Agreement to Act as Placement Agent (a) On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company herein contained, and subject to all the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Placement Agent shall be the exclusive Placement Agent in connection with the offering and sale by the Company of the Securities pursuant to the Company’s registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-221741) (as amended from time to time and including the exhibits thereto at any given time, the “Registration Statement”), with the terms of such offering (the “Offering”) to be subject to market conditions and negotiations between the Company, the Placement Agent and the prospective Investors. The Placement Agent will act on a reasonable best efforts basis and the Company agrees and acknowledges that there is no guarantee of the successful placement of the Securities, or any portion thereof, in the prospective Offering. Under no circumstances will the Placement Agent or any of its “Affiliates” (as defined below) be obligated to underwrite or purchase any of the Securities for its own account or otherwise provide any financing. The Placement Agent shall act solely as the Company’s agent and not as principal. The Placement Agent shall have no authority to bind the Company with respect to any prospective offer to purchase Securities and the Company shall have the sole right to accept offers to purchase Securities and may reject any such offer, in whole or in part. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, payment of the purchase price for, and delivery of, the Securities shall be made at one or more closings (each a “Closing” and the date on which each Closing occurs, a “Closing Date”). As compensation for services rendered, on each Closing Date, the Company shall pay to the Placement Agent the fees and expenses set forth below:
(i) A cash fee equal to 7% of the gross proceeds received by the Company from the sale of the Securities at the Closing.
(ii) The Company also agrees to reimburse Placement Agent’s expenses (with supporting invoices/receipts) up to a maximum of $90,000, payable immediately upon a Closing of the Offering.
(b) In addition to the foregoing fees and expenses, the Company acknowledges that at the first Closing, the Company shall pay the Placement Agent an additional $60,000, representing fees earned by the Placement Agent for serving as placement agent to the Company in the private placement of the Company’s securities pursuant to its securities purchase agreement dated October 26, 2017 (the “October 2017 Placement”). The balance of the fees payable to the Placement Agent pursuant to the October 2017 Placement, or $60,000, shall be payable upon the closing of the Company’s next public or private offering of securities, including, without limitation, any Future Offering (as defined below).
(c) The term of the Placement Agent’s exclusive engagement will be until the completion of the Offering. The Placement Agent shall be entitled to collect all fees under this Agreement earned through termination. In addition to the foregoing, the Company hereby grants to the Placement Agent the exclusive right (such right, the “Right of First Refusal”), for the twelve (12) month period commencing on the date hereof, to provide investment banking services to the Company on an exclusive basis in all matters involving the Company’s equity securities or other instruments that may at any time be convertible into, exchangeable for, or otherwise entitle the holder thereof to receive, directly or indirectly, equity securities of the Company, for which investment banking services are sought by the Company (a “Future Offering”). In connection with the Right of First Refusal, investment banking services shall include, without limitation, (i) acting as lead, book-running manager for any underwritten public offering; (ii) acting as exclusive placement agent or financial advisor in connection with any private offering of securities of the Company; and (iii) acting as financial advisor in connection with any sale or other transfer by the Company, directly or indirectly, of a majority or controlling portion of its capital stock or assets to another entity, any purchase or other transfer by another entity, directly or indirectly, of a majority or controlling portion of the capital stock or assets of the Company, and any merger or consolidation of the Company with another entity. At any time during such period that the Company contemplates conducting a Future Offering, the Company shall deliver to the Placement Agent a written notice (the “Notice”) stating its intention to conduct the Future Offering, the material terms and conditions thereof, including the amount to be raised and the type of security to be issued and the compensation requested by the competing broker-dealer firm if any, and an offer to the Placement Agent to manage the Future Offering pursuant to this Right of First Refusal. At any time within 30 days after receipt of the Notice, the Placement Agent may, by giving written notice to the Company, elect to exercise this Right of First Refusal. The failure of the Placement Agent to exercise this Right of First Refusal within such 30 day period will be deemed a rejection of the offer solely with respect to the applicable Future Offering. Any decision by the Placement Agent to act in any such capacity shall be contained in separate agreements, which agreements would contain, among other matters, provisions for customary fees for transactions of similar size and nature, as may be mutually agreed upon, and indemnification of the Placement Agent and its Affiliates and shall be subject to general market conditions. If the Placement Agent declines to exercise the Right of First Refusal (which it may do in its sole and absolute discretion), the Company shall have the right to retain any other person or persons to provide such services on terms and conditions which are not materially more favorable to such other person or persons than the terms declined by the Placement Agent.
(d) Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to limit the ability of the Placement Agent or its Affiliates to pursue, investigate, analyze, invest in, or engage in investment banking, financial advisory or any other business relationship with Persons (as defined below) other than the Company. As used herein (i) “Persons” means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind and (ii) “Affiliate” means any Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person as such terms are used in and construed under Rule 405 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).
Without limiting any of the rights of Indemnitee under the Articles as they may be amended from time to time, this Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, oral, written and implied, between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof.
Initial Purchasers' Information The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that, for all purposes of this Agreement, the Initial Purchasers’ Information consists solely of the following information in the Time of Sale Information or the Final Offering Memorandum: the statements in the third paragraph, the fourth and fifth sentences of the thirteenth paragraph and the fifteenth paragraph under “Plan of Distribution” in the Final Offering Memorandum.
Company to Provide Copy of the Prospectus in Form That May be Downloaded from the Internet If requested by the Representatives, the Company shall cause to be prepared and delivered, at its expense, within one business day from the effective date of this Agreement, to the Representatives an “electronic Prospectus” to be used by the Underwriters in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered Shares. As used herein, the term “electronic Prospectus” means a form of Time of Sale Prospectus, and any amendment or supplement thereto, that meets each of the following conditions: (i) it shall be encoded in an electronic format, satisfactory to the Representatives, that may be transmitted electronically by the Representatives and the other Underwriters to offerees and purchasers of the Offered Shares; (ii) it shall disclose the same information as the paper Time of Sale Prospectus, except to the extent that graphic and image material cannot be disseminated electronically, in which case such graphic and image material shall be replaced in the electronic Prospectus with a fair and accurate narrative description or tabular representation of such material, as appropriate; and (iii) it shall be in or convertible into a paper format or an electronic format, satisfactory to the Representatives, that will allow investors to store and have continuously ready access to the Time of Sale Prospectus at any future time, without charge to investors (other than any fee charged for subscription to the Internet as a whole and for on-line time). The Company hereby confirms that it has included or will include in the Prospectus filed pursuant to XXXXX or otherwise with the Commission and in the Registration Statement at the time it was declared effective an undertaking that, upon receipt of a request by an investor or his or her representative, the Company shall transmit or cause to be transmitted promptly, without charge, a paper copy of the Time of Sale Prospectus.
Liability of the Depositor and the Master Servicer The Depositor and the Master Servicer each shall be liable in accordance herewith only to the extent of the obligations specifically imposed by this Agreement and undertaken hereunder by the Depositor and the Master Servicer herein.
Independent Nature of Purchasers’ Obligations and Rights The obligations of each Purchaser under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Purchaser, and no Purchaser shall be responsible in any way for the performance or non-performance of the obligations of any other Purchaser under any Transaction Document. Nothing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Purchaser pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any Proceeding for such purpose. Each Purchaser has been represented by its own separate legal counsel in its review and negotiation of the Transaction Documents. For reasons of administrative convenience only, each Purchaser and its respective counsel have chosen to communicate with the Company through EGS. EGS does not represent any of the Purchasers and only represents the Placement Agent. The Company has elected to provide all Purchasers with the same terms and Transaction Documents for the convenience of the Company and not because it was required or requested to do so by any of the Purchasers. It is expressly understood and agreed that each provision contained in this Agreement and in each other Transaction Document is between the Company and a Purchaser, solely, and not between the Company and the Purchasers collectively and not between and among the Purchasers.
Corporation and Warrant Agent May be Represented The Corporation and the Warrant Agent, by their respective directors, officers, agents, and employees and the Counsel for the Corporation and for the Warrant Agent may attend any meeting of the Registered Warrantholders.
The Owner Trustee May Own Notes The Owner Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes. The Owner Trustee may deal with the Seller, the Indenture Trustee, the Administrator, the Underwriters and their respective Affiliates in banking transactions with the same rights as it would have if it were not the Owner Trustee, and the Seller, the Indenture Trustee, the Administrator, the Underwriters and their respective Affiliates may maintain normal commercial banking relationships with the Owner Trustee and its Affiliates.
Securities Act Representations Except as set forth on Schedule 5.34, the STOCKHOLDER alone, or together with such STOCKHOLDER's "purchaser representative" (as defined in Rule 501(h) promulgated under the 0000 Xxx):
(a) acknowledges and agrees that (x) the shares of HOLDING Stock to be delivered to the STOCKHOLDER pursuant to this Agreement have not been and will not be registered under the 1933 Act or any state securities or "blue sky" laws, and therefore may not be sold, transferred or otherwise conveyed without compliance with the 1933 Act and all applicable state securities or "blue sky" laws, or pursuant to an exemption therefrom and (y) the HOLDING Stock to be acquired by the STOCKHOLDER pursuant to this Agreement is being acquired solely for its own account, for investment purposes only, and with no present intention of distributing, selling or otherwise disposing of the HOLDING Stock in connection with a distribution;
(b) acknowledges and agrees that it knows and understands that an investment in the HOLDING Stock is a speculative investment which involves a high degree of risk of loss;
(c) represents and warrants that it is able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the HOLDING Stock acquired pursuant to this Agreement, can afford to sustain a total loss of such investment and it (or for those STOCKHOLDERS that are trusts, its trustee or trustees) has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters that it (or for those STOCKHOLDERS that are trusts, its trustee or trustees) is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the proposed investment in the HOLDING Stock;
(d) represents and warrants that it has had an adequate opportunity to review and to ask questions and receive answers concerning any and all matters relating to the transactions described in (i) HOLDING's private placement memorandum and (ii) this Agreement;
(e) represents and warrants that (1) it has had access to all relevant information regarding and has had adequate opportunity to ask questions and received answers concerning (i) the background and experience of the current and proposed officers and directors of HOLDING, (ii) the plans for the operations of the business of HOLDING, (iii) the business, operations and financial condition of the Other Founding Companies, and (iv) any plans for additional acquisitions and the like and (2) it has received all such relevant information and has asked any and all questions in the nature described in the preceding clause (1) and all questions have been answered to its satisfaction;
(f) represents and warrants that (i) such STOCKHOLDER is an "accredited investor" (as defined in Rule 501(a) promulgated under the 0000 Xxx) and (ii) after taking into consideration the information and advice provided the STOCKHOLDER, such STOCKHOLDER (or for those STOCKHOLDERS that are trusts, its trustee or trustees) has the requisite knowledge and experience in financial and business matters to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of an investment in the HOLDING Stock and (iii) for any STOCKHOLDER that is a trust and is not an "accredited investor", such STOCKHOLDER counts as one purchaser for purposes of Rule 506 under the Securities Act;
(g) represents and warrants that, to its knowledge, there have been no general or public solicitations or advertisements or other broadly disseminated disclosures (including, without limitation, any advertisement, article, notice or other communication published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over television or radio, or any seminar or meeting whose attendees have been invited by any general solicitation or advertising) by or on behalf of HOLDING regarding an investment in the HOLDING Stock; and
(h) acknowledges and agrees that the HOLDING Stock shall bear the following legend in addition to the legend required under Section 15 of this Agreement: THE SHARES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "ACT"). THE SHARES HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED FOR INVESTMENT AND MAY NOT BE SOLD, ASSIGNED, EXCHANGED, TRANSFERRED, ENCUMBERED, PLEDGED, DISTRIBUTED, APPOINTED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SHARES UNDER THE ACT OR AN EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AND, IF REQUIRED BY ENFINITY CORPORATION, AN OPINION OF COUNSEL TO ENFINITY CORPORATION STATING THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER THE ACT. The STOCKHOLDER acknowledges that the effect of the foregoing legend, among other things, is or may be to limit or destroy the value of the certificate for purposes of sale or use as loan collateral. The STOCKHOLDER consents that "stop transfer" instructions may be noted against the HOLDING Stock.
Liability of the Company and the Master Servicer The Company and the Master Servicer shall be liable in accordance herewith only to the extent of the obligations specifically imposed upon and undertaken by the Company or the Master Servicer, as applicable, herein.
