20,000,000 Shares BGC Partners, Inc. Class A Common Stock ($0.01 Par Value) FORM OF EQUITY UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTEquity Underwriting Agreement • June 5th, 2008 • BGC Partners, Inc. • Security & commodity brokers, dealers, exchanges & services • New York
BGC Partners, Inc., a Delaware corporation (formerly named eSpeed, Inc.) (the “Company”), and certain stockholders of the Company (the “Selling Stockholders”), including Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership and the majority stockholder of the Company (“Cantor”), each propose to sell to the several underwriters (the “Underwriters”) named in Schedule I hereto for whom you are acting as the representatives (the “Representatives”) an aggregate of 20,000,000 shares (the “Firm Shares”) of the
