8,000,000 Shares BERRY PETROLEUM COMPANY Class A Common Stock Underwriting AgreementUnderwriting Agreement • January 19th, 2010 • Berry Petroleum Co • Crude petroleum & natural gas • New York
Berry Petroleum Company, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), agrees with the several Underwriters listed in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), to issue and sell to the several Underwriters an aggregate of 8,000,000 shares (the “Firm Securities”) of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company (the “Securities”) and also proposes to issue and sell to the Underwriters, at the option of the Underwriters, an aggregate of not more than 1,200,000 additional shares (“Optional Securities”) of its Securities as set forth in Section 2 below. The Firm Securities and the Optional Securities are herein collectively called the “Offered Securities.”
