TRW AUTOMOTIVE HOLDINGS CORP. Common Stock Underwriting Agreement
Exhibit 1.1
Common Stock
_________, 2006
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As representatives (the “Representatives”) of
the several Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto,
the several Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto,
Ladies and Gentlemen:
TRW Automotive Holdings Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes,
subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, to issue and sell to the Underwriters named in
Schedule I hereto (the “Underwriters”) an aggregate of ___shares (the
“Securities”), par value $.01 per share (“Stock”) of the Company.
1. The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each of the Underwriters that:
(a) An “automatic shelf registration statement” as defined under Rule 405 under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”) on Form S-3 (File No. 333- [•]) in
respect of the Securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“Commission”) not earlier than three years prior to the date hereof; such
registration statement, and any post-effective amendment thereto, became effective on
filing; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of such registration statement or any
part thereof has been issued and no proceeding for that purpose has been initiated or, to
the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission, and no notice of objection of
the Commission to the use of such registration statement or any post-effective amendment
thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Act has been received by the Company (the base
prospectus filed as part of such registration statement, in the form in which it has most
recently been filed with the Commission on or prior to the date of this Agreement, is
hereinafter called the “Basic Prospectus”; any preliminary prospectus (including any
preliminary prospectus supplement) relating to the Securities filed with the Commission
pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act is hereinafter
called a “Preliminary Prospectus”; the various parts of such registration
statement, including (x) documents incorporated by reference therein, (y) all exhibits
thereto and (z) any prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that is filed with the
Commission and deemed by virtue of Rule 430B to be part of such registration statement, each
as amended at the time such part of the registration statement became effective, are
hereinafter collectively called the “Registration
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Statement”; the Basic Prospectus,
as amended and supplemented immediately prior to the Applicable Time (as defined in Section
1(c) hereof), is hereinafter called the “Pricing Prospectus”; the form of the final
prospectus relating to the Securities filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b)
under the Act in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof is hereinafter called the
“Prospectus”; any reference herein to the Basic Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus,
any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the
documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Act,
as of the date of such prospectus; any reference to any amendment or supplement to the Basic
Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and
include any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement, any prospectus
supplement relating to the Securities filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b)
under the Act and any documents filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(the “Exchange Act”), and incorporated therein, in each case after the date of the
Basic Prospectus, such Preliminary Prospectus, or the Prospectus, as the case may be; any
reference to any amendment to the Registration Statement shall be deemed to refer to and
include any annual report of the Company filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act after the effective date of the Registration Statement that is incorporated by
reference in the Registration Statement; and any “issuer free writing prospectus” as defined
in Rule 433 under the Act relating to the Securities is hereinafter called an “Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus”);
(b) No order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus has been issued by the Commission, and each Preliminary
Prospectus, at the time of filing thereof, conformed in all material respects to the
requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and did
not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required
to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however,
that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in
reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by an
Underwriter through you expressly for use therein;
(c) For the purposes of this Agreement, the “Applicable Time” is ___:___.m. (New
York time) on the date of this Agreement. The Pricing Prospectus, as of the Applicable
Time, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material
fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances
under which they were made, not misleading; and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus listed
on Schedule II(a) hereto does not conflict with the information contained in the
Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus and each such Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus, as supplemented by and taken together with the Pricing Prospectus as of
the Applicable Time, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state any
material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however,
that this representation and warranty shall not apply to statements or omissions made in the
Pricing Prospectus or an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity
with information furnished in writing to the Company by an Underwriter through you expressly
for use therein;
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(d) The documents incorporated by reference in the Pricing Prospectus and the
Prospectus, when they became effective or were filed with the Commission, as the case may
be, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Act or the Exchange Act,
as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and none of such
documents 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; and any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the
Prospectus or any further amendment or supplement thereto, when such documents become
effective or are filed with the Commission, as the case may be, will conform in all material
respects to the requirements of the Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules
and regulations of the Commission thereunder and 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; provided, however, that this
representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance
upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by an
Underwriter through you expressly for use therein; and no such documents were filed with the
Commission since the Commission’s close of business on the business day immediately prior to
the date of this Agreement and prior to the execution of this Agreement, except as set
forth on Schedule II(b) hereto;
(e) The Registration Statement conforms, and the Prospectus and any further amendments
or supplements to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus will conform, in all material
respects to the requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission
thereunder and do not and will not, as of the applicable effective date as to the
Registration Statement and any amendment thereto and as of the applicable filing date as to
the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, 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; provided, however, that this
representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance
upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by an
Underwriter through you expressly for use therein;
(f) Neither the Company nor any subsidiaries has, since the date of the most recent
audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Pricing
Prospectus: (i) incurred any material liability or obligation, direct or contingent, other
than in the ordinary course of business or (ii) entered into any material transaction or
agreement other than in the ordinary course of business, in each case otherwise than as set
forth or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus; and, since the respective dates as of which
information has been provided in the Registration Statement and the Pricing Prospectus,
there has not been any change in the
capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any of its “significant subsidiaries”
(as such term is defined in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act) (each,
a “Significant Subsidiary” and collectively, the “Significant Subsidiaries”)
or any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, set aside for payment, paid or made by
the Company on any class of its capital stock except as set forth on Schedule III hereto
(solely with
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respect to Significant Subsidiaries) and except as required to fund the
repurchase of the shares of Company Stock from Northrop Grumman
Corporation;
(g) The Company and each of its subsidiaries have good and valid title in fee simple
to, or have valid rights to lease or otherwise use, all items of real and personal property
that are material to the respective businesses of the Company and its subsidiaries, in each
case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims and defects and imperfections of
title except those that (i) do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be
made of such property by the Company and its subsidiaries, (ii) (x) are contemplated by the
Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of December 17, 2004, as amended
through the date thereof, among the Company, TRW Automotive Intermediate Holdings Corp., TRW
Automotive Inc., certain subsidiaries of the Company, the financial institutions named
therein and JPMorgan Chase Bank as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent (the
“Credit Agreement”), (y) are contemplated by the receivables arrangements (as such
term is used in the Prospectus) or (z) such as are described in the Pricing Prospectus, or
(iii) could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a material
adverse effect on the business, financial condition, or results of operations of the Company
and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole (a “Material Adverse Effect”);
(h) The Company and each of its Significant Subsidiaries have been duly organized and
are validly existing and in good standing under the laws of their respective jurisdictions
of organization, are duly qualified to do business and are in good standing in each
jurisdiction in which their respective ownership or lease of property or the conduct of
their respective businesses requires such qualification, and have all corporate power and
authority necessary to own their respective properties and to conduct the businesses in
which they are engaged as described in the Pricing Prospectus, except where the failure to
be so qualified or have such power or authority would not, individually or in the aggregate,
have a Material Adverse Effect;
(i) The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the Pricing Prospectus
and Prospectus and all the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company
have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable and
conform to the description of the Stock incorporated by reference in the Pricing Prospectus
and Prospectus; all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of each Significant
Subsidiary of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid
and non-assessable and are owned directly or indirectly by the Company, free and clear of
any lien, charge, encumbrance, security interest, restriction upon voting or transfer or any
other claim of any third party, other than those contained in the Credit Agreement;
(j) The Company has the corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this
Agreement and to perform its obligations hereunder; and all corporate action required to be
taken for the due and proper authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly and validly taken by the
Company;
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(k) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and
constitutes a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company except as enforceability
may be limited by (i) the effects of bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance,
reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights
generally, (ii) general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding in equity
or at law) and (iii) an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing;
(l) The unissued Securities to be issued and sold by the Company to the Underwriters
hereunder have been duly and validly authorized and, when issued and delivered against
payment therefor as provided herein, will be duly and validly issued and fully paid and
non-assessable and will conform to the description of the Stock incorporated by reference in
the Prospectus;
(m) The issue and sale of the Securities to be sold by the Company and the compliance
by the Company with all of the provisions of this Agreement and the consummation of the
transactions herein contemplated will not (i) conflict with or result in a breach or
violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any
indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which
the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any
of its Significant Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the
Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries is subject, except for such conflicts,
breaches, violations, defaults, liens, charges or encumbrances that could not, individually
or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) result
in any violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, decree, rule or regulation of
any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority or body having jurisdiction
over the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or any of their respective
properties or assets, except for such violations that could not, individually or in the
aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or (iii) result in any
violation of the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws (or similar
organizational documents) of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries; and no
consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing, qualification or registration with,
any such court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority or body under any such
statute, judgment, order, decree, rule or regulation is required for the issue and sale of
the Securities or the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, except the registration under the Act and the Exchange Act and such consents,
approvals, authorizations, registrations or qualifications as may be required under state
securities or Blue Sky laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the
Securities by the Underwriters or to list the Securities on the New York Stock Exchange (the
“Exchange”);
(n) Neither the Company nor any of its Significant Subsidiaries is (i) in violation of
its Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws (or similar organizational documents), (ii) in
default in any respect or is alleged by any other party to be in default in any respect, and
no event has occurred which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a
default, in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or condition contained
in any indenture,
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mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument
to which the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries is a party or by which the
Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or
assets of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries is subject or (iii) in
violation in any respect of any law or statute or any judgment, order, decree, rule or
regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority or body to
which it or its property or assets may be subject, other than, in the case of clauses (ii)
or (iii), such defaults or violations that could not, individually or in the aggregate,
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(o) Other than as set forth in the Pricing Prospectus and Prospectus, there are no
legal or governmental proceedings pending to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is
a party or of which any property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is the subject
(a) as to which an adverse determination is reasonably probable and (b) which could
reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect;
and, to the knowledge of the Company, no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated by
governmental authorities or threatened by others;
(p) The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the
Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof, will not be an “investment company”,
as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the
“Investment Company Act”);
(q) (A) (i) At the time of filing the Registration Statement and (ii) at the time the
Company or any person acting on its behalf (within the meaning, for this clause only, of
Rule 163(c) under the Act) made any offer relating to the Securities in reliance on the
exemption of Rule 163 under the Act, the Company was a “well-known seasoned issuer” as
defined in Rule 405 under the Act; and (B) at the time of the filing of the Registration
Statement, the Company was not an “ineligible issuer” as defined in Rule 405 under the Act;
(r) Ernst & Young LLP, who has certified certain financial statements of the Company
and its subsidiaries and has audited the Company’s internal control over financial reporting
and management’s assessment thereof, is an independent public accountant as required by the
Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder;
(s) The Company maintains a system of internal control over financial reporting (as
such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that complies with the
requirements of the Exchange Act and has been designed by the Company’s principal executive
officer and principal financial officer, or under their supervision, to provide reasonable
assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial
statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles.
The Company’s internal control over financial reporting is effective and the Company is
not aware of any material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting;
(t) Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated
by reference in the Pricing Prospectus, there has been no change in the Company’s internal
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control over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to
materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting;
(u) The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined
in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act) that comply with the requirements of the Exchange
Act; such disclosure controls and procedures have been designed to ensure that material
information relating to the Company and its subsidiaries is made known to the Company’s
principal executive officer and principal financial officer by others within those entities;
and such disclosure controls and procedures are effective;
(v) To the knowledge of the Company, no action has been taken and no statute, rule,
regulation or order has been enacted, adopted or issued by any governmental agency or body
(other than “Blue Sky” laws, regulations or orders) that prevents the issuance of the
Securities by the Company or suspends the sale of the Securities in any jurisdiction; no
injunction, restraining order or order of any nature by any Federal or state court of
competent jurisdiction has been issued with respect to the Company that would prevent or
suspend the issuance or sale by the Company of the Securities or the use of the Pricing
Prospectus and Prospectus in any jurisdiction; no action, suit or proceeding is pending
against or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company
before any court or arbitrator or any governmental agency, body or official, domestic or
foreign, that could reasonably be expected to restrain, enjoin, interfere with or adversely
affect the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in any material respect;
(w) The Company and each of its subsidiaries possess all licenses, certificates,
permits and other authorizations issued by the appropriate Federal, state, local or foreign
governmental or regulatory authorities or bodies that are necessary for the conduct of their
respective businesses as described in the Pricing Prospectus and Prospectus, except where
the failure to possess the same could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and neither the Company nor any of its
subsidiaries has received notification of any revocation or modification of any such
license, certificate, permit or other authorization or has any reason to believe that any
such license, certificate, permit or other authorization will not be renewed in the ordinary
course, except where the failure to possess the same could not, individually or in the
aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(x) The Company and each of its subsidiaries have filed all Federal, state, local and
foreign income and franchise tax returns required to be filed through the date hereof or
have timely filed requests for extensions and such extensions have been granted and have not
expired and have paid all taxes due thereon (or have made adequate provision for such taxes
on their respective balance sheets), except for taxes being contested in good faith for
which
adequate reserves have been provided and any such taxes the failure of which to pay or
so file could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect, and no tax deficiency has been determined
adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries that, individually or in the aggregate, has had (nor does the
Company or any of its
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subsidiaries have any knowledge of any tax deficiency that,
individually or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its
subsidiaries, could reasonably be expected to have) a Material Adverse Effect;
(y) The Company and its subsidiaries have insurance covering their respective
properties, operations, personnel and businesses, which insurance is in amounts and insures
against such losses and risks as is customary for similar businesses or is required by law;’
(z) No labor dispute with the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries
exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is contemplated or threatened that, individually
or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(aa) No “prohibited transaction” (as defined in Section 406 of the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, including the regulations and published
interpretations thereunder (“ERISA”), or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986, as amended from time to time (the “Code”)) or “accumulated funding
deficiency” (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA) or any of the events set forth in Section
4043(b) of ERISA (other than events with respect to which the 30-day notice requirement
under Section 4043 of ERISA has been waived) has occurred with respect to any employee
benefit plan of the Company or any of its subsidiaries which could reasonably be expected,
individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect; each such employee
benefit plan has been maintained in compliance with its terms and the requirements of
applicable law, including ERISA and the Code, except where any noncompliance, individually
or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; the
Company and its Significant Subsidiaries have not incurred and do not expect to incur
liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of, or withdrawal from,
any pension plan which could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to
have a Material Adverse Effect;
(bb) Except as described in the Pricing Prospectus and except as could not,
individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect, (A) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of any Federal,
state, local or foreign statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code, legally binding
policy or rule of common law or any judicial or legally binding administrative
interpretation thereof, including any judicial or legally binding administrative order,
consent, decree or judgment, relating to pollution or protection of human health, the
environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land
surface or subsurface strata) or wildlife, including, without limitation, laws and
regulations relating to the release or threatened release of chemicals, pollutants,
contaminants, wastes, toxic substances, hazardous substances, petroleum or petroleum
products (collectively, “Hazardous Materials”) or to the manufacture, processing,
distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous
Materials (collectively, “Environmental Laws”), (B) the Company and its
subsidiaries have all permits, authorizations and approvals required under any applicable
Environmental Laws (except for such permits, authorizations and approvals the failure of
which to possess could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect)
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and are each in compliance with their requirements, (C)
there are no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened administrative,
regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of
noncompliance or violation, investigations or proceedings relating to any Environmental Law
against the Company or any of its subsidiaries and (D) to the knowledge of the Company,
there are no events or circumstances that might reasonably be expected to form the basis of
an order for clean up or remediation, or an action, suit or proceeding by any private party
or governmental body or agency, against or affecting the Company or any of its subsidiaries
relating to Hazardous Materials or any Environmental Laws;
(cc) Except as described in the Pricing Prospectus, there are no outstanding
subscriptions, rights, warrants, calls or options to acquire, or instruments convertible
into or exchangeable for, or agreements or understandings with respect to the sale or
issuance of, any shares of capital stock of or other equity or other ownership interest in
the Company;
(dd) Other than this Agreement, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a
party to any contract, agreement or understanding with any person that would give rise to a
valid claim against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any Underwriter for a
brokerage commission, finder’s fee or like payment in connection with the offering and sale
of the Securities;
(ee) No forward-looking statement (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Act and
Section 21E of the Exchange Act) contained in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary
Prospectus or the Prospectus has been made or reaffirmed without a reasonable basis or has
been disclosed other than in good faith;
(ff) Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates has taken or will take, directly or
indirectly, any action designed to, or that could reasonably be expected to, cause or result
in any stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Securities; provided that
the Company may acquire Stock in open market transactions for purposes of matching
contributions under its 401K plan to the extent that all such open market transactions
comply with the provisions of Regulation M, as promulgated by the Commission;
(gg) The Company and its subsidiaries own or possess adequate rights to use all
patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trademark
registrations, service xxxx registrations, copyrights, licenses and know-how (including
trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential
information, systems or procedures) necessary for the conduct of their respective
businesses, except where the failure to own or possess such rights could not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and, to the knowledge of the Company, the
conduct of their respective businesses does not conflict with any such rights of others,
except for any such conflicts as could not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and the Company and its subsidiaries have
not received any written notice of any claim of infringement of or conflict with any such
rights of others (a) as to which an adverse determination is probable and (b) which could
reasonably be expected to have, individually, a Material Adverse Effect; and
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(hh) The Second Amended and Restated Stockholders Agreement (the “Stockholders
Agreement”) dated January 28, 2004, as the same may be amended from time to time, by and
among the Company, Automotive Investors L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
(“Automotive Investors”) and Northrop Grumman Corporation, a Delaware corporation
(together with any Permitted Transferee (as defined in the Stockholders Agreement) thereof
that becomes a party to the Stockholders Agreement pursuant to Section 2.3 thereof,
“Northrop Grumman”) is enforceable against Northrop Grumman in accordance with its
terms, except as enforceability may be limited by (i) the effects of bankruptcy, insolvency,
fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or
affecting creditors’ rights generally, (ii) general equitable principles (whether considered
in a proceeding in equity or at law) and (iii) an implied covenant of good faith and fair
dealing and the Stockholders Agreement has not been amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from the form filed as Exhibit 10.45 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1
(Registration No. 333-110513), which became effective on February 2, 2004, and no waiver
thereof or release therefrom, with respect to the limitations on transfer of Stock contained
therein, has been granted to Northrop Grumman.
2. Subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to issue and sell
to each of the Underwriters, and each of the Underwriters agrees, severally and not jointly, to
purchase from the Company, at a purchase price per share of [•], the number of Securities set forth
opposite their respective names in Schedule I hereto.
3. Upon the authorization by you of the release of the Securities, the several Underwriters
propose to offer the Securities for sale upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus.
4. (a) In lieu of delivering physical certificates representing the Securities, provided the
Company’s transfer agent is participating in the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) Fast Automated
Securities Transfer (“FAST”) program, upon request of the Underwriter, the Company shall use its
best efforts to cause its transfer agent to electronically transmit the Securities to the
Underwriter by crediting the Underwriter’s DTC account through its Deposit Withdrawal Agent
Commission (“DWAC”) system. The time and date of payment shall be 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on
November [•], 2006 or such other time and date as you and the Company may agree upon in writing.
Such time and date are herein called the “Time of Delivery”.
(b) The documents to be delivered at the Time of Delivery by or on behalf of the
parties hereto pursuant to Section 8 hereof, including the cross-receipt for the Securities
and any additional documents requested by the Underwriters pursuant to Section 8(l) hereof,
will be delivered at the offices of Cravath, Swaine & Xxxxx LLP, 000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, 00000 (the “Closing Location”), and the Securities will be delivered
at the Designated Office, all at the Time of Delivery. A meeting will be held at the
Closing Location
at 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on the New York Business Day next preceding the Time
of Delivery, at which meeting the final drafts of the documents to be delivered pursuant to
the preceding sentence will be available for review by the parties hereto. For the purposes
of this Section 4, “New York Business Day” shall mean each Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday,
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Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in New York City
are generally authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
5. The Company agrees with each of the Underwriters:
(a) To prepare the Prospectus in a form approved by you and to file such Prospectus
pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act not later than the Commission’s close of business on
the second business day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement; to make no
further amendment or any supplement to the Registration Statement, the Basic Prospectus or
the Prospectus prior to the last Time of Delivery to which you reasonably object promptly
after reasonable notice thereof; to advise you, promptly after it receives notice thereof,
of the time when any amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed or becomes
effective or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus has been filed and to furnish you
with copies thereof; to advise you, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the
issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the
use of any Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus, of the suspension of the qualification of
the Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or threatening of
any proceeding for any such purpose, or of any request by the Commission for the amending or
supplementing of the Registration Statement or Prospectus or for additional information;
and, in the event of the issuance of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending
the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus or suspending any such qualification,
promptly to use its best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of such order;
(b) If required by Rule 430B(h) under the Act, to prepare a form of prospectus in a
form approved by you and to file such form of prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the
Act not later than may be required by Rule 424(b) under the Act; and to make no further
amendment or supplement to such form of prospectus to which you reasonably object promptly
after reasonable notice thereof;
(c) Promptly from time to time to take such action as you may reasonably request to
qualify the Securities for offering and sale under the securities laws of such United States
jurisdictions as you may request and to comply with such laws so as to permit the
continuance of sales and dealings therein in such jurisdictions for as long as may be
necessary to complete the distribution of the Securities; provided that in
connection therewith the Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation
or to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction;
(d) Prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the New York Business Day next
succeeding the date of this Agreement and from time to time, to furnish the Underwriters
with written and electronic copies of the Prospectus in New York City in such quantities as
you may reasonably request, and, if the delivery of a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the
notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Act) is required at any time prior to the
expiration of nine months after the time of issue of the Prospectus in connection with the
offering or sale of the Securities and if at such time any event shall have occurred as a
result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include an untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state
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any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of
the circumstances under which they were made when such Prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the
notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Act) is delivered, not misleading, or, if for
any other reason it shall be necessary during such same period to amend or supplement the
Prospectus or to file under the Exchange Act any document incorporated by reference in the
Prospectus in order to comply with the Act or the Exchange Act, to notify you and upon your
request to file such document and to prepare and furnish without charge to each Underwriter
and to any dealer in securities as many written and electronic copies as you may from time
to time reasonably request of an amended Prospectus or a supplement to the Prospectus which
will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance; and in case any
Underwriter is required to deliver a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to
in Rule 173(a) under the Act) in connection with sales of any of the Securities at any time
nine months or more after the time of issue of the Prospectus, upon your request but at the
expense of such Underwriter, to prepare and deliver to such Underwriter as many written and
electronic copies as you may reasonably request of an amended or supplemented Prospectus
complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Act;
(e) During the period beginning from the date hereof and continuing to and including
the date that is 45 days after the date of the Prospectus, not to offer, sell, contract to
sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, make any short sale or otherwise dispose of,
except as provided hereunder, any securities of the Company that are substantially similar
to the Securities, including but not limited to any options or warrants to purchase shares
of Stock or any securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for, or that represent
the right to receive, Stock or any such substantially similar securities without your prior
written consent. The foregoing restriction shall not apply to (i) the Securities to be sold
by the Company hereunder, (ii) the issuance by the Company of shares of Stock upon the
exercise of an option or warrant or upon the conversion or exchange of convertible or
exchangeable securities in each case outstanding on the date of the Prospectus, (iii) the
issuance of Stock or grant of an option to purchase Stock under the Company’s stock plans
described or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, (iv) the issuance of shares of
Stock in connection with the acquisition of another company; provided that the
aggregate market value of such securities may not exceed 5% of the market capitalization of
the Company as of the date hereof and the recipients of such shares of Stock agree to be
bound by the restrictions contained in this paragraph for 45 days after the date of the
Prospectus, (v) the filing of a registration statement in respect of the Stock within 45
days from the date of the Prospectus; provided that the Company obtains the prior
written consent of the Representatives (other than a registration statement on Form S-8 with
respect to the Company’s 401K plan or stock incentive plan), (vi) transactions by any person
other than the Company relating to shares of Stock or other securities acquired in open
market transactions after the completion of the offering, (vii) transfers of shares of Stock
or any security convertible, exchangeable for or exercisable into Stock as a bona fide gift
or gifts as a result of the operation of law or testate or intestate succession;
provided that the transferee agrees to be bound by the same terms as the transferor
under this Section 5(f); or (viii) transfers to a trust, partnership, limited liability
company or other entity, the beneficial interests of which are held by the transferor;
provided that the transferee agrees to be bound by the same terms as the transferor
under this Section 5(f);
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(f) To use the net proceeds received by it from the sale of the Securities pursuant to
this Agreement in the manner specified in the Pricing Prospectus under the caption “Use of
Proceeds”;
(g) To use its best efforts to list, subject to notice of issuance, the Shares on the
Exchange;
(h) If the Company elects to rely upon Rule 462(b), the Company shall file a Rule
462(b) Registration Statement with the Commission in compliance with Rule 462(b) by 10:00
p.m., Washington, D.C. time, on the date of this Agreement, and the Company shall at the
time of filing either pay to the Commission the filing fee for the Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement or give irrevocable instructions for the payment of such fee pursuant to Rule
111(b) under the Act; and
(i) Upon request of any Underwriter, to furnish, or cause to be furnished, to such
Underwriter an electronic version of the Company’s name and corporate logo for use on the
website, if any, operated by such Underwriter for the purpose of facilitating the on-line
offering of the Securities (the “License”); provided, however, that
the License shall be used solely for the purpose described above, is granted without any fee
and may not be assigned or transferred; and provided further that the License shall
expire on the date that is nine months after the date hereof.
6. (a) The Company represents and agrees that, without your prior consent, it has not made
and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute a “free writing
prospectus” as defined in Rule 405 under the Act; each Underwriter represents and agrees that,
without the prior consent of the Company and you, it has not made and will not make any offer
relating to the Securities that would constitute a free writing prospectus; any such free writing
prospectus the use of which has been consented to by the Company and you is listed on Schedule
II(a) hereto;
(b) The Company has complied and will comply with the requirements of Rule 433 under
the Act applicable to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including timely filing with the
Commission or retention where required and legending; and
(c) The Company agrees that if at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus any event occurred or occurs as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus would conflict with the information in the Registration Statement, the Pricing
Prospectus or the Prospectus or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit
to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light
of the circumstances then prevailing, not misleading, the Company will give prompt notice
thereof to you and, if requested by you, will prepare and furnish without charge to each
Underwriter an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or other document which will correct such
conflict, statement or omission; provided, however, that this representation
and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions in an Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to
the Company by an Underwriter through you expressly for use therein.
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7. The Company covenants and agrees with the several Underwriters that the Company will pay or
cause to be paid the following: (i) the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Company’s counsel
and accountants in connection with the registration of the Securities under the Act and all other
expenses in connection with the preparation, printing and filing of the Registration Statement, the
Basic Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus
and amendments and supplements thereto and the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the
Underwriters and dealers; (ii) the cost of printing or producing the Blue Sky Memorandum and any
other documents prepared in connection with the offering, purchase, sale and delivery of the
Securities under state securities laws; (iii) all expenses in connection with the qualification of
the Securities for offering and sale under state securities laws as provided in Section 5(c)
hereof, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in
connection with such qualification and in connection with the Blue Sky Memorandum; (iv) all fees
and expenses in connection with listing the Securities on the Exchange, if any; (v) the filing fees
incident to, and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in
connection with, securing any required review by the National Association of Securities Dealers,
Inc. of the terms of the sale of the Securities; (vi) the cost of preparing stock certificates;
(vii) the cost and charges of any transfer agent or registrar; (viii) all other costs and expenses
incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder which are not otherwise specifically
provided for in this Section. It is understood, however, that, except as provided in this Section,
and Sections 9 and 12 hereof, the Underwriters will pay all of their own costs and expenses,
including the fees of their counsel, transfer taxes on resale of any of the Securities by them, and
any advertising expenses connected with any offers they may make.
8. The obligations of the Underwriters hereunder, as to the Securities to be delivered at each
Time of Delivery, shall be subject, in their discretion, to the condition that all representations
and warranties and other statements of the Company herein are, at and as of the Time of Delivery,
true and correct, the condition that the Company shall have performed all of their obligations
hereunder theretofore to be performed, and the following additional conditions:
(a) The Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b)
under the Act within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by the rules and
regulations under the Act and in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof; if the Company has
chosen to rely on Rule 462(b), the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement shall have become
effective by 10:00 p.m., Washington, D.C. time, on the date of this Agreement; all material
required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act shall have been
filed with the Commission within the applicable time period prescribed for such filings by
Rule 433; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any
part thereof shall have been issued and no proceeding for that purpose shall have been
initiated or threatened by the Commission and no notice of objection of the Commission to
the use of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to
Rule 401(g)(2) under the Act shall have been received; no stop order suspending or
preventing the use of the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been
initiated or threatened by the Commission; and all requests for additional information on
the part of the Commission shall have been complied with to your reasonable satisfaction;
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(b) Cravath, Swaine & Xxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, shall have furnished to
you its written opinion and 10b-5 letter (in the forms attached as Annex II(a)-1 and Annex
II(a)-2 hereto), dated such Time of Delivery and such counsel shall have received such
papers and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such
matters;
(c) Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, shall have furnished to
you its written opinion and negative assurance statement (in the forms attached as Annex
II(b)-1 and Annex II(b)-2 hereto), dated such Time of Delivery, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to you;
(d) Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx, Esq., General Counsel of the Company, shall have furnished to
you his written opinion (in the form attached as Annex II(c) hereto), dated such Time of
Delivery;
(e) On the date of the Pricing Prospectus upon execution of this Agreement, at 9:30
a.m., New York City time, on the effective date of any post-effective amendment to the
Registration Statement filed subsequent to the date of this Agreement and also at the Time
of Delivery, Ernst & Young LLP shall have furnished to you a letter or letters, dated the
respective dates of delivery thereof, in form and substance satisfactory to you, to the
effect set forth in Annex I hereto;
(f) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, no event or condition
of a type described in Section 1(f) shall have occurred or shall exist, which event or
condition is not described in the Pricing Prospectus, the effect of which in your judgment
makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of
the Securities being delivered at the Time of Delivery on the terms and in the manner
contemplated in the Prospectus;
(g) On or after the Applicable Time (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the
rating accorded the Company’s debt securities by any “nationally recognized statistical
rating organization”, as such term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Rule
436(g)(2) under the Act; and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it
has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any of
the Company’s debt securities;
(h) On or after the Applicable Time there shall not have occurred any of the following:
(i) a suspension or material limitation in trading in securities generally on the Exchange;
(ii) a suspension or material limitation in trading in the Company’s securities on the
Exchange; (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) the outbreak or
escalation of hostilities involving the United States or the declaration by the United
States of a national emergency or war; or (v) the occurrence of any other calamity or crisis
or any change in financial, political or economic conditions in the United States or
elsewhere, if the effect of any
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such event specified in clause (iv) or (v) in your judgment is so material and adverse
as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the
delivery of the Securities being delivered at the Time of Delivery on the terms and in the
manner contemplated in the Prospectus;
(i) The Company shall have complied with the provisions of Section 5(d) hereof with
respect to the furnishing of prospectuses on the New York Business Day next succeeding the
date of this Agreement;
(j) The Securities shall have been duly listed, subject to notice of issuance, on the
Exchange;
(k) The Company has obtained and delivered to the Underwriters executed copies of an
agreement from [•], substantially to the effect set forth in Section 5(f) hereof in form and
substance satisfactory to you; and
(l) The Company shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to you at such Time of
Delivery a certificate of the chief financial officer of the Company as to the accuracy of
the representations and warranties of the Company herein at and as of such Time of Delivery,
as to the performance by the Company of all of its obligations hereunder to be performed at
or prior to such Time of Delivery, and the Company shall have furnished or caused to be
furnished certificates of the chief financial officer of the Company as to the matters set
forth in subsections (a) and (f) of this Section and as to such other matters as you may
reasonably request.
9. Indemnifications:
(a) The Company will indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter against any losses,
claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Underwriter may become
subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities
(or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, the
Basic Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or
any amendment or supplement thereto, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any “issuer
information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act, or arise
out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact
or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and will reimburse each
Underwriter for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Underwriter in
connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as such expenses are
incurred; provided, however, that the Company shall not be liable in any
such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is
based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission
made in the Registration Statement, the Basic Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, the
Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information
furnished to the Company by you expressly for use therein.
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(b) Each Underwriter will indemnify and hold harmless the Company against any losses,
claims, damages or liabilities to which the Company may become subject, under the Act or
otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect
thereof) arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a
material fact contained in the Registration Statement, the Basic Prospectus, any Preliminary
Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement
thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or arise out of or are based upon the
omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact therein or necessary to make
the statements therein not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent,
that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was
made in the Registration Statement, the Basic Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, the
Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus or any such amendment or supplement thereto, or any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information
furnished to the Company by such Underwriter through you expressly for use therein; and will
reimburse the Company for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company in
connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as such expenses are
incurred.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above of
notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party shall, if a claim in
respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under such subsection, notify
the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; provided that, the
omission so to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which
it may have to any indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above except to the extent
that it has been materially prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or
defenses) by such failure; and provided further that the omission so to notify the
indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any
indemnified party otherwise than under such subsection. In case any such action shall be
brought against any indemnified party and it shall notify the indemnifying party of the
commencement thereof, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate therein and,
to the extent that it shall wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly
notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such
indemnified party (which counsel may at the option of the indemnifying party be counsel to
the indemnifying party unless (1) the indemnified party has reasonably concluded (based upon
advice of counsel to the indemnified party) that there may be legal defenses available to it
or other indemnified parties that are different from or in addition to those available to
the indemnifying party or (2) a conflict or potential conflict exists (based upon advice of
counsel to the indemnified party) between the indemnified party and the indemnifying party),
and, after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so
to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to such
indemnified party under such subsection for any legal expenses of other counsel or any other
expenses, in each case subsequently incurred by such indemnified party, in connection with
the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation. If the indemnifying party
does not assume the defense of such action, it is understood that the indemnifying party
shall not, in connection with any one such action or separate but substantially similar or
related actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or
circumstances, be liable for
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the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys (in addition to one
separate firm of local attorneys in each such jurisdiction when reasonably necessary but not
to include two firms in the same jurisdiction) at any time for all such indemnified parties.
The indemnifying party shall not be liable for any settlement of an action or claim for
monetary damages effected without its consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld, but if settled with such consent or if there is a final judgment for the
plaintiff, the indemnifying party shall indemnify each indemnified party from and against
any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. No indemnifying party shall,
without the written consent of the indemnified party, effect the settlement or compromise
of, or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to, any pending or threatened
action or claim in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder
(whether or not the indemnified party is an actual or potential party to such action or
claim) unless such settlement, compromise or judgment (i) includes an unconditional release
of the indemnified party from all liability arising out of such action or claim and (ii)
does not include a statement as to, or an admission of, fault, culpability or a failure to
act, by or on behalf of any indemnified party.
(d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 9 is unavailable to or
insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above in
respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof)
referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or
payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities
(or actions in respect thereof) 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 from the
offering of the Securities. If, however, the allocation provided by the immediately
preceding sentence is not permitted by applicable law or if the indemnified party failed to
give the notice required under subsection (c) above, then each indemnifying party shall
contribute to such amount paid or payable by such indemnified party in such proportion as is
appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the
Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements
or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in
respect thereof), as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative
benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be
deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering (before
deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total underwriting discounts and
commissions received by the Underwriters, in each case as set forth in the table on the
cover page of the Prospectus. The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among
other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the
omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the
Company on the one hand or the Underwriters on the other and the parties’ relative intent,
knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or
omission. The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if
contribution pursuant to this subsection (d) were determined by pro rata allocation (even if
the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of
allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in
this subsection (d). The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the
losses, claims, damages or liabilities
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(or actions in respect thereof) referred to above in this subsection (d) shall be
deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party
in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the
provisions of this subsection (d), no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount
in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Securities underwritten by it
and distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages
which such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or
alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent
misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to
contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The
Underwriters’ obligations in this subsection (d) to contribute are several in proportion to
their respective underwriting obligations and not joint.
(e) The obligations of the Company under this Section 9 shall be in addition to any
liability which the Company may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and
conditions, to each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of the
Act; and the obligations of the Underwriters under this Section 9 shall be in addition to
any liability which the respective Underwriters may otherwise have and shall extend, upon
the same terms and conditions, to each officer and director of the Company and to each
person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Act.
10. Default:
(a) If any Underwriter shall default in its obligation to purchase the Securities which
it has agreed to purchase hereunder at a Time of Delivery, you may in your discretion
arrange for you or another party or other parties reasonably satisfactory to the Company to
purchase such Securities on the terms contained herein. If within 36 hours after such
default by any Underwriter you do not arrange for the purchase of such Securities, then the
Company shall be entitled to a further period of 36 hours within which to procure another
party or other parties satisfactory to you to purchase such Securities on such terms. In
the event that, within the respective prescribed periods, you notify the Company that you
have so arranged for the purchase of such Securities, or the Company notifies you that it
has so arranged for the purchase of such Securities, you or the Company shall have the right
to postpone a Time of Delivery for a period of not more than seven days, in order to effect
whatever changes may thereby be made necessary in the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus, or in any other documents or arrangements, and the Company agrees to file
promptly any amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus which
in your opinion may thereby be made necessary. The term “Underwriter” as used in this
Agreement shall include any person substituted under this Section with like effect as if
such person had originally been a party to this Agreement with respect to such Securities.
(b) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Securities of a
defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by you and the Company as provided in subsection (a)
above, the aggregate number of such Securities which remains unpurchased does not exceed
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one-eleventh of the aggregate number of all the Securities to be purchased at the Time
of Delivery, then the Company shall have the right to require each non-defaulting
Underwriter to purchase the number of Securities which such Underwriter agreed to purchase
hereunder at the Time of Delivery and, in addition, to require each non-defaulting
Underwriter to purchase its pro rata share (based on the number of Securities which such
Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder) of the Securities of such defaulting Underwriter
or Underwriters for which such arrangements have not been made; but nothing herein shall
relieve a defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default.
(c) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Securities of a
defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by you and the Company as provided in subsection (a)
above, the aggregate number of such Securities which remains unpurchased exceeds
one-eleventh of the aggregate number of all of the Securities to be purchased at the Time of
Delivery, or if the Company shall not exercise the right described in subsection (b) above
to require non-defaulting Underwriters to purchase Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or
Underwriters, then this Agreement shall thereupon terminate, without liability on the part
of any non-defaulting Underwriter or the Company, except for the expenses to be borne by the
Company and the Underwriters as provided in Section 7 hereof and the indemnity and
contribution agreements in Section 9 hereof; but nothing herein shall relieve a defaulting
Underwriter from liability for its default.
11. The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements
of the Company and the several Underwriters, as set forth in this Agreement or made by or on behalf
of them, respectively, pursuant to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect,
regardless of any investigation (or any statement as to the results thereof) made by or on behalf
of any Underwriter or any controlling person of any Underwriter, or the Company or any officer or
director or controlling person of the Company, and shall survive delivery of and payment for the
Securities.
12. If this Agreement shall be terminated pursuant to Section 10 hereof, the Company shall not
be under any liability to any Underwriter except as provided in Sections 7 and 9 hereof; but, if
for any other reason the Securities are not delivered by or on behalf of the Company as provided
herein, the Company will reimburse the Underwriters through you for all out-of-pocket expenses
approved in writing by you, including fees and disbursements of counsel, reasonably incurred by the
Underwriters in making preparations for the purchase, sale and delivery of the Securities not so
delivered, but the Company shall then be under no further liability to any Underwriter in respect
of the Securities not so delivered except as provided in Sections 7 and 9 hereof.
13. In all dealings hereunder, you shall act on behalf of each of the Underwriters, and the
parties hereto shall be entitled to act and rely upon any statement, request, notice or agreement
on behalf of any Underwriter made or given by you.
All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall be in writing, and if to the
Underwriters shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to (i) [•], [•],
New York, New York [•], Attention: Registration Department; (ii) [•], [•], New York, New York [•],
Attention: Syndicate Desk, as the representatives, and if to the Company shall be delivered or sent
by
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mail, telex or facsimile transmission to the address of the Company set forth in the
Registration Statement, Attention: Secretary; provided, however, that any notice to
an Underwriter pursuant to Section [•] hereof shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or
facsimile transmission to such Underwriter at its address set forth in its Underwriters’
Questionnaire or telex constituting such Questionnaire, which address will be supplied to the
Company by you upon request. Any such statements, requests, notices or agreements shall take
effect upon receipt thereof.
14. This Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure solely to the benefit of, the
Underwriters, the Company and, to the extent provided in Sections 9 and 11 hereof, the officers and
directors of the Company and each person who controls the Company or any Underwriter, and their
respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, and no other person shall
acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement. No purchaser of any of the
Securities from any Underwriter shall be deemed a successor or assign by reason merely of such
purchase.
15. Time shall be of the essence of this Agreement. As used herein, the term “business day”
shall mean any day when the Commission’s office in Washington, D.C. is open for business.
16. The Company acknowledges and agrees that (i) the purchase and sale of the Securities
pursuant to this Agreement is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company, on the
one hand, and the several Underwriters, on the other, (ii) in connection therewith and with the
process leading to such transaction each Underwriter is acting solely as a principal and not the
agent or fiduciary of the Company, (iii) no Underwriter has assumed an advisory or fiduciary
responsibility in favor of the Company with respect to the offering contemplated hereby or the
process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such Underwriter has advised or is currently
advising the Company on other matters) or any other obligation to the Company except the
obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement and (iv) the Company has consulted its own legal
and financial advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate. The Company agrees that it will not
claim that the Underwriters, or any of them, has rendered advisory services of any nature or
respect, or owes a fiduciary or similar duty to the Company, in connection with such transaction or
the process leading thereto.
17. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or
oral) between the Company and the Underwriters, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter
hereof.
18. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State
of New York.
19. The Company and each of the Underwriters hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out
of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
20. This Agreement may be executed by any one or more of the parties hereto in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such respective counterparts
shall together constitute one and the same instrument.
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21. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company is authorized, subject to
applicable law, to disclose any and all aspects of this potential transaction that are necessary to
support any U.S. Federal income tax benefits expected to be claimed with respect to such
transaction, and all materials of any kind (including tax opinions and other tax analyses) provided
to the Company relating to that treatment and structure, without the Underwriters imposing any
limitation of any kind. However, any information relating to the tax treatment and tax structure
shall remain confidential (and the foregoing sentence shall not apply) to the extent necessary to
enable any person to comply with securities laws. For this purpose, “tax structure” is limited to
any facts that may be relevant to that treatment.
If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please sign and return to us seven
counterparts hereof, and upon the acceptance hereof by you, on behalf of each of the Underwriters,
this letter and such acceptance hereof shall constitute a binding agreement among each of the
Underwriters and the Company. It is understood that your acceptance of this letter on behalf of
each of the Underwriters is pursuant to the authority set forth in a form of Agreement among
Underwriters, the form of which shall be submitted to the Company for examination, upon request,
but without warranty on your part as to the authority of the signers thereof.
| Very truly yours, | ||||||
| TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. | ||||||
| By: | /s/ | |||||
| Name: [•] | ||||||
| Title: [•] | ||||||
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Accepted as of the date hereof
[•]
By: |
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| Title: |
[•]
By: |
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| Title: |
On behalf of each of the Underwriters listed on Schedule I
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SCHEDULE I
| Total Number of | ||||
| Securities | ||||
| Underwriter | to be Purchased | |||
[•] |
[•] | |||
[•] |
[•] | |||
[•] |
[•] | |||
Total |
[•] | |||
SCHEDULE II
(a) Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses:
(b) Additional Documents Incorporated by Reference:
SCHEDULE III
Significant Subsidiaries
TRW Automotive Ltda.
TRW Automotive U.S. LLC
TRW Automotive Inc.
TRW Automotive Receivables LLC
TRW Automotive Intermediate Holdings Corp.
TRW Intellectual Property Corp.
TRW Limited
Xxxxxx-Xxxxx Company
Xxxxx Industries Limited
LucasVarity
LucasVarity Automotive Holding Company
Stylealpha Limited
Automotive Holdings (UK) Limited
Automotive Holdings (France) S.A.S.
Xxxxx Investment Finance Limited
TRW Airbag Systems GmbH
TRW Deutschland Holding GmbH
Xxxxx Varity s.r.o.
TRW Polska Sp.z o.o.
ANNEX
I
[Letterhead of Ernst & Young LLP]
November [•], 2006
ANNEX II(a-1)
[Letterhead of Cravath, Swaine & Xxxxx LLP]
November [•], 2006
ANNEX II(a)-2
[Letterhead of Cravath, Swaine & Xxxxx LLP]
November [•], 2006
ANNEX II(b)-1
[Letterhead of Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP]
November [•], 2006
ANNEX II(b)-2
[Letterhead of Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP]
November [•], 2006
