S&C Draft of October 9, 1996
CUC INTERNATIONAL INC.
COMMON STOCK
PAR VALUE $.01 PER SHARE
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UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
(INTERNATIONAL VERSION)
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October __, 1996
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx International,
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co.
International Limited,
Bear, Xxxxxxx International Limited,
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx
Securities Corporation,
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Inc.,
As representatives of the several Underwriters
named in Schedule I hereto,
c/o Goldman Xxxxx International Limited,
Peterborough Court,
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX,
Xxxxxxx.
Dear Sirs:
Certain stockholders named in Schedule II hereto (the "Selling
Stockholders") of CUC International Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), propose, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein,
to sell to the Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (the "Underwriters")
an aggregate of 3,300,000 shares (the "Firm Shares") and, at the election of the
Underwriters, up to 495,000 additional shares (the "Optional Shares") of
Common Stock, par value $.01 per share ("Stock"), of the Company (the Firm
Shares and the Optional Shares which the Underwriters elect to purchase
pursuant to Section 2 hereof are herein collectively called the "Shares").
It is understood and agreed to by all parties that the Selling
Stockholders are concurrently entering into an agreement, a copy of which is
attached hereto (the "U.S. Underwriting Agreement"), providing for the sale
by the Selling Stockholders of up to a total of 15,180,000 shares of Stock
(the "U.S. Shares"), including the over-allotment option thereunder, through
arrangements with certain underwriters in the United States (the "U.S.
Underwriters"), for whom Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Co. Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co.
Incorporated, Bear,
Xxxxxxx & Co. Inc., Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx Securities Corporation and
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Inc., are acting as representatives. Anything herein or therein
to the contrary notwithstanding, the respective closings under this Agreement
and the U.S. Underwriting Agreement are hereby expressly made conditional on
one another. The Underwriters hereunder and the U.S. Underwriters are
simultaneously entering into an Agreement between U.S. and International
Underwriting Syndicates (the "Agreement between the Syndicates") which
provides, among other things, for the transfer of shares of Stock between the
two syndicates and for consultation by the Lead Managers hereunder with
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Co. prior to exercising the rights of the Underwriters under
Section 7 hereof. Two forms of prospectus are to be used in connection with
the offering and sale of shares of Stock contemplated by the foregoing, one
relating to the Shares hereunder and the other relating to the U.S. Shares.
The latter form of prospectus will be identical to the former except for
certain substitute pages. Except as used in Sections 2, 3, 4, 9 and 11
herein, and except as context may otherwise require, references hereinafter
to the Shares shall include all the shares of Stock which may be sold
pursuant to either this Agreement or the U.S. Underwriting Agreement, and
references herein to any prospectus whether in preliminary or final form, and
whether as amended or supplemented, shall include both the U.S. and the
international versions thereof.
In addition, this Agreement incorporates by reference certain
provisions from the U.S. Underwriting Agreement (including the related
definitions of terms, which are also used elsewhere herein) and, for purposes
of applying the same, references (whether in these precise words or their
equivalent) in the incorporated provisions to the "Underwriters" shall be to
the Underwriters hereunder, to the "Shares" shall be to the Shares hereunder
as just defined, to "this Agreement" (meaning therein the U.S. Underwriting
Agreement) shall be to this Agreement (except where this Agreement is already
referred to or as the context may otherwise require) and to the
representatives of the Underwriters or to Xxxxxxx, Sachs & Co. shall be to
the addressees of this Agreement and to Xxxxxxx Xxxxx International ("GSI"),
and, in general, all such provisions and defined terms shall be applied
MUTATIS MUTANDIS as if the incorporated provisions were set forth in full
herein having regard to their context in this Agreement as opposed to the
U.S. Underwriting Agreement.
1. The Company and each of the several Selling Stockholders hereby
make to the Underwriters the same respective representations, warranties and
agreements as are set forth in Section 1 of the U.S. Underwriting Agreement,
which Section is incorporated herein by this reference.
2. Subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, (a) each of
the Selling Stockholders agrees, severally and not jointly, to sell to each
of the Underwriters, and each of the Underwriters agrees, severally and not
jointly, to purchase from each of the Selling Stockholders at a purchase
price per share of $_____ the number of Firm Shares (to be adjusted by you so
as to eliminate fractional shares) determined by multiplying the aggregate
number of Firm Shares to be sold by each of the Selling Stockholders as set
forth opposite their respective names in Schedule II hereto by a fraction,
the numerator of which is the aggregate number of Firm Shares to be purchased
by such Underwriter as set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in
Schedule I hereto and the denominator of which is the aggregate number of
Firm Shares to be purchased by all the Underwriters from all the Selling
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Stockholders hereunder and (b) in the event and to the extent that the
Underwriters shall exercise the election to purchase Optional Shares as
provided below, each of the Selling Stockholders agrees, severally and not
jointly, to sell to each of the Underwriters, and each of the Underwriters
agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from each of the Selling
Stockholders, at the purchase price per share set forth in clause (a) of this
Section 2, that portion of the number of Optional Shares as to which such
election shall have been exercised (to be adjusted by you so as to eliminate
fractional shares) determined by multiplying such number of Optional Shares
by a fraction the numerator of which is the maximum number of Optional Shares
which such Underwriter is entitled to purchase as set forth opposite the name
of such Underwriter in Schedule I hereto and the denominator of which is the
maximum number of the Optional Shares which all of the Underwriters are
entitled to purchase hereunder.
The Selling Stockholders, as and to the extent indicated in Schedule II
hereto, hereby grant, severally and not jointly, to the Underwriters the
right to purchase at their election up to 495,000 Optional Shares, at the
purchase price per share set forth in the paragraph above, for the sole
purpose of covering over-allotments in the sale of the Firm Shares. Any such
election to purchase Optional Shares shall be made in proportion to the
number of Optional Shares to be sold by each Selling Stockholder. Any such
election to purchase Optional Shares may be exercised only by written notice
from you to the Attorneys-in-Fact, given within a period of 30 calendar days
after the date of this Agreement and setting forth the aggregate number of
Optional Shares to be purchased and the date on which such Optional Shares
are to be delivered, as determined by you but in no event earlier than the
First Time of Delivery (as defined in Section 4 hereof) or, unless you and
the Attorneys-in-Fact otherwise agree in writing, earlier than two or later
than ten business days after the date of such notice.
3. Upon the authorization by GSI of the release of the Firm Shares, the
several Underwriters propose to offer the Firm Shares for sale upon the terms
and conditions set forth in the Prospectus and in the forms of Agreement
among Underwriters (International Version) and Selling Agreements, which have
been previously submitted to the Company by you. Each Underwriter hereby
makes to and with the Company and the Selling Stockholders the
repre-sentations and agreements of such Underwriter as a member of the
selling group contained in Sections 3(d) and 3(e) of the form of Selling
Agreements.
4. (a) The Shares to be purchased by each Underwriter hereunder, in
definitive form, and in such authorized denominations and registered in such
names as Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Co. may request upon at least forty-eight hours'
prior notice to the Selling Stockholders, shall be delivered by or on behalf
of the Selling Stockholders to GSI for the account of such Underwriter,
against payment by such Underwriter or on behalf of such Underwriter of the
purchase price therefor by certified or official bank check or checks,
payable to the order of the Custodian in immediately available (same-day)
funds, all at the office of Xxxxxxx, Sachs & Co., 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx,
Xxx Xxxx 00000. The time and date of such delivery and payment shall be,
with respect to the Firm Shares, 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on October
__, 1996 or at such other time and date as you and the Selling Stockholders
may agree upon in writing, and, with respect to the Optional Shares, 9:30
a.m., New York City time, on the date specified by you in the written notice
given by you of the
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Underwriters' election to purchase such Optional Shares, or at such other
time and date as you and the Selling Stockholders may agree upon in writing.
Such time and date for delivery of the Firm Shares is herein called the
"First Time of Delivery", such time and date for delivery of the Optional
Shares, if not the First Time of Delivery, is herein called the "Second Time
of Delivery", and each such time and date for delivery is herein called a
"Time of Delivery". Such certificates will be made available for checking
and packaging at least twenty-four hours prior to each Time of Delivery at
the office of Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Co.
(b) The documents to be delivered at each Time of Delivery by or on
behalf of the parties hereto pursuant to Section 7 of the U.S. Underwriting
Agreement, including the cross-receipt for the Shares and any additional
documents requested by the Underwriters pursuant to Section 7(j) of the U.S.
Underwriting Agreement, will be delivered at the offices of Xxxxxxxx &
Xxxxxxxx, 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 (the "Closing Location")
at 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the New York Business Day next preceding
each 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, Thursday and Friday
which is not a day on which banking institutions in New York are generally
authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
5. The Company hereby makes with the Underwriters the same agreements
as are set forth in Section 5 of the U.S. Underwriting Agreement, which
Section is incorporated herein by this reference.
6. The Company, each of the Selling Stockholders, and the Underwriters
hereby agree with respect to certain expenses on the same terms as are set
forth in Section 6 of the U.S. Underwriting Agreement, which Section is
incorporated herein by this reference.
7. Subject to the provisions of the Agreement between Syndicates, the
obligations of the Underwriters hereunder shall be subject, in their
discretion, at each Time of Delivery to the condition that all
representations and warranties and other statements of the Company and the
Selling Stockholders herein are, at and as of such Time of Delivery, true and
correct, the condition that the Company and the Selling Stockholders shall
have performed all of their respective obligations hereunder theretofore to
be performed, and additional conditions identical to those set forth in
Section 7 of the U.S. Underwriting Agreement, which Section is incorporated
herein by this reference.
8. (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 any Preliminary Prospectus, the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement
thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission
to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary
to make the statements therein not misleading, 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
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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 any Preliminary
Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or any such
amendment or supplement in reliance upon and in conformity with written
information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through Xxxxxxx,
Sachs & Co. expressly for use therein. or by a Selling Stockholder expressly
for use in the preparation of answers therein to Item 7 of Form S-3.
(b) Each of the Selling Stockholders 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 any Preliminary
Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or any amendment or
supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged
omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in each case to the
extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement or omission or alleged omission was made in any Preliminary
Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or any such
amendment or supplement in reliance upon and in conformity with written
information furnished to the Company by such Selling Stockholder expressly
for use therein; 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 such Selling Stockholder 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 Preliminary
Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or any such
amendment or supplement in reliance upon and in conformity with written
information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxx & Co. expressly for use therein; PROVIDED, HOWEVER that the liability
of each of the Selling Shareholders pursuant to this subsection (b) shall not
exceed the product of the number of Shares sold by such Selling Shareholder
(including any Optional Shares) and the initial public offering price as set
forth in the Prospectus.
(c) Each Underwriter will indemnify and hold harmless the Company and
each Selling Stockholder against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities
to which the Company or such Selling Stockholder 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 any
Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or any
amendment or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the
omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in
each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement
or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in any
Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or any
such amendment or supplement in reliance upon and in conformity with written
information furnished to the
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Company by such Underwriter through GSI expressly for use therein; and will
reimburse the Company and each Selling Stockholder for any legal or other
expenses reasonably incurred by the Company or such Selling Stockholder in
connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as such
expenses are incurred.
(d) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection
(a), (b) or (c) above of notice of the commencement of any action, such
indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against
an indemnifying party under such subsection, notify the indemnifying party in
writing of the commencement thereof; 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 (who shall not, except with the consent of the indemnified party, be
counsel to 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.
(e) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 8 is
unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under
subsection (a), (b) or (c) above in respect of any losses, claims, damages or
liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to therein, then each
indemnifying party, and, in addition, if each indemnifying party is a Selling
Stockholder, the Company, 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 proportions as is
appropriate to reflect not only (i) the relative benefits received by the
Selling Stockholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other from
the offering of the Shares but also (ii) the relative fault of the Company,
the Selling Stockholders and the Underwriters 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 Selling
Stockholders 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 of the Shares purchased under this Agreement (before deducting
expenses) received by the Selling Stockholders bear to the total underwriting
discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters with respect to the
Shares purchased under this Agreement, 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 indemnified party failed to
give notice required under subsection (d) above and 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, the Selling Stockholders or the Underwriters and the parties'
relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct
or prevent such statement or omission. The Company, each of the Selling
Stockholders and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and
equitable if contributions pursuant to this subsection (e) were determined by
pro rata
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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 (e). 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 (e) 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 (e), no Underwriter shall be required to
contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at
which the Shares underwritten by 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 (e) to contribute are several in proportion to their respective
underwriting obligations and not joint.
(f) The obligations of the Company and the Selling Stockholders under
this Section 8 shall be in addition to any liability which the Company and
the respective Selling Stockholders 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 8 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 or any Selling Stockholder
within the meaning of the Act.
9. (a) If any Underwriter shall default in its obligation to purchase
the Shares 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
to purchase such Shares on the terms contained herein. If within thirty-six
hours after such default by any Underwriter you do not arrange for the
purchase of such Shares, then the Selling Stockholders shall be entitled to a
further period of thirty-six hours within which to procure another party or
other parties satisfactory to you to purchase such Shares on such terms. In
the event that, within the respective prescribed periods, you notify the
Selling Stockholders that you have so arranged for the purchase of such
Shares, or the Selling Stockholders notify you that they have so arranged for
the purchase of such Shares, you or the Selling Stockholders shall have the
right to postpone such 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 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
Shares.
(b) If, after giving effect to any arrangement for the purchase of the
Shares of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by you and the Selling
Stockholders as provided in subsection (a) above, the aggregate number of
such Shares which remains unpurchased does not exceed one-eleventh of the
aggregate number of all the Shares to be purchased at such
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Time of Delivery, then the Selling Stockholders shall have the right to
require each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase the number of shares
which such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder at such Time of Delivery
and, in addition, to require each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase its
pro rata share (based on the number of Shares which such Underwriter agreed
to purchase hereunder) of the Shares 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
Shares of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by you and the Selling
Stockholders as provided in subsection (a) above, the aggregate number of
such Shares which remains unpurchased exceeds one-eleventh of the aggregate
number of all the Shares to be purchased at such Time of Delivery, or if the
Selling Stockholders shall not exercise the right described in subsection (b)
above to require non-defaulting Underwriters to purchase Shares of a
defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters, then this Agreement (or, with respect
to the Second Time of Delivery, the obligations of the Underwriters to
purchase and of the Selling Stockholders to sell the Optional Shares) shall
thereupon terminate, without liability on the part of any non-defaulting
Underwriter or the Company or the Selling Stockholders, except for the
expenses to be borne by the Company and the Selling Stockholders and the
Underwriters as provided in Section 6 hereof and the indemnity and
contribution agreements in Section 8 hereof; but nothing herein shall relieve
a defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default.
10. The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties
and other statements of the Company, the Selling Stockholders 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 of the Selling Stockholders, or any
officer or director or controlling person of the Company or any controlling
person of any Selling Stockholder, and shall survive delivery of and payment
for the Shares.
11. If this Agreement shall be terminated pursuant to Section 9 hereof,
neither the Company nor the Selling Stockholders shall then be under any
liability to any Underwriter except as provided in Section 6 and Section 8
hereof; but, if for any other reason any Shares are not delivered by or on
behalf of the Selling Stockholders as provided herein, each of the Selling
Stockholders pro rata (based on the number of Shares to be sold by such
Selling Stockholder hereunder) will reimburse the Underwriters through GSI
for all out-of-pocket expenses approved in writing by GSI, including fees and
disbursements of counsel, reasonably incurred by the Underwriters in making
preparations for the purchase, sale and delivery of the Shares not so
delivered, but the Company and the Selling Stockholders shall then be under
no further liability to any Underwriter in respect of the Shares not so
delivered except as provided in Section 6 and Section 8 hereof.
12. 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 jointly or by GSI on behalf of you as the representatives of
the Underwriters; and in all dealings with any
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Selling Stockholder hereunder, you and the Company shall be entitled to act
and rely upon any statement, request, notice or agreement on behalf of such
Selling Stockholder made or given by any or all of the Attorneys-in-Fact for
such Selling Stockholder.
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 the Underwriters in care of GSI, Peterborough
Court, 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX, Xxxxxxx, Attention: Equity Capital
Markets, Telex No. 887902, facsimile transmission no. (071) 774-1550; if to
any Selling Stockholder shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or
facsimile transmission to counsel for such Selling Stockholder at its address
set forth in Schedule II hereto; and if to the Company shall be delivered or
sent by 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 8(c) 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 or the Selling Stockholders by GSI upon request. Any such
statements, requests, notices or agreements shall take effect upon receipt
thereof.
13. This Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure solely to the
benefit of, the Underwriters, the Company and the Selling Stockholders and,
to the extent provided in Section 8 and Section 10 hereof, the officers and
directors of the Company and each person who controls the Company, any
Selling Stockholder 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 Shares from any Underwriter shall be deemed a successor or
assign by reason merely of such purchase.
14. Time shall be of the essence of this Agreement.
15. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
16. This Agreement may be executed by any one or more of the parties
hereto in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an
original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the
same instrument.
If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please sign
and return to us eight (8) 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, the Company and each of the Selling Stockholders. 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 (International Version), the form of which shall be
furnished to the Company and the Selling Stockholders for examination upon
request, but without warranty on your part as to the authority of the signers
thereof.
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Any person executing and delivering this Agreement as Attorney-in-Fact
for a Selling Stockholder represents by so doing that he has been duly
appointed as Attorney-in-Fact by such Selling Stockholder pursuant to a
validly existing and binding Power of Attorney which authorizes such
Attorney-in-Fact to take such action.
Very truly yours,
CUC International Inc.
By:------------------------------
Name: Xxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Sr. VP & General Counsel
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx Charitable
Remainder Unitrust
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx Charitable
Remainder Unitrust
The Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx Trust
The Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Trust
The Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx Trust
By:------------------------------
Name:
Title: Attorney-in-Fact
As Attorney-in-Fact acting on
behalf of each of the Selling
Stockholders named in Schedule II
to this Agreement.
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx International,
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co.
International Limited,
Bear, Xxxxxxx International Limited,
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx
Securities Corporation,
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Inc.
By: Xxxxxxx Xxxxx International
By:------------------------------
(Attorney-in-Fact)
On behalf of each of the Underwriters
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SCHEDULE I
Number of Optional
Shares to be
Total Number of Purchased if
Firm Shares to Maximum Option
Underwriter to be Purchased Exercised
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Xxxxxxx Sachs International............
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co.
International Limited...............
Bear, Xxxxxxx International Limited....
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx
Securities Corporation...............
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Inc. .....................
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Total............................. 3,300,000 495,000
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SCHEDULE II
Number of Optional
Total Number of Shares to be Sold
Firm Shares to if Maximum
be Sold Option Exercised
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The Selling Stockholder(s):
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx(a) 60,000 0
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx(a) 60,000 0
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx Charitable
Remainder Unitrust(a) 1,500,000 247,500
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx Charitable
Remainder Unitrust(a) 1,500,000 247,500
The Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx Trust(a) 60,000 0
The Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Trust(a) 60,000 0
The Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx Trust(a) 60,000 0
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Total..................... 3,300,000 495,000
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(a) This Selling Stockholder is represented by Xxxxxx, Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx
and has appointed [NAME OF ATTORNEYS-IN-FACT (NOT LESS THAN TWO)], and each
of them, as the Attorneys-in-Fact for such Selling Stockholder.
