RICE ENERGY INC. Common Stock UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTUnderwriting Agreement • May 15th, 2015 • Rice Energy Inc. • Crude petroleum & natural gas • New York
NGP Rice Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and stockholder (the “Selling Stockholder”) of Rice Energy Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to sell an aggregate of 6,000,000 shares (the “Firm Stock”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”). In addition, the Selling Stockholder proposes to grant to the underwriters (the “Underwriters”) named in Schedule I attached to this agreement (this “Agreement”) an option to purchase up to an aggregate of 900,000 additional shares of the Common Stock on the terms set forth in Section 3 (the “Option Stock”). The Firm Stock and the Option Stock, if purchased, are hereinafter collectively called the “Stock”. This Agreement is to confirm the agreement concerning the purchase of the Stock from the Selling Stockholder by the Underwriters.
