7,000,000 Shares1 ISOLAGEN, INC. Common Stock UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
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7,000,000 Shares1
ISOLAGEN, INC.
Common Stock
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
June , 2004
CIBC
World Markets Corp.
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As Representatives of the several
Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto
c/o CIBC World Markets Corp.
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
Isolagen, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), proposes, subject to the terms and conditions contained herein, to sell to you and the other underwriters named on Schedule I to this Agreement (the "Underwriters"), for whom you are acting as Representatives (the "Representatives"), an aggregate of 7,000,000 shares (the "Firm Shares") of the Company's common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the "Common Stock"). All of the Firm Shares are to be issued and sold by the Company. The respective amounts of the Firm Shares to be purchased by each of the several Underwriters are set forth opposite their names on Schedule I hereto. In addition, the Company proposes to grant to the Underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 200,000 shares (the "Company Option Shares") of Common Stock from the Company and the persons listed on Schedule II hereto (the "Selling Stockholders") propose to grant to the Underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 850,000 shares (the "Selling Stockholders Option Shares" and together with the Company Option Shares, the "Option Shares") of Common Stock from the Selling Stockholders for the purpose of covering over-allotments in connection with the sale of the Firm Shares. The Firm Shares and the Option Shares are collectively called the "Shares."
The Company has prepared and filed in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and the published rules and regulations thereunder (the "Rules") adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") a Registration Statement (as hereinafter defined) on Form S-3 (No. 333-114952), including a Preliminary Prospectus (as hereinafter defined) relating to the Shares, and such amendments thereof as may have been required to the date of this Agreement. Copies of such Registration Statement (including all amendments thereof) and of the related Preliminary Prospectus have heretofore been delivered by the Company to you. The term "Preliminary Prospectus" means any preliminary prospectus included at any time as a part of the Registration Statement or filed with the Commission by the Company pursuant to Rule 424(a) of the Rules. The term "Registration Statement" as used in this Agreement means the initial registration statement (including all exhibits, financial schedules and all documents and information deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement through incorporation by reference or otherwise), as amended at the time and on the date it becomes effective (the "Effective Date"), including the information (if any) contained in the form of final Prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and deemed to be part thereof at the time of effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430A of the Rules.
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- Plus an option to purchase up to 1,050,000 additional shares to cover over-allotments.
If the Company has filed an abbreviated registration statement to register additional Shares pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Rules (the "462(b) Registration Statement"), then any reference herein to the Registration Statement shall also be deemed to include such 462(b) Registration Statement. The term "Prospectus" as used in this Agreement means the Prospectus in the form included in the Registration Statement at the time of effectiveness or, if Rule 430A of the Rules is relied on, the term Prospectus shall also include the final Prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules. Reference made herein to any Preliminary Prospectus or to the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act, as of the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be, and any reference to any amendment or supplement to any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any document filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), after the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be, and incorporated by reference in such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be.
The Company and the Selling Stockholders understand that the Underwriters propose to make a public offering of the Shares, as set forth in and pursuant to the Prospectus, as soon after the Effective Date and the date of this Agreement as the Representatives deem advisable. The Company and the Selling Stockholders hereby confirm that the Underwriters and dealers have been authorized to distribute or cause to be distributed each Preliminary Prospectus and are authorized to distribute the Prospectus (as from time to time amended or supplemented if the Company furnishes amendments or supplements thereto to the Underwriters).
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- Sale, Purchase, Delivery and Payment for the Shares. On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements
contained in, and subject to the terms and conditions of, this Agreement:
- (a)
- The
Company agrees to issue and sell to each of the Underwriters, and each of the Underwriters agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at a purchase price of
$ per share (the "Initial Price"), the number of Firm Shares set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter under the column "Number of Firm Shares to be Purchased" on
Schedule I to this Agreement, subject to adjustment in accordance with Section 9 hereof.
- (b)
- The
Company and the Selling Stockholders hereby grant to the several Underwriters an option to purchase, severally and not jointly, all or any part of the Option Shares at the Initial
Price. The number of Option Shares to be purchased by each Underwriter shall be the same percentage (adjusted by the Representatives to eliminate fractions) of the total number of Option Shares to be
purchased by the Underwriters as such Underwriter is purchasing of the Firm Shares. Such option may be exercised only to cover over-allotments in the sales of the Firm Shares by the
Underwriters and may be exercised in whole or in part at any time on or before 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the business day before the Firm Shares Closing Date (as defined below), and from time
to time thereafter within 30 days after the date of this Agreement, in each case upon written, facsimile or telegraphic notice, or verbal or telephonic notice confirmed by written, facsimile or
telegraphic notice, by the Representatives to the Company no later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the business day before the Firm Shares Closing Date or at least two business days before the
Option Shares Closing Date (as defined below), as the case may be, setting forth the number of Option Shares to be purchased and the time and date (if other than the Firm Shares Closing Date) of such
purchase.
- (c)
- Payment of the purchase price for, and delivery of certificates for, the Firm Shares shall be made at the offices of ▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, at 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the third business day following the date of
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- (d)
- Payment
shall be made to the Company and the Selling Stockholders by wire transfer of immediately available funds or by certified or official bank check or checks payable in New York
Clearing House (same day) funds drawn to the order of the Company and to the Selling Stockholders for the shares purchased from the Selling Stockholders, against delivery of the respective
certificates to the Representatives for the respective accounts of the Underwriters of certificates for the Shares to be purchased by them.
- (e)
- Certificates
evidencing the Shares shall be registered in such names and shall be in such denominations as the Representatives shall request at least three full business days before
the Firm Shares Closing Date or, in the case of Option Shares, on the day of notice of exercise of the option as described in Section 1(b) and shall be delivered by or on behalf of the Company
to the Representatives through the facilities of the Depository Trust Company ("DTC") for the account of such Underwriter. The Company will cause the certificates representing the Shares to be made
available for checking and packaging, at such place as is designated by the Representatives, on the full business day before the Firm Shares Closing Date (or the Option Shares Closing Date in the case
of the Option Shares).
this Agreement or at such time on such other date, not later than ten (10) business days after the date of this Agreement, as shall be agreed upon by the Company and the Representatives (such time and date of delivery and payment are called the "Firm Shares Closing Date"). In addition, in the event that any or all of the Option Shares are purchased by the Underwriters, payment of the purchase price, and delivery of the certificates, for such Option Shares shall be made at the above-mentioned offices, or at such other place as shall be agreed upon by the Representatives and the Company, on each date of delivery as specified in the notice from the Representatives to the Company (such time and date of delivery and payment are called the "Option Shares Closing Date"). The Firm Shares Closing Date and any Option Shares Closing Date are called, individually, a "Closing Date" and, together, the "Closing Dates."
- 2.
- Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and warrants to each Underwriter as of the date
hereof, as of the Firm Shares Closing Date and as of each Option Shares Closing Date (if any), as follows:
- (a)
- On the Effective Date, the Registration Statement complied, and on the date of the Prospectus, the date any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement becomes effective, the date any supplement or amendment to the Prospectus is filed with the Commission and each Closing Date, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (and any amendment thereof or supplement thereto) will comply, in all material respects, with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. The Registration Statement did not, as of the Effective Date, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; and on the Effective Date and the other dates referred to above neither the Registration Statement nor the Prospectus, nor any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, will contain any untrue statement of a material fact or will omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading. When any related Preliminary Prospectus was first filed with the Commission (whether filed as part of the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto or pursuant to Rule 424(a) of the Rules) and when any amendment thereof or supplement thereto was first filed with the Commission, such Preliminary Prospectus as amended or supplemented complied in all material respects with the applicable provisions of the Securities Act and the Rules and did not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading. If applicable, each Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus
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- (b)
- The
Registration Statement is effective under the Securities Act and no stop order preventing or suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or suspending or preventing
the use of the Prospectus has been issued by the Commission and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are threatened under the Securities Act. Any required filing of the Prospectus
and any supplement thereto pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules has been or will be made in the manner and within the time period required by such Rule 424(b).
- (c)
- The
documents incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, at the time they became effective or were filed with the Commission, as the case may be,
complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and none of such documents
contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, when such documents become
effective or are filed with the Commission, as the case may be, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules and
regulations of the Commission thereunder and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.
- (d)
- The
financial statements of the Company (including all notes and schedules thereto) included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and Prospectus present fairly
the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries at the dates indicated and the statement of operations, stockholders' equity and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated
subsidiaries for the periods specified; and such financial statements and related schedules and notes thereto, and the unaudited financial information filed with the Commission as part of the
Registration Statement, have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied throughout the periods involved.
- (e)
- ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ of Texas, P.C., whose reports are filed with the Commission as a part of the Registration Statement, are and, during the periods covered by their reports, were independent public accountants as required by the Securities Act and the Rules and such accountants, in the performance of their work for the Company, are not in violation of the auditor independence requirements of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act of 2002. BDO ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, LLP are independent public accountants as required by the Securities Act and the Rules and such accountants, in the performance of their work for the Company, are not in violation of the
delivered to the Underwriters for use in connection with this offering was identical to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to ▇▇▇▇▇, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T. If Rule 434 is used, the Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 434 and the Prospectus shall not be "materially different," as such term is used in Rule 434, from the Prospectus included in the Registration Statement at the time it became effective. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of the representations and warranties in this paragraph 2(a) shall apply to statements in, or omissions from, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus made in reliance upon, and in conformity with, information herein or otherwise furnished in writing by the Representatives on behalf of the several Underwriters for use in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus. With respect to the preceding sentence, the Company acknowledges that the only information furnished in writing by the Representatives on behalf of the several Underwriters for use in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus is the statements contained in the fourth and ninth paragraphs under the caption "Underwriting" in the Prospectus.
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- (f)
- The
Company and each of its subsidiaries, including each entity (corporation, partnership, joint venture, association or other business organization) controlled directly or indirectly
by the Company, is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of incorporation or organization. The Company and each of its subsidiaries is
duly qualified to do business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted by it or location of the assets or properties owned,
leased or licensed by it requires such qualification, except for such jurisdictions where the failure to so qualify individually or in the aggregate would not have a material adverse effect on the
assets, properties, condition, financial or otherwise, or in the results of operations, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as a whole (a "Material
Adverse Effect"); and to the Company's knowledge, no proceeding has been instituted in any such jurisdiction revoking, limiting or curtailing, or seeking to revoke, limit or curtail, such power and
authority or qualification. The Company's subsidiaries are as follows: Isolagen Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, Isolagen Europe Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary
of Isolagen Technologies, Inc., Isolagen International S.A., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Isolagen Technologies, Inc., and Isolagen Australia Pty Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Isolagen Technologies, Inc.
- (g)
- The
Company and each of its subsidiaries has all requisite corporate power and authority, and all necessary authorizations, approvals, consents, orders, licenses, certificates and
permits of and from all governmental or regulatory bodies or any other person or entity (collectively, the "Permits"), to own, lease and license its assets and properties and conduct its business, all
of which are valid and in full force and effect, except where the lack of such Permits, individually or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and each of its
subsidiaries has fulfilled and performed in all material respects all of its material obligations with respect to such Permits and no event has occurred that allows, or after notice or lapse of time
would allow, revocation or termination thereof or results in any other material impairment of the rights of the Company thereunder. Except as may be required under the Securities Act and state and
foreign Blue Sky laws, no other Permits are required to enter into, deliver and perform this Agreement and to issue and sell the Shares.
- (h)
- The
Company and each of its subsidiaries owns or possesses legally enforceable rights to use all patents, patent rights, inventions, trademarks, trademark applications, trade names,
service marks, copyrights, copyright applications, licenses, know-how and other similar rights and proprietary knowledge (collectively, "Intangibles") necessary for the conduct of its
business. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notice of, or is aware of, any infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any Intangibles.
- (i)
- Except as otherwise described in the Prospectus, the Company and each of its subsidiaries has good and marketable title in fee simple to all real property, and good and marketable title to all other property owned by it, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims, security interests and defects, except such as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its subsidiaries. All property held under lease by the Company and its subsidiaries is held by them under valid, existing and enforceable leases, free and clear
auditor independence requirements of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act of 2002. There are no material off-balance sheet transactions, arrangements, obligations (including contingent obligations), or any other relationships with unconsolidated entities or other persons, that may have a material current or, to the Company's knowledge, a material future effect on the Company's financial condition, changes in financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures, capital resources, or significant components of revenues or expenses.
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- (j)
- There is no document, contract or other agreement required to be described in the Registration Statement or Prospectus or to be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement which is not described or filed as required by the Securities Act or Rules. Each description of a contract, document or other agreement in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus accurately reflects in all respects the terms of the underlying contract, document or other agreement. Each contract, document or other agreement described in the Registration Statement and Prospectus or listed in the Exhibits to the Registration Statement or incorporated by reference is in full force and effect and is valid and enforceable by and against the Company or its subsidiary, as the case may be, in accordance with its terms. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, if a subsidiary is a party, nor to the Company's knowledge, any other party to such agreement is in default in the observance or performance of any term or obligation to be performed by it under any such agreement, and no event has occurred which with notice or lapse of time or both would constitute such a default, in any such case which default or event, individually or in the aggregate, would have a Material Adverse Effect. No default exists, and no event has occurred which with notice or lapse of time or both would constitute a default, in the due performance and observance of any term, covenant or condition, by the Company or its subsidiary, if a subsidiary is a party thereto, of any other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which Company or its properties or business or a subsidiary or its properties or business may be bound or affected which default or event, individually or in the aggregate, would have a Material Adverse Effect.
of all liens, encumbrances, claims, security interests and defects, except such as are not material and do not materially interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its subsidiaries. Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, (i) there has not been any Material Adverse Effect; (ii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained any loss or interference with its assets, businesses or properties (whether owned or leased) from fire, explosion, earthquake, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or any court or legislative or other governmental action, order or decree which would have a Material Adverse Effect; and (iii) since the date of the latest balance sheet incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor its subsidiaries has (A) issued any securities or incurred any liability or obligation, direct or contingent, for borrowed money, except such liabilities or obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business, (B) entered into any transaction not in the ordinary course of business or (C) declared or paid any dividend or made any distribution on any shares of its stock or redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired or agreed to redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire any shares of its capital stock.
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- (k)
- The
statistical and market related data included in the Registration Statement are based on or derived from sources that the Company believes to be reliable and accurate.
- (l)
- Neither
the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of any term or provision of its charter or by-laws or of any franchise, license, permit, judgment, decree,
order, statute, rule or regulation, where the consequences of such violation, individually or in the aggregate, would have a Material Adverse Effect.
- (m)
- This
Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
- (n)
- Neither
the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company nor the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby (including, without limitation,
the issuance and sale by the Company of the Shares) will give rise to a right to terminate or accelerate the due date of any payment due under, or conflict with or result in the breach of any term or
provision of, or constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would constitute a default) under, or require any consent or waiver under, or result in the execution or
imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any properties or assets of the Company or its subsidiaries pursuant to the terms of, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust or other agreement or
instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which either the Company or its subsidiaries or any of their properties or businesses is bound, or any franchise, license,
permit, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Company or any of its subsidiaries or violate any provision of the charter or by-laws of the Company or any
of its subsidiaries, except for such consents or waivers which have already been obtained and are in full force and effect.
- (o)
- The
Company has authorized and outstanding capital stock as set forth under the caption "Capitalization" in the Prospectus. The certificates evidencing the Shares are in due and
proper legal form and have been duly authorized for issuance by the Company. All of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock have been duly and validly issued and are fully paid and
nonassessable. There are no statutory preemptive or other similar rights to subscribe for or to purchase or acquire any shares of Common Stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any such
rights pursuant to its Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws or any agreement or instrument to or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or bound. The Shares, when
issued and sold pursuant to this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and none of them will be issued in violation of any preemptive or other similar right. Except
as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there is no outstanding option, warrant or other right calling for the issuance of, and there is no commitment, plan or arrangement to
issue, any share of stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any security convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, such stock. The Common Stock and the Shares conform in all
material respects to all statements in relation thereto contained in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. All outstanding shares of capital stock of each of the Company's subsidiaries have
been duly authorized and validly issued, and are fully paid and nonassessable and are owned directly by the Company or by another wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company free and clear of any security
interests, liens, encumbrances, equities or claims, other than those described in the Prospectus.
- (p)
- No holder of any security of the Company has any right, which has not been waived, to have any security owned by such holder included in the Registration Statement or to demand registration of any security owned by such holder for a period of 180 days after the date of this Agreement. Each director and executive officer of the Company has delivered to the Representatives his or her written lock-up agreement in the form attached to this Agreement as Exhibit A-1 hereto (the "D&O Lock-Up Agreement"). Each stockholder of the Company
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- (q)
- All
necessary corporate action has been duly and validly taken by the Company to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the issuance and sale of the
Shares by the Company. This Agreement has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Representatives,
constitutes and will constitute a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited
by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and by general equitable principles.
- (r)
- Neither
the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is involved in any labor dispute nor, to the knowledge of the Company, is any such dispute threatened, which dispute would have a
Material Adverse Effect. The Company is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of any of its principal suppliers or contractors which would have a Material Adverse
Effect. The Company is not aware of any threatened or pending litigation between the Company or its subsidiaries and any of its executive officers which, if adversely determined, could have a Material
Adverse Effect and has no reason to believe that such officers will not remain in the employment of the Company.
- (s)
- No
transaction has occurred between or among the Company and any of its officers or directors, stockholders or any affiliate or affiliates of any such officer or director or
stockholder that is required to be described in and is not described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or in the documents incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and
Prospectus. The Company has not, directly or indirectly, including through any subsidiary, extended or maintained credit, or arranged for the extension or credit, or renewed an extension of credit, in
the form of a personal loan to or for any of its directors or executive officers in violation of applicable laws, including Section 402 of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act (the "▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act").
- (t)
- The
Company has not taken, nor will it take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or which might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, or which has constituted or
which might reasonably be expected to constitute, the stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Common Stock or any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the
Shares.
- (u)
- The
Company and each of its subsidiaries has timely filed all Federal, state, local and foreign tax returns which are required to be filed through the date hereof, which returns are
true and correct in all material respects or has received timely extensions thereof, and has paid all taxes shown on such returns and all assessments received by it to the extent that the same are
material and have become due. There are no tax audits or investigations pending, which if adversely determined would have a Material Adverse Effect; nor are there any material proposed additional tax
assessments against the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
- (v)
- The Shares have been duly authorized for listing on the American Stock Exchange, subject to official Notice of Issuance. A registration statement has been filed on Form 8-A pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act, which registration statement complies in all material respects with the Exchange Act.
listed on Schedule III has delivered to the Representatives his, her or its written lock-up agreement in the form attached to this Agreement as Exhibit A-2 hereto (the "Stockholder Lock-Up Agreement"). The D&O Lock-Up Agreement and Stockholder Lock-Up Agreement are collectively referred to herein as the "Lock-Up Agreement."
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- (w)
- The
Company has taken no action designed to, or likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act or listing on the American Stock
Exchange, nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission or the American Stock Exchange is contemplating terminating such registration or quotation.
- (x)
- The
books, records and accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries accurately and fairly reflect, in reasonable detail, the transactions in, and dispositions of, the assets of, and
the results of operations of, the Company and its subsidiaries. The Company and each of its subsidiaries maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances
that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management's general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial
statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management's general or
specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any
differences; the chief executive officer and the chief financial officer of the Company have made all certifications required by the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act and any related rules and regulations
promulgated by the Commission, and the statements contained in any such certification are complete and correct; the Company maintains "disclosure controls and procedures" (as defined in
Rule 13a-14(c) under the Exchange Act); the Company is otherwise in compliance in all material respects with all applicable effective provisions of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act and is
actively taking steps to ensure that it will be in compliance with other applicable provisions of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act upon the effectiveness of such provisions.
- (y)
- The
Company and its subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are customary in the businesses in
which they are engaged or propose to engage after giving effect to the transactions described in the Prospectus; all policies of insurance and fidelity or surety bonds insuring the Company or any of
its subsidiaries or the Company's or its subsidiaries' respective businesses, assets, employees, officers and directors are in full force and effect; the Company and each of its subsidiaries are in
compliance with the terms of such policies and instruments in all material respects; and neither the Company nor any subsidiary of the Company has any reason to believe that it will not be able to
renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that is not
materially greater than the current cost. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has been denied any insurance coverage which it has sought or for which it has applied.
- (z)
- Each
approval, consent, order, authorization, designation, declaration or filing of, by or with any regulatory, administrative or other governmental body necessary in connection with
the execution and delivery by the Company of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated required to be obtained or performed by the Company (except such additional
steps as may be required by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the "NASD") or may be necessary to qualify the Shares for public offering by the Underwriters under the state
securities or Blue Sky laws) has been obtained or made and is in full force and effect.
- (aa)
- There are no affiliations with the NASD among the Company's officers, directors or, to the best of the knowledge of the Company, any five percent or greater stockholder of the Company, except as set forth in the Registration Statement or otherwise disclosed in writing to the Representatives.
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- (bb)
- (i) Each
of the Company and each of its subsidiaries is in compliance in all material respects with all rules, laws and regulation relating to the use, treatment, storage and
disposal of toxic substances and protection of health or the environment ("Environmental Law") which are applicable to its business; (ii) neither the Company nor its subsidiaries has received
any notice from any governmental authority or third party of an asserted claim under Environmental Laws; (iii) each of the Company and each of its subsidiaries, has received all permits,
licenses or other approvals required of it under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct its business and is in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or approval,
provided that Isolagen Europe Limited does not require any permits, licenses or other approvals under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct its business; (iv) to the Company's knowledge, no
facts currently exist that will require the Company or any of its subsidiaries to make future material capital expenditures to comply with Environmental Laws; and (v) no property which is or
has been owned, leased or occupied by the Company or its subsidiaries has been designated as a Superfund site pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation of Liability Act of
1980, as amended (42 U.S.C. Section 9601, et. seq.) or otherwise designated as a contaminated site under applicable state or local law. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has been
named as a "potentially responsible party" under the CER, CLA 1980.
- (cc)
- In
the ordinary course of its business, the Company periodically reviews the effect of Environmental Laws on the business, operations and properties of the Company and its
subsidiaries, in the course of which the Company identifies and evaluates associated costs and liabilities (including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for
clean-up, closure of properties or compliance with Environmental Laws, or any permit, license or approval, any related constraints on operating activities and any potential liabilities to
third parties). On the basis of such review, the Company has reasonably concluded that such associated costs and liabilities would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
- (dd)
- The
Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Shares and the application of proceeds thereof as described in the Prospectus, will not be an "investment
company" within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "Investment Company Act").
- (ee)
- The
Company, any person acting on behalf of the Company or, to the Company's knowledge, any other person associated with the Company, including, without limitation, any director,
officer, agent or employee of the Company or its subsidiaries, has not, directly or indirectly, while acting on behalf of the Company or its subsidiaries (i) used any corporate funds for
unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses relating to political activity; (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government officials or employees
or to foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds; (iii) violated any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended; or (iv) made any
other unlawful payment.
- (ff)
- The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the "Money Laundering Laws") and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any
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- (gg)
- Neither
the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is
currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department ("OFAC"); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds
of the offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any
person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.
- (hh)
- Except
as described in the Prospectus or in the documents incorporated by reference into the Prospectus, the Company has not sold or issued any shares of Common Stock during the
six-month period preceding the date of the Prospectus, including any sales pursuant to Rule 144A under, or Regulations D or S of, the Securities Act, other than shares issued
pursuant to employee benefit plans, qualified stock options plans or other employee compensation plans or pursuant to outstanding options, rights or warrants.
- (ii)
- The
Company has fulfilled its obligations, if any, under the minimum funding standards of Section 302 of the U.S. Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") and
the regulations and published interpretations thereunder with respect to each "plan" as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA and such regulations and published interpretations in which its
employees are eligible to participate and each such plan is in compliance in all material respects with the presently applicable provisions of ERISA and such regulations and published interpretations.
No "Reportable Event" (as defined in 12 ERISA) has occurred with respect to any "Pension Plan" (as defined in ERISA) for which the Company could have any liability.
- (jj)
- Each
of the Company, its directors and officers has not distributed and will not distribute prior to the later of (i) the Firm Shares Closing Date, or the Option Shares
Closing Date, and (ii) completion of the distribution of the Shares, any offering material in connection with the offering and sale of the Shares other than any Preliminary Prospectus, the
Prospectus, the Registration Statement and other materials, if any, permitted by the Securities Act.
- (kk)
- Except
as described in the Prospectus or in the documents incorporated by reference into the Prospectus, the Company's board of directors has validly appointed an audit committee
whose composition satisfies the requirements of Section 121B(2) of the American Stock Exchange Company Guide. The Company's board of directors and/or the audit committee has adopted a charter
that satisfies the requirements of Section 121B(1) of the American Stock Exchange Company Guide. Neither the Company's board of directors nor the audit committee has been informed, nor is any
director of the Company aware, of (i) any significant deficiencies in the design or operation of the Company's internal controls which could adversely affect the Company's ability to record,
process, summarize and report financial data or any material weakness in the Company's internal controls; or (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees
of the Company who have a significant role in the Company's internal controls.
- (ll)
- The Company has materially complied with, is not in material violation of, and has not received any written notices of violation with respect to, any foreign, federal, state or local statute, law or regulation, including without limitation all statutes, rules, or regulations applicable to the ownership, testing, development, manufacture, packaging,
arbitrator involving the Company or any of it subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending, or to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened.
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processing, use, distribution, marketing, labeling, promotion, sale, offer for sale, storage, import, export or disposal of any product or product candidate manufactured or distributed by the Company ("Applicable Laws"), or any license, certificate, approval, clearance, authorization, permit, supplement or amendment required by any Applicable Laws ("Authorizations"). The Company possesses all material Authorizations and such material Authorizations are in full force and effect. The Company is, and its products or product candidates are, in compliance in all material respects with all Authorizations and Applicable Laws, including, but not limited to, all laws, statutes, rules, regulations, or orders administered, issued or enforced by the Federal Food and Drug Administration (the "FDA") or any other federal or foreign governmental authority having authority over the Company or any of its products or product candidates ("Governmental Authority"). The Company has not received from the FDA or any other Governmental Authority any notice of adverse findings, regulatory letters, notices of violations, Warning Letters, criminal proceeding notices under Section 305 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or other similar communication from the FDA or other Governmental Authority alleging or asserting material noncompliance with Applicable Laws or any Authorizations, and there have been no seizures conducted or threatened by the FDA or other Governmental Authority, and no recalls, market withdrawals, field notifications, notifications of misbranding or adulteration, safety alerts or similar actions relating to the safety or efficacy of the Company's products conducted, requested or threatened by the FDA or other Governmental Authority relating to the products sold by the Company. The Company has not, either voluntarily or involuntarily, initiated, conducted, or issued or caused to be initiated, conducted or issued, any recall, market withdrawal, safety alert, "dear doctor" letter, or other similar notice or action relating to the alleged lack of safety or efficacy of any of the Company's products or any alleged product defect or violation, and the Company has no knowledge that any Governmental Authority has initiated, conducted or intends to initiate any such notice or action. The Company has not received notice of any claim, action, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other similar action from any Governmental Authority alleging that any product operation or activity is in material violation of any Applicable Laws or Authorizations and has no knowledge that any such Governmental Authority is considering any such claim, litigation, arbitration, action, suit, investigation or proceeding. Each regulatory submission for the Company's products has been filed, cleared and maintained in compliance in all material respects with all Applicable Laws and Authorizations, including without limitation applicable federal statutes, rules, regulations or orders administered or promulgated by the FDA or other Governmental Authority, and all laboratory and clinical studies, and tests that the Company has conducted and is conducting to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of its products and product candidates are in all material respects in compliance with accepted professional scientific standards and all Applicable Laws and Authorizations in all material respects. No filing or submission to the FDA or any other Governmental Authority, intended to be the basis for any Authorization, contains any material omission or material false information or presents data and results from the studies in any manner other than fair, accurate, and complete presentation. The Company is not aware, directly or indirectly of any other studies, tests, trials, presentations, publications or other information that could reasonably call into question the validity, completeness, or accuracy of any study, test, trial, results or data relating to the Company's products or product candidates. Except as described in the Prospectus, the Company has not received any notices or correspondence from any Governmental Authority (including, but not limited to, the FDA) requiring suspension of any studies, tests, or clinical trials conducted by or on behalf of the Company. The Company is not aware of any facts which are reasonably likely to cause (A) the
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nonapproval or non-clearance, withdrawal, or recall of any products sold or intended to be sold by the Company, or (B) a suspension or revocation of any of the Company's Authorizations. The Company has not received notice (whether complete or pending) of any proceeding seeking recall, suspension or seizure of any products or product candidates sold or proposed to be sold by the Company.
- 3.
- Representations and Warranties of the Selling Stockholders. Each of the Selling Stockholders, severally and not jointly,
hereby represents and warrants to each Underwriter and the Company (provided that any claim for breach of any representation or warranty set forth below made by the Company shall be subordinate to any
claim for breach of any representation or warranty set forth below made by any Underwriter) as of the date hereof, as of the Firm Shares Closing Date and as of each such Option Shares Closing Date (if
any), as follows:
- (a)
- The
Selling Stockholder has caused certificates for the number of Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder hereunder to be delivered to American Stock Transfer & Trust
Company (the "Custodian"), endorsed in blank or with blank stock powers duly executed, with a signature appropriately guaranteed, such certificates to be held in custody by the Custodian for delivery,
pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement and an agreement dated May 4, 2004 among the Custodian and the Selling Stockholders substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B
(the "Custody Agreement").
- (b)
- The
Selling Stockholder has granted an irrevocable power of attorney substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C (the "Power of Attorney") to the persons named
therein, on behalf of the Selling Stockholder, to execute and deliver this Agreement and any other document necessary or desirable in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and to
deliver the shares to be sold by the Selling Stockholders pursuant hereto.
- (c)
- This
Agreement, the Custody Agreement, the Power of Attorney and the Lock-Up Agreement have each been duly authorized, executed and delivered by or on behalf of the
Selling Stockholder and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the other parties thereto, constitutes the valid and legally binding agreement of the Selling Stockholder, enforceable
against the Selling Stockholder in accordance with its terms.
- (d)
- The execution and delivery by the Selling Stockholder of this Agreement and the performance by the Selling Stockholder of its obligations under this Agreement, including the sale and delivery of the Shares to be sold by the Selling Stockholder and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and compliance by the Selling Stockholder with its obligations hereunder, do not and will not, whether with our without the giving of notice or the passage of time or both, (i) violate or contravene any provision of the charter or bylaws or other organizational instrument of the Selling Stockholder, if applicable, or any applicable law, statute, regulation, or filing or any agreement or other instrument binding upon the Selling Stockholder or any judgment, order or decree of any governmental body, agency or court having jurisdiction over the Selling Stockholder, (ii) conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any tax, lien, charge or encumbrance upon the Shares to be sold by the Selling Stockholder or any property or assets of the Selling Stockholder pursuant to the terms of any agreement or instrument to which the Selling Stockholder is a party or by which the Selling Stockholder may be bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Selling Stockholder is subject or (iii) require any consent, approval, authorization or order of or registration or filing with any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over it, except such as may be required by the Blue Sky laws of the various states in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares which have been or will be effected in accordance with this Agreement.
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- (e)
- The
Selling Stockholder has, and on the Firm Shares Closing Date and the Option Shares Closing Date will have, valid and marketable title to the Shares to be sold by the Selling
Stockholder free and clear of any lien, claim, security interest or other encumbrance, including, without limitation, any restriction on transfer, except as otherwise described in the Registration
Statement and Prospectus.
- (f)
- The
Selling Stockholder has, and on the Firm Shares Closing Date and the Option Shares Closing Date, will have, full legal right, power and authority, and any approval required by
law, to sell, assign, transfer and deliver the Shares to be sold by the Selling Stockholder in the manner provided by this Agreement.
- (g)
- Upon
delivery of and payment for the Shares to be sold by the Selling Stockholder pursuant to this Agreement, assuming each Underwriter has no notice of any adverse claim, the several
Underwriters will receive valid and marketable title to such Shares free and clear of any lien, claim, mortgage, pledge, security interest or other encumbrance.
- (h)
- All
information relating to the Selling Stockholder furnished by the Selling Stockholder expressly for use in the Registration Statement and Prospectus is, and on each Closing Date
will be, true, correct, and complete, and does not, and on each Closing Date will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make such
information not misleading.
- (i)
- The
Selling Stockholder has reviewed the Registration Statement and Prospectus and, although the Selling Stockholder has not independently verified the accuracy or completeness of all
the information contained therein, nothing has come to the attention of the Selling Stockholder that would lead the Selling Stockholder to believe that (i) on the Effective Date, the
Registration Statement contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein in order to make the statements made therein not misleading
and (ii) on the Effective Date the Prospectus contained and, on each Closing Date contains, no untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state any material fact necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, misleading.
- (j)
- The
sale of Shares by the Selling Stockholder pursuant to this Agreement is not prompted by the Selling Stockholder's knowledge of any material information concerning the Company or
any of its subsidiaries which is not set forth in the Prospectus.
- (k)
- The
Selling Stockholder has not taken and will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in stabilization or
manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Shares.
- (l)
- The
Selling Stockholder has no actual knowledge that any representation or warranty of the Company set forth in Section 2 above is untrue or inaccurate in any material respect.
- (m)
- The
representations and warranties of the Selling Stockholder in the Custody Agreement are and on each Closing Date will be, true and correct.
- 4.
- Conditions of the Underwriters' Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters under this Agreement are several and not
joint. The respective obligations of the Underwriters to purchase the Shares are subject to each of the following terms and conditions:
- (a)
- Notification that the Registration Statement has become effective shall have been received by the Representatives and the Prospectus shall have been timely filed with the Commission in accordance with Section 5(a) of this Agreement.
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- (b)
- No
order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall have been or shall be in effect and no order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement shall be in effect and no proceedings for such purpose shall be pending before or threatened by the Commission, and any requests for additional information on the part of the
Commission (to be included in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the satisfaction of the Commission and the Representatives. If the Company has
elected to rely upon Rule 430A, Rule 430A information previously omitted from the effective Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430A shall have been transmitted to the
Commission for filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the prescribed time period and the Company shall have provided evidence satisfactory to the Underwriters of such timely filing, or a
post-effective amendment providing such information shall have been promptly filed and declared effective in accordance with the requirements of Rule 430A. If the Company has
elected to rely upon Rule 434, a term sheet shall have been transmitted to the Commission for filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the prescribed time period.
- (c)
- The
representations and warranties of the Company and the Selling Stockholders contained in this Agreement and in the certificates delivered pursuant to Section 4(d) shall be
true and correct when made and on and as of each Closing Date as if made on such date. The Company and the Selling Stockholders shall have performed all covenants and agreements and satisfied all the
conditions contained in this Agreement required to be performed or satisfied by them at or before such Closing Date.
- (d)
- The
Representatives shall have received on each Closing Date a certificate, addressed to the Representatives and dated such Closing Date, of the chief executive officer and the chief
financial officer of the Company to the effect that: (i) the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company in this Agreement were true and correct when made and are true and correct
as of such Closing Date; (ii) the Company has performed all covenants and agreements and satisfied all conditions contained herein; (iii) they have carefully examined the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus and, in their opinion (A) as of the Effective Date, the Registration Statement and Prospectus did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not
omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (B) since
the Effective Date no event has occurred which should have been set forth in a supplement or otherwise required an amendment to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus; and (iv) no stop
order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and, to their knowledge, no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending under the Securities Act.
- (e)
- The Representatives shall have received on each Closing Date a certificate addressed to the Representatives and dated such Closing Date, of each Selling Stockholder, to the effect that: (i) the representations, warranties and agreements of the Selling Stockholder in this Agreement were true and correct when made and are true and correct as of such Closing Date; (ii) the Selling Stockholder has performed all covenants and agreements and satisfied all conditions contained herein; and (iii) the Selling Stockholder has carefully examined the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and, in the opinion of the Selling Stockholder, (A) with respect to the information relating to the Selling Stockholder, as of the Effective Date, the Registration Statement and Prospectus did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (B) since the Effective Date no event has occurred with respect to
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- (f)
- The Representatives shall have received, at the time this Agreement is executed and on each Closing Date a signed letter from ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ of Texas, P.C. addressed to the Representatives and dated, respectively, the date of this Agreement and each such Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants' "comfort letters" to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
the Selling Stockholder which should have been set forth in a supplement or otherwise required an amendment to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus.
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- (g)
- The
Representatives shall have received, at the time this Agreement is executed and on each Closing Date a signed letter from BDO ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, LLP addressed to the Representatives and
dated, respectively, the date of this Agreement and each such Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives containing statements and information of the type
ordinarily included in accountants' "comfort letters" to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
- (h)
- The
Representatives shall have received on each Closing Date from ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, counsel for the Company, an opinion, addressed to the Representatives and dated such Closing
Date, and stating in effect that:
- (i)
- The
Company and its U.S. Subsidiary (defined as Isolagen Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation) have been duly organized and are each validly existing as corporations in
good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. Each of the Company and its U.S. Subsidiaries is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation in each
jurisdiction in which the character or location of its assets or properties or the nature of its business makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to so qualify or to be in good
standing, individually or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
- (ii)
- Each
of the Company and its U.S. Subsidiaries has all requisite corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as now being
conducted and as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, except where the absence of such corporate power and authority, individually or in the aggregate, would not have a Material
Adverse Effect. The Company has all requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement and to issue and sell the Firm Shares and the Company Option
Shares.
- (iii)
- The authorized, issued and outstanding capital stock of the Company is as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus under the caption "Capitalization" as of the dates stated therein and, since such dates, there has been no change in the capital stock of the Company except for subsequent issuances, if any, pursuant to this Agreement or pursuant to reservations, agreements or employee benefit plans referred to in the Prospectus or pursuant to the exercise of convertible securities or options referred to in the Prospectus; all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and nonassessable and none of them was issued in violation of any preemptive or, to the Company's knowledge, other similar right. The Firm Shares and the Company Option Shares to be issued and sold by the Company pursuant to this Agreement have been duly authorized for issuance and sale to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement and, when issued and delivered by the Company pursuant to this Agreement against payment of the consideration set forth herein, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, and no holder of the Shares is or will be subject to personal liability by reason of being such a holder. The issuance and sale of the Firm Shares and the Company Option Shares by the Company is not subject to any preemptive or other similar rights of any securityholder of the Company. To such counsel's knowledge, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there are no preemptive or, to counsel's knowledge, other rights to subscribe for or to purchase or any restriction upon the voting or transfer of any securities of the Company pursuant to the Company's Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws or other governing documents or any agreements or other instruments to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound. The sale of the shares by the Selling Stockholders is not subject to any preemptive or, to counsel's knowledge, other similar rights of any security
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- (iv)
- All
necessary corporate action has been duly and validly taken by the Company to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the issuance and sale of the
Firm Shares and the Company Option Shares. This Agreement has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the
Representatives, this Agreement constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be
limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and by general equitable
principles.
- (v)
- Neither
the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company nor the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby (including, without limitation,
the issuance and sale by the Company of the Firm Shares and the Company Option Shares) will give rise to a right to terminate or accelerate the due date of any payment due under, or conflict with or
result in the breach of any term or provision of, or constitute a default (or any event which with notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute a default) under, or require consent or waiver
under, or result in the execution or imposition of any lien, charge, claim, security interest or encumbrance upon any properties or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary pursuant to the terms of,
any indenture, mortgage, deed trust, note or other agreement or instrument of which such counsel is aware and to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which either the Company or any
Subsidiary or any of its assets or properties or businesses is bound, or any franchise, license, permit, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or regulation, domestic or foreign, of which such
counsel has knowledge or violate any provision of the charter or by-laws of the Company or the U.S. Subsidiary.
- (vi)
- No
consent, approval, authorization, license, registration, qualification or order of any court or governmental agency or regulatory body is required for the due authorization,
execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement by the Company or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, except such as have been obtained under the Securities Act
and such as may be required under state securities or Blue Sky laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Shares by the several Underwriters.
- (vii)
- To such counsel's knowledge, there is no any action, suit, proceeding or other investigation, before any court or before or by any public body or board pending or threatened against, or involving the assets, properties or businesses of, the Company
holders of the Company. To such counsel's knowledge, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there is no outstanding option, warrant or other right calling for the issuance of, and no commitment, plan or arrangement to issue, any share of stock of the Company or any security convertible into, exercisable for, or exchangeable for stock of the Company. The Common Stock and the Shares conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof contained in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. The form of certificate used to evidence the Common Stock complies in all material respects with all applicable statutory requirements, with any applicable requirements of the Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws of the Company and the requirements of the American Stock Exchange To such counsel's knowledge, there are no persons with registration rights or other similar rights to have any securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement or otherwise registered by the Company under the Securities Act, it being understood that the Company has filed a Registration Statement on Form S-1 with the Commission (No. 333-108769).
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- (viii)
- The
statements in the Prospectus under the caption "Description of Capital Stock," in the Registration Statement under Item 15 of Part II and under the caption "Certain
Relationships and Related Party Transactions" in the documents incorporated by reference, insofar as such statements constitute a summary of documents referred to therein or matters of law, are
accurate in all material respects and accurately present the information with respect to such documents and matters. Accurate copies of all contracts and other documents required to be filed as
exhibits to the Registration Statement have been so filed with the Commission, except where the absence of same, individually or in the aggregate, would not constitute a material violation of the
federal securities laws. All contracts and other documents required to be described in the Registration Statement are fairly described in the Registration Statement.
- (ix)
- (A)
To such counsel's knowledge, each of the Company and its U.S. Subsidiaries is in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Environmental Laws; (B) none of
the Company or its U.S. Subsidiaries has received any notice from any governmental authority or third party of an asserted claim under any Environmental Law; (C) each of the Company and its
U.S. Subsidiaries has received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of it under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct its business and is in compliance with all terms and conditions of
any such permit, license or approval, except where such failure to receive required permits, licenses or other approvals or failure to comply with the terms and conditions of such permits, licenses or
other approvals would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and (D) no property which is or has been owned, leased or occupied by the Company or its U.S. Subsidiaries
has been designated as a Superfund site pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation of Liability Act of 1980, as amended (42 U.S.C. Section 9601, et seq.), or otherwise
designated as a contaminated site under applicable state or local law.
- (x)
- The
Registration Statement, all Preliminary Prospectuses and the Prospectus and each amendment or supplement thereto (except for the financial statements and schedules and other
financial data included therein, as to which such counsel expresses no opinion) comply as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and the documents
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, all Preliminary Prospectuses and the Prospectuses and any further amendment or supplement to any such incorporated document made by the Company
(except for the financial statements and schedules and other financial data included therein, as to which such counsel expresses no opinion) when they became effective or were filed with the
Commission, as the case may be, complied as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the
Commission thereunder.
- (xi)
- The
Registration Statement is effective under the Securities Act, and to such counsel's knowledge no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been
issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are threatened, pending or contemplated. Any required filing of the Prospectus and any supplement thereto pursuant to
Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act has been made in the manner and within the time period required by such Rule 424(b).
- (xii)
- The Shares have been approved for listing on the American Stock Exchange.
which is required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and is not so disclosed or which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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- (xiii)
- The
capital stock of the Company conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Prospectus under the caption "Description of Capital Stock."
- (xiv)
- The Company is not an "investment company" or an entity controlled by an "investment company" as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
To the extent deemed advisable by such counsel, such counsel may rely as to matters of fact on certificates of responsible officers of the Company and public officials and on the opinions of other counsel satisfactory to the Representatives as to matters which are governed by laws other than the laws of the State of New York, the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and the Federal laws of the United States; provided that such counsel shall state that in their opinion the Underwriters and they are justified in relying on such other opinions. Copies of such certificates and other opinions shall be furnished to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters.
In addition, such counsel shall state that such counsel has participated in conferences with officers and other representatives of the Company, representatives of the Representatives and representatives of the independent certified public accountants of the Company, at which conferences the contents of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and related matters were discussed and, although such counsel is not passing upon and does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (except as specified in the foregoing opinion), on the basis of the foregoing, no facts have come to the attention of such counsel which lead such counsel to believe that (i) the Registration Statement at the time it became effective (except with respect to the financial statements and notes and schedules thereto and other financial data, as to which such counsel need express no belief) contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or that the Prospectus as amended or supplemented (except with respect to the financial statements, notes and schedules thereto and other financial data, as to which such counsel need make no statement) on the date thereof contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted 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 or (ii) any document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus or any further amendment or supplement to any such incorporated document made by the Company, when they became effective or were filed with the Commission, as the case may be, contained, in the case of a registration statement which became effective under the Securities Act, any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading, or, in the case of other documents which were filed under the Exchange Act with the Commission, an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
- (i)
- The
Representatives shall have received on each Closing Date from ▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, counsel for the Company in the United Kingdom, an opinion, addressed to the Representatives
and dated such Closing Date, and stating in effect that:
- (i)
- Isolagen Europe Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Isolagen Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, has been duly organized and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the United Kingdom. Isolagen Europe Limited is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which the character or location of its assets or properties or the nature of its business makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to so qualify or to be in good standing, individually or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
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- (ii)
- Isolagen
Europe Limited has all requisite corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as now being conducted and as described
in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
- (j)
- The
Representatives shall have received on each Closing Date from ▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Zurich, counsel for the Company in Switzerland, an opinion, addressed to the Representatives
and dated such Closing Date, and stating in effect that:
- (i)
- Isolagen
International S.A., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Isolagen Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, has been duly organized and is validly existing
as a corporation in good standing under the laws of Switzerland.
- (ii)
- Isolagen
International S.A. is duly qualified to transact business in Switzerland and has all requisite corporate power and authority under Swiss law to own, lease and operate its
properties and to conduct its business to the extent described in the Registration Statement and Prospectus and as now being purportedly conducted based on the public documents examined and listed in
the opinion.
- (iii)
- According
to the excerpt from the commercial register of the Canton of Neuchâtel and the confirmation of the Debt Collection Authority of Neuchâtel, no
debt collection or bankruptcy proceedings have been initiated against Isolagen International S.A. nor has there been any commencement of any voluntary winding-up proceedings in respect of
Isolagen International S.A.
- (k)
- The
Representatives shall have received on each Closing Date from ▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, counsel for the Company in Australia, an opinion, addressed to the Representatives and dated
such Closing Date, and stating in effect that:
- (i)
- Isolagen
Australia Pty Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Isolagen Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, has been duly organized and is validly
existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of Australia. Isolagen Australia Pty Limited is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation in each
jurisdiction in which the character or location of its assets or properties or the nature of its business makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to so qualify or to be in good
standing, individually or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
- (ii)
- Isolagen
Australia Pty Limited has all requisite corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as now being conducted and as
described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
- (l)
- The
Representatives shall have received on each Option Shares Closing Date from ▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, counsel for the Selling Stockholders, an opinion, addressed to the
Representatives and the Company and dated such Closing Date, and stating in effect that:
- (i)
- This
Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by or on behalf of each Selling Stockholder.
- (ii)
- Each
of the Custody Agreement, the Power of Attorney and the Lock-up Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each Selling Stockholder.
- (iii)
- This Agreement, the Custody Agreement, the Power of Attorney and the Lock-Up Agreement each constitute the legal, valid and binding obligation of each Selling Stockholder enforceable against each Selling Stockholder in accordance with its terms except as such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
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- (iv)
- Each
Selling Stockholder has the legal right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to sell, transfer and deliver in the manner provided in this Agreement, the Shares
to be sold by such Selling Stockholder hereunder.
- (v)
- The
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Power of Attorney, the Custody Agreement and the Lock-Up Agreement and the sale and delivery by each Selling
Stockholder of the Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder as contemplated by this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated in this Agreement and in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus and compliance by such Selling Stockholder with its obligations hereunder do not and will not, whether with or without the giving of notice or passage of time or both,
conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default under or result in the creation or imposition of any tax, lien, charge or encumbrance upon the Shares or any property or assets of such Selling
Stockholder pursuant to, any contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit agreement, note, license, lease or other instrument or agreement to which such Selling Stockholder is a party
or by which such Selling Stockholder may be bound, or to which any of the property or assets of such Selling Stockholder may be subject nor will such action result in any violation of the provisions
of the charter or by-laws of such Selling Stockholder, if applicable, or any law, administrative regulation, judgment or order of any governmental agency or body or any administrative or
court decree having jurisdiction over such Selling Stockholder or any of its properties.
- (vi)
- To
the best of such counsel's knowledge, each Selling Stockholder has valid and marketable title to the Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder pursuant to this Agreement, free
and clear of any pledge, lien, security interest, charge, claim, equity or encumbrance of any kind, and has full right, power and authority to sell, transfer and deliver such Shares pursuant to this
Agreement. By delivery of a certificate or certificates therefor each such Selling Stockholder will transfer to the Underwriters who have purchased such Shares pursuant to this Agreement (without
notice of any defect in the title of each such Selling Stockholder and who are otherwise bona fide purchasers for purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code) valid and marketable title to such Shares,
free and clear of any pledge, lien, security interest, charge, claim, equity or encumbrance of any kind.
- (vii)
- No filing with, consent, approval, authorization, license, certificate, permit or order of any court, governmental or regulatory agency, authority or body or financial institution is required in connection with the performance of this Agreement, the Custody Agreement, the Power of Attorney or the Lock-up Agreement by each Selling Stockholder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, including the delivery and sale of the Shares to be delivered and sold by each Selling Stockholder, except such as may be required under state securities or blue sky laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Shares by the several Underwriters.
reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and by general equitable principles.
To the extent deemed advisable by such counsel, such counsel may rely as to matters of fact on certificates of the Selling Stockholders and on the opinions of other counsel satisfactory to the Representatives as to matters which are governed by laws other than the laws of the State of New York and the General Corporate Law of the State of Delaware or the Federal laws of the United States; provided that such counsel shall state that in their opinion the Underwriters and they are justified in relying on such other opinions. Copies of such certificates and other opinions shall be furnished to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters.
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- (m)
- The
Representatives shall have received on each Closing Date from Kleinfeld, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇, LLP, FDA regulatory counsel recently retained by the Company to review the regulatory
history and status of the products and operations, an opinion, addressed to the Representatives and dated such Closing Date, and stating in effect that, based upon review of documents provided by the
Company:
- (i)
- The
Registration Statement in all material respects adequately and accurately describes the legal status of the Company and its product candidates and the legal requirements under the
Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and the rules, regulations and guidances promulgated thereunder applicable to the Company, its manufacturing operations and/or its product candidates and for
obtaining and maintaining FDA approval to commercialize its products in the United States.
- (ii)
- Counsel
is not aware of any lawsuit or regulatory proceeding, pending or threatened, brought by or before the FDA, in which the Company or any of its officers or directors, in their
capacity as such, is or would be the defendant or respondent, except as described in the Prospectus, and, without an independent inquiry, counsel is not aware of any lawsuit or regulatory proceeding,
pending or threatened, by federal regulatory authorities in which the Company is or would be the defendant or respondent, except as described in the Prospectus.
- (iii)
- The statements in the Prospectus under the captions "Risk Factors—Obtaining FDA and other regulatory approvals is complex, time consuming and expensive, and the outcomes are uncertain," "Our Failure to comply with extensive governmental regulation may significantly affect our operating results," and "Business—Government Regulation—Domestic Regulation,—FDA Approval Process,—Ongoing FDA Requirements," insofar as such statements constitute a summary of documents referred to therein or matters of law, are accurate in all material respects and accurately present the information with respect to such documents and matters.
In addition, such counsel shall state that such counsel has participated in conferences with officers and other representatives of the Company, at which conferences the contents of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and related matters were discussed and, although such counsel is not passing upon and does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (except as specified in the foregoing opinion), on the basis of the foregoing, no facts have come to the attention of such counsel which lead such counsel to believe that (i) the Registration Statement at the time it became effective (except with respect to the financial statements and notes and schedules thereto and other financial data, as to which such counsel need express no belief) contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or that the Prospectus as amended or supplemented (except with respect to the financial statements, notes and schedules thereto and other financial data, as to which such counsel need make no statement) on the date thereof contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted 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 or (ii) any document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus or any further amendment or supplement to any such incorporated document made by the Company, when they became effective or were filed with the Commission, as the case may be, contained, in the case of a registration statement which became effective under the Securities Act, any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading, or, in the case of other documents which were filed under the Exchange Act with the Commission, an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in
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order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
- (n)
- The
Representatives shall have received on each Closing Date from Fish & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ PC, intellectual property counsel for the Company, an opinion, addressed to the
Representatives and dated such Closing Date, and substantively stating in effect that:
- (i)
- Representatives
of the Company have reported to such counsel that the description of the Isolagen Process at page 25 of the Registration Statement and Prospectus is
correct. Inasmuch as the process must produce fibroblasts that are substantially free of immunogenic proteins to fall within the Company's patent claims, that is, to be "proprietary", such counsel
inquired about that aspect, and a representative of the Company reported that fibroblasts shipped to physicians are in fact substantially free of immunogenic proteins.
- (ii)
- To
the best of such counsel's knowledge, the intellectual property "Risk Factors" in the Prospectus, to the extent they constitute matters of law, summarize legal matters, or present
legal conclusions fairly and correctly present the risks generally with respect to one's own patents and possible patents of others. To the best of such counsel's knowledge, the section
"Business-Intellectual Property" appearing at pages 30-31 of the Prospectus, to the extent that it constitutes matters of law, summarizes legal matters or legal conclusions, is correct in
all material respects and fairly and correctly presents the uncertainties associated with one's own patents and trade secrets and the uncertainties regarding patents of others.
- (iii)
- To
the best of such counsel's knowledge, there is no pending or threatened legal or governmental proceeding relating to patent rights, trade secrets, trademarks, service marks or
know-how of the Company and its Subsidiaries, nor any allegations of infringement relating thereto by any person.
- (iv)
- To
the best of such counsel's knowledge, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is infringing or otherwise violating any patents, trade secrets, trademarks, service marks,
copyrights or know-how of any persons. To the best of such counsel's knowledge, no person is infringing any patent, trademark, service ▇▇▇▇, trade secret, copyright or know-how
of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
- (v)
- With respect to the Company's proposed businesses of repair of skin defects, repair of vocal cord defects, and repair of urinary defects, to the best of such counsel's knowledge, the Company and its Subsidiaries do not lack patent license rights under existing patents that are needed to practice the Isolagen Process for such applications, or trademark, service ▇▇▇▇, trade secret or know-license rights for that purpose.
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- (vi)
- Such
counsel is not aware of prior art references that have caused such counsel to conclude that any Company Patent is invalid. Further, such counsel has no information that has
caused such counsel to believe that the Company's Patents would be unenforceable. To the best of such counsel's knowledge, there are no asserted or unasserted claims of any person relating to the
scope or ownership of any of the Company's Patents or to the ownership of the Company's Applications. Such counsel is not aware of any lien against any of these Patents and Applications, based on such
counsel's review of the United States Patent and Trademark Office assignment records on-line database. To the best of such counsel's knowledge, there are no invalidating defects in the
preparation or filing of the Applications. Applications that such counsel is prosecuting for the Company are being prosecuted diligently at the Company's direction, and none is either abandoned or
rejected finally, that is, subject only to appeal. To the best of such counsel's knowledge, the Company is listed in the records of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and foreign patent offices as
sole assignee of its Patents and Applications.
- (vii)
- Except
for patent applications recently purchased, whose prosecution such counsel is only now beginning to undertake and as to which such counsel is therefore not yet in a position
to evaluate, nothing has come to such counsel's attention that leads such counsel to believe that any of the Company's patent Applications will not eventuate in an issued patent or that the issued
patent will not be valid or will not afford the Company and its Subsidiaries patent protection described by the claims therein.
- (viii)
- Nothing
has come to such counsel's attention to cause such counsel to believe that any license the Company may have was not duly executed or is not validly binding in accordance
with its terms or that the Company is in default of any material provision thereof.
- (ix)
- With
respect to Patents such counsel has obtained and with respect to Applications such counsel is prosecuting, such counsel has requested from the Company all pertinent prior art
references known to the Company, and such counsel has disclosed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office all such references of which such counsel has been made aware. Such counsel has no information
which would indicate that not all such references have been disclosed to such counsel and cited to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
- (x)
- Such
counsel has filed for the Company an "intent-to-use" U.S. trademark application and an "intent-to-use" U.S. service ▇▇▇▇
application for the ▇▇▇▇ ISOLAGEN. To the best of such counsel's knowledge, there are no asserted or unasserted claims of any person relating to the scope or ownership of either ISOLAGEN ▇▇▇▇, no
liens have been filed against either application, and there were no invalidating defects of form in the preparation or filing of the applications.
- (xi)
- Nothing
has come to such counsel's attention to cause such counsel to believe that any trade secret the Company may have is not being protected adequately.
- (xii)
- Nothing has come to our attention to cause such counsel to believe that any agreement between the Company and any of its employees, consultants or other advisors respecting trade secrets is not valid, binding and enforceable according to its terms.
To the extent deemed advisable by such counsel, such counsel may rely as to matters of fact on certificates of responsible officers of the Company and public officials and on the opinions of other counsel satisfactory to the Representatives as to matters which are governed by laws other than the laws of the State of New York, the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and the Federal laws of the United States; provided that such counsel shall state that in their opinion the Underwriters
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and they are justified in relying on such other opinions. Copies of such certificates and other opinions shall be furnished to the Representatives.
- (o)
- All
proceedings taken in connection with the sale of the Firm Shares and the Option Shares as herein contemplated shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the
Representatives, and their counsel and the Underwriters shall have received from ▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP a favorable opinion, addressed to the Representatives and dated such Closing Date, with
respect to the Shares, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and such other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, and the Company shall have furnished to
▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP such documents as they may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
- (p)
- The
Representatives shall have received copies of the Lock-up Agreements executed by each entity or person listed on Schedule III hereto.
- (q)
- The
Shares shall have been approved for listing on the American Stock Exchange, subject only to official notice of issuance.
- (r)
- The
Company and each Selling Stockholder shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to the Representatives such further certificates or documents as the Representatives shall have
reasonably requested.
- 5.
- Covenants of the Company.
- (a)
- The
Company covenants and agrees as follows:
- (i)
- The
Company will use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement, if not effective at the time of execution of this Agreement, and any amendments thereto, to become effective
as promptly as possible. The Company shall prepare the Prospectus in a form approved by the Representatives and file such Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act not later
than the Commission's close of business on the second business day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement, or, if applicable, such earlier time as may be required by the Rules.
- (ii)
- The
Company shall promptly advise the Representatives in writing (A) when any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement shall have become effective or
any supplement to the Prospectus shall have been filed, (B) of any request by the Commission for any amendment of the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or for any additional information,
(C) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus
or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose and (D) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Shares
for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose. The Company shall not file any amendment of the Registration Statement or supplement to the Prospectus
or any document incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement unless the Company has furnished the Representatives a copy for its review prior to filing and shall not file any such proposed
amendment or supplement to which the Representatives reasonably object. The Company shall use its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order and, if issued, to obtain as soon as
possible the withdrawal thereof.
- (iii)
- If, at any time when a Prospectus relating to the Shares is required to be delivered under the Securities Act and the Rules, any event occurs as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein in the light of
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- (iv)
- The
Company shall make generally available to its security holders and to the Representatives as soon as practicable, but not later than 45 days after the end of the
12-month period beginning at the end of the fiscal quarter of the Company during which the Effective Date occurs (or 90 days if such 12-month period coincides with the
Company's fiscal year), an earning statement (which need not be audited) of the Company, covering such 12-month period, which shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the
Securities Act or Rule 158 of the Rules.
- (v)
- The
Company shall furnish to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, without charge, signed copies of the Registration Statement (including all exhibits thereto and
amendments thereof) and to each other Underwriter a copy of the Registration Statement (without exhibits thereto) and all amendments thereof and, so long as delivery of a Prospectus by an Underwriter
or dealer may be required by the Securities Act or the Rules, as many copies of any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus and any amendments thereof and supplements thereto as the Representatives
may reasonably request. If applicable, the copies of the Registration Statement and Prospectus and each amendment and supplement thereto furnished to the Underwriters will be identical to the
electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to ▇▇▇▇▇, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.
- (vi)
- The
Company shall cooperate with the Representatives and their counsel in endeavoring to qualify the Shares for offer and sale in connection with the offering under the laws of such
jurisdictions as the Representatives may designate and shall maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution of the Shares; provided, however, that the Company shall
not be required in connection therewith, as a condition thereof, to qualify as a foreign corporation or to execute a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction or subject itself to
taxation as doing business in any jurisdiction.
- (vii)
- The
Company, during the period when the Prospectus is required to be delivered under the Securities Act and the Rules or the Exchange Act, will file all reports and other documents
required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15 of the Exchange Act within the time periods required by the Exchange Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
- (viii)
- Without the prior written consent of CIBC World Markets Corp., for a period of 120 days after the date of this Agreement, the Company and each of its individual directors and executive officers shall not issue, sell or register with the Commission (other than on Form S-8 or on any successor form), or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, any equity securities of the Company (or any securities convertible into, exercisable for or exchangeable for equity securities of the Company), except for the issuance of the Shares pursuant to the Registration Statement and the issuance of shares pursuant to the Company's existing stock option plan or bonus plan as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. In the event that during this period, (A) any shares are issued pursuant to the Company's existing stock option plan or bonus plan that are exercisable during such 120 day period or (B) any registration is effected on Form S-8 or on any successor form relating to shares that are exercisable during such 120 day
the circumstances under which they were made not misleading, or if it shall be necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with the Securities Act or the Rules, the Company promptly shall prepare and file with the Commission, subject to the second sentence of paragraph (ii) of this Section 5(a), an amendment or supplement which shall correct such statement or omission or an amendment which shall effect such compliance.
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- (ix)
- On
or before completion of this offering, the Company shall make all filings required under applicable securities laws and by the American Stock Exchange (including any required
registration under the Exchange Act).
- (x)
- Prior
to the Closing Date, the Company will issue no press release or other communications directly or indirectly and hold no press conference with respect to the Company, the
condition, financial or otherwise, or the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of any of them, or the offering of the Shares without the prior written consent of the Representatives unless
in the judgment of the Company and its counsel, and after notification to the Representatives, such press release or communication is required by law.
- (xi)
- The
Company will apply the net proceeds from the offering of the Shares in the manner set forth under "Use of Proceeds" in the Prospectus.
- (b)
- The Company agrees to pay, or reimburse if paid by the Representatives, whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, all costs and expenses incident to the public offering of the Shares and the performance of the obligations of the Company under this Agreement including those relating to: (i) the preparation, printing, filing and distribution of the Registration Statement including all exhibits thereto, each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, all amendments and supplements to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and any document incorporated by reference therein, and the printing, filing and distribution of this Agreement; (ii) the preparation and delivery of certificates for the Shares to the Underwriters; (iii) the registration or qualification of the Shares for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of the various jurisdictions referred to in Section 5(a)(vi), including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with such registration and qualification and the preparation, printing, distribution and shipment of preliminary and supplementary Blue Sky memoranda; (iv) the furnishing (including costs of shipping and mailing) to the Representatives and to the Underwriters of copies of each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and all amendments or supplements to the Prospectus, and of the several documents required by this Section to be so furnished, as may be reasonably requested for use in connection with the offering and sale of the Shares by the Underwriters or by dealers to whom Shares may be sold; (v) the filing fees of the NASD in connection with its review of the terms of the public offering and reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with such review; (vi) inclusion of the Shares for listing on the American Stock Exchange; and (vii) all transfer taxes, if any, with respect to the sale and delivery of the Shares by the Company to the Underwriters. Subject to the provisions of Section 8, the Underwriters agree to pay, whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, all costs and expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the Underwriters under this Agreement not payable by the Company pursuant to the preceding sentence, including, without limitation, the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters.
period, the Company shall obtain the written agreement of such grantee or purchaser or holder of such registered securities that, for a period of 120 days after the date of this Agreement, such person will not, without the prior written consent of CIBC World Markets Corp., offer for sale, sell, distribute, grant any option for the sale of, or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, or exercise any registration rights with respect to, any shares of Common Stock (or any securities convertible into, exercisable for, or exchangeable for any shares of Common Stock) owned by such person.
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- (c)
- The
Selling Stockholders will pay all expenses incident to the performance of their respective obligations under, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by, this
Agreement, including (i) any stamp duties, capital duties and stock transfer taxes, if any, payable upon the sale of the Shares to the Underwriters, and their transfer between the Underwriters
pursuant to an agreement between such Underwriters, and (ii) the fees and disbursements of their respective counsel and accountants.
- 6.
- Indemnification.
- (a)
- The
Company and each of the Selling Stockholders, severally and not jointly, agree to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter and each person, if any, who controls any
Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities, joint or several
(including any reasonable investigation, legal and other expenses incurred in connection with, and any amount paid in settlement of, any action, suit or proceeding or any claim asserted), to which
they, or any of them, may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or other Federal or state law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or
liabilities arise out of or are based upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or in any Blue Sky application or other information or other documents executed by the Company filed in any state or other jurisdiction to
qualify any or all of the Shares under the securities laws thereof (any such application, document or information being hereinafter referred to as a "Blue Sky Application") or arise out of or are
based upon any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided, however, that such
indemnity shall not inure to the benefit of any Underwriter (or any person controlling such Underwriter) on account of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities arising from the sale of the Shares to
any person by such Underwriter if such untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission was made in such Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or
such amendment or supplement thereto, or in any Blue Sky Application in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by the Representatives on behalf of any
Underwriter specifically for use therein. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which the Company and the Selling Stockholders may otherwise have. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the liability of the Selling Stockholders pursuant to the provisions of this Section 6(a) shall be limited to an amount equal to the aggregate net proceeds received by such Selling
Stockholders from the sale of the Shares sold by the Selling Stockholders hereunder.
- (b)
- Each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Selling Stockholders and each person, if any, who controls the Company or the Selling Stockholders within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, each director of the Company, and each officer of the Company who signs the Registration Statement, against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which such party may become subject, under the Securities 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
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- (c)
- Any
party that proposes to assert the right to be indemnified under this Section will, promptly after receipt of notice of commencement of any action, suit or proceeding against such
party in respect of which a claim is to be made against an indemnifying party or parties under this Section, notify each such indemnifying party of the commencement of such action, suit or proceeding,
enclosing a copy of all papers served. No indemnification provided for in Section 6(a) or 6(b) shall be available to any party who shall fail to give notice as provided in this
Section 6(c) if the party to whom notice was not given was unaware of the proceeding to which such notice would have related and was prejudiced by the failure to give such notice but the
omission so to notify such indemnifying party of any such action, suit or proceeding shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to any indemnified party for contribution or otherwise
than under this Section. In case any such action, suit or proceeding 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 in, and, to the extent that it shall wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel
reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party, and after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof and the approval by the
indemnified party of such counsel, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to such indemnified party for any legal or other expenses, except as provided below and except for the reasonable costs of
investigation subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof. The indemnified party shall have the right to employ its counsel in any such action, but the fees
and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i) the employment of counsel by such indemnified party has been authorized in writing by the indemnifying
parties, (ii) the indemnified party shall have been advised by counsel that there may be one or more legal defenses available to it which are different from or in addition to those available to
the indemnifying party (in which case the indemnifying parties shall not have the right to direct the defense of such action on behalf of the indemnified party) or (iii) the indemnifying
parties shall not have employed counsel to assume the defense of such action within a reasonable time after notice of the commencement thereof, in each of which cases the fees and expenses of counsel
shall be at the expense of the indemnifying parties. An indemnifying party shall not be liable for any settlement of any action, suit, and proceeding or claim effected without its written consent,
which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
supplement in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Underwriter through the Representative expressly for use therein; provided, however, that the obligation of each Underwriter to indemnify the Company or the Selling Stockholders (including any controlling person, director or officer thereof) shall be limited to the net proceeds received by the Company from such Underwriter.
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- Contribution. In order to provide for just and equitable contribution in circumstances in which the indemnification provided for in Section 6(a) or 6(b) is due in accordance with its terms but for any reason is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect to any losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the aggregate losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses (including any investigation, legal and other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with, and any amount paid in settlement of, any action, suit or proceeding or any claims asserted, but after deducting any contribution received by any person entitled hereunder to contribution from any person who may be liable for contribution) incurred by such indemnified party, as incurred, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the Selling Stockholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand from the offering of the Shares pursuant to this Agreement or, if such allocation is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to above but also the relative fault of
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the Company and the Selling Stockholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The Company, the Selling Stockholders and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 7 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above. The aggregate amount of losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by an indemnified party and referred to above shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 7, (i) no Underwriter (except as may be provided in the Agreement Among Underwriters) 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 damages which such underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of any such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission; and (ii) no Selling Stockholder shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the aggregate new proceeds for the sale of Shares received by the Selling Stockholders. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes of this Section 7, each person, if any, who controls an Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and each director of the Company, each officer of the Company who signed the Registration Statement, and each person, if any, who controls the Company or any/the Selling Stockholders within the meaning of the Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company or any/the Selling Stockholders, as the case may be. Any party entitled to contribution will, promptly after receipt of notice of commencement of any action, suit or proceeding against such party in respect of which a claim for contribution may be made against another party or parties under this Section 7, notify such party or parties from whom contribution may be sought, but the omission so to notify such party or parties from whom contribution may be sought shall not relieve the party or parties from whom contribution may be sought from any other obligation it or they may have hereunder or otherwise than under this Section 7. No party shall be liable for contribution with respect to any action, suit, proceeding or claim settled without its written consent. The Underwriter's obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 7 are several in proportion to their respective underwriting commitments and not joint. The provisions of this Section 7 shall not affect any agreement among the Company and the Selling Stockholders with respect to contribution.
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- Termination.
- (a)
- This Agreement may be terminated with respect to the Shares to be purchased on a Closing Date by the Representatives by notifying the Company and an Attorney-in-Fact for the Selling Stockholders at any time at or before a Closing Date in the absolute discretion of the Representatives if: (i) there has occurred any material adverse change in the securities markets or any event, act or occurrence that has materially disrupted, or in the opinion of the Representatives, will in the future materially disrupt, the securities markets or there shall be such a material adverse change in general financial, political or economic conditions or the effect of international conditions on the financial markets in the United States is such as to make it, in the judgment of the Representatives, inadvisable or impracticable to market the Shares or enforce contracts for the sale of the Shares; (ii) there has occurred any outbreak or
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- (b)
- If
this Agreement is terminated pursuant to any of its provisions, neither the Company nor the Selling Stockholders shall be under any liability to any Underwriter, and no Underwriter
shall be under any liability to the Company or a Selling Stockholder, except that (y) if this Agreement is terminated by the Representatives or the Underwriters because of any failure, refusal
or inability on the part of the Company or the Selling Stockholders to comply with the terms or to fulfill any of the conditions of this Agreement, the Company will reimburse the Underwriters for all
out-of-pocket expenses (including the reasonable fees and disbursements of their counsel) incurred by them in connection with the proposed purchase and sale of the Shares or in
contemplation of performing their obligations hereunder and (z) no Underwriter who shall have failed or refused to purchase the Shares agreed to be purchased by it under this Agreement, without
some reason sufficient hereunder to justify cancellation or termination of its obligations under this Agreement, shall be relieved of liability to the Company, the Selling Stockholders or to the other
Underwriters for damages occasioned by its failure or refusal.
material escalation of hostilities or other calamity or crisis the effect of which on the financial markets of the United States is such as to make it, in the judgment of the Representatives, inadvisable or impracticable to market the Shares or enforce contracts for the sale of the Shares; (iii) trading in the Shares or any securities of the Company has been suspended or materially limited by the Commission or trading generally on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq National Market has been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or maximum ranges for prices for securities shall have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices for securities have been required, by any of said exchanges or by such system or by order of the Commission, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., or any other governmental or regulatory authority; or (iv) a banking moratorium has been declared by any state or Federal authority; or (v) in the judgment of the Representatives, there has been, since the time of execution of this Agreement or since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus, any material adverse change in the assets, properties, condition, financial or otherwise, or in the results of operations, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as a whole, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business.
- 9.
- Substitution of Underwriters. If any Underwriter shall default in its obligation to purchase on any Closing Date the Shares agreed to be purchased hereunder on such Closing Date, the Representatives shall have the right, within 36 hours thereafter, to make arrangements for one or more of the non-defaulting Underwriters, or any other underwriters, to purchase such Shares on the terms contained herein. If, however, the Representatives shall not have completed such arrangements within such 36-hour period, then the Company shall be entitled to a further period of thirty-six hours within which to procure another party or other parties satisfactory to the Underwriters to purchase such Shares on such terms. If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Shares of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the Representatives and the Company as provided above, the aggregate number of Shares which remains unpurchased on such Closing Date does not exceed one-eleventh of the aggregate number of all the Shares that all the Underwriters are obligated to purchase on such date, then the Company 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 date 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. In any such case, either the Representatives or the Company shall have the right to postpone the applicable Closing Date for a period of not more than seven days in order to effect any necessary changes and arrangements (including any
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necessary amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or Prospectus or any other documents), and the Company agrees to file promptly any amendments to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus which in the opinion of the Company and the Underwriters and their counsel may thereby be made necessary.
If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Shares of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the Representatives and the Company as provided above, the aggregate number of such Shares which remains unpurchased exceeds 10% of the aggregate number of all the Shares to be purchased at such date, then this Agreement, or, with respect to a Closing Date which occurs after the First Closing Date, the obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and of the Company or the Selling Stockholders, as the case may be, to sell the Option Shares to be purchased and sold on such date, shall terminate, without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter to the Company or the Selling Stockholders, and without liability on the part of the Company or the Selling Stockholders, except as provided in Sections 5(b), 6, 7 and 8. The provisions of this Section 9 shall not in any way affect the liability of any defaulting Underwriter to the Company or the nondefaulting Underwriters arising out of such default. The term "Underwriter" as used in this Agreement shall include any person substituted under this Section 9 with like effect as if such person had originally been a party to this Agreement with respect to such Shares.
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- Miscellaneous. The respective agreements, representations, warranties, indemnities and other statements of the Company, Selling Stockholders and the several Underwriters, as set forth in this Agreement or made by or on behalf of them 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 the Company or the Selling Stockholders or any of their respective officers, directors or controlling persons referred to in Sections 6 and 7 hereof, and shall survive delivery of and payment for the Shares. In addition, the provisions of Sections 5(b), 6, 7 and 8 shall survive the termination or cancellation of this Agreement.
This Agreement has been and is made for the benefit of the Underwriters, the Company and the Selling Stockholders and their respective successors and assigns, and, to the extent expressed herein, for the benefit of persons controlling any of the Underwriters, or the Company, and directors and officers of the Company, and their respective successors and assigns, and no other person shall acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement. The term "successors and assigns" shall not include any purchaser of Shares from any Underwriter merely because of such purchase.
All notices and communications hereunder shall be in writing and mailed or delivered or by telephone or telegraph if subsequently confirmed in writing, (a) if to the Representatives, c/o CIBC World Markets Corp., ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, with a copy to ▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇, Esq. and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Esq. and (b) if to the Company, by CIBC World Markets Corp. to the Company's agent for service as such agent's address appears on the cover page of the Registration Statement with a copy to ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, 3200 Mellon Bank Center, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Esq. and (c) if to the Selling Stockholders, to ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇ as Attorneys-in-Fact, c/o Isolagen, Inc., ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, with a copy to ▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Pennzoil Place, South Tower, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇, Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇, Esq.
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
This Agreement may be signed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.
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Please confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the agreement among us.
| Very truly yours, | ||||
| ISOLAGEN, INC. | ||||
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| Name |
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| ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, Incorporated | |||
| ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇, Inc. | |||
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| Name of Selling Stockholder |
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| ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ | 293,270 | ||
| ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ | 227,258 | ||
| ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇ | 24,587 | ||
| ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. Boss, Jr. | 304,885 | ||
| Total | 850,000 | ||
Sch II-1
Lock-up Signatories
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BASR Partnership
Lighthouse Capital Insurance
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Trident III, LLC
Pound Capital Corporation
Founders Equity Group, Inc.
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Sch III-1
FORM OF LOCK-UP AGREEMENT
April , 2004
CIBC
World Markets Corp.
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▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇, Inc.
As Representatives of the Several Underwriters
c/o CIBC World Markets Corp.
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Re: Public Offering of Common Stock of Isolagen, Inc.
Gentlemen:
The undersigned, a holder of common stock ("Common Stock") or rights to acquire Common Stock, of Isolagen, Inc. (the "Company") understands that the Company intends to file a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the "Registration Statement") with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") on or about April 30, 2004 for the registration of shares of Common Stock (including shares subject to an over-allotment option on the part of the Underwriters) (the "Offering"). The undersigned further understands that you are contemplating entering into an Underwriting Agreement with the Company in connection with the Offering.
In order to induce the Company, you and the other Underwriters to enter into the Underwriting Agreement and to proceed with the Offering, the undersigned agrees, for the benefit of the Company, you and the other Underwriters, the undersigned will not, without the prior written consent of CIBC World Markets Corp., directly or indirectly, make any offer, sale, assignment, transfer, encumbrance, contract to sell, grant of an option to purchase or other disposition of any Common Stock beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) by the undersigned on the date hereof or hereafter acquired for a period of 120 days subsequent to the date of the Underwriting Agreement (the "Termination Date"), other than Common Stock to be sold in the Offering and Common Stock transferred as a gift or gifts (provided that any donee thereof agrees in writing to be bound by the terms hereof).
The undersigned confirms that he, she or it understands that the Underwriters and the Company will rely upon the representations set forth in this agreement in proceeding with the Offering. The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the undersigned has full power and authority to enter into this agreement. This agreement shall be binding on the undersigned and his, her or its respective successors, heirs, personal representatives and assigns. The undersigned agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company's transfer agent against the transfer of Common Stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Common Stock held by the undersigned except in compliance with this agreement.
This agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware.
This agreement is effective as of the date hereof and shall terminate and become null and void on the earlier of (i) the Termination Date; or (ii) the close of business on the date that the registration
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statement filed pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, to effect the Offering is withdrawn by the Company without having been declared effective.
Very truly yours, |
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Dated: April , 2004 |
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Printed Name and Title (if applicable) |
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FORM OF LOCK-UP AGREEMENT
April , 2004
CIBC
World Markets Corp.
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▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇, Inc.
As Representatives of the Several Underwriters
c/o CIBC World Markets Corp.
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Re: Public Offering of Common Stock of Isolagen, Inc.
Gentlemen:
The undersigned, a holder of common stock ("Common Stock") or rights to acquire Common Stock, of Isolagen, Inc. (the "Company") understands that the Company intends to file a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the "Registration Statement") with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") on or about April 30, 2004 for the registration of shares of Common Stock (including shares subject to an over-allotment option on the part of the Underwriters) (the "Offering"). The undersigned further understands that you are contemplating entering into an Underwriting Agreement with the Company in connection with the Offering.
In order to induce the Company, you and the other Underwriters to enter into the Underwriting Agreement and to proceed with the Offering, the undersigned agrees, for the benefit of the Company, you and the other Underwriters, the undersigned will not, without the prior written consent of CIBC World Markets Corp., directly or indirectly, make any offer, sale, assignment, transfer, encumbrance, contract to sell, grant of an option to purchase or other disposition of any Common Stock beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) by the undersigned on the date hereof or hereafter acquired for a period of 90 days subsequent to the date of the Underwriting Agreement (the "Termination Date"), other than (i) Common Stock to be sold in the Offering, (ii) Common Stock transferred as a gift or gifts (provided that any donee thereof agrees in writing to be bound by the terms hereof) and (iii) Common Stock up to an aggregate of 25% of the shares of Common Stock owned of record by the undersigned as of the date hereof
The undersigned confirms that he, she or it understands that the Underwriters and the Company will rely upon the representations set forth in this agreement in proceeding with the Offering. The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the undersigned has full power and authority to enter into this agreement. This agreement shall be binding on the undersigned and his, her or its respective successors, heirs, personal representatives and assigns. The undersigned agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company's transfer agent against the transfer of Common Stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Common Stock held by the undersigned except in compliance with this agreement.
This agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware.
This agreement is effective as of the date hereof and shall terminate and become null and void on the earlier of (i) the Termination Date; or (ii) the close of business on the date that the registration
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statement filed pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, to effect the Offering is withdrawn by the Company without having been declared effective.
Very truly yours, |
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Dated: April , 2004 |
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FORM OF CUSTODY AGREEMENT
for sale of shares of common stock,
par value $0.001 per share, of Isolagen, Inc.
American
Stock Transfer & Trust Company (the "Custodian")
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Attention: [ ]
Ladies and Gentlemen:
There are delivered to you herewith certificate(s) representing shares of Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share ("Common Stock"), of Isolagen, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company") as set forth at the end of this letter on the page entitled "CERTIFICATE(S) DEPOSITED." Each of the certificates so delivered is accompanied by an executed assignment form duly endorsed for transfer and is in negotiable form bearing the signature of the undersigned guaranteed by a commercial bank or trust company having an office or a correspondent in New York City, New York or by a member firm of the New York, American or Pacific Stock Exchange. The certificate(s) are to be held by you as Custodian for the account of the undersigned and are to be disposed of by you in accordance with this Custody Agreement (this "Custody Agreement").
If the undersigned is (i) acting as trustee or in any fiduciary or representative capacity, the undersigned has also delivered duly certified copies of each trust agreement, will, letters testamentary or other instrument pursuant to which the undersigned is authorized to act as a Selling Stockholder (as defined herein); (ii) a corporation, the undersigned has also delivered duly certified resolutions of its board of directors authorizing it to enter into this Custody Agreement, the Underwriting Agreement (as defined herein) and the Power of Attorney (as defined herein) and duly certified copies of such corporation's by-laws, certificate of incorporation or other organizational documents; or (iii) a partnership, the undersigned has also delivered extracts of any applicable provisions of its partnership agreement (and applicable provisions of the organizational documents or partnership agreement(s) of the general partner(s) of such partnership) authorizing such partnership to enter into this Custody Agreement, the Underwriting Agreement and the Power of Attorney.
The undersigned agrees to deliver such additional documentation as you, the Attorneys (as defined herein), the Company or the Representatives (as defined herein) or any of their respective counsel may reasonably request to effectuate or confirm compliance with any of the provisions hereof or of the Power of Attorney or the Underwriting Agreement, all of the foregoing to be in form and substance satisfactory in all respects to the party requesting such documentation.
Concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Custody Agreement, the undersigned has executed a power of attorney (the "Power of Attorney") irrevocably appointing ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, each with full power and authority to act alone in any matter thereunder and with full power of substitution, the true and lawful attorneys-in-fact of the undersigned (individually, an "Attorney" and collectively, the "Attorneys"), with full power and authority in the name of, for and on behalf of, the undersigned with respect to all matters arising in connection with the sale of the Common Stock by the undersigned including, but not limited to entering into and performing an underwriting agreement (the "Underwriting Agreement") among the Company, certain stockholders of the Company including the undersigned (the "Selling Stockholders"), CIBC World Markets Corp., ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, Inc. and ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇, Inc., as representatives (the "Representatives") of the several underwriters to be named in Schedule I to the Underwriting Agreement (the "Underwriters"). The total number of shares of Common Stock to be sold by the
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undersigned to the Underwriters and set forth opposite the name of the undersigned in Schedule II to the Underwriting Agreement is hereinafter referred to as the "Shares."
You are authorized and directed to hold the certificate(s) deposited with you hereunder in your custody and, subject to the instructions of the Attorneys, (i) to take all necessary action to cause the Shares to be transferred on the books of the Company into such names as the Representatives, on behalf of the several Underwriters, shall have instructed, including surrendering the certificate(s) representing the Shares to the transfer agent for the Common Stock for cancellation, in exchange for new certificate(s) for shares of Common Stock registered in such names and in such denominations as the Representatives shall have instructed; (ii) to deliver such new certificate(s) to the Representatives, for the accounts of the several Underwriters, against payment for such Shares at the purchase price per Share specified in the Underwriting Agreement and to give receipt for such payment; (iii) to deposit the same to your account as Custodian and draw upon such account to pay such transfer taxes, if any, payable in connection with the transfer of the Shares to the Underwriters ("Transfer Taxes") as you may be instructed to pay by the Attorneys; (iv) to transmit to the undersigned in the manner set forth under "Manner of Payment" below, within 24 hours of receiving instructions from the Attorneys to do so, the excess, if any (the "Net Proceeds"), of the amount received by you as payment for the Shares over the Transfer Taxes, if any. The amount of such Net Proceeds is to be paid in the manner requested by the undersigned at the end of this Custody Agreement or in such manner as you, in accordance with the terms hereof, shall deem appropriate. Upon receipt of instructions from the Attorneys, you shall also return to the undersigned, new certificate(s) representing the excess, if any, of the number of shares of Common Stock represented by the certificate(s) deposited with you hereunder over the number of Shares sold by the undersigned to the Underwriters.
Under the terms of the Power of Attorney, the authority conferred thereby is granted and conferred subject to and in consideration of the interests of the Attorneys, the several Underwriters, the Company and the other Selling Stockholders (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement) and is irrevocable and not subject to withdrawal or termination by any act of the undersigned or by operation of law, whether by the death or incapacity of the undersigned (or either or any of the undersigned) or by the occurrence of any other event or events (including, without limitation, the termination of any trust or estate for which the undersigned is acting as fiduciary or fiduciaries, the death or incapacity of one or more trustees, guardians, executors or administrators under such trust or estate or the merger, consolidation, dissolution or liquidation of any corporation or partnership) (any of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as an "Event"). Accordingly, the certificate(s) deposited with you hereunder and this Custody Agreement and your authority hereunder are subject to and in consideration of the interests of the several Underwriters, the Company, the Attorneys and the other Selling Stockholders, and this Custody Agreement and your authority hereunder are irrevocable and are not subject to withdrawal or termination by the occurrence of any Event. If an Event shall occur after the execution hereof but before the delivery of the Shares to the Underwriters, then certificate(s) representing such Shares will be delivered by you to the Underwriters on behalf of the undersigned in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Underwriting Agreement and this Custody Agreement and any actions taken by you pursuant to this Custody Agreement shall be as valid as if such Event had not occurred, regardless of whether or not you, the Attorneys, the Underwriters or any one of them, shall have received notice of such Event.
Until payment of the purchase price for the Shares has been made to you by or for the account of the several Underwriters, the undersigned shall remain the owner of all shares of Common Stock represented by the certificate(s) deposited with you hereunder and shall have the right to vote such shares and all other securities, if any, represented by such certificate(s) and to receive all dividends and distributions thereon, except the right to retain custody and dispose of such shares, which is subject to the rights of the Custodian under this Custody Agreement, the Attorneys under the Power of Attorney and the Underwriters under the Underwriting Agreement. The Underwriters shall not acquire the
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power or the right to direct the investment of the Shares by virtue of this Custody Agreement until the consideration therefor is paid pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement.
You shall be entitled to act and rely upon any statement, request, notice or instruction respecting this Custody Agreement given to you by the Attorneys, or any one of them. Any Attorney has the authority to instruct you on irregularities or discrepancies in the certificates representing shares of Common Stock and any accompanying documents.
In taking any action requested or directed by the Representatives under the terms of this Custody Agreement, you will be entitled to rely upon a writing signed by a Vice President, Senior Vice President, Managing Director, Counsel, Assistant General Counsel or General Counsel of CIBC World Markets Corp.
It is understood that you assume no responsibility or liability to any person other than to deal with the certificate(s) deposited with you hereunder and the proceeds from the sale of all or a portion of the securities represented thereby in accordance with the provisions of this Custody Agreement. The undersigned agrees to indemnify you for and to hold you free from and harmless against any and all loss, claim, damage, liability or expense incurred by you arising out of or in connection with acting as Custodian hereunder, as well as the cost and expense of defending against any claim of liability hereunder, which is not due to your own gross negligence or willful misconduct.
The representations and warranties of the undersigned set forth in the Underwriting Agreement are hereby incorporated by reference herein and the undersigned represents and warrants that such representations and warranties are true and correct on the date hereof as if made on the date hereof. The representations, warranties and agreements contained herein, as well as those contained in the Underwriting Agreement, are made for the benefit of, and may be relied upon by, you, the other Selling Stockholders, the Attorneys, the Company, Company counsel, the Underwriters and Underwriter counsel and their representatives, agents and counsel. These representations, warranties and agreements shall remain operative and in full force and effect, and shall survive delivery of and payment for the Shares, regardless of (i) any investigation, or statement as to the results thereof, made by or on behalf of any of the persons listed in the preceding sentence, (ii) acceptance of the Shares and payment for them under the Underwriting Agreement and (iii) termination of this Custody Agreement.
This Custody Agreement shall be binding upon the undersigned and the heirs, legal representatives, distributees, successors and assigns of the undersigned.
This Custody Agreement may be signed in counterparts which together shall constitute one and the same agreement.
This Custody Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York without regard to the conflicts of laws principles thereof.
Please acknowledge your acceptance hereof as Custodian, and receipt of the certificate(s) deposited with you hereunder, by executing and returning the enclosed copy hereof to the undersigned in care of ▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇, Esq. and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Esq.
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Instruction: If you are an individual and are married, your spouse is required to complete this form:
SPOUSAL CONSENT
I am the spouse of . On behalf of myself, my heirs and legatees, I hereby join in and consent to the terms of the foregoing Custody Agreement and agree to the sale of the shares of Common Stock of Isolagen, Inc., registered in the name of my spouse or otherwise registered, which my spouse proposes to sell pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement (as defined therein).
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Instruction: Complete each column as to certificate(s) to be deposited with the Custodian.
CERTIFICATE(S) DEPOSITED
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Instruction: Indicate how you wish to receive payment for the shares of Common Stock sold to the Underwriters. Please note that if you are selling shares of Common Stock registered in the name of a corporation or other association or a trust, payment will be made only to the corporation or other association or trust. A wire transfer can be made only to an account standing in exactly the same name as the person or entity, including the corporation or other association or trust, that is the registered owner of the Common Stock being sold.
MANNER OF PAYMENT
I request that payment of the net proceeds from the sale of the shares of Common Stock of the Company to be sold by me pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement be made in the following manner (CHECK ONE):
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CUSTODIAN'S ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND RECEIPT
, as Custodian, acknowledges acceptance of the duties of the Custodian under the foregoing Custody Agreement and receipt of the certificate(s) referred therein.
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DO NOT DETACH FROM CUSTODY AGREEMENT
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SELLING STOCKHOLDERS'
IRREVOCABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY
for sale of shares of common stock,
par value $0.001 per share, of Isolagen, Inc.
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c/o Isolagen, Inc.
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned stockholder and certain other holders of common stock of Isolagen, Inc. (the "Company") (such holders and the undersigned being hereinafter sometimes collectively referred to as the "Selling Stockholders") propose to enter into an Underwriting Agreement (the "Underwriting Agreement") with the Company, CIBC World Markets Corp., ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, Inc. and ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇, Inc., as representatives (the "Representatives") of the several underwriters to be named in Schedule I to the Underwriting Agreement (the "Underwriters"). The Selling Stockholders propose to sell to the Underwriters pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement certain authorized and issued shares of the common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company (the "Common Stock") owned by them. It is understood that at this time there is no commitment on the part of the Underwriters to purchase any shares of Common Stock and no assurance that the Underwriting Agreement will be entered into by the Company or the Underwriters.
The undersigned hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ each with full power and authority to act alone in any matter hereunder and with full power of substitution, the true and lawful attorneys-in-fact of the undersigned (individually an "Attorney" and collectively the "Attorneys"), with full power and authority in the name of, for and on behalf of, the undersigned with respect to all matters arising in connection with the sale of Common Stock by the undersigned including, but not limited to, the power and authority on behalf of the undersigned to take any and all of the following actions:
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- To
sell, assign, transfer and deliver to the several Underwriters up to the number of shares of Common Stock set forth on the signature page hereof such shares of Common Stock to be
represented by certificate(s) deposited by the undersigned pursuant to the Custody Agreement (the "Custody Agreement") between the undersigned and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as
Custodian (the "Custodian"), at a purchase price per share, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions, to be paid by the Underwriters, as the Attorneys, in their sole discretion, shall
determine, but at the same price per share at which the Company and all other Selling Stockholders (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement) sell Common Stock to the Underwriters;
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- To determine the number of shares of Common Stock to be sold by the undersigned to the Underwriters, which numbers shall be no greater but may be fewer than the corresponding numbers set forth on the signature page hereof (such total number of shares of Common Stock as is finally determined by the Attorneys and set forth opposite the name of the undersigned in Schedule II to the Underwriting Agreement is hereinafter referred to as the "Shares");
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execute, deliver and perform the Underwriting Agreement in customary form with such customary representations, warranties and covenant as the Attorneys, in their sole discretion,
may deem appropriate, with full power to make such amendments to the Underwriting Agreement as the Attorneys, in their sole discretion, may deem advisable;
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behalf of the undersigned, to make the representations and warranties and enter into the agreements contained in the Underwriting Agreement (including, without limitation, entering
into the "lock-up" agreements);
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To instruct the Custodian on all matters pertaining to the sale of the Shares and the delivery of certificates therefor, including: (i) the transfer of the Shares on the
books of the Company in order to effect the sale of the Shares (including designating the name or names in which new certificate(s) for Shares are to be issued and the denominations thereof),
(ii) the delivery to or for the account of the Underwriters of the certificate(s) for the Shares against receipt by the Custodian of the purchase price to be paid therefor, (iii) the
payment, out of the proceeds (net of underwriting discounts and commissions) from the sale of the Shares by the undersigned to the Underwriters, of any expense incurred in accordance with
paragraph 6 which is not payable by the Company and any transfer taxes payable in connection with the transfer of the Shares to the Underwriters ("Transfer Taxes") and (iv) the
transmission to the undersigned of the proceeds, if any, from the sale of the Shares (after deducting all amounts payable by the undersigned pursuant to clause (iii) above) and the return to
the undersigned, of new certificate(s) representing the excess, if any, of the number of shares of Common Stock represented by certificate(s) deposited with the Custodian over the number of Shares
sold to the Underwriters; and (b) to amend the Custody Agreement and any related documents in such manner as the Attorneys may determine to be not materially adverse to the undersigned.
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incur or authorize the incurrence of any necessary or appropriate expense in connection with the sale of the Shares and to determine the amount of any Transfer Taxes;
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take any and all steps deemed necessary or desirable by the Attorneys in connection with the registration of the Shares under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the securities or "blue sky" laws of various states and jurisdictions, including, without limitation, the giving, making or filing of such
undertakings, consents to service of process and representations and agreements and the taking of such other steps as the Attorneys may deem necessary or desirable;
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retain legal counsel to represent the undersigned in connection with any and all matters referred to herein (which counsel may, but need not be, counsel for the Company);
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- To
make, execute, acknowledge and deliver all such other contracts, stock powers, orders, receipts, notices, instructions, certificates, letters and other writings, including, without
limitation, communications with the Securities and Exchange Commission state securities commissions and the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. ("NASD"), and in general to do all
things and to take all actions which the Attorneys, in their sole discretion, may consider necessary or desirable in connection with the sale of Shares to the Underwriters and the public offering
thereof, as fully as could the undersigned if personally present and acting;
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- If
necessary, to endorse (in blank or otherwise) on behalf of the undersigned the certificate(s) representing the Shares, or a stock power or powers attached to such certificate(s);
and
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- To sign such other certificates, documents and agreements and take any and all other actions as the Attorneys may deem necessary or desirable in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement, the Custody Agreement and this Power of Attorney.
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Each Attorney may act alone in exercising the rights and powers conferred on the Attorneys in this Power of Attorney, and the act of any Attorney shall be the act of the Attorneys. Each Attorney is hereby empowered to determine in his or her sole discretion the time or times when, the purpose for and the manner in which any power herein conferred upon him or her shall be exercised, and the conditions, provisions or covenants of any instrument or document which may be executed by him or her pursuant hereto.
The undersigned acknowledges receipt of a copy of the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the "Registration Statement") relating to the offering of the Shares and the other shares of Common Stock (together, the "Offered Shares") to be sold by the Selling Stockholders and a copy of the draft form of the Underwriting Agreement dated June , 2004. The undersigned has reviewed the Registration Statement and the form of the Underwriting Agreement and understands the obligations and agreements of the undersigned set forth in the Underwriting Agreement. All representations and warranties of the Selling Stockholders in the Underwriting Agreement with respect to the undersigned will be as of the date of the execution of the Underwriting Agreement, the Closing Dates (as determined in accordance with the Underwriting Agreement), true and correct. All such representations and warranties will, as provided in the Underwriting Agreement, survive the termination of the Underwriting Agreement and the delivery of and payment for the Shares.
Upon the execution and delivery of the Underwriting Agreement by the Attorneys on behalf of the Selling Stockholders, the undersigned agrees to be bound by and to perform each and every covenant and agreement contained therein of the undersigned as a Selling Stockholder.
The undersigned agrees, if so requested, to provide an opinion of counsel, addressed to ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, which opinion shall expressly permit reliance thereon by ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, setting forth such matters as ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP may reasonably request in rendering its opinion pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement and such other documentation as the Attorneys, the Company, the Representatives or any of their respective counsel may request to effectuate any of the provisions hereof or of the Underwriting Agreement, all of the foregoing to be in form and substance satisfactory in all respects to the party requesting such documentation.
This Power of Attorney and all authority conferred hereby are granted and conferred subject to and in consideration of the interests of the Attorneys, the several Underwriters, the Company and the other Selling Stockholders who may become parties to the Underwriting Agreement, and for the purposes of completing the transactions contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement and this Power of Attorney.
This Power of Attorney is an agency coupled with an interest and all authority conferred hereby shall be irrevocable, and shall not be withdrawn or terminated by any act of the undersigned or by operation of law, whether by the death or incapacity of the undersigned (or either or any of the undersigned) or by the occurrence of any other event or events (including, without limitation, the termination of any trust or estate for which the undersigned is acting as a fiduciary or fiduciaries, the death or incapacity of one or more trustees, guardians, executors or administrators under such trust or estate or the merger, consolidation, dissolution or liquidation of any corporation or partnership) (any of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as an "Event"). If an Event shall occur after the execution hereof but before completion of the transactions contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement or this Power of Attorney, then certificate(s) representing the Shares will be delivered to the Underwriters by or on behalf of the undersigned in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Underwriting Agreement and the Custody Agreement and any actions taken hereunder by the Attorneys shall be as valid as if such Event had not occurred regardless of whether or not the Custodian, the Attorneys, the Underwriters, or any one of them, shall have received notice of such Event.
It is understood that the Attorneys assume no responsibility or liability to any person other than to deal with the certificate(s) for shares of Common Stock deposited with the Custodian pursuant to the
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Custody Agreement and the proceeds from the sale of the Shares in accordance with the provisions hereof. The Attorneys make no representations with respect to and shall have no responsibility for the Registration Statement or the Prospectus nor, except as herein expressly provided, for any aspect of the offering of Common Stock, and the Attorneys shall not be liable for any error of judgment or for any act done or omitted or for any mistake of fact or law except for the Attorneys' own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The undersigned agrees to indemnify the Attorneys for and to hold the Attorneys, jointly and severally, free from and harmless against any and all loss, claim, damage, liability or expense incurred by or on behalf of the Attorneys, or any of them, arising out of or in connection with acting as Attorneys under this Power of Attorney, as well as the cost and expense of defending against any claim of liability hereunder, which is not due to the Attorneys' own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The undersigned agrees that the Attorneys may consult with counsel of their choice (which may but need not be counsel for the Company) and the Attorneys shall have full and complete authorization and protection for any action taken or suffered by the Attorneys, or any of them hereunder, in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such counsel.
It is understood that the purchase price per share of Common Stock to be paid in connection with the offering contemplated by the Prospectus and the Underwriting Agreement could be higher or lower than the price per share of Common Stock as of the date hereof.
It is understood that the Attorneys shall serve entirely without compensation.
This Power of Attorney shall be binding upon the undersigned and the heirs, legal representatives, distributees, successors and assigns of the undersigned.
This Power of Attorney shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York without regard to the conflicts of laws principles thereof.
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Witness the due execution of the foregoing Power of Attorney as of the date written below.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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On this the day of before me personally appeared who acknowledged the signing of the foregoing instrument and that the same is the free act and deed of such person (and if such person is signing on behalf of a corporation, partnership or trust that the same is the free act and deed of such corporation, partnership or trust and that such person is duly authorized to sign the foregoing instrument).
WITNESS my hand and official seal.
Notary's Signature
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7,000,000 Shares1 ISOLAGEN, INC. Common Stock UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
SCHEDULE I
SCHEDULE II
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