10,000,000 Shares* VITESSE SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION Common Stock UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTUnderwriting Agreement • December 7th, 2012 • Vitesse Semiconductor Corp • Semiconductors & related devices • New York
Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell 10,000,000 shares (the “Firm Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, $0.01 par value (the “Common Stock”), to you and to the several other Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (collectively, the “Underwriters”), for whom you are acting as representative (the “Representative”). The Company has also agreed to grant to you and the other Underwriters an option (the “Option”) to purchase up to an additional 1,409,294 shares of Common Stock, on the terms and for the purposes set forth in Section 1(b) (the “Option Shares”). The Firm Shares and the Option Shares are referred to collectively herein as the “Shares.”
