CASTLEPOINT HOLDINGS, LTD. Common Shares UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTUnderwriting Agreement • March 20th, 2007 • CastlePoint Holdings, Ltd. • Fire, marine & casualty insurance • New York
CastlePoint Holdings, Ltd., a Bermuda company limited by shares (the “Company”), and the selling shareholders listed on Schedule I hereto (the “Selling Shareholders”), each confirms its agreement with each of the Underwriters listed on Schedule II hereto (collectively, the “Underwriters”), for whom Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co., Inc., Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., Cochran Caronia Waller Securities LLC and Piper Jaffray &Co. are acting as representatives (in such capacity, collectively, the “Representatives”), with respect to (i) the sale by the Company and the Selling Shareholders of 6,191,500 common shares (the “Initial Shares”), par value $0.01 per share, of the Company (the “Common Shares”) in the respective numbers of shares set forth opposite the names of the Company and the Selling Shareholders in Schedule I hereto, and the purchase by the Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly, of the respective number of Common Shares set forth opposite the names of the Underwriters
