OVERSEAS SHIPHOLDING GROUP, INC. 8.125% Senior Notes due 2018 Underwriting Agreement
Exhibit 1.1
$300,000,000
OVERSEAS
SHIPHOLDING GROUP, INC.
8.125%
Senior Notes due 2018
March 24,
2010
Citigroup
Global Markets Inc.
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated
HSBC
Securities (USA) Inc.
As
Representatives of the
several
Underwriters listed
in
Schedule 1 hereto
c/o
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxx Xxxx,
Xxx Xxxx 00000
c/o
Morgan Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated
0000
Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx,
Xxx Xxxx 00000
c/o HSBC
Securities (USA) Inc.
000 Xxxxx
Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx,
XX 00000
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc., a
Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the several
Underwriters listed in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you are
acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), $300,000,000 principal amount
of its 8.125% Senior Notes due 2018 (the “Notes”). The Notes will be
issued pursuant to an Indenture to be dated as of March 29, 2010 (the
“Indenture”) between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company,
N.A. as trustee (the “Trustee”).
The
Company hereby confirms its agreement with the several Underwriters concerning
the purchase and sale of the Notes, as follows:
1. Registration Statement.
The Company has prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the
“Securities Act”), a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-165592),
including a prospectus, relating to the Notes. Such registration
statement, as amended at the time it became effective, including the
information, if any, deemed pursuant to Rule 430A, 430B or 430C under the
Securities Act to be part of the registration statement at the time of its
effectiveness (“Rule 430 Information”), is referred to herein as the
“Registration Statement”; and as used herein, the term “Preliminary Prospectus”
means each prospectus included in such registration statement (and any
amendments thereto) before its effectiveness, any prospectus filed with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424(a) under the Securities Act and the prospectus
included in the Registration Statement at the time of its effectiveness that
omits Rule 430 Information, and the term “Prospectus” means the prospectus in
the form first used (or made available upon request of purchasers pursuant to
Rule 173 under the Securities Act) in connection with confirmation of sales of
the Notes. Any reference in this Agreement to the Registration
Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer
to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item
12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act, as of the effective date of the
Registration Statement or the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the
Prospectus, as the case may be and any reference to “amend”,
“amendment” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration Statement, any
Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include
any documents filed after such date under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder
(collectively, the “Exchange Act”) that are deemed to be incorporated by
reference therein. Capitalized terms used but not defined
herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Registration Statement
and the Prospectus.
At or prior to the time when sales of
the Notes were first made (the “Time of Sale”), the Company had prepared the
following information (collectively, the “Time of Sale Information”): a
Preliminary Prospectus dated March 22, 2010, and each “free-writing prospectus”
(as defined pursuant to Rule 405 under the Securities Act) listed on Annex B
hereto as constituting part of the Time of Sale Information.
2. Purchase of the
Notes. (a) The
Company agrees to issue and sell the Notes to the several Underwriters as
provided in this Agreement, and each Underwriter, on the basis of the
representations, warranties and agreements set forth herein and subject to the
conditions set forth herein, agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from
the Company the respective principal amount of Notes set forth opposite such
Underwriter's name in Schedule 1 hereto at a price equal 96.813% of the
principal amount thereof. The Company will not be obligated to
deliver any of the Notes except upon payment for all the Notes to be purchased
as provided herein.
(b) The
Underwriters hereby inform the Company that they intend to make a public
offering of the Notes as soon after the effectiveness of this Agreement as in
the judgment of the Representatives is advisable, and initially to offer the
Notes on the terms set forth in the Prospectus. The Company
acknowledges and agrees that the Underwriters may offer and sell Notes to or
through any affiliate of an Underwriter.
(c) Payment
for and delivery of the Notes shall be made at the offices of Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
& Xxxxxxxx LLP no later than 12:00 P.M., New York City time, on March 29,
2010, or at such other time or place on the same or such other date, not later
than the fifth business day thereafter, as the Representatives and the Company
may agree upon in writing. The time and date of such payment and
delivery is referred to herein as the “Closing Date”.
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(d) Payment
for the Notes shall be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to
the account specified by the Company to the Representatives against delivery to
the nominee of The Depository Trust Company, for the account of the
Underwriters, of one or more global notes representing the Notes (collectively,
the “Global Note”), with any transfer taxes payable in connection with the sale
of the Notes duly paid by the Company. The Global Note will be made
available for inspection by the Representatives not later than 1:00 P.M., New
York City time, on the business day prior to the Closing Date.
(e) The
Company acknowledges and agrees that the Underwriters are acting solely in the
capacity of an arm’s length contractual counterparty to the Company with respect
to the offering of Notes contemplated hereby (including in connection with
determining the terms of the offering) and not as a financial advisor or a
fiduciary to, or an agent of, the Company or any other
person. Additionally, neither the Representatives nor any other
Underwriter are advising the Company or any other person as to any legal, tax,
investment, accounting or regulatory matters in any jurisdiction. The Company
shall consult with its own advisors concerning such matters and shall be
responsible for making its own independent investigation and appraisal of the
transactions contemplated hereby, and the Underwriters shall have no
responsibility or liability to the Company with respect thereto. Any review by
the Underwriters of the Company, the transactions contemplated hereby or other
matters relating to such transactions will be performed solely for the benefit
of the Underwriters and shall not be on behalf of the Company.
3. Representations and
Warranties of the Company. The
Company represents and warrants to each Underwriter that:
(a) Preliminary
Prospectus. No order preventing or suspending the use of any
Preliminary Prospectus has been issued by the Commission, and each Preliminary
Prospectus included in the Time of Sale Information, at the time of filing
thereof, complied in all material respects with the Securities Act, and no
Preliminary Prospectus, at the time of filing thereof, contained any untrue
statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided
that the Company makes no representation and warranty with respect to any
statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information
relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such
Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in any Preliminary
Prospectus, it being understood and agreed that only such information furnished
by the Underwriters consists of the information described as such in Section
7(b) hereof.
(b) Time of Sale Information. The
Time of Sale Information, at the Time of Sale, did not, and as of the Closing
Date, will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state
a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light
of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the
Company makes no representation and warranty with respect to any statements or
omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to
any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through
the Representatives expressly for use in such Time of Sale Information, it being
understood and agreed that only such information furnished by the Underwriters
consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof. No
statement of material fact included in the Prospectus has been omitted from the
Time of Sale Information and no statement of material fact included in the Time
of Sale Information that is required to be included in the Prospectus has been
omitted therefrom.
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(c) Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus. The Company (including its agents and
representatives, other than the Underwriters in their capacity as such) has not
prepared, made, used, authorized, approved or referred to and will not prepare,
use, authorize, approve or refer to any “written communication” (as defined in
Rule 405 under the Securities Act) that constitutes an offer to sell or
solicitation of an offer to buy the Notes (each such communication by the
Company or its agents and representatives (other than a communication referred
to in clauses (i) (ii) and (iii) below) an “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus”)
other than (i) any document not constituting a prospectus pursuant to Section
2(a)(10)(a) of the Securities Act or Rule 134 under the Securities Act, (ii) the
Preliminary Prospectus, (iii) the Prospectus, (iv) the documents listed on Annex
B hereto as constituting the Time of Sale Information and (v) any electronic
road show or other written communications, in each case approved in writing in
advance by the Representatives. Each such Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus complied in all material respects with the Securities Act, has been
or will be (within the time period specified in Rule 433) filed in accordance
with the Securities Act (to the extent required thereby) and, when taken
together with the Preliminary Prospectus accompanying, or delivered prior to
delivery of, or filed prior to the first use of such Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, did not, and as of the Closing Date will not, contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order
to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which
they were made, not misleading; provided that the Company makes no
representation and warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in
each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with
information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by
such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in any Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus, it being understood and agreed that only such
information furnished by the Underwriters consists of the information described
as such in Section 7(b) hereof.
(d) Registration Statement and
Prospectus. The Registration Statement is an “automatic shelf
registration statement” as defined under Rule 405 of the Securities Act that has
been filed with the Commission not earlier than three years prior to the date
hereof; and no notice of objection of the Commission to the use of such
registration statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule
401(g)(2) under the Securities Act has been received by the Company. No order
suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued by
the Commission and no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section
8A of the Securities Act against the Company or related to the
offering has been initiated or threatened by the Commission; as of the
applicable effective date of the Registration Statement and any amendment
thereto, the Registration Statement complied and will comply in all material
respects with the Securities Act and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder
(collectively, the “Trust Indenture Act”), and did not and will not contain any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to
be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not
misleading; and as of the date of the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement
thereto and as of the Closing Date, the Prospectus will not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided
that the Company makes no representation and warranty with
respect to (i) that part of the Registration Statement that constitutes the
Statement of Eligibility and Qualification (Form T-1) of the Trustee under the
Trust Indenture Act or (ii) any statements or omissions made in reliance upon
and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the
Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for
use in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and any amendment or
supplement thereto, it being understood and agreed that only such information
furnished by the Underwriters consists of the information described as such in
Section 7(b) hereof.
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(e) Incorporated
Documents. The documents incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information, when
they were filed with the Commission conformed in all material respects to the
requirements of the Exchange Act, and none of such documents contained any
untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required
to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light
of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and any further
documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement,
the Prospectus or the Time of Sale Information, when such documents become
effective or are filed with the Commission, as the case may be, will conform in
all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange
Act, as applicable, and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact
or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they
were made, not misleading.
(f) Financial
Statements. The financial statements and the related notes
thereto included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the
Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus comply in all material respects with
the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as
applicable, and present fairly the financial position of the Company and its
subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as of the dates indicated and the results
of their operations and the changes in their cash flows for the periods
specified; such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with
generally accepted accounting principles in the United States applied on a
consistent basis throughout the periods covered thereby, and any supporting
schedules included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement
present fairly the information required to be stated therein; and the other
financial information included or incorporated by reference in each of the
Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus has been
derived from the accounting records of the Company and its subsidiaries and
presents fairly in all material respects the information shown
thereby.
(g) No Material Adverse
Change. Since the date of the most recent financial statements
of the Company included or incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus (i) there has not
been any change in the capital stock (other than the issuance of shares of the
Company’s common stock upon exercise of stock options, awards and warrants
described as outstanding in, and the grant of options and awards under existing
equity incentive plans described in, the Registration Statement, the Time of
Sale Information and the Prospectus), or long-term debt of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries (other than borrowings pursuant to existing
credit facilities in the ordinary course of the business of the Company or any
of its subsidiaries), or any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, set
aside for payment, paid or made by the Company on any class of capital stock, or
any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material
adverse change, in or affecting the business, properties, management, financial
condition, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries taken as a whole; (ii) neither the Company nor any of its
subsidiaries has entered into any transaction or agreement (whether or not in
the ordinary course of business) that is material to the Company and its
subsidiaries taken as a whole or incurred any liability or obligation, direct or
contingent, that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a
whole; and (iii) the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole have not
sustained 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 disturbance or dispute or any action, order or decree of any court or
arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority; except in the case of
clauses (i) through (iii) above as otherwise disclosed in the Registration
Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus.
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(h) Organization and Good
Standing. The Company and each of its subsidiaries have been
duly organized and are validly existing and in good standing under the laws of
their respective jurisdictions of organization, are duly qualified to do
business and are in good standing in each jurisdiction in which their respective
ownership or lease of property or the conduct of their respective businesses
requires such qualification, and have all power and authority necessary to own
or hold their respective properties and to conduct the businesses in which they
are engaged, except where the failure to be so qualified, in good standing or
have such power or authority would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a
material adverse effect on the business, properties, management, financial
condition, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries taken as a whole or on the performance by the Company of its
obligations under the Notes (a “Material Adverse Effect”).
(i) Capitalization. The
Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the Registration
Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus under the heading
“Capitalization”; all the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company
have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and
non-assessable and are not subject to any pre-emptive or similar rights; except
as described in or expressly contemplated by the Time of Sale Information and
the Prospectus, there are no outstanding rights (including, without limitation,
pre-emptive rights), warrants or options to acquire, or instruments convertible
into or exchangeable for, any shares of capital stock or other equity interest
in the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any contract, commitment,
agreement, understanding or arrangement of any kind relating to the issuance of
any capital stock of the Company or any subsidiary, any such convertible or
exchangeable securities or any such rights, warrants or options; and all the
outstanding shares of capital stock or other equity interest of each subsidiary
owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company have been duly and validly
authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable (except, in the case of
any foreign subsidiary, for directors’ qualifying shares and except as otherwise
described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the
Prospectus) and are owned directly or indirectly by the Company, free and clear
of any lien, charge, encumbrance, security interest, restriction on voting or
transfer or any other claim of any third party.
(j) Due
Authorization. The Company has full right, power and authority
to execute and deliver this Agreement, the Notes and the Indenture
(collectively, the “Transaction Documents”), and to perform its obligations
hereunder and thereunder; and all action required to be taken for the due and
proper authorization, execution and delivery of each of the Transaction
Documents and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby has been
duly and validly taken.
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(k) The Indenture. The
Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and, upon effectiveness of the
Registration Statement, was or will have been duly qualified under the Trust
Indenture Act and, when duly executed and delivered in accordance with its terms
by each of the parties thereto, will constitute a valid and legally binding
agreement of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its
terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights
generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability (collectively,
the “Enforceability Exceptions”).
(l) The Notes. The
Notes have been duly authorized by the Company and, when duly executed,
authenticated, issued and delivered as provided in the Indenture and paid for as
provided herein, will be duly and validly issued and outstanding and will
constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable
against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject to the
Enforceability Exceptions, and will be entitled to the benefits of the
Indenture.
(m) Underwriting
Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed
and delivered by the Company.
(n) Descriptions of the Transaction
Documents. Each Transaction Document conforms in all material
respects to the description thereof contained in the Registration Statement, the
Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus.
(o) No Violation or
Default. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is
(i) in violation of its charter or by-laws or similar organizational documents;
(ii) in default, and no event has occurred that, with notice or lapse of time or
both, would constitute such a default, in the due performance or observance of
any term, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of
trust, loan agreement 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; or (iii) in violation of any law or
statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or
governmental or regulatory authority, except, in the case of clauses (ii) and
(iii) above, for any such default or violation that would not, individually or
in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
(p) No Conflicts. The
execution, delivery and performance by the Company of each of the Transaction
Documents, the issuance and sale of the Notes and compliance by the Company with
the terms thereof and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents will not (i) conflict with or result in a breach or
violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under,
or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon
any property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to,
any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement 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, (ii)
result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or by-laws or similar
organizational documents of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (iii)
result in the violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or
regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority,
except, in the case of clauses (i) and (iii) above, for any such conflict,
breach, violation, default, lien, charge or encumbrance that would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(q) No Consents
Required. No consent, approval, authorization, order, license,
registration or qualification of or with any court or arbitrator or governmental
or regulatory authority is required for the execution, delivery and performance
by the Company of each of the Transaction Documents, the issuance and sale of
the Notes and compliance by the Company with the terms thereof and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents,
except for the registration of the Notes under the Securities Act, the
qualification of the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act and such consents,
approvals, authorizations, orders and registrations or qualifications as may be
required by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) and
under applicable state securities laws in connection with the purchase and
distribution of the Notes by the Underwriters.
(r) Legal
Proceedings. Except as otherwise described in the Registration
Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, there are no legal,
governmental or regulatory investigations, actions, suits or proceedings pending
to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may be a party or to which
any property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may be the subject
that, individually or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to the Company
or any of its subsidiaries, could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect; and, to the knowledge of the Company, no such investigations,
actions, suits or proceedings are threatened or contemplated by any governmental
or regulatory authority or threatened by others.
(s) Independent
Accountants. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Ernst & Young
LLP, who have certified certain financial statements of the Company and its
subsidiaries, are each an independent registered public accounting firm with
respect to the Company and its subsidiaries within the applicable rules and
regulations adopted by the Commission and the Public Company Accounting
Oversight Board (United States) and as required by the Securities
Act.
(t) Title to Real and Personal
Property. The Company and its subsidiaries have good and
marketable title in fee simple to, or have valid rights to lease or otherwise
use, all items of real and personal property that are material to the respective
businesses of the Company and its subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of
all liens, encumbrances, claims and defects and imperfections of title except
those that (i) do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be
made of such property by the Company and its subsidiaries or (ii) could not
reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(u) Title to Intellectual
Property. The Company and its subsidiaries own or possess
adequate rights to use all material patents, patent applications, trademarks,
service marks, trade names, trademark registrations, service xxxx registrations,
copyrights, licenses and know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented
and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or
procedures) necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses; and the
Company and its subsidiaries have not received any notice of any claim of
infringement or conflict with any such rights of others which, individually or
in aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
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(v) Investment Company
Act. The Company is not and, after giving effect to the
offering and sale of the Notes and the application of the proceeds thereof as
described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the
Prospectus, will not be an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an
“investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940,
as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder
(collectively, the “Investment Company Act”).
(w) Taxes. Except as
would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect, the Company and its subsidiaries have paid all federal,
state, local and foreign taxes, other than those being contested in good faith
and for which adequate reserves have been provided, and filed all tax returns
required to be paid or filed through the date hereof; and there is no tax
deficiency that has been, or would reasonably be expected to be, asserted
against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective
properties or assets that would, individually or in the aggregate, have a
Material Adverse Effect. All material tax liabilities have been adequately
provided for in the financial statements of the Company to the extent required
under generally accepted accounting principles and the Securities Act and
Exchange Act.
(x) Licenses and
Permits. The Company and its subsidiaries possess all
licenses, certificates, permits and other authorizations issued by, and have
made all declarations and filings with, the appropriate federal, state, local or
foreign governmental or regulatory authorities that are necessary for the
ownership or lease of their respective properties or the conduct of their
respective businesses as described in the Registration Statement, the Time of
Sale Information and the Prospectus, except where the failure to possess or make
the same would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse
Effect; and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received notice
of any revocation or modification of any such license, certificate, permit or
authorization or has any reason to believe that any such license, certificate,
permit or authorization will not be renewed in the ordinary course, which could
reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(y) No Labor
Disputes. No labor disturbance by or dispute with employees of
the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the
Company, is contemplated or threatened, in each case that would reasonably be
expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(z) Compliance With Environmental
Laws. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration
Statement, the Prospectus or the Time of Sale Information, the Company and its
subsidiaries (i) are in compliance with, and have not violated, any and all
applicable federal, state, local and foreign and international laws, rules,
regulations, decisions and orders relating to the protection of human health and
safety, the environment or natural resources or to hazardous or toxic substances
or wastes, pollutants or contaminants (collectively, “Environmental Laws”);
(ii) have received and are in compliance with all permits, licenses or
other approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct
their respective businesses; and (iii) have not received notice of any
actual or potential liability under or relating to any Environmental Laws,
including for the investigation or remediation of any disposal or release of
hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants, except in
any such case for any such failure to comply with, or failure to receive
required permits, licenses or approvals, or liability, as would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as
otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Time of
Sale Information, there are no proceedings that are pending or, to the knowledge
of the Company, contemplated against the Company or any of its subsidiaries
under any Environmental Laws in which a governmental entity is also a party,
other than such proceedings regarding which it is reasonably believed no
monetary sanctions of $100,000 or more will be imposed, and none of the Company
and its subsidiaries anticipates material capital expenditures relating to any
Environmental Laws.
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(aa) Compliance With
ERISA. 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 where the failure to be in compliance would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; no
“reportable event” (within the meaning of Section 4043(c) of ERISA) has occurred
or is reasonably expected to occur and no prohibited transaction, within the
meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, has occurred with
respect to any such Plan excluding transactions effected pursuant to a statutory
or administrative exemption; for each such Plan that is subject to the funding
rules of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, no Plan has failed, or
is reasonably expected to fail, to satisfy the minimum funding standards (within
the meaning of Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code), whether or not
waived, and the fair market value of the assets of each such Plan (excluding for
these purposes accrued but unpaid contributions) exceeds the present value of
all benefits accrued under such Plan determined based on those actuarial
assumptions used to fund such Plan; neither the Company or any member
of its Controlled Group has incurred, or reasonably expects to incur, any
liability under Title IV of ERISA (other than contributions to the plan or
premiums to the PBGC in the ordinary course and without default) in respect of a
Plan (including a “multiemployer plan”, within the meaning of Section 4001(c)(3)
of ERISA); and each Plan that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a)
of the Code is so qualified and nothing has occurred, whether by action or by
failure to act, which would cause the loss of such qualification.
(bb) Disclosure
Controls. The Company and its subsidiaries maintain an
effective system of “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rule
13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act) that is designed to ensure that information
required to be disclosed by the Company in reports that it files or submits
under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within
the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms, including
controls and procedures designed to ensure that such information is accumulated
and communicated to the Company’s management as appropriate to allow timely
decisions regarding required disclosure. The Company and its
subsidiaries have carried out evaluations of the effectiveness of their
disclosure controls and procedures as required by Rule 13a-15 of the Exchange
Act.
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(cc) Accounting
Controls. The Company and its subsidiaries maintain systems of
“internal control over financial reporting” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the
Exchange Act) that comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act and have
been designed by, or under the supervision of, their respective principal
executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar
functions, 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. The
Company and its subsidiaries maintain internal accounting controls sufficient to
provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance
with management's general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are
recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in
conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset
accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with
management's general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded
accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable
intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any
differences. There are no material weaknesses or significant
deficiencies in the Company’s internal controls.
(dd) Insurance. The
Company and its subsidiaries have insurance covering their respective
properties, operations, personnel and businesses, including protection and
indemnity and business interruption insurance, which insurance is in amounts and
insures against such losses and risks as are adequate to protect the Company and
its subsidiaries taken as a whole and their respective businesses as consistent
with industry practice; and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has
(i) received notice from any insurer or agent of such insurer that capital
improvements or other expenditures are required or necessary to be made in order
to continue such insurance or (ii) 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 could not, individually or in the
aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(ee) No Unlawful
Payments. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor,
to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or other
person associated with or 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 or is in
violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977; or (iv)
made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful
payment.
(ff) Compliance with Money Laundering
Laws. The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are
and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial
recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign
Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of
all jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or
similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by
any governmental agency (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”) and no
action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency,
authority or body or any 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.
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(gg) Compliance with OFAC and other
sanctions authorities. None of the Company, any of its
subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent,
employee or affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is
(i) currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by 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
(ii) located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the
subject of Sanctions (including, without limitation, Burma/Myanmar, Cuba, Iran,
North Korea, Sudan and Syria); and the Company will not use the proceeds of the
offering of the Notes hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available
such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or
entity, in any manner that will result in a violation of Sanctions by any person
(including any person participating in the offering, whether as underwriter,
advisor, investor or otherwise). Except as otherwise disclosed in the
Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Time of Sale Information, the
Company represents and covenants that, to the best of the Company’s knowledge,
it has not, within the past 5 years, engaged in and is not now engaged in any
dealings or transactions with any person, or in any country or territory, that
at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject of Sanctions,
except as described in the Company’s February 19, 2008 letter to
OFAC. The Company further represents that it will not engage in any
dealings or transactions with any person, or in any country or territory, that
at the time of the dealing or transaction is the subject of Sanctions, except as
otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Time of
Sale Information.
(hh) Solvency. On and
immediately after the Closing Date, the Company (after giving effect to the
issuance of the Notes and the other transactions related thereto as described in
the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus)
will be Solvent. As used in this paragraph, the term “Solvent” means,
with respect to a particular date, that on such date (i) the present fair market
value (or present fair saleable value) of the assets of the Company are not less
than the total amount required to pay the liabilities of the Company on its
total existing debts and liabilities (including contingent liabilities) as they
become absolute and matured; (ii) the Company is able to realize upon its assets
and pay its debts and other liabilities, contingent obligations and commitments
as they mature and become due in the normal course of business; (iii) assuming
consummation of the issuance of the Notes as contemplated by this Agreement, the
Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, the
Company is not incurring debts or liabilities beyond its ability to pay as such
debts and liabilities mature; (iv) the Company is not engaged in any business or
transaction, and do not propose to engage in any business or transaction, for
which its property would constitute unreasonably small capital after giving due
consideration to the prevailing practice in the industry in which the Company is
engaged; and (v) the Company is not a defendant in any civil action that would
result in a judgment that the Company is or would become unable to
satisfy.
(ii) No Restrictions on
Subsidiaries. No subsidiary of the Company is currently
prohibited, directly or indirectly, under any agreement or other instrument to
which it is a party or is subject, from paying any dividends to the Company,
from making any other distribution on such subsidiary’s capital stock, from
repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such subsidiary from the
Company or from transferring any of such subsidiary’s properties or assets to
the Company or any other subsidiary of the Company.
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(jj) No Broker’s
Fees. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a
party to any contract agreement or understanding with any person (other than
this Agreement) that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or any
of its subsidiaries or any Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee
or like payment in connection with the offering and sale of the
Notes.
(kk) No Registration
Rights. No person has the right to cause the Company or any of
its subsidiaries to register any securities for sale under the Securities Act by
reason of the filing of the Registration Statement with the Commission or the
issuance and sale of the Notes.
(ll) No
Stabilization. The Company has not taken, directly or
indirectly, any action designed to or that could reasonably be expected to cause
or result in any stabilization or manipulation of the price of the
Notes.
(mm) Business with
Cuba. The Company has complied with all provisions of Section
517.075, Florida Statutes (Chapter 92-198, Laws of Florida, as amended) relating
to doing business with the Government of Cuba or with any person or affiliate
located in Cuba.
(nn) Margin
Rules. Neither the issuance, sale and delivery of the Notes
nor the application of the proceeds thereof by the Company as described in the
Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus will
violate Regulation T, U or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System or any other regulation of such Board of Governors.
(oo) Forward-Looking
Statements. No forward-looking statement (within the meaning
of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act)
included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of
Sale Information or the Prospectus has been made or reaffirmed without a
reasonable basis or has been disclosed other than in good faith.
(pp) Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Act. There is and has been no failure on the part of the
Company or, to the knowledge of the Company, any of the Company’s directors or
officers, in their capacities as such, to comply in all material respects with
any provision of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations
promulgated in connection therewith (the “Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act”), including
Section 402 related to loans and Sections 302 and 906 related to
certifications.
(qq) Status under the Securities
Act. The Company is not an ineligible issuer, and is a
well-known seasoned issuer, in each case as defined under the Securities Act, in
each case at the times specified in the Securities Act in connection with the
offering of the Notes.
(rr) Vessels. Each of
the vessels owned by the Company or one of its subsidiaries has been duly
registered in the name of the subsidiary of the Company that owns it under the
laws and regulations and the flag of the nation of its registration and no other
action is necessary to establish and perfect such subsidiary’s title to and
interest in such vessels as against any charterer or third party.
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4. Further Agreements of the
Company. The
Company covenants and agrees with each Underwriter that:
(a) Required
Filings. The Company will file the final Prospectus with the
Commission within the time periods specified by Rule 424(b) and Rule 430A, 430B
or 430C under the Securities Act, will file any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
(including the Term Sheet in the form of Annex C hereto) to the extent required
by Rule 433 under the Securities Act; and will file promptly all reports and any
definitive proxy or information statements required to be filed by the Company
with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act subsequent to the date of the Prospectus and for so long as the
delivery of a prospectus is required in connection with the offering or sale of
the Notes; and the Company will furnish copies of the Prospectus and each Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus (to the extent not previously delivered) to the
Underwriters in New York City prior to 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the
business day next succeeding the date of this Agreement in such quantities as
the Representatives may reasonably request. The Company will pay the
registration fees for this offering within the time period required by Rule
456(b)(1)(i) under the Securities Act (without giving effect to the proviso
therein) and in any event prior to the Closing Date.
(b) Delivery of Copies. The
Company will deliver, without charge, (i) to the Representatives, two signed
copies of the Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment
thereto, in each case including all exhibits and consents filed therewith and
documents incorporated by reference therein; and (ii) to each Underwriter (A) a
conformed copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed and each
amendment thereto, in each case including all exhibits and consents filed
therewith and (B) during the Prospectus Delivery Period (as defined below), as
many copies (including electronic copies) of the Prospectus (including all
amendments and supplements thereto and documents incorporated by reference
therein) and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus as the Representatives may
reasonably request. As used herein, the term “Prospectus Delivery
Period” means such period of time after the first date of the public offering of
the Notes as in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters a prospectus
relating to the Notes is required by law to be delivered (or required to be
delivered but for Rule 172 under the Securities Act) in connection with sales of
the Notes by any Underwriter or dealer.
(c) Amendments or Supplements; Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus. Before making, preparing, using,
authorizing, approving or referring to or filing any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, and before filing any amendment or supplement to the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus, whether before or after the time that the
Registration Statement becomes effective, the Company will furnish to the
Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters a copy of the proposed Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus, amendment or supplement for review and will not make,
prepare, use, authorize, approve or refer to or file any such Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus or file any such proposed amendments or
supplements to which the Representatives reasonably object.
(d) Notice to the
Representatives. The Company will advise the Representatives
promptly, and confirm such advice in writing, (i) when the Registration
Statement has become effective; (ii) when any amendment to the Registration
Statement has been filed or becomes effective; (iii) when any supplement to the
Prospectus or any amendment to the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus has been filed; (iv) of any request by the Commission for any
amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the
Prospectus or the receipt of any comments from the Commission relating to the
Registration Statement or any other request by the Commission for any additional
information; (v) of the issuance by the Commission of any order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement or preventing or suspending the use
of any Preliminary Prospectus, any of the Time of Sale Information or the
Prospectus or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose
or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act; (vi) of the occurrence of any
event within the Prospectus Delivery Period as a result of which the Prospectus,
the Time of Sale Information or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus as then
amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or
omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing
when the Prospectus, the Time of Sale Information or any such Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading; (vii)
of the receipt by the Company of any notice of objection of the Commission to
the use of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto
pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act; and (viii) of the receipt
by the Company of any notice with respect to any suspension of the qualification
of the Notes for offer and sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or
threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; and the Company will use its
reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement, preventing or suspending the use of
any Preliminary Prospectus, any of the Time of Sale Information or the
Prospectus or suspending any such qualification of the Notes and, if any such
order is issued, will obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal
thereof.
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(e) Time of Sale
Information. If at any time prior to the Closing Date (i) any
event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which the Time of Sale
Information as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make
the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances, not misleading or
(ii) it is necessary to amend or supplement the Time of Sale Information to
comply with law, the Company will immediately notify the Underwriters thereof
and forthwith prepare and, subject to paragraph (c) above, file with the
Commission (to the extent required) and furnish to the Underwriters and to such
dealers as the Representatives may designate, such amendments or supplements to
the Time of Sale Information as may be necessary so that the
statements in the Time of Sale Information as so amended or supplemented will
not, in the light of the circumstances, be misleading or so that the Time of
Sale Information will comply with law.
(f) Ongoing
Compliance. If during the Prospectus Delivery Period (i) any
event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which the Prospectus
as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material
fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances existing when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not
misleading or (ii) it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to
comply with law, the Company will immediately notify the Underwriters thereof
and forthwith prepare and, subject to paragraph (c) above, file with the
Commission and furnish to the Underwriters and to such dealers as the
Representatives may designate, such amendments or supplements to the
Prospectus as may be necessary so that the statements in the Prospectus as so
amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances existing
when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the
Prospectus will comply with law.
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(g) Blue Sky
Compliance. The Company will qualify the Notes for offer and
sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as the
Representatives shall reasonably request and will continue such qualifications
in effect so long as required for distribution of the Notes; provided that the
Company shall not be required to (i) qualify as a foreign corporation or other
entity or as a dealer in securities in any such jurisdiction where it would not
otherwise be required to so qualify, (ii) file any general consent to service of
process in any such jurisdiction or (iii) subject itself to taxation in any such
jurisdiction if it is not otherwise so subject.
(h) Earning
Statement. The Company will make generally available to its
security holders and the Representatives as soon as practicable an earnings
statement that satisfies the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act
and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder covering
a period of at least twelve months beginning with the first fiscal quarter of
the Company occurring after the “effective date” (as defined in Rule 158) of the
Registration Statement.
(i) Clear
Market. During the period from the date hereof through and
including the date that is 90 days after the date hereof, the Company will not,
without the prior written consent of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., offer, pledge,
sell, contract to sell or otherwise dispose of any debt securities issued or
guaranteed by the Company with terms substantially similar to the
Notes.
(j) Use of
Proceeds. The Company will apply the net proceeds from the
sale of the Notes as described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale
Information and the Prospectus under the heading “Use of Proceeds”.
(k) No
Stabilization. The Company will not take, directly or
indirectly, any action designed to or that could reasonably be expected to cause
or result in any stabilization or manipulation of the price of the
Notes.
(l) Record
Retention. The Company will, pursuant to reasonable procedures
developed in good faith, retain copies of each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
that is not filed with the Commission in accordance with Rule 433 under the
Securities Act.
5. Certain Agreements of the
Underwriters. Each
Underwriter hereby represents and agrees that: (a) It has not and will not use,
authorize use of, refer to, or participate in the planning for use of, any “free
writing prospectus”, as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act (which term
includes use of any written information furnished to the Commission by the
Company and not incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and
any press release issued by the Company) other than (i) a free writing
prospectus that contains no “issuer information” (as defined in Rule 433(h)(2)
under the Securities Act) that was not included (including through incorporation
by reference) in the Preliminary Prospectus or a previously filed Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus, (ii) any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus listed on Annex B or
prepared pursuant to Section 3(c) or Section 4(c) above (including any
electronic road show), or (iii) any free writing prospectus prepared by such
Underwriter and approved by the Company in advance in writing (each such free
writing prospectus referred to in clauses (i) or (iii), an “Underwriter Free
Writing Prospectus”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Underwriters
may use a term sheet substantially in the form of Annex C hereto without the
consent of the Company.
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(b) It
has not and will not, without the prior written consent of the Company, use any
free writing prospectus that contains the final terms of the Notes unless such
terms have previously been included in a free writing prospectus filed with the
Commission.
(c) It
is not subject to any pending proceeding under Section 8A of the Securities Act
with respect to the offering (and will promptly notify the Company if any such
proceeding against it is initiated during the Prospectus Delivery
Period).
6. Conditions of Underwriters’
Obligations. The
obligation of each Underwriter to purchase Notes on the Closing Date as provided
herein is subject to the performance by the Company of its covenants and other
obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:
(a) Registration Compliance; No Stop
Order. No order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement shall be in effect, and no proceeding for such purpose,
pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) or pursuant to Section 8A under the Securities Act
shall be pending before or threatened by the Commission; the Prospectus and each
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been timely filed with the Commission
under the Securities Act (in the case of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, to
the extent required by Rule 433 under the Securities Act) and in accordance with
Section 4(a) hereof; and all requests by the Commission for additional
information shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the
Representatives.
(b) Representations and
Warranties. The representations and warranties of the Company
contained herein shall be true and correct in all material respects (or true and
correct in all respects in the case of representations and warranties qualified
by materiality or Material Adverse Effect) on the date hereof and on and as of
the Closing Date; and the statements of the Company and its officers made in any
certificates delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be true and correct in
all material respects (or true and correct in all respects in the case of
representations and warranties qualified by materiality or Material Adverse
Effect) on and as of the Closing Date.
(c) No
Downgrade. Subsequent to the earlier of (A) the Time of Sale
and (B) the execution and delivery of this Agreement, (i) no downgrading shall
have occurred in the rating accorded the Notes or any other debt securities or
preferred stock of or guaranteed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries by
any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as such term is
defined by the Commission for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the Securities
Act and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has
under surveillance or review, or has changed its outlook with respect to, its
rating of the Notes or of any other debt securities or preferred stock issued or
guaranteed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries (other than an announcement
with positive implications of a possible upgrading).
(d) No Material Adverse
Change. No event or condition of a type described in Section
3(g) hereof shall have occurred or shall exist, which event or condition is not
described in the Time of Sale Information (excluding any amendment or supplement
thereto) and the Prospectus (excluding any amendment or supplement thereto) and
the effect of which in the judgment of the Representatives makes it
impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of
the Notes on the Closing Date on the terms and in the manner contemplated by
this Agreement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus.
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(e) Officer’s
Certificate. The Representatives shall have received on and as
of the Closing Date, a certificate of an executive officer of the Company who
has specific knowledge of the Company’s financial matters and is reasonably
satisfactory to the Representatives (i) confirming that such officer has
carefully reviewed the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and
the Prospectus and, to the knowledge of such officer, the representations set
forth in Sections 3(b) and 3(d) hereof are true and correct, (ii) confirming
that the other representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement
are true and correct in all material respects (or true and correct in all
respects in the case of representations and warranties qualified by materiality
or Material Adverse Effect) and that the Company has complied in all material
respects (or true and correct in all respects in the case of representations and
warranties qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect) with all
agreements and satisfied all conditions on their part to be performed or
satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date and (iii) to the effect set
forth in paragraphs (a), (c) and (d) above.
(f) Comfort
Letters. On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing
Date, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Ernst & Young LLP shall have furnished
to the Representatives, at the request of the Company, letters, dated the
respective dates of delivery thereof and addressed to the Underwriters, in form
and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, containing
statements and information of the type customarily included in accountants’
“comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and
certain financial information of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries
contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time
of Sale Information and the Prospectus; provided that the
letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off” date no more than
three business days prior to such Closing Date.
(g) Opinion and 10b-5 Statement of
Counsel for the Company. (i) Proskauer Rose LLP,
U.S. counsel for the Company, shall have furnished to the Representatives, at
the request of the Company, their written opinion and 10b-5 statement, dated the
Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Representatives, to the effect substantially as set forth in
Annex A-1 hereto.
(h) Opinion of the General Counsel of
the Company. Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, General Counsel of the Company, shall have
furnished to the Representatives such counsel's written opinion, dated the
Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Underwriters, to the effect substantially as set forth in
Annex A-2 hereto.
(i) Opinion and 10b-5 Statement of
Counsel for the Underwriters. The Representatives shall have
received on and as of the Closing Date an opinion and 10b-5 statement of Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, with respect to such
matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, and such counsel shall
have received such documents and information as they may reasonably request to
enable them to pass upon such matters.
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(j) No Legal Impediment to
Issuance. No action shall have been taken and no statute,
rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any
federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of
the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Notes; and no injunction
or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that
would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the
Notes.
All
opinions, letters, certificates and evidence mentioned above or elsewhere in
this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof
only if they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for
the Underwriters.
7. Indemnification and
Contribution.
(a) Indemnification of the
Underwriters. The Company agrees to indemnify and hold
harmless each Underwriter, its affiliates, directors and officers and each
person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15
of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, from and against any
and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation,
legal fees and other expenses incurred in connection with any suit, action or
proceeding or any claim asserted, as such fees and expenses are incurred), joint
or several, that arise out of, or are based upon, (i) any untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration
Statement or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the
statements therein, not misleading, or (ii) any untrue statement or alleged
untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, the
Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to
Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act or any Time of Sale Information (including
any Time of Sale Information that has subsequently been amended), or caused by
any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which
they were made, not misleading, in each case except insofar as such losses,
claims, damages or liabilities arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue
statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance
upon and in conformity with any information relating to any Underwriter
furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the
Representatives expressly for use therein, it being understood and agreed that
only such information furnished by the Underwriters consists of the information
described as such in subsection (b) below.
The
Company also agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co.
Incorporated (the “QIU”), its affiliates, directors and officers and each
person, if any, who controls the QIU within the meaning of Section 15 of the
Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, from and against any and all
losses, claims, damages, liabilities and judgments incurred as a result of the
QIU participation as a “qualified independent underwriter” within the meaning of
NASD Rule 2720 of FINRA in connection with the offering of the Notes, except for
any losses, claims, damages, liabilities, and judgments resulting from the
QIU’s, or such controlling person’s, willful misconduct or gross negligence as
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final non-appealable
decision.
(b) Indemnification of the
Company. Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly,
to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors and officers who
signed the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the
Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of
the Exchange Act to the same extent as the indemnity set forth in paragraph (a)
above, but only with respect to any losses, claims, damages or liabilities that
arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or omission or alleged
untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any
information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by
such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in the
Registration Statement, the Prospectus (or any amendment or
supplement thereto), any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any Time of Sale
Information, it being understood and agreed that the only such information
furnished by the Underwriters consists of the following: the statements set
forth in the first, second and third sentences of the fourth paragraph, the
third and fourth sentences of the sixth paragraph, and the eleventh paragraph
under the heading “Underwriting” in the Prospectus.
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(c) Notice and
Procedures. If any suit, action, proceeding (including any
governmental or regulatory investigation), claim or demand shall be brought or
asserted against any person in respect of which indemnification may be sought
pursuant to either paragraph (a) or (b) above, such person (the “Indemnified
Person”) shall promptly notify the person against whom such indemnification may
be sought (the “Indemnifying Person”) in writing; provided that the
failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any
liability that it may have under this Section 7 except to the extent that it has
been materially prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or
defenses) by such failure; and provided, further, that the
failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any
liability that it may have to an Indemnified Person otherwise than under this
Section 7. If any such proceeding shall be brought or asserted
against an Indemnified Person and it shall have notified the Indemnifying Person
thereof, the Indemnifying Person shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to
the Indemnified Person (who shall not, without the consent of the Indemnified
Person, be counsel to the Indemnifying Person) to represent the Indemnified
Person and any others entitled to indemnification pursuant to Section 7 that the
Indemnifying Person may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and
expenses of such proceeding and shall pay the fees and expenses of such counsel
related to such proceeding, as incurred. In any such proceeding, any
Indemnified Person shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees
and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Indemnified Person
unless (i) the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person shall have
mutually agreed to the contrary; (ii) the Indemnifying Person has failed within
a reasonable time to retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified
Person; (iii) the Indemnified Person shall have reasonably concluded that there
may be legal defenses available to it that are different from or in addition to
those available to the Indemnifying Person; or (iv) the named parties in any
such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the Indemnifying
Person and the Indemnified Person and representation of both parties by the same
counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interest
between them. It is understood and agreed that the Indemnifying
Person shall not, in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in
the same jurisdiction, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one
separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all Indemnified Persons,
and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred;
provided, however that if
indemnity may be sought pursuant to the second paragraph of Section 7(a) above
in respect of such proceeding, then in addition to such separate firm of the
Underwriters, their affiliates and such control persons of the Underwriters, the
Indemnifying Person shall be liable for the fees and expenses of not more than
one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for the QIU in its capacity
as a “qualified independent underwriter”, its affiliates, directors, officers
and all persons, if any, who control the QIU within the meaning of either
Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act. Any such
separate firm for any Underwriter, its affiliates, directors and officers and
any control persons of such Underwriter shall be designated in writing by such
Underwriter and any such separate firm for the Company, its directors and
officers who signed the Registration Statement and any control persons of the
Company shall be designated in writing by the Company. The
Indemnifying Person shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding
effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent or if
there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the Indemnifying Person agrees to
indemnify each Indemnified Person from and against any loss or liability by
reason of such settlement or judgment. No Indemnifying Person shall, without the
written consent of the Indemnified Person, effect any settlement of any pending
or threatened proceeding in respect of which any Indemnified Person is or could
have been a party and indemnification could have been sought hereunder by such
Indemnified Person, unless such settlement (x) includes an unconditional release
of such Indemnified Person, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
such Indemnified Person, from all liability on claims that are the subject
matter of such proceeding and (y) does not include any statement as to or any
admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any
Indemnified Person.
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(d) Contribution. If
the indemnification provided for in paragraphs (a) and (b) above is unavailable
to an Indemnified Person or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims,
damages or liabilities referred to therein, then each Indemnifying Person under
such paragraph, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Person thereunder,
shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Person as a
result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (i) in such proportion as
is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the
one hand and the Underwriters or the QIU in its capacity as a “qualified
independent underwriter”, as the case may be, on the other from the offering of
the Notes or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) is not
permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not
only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) but also the relative fault
of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters or the QIU in its capacity
as a “qualified independent underwriter”, as the case may be, on the other in
connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses,
claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable
considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the
one hand and the Underwriters or the QIU in its capacity as a “qualified
independent underwriter”, as the case may be, on the other shall be deemed to be
in the same proportions as the net proceeds (before deducting expenses) received
by the Company from the sale of the Notes and the total underwriting discounts
and commissions received by the Underwriters in connection therewith, in each
case as set forth in the table on the cover of the Prospectus, bear to the
aggregate offering price of the Notes. The relative fault of the
Company on the one hand and the Underwriters or the QIU in its capacity as a
“qualified independent underwriter”, as the case may be, on the other shall be
determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged
untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state
a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or by the
Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information
and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.
(e) Limitation on
Liability. The Company and the Underwriters agree that it
would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 7 were
determined by pro rata allocation (even
if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other
method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations
referred to in paragraph (d) above. The amount paid or payable by an
Indemnified Person as a result of the losses, claims, damages and liabilities
referred to in paragraph (d) above shall be deemed to include, subject to the
limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses incurred by such
Indemnified Person in connection with any such action or
claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 7, in no event
shall an Underwriter be required to contribute any amount in excess of the
amount by which the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by
such Underwriter with respect to the offering of the Notes exceeds the amount of
any damages that such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason
of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged
omission. No person guilty of fraudulent
misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act)
shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such
fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations to
contribute pursuant to this Section 7 are several in proportion to their
respective purchase obligations hereunder and not joint.
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(f) Non-Exclusive
Remedies. The remedies provided for in this Section 7 are not
exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies that may otherwise be
available to any Indemnified Person at law or in equity.
8. Effectiveness of
Agreement. This
Agreement shall become effective upon the execution and delivery hereof by the
parties hereto.
9. Termination. This
Agreement may be terminated in the absolute discretion of the Representatives,
by notice to the Company, if after the execution and delivery of this Agreement
and prior to the Closing Date (i) trading generally shall have been suspended or
materially limited on the New York Stock Exchange or the over-the-counter
market; (ii) trading of any securities issued or guaranteed by the Company shall
have been suspended on any exchange or in any over the counter market; (iii) a
general moratorium on commercial banking activities shall have been declared by
federal or New York State authorities; (iv) a material disruption in commercial
banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States
shall have occurred; or (v) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation
of hostilities or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis,
either within or outside the United States, that, in the judgment of the
Representatives, is material and adverse and makes it impracticable or
inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Notes on the
Closing Date on the terms and in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, the
Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus.
10. Defaulting
Underwriter. (a) If,
on the Closing Date, any Underwriter defaults on its obligation to purchase the
Notes that it has agreed to purchase hereunder, the non-defaulting Underwriters
may in their discretion arrange for the purchase of such Notes by other persons
satisfactory to the Company on the terms contained in this
Agreement. If, within 36 hours after any such default by any
Underwriter, the non-defaulting Underwriters do not arrange for the purchase of
such Notes, then the Company shall be entitled to a further period of 36 hours
within which to procure other persons satisfactory to the non-defaulting
Underwriters to purchase such Notes on such terms. If other persons
become obligated or agree to purchase the Notes of a defaulting Underwriter,
either the non-defaulting Underwriters or the Company may postpone the Closing
Date for up to five full business days in order to effect any changes that in
the opinion of counsel for the Company or counsel for the Underwriters may be
necessary in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or in any other
document or arrangement, and the Company agrees to promptly prepare any
amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus that
effects any such changes. As used in this Agreement, the term
“Underwriter” includes, for all purposes of this Agreement unless the context
otherwise requires, any person not listed in Schedule 1 hereto that, pursuant to
this Section 10, purchases Notes that a defaulting Underwriter agreed
but failed to purchase.
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(b) If, after
giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Notes of a defaulting
Underwriter or Underwriters by the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company
as provided in paragraph (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of such Notes
that remains unpurchased does not exceed one-eleventh of the aggregate principal
amount of all the Notes , then the Company shall have the right to require each
non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase the principal amount of Notes that such
Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder plus such Underwriter’s pro rata share (based on
the principal amount of Notes that such Underwriter agreed to purchase
hereunder) of the Notes of such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters for which
such arrangements have not been made.
(c) If, after
giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Notes of a defaulting
Underwriter or Underwriters by the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company
as provided in paragraph (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of such Notes
that remains unpurchased exceeds one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount
of all the Notes , or if the Company shall not exercise the right described in
paragraph (b) above, then this Agreement shall terminate without liability on
the part of the non-defaulting Underwriters. Any termination of this
Agreement pursuant to this Section 10 shall be without liability on the part of
the Company, except that the Company will continue to be liable for the payment
of expenses as set forth in Section 11 hereof and except that the provisions of
Section 7 hereof shall not terminate and shall remain in effect; provided
however, that the Company shall not be liable for the payment of expenses
incurred by any defaulting Underwriter.
(d) Nothing
contained herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter of any liability it may
have to the Company or any non-defaulting Underwriter for damages caused by its
default.
11. Payment of
Expenses.
(a) Whether or not the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, the Company agrees to pay or
cause to be paid all costs and expenses incident to the performance of its
obligations hereunder, including without limitation, (i) the costs incident to
the authorization, issuance, sale, preparation and delivery of the Notes and any
taxes payable in that connection; (ii) the costs incident to the
preparation, printing and filing under the Securities Act of the
Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, any Time of Sale Information and the
Prospectus (including all exhibits, amendments and supplements
thereto) and the distribution thereof; (iii) the costs of reproducing and
distributing each of the Transaction Documents; (iv) the fees and expenses of
the Company’s counsel and independent accountants; (v) the fees and expenses
incurred in connection with the registration or qualification and determination
of eligibility for investment of the Notes under the laws of such jurisdictions
as the Representatives may designate and the preparation, printing and
distribution of a Blue Sky Memorandum (including the related fees and expenses
of counsel for the Underwriters); (vi) any fees charged by rating agencies for
rating the Notes; (vii) the costs and charges of the Trustee and any paying
agent (including related fees and expenses of any counsel to such parties);
(viii) all expenses incurred by the Company in connection with any “road show”
presentation to potential investors; and (ix) all expenses and application fees
incurred in connection with any filing with, and clearance of the offering by,
FINRA, including any counsel fees incurred on behalf of or disbursements by the
QIU in its capacity as “qualified independent underwriter.”
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(b) If (i)
this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 9, (ii), the Company for any
reason fails to tender the Notes for delivery to the Underwriters or (iii) the
Underwriters decline to purchase the Notes for any reason permitted under this
Agreement, the Company agrees to reimburse the Underwriters for all
out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including the fees and expenses of their
counsel) reasonably incurred by the Underwriters in connection with this
Agreement and the offering contemplated hereby.
12. Persons Entitled to Benefit
of Agreement. This
Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto
and their respective successors and the officers and directors and any
controlling persons referred to herein, and the affiliates of each Underwriter
referred to in Section 7 hereof. Nothing in this Agreement is
intended or shall be construed to give any other person any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision
contained herein. No purchaser of Notes from any Underwriter shall be
deemed to be a successor merely by reason of such purchase.
13. Survival. The
respective indemnities, rights of contribution, representations, warranties and
agreements of the Company and the Underwriters and the provisions set forth in
Section 11(b), 12 and 15 hereof, contained in this Agreement or made by or on
behalf of the Company or the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement or any
certificate delivered pursuant hereto shall survive the delivery of and payment
for the Notes and shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any
termination of this Agreement or any investigation made by or on behalf of the
Company or the Underwriters.
14. Certain Defined
Terms. For
purposes of this Agreement, (a) except where otherwise expressly provided, the
term “affiliate” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act;
(b) the term “business day” means any day other than a day on which banks are
permitted or required to be closed in New York City; (c) the term “subsidiary”
has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act and (d) the term
“written communication” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the
Securities Act.
15. Miscellaneous. (a) Authority of the
Representatives. Any action by the Underwriters hereunder may
be taken by Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated
and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. on behalf of the Underwriters, and any such
action taken by Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co.
Incorporated and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. shall be binding upon the
Underwriters.
(b) Notices. All
notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be
deemed to have been duly given if mailed or transmitted and confirmed by any
standard form of telecommunication. Notices to the Underwriters shall
be given to Citigroup Global Markets Inc., 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx
Xxxx, 00000 (fax: 212-816‑7912 ); Attention:
General Counsel, to Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated, 0000 Xxxxxxxx, Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, 00000; Attention: General Counsel, and to HSBC Securities (USA)
Inc., 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000; Attention: General
Counsel. Notices to the Company shall be given to them at Overseas
Shipholding Group, Inc., 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, 00000 (fax:
000-000-0000); Attention: General Counsel.
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(c) Governing
Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to the
principles of conflict of laws that would apply the law of another
jurisdiction.
(d) Judgment Currency. The
Company agrees to indemnify each Underwriter, its affiliates, directors and
officers and each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the
meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act
against any loss incurred, as incurred, as a result of any judgment being given
in connection with this Agreement for which indemnification is provided by any
such person and any such judgment or order being paid in a currency (the
“Judgment Currency”) other than U.S. dollars
as a result of any variation as between (i) the spot rate of exchange in New
York at which the Judgment Currency would have been convertible into U.S.
dollars as of the date such judgment or order is entered, and (ii) the spot rate
of exchange at which the indemnified party is first able to purchase U.S.
dollars with the amount of Judgment Currency actually received by the
indemnified party. The foregoing indemnity shall constitute a separate and
independent, several and not joint, obligation of the Company on the one hand,
and each Underwriter, on the other, and shall continue in full force and effect
notwithstanding any such judgment or order. The term “spot rate of
exchange” shall
include any premiums and costs of exchange payable in connection with the
purchase of, or conversion of, the relevant currency.
(e) Jury Trial. The Company and
the Underwriters hereby irrevocably waive, 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 each of the Transaction Documents or the
transactions contemplated thereby.
(f) Counterparts. This Agreement
may be signed in counterparts (which may include counterparts delivered by any
standard form of telecommunication), each of which shall be an original and all
of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
(g) Amendments or
Waivers. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this
Agreement, nor any consent or approval to any departure therefrom, shall in any
event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the parties
hereto.
(h) Headings. The
headings herein are included for convenience of reference only and are not
intended to be part of, or to affect the meaning or interpretation of, this
Agreement.
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If the
foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please indicate your
acceptance of this Agreement by signing in the space provided
below.
Very
truly yours,
OVERSEAS SHIPHOLDING GROUP, INC.
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||
Title: Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | |||
Citigroup
Global Markets Inc.
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By
/s/ Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx
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Name:
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
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Title: Managing
Director
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated
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By
/s/ Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
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Name:
Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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|
Title: Vice
President
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HSBC
Securities (USA) Inc.
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By
/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx,
Xx.
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Name:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Xx.
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Title: Vice
President, Transaction Management
Americas
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For
themselves and on behalf of the
several
Underwriters listed
in
Schedule 1 hereto.
Schedule
1
Underwriter
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Principal Amount
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||||
Citigroup
Global Markets Inc.
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$ | 105,000,000 | |||
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated
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$ | 60,000,000 | |||
HSBC
Securities (USA) Inc.
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$ | 60,000,000 | |||
Deutsche
Bank Securities Inc.
|
$ | 18,750,000 | |||
DnB
NOR Markets, Inc.
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$ | 18,750,000 | |||
Xxxxxxx,
Sachs & Co.
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$ | 18,750,000 | |||
ING
Financial Markets LLC
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$ | 18,750,000 | |||
Total
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$ | 300,000,000 |
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ANNEX
B
Time
of Sale Information
Pricing
Term Sheet, dated March 24, 2010, relating to the Notes
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ANNEX C
$300,000,000
Overseas
Shipholding Group, Inc.
8
1/8% Senior
Notes due 2018
Pricing
Term Sheet
March
24, 2010
Issuer:
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Overseas
Shipholding Group, Inc.
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Size:
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$300,000,000
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Maturity:
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March
30, 2018
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Coupon:
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8.125%
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Price:
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98.563%
of face amount
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Yield
to maturity:
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8.375%
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Spread
to Benchmark Treasury:
|
490
BPS
|
Interest
Payment Dates:
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September
30 and March 30, commencing September 30, 2010
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Redemption
Provisions:
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Make-whole
call
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At
any time at a discount rate of Treasury plus 50 basis
points.
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Equity
Clawback
|
Prior
to March 30, 2013 up to 35% may be redeemed at 108.125%
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Underwriting Discount: | 1.75% |
Gross Proceeds: | $295,689,000 |
Net Proceeds to Issuer Before Expenses: | $290,439,000 |
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Trade
Date:
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Wednesday,
March 24, 2010
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Settlement:
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T+3;
Monday, March 29, 2010
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Denominations:
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$2,000,
and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
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CUSIP/ISIN:
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690368
AH8 / US690368AH88
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Ratings:
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Ba3/BB-
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Joint
Book-Running Managers:
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Citigroup
Global Markets Inc.
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated
HSBC
Securities (USA) Inc.
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Co-
Managers:
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Deutsche
Bank Securities Inc.
DnB
NOR Markets, Inc.
Xxxxxxx,
Sachs & Co.
ING
Financial Markets LLC
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The
issuer has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the SEC
for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you
invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement
and other documents the issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete
information about the issuer and this offering. You may get these
documents for free by visiting XXXXX on the SEC Web site at
xxx.xxx.xxx. Alternatively, the issuers or any underwriter will
arrange to send you the prospectus if you request it by contacting any of the
Joint Book-Running Managers:
Citigroup
Global Markets Inc.
Attention:
Prospectus Department
Brooklyn
Army Terminal
000
00xx
Xxxxxx, 0xx
Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx,
Xxx Xxxx 00000
(800)
831-9146
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated
Attention:
Prospectus Department
000
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
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HSBC
Securities (USA) Inc.
Attention:
Prospectus Department
000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
(866)
811-8049
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The information in
this communication supersedes the information in the preliminary prospectus
supplement to the extent it is inconsistent with such information. Before you
invest, you should read the preliminary prospectus supplement (including the
documents incorporated by reference therein) for more information concerning the
issuer and the notes.
Any
disclaimers or other notices that may appear below are not applicable to this
communication and should be disregarded. Such disclaimers or other notices were
automatically generated as a result of this communication being sent via
Bloomberg email or another communication system.
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