Etsy, Inc. $300,000,000 0% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 Purchase Agreement
Exhibit 99.1
Execution Version
Etsy, Inc.
$300,000,000 0% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023
March 8, 2018
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Co. LLC
X.X. Xxxxxx Securities LLC and
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. LLC
As representatives of the several Purchasers
| named | in Schedule I hereto, |
c/o Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000-0000
c/o X.X. Xxxxxx Securities LLC
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
c/o Morgan Xxxxxxx & Co. LLC
0000 Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Etsy, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this agreement (this “Agreement”), to issue and sell to the Purchasers named in Schedule I hereto (the “Purchasers”), for whom Xxxxxxx Sachs & Co. LLC, X.X. Xxxxxx Securities LLC and Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. LLC are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), an aggregate of $300,000,000 principal amount of the Company’s 0% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 (the “Firm Securities”) and, at the election of the Purchasers, up to an aggregate of $45,000,000 additional principal amount of such 0% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 (the “Optional Securities”) as provided in Section 2(b). The Firm Securities and any Optional Securities that the Purchasers elect to purchase pursuant to Section 2 hereof are collectively called the “Securities.” The Securities will be convertible into cash, shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (such shares, the “Underlying Common Stock” and such common stock, the “Common Stock”), or a combination of cash and Common Stock, at the Company’s election, as set forth in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Circular (each as defined below). The Securities will be issued pursuant to an indenture to be dated as of March 13, 2018 (the “Indenture”) between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (the “Trustee”).
If no other Purchasers are listed on Schedule I, all references to Representatives and Purchasers shall refer only to you.
In connection with the offering of the Firm Securities, the Company is entering into capped call transactions with Xxxxxxx Sachs & Co. LLC, JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, London Branch and Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. LLC (the “Option Counterparties”) pursuant to separate capped call transaction confirmations (the “Base Capped Call Confirmations”), to be dated the date hereof, and in connection with any exercise by the Purchasers of their option to purchase any Optional Securities, the Company and the Option Counterparties may enter into additional capped call transactions pursuant to additional capped call transaction confirmations (the “Additional Capped Call Confirmations”), to be dated the date on which the Purchasers exercise their option to purchase such Optional Securities. The Base Capped Call Confirmations and the Additional Capped Call Confirmations are referred to herein collectively as the “Capped Call Confirmations.”
| 1. | The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each of the Purchasers that: |
| (a) | A preliminary offering circular, dated March 8, 2018 (the “Preliminary Offering Circular”), and an offering circular, dated March 8, 2018 (the “Offering Circular”), have been prepared in connection with the offering of the Securities and shares of the Underlying Common Stock, if any, issuable upon conversion thereof. The Preliminary Offering Circular, as amended and supplemented immediately prior to the Applicable Time (as defined in Section 1(b)), is hereinafter referred to as the “Pricing Circular”. Any reference to the Preliminary Offering Circular, the Pricing Circular or the Offering Circular, as the case may be, as amended or supplemented, as of any specified date, shall be deemed to refer to and include (i) all documents filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c) or 15(d) of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), subsequent to December 31, 2017 and on or prior to such specified date of such applicable circular and incorporated by reference therein and (ii) any Additional Issuer Information (as defined in Section 5(f)) furnished by the Company prior to the completion of the distribution of the Securities; and all documents filed under the Exchange Act and so deemed to be included in the Preliminary Offering Circular, the Pricing Circular or the Offering Circular, as the case may be, or any amendment or supplement thereto are hereinafter called the “Exchange Act Reports” (provided that where only sections of such documents are specifically incorporated by reference, only such sections shall be considered to be part of the “Exchange Act Reports”). The Exchange Act Reports, when they were or are filed with the Commission, conformed or will conform in all material respects to the applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder; and no such documents were filed with the Commission since the Commission’s close of business on the business day immediately prior to the date of this Agreement and prior to the execution of this Agreement, except as set forth on Schedule II(a) hereof. The Preliminary Offering Circular or the Offering Circular and any amendments or supplements thereto and the Exchange Act Reports did not and will not, as of their respective dates, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by a Purchaser through the Representatives expressly for use therein; |
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| (b) | For the purposes of this Agreement, the “Applicable Time” is 4:15 p.m. (Eastern time) on the date of this Agreement; the Pricing Circular as supplemented by the term sheet in the form attached as Schedule III hereto, taken together (collectively, the “Pricing Disclosure Package”) as of the Applicable Time, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and each Company Supplemental Disclosure Document (as defined in Section 6(a)(i)) listed on Schedule II(b) hereto and each Permitted General Solicitation Material (as defined in Section 6(a)(i)) listed on Schedule II(d) hereto does not conflict with the information contained in the Pricing Circular or the Offering Circular and each such Company Supplemental Disclosure Document and Permitted General Solicitation Material, as supplemented by and taken together with the Pricing Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to statements or omissions made in a Company Supplemental Disclosure Document or Permitted General Solicitation Material in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by a Purchaser through the Representatives expressly for use therein; |
| (c) | Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Pricing Circular any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Circular; and, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Circular, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Pricing Circular, there has not been any change in (A) the capital stock (other than the issuance or grant of securities pursuant to the Company’s stock plans or pursuant to the exercise of options or settlement of restricted stock units outstanding as of the date of this Agreement or the repurchase of securities pursuant to the Company’s stock repurchase program, in each case, as described in the Pricing Circular) or (B) long-term debt (other than regular payments pursuant to obligations disclosed in or contemplated by the Pricing Circular) of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (C) any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the general affairs, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Circular; |
| (d) | The Company and its subsidiaries do not own any real property. The Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all personal property owned by them (other than with respect to Intellectual Property, which is addressed exclusively in subsection (z) of this Section 1), in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and defects except such as are described in the Pricing Circular or such as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of |
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| such property by the Company and its subsidiaries; and any real property and buildings held under lease by the Company and its subsidiaries are, to the knowledge of the Company, held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases (subject to the effects of (A) bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights or remedies of creditors generally; (B) the application of general principles of equity (including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, regardless of whether enforcement is considered in proceedings at law or in equity); and (C) applicable law and public policy with respect to rights to indemnity and contribution) with such exceptions as are not material and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property and buildings by the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole; |
| (e) | The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with power and authority (corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Circular, and has been duly qualified as a foreign corporation for the transaction of business and is in good standing under the laws of each other jurisdiction in which it owns or leases properties or conducts any business so as to require such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the general affairs, management or current or future financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or impair the ability of the Company to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (a “Material Adverse Effect”); and each subsidiary of the Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or organization, to the extent that the concept of “good standing” is applicable under the laws of such jurisdiction, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; |
| (f) | The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Circular, and all of the issued shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable; a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the maximum number of shares of Underlying Common Stock (including the maximum number of additional shares of Underlying Common Stock by which the Conversion Rate (as such term is defined in the Indenture) may be increased upon conversion in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change (as such term is defined in the Indenture) and assuming (x) the Company elects, upon each conversion of the Securities, to deliver solely shares of Common Stock, other than cash in lieu of any fractional shares, in settlement of each such conversion and (y) the Purchasers exercise their option to purchase the Optional Securities in full (the “Maximum Number of Underlying Shares”)) have been duly and validly authorized and reserved for issuance upon conversion of the Securities and, when issued and delivered in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and the Indenture, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and will conform in all material respects to the description of Common Stock contained in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Circular, and the issuance of such shares will not be subject to any preemptive or similar rights; and all of the issued shares of capital stock of each subsidiary of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned directly or indirectly by the Company, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims; |
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| (g) | The Securities have been duly authorized by the Company and, when issued and delivered pursuant to this Agreement, will have been duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered and will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject, as to enforcement, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles, and such Securities will be in the form contemplated by, and entitled to the benefits provided by, the Indenture; the Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and, when executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming due execution and delivery thereof by the Trustee, the Indenture will constitute a valid and legally binding instrument, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, subject, as to enforcement, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles; and the Securities and the Indenture will conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Circular and will be in substantially the form previously delivered to the Representatives; |
| (h) | The Base Capped Call Confirmations have been, and any Additional Capped Call Confirmations on the date or dates that the Purchasers exercise their right to purchase Optional Securities will have been, duly authorized by the Company and, when executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming due execution and delivery thereof by the Option Counterparties, constitute, or will constitute, as the case may be, valid and legally binding agreements of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject, as to enforcement, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles; |
| (i) | The Company has all requisite corporate power to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture, the Capped Call Confirmations and the Securities. This Agreement has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company; |
| (j) | None of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including, without limitation, the use of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities as described under “Use of Proceeds” in the Pricing Disclosure Package and Offering Circular) will violate or result in a violation of Section 7 of the Exchange Act, or any regulation promulgated thereunder, including, without limitation, Regulations T, U, and X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; |
| (k) | Prior to the date hereof, the Company has not taken any action which is designed to or which has constituted or which could reasonably have been expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company in connection with the offering of the Securities; |
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| (l) | The issue and sale of the Securities (including the issuance of the Maximum Number of Underlying Shares upon conversion thereof) and the execution, delivery and compliance by the Company with all of the provisions of the Securities, the Indenture, the Capped Call Confirmations and this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions herein and therein contemplated and the application of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities as described under “Use of Proceeds” in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Circular will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, (A) any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, (B) the Certificate of Incorporation, By-laws or similar organizational documents of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or (C) any statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their properties, except in the case of (A) and (C), as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and no consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any such court or governmental agency or body is required for the issue and sale of the Securities (including the issuance of the Maximum Number of Underlying Shares upon conversion thereof) or the execution, delivery or performance by the Company of, or the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by, this Agreement, the Indenture, the Capped Call Confirmations or the Securities, except such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders, registrations or qualifications as may be required under state securities or Blue Sky laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Securities by the Purchasers; |
| (m) | Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is (A) in violation of its Certificate of Incorporation, By-laws or similar organizational documents or (B) in default in the performance or observance of any material obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties may be bound, except in the case of clause (B) for such defaults as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; |
| (n) | The statements set forth in the Pricing Circular and the Offering Circular under the captions “Description of Notes” and “Description of Capital Stock”, insofar as they purport to constitute a summary of the terms of the Securities and the Common Stock, under the caption “Description of Capped Call Transactions”, insofar as they purport to describe the provisions of the documents referenced therein, and under the captions “Certain U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations” and “Plan of Distribution”, insofar as they purport to describe the provisions of the laws and documents referred to therein, are accurate and fairly present, in all material respects, such terms, laws and documents, as applicable; |
| (o) | Other than as set forth in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Circular, there are no legal or governmental proceedings pending to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries or, to the Company’s knowledge, any officer or director of the Company is a party or, to the Company’s knowledge, of which any property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or, to the Company’s knowledge, any officer or director of the Company is the subject which, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries or such officer or director, would reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect; and, to the Company’s knowledge, no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated by governmental authorities or threatened by others; |
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| (p) | When the Securities are issued and delivered pursuant to this Agreement, the Securities will not be of the same class (within the meaning of Rule 144A under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”)) as the Company’s securities which are listed on a national securities exchange registered under Section 6 of the Exchange Act or quoted in a U.S. automated inter-dealer quotation system; |
| (q) | The Company is subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act; |
| (r) | The Company is not, and after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof, in each case, as described in the Pricing Circular, and after giving effect to the transactions contemplated by the Capped Call Confirmations, will not be, an “investment company”, as such term is defined in the United States Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”); |
| (s) | Neither the Company nor any person acting on its or their behalf (other than the Purchasers, as to which no representation is made) has offered or sold the Securities by means of any general solicitation or general advertising within the meaning of Rule 502(c) under the Act (other than by means of a Permitted General Solicitation); |
| (t) | Within the preceding six months, neither the Company nor any other person acting on behalf of the Company has offered or sold to any person any Securities, or any securities of the same or a similar class as the Securities, other than Securities offered or sold to the Purchasers hereunder. The Company will take reasonable precautions designed to insure that any offer or sale, direct or indirect, in the United States or to any U.S. person (as defined in Rule 902 under the Act) of any Securities or any substantially similar security issued by the Company, within six months subsequent to the date on which the distribution of the Securities has been completed (as notified to the Company by the Representatives), is made under restrictions and other circumstances reasonably designed not to affect the status of the offer and sale of the Securities in the United States and to U.S. persons contemplated by this Agreement as transactions exempt from the registration provisions of the Act; |
| (u) | PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, who has certified certain financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries, has confirmed to the Company that it is an independent registered public accounting firm as required by the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder; |
| (v) | The Company maintains a system of internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that complies with the requirements of the Exchange Act and has been designed by the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer, or under their supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”). Except as disclosed in the Pricing Circular, the Company is not aware of any material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting; |
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| (w) | Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Pricing Circular, there has been no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially and adversely affected, or is reasonably likely to materially and adversely affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting; |
| (x) | The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act; such disclosure controls and procedures have been designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company and its subsidiaries is made known to the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer by others within those entities; and such disclosure controls and procedures are effective at a reasonable assurance level for purposes of the foregoing; |
| (y) | The Company and its subsidiaries (A) are in compliance with any and all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to the protection of human health and safety, the environment or hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or materials, pollutants or contaminants (“Environmental Laws”), (B) have received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses and (C) are in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or approval, except where such non-compliance with Environmental Laws, 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 reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect; |
| (z) | There are no costs or liabilities associated with Environmental Laws (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) which would reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect; |
| (aa) | Other than as set forth in the Pricing Circular, the Company and its subsidiaries own or possess, or can acquire on reasonable terms, sufficient rights to use all licenses, inventions, copyrights, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures), trademarks, service marks and trade names, trade dress, domain names (including all goodwill associated with the foregoing), patents and patent rights and all other similar types of proprietary intellectual property rights (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) used in, held for use in or necessary for the conduct of the business now operated by them, as described in the Pricing Circular, except where the failure to own or possess any of the foregoing would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. For the sake of clarity, Intellectual Property shall not include any user-generated content contained on the Company’s web-based platform. Except as set forth in the Pricing Circular, the Company has not received any written notice of any specific claim of infringement, misappropriation or conflict with any Intellectual Property rights of others or any written notice challenging the validity, scope or enforceability of the Intellectual Property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ rights therein, except in each case as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect. Other than as described in the Pricing Circular, to the knowledge of the Company, no party has materially |
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| infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated any Intellectual Property owned by or exclusively licensed to the Company or any of its subsidiaries. Other than as described in the Pricing Circular, all Intellectual Property owned by the Company or its subsidiaries is owned solely by the Company or its subsidiaries and is owned free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, defects or other restrictions. To the knowledge of the Company, all Intellectual Property owned or licensed by the Company as of the date hereof is valid and enforceable except where such invalidity or unenforceability would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and its subsidiaries have taken reasonable steps in accordance with normal industry practice to maintain the confidentiality of all material trade secrets and confidential information owned, used or held for use by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, and, to the knowledge of the Company, no such trade secrets or confidential information have been disclosed other than to employees, representatives and agents of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or parties who are bound by written confidentiality agreements; |
| (bb) | The Company and its subsidiaries have complied, and, as of the date of this Agreement, to the knowledge of the Company, are in compliance, in all material respects, with their respective privacy policies and other legal obligations regarding the collection, use, transfer, storage, protection, disposal and disclosure by the Company and its subsidiaries of personal and user information gathered or accessed in the course of their respective operations, and with respect to all such information, the Company and its subsidiaries have taken the steps reasonably necessary to protect such information against loss and against unauthorized access, use, modification, disclosure or other misuse, and other than as described in the Pricing Circular, to the knowledge of the Company, there has been no unauthorized access to or other misuse of such information that would reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect; |
| (cc) | (i) Each employee benefit plan, within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), for which the Company or any member of its “Controlled Group” (defined as any organization which is a member of a controlled group of corporations within the meaning of Section 414 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”)) would have any liability (each, a “Plan”) has been maintained in compliance with its terms and the requirements of any applicable statutes, orders, rules and regulations, including but not limited to, ERISA and the Code, except for noncompliance that would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (ii) no plan is subject to Title IV of ERISA; and (iii) there is no pending audit or investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any other governmental agency or any foreign regulatory agency with respect to any Plan that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. None of the following events has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur: (x) a material increase in the aggregate amount of contributions required to be made to all Plans by the Company or its subsidiaries in the current fiscal year of the Company and its subsidiaries compared to the amount of such contributions made in the Company and its subsidiaries’ most recently completed fiscal year; or (y) a material increase in the Company and its subsidiaries’ “accumulated post-retirement benefit obligations” (within the meaning of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 106) compared to the amount of such obligations in the Company and its subsidiaries’ most recently completed fiscal year; |
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| (dd) | The Company and its subsidiaries possess all licenses, permits, certificates and other authorizations from, and have made all declarations and filings with, all governmental authorities, required or necessary to own or lease, as the case may be, and to operate their respective properties and to carry on their respective businesses as now or proposed to be conducted as described in the Pricing Circular (“Permits”), except where the failure to obtain such Permits would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect; the Company and its subsidiaries have fulfilled and performed all of their respective 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 impairment of the rights of the holder of any such Permit except, in each case, as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect; |
| (ee) | Except as described in the Pricing Circular, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company or any subsidiary and any person granting such person the right to require the Company or any subsidiary to file a registration statement under the Act with respect to any securities of the Company or any subsidiary; |
| (ff) | The Company and each of its subsidiaries have filed all federal, state, local and foreign tax returns required to be filed through the date of this Agreement or have requested extensions thereof (except where the failure to file would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect) and have paid all taxes required to be paid thereon (except for cases in which the failure to file or pay would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, or, except as currently being contested in good faith and for which reserves required by U.S. GAAP have been created in the financial statements of the Company), and no unpaid tax deficiency has been determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries which has had or would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received written notice of any unpaid tax deficiency which is reasonably expected to be determined adversely to the Company or its subsidiaries and would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; |
| (gg) | The Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are, in the Company’s reasonable judgment, prudent and customary in the businesses in which they are engaged; to the knowledge of the Company, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries have been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for; and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries 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 would not be reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect; |
| (hh) | Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries or Company-controlled affiliates, , nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, other employee or other person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity; (ii) made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds; (iii) violated any provision of the |
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| Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977; (iv) violated any provision of the Xxxxxxx Xxx 0000 of the United Kingdom; or (v) made or will make any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment. The Company and its affiliates have conducted their businesses in compliance with applicable anti-corruption laws and have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance with such laws and with the representation and warranty contained herein; |
| (ii) | The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted in compliance in all material respects with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements, the applicable money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions where the Company and its subsidiaries conduct business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened; |
| (jj) | Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries or Company-controlled affiliates, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent or other employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is an individual or entity (“Person”) that is, or is owned or controlled by a Person that is, currently subject to or the target of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. government, including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“OFAC”), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury, or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions (including, without limitation, Xxxxx/Xxxxxxx, Xxxx, Xxxx, Xxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxx and Syria). The Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity (i) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business with any person, or in any country or territory, that, at the time of such funding, is the subject of Sanctions or (ii) in any other manner that will result in a violation by any person (including any person participating in the transaction, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise) of Sanctions; and |
| (kk) | The Company has not issued any debt securities that have been or are rated by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act. |
| 2. | (a) | Subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to issue and sell to each of the Purchasers, and each of the Purchasers agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at a purchase price of 97.5% of the principal amount thereof, the principal amount of Securities set forth opposite the name of such Purchaser in Schedule I hereto. In the event and to the extent that the Purchasers shall exercise the option to purchase Optional Securities as provided below, the Company agrees to issue and sell to each of the Purchasers, and each of the Purchasers agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at the same purchase price set forth in clause (a) of this Section 2, that portion of the aggregate principal amount of the Optional Securities as to |
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| which such option shall have been exercised (to be adjusted by the Representatives so as to eliminate fractions of $1,000) determined by multiplying such aggregate principal amount of Optional Securities by a fraction, the numerator of which is the principal amount of Firm Securities set forth opposite the name of such Purchaser in Schedule I hereto and the denominator of which is the aggregate principal amount of the Firm Securities. |
| (b) | Subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company hereby grants an option to the Purchasers, severally and not jointly, to purchase at their election up to $45,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Optional Securities, at the purchase price set forth in clause (a) of the first paragraph of this Section 2. Optional Securities may be purchased as provided in this Section 2(b) solely for the purpose of covering over-allotments, if any. The Representatives may exercise this right on behalf of the Purchasers, in whole or from time to time in part, by providing written notice to the Company setting forth the aggregate principal amount of Optional Securities to be purchased and the date on which such Optional Securities are to be delivered, as determined by the Representatives, provided that the Time of Delivery (as defined in Section 4(a) hereof) related to such notice shall in no event be earlier than the First Time of Delivery (as defined in Section 4(a) hereof) or, unless the Representatives and the Company otherwise agree in writing, earlier than two business days after the date of such notice or later than March 26, 2018. |
| 3. | Upon the authorization by the Representatives of the release of the Securities, the several Purchasers propose to offer the Securities for sale upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and the Offering Circular and each Purchaser, acting severally and not jointly, hereby represents and warrants to, and agrees with the Company that it will sell the Securities only to persons who it reasonably believes are “qualified institutional buyers” (“QIBs”) within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Act in transactions meeting the requirements of Rule 144A. |
| 4. | (a) | The Securities to be purchased by each Purchaser hereunder will be represented by one or more definitive global Securities in book-entry form which will be deposited by or on behalf of the Company with The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or its designated custodian. The Company will deliver the Securities to the Representatives, for the account of each Purchaser, against payment by or on behalf of such Purchaser of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer in Federal (same day) funds, by causing DTC to credit the Securities to the account of the Representatives at DTC. The Company will cause the certificates representing the Securities to be made available to the Representatives for checking at least twenty-four hours prior to each Time of Delivery (as defined below) at the office of Xxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, 0000 Xx Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000 (the “Closing Location”) The time and date of such delivery and payment shall be, with respect to the Firm Securities, 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on March 13, 2018 or such other time and date as the Representatives and the Company may agree upon in writing, and, with respect to the Optional Securities, 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on the date specified by the Representatives in the written notice given by the Representatives of the Purchasers’ election to purchase such Optional Securities, or such other time and date as the Representatives and the Company may agree upon in writing. Such time and date for delivery of the Firm Securities is herein called the “First Time of Delivery”, and each of the First Time of Delivery and any subsequent time and date for delivery of the Optional Securities, if not the First Time of Delivery, is herein called a “Time of Delivery.” |
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| (b) | The documents to be delivered at each Time of Delivery by or on behalf of the parties hereto pursuant to Section 8 hereof, including the cross-receipt for the Securities and any additional documents requested by the Purchasers pursuant to Section 8(k) hereof, will be delivered at such time and date at the Closing Location, and the Securities will be delivered at the office of DTC, all at such Time of Delivery. A meeting will be held at the Closing Location at 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on the New York Business Day next preceding such Time of Delivery, at which meeting the final drafts of the documents to be delivered pursuant to the preceding sentence will be available for review by the parties hereto. For the purposes of this Section 4, “New York Business Day” shall mean each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in New York are generally authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close. |
| 5. | The Company agrees with each of the Purchasers: |
| (a) | To prepare the Offering Circular in a form approved by the Representatives; to make no amendment or any supplement to the Offering Circular which shall be disapproved by the Representatives promptly after reasonable notice thereof; and to furnish the Representatives with copies thereof; |
| (b) | Promptly from time to time to take such action as the Representatives may reasonably request to qualify the Securities and the Underlying Common Stock for offering and sale under the securities laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives may request and to comply with such laws so as to permit the continuance of sales and dealings therein in such jurisdictions for as long as may be necessary to complete the distribution of the Securities, provided that in connection therewith the Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction; |
| (c) | To furnish the Purchasers with written and electronic copies of the Offering Circular and any amendment or supplement thereto in such quantities as the Representatives may from time to time reasonably request, and if, at any time prior to the earlier of the completion of the distribution of the Securities and the expiration of nine months after the date of the Offering Circular, any event shall have occurred as a result of which the Offering Circular as then amended or supplemented would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made when such Offering Circular is delivered, not misleading, or, if for any other reason it shall be necessary or desirable during such same period to amend or supplement the Offering Circular, to notify the Representatives and upon the Representatives’ request to prepare and furnish without charge to each Purchaser and to any dealer in securities as many written and electronic copies as the Representatives may from time to time reasonably request of an amended Offering Circular or a supplement to the Offering Circular which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance; |
| (d) | During the period beginning from the date hereof and continuing to and including the date 60 days after the date of the Offering Circular (the “Company Lock-Up Period”), not to (i) offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, make any short sale or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, or file with the Commission a registration statement under the Act relating to, Common Stock or any securities of the Company that are substantially similar to the Securities or Common Stock, including but not limited to any options or |
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| warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock or any securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, Common Stock or any such substantially similar securities, or publicly disclose the intention to make any offer, sale, pledge, disposition or filing or (ii) enter into any swap or other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Common Stock or any such other securities, whether any such transaction described in clause (i) or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise without the prior written consent of the Representatives; provided, however, that the foregoing restrictions shall not apply to (A) issuance of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement and any Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Securities, (B) the issuance by the Company of shares of Common Stock upon the exercise of an option or the settlement of restricted stock units outstanding as of the date of this Agreement and described in the Pricing Circular, (C) the issuance by the Company of shares of Common Stock or securities convertible into, exchangeable for or that represent the right to receive shares of Common Stock, in each case pursuant to the Company’s stock plans that are described in the Pricing Circular; (D) the issuance by the Company of shares of Common Stock or securities convertible into, exchangeable for or that represent the right to receive shares of Common Stock in connection with (1) the acquisition by the Company or any of its subsidiaries of the securities, business, technology, property or other assets of another person or entity or pursuant to an employee benefit plan assumed by the Company in connection with such acquisition, and the issuance of any such securities pursuant to any such agreement, or (2) the Company’s joint ventures, commercial relationships and other strategic transactions; (E) the filing of any registration statement on Form S-8 relating to securities granted or to be granted pursuant to the Company’s stock plans that are described in the Pricing Circular or any assumed employee benefit plan contemplated by clause (D) or (F) the entry into, or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by, the Capped Call Confirmations; provided that the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that the Company may sell or issue or agree to sell or issue pursuant to clause (D) shall not exceed 5% of the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately following the completion of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and provided, further, that in the case of clauses (B) through (D), (i) each recipient of such securities that is an officer or director of the Company shall execute and deliver to the Representatives, on or prior to the issuance of such securities, a lock-up agreement substantially to the effect set forth in Annex I hereto; |
| (e) | To use the net proceeds received by the Company from the sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement in the manner specified in the Pricing Circular under the caption “Use of Proceeds”; |
| (f) | To use its best efforts to list, subject to notice of issuance, a number of shares of Underlying Common Stock equal to the Maximum Number of Underlying Shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (“Nasdaq”); and |
| (g) | Between the date hereof and the First Time of Delivery, not to do or authorize any act or thing that would result in an adjustment of the Conversion Rate (as such term is defined in the Indenture) of the Securities. |
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| 6. | (a) | (i) The Company represents and agrees that, without the prior consent of the Representatives, it (x) has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that, if the offering of the Securities contemplated by this Agreement were conducted as a public offering pursuant to a registration statement filed under the Act with the Commission, would constitute an “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433 under the Act (any such offer is hereinafter referred to as a “Company Supplemental Disclosure Document”) and (y) has not solicited and will not solicit offers for, and have not offered or sold and will not offer or sell, the Securities by means of any form of general solicitation or general advertising within the meaning of Rule 502(c) of Regulation D other than any such solicitation listed on Schedule II(d) (each such solicitation, a “Permitted General Solicitation”; each written general solicitation document listed on Schedule II(d), a “Permitted General Solicitation Material”); |
(ii) each Purchaser, severally and not jointly, represents and agrees that, without the prior consent of the Company and the Representatives, other than one or more term sheets relating to the Securities containing customary information and conveyed to purchasers of securities or any Permitted General Solicitation Material, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that, if the offering of the Securities contemplated by this Agreement were conducted as a public offering pursuant to a registration statement filed under the Act with the Commission, would constitute a “free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 405 under the Act (any such offer (other than any such term sheets and any Permitted General Solicitation Material), is hereinafter referred to as a “Purchaser Supplemental Disclosure Document”); and
(iii)any Company Supplemental Disclosure Document, Purchaser Supplemental Disclosure Document or Permitted General Solicitation Material, the use of which has been consented to by the Company and the Representatives, is listed as applicable on Schedule II(b), Schedule II(c) or Schedule II(d) hereto, respectively;
| 7. | The Company covenants and agrees with the several Purchasers that the Company will pay or cause to be paid the following: (i) the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Company’s counsel and accountants in connection with the issue of the Securities and the Underlying Common Stock and all other expenses in connection with the preparation, printing, reproduction and filing of the Preliminary Offering Circular and the Offering Circular and any amendments and supplements thereto and the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the Purchasers and dealers; (ii) the cost of printing or producing any Agreement among Purchasers, this Agreement, the Indenture, the Securities, the Blue Sky Memorandum, closing documents (including any compilations thereof), Permitted General Solicitation Materials and any other documents in connection with the offering, purchase, sale and delivery of the Securities; (iii) all expenses in connection with the qualification of the Securities and the Underlying Common Stock for offering and sale under state securities laws as provided in Section 5(b) hereof, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Purchasers in connection with such qualification and in connection with the Blue Sky and legal investment surveys; (iv) any fees charged by securities rating services for rating the Securities; (v) the cost of preparing the Securities; (vi) the fees and expenses of the Trustee and any agent of the Trustee and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Trustee in connection with the Indenture and the Securities; (vii) 50% of all costs and expenses incurred in connection with any “road show” presentation to potential |
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| purchasers of the Securities; (viii) any cost incurred in connection with the listing of the shares of Underlying Common Stock on any exchange; (ix) any transfer taxes payable in connection with the sale of the Securities by the Company to the Purchasers; and all other costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder which are not otherwise specifically provided for in this Section. It is understood, however, that, except as provided in this Section, and Sections 9 and 12 hereof, the Purchasers will pay all of their own costs and expenses, including the fees of their counsel, transfer taxes on resale of any of the Securities by them, and any advertising expenses connected with any offers they may make. |
| 8. | The obligations of the Purchasers hereunder at each Time of Delivery shall be subject, in their discretion, to the condition that all representations and warranties and other statements of the Company herein are, at and as of such Time of Delivery, true and correct, the condition that the Company shall have performed all of its obligations hereunder theretofore to be performed, and the following additional conditions: |
| (a) | Xxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Purchasers, shall have furnished to the Representatives such written opinion or opinions, dated such Time of Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, with respect to such matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters; |
| (b) | Xxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, shall have furnished to the Representatives their written opinion and negative assurances letter, each dated such Time of Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives. |
| (c) | On the date of the Offering Circular concurrently with the execution of this Agreement and also at each Time of Delivery, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP shall have furnished to the Representatives a letter or letters, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives; |
| (d) | The chief financial officer of the Company shall have furnished to the Representatives a certificate, dated the date hereof and such Time of Delivery, respectively, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives; |
| (e) | Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall have sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Pricing Circular (i) any loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Circular, or (ii) otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Circular, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Pricing Circular there shall not have been any change in (A) the capital stock (other than the issuance or grant of securities pursuant to the Company’s stock plans or pursuant to the exercise of options or settlement of restricted stock units outstanding as of the date of this Agreement or the repurchase of securities pursuant to the Company’s stock repurchase program, in each case, as described in the Pricing Circular) or (B) long-term debt (other than regular payments pursuant to obligations disclosed in or contemplated by the Pricing Circular) of the |
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| Company or any of its subsidiaries or (C) any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the general affairs, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Circular, the effect of which, in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii), is in the Representatives’ judgment so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or the delivery of the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in this Agreement and in each of the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Circular; |
| (f) | On or after the Applicable Time there shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) a suspension or material limitation in trading in securities generally on Nasdaq; (ii) a suspension or material limitation in trading in the Company’s securities on Nasdaq; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities declared by either Federal or New York State authorities or a material disruption in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States; (iv) the outbreak or escalation of hostilities involving the United States or the declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war; or (v) the occurrence of any other calamity or crisis or any change in financial, political or economic conditions in the United States or elsewhere, if the effect of any such event specified in clause (iv) or (v) in the Representatives’ judgment makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or the delivery of the Shares being delivered at such Time of Delivery on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Circular; |
| (g) | A number of shares of Underlying Common Stock equal to the Maximum Number of Underlying Shares shall have been duly listed, subject to notice of issuance, on Nasdaq; |
| (h) | The Company shall have obtained and delivered to the Purchasers executed copies of an agreement from each of the Company’s directors and executive officers listed in Schedule IV hereto, substantially to the effect set forth in Annex I hereof in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives; |
| (i) | The Purchasers shall have received an executed original copy of the Indenture; |
| (j) | The Securities shall be eligible for clearance and settlement through the facilities of DTC; and |
| (k) | The Company shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to the Representatives at such Time of Delivery certificates of officers of the Company satisfactory to the Representatives as to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein at and as of such Time of Delivery, as to the performance by the Company of all of its obligations hereunder to be performed at or prior to such Time of Delivery, as to the matters set forth in subsection (e) of this Section and as to such other matters as the Representatives may reasonably request. |
| 9. | (a) | The Company will indemnify and hold harmless each Purchaser against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Purchaser may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Offering Circular, the Pricing Circular, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Offering Circular, or any amendment or |
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| supplement thereto, any Company Supplemental Disclosure Document, any Permitted General Solicitation Material or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and will reimburse each Purchaser for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Purchaser in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in any Preliminary Offering Circular, the Pricing Circular, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Offering Circular or any such amendment or supplement, any Company Supplemental Disclosure Document or any Permitted General Solicitation Material, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Purchaser through the Representatives expressly for use therein. |
| (b) | Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly, will indemnify and hold harmless the Company against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which the Company may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Offering Circular, the Pricing Circular, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Offering Circular, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any Company Supplemental Disclosure Document, any Permitted General Solicitation Material or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, 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 Offering Circular, the Pricing Circular, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Offering Circular or any such amendment or supplement, any Company Supplemental Disclosure Document or any Permitted General Solicitation Material, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Purchaser through the Representatives expressly for use therein; and each Purchaser will reimburse the Company for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as such expenses are incurred. |
| (c) | Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under such subsection, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party otherwise than under such subsection. In case any such action shall be brought against any indemnified party and it shall notify the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it shall wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and, after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to such indemnified party under such subsection for any legal expenses of other counsel or any other expenses, in each |
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| case subsequently incurred by such indemnified party, in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation. No indemnifying party shall, without the written consent of the indemnified party, effect the settlement or compromise of, or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to, any pending or threatened action or claim in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified party is an actual or potential party to such action or claim) unless such settlement, compromise or judgment (i) includes an unconditional release of the indemnified party from all liability arising out of such action or claim and (ii) does not include a statement as to, or an admission of, fault, culpability or a failure to act, by or on behalf of any indemnified party. |
| (d) | If the indemnification provided for in this Section 9 is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Purchasers on the other from the offering of the Securities. If, however, the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is not permitted by applicable law or if the indemnified party failed to give the notice required under subsection (c) above, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to such amount paid or payable by such indemnified party in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Purchasers on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Purchasers on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Purchasers, in each case as set forth in the Offering Circular. The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company on the one hand or the Purchasers on the other and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Company and the Purchasers agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this subsection (d) were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Purchasers were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this subsection (d). The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to above in this subsection (d) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (d), no Purchaser shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Securities underwritten by it and distributed to investors were offered to investors exceeds the amount of any damages which such Purchaser has otherwise been required to pay by |
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| reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Purchasers’ obligations in this subsection (d) to contribute are several in proportion to their respective purchase obligations and not joint. |
| (e) | The obligations of the Company under this Section 9 shall be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to any affiliate of each Purchaser and each person, if any, who controls any Purchaser within the meaning of the Act; and the obligations of the Purchasers under this Section 9 shall be in addition to any liability which the respective Purchasers may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each officer and director of the Company and to each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Act. |
| 10. | (a) | If any Purchaser shall default in its obligation to purchase the Securities which it has agreed to purchase hereunder, the Representatives may in their discretion arrange for the Representatives or another party or other parties to purchase such Securities on the terms contained herein. If within thirty-six hours after such default by any Purchaser the Representatives do not arrange for the purchase of such Securities, 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 Representatives to purchase such Securities on such terms. In the event that, within the respective prescribed periods, the Representatives notifies the Company that it has so arranged for the purchase of such Securities, or the Company notifies the Representatives that it has so arranged for the purchase of such Securities, the Representatives or the Company shall have the right to postpone the applicable Time of Delivery for a period of not more than seven days, in order to effect whatever changes may thereby be made necessary in the Offering Circular, or in any other documents or arrangements, and the Company agrees to prepare promptly any amendments or supplements to the Offering Circular which in the Representatives’ opinion may thereby be made necessary. The term “Purchaser” as used in this Agreement shall include any person substituted under this Section with like effect as if such person had originally been a party to this Agreement with respect to such Securities. |
| (b) | If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Securities of a defaulting Purchaser or Purchasers by the Representatives and the Company as provided in subsection (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of such Securities which remains unpurchased does not exceed one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of all the Securities, then the Company shall have the right to require each non-defaulting Purchaser to purchase the principal amount of Securities which such Purchaser agreed to purchase hereunder and, in addition, to require each non-defaulting Purchaser to purchase its pro rata share (based on the principal amount of Securities which such Purchaser agreed to purchase hereunder) of the Securities of such defaulting Purchaser or Purchasers for which such arrangements have not been made; but nothing herein shall relieve a defaulting Purchaser from liability for its default. |
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If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Securities of a defaulting Purchaser or Purchasers by the Representatives and the Company as provided in subsection (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of Securities which remains unpurchased exceeds one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of all the Securities, or if the Company shall not exercise the right described in subsection (b) above to require non-defaulting Purchasers to purchase Securities of a defaulting Purchaser or Purchasers, then this Agreement shall thereupon terminate, without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Purchaser or the Company, except for the expenses to be borne by the Company and the Purchasers as provided in Section 6 hereof and the indemnity and contribution agreements in Section 9 hereof; but nothing herein shall relieve a defaulting Purchaser from liability for its default.
| 11. | The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company and the several Purchasers, as set forth in this Agreement or made by or on behalf of them, respectively, pursuant to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation (or any statement as to the results thereof) made by or on behalf of any Purchaser or any controlling person of any Purchaser, or the Company, or any officer or director or controlling person of the Company, and shall survive delivery of and payment for the Securities. |
| 12. | If this Agreement shall be terminated pursuant to Section 10 hereof, the Company shall not then be under any liability to any Purchaser except as provided in Sections 7 and 9 hereof; but, if for any other reason, the Securities are not delivered by or on behalf of the Company as provided herein, the Company will reimburse the Purchasers through the Representatives for all reasonable expenses approved in writing by the Representatives, including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel, incurred by the Purchasers in making preparations for the purchase, sale and delivery of the Securities, but the Company shall then be under no further liability to any Purchaser except as provided in Sections 7 and 9 hereof. |
| 13. | In all dealings hereunder, the Representatives shall act on behalf of each of the Purchasers, and the parties hereto shall be entitled to act and rely upon any statement, request, notice or agreement on behalf of any Purchaser made or given by the Representatives. |
All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall be in writing, and if to the Purchasers shall be delivered or sent by mail or facsimile transmission to the Representatives at Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Co. LLC, 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000-0000, Attention: Registration Department; X.X. Xxxxxx Securities LLC, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Equity Syndicate Desk; and Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. LLC, 0000 Xxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Convertible Debt Syndicate Desk; and if to the Company shall be delivered or sent by mail or facsimile transmission to the address of the Company set forth in the Offering Circular, Attention: Secretary; provided, however, that any notice to a Purchaser pursuant to Section 9 hereof shall be delivered or sent by mail or facsimile transmission to such Purchaser at its address set forth in its Purchasers’ Questionnaire, which address will be supplied to the Company by you upon request. Any such statements, requests, notices or agreements shall take effect upon receipt thereof.
In accordance with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), the Purchasers are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies their respective clients, including the Company, which information may include the name and address of their respective clients, as well as other information that will allow the Purchasers to properly identify their respective clients.
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| 14. | This Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure solely to the benefit of, the Purchasers, the Company and, to the extent provided in Sections 9 and 11 hereof, the officers and directors of the Company and each person who controls the Company or any Purchaser, and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, and no other person shall acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement. No purchaser of any of the Securities from any Purchaser shall be deemed a successor or assign by reason merely of such purchase. |
| 15. | Time shall be of the essence of this Agreement. |
| 16. | The Company acknowledges and agrees that (i) the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and the several Purchasers, on the other, (ii) in connection therewith and with the process leading to such transaction each Purchaser is acting solely as a principal and not the agent or fiduciary of the Company, (iii) no Purchaser has assumed an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company with respect to the offering contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such Purchaser has advised or is currently advising the Company on other matters) or any other obligation to the Company except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement and (iv) the Company has consulted its own legal and financial advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate. The Company agrees that it will not claim that the Purchaser, or any of them, has rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owes a fiduciary or similar duty to the Company, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto. |
| 17. | This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) between the Company and the Purchasers, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof. |
| 18. | THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY MATTERS RELATED TO THIS TRANSACTION SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF ANY LAW OTHER THAN THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. The Company agrees that any suit or proceeding arising in respect of this agreement or our engagement will be tried exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York or, if that court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, in any state court located in The City and County of New York and the Company agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of, and to venue in, such courts. |
| 19. | The Company and each of the Purchasers hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. |
| 20. | This Agreement may be executed by any one or more of the parties hereto in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such respective counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument. |
| 21. | Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company, the Representatives and their employees, representatives, and other agents are authorized to disclose to any and all persons the U.S. federal and state income tax treatment and tax structure of the potential transaction and all materials of any kind (including tax opinions and other tax analyses) provided to them relating to that treatment and structure, without the Purchasers’ imposing any limitation of any kind. However, any information relating to the tax treatment and tax structure shall remain confidential (and the foregoing sentence shall not apply) to the extent necessary to enable any person to comply with securities laws. For this purpose, “tax structure” is limited to any facts that may be relevant to that treatment. |
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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please sign and return to us counterparts hereof, and upon the acceptance hereof by you, on behalf of each of the Purchasers, this letter and such acceptance hereof shall constitute a binding agreement among each of the Purchasers and the Company. It is understood that your acceptance of this letter on behalf of each of the Purchasers is pursuant to the authority set forth in a form of Agreement among Purchasers, the form of which shall be submitted to the Company for examination upon request, but without warranty on your part as to the authority of the signers thereof.
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| Very truly yours, | ||
| Etsy, Inc. | ||
| By: | /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | |
| Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||
| Title: Chief Financial Officer | ||
| Accepted as of the date hereof: | ||
| Xxxxxxx Sachs & Co. LLC | ||
| By: | /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxx | |
| (Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Co. LLC) | ||
| Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxx | ||
| Title: Managing Director | ||
| X.X. Xxxxxx Securities LLC | ||
| By: | /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx | |
| (X.X. Xxxxxx Securities LLC) | ||
| Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx | ||
| Title: Managing Director | ||
| Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. LLC | ||
| By: | /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxx | |
| (Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. LLC) | ||
| Name: Xxxxx Xxxxx | ||
| Title: Managing Director | ||
SCHEDULE I
| Purchaser |
Principal Amount of Securities to be Purchased |
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| Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Co. LLC |
$ | 100,000,000 | ||
| X.X. Xxxxxx Securities LLC |
100,000,000 | |||
| Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. LLC |
100,000,000 | |||
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| Total |
$ | 300,000,000 | ||
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SCHEDULE II
| (a) | Additional Documents Incorporated by Reference: |
| (b) | Company Supplemental Disclosure Documents: |
Electronic Roadshow Presentation, dated March 8, 2018
| (c) | Purchaser Supplemental Disclosure Documents: None |
| (d) | Permitted General Solicitation Materials: |
Press release of the Company dated March 8, 2018 relating to the announcement of the offering of the Securities.
Press release of the Company dated March 8, 2018 relating to the pricing of the offering of the Securities.
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SCHEDULE III
Pricing Term Sheet
[Circulated Separately]
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SCHEDULE IV
Directors and Officers Subject to Lock-up Agreements
Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
M. Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
ANNEX I
Form of Lock-up Agreement
The undersigned understands that you, as representatives (the “Representatives”), propose to enter into a Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) on behalf of the several Initial Purchasers named in Schedule I to such agreement (collectively, the “Initial Purchasers”), with Etsy, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), providing for the offering (the “Offering”) of Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 (the “Notes”), which will be convertible into cash, shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), or a combination of cash and Common Stock, at the Company’s election.
In consideration of the agreement by the Initial Purchasers to offer and sell the Notes, and of other good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the undersigned agrees that, during the period beginning on the date hereof and continuing to and including the date 60 days after the date of the final offering memorandum (the “Offering Memorandum”) relating to the Offering (the “Offering Date”) (such period, the “Lock-Up Period”), the undersigned will not (i) offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, make any short sale or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Common Stock or any securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, shares of Common Stock or any such substantially similar securities (collectively, “Securities”) owned directly by the undersigned or with respect to which the undersigned has beneficial ownership within the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or publicly disclose the intention to make any offer, sale, pledge, disposition or filing or (ii) enter into any swap or other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Securities, whether any such transaction is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other Securities, in cash or otherwise, without your prior written consent.
The foregoing restrictions shall not apply to the Notes sold to the Initial Purchasers in the Offering pursuant to the Purchase Agreement or as otherwise provided herein. The foregoing restriction is expressly agreed to preclude the undersigned from engaging in any hedging or other transaction which is designed to or which reasonably could be expected to lead to or result in a sale or disposition of the undersigned’s Common Stock even if such Common Stock would be disposed of by someone other than the undersigned. Such prohibited hedging or other transactions would include without limitation any short sale or any purchase, sale or grant of any right (including without limitation any put or call option) with respect to any of the undersigned’s Common Stock or with respect to any security that includes, relates to, or derives any significant part of its value from such Common Stock. In addition, the undersigned agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Representatives on behalf of the Initial Purchasers, it will not, during the Lock-Up Period, make any demand for or exercise any right with respect to, the registration of any Common Stock or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, if such demand or exercise of registration rights would require the Company during the Lock-Up Period to file, or make a public announcement or disclosure of its intention to file, a registration statement, or would otherwise require or result in a public announcement or disclosure by the undersigned.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the undersigned may:
(a) transfer the undersigned’s Securities:
(i) in connection with the sale of the undersigned’s Securities acquired in open market transactions after the Offering Date;
(ii) as a bona fide gift or gifts, provided that the donee or donees thereof agree to be bound in writing by the restrictions set forth herein;
(iii) to any trust for the direct or indirect benefit of the undersigned or the immediate family of the undersigned or if the undersigned is a trust, to any beneficiary (including such beneficiary’s estate) of the undersigned, provided that the trustee of the trust or such beneficiary agrees to be bound in writing by the restrictions set forth herein;
(iv) if the undersigned is a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust or other business entity (A) to another corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust or other business entity that is an affiliate (as defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) of the undersigned or (B) as part of a distribution without consideration by the undersigned to its stockholders, partners, members or other equity holders, provided that in the case of any transfer contemplated in (A) or (B) above, it shall be a condition to the transfer that (1) each transferee agrees to be bound in writing by the restrictions set forth herein and (2) there shall be no further transfer of such capital stock except in accordance with this Lock-Up Agreement;
(v) by will or intestate succession upon the death of the undersigned, provided that the transferee agrees to be bound in writing by the restrictions set forth herein;
(vi) to the Company in connection with the receipt of Common Stock upon the “net” or “cashless” exercise or settlement of warrants or stock options which are set to expire during the Lock-Up Period or the vesting of restricted stock units (including any transfer for the payment of taxes due as a result of such vesting, exercise or settlement whether by means of a “net settlement” or otherwise) pursuant to an employee benefit plan disclosed in the Offering Memorandum, provided that any securities received upon such exercise, settlement or vesting shall be subject to the terms of this Lock-Up Agreement;
(vii) to the Company in connection with the repurchase of shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to an employee benefit plan disclosed in the Offering Memorandum or pursuant to the agreements pursuant to which such shares were issued as disclosed in the Offering Memorandum;
(viii) pursuant to a bona fide third-party tender offer, merger, consolidation or other similar transaction made to all holders of the Company’s capital stock involving a change of control of the Company that has been approved by the Company’s board of directors, provided that in the event that such tender offer, merger, consolidation or other such transaction is not completed, the undersigned’s Securities shall remain subject to the provisions of this Lock-Up Agreement;
(ix) by operation of law, such as pursuant to a qualified domestic order or in connection with a divorce settlement, provided that the transferee agrees to be bound in writing by the restrictions set forth herein;
(x) pursuant to a written plan meeting the requirements of Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), relating to the sale of securities of the Company (each, a “10b5-1 Plan”) in effect as of the date hereof;
(xi) with the prior written consent of the Representatives on behalf of the Initial Purchasers; or
(b) establish a 10b5-1 Plan after the date hereof, provided that the securities subject to such plan may not be sold and no public disclosure of any such action shall be required or shall be voluntarily made by any person until after the expiration of the applicable Lock-Up Period.
In addition, (A) with respect to clauses (a)(i) through (vii) and (x) above, it shall be a condition to such transfer that no filing under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act nor any other public filing or disclosure of such transfer by or on behalf of the undersigned reporting a reduction in beneficial ownership of Common Stock shall be required or voluntarily made during the applicable Lock-Up Period unless, (1) with respect to clause (a)(vii), such filing shall clearly indicate in the footnotes thereto that such disposition of shares was solely to the Company, (2) with respect to clause (a)(ix), such filing shall clearly indicate in the footnotes thereto that such transfer occurred by operation of law, pursuant to a qualified domestic order or in connection with a divorce settlement, and (3) with respect to clause (a)(x), such filing shall clearly indicate in the footnotes thereto that such disposition of shares was pursuant to a 10b5-1 Plan; and (B) with respect to clauses (a)(ii) through (v) above, any such transfer or distribution shall not involve a disposition for value.
For purposes of this Lock-Up Agreement, “immediate family” shall mean any relationship by blood, marriage or adoption, not more remote than first cousin. The undersigned now has, and, except as contemplated by clause (a) above, for the duration of this Lock-Up Agreement will have, good and marketable title to the undersigned’s Securities, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, and claims whatsoever. The undersigned agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the transfer of the undersigned’s Securities except in compliance with the foregoing restrictions.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, this Lock-Up Agreement will automatically terminate and the undersigned will be released from all obligations hereunder upon the earliest to occur, if any, of the following events (i) the Company advises the Representatives in writing that it has determined not to proceed with the Offering, (ii) the Purchase Agreement is executed but is terminated (other than the provisions thereof which survive termination) prior to payment for and delivery of the Notes to be sold thereunder, or (iii) March 31, 2018, in the event that the Purchase Agreement has not been executed by such date.
The undersigned hereby consents to receipt of this Lock-up Agreement in electronic form and understands and agrees that this Lock-up Agreement may be signed electronically. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission, electronic mail, or otherwise by electronic transmission
evidencing an intent to sign this Lock-up Agreement, such facsimile transmission, electronic mail or other electronic transmission shall create a valid and binding obligation of the undersigned with the same force and effect as if such signature were an original. Execution and delivery of this Lock-up Agreement by facsimile transmission, electronic mail or other electronic transmission is legal, valid and binding for all purposes.
