FORD MOTOR COMPANY $1,000,000,000 Common Stock (par value $0.01 per share) EQUITY DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
Exhibit 99
FORD MOTOR COMPANY
$1,000,000,000
Common Stock
(par value $0.01 per share)
Common Stock
(par value $0.01 per share)
December 4, 2009
Barclays Capital Inc.
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Citigroup Global Markets Inc. | |
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
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000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx | |
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
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Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 | |
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
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Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Co. | |
00 Xxxx Xxxxxx
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000 Xxxx Xxxxxx | |
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
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Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 | |
X.X. Xxxxxx Securities Inc.
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Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx | |
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Xxxxxxxxxxxx | |
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
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Xxx Xxxxxx Xxxx | |
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 | ||
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated
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RBS Securities Inc. | |
0000 Xxxxxxxx
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000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx | |
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
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Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx 00000 |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Ford Motor Company, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), confirms its agreement (this
“Agreement”) with Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities
Inc., Xxxxxxx, Sachs & Co., X.X. Xxxxxx Securities Inc., Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx
Incorporated, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated and RBS Securities Inc. (each, a “Manager” and
collectively, the “Managers”), as follows:
SECTION 1. Description of Securities. The Company proposes to issue and sell through
or to the Managers, as sales agents and/or principals, shares of the Company’s common stock, par
value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), having an aggregate offering price of up to
$1,000,000,000 (the “Shares”), from time to time during the term of this Agreement and on the terms
set forth in Section 3 of this Agreement. For purposes of selling the Shares through the Managers,
the Company hereby appoints the Managers as exclusive agents of the Company for the purpose of
soliciting purchases of the Shares from the Company pursuant to this Agreement and each Manager
agrees to
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use its reasonable best efforts to solicit purchases of the Shares on the terms and subject to
the conditions stated herein. The Company hereby reserves the right to issue and sell shares of
Common Stock other than through or to the Managers during the term of this Agreement on terms that
it deems appropriate.
SECTION 2. Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and
warrants to and agrees with each of the Managers that:
(a) An automatic registration statement on Form S-3ASR (File No. 333-151355) (the
“registration statement”) has heretofore become, and is, effective under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (collectively called the
“Act”); the registration statement and the Prospectus Supplement (as defined below) sets
forth the terms of an offering, sale and plan of distribution of shares of the Common Stock
and/or other securities of the Company and contains or incorporates therein by reference
additional information concerning the Company and its business; no stop order of the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) preventing or suspending the use of
any Basic Prospectus (as defined below), the Prospectus Supplement (as defined below), the
Prospectus (as defined below) or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (as defined below), or
the effectiveness of the Registration Statement (as defined below), has been issued, and no
proceeding for that purpose has been initiated or threatened by the Commission. Except
where the context otherwise requires, “Registration Statement,” as used herein, means the
registration statement, as amended at the time of such registration statement’s
effectiveness for purposes of Section 11 of the Act (the “Effective Time”), as such section
applies to each Manager, including (i) all documents filed as a part thereof or
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein, (ii) any information
contained or incorporated by reference in a prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant
to Rule 424(b) under the Act, to the extent such information is deemed, pursuant to Rule
430B or Rule 430C under the Act, to be part of the registration statement at the Effective
Time, and (iii) any registration statement filed to register the offer and sale of Shares
pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Act. Except where the context otherwise requires, “Basic
Prospectus,” as used herein, means the base prospectus filed as part of each Registration
Statement, together with any amendments or supplements thereto as of the date of this
Agreement. Except where the context otherwise requires, “Prospectus Supplement,” as used
herein, means the final prospectus supplement, relating to the Shares, 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), in the
form furnished by the Company to each Manager in connection with the offering of the
Shares. Except where the context otherwise requires, “Prospectus,” as used herein, means
the Prospectus Supplement together with the Basic Prospectus attached to or used with the
Prospectus Supplement. “Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses,” as used herein, means the
documents listed on Schedule A attached hereto. Any reference
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herein to the registration statement, the Registration Statement, any Basic
Prospectus, the Prospectus Supplement, the Prospectus or any Permitted Free Writing
Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents, if any, incorporated by
reference, or deemed to be incorporated by reference, therein (the “Incorporated
Documents”), including, unless the context otherwise requires, the documents, if any, filed
as exhibits to such Incorporated Documents. Any reference herein to the terms “amend,”
“amendment” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration Statement, any Basic
Prospectus, the Prospectus Supplement, the Prospectus or any Permitted Free Writing
Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the filing of any document under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder
(collectively, the “Exchange Act”) on or after the initial effective date of the
Registration Statement, or the date of such Basic Prospectus, the Prospectus Supplement,
the Prospectus or such Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, as the case may be, and deemed to
be incorporated therein by reference.
(b) (i) At the respective times the Registration Statement and each amendment thereto
became effective, at each deemed effective date with respect to the Managers pursuant to
Rule 430B(f)(2) under the Act, as of the time of each sale of Shares pursuant to this
Agreement (each, a “Time of Sale”) and Settlement Date, if any, and at all times during
which a prospectus is required by the Act to be delivered (whether physically or through
compliance with Rule 172 under the Act or any similar rule) in connection with any sale of
Shares, the Registration Statement complied and will comply in all material respects with
the requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations under the Act; (ii)
the Basic Prospectus, complies or will comply, at the time it was or will be filed with the
Commission, complies as of the date hereof (if filed with the Commission on or prior to the
date hereof) and, as of each Time of Sale, if any, and at all times during which a
prospectus is required by the Act to be delivered (whether physically or through compliance
with Rule 172 under the Act or any similar rule) in connection with any sale of Shares, in
all material respects with the rules and regulations under the Act; (iii) each of the
Prospectus Supplement and the Prospectus will comply, as of the date that it is filed with
the Commission, the date of the Prospectus Supplement, as of each Time of Sale and
Settlement Date, if any, and at all times during which a prospectus is required by the Act
to be delivered (whether physically or through compliance with Rule 172 under the Act or
any similar rule) in connection with any sale of Shares, in all material respects with the
rules and regulations under the Act; (iv) the Incorporated Documents, when they were filed
with the Commission, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange
Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and any further
Incorporated Documents so filed and incorporated by reference, when they are filed with the
Commission, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act
and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder; and (iv) each Permitted Free
Writing
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Prospectus complied in all material respects with the Act and has been filed or will
be filed in accordance with the Act (to the extent required thereby);
(c) (i) at the Effective Time with respect to the Registration Statement and each
amendment thereto, the Registration Statement did not 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; (ii) as of each Time of Sale,
the Prospectus (as amended and supplemented at such Time of Sale) and any Permitted Free
Writing Prospectus, considered together (collectively, the “General Disclosure Package”),
did not contain 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 (iii) as of its date and at any Settlement Date,
the Prospectus did not and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit
to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of
the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this
representation and warranty shall not apply to any statement or omission made in reliance
upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by the Managers
expressly for use in the Prospectus or in the General Disclosure Package;
(d) Each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, as of its issue date and at all
subsequent times through the completion of the public offer and sale of the Shares or until
any earlier date that the Company notified or notifies the Managers, did not, does not and
will not include any material information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with
the information contained in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus; any electronic
roadshow relating to the offering of the Shares, when considered together with the General
Disclosure Package, as of the Time of Sale, did not contain 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.
(e) Other than the Basic Prospectus, the Prospectus and any document not constituting
a prospectus pursuant to Section 2(a)(10)(a) of the Act or Rule 134 under the Act, the
Company (including its agents and representatives, other than the Managers) has not
prepared, made, used, authorized, approved or referred to and will not prepare, make, use,
authorize, approve or refer to any “written communication” (as defined in Rule 405 under
the Act) that constitutes an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy any Shares
required to be filed with the Commission without the Managers’ consent (each such
communication by the Company or its agents and representatives being referred to herein as
a “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus”), other than any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.
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(f) (A) (i) At the time of filing the Registration Statement, (ii) at the time of the
most recent amendment thereto for the purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the
Act (whether such amendment was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed
pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or form of prospectus), and (iii) at
the time the Company or any person acting on its behalf (within the meaning, for this
clause only, of Rule 163(c)) made any offer relating to the Securities in reliance on the
exemption of Rule 163 under the Act, the Company was not an “ineligible issuer” as defined
in Rule 405 of the Act; and (B) at the time of filing of the Registration Statement, at the
earliest time thereafter that the Company or another offering participant made a bona fide
offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) under the Act) of the Shares and at the date
hereof, the Company was not and is not an “ineligible issuer” as defined in Rule 405 under
the Act.
(g) The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the Prospectus; and
all of the issued shares of capital stock, including the Common Stock, of the Company have
been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable, have
been issued in compliance with all applicable securities laws and were not issued in
violation of any preemptive or similar right; the Company’s Common Stock has been
registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is listed on the New York
Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”), and the Company has taken no action designed to, or likely to
have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common Stock from the NYSE, nor has
the Company received any notification that the Commission or the NYSE is contemplating
terminating such registration or listing.
(h) The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation
in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and has the corporate power and
authority, and has all licenses, permits, orders and other governmental and regulatory
approvals, to own or lease its properties and conduct its business in the jurisdictions in
which such business is transacted as described in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus with only such exceptions as are not material to the business of the Company and
its subsidiaries considered as a whole.
(i) The Shares have been duly authorized by the Company and reserved for issuance by
the Company, and, when duly issued and delivered against payment therefor as provided
herein, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable; no holder thereof will be
subject to personal liability solely by reason of being such a holder; and the issuance of
the Shares will not be subject to preemptive or similar rights.
(j) The capital stock of the Company, including the Shares, conforms in all material
respects to each description thereof, if any, contained or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, any Basic Prospectus, the
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Prospectus or any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus; and the certificates for the
Shares meet the requirements thereof under the Company’s bylaws.
(k) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
(l) The Company has not entered into any other sales agency or distribution
agreements or similar arrangements with any agent or other representative in respect of the
Shares and the equity shelf program established by this Agreement, the terms of which that
have not been properly and duly waived.
(m) There is no consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or
qualification of or with any court or any regulatory authority or other governmental body
having jurisdiction over the Company which is required for, and the absence of which would
materially affect, the issue and sale of any Shares as contemplated by this Agreement,
except the registration under the Act of the Shares, and such consents, approvals,
authorizations, registrations or qualifications as may be required under the securities or
Blue Sky laws of any jurisdiction in connection with the public offering of the Shares by
the Managers.
(n) PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, who have certified certain of the financial
statements of the Company and its subsidiaries included or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Final Prospectus, is, to the best
knowledge of the Company, an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to
the Company as required by the Act and the rules and regulations adopted by the Commission
and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).
(o) The Common Stock is an “actively-traded security” excepted from the requirements
of Rule 101 of Regulation M under the Exchange Act by subsection (c)(1) of such rule.
(p) Except pursuant to this Agreement, neither the Company nor any of its
subsidiaries has incurred any liability for any finder’s or broker’s fee or agent’s
commission in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or by the Registration Statement.
(q) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the best of the Company’s
knowledge, 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 the stabilization or manipulation of the price
of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Shares.
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SECTION 3. Sale and Delivery of Securities. (a) On the basis of the representations,
warranties and agreements herein contained, but subject to the terms and conditions herein set
forth, the Company and each of the Managers agree that the Company may from time to time seek to
sell Shares through the Managers, acting as sales agents, or directly to the Managers acting as
principals, as follows:
(i) The Company may submit to a Manager its orders (including any price, time or size
limits or other customary parameters or conditions) to sell Shares on any Trading Day (as
defined herein) in a form and manner as mutually agreed to by the Company and the Manager;
provided, however, that the Company will only submit its orders to one of the Managers on a
single Trading Day. As used herein, “Trading Day” shall mean any trading day on the NYSE.
(ii) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Manager shall use its reasonable
best efforts to execute any Company order submitted to it hereunder to sell Shares and with
respect to which such Manager has agreed to act as sales agent. The Company acknowledges and
agrees that (A) there can be no assurance that any Manager will be successful in selling the
Shares, (B) a Manager will incur no liability or obligation to the Company or any other person
or entity if it does not sell Shares for any reason other than a failure by such Manager to use
its reasonable best efforts consistent with its normal trading and sales practices and
applicable law and regulations to sell such Shares as required under this Agreement, and (C)
Managers shall be under no obligation to purchase Shares on a principal basis pursuant to this
Agreement, except as otherwise specifically agreed by the Managers and the Company.
(iii) The Company shall not authorize the issuance and sale of, and the Managers shall
not sell as sales agents, any Share at a price lower than the minimum price therefor designated
from time to time by the Company and notified to the Managers in writing. In addition, the
Company or any Manager may, upon notice to the other party hereto by telephone (confirmed
promptly by email or facsimile), suspend an offering of the Shares with respect to which such
Manager is acting as sales agent; provided, however, that such suspension or termination shall
not affect or impair the parties’ respective obligations with respect to the Shares sold
hereunder prior to the giving of such notice.
(iv) Each of the Managers hereby covenants and agrees to sell the Shares on behalf of the
Company only as permitted by the Act and the applicable securities laws and regulations of any
jurisdiction.
(v) The compensation to the Managers for sales of the Shares with respect to which each
Manager acts as sales agent hereunder shall be equal to 0.85% of the gross offering proceeds of
the Shares sold by such Manager pursuant to this Agreement. The Company may sell Shares to the
Managers as principals at a price agreed upon at the relevant Time of Sale. Any compensation
or commission due and
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payable to any Manager hereunder with respect to any sale of Shares during a calendar
month shall be paid by the Company to such Manager in arrears on the first Trading Day of
following calendar month, by wire or internal bank transfer of same day funds to an account
designated by such Manager.
(vi) Settlement for sales of the Shares pursuant to this Agreement will occur on the
third Trading Day (or such earlier day as is industry practice for regular-way trading)
following the date on which such sales are made (each such day, a “Settlement Date”). On each
Settlement Date, the Shares sold through or to a Manager for settlement on such date shall be
issued and delivered by the Company to such Manager against payment of the gross proceeds from
the sale of such Shares. Settlement for all such Shares shall be effected by free delivery of
the Shares by the Company or its transfer agent to such Manager’s or its designee’s account
(provided the Manager shall have given the Company written notice of such designee prior to the
Settlement Date) at The Depository Trust Company through its Deposit and Withdrawal at
Custodian System or by such other means of delivery as may be mutually agreed upon by the
parties hereto which in all cases shall be freely tradable, transferable, registered shares in
good deliverable form, in return for payments in same day funds delivered to the account
designated by the Company. If the Company, or its transfer agent (if applicable) shall default
on its obligation to deliver the Shares on any Settlement Date, the Company shall (A) hold such
Manager harmless against any loss, claim, damage, or expense (including reasonable legal fees
and expenses), as incurred, arising out of or in connection with such default by the Company
and (B) pay such Manager any commission, discount or other compensation to which it would
otherwise be entitled absent such default.
(vii) If acting as sales agent hereunder, a Manager shall provide written confirmation
(which may be by facsimile or email) to the Company following the close of trading on the NYSE
each day in which the Shares are sold under this Agreement setting forth (A) the amount of the
Shares sold on such day and the gross offering proceeds received from such sale and (B) the
commission payable by the Company to such Manager with respect to such sales.
(viii) At each Time of Sale, Settlement Date and Representation Date (as defined below),
the Company shall be deemed to have affirmed each representation and warranty contained in this
Agreement. Any obligation of a Manager to use its reasonable best efforts to sell the Shares
on behalf of the Company as sales agent shall be subject to the continuing accuracy of the
representations and warranties of the Company herein, to the performance by the Company of its
obligations hereunder and to the continuing satisfaction of the additional conditions specified
in Section 5 of this Agreement.
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SECTION 4. Covenants of the Company. The Company agrees with each of the Managers:
(a) To make no amendment or any supplement to the Registration Statement, any Basic
Prospectus or the Prospectus after the date of this Agreement and during the period in
which a prospectus relating to the Shares is required to be delivered under the Act
(whether physically or through compliance with Rule 172 under the Act or any similar rule),
prior to having furnished the Managers with a copy of the proposed form thereof and given
the Managers a reasonable opportunity to review the same (other than any prospectus
supplement relating to the offering of other securities (including, without limitation, the
Common Stock)); to file promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or information
statements required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Section
13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of the Prospectus
Supplement and for so long as the delivery of a prospectus relating to the Shares is
required to be delivered under the Act (whether physically or through compliance with Rule
172 under the Act or any similar rule); and during such same period to advise the Managers,
promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the time when any amendment to the
Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective or any supplement to the Basic
Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus has been filed or
electronically transmitted for filing, of the issuance of any stop order by the Commission,
of the suspension of the qualification of the Shares 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, the Basic Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus or
for additional information; and, in the event of the issuance of any such stop order or of
any order preventing or suspending the use of any prospectus relating to the Shares or
suspending any such qualification, to use promptly its best efforts to obtain its
withdrawal.
(b) To furnish the Managers with copies of the Registration Statement (excluding
exhibits) and copies of the Prospectus (or the Prospectus as amended or supplemented) in
such quantities as the Managers may from time to time reasonably request; and if, after the
date of this Agreement and during the period in which a prospectus relating to the Shares
is required to be delivered under the Act (whether physically or through compliance with
Rule 172 under the Act or any similar rule), either (i) any event shall have occurred as a
result of which the Prospectus would 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, or (ii) 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 into
the Prospectus in order to comply with the Act or the Exchange Act, to notify the Managers
promptly to suspend solicitation of
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purchases of the Shares and forthwith upon receipt of such notice, each Manager shall
suspend its solicitation of purchases of the Shares and shall cease using the Prospectus;
and if the Company shall decide to amend or supplement the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus, it will promptly advise the Managers by telephone (with confirmation in
writing) and will promptly prepare and file with the Commission an amendment or supplement
to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus which will correct such statement or
omission or effect such compliance, will advise the Managers when the Managers are free to
resume such solicitation and will prepare and furnish to the Managers as many copies as the
Managers may reasonably request of such amendment or supplement; and in case the Managers
are required to deliver under the Act (whether physically or through compliance with Rule
172 under the Act or any similar rule), a prospectus relating to the Shares after the
nine-month period referred to in Section 10(a)(3) of the Act, or after the time a
post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement is required pursuant to Item 512(a)
of Regulation S-K under the Act, upon the request of the Managers, and at its own expense,
to prepare and deliver to the Managers as many copies as the Managers may request of an
amended Registration Statement or amended or supplemented prospectus complying with Item
512(a) of Regulation S-K or Section 10(a)(3) of the Act, as the case may be.
(c) Promptly from time to time to take such action as the Managers may reasonably
request in order to qualify the Shares for offering and sale under the securities laws of
such states as the Managers may request and to continue such qualifications in effect so
long as necessary under such laws for the distribution of the Shares, provided that in
connection therewith the Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation
to do business, or to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction, and
provided further that the expense of maintaining any such qualification more than one year
from the date of a particular sale of the Shares to be so qualified shall be at the expense
of the Managers.
(d) To make generally available to its security holders as soon as practicable, but
in any event no later than eighteen months after the effective date of the Registration
Statement (as such date is defined in Rule 158(c) under the Act), an earnings statement of
the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries complying with Rule 158 under the Act and
covering a period of at least twelve consecutive months beginning after such effective
date.
(e) To pay or cause to be paid all costs and expenses incident to the performance of
its obligations hereunder, including the cost of all qualifications of the Shares under
state securities laws (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the
Managers in connection with such qualifications and with legal investment surveys), any
costs relating to the listing of the Shares on the NYSE and the cost of printing this
Agreement (it being understood that, except as provided in this subsection (e) hereof, the
Managers
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will pay all of their own costs and expenses, including the cost of printing any
Agreement among Underwriters, if applicable, the fees of their counsel, transfer taxes on
resale of any of Shares by them and any advertising expenses connected with any offers that
they may make).
(f) To use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Shares to be listed for
trading on the NYSE and to maintain such listing.
(g) Upon commencement of the offering of the Shares under this Agreement (and upon
the recommencement of the offering of the Shares under this Agreement following the
termination of a suspension of sales hereunder), and each time that (i) the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented (other than a prospectus
supplement relating solely to the offering of securities other than the Shares), (ii) there
is filed with the Commission any document incorporated by reference into the Prospectus
(other than a Current Report on Form 8-K, unless any of the Managers shall otherwise
reasonably request), or (iii) the Shares are delivered to the Managers as principals on a
Settlement Date (such commencement date and each such date referred to in (i), (ii) and
(iii) above, a “Representation Date”), to furnish or cause to be furnished to the Managers
forthwith a certificate dated and delivered the date of effectiveness of such amendment,
the date of filing with the Commission of such supplement or other document, or the
relevant Settlement Date, as the case may be, in form reasonably satisfactory to the
Managers to the effect that the statements contained in the certificate referred to in
Section 5(f) of this Agreement which were last furnished to the Managers are true and
correct at the time of such amendment, supplement, filing, or delivery, as the case may be,
as though made at and as of such time (except that such statements shall be deemed to
relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended and supplemented to such
time) or, in lieu of such certificate, a certificate of the same tenor as the certificate
referred to in said Section 5(f), modified as necessary to relate to the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus as amended and supplemented to the time of delivery of such
certificate.
(h) Upon commencement of the offering of the Shares under this Agreement (and upon
the recommencement of the offering of the Shares under this Agreement following the
termination of a suspension of sales hereunder), and at each Representation Date, the
Company shall cause to be furnished to the Managers or counsel to the Managers a written
opinion and negative assurance letter of X.X. Xxxxxx, Xx., as Associate General Counsel and
Secretary of the Company, or other internal counsel of the Company satisfactory to the
Managers, in their reasonable judgment (collectively, “Company Counsel”), dated as of such
Representation Date, in form satisfactory to the Managers in their reasonable judgment, to
the effect of Exhibit A-1 and A-2 hereto, but modified as necessary to relate to the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended and supplemented to the time of
delivery of such opinion; provided, however, that in
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lieu of such opinions for subsequent Representation Dates, counsel may furnish the
Managers with a letter (a “Reliance Letter”) to the effect that the Managers may rely on a
prior opinion delivered under this Section 4(m) to the same extent as if it were dated the
date of such letter (except that statements in such prior opinion shall be deemed to relate
to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended or supplemented at such
Representation Date).
(i) Upon commencement of the offering of the Shares under this Agreement (and upon
the recommencement of the offering of the Shares under this Agreement following the
termination of a suspension of sales hereunder), and at each Representation Date, Shearman
& Sterling LLP, counsel to the Managers, shall deliver a written opinion and 10b-5 side
letter, dated as of such Representation Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the
Managers to the effect of Exhibit B-1 and B-2 hereto.
(j) Upon commencement of the offering of the Shares under this Agreement (and upon
the recommencement of the offering of the Shares under this Agreement following the
termination of a suspension of sales hereunder, if the Company has filed a current report
on Form 8-K containing amended financial information with the Commission during the
suspension period), and each time that (i) the Registration Statement or the Prospectus
shall be amended or supplemented to include additional amended financial information, (ii)
the Shares are delivered to the Managers as principals on a Settlement Date, at the
Managers’ oral or written request and upon reasonable advance oral or written notice to the
Company, (iii) the Company shall file an annual report on Form 10-K or (iv) at the
Managers’ request and upon reasonable advance notice to the Company, there is filed with
the Commission any document (other than an annual report on Form 10-K) incorporated by
reference into the Prospectus which contains additional amended financial information, to
cause PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, or other independent accountants satisfactory to the
Managers (the “Accountants”), forthwith to furnish the Managers a letter, dated the date of
effectiveness of such amendment, the date of filing of such supplement or other document
with the Commission, or the Settlement Date, as the case may be, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Managers, (i) confirming that they are an independent registered public
accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the PCAOB,
(ii) stating, as of such date, the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to
the financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort
letters” to underwriters in connection with registered public offerings (the first such
letter, the “Initial Comfort Letter”) and (iii) updating the Initial Comfort Letter with
any information that would have been included in the Initial Comfort Letter had it been
given on such date and modified as necessary to relate to the Registration Statement and
the Prospectus, as amended and supplemented to the date of such letter.
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(k) To make available its appropriate officers and to cause such officers to
participate in a call with the Managers and their counsel on a monthly basis, or otherwise
as the Manager selling the Shares at such time may reasonably request; such call shall be
for the purpose of updating the Managers’ due diligence review of the Company in connection
with the transactions contemplated hereby. The obligations set forth in the preceding
sentence of this Section 4(k) shall be suspended following delivery of written notice to
each Manager specifying that the Company does not intend to sell Shares under this
Agreement until notice to the contrary is provided. Following delivery of notice to each
Manager that the Company intends to recommence sales of Shares under this Agreement, the
provisions of this Section 4(k) shall once again be operative. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, if during the period that the provisions of this Section 4(k) are suspended or
calls are to be postponed by operation of the next sentence, a Representation Date has
occurred or a monthly call set forth in the first sentence of this Section 4(k) would have
occurred, it shall be a precondition to recommencing sales of Shares hereunder that the
Company shall first make available its appropriate officers and to cause such officers to
participate in a call with the Managers upon such Managers’ request in the manner set forth
in the first sentence of this Section 4(k). Additionally, if any call required by the
first sentence of this Section 4(k) would otherwise be required by this Section 4(k) to be
conducted during a period when the Company, in its sole discretion, determines that it is
unable to sell Shares to the public because of the operation of a Company black-out period
or because it may be in possession of material, non-public information that it is unwilling
to disclose at the time, such call(s) shall be postponed until such time as the Company
provides notice to the Managers that it has determined, in its sole discretion, that such
black-out or postponement period has ended or has otherwise been terminated. Any
suspension of the provisions of this Section 4(k) shall not affect the Company’s
obligations provided for elsewhere in this Agreement.
(l) To reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights, Shares for
the purpose of enabling the Company to satisfy its obligations hereunder.
(m) That it consents to each Manager trading in the Common Stock for the Manager’s
own account and for the accounts of its clients at the same time as sales of the Shares
occur pursuant to this Agreement.
(n) If, to the knowledge of the Company, any condition set forth in Section 5(a) or
5(g) of this Agreement shall not have been satisfied on the applicable Settlement Date, to
offer to any person who has agreed to purchase the Shares from the Company as the result of
an offer to purchase solicited by the Managers the right to refuse to purchase and pay for
such Shares.
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(o) That each acceptance by the Company of an offer to purchase the Shares hereunder
shall be deemed to be an affirmation to the Managers that the representations and
warranties of the Company contained in or made pursuant to this Agreement are true and
correct as of the date of such acceptance as though made at and as of such date, and an
undertaking that such representations and warranties will be true and correct as of the
Settlement Date for the Shares relating to such acceptance as though made at and as of such
date (except that such representations and warranties shall be deemed to relate to the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended and supplemented relating to such
Shares).
(p) To comply with the requirements of Rule 433 under the Act applicable to any
“issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in such rule, including timely filing with the
Commission where required, legending and record keeping.
SECTION 5. Conditions of Managers’ Obligations. The obligations of each of the
Managers hereunder with respect to any order submitted to a Manager by the Company to sell Shares
or any agreement by a Manager to purchase Shares as principal are subject to the condition that (i)
the representations and warranties on the part of the Company on the date hereof, and as of any
Time of Sale and Settlement Date are true and correct, (ii) the performance by the Company of its
obligations hereunder and (iii) the following additional conditions precedent.
(a) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall
have been issued and no proceeding for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened
by the Commission; the Prospectus, any amendment or supplement thereto and each Permitted
Free Writing Prospectus shall have been timely filed with the Commission under the Act (in
the case of a Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, to the extent required by Rule 433 under
the Act); and all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission shall
have been complied with or otherwise satisfied.
(b) Since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus, there shall not have occurred any material adverse change, or
any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting
particularly the business or assets of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as a
whole, or any material adverse change in the financial position or results of operations of
the Company and its subsidiaries considered as a whole, otherwise than as set forth or
contemplated in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, which in any such case makes
it impracticable or inadvisable in the reasonable judgment of the Managers to proceed with
the public offering, sale, delivery or purchase of the Shares on the terms and in the
manner contemplated by this Agreement.
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(c) The Company shall furnish to the Managers, at every date specified in Section
4(h) of this Agreement, opinions of Company Counsel, addressed to the Managers, required to
be delivered pursuant to Section 4(h).
(d) The Managers shall have received, at every date specified in Section 4(i) of this
Agreement, the favorable opinions of Shearman & Sterling LLP, counsel to the Managers,
required to be delivered pursuant to Section 4(i).
(e) At the dates specified in Section 4(j) of this Agreement, the Managers shall have
received from the Accountants the comfort letters required to be delivered pursuant to
Section 4(j).
(f) The Company will deliver to the Managers a certificate, dated as of and delivered
on each Representation Date, to the effect that (i) the representations and warranties of
the Company contained in this Agreement are true and correct on and as of such
Representation Date as though made at and as of such Representation Date; (ii) the Company
has duly performed, in all material respects, all obligations required to be performed by
it pursuant to the terms of this Agreement at or prior to such Representation Date; (iii)
no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued
and no proceeding for that purpose has been initiated or, to the knowledge of the Company,
threatened by the Commission, the Prospectus Supplement and each Permitted Free Writing
Prospectus have been timely filed with the Commission under the Act (in the case of a
Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, to the extent required by Rule 433 under the Act), and
all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission have been complied
with or otherwise satisfied; (iv) if delivered at a Representation Date that is not also a
Settlement Date, as of such Representation Date, or if delivered at a Settlement Date, at
the Time of Sale relating to the Shares, the Registration Statement did not contain any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and (v) if
delivered at a Representation Date that is not also a Settlement Date, as of such
Representation Date, or if delivered at a Settlement Date, at the Time of Sale relating to
the Shares and at the Settlement Date, the General Disclosure Package does not contain any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that no such
certificate shall apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in
conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by the Managers expressly
for use therein.
In addition, on each Representation Date, the certificate shall also state that the
Shares to be sold on that date, if any, have been duly and validly authorized by the
Company and that all corporate action required to be taken for
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the authorization, issuance and sale of the Shares on that date, if any, has been
validly and sufficiently taken.
(g) All filings with the Commission required by Rule 424 under the Act to have been
filed by each Time of Sale or related Settlement Date shall have been made within the
applicable time period prescribed for such filing by Rule 424 (without reliance on Rule
424(b)(8)).
(h) The Shares shall have been approved for listing on the NYSE, subject only to
notice of issuance at or prior to the Settlement Date.
(i) The Common Stock shall be an “actively-traded security” excepted from the
requirements of Rule 101 of Regulation M under the Exchange Act by subsection (c)(1) of
such rule.
SECTION 6. Indemnification and Contribution.
(a) The Company will indemnify and hold harmless each of the Managers against any losses,
claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which each of the Managers may become subject
with respect to the Shares, 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 any untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package, the Basic Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any
amendment or supplement thereto with respect to the Shares, or arise out of or are based upon the
omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and will reimburse the Managers for any
legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Managers in connection with investigating or
defending any such action or claim; 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 any of
such documents in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company
by the Managers expressly for use therein.
The indemnity agreement in this subsection (a) 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 Manager within the meaning of the Act.
(b) Each Manager, severally and not jointly, will indemnify and hold harmless the Company
against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which the Company may become subject with
respect to the Shares, 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 any untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package, the Basic
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Prospectus, the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto with respect to the Shares,
or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in each
case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement
or omission or alleged omission was made in any of such documents in reliance upon and in
conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Manager expressly for use
therein; and will reimburse the Company for any legal fees or other expenses reasonably incurred by
the Company in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim.
The indemnity agreement in this subsection (b) shall be in addition to any liability which
such Manager 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.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above of
written 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, and in the event that such indemnified
party shall not so notify the indemnifying party within 30 days following receipt of any such
notice by such indemnified party, the indemnifying party shall have no further liability under such
subsection to such indemnified party unless such indemnifying party shall have received other
notice addressed and delivered in the manner provided in the second paragraph of Section 11 hereof
of the commencement of such action; but 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 satisfactory to such
indemnified party in its reasonable judgment, 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 or other expenses
subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof other than
reasonable costs of investigation.
(d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 6 is unavailable to 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 each Manager on the other from the
offering of the Shares to which such loss, claim, damage or liability (or action in respect
thereof) relates. If,
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however, the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is not permitted by
applicable law, 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 each Manager 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 each Manager on
the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering
of the Shares pursuant to this Agreement (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear
to the total commissions received by each Manager, in each case as set forth in the Prospectus with
respect to the Shares. 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 or each Manager
and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or
prevent such statement or omission. The Company and each Manager agree that it would not be just
and equitable if contribution pursuant to this subsection (d) were determined by pro rata
allocation 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 (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), each
Manager shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total
price at which the applicable Shares underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered
to the public exceeds the amount of any damages which the Manager 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.
SECTION 7. Representations and Agreements to Survive Delivery. The respective
indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company and the
Managers, 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 the Managers or any controlling person
of the Managers, or the Company, or any officer or director or controlling person of the Company,
and shall survive delivery of and payment for the Shares.
SECTION 8. Termination.
(a) The Company shall have the right, by giving written notice as hereinafter
specified, to terminate the provisions of this Agreement relating to
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offers and sales of Shares in its sole discretion at any time. Any such termination
shall be without liability of any party to any other party except that (i) if the Shares
have been sold through the Managers for the Company, then Sections 3(a)(vi), 3(a)(vii) and
4(f) of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect with respect to and to the
extent of such Shares sold, (ii) with respect to any pending sale through the Managers for
the Company, the obligations of the Company, including in respect of compensation of the
Managers, shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the termination, and (iii)
Sections 4(e), 6 and 7 of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect
notwithstanding such termination.
(b) Each Manager shall have the right, by giving written notice as hereinafter
specified, to terminate the provisions of this Agreement relating to the offers and sales
of Shares by such Manager in its sole discretion at any time. Any such termination shall
be without liability of any party to any other party except that the provisions of Section
4(e), Section 6 and Section 7 of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect
notwithstanding such termination.
(c) This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect unless terminated pursuant
to Sections 8(a) or (b) above or otherwise by mutual agreement of the parties; provided
that any such termination by mutual agreement shall in all cases be deemed to provide that
Section 4(e), Section 6 and Section 7 shall remain in full force and effect.
(d) Any termination of this Agreement shall be effective on the date specified in
such notice of termination; provided that such termination shall not be effective until the
receipt of such notice by the Managers or the Company, as the case may be. If such
termination shall occur prior to the Settlement Date for any sale of the Shares, such sale
shall settle in accordance with the provisions of Section 3(a)(vi) of this Agreement.
SECTION 9. Notices. Except as otherwise herein provided, all statements, requests,
notices and agreements under this Agreement shall be in writing and delivered by hand, overnight
courier, mail, telex or facsimile and, if to the Managers, shall be sufficient in all respects if
delivered or sent to Barclays Capital Inc., 000 Xxxxxxx Xxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention:
Syndicate Registration; Citigroup Global Markets Inc., 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000, Attention: General Counsel, Facsimile No. 000 000-0000; Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., 00
Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, 00000, Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx;
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Co., 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Registration Department; X.X. Xxxxxx
Securities Inc., 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Equity Syndicate Desk,
Facsimile No. 000-000-0000, Special Equities Group, Facsimile
No. 000-000-0000, Xxxx X. Xxxx, Facsimile No. 000-000-0000, and Xxxx
Xxxxxx, Facsimile No. 000-000-0000; Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated, 0000 Xxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000, Attention: Xxxx Xxxxx, Facsimile No. 000-000-0000; Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx
Incorporated, Xxx Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxx,
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Facsimile No. 000-000-0000 and RBS Securities Inc., 000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx
00000, Attention: Legal Department (ECM) and, if to the Company, it shall be sufficient in all
respects if delivered or sent to the Company at the offices of the Company at Xxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxx,
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, attention of the Secretary. Each party to this Agreement may change such
address for notices by sending to the parties to this Agreement written notice of a new address for
such purpose.
SECTION 10. Parties at Interest. The Agreement herein set forth has been made solely
for the benefit of the Managers and the Company and to the extent provided in Section 6 of this
Agreement 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 the Managers) shall acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement.
SECTION 11. No Fiduciary Relationship. The Company hereby acknowledges that each
Manager is acting solely as sales agent and/or principal in connection with the purchase and sale
of the Company’s securities. The Company acknowledges and agrees that each Manager is acting
solely in the capacity of an arm’s length contractual counterparty to the Company with respect to
the offering of any Shares contemplated hereby (including in connection with determining the terms
of the offering) and not as a financial advisor or a fiduciary to, the Company or any other person.
Additionally, each Manager is not advising the Company or any other person as to any legal, tax,
investment, accounting or regulatory matters in any jurisdiction with respect to the offering
contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such Manager has
advised or is advising the Company on other matters). Each Manager advises that such Manager and
its affiliates are engaged in a broad range of securities and financial services and that it or its
affiliates may enter into contractual relationships with purchasers or potential purchasers of the
Company’s securities and that some of these services or relationships may involve interests that
differ from those of the Company and need not be disclosed to the Company, unless otherwise
required by law. The Company has consulted with its own advisors concerning such matters and shall
be responsible for making its own independent investigation and appraisal of the transactions
contemplated hereby, and each Manager shall have no responsibility or liability to the Company or
any other person with respect thereto. Any review by each of the Managers of the Company, the
transactions contemplated hereby or other matters relating to such transactions will be performed
solely for the benefit of such Manager and shall not be on behalf of the Company. The Company
waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims it may have against any of the Managers
for breach of fiduciary duty or alleged breach of fiduciary duty and agrees that each of the
Managers shall have no liability (whether direct or indirect) to the Company in respect of such a
fiduciary duty claim or to any person asserting a fiduciary duty claim on behalf of or in right of
the Company, including stockholders, employees or creditors of the Company.
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SECTION 12. Entire Agreement. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and
understandings (whether written or oral) between the Company and the Managers with respect to the
subject matter hereof.
SECTION 13. Law; Construction. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
SECTION 14. Headings. The Section headings in this Agreement have been inserted as a
matter of convenience of reference and are not a part of this Agreement.
SECTION 15. Waiver of Jury Trial. The Company and the Managers 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.
SECTION 16. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by any one or more of the
parties hereto in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but
all such respective counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.
SECTION 17. Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure
solely to the benefit of, the Managers, the Company and, to the extent provided in Sections 6 and 7
hereof, the officers and directors of the Company and each person who controls the Company or the
Managers, 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 Shares from the Managers shall be deemed a successor or assign by reason merely of such
purchase.
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Annex A
If the foregoing correctly sets forth the understanding between the Company and the Managers,
please so indicate in the space provided below for that purpose, whereupon this Agreement and your
acceptance shall constitute a binding agreement between the Company and the Managers.
Alternatively, the execution of this Agreement by the Company and its acceptance by or on behalf of
the Managers may be evidenced by an exchange of telegraphic or other written communications.
Very truly yours, FORD MOTOR COMPANY |
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By: | /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx | |||
Title: | Assistant treasurer |
ACCEPTED as of the date first above written BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC. |
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By: | /s/ Xxxx Xxxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxx Xxxxx | |||
Title: | Managing Director |
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. |
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By: | /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | |||
Title: | Director |
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC. |
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By: | /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxxx Xxxxxx | |||
Title: | Managing Director | |||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | |||
Title: | Director |
XXXXXXX, SACHS & CO. |
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By: | /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Co. | |||
(Xxxxxxx, Sachs & Co.) | ||||
X.X. XXXXXX SECURITIES INC. |
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By: | /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxxx X. Xxxxx | |||
Title: | MD/Special Equities |
XXXXXXX LYNCH, PIERCE, XXXXXX & XXXXX INCORPORATED |
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By: | /s/ E. Xxxxxx XxxXxxxxx | |||
Name: | E. Xxxxxx XxxXxxxxx | |||
Title: | Director |
XXXXXX XXXXXXX & CO. INCORPORATED |
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By: | /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxx X. Xxxxx | |||
Title: | Managing Director |
RBS SECURITIES INC. |
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By: | /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxx Xxxxxx | |||
Title: | Director | |||