CARBONITE, INC. (a Delaware corporation) [•] Shares of Common Stock UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
Exhibit 1.1
CARBONITE, INC.
(a Delaware corporation)
[•] Shares of Common Stock
Dated: [•], 2011
CARBONITE, INC.
(a Delaware corporation)
[•] Shares of Common Stock
[•], 2011
Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated
Xxx Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Xxx Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
X.X. Xxxxxx Securities LLC
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
as Representatives of the several Underwriters
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Carbonite, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and the persons listed in
Schedule B hereto (the “Selling Shareholders”) confirm their respective agreements with
Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated (“Xxxxxxx Xxxxx”), X.X. Xxxxxx Securities LLC
(“X.X. Xxxxxx”) and each of the other Underwriters named in Schedule A hereto
(collectively, the “Underwriters,” which term shall also include any underwriter substituted as
hereinafter provided in Section 10 hereof), for whom Xxxxxxx Xxxxx and X.X. Xxxxxx are acting as
representatives (in such capacity, the “Representatives”), with respect to (i) the sale by the
Company and the Selling Shareholders, acting severally and not jointly, and the purchase by the
Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly, of the respective number of shares of Common Stock,
par value $0.01 per share, of the Company (“Common Stock”) as set forth in Schedule A and
Schedule B hereto and (ii) the grant by the Company to the Underwriters, acting severally
and not jointly, of the option described in Section 2(b) hereof to purchase all or any part of [•]
additional shares of Common Stock to cover overallotments, if any. The aforesaid [•] shares of
Common Stock (the “Initial Securities”) to be purchased by the Underwriters and all or any part of
the [•] shares of Common Stock subject to the option described in Section 2(b) hereof (the “Option
Securities”) are herein called, collectively, the “Securities.”
The Company and the Selling Shareholders understand that the Underwriters propose to make a
public offering of the Securities as soon as the Representatives deem advisable after this
Agreement has been executed and delivered.
The Company, the Selling Shareholders and the Underwriters agree that up to [•] shares of the
Initial Securities to be purchased by the Underwriters (the “Reserved Securities”) shall be
reserved for sale by the Underwriters to certain persons designated by the Company (the
“Invitees”), as part of the distribution of the Securities by the Underwriters, subject to the
terms of this Agreement, the applicable rules, regulations and interpretations of the Financial
Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) and all other applicable laws, rules and regulations.
The Company solely determined, without any direct or indirect participation by the Underwriters,
the Invitees who will purchase Reserved Securities (including the amount to be purchased by such
persons) sold by the Underwriters. To the extent that such Reserved
Securities are not orally confirmed for purchase by Invitees by 9:00 A.M. (New York City time)
on the first business day after the date of this Agreement, such Reserved Securities may be offered
to the public as part of the public offering contemplated hereby.
The Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a
registration statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-174139), including the related preliminary prospectus
or prospectuses, covering the registration of the sale of the Securities under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”). Promptly after execution and delivery of this Agreement, the
Company will prepare and file a prospectus in accordance with the provisions of Rule 430A (“Rule
430A”) of the rules and regulations of the Commission under the 1933 Act (the “1933 Act
Regulations”) and Rule 424(b) (“Rule 424(b)”) of the 1933 Act Regulations. The information
included in such prospectus that was omitted from such registration statement at the time it became
effective but that is deemed to be part of such registration statement at the time it became
effective pursuant to Rule 430A(b) is herein called the “Rule 430A Information.” Such registration
statement, including the amendments thereto, the exhibits thereto and any schedules thereto, at the
time it became effective, and including the Rule 430A Information, is herein called the
“Registration Statement.” Any registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the 1933 Act
Regulations is herein called the “Rule 462(b) Registration Statement” and, after such filing, the
term “Registration Statement” shall include the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement. Each
prospectus used prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, and each prospectus that
omitted the Rule 430A Information that was used after such effectiveness and prior to the execution
and delivery of this Agreement, is herein called a “preliminary prospectus.” The final prospectus,
in the form first furnished to the Underwriters for use in connection with the offering of the
Securities is herein called the “Prospectus.” For purposes of this Agreement, all references to
the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus or any amendment or
supplement to any of the foregoing shall be deemed to include the copy filed with the Commission
pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system or any successor system
(“XXXXX”).
As used in this Agreement:
“Applicable Time” means [•] [P./A.]M., New York City time, on [•], 2011 or such other
time as agreed by the Company and the Representatives.
“General Disclosure Package” means any Issuer General Use Free Writing Prospectuses
issued at or prior to the Applicable Time, the most recent preliminary prospectus that is
distributed to investors prior to the Applicable Time and the information included on
Schedule C-1 hereto, all considered together.
“Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined
in Rule 433 of the 1933 Act Regulations (“Rule 433”), including without limitation any “free
writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 of the 1933 Act Regulations (“Rule 405”))
relating to the Securities that is (i) required to be filed with the Commission by the
Company, (ii) a “road show that is a written communication” within the meaning of Rule
433(d)(8)(i), whether or not required to be filed with the Commission, or (iii) exempt from
filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d)(5)(i) because it contains a description
of the Securities or of the offering that does not reflect the final terms, in each case in
the form filed or required to be filed with the Commission or, if not required to be filed,
in the form retained in the Company’s records pursuant to Rule 433(g).
“Issuer General Use Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
that is intended for general distribution to prospective investors (other than a “bona fide
electronic
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road show,” as defined in Rule 433 (the “Bona Fide Electronic Road Show”)), as
evidenced by its being specified in Schedule C-2 hereto.
“Issuer Limited Use Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
that is not an Issuer General Use Free Writing Prospectus.
SECTION 1. Representations and Warranties.
(a) Representations and Warranties by the Company. The Company represents and warrants to
each Underwriter as of the date hereof, the Applicable Time, the Closing Time (as defined below)
and any Date of Delivery (as defined below), and agrees with each Underwriter, as follows:
(i) Registration Statement and Prospectuses. Each of the Registration
Statement and any amendment thereto has become effective under the 1933 Act. No stop order
suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment
thereto has been issued under the 1933 Act, no order preventing or suspending the use of any
preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus has been issued and no proceedings for any of those
purposes have been instituted or are pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, contemplated by
the Commission. The Company has complied with each request (if any) from the Commission for
additional information.
Each of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, at the
time it became effective, complied in all material respects with the requirements of the
1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations. Each preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus and any
amendment or supplement thereto, at the time each was filed with the Commission, complied in
all material respects with the requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations.
Each preliminary prospectus delivered to the Underwriters for use in connection with this
offering and the Prospectus was or will be identical to the electronically transmitted
copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to XXXXX, except to the extent permitted
by Regulation S-T.
(ii) Accurate Disclosure. Neither the Registration Statement nor any amendment
thereto, at its effective time, at the Closing Time or at any Date of Delivery, contained,
contains or will contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted, omits or will
omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading. As of the Applicable Time, neither (A) the General
Disclosure Package nor (B) any individual Issuer Limited Use Free Writing Prospectus, when
considered together with the General Disclosure Package, included, includes or will include
an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted, omits or will omit 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. Neither the Prospectus nor any amendment or
supplement thereto (including any prospectus wrapper), as of its issue date, at the time of
any filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b), at the Closing Time or at any Date
of Delivery, included, includes or will include an untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted, omits or will omit 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.
The representations and warranties in this subsection shall not apply to statements in
or omissions from the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), the General
Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) made in
reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any
Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein. For purposes of this
Agreement, the only information
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so furnished shall be the information in the first paragraph under the heading
“Underwriting—Commissions and Discounts,” the information in the second and third
paragraphs under the heading “Underwriting—Price Stabilization, Short Positions and Penalty
Bids,” and the information under the heading “Underwriting—Electronic Offer, Sale and
Distribution of Shares” in each case contained in the Prospectus (collectively, the
“Underwriter Information”).
(iii) Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses. No Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
conflicts or will conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement or
the Prospectus, and any preliminary or other prospectus deemed to be a part thereof that has
not been superseded or modified. The Company has made available a Bona Fide Electronic Road
Show in compliance with Rule 433(d)(8)(ii) such that no filing of any “road show” (as
defined in Rule 433(h)) is required in connection with the offering of the Securities.
(iv) Company Not Ineligible Issuer. At the time of filing the Registration
Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, at the earliest time thereafter that the
Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule
164(h)(2) of the 1933 Act Regulations) of the Securities and at the date hereof, the Company
was not and is not an “ineligible issuer,” as defined in Rule 405, without taking account of
any determination by the Commission pursuant to Rule 405 that it is not necessary that the
Company be considered an ineligible issuer.
(v) Independent Accountants. Ernst & Young LLP, the accountants who certified
the financial statements and supporting schedules included in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, are independent public accountants as
required by the 1933 Act, the 1933 Act Regulations and the Public Company Accounting
Oversight Board.
(vi) Financial Statements; Non-GAAP Financial Measures. The financial
statements included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, together with the related schedules and notes, present fairly in all material
respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries at the
dates indicated and the statement of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the
Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the periods specified; said financial
statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting
principles (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved. The
supporting schedules included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package
and the Prospectus, if any, present fairly in all material respects in accordance with GAAP
the information required to be stated therein. The selected financial data and the summary
financial information included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package
and the Prospectus present fairly in all material respects the information shown therein and
have been compiled on a basis consistent with that of the audited financial statements
included therein. The pro forma financial statements and the related notes thereto included
in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus present
fairly in all material respects the information shown therein, have been prepared in
accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines with respect to pro forma financial
statements and have been properly compiled on the bases described therein, and the
assumptions used in the preparation thereof are reasonable and the adjustments used therein
are appropriate to give effect to the transactions and circumstances referred to therein.
Except as included therein, no historical or pro forma financial statements or supporting
schedules are required to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure
Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus under the 1933 Act or the 1933
Act Regulations. All disclosures contained in the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package or the Prospectus regarding “non-GAAP financial measures” (as such term
is defined by
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the rules and regulations of the Commission) comply with Regulation G of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”), and Item 10 of Regulation S-K of the 1933
Act, to the extent applicable.
(vii) No Material Adverse Change in Business. Except as otherwise stated
therein, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, (A) there has been no material
adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business
affairs, business prospects or management of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as
one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business (a “Material
Adverse Effect”), (B) there have been no transactions entered into by the Company or any of
its subsidiaries, other than those in the ordinary course of business, which are material
with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, and (C) there
has been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company on
any class of its capital stock.
(viii) Good Standing of the Company. The Company has been duly organized and
is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of
Delaware and has corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and
to conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus and to enter into and perform its obligations under this
Agreement; and the Company is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business
and is in good standing in each other jurisdiction in which such qualification is required,
whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except
where the failure so to qualify or to be in good standing would not result in a Material
Adverse Effect.
(ix) Good Standing of Subsidiaries. Each “significant subsidiary” of the
Company (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X) (each, a “Subsidiary” and,
collectively, the “Subsidiaries”) has been duly organized and is validly existing in good
standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, has
corporate or similar power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to
conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus and is duly qualified to transact business and is in good
standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of
the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure to
so qualify or to be in good standing would not result in a Material Adverse Effect. Except
as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of each Subsidiary has been duly
authorized and validly issued, is fully paid and non-assessable and is owned by the Company,
directly or through subsidiaries, free and clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge,
lien, encumbrance, claim or equity. None of the outstanding shares of capital stock of any
Subsidiary were issued in violation of the preemptive or similar rights of any
securityholder of such Subsidiary. The only subsidiaries of the Company are the
subsidiaries listed on Exhibit 21 to the Registration Statement.
(x) Capitalization. The authorized, issued and outstanding shares of capital
stock of the Company are as set forth in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus in the column entitled “Actual” under the caption
“Capitalization” (except for subsequent issuances, if any, pursuant to this Agreement,
pursuant to reservations, agreements or employee benefit plans referred to in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or pursuant to the
exercise of convertible securities or options referred to in the Registration Statement, the
General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus). The outstanding shares of capital stock of
the Company, including the Securities to be purchased by the
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Underwriters from the Selling Shareholders, have been duly authorized and validly
issued and are fully paid and non-assessable. None of the outstanding shares of capital
stock of the Company, including the Securities to be purchased by the Underwriters from the
Selling Shareholders, were issued in violation of the preemptive or other similar rights of
any securityholder of the Company.
(xi) Authorization of Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by the Company.
(xii) Authorization and Description of Securities. The Securities to be
purchased by the Underwriters from the Company have been duly authorized for issuance and
sale to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement and, when issued and delivered by the
Company pursuant to this Agreement against payment of the consideration set forth herein,
will be validly issued and fully paid and non-assessable; and the issuance of the Securities
is not subject to the preemptive or other similar rights of any securityholder of the
Company. The Common Stock conforms to all statements relating thereto contained in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and such
description conforms to the rights set forth in the instruments defining the same. No
holder of Securities will be subject to personal liability by reason of being such a holder.
(xiii) Registration Rights. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no persons with registration
rights or other similar rights to have any securities registered for sale pursuant to the
Registration Statement or otherwise registered for sale or sold by the Company under the
1933 Act pursuant to this Agreement, and any person with such registration rights or other
similar rights has agreed not to exercise such rights in connection with the transactions
contemplated under this Agreement and until after the expiration of the 180-day period from
the date of the Prospectus.
(xiv) Absence of Violations, Defaults and Conflicts. Neither the Company nor
any of its subsidiaries is (A) in violation of its charter, by-laws or similar
organizational document, (B) in default in the performance or observance of any obligation,
agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of
trust, loan or credit agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the
Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any of them may be bound or
to which any of the properties or assets of the Company or any subsidiary is subject
(collectively, “Agreements and Instruments”), except for such defaults that would not,
singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect, or (C) in violation of any
law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree of any arbitrator, court,
governmental body, regulatory body, administrative agency or other authority, body or agency
having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective
properties, assets or operations (each, a “Governmental Entity”), except for such violations
that would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect. The
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated herein and in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus (including the issuance and sale of the Securities and the use of
the proceeds from the sale of the Securities as described therein under the caption “Use of
Proceeds”) and compliance by the Company with its obligations hereunder have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate action and do not and will not, whether with or
without the giving of notice or passage of time or both, conflict with or constitute a
breach of, or default or Repayment Event (as defined below) under, or result in the creation
or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any properties or assets of the
Company or any subsidiary pursuant to, the Agreements and Instruments (except for such
conflicts, breaches, defaults or Repayment Events or liens, charges or encumbrances that
would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect),
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nor will such action result in any violation of the provisions of the charter, by-laws
or similar organizational document of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any law,
statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree of any Governmental Entity. As
used herein, a “Repayment Event” means any event or condition which gives the holder of any
note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s
behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of
such indebtedness by the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
(xv) Absence of Labor Dispute. No labor dispute with the employees of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent,
which would result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(xvi) Absence of Proceedings. Except as disclosed in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there is no action, suit,
proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or brought by any Governmental Entity now
pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, against or affecting the Company or
any of its subsidiaries, which might result in a Material Adverse Effect, or which might
materially and adversely affect their respective properties or assets or the consummation of
the transactions contemplated in this Agreement or the performance by the Company of its
obligations hereunder; and the aggregate of all pending legal or governmental proceedings to
which the Company or any such subsidiary is a party or of which any of their respective
properties or assets is the subject which are not described in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, including ordinary routine litigation
incidental to the business, could not result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(xvii) Accuracy of Exhibits. There are no contracts or documents which are
required to be described in the Registration Statement or to be filed as exhibits to the
Registration Statement which have not been so described and filed as required.
(xviii) Absence of Further Requirements. No filing with, or authorization,
approval, consent, license, order, registration, qualification or decree of, any
Governmental Entity is necessary or required for the performance by the Company of its
obligations hereunder, in connection with the offering, issuance or sale of the Securities
hereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except (A)
such as have been already obtained or as may be required under the 1933 Act, the 1933 Act
Regulations, the rules of the NASDAQ Stock Market LLC, state securities laws or the rules of
FINRA and (B) such as have been obtained under the laws and regulations of jurisdictions
outside the United States in which the Reserved Securities were offered.
(xix) Possession of Licenses and Permits. The Company and its subsidiaries
possess such permits, licenses, approvals, consents and other authorizations (collectively,
“Governmental Licenses”) issued by the appropriate Governmental Entities necessary to
conduct the business now operated by them, except where the failure so to possess would not,
singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and its
subsidiaries are in compliance with the terms and conditions of all Governmental Licenses,
except where the failure so to comply would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a
Material Adverse Effect. All of the Governmental Licenses are valid and in full force and
effect, except when the invalidity of such Governmental Licenses or the failure of such
Governmental Licenses to be in full force and effect would not, singly or in the aggregate,
result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has
received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any
Governmental Licenses which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable
decision, ruling or finding, would result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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(xx) Title to Property. The Company and its subsidiaries have good and
marketable title to all real property owned by them and good title to all other properties
owned by them, in each case, free and clear of all mortgages, pledges, liens, security
interests, claims, restrictions or encumbrances of any kind except such as (A) are described
in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or (B) do
not, singly or in the aggregate, materially affect the value of such property and do not
interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company or any
of its subsidiaries; and all of the leases and subleases material to the business of the
Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, and under which the Company or
any of its subsidiaries holds properties described in the Registration Statement, the
General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, are in full force and effect, and neither the
Company nor any such subsidiary has any notice of any claim of any sort that has been
asserted by anyone adverse to the rights of the Company or any subsidiary under any of the
leases or subleases mentioned above, or affecting or questioning the rights of the Company
or such subsidiary to the continued possession of the leased or subleased premises under any
such lease or sublease, which, singly or in the aggregate, would result in a Material
Adverse Effect.
(xxi) Possession of Intellectual Property. The Company and its subsidiaries
own or possess, or can acquire on reasonable terms, adequate patents, patent rights,
licenses, inventions, copyrights, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented
and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures),
trademarks, service marks, trade names or other intellectual property (collectively,
“Intellectual Property”) necessary to carry on the business now operated by them, and,
except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, neither the
Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any written notice or is otherwise aware of
any infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any
Intellectual Property or of any facts or circumstances which would render any Intellectual
Property invalid or inadequate to protect the interest of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries therein, and which infringement or conflict (if the subject of any unfavorable
decision, ruling or finding) or invalidity or inadequacy, singly or in the aggregate, would
result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(xxii) Environmental Laws. Except as described in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or would not, singly or in the aggregate,
result in a Material Adverse Effect, (A) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is
in violation of any federal, state, local or foreign statute, law, rule, regulation,
ordinance, code, policy or rule of common law or any judicial or administrative
interpretation thereof, including any judicial or administrative order, consent, decree or
judgment, relating to pollution or protection of human health, the environment (including,
without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface
strata) or wildlife, including, without limitation, laws and regulations relating to the
release or threatened release of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, wastes, toxic
substances, hazardous substances, petroleum or petroleum products, asbestos-containing
materials or mold (collectively, “Hazardous Materials”) or to the manufacture, processing,
distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous
Materials (collectively, “Environmental Laws”), (B) the Company and its subsidiaries have
all permits, authorizations and approvals required under any applicable Environmental Laws
and are each in compliance with their requirements, (C) there are no pending or, to the
knowledge of the Company, threatened administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits,
demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of noncompliance or violation, investigation
or proceedings relating to any Environmental Law against the Company or any of its
subsidiaries and (D) to the knowledge of the Company, there are no events or circumstances
that would form the basis of an order for clean-up or remediation, or an action, suit or
proceeding by any private party or
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Governmental Entity, against or affecting the Company or any of its subsidiaries
relating to Hazardous Materials or any Environmental Laws.
(xxiii) Accounting Controls. The Company and each of its subsidiaries maintain
effective internal control over financial reporting (as defined under Rule 13-a15 and 15d-15
under the rules and regulations of the Commission under the 1934 Act (the “1934 Act
Regulations”) and a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable
assurances that (A) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or
specific authorization; (B) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of
financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain accountability for assets; (C)
access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific
authorization; and (D) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing
assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any
differences. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus, since the end of the Company’s most recent audited fiscal year,
there has been (1) no material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting (whether or not remediated) and (2) no change in the Company’s internal control
over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially
affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
(xxiv) Compliance with the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act. The Company has taken all
necessary actions to ensure that, upon the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, it
will be in compliance with all provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and all rules
and regulations promulgated thereunder or implementing the provisions thereof (the
“Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act”) that are then in effect and with which the Company is required to
comply as of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, and is actively taking steps
to ensure that it will be in compliance with other provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act not
currently in effect, upon the effectiveness of such provisions, or which will become
applicable to the Company at all times after the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement.
(xxv) Payment of Taxes. All United States federal income tax returns of the
Company and its subsidiaries required by law to be filed have been filed and all taxes shown
by such returns or otherwise assessed, which are due and payable, have been paid, except
assessments against which appeals have been or will be promptly taken and as to which
adequate reserves have been provided and except where such failures would not result in a
Material Adverse Effect. The United States federal income tax returns of the Company through
the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010 have been settled and no assessment in connection
therewith has been made against the Company. The Company and its subsidiaries have filed all
other tax returns that are required to have been filed by them pursuant to applicable
foreign, state, local or other law except insofar as the failure to file such returns would
not result in a Material Adverse Effect, and has paid all taxes due pursuant to such returns
or pursuant to any assessment received by the Company and its subsidiaries, except for such
taxes, if any, as are being contested in good faith and as to which adequate reserves have
been established by the Company. The charges, accruals and reserves on the books of the
Company in respect of any income and corporation tax liability for any years not finally
determined are adequate to meet any assessments or re-assessments for additional income tax
for any years not finally determined, except to the extent of any inadequacy that would not
result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(xxvi) Insurance. The Company and its subsidiaries carry or are entitled to
the benefits of insurance, with reputable insurers, in such amounts and covering such risks
that the Company believes are adequate, and all such insurance is in full force and effect,
except as would not result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Company has no reason to
believe that it or any of its
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subsidiaries will not be able (A) to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when
such policies expire or (B) to obtain comparable coverage from similar institutions as may
be necessary or appropriate to conduct its business as now conducted and at a cost that
would not result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither of the Company nor any of its
subsidiaries has been denied any insurance coverage which it has sought or for which it has
applied.
(xxvii) Investment Company Act. The Company is not required, and upon the
issuance and sale of the Securities as herein contemplated and the application of the net
proceeds therefrom as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus will not be required, to register as an “investment company”
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).
(xxviii) Absence of Manipulation. Neither the Company nor any affiliate of the
Company has taken, nor will the Company or any affiliate take, directly or indirectly, any
action which is designed, or would reasonably be expected, to cause or result in, or which
constitutes, the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company
to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities or to result in a violation of Regulation
M under the 1934 Act.
(xxix) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. None of the Company, any of its
subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee,
affiliate or other person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is
aware of or has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that would result in a violation
by such persons of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and
regulations thereunder (the “FCPA”), including, without limitation, making use of the mails
or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of an offer,
payment, promise to pay or authorization of the payment of any money, or other property,
gift, promise to give, or authorization of the giving of anything of value to any “foreign
official” (as such term is defined in the FCPA) or any foreign political party or official
thereof or any candidate for foreign political office, in contravention of the FCPA and the
Company and its subsidiaries have conducted their businesses in compliance with the FCPA and
have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to ensure, and which are
reasonably expected to continue to ensure, continued compliance therewith.
(xxx) Money Laundering Laws. The operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable
financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions
Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions, the
rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or
guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any Governmental Entity (collectively, the
“Money Laundering Laws”); and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any Governmental
Entity involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering
Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.
(xxxi) OFAC. None of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or, to the knowledge
of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee, affiliate or other person acting on
behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is currently the subject of any U.S.
sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury
Department (“OFAC”); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the
sale of the Securities, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any
of its subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other person, for the purpose of financing
the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.
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(xxxii) Sales of Reserved Securities. In connection with any offer and sale of
Reserved Securities outside the United States, each preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus,
any prospectus wrapper and any amendment or supplement thereto, at the time it was filed,
complied and will comply in all material respects with any applicable laws or regulations of
foreign jurisdictions in which the same is distributed. The Company has not offered, or
caused the Representatives to offer, Reserved Securities to any person with the specific
intent to unlawfully influence (i) a customer or supplier of the Company or any of its
affiliates to alter the customer’s or supplier’s level or type of business with any such
entity or (ii) a trade journalist or publication to write or publish favorable information
about the Company or any of its affiliates, or their respective businesses or products.
(xxxiii) Lending Relationship. Except as disclosed in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company (i) does not have
any material lending or other relationship with any bank or lending affiliate of any
Underwriter and (ii) does not intend to use any of the proceeds from the sale of the
Securities to repay any outstanding debt owed to any affiliate of any Underwriter.
(xxxiv) Statistical and Market-Related Data. Any statistical and
market-related data included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package
or the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the Company believes, after
reasonable inquiry, to be reliable and accurate and, to the extent required, the Company has
obtained the written consent to the use of such data from such sources.
(b) Representations and Warranties by the Selling Shareholders. Each Selling Shareholder
severally represents and warrants to each Underwriter as of the date hereof, as of the Applicable
Time and as of the Closing Time, and agrees with each Underwriter, as follows:
(i) Accurate Disclosure. Neither the Registration Statement nor any amendments
thereto includes any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; and none of the General
Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or any amendments or supplements thereto includes any
untrue statement of a material fact 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, provided that, solely with respect to the Selling Shareholders listed on
Schedule B hereto that are not officers or directors of the Company, such
representations and warranties set forth in this subsection (b)(i) apply only to statements
or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to such
Selling Shareholder furnished in writing by or on behalf of such Selling Shareholder
expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the
Prospectus or any other Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any amendment or supplement
thereto (the “Selling Shareholder Information”); such Selling Shareholder is not prompted to
sell the Securities to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder by any information
concerning the Company or any subsidiary of the Company which is not set forth in the
General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus.
(ii) Authorization of this Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by or on behalf of such Selling Shareholder.
(iii) Authorization of Power of Attorney and Custody Agreement. The Power of
Attorney and Custody Agreement, in the form heretofore furnished to the Representatives (the
“Power of Attorney and Custody Agreement”), appointing Xxxxx Xxxxxx and Xxxxxxxx Sheer, and
each of them, as each Selling Shareholder’s Attorney-in-Fact (the “Attorney-in-Fact”), has
been
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duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Selling Shareholder and is the valid
and binding agreement of such Selling Shareholder.
(iv) Noncontravention. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the
Power of Attorney and Custody Agreement and the sale and delivery of the Securities to be
sold by such Selling Shareholder and the consummation of the transactions contemplated
herein and compliance by such Selling Shareholder with its obligations hereunder do not and
will not, whether with or without the giving of notice or passage of time or both, (i)
conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default under, or result in the creation or
imposition of any tax, lien, charge or encumbrance upon the Securities to be sold by such
Selling Shareholder or any property or assets of such Selling Shareholder pursuant to any
contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit agreement, note, license, lease
or other agreement or instrument to which such Selling Shareholder is a party or by which
such Selling Shareholder may be bound, or to which any of the property or assets of such
Selling Shareholder is subject, (ii) result in any violation of the provisions of the
charter or by-laws or other organizational instrument of such Selling Shareholder, if
applicable, or (iii) result in any violation of, or breach under, any applicable treaty,
law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree of any government,
government instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over such
Selling Shareholder or any of its properties; except, with respect to clauses (i) and (iii),
for such conflicts, breaches, defaults, liens, charges, encumbrances or violations that
would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the ability of such
Selling Shareholder to execute and deliver this Agreement and the Power of Attorney and
Custody Agreement, sell and deliver the Securities to be sold by such Selling Shareholder or
consummate the transactions contemplated by, and comply with its obligations under, this
Agreement.
(v) Valid Title. Such Selling Shareholder has, and at the Closing Time will
have, valid title to the Securities to be sold by such Selling Shareholder free and clear of
all security interests, claims, liens, equities or other encumbrances and the legal right
and power, and all authorization and approval required by law, to enter into this Agreement
and the Power of Attorney and Custody Agreement and to sell, transfer and deliver the
Securities to be sold by such Selling Shareholder.
(vi) Delivery of Securities. Upon payment of the purchase price for the
Securities to be sold by such Selling Shareholder pursuant to this Agreement, delivery of
such Securities, as directed by the Underwriters, to Cede & Co. (“Cede”) or such other
nominee as may be designated by The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), registration of such
Securities in the name of Cede or such other nominee, and the crediting of such Securities
on the books of DTC to securities accounts (within the meaning of Section 8-501(a) of the
UCC) of the Underwriters (assuming that neither DTC nor any such Underwriter has notice of
any “adverse claim,” within the meaning of Section 8-105 of the Uniform Commercial Code then
in effect in the State of New York (“UCC”), to such Securities), (A) under Section 8-501 of
the UCC, the Underwriters will acquire a valid “security entitlement” in respect of such
Securities and (B) no action (whether framed in conversion, replevin, constructive trust,
equitable lien, or other theory) based on any “adverse claim,” within the meaning of Section
8-102 of the UCC, to such Securities may be asserted against the Underwriters with respect
to such security entitlement; for purposes of this representation, such Selling Shareholder
may assume that when such payment, delivery and crediting occur, (I) such Securities will
have been registered in the name of Cede or another nominee designated by DTC, in each case
on the Company’s share registry in accordance with its certificate of incorporation, bylaws
and applicable law, (II) DTC will be registered as a “clearing corporation,” within the
meaning of Section 8-102 of the UCC, (III) appropriate entries to the accounts of the
several Underwriters on the records of DTC will have been made pursuant to the
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UCC, (IV) to the extent DTC, or any other securities intermediary which acts as
“clearing corporation” with respect to the Securities, maintains any “financial asset” (as
defined in Section 8-102(a)(9) of the UCC in a clearing corporation pursuant to Section
8-111 of the UCC, the rules of such clearing corporation may affect the rights of DTC or
such securities intermediaries and the ownership interest of the Underwriters, (V) claims of
creditors of DTC or any other securities intermediary or clearing corporation may be given
priority to the extent set forth in Section 8-511(b) and 8-511(c) of the UCC and (VI) if at
any time DTC or other securities intermediary does not have sufficient Securities to satisfy
claims of all of its entitlement holders with respect thereto then all holders will share
pro rata in the Securities then held by DTC or such securities intermediary.
(vii) Absence of Manipulation. Such Selling Shareholder has not taken, and
will not take, directly or indirectly, any action which is designed to or which has
constituted or would cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any
security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities.
(viii) Absence of Further Requirements. No filing with, or consent, approval,
authorization, order, registration, qualification or decree of any arbitrator, court,
governmental body, regulatory body, administrative agency or other authority, body or
agency, domestic or foreign, is necessary or required for the performance by each Selling
Shareholder of its obligations hereunder or in the Power of Attorney and Custody Agreement,
or in connection with the sale and delivery of the Securities hereunder or the consummation
of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except (A) such as have been already
obtained or as may be required under the 1933 Act, the 1933 Act Regulations, the rules of
the NASDAQ Stock Market LLC, state securities laws or the rules of FINRA and (B) such as
have been obtained under the laws and regulations of jurisdictions outside the United States
in which the Reserved Securities were offered.
(ix) No Registration or Other Similar Rights. Except as disclosed in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, such Selling
Shareholder does not have any registration rights or other similar rights to have any
securities registered for sale by the Company under the Registration Statement or included
in the offering contemplated by this Agreement, and such Selling Shareholder with such
registration rights or other similar rights has agreed not to exercise such rights in
connection with the transactions contemplated under this Agreement and until after the
expiration of the 180-day period from the date of the Prospectus.
(x) No Free Writing Prospectuses. Such Selling Shareholder has not prepared or
had prepared on its behalf or used or referred to, any “free writing prospectus” (as defined
in Rule 405), and has not distributed any written materials in connection with the offer or
sale of the Securities.
(xi) No Association with FINRA. Neither such Selling Shareholder nor any of
his, her or its affiliates directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries,
controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with any member firm of FINRA or
is a person associated with a member (within the meaning of the FINRA By-Laws) of FINRA.
(c) Officer’s Certificates. Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company or any of
its subsidiaries delivered to the Representatives or to counsel for the Underwriters shall be
deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to each Underwriter as to the matters covered
thereby; and any certificate signed by or on behalf of the Selling Shareholders delivered to the
Representatives or to
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counsel for the Underwriters pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall be deemed a
representation and warranty by such Selling Shareholder to the Underwriters as to the matters
covered thereby.
SECTION 2. Sale and Delivery to Underwriters; Closing.
(a) Initial Securities. On the basis of the representations and warranties herein contained
and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company and each Selling Shareholder,
severally and not jointly, agree to sell to each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, and each
Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees to purchase from the Company and each Selling
Shareholder, at the price per share set forth in Schedule A, that proportion of the number
of Initial Securities set forth in Schedule B opposite the name of the Company or such
Selling Shareholder, as the case may be, which the number of Initial Securities set forth in
Schedule A opposite the name of such Underwriter, plus any additional number of Initial
Securities which such Underwriter may become obligated to purchase pursuant to the provisions of
Section 10 hereof, bears to the total number of Initial Securities, subject, in each case, to such
adjustments among the Underwriters as the Representatives in their sole discretion shall make to
eliminate any sales or purchases of fractional shares.
(b) Option Securities. In addition, on the basis of the representations and warranties herein
contained and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company hereby grants an
option to the Underwriters, severally and not jointly, to purchase up to an additional [•] shares
of Common Stock, at the price per share set forth in Schedule A, less an amount per share
equal to any dividends or distributions declared by the Company and payable on the Initial
Securities but not payable on the Option Securities. The option hereby granted may be exercised
for 30 days after the date hereof and may be exercised in whole or in part from time to time only
for the purpose of covering overallotments made in connection with the offering and distribution of
the Initial Securities upon notice by the Representatives to the Company setting forth the number
of Option Securities as to which the several Underwriters are then exercising the option and the
time and date of payment and delivery for such Option Securities. Any such time and date of
delivery (a “Date of Delivery”) shall be determined by the Representatives, but shall not be later
than seven full business days after the exercise of said option, nor in any event prior to the
Closing Time. If the option is exercised as to all or any portion of the Option Securities, each
of the Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly, will purchase that proportion of the total
number of Option Securities then being purchased which the number of Initial Securities set forth
in Schedule A opposite the name of such Underwriter bears to the total number of Initial
Securities, subject, in each case, to such adjustments as the Representatives in their sole
discretion shall make to eliminate any sales or purchases of fractional shares.
(c) Payment. Payment of the purchase price for, and delivery of certificates for, the Initial
Securities shall be made at the offices of Xxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, 450 Lexington Avenue, New
York, New York, or at such other place as shall be agreed upon by the Representatives, the Company
and the Selling Shareholders, at 9:00 A.M. (New York City time) on [•], 2011 (unless postponed in
accordance with the provisions of Section 10), or such other time not later than ten business days
after such date as shall be agreed upon by the Representatives, the Company and the Selling
Shareholders (such time and date of payment and delivery being herein called “Closing Time”).
In addition, in the event that any or all of the Option Securities are purchased by the
Underwriters, payment of the purchase price for, and delivery of certificates for, such Option
Securities shall be made at the above-mentioned offices of Xxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, or at such
other place as shall be agreed upon by the Representatives and the Company, on each Date of
Delivery as specified in the notice from the Representatives to the Company.
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Payment shall be made to the Company and the Selling Shareholders by wire transfer of
immediately available funds to the bank accounts designated by the Company and American Stock
Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, as the Custodian (the “Custodian”) specified and duly appointed in
each Selling Shareholder’s Power of Attorney and Custody Agreement, as the case may be, against
delivery to the Representatives for the respective accounts of the Underwriters of certificates for
the Securities to be purchased by them. It is understood that each Underwriter has authorized the
Representatives, for its account, to accept delivery of, receipt for, and make payment of the
purchase price for, the Initial Securities and the Option Securities, if any, which it has agreed
to purchase. The Representatives, individually and not as representative of the Underwriters, may
(but shall not be obligated to) make payment of the purchase price for the Initial Securities or
the Option Securities, if any, to be purchased by any Underwriter whose funds have not been
received by the Closing Time or the relevant Date of Delivery, as the case may be, but such payment
shall not relieve such Underwriter from its obligations hereunder.
(d) Denominations; Registration. Certificates for the Initial Securities and the Option
Securities, if any, shall be in such denominations and registered in such names as the
Representatives may request in writing at least one full business day before the Closing Time or
the relevant Date of Delivery, as the case may be. The certificates for the Initial Securities and
the Option Securities, if any, will be made available for examination and packaging by the
Representatives in The City of New York not later than 10:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the
business day prior to the Closing Time or the relevant Date of Delivery, as the case may be.
SECTION 3. Covenants of the Company and the Selling Shareholders. The Company and the
Selling Shareholders covenant with each Underwriter as follows:
(a) Compliance with Securities Regulations and Commission Requests. The Company, subject to
Section 3(b), will comply with the requirements of Rule 430A, and will notify the Representatives
promptly, and confirm the notice in writing, (i) when any post-effective amendment to the
Registration Statement shall become effective or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus
shall have been filed, (ii) of the receipt of any comments from the Commission, (iii) of any
request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or
supplement to the Prospectus or for additional information, (iv) of the issuance by the Commission
of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective
amendment or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus or the
Prospectus, or of the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale in any
jurisdiction, or of the initiation or threatening of any proceedings for any of such purposes or of
any examination pursuant to Section 8(d) or 8(e) of the 1933 Act concerning the Registration
Statement and (v) if the Company becomes the subject of a proceeding under Section 8A of the 1933
Act in connection with the offering of the Securities. The Company will effect all filings
required under Rule 424(b), in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b)
(without reliance on Rule 424(b)(8)), and will take such steps as it deems necessary to ascertain
promptly whether the form of prospectus transmitted for filing under Rule 424(b) was received for
filing by the Commission and, in the event that it was not, it will promptly file such prospectus.
The Company will use its reasonable efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop order, prevention
or suspension and, if any such order is issued, to obtain the lifting thereof promptly thereafter.
(b) Continued Compliance with Securities Laws. The Company will comply with the 1933 Act and
the 1933 Act Regulations so as to permit the completion of the distribution of the Securities as
contemplated in this Agreement and in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package
and the Prospectus. If at any time when a prospectus relating to the Securities is (or, but for
the exception afforded by Rule 172 of the 1933 Act Regulations (“Rule 172”), would be) required by
the 1933 Act to be delivered in connection with sales of the Securities, any event shall occur or
condition shall exist as a
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result of which it is necessary, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters or for the
Company, to (i) amend the Registration Statement in order that the Registration Statement will not
include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (ii) amend or supplement
the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus in order that the General Disclosure Package or
the Prospectus, as the case may be, 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 light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading in light of the circumstances existing at
the time it is delivered to a purchaser or (iii) amend the Registration Statement or amend or
supplement the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, as the case may be, in order to comply
with the requirements of the 1933 Act or the 1933 Act Regulations, the Company will promptly (A)
give the Representatives notice of such event, (B) prepare any amendment or supplement as may be
necessary to correct such statement or omission or to make the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package or the Prospectus comply with such requirements and, a reasonable amount of time
prior to any proposed filing or use, furnish the Representatives with copies of any such amendment
or supplement and (C) file with the Commission any such amendment or supplement; provided that the
Company shall not file or use any such amendment or supplement to which the Representatives or
counsel for the Underwriters shall reasonably object. The Company will furnish to the Underwriters
such number of copies of such amendment or supplement as the Underwriters may reasonably request.
The Company has given the Representatives notice of any filings made pursuant to the 1934 Act or
1934 Act Regulations within 48 hours prior to the Applicable Time; the Company will give the
Representatives notice of its intention to make any such filing from the Applicable Time to the
Closing Time and will furnish the Representatives with copies of any such documents a reasonable
amount of time prior to such proposed filing, as the case may be, and will not file or use any such
document to which the Representatives or counsel for the Underwriters shall reasonably object.
(c) Delivery of Registration Statements. The Company has furnished or will deliver upon
request to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, without charge, conformed copies
of the Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment thereto (including exhibits
filed therewith) and facsimile signed copies of all consents and certificates of experts, and will
also deliver upon request to the Representatives, without charge, a conformed copy of the
Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment thereto (without exhibits) for each
of the Underwriters. The copies of the Registration Statement and each amendment thereto furnished
to the Underwriters will be identical to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with
the Commission pursuant to XXXXX, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.
(d) Delivery of Prospectuses. The Company has delivered to each Underwriter, without charge,
as many copies of each preliminary prospectus as such Underwriter reasonably requested, and the
Company hereby consents to the use of such copies for purposes permitted by the 1933 Act. The
Company will furnish to each Underwriter, without charge, during the period when a prospectus
relating to the Securities is (or, but for the exception afforded by Rule 172, would be) required
to be delivered under the 1933 Act, such number of copies of the Prospectus (as amended or
supplemented) as such Underwriter may reasonably request. The Prospectus and any amendments or
supplements thereto furnished to the Underwriters will be identical to the electronically
transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to XXXXX, except to the extent
permitted by Regulation S-T.
(e) Blue Sky Qualifications. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts, in cooperation
with the Underwriters, if necessary, to qualify the Securities for offering and sale under the
applicable securities laws of such states and other jurisdictions (domestic or foreign) as the
Representatives may designate and to maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required to
complete the distribution of the Securities; 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
or as a dealer in securities in any jurisdiction in
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which it is not so qualified or to subject itself to taxation in respect of doing business in
any jurisdiction in which it is not otherwise so subject.
(f) Rule 158. The Company will timely file such reports pursuant to the 1934 Act as are
necessary in order to make generally available to its securityholders as soon as practicable an
earnings statement for the purposes of, and to provide to the Underwriters the benefits
contemplated by, the last paragraph of Section 11(a) of the 1933 Act.
(g) Use of Proceeds. The Company will use the net proceeds received by it from the sale of
the Securities in the manner specified in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus under “Use of Proceeds.”
(h) Listing. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to effect and maintain the
listing of the Common Stock (including the Securities) on the Nasdaq Global Market.
(i) Restriction on Sale of Securities. During a period of 180 days from the date of the
Prospectus, the Company will not, without the prior written consent of the Representatives, (i)
directly or indirectly, offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to
purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase
or otherwise transfer or dispose of any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into
or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock or file any registration statement under the 1933
Act with respect to any of the foregoing or (ii) enter into any swap or any other agreement or any
transaction that transfers, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, the economic consequence
of ownership of the Common Stock, whether any such swap or 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 foregoing sentence shall not apply to (A) the Securities to be sold hereunder, (B)
any shares of Common Stock issued by the Company upon the exercise of an option or warrant or the
conversion of a security outstanding on the date hereof and referred to in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (C) any shares of Common Stock issued
or options to purchase Common Stock granted pursuant to existing employee benefit plans of the
Company and equity incentive plans adopted by the Company in connection with the public offering
referred to in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or (D)
any shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to any non-employee director stock plan or dividend
reinvestment plan referred to in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if (1) during the last 17 days of the 180-day
restricted period the Company issues an earnings release or material news or a material event
relating to the Company occurs or (2) prior to the expiration of the 180-day restricted period, the
Company announces that it will issue an earnings release or becomes aware that material news or a
material event will occur during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the 180-day
restricted period, the restrictions imposed in this clause (i) shall continue to apply until the
expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the date of the issuance of the earnings release or
the occurrence of the material news or material event, unless the Representatives waive, in
writing, such extension. Nothing in this Section 3(i) shall prevent the Company from filing any
registration statement on Form S-8 relating to employee benefit plans.
(j) Reporting Requirements. The Company, during the period when a Prospectus relating to the
Securities is (or, but for the exception afforded by Rule 172, would be) required to be delivered
under the 1933 Act, will file all documents required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to
the 1934 Act within the time periods required by the 1934 Act and 1934 Act Regulations.
Additionally, the Company shall report the use of proceeds from the issuance of the Shares as may
be required under Rule 463 under the 1933 Act.
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(k) Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses. The Company and each Selling Shareholder agree that,
unless it obtains the prior written consent of the Representatives, it will not make any offer
relating to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or that would
otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus,” or a portion thereof, required to be filed by the
Company with the Commission or retained by the Company under Rule 433; provided that the
Representatives will be deemed to have consented to the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses listed on
Schedule C-2 hereto and any “road show that is a written communication” within the meaning
of Rule 433(d)(8)(i) that has been reviewed by the Representatives. Each of the Company and the
Selling Shareholders represents that it has treated or agrees that it will treat each such free
writing prospectus consented to, or deemed consented to, by the Representatives as an “issuer free
writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433, and that it has complied and will comply with the
applicable requirements of Rule 433 with respect thereto, including timely filing with the
Commission where required, legending and record keeping. If at any time following issuance of an
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus there occurred or occurs an event or development as a result of
which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or would conflict with the information
contained in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus or included
or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit to state a
material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances
existing at that subsequent time, not misleading, the Company will promptly notify the
Representatives and will promptly amend or supplement, at its own expense, such Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict, untrue statement or omission.
(l) Compliance with FINRA Rules. The Company hereby agrees that it will ensure that the
Reserved Securities will be restricted as required by FINRA or the FINRA rules from sale, transfer,
assignment, pledge or hypothecation for a period of three months following the date of this
Agreement. The Underwriters will notify the Company as to which persons will need to be so
restricted. At the request of the Underwriters, the Company will direct the transfer agent to
place a stop transfer restriction upon such securities for such period of time. Should the Company
release, or seek to release, from such restrictions any of the Reserved Securities, the Company
agrees to reimburse the Underwriters for any reasonable expenses (including, without limitation,
legal expenses) they incur in connection with such release.
SECTION 4. Payment of Expenses.
(a) Expenses. The Company and the Selling Shareholders will pay or cause to be paid all
expenses incident to the performance of their obligations under this Agreement, including (i) the
preparation, printing and filing of the Registration Statement (including financial statements and
exhibits) as originally filed and each amendment thereto, (ii) the preparation, printing and
delivery to the Underwriters of copies of each preliminary prospectus, each Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto and any costs associated
with electronic delivery of any of the foregoing by the Underwriters to investors, (iii) the
preparation, issuance and delivery of the certificates for the Securities to the Underwriters,
including any stock or other transfer taxes and any stamp or other duties payable upon the sale,
issuance or delivery of the Securities to the Underwriters, (iv) the fees and disbursements of the
Company’s counsel, accountants and other advisors, (v) the qualification of the Securities under
securities laws in accordance with the provisions of Section 3(e) hereof (vi) the fees and expenses
of any transfer agent or registrar for the Securities, (vii) the costs and expenses of the Company
relating to investor presentations on any “road show” undertaken in connection with the marketing
of the Securities, including without limitation, expenses associated with the production of road
show slides and graphics, fees and expenses of any consultants engaged in connection with the road
show presentations, travel and lodging expenses of the representatives and officers of the Company
and any such consultants (provided that the travel and lodging expenses of representatives of the
Underwriters shall be paid for by the Underwriters), and 50% of the cost of aircraft and other
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transportation chartered in connection with the road show, (viii) the filing fees incident to
the review by FINRA of the terms of the sale of the Securities, (ix) the reasonable fees and
disbursements of counsel to the Underwriters in connection with the review by FINRA of the terms of
the sale of the Securities, the qualification of the Securities under securities laws in accordance
with the provisions of Section 3(e) hereof and the preparation of any Blue Sky Survey and any
supplement thereto (not to exceed $90,000 in the aggregate), (x) the fees and expenses incurred in
connection with the listing of the Securities on the Nasdaq Global Market, (xi) the costs and
expenses (including, without limitation, any damages or other amounts payable in connection with
legal or contractual liability) associated with the reforming of any contracts for sale of the
Securities made by the Underwriters caused by a breach of the representation contained in the third
sentence of Section 1(a)(ii) and (xii) all costs and expenses of the Underwriters, including the
fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters, in connection with matters related to the
Reserved Securities which are designated by the Company for sale to Invitees.
(b) Expenses of the Selling Shareholders. The Selling Shareholders, severally and not
jointly, will pay all expenses incident to the performance of their respective obligations under,
and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by, this Agreement, including (i) any stamp
and other duties and stock and other transfer taxes, if any, payable upon the sale of the
Securities to the Underwriters and their transfer between the Underwriters pursuant to an agreement
between such Underwriters and (ii) the fees and disbursements of their respective counsel and other
advisors.
(c) Termination of Agreement. If this Agreement is terminated by the Representatives in
accordance with the provisions of Section 5, Section 9(a)(i) or (iii), Section 10 or Section 11
hereof, the Company and the Selling Shareholders shall reimburse the Underwriters for all of their
reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of
counsel for the Underwriters.
(d) Allocation of Expenses. The provisions of this Section shall not affect any agreement
that the Company and the Selling Shareholders may make among themselves for the sharing or
allocation of such costs and expenses.
SECTION 5. Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several
Underwriters hereunder are subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the
Company and the Selling Shareholders contained herein or in certificates of any officer of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries or on behalf of any Selling Shareholder delivered pursuant to
the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company and each Selling Shareholder of their
respective covenants and other obligations hereunder, and to the following further conditions:
(a) Effectiveness of Registration Statement; Rule 430A Information. The Registration
Statement, including any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, has become effective and, at the
Closing Time, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any
post-effective amendment thereto shall have been issued under the 1933 Act, no order preventing or
suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus shall have been issued and no
proceedings for any of those purposes have been instituted or be pending or, to the Company’s
knowledge, contemplated; and the Company has complied with each request (if any) from the
Commission for additional information. A prospectus containing the Rule 430A Information shall
have been filed with the Commission in the manner and within the time frame required by Rule 424(b)
without reliance on Rule 424(b)(8) or a post-effective amendment providing such information shall
have been filed with, and declared effective by, the Commission in accordance with the requirements
of Rule 430A.
(b) Opinion of Counsel for Company. At the Closing Time, the Representatives shall have
received the favorable opinion, dated the Closing Time, of Xxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the
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Company, in form and substance satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters, together with
signed or reproduced copies of such letter for each of the other Underwriters to the effect set
forth in Exhibit A hereto and to such further effect as counsel to the Underwriters may
reasonably request.
(c) Opinion of Counsel for the Selling Shareholders. At the Closing Time, the Representatives
shall have received the favorable opinion, dated the Closing Time, of Xxxxx & Lardner LLP, counsel
for the Selling Shareholders, in form and substance satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters,
together with signed or reproduced copies of such letter for each of the other Underwriters to the
effect set forth in Exhibit B hereto and to such further effect as counsel to the
Underwriters may reasonably request.
(d) Opinion of Counsel for Underwriters. At the Closing Time, the Representatives shall have
received the favorable opinion, dated the Closing Time, of Xxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for
the Underwriters, together with signed or reproduced copies of such letter for each of the other
Underwriters, with respect to such matters as the Representatives may require. In giving such
opinion such counsel may rely, as to all matters governed by the laws of jurisdictions other than
the law of the State of New York, the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and the
federal securities laws of the United States, upon the opinions of counsel satisfactory to the
Representatives. Such counsel may also state that, insofar as such opinion involves factual
matters, they have relied, to the extent they deem proper, upon certificates of officers and other
representatives of the Company and its subsidiaries and certificates of public officials.
(e) Officers’ Certificate. At the Closing Time, there shall not have been, since the date
hereof or since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, any Material Adverse Effect, and the
Representatives shall have received a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer or the President
of the Company and of the chief financial or chief accounting officer of the Company, dated the
Closing Time, to the effect that (i) there has been no such Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the
representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct with the same
force and effect as though expressly made at and as of the Closing Time, (iii) the Company has
complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied
at or prior to the Closing Time, and (iv) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement under the 1933 Act has been issued, no order preventing or suspending the
use of any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus has been issued and no proceedings for any of
those purposes have been instituted or are pending or, to their knowledge, contemplated.
(f) Certificate of Selling Shareholders. At the Closing Time, the Representatives shall have
received a certificate of the Attorney-in-Fact on behalf of each Selling Shareholder, dated the
Closing Time, to the effect that (i) the representations and warranties of each Selling Shareholder
in this Agreement are true and correct with the same force and effect as though expressly made at
and as of the Closing Time and (ii) each Selling Shareholder has complied with all agreements and
all conditions on its part to be performed under this Agreement at or prior to the Closing Time.
(g) Accountant’s Comfort Letter. At the time of the execution of this Agreement, the
Representatives shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a letter, dated such date, in form and
substance satisfactory to the Representatives, together with signed or reproduced copies of such
letter for each of the other Underwriters containing statements and information of the type
ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial
statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
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(h) Bring-down Comfort Letter. At the Closing Time, the Representatives shall have received
from Ernst & Young LLP a letter, dated as of the Closing Time, to the effect that they reaffirm the
statements made in the letter furnished pursuant to subsection (g) of this Section, except that the
“cut-off date” referred to shall be a date not more than three business days prior to the Closing
Time.
(i) Approval of Listing. At the Closing Time, the Securities shall have been approved for
listing on the Nasdaq Global Market, subject only to official notice of issuance.
(j) No Objection. FINRA has confirmed that it has not raised any objection with respect to
the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements relating to the offering
of the Securities.
(k) Lock-up Agreements. Prior to the date of this Agreement, the Representatives shall have
received an agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto signed by the persons
listed on Schedule D hereto.
(l) Power of Attorney and Custody Agreement. At or prior to the date of this Agreement, the
Selling Shareholders shall have entered into the Power of Attorney and Custody Agreement and the
Representatives shall have received executed counterparts thereof.
(m) Tax Forms. The Representatives shall have received from each Selling Shareholder, at or
prior the Closing Time, a copy of a properly completed and executed Internal Revenue Service Form
W-9 or W-8, as applicable, together with all required attachments to such form (or other applicable
form or statement specified by United States Treasury Department regulations in lieu thereof).
(n) Form 1099. The Custodian shall have delivered to the Representatives a letter stating
that it will deliver to each Selling Shareholder a United States Treasury Department Form 1099 (or
other applicable form or statement specified by the United States Treasury Department regulations
in lieu thereof) on or before January 31 of the year following the date of this Agreement.
(o) Conditions to Purchase of Option Securities. In the event that the Underwriters exercise
their option provided in Section 2(b) hereof to purchase all or any portion of the Option
Securities, the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein and the statements
in any certificates furnished by the Company and any of its subsidiaries hereunder shall be true
and correct as of each Date of Delivery and, at the relevant Date of Delivery, the Representatives
shall have received:
(i) Officers’ Certificate. A certificate, dated such Date of Delivery, of the
President or a Vice President of the Company and of the chief financial or chief accounting
officer of the Company confirming that the certificate delivered at the Closing Time
pursuant to Section 5(e) hereof remains true and correct as of such Date of Delivery.
(ii) Opinion of Counsel for Company. If requested by the Representatives, the
favorable opinion of Xxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, in form and substance
satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters, dated such Date of Delivery, relating to the
Option Securities to be purchased on such Date of Delivery and otherwise to the same effect
as the opinion required by Section 5(b) hereof.
(iii) Opinion of Counsel for Underwriters. If requested by the
Representatives, the favorable opinion of Xxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the
Underwriters, dated such Date of Delivery, relating to the Option Securities to be purchased
on such Date of Delivery and otherwise to the same effect as the opinion required by Section
5(d) hereof.
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(iv) Bring-down Comfort Letter. If requested by the Representatives, a letter
from Ernst & Young LLP, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives and dated
such Date of Delivery, substantially in the same form and substance as the letter furnished
to the Representatives pursuant to Section 5(h) hereof, except that the “cut-off date” in
the letter furnished pursuant to this paragraph shall be a date not more than three business
days prior to such Date of Delivery.
(p) Additional Documents. At the Closing Time and at each Date of Delivery (if any) counsel
for the Underwriters shall have been furnished with such documents and opinions as they may require
for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Securities as herein
contemplated, or in order to evidence the accuracy of any of the representations or warranties, or
the fulfillment of any of the conditions, herein contained; and all proceedings taken by the
Company and the Selling Shareholders in connection with the issuance and sale of the Securities as
herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives and counsel
for the Underwriters.
(q) Termination of Agreement. If any condition specified in this Section shall not have been
fulfilled when and as required to be fulfilled, this Agreement, or, in the case of any condition to
the purchase of Option Securities on a Date of Delivery which is after the Closing Time, the
obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase the relevant Option Securities, may be
terminated by the Representatives by notice to the Company at any time at or prior to Closing Time
or such Date of Delivery, as the case may be, and such termination shall be without liability of
any party to any other party except as provided in Section 4 and except that Sections 1, 6, 7, 8,
15 and 16 shall survive any such termination and remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 6. Indemnification.
(a) Indemnification of Underwriters. The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each
Underwriter, its affiliates (as such term is defined in Rule 501(b) under the 1933 Act (each, an
“Affiliate”)), its selling agents and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the
meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act as follows:
(i) against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever, as
incurred, arising out of any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact
contained in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), including the Rule 430A
Information, or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or arising out of
any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact included (A) in any
preliminary prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package
or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), or (B) in any materials or
information provided to investors by, or with the approval of, the Company in connection
with the marketing of the offering of the Stock (“Marketing Materials”), including any
roadshow or investor presentations made to investors by the Company (whether in person or
electronically), or the omission or alleged omission in any preliminary prospectus, Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus, Prospectus or in any Marketing Materials of a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which
they were made, not misleading;
(ii) against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever, as
incurred, to the extent of the aggregate amount paid in settlement of any litigation, or any
investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or
of any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such
alleged
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untrue statement or omission; provided that (subject to Section 6(e) below) any such
settlement is effected with the written consent of the Company and the Selling Shareholders;
(iii) against any and all expense whatsoever, as incurred (including the fees and
disbursements of counsel chosen by the Representatives), reasonably incurred in
investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any investigation or
proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim
whatsoever based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue
statement or omission, to the extent that any such expense is not paid under (i) or (ii)
above;
provided, however, that this indemnity agreement shall not apply to any loss, liability, claim,
damage or expense to the extent arising out of any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue
statement or omission made in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), including the
Rule 430A Information, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (or any amendment or
supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with the Underwriter Information.
(b) Indemnification of Underwriters by Selling Shareholders. Each Selling Shareholder,
severally and not jointly, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its Affiliates
and selling agents and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of
Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act to the extent and in the manner set forth
in clauses (a)(i), (ii) and (iii) above and in Section 6(f); provided that each Selling
Shareholder shall be liable only to the extent that such untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement or omission or alleged omission has been made in the Registration Statement, any
preliminary prospectus, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus (or any amendment or
supplement thereto) or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with
the Selling Shareholder Information; provided, further, that the liability under this subsection of
each Selling Shareholder shall be limited to an amount equal to the aggregate gross proceeds after
underwriting commissions and discounts, but before expenses, to such Selling Shareholder from the
sale of Securities sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder.
(c) Indemnification of Company, Directors, Officers and Selling Shareholders. Each
Underwriter severally agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, each of its
officers who signed the Registration Statement, and each person, if any, who controls the Company
within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act, each Selling
Shareholder and each person, if any, who controls any Selling Shareholder within the meaning of
Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act, against any and all loss, liability,
claim, damage and expense described in the indemnity contained in subsection (a) of this Section,
as incurred, but only with respect to untrue statements or omissions, or alleged untrue statements
or omissions, made in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), including the Rule
430A Information, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement
thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with the Underwriter Information.
(d) Actions against Parties; Notification. Each indemnified party shall give notice as
promptly as reasonably practicable to each indemnifying party of any action commenced against it in
respect of which indemnity may be sought hereunder, but failure to so notify an indemnifying party
shall not relieve such indemnifying party from any liability hereunder to the extent it is not
materially prejudiced as a result thereof and in any event shall not relieve it from any liability
which it may have otherwise than on account of this indemnity agreement. In the case of parties
indemnified pursuant to Sections 6(a) and 6(b) above, counsel to the indemnified parties shall be
selected by the Representatives, and, in the case of parties indemnified pursuant to Section 6(c)
above, counsel to the indemnified parties shall be selected by the Company. An indemnifying party
may participate at its own expense in the defense of any such action; provided, however, that
counsel to the indemnifying party shall not (except
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with the consent of the indemnified party) also be counsel to the indemnified party. In no
event shall the indemnifying parties be liable for fees and expenses of more than one counsel (in
addition to any local counsel) separate from their own counsel for all indemnified parties in
connection with any one action or separate but similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction
arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances. No indemnifying party shall, without
the prior written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry
of any judgment with respect to any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any
governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever in respect of which
indemnification or contribution could be sought under this Section 6 or Section 7 hereof (whether
or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties thereto), unless such settlement,
compromise or consent (i) includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all
liability arising out of such litigation, investigation, proceeding or claim and (ii) does not
include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf
of any indemnified party.
(e) Settlement without Consent if Failure to Reimburse. If at any time an indemnified party
shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses
of counsel, such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of the nature
contemplated by Section 6(a)(ii) or settlement of any claim in connection with any violation
referred to in Section 6(f) effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered
into more than 45 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request, (ii) such
indemnifying party shall have received notice of the terms of such settlement at least 30 days
prior to such settlement being entered into and (iii) such indemnifying party shall not have
reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such
settlement.
(f) Indemnification for Reserved Securities. In connection with the offer and sale of the
Reserved Securities, the Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriters, their
Affiliates and selling agents and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the
meaning of either Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act, from and against any
and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense (including, without limitation, any legal or
other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with defending, investigating or settling any such
action or claim), as incurred, (i) arising out of the violation of any applicable laws or
regulations of foreign jurisdictions where Reserved Securities have been offered, (ii) arising out
of any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any prospectus
wrapper or other material prepared by or with the consent of the Company for distribution to
Invitees in connection with the offering of the Reserved Securities or caused by any omission or
alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading, (iii) caused by the failure of any Invitee to pay for and accept delivery of Reserved
Securities which have been orally confirmed for purchase by any Invitee by 9:00 A.M. (New York City
time) on the first business day after the date of the Agreement or (iv) related to, or arising out
of or in connection with, the offering of the Reserved Securities.
(g) Other Agreements with Respect to Indemnification. The provisions of this Section shall
not affect any agreement among the Company and the Selling Shareholders with respect to
indemnification.
SECTION 7. Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in Section 6 hereof is
for any reason unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of
any losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses referred to therein, then each indemnifying
party shall contribute to the aggregate amount of such losses, liabilities, claims, damages and
expenses incurred by such indemnified party, as incurred, (i) in such proportion as is appropriate
to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the Selling Shareholders, on the one
hand, and the Underwriters, on the
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other hand, from the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement or (ii) if the
allocation provided by clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is
appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the
relative fault of the Company and the Selling Shareholders, on the one hand, and of the
Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the statements or omissions, or in connection
with any violation of the nature referred to in Section 6(f) hereof, which resulted in such losses,
liabilities, claims, damages or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.
The relative benefits received by the Company and the Selling Shareholders, on the one hand,
and the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the offering of the Securities pursuant
to this Agreement shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the total net
proceeds from the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement (before deducting expenses)
received by the Company and the Selling Shareholders, on the one hand, and the total underwriting
discount received by the Underwriters, on the other hand, in each case as set forth on the cover of
the Prospectus, bear to the aggregate initial public offering price of the Securities as set forth
on the cover of the Prospectus.
The relative fault of the Company and the Selling Shareholders, on the one hand, and the
Underwriters, on the other hand, shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether
any such untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to
state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or the Selling Shareholders or
by the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and
opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission or any violation of the nature
referred to in Section 6(f) hereof.
The Company, the Selling Shareholders and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and
equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 7 were determined by pro rata allocation (even
if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of
allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this
Section 7. The aggregate amount of losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by
an indemnified party and referred to above in this Section 7 shall be deemed to include any legal
or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in investigating, preparing or
defending against any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or
body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue or alleged untrue
statement or omission or alleged omission.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 7, no Underwriter shall be required to
contribute any amount in excess of the underwriting commissions received by such Underwriter in
connection with the Shares underwritten by it and distributed to the public.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 7, no Selling Shareholder shall be required to
contribute any amount, taken together with any amount paid by such Selling Shareholder pursuant to
Section 6, in excess of the aggregate gross proceeds, after deducting underwriting discounts and
commissions but before deducting expenses, received by such Selling Shareholder from the sale of
Securities sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder. Each Selling Shareholder’s obligation to
contribute as provided in this Section 7 is several in proportion to such gross proceeds received
by such Selling Shareholder from the sale of the Securities under this Agreement and not joint.
No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the
0000 Xxx) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent
misrepresentation.
For purposes of this Section 7, each person, if any, who controls an Underwriter within the
meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act and each Underwriter’s
Affiliates
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and selling agents shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and each
director of the Company, each officer of the Company who signed the Registration Statement, and
each person, if any, who controls the Company or any Selling Shareholder within the meaning of
Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act shall have the same rights to contribution
as the Company or such Selling Shareholder, as the case may be. The Underwriters’ respective
obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 7 are several in proportion to the number of
Initial Securities set forth opposite their respective names in Schedule A hereto and not
joint.
The provisions of this Section shall not affect any agreement among the Company and the
Selling Shareholders with respect to contribution.
SECTION 8. Representations, Warranties and Agreements to Survive. All
representations, warranties and agreements contained in this Agreement or in certificates of
officers of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or the Selling Shareholders submitted pursuant
hereto, shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of (i) any investigation
made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or its Affiliates or selling agents, any person controlling
any Underwriter, its officers or directors, any person controlling the Company or any person
controlling any Selling Shareholder and (ii) delivery of and payment for the Securities.
SECTION 9. Termination of Agreement.
(a) Termination. The Representatives may terminate this Agreement, by notice to the Company
and the Attorney-in-Fact (on behalf of the Selling Shareholders), at any time at or prior to the
Closing Time (i) if there has been, in the judgment of the Representatives, since the time of
execution of this Agreement or since the respective dates as of which information is given in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, any material adverse
change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs, business
prospects or management of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether
or not arising in the ordinary course of business, or (ii) if there has occurred any material
adverse change in the financial markets in the United States or the international financial
markets, any outbreak of hostilities or escalation thereof or other calamity or crisis or any
change or development involving a prospective change in national or international political,
financial or economic conditions, in each case the effect of which is such as to make it, in the
judgment of the Representatives, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the completion of the
offering or to enforce contracts for the sale of the Securities, or (iii) if trading in any
securities of the Company has been suspended or materially limited by the Commission or the Nasdaq
Global Market, or (iv) if trading generally on the American Stock Exchange or the New York Stock
Exchange or in the Nasdaq Global Market has been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or
maximum prices for trading have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices have been required, by any
of said exchanges or by order of the Commission, FINRA or any other governmental authority, or (v)
a material disruption has occurred in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance
services in the United States or with respect to Clearstream or Euroclear systems in Europe, or
(vi) if a banking moratorium has been declared by either Federal or New York authorities.
(b) Liabilities. If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to this Section, such termination
shall be without liability of any party to any other party except as provided in Section 4 hereof,
and provided further that Sections 1, 6, 7, 8, 15 and 16 shall survive such termination and remain
in full force and effect.
SECTION 10. Default by One or More of the Underwriters. If one or more of the
Underwriters shall fail at Closing Time or a Date of Delivery to purchase the Securities which it
or they are obligated to purchase under this Agreement (the “Defaulted Securities”), the
Representatives shall have the right,
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within 24 hours thereafter, to make arrangements for one or more of the non-defaulting
Underwriters, or any other underwriters, to purchase all, but not less than all, of the Defaulted
Securities in such amounts as may be agreed upon and upon the terms herein set forth; if, however,
the Representatives shall not have completed such arrangements within such 24-hour period, then:
(i) if the number of Defaulted Securities does not exceed 10% of the number of
Securities to be purchased on such date, each of the non-defaulting Underwriters shall be
obligated, severally and not jointly, to purchase the full amount thereof in the proportions
that their respective underwriting obligations hereunder bear to the underwriting
obligations of all non-defaulting Underwriters, or
(ii) if the number of Defaulted Securities exceeds 10% of the number of Securities to
be purchased on such date, this Agreement or, with respect to any Date of Delivery which
occurs after the Closing Time, the obligation of the Underwriters to purchase, and the
Company to sell, the Option Securities to be purchased and sold on such Date of Delivery
shall terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter.
No action taken pursuant to this Section shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter from
liability in respect of its default.
In the event of any such default which does not result in a termination of this Agreement or,
in the case of a Date of Delivery which is after the Closing Time, which does not result in a
termination of the obligation of the Underwriters to purchase and the Company to sell the relevant
Option Securities, as the case may be, either the (i) Representatives or (ii) the Company shall
have the right to postpone Closing Time or the relevant Date of Delivery, as the case may be, for a
period not exceeding seven days in order to effect any required changes in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or in any other documents or
arrangements. As used herein, the term “Underwriter” includes any person substituted for an
Underwriter under this Section 10.
SECTION 11. Default by the Selling Shareholders or by the Company. (a) If a Selling
Shareholder shall fail at the Closing Time to sell and deliver the number of Securities which such
Selling Shareholder is obligated to sell hereunder, and the remaining Selling Shareholders do not
exercise the right hereby granted to increase, pro rata or otherwise, the number of Securities to
be sold by them hereunder to the total number to be sold by all Selling Shareholders as set forth
in Schedule B hereto, then the Underwriters may, at option of the Representatives, by notice from
the Representatives to the Company and the non-defaulting Selling Shareholders, either (i)
terminate this Agreement without any liability on the fault of any non-defaulting party except that
the provisions of Sections 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 15 and 16 shall remain in full force and effect or (ii)
elect to purchase the Securities which the non-defaulting Selling Shareholders and the Company have
agreed to sell hereunder. No action taken pursuant to this Section 11 shall relieve any Selling
Shareholder so defaulting from liability, if any, in respect of such default. In the event of a
default by any Selling Shareholder as referred to in this Section 11, each of the Representatives,
the Company and the non-defaulting Selling Shareholders shall have the right to postpone the
Closing Time for a period not exceeding seven days in order to effect any required change in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or in any other documents
or arrangements.
(b) If the Company shall fail at the Closing Time or a Date of Delivery, as the case may
be, to sell the number of Securities that it is obligated to sell hereunder, then this Agreement
shall terminate without any liability on the part of any nondefaulting party; provided, however,
that the provisions of Sections 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 15 and 16 shall remain in full force and effect. No
action taken pursuant to this Section shall relieve the Company from liability, if any, in respect
of such default.
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SECTION 12. Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in
writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if mailed or transmitted by any standard form
of telecommunication. Notices to the Underwriters shall be directed to the Representatives at
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, attention of Syndicate Department, with a
copy to ECM Legal and X.X. Xxxxxx Securities LLC, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000,
Fax: 000-000-0000, Attention: Equity Syndicate Desk. Notices to the Company shall be directed to it
at 000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000, attention of Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Chief Executive
Officer.
SECTION 13. No Advisory or Fiduciary Relationship. Each of the Company and each
Selling Shareholder acknowledges and agrees that (a) the purchase and sale of the Securities
pursuant to this Agreement, including the determination of the initial public offering price of the
Securities and any related discounts and commissions, is an arm’s-length commercial transaction
between the Company and the Selling Shareholder, on the one hand, and the several Underwriters, on
the other hand, (b) in connection with the offering of the Securities and the process leading
thereto, each Underwriter is and has been acting solely as a principal and is not the agent or
fiduciary of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any Selling Shareholder, or its respective
stockholders, creditors, employees or any other party, (c) no Underwriter has assumed or will
assume an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company or any Selling Shareholder
with respect to the offering of the Securities or the process leading thereto (irrespective of
whether such Underwriter has advised or is currently advising the Company, any of its subsidiaries
or any Selling Shareholder on other matters) and no Underwriter has any obligation to the Company
or any Selling Shareholder with respect to the offering of the Securities except the obligations
expressly set forth in this Agreement, (d) the Underwriters and their respective affiliates may be
engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of each of
the Company and each Selling Shareholder, and (e) the Underwriters have not provided any legal,
accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to the offering of the Securities and the Company
and each of the Selling Shareholders has consulted its own respective legal, accounting, regulatory
and tax advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate.
SECTION 14. Parties. This Agreement shall each inure to the benefit of and be binding
upon the Underwriters, the Company and the Selling Shareholders and their respective successors.
Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any
person, firm or corporation, other than the Underwriters, the Company and the Selling Shareholders
and their respective successors and the controlling persons and officers and directors referred to
in Sections 6 and 7 and their heirs and legal representatives, any legal or equitable right, remedy
or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision herein contained. This Agreement
and all conditions and provisions hereof are intended to be for the sole and exclusive benefit of
the Underwriters, the Company and the Selling Shareholder(s) and their respective successors, and
said controlling persons and officers and directors and their heirs and legal representatives, and
for the benefit of no other person, firm or corporation. No purchaser of Securities from any
Underwriter shall be deemed to be a successor by reason merely of such purchase.
SECTION 15. Trial by Jury. The Company (on its behalf and, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, on behalf of its stockholders and affiliates), each of the Selling Shareholders and
each of the Underwriters hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable
law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this
Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
SECTION 16. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE
ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE LAWS OF, THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO ITS CHOICE OF LAW PROVISIONS.
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SECTION 17. TIME. TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE OF THIS AGREEMENT. EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE
SET FORTH HEREIN, SPECIFIED TIMES OF DAY REFER TO NEW YORK CITY TIME.
SECTION 18. Partial Unenforceability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any
Section, paragraph or provision of this Agreement shall not affect the validity or enforceability
of any other Section, paragraph or provision hereof. If any Section, paragraph or provision of
this Agreement is for any reason determined to be invalid or unenforceable, there shall be deemed
to be made such minor changes (and only such minor changes) as are necessary to make it valid and
enforceable.
SECTION 19. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall
together constitute one and the same Agreement. Facsimile copies of signatures shall constitute
original signatures for all purposes of this Agreement and any enforcement hereof.
SECTION 20. Effect of Headings. The Section headings herein are for convenience only
and shall not affect the construction hereof.
[Signature Pages Follow]
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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and
return to the Company and the Attorney-in-Fact acting for the Selling Shareholders a counterpart
hereof, whereupon this instrument, along with all counterparts, will become a binding agreement
among the Underwriters, the Company and the Selling Shareholders in accordance with its terms.
Very truly yours, CARBONITE, INC. |
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By: | ||||
Name: | ||||
Title: | ||||
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XXXXX XXXXXX, as Attorney-in-Fact | ||||||
By: | ||||||
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxx Title: Attorney-in-Fact acting on behalf of the Selling Shareholders named in Schedule B hereto |
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XXXXXXXX SHEER, as Attorney-in-Fact | ||||||
By: | ||||||
Name: Xxxxxxxx Sheer Title: Attorney-in-Fact acting on behalf of the Selling Shareholders named in Schedule B hereto |
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CONFIRMED AND ACCEPTED,
as of the date first above written:
as of the date first above written:
XXXXXXX LYNCH, PIERCE, XXXXXX & XXXXX INCORPORATED
By: | ||||
Name: | ||||
Title: | ||||
X.X. XXXXXX SECURITIES LLC
By: | ||||
Name: | ||||
Title: | ||||
For themselves and as Representatives of the
other Underwriters named in Schedule A hereto.
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SCHEDULE A
The initial public offering price per share for the Securities shall be $[•].
The purchase price per share for the Securities to be paid by the several Underwriters shall be
$[•], being an amount equal to the initial public offering price set forth above less $[•] per
share, subject to adjustment in accordance with Section 2(b) for dividends or distributions
declared by the Company and payable on the Initial Securities but not payable on the Option
Securities.
Number of | ||||
Name of Underwriter | Initial Securities | |||
Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx
Incorporated |
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X.X. Xxxxxx Securities LLC |
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Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Company, L.L.C. |
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Canaccord Genuity Inc. |
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Xxxxxxxxxxx & Co. Inc. |
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Pacific Crest Securities Inc. |
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Total |
[•] | |||
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SCHEDULE B
Number of Initial Securities to be Sold by the Company: [•]
Number of Initial Securities to be Sold by the Selling Shareholders:
Number of | ||||
Name of Selling Shareholder | Initial Securities to be Sold | |||
[•••] |
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Total |
[•] | |||
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SCHEDULE C-1
Pricing Terms
1. The Company is selling [•] shares of Common Stock.
2. The Selling Shareholders are selling [•] shares of Common Stock.
3. The Company has granted an option to the Underwriters, severally and not jointly, to purchase up
to an additional [•] shares of Common Stock.
4. The initial public offering price per share for the Securities shall be $[•].
5. [•]
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SCHEDULE C-2
Free Writing Prospectuses
[•••]
Sch C-2
SCHEDULE D
List of Persons and Entities Subject to Lock-up
- All directors and officers of the Company:
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx Sheer
Xxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx Sheer
Xxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
- All Selling Shareholders identified on Schedule B to the Underwriting Agreement:
- All persons and entities listed below:
Shareholders:
Optionholders:
Sch D-1
Exhibit A
FORM OF OPINION OF COMPANY’S COUNSEL
TO BE DELIVERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 5(b)
TO BE DELIVERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 5(b)
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Exhibit B
FORM OF OPINION OF COUNSEL FOR THE SELLING SHAREHOLDERS
TO BE DELIVERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 5(c)
TO BE DELIVERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 5(c)
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Exhibit C
FORM OF LOCK-UP AGREEMENT
May 12, 2011
Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated
Xxx Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Xxx Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
X.X. Xxxxxx Securities LLC
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
as Representatives of the several
Underwriters to be named in the
within-mentioned Underwriting Agreement
Underwriters to be named in the
within-mentioned Underwriting Agreement
Re: Proposed Public Offering by Carbonite, Inc.
Dear Sirs:
The undersigned, a stockholder, officer or director of Carbonite, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(the “Company”), understands that Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated and X.X.
Xxxxxx Securities LLC (the “Representatives”) propose to enter into an Underwriting Agreement (the
“Underwriting Agreement”) with the Company and certain selling stockholders listed therein
providing for the public offering (the “Public Offering”) of shares (the “Securities”) of the
Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”) and to act as
representatives of the several underwriters to be named in the Underwriting Agreement. In
recognition of the benefit that such an offering will confer upon the undersigned as a stockholder,
officer or director, as applicable, of the Company, and for other good and valuable consideration,
the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the undersigned agrees with each
underwriter to be named in the Underwriting Agreement that, during the period beginning on the date
hereof and ending on the date that is 180 days from the date of the Underwriting Agreement (subject
to extensions as discussed below), the undersigned will not, without the prior written consent of
the Representatives, directly or indirectly, (i) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any
option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or
warrant for the sale of, or otherwise dispose of or transfer any shares of the Company’s Common
Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Common Stock, whether
now owned or hereafter acquired by the undersigned or with respect to which the undersigned has or
hereafter acquires the power of disposition (collectively, the “Lock-Up Securities”), or exercise
any right with respect to the registration of any Lock-Up Securities, or file or cause to be filed
any registration statement in connection therewith, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
or (ii) enter into any swap or any other agreement or any transaction that transfers, in whole or
in part, directly or indirectly, the economic consequence of ownership of the Lock-Up Securities,
whether any such swap or transaction is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or other
securities, in cash or otherwise.
The restrictions set forth herein shall not apply to:
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(i) | transfers of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into Common Stock as a bona fide gift or gifts; | ||
(ii) | transfers of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into Common Stock to any trust, family limited partnership or similar entity for the direct or indirect benefit of the undersigned or the immediate family of the undersigned (for purposes of this lock-up agreement, “immediate family” shall mean any relationship by blood, marriage or adoption, not more remote than first cousin); | ||
(iii) | transfers by testate succession or intestate distribution; | ||
(iv) | transfers of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into Common Stock as a distribution to limited partners or stockholders of the undersigned; | ||
(v) | transfers of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into Common Stock to the undersigned’s affiliates or to any investment fund or other entity controlled or managed by the undersigned; or | ||
(vi) | any shares of Common Stock to be sold by the undersigned pursuant to and to the extent permitted by the Underwriting Agreement. |
provided that, with respect to clauses (i) through (v) above, (1) the Representatives receive
a signed lock-up agreement for the balance of the lock-up period from each donee, trustee,
distributee, or transferee, as the case may be, (2) any such transfer shall not involve a
disposition for value, (3) such transfers are not required to be reported with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on Form 4 in accordance with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and (4) the undersigned does not otherwise voluntarily effect any
public filing or report regarding such transfers.
Furthermore, the undersigned may sell shares of Common Stock of the Company purchased by the
undersigned on the open market following the Public Offering if and only if (i) such sales are not
required to be reported in any public report or filing with the Securities Exchange Commission, or
otherwise, and (ii) the undersigned does not otherwise voluntarily effect any public filing or
report regarding such sales.
In addition, the restrictions set forth herein shall not prevent the undersigned from entering
into a sales plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act on or after the date hereof;
provided that such plan does not provide for the transfer of Lock-Up Securities during the lock-up
period set forth herein.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if:
(1) during the last 17 days of the 180-day lock-up period, the Company issues an earnings
release or material news or a material event relating to the Company occurs; or
(2) prior to the expiration of the 180-day lock-up period, the Company announces that it will
release earnings results or becomes aware that material news or a material event will occur during
the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the 180-day lock-up period,
the restrictions imposed by this lock-up agreement shall continue to apply until the expiration of
the 18-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the
material news or material event, as applicable, unless the Representatives waive, in writing, such
extension.
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The undersigned agrees that, prior to engaging in any transaction or taking any other action
that is subject to the terms of this lock-up agreement during the period from the date of this
lock-up agreement to and including the 34th day following the expiration of the initial
180-day lock-up period, it will give notice thereof to the Company and will not consummate such
transaction or take any such action unless it has received written confirmation from the Company
that the 180-day lock-up period (as may have been extended pursuant to the previous paragraph) has
expired.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if (i) the Company and the Representatives have not entered
into the Underwriting Agreement on or before March 31, 2012 or (ii) the Public Offering is
abandoned by the Company prior to such date and the Company shall have provided written notice
thereof to the Representatives or (iii) the Underwriting Agreement shall terminate or be terminated
prior to payment for and delivery of the Common Stock to be sold thereunder, then the undersigned
will be released from the obligations under this lock-up agreement, and this lock-up agreement
shall be terminated, null, void and of no further force or effect.
The undersigned also agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the
Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the transfer of the Lock-Up Securities except in
compliance with the foregoing restrictions.
Very truly yours,
Signature:
Print Name:
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