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EXHIBIT 1.1
W&S DRAFT
1/23/97
Shares
MAXIMUS, INC.
Common Stock
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
____________________, 1997
XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXX & XXXXXXXX
SECURITIES CORPORATION
XXXXXX BROTHERS INC.
As representatives of the
several underwriters named in
Schedule I hereto
c/x Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx
Securities Corporation
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Dear Sirs and Mesdames:
MAXIMUS, Inc., a Virginia corporation (the "Company"), and the stockholders
of the Company named in Schedule II hereto, (collectively, the "Selling
Stockholders"), severally propose to sell an aggregate of shares of
common stock, $.01 par value of the Company (the "Firm Shares"), to the several
underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (the "Underwriters"). The Firm Shares
consist of shares to be issued and sold by the Company and
outstanding shares to be sold by the Selling Stockholders. The Selling
Stockholders also propose to sell to the several Underwriters not more than
additional shares of common stock, $.01 par value of the Company
(the "Additional Shares"), if requested by the Underwriters as provided in
Section 2 hereof. The Firm Shares and the Additional Shares are herein
collectively called the Shares. The shares of common stock of the Company to be
outstanding after giving effect to the sales contemplated hereby are hereinafter
referred to as the Common Stock. The Company and the Selling Stockholders are
hereinafter collectively called the Sellers.
1. REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND PROSPECTUS. The Company has prepared and
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") in
accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively called the
"Act"), a registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-_____) including
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a prospectus relating to the Shares, which may be amended. The registration
statement as amended at the time when it becomes effective, including a
registration statement (if any) filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Act
increasing the size of the offering registered under the Act and information (if
any) deemed to be part of the registration statement at the time of
effectiveness pursuant to Rule 43OA under the Act, is hereinafter referred to as
the Registration Statement; and the prospectus in the form first used to confirm
sales of Shares is hereinafter referred as the Prospectus.
2. AGREEMENTS TO SELL AND PURCHASE. On the basis of the representations and
warranties contained in this Agreement, and subject to its terms and conditions,
(i) the Company agrees to issue and sell Firm Shares, (ii) each
Selling Stockholder agrees, severally and not jointly, to sell the number of
Firm Shares set forth opposite such Selling Stockholder's name in Schedule II
hereto and (iii) each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase
from each Seller at a price per share of $__________ (the "Purchase Price") the
number of Firm Shares (subject to such adjustments to eliminate fractional
shares as you may determine) which bears the same proportion to the total number
of Firm Shares to be sold by such Seller as the number of Firm Shares set forth
opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule I hereto bears to the total
number of Firm Shares.
On the basis of the representations and warranties contained in this
Agreement, and subject to its terms and conditions, (i) certain of the Selling
Stockholders agree, severally and not jointly, to sell up to the number of
Additional Shares set forth opposite such Selling Stockholder's name in Schedule
II hereto and (ii) the Underwriters shall have the right to purchase, severally
and not jointly, up to an aggregate of Additional Shares from those
Selling Stockholders who have agreed to sell Additional Shares, at the Purchase
Price. Additional Shares may be purchased solely for the purpose of covering
over-allotments made in connection with the offering of the Firm Shares. The
Underwriters may exercise their right to purchase Additional Shares in whole or
in part from time to time by giving written notice thereof to the Company within
30 days after the date of this Agreement. You shall give any such notice on
behalf of the Underwriters and such notice shall specify the aggregate number of
Additional Shares to be purchased pursuant to such exercise and the date for
payment and delivery thereof. The date specified in any such notice shall be a
business day (i) no earlier than the Closing Date (as hereinafter defined), (ii)
no later than ten business days after such notice has been given and (iii) no
earlier than two business days after such notice has been given. The maximum
number of Additional Shares to be purchased from each such Selling Stockholder
is set forth on Schedule II hereto. If less than the maximum number of
Additional Shares are to be purchased hereunder, each of such Selling
Stockholders, severally and not jointly, agrees to sell to the Underwriters the
number of Additional Shares (subject to such adjustments to eliminate fractional
shares as you may determine) which bears the same proportion to the total number
of Additional
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Shares to be purchased by the Underwriters as the maximum number of Additional
Shares to be sold by each of such Selling Stockholders bears to the total number
of Additional Shares. If any Additional Shares are to be purchased, each
Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees to purchase from such Selling
Stockholders the number of Additional Shares (subject to such adjustments to
eliminate fractional shares as you may determine) which bears the same
proportion to the total number of Additional Shares to be purchased from such
Selling Stockholders as the number of Firm Shares set forth opposite the name of
such Underwriter in Schedule I bears to the total number of Firm Shares.
The Sellers hereby agree, severally and not jointly, and the Company shall,
concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, deliver an agreement executed
by (i) each of the directors and officers of the Company who is not a Selling
Stockholder and (ii) each stockholder of the Company who is not a Selling
Stockholder, pursuant to which each such person agrees not to offer, sell,
contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, or otherwise dispose of
any common stock of the Company or any securities convertible into or
exercisable or exchangeable for such common stock or in any other manner
transfer all or a portion of the economic consequences associated with the
ownership of any such common stock, except to the Underwriters pursuant to this
Agreement, for a period of 180 days after the date of the Prospectus without the
prior written consent of Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx Securities Corporation.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, during such period (i) the Company may grant
stock options pursuant to the Company's existing stock option plan described in
the Prospectus and (ii) the Company may issue shares of its common stock upon
the exercise of an option or warrant or the conversion of a security outstanding
on the date hereof.
3. TERMS OF PUBLIC OFFERING. The Sellers are advised by you that the
Underwriters propose (i) to make a public offering of their respective portions
of the Shares as soon after the effective date of the Registration Statement as
in your judgment is advisable and (ii) initially to offer the Shares upon the
terms set forth in the Prospectus.
4. DELIVERY AND PAYMENT. Delivery to the Underwriters of and payment for
the Firm Shares shall be made at 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the third or
fourth business day following the date of the initial public offering unless
otherwise permitted by the Commission pursuant to Rule 15c6-1 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the 'Exchange Act")(the "Closing Date"), at
such place outside the State of New York as you shall designate. The Closing
Date and the location of delivery of and the form of payment for the Firm Shares
may be varied by agreement between you and the Sellers.
Delivery to the Underwriters of and payment for any Additional Shares to be
purchased by the Underwriters shall be made at such place as you shall designate
at 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the date specified in the applicable
exercise notice given by you
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pursuant to Section 2 (an "Option Closing Date"). Any such Option Closing Date
and the location of delivery of and the form of payment for such Additional
Shares may be varied by agreement between you and the Company.
Certificates for the Shares shall be registered in such names and issued in
such denominations as you shall request in writing not later than two full
business days prior to the Closing Date or an option Closing Date, as the case
may be. Such certificates shall be made available to you for inspection not
later than 9:30 A.M., New York City time, on the business day next preceding the
Closing Date or an Option Closing Date, as the case may be. Certificates in
definitive form evidencing the Shares shall be delivered to you on the Closing
Date or an Option Closing Date, as the case may be, with any transfer taxes
thereon duly paid by the respective Sellers, for the respective accounts of the
several Underwriters, against payment of the Purchase Price therefor by wire
transfer of same day funds to the order of the applicable Sellers.
5. AGREEMENTS OF THE COMPANY. The Company agrees with you:
(a) To use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to become
effective at the earliest possible time.
(b) To advise you promptly and, if requested by you, to confirm such advice
in writing, (i) when the Registration Statement has become effective and when
any post-effective amendment to it becomes effective, (ii) of any request by the
Commission for amendments to the Registration Statement or amendments or
supplements to the Prospectus or for additional information, (iii) of the
issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement or of the suspension of qualification of the Shares for
offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or the initiation of any proceeding for
such purposes, and (iv) of the happening of any event during the period referred
to in paragraph (e) below which makes any statement of a material fact made in
the Registration Statement or the Prospectus untrue or which requires the making
of any additions to or changes in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus
in order to make the statements therein not misleading. If at any time the
Commission shall issue any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement, the Company will make every reasonable effort to obtain
the withdrawal or lifting of such order at the earliest possible time.
(c) To furnish to you, without charge, two (2) signed copies of the
Registration Statement as first filed with the Commission and of each amendment
to it, including all exhibits, and to furnish to you and each Underwriter
designated by you such number of conformed copies of the Registration Statement
as so filed and of each amendment to it, without exhibits, as you may reasonably
request.
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(d) Not to file any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement,
whether before or after the time when it becomes effective, or to make any
amendment or supplement to the Prospectus of which you shall not previously have
been advised or to which you shall reasonably object; and to prepare and file
with the Commission, promptly upon your reasonable request, any amendment to the
Registration Statement or supplement to the Prospectus which may be necessary or
advisable in connection with the distribution of the Shares by you, and to use
its best efforts to cause the same to become promptly effective.
(e) promptly after the Registration Statement becomes effective, and from
time to time thereafter for such period as in the opinion of counsel for the
Underwriters a prospectus is required by law to be delivered in connection with
sales by an Underwriter or a dealer, to furnish to each Underwriter and dealer
as many copies of the Prospectus (and of any amendment or supplement to the
Prospectus) as such Underwriter or dealer may reasonably request.
(f) If during the period specified in paragraph (e) any event shall occur
as a result of which, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters it becomes
necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus is delivered to a
purchaser, not misleading, or if it is necessary to amend or supplement the
Prospectus to comply with any law, forthwith to prepare and file with the
Commission an appropriate amendment or supplement to the Prospectus so that the
statements in the Prospectus, as so amended or supplemented, will not in the
light of the circumstances when it is so delivered, be misleading, or so that
the Prospectus will comply with law, and to furnish to each Underwriter and to
such dealers as you shall specify, such number of copies thereof as such
Underwriter or dealers may reasonably request.
(g) Prior to any public offering of the Shares, to cooperate with you and
counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the registration or
qualification of the Shares for offer and sale by the several Underwriters and
by dealers under the state securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as
you may request, to continue such qualification in effect so long as required
for distribution of the Shares and to file such consents to service of process
or other documents as may be necessary in order to effect such registration or
qualification.
(h) To mail and make generally available to its stockholders as soon as
reasonably practicable an earnings statement covering a period of at least
twelve months after the effective date of the Registration Statement (but in no
event commencing later than 90 days after such date) which shall satisfy the
provisions of Section II(a) of the Act, and to advise you in writing when such
statement has been so made available.
(i) During the period of five years after the date of this Agreement, (i)
to mail as soon as reasonably practicable after the
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end of each fiscal year to the record holders of its Common Stock a financial
report of the Company and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis (and a
similar financial report of all unconsolidated subsidiaries, if any), all such
financial reports to include a consolidated balance sheet, a consolidated
statement of operations, a consolidated statement of cash flows and a
consolidated statement of stockholders' equity as of the end of and for such
fiscal year, together with comparable information as of the end of and for the
preceding year, certified by independent certified public accountants, and (ii)
to mail and make generally available as soon as practicable after the end of
each quarterly period (except for the last quarterly period of each fiscal year)
to such holders, a consolidated balance sheet, a consolidated statement of
operations and a consolidated statement of cash flows (and similar financial
reports of all unconsolidated subsidiaries, if any) as of the end of and for
such period, and for the period from the beginning of such year to the close of
such quarterly period, together with comparable information for the
corresponding periods of the preceding year.
(j) During the period referred to in paragraph (i), to furnish to you as
soon as available a copy of each report or other publicly available information
of the Company mailed to the holders of Common Stock or filed with the
Commission and such other publicly available information concerning the Company
and its subsidiaries as you may reasonably request.
(k) To pay all costs, expenses, fees and taxes incident to (i) the
preparation, printing, filing and distribution under the Act of the Registration
Statement (including financial statements and exhibits), each preliminary
prospectus and all amendments and supplements to any of them prior to or during
the period specified in paragraph (e), (ii) the printing and delivery of the
Prospectus and all amendments or supplements to it during the period specified
in paragraph (e), (iii) the printing and delivery of this Agreement, the
Preliminary and Supplemental Blue Sky Memoranda and all other agreements,
memoranda, correspondence and other documents printed and delivered in
connection with the offering of the Shares (including in each case any
disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters relating to such printing and
delivery), (iv) the registration or qualification of the Shares for offer and
sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of the several states (including in
each case the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters relating to
such registration or qualification and memoranda relating thereto), (v) filings
and clearance with the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. in
connection with the offering (including the fees and disbursements of counsel
for the Underwriters relating to such filings and clearance), (vi) the listing
of the Shares on the Nasdaq National Market, (vii) furnishing such copies of the
Registration Statement, the Prospectus and all amendments and supplements
thereto as may be requested for use in connection with the offering or sale of
the Shares by the Underwriters or 5 by dealers to whom Shares may be sold and
(viii) the performance by the Sellers of their other obligations under this
Agreement.
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(1) To use its best efforts to maintain the inclusion of the Common Stock
in the Nasdaq National Market (or on a national securities exchange) for a
period of five years after the effective date of the Registration Statement.
(m) To use its best efforts to do and perform all things required or
necessary to be done and performed under this Agreement by the Company prior to
the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as the case may be, and to satisfy
all conditions precedent to the delivery of the Shares.
6. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY. The Company represents
and warrants to each Underwriter that:
(a) The Registration Statement has become effective; no stop order
suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement is in effect, and no
proceedings for such purpose are pending before or threatened by the Commission.
(b) (i) Each part of the Registration Statement, when such part became
effective, did not contain and each such part, as amended or supplemented, if
applicable, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading, (ii) the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus comply and, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will comply in
all material respects with the Act and (iii) the Prospectus does not contain
and, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make
the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading, except that the representations and warranties set forth
in this paragraph (b) do not apply to statements or omissions in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus based upon information relating to any
Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through you
expressly for use therein.
(c) Each preliminary prospectus filed as part of the registration statement
as originally filed or as part of any amendment thereto, or filed pursuant to
Rule 424 under the Act, and each Registration Statement filed pursuant to Rule
462(b) under the Act, if any, complied when so filed in all material respects
with the Act; and did not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit
to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading.
(d) The Company has been duly incorporated, is validly existing as a
corporation in good standing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia and
has the corporate power and authority to carry on its business as it is
currently being conducted and to own, lease and operate its properties, and is
duly qualified and is in good standing as a foreign corporation authorized to do
business in each jurisdiction in which the nature of its business or its
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ownership or leasing of property requires such qualification, except where the
failure to be so qualified would not have a material adverse effect on the
Company.
(e) All the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company (including
the Shares to be sold by the Selling Stockholders) have been duly authorized and
validly issued and are fully paid, non-assessable and not subject to any
preemptive or similar rights; and the Shares to be issued and sold by the
Company hereunder have been duly authorized and, when issued and delivered to
the Underwriters against payment therefor as provided by this Agreement, will be
validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, and the issuance of such Shares
will not be subject to any preemptive or similar rights.
(f) The authorized capital stock of the Company, including the Common
Stock, conforms as to legal matters to the description thereof contained in the
Prospectus.
(g) The Company is not in violation of its charter or by-laws or in default
in the performance of any obligation, agreement or condition contained in any
bond, debenture, note or any other evidence of indebtedness or in any other
agreement, indenture or instrument material to the conduct of the business of
the Company to which the Company is a party or by which the Company or its
property is bound.
(h) The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, compliance
by the Company with all the provisions hereof and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby will not require any consent, approval,
authorization or other order of any court, regulatory body, administrative
agency or other governmental body (except as such may be required under the
securities or Blue Sky laws of the various states) and will not conflict with or
constitute a breach of any of the terms or provisions of, or a default under,
the charter or by-laws of the Company or any agreement, indenture or other
instrument to which the Company is a party or by which the Company or its
property is bound, or violate or conflict with any laws, administrative
regulations or rulings or court decrees applicable to the Company or its
property.
(i) Except as otherwise set forth in the Prospectus, there are no material
legal or governmental proceedings pending to which the Company is a party or of
which any of its property is the subject, and, to the best of the Company's
knowledge, no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated. No contract or
document of a character required to be described in the Registration Statement
or the Prospectus or to be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement is
not so described or filed as required.
(j) The Company has not violated any foreign, federal, state or local law
or regulation relating to the protection of human health and safety, the
environment or hazardous or toxic substances
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or wastes, pollutants or contaminants ("Environmental Laws"), nor any federal or
state law relating to discrimination in the hiring, promotion or pay of
employees nor any applicable federal or state wages and hours laws, nor any
provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act or the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder, which in each case might result in any
material adverse change in the business, prospects, financial condition or
results of operation of the Company.
(k) The Company has such permits, licenses, franchises and authorizations
of governmental or regulatory authorities ("permits"), including, without
limitation, under any applicable Environmental Laws, as are necessary to own,
lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business; the Company has
fulfilled and performed all of its material obligations with respect to such
permits and no event has occurred which 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 holder of any such permit; and, except as
described in the Prospectus, such permits contain no restrictions that are
materially burdensome to the Company.
(1) Except as otherwise set forth in the Prospectus or such as are not
material to the business, prospects, financial condition or results of operation
of the Company, the Company has good and marketable title, free and clear of all
liens, claims, encumbrances and restrictions except liens for taxes not yet due
and payable, to all property and assets described in the Registration Statement
as being owned by it. All leases to which the Company is a party are valid and
binding and no default has occurred or is continuing thereunder which might
result in any material adverse change in the business, prospects, financial
condition or results of operation of the Company and the Company enjoys peaceful
and undisturbed possession under all such leases to which it is a party as
lessee with such exceptions as do not materially interfere with the use made by
the Company.
(m) The Company maintains reasonably adequate insurance.
(n) Ernst & Young LLP are independent public accountants with respect to
the Company as required by the Act.
(o) The Company owns or possesses adequate rights with respect to the use
of all trade secrets, know-how, propriety techniques, including processes and
substances, trademarks, service marks, trade names and copyrights (collectively,
"Intellectual Property") described or referred to in the Prospectus as owned or
used by it, or which are necessary for the conduct of its business as described
in the Prospectus, other than Intellectual Property the lack of which would not
reasonably be expected to result in any material adverse change in the business,
prospects, financial condition or results of operation of the Company and no
such rights as are material to the business and prospectus of the Company expire
or are subject to termination at the election of another party without cause or
the Company's consent at a time or under circumstances which would result in any
material adverse change in
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the business, prospects, financial condition or results of operation of the
Company. The Company has not received any notice of infringement of or conflict
with asserted rights of others with respect to any patents, patent rights,
inventions, trade secrets, know-how, proprietary techniques, including processes
and substances, trademarks, service marks, trade names or copyrights which would
result in any material adverse change in the business, prospects, financial
condition or results of operation of the Company.
(p) The Company is not involved in any labor dispute which, either
individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to result in any
material adverse change in the business, prospects, financial condition or
results of operation of the Company, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, is
any such dispute threatened.
(q) The financial statements, together with related schedules and notes
forming part of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (and any amendment
or supplement thereto), present fairly the consolidated financial position,
results of operations and changes in financial position of the Company and its
subsidiaries on the basis stated in the Registration Statement at the respective
dates or for the respective periods to which they apply; such statements and
related schedules and notes have been prepared in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles consistently applied throughout the periods
involved, except as disclosed therein; and the other financial and statistical
information and data set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
(and any amendment or supplement thereto) is, in all material respects,
accurately presented and prepared on a basis consistent with such financial
statements and the books and records of the Company. The pro forma financial
statements and data set forth in the Prospectus present fairly in all material
respects the information shown therein, have been prepared in accordance with
the Commission's rules and guidelines with respect to pro forma information,
have been properly compiled on the pro forma basis described therein, and, in
the opinion of the Company, the assumptions used in the preparation thereof are
reasonable and the adjustments used therein are appropriate under the
circumstances.
(r) The Company is not an "investment company" or a company "controlled" by
an "investment company" within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended.
(s) No holder of any security of the Company has any right to require
registration of shares of Common Stock or any other security of the Company.
(t) The Company has complied with all provisions of Section 517.075,
Florida Statutes (Chapter 92-198, Laws of Florida).
(u) The Company has filed a registration statement pursuant to Section
12(g) of the Exchange Act, to register the Common Stock, has filed an
application to list the Shares on the Nasdaq National
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Market, and has received notification that the listing has been approved,
subject to notice of issuance.
(v) There are no outstanding subscriptions, rights, warrants, options,
calls, convertible securities, commitments of sale or liens related to or
entitling any person to purchase or otherwise to acquire any shares of the
capital stock of, or other ownership interest in, the Company or any subsidiary
thereof except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement.
(w) Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, there are no business
relationships or related party transactions required to be disclosed therein by
Item 404 of Regulation S-K of the Commission.
(x) The Company maintains a system of internal accounting controls
sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in
accordance with management's general or specific authorizations; (ii)
transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial
statements in conformity 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.
(y) All material tax returns required to be filed by the Company in any
jurisdiction have been filed, other than those filings being contested in good
faith, and all material taxes, including withholding taxes, penalties and
interest, assessments, fees and other charges due pursuant to such returns or
pursuant to any assessment received by the Company have been paid, other than
those being contested in good faith and for which adequate reserves have been
provided.
7. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE SELLING STOCKHOLDERS. Each Selling
Stockholder severally represents and warrants to each Underwriter that:
(a) Such Selling Stockholder is the lawful owner of the Shares to be sold
by such Selling Stockholder pursuant to this Agreement and has, and on the
Closing Date (and Option Closing Date, if applicable) will have, good and clear
title to such Shares, free of all restrictions on transfer, liens, encumbrances,
security interests and claims whatsoever.
(b) Upon delivery of and payment for such Shares pursuant to this
Agreement, good and clear title to such Shares will pass to the Underwriters,
free of all restrictions on transfer, liens, encumbrances, security interests
and claims whatsoever.
(c) Such Selling Stockholder has, and on the Closing Date will have, full
legal right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement and the Custody
Agreement between the Selling Stockholders and , as Custodian (the "Custody
Agreement") and to
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sell, assign, transfer and deliver such Shares in the manner provided herein and
therein, and this Agreement and the Custody Agreement have been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by such Selling Stockholder and each of this Agreement
and the Custody Agreement is a valid and binding agreement of such Selling
Stockholder enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as rights to
indemnity and contribution hereunder may be limited by applicable law.
(d) The power of attorney signed by such Selling Stockholder appointing
_______________ and _____________________ , or either one of them, as his
attorney-in-fact to the extent set forth therein with regard to the transactions
contemplated hereby and by the Registration Statement and the Custody Agreement
has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by or on behalf of such SelLing
Stockholder and is a valid and binding instrument of such Selling Stockholder
enforceable in accordance with its terms, and, pursuant to such power of
attorney, such Selling Stockholder has authorized _________________ and
__________________ , or either one of them, to execute and deliver on his behalf
this Agreement and any other document necessary or desirable in connection with
transactions contemplated hereby and to deliver the Shares to be sold by such
Selling Stockholder pursuant to this Agreement.
(e) Such Selling Stockholder has not taken, and will not take, directly or
indirectly, any action designed to, or which 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 pursuant to the
distribution contemplated by this Agreement, and other than as permitted by the
Act, the Selling Stockholder has not distributed and will not distribute any
prospectus or other offering material in connection with the offering and sale
of the Shares.
(f) The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by such
Selling Stockholder, compliance by such Selling Stockholder with all the
provisions hereof and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby
will not require any consent, approval, authorization or other order of any
court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental body (except
as such may be required under the Act, state securities laws or Blue Sky laws)
and will not conflict with or constitute a breach of any of the terms or
provisions of, or a default under, organizational documents of such Selling
Stockholder, if not an individual, or any agreement, indenture or other
instrument to which such Selling Stockholder is a party or by which such Selling
Stockholder or property of such Selling Stockholder is bound, or violate or
conflict with any laws, administrative regulation or ruling or court decree
applicable to such Selling Stockholder or property of such Selling Stockholder.
(g) (i) To the knowledge of such Selling Stockholder, the representations
and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 6 hereof are true and correct
and (ii) such parts of the Registration Statement under the caption "Principal
and Selling
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Stockholders" which specifically relate to such Selling Stockholder do not
contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material
fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein,
in light of circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(h) At any time during the period described in paragraph 5(e) hereof, if
there is any change in the information referred to in paragraph 7(g) above, the
Selling Stockholders will immediately notify you of such change.
8. Indemnification. (a) The Company and each Selling Stockholder, jointly
and severally, 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 Act or Section 20 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Exchange Act"), from and against any and all S losses, claims, damages,
liabilities and judgments caused by any untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus (as amended or supplemented if the Company shall have furnished any
amendments or supplements thereto) or any preliminary prospectus, or caused by
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,
except insofar as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or judgments are
caused by any such untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or
omission based upon information relating to any Underwriters furnished in
writing to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through you expressly
for use therein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the aggregate liability of any
Selling Stockholder pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph shall be
limited to an amount equal to, in the aggregate, the sum of (i) the purchase
price received by such Selling Stockholder from the sale of such Selling Stock-
holder's Shares hereunder and (ii) such Selling Stockholder's proportionate
share of the S Corporation Dividend (as defined in the Prospectus); provided,
however, that the foregoing indemnity agreement with respect to any preliminary
prospectus shall not inure to the benefit of any Underwriter from whom the
person asserting any such losses, claims, damages and liabilities and judgments
purchased Shares, or any person controlling such Underwriter, if a copy of the
Prospectus (as then amended or supplemented if the Company shall have furnished
any amendments or supplements thereto) was not sent or given by or on behalf of
such Underwriter to such person, if required by law so to have been delivered,
at or prior to the written confirmation of the sale of the Shares to such
person, and if the Prospectus (as so amended and supplemented) would have cured
the defect giving rise to such loss, claim, damage, liability or judgment.
(b) In case any action shall be brought against any Underwriter or any
person controlling such Underwriter, based upon any preliminary prospectus, the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto
and with respect to which indemnity may be sought against the Company and the
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Selling Stockholders, such Underwriter shall promptly notify the Company and the
Selling Stockholders in writing and the Company and the Selling Stockholders
shall assume the defense thereof, including the employment of counsel reasonably
satisfactory to such indemnified party and payment of all fees and expenses. Any
Underwriter or any such controlling person shall have the right to employ
separate counsel in any such action and participate in the defense thereof but
the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such
Underwriter or such controlling person unless (i) the employment of such counsel
has been specifically authorized in writing by the Company, (ii) the Company and
the Selling Stockholders shall have failed to assume the defense and employ
counsel or (iii) the named parties to any such action (including any impleaded
parties) include both such Underwriter or such controlling person and the
Company or any Selling Stockholder, as the case may be, and such Underwriter or
such controlling person shall have been advised by such counsel that there may
be one or more legal defenses available to it which are different from or
additional to those available to the Company or the Selling Stockholders, as the
case may be (in which case the Company and the Selling Stockholders shall not
have the right to assume the defense of such action on behalf of such
Underwriter or such controlling person, it being understood, however, that the
Company and the Selling Stockholders shall not, in connection with any one such
action or separate but substantially similar or related actions in the same
jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances, be
liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys (in
addition to any local counsel) for all such Underwriters and controlling
persons, which firm shall be designated in writing by Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx &
Xxxxxxxx Securities Corporation and that all such fees and expenses shall be
reimbursed as they are incurred). A Seller shall not be liable for any
settlement of any such action effected without the written consent of such
Seller but if settled with the written consent of such Seller, such Seller
agrees to indemnify and hold harmless any Underwriter and any such controlling
person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement.
Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if in any case where the
fees and expenses of counsel are at the expense of the indemnifying party and an
indemnified party shall have requested the indemnifying party to reimburse the
indemnified party for such fees and expenses of counsel as incurred, such
indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of any
action effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered
into more than ten business days after the receipt by such indemnifying party of
the aforesaid request and (ii) such indemnifying party shall have failed to
reimburse the indemnified party in accordance with such request for
reimbursement prior to the date of such settlement. No indemnifying party shall,
without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any
settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any
indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been
sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement includes an
unconditional release of such indemnified
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party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of
such proceeding.
(c) Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and
hold harmless the Company, its directors, its officers who sign the Registration
Statement, any person controlling the Company within the meaning of Section 15
of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, each Selling Stockholder and each
person, if any, controlling such Selling Stockholder within the meaning of
Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act to the same extent as
the foregoing indemnity from the Sellers to each Underwriter but only with
reference to information relating to such Underwriter furnished in writing by or
on behalf of such Underwriter through you expressly for use in the Registration
Statement, the Prospectus or any preliminary prospectus. In case any action
shall be brought against the Company, any of its directors, any such officer or
any person controlling the Company or any Selling Stockholder or any person
controlling such Selling Stockholder based on the Registration Statement, the
Prospectus or any preliminary prospectus and in respect of which indemnity may
be sought against any Underwriter, the Underwriter shall have the rights and
duties given to the Sellers (except that if any Seller shall have assumed the
defense thereof) such Underwriter shall not be required to do so, but may employ
separate counsel therein and participate in the defense thereof but the fees and
expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Underwriter), and the
Company, its directors, any such officers and any person controlling the Company
and the Selling Stockholders and any person controlling such Selling
Stockholders shall have the rights and duties given to the Underwriter, by
Section 8(b) hereof.
(d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 8 is unavailable to
an indemnified party in respect of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or
judgments referred to therein, then each indemnifying party, in lieu of
indemnifying such indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or
payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages,
liabilities and judgments (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect
the relative benefits received by the Sellers on the one hand and the
Underwriters on the other hand from the offering of the Shares or (ii) if the
allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in
such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits
referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Sellers and
the Underwriters in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted
in such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or judgments, as well as any other
relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Sellers
and the Underwriters shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total
net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by the
Sellers, and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the
Underwriters, bear to the total price to the public of the Shares in each case
as set forth in the table on the cover page of the Prospectus. The relative
fault of the Sellers and the Underwriters shall be determined by reference to,
among other
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things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the
omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the
Company, the Selling Stockholders or the Underwriters and the parties' relative
intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent
such statement or omission. The Sellers and the Underwriters agree that it would
not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 8(d) were
determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one
entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not
take account of the equitable considerations referred to in the immediately
preceding paragraph. The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a
result of the losses, claims, damages, liabilities or judgments referred to in
the immediately preceding paragraph shall be deemed to include, subject to the
limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by
such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such
action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 8, no
Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount
by which the total price at which the Shares underwritten by it and distributed
to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages which
such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or
alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of
fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section II(f) of the Act)
shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such
fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters' obligations to contribute
pursuant to this Section 8(d) are several in proportion to the respective number
of Shares purchased by each of the Underwriters hereunder and not joint.
(e) Each Seller hereby designates MAXIMUS, Inc., 0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxx, XxXxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 00000 (a Virginia Corporation), as its authorized agent, upon which
process may be served in any action, suit or proceeding which may be instituted
in any state or federal court in the State of New York by any Underwriter or
person controlling an Underwriter asserting a claim for indemnification or
contribution under or pursuant to this Section 8, and each Seller will accept
the jurisdiction of such court in such action, and waives, to the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, any defense based upon lack of personal
jurisdiction or venue. A copy of any such process shall be sent or given to such
Seller at the address for notices specified in Section 13 hereof.
9. CONDITIONS OF UNDERWRITERS OBLIGATIONS. The several obligations of the
Underwriters to purchase the Firm Shares under this Agreement are subject to the
satisfaction of each of the following conditions:
(a) All the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this
Agreement shall be true and correct on the Closing Date with the same force and
effect as if made on and as of the Closing Date.
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(b) The Registration Statement shall have become effective not later than
5:00 P.M.(and in the case of a Registration Statement filed under Rule 462(b) of
the Act, not later than 10:00 p.m.), New York City time, on the date of this
Agreement or at such later date and time as you may approve in writing, and at
the Closing Date no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have
been commenced or shall be pending before or contemplated by the Commission.
(c) (i) Since the date of the latest balance sheet included in the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there shall not have been any
material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material
adverse change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings,
affairs or business prospects, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of
business, of the Company, (ii) since the date of the latest balance sheet
included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus there shall not have
been any change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse
change, in the capital stock or in the long-term debt of the Company from that
set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, (iii) the Company and
its subsidiaries shall have no liability or obligation, direct or contingent,
which is material to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, other
than those reflected in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and (iv)
on the Closing Date you shall have received a certificate dated the Closing
Date, signed by Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx and Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, in their capacities as
the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board and President of
Consulting Services respectively, of the Company, confirming the matters set
forth in paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of this Section 9.
(d) All the representations and warranties of the Selling Stockholders
contained in this Agreement shall be true and correct on the Closing Date with
the same force and effect as if made on and as of the Closing Date and you shall
have received a certificate to such effect, dated the Closing Date, from each
Selling Stockholder.
(e) You shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion (satisfactory to
you and counsel for the Underwriters), dated the Closing Date, of Xxxxxx & Dodge
LLP counsel for the Company and the Selling Stockholders, to the effect that:
(i) the Company has been duly incorporated, is validly existing as a
corporation in good standing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia and
has the corporate power and authority required to carry on its business as it is
currently being conducted and to own, lease and operate its properties;
(ii) the Company is duly qualified and is in good standing as a
foreign corporation authorized to do business in each jurisdiction in which the
nature of its business or its ownership or leasing of property requires such
qualification, except where
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the failure to be so qualified would not have a material adverse effect on the
Company;
(iii) all the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including the Shares
to be sold by the Selling Stockholders) have been duly authorized and validly
issued and are fully paid, non-assessable and not subject to any preemptive or
similar rights;
(iv) the Shares to be issued and sold by the Company hereunder have
been duly authorized, and when issued and delivered to the Underwriters against
payment therefor as provided by this Agreement, will have been validly issued
and will be fully paid and non-assessable, and the issuance of such Shares is
not subject to any preemptive or similar rights;
(v) this Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by
the Company and each of the Selling Stockholders and is a valid and binding
agreement of the Company and each Selling Stockholder enforceable in accordance
with its terms (except as rights to indemnity and contribution hereunder may be
limited by applicable law);
(vi) the authorized capital stock of the Company, including the Common
Stock, conforms as to legal matters to the description thereof contained in the
Prospectus;
(vii) the Registration Statement has become effective under the Act no
stop order suspending its effectiveness has been issued and no proceedings for
that purpose are, to the knowledge of such counsel, pending before or
contemplated by the Commission;
(viii) the statements under the captions "Risk Factors - Certain
Anti-Takeover Effects, and - Shares Eligible for Future Sale", "Management -
Compensation Plans", "Description of Capital Stock", "Shares Eligible for Future
Sale", and "Underwriting" in the Prospectus and Items 14 and 15 of Part II of
the Registration Statement insofar as such statements constitute a summary of
legal matters documents or proceedings referred to therein, fairly present the
information called for with respect to such legal matters, documents and
proceedings;
(ix) the Company is not in violation of its charter or by-laws and, to
the best of such counsel's knowledge after due inquiry, the Company is not in
default in the performance of any obligation, agreement or condition contained
in any bond, debenture, note or any other evidence of indebtedness or in any
other agreement, indenture or instrument material to the conduct of the business
of the Company, to which the Company is a party or by which the Company or its
property is bound;
(x) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the
Company and each Selling Stockholder, compliance by the Company and each Selling
Stockholder with all the provisions hereof and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby will not require any consent, approval,
authorization or other
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order of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental
body (except as such may be required under the Act or other securities or Blue
Sky laws) and will not conflict with or constitute a breach of any of the terms
or provisions of, or a default under, the charter or by-laws of the Company or
the organizational documents of any Selling Stockholder that is not an
individual or any agreement, indenture or other instrument to which the Company
or any Selling Stockholder is a party or by which the Company or any Selling
Stockholder or their respective properties are bound, or violate or conflict
with any laws, administrative regulations or rulings or court decrees applicable
to the Company or any Selling Stockholder or their respective properties;
(xi) after due inquiry, such counsel does not know of any legal or
governmental proceeding pending or threatened to which the Company is a party or
to which any of its property is subject which is required to be described in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus and is not so described, or of any
contract or other document which is required to be described in the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus or is required to be filed as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement which is not described or filed as required;
(xii) to the best of such counsel's knowledge, after due inquiry, the
Company has not violated any Environmental Laws, nor any federal or state law
relating to discrimination in the hiring, promotion or pay of employees nor any
applicable federal or state wages and . hours laws, nor any provisions of the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act or the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder, which in each case might result in any material adverse change in
the business, prospects, financial condition or results of operation of the
Company;
(xiii) the Company has such permits, licenses, franchises and
authorizations of governmental or regulatory authorities ("permits"), including,
without limitation, under any applicable Environmental Laws, as are necessary to
own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business in the manner
described in the Prospectus; to the best of such counsel's knowledge, after due
inquiry, the Company and each of its subsidiaries has fulfilled and performed
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 holder of any such permit, subject in each case to such qualification as
may be set forth in the Prospectus; and, except as described in the Prospectus,
such permits contain no restrictions that are materially burdensome to the
Company;
(xiv) the Company is not an "investment company" or a company
"controlled" by an "investment company" within the meaning of the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended;
(xv) to the best of such counsel's knowledge, after due inquiry, no
holder of any security of the Company has any right to
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require registration of shares of Common Stock or any other security of the
Company;
(xvi) to the best of such counsel's knowledge, after due inquiry, all
leases to which the Company is a party are valid and binding and no default has
occurred or is continuing thereunder that might result in any material adverse
change in the business, prospects, financial condition or results of operation
of the Company, and the Company enjoys peaceful and undisturbed possession under
all such leases to which it is a party as lessee with such exceptions as do not
materially interfere with the use made by the Company;
(xvii) (1) the Registration Statement (including any Registration
Statement filed under 462(b) of the Act, if any) and the Prospectus and any
supplement or amendment thereto (except for financial statements as to which no
opinion need be expressed) comply as to form in all material respects with the
Act, and (2) such counsel believes that (except for financial statements, as
aforesaid) the Registration Statement and the prospectus included therein at the
time the Registration Statement became effective did not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and
that the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, if applicable (except for
financial statements, as aforesaid) does not contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading;
(xviii) the Custody Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by each Selling Stockholder and is a valid and binding agreement of
such Selling Stockholder enforceable in accordance with its terms;
(xix) each Selling Stockholder has full legal right, power and
authority, and any approval required by law (other than any approval imposed by
the applicable state securities and Blue Sky laws) to sell, assign, transfer and
deliver the Shares to be sold by him in the manner provided in this Agreement
and the Custody Agreement;
(xx) each Selling Stockholder has good and clear title to the
certificates for the Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder and upon
delivery thereof, pursuant hereto and payment therefore good and clear title
will pass to the Underwriters, severally, free of all restrictions on transfer,
liens, encumbrances, security interests and claims whatsoever; and
(xxi) the power of attorney signed by each Selling Stockholder
appointing ________________ and ________________, or either of them, as his
attorney- in-fact to the extent set forth therein with regard to the
transactions contemplated hereby and by the Registration Statement has been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by or on behalf of each Selling Stockholder
and are valid and binding instruments of such Selling Stockholder enforceable in
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accordance with its terms, and pursuant to such power of attorney, each of the
Selling Stockholders has authorized ____________ and ___________________, or
either of them, to execute and deliver on their behalf this Agreement and any
other document necessary or desirable in connection with transactions
contemplated hereby and to deliver the Shares to be sold by them pursuant to
this Agreement.
In giving such opinion with respect to the matters covered by clause (xvii)
such counsel may state that their opinion and belief are based upon their
participation in the preparation of the Registration Statement and Prospectus
and any amendments or supplements thereto and review and discussion of the
contents thereof, but are without independent check or verification except as
specified.
The opinion of Xxxxxx & Dodge LLP described in paragraph (e) above shall be
rendered to you at the request of the Company or one or more of the Selling
Stockholders, as the case may be, and shall so state therein.
(f) You shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion, dated the
Closing Date, of Winston & Xxxxxx, counsel for the Underwriters, as to the
matters referred to in clauses (v), (vi) (but only with respect to the Company),
(viii), (ix) (but only with respect to the statements under the captions
"Description of Capital Stock" and "Underwriting") and (xviii) of the foregoing
paragraph (e). In giving such opinion with respect to the matters covered by
clause (xvii) such counsel may state that their opinion and belief are based
upon their participation in the preparation of the Registration Statement and
Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto and review and discussion
of the contents thereof, but are without independent check or verification
except as specified.
(g) You shall have received a letter on and as of the Closing Date, in form
and substance satisfactory to you, from Ernst & Young LLP, independent public
accountants, with respect to the financial statements and certain financial
information contained in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and
substantially in the form and substance of the letter delivered to you by Ernst
& Young LLP on the date of this Agreement.
(h) The Company and the Selling Stockholders shall not have failed at or
prior to the Closing Date to perform or comply with any of the agreements herein
contained and required to be performed or complied with by the Company and the
Selling Stockholders at or prior to the Closing Date.
(i) You shall have received on the Closing Date from each Selling
Stockholder a properly completed and executed United States Treasury Department
Form W-9 (or other applicable form or statement specified by Treasury Department
regulations in lieu thereof). The several obligations of the Underwriters to
purchase any Additional Shares hereunder are subject to the delivery to you on
the
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applicable Option Closing Date of such documents as you may reasonably request
with respect to the good standing of the Company, the due authorization and
issuance of such Additional Shares and other matters related to the issuance of
such Additional Shares.
10. EFFECTIVE DATE OF AGREEMENT AND TERMINATION. This Agreement shall
become effective upon the later of (i) execution of this Agreement and (ii) when
notification of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been
released by the Commission.
This Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to the Closing Date by
you by written notice to the Sellers if any of the following has occurred: (i)
since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus, any material adverse change or development
involving a prospective material adverse change in the condition, financial or
otherwise, of the Company or the earnings, affairs, or business prospects of the
Company, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, which would,
in your judgment, make it impracticable to market the Shares on the terms and in
the manner contemplated in the Prospectus, (ii) any outbreak or escalation of
hostilities or other national or international calamity or crisis or change in
economic conditions or in the financial markets of the United States or
elsewhere that, in your judgment, is material and adverse and would, in your
judgment, make it impracticable to market the Shares on the terms and in the
manner contemplated in the Prospectus, (iii) the suspension or material
limitation of trading in securities on the New York Stock Exchange, the American
Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq National Market or limitation on prices for
securities on any such exchange or the Nasdaq National Market, (iv) the
enactment, publication, decree or other promulgation of any federal or state
statute, regulation, rule or order of any court or other governmental authority
which in your opinion materially and adversely affects, or will materially and
adversely-affect, the business-or operations of the Company, (v) the declaration
of a banking moratorium by either federal or New York State authorities or (vi)
the taking of any action by any federal, state or local government or agency in
respect of its monetary or fiscal affairs which in your opinion has a material
adverse effect on the financial markets in the United States.
If on the Closing Date or on an Option Closing Date, as the case may be,
any one or more of the Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase the Firm
Shares or Additional Shares, as the case may be; which it or they have agreed to
purchase hereunder on such date and the aggregate number of Firm Shares or
Additional Shares, as the case may be, which such defaulting Underwriter or
Underwriters, as the case may be, agreed but failed or refused to purchase is
not more than one-tenth of the total number of Shares to be purchased on such
date by all Underwriters, each non-defaulting Underwriter shall be obligated
severally, in the proportion which the number of Firm Shares set forth opposite
its name in Schedule I bears to the total number of Firm Shares which all the
non-defaulting Underwriters, as the case may be, have
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agreed to purchase, or in such other proportion as you may specify, to purchase
the Firm Shares or-Additional Shares, as the case may be, which such defaulting
Underwriter or Underwriters, as the case may be, agreed but failed or refused to
purchase on such date; provided that in no event shall the number of Firm Shares
or Additional Shares, as the case may be, which any Underwriter has agreed to
purchase pursuant to Section 2 hereof be increased pursuant to this Section 10
by an amount in excess of one-ninth of such number of Firm Shares or Additional
Shares, as the case may be, without the written consent of such Underwriter. If
on the Closing Date or on an Option Closing Date, as the case may be, any
Underwriter or Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Firm Shares, or
Additional Shares, as the case may be, and the aggregate number of Firm Shares
or Additional Shares, as the case may be, with respect to which such default
occurs is more than one-tenth of the aggregate number of Shares to be purchased
on such date by all Underwriters and arrangements satisfactory to you and the
applicable Sellers for purchase of such Shares are not made within 48 hours
after such default, this Agreement will terminate without liability on the part
of any non-defaulting Underwriter and the applicable Sellers. In any such case
which does not result in termination of this Agreement, either you or the
Sellers shall have the right to postpone the Closing Date or the applicable
Option Closing Date, as the case may be, but in no event for longer than seven
days, in order that the required changes, if any, in the Registration Statement
and the Prospectus or any other documents or arrangements may be effected. Any
action taken under this paragraph shall not relieve any defaulting Underwriter
from liability in respect of any default of any such Underwriter under this
Agreement.
11. AGREEMENTS OF THE SELLING STOCKHOLDERS. Each Selling Stockholder
severally agrees with you and the Company:
(a) To pay or to cause to be paid all transfer taxes with respect to the
Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder; and
(b) To take all reasonable actions in cooperation with the Company and the
Underwriters to cause the Registration Statement to become effective at the
earliest possible time, to do and perform all things to be done and performed
under this Agreement prior to the Closing Date and to satisfy all conditions
precedent to the delivery of the Shares pursuant to this Agreement.
12. MISCELLANEOUS. Notices given pursuant to any provision of this
Agreement shall be addressed as follows: (a) if to the Company to _____________,
c/o MAXIMUS, INC., 0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxx, XxXxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000 (b) if to the
Selling Stockholders, to [NAME OF ATTORNEY-IN-FACT] c/o [ADDRESS OF
ATTORNEY-IN-FACT] and (c) if to any Underwriter or to you, to you c/x Xxxxxxxxx,
Lufkin & Xxxxxxxx Securities Corporation, 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000, Attention: Syndicate Department, or in any case to such other address as
the person to be notified may have requested in writing.
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The respective indemnities, contribution agreements, representations,
warranties, covenants and other statements of the Selling Stockholders, the
Company, its officers and directors and of the several Underwriters set forth in
or made pursuant to this Agreement shall remain operative and in full force and
effect, and will 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 Underwriter or by or on behalf of the Sellers, the officers or
directors of the Company or any controlling person of the Sellers, (ii)
acceptance of the Shares and payment for them hereunder and (iii) termination of
this Agreement.
If this Agreement shall be terminated by the Underwriters because of any
failure or refusal on the part of the Sellers to comply with the terms or to
fulfill any of the conditions of this Agreement, the Sellers agree to reimburse
the several Underwriters for all out-of-pocket expenses (including the fees and
disbursements of counsel) reasonably incurred by them.
Except as otherwise provided, this Agreement has been and is made solely
for the benefit of and shall be binding upon the Sellers, the Underwriters, any
controlling persons referred to herein and their respective successors and
assigns, all as and to the extent provided in this Agreement, 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 a purchaser of the Shares from
any of the several Underwriters merely because of such purchase.
This Agreement shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws
of the State of New York.
This Agreement may be signed in various counterparts which together shall
constitute one and the same instrument.
Please confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the agreement
between the Company, the Selling Stockholders and the several Underwriters.
Very truly yours,
MAXIMUS, INC.
By
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Title:
THE SELLING STOCKHOLDERS NAMED
IN SCHEDULE II HERETO
By
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Attorney-in-fact
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XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXX & XXXXXXXX
SECURITIES CORPORATION
XXXXXX BROTHERS INC.
Acting severally on behalf of
themselves and the several
Underwriters named in
Schedule I hereto
By XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXX & XXXXXXXX
SECURITIES CORPORATION
By
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SCHEDULE I
Number of Firm Shares
Underwriter to be Purchased
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Xxxxxxxxx, Lufkin & Xxxxxxxx
Securities Corporation
Xxxxxx Brothers Inc.
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Total
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SCHEDULE II
Selling Stockholders
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Maximum Number of
Number of Firm Additional Shares
Name Shares Being Sold Subject to Sale
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Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
F. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx X. Xxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx X. Xxxx
Xxxxx X. Xxxxx
Xxxx X. Xxx, Xx.
Xxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
