4,350,000 Shares ANCESTRY.COM INC. COMMON STOCK, $0.001 PAR VALUE UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
Exhibit 1.1
4,350,000 Shares
XXXXXXXX.XXX INC.
COMMON STOCK, $0.001 PAR VALUE
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
May 10, 2011
May 10, 2011
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated
Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
Xxxxx & Company LLC
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co.
Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
Xxxxx & Company LLC
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co.
c/o Morgan Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated
0000 Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
0000 Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Certain stockholders of Xxxxxxxx.xxx Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), named in
Schedule I hereto (the “Selling Stockholders”), severally propose to sell to the several
Underwriters named in Schedule II hereto (the “Underwriters”) an aggregate of 4,350,000 shares of
the common stock, $0.001 par value per share, of the Company (the “Firm Shares”), each Selling
Stockholder selling the amount set forth opposite such Selling Stockholder’s name in Schedule I
hereto.
The Selling Stockholders also severally propose to sell to the several Underwriters, not more
than an additional 652,500 shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share, (the “Additional
Shares”) if and to the extent that you, as managers of the offering, shall have determined to
exercise, on behalf of the Underwriters, the right to purchase such shares of common stock granted
to the Underwriters in Section 3 hereof. The Firm Shares and the Additional Shares are hereinafter
collectively referred to as the “Shares.” The shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share,
of the Company to be outstanding after giving effect to the sales contemplated hereby are
hereinafter referred to as the “Common Stock.” The Selling Stockholders are hereinafter sometimes
collectively referred to as the “Sellers.”
The Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a
registration statement, including a prospectus, relating to the Shares. The registration statement
as amended at the time it becomes effective, including the information (if any) deemed to be part
of the registration statement at the time of effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430B under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), is hereinafter referred to as the
“Registration Statement”; the prospectus in the form first used to confirm sales of Shares (or in
the form first made available to the Underwriters by the Company to meet requests of purchasers
pursuant to Rule 173 under the Securities Act) is hereinafter referred to as the “Prospectus.” If
the Company has filed an
abbreviated registration statement to register additional shares of Common Stock pursuant to
Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act (the “Rule 462 Registration Statement”), then any reference
herein to the term “Registration Statement” shall be deemed to include such Rule 462 Registration
Statement.
For purposes of this Agreement, “free writing prospectus” has the meaning set forth in Rule
405 under the Securities Act, “Time of Sale Prospectus” means the most recent preliminary
prospectus together with the free writing prospectuses, if any, each identified in Schedule III
hereto, and “broadly available road show” means a “bona fide electronic road show” as defined in
Rule 433(h)(5) under the Securities Act that has been made available without restriction to any
person. As used herein, the terms “Registration Statement,” “preliminary prospectus,” “Time of
Sale Prospectus” and “Prospectus” shall include the documents, if any, incorporated by reference
therein as of the date hereof. The terms “supplement,” “amendment” and “amend” as used herein with
respect to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus or any free
writing prospectus shall include all documents subsequently filed by the Company with the
Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), that
are deemed to be incorporated by reference therein.
1. Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and warrants to and
agrees with each of the Underwriters that:
(a) The Registration Statement has become effective; no stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement is in effect, and no proceedings for such purpose are
pending before or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened by the Commission.
(b) (i) Each document, if any, filed or to be filed pursuant to the Exchange Act and
incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus complied or will comply
when so filed in all material respects with the Exchange Act and the applicable rules and
regulations of the Commission thereunder, (ii) the Registration Statement, when it became
effective, did not contain and, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will not as of the date
of any such amendment or supplement contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading, (iii) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus comply and, as amended or
supplemented, if applicable, will comply in all material respects with the Securities Act and the
applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, (iv) the Time of Sale Prospectus
does not, and at the time of each sale of the Shares in connection with the offering when the
Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers and at the Closing Date (as defined in
Section 5), the Time of Sale Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented by the Company, if
applicable, will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they
were made, not misleading, (v) each broadly available road show, if any, when
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considered together with the Time of Sale Prospectus, does not contain any untrue statement of
a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (vi) as of the
applicable filing date, the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date (as defined in Section 3), as
the case may be, the Prospectus does not contain and, as amended or supplemented, if applicable,
will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary
to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading, except that the representations and warranties set forth in this paragraph do not apply
to statements or omissions in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the
Prospectus based upon information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing
by such Underwriter through you expressly for use therein.
(c) The Company is not an “ineligible issuer” in connection with the offering pursuant to
Rules 164, 405 and 433 under the Securities Act. Any free writing prospectus that the Company is
required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act has been, or will be, filed with
the Commission in accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act and the applicable rules
and regulations of the Commission thereunder. Each free writing prospectus that the Company has
filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act or that was
prepared by or on behalf of or used or referred to by the Company complies or will comply in all
material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the applicable rules and
regulations of the Commission thereunder. Except for the free writing prospectuses, if any,
identified in Schedule III hereto, and electronic road shows, if any, each furnished to you before
first use, the Company has not prepared, used or referred to, and will not, without your prior
consent, prepare, use or refer to, any free writing prospectus.
(d) The Company has been duly incorporated, is validly existing as a corporation in good
standing under the laws of the state of Delaware, has the corporate power and authority to own its
property and to conduct its business as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus
and is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which
the conduct of its business or its ownership or leasing of property requires such qualification,
except to the extent that the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not have a
material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(e) Each subsidiary of the Company has been duly incorporated (or, if in a foreign
jurisdiction, enjoys the equivalent status under the laws of the jurisdiction of organization
outside of the United States) , is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the
laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, has the corporate power and authority to own its
property and to conduct its business as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus
and is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which
the conduct of its business or its ownership or leasing
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of property requires such qualification, except to the extent that the failure to be so
qualified or be in good standing would not have a material adverse effect on the Company and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole; all of the issued equity interests of each subsidiary of the
Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are
owned directly or indirectly by the Company, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or
claims.
(f) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
(g) The authorized capital stock of the Company will conform on the Closing Date as to legal
matters to the description thereof contained in each of the Time of Sale Prospectus and the
Prospectus.
(h) The shares of Common Stock (including the Shares to be sold by the Selling Stockholders)
outstanding have been duly authorized and are validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.
(i) The execution and delivery by the Company of, and the performance by the Company of its
obligations under, this Agreement will not contravene (i) any provision of applicable law, (ii) the
certificate of incorporation or bylaws of the Company, (iii) any agreement or other instrument
binding upon the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or (iv) any judgment, order or decree of any
governmental body, agency or court having jurisdiction over the Company or any subsidiary, except
in the case of clause (iii) above, where such contravention would not, singly or in the aggregate,
have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or a material
adverse effect on the power and ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this
Agreement or to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Time of Sale Prospectus. No
consent, approval, authorization or order of, or qualification with, any governmental body or
agency is required for the performance by the Company of its obligations under this Agreement,
except such as may be required by the securities or Blue Sky laws of the various states in
connection with the offer and sale of the Shares and except for any such consents, approvals,
authorizations, orders or qualifications, the absence of which would not, singly or in the
aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or
a material adverse effect on the power and ability of the Company to perform its obligations under
this Agreement or to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Time of Sale Prospectus.
(j) There has not occurred any material adverse change, or any development involving a
prospective material adverse change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings,
business or operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, from that set forth
in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus.
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(k) There are no legal or governmental proceedings pending or, to the Company’s knowledge,
threatened to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or to which any of the
properties of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject (i) other than proceedings
accurately described in all material respects in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus and
proceedings that would not have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries,
taken as a whole, or a material adverse effect on the power or ability of the Company to perform
its obligations under this Agreement or to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Time of
Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus or (ii) that are required to be described in the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus and are not so described; and there are no statutes, regulations,
transactions, contracts or other documents that are required to be described in the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement that are not
described or filed as required.
(l) Each preliminary prospectus filed as part of the registration statement as originally
filed or as part of any amendment thereto, or filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act,
complied when so filed in all material respects with the Securities Act and the applicable rules
and regulations of the Commission thereunder.
(m) The Company is not an “investment company” as such term is defined in the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(n) The Company and its subsidiaries (i) are in compliance with any and all applicable
foreign, federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to the protection of human health
and safety, the environment or hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants
(“Environmental Laws”), (ii) have received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of
them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses and (iii) are in
compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or approval, except where such
noncompliance with Environmental Laws, failure to receive required permits, licenses or other
approvals or failure to comply with the terms and conditions of such permits, licenses or approvals
would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the Company and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(o) There are no costs or liabilities associated with Environmental Laws (including, without
limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for clean-up, closure of properties or
compliance with Environmental Laws or any permit, license or approval, any related constraints on
operating activities and any potential liabilities to third parties) which would, singly or in the
aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(p) Except as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, there are no
contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any person granting such person the
right to require the Company
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to file a registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to any securities of
the Company or to require the Company to include such securities with the Shares registered
pursuant to the Registration Statement.
(q) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, nor any director, officer, nor, to the
Company’s knowledge, any employee, agent or representative acting on behalf of the Company or of
any of its subsidiaries, has taken any action in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay,
or authorization or approval of the payment or giving of money, property, gifts or anything else of
value, directly or indirectly, to any “government official” (including any officer or employee of a
government or government-owned or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or
any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any
political party or party official or candidate for political office) to influence official action
or secure an improper advantage that would constitute a violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “FCPA”); and the Company and
its subsidiaries have conducted their businesses in compliance with the FCPA and have instituted
and maintain policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance with the FCPA.
(r) The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all
times in material compliance with all applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting
requirements, including those of the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended by Title III of the Uniting and
Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), and the applicable anti-money laundering statutes of jurisdictions
where the Company and its subsidiaries conduct business, the rules and regulations thereunder and
any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any
governmental agency (collectively, the “Anti-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 Anti-Money Laundering Laws is
pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.
(s) (i) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor any director, officer or, to the
knowledge of the Company, any employee, agent or representative acting on behalf of the Company or
any of its subsidiaries, is an individual or entity (“Person”):
(A) the subject of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S.
Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), the United
Nations Security Council (“UNSC”), the European Union (“EU”), Her Majesty’s
Treasury (“HMT”), or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively,
“Sanctions”), nor
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(B) 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).
(iii) For the past five (5) years, the Company and its subsidiaries have not knowingly
engaged in, are not now knowingly engaged in, and 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
or was the subject of Sanctions.
(t) Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in each of the
Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus and before the Closing Date
or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, except as disclosed in the Time of Sale Prospectus
and the Prospectus, (i) the Company and its subsidiaries have not incurred any material liability
or obligation, direct or contingent, nor entered into any material transaction; (ii) the Company
has not purchased any of its outstanding capital stock, nor declared, paid or otherwise made any
dividend or distribution of any kind on its capital stock other than ordinary and customary
dividends; and (iii) there has not been any material change in the capital stock, short-term debt
or long-term debt of the Company and its subsidiaries, except in each case as described in each of
the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, respectively.
(u) The Company and its subsidiaries do not own any real property. Subject to the security
interests described in the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Prospectus and Prospectus, the
Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all personal property owned by them
which is material to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries, in each case free and clear
of all liens, encumbrances and defects except such as are described in the Time of Sale Prospectus
and the Prospectus or such as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not
materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and
its subsidiaries; and any real property and buildings held under lease by the Company and its
subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with such exceptions
as are not material and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of
such property and buildings by the Company and its subsidiaries, in each case except as described
in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus.
(v) The Company and its subsidiaries own or possess, or can acquire on reasonable terms, the
material patents, patent rights, licenses, inventions, copyrights, know-how (including trade
secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems
or procedures), trademarks, service marks and trade names currently employed by them in connection
with the business now operated by them, and, except as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus and
the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notice of any
claim of infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any of the
foregoing which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an
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unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would have a material adverse effect on the Company
and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(w) No material labor dispute with the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries
exists, except as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, or, to the knowledge
of the Company, is imminent; and the Company is not aware of any existing, threatened or imminent
labor disturbance by the employees of any of its principal suppliers, manufacturers or contractors
that could have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(x) The Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, are insured by insurers of recognized
financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and
customary in the businesses in which they are engaged; the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a
whole, has not been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for; and the Company has no
reason to believe that it and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, will not be able to renew their
existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from
similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not have a
material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, except as described
in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus.
(y) The Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, possess all certificates,
authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate federal, state or foreign governmental or
regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses, except as would have a
material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and neither the
Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notice of proceedings relating to the
revocation or modification of any such certificate, authorization or permit which, singly or in the
aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would have a material
adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, except as described in the
Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus.
(z) The Company and its subsidiaries maintain a system of internal accounting controls
sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with
management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to
permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting
principles and to maintain asset accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in
accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded
accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and
appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. Except as described in the Time of
Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, since the end of the Company’s most recent audited fiscal year,
there has been (i) no material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting
(whether or not remediated) and (ii) no change in the Company’s internal control over
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financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially
affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
(aa) Except as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, the Company has
not sold, issued or distributed any shares of Common Stock during the six-month period preceding
the date hereof, including any sales pursuant to Rule 144A under, or Regulation D or S of, the
Securities Act, other than shares issued pursuant to employee benefit plans, qualified stock option
plans or other employee compensation plans or pursuant to outstanding options, rights or warrants.
(bb) Ernst & Young LLP, which has expressed its opinion with respect to the financial
statements of the Company filed with the Commission as a part of the Registration Statement and
included in each of the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, is an independent registered
public accounting firm as required by the Securities Act.
(cc) The Company and its subsidiaries have established and maintain disclosure controls and
procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act). Such disclosure controls and
procedures are designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company, including its
consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to the Company’s principal executive officer and its
principal financial officer by others within those entities, particularly during the periods in
which the periodic reports required under the Exchange Act are being prepared. The Company has no
reason to believe that such disclosure controls and procedures are not effective in timely alerting
the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer to material information
required to be included in the Company’s periodic reports required under the Exchange Act.
(dd) The Company is in compliance in all material respects with all provisions of the
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, as amended (the “Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act”) and all rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder or implementing the provisions thereof with which the Company is required to
comply as of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, and is actively taking steps to
ensure that it will be in compliance with other provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act at the time
such other provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act will become applicable to the Company after the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement.
(ee) The Company has provided notice to each stockholder who is a party to the Registration
Rights Agreement dated December 5, 2007, as amended (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), that
pursuant to the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement, none of the shares of the Company’s
capital stock held by such stockholder may be sold or otherwise transferred or disposed of for a
period of 90 days after the date of the Prospectus.
(ff) The financial statements of the Company filed with the Commission as a part of the
Registration Statement and included in each of the
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Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus present fairly in all material respects the
consolidated financial position of the Company and its subsidiaries as of the dates indicated and
the results of their operations and cash flows for the periods specified. Such financial
statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles as
applied in the United States applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved. The
financial data set forth in the Time of Sale Prospectus under the caption “Summary Consolidated
Financial Data” present fairly in all material respects the information set forth therein on a
basis consistent with that of the audited financial statements contained in the Registration
Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus.
(gg) The Company and each of its subsidiaries have filed all federal, state, local and foreign
tax returns required to be filed through the date of this Agreement or have requested extensions
thereof (except where the failure to file would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a
material adverse effect) and have paid all taxes required to be paid thereon (except for cases in
which the failure to file or pay would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse
effect, or, except as currently being contested in good faith and for which reserves required by
U.S. GAAP have been created in the financial statements of the Company), and no tax deficiency has
been determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries which could reasonably be
expected (nor does the Company nor any of its subsidiaries have any notice or knowledge of any tax
deficiency which could reasonably be expected to be determined adversely to the Company or its
subsidiaries and which could reasonably be expected to have) a material adverse effect.
(hh) The statistical, industry-related and market-related data included in the Time of Sale
Prospectus and the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources which the Company reasonably and
in good faith believes are reliable and accurate, and such data agree with the sources from which
they are derived.
2. Representations and Warranties of the Selling Stockholders. Each Selling Stockholder,
severally and not jointly, represents and warrants to and agrees with each of the Underwriters
that:
(a) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by or on behalf of such
Selling Stockholder.
(b) The execution and delivery by such Selling Stockholder of, and the performance by such
Selling Stockholder of its obligations under, this Agreement, the Custody Agreement signed by such
Selling Stockholder and Mellon Investor Services LLC, as initial Custodian, relating to the deposit
of the Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder (the “Custody Agreement”) and the Power of
Attorney appointing certain individuals as such Selling Stockholder’s attorneys-in-fact to the
extent set forth therein, relating to the transactions contemplated hereby and by the Registration
Statement (the “Power of Attorney”) will not contravene any provision of applicable law, or the
certificate
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of incorporation or by-laws of such Selling Stockholder (if such Selling Stockholder is a
corporation), or any agreement or other instrument binding upon such Selling Stockholder or any
judgment, order or decree of any governmental body, agency or court having jurisdiction over such
Selling Stockholder, and no consent, approval, authorization or order of, or qualification with,
any governmental body or agency is required for the performance by such Selling Stockholder of its
obligations under this Agreement or the Custody Agreement or Power of Attorney of such Selling
Stockholder, except such as may be required by the securities or Blue Sky laws of any relevant
jurisdictions in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares.
(c) Such Selling Stockholder has, and on the Closing Date will have, valid title to, or a
valid “security entitlement” within the meaning of Section 8-501 of the New York Uniform Commercial
Code (the “UCC”) in respect of, the Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder or options
exercisable for purchase of the Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder, as the case may be,
free and clear of all security interests, claims, liens, equities or other encumbrances and the
legal right and power, and all authorization and approval required by law, to enter into this
Agreement, the Custody Agreement and the Power of Attorney and to sell, transfer and deliver the
Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder or a security entitlement in respect of such Shares.
(d) The Custody Agreement and the Power of Attorney have been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by such Selling Stockholder and are valid and binding agreements of such Selling
Stockholder.
(e) Upon payment for the Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder pursuant to this
Agreement, delivery of such Shares, as directed by the Underwriters, to Cede & Co. (“Cede”) or such
other nominee as may be designated by the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), registration of such
Shares in the name of Cede or such other nominee and the crediting of such Shares on the books of
DTC to securities accounts of the Underwriters (assuming that neither DTC nor any such Underwriter
has notice of any adverse claim (within the meaning of Section 8-105 of the UCC) to such Shares),
(A) DTC shall be a “protected purchaser” of such Shares within the meaning of Section 8-303 of the
UCC, (B) under Section 8-501 of the UCC, the Underwriters will acquire a valid security entitlement
in respect of such Shares and (C) no action based on any “adverse claim”, within the meaning of
Section 8-102 of the UCC, to such Shares may be asserted against the Underwriters with respect to
such security entitlement; for purposes of this representation, such Selling Stockholder may assume
that when such payment, delivery and crediting occur, (x) such Shares will have been registered in
the name of Cede or another nominee designated by DTC, in each case on the Company’s share registry
in accordance with its certificate of incorporation, bylaws and applicable law, (y) DTC will be
registered as a “clearing corporation” within the meaning of Section 8-102 of the UCC and (z)
appropriate entries to the accounts of the several Underwriters on the records of DTC will have
been made pursuant to the UCC.
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(f) Such Selling Stockholder has not prepared, used or referred to, and will not, without your
prior consent, prepare, use or refer to, any free writing prospectus except for the free writing
prospectuses, if any, identified in Schedule III hereto, and electronic road shows, if any,
furnished to you before first use.
(g) Such Selling Stockholder is not prompted by any information concerning the Company or its
subsidiaries which is not set forth in the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus to sell its
Shares pursuant to this Agreement.
(h) (i) the Registration Statement, when it became effective, did not contain and, as amended
or supplemented, if applicable, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading, (ii) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus comply and, as amended or
supplemented, (iii) the Time of Sale Prospectus does not, and at the time of each sale of the
Shares in connection with the offering when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective
purchasers and at the Closing Date (as defined in Section 5), the Time of Sale Prospectus, as then
amended or supplemented by the Company, if applicable, will not, contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, (iv) each broadly available
road show, if any, when considered together with the Time of Sale Prospectus, does not contain any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading
and (v) the Prospectus does not contain and, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will not
contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make
the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading; provided that the representations and warranties set forth in this paragraph 2(h) are
limited in all respects to statements or omissions made in reliance upon information relating to
such Selling Stockholder furnished to the Company in writing by such Selling Stockholder expressly
for use in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus, a broadly available road show,
the Prospectus or any amendments or supplements thereto.
3. Agreements to Sell and Purchase. Each Selling Stockholder, severally and not jointly,
hereby agrees to sell to the several Underwriters, and each Underwriter, upon the basis of the
representations and warranties herein contained, but subject to the conditions hereinafter stated,
agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from such Seller at $40.215 a share (the “Purchase
Price”) the number of Firm Shares (subject to such adjustments to eliminate fractional shares as
you may determine) that bears the same proportion to the number of Firm Shares to be sold by such
Seller as the number of Firm Shares set forth in Schedule II hereto opposite the name of such
Underwriter bears to the total number of Firm Shares.
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On the basis of the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement, and subject to
its terms and conditions, each Seller, severally and not jointly, agrees to sell to the
Underwriters the portion of the Additional Shares shown on Schedule I hereto, and the Underwriters
shall have the right to purchase, severally and not jointly, up to 652,500 Additional Shares at the
Purchase Price. You may exercise this right on behalf of the Underwriters in whole or from time to
time in part by giving written notice not later than 30 days after the date of this Agreement. Any
exercise notice shall specify the number of Additional Shares to be purchased by the Underwriters
and the date on which such Shares are to be purchased. Each purchase date must be at least one
business day after the written notice is given and may not be earlier than the closing date for the
Firm Shares nor later than ten business days after the date of such notice. Additional Shares may
be purchased as provided in Section 5 hereof solely for the purpose of covering over-allotments
made in connection with the offering of the Firm Shares. On each day, if any, that Additional
Shares are to be purchased (an “Option Closing Date”), each Underwriter agrees, severally and not
jointly, to purchase the number of Additional Shares (subject to such adjustments to eliminate
fractional shares as you may determine) that bears the same proportion to the total number of
Additional Shares to be purchased on such Option Closing Date as the number of Firm Shares set
forth in Schedule II hereto opposite the name of such Underwriter bears to the total number of Firm
Shares.
Each Selling Stockholder and the Company, as applicable, hereby agree that, without the prior
written consent of Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated (“Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx”) and Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce,
Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated (“Xxxxxxx Xxxxx,” and together with Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, the
“Representatives”) on behalf of the Underwriters, it will not, during the period ending 90 days
after the date of the Prospectus, (1) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or
contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant
to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of
Common Stock beneficially owned (as such term is used in Rule 13d-3 of the Exchange Act or any
other securities so owned convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, (2)
enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the
economic consequences of ownership of the Common Stock, whether any such transaction described in
clause (1) or (2) above is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other securities, in
cash or otherwise, (3) publicly announce the intent to do any of the foregoing, or (4) file any
registration statement with the Commission relating to the offering of any shares of Common Stock
or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock.
The restrictions contained in the preceding paragraph shall not apply to (a) the Shares to be
sold hereunder or the sale of shares of Common Stock to the Company in connection with the proposed
share repurchase as described in the Prospectus, (b) the issuance by the Company of shares of
Common Stock upon the exercise of an option or warrant or the conversion of a security outstanding
on
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the date hereof of which the Underwriters have been advised in writing, (c) the filing of a
registration statement with the Commission on Form S-8 relating to the offering of securities in
accordance with the terms of a plan in effect on the date hereof, (d) transactions by a Selling
Stockholder relating to shares of Common Stock or other securities acquired in open market
transactions after the completion of the offering of the Shares, provided that no filing under the
Exchange Act (other than a filing on a Form 5, Schedule 13D or Schedule 13G (or 13D/A or 13G/A)
made after the expiration of the 90-day restricted period) shall be required or shall be
voluntarily made in connection with subsequent sales of Common Stock or other securities acquired
in such open market transactions, (e) transfers by a Selling Stockholder of shares of Common Stock
or any security convertible into Common Stock as a bona fide gift, (f) transfers of shares of
Common Stock or any security convertible into Common Stock to any trust for the direct or indirect
benefit of the undersigned or the immediate family of such Selling Stockholder; or (g)
distributions by a Selling Stockholder of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into
Common Stock to affiliates of the Selling Stockholder, including limited partners, members, or
stockholders of the Selling Stockholder; provided that in the case of any transfer or distribution
pursuant to clause (e) through (g), (i) each donee or distributee shall enter into a written
agreement accepting the restrictions set forth in the preceding paragraph and this paragraph as if
it were a Selling Stockholder and (ii) no filing under the Exchange Act, reporting a reduction in
beneficial ownership of shares of Common Stock, shall be required or shall be voluntarily made in
respect of the transfer or distribution during the 90-day restricted period, (iii) each party
(transferor, transferee, donor or donee) shall not be required by law (including without limitation
the disclosure requirements of the Exchange Act) to make, and shall agree to not voluntarily make,
any public announcement of the transfer or disposition (other than a filing on a Form 5, Schedule
13D or Schedule 13G (or 13D/A or 13G/A) made after the expiration of the 90-day restricted period)
and (iv) the undersigned notifies the Representatives at least three business days prior to the
proposed transfer or disposition, or (i) the sale of shares of Common Stock under a trading plan
pursuant to Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act in existence prior to November 1, 2010, (j) the
establishment of a trading plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act for the transfer
of shares of Common Stock, provided that the Company shall prevent the transfer of Common Stock
during the 90-day restricted period and no public announcement or filing under the Exchange Act
regarding the establishment of such plan shall be required of or voluntarily made by or on behalf
of the undersigned or the Company. In addition, each Selling Stockholder, agrees that, without the
prior written consent of the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, it will not, during the
period ending 90 days after the date of the Prospectus, make any demand for, or exercise any right
with respect to, the registration of any shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or
exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock. Each Selling Stockholder consents to the entry of
stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the transfer of
any Shares held by such Selling Stockholder except in compliance with the foregoing restrictions.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if (1) during the last 17 days of the 90-day restricted
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period the Company issues an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to
the Company occurs; or (2) prior to the expiration of the 90-day restricted period, the Company
announces that it will release earnings results during the 16-day period beginning on the last day
of the 90-day period, the restrictions imposed by this agreement shall continue to apply until the
expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence
of the material news or material event. The Company shall promptly notify the Representatives of
any earnings release, news or event that may give rise to an extension of the initial 90-day
restricted period.
4. Terms of Public Offering. The Sellers are advised by you that the Underwriters propose to
make a public offering of their respective portions of the Shares as soon after the Registration
Statement and this Agreement have become effective as in your judgment is advisable. The Sellers
are further advised by you that the Shares are to be offered to the public initially at $42.00 a
share (the “Public Offering Price”) and to certain dealers selected by you at a price that
represents a concession not in excess of $1.07 a share under the Public Offering Price.
5. Payment and Delivery. Payment for the Firm Shares to be sold by each Seller shall be made
to such Seller in Federal or other funds immediately available in New York City against delivery of
such Firm Shares for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters at 10:00 a.m., New York
City time, on May 16, 2011, or at such other time on the same or such other date, not later than
May 23, 2011, as shall be designated in writing by you. The time and date of such payment are
hereinafter referred to as the “Closing Date.”
Payment for any Additional Shares shall be made to each Seller in Federal or other funds
immediately available in New York City against delivery of such Additional Shares for the
respective accounts of the several Underwriters at 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date
specified in the corresponding notice described in Section 3 or at such other time on the same or
on such other date, in any event not later than June 23, 2011, as shall be designated in writing by
you.
The Firm Shares and Additional Shares shall be registered in such names and in such
denominations as you shall request in writing not later than one full business day prior to the
Closing Date or the applicable Option Closing Date, as the case may be. The Firm Shares and
Additional Shares shall be delivered to you on the Closing Date or an Option Closing Date, as the
case may be, for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters. The Purchase Price payable
by the Underwriters shall be reduced by (i) any transfer taxes paid by, or on behalf of, the
Underwriters in connection with the transfer of the Shares to the Underwriters duly paid and (ii)
any withholding required by law.
6. Conditions to the Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Sellers to sell the
Shares to the Underwriters and the several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for
the Shares on the Closing Date are subject to the condition that the Registration Statement shall
have become effective not
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later than 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the date hereof, no stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof has been issued, and no proceedings
for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or contemplated under the Securities Act.
The several obligations of the Underwriters are subject to the following further conditions:
(a) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date:
(i) there shall not have occurred any downgrading, nor shall any notice have been
given of any intended or potential downgrading or of any review for a possible change that
does not indicate the direction of the possible change, in the rating accorded any of the
securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized
statistical rating organization,” as such term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the
Exchange Act; and
(ii) there shall not have occurred any change, or any development involving a
prospective change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business
or operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, from that set forth
in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus that, in your judgment, is material and
adverse and that makes it, in your judgment, impracticable to market the Shares on the
terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus.
(b) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date a certificate, dated the Closing
Date and signed by the chief executive officer and chief financial officer of the Company, to the
effect set forth in Section 6(a)(i) above and to the effect that the representations and warranties
of the Company contained in this Agreement are true and correct as of the Closing Date, that the
Company has complied with all of the agreements and satisfied all of the conditions on its part to
be performed or satisfied hereunder on or before the Closing Date, and that there has not occurred
any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in
the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Company
and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, from that set forth in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the
Prospectus.
The officer signing and delivering such certificate may rely upon the best of his or her
knowledge as to proceedings threatened.
(c) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of Xxxxxx, Xxxx &
Xxxxxxxx LLP, outside counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, to the effect agreed by such
counsel and the Underwriters.
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(d) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date a letter from Xxxxxx, Xxxx &
Xxxxxxxx LLP, outside counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, to the effect agreed by such
counsel and the Underwriters.
(e) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of Xxxxxx, Xxxx &
Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for certain Selling Stockholders, and Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, counsel for
certain Selling Stockholders, dated the Closing Date, to the effect agreed by such counsel and the
Underwriters.
(f) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, Professional Corporation, counsel for the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date,
in the form and substance to be agreed upon by the Representatives and such counsel.
With respect to Section 6(d) above, Xxxxxx, Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx may state that their opinions and
beliefs are based upon their participation in the preparation of the Registration Statement, the
Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto and review and
discussion of the contents thereof, but are without independent check or verification, except as
specified.
The opinion and letter of Xxxxxx, Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx described in Sections 6(c) and 6(d) above
(and any opinions of counsel for any Selling Stockholder referred to in the immediately preceding
paragraph) shall be rendered to the Underwriters at the request of the Company or one or more of
the Selling Stockholders, as the case may be.
(g) The Underwriters shall have received, on each of the date hereof and the Closing Date, a
letter dated the date hereof or the Closing Date, as the case may be, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Underwriters, from Ernst & Young LLP, an independent registered public
accounting firm, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in
accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain
financial and statistical information contained in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale
Prospectus and the Prospectus; provided that the letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a
“cut-off date” not earlier than the date hereof.
(h) The “lock-up” agreements, each substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, between you
and each of the Selling Stockholders, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of
the Company relating to sales and certain other dispositions of shares of Common Stock or certain
other securities, delivered to you on or before the date hereof, shall be in full force and effect
on the Closing Date.
The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase Additional Shares hereunder are
subject to the delivery to you on the applicable Option Closing Date of such documents as you may
reasonably request with respect to the good
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standing of the Company, the due authorization and issuance of the Additional Shares to be
sold on such Option Closing Date and other matters related to the issuance of such Additional
Shares.
7. Covenants of the Company. The Company covenants with each Underwriter as follows:
(a) To furnish to you, without charge, six conformed copies of the Registration Statement and
for delivery to each other Underwriter a conformed copy of the Registration Statement (without
exhibits thereto) and to furnish to you in New York City, without charge, prior to 10:00 a.m. New
York City time on the business day next succeeding the date of this Agreement and during the period
mentioned in Section 7(e) or 7(f) below, as many copies of the Time of Sale Prospectus, the
Prospectus, and any supplements and amendments thereto or to the Registration Statement as you may
reasonably request.
(b) Before amending or supplementing the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus
or the Prospectus, to furnish to you a copy of each such proposed amendment or supplement and, for
such period after the first date of the public offering of the Shares as in the opinion of counsel
for the Underwriters the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of
the Securities Act) is required by law to be delivered in connection with sales by an Underwriter
or dealer, not to file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which you reasonably object,
and to file with the Commission within the applicable period specified in Rule 424(b) under the
Securities Act any prospectus required to be filed pursuant to such Rule.
(c) To furnish to you a copy of each proposed free writing prospectus to be prepared by or on
behalf of, used by, or referred to by the Company and not to use or refer to any proposed free
writing prospectus to which you reasonably object.
(d) Not to take any action that would result in an Underwriter, the Company or the Selling
Stockholders being required to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the
Securities Act a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of the Underwriter that the
Underwriter otherwise would not have been required to file thereunder.
(e) If the Time of Sale Prospectus is being used to solicit offers to buy the Shares at a time
when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers and any event shall occur or
condition exist as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Time of Sale
Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances, not
misleading, or if any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which the Time of Sale
Prospectus conflicts with the information contained in the Registration Statement then on file, or
if, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, it is necessary to amend or supplement the Time
of Sale Prospectus to comply with applicable law, forthwith to prepare, file with the Commission
and furnish, at its own expense, to
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the Underwriters and to any dealer upon request, either amendments or supplements to the Time
of Sale Prospectus so that the statements in the Time of Sale Prospectus as so amended or
supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances when delivered to a prospective purchaser,
be misleading or so that the Time of Sale Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will no longer
conflict with the Registration Statement, or so that the Time of Sale Prospectus, as amended or
supplemented, will comply with applicable law.
(f) If, during such period after the first date of the public offering of the Shares as in the
opinion of counsel for the Underwriters the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to
in Rule 173(a) of the Securities Act) is required by law to be delivered in connection with sales
by an Underwriter or dealer, any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is
necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in the
light of the circumstances when the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule
173(a) of the Securities Act) is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading, or if, in the opinion of
counsel for the Underwriters, it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with
applicable law, forthwith to prepare, file with the Commission and furnish, at its own expense, to
the Underwriters and to the dealers (whose names and addresses you will furnish to the Company) to
which Shares may have been sold by you on behalf of the Underwriters and to any other dealers upon
request, either amendments or supplements to the Prospectus so that the statements in the
Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances when the
Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Securities Act) is
delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will
comply with applicable law.
(g) To endeavor to qualify the Shares for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws
of such jurisdictions as you shall reasonably request; 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) To make generally available to the Company’s security holders and to you as soon as
practicable an earning statement covering a period of at least twelve months beginning with the
first fiscal quarter of the Company occurring after the date of this Agreement which shall satisfy
the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the
Commission thereunder.
(i) If any Seller is not a U.S. person for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the Company will
deliver to each Underwriter (or its agent), on or before the Closing Date, (i) a certificate with
respect to the Company’s status as a “United States real property holding corporation,” dated not
more than thirty (30) days prior to the Closing Date, as described in Treasury Regulations Sections
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1.897-2(h) and 1.1445-2(c)(3), and (ii) proof of delivery to the IRS of the required notice,
as described in Treasury Regulations 1.897-2(h)(2).
8. Covenants of the Sellers. Each Seller, severally and not jointly, covenants with each
Underwriter that it will deliver to each Underwriter (or its agent), prior to or at the Closing
Date, a properly completed and executed Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) Form W-9 or an IRS Form
W-8, as appropriate, together with all required attachments to such form.
9. Expenses. Whether or not the transactions contemplated in this Agreement are consummated
or this Agreement is terminated, the Sellers agree to pay or cause to be paid all expenses incident
to the performance of their obligations under this Agreement, including: (i) the fees,
disbursements and expenses of the Company’s counsel, the Company’s accountants and counsel for the
Selling Stockholders in connection with the registration and delivery of the Shares under the
Securities Act and all other fees or expenses in connection with the preparation and filing of the
Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus,
any free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of, used by, or referred to by the Company and
amendments and supplements to any of the foregoing, including all printing costs associated
therewith, and the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the Underwriters and dealers, in the
quantities hereinabove specified, (ii) all costs and expenses related to the transfer and delivery
of the Shares to the Underwriters, including any transfer or other taxes payable thereon, (iii) the
reasonable cost of printing or producing any Blue Sky or Legal Investment memorandum in connection
with the offer and sale of the Shares under state securities laws and all expenses in connection
with the qualification of the Shares for offer and sale under state securities laws as provided in
Section 7(g) hereof, including filing fees and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for
the Underwriters in connection with such qualification and in connection with the Blue Sky or Legal
Investment memorandum, (iv) all filing fees and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to
the Underwriters incurred in connection with the review and qualification of the offering of the
Shares by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”), (v) all costs and expenses
incident to listing the Shares on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, (vi) the cost of printing
certificates representing the Shares, (viii) the costs and charges of any transfer agent, registrar
or depositary, (ix) the costs and expenses of the Company relating to investor presentations on any
“road show” undertaken in connection with the marketing of the offering of the Shares, including,
without limitation, expenses associated with the preparation or dissemination of any electronic
road show, expenses associated with the production of road show slides and graphics, fees and
expenses of any consultants engaged in connection with the road show presentations with the prior
approval of the Company, travel and lodging expenses of the representatives and officers of the
Company and any such consultants, and one-half of the cost of any aircraft chartered in connection
with the road show, (x) the document production charges and expenses associated with printing this
Agreement, and (xi) all other costs and expenses incident to the
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performance of the obligations of the Company hereunder for which provision is not otherwise
made in this Section. It is understood, however, that except as provided in this Section, Section
11 entitled “Indemnity and Contribution” and the last paragraph of Section 13 below, the
Underwriters will pay all of their costs and expenses, including fees and disbursements of their
counsel, stock transfer taxes payable on resale of any of the Shares by them and any advertising
expenses connected with any offers they may make.
The provisions of this Section shall not supersede or otherwise affect any agreement that the
Sellers may otherwise have for the allocation of such expenses among themselves.
10. Covenants of the Underwriters. Each Underwriter severally covenants with the Company not
to take any action that would result in the Company being required to file with the Commission
under Rule 433(d) a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of such Underwriter that
otherwise would not be required to be filed by the Company thereunder, but for the action of the
Underwriter.
11. Indemnity and Contribution. (a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each
Underwriter, each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of either Section
15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, and each affiliate of any Underwriter
within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act from and against any and all losses,
claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, any legal or other expenses
reasonably incurred in connection with defending or investigating any such action or claim) caused
by any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the
Registration Statement or any amendment thereof, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale
Prospectus, any issuer free writing prospectus as defined in Rule 433(h) under the Securities Act,
any broadly available road show, any Company information that the Company has filed, or is required
to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, or the Prospectus or any amendment or
supplement thereto, or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except
insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities are caused by any such untrue statement or
omission or alleged untrue statement or omission based upon information relating to any Underwriter
furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through you expressly for use therein.
(b) Each Selling Stockholder agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless
each Underwriter, each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of either
Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, and each affiliate of any
Underwriter within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act from and against any and all
losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, any legal or other expenses
reasonably incurred in connection with defending or investigating any such action or claim) caused
by any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement
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of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof, any
preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, any issuer free writing prospectus as defined
in Rule 433(h) under the Securities Act, any broadly available road show, any Company information
that the Company has filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities
Act, or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, or caused by any omission or alleged
omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading, but only with reference to information relating to such Selling
Stockholder furnished in writing by or on behalf of such Selling Stockholder expressly for use in
the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, any issuer
free writing prospectus or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto. The liability of
each Selling Stockholder under the indemnity agreement contained in this paragraph shall be limited
to an amount equal to the proceeds (net of underwriting discounts and concessions, but before
deducting other expenses) received by the Selling Stockholder from the sale of the Shares sold by
such Selling Stockholder under this Agreement.
(c) Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the
Company, the Selling Stockholders, the directors of the Company, the officers of the Company who
sign the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company or any Selling
Stockholder within the meaning of either 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, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with defending or
investigating any such action or claim) caused by any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement
of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof, any
preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, any issuer free writing prospectus as defined
in Rule 433(h) under the Securities Act, any broadly available road show, any Company information
that the Company has filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities
Act, or the Prospectus (as amended or supplemented if the Company shall have furnished any
amendments or supplements thereto), or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein
a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading, but only with reference to information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the
Company in writing by such Underwriter through you expressly for use in the Registration Statement,
any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, any issuer free writing prospectus or the
Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto.
(d) In case any proceeding (including any governmental investigation) shall be instituted
involving any person in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to Section 11(a), 11(b)
or 11(c), such person (the “indemnified party”) shall promptly notify the person against whom such
indemnity may be sought (the “indemnifying party”) in writing and the indemnifying party, upon
request of the indemnified party, shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the
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indemnified party to represent the indemnified party and any others the indemnifying party may
designate in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and disbursements of such counsel related to
such proceeding. In any such proceeding, any indemnified party 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
party unless (i) the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have mutually agreed to the
retention of such counsel or (ii) the named parties to any such proceeding (including any impleaded
parties) include both the indemnifying party and the indemnified party and representation of both
parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests
between them. It is understood that the indemnifying party shall not, in respect of the legal
expenses of any indemnified party in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the
same jurisdiction, be liable for (i) the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in
addition to any local counsel) for all Underwriters and all persons, if any, who control any
Underwriter within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the
Exchange Act or who are affiliates of any Underwriter within the meaning of Rule 405 under the
Securities Act, (ii) the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local
counsel) for the Company, its directors, its officers who sign the Registration Statement and each
person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of either such Section and (iii) the
fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all Selling
Stockholders and all persons, if any, who control any Selling Stockholder within the meaning of
either such Section, and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred.
In the case of any such separate firm for the Underwriters and such control persons and affiliates
of any Underwriters, such firm shall be designated in writing by the Representatives. In the case
of any such separate firm for the Company, and such directors, officers and control persons of the
Company, such firm shall be designated in writing by the Company. In the case of any such separate
firm for the Selling Stockholders and such control persons of any Selling Stockholders, such firm
shall be designated in writing by the persons named as attorneys-in-fact for the Selling
Stockholders under the Powers of Attorney. The indemnifying party 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 party agrees to indemnify the
indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment.
Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an
indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel as
contemplated by the second and third sentences of this paragraph, the indemnifying party agrees
that it shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent
if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 30 days after receipt by such indemnifying party
of the aforesaid request and (ii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed the indemnified
party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement. No indemnifying party
shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any
pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any
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indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder
by such indemnified party, unless such settlement (x) includes an unconditional release of such
indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and
(y) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act,
by or on behalf of any indemnified party.
(e) To the extent the indemnification provided for in Section 11(a), 11(b) or 11(c) is
unavailable to an indemnified party or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or
liabilities referred to therein, then each indemnifying party under such paragraph, in lieu of
indemnifying such indemnified party thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by
such indemnified party 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 indemnifying party or
parties on the one hand and the indemnified party or parties on the other hand from the offering of
the Shares or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause 11(e)(i) above is not permitted by
applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits
referred to in clause 11(e)(i) above but also the relative fault of the indemnifying party or
parties on the one hand and of the indemnified party or parties on the other hand 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 Sellers
on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand in connection with the offering of the
Shares shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the net proceeds from the
offering of the Shares (before deducting expenses) received by each Seller and the total
underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters, in each case as set forth in
the table on the cover of the Prospectus, bear to the aggregate Public Offering Price of the
Shares. The relative fault of the Sellers on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand
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 Sellers or by the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent,
knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.
The Underwriters’ respective obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 11 are several in
proportion to the respective number of Shares they have purchased hereunder, and not joint. The
liability of each Selling Stockholder under the contribution agreement contained in this paragraph
shall be limited to an amount equal to the proceeds (net of underwriting discounts and concessions,
but before deducting other expenses) received by the Selling Stockholder from the sale of the
Shares sold by such Selling Stockholder under this Agreement.
(f) The Sellers and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just or equitable if
contribution pursuant to this Section 11 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
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considerations referred to in Section 11(e). The amount paid or payable by an indemnified
party as a result of the losses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to in Section 11(e) shall
be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses
reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any
such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 11, no Underwriter shall be
required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the
Shares underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the
amount of any damages 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 remedies
provided for in this Section 11 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies which
may otherwise be available to any indemnified party at law or in equity.
(g) The indemnity and contribution provisions contained in this Section 11 and the
representations, warranties and other statements of the Company and the Selling Stockholders
contained in this Agreement shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of (i)
any termination of this Agreement, (ii) any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter,
any person controlling any Underwriter or any affiliate of any Underwriter, any Selling Stockholder
or any person controlling any Selling Stockholder, or the Company, its officers or directors or any
person controlling the Company and (iii) acceptance of and payment for any of the Shares.
12. Termination. The Underwriters may terminate this Agreement by notice given by you 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, or by, as the case may be,
either of the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ Global Select Market, (ii) trading of any
securities of the Company shall have been suspended on any exchange or in any over-the-counter
market, (iii) a material disruption in securities settlement, payment or clearance services in the
United States shall have occurred, (iv) any moratorium on commercial banking activities shall have
been declared by Federal or New York State authorities or (v) there shall have occurred any
outbreak or escalation of hostilities, or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis
that, in your judgment, is material and adverse and which, singly or together with any other event
specified in this clause (v), makes it, in your judgment, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed
with the offer, sale or delivery of the Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the
Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the
contrary, if this Agreement is terminated pursuant to clauses (i), (iii), (iv) and (v) of this
Section 12, then the obligation of the Company to reimburse the expenses of the Underwriters set
forth in clauses (iii) and (iv) of Section 9 are also terminated and of no further effect.
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13. Effectiveness; Defaulting Underwriters. This Agreement shall become effective upon the
execution and delivery hereof by the parties hereto.
If, on the Closing Date or an Option Closing Date, as the case may be, any one or more of the
Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Shares that it has or they have agreed to purchase
hereunder on such date, and the aggregate number of Shares which such defaulting Underwriter or
Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase is not more than one-tenth of the aggregate
number of the Shares to be purchased on such date, the other Underwriters shall be obligated
severally in the proportions that the number of Firm Shares set forth opposite their respective
names in Schedule II bears to the aggregate number of Firm Shares set forth opposite the names of
all such non-defaulting Underwriters, or in such other proportions as you may specify, to purchase
the Shares which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to
purchase on such date; provided that in no event shall the number of Shares that any Underwriter
has agreed to purchase pursuant to this Agreement be increased pursuant to this Section 13 by an
amount in excess of one-ninth of such number of Shares without the written consent of such
Underwriter. If, on the Closing Date, any Underwriter or Underwriters shall fail or refuse to
purchase Firm Shares and the aggregate number of Firm Shares with respect to which such default
occurs is more than one-tenth of the aggregate number of Firm Shares to be purchased on such date,
and arrangements satisfactory to you, the Company and the Selling Stockholders for the purchase of
such Firm Shares are not made within 36 hours after such default, this Agreement shall terminate
without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter, the Company or the Selling
Stockholders. In any such case either you or the relevant Sellers shall have the right to postpone
the Closing Date, but in no event for longer than seven days, in order that the required changes,
if any, in the Registration Statement, in the Time of Sale Prospectus, in the Prospectus or in any
other documents or arrangements may be effected. If, on an Option Closing Date, any Underwriter or
Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Additional Shares and the aggregate number of
Additional Shares with respect to which such default occurs is more than one-tenth of the aggregate
number of Additional Shares to be purchased on such Option Closing Date, the non-defaulting
Underwriters shall have the option to (i) terminate their obligation hereunder to purchase the
Additional Shares to be sold on such Option Closing Date or (ii) purchase not less than the number
of Additional Shares that such non-defaulting Underwriters would have been obligated to purchase in
the absence of such default. Any action taken under this paragraph shall not relieve any
defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of such Underwriter under this
Agreement.
If this Agreement shall be terminated by the Underwriters, or any of them, because of any
failure or refusal on the part of any Seller to comply with the terms or to fulfill any of the
conditions of this Agreement, or if for any reason any Seller shall be unable to perform its
obligations under this Agreement, the Sellers will reimburse the Underwriters or such Underwriters
as have so terminated this Agreement with respect to themselves, severally, for all out-of-pocket
expenses
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(including the fees and disbursements of their counsel) reasonably incurred by such
Underwriters in connection with this Agreement or the offering contemplated hereunder.
Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, if the Agreement is terminated pursuant
to this Section 13 for any reason other than a failure, refusal or inability of any Seller
described in this paragraph above, then any obligations of the Company to reimburse the expenses of
the Underwriters set forth in clauses (iii) and (iv) of Section 9 of this Agreement are terminated
and of no further effect.
14. Waiver of Restriction on Transfer. To the extent that the offering, and the purchase and
sale of the Shares, would otherwise cause restrictions on transfer of equity securities of the
Company to apply pursuant to Section 3(a) of the Registration Rights Agreement, the Representatives
and the Spectrum Group Stockholders (as such term is defined in the Registration Rights Agreement)
hereby agree that the provisions of Section 3(a) of the Registration Rights Agreement shall not
apply.
15. Entire Agreement. (a) This Agreement, together with any contemporaneous written
agreements and any prior written agreements (to the extent not superseded by this Agreement) that
relate to the offering of the Shares, represents the entire agreement between the Company and the
Selling Stockholders, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other, with respect to the
preparation of any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus, the conduct
of the offering, and the purchase and sale of the Shares.
(b) The Company acknowledges that in connection with the offering of the Shares: (i) the
Underwriters have acted at arms length, are not agents of, and owe no fiduciary duties to, the
Company or any other person, (ii) the Underwriters owe the Company only those duties and
obligations set forth in this Agreement and prior written agreements (to the extent not superseded
by this Agreement), if any, and (iii) the Underwriters may have interests that differ from those of
the Company. The Company waives to the full extent permitted by applicable law any claims it may
have against the Underwriters arising from an alleged breach of fiduciary duty in connection with
the offering of the Shares.
16. Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in two or more counterparts, each of which
shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the
same instrument.
17. Applicable Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the
internal laws of the State of New York.
18. Headings. The headings of the sections of this Agreement have been inserted for
convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed a part of this Agreement.
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19. Notices. All communications hereunder shall be in writing and effective only upon receipt and
if to the Underwriters shall be delivered, mailed or sent to you in care of Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co.
Incorporated 0000 Xxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Equity Syndication Desk, and
Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated, Xxx Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000, Facsimile:
(000) 000-0000, Attention: Syndicate Department, with a copy to ECM Legal, Facsimile: (000)
000-0000, with a copy to Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, Professional Corporation, 000 Xxxx Xxxx
Xxxx, Xxxx Xxxx, XX, 00000, Attention Xxxxxx X. Day; if to the Company shall be delivered, mailed
or sent to Xxxxxxxx.xxx Inc., 000 Xxxx 0000 Xxxxx, Xxxxx, Xxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxxx,
General Counsel, with a copy to Xxxxxx, Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000, Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx; and if to the Selling Stockholders shall be delivered, mailed or
sent to Xxxxxxxx.xxx Inc., 000 Xxxx 0000 Xxxxx, Xxxxx, Xxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxxx,
General Counsel, as Attorney-in-Fact for the Selling Stockholders.
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Very truly yours, | ||||||
XXXXXXXX.XXX INC. | ||||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxx | |||||
Name: | Xxxxxxx Xxxxx | |||||
Title: | General Counsel | |||||
The Selling Stockholders named in | ||||||
Schedule I hereto, acting severally | ||||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxx | |||||
Attorney-in Fact |
Accepted as of the date hereof
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated
Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
Xxxxx & Company LLC
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co.
Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
Xxxxx & Company LLC
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co.
Acting severally on behalf of themselves and the several
Underwriters named in Schedule II hereto
Underwriters named in Schedule II hereto
By: | Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx Brass | |||||
Name: | Xxxxxx Brass | |||||
Title: | Executive Director | |||||
By: | Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxx XxXxxxx | |||||
Name: | Xxx XxXxxxx | |||||
Title: | Managing Director |
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SCHEDULE I
Number of Firm Shares | Number of Additional | |||||||
Selling Stockholder | To Be Sold | Shares To Be Sold* | ||||||
Spectrum Equity Investors III, L.P. |
1,055,860 | 158,379 | ||||||
SEI III Entrepreneurs’ Fund, L.P. |
74,076 | 11,111 | ||||||
Spectrum III Investment Managers’ Fund, L.P. |
17,743 | 2,661 | ||||||
Spectrum Equity Investors V, L.P. |
2,958,926 | 443,839 | ||||||
Spectrum V Investment Managers’ Fund, L.P. |
13,973 | 2,096 | ||||||
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx |
2,054 | 308 | ||||||
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx |
1,026 | 154 | ||||||
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx |
255 | 39 | ||||||
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx |
226,087 | 33,913 | ||||||
Total: |
4,350,000 | 652,500 | ||||||
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SCHEDULE II
Number of Firm Shares | ||||
Underwriter | To Be Purchased | |||
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated |
1,631,250 | |||
Xxxxxxx
Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated |
1,370,250 | |||
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. |
565,500 | |||
Xxxxx & Company LLC |
565,500 | |||
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. |
217,500 | |||
Total: |
4,350,000 | |||
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SCHEDULE III
Time of Sale Prospectus
1. | Firm Shares: 4,350,000; Additional Shares: 652,500; Price to Public $42.00. |
2. | The Company has entered into an agreement with the Selling Stockholders to repurchase 1,243,310 shares of the Company’s common stock, for approximately $50 million, directly from the Selling Stockholders in a private, non-underwritten transaction at a price per share equal to $40.215. |
3. | Preliminary Prospectus issued May 5, 2011. |
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EXHIBIT A
FORM OF LOCK-UP LETTER
[ • ], 2011
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated
Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated
Xxxxx & Company LLC
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co.
Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated
Xxxxx & Company LLC
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co.
c/o Morgan Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated
0000 Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
0000 Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned understands that Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated (“Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx”) and
Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated (“Xxxxxxx Xxxxx,” and together with Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, the “Representatives”) propose to enter into an Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting
Agreement”) with Xxxxxxxx.xxx Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and the selling
stockholders named in the Underwriting Agreement, providing for the public offering (the “Public
Offering”) by the several Underwriters, including the Representatives (the “Underwriters”), of
shares (the “Shares”) of the common stock, $0.001 par value per share, of the Company (the “Common
Stock”).
To induce the Underwriters that may participate in the Public Offering to continue their
efforts in connection with the Public Offering, the undersigned hereby agrees that, without the
prior written consent of the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, it will not, during the
period commencing on the date set forth on the preliminary prospectus which is printed and
distributed to prospective investors and ending 90 days after the date of the final prospectus
relating to the Public Offering (the “Prospectus”), (1) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell
any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option,
right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly,
any shares of Common Stock beneficially owned (as such term is used in Rule 13d-3 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), by the undersigned or any other securities
so owned convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, (2) enter into any swap
or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in
part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Common Stock, whether any such
transaction described in clause (1) or (2) above is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or
such other securities, in cash or otherwise, or (3) publicly announce the intent to do any of the
foregoing; provided, however, that if the undersigned proposes to enter into a transaction
described in clause (1) or (2) above on or after the date hereof and before the date set forth on
the preliminary prospectus which is printed and distributed to prospective investors, the
undersigned shall notify the Representatives at least three business days prior to the proposed
transfer or disposition and each transferee or distributee shall sign and deliver a lock-up letter
substantially in the form of this letter. The foregoing sentence shall not apply to (a)
transactions relating to shares of Common Stock or other securities acquired in open market
transactions after the completion of the Public Offering, provided that no filing under the
Exchange Act (other than a filing on a Form 5, Schedule 13D or Schedule 13G (or 13D/A or 13G/A)
made after the expiration of the restricted period referred to in the foregoing sentence), shall be
required or shall be voluntarily made in connection with subsequent sales of Common Stock or other
securities acquired in such open market transactions, (b) transfers of shares of Common Stock or
any security convertible into Common Stock as a bona fide gift, (c) transfers of shares of Common
Stock or any security convertible into Common Stock to any trust for the direct or indirect benefit
of the undersigned or the immediate family of the undersigned; or (d) distributions of shares of
Common Stock or any security convertible into Common Stock to affiliates of the undersigned,
including limited partners, members or stockholders of the undersigned; provided that in the case
of any transfer or distribution pursuant to clause (b), (c) or (d), (i) each donee or distributee
shall sign and deliver a lock-up letter substantially in the form of this letter, (ii) no filing
under the Exchange Act, reporting a reduction in beneficial ownership of shares of Common Stock,
shall be required or shall be voluntarily made during the restricted period, and (iii) each party
(transferor, transferee, donor or donee) shall not be required by law (including without limitation
the disclosure requirements of the Exchange Act) to make, and shall agree to not voluntarily make,
any public announcement of the transfer or disposition (other than a filing on a Form 5, Schedule
13D or Schedule 13G (or 13D/A or 13G/A) made after the expiration of the restricted period), (e)
the sale of shares of Common Stock under a trading plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1(c) under the
Exchange Act in existence prior to the date hereof, (f) the establishment of a trading plan
pursuant to Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act for the transfer of shares of Common Stock,
provided, that the Company shall prevent the transfer of Common Stock during the restricted period
and no public announcement or filing under the Exchange Act regarding the establishment of such
plan shall be required of or voluntarily made by or on behalf of the undersigned or the Company, or
(g) the sale of Shares to the Underwriters by the undersigned pursuant to the Underwriting
Agreement or the sale of shares of Common Stock to the Company in connection with the proposed
share repurchase as described in the Prospectus. In addition, the undersigned agrees that, without
the prior written consent of the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, it will not, during
the period commencing on the date set forth
on the preliminary prospectus which is printed and distributed to prospective investors and
ending 90 days after the date of the Prospectus, make any demand for or exercise any right with
respect to, the registration of any shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or
exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock. The undersigned also agrees and consents to the
entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the
transfer of the undersigned’s shares of Common Stock except in compliance with the foregoing
restrictions.
If:
(1) during the last 17 days of the restricted period the Company issues an earnings release or
material news or a material event relating to the Company occurs; or
(2) prior to the expiration of the restricted period, the Company announces that it will
release earnings results during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the restricted
period;
the restrictions imposed by this agreement shall continue to apply until the expiration of the
18-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the material
news or material event.
The undersigned understands that transactions may be restricted by this agreement during the
34-day period beginning on the last day of the initial restricted period unless the undersigned
requests and receives prior written confirmation from the Company or the Representatives that the
restrictions imposed by this agreement have expired.
The undersigned understands that the Company and the Underwriters are relying upon this
agreement in proceeding toward consummation of the Public Offering. The undersigned further
understands that this agreement is irrevocable and shall be binding upon the undersigned’s heirs,
legal representatives, successors and assigns.
Whether or not the Public Offering actually occurs depends on a number of factors, including
market conditions. Any Public Offering will only be made pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement,
the terms of which are subject to negotiation between the Company and the Underwriters.
It is understood that, if the Company notifies the Underwriters that it does not intend to
proceed with the public offering of the Shares, if the Underwriting Agreement does not become
effective by June 1, 2011, or if the Underwriting Agreement shall terminate or be terminated prior
to payment for and delivery of the Shares, the undersigned will be released from its obligations
under this Lock-Up Agreement.
Very truly yours, | ||
(Name) | ||
(Address) | ||