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EXHIBIT 1.1
SAWTEK INC.
3,000,000 SHARES(1)
COMMON STOCK
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
June ___, 0000
XXXXXXXXX & XXXXX LLC
XXXXXXXXXXX & CO., INC.
XXXXXXX XXXXX & ASSOCIATES, INC.
x/x Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLC
Xxx Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Sawtek Inc., a Florida corporation (herein called the Company),
proposes to issue and sell 300,000 shares of its authorized but unissued Common
Stock, $.0005 par value (herein called the Common Stock), and the shareholders
of the Company named in Schedule II hereto (herein collectively called the
Selling Securityholders) propose to sell an aggregate of 2,700,000 shares of
Common Stock of the Company (said 3,000,000 shares of Common Stock being herein
called the Underwritten Stock). Certain of the Selling Securityholders, as set
forth on Schedule II, propose to grant to the Underwriters (as hereinafter
defined) an option to purchase up to 450,000 additional shares of Common Stock
(herein called the Option Stock and with the Underwritten Stock herein
collectively called the Stock). The Common Stock is more fully described in the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus hereinafter mentioned.
The Company and the Selling Securityholders severally hereby confirm
the agreements made with respect to the purchase of the Stock by the several
underwriters, for whom you are acting, named in Schedule I hereto (herein
collectively called the Underwriters, which term shall also include any
underwriter purchasing Stock pursuant to Section 3(b) hereof). You represent
and warrant that you have been authorized by each of the other Underwriters to
enter into this Agreement on its behalf and to act for it in the manner herein
provided.
1. REGISTRATION STATEMENT. The Company has filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (herein called the Commission) a registration statement
on Form S-3 (No. 333-26747), including the related preliminary prospectus, for
the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (herein called
the Securities Act) of the Stock. Copies of such registration statement and of
each amendment thereto, if any, including the related preliminary prospectus
(meeting the requirements of Rule 430A of the rules and regulations of the
Commission) heretofore filed by the Company with the Commission have been
delivered to you.
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(1) Plus an option to purchase from certain Selling Securityholders up to
450,000 additional shares to cover over-allotments.
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The term Registration Statement as used in this agreement shall mean
such registration statement, including all documents incorporated by reference
therein, all exhibits and financial statements, all information omitted
therefrom in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in the Prospectus referred
to below, in the form in which it became effective, and any registration
statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the rules and regulations of the
Commission with respect to the Stock (herein called a Rule 462(b) registration
statement), and, in the event of any amendment thereto after the effective date
of such registration statement (herein called the Effective Date), shall also
mean (from and after the effectiveness of such amendment) such registration
statement as so amended (including any Rule 462(b) registration statement). The
term Prospectus as used in this Agreement shall mean the prospectus, including
the documents incorporated by reference therein, relating to the Stock first
filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) and Rule 430A (or if no such
filing is required, as included in the Registration Statement) and, in the
event of any supplement or amendment to such prospectus after the Effective
Date, shall also mean (from and after the filing with the Commission of such
supplement or the effectiveness of such amendment) such prospectus as so
supplemented or amended. The term Preliminary Prospectus as used in this
Agreement shall mean each preliminary prospectus, including the documents
incorporated by reference therein, included in such registration statement
prior to the time it becomes effective.
The Registration Statement has been declared effective under the
Securities Act, and no post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement
has been filed as of the date of this Agreement. The Company has caused to be
delivered to you copies of each Preliminary Prospectus and has consented to the
use of such copies for the purposes permitted by the Securities Act.
2. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY AND THE SELLING
SECURITYHOLDERS.
(a) The Company hereby represents and warrants as follows:
(i) Each of the Company and its subsidiaries has been duly
incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing
under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, has full
corporate power and authority to own or lease its properties and
conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement and
the Prospectus and as being conducted, and is duly qualified as a
foreign corporation and in good standing in all jurisdictions in which
the character of the property owned or leased or the nature of the
business transacted by it makes qualification necessary (except where
the failure to be so qualified would not have a material adverse
effect on the business, properties, financial condition or results of
operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole).
(ii) Since the respective dates as of which information is
given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not
been any materially adverse change in the business, properties,
financial condition or results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole, whether or not arising from
transactions in the ordinary course of business, other than as set
forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and since such
dates, except in the ordinary course of business, neither the Company
nor any of its subsidiaries has entered into any material transaction
not referred to in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
(iii) The Registration Statement and the Prospectus comply,
and on the Closing Date (as hereinafter defined) and any later date on
which Option Stock is to be purchased, the Prospectus will comply, in
all material respects, with the provisions of the Securities Act and
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (herein called the
Exchange Act), and the rules and regulations of the Commission
thereunder; on the Effective Date, the Registration Statement did not
contain any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to
state any material fact required to be stated
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therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not
misleading; and, on the Effective Date the Prospectus did not and, on
the Closing Date and any later date on which Option Stock is to be
purchased, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or
omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they
were made, not misleading; provided, however, that none of the
representations and warranties in this subparagraph (iii) shall apply
to statements in, or omissions from, the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with information
herein or otherwise furnished in writing to the Company by or on
behalf of the Underwriters for use in the Registration Statement or
the Prospectus.
(iv) The Company has filed all required tax returns and has
paid all taxes shown thereon as due, and there is no tax deficiency
that has been asserted against the Company that will have a material
adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole,
and all tax liabilities are adequately provided for on the books of
the Company.
(v) The Company's authorized, issued and outstanding
capitalization as of March 31, 1997 is as set forth under the caption
"Capitalization" in the Prospectus, and all of the outstanding shares
of such capital stock have been duly authorized and validly issued and
are fully paid and nonassessable. The Stock is duly and validly
authorized, is (or, in the case of shares of the Stock to be sold by
the Company, will be, when issued and sold to the Underwriters as
provided herein) duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable
and conforms to the description thereof in the Prospectus. No further
approval or authority of the shareholders or the Board of Directors of
the Company will be required for the transfer and sale of the Stock to
be sold by the Selling Securityholders or the issuance and sale of the
Stock as contemplated herein. The holders of outstanding shares of
capital stock of the Company are not entitled to preemptive or other
similar rights in connection with the purchase and sale of Stock
contemplated by this Agreement, and there are no restrictions upon the
voting or transfer of any of the capital stock of the Company pursuant
to the Company's Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws or any agreement
or other outstanding instrument to which the Company is a party or by
which it is bound. All of the issued and outstanding capital stock of
each of the subsidiaries of the Company has been duly authorized and
validly issued and is fully paid and nonassessable and is owned by the
Company free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and security
interests.
(vi) The Stock to be sold by the Selling Securityholders is
listed and duly admitted to trading on the Nasdaq National Market, and
prior to the Closing Date, the Stock to be issued and sold by the
Company will be authorized for listing by the Nasdaq National Market
upon official notice of issuance.
(vii) Except as set forth in the Prospectus, there are no
outstanding securities convertible into or exchangeable for, or
warrants, rights or options to purchase from the Company, or
obligations of the Company or any of its subsidiaries to issue, shares
of the Company's capital stock of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries.
(viii) None of (A) the issuance of the Stock, (B) the sale of
the Stock or (C) the consummation by the Company of any other of the
transactions contemplated herein, will conflict with or result in a
breach or violation of or constitute a default under or result in the
creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any
properties or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries
pursuant to the organization documents of the Company or its
subsidiaries, the terms of any indenture or other agreement or
instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party,
or any order or regulation applicable to the Company or any of its
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subsidiaries of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency,
governmental body or arbitration body having jurisdiction over the
Company or any of its subsidiaries, except where such conflicts,
breaches, violations, defaults, liens, charges or encumbrances would
not have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, or
consolidated financial condition or results of operations of the
Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.
(ix) The Company has full legal right, power and authority to
enter into this Agreement and perform the transactions contemplated
hereby. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Company and is a legal, valid and binding obligation
of the Company enforceable in accordance with its terms.
(x) The Company has all necessary consents, authorizations,
approvals, orders, certificates and permits of and from, and has made
all declarations and filings with, all governmental authorities, to
own, lease, license and use its properties and assets and to conduct
its business in the manner described in the Prospectus, except to the
extent that the failure to obtain or file such would not have a
material adverse effect on the Company.
(xi) No consent, approval, authorization or order of any
court or governmental agency, person or body, the Company's
shareholders, or pursuant to applicable law is required for the
consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated herein,
except such as have been obtained or may be required under the blue
sky laws of any jurisdiction or by the National Association of
Securities Dealers, Inc. (herein called NASD) in connection with the
purchase of Stock and distribution of the Stock by the Underwriters
and such other approvals as have been obtained and which are in full
force and effect.
(xii) Ernst & Young LLP, which has audited the consolidated
financial statements of the Company included in the Registration
Statement, are independent public accountants within the meaning of
the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations
thereunder; the historical financial statements, together with the
related financial notes and schedules, included in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus (herein call the Financial Information)
comply in all material respects with the requirements of the
Securities Act and fairly present in all material respects the
financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the
Company and its subsidiaries at the respective dates and for the
respective periods indicated. The Financial Information has been
prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
(herein call GAAP), applied on a consistent basis throughout all
periods specified and as presented in the Prospectus and as required
by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder to be
included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. No other
financial statements or schedules are required to be included in the
Registration Statement. The financial information and financial data
set forth in the Prospectus under the captions "Summary Consolidated
Financial Data," "Capitalization" and "Selected Consolidated Financial
Data" are derived from the accounting records of the Company and its
subsidiaries, and are a fair representation in all material respects
of the data purported to be shown in accordance with GAAP. Since the
respective dates as of which the information is given in the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been a
material adverse change in the business, properties, financial
condition or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries
taken as a whole.
(xiii) There are no contracts, agreements or understandings
between the Company and person granting such person the right (other
than rights which have been waived or satisfied) to require the
Company to file a registration statement under the Securities Act with
respect to any securities of the Company owned or to be owned by such
person or to require the Company to
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include such securities in the securities registered pursuant to the
Registration Statement or in any securities being registered pursuant
to any other registration statement filed by the Company under the
Securities Act.
(xiv) The Company carries, or is covered by, insurance in
such amounts and covering such risks as is adequate for the conduct of
it business and the value of its properties and as is customary for
companies engaged in similar businesses in similar industries.
(xv) The Company and its subsidiaries own or possess adequate
rights to use all material patents (or foreign equivalents), patent
applications, trademarks, trademark registrations, service marks,
service xxxx registrations, trade names, licenses, copyrights and
proprietary or other confidential information necessary for the
conduct of their respective businesses except such as the failure to
so own or possess would not have a material adverse effect on the
Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole. To the Company's
knowledge, the conduct of business of the Company and its subsidiaries
will not conflict with, and neither the Company nor any of its
subsidiaries has received any notice of any claim of infringement or
conflict with, the rights of others in respect thereof.
(xvi) There is no legal or governmental proceeding pending or
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 that is required to be described in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus and is not so described; or
any statute, regulation, contract or other document that is required
to be described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or to
be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement that is not
described or filed.
(xvii) No labor disturbance by the employees of the Company
or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company,
is imminent which might be expected to have a material adverse effect
on the business, properties, financial condition or results of
operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.
(xviii) The Company is in compliance in all material respects
with all presently applicable provisions of the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, including the regulations and
published interpretations thereunder ("ERISA"); no "reportable event"
(as defined in ERISA) has occurred with respect to any "pension plan"
(as defined in ERISA) for which the Company would have any liability;
the Company has not incurred and does not expect to incur liability
under (i) Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or
withdrawal from, any "pension plan" or (ii) Sections 412 or 4971 of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, including the
regulations and published interpretations thereunder (the "Code"); and
each "pension plan" for which the Company would have any liability
that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is
so qualified in all material respects and nothing has occurred,
whether by action or by failure to act, which would cause the loss of
such qualification.
(xix) There has been no storage, disposal, generation,
manufacture, refinement, transportation, handling or treatment of
toxic wastes, medical wastes, hazardous wastes or hazardous substances
by the Company or any of its subsidiaries (or, to the knowledge of the
Company, any of their predecessors in interest) at, upon or from any
of the property now or previously owned or leased by the Company or
any of its subsidiaries in violation of any applicable law, ordinance,
rule, regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit or which would
require remedial action under any applicable law, ordinance, rule,
regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit, except for any
violation or remedial action which would not have, or could not be
reasonably likely to have,
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singularly or in the aggregate with all such violations and remedial
actions, a material adverse effect on the business, properties,
financial condition or results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries taken as a whole; there has been no material spill,
discharge, leak, emission, injection, escape, dumping or release of
any kind onto such property or into the environment surrounding such
property of any toxic wastes, medical wastes, solid wastes, hazardous
wastes or hazardous substances due to or cause by the Company or with
respect to which the Company has knowledge, except for any such spill,
discharge, leak, emission, injection, escape, dumping or release which
would not have or would not be reasonably likely to have, singularly
or in the aggregate with all such spills, discharges, leaks,
emissions, injections, escapes, dumpings and releases, a material
adverse effect on the business, properties, financial condition or
results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a
whole; and the terms "hazardous wastes", toxic wastes", "hazardous
substances" and "medical wastes" shall have the meanings specified in
any applicable local, state, federal and foreign laws or regulations
with respect to environmental protection.
(xx) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has at
any time during the last five years (i) made any unlawful contribution
to any candidate for foreign office, or failed to disclose fully any
contribution in violation of law, (ii) made any payment to any federal
or state governmental officer or official, or other person charged
with similar public or quasi-public duties, other than payments
required or permitted by the laws of the United States or any
jurisdiction thereof, or (iii) violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act of 1977, as amended.
(b) Each Of The Selling Securityholders hereby represents and
warrants as follows:
(i) Such Selling Securityholder has good and marketable title
to all the shares of Stock to be sold by such Selling Securityholder
hereunder, except for Xxxxx Xxxxxx with respect to shares to be sold
by him as Option Stock, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances,
equities, security interests and claims whatsoever, with full right
and authority to deliver the same hereunder, subject, in the case of
each Selling Securityholder, to the rights of SunTrust Bank, Central
Florida, N.A., as Custodian (herein called the Custodian), and that
upon the delivery of and payment for such shares of the Stock
hereunder, the several Underwriters will receive good and marketable
title thereto, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities,
security interests and claims whatsoever. With respect to shares to be
sold as Option Stock by Xxxxx Xxxxxx, upon the Company's receipt of
notice pursuant to Section 3(c) hereof Xxxxx Xxxxxx will exercise
options, granted on July 1, 1995 and ratified on May 3, 1996 (the
"Xxxxxx Options") to purchase that number of shares of Option Stock
equal to the lesser of (A) the total number of shares of Options Stock
to be purchased by the Underwriters hereunder or (B) 15,000 shares.
Xxxxx Xxxxxx represents and warrants that, upon exercise of the Xxxxxx
Options, he will have good and marketable title to all the shares of
Options Stock to be sold by him, free and clear of all liens,
encumbrances, equities, security interests and claims whatsoever, with
full right and authority to deliver the same hereunder, subject to the
rights of the Custodian, and upon the delivery of and payment for such
shares of the Stock hereunder, the several Underwriters will receive
good and marketable title thereto, free and clear of all liens,
encumbrances, equities, security interests, and claims whatsoever.
(ii) Certificates in negotiable form for the shares of the
Stock to be sold by such Selling Securityholder have been placed in
custody under a Custody Agreement for delivery under this Agreement
with the Custodian; such Selling Securityholder specifically agrees
that the shares of the Stock represented by the certificates so held
in custody for such Selling Securityholder are subject to the
interests of the several Underwriters and the Company, that the
arrangements made by such Selling Securityholder for such custody,
including (except with respect to the Employee Stock Ownership Plan
and Trust for Employees of Sawtek Inc. (the "ESOP")) the Power of
Attorney provided for in such Custody Agreement, are to that extent
irrevocable, and that the obligations of such Selling
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Securityholder shall not be terminated by any act of such Selling
Securityholder or by operation of law, whether by the death or
incapacity of such Selling Securityholder (or, in the case of a
Selling Securityholder that is not an individual, the dissolution or
liquidation of such Selling Securityholder) or the occurrence of any
other event; if any such death, incapacity, dissolution, liquidation
or other such event should occur before the delivery of such shares of
the Stock hereunder, certificates for such shares of the Stock shall
be delivered by the Custodian in accordance with the terms and
conditions of this Agreement as if such death, incapacity,
dissolution, liquidation or other event had not occurred, regardless
of whether the Custodian shall have received notice of such death,
incapacity, dissolution, liquidation or other event.
(iii) Each Selling Securityholder identified on Schedule II
as a Major Selling Securityholder has reviewed the Registration
Statement and Prospectus and, although such Selling Securityholder has
not independently verified the accuracy or completeness of all the
information contained therein, nothing has come to the attention of
such Major Selling Securityholder that would lead such Major Selling
Securityholder to believe that on the Effective Date, the Registration
Statement contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted
to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary
in order to make the statements therein not misleading; and, on the
Effective Date the Prospectus contained and, on the Closing Date and
any later date on which Option Stock is to be purchased, contains any
untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state any
material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in
the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading.
(iv) All information furnished in writing by or on behalf of
such Selling Securityholder for use in the Registration Statement and
Prospectus is, and on the Closing Date and any later date on which
Option Stock is to be purchased will be, true, correct and complete,
and does not, and on the Closing Date and any later date on which
Option Stock is to be purchased will not, contain any untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to
make such information not misleading.
(v) Neither the sale of the Stock to be sold by such Selling
Securityholder to the Underwriters nor the consummation of any other
of the transactions herein contemplated by such Selling Securityholder
will conflict with or result in a breach or violation of or constitute
a default under or result in the creation or imposition of any lien,
charge or encumbrance upon any properties or assets of such Selling
Securityholder pursuant to the organization documents of such Selling
Securityholder (if applicable), the terms of any indenture or other
agreement or instrument to which such Selling Securityholder is a
party, or any order or regulation applicable to such Selling
Securityholder of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency,
governmental body or arbitration body having jurisdiction over such
Selling Securityholder, except where such conflicts, breaches,
violations, defaults, liens, charges or encumbrances would not have a
material adverse effect on such Selling Securityholder.
(vi) With respect to the ESOP, the sale of the Stock
to be sold by such Selling Securityholder to the Underwriters will
not, in whole or in part, constitute a prohibited transaction pursuant
to Section 4975(c) of the Code or a party-in-interest transaction
pursuant to Section 406 of ERISA, and none of the Underwriters or any
person or entity affiliated with them is a "fiduciary" (as such term
is defined in Section 3(21) of ERISA) of such Selling Securityholder
or a "named fiduciary" (as such term is defined in Section 402(a)(2)
of ERISA) of such Selling Securityholder.
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(vii) Such Selling Securityholder has full legal right, power
and authority to enter into this Agreement and perform the
transactions contemplated hereby. This Agreement has been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by or on behalf of such Selling
Securityholder and is a legal, valid and binding obligation of such
Selling Securityholder enforceable in accordance with its terms.
3. Purchase of the Stock by the Underwriters.
(a) On the basis of the representations and warranties and subject to
the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to issue and sell
300,000 shares of the Underwritten Stock to the several Underwriters, each
Selling Securityholder agrees to sell to the several Underwriters the number of
shares of the Underwritten Stock set forth in Schedule II opposite the name of
such Selling Securityholder, and each of the Underwriters agrees to purchase
from the Company and the Selling Securityholders the respective aggregate
number of shares of Underwritten Stock set forth opposite its name in Schedule
I. The price at which such shares of Underwritten Stock shall be sold by the
Company and the Selling Securityholders and purchased by the several
Underwriters shall be $______ per share. The obligation of each Underwriter to
the Company and each of the Selling Securityholders shall be to purchase from
the Company and the Selling Securityholders that number of shares of the
Underwritten Stock which represents the same proportion of the total number of
shares of the Underwritten Stock to be sold by each of the Company and the
Selling Securityholders pursuant to this Agreement as the number of shares of
the Underwritten Stock set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in
Schedule I hereto represents of the total number of shares of the Underwritten
Stock to be purchased by all Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement, as
adjusted by you in such manner as you deem advisable to avoid fractional
shares. In making this Agreement, each Underwriter is contracting severally and
not jointly; except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this Section 3,
the agreement of each Underwriter is to purchase only the respective number of
shares of the Underwritten Stock specified in Schedule I.
(b) If for any reason one or more of the Underwriters shall fail or
refuse (otherwise than for a reason sufficient to justify the termination of
this Agreement under the provisions of Section 8 or 9 hereof) to purchase and
pay for the number of shares of the Stock agreed to be purchased by such
Underwriter or Underwriters, the Company or the Selling Securityholders shall
immediately give notice thereof to you, and the non-defaulting Underwriters
shall have the right within 24 hours after the receipt by you of such notice to
purchase, or procure one or more other Underwriters to purchase, in such
proportions as may be agreed upon between you and such purchasing Underwriter
or Underwriters and upon the terms herein set forth, all or any part of the
shares of the Stock which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed to
purchase. If the non-defaulting Underwriters fail so to make such arrangements
with respect to all such shares and portion, the number of shares of the Stock
which each non-defaulting Underwriter is otherwise obligated to purchase under
this Agreement shall be automatically increased on a pro rata basis to absorb
the remaining shares and portion which the defaulting Underwriter or
Underwriters agreed to purchase; provided, however, that the non-defaulting
Underwriters shall not be obligated to purchase the shares and portion which
the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed to purchase if the aggregate
number of such shares of the Stock exceeds 10% of the total number of shares of
the Stock which all Underwriters agreed to purchase hereunder. If the total
number of shares of the Stock which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters
agreed to purchase shall not be purchased or absorbed in accordance with the
two preceding sentences, the Company and the Selling Securityholders shall have
the right, within 24 hours next succeeding the 24-hour period above referred
to, to make arrangements with other underwriters or purchasers satisfactory to
you for purchase of such shares and portion on the terms herein set forth. In
any such case, either you or the Company and the Selling Securityholders shall
have the right to postpone the Closing Date determined as provided in Section 5
hereof for not more than seven business days after the date originally fixed as
the Closing Date pursuant to said Section 5 in order that any necessary changes
in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any other documents or
arrangements may be made. If neither the non-
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defaulting Underwriters nor the Company and the Selling Securityholders shall
make arrangements within the 24-hour periods stated above for the purchase of
all the shares of the Stock which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters
agreed to purchase hereunder, this Agreement shall be terminated without
further act or deed and without any liability on the part of the Company or the
Selling Securityholders to any non-defaulting Underwriter and without any
liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter to the Company or the
Selling Securityholders. Nothing in this paragraph (b), and no action taken
hereunder, shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect
of any default of such Underwriter under this Agreement.
(c) On the basis of the representations, warranties and covenants
herein contained, and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth,
those Selling Securityholders identified on Schedule II as Option Sellers grant
an option to the several Underwriters to purchase, severally and not jointly,
up to 450,000 shares in the aggregate of the Option Stock from the Option
Sellers at the same price per share as the Underwriters shall pay for the
Underwritten Stock. Said option may be exercised only to cover over-allotments
in the sale of the Underwritten Stock by the Underwriters and may be exercised
in whole or in part at any time (but not more than once) on or before the
thirtieth day after the date of this Agreement upon written or telegraphic
notice by you to the Company and the Custodian setting forth the aggregate
number of shares of the Option Stock as to which the several Underwriters are
exercising the option. Delivery of certificates for the shares of Option Stock,
and payment therefor, shall be made as provided in Section 5 hereof. The number
of shares of the Option Stock to be purchased by each Underwriter shall be the
same percentage of the total number of shares of the Option Stock to be
purchased by the several Underwriters as such Underwriter is purchasing of the
Underwritten Stock, as adjusted by you in such manner as you deem advisable to
avoid fractional shares.
4. Offering by Underwriters.
(a) The terms of the initial public offering by the Underwriters of
the Stock to be purchased by them shall be as set forth in the Prospectus. The
Underwriters may from time to time change the public offering price after the
closing of the initial public offering and increase or decrease the concessions
and discounts to dealers as they may determine.
(b) The information set forth in the last paragraph on the front cover
page and under "Underwriting" in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary
Prospectus and the Prospectus relating to the Stock filed by the Company
(insofar as such information relates to the Underwriters) constitutes the only
information furnished by the Underwriters to the Company for inclusion in the
Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, and the Prospectus, and you
on behalf of the respective Underwriters represent and warrant to the Company
that the statements made therein are correct.
5. Delivery of and Payment for the Stock.
(a) Delivery of certificates for the shares of the Underwritten Stock
and the Option Stock (if the option granted by Section 3(c) hereof shall have
been exercised not later than 7:00 a.m., San Francisco time, on the date two
business days preceding the Closing Date), and payment therefor, shall be made
at the office of Gray, Harris & Xxxxxxxx, P.A., 000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx
0000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000 at 7:00 a.m., San Francisco time, on the fourth
business day after the date of this Agreement, or at such time on such other
day, not later than seven full business days after such fourth business day, as
shall be agreed upon in writing by the Company, the Selling Securityholders and
you. The date and hour of such delivery and payment (which may be postponed as
provided in Section 3(b) hereof) are herein called the Closing Date.
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(b) If the option granted by Section 3(c) hereof shall be exercised
after 7:00 a.m., San Francisco time, on the date two business days preceding
the Closing Date, delivery of certificates for the shares of Option Stock, and
payment therefor, shall be made at the office of Gray, Harris & Xxxxxxxx, P.A.,
000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000 at 7:00 a.m., San
Francisco time, on the third business day after the exercise of such option.
(c) Payment for the Stock purchased from the Company shall be made to
the Company or its order, and payment for the Stock purchased from the Selling
Securityholders shall be made to the Custodian, for the account of the Selling
Securityholders, in each case by one or more certified or official bank check
or checks in next day funds (and the Company and the Selling Securityholders
agree not to deposit any such check in the bank on which drawn until the day
following the date of its delivery to the Company or the Custodian, as the case
may be). Such payment shall be made upon delivery of certificates for the Stock
to you for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters against receipt
therefor signed by you. Certificates for the Stock to be delivered to you shall
be registered in such name or names and shall be in such denominations as you
may request at least one business day before the Closing Date, in the case of
Underwritten Stock, and at least one business day prior to the purchase
thereof, in the case of the Option Stock. Such certificates will be made
available to the Underwriters for inspection, checking and packaging at the
offices of Lewco Securities Corporation, 0 Xxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
on the business day prior to the Closing Date or, in the case of the Option
Stock, by 3:00 p.m., New York time, on the business day preceding the date of
purchase.
It is understood that you, individually and not on behalf of the
Underwriters, may (but shall not be obligated to) make payment to the Company
and the Selling Securityholders for shares to be purchased by any Underwriter
whose check shall not have been received by you on the Closing Date or any
later date on which Option Stock is purchased for the account of such
Underwriter. Any such payment by you shall not relieve such Underwriter from
any of its obligations hereunder.
6. FURTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE COMPANY AND THE SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS.
Each of the Company and the Selling Securityholders covenants and agrees as
follows:
(a) The Company will (i) prepare and timely file with the Commission
under Rule 424(b) a Prospectus containing information previously omitted at the
time of effectiveness of the Registration Statement in reliance on Rule 430A
and (ii) not file any amendment to the Registration Statement or supplement to
the Prospectus of which you shall not previously have been advised and
furnished with a copy or to which you shall have reasonably objected in writing
or which is not in compliance with the Securities Act or the rules and
regulations of the Commission.
(b) The Company will promptly notify each Underwriter in the event of
(i) the request by the Commission for amendment of the Registration Statement
or for supplement to the Prospectus or for any additional information, (ii) the
issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of
the Registration Statement, (iii) the institution or notice of intended
institution of any action or proceeding for that purpose, (iv) the receipt by
the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the
qualification of the Stock for sale in any jurisdiction, or (v) the receipt by
it of notice of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such
purpose. The Company will make every reasonable effort to prevent the issuance
of such a stop order and, if such an order shall at any time be issued, to
obtain the withdrawal thereof at the earliest possible moment.
(c) The Company will (i) on or before the Closing Date, deliver to you
a signed copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed and of each
amendment thereto filed prior to the time the Registration Statement becomes
effective and, promptly upon the filing thereof, a signed copy of each post-
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effective amendment, if any, to the Registration Statement (together with, in
each case, all exhibits thereto unless previously furnished to you) and will
also deliver to you, for distribution to the Underwriters, a sufficient number
of additional conformed copies of each of the foregoing (but without exhibits)
so that one copy of each may be distributed to each Underwriter, (ii) as
promptly as possible deliver to you and send to the several Underwriters, at
such office or offices as you may designate, as many copies of the Prospectus
as you may reasonably request, and (iii) thereafter from time to time during
the period in which a prospectus is required by law to be delivered by an
Underwriter or dealer, likewise send to the Underwriters as many additional
copies of the Prospectus and as many copies of any supplement to the Prospectus
and of any amended prospectus, filed by the Company with the Commission, as you
may reasonably request for the purposes contemplated by the Securities Act.
(d) If at any time during the period in which a prospectus is required
by law to be delivered by an Underwriter or dealer any event relating to or
affecting the Company, or of which the Company shall be advised in writing by
you, shall occur as a result of which it is necessary, in the opinion of
counsel for the Company or of counsel for the Underwriters, to supplement or
amend the Prospectus in order to make the Prospectus not misleading in the
light of the circumstances existing at the time it is delivered to a purchaser
of the Stock, the Company will forthwith prepare and file with the Commission a
supplement to the Prospectus or an amended prospectus so that the Prospectus as
so supplemented or amended will not contain any untrue statement of a material
fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing at the time such
Prospectus is delivered to such purchaser, not misleading. If, after the
initial public offering of the Stock by the Underwriters and during such
period, the Underwriters shall propose to vary the terms of offering thereof by
reason of changes in general market conditions or otherwise, you will advise
the Company in writing of the proposed variation, and, if in the opinion either
of counsel for the Company or of counsel for the Underwriters such proposed
variation requires that the Prospectus be supplemented or amended, the Company
will forthwith prepare and file with the Commission a supplement to the
Prospectus or an amended prospectus setting forth such variation. The Company
authorizes the Underwriters and all dealers to whom any of the Stock may be
sold by the several Underwriters to use the Prospectus, as from time to time
amended or supplemented, in connection with the sale of the Stock in accordance
with the applicable provisions of the Securities Act and the applicable rules
and regulations thereunder for such period.
(e) Prior to the filing thereof with the Commission, the Company will
submit to you, for your information, a copy of any post-effective amendment to
the Registration Statement and any supplement to the Prospectus or any amended
prospectus proposed to be filed.
(f) The Company will cooperate, when and as requested by you, in the
qualification of the Stock for offer and sale under the securities or blue sky
laws of such jurisdictions as you may designate and, during the period in which
a prospectus is required by law to be delivered by an Underwriter or dealer, in
keeping such qualifications in good standing under said securities or blue sky
laws; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to file any
general consent to service of process or to qualify as a foreign corporation in
any jurisdiction in which it is not so qualified. The Company will, from time
to time, prepare and file such statements, reports, and other documents as are
or may be required to continue such qualifications in effect for so long a
period as you may reasonably request for distribution of the Stock.
(g) During a period of five years commencing with the date hereof, the
Company will furnish to you, and to each Underwriter who may so request in
writing, copies of all periodic and special reports furnished to shareholders
of the Company and of all information, documents and reports filed with the
Commission.
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(h) Not later than the 45th day following the end of the fiscal
quarter first occurring after the first anniversary of the Effective Date, the
Company will make generally available to its security holders an earnings
statement in accordance with Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158
thereunder.
(i) The Company and the Selling Securityholders jointly and severally
agree to pay all costs and expenses incident to the performance of their
obligations under this Agreement, including all costs and expenses incident to
(i) the preparation, printing and filing with the Commission and the NASD of
the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, (ii)
the furnishing to the Underwriters of copies of any Preliminary Prospectus and
of the several documents required by paragraph (c) of this Section 6 to be so
furnished, (iii) the printing of this Agreement and related documents delivered
to the Underwriters, (iv) the preparation, printing and filing of all
supplements and amendments to the Prospectus referred to in paragraph (d) of
this Section 6, (v) the furnishing to you and the Underwriters of the reports
and information referred to in paragraph (g) of this Section 6 and (vi) the
printing and issuance of stock certificates, including the transfer agent's
fees. The Selling Securityholders will pay any transfer taxes incident to the
transfer to the Underwriters of the shares the Stock being sold by the Selling
Securityholders.
(j) The Company and the Selling Securityholders jointly and severally
agree to reimburse you, for the account of the several Underwriters, for blue
sky fees and related disbursements (including counsel fees and disbursements
and cost of printing memoranda for the Underwriters) paid by or for the account
of the Underwriters or their counsel in qualifying the Stock under state
securities or blue sky laws and in the review of the offering by the NASD.
(k) The provisions of paragraphs (i) and (j) of this Section are
intended to relieve the Underwriters from the payment of the expenses and costs
which the Company and the Selling Securityholders hereby agree to pay and shall
not affect any agreement which the Company and the Selling Securityholders may
make, or may have made, for the sharing of any such expenses and costs.
(l) The Company and each of the Selling Securityholders except for the
ESOP hereby agrees that, without the prior written consent of Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxx
LLC on behalf of the Underwriters, the Company or such Selling Securityholder,
as the case may be, will not, for a period of 90 days following the
commencement of the public offering of the Stock by the Underwriters, directly
or indirectly, (i) sell, offer, contract to sell, make any short sale, pledge,
sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to
sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase or otherwise transfer or
dispose of any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or
exchangeable or exercisable for or any rights to purchase or acquire Common
Stock or (ii) enter into any swap or other agreement that transfers, in whole
or in part, any of the economic consequences or ownership of Common Stock,
whether any such transaction described in clause (i) or (ii) above is to be
settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other securities, in cash or
otherwise. The ESOP hereby agrees that, without the prior written consent of
Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLC on behalf of the Underwriters, the ESOP will not, for a
period of 90 days following the commencement of the public offering of the
Stock by the Underwriters, directly or indirectly, (i) sell, offer, contract to
sell, make any short sale, pledge, sell any option or contract to purchase,
purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to
purchase or otherwise transfer or dispose of any shares of Common Stock or any
securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for or any rights to
purchase or acquire Common Stock or (ii) enter into any swap or other agreement
that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences or
ownership of Common Stock, whether any such transaction described in clause (i)
or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other
securities, in cash or otherwise; provided, however, that this agreement shall
not apply to the following transactions: (x) in-service distributions limited
to five percent (5%) of a fully vested employee's ESOP allocated account
balance occuring on or after the 45th day after the date hereof and (y)
distributions from the ESOP to employees,
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their heirs or beneficiaries on account of death, disability or retirement from
the Company. The foregoing sentences shall not apply to (A) the Stock to be
sold to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement, (B) shares of Common Stock
issued by the Company upon the exercise of options granted under the stock
option plans of the Company (the "Option Plans"), all as described in footnote
1 to the table under the caption "Capitalization" in the Preliminary
Prospectus, and (C) options to purchase Common Stock granted under the Option
Plans.
7. INDEMNIFICATION AND CONTRIBUTION.
(a) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (f) of this Section 7, the
Company and the Selling Securityholders jointly and severally agree to
indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter and each person (including each
partner or officer thereof) who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of
Section 15 of the Securities Act from and against any and all losses, claims,
damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such indemnified parties or
any of them may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, or
the common law or otherwise, and the Company and the Selling Securityholders
jointly and severally agree to reimburse each such Underwriter and controlling
person for any legal or other expenses (including, except as otherwise
hereinafter provided, reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) incurred by
the respective indemnified parties in connection with defending against any
such losses, claims, damages or liabilities or in connection with any
investigation or inquiry of, or other proceeding which may be brought against,
the respective indemnified parties, in each case arising out of or based upon
(i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact
contained in the Registration Statement (including the Prospectus as part
thereof and any Rule 462(b) registration statement) or any post-effective
amendment thereto (including any Rule 462(b) registration statement), or the
omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or
(ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact
contained in any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus (as amended or as
supplemented if the Company shall have filed with the Commission any amendment
thereof or supplement thereto) or the omission or alleged omission to state
therein a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in
the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
provided, however, that (1) the indemnity agreements of the Company and the
Selling Securityholders contained in this paragraph (a) shall not apply to any
such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses if such statement or
omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished
as herein stated or otherwise furnished in writing to the Company by or on
behalf of any Underwriter for use in any Preliminary Prospectus or the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus or any such amendment thereof or
supplement thereto, (2) the indemnity agreement contained in this paragraph (a)
with respect to any Preliminary Prospectus shall not inure to the benefit of
any Underwriter from whom the person asserting any such losses, claims,
damages, liabilities or expenses purchased the Stock which is the subject
thereof (or to the benefit of any person controlling such Underwriter) if at or
prior to the written confirmation of the sale of such Stock a copy of the
Prospectus (or the Prospectus as amended or supplemented) was not sent or
delivered to such person (excluding the documents incorporated therein by
reference) and the untrue statement or omission of a material fact contained in
such Preliminary Prospectus was corrected in the Prospectus (or the Prospectus
as amended or supplemented) unless the failure is the result of noncompliance
by the Company with paragraph (c) of Section 6 hereof, and (3) each Selling
Securityholder (other than the Major Selling Securityholders) shall only be
liable under this paragraph with respect to (A) information pertaining to such
Selling Securityholder furnished by or on behalf of such Selling Securityholder
expressly for use in any Preliminary Prospectus or the Registration Statement
or the Prospectus or any such amendment thereof or supplement thereto or (B)
facts that would constitute a breach of any representation or warranty of such
Selling Securityholder set forth in Section 2(b) hereof. The indemnity
agreements of the Company and the Selling Securityholders contained in this
paragraph (a) and the representations and warranties of the Company and the
Selling Securityholders contained in Section 2 hereof shall remain operative
and in full
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force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any
indemnified party and shall survive the delivery of and payment for the Stock.
(b) Each Underwriter severally agrees to indemnify and hold harmless
the Company, each of its officers who signs the Registration Statement on his
own behalf or pursuant to a power of attorney, each of its directors, each
other Underwriter and each person (including each partner or officer thereof)
who controls the Company or any such other Underwriter within the meaning of
Section 15 of the Securities Act, and the Selling Securityholders from and
against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several,
to which such indemnified parties or any of them may become subject under the
Securities Act, the Exchange Act, or the common law or otherwise and to
reimburse each of them for any legal or other expenses (including, except as
otherwise hereinafter provided, reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel)
incurred by the respective indemnified parties in connection with defending
against any such losses, claims, damages or liabilities or in connection with
any investigation or inquiry of, or other proceeding which may be brought
against, the respective indemnified parties, in each case arising out of or
based upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material
fact contained in the Registration Statement (including the Prospectus as part
thereof and any Rule 462(b) registration statement) or any post-effective
amendment thereto (including any Rule 462(b) registration statement) or the
omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or
(ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact
contained in the Prospectus (as amended or as supplemented if the Company shall
have filed with the Commission any amendment thereof or supplement thereto) or
the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading, if such statement or omission was made in
reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished as herein stated or
otherwise furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of such
indemnifying Underwriter for use in the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus or any such amendment thereof or supplement thereto. The indemnity
agreement of each Underwriter contained in this paragraph (b) shall remain
operative and in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by
or on behalf of any indemnified party and shall survive the delivery of and
payment for the Stock.
(c) Each party indemnified under the provision of paragraphs (a) and
(b) of this Section 7 agrees that, upon the service of a summons or other
initial legal process upon it in any action or suit instituted against it or
upon its receipt of written notification of the commencement of any
investigation or inquiry of, or proceeding against, it in respect of which
indemnity may be sought on account of any indemnity agreement contained in such
paragraphs, it will promptly give written notice (herein called the Notice) of
such service or notification to the party or parties from whom indemnification
may be sought hereunder. No indemnification provided for in such paragraphs
shall be available to any party who shall fail so to give the Notice if the
party to whom such Notice was not given was unaware of the action, suit,
investigation, inquiry or proceeding to which the Notice would have related and
was prejudiced by the failure to give the Notice, but the omission so to notify
such indemnifying party or parties of any such service or notification shall
not relieve such indemnifying party or parties from any liability which it or
they may have to the indemnified party for contribution or otherwise than on
account of such indemnity agreement. Any indemnifying party shall be entitled
at its own expense to participate in the defense of any action, suit or
proceeding against, or investigation or inquiry of, an indemnified party. Any
indemnifying party shall be entitled, if it so elects within a reasonable time
after receipt of the Notice by giving written notice (herein called the Notice
of Defense) to the indemnified party, to assume (alone or in conjunction with
any other indemnifying party or parties) the entire defense of such action,
suit, investigation, inquiry or proceeding, in which event such defense shall
be conducted, at the expense of the indemnifying party or parties, by counsel
chosen by such indemnifying party or parties and reasonably satisfactory to the
indemnified party or parties; provided, however, that (i) if the indemnified
party or parties reasonably determine that there may be a conflict between the
positions of the indemnifying party or parties and of the indemnified party or
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parties in conducting the defense of such action, suit, investigation, inquiry
or proceeding or that there may be legal defenses available to such indemnified
party or parties different from or in addition to those available to the
indemnifying party or parties, then counsel for the indemnified party or
parties shall be entitled to conduct the defense to the extent reasonably
determined by such counsel to be necessary to protect the interests of the
indemnified party or parties and (ii) in any event, the indemnified party or
parties shall be entitled to have counsel chosen by such indemnified party or
parties participate in, but not conduct, the defense. If, within a reasonable
time after receipt of the Notice, an indemnifying party gives a Notice of
Defense and the counsel chosen by the indemnifying party or parties is
reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party or parties, the indemnifying
party or parties will not be liable under paragraphs (a) through (c) of this
Section 7 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by the
indemnified party or parties in connection with the defense of the action,
suit, investigation, inquiry or proceeding, except that (A) the indemnifying
party or parties shall bear the legal and other expenses incurred in connection
with the conduct of the defense as referred to in clause (i) of the proviso to
the preceding sentence and (B) the indemnifying party or parties shall bear
such other expenses as it or they have authorized to be incurred by the
indemnified party or parties. If, within a reasonable time after receipt of the
Notice, no Notice of Defense has been given, the indemnifying party or parties
shall be responsible for any legal or other expenses incurred by the
indemnified party or parties in connection with the defense of the action,
suit, investigation, inquiry or proceeding.
(d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 7 is
unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under
paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section 7, then each indemnifying party, in lieu
of indemnifying such indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or
payable by such indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or
liabilities referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section 7 (i) in such
proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by each
indemnifying party from the offering of the Stock or (ii) if the allocation
provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such
proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred
to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of each indemnifying party
in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses,
claims, damages or liabilities, or actions in respect thereof, as well as any
other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the
Company and the Selling Securityholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on
the other shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the total
net proceeds from the offering of the Stock received by the Company and the
Selling Securityholders and the total underwriting discount received by the
Underwriters, as set forth in the table on the cover page of the Prospectus,
bear to the aggregate public offering price of the Stock. Relative fault shall
be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or
alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission
to state a material fact relates to information supplied by each indemnifying
party and the parties' relative intent, knowledge, access to information and
opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission.
The parties agree that it would not be just and equitable if
contributions pursuant to this paragraph (d) were to be determined by pro rata
allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such
purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take into account
the equitable considerations referred to in the first sentence of this
paragraph (d). The amount paid by an indemnified party as a result of the
losses, claims, damages or liabilities, or actions in respect thereof, referred
to in the first sentence of this paragraph (d) shall be deemed to include any
legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in
connection with investigation, preparing to defend or defending against any
action or claim which is the subject of this paragraph (d). Notwithstanding the
provisions of this paragraph (d), no Underwriter shall be required to
contribute any amount in excess of the underwriting discount applicable to the
Stock purchased by such Underwriter. 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
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not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters' obligations
in this paragraph (d) to contribute are several in proportion to their
respective underwriting obligations and not joint.
Each party entitled to contribution agrees that upon the service of a
summons or other initial legal process upon it in any action instituted against
it in respect of which contribution may be sought, it will promptly give
written notice of such service to the party or parties from whom contribution
may be sought, but the omission so to notify such party or parties of any such
service shall not relieve the party from whom contribution may be sought from
any obligation it may have hereunder or otherwise (except as specifically
provided in paragraph (c) of this Section 7).
(e) Neither the Company nor the Selling Securityholders will, without
the prior written consent of each Underwriter, settle or compromise or consent
to the entry of any judgment in any pending or threatened claim, action, suit
or proceeding in respect of which indemnification may be sought hereunder
(whether or not such Underwriter or any person who controls such Underwriter
within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the
Exchange Act is a party to such claim, action, suit or proceeding) unless such
settlement, compromise or consent includes an unconditional release of such
Underwriter and each such controlling person from all liability arising out of
such claim, action, suit or proceeding.
(f) The liability of each Selling Securityholder under the indemnity
and reimbursement agreements contained in the provisions of this Section 7 and
Section 11 hereof shall be limited to an amount equal to the price to the
Underwriters of the stock sold by such Selling Securityholder to the
Underwriters. The Company and the Selling Securityholders may agree, as among
themselves and without limiting the rights of the Underwriters under this
Agreement, as to the respective amounts of such liability for which they each
shall be responsible.
8. TERMINATION. This Agreement may be terminated by you at any time
prior to the Closing Date by giving written notice to the Company and the
Selling Securityholders if after the date of this Agreement trading in the
Common Stock shall have been suspended, or if there shall have occurred (i) the
engagement in hostilities or an escalation of major hostilities by the United
States or the declaration of war or a national emergency by the United States
on or after the date hereof, (ii) any outbreak of hostilities or other national
or international calamity or crisis or change in economic or political
conditions if the effect of such outbreak, calamity, crisis or change in
economic or political conditions in the financial markets of the United States
would, in the Underwriters' reasonable judgment, make the offering or delivery
of the Stock impracticable, (iii) suspension of trading in securities generally
or a material adverse decline in value of securities generally on the New York
Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, or The Nasdaq Stock Market, or
limitations on prices (other than limitations on hours or numbers of days of
trading) for securities on either such exchange or system, (iv) the enactment,
publication, decree or other promulgation of any federal or state statute,
regulation, rule or order of, or commencement of any proceeding or
investigation by, any court, legislative body, agency or other governmental
authority which in the Underwriters' reasonable opinion materially and
adversely affects or will materially or adversely affect the business or
operations of the Company, (v) declaration of a banking moratorium by either
federal or New York State authorities or (vi) the taking of any action by any
federal, state or local government or agency in respect of its monetary or
fiscal affairs which in the Underwriters' reasonable opinion has a material
adverse effect on the securities markets in the United States. If this
Agreement shall be terminated pursuant to this Section 8, there shall be no
liability of the Company or the Selling Securityholders to the Underwriters and
no liability of the Underwriters to the Company or the Selling Securityholders;
provided, however, that in the event of any such termination the Company and
the Selling Securityholders agree to indemnify and hold harmless the
Underwriters from all costs or expenses incident to the performance of the
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obligations of the Company and the Selling Securityholders under this
Agreement, including all costs and expenses referred to in paragraphs (i) and
(j) of Section 6 hereof.
9. CONDITIONS OF UNDERWRITERS' OBLIGATIONS. The obligations of the
several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Stock shall be subject to the
performance by the Company and by the Selling Securityholders of all their
respective obligations to be performed hereunder at or prior to the Closing
Date or any later date on which Option Stock is to be purchased, as the case
may be, and to the following further conditions:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective; and
no stop order suspending the effectiveness thereof shall have been issued and
no proceedings therefor shall be pending or threatened by the Commission.
(b) The legality and sufficiency of the sale of the Stock
hereunder and the validity and form of the certificates representing the Stock,
all corporate proceedings and other legal matters incident to the foregoing,
and the form of the Registration Statement and of the Prospectus (except as to
the financial statements contained therein), shall have been approved at or
prior to the Closing Date by Xxxxxx Godward LLP, counsel for the Underwriters.
(c) You shall have received from Gray, Harris & Xxxxxxxx, P.A.,
counsel for the Company and the Selling Securityholders and from Allen, Dyer,
Doppelt, Franjola & Xxxxxxxx, patent counsel for the Company, opinions,
addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date, covering the matters
set forth in Annex A and Annex B hereto, respectively, and if Option Stock is
purchased at any date after the Closing Date, additional opinions from each
such counsel, addressed to the Underwriters and dated such later date,
confirming that the statements expressed as of the Closing Date in such
opinions remain valid as of such later date.
(d) You shall be satisfied that (i) as of the Effective Date,
the statements made in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus were true
and correct and neither the Registration Statement nor the Prospectus omitted
to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order
to make the statements therein, respectively, not misleading, (ii) since the
Effective Date, no event has occurred which should have been set forth in a
supplement or amendment to the Prospectus which has not been set forth in such
a supplement or amendment, (iii) since the respective dates as of which
information is given in the Registration Statement in the form in which it
originally became effective and the Prospectus contained therein, there has not
been any material adverse change or any development involving a prospective
material adverse change in or affecting the business, properties, financial
condition or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken
as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of
business, and, since such dates, except in the ordinary course of business,
neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has entered into any material
transaction not referred to in the Registration Statement in the form in which
it originally became effective and the Prospectus contained therein, (iv)
neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has any material contingent
obligations which are not disclosed in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus, (v) there are not any pending or known threatened legal proceedings
to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or of which property
of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is the subject which are material and
which are not disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, (vi)
there are not any franchises, contracts, leases or other documents which are
required to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement which have not
been filed as required, (vii) the representations and warranties of the Company
herein are true and correct in all material respects as of the Closing Date or
any later date on which Option Stock is to be purchased, as the case may be,
and (viii) there has not been any material change in the market for securities
in general or in political, financial or economic conditions from those
reasonably foreseeable as to render it impracticable
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in your reasonable judgment to make a public offering of the Stock, or a
material adverse change in market levels for securities in general (or those of
companies in particular) or financial or economic conditions which render it
inadvisable to proceed.
(e) You shall have received on the Closing Date and on any later
date on which Option Stock is purchased a certificate, dated the Closing Date
or such later date, as the case may be, and signed by the President and the
Chief Financial Officer of the Company, stating that the respective signers of
said certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement in the form
in which it originally became effective and the Prospectus contained therein
and any supplements or amendments thereto, and that the statements included in
clauses (i) through (vii) of paragraph (d) of this Section 9 are true and
correct.
(f) You shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP, a letter or
letters, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date and any later
date on which Option Stock is purchased, confirming that they are independent
public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the
Securities Act and the applicable published rules and regulations thereunder
and based upon the procedures described in their letter delivered to you
concurrently with the execution of this Agreement (herein called the Original
Letter), but carried out to a date not more than three business days prior to
the Closing Date or such later date on which Option Stock is purchased (i)
confirming, to the extent true, that the statements and conclusions set forth
in the Original Letter are accurate as of the Closing Date or such later date,
as the case may be, and (ii) setting forth any revisions and additions to the
statements and conclusions set forth in the Original Letter which are necessary
to reflect any changes in the facts described in the Original Letter since the
date of the Original Letter or to reflect the availability of more recent
financial statements, data or information. The letters shall not disclose any
change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the
business or properties of the Company or any of its subsidiaries which, in your
sole judgment, makes it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the public
offering of the Stock or the purchase of the Option Stock as contemplated by
the Prospectus.
(g) You shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a letter
stating that their review of the Company's system of internal accounting
controls, to the extent they deemed necessary in establishing the scope of
their examination of the Company's financial statements as at September 30,
1996, did not disclose any weakness in internal controls that they considered
to be material weaknesses.
(h) You shall have been furnished evidence in usual written or
telegraphic form from the appropriate authorities of the several jurisdictions,
or other evidence satisfactory to you, of the qualification referred to in
paragraph (f) of Section 6 hereof.
(i) Prior to the Closing Date, the Stock to be issued and sold
by the Company shall have been duly authorized for listing by the Nasdaq
National Market upon official notice of issuance.
(j) On or prior to the Closing Date, you shall have received
from all directors and officers agreements, in form reasonably satisfactory to
Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLC, stating that without the prior written consent of
Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLC on behalf of the Underwriters, such person or entity will
not, for a period of 90 days following the commencement of the public offering
of the Stock by the Underwriters, directly or indirectly, (i) sell, offer,
contract to sell, make any short sale, pledge, sell any option or contract to
purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or
warrant to purchase or otherwise transfer or dispose of any shares of Common
Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for or
any rights to purchase or acquire Common Stock or (ii) enter into any swap or
other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic
consequences or ownership of Common Stock, whether any such transaction
described in clause (i) or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of Common
Stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise; provided, however, that
the
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agreement provided by the ESOP need not apply to the following transactions by
the ESOP: (x) in-service distributions limited to five percent (5%) of a fully
vested employee's ESOP allocated account balance occuring on or after the 45th
day after the date hereof and (y) distributions from the ESOP to employees,
their heirs or beneficiaries on account of death, disability or retirement from
the Company.
All the agreements, opinions, certificates and letters mentioned
above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with
the provisions hereof only if Xxxxxx Godward LLP, counsel for the Underwriters,
shall be satisfied that they comply in form and scope.
In case any of the conditions specified in this Section 9 shall
not be fulfilled, this Agreement may be terminated by you by giving notice to
the Company and to the Selling Securityholders. Any such termination shall be
without liability of the Company or the Selling Securityholders to the
Underwriters and without liability of the Underwriters to the Company or the
Selling Securityholders; provided, however, that (i) in the event of such
termination, the Company and the Selling Securityholders agree to indemnify and
hold harmless the Underwriters from all costs or expenses incident to the
performance of the obligations of the Company and the Selling Securityholders
under this Agreement, including all costs and expenses referred to in
paragraphs (i) and (j) of Section 6 hereof, and (ii) if this Agreement is
terminated by you because of any refusal, inability or failure on the part of
the Company or the Selling Securityholders to perform any agreement herein, to
fulfill any of the conditions herein, or to comply with any provision hereof
other than by reason of a default by any of the Underwriters, the Company will
reimburse the Underwriters severally upon demand for all out-of-pocket expenses
(including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) that shall have been
incurred by them in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby.
10. CONDITIONS OF THE OBLIGATION OF THE COMPANY AND THE SELLING
SECURITYHOLDERS. The obligation of the Company and the Selling Securityholders
to deliver the Stock shall be subject to the conditions that (a) the
Registration Statement shall have become effective and (b) no stop order
suspending the effectiveness thereof shall be in effect and no proceedings
therefor shall be pending or threatened by the Commission.
In case either of the conditions specified in this Section 10
shall not be fulfilled, this Agreement may be terminated by the Company and the
Selling Securityholders by giving notice to you. Any such termination shall be
without liability of the Company and the Selling Securityholders to the
Underwriters and without liability of the Underwriters to the Company or the
Selling Securityholders; provided, however, that in the event of any such
termination the Company and the Selling Securityholders jointly and severally
agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriters from all costs or
expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the Company and the
Selling Securityholders under this Agreement, including all costs and expenses
referred to in paragraphs (i) and (j) of Section 6 hereof.
11. REIMBURSEMENT OF CERTAIN EXPENSES. In addition to their
other obligations under Section 7 of this Agreement (and subject, in the case
of a Selling Securityholder, to the provisions of paragraph (f) of Section 7),
the Company and the Selling Securityholders hereby jointly and severally agree
to reimburse on a quarterly basis the Underwriters for all reasonable legal and
other expenses incurred in connection with investigating or defending any
claim, action, investigation, inquiry or other proceeding arising out of or
based upon any statement or omission, or any alleged statement or omission,
described in paragraph (a) of Section 7 of this Agreement, notwithstanding the
absence of a judicial determination as to the propriety and enforceability of
the obligations under this Section 11 and the possibility that such payments
might later be held to be improper; provided, however, that (i) to the extent
any such payment is ultimately held to be improper, the persons receiving such
payments shall promptly refund them and (ii) such persons shall provide to the
Company, upon request, reasonable assurances of their ability to effect any
refund, when and if due.
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12. PERSONS ENTITLED TO BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT. This Agreement
shall inure to the benefit of the Company, the Selling Securityholders and the
several Underwriters and, with respect to the provisions of Section 7 hereof,
the several parties (in addition to the Company, the Selling Securityholders
and the several Underwriters) indemnified under the provisions of said Section
7, and their respective personal representatives, successors and assigns.
Nothing in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give to any
other person, firm or corporation any legal or equitable remedy or claim under
or in respect of this Agreement or any provision herein contained. The term
"successors and assigns" as herein used shall not include any purchaser, as
such purchaser, of any of the Stock from any of the several Underwriters.
13. NOTICES. Except as otherwise provided herein, all
communications hereunder shall be in writing or by telegraph and, if to the
Underwriters, shall be mailed, telegraphed or delivered to Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxx
LLC, Xxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000; and if to the Company,
shall be mailed, telegraphed or delivered to it at its office, Sawtek Inc.,
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxxx 000, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx;
and if to the Selling Securityholders, shall be mailed, telegraphed or
delivered to the Selling Securityholders in care of Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esq.,
Gray, Harris & Xxxxxxxx, P.A., 000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx 00000. All notices given by telegraph shall be promptly confirmed by
letter.
14. MISCELLANEOUS. The reimbursement, indemnification and
contribution agreements contained in this Agreement and the representations,
warranties and covenants in this Agreement shall remain in full force and
effect regardless of (a) any termination of this Agreement, (b) any
investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or controlling person
thereof, or by or on behalf of the Company or the Selling Securityholders or
their respective directors or officers, and (c) delivery and payment for the
Stock under this Agreement; provided, however, that if this Agreement is
terminated prior to the Closing Date, the provisions of paragraphs (l) and (m)
of Section 6 hereof shall be of no further force or effect.
This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each
of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall
constitute one and the same instrument.
This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance
with, the laws of the State of California.
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Please sign and return to the Company and to the Selling
Securityholders in care of the Company the enclosed duplicates of this letter,
whereupon this letter will become a binding agreement among the Company, the
Selling Securityholders and the several Underwriters in accordance with its
terms.
Very truly yours,
SAWTEK INC.
By:
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Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN AND TRUST
FOR EMPLOYEES OF SAWTEK INC.
By: Marine Midland Bank,
not in its individual or corporate
capacity, but solely as Trustee
By:
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Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Xx.
Senior Vice President
SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS:
Via Capri Investment Limited Partnership
BY: VIA CAPRI, INC., its General Partner
By:
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Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
President
MOPNJ Investment Limited Partnership
BY: MOPNJT, INC., its General Partner
By:
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Xxxx X. Xxxxx
President
XXXXX XXXXXX
By:
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Xxxxx Xxxxxx
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The foregoing Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted as of the date first
above written.
XXXXXXXXX & XXXXX LLC
XXXXXXXXXXX & CO., INC.
XXXXXXX XXXXX & ASSOCIATES, INC.
By Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLC
By:
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Managing Director
Acting on behalf of the several Underwriters, including themselves, named in
Schedule I hereto.
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SCHEDULE I
UNDERWRITERS
NUMBER OF
SHARES
TO BE
UNDERWRITERS PURCHASED
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Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLC.........................................................
Xxxxxxxxxxx & Co., Inc........................................................
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Associates, Inc............................................... ------
Total...................................................................3,000,000
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SCHEDULE II
SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS
NUMBER OF
SHARES
NAME OF SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS BE SOLD
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MAJOR SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS
Via Capri Investment Limited Partnership 100,000
MOPNJ Investment Limited Partnership 100,000
OTHER SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS
Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Trust
for Employees of Sawtek Inc. 2,500,000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Total......................................................2,700,000
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OPTION SELLERS
NUMBER OF
SHARES
NAME OF OPTION SELLERS TO BE SOLD
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Via Capri Investment Limited Partnership 217,500
MOPNJ Investment Limited Partnership 217,500
Xxxxx Xxxxxx 15,000
Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Trust for Employees of Sawtek Inc. *
Total............................................................450,000
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*The Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Trust for Employees of Sawtek Inc. will
have the right, but not the obligation, to become an Option Seller with respect
to up to 435,000 shares of the Option Stock, pursuant to an agreement among the
Option Sellers.
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ANNEX A
MATTERS TO BE COVERED IN THE OPINION OF
GRAY, HARRIS & XXXXXXXX, P.A., COUNSEL FOR THE COMPANY
AND THE SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS
(i) Each of the Company and its subsidiaries has been duly
incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing
under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, is duly
qualified as a foreign corporation and in good standing in each state of
the United States of America in which its ownership or leasing of
property requires such qualification, and has full corporate power and
authority to own or lease its properties and conduct its business as
described in the Registration Statement; all the issued and outstanding
capital stock of each of the subsidiaries of the Company has been duly
authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and nonassessable, and is
owned by the Company free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and
security interests, and to the best of such counsel's knowledge, no
options, warrants or other rights to purchase, agreements or other
obligations to issue or other rights to convert any obligations into
shares of capital stock or ownership interests in such subsidiaries are
outstanding;
(ii) the authorized capital stock of the Company consists of
_________ shares of Common Stock, $____ par value, of which there are
outstanding ____________ shares (including the Underwritten Stock plus
the number of shares of Option Stock issued on the date hereof); proper
corporate proceedings have been taken validly to authorize such
authorized capital stock; all of the outstanding shares of such capital
stock (including the Underwritten Stock and the shares of Option Stock
issued, if any) have been duly and validly issued and are fully paid and
nonassessable; any Option Stock purchased after the Closing Date, when
issued and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters as provided in
the Underwriting Agreement, will have been duly and validly issued and be
fully paid and nonassessable; and no preemptive rights of, or rights of
refusal in favor of, shareholders exist with respect to the Stock, or the
issue and sale thereof, pursuant to the Articles of Incorporation or
Bylaws of the Company and, to the knowledge of such counsel, there are no
contractual preemptive rights that have not been waived, rights of first
refusal or rights of co-sale which exist with respect to the Stock being
sold by the Selling Securityholders or the issue and sale of the Stock;
(iii) the Registration Statement has become effective under the
Securities Act and, to the best of such counsel's knowledge, no stop
order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or
suspending or preventing the use of the Prospectus is in effect and no
proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or
contemplated by the Commission;
(iv) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (except as to
the financial statements and schedules and other financial data contained
therein, as to which such counsel need express no opinion) comply as to
form in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities
Act, the Exchange Act and with the rules and regulations of the
Commission thereunder;
(v) such counsel have no reason to believe that the Registration
Statement (except as to the financial statements and schedules and other
financial data contained or incorporated by reference therein, as to
which such counsel need not express any opinion or belief) at the
Effective Date contained any untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or that the
Prospectus (except as to the financial statements and schedules and other
financial data contained or incorporated by reference
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therein, as to which such counsel need not express any opinion or belief)
as of its date or at the Closing Date (or any later date on which Option
Stock is purchased), contained or contains any untrue statement of a
material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading;
(vi) the information required to be set forth in the
Registration Statement in answer to Items 9 and 10 (insofar as it relates
to such counsel) of Form S-3 is to the best of such counsel's knowledge
accurately and adequately set forth or incorporated by reference therein
in all material respects or no response is required with respect to such
Items, and the description of the Company's 1983 Incentive Stock Option
Plan, the Sawtek Inc. Second Stock Option Plan, the Employee Stock
Purchase Plan, the Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Trust for Employees
of Sawtek Inc. and the options and stock awards granted and which may be
granted thereunder and the options granted otherwise than under such
plans set forth in the Prospectus accurately and fairly presents the
information required to be shown with respect to said plans, grants and
options to the extent required by the Securities Act and the rules and
regulations of the Commission thereunder;
(vii) such counsel do not know of any franchises, contracts,
leases, documents or legal proceedings, pending or threatened, which in
the opinion of such counsel are of a character required to be described
in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or to be filed as
exhibits to the Registration Statement, which are not described and filed
as required;
(viii) the Underwriting Agreement has been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by the Company;
(ix) (A) the Underwriting Agreement has been duly executed and
delivered by or on behalf of each of the Selling Securityholders; (B) the
Custody Agreement between the Selling Securityholders and SunTrust Bank
Central Florida, N.A., as Custodian, and the Power of Attorney referred
to in such Custody Agreement have been duly executed and delivered by
such Selling Securityholder; (C) the Custody Agreement entered into by,
and the Power of Attorney given by, such Selling Securityholder is valid
and binding on such Selling Securityholder; and (D) each Selling
Securityholder has full legal right and authority to enter into the
Underwriting Agreement and to sell, transfer and deliver in the manner
provided in the Underwriting Agreement the shares of Stock sold by such
Selling Securityholder hereunder;
(x) the issue and sale by the Company of the shares of Stock
sold by the Company as contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement will
not conflict with, or result in a breach of, the Articles of
Incorporation or Bylaws of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any
agreement or instrument known to such counsel to which the Company or any
of its subsidiaries is a party or any applicable law or regulation, or so
far as is known to such counsel, any order, writ, injunction or decree,
of any jurisdiction, court or governmental instrumentality;
(xi) to the best of such counsel's knowledge, all holders of
securities of the Company having rights to the registration of shares of
Common Stock, or other securities, because of the filing of the
Registration Statement by the Company have waived such rights or such
rights have expired by reason of lapse of time following notification of
the Company's intent to file the Registration Statement;
(xii) good and marketable title to the shares of Stock sold by
the Selling Securityholders under the Underwriting Agreement, free and
clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities, security interests and
claims, has been transferred to the Underwriters who have severally
purchased such shares of Stock
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under the Underwriting Agreement, assuming for the purpose of this
opinion that the Underwriters purchased the same in good faith without
notice of any adverse claims;
(xiii) no consent, approval, authorization or order of any court
or governmental agency or body is required for the consummation of the
transactions contemplated in the Underwriting Agreement, except such as
have been obtained under the Securities Act and such as may be required
under state securities or blue sky laws in connection with the purchase
and distribution of the Stock by the Underwriters; and
(xiv) the Stock sold by the Selling Securityholders is listed
and duly admitted to trading on the Nasdaq National Market and the Stock
issued and sold by the Company has been duly authorized for listing by
the Nasdaq National Market System upon official notice of issuance.
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Counsel rendering the foregoing opinion may rely as to questions
of law not involving the laws of the United States or of the State of Florida,
upon opinions of local counsel satisfactory in form and scope to counsel for
the Underwriters. Copies of any opinions so relied upon shall be delivered to
the Representatives and to counsel for the Underwriters and the foregoing
opinion shall also state that counsel knows of no reason the Underwriters are
not entitled to rely upon the opinions of such local counsel.
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ANNEX B
MATTERS TO BE COVERED IN THE OPINION OF ALLEN, DYER, DOPPELT, FRANJOLA &
XXXXXXXX PATENT COUNSEL FOR THE COMPANY
Such counsel are familiar with the technology used by the
Company in its business and the manner of its use thereof and have read the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus, including particularly the portions
of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus referring to patents, trade
secrets, trademarks, service marks or other proprietary information or
materials, and such counsel have no reason to believe that the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus (i) contains any untrue statement of a material
fact with respect to patents, trade secrets, trademarks, service marks or other
proprietary information or materials owned or used by the Company, or the
manner of its use thereof, or any allegation on the part of any person that the
Company is infringing any patent rights, trade secrets, trademarks, service
marks or other proprietary information or materials of any such person or (ii)
omits to state any material fact relating to patents, trade secrets,
trademarks, service marks or other proprietary information or materials owned
or used by the Company, or the manner of its use thereof, or any allegation of
which such counsel have knowledge, that is required to be stated in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus or is necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading.
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