto, a copy of the latest available unaudited interim and monthly consolidated financial statements, if any, of the Company and the Subsidiaries which have been read by the |
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Company’s independent certified public accountants, as stated in their letter to be furnished pursuant to Section 8(b) hereof; |
(m) | to apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Shares in the manner set forth under the caption “Use of Proceeds” in the Prospectus; |
(n) | to pay all costs, expenses, fees (including the accounting fees of the Company and the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company, but excluding the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters) and taxes in connection with (i) the preparation and filing of the Registration Statement, each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto, and the printing and furnishing of copies of each thereof to the Underwriters and to dealers (including costs of mailing and shipment), (ii) the registration, issue, sale and delivery of the Shares including any stock or transfer taxes and stamp or similar duties payable upon the sale, issuance or delivery of the Shares to the Underwriters, (iii) the qualification of the Shares for offering and sale under state or foreign laws and the determination of their eligibility for investment under state or foreign law as aforesaid (including the legal fees and filing fees and other disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters) and the printing and furnishing of copies of any blue sky surveys or legal investment surveys to the Underwriters and to dealers, (iv) any listing of the Shares on any securities exchange or maintenance of qualification of the Shares for quotation on NASDAQ and any registration thereof under the Exchange Act, (v) any filing for review of the public offering of the Shares by the NASD, including the legal fees and filing fees and other disbursements of counsel to the Underwriters, (vi) the fees and disbursements of any transfer agent or registrar for the Shares, (vii) the costs and expenses of the Company relating to presentations or meetings undertaken in connection with the marketing of the offering and sale of the Shares to prospective investors and the Underwriters’ sales forces, including, travel, lodging and other expenses incurred by the officers of the Company and any such consultants, (viii) expenses incident to the performance of the respective obligations under, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement by the Selling Stockholders, including the fees and disbursements of their respective counsel and accountants, and any fees and expenses of the Custodian and Xxxxxxx Xxxx and Hope Ni as the Representatives of the Selling Stockholders in connection with the sale by the Selling Stockholders of their Shares; and (ix) the performance of the Company’s other obligations hereunder; the Company shall not be required to pay for any of the Underwriters’ other costs and expenses; |
(o) | not to (i) sell, offer to sell, contract or agree to sell, hypothecate, pledge, grant any option to purchase or otherwise dispose of or agree to dispose of, directly or indirectly, any Common Stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Common Stock or warrants or other rights to purchase Common Stock or any other securities of the Company that are substantially similar to Common Stock, (ii) file or cause to be declared effective a registration statement under the Act relating to the offer and sale of any shares of Common Stock, (iii) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, or warrants or other rights to purchase Common Stock, whether any such transaction is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise, or (iv) publicly announce an intention to effect any transaction specified in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) for a period of 180 days after the date hereof (the “Lock-Up Period”), without the prior written consent of the Representatives, except for (i) the registration of the Shares and the sales to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement, (ii) issuances of Common Stock upon |
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the exercise of options or warrants disclosed as outstanding in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, (iii) the issuance of employee stock options not exercisable during the Lock-Up Period pursuant to stock option plans described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and (iv) maintenance and amendment of the current shelf S-1 registration statement declared effective on February 4, 2005, as necessary; provided however if: |
(1) | during the period that begins on the date that is 15 calendar days plus 3 business days before the last day of the 180-day restricted period and ends on the last day of the 180-day restricted period, the Company issues a earnings release or material news or a material event relating to the Company occurs; or |
(2) | prior to the expiration of the 180-day restricted period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the 180-day period. |
the restrictions imposed by this section shall continue to apply until the expiration of the date that is 15 calendar days plus 3 business days after the date on which the issuance of the earnings release or the material news or material event occurs; |
(p) | to use its best efforts to effect and maintain the quotation of the Shares on the NASDAQ; |
(q) | to maintain a transfer agent and, if necessary under the jurisdiction of incorporation of the Company, a registrar for the Common Stock; |
(r) | to file with the NASD, the NASDAQ, the Commission and any other governmental or regulatory agency, authority or instrumentality in the United States and the PRC, as may be required, such reports, documents, agreements and other information which the Company may from time to time be required to file, including those relating to the implementation and payment of dividends or other distributions on the Shares; |
(s) | not to be or become, within one year of the time of purchase, an “investment company” as defined in the Investment Company Act; |
(t) | not to (and to use its best efforts to cause its affiliates not to) take, directly or indirectly, any action which is designed to or which constitutes or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company or facilitate the sale or resale of the Shares; |
(u) | (i) not to attempt to avoid any judgment obtained by it or any of the Subsidiaries or denied to it or any of the Subsidiaries in a court of competent jurisdiction outside the PRC; (ii) following the consummation of the offering of the Shares, to use its best efforts to obtain and maintain all approvals required in the PRC to pay and remit outside the PRC all dividends declared by any of the Subsidiaries and payable on the Shares; and (iii) to use its best efforts to obtain and maintain all approvals required in the PRC for any of the Subsidiaries to acquire sufficient foreign exchange for the payment of dividends and all other relevant purposes; |
(v) | to comply with all applicable securities and other applicable laws, rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act, and to use its best efforts to cause the Company’s directors and officers, in their capacities as such, to comply with all applicable securities and other applicable laws, rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act; |
(w) | to obtain all necessary PRC government approvals and complete the registration of the equity transfer (“Equity Transfer Registration”) as set forth in Section 3[e] such that the |
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equity transfer will occur by not later than December 15, 2005, including causing the equity transfer agreements effecting the equity transfer to be properly notarized and the application to complete the Equity Transfer Registration being submitted to the appropriate PRC authorities not later than September 15, 2005; and |
(x) | not to, directly or indirectly, declare and pay any dividends or other distributions to any of the shareholders of the Company directly or indirectly, declare and pay any dividends or other distributions to any of the shareholders for a period of 12 months after the date of this Agreement; and to cause Shanghai E&T and Comtech Broadband not to declare and pay any dividends or other distributions for a period of 12 months after the date of This Agreement if the dividends so paid will exceed the aggregate amount of the cumulative retained earnings generated since creation of Shanghai E&T or Comtech Broadband. |
6. | Certain Covenants of the Selling Stockholders. The Selling Stockholders agree with each Underwriter as follows. |
(a) | the Selling Stockholders, severally and not jointly, will pay any stamp duties, capital duties and stock transfer taxes, if any, payable upon the sale of the Shares by such Selling Stockholder to the Underwriters; |
(b) | Each of the Selling Stockholders shall comply with the terms of the “Lock-up” Agreement entered into by such Selling Stockholder and the Underwriters; |
(c) | the Selling Stockholders shall not (and shall cause its affiliates not to) take, directly or indirectly, any action which is designed to or which constitutes or which might reasonably be expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company or facilitate the sale or resale of the Shares; |
(d) | the Selling Stockholders will indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriters against any documentary, stamp or similar issue tax, including any interest and penalties, on the creation, issue and sale of the Shares and on the execution and delivery of this Agreement. All payments to be made by the Selling Stockholders hereunder shall be made without withholding or deduction for or on account of any present or future taxes, duties or governmental charges whatsoever unless the Selling Stockholders are compelled by law to deduct or withhold such taxes, duties or charges. In that event, the Selling Stockholders shall pay such additional amounts as may be necessary in order that the net amounts received after such withholding or deduction shall equal the amounts that would have been received if no withholding or deduction had been made; |
(e) | each Selling Stockholder shall advise the Representatives promptly, and if requested by them, to confirm such advice in writing, so long as delivery of a prospectus relating to the Shares by an underwriter or dealer may be required under the Act, of (i) any material change in the Company’s condition (financial or otherwise), prospects, earnings, business or properties that comes to the attention of such Selling Stockholder, (ii) any change in information in the Registration Statement, or the Prospectus relating to such Selling Stockholder or (iii) any new material information relating to the Company or relating to any matter stated in the Prospectus that comes to the attention of such Selling Stockholder; and |
(f) | Comtech Global, as a Selling Stockholder will cause the Company to obtain all necessary PRC government approvals and to complete the registration of the equity transfer (“Equity Transfer Registration”) as set forth in Section 3[e] such that the equity transfer will occur by not later than December 15, 2005, including causing the equity transfer agreements effecting the equity transfer to be properly notarized and the application to complete the Equity Transfer Registration being submitted to the appropriate PRC authorities not later than September 15, 2005. |
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7. | Reimbursement of Underwriters’ Expenses. If the Shares are not delivered for any reason other than the termination of this Agreement pursuant to the fifth paragraph of Section 10 hereof or the default by one or more of the Underwriters in its or their respective obligations hereunder, the Company shall pay the amounts described in Section 5(n) hereof. |
8. | Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company, Comtech Global as a selling Stockholder, and the Selling Stockholders as a group on the date hereof, at the time of purchase and, if applicable, at the additional time of purchase, the performance by the Company and each of the Selling Stockholders of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedent: |
(a) | The Company shall furnish to you at the time of purchase and, if applicable, at the additional time of purchase, an opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Xxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP, special United States counsel for the Company, addressed to the Underwriters, and dated the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, with reproduced copies for each of the other Underwriters and in form and substance satisfactory to Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, Professional Corporation, counsel for the Underwriters, attached as Exhibit A hereto. |
In addition, such counsel shall state that such counsel has participated in conferences with officers and other representatives of the Company, representatives of the independent public accountants of the Company and representatives of the Underwriters at which the contents of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus were discussed and, although such counsel is not passing upon and does not assume responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus on the basis of the foregoing nothing has come to the attention of such counsel that causes them to believe that the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto at the time such Registration Statement or amendment became effective contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or that the Prospectus or any supplement thereto at the date of such Prospectus or such supplement, and at the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (it being understood that such counsel need express no opinion with respect to the financial statements and schedules and other financial data included in or excluded from the Registration Statement or the Prospectus). |
(b) | The Company shall furnish to you at the time of purchase and, if applicable, at the additional time of purchase, an opinion of Loeb & Loeb LLP, counsel for the Company, addressed to the Underwriters, and dated the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, with reproduced copies for each of the other Underwriters in form and substance satisfactory to Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, Professional Corporation, counsel for the Underwriters, attached as Exhibit B hereto: |
(c) | The Selling Stockholders shall furnish to you at the time of purchase and, if applicable, at the additional time of purchase an opinion of Xxxxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxxxx, counsel for the Selling Stockholders, addressed to the Underwriters, and dated the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, with reproduced copies for each of the other Underwriters in form and substance satisfactory to Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, Professional Corporation, counsel for the Underwriters, attached as Exhibit C hereto: |
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(d) | The Company and the Selling Stockholders shall furnish to you at the time of purchase and, if applicable, at the additional time of purchase, an opinion of Grandall Legal Group, PRC counsel for the Company addressed to the Underwriters, and dated the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, with reproduced copies for each of the other Underwriters, and in form and substance satisfactory to Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, Professional Corporation, counsel for the Underwriters, attached as Exhibit D hereto. |
(e) | The Company shall furnish to you at the time of purchase and, if applicable, at the additional time of purchase, an opinion of Xxxx & Partners, Hong Kong counsel for the Company, addressed to the Underwriters, and dated the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, with reproduced copies for each of the other Underwriters in form and substance satisfactory to Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, Professional Corporation, counsel for the Underwriters, attached as Exhibit E hereto: |
(f) | You shall have received from Deloitte, Touche Tohmatsu letters dated, respectively, the date of this Agreement, the time of purchase and, if applicable, the additional time of purchase, and addressed to the Underwriters (with reproduced copies for each of the Underwriters) in the forms heretofore approved by the Representatives. |
(g) | You shall have received at the time of purchase and, if applicable, at the additional time of purchase, the favorable opinion of Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, Professional Corporation, counsel for the Underwriters, dated the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives. |
(h) | You shall have received at the time of purchase and, if applicable, at the additional time of purchase, the favorable opinion of Fangda Partners, PRC counsel for the Underwriters, dated the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, covering such matters as the Underwriters may reasonably request. |
(i) | No Prospectus or amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall have been filed to which you object in writing. |
(j) | The Registration Statement shall become effective not later than 5:30 P.M. New York City time on the date of this Agreement and, if Rule 430A under the Act is used, the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act at or before 5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the second full business day after the date of this Agreement. |
(k) | Prior to the time of purchase, and, if applicable, the additional time of purchase, (i) no stop order with respect to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued under the Act or proceedings initiated under Section 8(d) or 8(e) of the Act; (ii) the Registration Statement and all amendments thereto shall not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and (iii) the Prospectus and all amendments or supplements thereto shall not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading. |
(l) | Between the time of execution of this Agreement and the time of purchase or the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, no material adverse change or any development involving a prospective material adverse change in the business, properties, management, financial condition or results of operations of the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole shall occur or become known. |
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(m) | The Company will, at the time of purchase and, if applicable, at the additional time of purchase, deliver to you a certificate of its Chief Executive Officer and its Chief Financial Officer to the form attached as Exhibit F hereto. |
(n) | The Lock-up Agreements referred to in Section 3(w) hereof that were executed on June 28, 2005, and have been received by the Underwriters shall remain in full effect and force. |
(o) | The Company and the Selling Stockholders shall have furnished to you such other documents and certificates as to the accuracy and completeness of any statement in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as of the time of purchase and, if applicable, the additional time of purchase, as you may reasonably request. |
(p) | The Selling Stockholders will at the time of purchase and, if applicable, the additional time of purchase, as the case may be, deliver to you a certificate from the Representatives for each Selling Stockholder to the effect that, as of each such date, they have not been informed that: |
(i) | the representations and warranties made by such Selling Stockholder as set forth in this Agreement are not true or correct; or |
(ii) | such Selling Stockholder has not complied with any obligation or satisfied any condition which is required to be performed or satisfied on the part of such Selling Stockholder. |
(q) | At or prior to the time of purchase, the NASD shall have confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements. |
(r) | The Company shall have furnished to you such other documents and certificates as you or your counsel may reasonably request. |
9. | Effective Date of Agreement; Termination. This Agreement shall become effective (i) if Rule 430A under the Act is not used, when you shall have received notification of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, or (ii) if Rule 430A under the Act is used, when the parties hereto have executed and delivered this Agreement. |
The obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder shall be subject to termination in the absolute discretion of the Representatives or any group of Underwriters (which may include the Representatives) which has agreed to purchase in the aggregate at least 50% of the Firm Shares, if (x) since the time of execution of this Agreement or the earlier respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has been any material adverse change or any development involving a prospective material adverse change in the business, properties, management, financial condition or results of operation of the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, which would, in the Representatives’ judgment or in the judgment of such group of Underwriters, make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, or (y) there shall have occurred: (i) a suspension or material limitation in trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ; (ii) a suspension or material limitation in trading in the Company’s securities on NASDAQ; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities declared by either federal or New York State authorities or a material disruption in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States; (iv) an outbreak or escalation of hostilities or acts of terrorism involving the United States or a declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war; or (v) any other calamity or crisis |
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or any change in financial, political or economic conditions in the United States or elsewhere, if the effect of any such event specified in clause (iv) or (v) in the Representatives’ judgment or in the judgment of such group of Underwriters makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. |
If the Representatives or any group of Underwriters elects to terminate this Agreement as provided in this Section 9, the Company, the Representatives of the Selling Stockholders and each other Underwriter shall be notified promptly in writing. |
If the sale to the Underwriters of the Shares, as contemplated by this Agreement, is not carried out by the Underwriters for any reason permitted under this Agreement or if such sale is not carried out because the Company or the Selling Stockholders, as the case may be, shall be unable to comply with any of the terms of this Agreement, the Company or the Selling Stockholders, as the case may be, shall not be under any obligation or liability under this Agreement (except to the extent provided in Sections 5(n), 7 and 11 hereof), and the Underwriters shall be under no obligation or liability to the Company and the Selling Stockholders under this Agreement (except to the extent provided in Section 9 hereof) or to one another hereunder. |
10. | Increase in Underwriters’ Commitments. Subject to Sections 8 and 9 hereof, if any Underwriter shall default in its obligation to take up and pay for the Firm Shares to be purchased by it hereunder (otherwise than for a failure of a condition set forth in Section 8 hereof or a reason sufficient to justify the termination of this Agreement under the provisions of Section 9 hereof) and if the number of Firm Shares which all Underwriters so defaulting shall have agreed but failed to take up and pay for does not exceed 10% of the total number of Firm Shares, the non-defaulting Underwriters shall take up and pay for (in addition to the aggregate number of Firm Shares they are obligated to purchase pursuant to Section 1 hereof) the number of Firm Shares agreed to be purchased by all such defaulting Underwriters, as hereinafter provided. Such Shares shall be taken up and paid for by such non-defaulting Underwriters in such amount or amounts as you may designate with the consent of each Underwriter so designated or, in the event no such designation is made, such Shares shall be taken up and paid for by all non-defaulting Underwriters pro rata in proportion to the aggregate number of Firm Shares set opposite the names of such non-defaulting Underwriters in Schedule A. |
Without relieving any defaulting Underwriter from its obligations hereunder, the Company and each of the Selling Stockholders agrees with the non-defaulting Underwriters that it will not sell any Firm Shares hereunder unless all of the Firm Shares are purchased by the Underwriters (or by substituted Underwriters selected by you with the approval of the Company or selected by the Company with your approval). |
If a new Underwriter or Underwriters are substituted by the Underwriters or by the Company for a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters in accordance with the foregoing provision, the Company or you shall have the right to postpone the time of purchase for a period not exceeding five business days in order that any necessary changes in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and other documents may be effected. |
The term Underwriter as used in this Agreement shall refer to and include any Underwriter substituted under this Section 10 with like effect as if such substituted Underwriter had originally been named in Schedule A. |
If the aggregate number of Firm Shares which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed to purchase exceeds 10% of the total number of Firm Shares which all Underwriters agreed to purchase hereunder, and if neither the non-defaulting Underwriters nor the Company shall make |
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arrangements within the five business day period stated above for the purchase of all the Firm Shares which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed to purchase hereunder, this Agreement shall terminate without further act or deed and without any liability on the part of the Company to any non-defaulting Underwriter and without any liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter to the Company. Nothing in this paragraph, and no action taken hereunder, shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of such Underwriter under this Agreement. |
11. | Indemnity and Contribution. |
(a) | The Company and Comtech Global as a Selling Stockholder, jointly and severally agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless each Underwriter, its partners, directors and officers, and any person who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, and the successors and assigns of all of the foregoing persons, from and against any loss, damage, expense, liability or claim (including the reasonable cost of investigation) which, jointly or severally, any such Underwriter or any such person may incur under the Act, the Exchange Act, the common law or otherwise, insofar as such loss, damage, expense, liability or claim arises out of or is based upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement (or in the Registration Statement as amended by any post-effective amendment thereof by the Company) or in a Prospectus (the term Prospectus for the purpose of this Section 11 being deemed to include any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and the Prospectus as amended or supplemented by the Company), or arises out of or is based upon any omission or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated in either such Registration Statement or such Prospectus or necessary to make the statements made therein not misleading, except insofar as any such loss, damage, expense, liability or claim arises out of or is based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in and in conformity with information concerning such Underwriter furnished in writing by or on behalf of such Underwriter through you to the Company expressly for use in such Registration Statement or such Prospectus or arises out of or is based upon any omission or alleged omission to state a material fact in connection with such information required to be stated in such Registration Statement or such Prospectus or necessary to make such information not misleading, provided that the Company and Comtech Global shall not be liable to any Underwriter under the indemnity agreement in this subsection (a)(i) with respect to any Preliminary Prospectus or to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability of such Underwriter results from the fact that such Underwriter sold Shares to a person as to whom it shall be established that there was not sent or given, at or prior to the written confirmation of such sale, a copy of the Prospectus or the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented in any case where such delivery is required by the Act, if, in each case, the Company has previously furnished copies thereof in sufficient quantity to such Underwriter and the loss, claim, damage or liability of such Underwriter results from an untrue statement or omission of a material fact contained in the Preliminary Prospectus which was identified in writing at such time to such Underwriter and corrected in the Prospectus or in the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented; and (ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement made by the Company in Section 3 hereof or the failure by the Company to perform when and as required any agreement or covenant contained herein, or (iii) breach of Section 3j, and breach of Section 5w or Section 6f hereof where applicable by the Company or Comtech Global;] provided, however, that such Underwriter shall first seek indemnity against the Company and to the extent, and only to the extent, that the Company shall be unable to compensate such Underwriter in full for such losses, damages, expenses, liability or claim, |
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shall such Underwriter seek indemnity against Comtech Global; provided further, that Comtech Global shall not be responsible either pursuant to this indemnity or as a result of any breach of this Agreement, for losses, damages, expenses, liability or claims for an amount in excess of the proceeds to be received by it (before deducting expenses) from the sale of Shares hereunder, on the condition that Comtech Global will not, directly or indirectly, declare and pay any dividends or other distributions to any of its two shareholders, Xxxxxxx Xxxx and Xxx Ji out of the proceeds to be received by it (before deducting expenses) from the sale of the Shares hereunder for a period of 18 months after the date hereof, without the prior written consent from the Representatives. |
If any action, suit or proceeding (each, a “Proceeding”) is brought against an Underwriter or any such person in respect of which indemnity may be sought against the Company or Comtech Global pursuant to the foregoing paragraph, such Underwriter or such person shall promptly notify the Company and Comtech Global in writing of the institution of such Proceeding and the Company shall assume the defense of such Proceeding, including the employment of counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party and payment of all fees and expenses; provided, however, that the omission to so notify the Company or Comtech Global shall not relieve the Company or Comtech Global from any liability which the Company or Comtech Global may have to any Underwriter or any such person or otherwise. Such Underwriter or such person shall have the right to employ its or their own counsel in any such case, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Underwriter or of such person unless the employment of such counsel shall have been authorized in writing by the Company or Comtech Global in connection with the defense of such Proceeding or the Company or Comtech Global shall not have, within a reasonable period of time in light of the circumstances, employed counsel to have charge of the defense of such Proceeding or such indemnified party or parties shall have reasonably concluded that there may be defenses available to it or them which are different from, additional to or in conflict with those available to the Company or Comtech Global (in which case the Company or Comtech Global shall not have the right to direct the defense of such Proceeding on behalf of the indemnified party or parties), in any of which events such fees and expenses shall be borne by the Company or Comtech Global and paid as incurred (it being understood, however, that the Company or Comtech Global shall not be liable for the expenses of more than one separate counsel (in addition to any local counsel) in any one Proceeding or series of related Proceedings in the same jurisdiction representing the indemnified parties who are parties to such Proceeding). The Company or Comtech Global shall not be liable for any settlement of any Proceeding effected without its written consent but if settled with the written consent of the Company or Comtech Global, the Company or Comtech Global agrees to indemnify and hold harmless any Underwriter and any such person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by the second sentence of this paragraph, then the indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of any Proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 60 business days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request, (ii) such indemnifying party shall not have fully reimbursed the indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement and (iii) such indemnified party shall have given the indemnifying party at least 30 days’ prior notice of its intention to settle. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened Proceeding in respect of which any indemnified |
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party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such Proceeding and does not include an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act, by or on behalf of such indemnified party. |
(b) | Each Selling Stockholder (except for Comtech Global which is covered under section 11(a) above), severally and not jointly, agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless each Underwriter, its partners, directors and officers, and any person who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, and the successors and assigns of all of the foregoing persons, from and against any loss, damage, expense, liability or claim (including the reasonable cost of investigation) which, jointly or severally, any such Underwriter or any such person may incur under the Act, the Exchange Act, the common law or otherwise, insofar as such loss, damage, expense, liability or claim arises out of or is based upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement (or in the Registration Statement as amended by any post effective amendment thereof by the Company) or in a Prospectus (the term Prospectus for the purpose of this Section 11 being deemed to include any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and the Prospectus as amended or supplemented by the Company), or that arises out of or is based upon any omission or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated in either such Registration Statement or such Prospectus or necessary to make the statements made therein not misleading, to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company or the Underwriters by such Selling Stockholder, directly or through such Selling Stockholder’s Representatives, specifically for use in the preparation thereof, provided that the Company and Comtech Global shall not be liable to any Underwriter under the indemnity agreement in this subsection (a)(i) with respect to any Preliminary Prospectus or to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability of such Underwriter results from the fact that such Underwriter sold Shares to a person as to whom it shall be established that there was not sent or given, at or prior to the written confirmation of such sale, a copy of the Prospectus or the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented in any case where such delivery is required by the Act, if, in each case, the Company has previously furnished copies thereof in sufficient quantity to such Underwriter and the loss, claim, damage or liability of such Underwriter results from an untrue statement or omission of a material fact contained in the Preliminary Prospectus which was identified in writing at such time to such Underwriter and corrected in the Prospectus or in the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented; and or (ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement made by such Selling Stockholder in Section 4 hereof or the failure by such Selling Stockholder to perform when and as required any agreement or covenant contained herein; provided, that no Selling Stockholder shall be responsible, either pursuant to this indemnity or as a result of any breach of this Agreement, for loses, expenses, liability or claims arising out of or based upon such untrue statement or omission or allegation thereof based upon information furnished by any other Selling Stockholder and, in any event, no Selling Stockholder shall be responsible, either pursuant to this indemnity or as a result of any breach of this Agreement, for losses, expenses, liability or claims for an amount in excess of the proceeds to be received by such Selling Stockholder (before deducting expenses) from the sale of Shares hereunder. |
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If any Proceeding is brought against an Underwriter or any such person in respect of which indemnity may be sought against such Selling Stockholder pursuant to the foregoing paragraph, such Underwriter or such person shall promptly notify such Selling Stockholder in writing of the institution of such Proceeding and such Selling Stockholder shall assume the defense of such Proceeding, including the employment of counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party and payment of all fees and expenses; provided, however, that the omission to so notify the Company shall not relieve such Selling Stockholder from any liability which such Selling Stockholder may have to any Underwriter or any such person or otherwise. Such Underwriter or such person shall have the right to employ its or their own counsel in any such case, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Underwriter or of such person unless the employment of such counsel shall have been authorized in writing by such Selling Stockholder in connection with the defense of such Proceeding or such Selling Stockholder shall not have, within a reasonable period of time in light of the circumstances, employed counsel to have charge of the defense of such Proceeding or such indemnified party or parties shall have reasonably concluded that there may be defenses available to it or them which are different from, additional to or in conflict with those available to such Selling Stockholder (in which case such Selling Stockholder shall not have the right to direct the defense of such Proceeding on behalf of the indemnified party or parties), in any of which events such fees and expenses shall be borne by such Selling Stockholder and paid as incurred (it being understood, however, that such Selling Stockholder shall not be liable for the expenses of more than one separate counsel (in addition to any local counsel) in any one Proceeding or series of related Proceedings in the same jurisdiction representing the indemnified parties who are parties to such Proceeding). Such Selling Stockholder shall not be liable for any settlement of any Proceeding effected without its written consent but if settled with the written consent of such Selling Stockholder, such Selling Stockholder agrees to indemnify and hold harmless any Underwriter and any such person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by the second sentence of this paragraph, then the indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of any Proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 60 business days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request, (ii) such indemnifying party shall not have fully reimbursed the indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement and (iii) such indemnified party shall have given the indemnifying party at least 30 days’ prior notice of its intention to settle. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened Proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such Proceeding and does not include an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act, by or on behalf of such indemnified party. |
(c) | Each Underwriter severally agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Company, its directors and officers, each Selling Stockholder and any person who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, and the successors and assigns of all of the foregoing persons, from and against any loss, damage, expense, liability or claim (including the reasonable cost of investigation) which, jointly or severally, the Company, any Selling Stockholder or any such person may incur |
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under the Act, the Exchange Act, the common law or otherwise, insofar as such loss, damage, expense, liability or claim arises out of or is based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in and in conformity with information concerning such Underwriter furnished in writing by or on behalf of such Underwriter through you to the Company expressly for use in the Registration Statement (or in the Registration Statement as amended by any post-effective amendment thereof by the Company) or in a Prospectus, or arises out of or is based upon any omission or alleged omission to state a material fact in connection with such information required to be stated in such Registration Statement or such Prospectus or necessary to make such information not misleading. |
If any Proceeding is brought against the Company, any Selling Stockholder or any such person in respect of which indemnity may be sought against any Underwriter pursuant to the foregoing paragraph, the Company, any Selling Stockholder or such person shall promptly notify such Underwriter in writing of the institution of such Proceeding and such Underwriter shall assume the defense of such Proceeding, including the employment of counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party and payment of all fees and expenses; provided, however, that the omission to so notify such Underwriter shall not relieve such Underwriter from any liability which such Underwriter may have to the Company, any Selling Stockholder or any such person or otherwise. The Company, any Selling Stockholder or such person shall have the right to employ its own counsel in any such case, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of the Company, any Selling Stockholder or such person unless the employment of such counsel shall have been authorized in writing by such Underwriter in connection with the defense of such Proceeding or such Underwriter shall not have, within a reasonable period of time in light of the circumstances, employed counsel to defend such Proceeding or such indemnified party or parties shall have reasonably concluded that there may be defenses available to it or them which are different from or additional to or in conflict with those available to such Underwriter (in which case such Underwriter shall not have the right to direct the defense of such Proceeding on behalf of the indemnified party or parties, but such Underwriter may employ counsel and participate in the defense thereof but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Underwriter), in any of which events such fees and expenses shall be borne by such Underwriter and paid as incurred (it being understood, however, that such Underwriter shall not be liable for the expenses of more than one separate counsel (in addition to any local counsel) in any one Proceeding or series of related Proceedings in the same jurisdiction representing the indemnified parties who are parties to such Proceeding). No Underwriter shall be liable for any settlement of any such Proceeding effected without the written consent of such Underwriter but if settled with the written consent of such Underwriter, such Underwriter agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, any Selling Stockholder and any such person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by the second sentence of this paragraph, then the indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of any Proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 60 business days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request, (ii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed the indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement and (iii) such indemnified party shall have given the indemnifying party at least 30 days’ prior notice of its intention to settle. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the |
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indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened Proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such Proceeding. |
(d) | If the indemnification provided for in this Section 11 is unavailable to an indemnified party under subsections (a), (b) or (c) of this Section 11 or insufficient to hold an indemnified party harmless in respect of any losses, damages, expenses, liabilities or claims referred to therein, then each applicable indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, damages, expenses, liabilities or claims (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand from the offering of the Shares or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company and the Selling Stockholders on the one hand and of the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, damages, expenses, liabilities or claims, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company and the Selling Stockholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the total proceeds from the offering (net of underwriting discounts and commissions but before deducting expenses) received by the Company and the Selling Stockholders and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters, bear to the aggregate public offering price of the Shares. The relative fault of the Company and the Selling Stockholders on the one hand and of the Underwriters on the other shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission relates to information supplied by the Company and/or the Selling Stockholders or by the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the losses, damages, expenses, liabilities and claims referred to in this subsection shall be deemed to include any legal or other fees or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with investigating, preparing to defend or defending any Proceeding. |
(e) | The Company, Comtech Global, the Selling Stockholders and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 11 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in subsection (d) above. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 11, no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Shares underwritten by such Underwriter and distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damage which such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 11 are several in proportion to their respective underwriting commitments and not joint. |
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(f) | The indemnity and contribution agreements contained in this Section 11 and the covenants, warranties and representations of the Company, Comtech Global and the Selling Stockholders contained in this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, its partners, directors or officers or any person (including each partner, officer or director of such person) who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, or by or on behalf of the Company, its directors or officers, any Selling Stockholder or any person who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, and shall survive any termination of this Agreement or the issuance and delivery of the Shares. The Company, each of the Selling Stockholders and each Underwriter agree promptly to notify each other of the commencement of any Proceeding against it and, in the case of the Company or the Selling Stockholders, against any of the Company’s or Selling Stockholder’s officers or directors, as the case may be, in connection with the issuance and sale of the Shares, or in connection with the Registration Statement or the Prospectus. |
12. | Information Furnished by the Underwriters. The statements set forth in the last paragraph on the cover page of the Prospectus and the statements set forth in the Underwriting Section regarding (i) the names and corresponding share amounts set forth in the table of the Underwriters in the first paragraph, (ii) the first paragraph immediately under the caption “Commissions and Discounts” and (iii) the paragraphs immediately under the caption “Price Stabilization, Short Positions” constitute the only information furnished by or on behalf of the Underwriters as such information is referred to in Sections 3 and 11 hereof. |
13. | Notices. Except as otherwise herein provided, all statements, requests, notices and agreements shall be in writing or by telegram and, if to the Underwriters, shall be sufficient in all respects if delivered or sent to JMP Securities LLC, 000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000 and X.X. Xxxxxxxxx, Towbin LLC, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Syndicate Department; if to the Company, shall be sufficient in all respects if delivered or sent to the Company at the offices of the Company at Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxx X, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxxx-Xxxx Industrial Park, Xxx Xxxx, Shenzhen, 518057, PRC, Attention: Hope Ni, Chief Financial Officer; and if to the Selling Stockholders, shall be sufficient in all respects if delivered or sent to the Representatives of the Selling Stockholders at Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxx X, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxxx-Xxxx Industrial Park, Xxx Xxxx, Shenzhen, 518057, PRC, Attention: Hope Ni. |
14. | Governing Law; Construction. This Agreement and any claim, counterclaim or dispute of any kind or nature whatsoever arising out of or in any way relating to this Agreement (“Claim”), directly or indirectly, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York. The Section headings in this Agreement have been inserted as a matter of convenience of reference and are not a part of this Agreement. |
15. | Submission to Jurisdiction. Except as set forth below, no Claim may be commenced, prosecuted or continued in any court other than the courts of the State of New York located in the City and County of New York or in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which courts shall have jurisdiction over the adjudication of such matters, and the Company consents to the jurisdiction of such courts and personal service with respect thereto. The Company and each of the Selling Stockholders hereby consents to personal jurisdiction, service and venue in any court in which any Claim arising out of or in any way relating to this Agreement is brought by any third party against the Representatives or any indemnified party. Each of the Representatives, the Selling Stockholders and the Company (on its behalf and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, on behalf of its stockholders and affiliates) waives all right to trial by |
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jury in any action, proceeding or counterclaim (whether based upon contract, tort or otherwise) in any way arising out of or relating to this Agreement. The Company and each of the Selling Stockholders agrees that a final judgment in any such action, proceeding or counterclaim brought in any such court shall be conclusive and binding upon the Company and may be enforced in any other courts to the jurisdiction of which the Company is or may be subject, by suit upon such judgment. Each of the Selling Stockholders hereby appoints without power of revocation, Xxxxxxx Xxxx as its agent to accept and acknowledge on its behalf service of any and all process which may be served in any action, proceeding or counterclaim in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement. |
16. | Parties at Interest. The Agreement herein set forth has been and is made solely for the benefit of the Underwriters, the Selling Stockholders and the Company and to the extent provided in Section 11 hereof the controlling persons, directors and officers referred to in such section, and their respective successors, assigns, heirs, personal representatives and executors and administrators. No other person, partnership, association or corporation (including a purchaser, as such purchaser, from any of the Underwriters) shall acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement. |
17. | Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed by the parties in one or more counterparts which together shall constitute one and the same agreement among the parties. |
18. | Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon the Underwriters, each of the Selling Stockholders and the Company and their successors and assigns and any successor or assign of any substantial portion of the Company’s, each the Selling Stockholder’s and any of the Underwriters’ respective businesses and/or assets. |
19. | [No Fiduciary Duty]. Notwithstanding any preexisting relationship, advisory or otherwise, between the parties or any oral representations or assurances previously or subsequently made by the underwriters, the Company and the Selling Stockholders acknowledge and agree that: |
(a) | nothing herein shall create a fiduciary or agency relationship between the Company or the Selling Stockholders, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other; |
(b) | the Underwriters are not acting as advisors, expert or otherwise, to either the Company or the Selling Stockholders in connection with this offering, sale of the Shares or any other services the Underwriters may be deemed to be providing hereunder, including, without limitation, with respect to the public offering price of the Shares; |
(c) | the relationship between the Company and the Selling Stockholders, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other, is entirely and solely commercial, based on arms-length negotiations; |
(d) | any duties and obligations that the Underwriters may have to the Company or the Selling Stockholders shall be limited to those duties and obligations specifically stated herein; and |
(e) | notwithstanding anything in this Underwriting Agreement to the contrary, the Company and the Selling Stockholders acknowledge that the Underwriters may have financial interest in the success of the Offering that are not limited to the difference between the price to the public and the purchase price paid to the Company by the Underwriters for the shares and the Underwriters have no obligation to disclose, or account to the Company or the Selling Stockholders for, any of such additional financial interests. |
The Company and the Selling Stockholders hereby waive and release, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims that the Company or the Selling Stockholders may have against the Underwriters with respect to any breach or alleged breach of fiduciary duty.
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If the foregoing correctly sets forth the understanding among the Company, the Selling Stockholders and the Underwriters, please so indicate in the space provided below for the purpose, whereupon this agreement and your acceptance shall constitute a binding agreement among the Company and the Underwriters, severally.
Very truly yours, | ||
Comtech Group, Inc. | ||
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THE SELLING STOCKHOLDERS NAMED IN SCHEDULE B ATTACHED HERETO | ||
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Attorney-in-Fact: |
Accepted and agreed to as of the date first above written, on behalf of itself and the other several Underwriters named in Schedule A | ||
By: JMP Securities LLC | ||
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By: X.X. Xxxxxxxxx, Towbin LLC | ||
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SCHEDULE A
Underwriter |
Number of Firm Shares | |
JMP Securities LLC |
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X.X. Xxxxxxxxx, Towbin, LLC |
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XX Xxxxxxxxx Co., LLC |
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Maxim Group, LLC |
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SCHEDULE B
Selling Stockholders |
Number of Shares |
Number of Additional Shares | ||
Comtech Global Investment Ltd. |
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Ren Investment International Ltd. |
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Purple Mountain Holding, Ltd. |
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Total |
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Exhibit A
Form of Skadden’s Opinion
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Exhibit B
Form of Loeb’s Opinion
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Exhibit C
Form of BVI Counsel Opinion
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Exhibit D
Form of PRC Counsel Opinion
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Exhibit E
Form of Hong Kong Counsel Opinion
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Exhibit F
Officers’ Certificate
1. | I have reviewed the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. |
2. | The representations and warranties of the Company as set forth in this Agreement are true and correct as of the time of purchase and, if applicable, the additional time of purchase. |
3. | The Company has performed all of its obligations under this Agreement as are to be performed at or before the time of purchase and at or before the additional time of purchase, as the case may be. |
4. | The conditions set forth in paragraphs ( ), ( ) and ( ) of Section 8 of this Agreement have been met. |
5. | The financial statements and other financial information included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows of the Company as of, and for, the periods presented in the Registration Statement. |
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