Gibraltar Steel Corporation 4,130,000 Shares a Common Stock ($.01 par value) Underwriting AgreementUnderwriting Agreement • December 9th, 2003 • Gibraltar Steel Corp • Steel works, blast furnaces & rolling & finishing mills • New York
Gibraltar Steel Corporation, a corporation organized under the laws of Delaware (the “Company”), proposes to sell to the several underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you (the “Representative”) are acting as representative, 3,000,000 shares of Common Stock, $.01 par value (“Common Stock”) of the Company, and the trusts and individuals named in Schedule II hereto (each a “Selling Stockholder” and collectively, the “Selling Stockholders”) propose to sell to the Underwriters 1,130,000 shares of Common Stock (said shares to be issued and sold by the Company and shares to be sold by the Selling Stockholders collectively being hereinafter called the “Underwritten Securities”). The Company also proposes to grant to the Underwriters an option to purchase up to 464,625 additional shares of Common Stock to cover over-allotments, and each of Brian J. Lipke, Neil E. Lipke, Eric R. Lipke, Meredith A. Lipke and Curtis W. Lipke proposes to grant to the Underwriters an
