EXHIBIT 1.1
ENACT Health Management Systems
3,000,000 Shares/1/
Common Stock
($.001 par value)
Underwriting Agreement
New York, New York
, 1998
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Inc.
Xxxxxx Brothers Inc.
As Representatives of the several Underwriters,
c/o Xxxxx Xxxxxx Inc.
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
ENACT Health Management Systems, a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), proposes to sell to the several underwriters named in Schedule I
hereto (the "Underwriters"), for whom you (the "Representatives") are acting as
representatives, 3,000,000 shares of Common Stock, $.001 par value per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company (said shares to be issued and sold by the
Company being hereinafter called the "Underwritten Securities"). The Company
also proposes to grant to the Underwriters an option to purchase up to 450,000
additional shares of Common Stock to cover over-allotments (the "Option
Securities"; the Option Securities, together with the Underwritten Securities,
being hereinafter called the "Securities"). To the extent there are no
Underwriters listed on Schedule I other than you, the term "Representatives" as
used herein shall mean you, as Underwriters, and the terms Representatives and
Underwriters shall mean either the singular or plural as the context requires.
Certain terms used herein are defined in Section 17 hereof.
1. Representations and Warranties. The Company represents and
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warrants to, and agrees with, each Underwriter as set forth below in this
Section 1.
(a) The Company has prepared and filed with the Commission a
registration statement (file number 333-41259) on Form S-1, including a related
preliminary prospectus, for the registration under the Act of the offering and
sale of the
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/1/ Plus an option to purchase from the Company, up to 450,000 additional
Securities to cover over-allotments.
Securities. The Company may have filed one or more amendments thereto, including
a related preliminary prospectus, each of which has previously been furnished to
you. The Company will next file with the Commission either (1) prior to the
Effective Date of such registration statement, a further amendment to such
registration statement (including the form of final prospectus) or (2) after the
Effective Date of such registration statement, a final prospectus in accordance
with Rules 430A and 424(b). In the case of clause (2), the Company has included
in such registration statement, as amended at the Effective Date, all
information (other than Rule 430A Information) required by the Act and the rules
thereunder to be included in such registration statement and the Prospectus. As
filed, such amendment and form of final prospectus, or such final prospectus,
shall contain all Rule 430A Information, together with all other such required
information, and, except to the extent the Representatives shall agree in
writing to a modification, shall be in all substantive respects in the form
furnished to you prior to the Execution Time or, to the extent not completed at
the Execution Time, shall contain only such specific additional information and
other changes (beyond that contained in the latest Preliminary Prospectus) as
the Company has advised you, prior to the Execution Time, will be included or
made therein.
(b) On the Effective Date, the Registration Statement did or will, and
when the Prospectus is first filed (if required) in accordance with Rule 424(b)
and on the Closing Date (as defined herein) and on any date on which Option
Securities are purchased, if such date is not the Closing Date (a "settlement
date"), the Prospectus (and any supplements thereto) will, comply in all
material respects with the applicable requirements of the Act and the rules
thereunder; on the Effective Date and at the Execution Time, the Registration
Statement did not or will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or
omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in
order to make the statements therein not misleading; and, on the Effective Date,
the Prospectus, if not filed pursuant to Rule 424(b), will not, and on the date
of any filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) and on the Closing Date and any settlement
date, the Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) will not, include
any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however,
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that the Company makes no representations or warranties as to the information
contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement, or the Prospectus (or
any supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with information
furnished herein or in writing to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter
through the Representatives specifically for inclusion in the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus (or any supplement thereto).
(c) The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as
a corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is
chartered or organized with full corporate power and authority to own or lease,
as the case may be, and to operate its properties and conduct its business as
described in the Prospectus, and
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is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good
standing under the laws of each jurisdiction which requires such qualification
except for such failures to so qualify which, individually or in the aggregate,
would not have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or
otherwise), prospects, earnings, business or properties of the Company (a
"Material Adverse Effect").
(d) The Company's authorized equity capitalization is as set forth in
the Prospectus; the capital stock of the Company conforms in all material
respects to the description thereof contained in the Prospectus; the
outstanding shares of Common Stock have been duly and validly authorized and
issued and are fully paid and nonassessable and were issued and sold in
compliance with all applicable federal and state securities laws; the Securities
have been duly and validly authorized, and, when issued and delivered to and
paid for by the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement, will be fully paid and
nonassessable; the Securities are duly listed, and admitted and authorized for
trading, subject to official notice of issuance and evidence of satisfactory
distribution, on the Nasdaq Stock Market's National Market; the certificates for
the Securities are in valid and sufficient form; the holders of outstanding
shares of capital stock of the Company are not entitled to preemptive or other
rights to subscribe for the Securities; and, except as set forth in the
Prospectus, no options, warrants or other rights to purchase, agreements or
other obligations to issue, or rights to convert any obligations into or
exchange any securities for, shares of capital stock of or ownership interests
in the Company are outstanding.
(e) There is no franchise, contract or other document of a character
required to be described in the Registration Statement or Prospectus, or to be
filed as an exhibit thereto, which is not described or filed as required.
(f) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by
the Company and constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Company,
enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as rights to indemnity and
contribution hereunder may be limited by federal or state securities laws or
principles of public policy and subject to the qualification that the
enforceability of the Company's obligations hereunder may be limited by
bankruptcy, fraudulent conveyance, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and
other laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally and by general
equitable principles.
(g) The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and
sale of the Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as described
in the Prospectus, will not be an "investment company" as defined in the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(h) No consent, approval, authorization, filing with or order of any
court or governmental agency or body is required in connection with the
transactions contemplated herein, except such as have been obtained under the
Act and such as may
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be required under the blue sky laws of any jurisdiction in connection with the
purchase and distribution of the Securities by the Underwriters in the manner
contemplated herein and in the Prospectus.
(i) Neither the issue and sale of the Securities nor the consummation
of any other of the transactions herein contemplated nor the fulfillment of the
terms hereof will conflict with, result in a breach or violation of or
imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the
Company pursuant to, (i) the charter or by-laws of the Company, (ii) the terms
of any indenture, contract, lease, mortgage, deed of trust, note agreement, loan
agreement or other agreement, obligation, condition, covenant or instrument to
which the Company is a party or bound or to which its property is subject, or
(iii) any statute, law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree applicable
to the Company or any of its properties of any court, regulatory body,
administrative agency, governmental body, arbitrator or other authority having
jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties.
(j) No holders of securities of the Company have rights to the
registration of such securities under the Registration Statement, except for
such rights as have been effectively waived.
(k) The historical financial statements and schedules of the Company
included in the Prospectus and the Registration Statement present fairly in all
material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows
of the Company as of the dates and for the periods indicated, comply as to form
with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and have been prepared in
conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent
basis throughout the periods involved (except as otherwise noted therein). The
selected financial data set forth under the caption "Selected Financial Data" in
the Prospectus and Registration Statement fairly present, on the basis stated in
the Prospectus and the Registration Statement, the information included therein.
The pro forma financial statements included in the Prospectus and the
Registration Statement, if any, include assumptions that provide a reasonable
basis for presenting the significant effects directly attributable to the
transactions and events described therein, the related pro forma adjustments
give appropriate effect to those assumptions, and the pro forma adjustments
reflect the proper application of those adjustments to the historical financial
statement amounts in the pro forma financial statements included in the
Prospectus and the Registration Statement. The pro forma financial statements
included in the Prospectus and the Registration Statement comply as to form in
all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of Regulation
S-X under the Act, and the pro forma adjustments have been properly applied to
the historical amounts in the compilation of those statements.
(l) No action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or
governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company
or its property is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened
that could
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reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate (i) a material
adverse effect on the performance of this Agreement or the consummation of any
of the transactions contemplated hereby or (ii) a Material Adverse Effect,
whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business,
except as set forth in or contemplated in the Prospectus (exclusive of any
supplement thereto).
(m) The Company owns or leases all properties as are necessary to the
conduct of its operations as presently conducted.
(n) The Company is not in violation or default of (i) any provision of
its charter or bylaws, (ii) the terms of any indenture, contract, lease,
mortgage, deed of trust, note agreement, loan agreement or other agreement,
obligation, condition, covenant or instrument to which it is a party or bound or
to which its property is subject, or (iii) any statute, law, rule, regulation,
judgment, order or decree of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency,
governmental body, arbitrator or other authority having jurisdiction over the
Company or any of its properties, as applicable.
(o) Ernst & Young LLP, who have certified certain financial statements
of the Company and delivered their report with respect to the audited
consolidated financial statements and schedules included in the Prospectus, are
independent public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of
the Act and the applicable published rules and regulations thereunder.
(p) There are no transfer taxes or other similar fees or charges under
Federal law or the laws of any state, or any political subdivision thereof,
required to be paid in connection with the execution and delivery of this
Agreement or the issuance by the Company or sale by the Company of the
Securities.
(q) The Company has filed all foreign, federal, state and local tax
returns that are required to be filed or has requested extensions thereof
(except in any case in which the failure so to file would not, individually or
in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, whether or not arising from
transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or
contemplated in the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto)) and has
paid all taxes required to be paid by it and any other assessment, fine or
penalty levied against it, to the extent that any of the foregoing is due and
payable, except for any such assessment, fine or penalty that is currently being
contested in good faith or as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have
a Material Adverse Effect, whether or not arising from transactions in the
ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the
Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(r) No labor problem or dispute with the employees of the Company
exists or is threatened or imminent, and the Company is not aware of any
existing or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of any of its principal
suppliers, contractors
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or customers, that could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the
aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, whether or not arising from transactions
in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in
the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(s) The Company is insured by insurers of recognized financial
responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent
and customary in the businesses in which it is engaged; all policies of
insurance insuring the Company or its respective businesses, assets, employees,
officers and directors are in full force and effect; the Company is in
compliance with the terms of such policies and instruments in all material
respects; and there are no claims by the Company under any such policy or
instrument as to which any insurance company is denying liability or defending
under a reservation of rights clause; the Company has not been refused any
insurance coverage sought or applied for; and the Company has no reason to
believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and
when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers
as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not have,
individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, whether or not
arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set
forth in or contemplated in the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement
thereto).
(t) The Company possesses all licenses, certificates, permits and
other authorizations issued by the appropriate federal, state or foreign
regulatory authorities, including, without limitation, the Food and Drug
Administration (the "FDA") of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
and/or any committee thereof, as are necessary to conduct its business, and the
Company has not received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or
modification of any such certificate, authorization or permit which, if the
subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would have, individually
or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, whether or not arising from
transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or
contemplated in the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(u) The Company maintains a system of internal accounting controls
sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in
accordance with management's general or specific authorizations; (ii)
transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial
statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to
maintain asset accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in
accordance with management's general or specific authorization; and (iv) the
recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at
reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any
differences.
(v) The Company has not taken, directly or indirectly, any action
designed to or which has constituted or which might reasonably be expected to
cause or
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result, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, in stabilization or manipulation of
the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the
Securities.
(w) The Company (including its assets and operations) is (i) in
compliance with any and all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws
and regulations relating to the protection of human health and safety, the
environment or hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or
contaminants ("Environmental Laws"), (ii) has received and is in compliance with
all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable
Environmental Laws to conduct its respective business and (iii) to the Company's
knowledge does not have, and has not received notice of, any actual or potential
liability for the investigation or remediation of, or damages to or the
destruction of natural resources or any property caused by, any disposal or
release of hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants,
except where such non-compliance with Environmental Laws, failure to receive
required permits, licenses or other approvals, or liability would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect properties of
the Company, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of
business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Prospectus (exclusive of
any supplement thereto). Except as set forth in the Prospectus, the Company has
not been named as a "potentially responsible party" under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended. In
the ordinary course of its business, the Company periodically reviews the effect
of Environmental Laws on the business, operations and properties of the Company,
in the course of which it identifies and evaluates associated costs and
liabilities (including, without limitation, any capital or operating
expenditures required for clean-up, closure of properties or compliance with
Environmental Laws, or any permit, license or approval, any related constraints
on operating activities and any potential liabilities to third parties). Such
associated costs and liabilities can not reasonably be expected, individually or
in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, whether or not arising from
transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or
contemplated in the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(x) Each "employee benefit plan" within the meaning of the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA") in which employees
of the Company are eligible to participate, is in material compliance with the
applicable provisions of ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
(the "CODE"). The Company has no liability under Title IV of ERISA, and the
Company does not expect that any such liability will be incurred, that could,
singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
(y) The Company has no "subsidiaries" as defined by the Act.
(z) The Company owns, possesses, licenses or has other rights to use,
on reasonable terms, all patents, patent applications, trade and service marks,
trade and service xxxx registrations, trade names, copyrights, licenses,
inventions, trade secrets,
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technology, know-how and other intellectual property (collectively, the
"Intellectual Property") necessary for the conduct of the Company's business as
now conducted or as proposed in the Prospectus to be conducted. Except as set
forth in the Prospectus under the caption "Business--Proprietary Rights," (a)
there are no rights of third parties to any such Intellectual Property; (b)
there is no material infringement by third parties of any such Intellectual
Property; (c) there is no pending or threatened action, suit, proceeding or
claim by others challenging the Company's rights in or to any such Intellectual
Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable
basis for any such claim; (d) there is no pending or threatened action, suit,
proceeding or claim by others challenging the validity or scope of any such
Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form
a reasonable basis for any such claim; (e) there is no pending or threatened
action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the Company infringes or
otherwise violates any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other
proprietary rights of others, and the Company is unaware of any other fact which
would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; (f) there is no U.S. patent or
published U.S. patent application which contains claims that dominate or may
dominate any Intellectual Property described in the Prospectus as being owned by
or licensed to the Company or that interferes with the issued or pending claims
of any such Intellectual Property; and (g) there is no prior art of which the
Company is aware that may render any U.S. patent held by the Company invalid or
any U.S. patent application held by the Company unpatentable which has not been
disclosed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
(aa) Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus, the Company (i) does not have any material lending or other
relationship with any bank or lending affiliate of Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Barney Holdings
Inc. and (ii) does not intend to use any of the proceeds from the sale of the
Securities hereunder to repay any outstanding debt owed to any affiliate of
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx Holding Inc.
(bb) The Company is in compliance with the Commission's staff legal
bulletin No. 5 dated October 8, 1997 related to Year 2000 compliance.
(cc) The Company has not received nor is it aware of any communication
(written or oral) relating to the termination or modification or threatened
termination or modification of the agreements described or referred to in the
Prospectus under the Caption "Business-Collaborative Agreements" nor is it aware
of any communication (written or oral) relating to any determination or
threatened determination not to renew or extend any agreement described or
referred to under such caption at the end of the current term of any such
agreement.
(dd) Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), subsequent to the
respective dates as of which such information is given in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), the
Company has not incurred any liability
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or obligation, direct or contingent, or entered into any transaction that is
material to the Company and there has not been any change in the capital stock,
or material increase in the consolidated short-term or long-term debt, of the
Company, or any material adverse change, or any development involving or which
may reasonably be expected to involve a prospective material adverse change, in
the condition (financial or other), business, prospects, properties, net worth
or results of operations of the Company.
(ee) The Company has not distributed and, prior to the later to occur
of the Closing Date and completion of the distribution of the Securities, will
not distribute any offering material in connection with the offering and sale of
the Securities other than the Registration Statement, the Prepricing Prospectus,
the Prospectus or other materials, if any, permitted by the Act and state
securities or Blue Sky laws.
(ff) Neither the Company nor, to the Company's best knowledge, any
employee or agent of the Company has made any payment of funds of the Company or
received or retained any funds in violation of any law, rule or regulation,
which payment, receipt or retention of funds is of a character required to be
disclosed in the Prospectus.
(gg) The Company has filed all federal, state, local and foreign tax
returns and tax forms required to be filed, such returns and forms are complete
and correct in all material respects, and all taxes shown by such returns or
otherwise assessed that are due or payable have been paid, except such taxes as
are being contested in good faith and as to which adequate reserves have been
provided. All payroll withholdings required to be made by the Company with
respect to employees have been made. The charges, accruals and reserves on the
books of the Company in respect of any tax liability for any year not finally
determined are adequate to meet any assessments or reassessments for additional
taxes. There have been no tax deficiencies asserted and, to the best knowledge
of the Company, no tax deficiency might be reasonably asserted or threatened
against the Company that could, individually or in the aggregate, have a
Material Adverse Effect.
Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company and delivered to
the Representatives or counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the
offering of the Securities shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the
Company, as to matters covered thereby, to each Underwriter.
2. Purchase and Sale. a) Subject to the terms and conditions and in
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reliance upon the representations and warranties herein set forth, the Company
agrees to sell to each Underwriter, and each Underwriter agrees, severally and
not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at a purchase price of $
per share, the amount of the Underwritten Securities set forth opposite such
Underwriter's name in Schedule I hereto.
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(b) Subject to the terms and conditions and in reliance upon the
representations and warranties herein set forth, the Company hereby grants an
option to the several Underwriters to purchase, severally and not jointly, up to
450,000 Option Securities at the same purchase price per share as the
Underwriters shall pay for the Underwritten Securities. Said option may be
exercised only to cover over-allotments in the sale of the Underwritten
Securities by the Underwriters. Said option may be exercised in whole or in part
at any time and from time to time on or before the 30th day after the date of
the Prospectus upon written or telegraphic notice by the Representatives to the
Company setting forth the number of shares of the Option Securities as to which
the several Underwriters are exercising the option and the settlement date.
Delivery of certificates for the shares of Option Securities by the Company, and
payment therefor to the Company, shall be made as provided in Section 3 hereof.
The number of Option Securities to be purchased by each Underwriter shall bear
the same percentage to the total number of Option Securities to be purchased by
the several Underwriters as the number of Underwritten Securities to be
purchased by such Underwriter as set forth on Schedule I hereto bears to the
total number of Underwritten Securities to be purchased by the Underwriters as
set forth on Schedule I hereto, subject to such adjustments as you in your
absolute discretion shall make to eliminate any fractional shares.
3. Delivery and Payment. Delivery of and payment for the
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Underwritten Securities and the Option Securities (if the option provided for in
Section 2(b) hereof shall have been exercised on or before the third Business
Day prior to the Closing Date) shall be made at 10:00 AM, New York City time, on
, 1998, or at such time on such later date not more than three Business Days
after the foregoing date as the Representatives shall designate, which date and
time may be postponed by agreement between the Representatives and the Company
or as provided in Section 9 hereof (such date and time of delivery and payment
for the Securities being herein called the "Closing Date"). Delivery of the
Securities shall be made to the Representatives for the respective accounts of
the several Underwriters against payment by the several Underwriters through the
Representatives of the purchase price thereof to or upon the order of the
Company by wire transfer payable in same-day funds to an account specified by
the Company. Delivery of the Underwritten Securities and the Option Securities
shall be made through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company unless the
Representatives shall otherwise instruct.
If the option provided for in Section 2(b) hereof is exercised after
the third Business Day prior to the Closing Date, the Company will deliver the
Option Securities (at the expense of the Company) to the Representatives on the
date specified by the Representatives (which shall be within three Business Days
after exercise of said option) for the respective accounts of the several
Underwriters, against payment by the several Underwriters through the
Representatives of the purchase price thereof to or upon the order of the
Company by wire transfer payable in same-day funds to an account specified by
the Company. If settlement for the Option Securities occurs after the Closing
Date,
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the Company will deliver to the Representatives on the settlement date for the
Option Securities, and the obligation of the Underwriters to purchase the Option
Securities shall be conditioned upon receipt of, supplemental opinions,
certificates and letters confirming as of such date the opinions, certificates
and letters delivered on the Closing Date pursuant to Section 6 hereof.
4. Offering by Underwriters. It is understood that the several
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Underwriters propose to offer the Securities for sale to the public as set forth
in the Prospectus.
5. Agreements. The Company agrees with the several Underwriters
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that:
(a) The Company will use its best efforts to cause the Registration
Statement, if not effective at the Execution Time, and any amendment thereof, to
become effective as soon as practicable. Prior to the termination of the
offering of the Securities, the Company will not file any amendment of the
Registration Statement or supplement to the Prospectus or any Rule 462(b)
Registration Statement unless the Company has furnished you a copy for your
review prior to filing and will not file any such proposed amendment or
supplement to which you reasonably object. Subject to the foregoing sentence,
if the Registration Statement has become or becomes effective pursuant to Rule
430A, or filing of the Prospectus is otherwise required under Rule 424(b), the
Company will cause the Prospectus, properly completed, and any supplement
thereto to be filed with the Commission pursuant to the applicable paragraph of
Rule 424(b) within the time period prescribed and will provide evidence
satisfactory to the Representatives of such timely filing. The Company will
promptly advise the Representatives (1) when the Registration Statement, if not
effective at the Execution Time, shall have become effective, (2) when the
Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, shall have been filed (if required) with
the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) or when any Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement shall have been filed with the Commission, (3) when, prior to
termination of the offering of the Securities, any amendment to the Registration
Statement shall have been filed or become effective, (4) of any request by the
Commission or its staff for any amendment of the Registration Statement, or any
Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, or for any supplement to the Prospectus or
for any additional information, (5) of the issuance by the Commission of any
stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the
institution or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose and (6) of the
receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the
qualification of the Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the institution
or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose. The Company will use its
best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order or the suspension of
any such qualification and, if issued, to obtain as soon as possible the
withdrawal thereof.
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(b) If, at any time when a prospectus relating to the Securities is
required to be delivered under the Act, any event occurs as a result of which
the Prospectus as then supplemented would include any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the
statements therein in the light of the circumstances under which they were made
not misleading, or if it shall be necessary to amend the Registration Statement
or supplement the Prospectus to comply with the Act or the rules thereunder, the
Company promptly will (1) notify the Representatives of any such event; (2)
prepare and file with the Commission, subject to the second sentence of
paragraph (a) of this Section 5, an amendment or supplement which will correct
such statement or omission or effect such compliance; and (3) supply any
supplemented Prospectus to you in such quantities as you may reasonably request.
(c) As soon as practicable, the Company will make generally available
to its security holders and to the Representatives an earnings statement or
statements of the Company and its subsidiaries which will satisfy the provisions
of Section 11(a) of the Act and Rule 158 under the Act.
(d) The Company will furnish to the Representatives and counsel for
the Underwriters signed copies of the Registration Statement (including exhibits
thereto) and to each other Underwriter a copy of the Registration Statement
(without exhibits thereto) and, so long as delivery of a prospectus by an
Underwriter or dealer may be required by the Act, as many copies of each
Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus and any supplement thereto as the
Representatives may reasonably request.
(e) The Company will arrange, if necessary, for the qualification of
the Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as the
Representatives may designate and will maintain such qualifications in effect so
long as required for the distribution of the Securities; provided that in no
event shall the Company be obligated to qualify to do business in any
jurisdiction where it is not now so qualified or to take any action that would
subject it to service of process in suits, other than those arising out of the
offering or sale of the Securities, in any jurisdiction where it is not now so
subject.
(f) The Company will not, without the prior written consent of Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, for a period of 180 days following the Execution Time, offer, sell
or contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of (or enter into any transaction
which is designed to, or might reasonably be expected to, result in the
disposition (whether by actual disposition or effective economic disposition due
to cash settlement or otherwise) by the Company or any affiliate of the Company
or any person in privity with the Company or any affiliate of the Company)
directly or indirectly, or announce the offering of, any other shares of Common
Stock or any securities convertible into, or exchangeable for, shares of Common
Stock; provided, however, that the Company may issue and sell Common Stock
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pursuant to any employee stock option plan, stock ownership plan or dividend
reinvestment plan of the Company in effect at the Execution Time and described
in the
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Prospectus and the Company may issue Common Stock issuable upon the conversion
of securities or the exercise of warrants outstanding at the Execution Time.
(g) The Company will not take, directly or indirectly, any action
designed to or which has constituted or which might reasonably be expected to
cause or result, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, in stabilization or
manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale
or resale of the Securities.
(h) The Company agrees to pay the costs and expenses relating to the
following matters: (i) the preparation, printing or reproduction and filing with
the Commission of the Registration Statement (including financial statements and
exhibits thereto), each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, and each
amendment or supplement to any of them; (ii) the printing (or reproduction) and
delivery (including postage, air freight charges and charges for counting and
packaging) of such copies of the Registration Statement, each Preliminary
Prospectus, the Prospectus, and all amendments or supplements to any of them, as
may, in each case, be reasonably requested for use in connection with the
offering and sale of the Securities; (iii) the preparation, printing,
authentication, issuance and delivery of certificates for the Securities,
including any stamp or transfer taxes in connection with the original issuance
and sale of the Securities; (iv) the printing (or reproduction) and delivery of
this Agreement, any blue sky memorandum and all other agreements or documents
printed (or reproduced) and delivered in connection with the offering of the
Securities; (v) the registration of the Securities under the Exchange Act and
the listing of the Securities on the Nasdaq National Market; (vi) any
registration or qualification of the Securities for offer and sale under the
securities or blue sky laws of the several states (including filing fees and the
reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters relating to such
registration and qualification); (vii) any filings required to be made with the
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (including filing fees and the
reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters relating to such
filings); (viii) the transportation and other expenses incurred by or on behalf
of Company representatives in connection with presentations to prospective
purchasers of the Securities; (ix) the fees and expenses of the Company's
accountants and the fees and expenses of counsel (including local and special
counsel) for the Company; and (x) all other costs and expenses incident to the
performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder.
6. Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriters. The
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obligations of the Underwriters to purchase the Underwritten Securities and the
Option Securities, as the case may be, shall be subject to the accuracy of the
representations and warranties on the part of the Company contained herein as of
the Execution Time, the Closing Date and any settlement date pursuant to Section
3 hereof, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company made in any
certificates pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the
Company of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:
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(a) If the Registration Statement has not become effective prior to
the Execution Time, unless the Representatives agree in writing to a later time,
the Registration Statement will become effective not later than (i) 6:00 PM New
York City time on the date of determination of the public offering price, if
such determination occurred at or prior to 3:00 PM New York City time on such
date or (ii) 9:30 AM on the Business Day following the day on which the public
offering price was determined, if such determination occurred after 3:00 PM New
York City time on such date; if filing of the Prospectus, or any supplement
thereto, is required pursuant to Rule 424(b), the Prospectus, and any such
supplement, will be filed in the manner and within the time period required by
Rule 424(b); and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have
been instituted or threatened.
(b) The Company shall have furnished to the Representatives the
opinion of Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx and Freidenrich LLP, counsel for the Company, dated
the Closing Date and addressed to the Representatives, to the effect that:
(i) the Company and has been duly incorporated and is validly
existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the
jurisdiction in which it is chartered or organized, with full corporate
power and authority to own or lease, as the case may be, and to operate its
properties and conduct its business as described in the Prospectus, and is
duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good
standing under the laws of each jurisdiction which requires such
qualification except for such failures to so qualify which, individually or
in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect;
(ii) the Company's authorized equity capitalization is as set forth
in the Prospectus; the capital stock of the Company conforms in all
material respects to the description thereof contained in the Prospectus;
the outstanding shares of Common Stock have been duly and validly
authorized and issued and are fully paid and nonassessable and were issued
and sold in compliance with all applicable federal and state securities
laws; the Securities have been duly and validly authorized, and, when
issued and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters pursuant to this
Agreement, will be fully paid and nonassessable; the Securities are duly
listed, and admitted and authorized for trading, subject to official notice
of issuance and evidence of satisfactory distribution, on the Nasdaq Stock
Market's National Market; the certificates for the Securities are in valid
and sufficient form; the holders of outstanding shares of capital stock of
the Company are not entitled to preemptive or other rights to subscribe for
the Securities pursuant to the charter or by-laws of the Company, the
corporation laws of the jurisdiction in which the Company is chartered or
organized, any agreements or other documents filed as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement or, to such counsel's knowledge, otherwise; and,
except as set forth in the Prospectus, to such counsel's knowledge no
options, warrants or other rights to purchase, agreements
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or other obligations to issue, or rights to convert any obligations into or
exchange any securities for, shares of capital stock of or ownership
interests in the Company are outstanding;
(iii) to the knowledge of such counsel, there is no pending or
threatened action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or
governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the
Company or its property of a character required to be disclosed in the
Registration Statement which is not adequately disclosed in the Prospectus,
and there is no franchise, contract or other document of a character
required to be described in the Registration Statement or Prospectus, or to
be filed as an exhibit thereto, which is not described or filed as
required; and the statements in the Prospectus insofar as they are
descriptions of contracts, agreements or other legal documents, or refer to
statements of law or legal conclusions, are accurate in all material
respects and fairly summarize the matters purported to be therein
described;
(iv) such counsel has been advised by the staff of the Commission
that the Registration Statement has become effective under the Act; any
required filing of the Prospectus, and any supplements thereto, pursuant to
Rule 424(b) has been made in the manner and within the time period required
by Rule 424(b); to the knowledge of such counsel, no stop order suspending
the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued, no
proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or threatened;
(v) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (other than the
financial statements and other financial information contained therein, as
to which such counsel need express no opinion) comply as to form in all
material respects with the applicable requirements of the Act and the rules
thereunder;
(vi) this Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered
by the Company;
(vii) the Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering
and sale of the Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as
described in the Prospectus, will not be, an "investment company" as
defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended;
(viii) no consent, approval, authorization, filing with or order
of any court or governmental agency or body is required in connection with
the transactions contemplated herein, except such as have been obtained
under the Act and such as may be required under the blue sky laws of any
jurisdiction in connection with the purchase and distribution of the
Securities by the Underwriters in the manner contemplated in this Agreement
and in the Prospectus and such other approvals (specified in such opinion)
as have been obtained;
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(ix) neither the issuance and sale of the Securities, nor the
consummation of any other of the transactions herein contemplated nor the
fulfillment of the terms hereof will conflict with, result in a breach or
violation of or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any
property or assets of the Company pursuant to, (i) the charter or by-laws
of the Company, (ii) the terms of any indenture, contract, lease, mortgage,
deed of trust, note agreement, loan agreement or other agreement,
obligation, condition, covenant or instrument to which the Company is a
party or bound or to which its property is subject that is filed as an
exhibit to the Registration Statement or is otherwise known to such
counsel, or (iii) any statute, law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or
decree applicable to the Company of any court, regulatory body,
administrative agency, governmental body, arbitrator or other authority
having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties; and
(x) no holders of securities of the Company have rights to the
registration of such securities under the Registration Statement pursuant
to the terms of any agreement or other document filed as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement or otherwise known to such counsel, except for such
rights which have been effectively waived.
In addition, such counsel shall state that although such counsel has
not undertaken, except as otherwise indicated in their opinion, to determine
independently, and does not assume any responsibility for, the accuracy,
completeness or fairness of the statements in the Registration Statement, such
counsel has participated in the preparation of the Registration Statement and
the Prospectus, including review and discussion of the contents thereof, and
such counsel has no reason to believe that on the Effective Date or at the
Execution Time the Registration Statement contains or contained any untrue
statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state any material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading or that the Prospectus as of its date and on the Closing Date
includes any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state a
material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (in each case, other
than the financial statements and other financial and statistical information
contained therein, as to which such counsel need express no opinion).
In rendering such opinion, such counsel may rely (A) as to matters
involving the application of laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of
California or the corporation law of the State of Delaware or the Federal laws
of the United States, to the extent they deem proper and specified in such
opinion, upon the opinion of other counsel of good standing whom they believe to
be reliable and who are satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters and (B) as
to matters of fact, to the extent they deem proper, on certificates of
responsible officers of the Company and public officials. References to the
Prospectus in this paragraph (b) include any supplements thereto at the Closing
Date.
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The opinion of such counsel shall be rendered to the Underwriters at the request
of the Company and shall so state therein.
(c) The Representatives shall have received from _____________, patent
counsel for the Company, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date and
addressed to the Representatives, that:
(i) To the knowledge of such counsel after reasonable inquiry, the
Company owns, possesses, licenses or has other rights to use, on reasonable
terms, all Intellectual Property necessary for the conduct of the Company's
business as now conducted or as proposed in the Prospectus to be conducted.
(ii) To the knowledge of such counsel after reasonable inquiry (a)
except as set forth in the Prospectus, there are no rights of third parties
to any such Intellectual Property; (b) there is no material infringement by
third parties of any such Intellectual Property; (c) there is no pending or
threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the
Company's rights in or to any such Intellectual Property, and the Company
is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such
claim; (d) there is no pending or threatened action, suit, proceeding or
claim by others challenging the validity or scope of any such Intellectual
Property, and such counsel is unaware of any facts which would form a
reasonable basis for any such claim; (e) there is no pending or threatened
action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the Company infringes or
otherwise violates any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other
proprietary rights of others, and the Company is unaware of any other fact
which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; (f) there is no
U.S. patent or published U.S. patent application which contains claims that
dominate or may dominate any Intellectual Property described in the
Prospectus as being owned by or licensed to the Company or that interferes
with the issued or pending claims of any such Intellectual Property; and
(g) there is no prior art of which the Company is aware that may render any
U.S. patent held by the Company invalid or any U.S. patent application held
by the Company unpatentable which has not been disclosed to the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office.
(iii) The statements contained in the Prospectus under the captions
"Risk Factors -- Patents and Proprietary Information" and "Business --
Patents and Proprietary Information," insofar as such statements summarize
legal matters, agreements, documents, or proceedings discussed therein, are
accurate and fair summaries of such legal matters, agreements, documents or
proceedings.
(d) The Representatives shall have received from Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx LLP,
counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date
and addressed to the Representatives, with respect to the issuance and sale of
the Securities, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus (together with any
supplement thereto) and
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other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably require, and the
Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they request for
the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters. The opinion or opinions
of such counsel shall be rendered to the Underwriters at the request of the
Company and shall so state therein.
(e) The Company shall have furnished to the Representatives a
certificate of the Company, signed by the Chairman of the Board or the President
and the principal financial or accounting officer of the Company, dated the
Closing Date, to the effect that the signers of such certificate have carefully
examined the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, any supplements to the
Prospectus and this Agreement and that:
(i) the representations and warranties of the Company in this
Agreement are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the
Closing Date with the same effect as if made on the Closing Date and the
Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the
conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the
Closing Date;
(ii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been
instituted or, to the Company's knowledge, threatened; and
(iii) since the date of the most recent financial statements
included in the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there has
been no Material Adverse Effect, whether or not arising from transactions
in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated
in the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(f) The Representatives shall have received letters addressed to them
dated the date hereof and the Closing Date from Ernst & Young LLP, independent
certified public accountants, substantially in the forms heretofore approved by
them.
(g) Subsequent to the Execution Time or, if earlier, the dates as of
which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any
amendment thereof) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto),
there shall not have been (i) any change or decrease specified in the letter or
letters referred to in paragraph (f) of this Section 6 or (ii) any change, or
any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the condition
(financial or otherwise), earnings, business or properties of the Company,
whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business,
except as set forth in or contemplated in the Prospectus (exclusive of any
supplement thereto) the effect of which, in any case referred to in clause (i)
or (ii) above, is, in the sole judgment of the Representatives, so material and
adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or
delivery of the Securities as contemplated by
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the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the
Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(h) The Securities shall have been listed and admitted and authorized
for trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market National Market, and satisfactory
evidence of such actions shall have been provided to the Representatives.
(i) At the Execution Time, the Company shall have furnished to the
Representatives a letter substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto from each
officer and director of the Company and all of the Company's securityholders.
(j) Prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the
Representatives such further information, certificates and documents as the
Representatives may reasonably request.
If any of the conditions specified in this Section 6 shall not have
been fulfilled in all material respects when and as provided in this Agreement,
or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this
Agreement shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the
Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, this Agreement and all
obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be canceled at, or at any time
prior to, the Closing Date by the Representatives. Notice of such cancellation
shall be given to the Company in writing or by telephone or facsimile confirmed
in writing.
The documents required to be delivered by this Section 6 shall be
delivered at the office of Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters,
at 0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, on the Closing Date.
7. Reimbursement of Underwriters' Expenses. If the sale of the
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Securities provided for herein is not consummated because any condition to the
obligations of the Underwriters set forth in Section 6 hereof is not satisfied,
because of any termination pursuant to Section 10 hereof or because of any
refusal, inability or failure on the part of the Company to perform any
agreement herein or comply with any provision hereof other than by reason of a
default by any of the Underwriters, the Company will reimburse the Underwriters
severally through Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Barney on 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 proposed purchase and sale of the
Securities.
8. Indemnification and Contribution. b) The Company agrees to
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indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, the directors, officers, employees
and agents of each Underwriter and each person who controls any Underwriter
within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act against any and all
losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which they or any
of them may become subject
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under the Act, the Exchange Act or other Federal or state statutory law or
regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages
or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon
any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in
the registration statement for the registration of the Securities as originally
filed or in any amendment thereof, or in any Preliminary Prospectus or the
Prospectus, or in any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or arise out of
or are based upon 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, and agrees to reimburse each such indemnified party, as
incurred, for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in
connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage,
liability or action; provided, however, that the Company will not be liable in
any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability
arises out of or is based upon any such untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement or omission or alleged omission made therein in reliance upon and in
conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of
any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for inclusion therein.
This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which the Company
may otherwise have.
(b) Each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees to indemnify
and hold harmless the Company, each of its directors, each of its officers who
signs the Registration Statement, and each person who controls the Company
within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act, to the same extent as
the foregoing indemnity to each Underwriter, but only with reference to written
information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company by or on
behalf of such Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for
inclusion in the documents referred to in the foregoing indemnity. This
indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which any Underwriter
may otherwise have. The Company acknowledges that the statements set forth in
the last paragraph of the cover page regarding delivery of the Securities, the
legend in block capital letters on the inside front cover related to
stabilization, syndicate covering transactions and penalty bids and, under the
heading "Underwriting" or "Plan of Distribution" (i) the sentences related to
concessions and reallowances and (ii) the paragraph related to stabilization,
syndicate covering transactions and penalty bids in any Preliminary Prospectus
and the Prospectus constitute the only information furnished in writing by or on
behalf of the several Underwriters for inclusion in any Preliminary Prospectus
or the Prospectus.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section
8 of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a
claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under this
Section 8, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof;
but the failure so to notify the indemnifying party (i) will not relieve it from
liability under paragraph (a) or (b) above unless and to the extent it did not
otherwise learn of such action and such
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failure results in the forfeiture by the indemnifying party of substantial
rights and defenses and (ii) will not, in any event, relieve the indemnifying
party from any obligations to any indemnified party other than the
indemnification obligation provided in paragraph (a) or (b) above. The
indemnifying party shall be entitled to appoint counsel of the indemnifying
party's choice at the indemnifying party's expense to represent the indemnified
party in any action for which indemnification is sought (in which case the
indemnifying party shall not thereafter be responsible for the fees and expenses
of any separate counsel retained by the indemnified party or parties except as
set forth below); provided, however, that such counsel shall be satisfactory to
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the indemnified party. Notwithstanding the indemnifying party's election to
appoint counsel to represent the indemnified party in an action, the indemnified
party shall have the right to employ separate counsel (including local counsel),
and the indemnifying party shall bear the reasonable fees, costs and expenses of
such separate counsel if (i) the use of counsel chosen by the indemnifying party
to represent the indemnified party would present such counsel with a conflict of
interest, (ii) the actual or potential defendants in, or targets of, any such
action include both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party and the
indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal
defenses available to it and/or other indemnified parties which are different
from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, (iii) the
indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel satisfactory to the
indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time
after notice of the institution of such action or (iv) the indemnifying party
shall authorize the indemnified party to employ separate counsel at the expense
of the indemnifying party. An indemnifying party will not, without the prior
written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to
the entry of any judgment with respect to any pending or threatened claim,
action, suit or proceeding in respect of which indemnification or contribution
may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or
potential parties to such claim or action) unless such settlement, compromise or
consent includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all
liability arising out of such claim, action, suit or proceeding.
(d) In the event that the indemnity provided in paragraph (a) or (b)
of this Section 8 is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an
indemnified party for any reason, the Company and the Underwriters severally
agree to contribute to the aggregate losses, claims, damages and liabilities
(including legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with
investigating or defending same) (collectively "Losses") to which the Company
and one or more of the Underwriters may be subject in such proportion as is
appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one
hand and by the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Securities;
provided, however, that in no case shall any Underwriter (except as may be
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provided in any agreement among underwriters relating to the offering of the
Securities) be responsible for any amount in excess of the underwriting discount
or commission applicable to the Securities purchased by such Underwriter
hereunder. If the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is
unavailable for any reason, the Company and the
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Underwriters severally shall contribute in such proportion as is appropriate to
reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the
Company on the one hand and of the Underwriters on the other in connection with
the statements or omissions which resulted in such Losses as well as any other
relevant equitable considerations. Benefits received by the Company shall be
deemed to be equal to the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting
expenses) received by it, and benefits received by the Underwriters shall be
deemed to be equal to the total underwriting discounts and commissions, in each
case as set forth on the cover page of the Prospectus. Relative fault shall be
determined by reference to, among other things, whether any untrue or any
alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission
to state a material fact relates to information provided by the Company on the
one hand or the Underwriters on the other, the intent of the parties and their
relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent
such untrue statement or omission. The Company and the Underwriters agree that
it would not be just and equitable if contribution were determined by pro rata
allocation or any other method of allocation which does not take account of the
equitable considerations referred to above. Notwithstanding the provisions of
this paragraph (d), no person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the
meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any
person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes of
this Section 8, each person who controls an Underwriter within the meaning of
either the Act or the Exchange Act and each director, officer, employee and
agent of an Underwriter shall have the same rights to contribution as such
Underwriter, and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of
either the Act or the Exchange Act, each officer of the Company who shall have
signed the Registration Statement and each director of the Company shall have
the same rights to contribution as the Company, subject in each case to the
applicable terms and conditions of this paragraph (d).
9. Default by an Underwriter. If any one or more Underwriters shall
fail to purchase and pay for any of the Securities agreed to be purchased by
such Underwriter or Underwriters hereunder and such failure to purchase shall
constitute a default in the performance of its or their obligations under this
Agreement, the remaining Underwriters shall be obligated severally to take up
and pay for (in the respective proportions which the amount of Underwritten
Securities set forth opposite their names in Schedule I hereto bears to the
aggregate amount of Underwritten Securities set forth opposite the names of all
the remaining Underwriters) the Securities which the defaulting Underwriter or
Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase; provided, however, that in the event
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that the aggregate amount of Underwritten Securities which the defaulting
Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase shall exceed 10% of
the aggregate amount of Underwritten Securities set forth in Schedule I hereto,
the remaining Underwriters shall have the right to purchase all, but shall not
be under any obligation to purchase any, of the Securities, and if such
nondefaulting Underwriters do not purchase all the Securities, this Agreement
will terminate without liability to any nondefaulting Underwriter or the
Company. In the event of a default by any Underwriter as set forth in
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this Section 9, the Closing Date shall be postponed for such period, not
exceeding five Business Days, as the Representatives shall determine in order
that the required changes in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or in
any other documents or arrangements may be effected. Nothing contained in this
Agreement shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter of its liability, if any, to
the Company and any nondefaulting Underwriter for damages occasioned by its
default hereunder.
10. Termination. This Agreement shall be subject to termination in
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the absolute discretion of the Representatives, by notice given to the Company
prior to delivery of and payment for the Securities, if at any time prior to
such time (i) trading in the Company's Common Stock shall have been suspended by
the Commission or the Nasdaq National Market or trading in securities generally
on the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq National Market shall have been
suspended or limited or minimum prices shall have been established on such
Exchange or National Market, (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared
either by Federal or New York State authorities or (iii) there shall have
occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities, declaration by the United
States of a national emergency or war or other calamity or crisis the effect of
which on financial markets is such as to make it, in the sole judgment of the
Representatives, impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or
delivery of the Securities as contemplated by the Prospectus (exclusive of any
supplement thereto).
11. Representations and Indemnities to Survive. The respective
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agreements, representations, warranties, indemnities and other statements of the
Company or its officers and of the Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to
this Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any
investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or the Company or any of
the officers, directors or controlling persons referred to in Section 8 hereof,
and will survive delivery of and payment for the Securities. The provisions of
Sections 7 and 8 hereof shall survive the termination or cancellation of this
Agreement.
12. Notices. All communications hereunder will be in writing and
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effective only on receipt, and, shall be mailed, delivered or telefaxed (i) if
to the Company, to the office of the Company at 0000 Xxxx Xx Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx
000, Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, President and
Chief Executive Officer, with a copy to Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx & Freidenrich LLP, a
Professional Corporation, 000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000,
Attention: J. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Esq.: or (ii) if to you, as Representatives of the
several Underwriters, care of Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Barney, 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx
Xxxx Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Manager, Investment Banking Division, with a
copy to Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx LLP, 0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000, Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Esq.
13. Successors. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be
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binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and the officers
and
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directors and controlling persons referred to in Section 8 hereof, and no other
person will have any right or obligation hereunder.
14. Applicable Law. This Agreement will be governed by and construed
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in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to contracts
made and to be performed within the State of New York.
15. Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in one or more
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counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original and all of which
together shall constitute one and the same agreement.
16. Headings. The section headings used herein are for convenience
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only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
17. Definitions. The terms which follow, when used in this
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Agreement, shall have the meanings indicated.
"Act" shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules
and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.
"Business Day" shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a
legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies are
authorized or obligated by law to close in New York City.
"Commission" shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Effective Date" shall mean each date and time that the Registration
Statement, any post-effective amendment or amendments thereto and any Rule
462(b) Registration Statement became or become effective.
"Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.
"Execution Time" shall mean the date and time that this Agreement is
executed and delivered by the parties hereto.
"Preliminary Prospectus" shall mean any preliminary prospectus
referred to in paragraph 1(a) above and any preliminary prospectus included in
the Registration Statement at the Effective Date that omits Rule 430A
Information.
"Prospectus" shall mean the prospectus relating to the Securities that
is first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) after the Execution Time or, if no filing
pursuant to Rule 424(b) is required, shall mean the form of final prospectus
relating to the Securities included in the Registration Statement at the
Effective Date.
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"Registration Statement" shall mean the registration statement
referred to in paragraph 1(a) above, including exhibits and financial
statements, as amended at the Execution Time (or, if not effective at the
Execution Time, in the form in which it shall become effective) and, in the
event any post-effective amendment thereto or any Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement becomes effective prior to the Closing Date, shall also mean such
registration statement as so amended or such Rule 462(b) Registration Statement,
as the case may be. Such term shall include any Rule 430A Information deemed to
be included therein at the Effective Date as provided by Rule 430A.
"Rule 424", "Rule 430A" and "Rule 462" refer to such rules under the
Act.
"Rule 430A Information" shall mean information with respect to the
Securities and the offering thereof permitted to be omitted from the
Registration Statement when it becomes effective pursuant to Rule 430A.
"Rule 462(b) Registration Statement" shall mean a registration
statement and any amendments thereto filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) relating to
the offering covered by the initial registration statement.
"Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx" shall mean Xxxxx Xxxxxx Inc. or Salomon
Brothers Inc to the extent that either such party is a signatory to this
Agreement.
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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our
agreement, please sign and return to us the enclosed duplicate hereof, whereupon
this letter and your acceptance shall represent a binding agreement among the
Company and the several Underwriters.
Very truly yours,
ENACT Health Management Systems
By:_____________________________________________
Name:
Title:
The foregoing Agreement is hereby
confirmed and accepted as of the
date first above written.
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Inc.
Xxxxxx Brothers Inc.
By: Xxxxx Xxxxxx Inc.
By:__________________________________
Name:
Title:
For themselves and the other
several Underwriters named in
Schedule I to the foregoing
Agreement.
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SCHEDULE I
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NUMBER Of UNDERWRITTEN
SECURITIES TO BE
UNDERWRITERS PURCHASED
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Xxxxx Xxxxxx Inc....................
Xxxxxx Brothers Inc.................
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Total..................... 3,000,000
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ENACT HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
LOCK-UP AGREEMENT
__________, 1997
XXXXX XXXXXX INC.
XXXXXX BROTHERS INC.
As Representatives of the Several Underwriters
c/o XXXXX XXXXXX INC.
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned has been advised that Xxxxx Xxxxxx Inc. and Xxxxxx
Brothers Inc., acting as Representatives of the several Underwriters, propose to
enter into an Underwriting Agreement with ENACT Health Management Systems, a
California corporation (the "Company"), with respect to a public offering (the
"Offering") of Common Stock, $.001 par value per share, of the Company (the
"Common Stock"). In consideration of the Underwriters' agreement to purchase
the Common Stock and to participate in the Offering, and for other good and
valuable consideration, the undersigned hereby irrevocably agrees that the
undersigned will not, directly or indirectly, without the prior written consent
of Xxxxx Xxxxxx Inc., (i) for a period of 180 days after the date of the
Prospectus relating to the Offering sell, offer to sell, solicit an offer to
buy, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option for the sale of, or otherwise
transfer or dispose of, or cause the transfer or disposition of, any Common
Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for
Common Stock, other than transfers to members of my family or trust(s) for the
benefit of any of them, provided that any such transferee must agree to be bound
by the terms of this agreement, or (ii) in connection with the Offering and for
180 days after the date of the Prospectus relating thereto exercise any
registration rights, whether held by the undersigned on the date hereof or
hereafter acquired, with respect to any Common Stock or any securities
convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for any Common Stock. Prior to
the expiration of such 180-day period, the undersigned will not announce or
disclose any intention to do anything after the expiration of such period which
the undersigned is prohibited, as provided in the preceding sentence, from doing
during such period.
The undersigned agrees that the provisions of this agreement shall be
binding also upon the successors, assigns, heirs and personal representatives of
the undersigned.
In furtherance of the foregoing, the Company and [name of Transfer
Agent], the Company's transfer agent and registrar, are hereby authorized to
decline to make any transfer of securities if such transfer would constitute a
violation or breach of this agreement.
Very truly yours,
_______________________________
Name:
