UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT by and between LUMAX ACQUISITION CORP. and DAWSON JAMES SECURITIES, INC. DATED: January [ ], 2008
Exhibit 1.1
by and between
and
XXXXXX XXXXX SECURITIES, INC.
DATED: January [ ], 2008
January [ ], 2008
Xxxxxx Xxxxx Securities, Inc.
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx — 0xx Xxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx — 0xx Xxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000
Dear Sirs:
The undersigned, Lumax Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“Company”), hereby confirms
its agreement with Xxxxxx Xxxxx Securities, Inc. (“DJ”) and with the other underwriters named on
Schedule I hereto for which DJ is acting as Representative (the “Representative” and, together with
the other underwriters, the “Underwriter”) as follows:
1. Purchase and Sale of Securities.
1.1 Firm Securities.
1.1.1 Purchase of Firm Units. On the basis of the representations and warranties
contained in this agreement, but subject to the terms and conditions set forth in it, the Company
agrees to issue and sell, severally and not jointly, to the several Underwriters, an aggregate of
3,125,000 units (“Firm Units”) of the Company, at a purchase price (net of discounts and
commissions but before the deferred discount described in Section 3.22 and before the
non-accountable expense allowance described in Section 3.10.2) of $7.44 per Firm Unit. The
Underwriters, severally and not jointly, agree to purchase from the Company the number of Firm
Units set forth opposite their respective names on Schedule I at a purchase price (net of
discounts and commissions but before the deferred discount described in Section 3.22 and before the
non-accountable expense allowance described in Section 3.10.2) of $7.44 per Firm Unit.
The Firm Units are to be offered initially to the public (“Offering”) at the offering price of
$8.00 per Firm Unit. Each Firm Unit consists of one share of the Company’s common stock, par value
$.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), and one warrant (“Warrant”). The shares of Common Stock and the
Warrants included in the Firm Units will not be separately transferable until 90 days after the
effective date (“Effective Date”) of the Registration Statement (as defined in Section 2.1.1)
unless DJ informs the Company of its decision to allow earlier separate trading, but in no event
will DJ allow separate trading until the preparation of an audited balance sheet of the Company
reflecting receipt by the Company of the proceeds of the Offering and the filing of a Form 8-K by
the Company that includes such balance sheet. Each Warrant entitles its holder to exercise it to
purchase one share of Common Stock for $5.00 during the period commencing on the later of the
consummation by the Company of its “Business Combination” and one year from the Effective Date and
terminating on the four-year anniversary of the Effective Date unless earlier redeemed as provided
in the Warrant Agreement (as defined in Section 2.21 hereof). “Business Combination” shall mean any
merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition or other similar business combination consummated
by the Company with an operating business in the business services or light manufacturing industry
(as described more fully in the Registration Statement).
1.1.2 Payment and Delivery. Delivery and payment for the Firm Units shall be made at
10:00 A.M., New York time, on the third business day following the Effective Date (or the fourth
business day following the Effective Date, if the Registration Statement is declared effective
after 4:30 p.m.), or at such other time as shall be agreed upon by the Representative and the
Company at the offices of the
Representative or at such other place as shall be agreed upon by the Representative and the
Company. The hour and date of delivery and payment for the Firm Units are called the “Closing
Date.” Payment for the Firm Units shall be made on the Closing Date at the Representative’s
election by wire transfer in Federal (same day) funds or by certified or bank cashier’s check(s) in
New York Clearing House funds, payable as follows: $23,387,117 of the proceeds received by the
Company for the Firm Units (which amount includes funds for (i) the Deferred Underwriter Discount
held in trust subject to Section 3.22 and (ii) the deferred non-accountable expense allowance held
in trust subject to Section 3.10.2) shall be deposited in the trust fund established by the Company
for the benefit of the public stockholders as described in the Registration Statement (“Trust
Fund”) pursuant to the terms of an Investment Management Trust Agreement (“Trust Agreement”) and
the remaining proceeds shall be paid (subject to Section 3.10.1) to the order of the Company upon
delivery to you of certificates (in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative)
representing the Firm Units (or through the facilities of the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”)) for
the account of the Underwriters. The Firm Units shall be registered in such name or names and in
such authorized denominations as the Representative may request in writing at least two full
business days prior to the Closing Date. The Company will permit the Representative to examine and
package the Firm Units for delivery, at least one full business day prior to the Closing Date. The
Company shall not be obligated to sell or deliver the Firm Units except upon tender of payment by
the Representative for all the Firm Units.
1.2 Over-Allotment Option.
1.2.1 Option Units. For the purposes of covering any over-allotments in connection with
the distribution and sale of the Firm Units, the Underwriters are hereby granted, severally and not
jointly, an option to purchase up to an additional 468,750 units from the Company (“Over-allotment
Option”). Such additional 468,750 units are hereinafter referred to as “Option Units.” The Firm
Units and the Option Units are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Units,” and the Units,
the shares of Common Stock and the Warrants included in the Units and the shares of Common Stock
issuable upon exercise of the Warrants are hereinafter referred to collectively as the “Public
Securities.” The purchase price to be paid for the Option Units will be $7.44 per Option Unit (net
of discounts and commissions but before the deferred discount described in Section 3.22) (for the
avoidance of doubt, such amount does not include any non-accountable expense allowance).
1.2.2 Exercise of Option. The Over-allotment Option granted pursuant to Section 1.2.1
hereof may be exercised by the Representative as to all (at any time) or any part (from time to
time) of the Option Units within 45 days after the Effective Date. The Representative will not be
under any obligation to purchase any Option Units prior to the exercise of the Over-allotment
Option. The Over-allotment Option granted hereby may be exercised by the giving of oral notice to
the Company by the Representative, which must be confirmed in writing by overnight mail or
facsimile transmission setting forth the number of Option Units to be purchased and the date and
time for delivery of and payment for the Option Units (the “Option Closing Date”), which will not
be later than five full business days after the date of the notice or such other time as shall be
agreed upon by the Company and the Underwriters, at the offices of DJ or at such other place as
shall be agreed upon by the Company and the Representative. Upon exercise of the Over-allotment
Option, the Company will become obligated to convey to the Underwriters, and, subject to the terms
and conditions set forth in this agreement, the Underwriters will become obligated to purchase, the
number of Option Units specified in such notice.
1.2.3 Payment and Delivery. Payment for the Option Units shall be made on the Option
Closing Date at the Representative’s election by wire transfer in Federal (same day) funds or by
certified or bank cashier’s check(s) in New York Clearing House funds, payable as follows: $7.44
per Option Unit shall be deposited in the Trust Fund pursuant to the Trust Agreement upon delivery
by the Company to you of certificates (in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters)
representing the Option Units (or through the facilities of DTC) for the account of the
Underwriters. The certificates representing the Option Units to be delivered will be in such
denominations and registered in such names as the Representative requests not less than two full
business days prior to the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, and will be
made available to the Representative for inspection, checking and packaging at the aforesaid office
of the Company’s transfer agent or correspondent not less than one full business day
prior to such Closing Date or Option Closing Date, as the case may be.
1.3 Underwriter’s Purchase Option.
1.3.1 Purchase Option. The Company hereby agrees to issue and sell to the Representative
(and/or its designees) on the Effective Date an option (“Underwriter’s Purchase Option”) for the
purchase of an aggregate of 234,375 units in connection with the sale of the Firm Units
(“Underwriter’s Units”) for an aggregate purchase price of $100. Each of the Underwriter’s Units is
identical to the Firm Units except that the Warrants included in the Underwriter’s Units
(“Underwriter’s Warrants”) have an exercise price of $6.00 (120% of the exercise price of the
Warrants included in the Units sold to the public). The Underwriter’s Purchase Option shall be
exercisable, in whole or in part, commencing on the later of the consummation of a Business
Combination and one year from the Effective Date and expiring on the four-year anniversary of the
Effective Date at an initial exercise price per Underwriter’s Unit of $9.60, which is equal to 120%
of the initial public offering price of a Unit. The Underwriter’s Purchase Option, the
Underwriter’s Units, the Underwriter’s Warrants and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon
exercise of the Underwriter’s Warrants are hereinafter referred to collectively as the
“Underwriter’s Securities.” The Public Securities and the Underwriter’s Securities are hereinafter
referred to collectively as the “Securities.” Except pursuant to one or more of the exceptions set
forth in Rule 2710(g)(2) of the Conduct Rules of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
(“FINRA”), the Underwriter’s Purchase Option shall not be sold, transferred, assigned, pledged or
hypothecated, or be the subject of any hedging, short sale, derivative, put or call transaction
that would result in the effective economic disposition of the Underwriter’s Purchase Option by the
holder(s) thereof, for a period of one year immediately following the date the Registration
Statement (as hereinafter defined) is declared effective by the Commission (as hereinafter
defined). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Underwriter’s Purchase Option shall be transferable to
affiliates of the Underwriter.
1.3.2 Payment and Delivery. Subject to Section 1.3.3, Delivery and payment for the
Underwriter’s Purchase Option shall be made on the Closing Date. The Company shall deliver to the
Underwriters, upon payment therefor, certificates for the Underwriter’s Purchase Option in the name
or names and in such authorized denominations as the Representative may request.
1.3.3. Cashless Exercise. Both the Underwriter’s Purchase Option and the Underwriter’s
Warrants may be exercised in lieu of paying the cash exercise price therefor, by the surrender of
such number of Underwriter’s Units or Underwriter’s Warrants, as the case may be, as is equal in
fair market value on the date of surrender to the exercise price therefor.
2. Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and warrants to the
Underwriters as follows:
2.1 Filing of Registration Statement.
2.1.1 Pursuant to the Act. The Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (“Commission”) a registration statement and an amendment or amendments thereto, on Form
S-1 (File No. 333-144548), including any related preliminary prospectus (“Preliminary Prospectus”),
for the registration of the Public Securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“Act”),
which registration statement and amendment or amendments have been prepared by the Company in
conformity with the requirements of the Act, and the rules and regulations (“Regulations”) of the
Commission under the Act. Except as the context may otherwise require, such registration statement,
as amended, on file with the Commission at the time the registration statement becomes effective
(including the prospectus, financial statements, schedules, exhibits and all other documents filed
as a part thereof or incorporated therein and all information deemed to be a part thereof as of
such time pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 430A of the Regulations), is hereinafter called the
"Registration Statement,” and the form of the final prospectus dated the Effective Date included in
the Registration Statement (or, if applicable, the form of final prospectus filed with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424 of the Regulations), is hereinafter called the “Prospectus.” If the
Company has filed an abbreviated registration statement to register additional Public Securities
pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Rules (the “462(b)
Registration Statement”), then any reference herein to the Registration Statement shall also be
deemed to include such 462(b) Registration Statement. The Registration Statement has been declared
effective by the Commission on the date hereof.
The Company has delivered to the Representative a complete, manually signed copy of the
Registration Statement and of each consent and certificate of experts filed as a part thereof and
has delivered to the Representative conformed copies of the Registration Statement (without
exhibits) and Preliminary Prospectuses and the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, in such
quantities and at such places as the Representative has reasonably requested. Each Preliminary
Prospectus used by the Underwriters pursuant to Rule 430A and the Prospectus, as filed by
electronic transmission pursuant to XXXXX (except as may be permitted by Regulation S-T under the
Act), was identical to the copy thereof delivered to the Representative for use in connection with
the offer and sale of the Public Securities.
2.1.2 Pursuant to the Exchange Act. The Company has filed with the Commission a Form 8-A
(File Number 000-52949) providing for the registration under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended (“Exchange Act”), of the Units, the Common Stock and the Warrants. The registration of
the Units, Common Stock and Warrants under the Exchange Act has been declared effective by the
Commission on the date hereof. Neither the Commission nor, to the best of the Company’s knowledge,
any state regulatory authority has issued any order or threatened to issue any order preventing or
suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or has instituted or, to the best of the Company’s
knowledge, threatened to institute any proceedings with respect to such an order.
2.2 No Stop Orders, Etc. Neither the Commission nor, to the best of the Company’s
knowledge, any state regulatory authority has issued any order or threatened to issue any order
preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or has instituted or, to the best of
the Company’s knowledge, threatened to institute any proceedings with respect to such an order.
2.3 Disclosures in Registration Statement.
2.3.1 10b-5 Representation. At the time the Registration Statement became effective and at
all times subsequent thereto up to the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, if any, the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus does and will contain all material statements that are
required to be stated therein in accordance with the Act and the Regulations, and does and will in
all material respects conform to the requirements of the Act and the Regulations; neither the
Registration Statement nor the Prospectus, nor any amendment or supplement thereto, on such dates,
does or will contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. When any Preliminary Prospectus was first
filed with the Commission (whether filed as part of the Registration Statement for the registration
of the Securities or any amendment thereto or pursuant to Rule 424(a) of the Regulations) and when
any amendment thereof or supplement thereto was first filed with the Commission, such Preliminary
Prospectus and any amendments thereof and supplements thereto complied or will comply in all
material respects with the applicable provisions of the Act and the Regulations and did not and
will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required
to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The representation and warranty made in
this Section 2.3.1 does not apply to statements made or statements omitted in reliance upon and in
conformity with written information furnished to the Company with respect to the Underwriters by
the Representative expressly for use in the Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendment
thereof or supplement thereto.
2.3.2 Disclosure of Agreements. The agreements and documents described in the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus conform to the descriptions thereof contained therein and
there are no agreements or other documents required to be described in the Registration Statement
or the Prospectus or to be filed with the Commission as exhibits to the Registration Statement,
that have not been so described or filed. Each agreement or other instrument (however characterized
or described) to which the Company is a party or by which its property or business is or may be
bound or affected and (i) that is
referred to in the Prospectus, or (ii) is material to the Company’s business, has been duly and
validly executed by the Company, is in full force and effect and is enforceable against the Company
and, to the Company’s knowledge, the other parties thereto, in accordance with its terms, except
(x) as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws
affecting creditors’ rights generally, (y) as enforceability of any indemnification or contribution
provision may be limited under the federal and state securities laws, and (z) that the remedy of
specific performance and injunctive and other forms of equitable relief may be subject to the
equitable defenses and to the discretion of the court before which any proceeding therefor may be
brought, and none of such agreements or instruments has been assigned by the Company, and neither
the Company nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any other party is in breach or default thereunder
and, to the Company’s knowledge, no event has occurred that, with the lapse of time or the giving
of notice, or both, would constitute a breach or default thereunder. To the Company’s knowledge,
performance by the Company of the material provisions of such agreements or instruments will not
result in a violation of any existing applicable law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree
of any governmental agency or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or
any of its assets or businesses, including, without limitation, those relating to environmental
laws and regulations.
2.3.3 Prior Securities Transactions. No securities of the Company have been sold by the
Company or by or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, any person or persons controlling, controlled
by, or under common control with the Company since the Company’s formation, except as disclosed in
the Registration Statement.
2.3.4 Regulations. The disclosures in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
concerning the effects of federal, state and local regulation on the Company’s business as
currently contemplated are correct in all material respects and do not omit to state a material
fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances in which they were
made, not misleading.
2.3.5 Data. The statistical and related data included in the Registration Statement are based
on or derived from sources that the Company believes to be reliable and accurate.
2.4 Changes After Dates in Registration Statement.
2.4.1 No Material Adverse Change. Since the respective dates as of which information is
given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, except as otherwise specifically stated
therein, (i) there has been no material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or
business prospects of the Company, (ii) there have been no material transactions or agreements
entered into by the Company, other than as contemplated pursuant to this Agreement, and (iii) no
member of the Company’s management has resigned from any position with the Company.
2.4.2 Recent Securities Transactions, Etc. Subsequent to the respective dates as of
which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and except as may
otherwise be indicated or contemplated herein or therein, the Company has not (i) issued any
securities or incurred any liability or obligation, direct or contingent, for borrowed money; or
(ii) declared or paid any dividend or made any other distribution on or in respect to its equity
securities.
2.5 Independent Accountants. Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx LLP (“CPA”), whose report is filed
with the Commission as part of the Registration Statement, are independent accountants as required
by the Act and the Regulations. CPA has not, during the periods covered by the financial statements
included in the Prospectus, provided to the Company any non-audit services, as such term is used in
Section 10A(g) of the Exchange Act. There are no material off-balance sheet transactions,
arrangements, obligations (including contingent obligations) or any other relationships with
unconsolidated entities or other persons, that may have a material current or, to the Company’s
knowledge, a material future effect on the Company’s financial condition, changes in financial
condition, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures, capital resources, or
significant components of revenues or expenses.
2.6 Financial Statements. The financial statements, including the notes thereto and
supporting
schedules (if any) included in the Registration Statement and Prospectus fairly present the
financial position, the results of operations and the cash flows of the Company at the dates and
for the periods to which they apply; such financial statements comply with the applicable
accounting requirements of the Act and the Regulations; and such financial statements have been
prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied
throughout the periods involved; and the supporting schedules included in the Registration
Statement (if any) present fairly the information required to be stated therein. The summary
financial data included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus present fairly the
information shown thereon and have been compiled on a basis consistent with the audited financial
statements presented therein. No other financial statements or schedules are required to be
included in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus. The Registration Statement discloses all
material off-balance sheet transactions, arrangements, obligations (including contingent
obligations), and other relationships of the Company with unconsolidated entities or other persons
that may have a material current or future effect on the Company’s financial condition, changes in
financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures, capital resources, or
significant components of revenues or expenses.
2.7 Authorized Capital; Options; Etc. The Company had at the date or dates indicated in
the Prospectus duly authorized, issued and outstanding capitalization as set forth in the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus. Based on the assumptions stated in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus, the Company will have on the Closing Date the adjusted stock
capitalization set forth therein. Except as set forth in, or contemplated by, the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus, on the Effective Date and on the Closing Date, there will be no
options, warrants, or other rights to purchase or otherwise acquire any authorized but unissued
shares of Common Stock of the Company or any security convertible into shares of Common Stock of
the Company, or any contracts or commitments to issue or sell shares of Common Stock or any such
options, warrants, rights or convertible securities.
2.8 Valid Issuance of Securities; Etc.
2.8.1 Outstanding Securities. All issued and outstanding securities of the Company have
been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable; the holders thereof
have no rights of rescission with respect thereto, and are not subject to personal liability by
reason of being such holders; and none of such securities were issued in violation of the
preemptive rights of any holders of any security of the Company or similar contractual rights
granted by the Company and all corporate action required to be taken for the authorization,
issuance and sale of the securities has been duly and validly taken. The authorized Common Stock
conforms to all statements relating thereto contained in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus. The offers and sales of the outstanding Common Stock were at all relevant times either
registered under the Act and the applicable state securities or Blue Sky laws or, based in part on
the representations and warranties of the purchasers of such shares of Common Stock, exempt from
such registration requirements.
2.8.2 Securities Sold Pursuant to this Agreement and the Management Securities. The
Securities and the additional 1,805,555 warrants being purchased from the Company by Lumax
Investment Management, LLC (“LIM”), an affiliate of the current stockholders of the Company (the
“Initial Stockholders”) concurrently herewith at a purchase price per warrant of $0.90 (the
“Management Warrants”) have been duly authorized and, when issued and paid for, will be validly
issued, fully paid and non-assessable; the holders thereof are not and will not be subject to
personal liability by reason of being such holders; the Securities are not and will not be subject
to the preemptive rights of any holders of any security of the Company or similar contractual
rights granted by the Company; and all corporate action required to be taken for the authorization,
issuance and sale of the Securities has been duly and validly taken. The Securities and the
Management Warrants conform in all material respects to all statements with respect thereto
contained in the Registration Statement. When issued, the Underwriter’s Purchase Option, the
Underwriter’s Warrants, the Warrants and the Management Warrants and the shares underlying the
Management Warrants (together with the Management Warrants, the “Management Securities”) will
constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company to issue and sell, upon exercise thereof
and payment of the respective exercise prices therefor, the number and type of securities of the
Company called for thereby in accordance with the terms thereof and such Underwriter’s Purchase
Option, the Underwriter’s Warrants, the Management Securities and the Warrants are enforceable
against the Company in accordance with their respective terms, except (i) as such enforceability
may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors’
rights generally, (ii) as enforceability of any indemnification or contribution provision may be
limited under the federal and state securities laws, and (iii) that the remedy of specific
performance and injunctive and other forms of equitable relief may be subject to the equitable
defenses and to the discretion of the court before which any proceeding therefor may be brought.
2.9 Registration Rights of Third Parties. Except as set forth in the Prospectus, no
holders of any securities of the Company or any rights exercisable for or convertible or
exchangeable into securities of the Company have the right to require the Company to register any
such securities of the Company under the Act or to include any such securities in a registration
statement to be filed by the Company.
2.10 Validity and Binding Effect of Agreements. This Agreement, the Warrant Agreement
(as defined in Section 2.21), the Trust Agreement, the Services Agreement (as defined in Section
3.7.2), the Management Subscription Agreement (as defined in Section 2.22.3) and the Escrow
Agreement (as defined in Section 2.22.2) have been duly and validly authorized by the Company and
constitute, and the Underwriter’s Purchase Option, has been duly and validly authorized by the
Company and, when executed and delivered, will constitute, the valid and binding agreements of the
Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective terms, except (i) as
such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws
affecting creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as enforceability of any indemnification or
contribution provision may be limited under the federal and state securities laws, and (iii) that
the remedy of specific performance and injunctive and other forms of equitable relief may be
subject to the equitable defenses and to the discretion of the court before which any proceeding
therefor may be brought.
2.11 No Conflicts, Etc. The execution, delivery, and performance by the Company of this
Agreement, the Warrant Agreement, the Underwriter’s Purchase Option, the Trust Agreement, the
Services Agreement, the Management Subscription Agreement and the Escrow Agreement, the
consummation by the Company of the transactions herein and therein contemplated and the compliance
by the Company with the terms hereof and thereof do not and will not, with or without the giving of
notice or the lapse of time or both (i) result in a breach of, or conflict with any of the terms
and provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation, modification,
termination or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the
Company pursuant to the terms of any agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party except
pursuant to the Trust Agreement referred to in Section 2.23; (ii) result in any violation of the
provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation or the Bylaws of the Company; or (iii) violate any
existing applicable law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree of any governmental agency or
court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties or
business.
2.12 No Defaults; Violations. No material default exists in the due performance and
observance of any term, covenant or condition of any material license, contract, indenture,
mortgage, deed of trust, note, loan or credit agreement, or any other agreement or instrument
evidencing an obligation for borrowed money, or any other material agreement or instrument to which
the Company is a party or by which the Company may be bound or to which any of the properties or
assets of the Company is subject. The Company is not in violation of any term or provision of its
Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws or in violation of any material franchise, license, permit,
applicable law, rule, regulation, judgment or decree of any governmental agency or court, domestic
or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties or businesses.
2.13 Corporate Power; Licenses; Consents.
2.13.1 Conduct of Business. The Company has all requisite corporate power and authority,
and has all necessary authorizations, approvals, orders, licenses, certificates and permits of and
from all governmental regulatory officials and bodies that it needs as of the date hereof to
conduct its business purpose as described in the Prospectus. The disclosures in the Registration
Statement concerning the
effects of federal, state and local regulation on this offering and the Company’s business purpose
as currently contemplated are correct in all material respects and do not omit to state a material
fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light
of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
2.13.2 Transactions Contemplated in this Agreement. The Company has all corporate power
and authority to enter into this Agreement and to carry out the provisions and conditions hereof,
and all consents, authorizations, approvals and orders required in connection therewith have been
obtained. No consent, authorization or order of, and no filing with, any court, government agency
or other body is required for the valid issuance, sale and delivery, of the Securities and the
consummation of the transactions and agreements contemplated by this Agreement, the Warrant
Agreement, the Underwriter’s Purchase Option, the Trust Agreement, the Service Agreement, the
Management Subscription Agreement and the Escrow Agreement and as contemplated by the Prospectus,
except with respect to applicable federal and state securities laws.
2.14 D&O Questionnaires. To the best of the Company’s knowledge, all information
contained in the questionnaires (“Questionnaires”) completed by each of the Company’s officers or
directors immediately prior to the Offering (“Insiders”) and provided to the Underwriters as an
exhibit to his or her Insider Letter (as defined in Section 2.22.1) is true and correct and the
Company has not become aware of any information which would cause the information disclosed in the
questionnaires completed by each Insider to become inaccurate and incorrect.
2.15 Litigation; Governmental Proceedings. There is no action, suit, proceeding,
inquiry, arbitration, investigation, litigation or governmental proceeding pending or, to the best
of the Company’s knowledge, threatened against, or involving the Company or, to the best of the
Company’s knowledge, any Insider, including, without limitation, any Initial Stockholders, which
has not been disclosed in the Registration Statement or the Questionnaires.
2.16 Good Standing. The Company has been duly organized and is validly existing as a
corporation and is in good standing under the laws of its state of incorporation, and is duly
qualified to do business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in
which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of business requires such qualification,
except where the failure to qualify would not have a material adverse effect on the assets,
business or operations of the Company.
2.17 Stop Orders. The Commission has not issued any order preventing or suspending the
use of any Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus or any part thereof and has not threatened to issue
any such order.
2.18 Transactions Affecting Disclosure to FINRA.
2.18.1 Finder’s Fees. Except as described in the Prospectus, there are no claims,
payments, arrangements, agreements or understandings relating to the payment of a finder’s,
consulting or origination fee by the Company or any Insider with respect to the sale of the
Securities hereunder or any other arrangements, agreements or understandings of the Company or, to
the best of the Company’s knowledge, any Initial Stockholder that may affect the Underwriters’
compensation, as determined by the FINRA.
2.18.2 Payments Within Twelve Months. Other than payments to DJ, the Company has not
within the twelve months prior to the Effective Date made any direct or indirect payments (in cash,
securities or otherwise) (i) to any person, as a finder’s fee, consulting fee or otherwise, in
consideration of such person raising capital for the Company or introducing to the Company persons
who raised or provided capital to the Company, (ii) to any FINRA member or (iii) to any person or
entity that has any direct or indirect affiliation or association with any FINRA member.
2.18.3 Use of Proceeds. None of the net proceeds of the Offering will be paid by the
Company to any participating FINRA member or its affiliates, except as specifically authorized
herein and except as
may be paid in connection with a Business Combination as contemplated by the Prospectus.
2.18.4 Insiders’ FINRA Affiliation. Based on questionnaires distributed to such persons,
no officer, director or any beneficial owner of the Company’s unregistered securities has any
direct or indirect affiliation or association with any FINRA member. The Company will advise the
Representative and its counsel if prior to the Effective Date, it learns that any officer, director
or owner of at least 5% of the Company’s outstanding Common Stock is or becomes an affiliate or
associated person of an FINRA member participating in the offering.
2.18.5 Form 211. A market maker (the “Market Maker”) reasonably acceptable to the
Representative has submitted a Form 211 to the OTC Compliance Unit and the Company will cooperate
with the Representative to receive approval as expeditiously as possible for the quotation of the
Securities on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (“OTC Bulletin Board”) administered by the FINRA.
2.19 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Neither the Company nor any of the Insiders or any
other person acting on behalf of the Company has, directly or indirectly, given or agreed to give
any money, gift or similar benefit (other than legal price concessions to customers in the ordinary
course of business) to any customer, supplier, employee or agent of a customer or supplier, or
official or employee of any governmental agency or instrumentality of any government (domestic or
foreign) or any political party or candidate for office (domestic or foreign) or any political
party or candidate for office (domestic or foreign) or other person who was, is, or may be in a
position to help or hinder the business of the Company (or assist it in connection with any actual
or proposed transaction) that (i) might subject the Company to any damage or penalty in any civil,
criminal or governmental litigation or proceeding, (ii) if not given in the past, might have had a
material adverse effect on the assets, business or operations of the Company as reflected in any of
the financial statements contained in the Prospectus or (iii) if not continued in the future, might
adversely affect the assets, business, operations or prospects of the Company. The Company’s
internal accounting controls and procedures are sufficient to cause the Company to comply with the
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.
2.20 Officers’ Certificate. Any certificate signed by any duly authorized officer of the
Company and delivered to you or to your counsel shall be deemed a representation and warranty by
the Company to the Underwriters as to the matters covered thereby.
2.21 Warrant Agreement. The Company has entered into a warrant agreement with respect to
the Warrants and the Underwriter’s Warrants with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company
substantially in the form filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement (“Warrant Agreement”).
2.22 Agreements with Insiders.
2.22.1 Insider Letters. The Company has caused to be duly executed legally binding and
enforceable agreements (except (i) as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as enforceability of any
indemnification, contribution or noncompete provision may be limited under the federal and state
securities laws, and (iii) that the remedy of specific performance and injunctive and other forms
of equitable relief may be subject to the equitable defenses and to the discretion of the court
before which any proceeding therefor may be brought) annexed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registration
Statement (“Insider Letters”), pursuant to which each of the Insiders agrees to certain matters,
including but not limited to, certain matters described as being agreed to by them under the
“Proposed Business” section of the Prospectus.
2.22.2 Escrow Agreement. The Company has caused the Initial Stockholders to enter into
an escrow agreement (“Escrow Agreement”) with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company (“Escrow
Agent”) substantially in the form annexed as Exhibit 10.4 to the Registration Statement, whereby
the Common Stock owned by the Initial Stockholders will be held in escrow by the Escrow Agent,
until the first anniversary of the date a Business Combination is completed. During such escrow
period, the Initial Stockholders shall be prohibited from selling or otherwise transferring such
shares (except to spouses
and children of Initial Stockholders and trusts established for their benefit and as otherwise set
forth in the Escrow Agreement) but will retain the right to vote such shares. To the Company’s
knowledge, each of the Escrow Agreement and the Management Subscription Agreement (as defined in
Section 2.22.3) is enforceable against each of the Initial Stockholders and LIM, respectively, and
will not, with or without the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both, result in a breach of,
or conflict with any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute a default under, any agreement
or instrument to which any of the Initial Stockholders or LIM is a party. None of the Escrow
Agreement or any of the Management Subscription Agreement shall be amended, modified or otherwise
changed without the prior written consent of the Representative (such consent not to be
unreasonably withheld).
2.22.3 Management Warrants. Concurrently herewith, LIM is entering into a subscription
agreement (the “Management Subscription Agreement”) with the Company in the form annexed as Exhibit
10.8 to the Registration Statement, whereby LIM is purchasing the Management Warrants and is
waiving its right to receive distributions upon any liquidation of the Company prior to a Business
Combination. The Management Warrants consist of Warrants identical in all respects to the Warrants
included in the Units offered in the Offering, except as described in the prospectus. The issuance
and sale of the Management Securities under the Management Subscription Agreement are exempt from
registration pursuant to Section 4(2) of the Act.
2.23 Investment Management Trust Agreement. The Company has entered into the Trust
Agreement with respect to certain proceeds of the Offering substantially in the form annexed as
Exhibit 10.3 to the Registration Statement, which Trust Agreement shall not be amended, modified or
otherwise changed without the prior written consent of the Underwriters (such consent not to be
unreasonably withheld).
2.24 Covenants Not to Compete. No Initial Stockholder, employee, officer or director of
the Company is subject to any non-competition agreement or non-solicitation agreement with any
employer or prior employer which could materially affect his ability to be an Initial Stockholder,
employee, officer and/or director of the Company.
2.25 Investment Company Act; Investments. The Company has been advised concerning the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), and the rules and
regulations thereunder and has in the past conducted, and intends in the future to conduct, its
affairs in such a manner as to ensure that it will not become an “investment company” or a company
“controlled” by an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act and such
rules and regulations. The Company is not, nor will the Company become upon the sale of the Units
and the application of the proceeds therefore as described in the Prospectus under the caption “Use
of Proceeds”, an “investment company” or a person controlled by an “investment company” within the
meaning of the Investment Company Act. No more than 45% of the “value” (as defined in Section
2(a)(41) of the Investment Company Act) of the Company’s total assets (exclusive of cash items and
“Government Securities” (as defined in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act) consist of,
and no more than 45% of the Company’s net income after taxes is derived from, securities other than
the Government Securities.
2.26 Subsidiaries. The Company does not own an interest in any corporation, partnership,
limited liability company, joint venture, trust or other business entity.
2.27 Related Party Transactions. There are no business relationships or related party
transactions involving the Company or any other person required to be described in the Prospectus
that have not been described as required. There are no outstanding loans, advances (except normal
advances for business expenses in the ordinary course of business) or guarantees of indebtedness by
the Company to or for the benefit of any of the officers or directors or Initial Stockholders of
the Company or any of the members of the families of any of them, except as disclosed in the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
2.28 No Distribution of Offering Material. The Company has not distributed and will not
distribute
prior to the Closing Date any offering material in connection with the offering and sale of the
Units other than any Preliminary Prospectuses, the Prospectus, the Registration Statement and other
materials, if any, permitted by the Act.
2.29 Title to Assets. Except as set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus,
the Company has good and marketable title to all properties and assets described in the
Registration Statement and Prospectus as owned by it, free and clear of any pledge, lien, security
interest, encumbrances, claim or equitable interest, other than such as would not have a material
adverse effect on the financial condition, earnings, operations, business or business prospects of
the Company.
2.30 Taxes. The Company has timely filed all necessary federal, state and foreign income
and franchise tax returns and has paid all taxes shown thereon as due, and there is no tax
deficiency that has been or, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, might be asserted against the
Company that might have a material adverse effect on the financial condition, earnings, operations,
business or business prospects of the Company, and all material tax liabilities are adequately
provided for on the books of the Company.
2.31 Rule 419. Upon delivery and payment for the Firm Units on the Closing Date, the
Company will not be subject to Rule 419 under the Act and none of the Company’s outstanding
securities will be deemed to be a “xxxxx stock” as defined in Rule 3a-51-1 under the Exchange Act.
3. Covenants of the Company. The Company covenants and agrees as follows:
3.1 Amendments to Registration Statement. The Company will deliver to the
Representative, prior to filing, any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or
Prospectus proposed to be filed after the Effective Date and not file any such amendment or
supplement to which the Representative shall reasonably object in writing.
3.2 Federal Securities Laws.
3.2.1 Effectiveness, Compliance. The Company will use its best efforts to cause the
Registration Statement, if not effective at the time of execution of this Agreement, and any
amendments thereto, to become effective as promptly as possible. The Company shall prepare the
Prospectus in a form approved by the Representatives and file such Prospectus pursuant to Rule
424(b) under the Securities Act no later than the Commission’s close of business on the second
business day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement, or, if applicable, such
earlier time as may be required by the Rules. During the time when a Prospectus is required to be
delivered under the Act, the Company will use its best efforts to comply with all requirements
imposed upon it by the Act, the Regulations and the Exchange Act and by the regulations under the
Exchange Act, as from time to time in force, so far as necessary to permit the continuance of sales
of or dealings in the Public Securities in accordance with the provisions hereof and the
Prospectus. If at any time when a Prospectus relating to the Public Securities is required to be
delivered under the Act, any event shall have occurred as a result of which, in the opinion of
counsel for the Company or counsel for the Underwriters, the Prospectus, as then amended or
supplemented, includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or if it is necessary at any time to
amend the Prospectus to comply with the Act, the Company will notify the Representative promptly
and prepare and file with the Commission, subject to Section 3.1 hereof, an appropriate amendment
or supplement in accordance with Section 10 of the Act.
3.2.2 Filing of Final Prospectus. The Company will file the Prospectus (in form and
substance satisfactory to the Representative) with the Commission pursuant to the requirements of
Rule 424 of the Regulations.
3.2.3 Exchange Act Registration. The Company will use its best efforts to maintain the
registration of the Units, Common Stock and Warrants under the provisions of the Exchange Act for a
period of five years from the Effective Date, or until the Company is required to be liquidated, if
earlier or, in the case of the Warrants, until the Warrants expire and are no longer exercisable.
The Company will not deregister the Units, Common Stock or Warrants under the Exchange Act without
the prior written consent of DJ.
3.3 Blue Sky Filings. The Company will use its best efforts, in cooperation with the
Representative, at or prior to the time the Registration Statement becomes effective, to qualify
the Public Securities for offering and sale under the securities laws of such jurisdictions as the
Representative may reasonably designate, provided that no such qualification shall be required in
any jurisdiction where, as a result thereof, the Company would be subject to service of general
process or to taxation as a foreign corporation doing business in such jurisdiction. In each
jurisdiction where such qualification shall be effected, the Company will, unless the
Representative agrees that such action is not at the time necessary or advisable, use its best
efforts to file and make such statements or reports at such times as are or may be required by the
laws of such jurisdiction.
3.4 Delivery to Underwriters of Prospectuses. The Company will deliver to each of the
several Underwriters, without charge, from time to time during the period when the Prospectus is
required to be delivered under the Act or the Exchange Act, such number of copies of each
Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus as such Underwriters may reasonably request and, as soon
as the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement thereto becomes effective, deliver to
you two original executed Registration Statements, including exhibits, and all post-effective
amendments thereto and copies of all exhibits filed therewith or incorporated therein by reference
and all original executed consents of certified experts.
3.5 Effectiveness and Events Requiring Notice to the Representative. The Company will
use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to remain effective during the period when
the Prospectus is required to be delivered under the Act and will notify the Representative
immediately and confirm the notice in writing (i) of the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement and any amendment thereto, (ii) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of
the initiation, or the threatening, of any proceeding for that purpose, (iii) of the issuance by
any state securities commission of any proceedings for the suspension of the qualification of the
Public Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction or of the initiation, or the
threatening, of any proceeding for that purpose, (iv) of the mailing and delivery to the Commission
for filing of any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or Prospectus, (v) of the
receipt of any comments or request for any additional information from the Commission, and (vi) of
the happening of any event during the period described in Section 3.4 hereof that, in the judgment
of the Company, makes any statement of a material fact made in the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus untrue or that requires the making of any changes in the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they
were made, not misleading. The Company shall not file any amendment of the Registration Statement
or supplement to the Prospectus or any document incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement unless the Company has furnished the Underwriter with a copy for review prior to filing
and shall not file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which the Underwriter reasonable
objects. If the Commission or any state securities commission shall enter a stop order or suspend
such qualification at any time, the Company will use commercially reasonable effort to obtain
promptly the lifting of such order.
3.6 Review of Financial Statements. Until the earlier of five years from the Effective
Date, or until such earlier time upon which the Company is required to be liquidated, the Company,
at its expense, shall cause its regularly engaged independent certified public accountants to
review (but not audit) the Company’s financial statements for each of the first three fiscal
quarters prior to the announcement of quarterly financial information, the filing of the Company’s
Form 10-Q quarterly report and the mailing of quarterly financial information to stockholders.
3.7 Affiliated Transactions.
3.7.1 Business Combinations. The Company will not consummate a Business Combination with
any entity which is affiliated with any Insider unless the Company obtains an opinion from an
independent investment banking firm that the Business Combination is fair to the Company’s
stockholders from a financial perspective.
3.7.2 Administrative Services. The Company has entered into an agreement (“Services
Agreement”) with Sea View Capital Advisors, LLC (“Affiliate”) substantially in the form annexed as
Exhibit 10.5 to the Registration Statement pursuant to which the Affiliate will make available to
the Company general and administrative services including office space, utilities and secretarial
support for the Company’s use for $7,500 per month.
3.7.3 Compensation. Except as set forth above in this Section 3.7, the Company shall not
pay any Initial Stockholder or any of their affiliates any fees or compensation from the Company,
for services rendered to the Company prior to, or in connection with, the consummation of a
Business Combination; provided that the Insiders shall be entitled to reimbursement from the
Company for their reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with seeking and
consummating a Business Combination, at rates which are no less favorable to the Company than those
which the Company would pay to unaffiliated third parties.
3.8 Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act. The Company has taken all necessary actions to ensure, that,
upon and at all times after the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, it will be in
compliance with all applicable provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder or implementing the provision thereof (“Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act”)
that are then in effect and is actively taking steps to ensure that it will be in compliance with
other applicable provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act not currently in effect upon the
effectiveness of such provisions.
3.9 Reports to the Representative.
3.9.1 Periodic Reports, Etc. For a period of two years from the Effective Date or until
such earlier time upon which the Company is required to be liquidated, the Company will furnish to
the Representative (Attn: Xxxx Xxxxxx), and its counsel copies of such financial statements and
other periodic and special reports as the Company from time to time furnishes generally to holders
of any class of its securities, and promptly furnish to the Representative (i) a copy of each
periodic report the Company shall be required to file with the Commission, (ii) a copy of every
press release and every news item and article with respect to the Company or its affairs which was
released by the Company, (iii) a copy of each Form 8-K or Schedules 13D, 13G, 14D-1 or 13E-4
received or prepared by the Company, (iv) five copies of each registration statement filed by the
Company with the Commission under the Securities Act, (and (vi) such additional documents and
information with respect to the Company and the affairs of any future subsidiaries of the Company
as the Representative may from time to time reasonably request, subject to the execution of a
satisfactory confidentiality agreement.
3.10 Payment of Expenses.
3.10.1 General Expenses Related to the Offering. The Company hereby agrees to pay on
each of the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, if any, to the extent not paid at Closing
Date, all expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the Company under this
Agreement, including but not limited to (i) the preparation, printing, filing and mailing
(including the payment of postage with respect to such mailing) of the Registration Statement, the
Preliminary and Final Prospectuses and the printing and mailing of this Agreement and related
documents, including the cost of all copies thereof and any amendments thereof or supplements
thereto supplied to the Underwriters in quantities as may be required by the Underwriters, (ii) the
printing, engraving, issuance and delivery of the Units, the shares of Common Stock and the
Warrants included in the Units and the Underwriter’s Purchase Option, including any transfer or
other taxes payable thereon, (iii) the qualification of the Public Securities under state or
foreign securities or Blue Sky laws, including the costs of printing and mailing the “Preliminary
Blue Sky Memorandum,” and all amendments and supplements thereto, fees and disbursements of the
Representative’s counsel for such qualification (such fees and disbursements shall not exceed
$30,000 in the aggregate), (iv) filing fees, costs and expenses (including disbursements for the
Underwriter’s
counsel) incurred in registering the Offering with the FINRA (such fees and disbursements shall not
exceed $15,000 in the aggregate), (v) fees and disbursements of the transfer and warrant agent,
(vi) the Company’s expenses associated with “due diligence” meetings arranged by the
Representative, and (vii) all other costs and expenses customarily borne by an issuer incident to
the performance of its obligations hereunder which are not otherwise specifically provided for in
this Section 3.10.1. The Company also agrees that, if requested by the Representative, it will
engage and pay for an investigative search firm of the Representative’s choice to conduct an
investigation of the principals of the Company as shall be mutually selected by the Representative
and the Company. The Representative may deduct from the net proceeds of the Offering payable to
the Company on the Closing Date, or the Option Closing Date, if any, the expenses set forth in this
Agreement to be paid by the Company to the Representative and others (as set forth on an agreed
schedule to be furnished by the Representative prior to the Closing Date). If the Offering
contemplated by this Agreement is not consummated for any reason whatsoever then the Company shall
reimburse the Representative in full for its out-of-pocket expenses, including, without limitation,
its legal fees (exclusive of legal fees for State registration as described above) and
disbursements and “road show” and due diligence expenses, to the extent such expenses exceed the
non-accountable expense allowance previously paid. If the amount previously paid is insufficient to
cover such actual out-of-pocket expenses, the Company shall remain liable for and promptly pay any
other actual out-of-pocket expenses.
3.10.2 Deferred Non-accountable Expenses. The Company further agrees that, in addition
to the expenses payable pursuant to Section 3.10.1, upon the consummation of the initial Business
Combination, it will pay to the Representative a non-accountable expense allowance equal to
$375,000. This non-accountable expense allowance shall be paid from the proceeds deposited in the
Trust Fund.
3.11 Application of Net Proceeds. The Company will apply the net proceeds from the
Offering received by it in a manner consistent with the application described under the caption
“Use of Proceeds” in the Prospectus.
3.12 Delivery of Earnings Statements to Security Holders. The Company will make
generally available to its security holders as soon as practicable, but not later than the first
day of the fifteenth full calendar month following the Effective Date, an earnings statement (which
need not be certified by independent public or independent certified public accountants unless
required by the Act or the Regulations, but which shall satisfy the provisions of Rule 158(a)-(b)
under Section 11(a) of the Act) covering a period of at least twelve consecutive months beginning
after the Effective Date.
3.13 Stabilization. Neither the Company, nor, to its knowledge, any of its employees,
directors or stockholders (without the consent of DJ) has taken or will take, directly or
indirectly, any action designed to or that has constituted or that might reasonably be expected to
cause or result in, under the Exchange Act, or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of the
price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Units.
3.14 Internal Controls. The Company will maintain a system of internal accounting
controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that: (i) transactions are executed in
accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, (ii) transactions are recorded as
necessary in order to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles and to maintain accountability for assets, (iii) access to assets is
permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv) the
recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and
appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
3.15 Accountants. Until the earlier of two years from the Effective Date or until such
earlier time upon which the Company is required to be liquidated, the Company shall retain CPA, a
“big Four” firm, or another independent public accountant reasonably acceptable to DJ.
3.16 Form 8-K. The Company shall, on the date hereof, retain its independent public
accountants to audit the financial statements of the Company as of the Closing Date (“Audited
Financial
Statements”) reflecting the receipt by the Company of the proceeds of the initial public offering.
As soon as the Audited Financial Statements become available, the Company shall immediately file a
Current Report on Form 8-K with the Commission, which Report shall contain the Company’s Audited
Financial Statements.
3.17 FINRA, OTC Quotation. The Company shall advise the FINRA if it is aware that any 5%
or greater stockholder of the Company becomes an affiliate or associated person of an FINRA member
participating in the distribution of the Company’s Public Securities. In the event any person or
entity (regardless of any FINRA affiliation or association) is engaged to assist the Company in its
search for a merger candidate or to provide any other merger and acquisition services, the Company
will provide the following to the FINRA prior to the consummation of the Business Combination: (i)
complete details of all services and copies of agreements governing such services; and (ii)
justification as to why the person or entity providing the merger and acquisition services should
not be considered an “underwriter and related person” with respect to the Company’s initial public
offering, as such term is defined in Rule 2710 of the FINRA’s Conduct Rules. The Company also
agrees that proper disclosure of such arrangement or potential arrangement will be made in the
proxy statement which the Company will file for purposes of soliciting stockholder approval for the
Business Combination. Further, the Company will cooperate with the Representative to receive
approval as expeditiously as possible for the quotation of the Securities on the OTC Bulletin
Board.
3.18 Corporate Proceedings. All corporate proceedings and other legal matters necessary
to carry out the provisions of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall have
been done to the reasonable satisfaction of counsel for the Representative.
3.19 Investment Company. The Company shall cause a portion of the proceeds of the
Offering to be held in the Trust Fund to be invested only as set forth in the Trust Agreement and
as more fully described in the Prospectus. The Company will otherwise conduct its business in a
manner so that it will not become subject to the Investment Company Act. Furthermore, once the
Company consummates a Business Combination, it will be engaged in a business other than that of
investing, reinvesting, owning, holding or trading securities.
3.20 Insider Warrants. The Company hereby acknowledges and agrees that, in the event the
Company calls the Warrants for redemption pursuant to the Warrant Agreement, the Company shall
allow LIM to pay the exercise price of any Warrants purchased pursuant to the Warrant Purchase
Letters by surrendering the Warrant for that number of shares of Common Stock equal to the quotient
obtained by dividing (x) the product of the number of shares of Common Stock underlying the
Warrant, multiplied by the difference between the Warrant Price and the “Fair Market Value”
(defined below) by (y) the Fair Market Value. The “Fair Market Value” shall mean the average
reported last sale price of the Common Stock for the 10 trading days ending on the third business
day prior to the date on which the notice of redemption is sent to holders of Warrant.
3.21 Transfer Sheets. The Company agrees that, for a period of two years following the
Effective Date, the Company (at its sole expense) shall contract with the Company’s transfer agent
and DTC to provide the Underwriter with copies of transfer sheets on a daily basis and DTC weekly
securities listings.
3.22 Deferred Underwriter Discount. The Company acknowledges and agrees that $0.3042 per
Unit (that is $760,417 or $874,480 if the over-allotment option is exercised in full) of the
purchase price paid by the Underwriter to the Company for the Units shall be returned by the
Company to the Underwriter from the proceeds deposited in Trust Fund (the “Deferred Underwriter
Discount”) concurrently with the completion of the initial Business Combination.
3.23 Warrant Solicitation Fees. The Company hereby engages DJ, on a non-exclusive basis,
as its agent for the solicitation of the exercise of the Warrants. The Company will (i) assist DJ
with respect to such solicitation, if requested by DJ, and (ii) at DJ’s request, provide DJ, and
direct the Company’s transfer and warrant agent to provide to DJ, at the Company’s cost, lists of
the record and, to the extent
known, beneficial owners of, the Warrants. Commencing one year from the Effective Date, the
Company will pay DJ a commission of three percent of the exercise price of the Warrants for each
Warrant exercised within three (3) business days of the date the exercise price is paid, on the
terms provided for in the Warrant Agreement, only if permitted under the rules and regulations of
the FINRA and only to the extent that an investor who exercises his Warrants specifically
designates, in writing, that DJ solicited his exercise. DJ may engage sub-agents in its
solicitation efforts. The Company agrees to disclose the arrangement to pay such solicitation fees
to DJ in any prospectus used by the Company in connection with the registration of the shares of
Common Stock underlying the Warrants.
4. Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several Underwriters to
purchase and pay for the Units, as provided herein, shall be subject to the continuing accuracy of
the representations and warranties of the Company as of the date hereof and as of each of the
Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, if any, to the accuracy of the statements of officers of
the Company made pursuant to the provisions hereof and to the performance by the Company of its
obligations hereunder and to the following conditions:
4.1 Regulatory Matters.
4.1.1 Effectiveness of Registration Statement. The Registration Statement shall have
become effective not later than 5:00 P.M., New York time, on the date of this Agreement or such
later date and time as shall be consented to in writing by you, and, at each of the Closing Date
and the Option Closing Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for the purpose shall have been instituted or
shall be pending or contemplated by the Commission and any request on the part of the Commission
for additional information shall have been complied with by the Company to the reasonable
satisfaction of the Representative.
4.1.2 FINRA Clearance. By the Effective Date, the Representative shall have received
clearance from the FINRA as to the amount of compensation allowable or payable to the Underwriters
as described in the Registration Statement.
4.1.3 No Blue Sky Stop Orders. No order suspending the sale of the Units in any
jurisdiction designated by you pursuant to Section 3.3 hereof shall have been issued on either on
the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been
instituted or shall be contemplated.
4.2 Company Counsel Matters.
4.2.1 Closing Date Opinion of Counsel. On each of the Closing Date and the Option
Closing Date, the Representative shall have received the favorable opinion of counsel to the
Company, dated the Closing Date, addressed to the Representative and in form and substance
satisfactory to the Representative and its counsel to the effect that:
(i) The Company has been duly organized and is validly existing as a corporation and is in
good standing under the laws of its state of incorporation. The Company is duly qualified and in
good standing as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which its ownership or leasing of
any properties or the character of its operations requires such qualification, except where the
failure to qualify would not have a material adverse effect on the assets, business or operations
of the Company.
(ii) All issued and outstanding securities of the Company have been duly authorized and
validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable; the holders thereof are not subject to
personal liability by reason of being such holders; and none of such securities were issued in
violation of the preemptive rights of any stockholder of the Company arising by operation of law or
under the Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws of the Company. The offers and sales of the
outstanding Common Stock were at all relevant times either registered under the Act or exempt from
such registration requirements. The authorized capital stock of the Company is as set forth in the
Prospectus.
(iii) The Securities and the Management Securities have been duly authorized and, when issued
and paid for, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable; the holders thereof are not
and will not be subject to personal liability by reason of being such holders. The Securities and
the Management Securities are not and will not be subject to the preemptive rights of any holders
of any security of the Company arising by operation of law or under the Certificate of
Incorporation or Bylaws of the Company. When issued, the Underwriter’s Purchase Option, the
Underwriter’s Warrants, the Management Securities, the Management Warrants and the Warrants will
constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company to issue and sell, upon exercise thereof
and payment therefor, the number and type of securities of the Company called for thereby and such
Warrants, the Underwriter’s Purchase Option, and the Underwriter’s Warrants, Management Securities
and Management Warrants, when issued, in each case, are enforceable against the Company in
accordance with their respective terms, except (a) as such enforceability may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally, (b)
as enforceability of any indemnification or contribution provision may be limited under the federal
and state securities laws, and (c) that the remedy of specific performance and injunctive and other
forms of equitable relief may be subject to the equitable defenses and to the discretion of the
court before which any proceeding therefor may be brought.
(iv) This Agreement, the Warrant Agreement, the Services Agreement, the Trust Agreement, the
Management Subscription Agreement and the Escrow Agreement have each been duly and validly
authorized and, when executed and delivered by the Company, constitute, and the Underwriter’s
Purchase Option has been duly and validly authorized by the Company and, when executed and
delivered, will constitute, the valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against
the Company in accordance with their respective terms, except (a) as such enforceability may be
limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights
generally, (b) as enforceability of any indemnification or contribution provisions may be limited
under the federal and state securities laws, and (c) that the remedy of specific performance and
injunctive and other forms of equitable relief may be subject to the equitable defenses and to the
discretion of the court before which any proceeding therefor may be brought.
(v) The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Warrant Agreement, the
Underwriter’s Purchase Option, the Escrow Agreement, the Trust Agreement, the Management
Subscription Agreement and the Services Agreement and compliance by the Company with the terms and
provisions thereof and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, and the issuance
and sale of the Securities and the Management Securities, do not and will not, with or without the
giving of notice or the lapse of time, or both, (a) to such counsel’s knowledge, conflict with, or
result in a breach of, any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result
in the creation or modification of any lien, security interest, charge or encumbrance upon any of
the properties or assets of the Company pursuant to the terms of, any mortgage, deed of trust,
note, indenture, loan, contract, commitment or other agreement or instrument filed as an exhibit to
the Registration Statement, (b) result in any violation of the provisions of the Certificate of
Incorporation or the Bylaws of the Company, or (c) to such counsel’s knowledge, violate any United
States statute or any judgment, order or decree, rule or regulation applicable to the Company of
any court, domestic or foreign, or of any federal, state or other regulatory authority or other
governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company, its properties or assets.
(vi) The Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus and any
post-effective amendments or supplements thereto (other than the financial statements included
therein, as to which no opinion need be rendered) each as of their respective dates complied as to
form in all material respects with the requirements of the Act and Regulations. The Securities, all
other securities issued or issuable by the Company, and each agreement filed as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement conform in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus. The descriptions in the Registration Statement and in
the Prospectus, insofar as such statements constitute a summary of statutes, legal matters,
contracts, documents or proceedings referred to therein, fairly present in all material respects
the information required to be shown with respect to such statutes, legal matters, contracts,
documents and proceedings, and such counsel does not know of any statutes or legal or governmental
proceedings required to be described in the Prospectus that are not
described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or included as exhibits to the
Registration Statement that are not described or included as required (provided that no opinion
need be rendered with respect to the “blue sky” matters and statutes described under
“Underwriting”). Upon delivery and payment for the Firm Units on the Closing Date, the Company will
not be subject to Rule 419 under the Act and none of the Company’s outstanding securities will be
deemed to be a “xxxxx stock” as defined in Rule 3a-51-1 under the Exchange Act.
(vii) Counsel has participated in conferences with officers and other representatives of the
Company, representatives of the independent public accountants for the Company and representatives
of the Underwriters at which the contents of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and related
matters were discussed and although such counsel is not passing upon and does not assume any
responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in the
Registration Statement and Prospectus (except as otherwise set forth in this opinion), such counsel
has no knowledge of any facts which lead them to believe that either the Registration Statement, as
of the Effective Date, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading, or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, as of the date of such
opinion, contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact
necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made,
not misleading (it being understood that such counsel need express no opinion with respect to the
financial statements and schedules and other financial and statistical data included in the
Registration Statement or Prospectus).
(viii) The Registration Statement is effective under the Act. To such counsel’s knowledge, no
stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no
proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or threatened under the Act.
(ix) To such counsel’s knowledge, there is no action, suit or proceeding before or by any
court of governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, now pending, or threatened against the
Company that is required to be described in the Registration Statement.
4.2.2 Reliance. In rendering such opinion, such counsel may rely (i) as to matters
involving the application of laws other than the laws of the United States and jurisdictions in
which they are admitted, to the extent such counsel deems proper and to the extent specified in
such opinion, if at all, upon an opinion or opinions (in form and substance reasonably satisfactory
to the Representative) of other counsel reasonably acceptable to the Representative, familiar with
the applicable laws, and (ii) as to matters of fact, to the extent they deem proper, on
certificates or other written statements of officers of the Company and officers of departments of
various jurisdictions having custody of documents respecting the corporate existence or good
standing of the Company, provided that copies of any such statements or certificates shall be
delivered to the Representative’s counsel if requested. The opinion of counsel for the Company and
any opinion relied upon by such counsel for the Company shall include a statement to the effect
that it may be relied upon by counsel for the Representative in its opinion delivered to the
Representative.
4.3 Cold Comfort Letter. At the time this Agreement is executed, and at each of the
Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, if any, you shall have received a letter, addressed to
the Underwriter and in form and substance satisfactory in all respects (including the non-material
nature of the changes or decreases, if any, referred to in clause (iii) below) to you from CPA
dated, respectively, as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date and the Option
Closing Date, if any:
(i) Confirming that they are registered independent accountants with respect to the Company
within the meaning of the Act and the applicable Regulations and that they have not, during the
periods covered by the financial statements included in the Prospectus, provided to the Company any
non-audit services, as such term is used in Section 10A(g) of the Exchange Act;
(ii) Stating that in their opinion the financial statements of the Company included in the
Registration Statement and Prospectus comply as to form in all material respects with the
applicable accounting
requirements of the Act and the published Regulations thereunder;
(iii) Stating that, on the basis of a limited review which included a reading of the latest
available unaudited interim financial statements of the Company (with an indication of the date of
the latest available unaudited interim financial statements), a reading of the latest available
minutes of the stockholders and board of directors and the various committees of the board of
directors, consultations with officers and other employees of the Company responsible for financial
and accounting matters and other specified procedures and inquiries, nothing has come to their
attention which would lead them to believe that (a) the unaudited financial statements of the
Company included in the Registration Statement do not comply as to form in all material respects
with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and the Regulations or are not fairly
presented in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a basis
substantially consistent with that of the audited financial statements of the Company included in
the Registration Statement, (b) at a date not later than five days prior to the Effective Date,
Closing Date or Option Closing Date, as the case may be, there was any change in the capital stock
or long-term debt of the Company, or any decrease in the stockholders’ equity of the Company as
compared with amounts shown in the September 30, 2007 balance sheet included in the Registration
Statement, other than as set forth in or contemplated by the Registration Statement, or, if there
was any decrease, setting forth the amount of such decrease, and (c) during the period from
September 30, 2007 to a specified date not later than five days prior to the Effective Date,
Closing Date or Option Closing Date, as the case may be, there was any decrease in revenues, net
earnings or net earnings per share of Common Stock, in each case as compared with the corresponding
period in the preceding year and as compared with the corresponding period in the preceding
quarter, other than as set forth in or contemplated by the Registration Statement, or, if there was
any such decrease, setting forth the amount of such decrease;
(iv) Setting forth, at a date not later than five days prior to the Effective Date, the
amount of liabilities of the Company (including a break-down of commercial papers and notes payable
to banks);
(v) Stating that they have compared specific dollar amounts, numbers of shares, percentages
of earnings, statements and other financial information pertaining to the Company set forth in the
Prospectus in each case to the extent that such amounts, numbers, percentages, statements and
information may be derived from the general accounting records, including work sheets, of the
Company and excluding any questions requiring an interpretation by legal counsel, with the results
obtained from the application of specified readings, inquiries and other appropriate procedures
(which procedures do not constitute an examination in accordance with generally accepted auditing
standards) set forth in the letter and found them to be in agreement;
(vi) Stating that they have not during the immediately preceding five year period brought to
the attention of the Company’s management any reportable condition related to internal structure,
design or operation as defined in the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 60 “Communication of
Internal Control Structure Related Matters Noted in an Audit,” in the Company’s internal controls;
and
(vii) Statements as to such other matters incident to the transaction contemplated hereby as
you may reasonably request.
4.4 Officers’ Certificates.
4.4.1 Officers’ Certificate. At each of the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, if
any, the Representative shall have received a certificate of the Company signed by the Chairman of
the Board or the President and the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Company, dated the
Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, respectively, to the effect that the
Company has performed all covenants and complied with all conditions required by this Agreement to
be performed or complied with by the Company prior to and as of the Closing Date, or the Option
Closing Date, as the case may be, and that the conditions set forth in Section 4.5 hereof have been
satisfied as of such date and that, as of Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, as the case may
be, the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof are true and
correct. In addition, the Representative will have
received such other and further certificates of officers of the Company as the Representative may
reasonably request. Such certificate shall include a statement to the effect that it may be relied
upon by counsel for the Representative in any opinion it may deliver to the Underwriters.
4.4.2 Secretary’s Certificate. At each of the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date,
if any, the Underwriter shall have received a certificate of the Company signed by the Secretary or
Assistant Secretary of the Company, dated the Closing Date or the Option Date, as the case may be,
respectively, certifying (i) that the Bylaws and Certificate of Incorporation of the Company are
true and complete, have not been modified and are in full force and effect, (ii) that the
resolutions relating to the public offering contemplated by this Agreement are in full force and
effect and have not been modified, (iii) all correspondence between the Company or its counsel and
the Commission, (iv) as to the incumbency of the officers of the Company (v) no action is pending
in contemplation of merger, consolidation or liquidation, dissolution or reorganization of the
Company or for the sale, lease or other transfer of all or substantially all of its assets, (vi)
the minute books and records of the Company made available to Representative’s counsel are its
original (or true copies thereof) and complete minute books and records; (vii) attached is a true,
correct and complete specimen of a certificate of the Units, shares of Common Stock and warrants of
the Company; and (viii) each officer or director who signed the registration statement was duly
elected or appointed. The documents referred to in such certificate shall be attached to such
certificate.
4.5 No Material Changes. Prior to and on each of the Closing Date and the Option Closing
Date, if any, (i) there shall have been no material adverse change or development involving a
prospective material adverse change in the condition or prospects or the business activities,
financial or otherwise, of the Company from the latest dates as of which such condition is set
forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, (ii) no action suit or proceeding, at law or in
equity, shall have been pending or threatened against the Company or any Initial Stockholder before
or by any court or federal or state commission, board or other administrative agency wherein an
unfavorable decision, ruling or finding may materially adversely affect the business, operations,
prospects or financial condition or income of the Company, except as set forth in the Registration
Statement and Prospectus, (iii) no stop order shall have been issued under the Act and no
proceedings therefor shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, and (iv) the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto shall contain
all material statements which are required to be stated therein in accordance with the Act and the
Regulations and shall conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Act and the
Regulations, and neither the Registration Statement nor the Prospectus nor any amendment or
supplement thereto shall contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light
of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
4.6 Delivery of Agreements.
4.6.1 Effective Date Deliveries. On the Effective Date, the Company shall have delivered
to the Underwriter executed copies of the Escrow Agreement, the Trust Agreement, the Warrant
Agreement, the Services Agreement, the Management Subscription Agreement and all of the Insider
Letters.
4.6.2 Closing Date Deliveries. On the Closing Date, the Company shall have delivered to
the Representative executed copies of the Underwriter’s Purchase Option.
4.7 Opinion of Counsel for the Underwriters. All proceedings taken in connection with
the authorization, issuance or sale of the Securities as herein contemplated shall be reasonably
satisfactory in form and substance to you and to the Representative’s counsel and you shall have
received from such counsel a favorable opinion, dated the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date,
if any, with respect to such of these proceedings as you may reasonably require. On or prior to the
Effective Date, the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, counsel for the
Underwriters shall have been furnished such documents, certificates and opinions as they may
reasonably require for the purpose of enabling them to review or pass upon the matters referred to
in this Section 4.7, or in order to evidence the accuracy, completeness or satisfaction of any of
the representations, warranties or conditions herein
contained.
4.8 Secondary Market Trading Survey and Blue Sky Memorandum. On the Closing Date, the
Representative shall have received the Secondary Market Trading Survey and all supplements and
amendments to the Preliminary Blue Sky Memorandum.
4.9 Quotation on the FINRA OTC Bulletin Board. On the Closing Date, the Public
Securities shall have been approved for quotation on the FINRA OTC Bulletin Board.
4.10 Completion of the Private Offering. On the Closing Date, the private offering of
the Management Securities contemplated under Section 2.8.2 shall have been completed and the
proceeds of such offering in the aggregate sum of $1,625,000 shall have been transferred to the
Trust Fund.
5. Indemnification.
5.1 Indemnification of Underwriters.
5.1.1 General. Subject to the conditions set forth below, the Company agrees to
indemnify and hold harmless each of the Underwriters and each of their respective directors,
officers and employees and each person, if any, who controls any such Underwriter (“controlling
person”) within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20(a) of the Exchange Act, against
any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever (including but not limited to any
and all legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing or defending
against any litigation, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever, whether arising out of
any action between any of the Underwriters and the Company or between any of the Underwriters and
any third party or otherwise) to which they or any of them may become subject under the Act, the
Exchange Act or any other statute or at common law or otherwise or under the laws of foreign
countries, arising out of or based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a
material fact contained (i) in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus (as from time to time each may be amended and supplemented); (ii) in any post-effective
amendment or amendments or any new registration statement and prospectus in which is included
securities of the Company issued or issuable upon exercise of the Underwriter’s Purchase Option;
(iii) any materials or information provided to investors by, or with the approval of, the Company
in connection with marketing or the offering of the Securities, including any “road show” or
investor presentations made by the Company; or (iv) in application or other document or written
communication (in this Section 5 collectively called “application”) executed by the Company or
based upon written information furnished by the Company in any jurisdiction in order to qualify the
Securities under the securities laws thereof or filed with the Commission, any state securities
commission or agency, Nasdaq or any securities exchange; or the omission or alleged omission
therefrom of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, unless such
statement or omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information
furnished to the Company with respect to an Underwriter by or on behalf of such Underwriter
expressly for use in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or Prospectus, or any
amendment or supplement thereof or in any application, as the case may be. With respect to any
untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in the Preliminary
Prospectus, the indemnity agreement contained in this paragraph shall not inure to the benefit of
any Underwriter to the extent that any loss, liability, claim, damage or expense of such
Underwriter results from the fact that a copy of the Prospectus was not given or sent to the person
asserting any such loss, liability, claim or damage at or prior to the written confirmation of sale
of the Securities to such person as required by the Act and the Regulations, and if the untrue
statement or omission has been corrected in the Prospectus, unless such failure to deliver the
Prospectus was a result of non-compliance by the Company with its obligations under Section 3.4
hereof. The Company agrees promptly to notify the Representative of the commencement of any
litigation or proceedings against the Company or any of its officers, directors or controlling
persons in connection with the issue and sale of the Securities or in connection with the
Registration Statement or Prospectus.
5.1.2 Procedure. If any action is brought against an Underwriter, or a controlling
person in
respect of which indemnity may be sought against the Company pursuant to Section 5.1.1, such
Underwriter shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the institution of such action and the
Company shall assume the defense of such action, including the employment and fees of counsel
(subject to the reasonable approval of such Underwriter) and payment of actual expenses. Such
Underwriter or controlling person shall have the right to employ its or their own counsel in any
such case, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Underwriter or
controlling person unless (i) the employment of such counsel at the expense of the Company shall
have been authorized in writing by the Company in connection with the defense of such action, or
(ii) the Company shall not have employed counsel to have charge of the defense of such action, or
(iii) such indemnified party or parties shall have received an opinion of counsel to the effect
that there may be defenses available to it or them which are different from or additional to those
available to the Company (in which case the Company shall not have the right to direct the defense
of such action on behalf of the indemnified party or parties), in any of which events the
reasonable fees and expenses of not more than one additional firm of attorneys selected by the
Underwriter, and/or controlling person shall be borne by the Company. Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary contained herein, if the Underwriter or controlling person shall assume the defense of
such action as provided above, the Company shall have the right to approve the terms of any
settlement of such action which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld. This indemnification
provided for in this Section 5.1 shall not be available to any party who shall fail to give prompt
notice as provided in this Section 5.1.2 if the Company was unaware of the proceeding to which such
notice would have related and was actually prejudiced by the failure to give such prompt notice;
provided, however, that indemnification shall only be limited to the extent of such prejudice;
provided, further, that, the omission so to notify the Company will not relieve it from any
liability which it may have to any indemnified party otherwise than under this Section 5.1. The
Company shall not without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement
of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have
been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement includes an unconditional
release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such
proceedings.
5.2 Indemnification of the Company. Each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees
to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, officers and employees and agents who
control the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act
against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense described in the foregoing indemnity
from the Company to the several Underwriters, as incurred, but only with respect to untrue
statements or omissions, or alleged untrue statements or omissions made in any Preliminary
Prospectus, the Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto or in
any application, in reliance upon, and in strict conformity with, written information furnished to
the Company with respect to such Underwriter by or on behalf of the Underwriter expressly for use
in such Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendment or
supplement thereto or in any such application. In case any action shall be brought against the
Company or any other person so indemnified based on any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration
Statement or Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto or any application, and in respect
of which indemnity may be sought against any Underwriter, such Underwriter shall have the rights
and duties given to the Company, and the Company and each other person so indemnified shall have
the rights and duties given to the several Underwriters by the provisions of Section 5.1.2.
5.3 Contribution.
5.3.1 Contribution Rights. In order to provide for just and equitable contribution under
the Act in any case in which (i) any person entitled to indemnification under this Section 5 makes
claim for indemnification pursuant hereto but it is judicially determined (by the entry of a final
judgment or decree by a court of competent jurisdiction and the expiration of time to appeal or the
denial of the last right of appeal) that such indemnification may not be enforced in such case
notwithstanding the fact that this Section 5 provides for indemnification in such case, or (ii)
contribution under the Act, the Exchange Act or otherwise may be required on the part of any such
person in circumstances for which indemnification is provided under this Section 5, then, and in
each such case, the Company and the Underwriters shall contribute to the aggregate losses,
liabilities, claims, damages and expenses of the nature contemplated
by said indemnity agreement incurred by the Company and the Underwriters, in such proportions as is
appropriate to reflect (a) the relative benefits received by the indemnifying party or parties on
the one hand and the indemnified party on the other, from the Offering; or (b) if the allocation
provided by the foregoing clause (a) is not permitted by applicable law, not only such relative
benefits but also the relative fault of the indemnifying party or parties on the one hand and the
indemnified party on the other, in connection with the statements or omissions or alleged
statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in
respect thereof). The relative benefit received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters
on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total proceeds from the Offering
(before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total underwriting discounts and
commissions received by the Underwriters; provided, that, no person guilty of a fraudulent
misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to
contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 5.3.1, no Underwriter shall be required to
contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Public
Securities underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the
amount of any damages that such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay in respect of such
losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses. For purposes of this Section, each director,
officer and employee of an Underwriter or the Company, as applicable, and each person, if any, who
controls an Underwriter or the Company, as applicable, within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act
shall have the same rights to contribution as the Underwriters or the Company, as applicable.
5.3.2 Contribution Procedure. Within fifteen days after receipt by any party to this
Agreement (or its representative) of notice of the commencement of any action, suit or proceeding,
such party will, if a claim for contribution in respect thereof is to be made against another party
(“contributing party”), notify the contributing party of the commencement thereof, but the omission
to so notify the contributing party will not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any
other party other than for contribution hereunder. In case any such action, suit or proceeding is
brought against any party, and such party notifies a contributing party or its representative of
the commencement thereof within the aforesaid fifteen days, the contributing party will be entitled
to participate therein with the notifying party and any other contributing party similarly
notified. Any such contributing party shall not be liable to any party seeking contribution on
account of any settlement of any claim, action or proceeding effected by such party seeking
contribution on account of any settlement of any claim, action or proceeding effected by such party
seeking contribution without the written consent of such contributing party. The contribution
provisions contained in this Section are intended to supersede, to the extent permitted by law, any
right to contribution under the Act, the Exchange Act or otherwise available. The Underwriters’
obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 5.3 are several and not joint.
6. Default by an Underwriter.
6.1 Default Not Exceeding 10% of Firm Units or Option Units. If any Underwriter or
Underwriters shall default in its or their obligations to purchase the Firm Units or the Option
Units, if the over-allotment option is exercised, hereunder, and if the number of the Firm Units or
Option Units with respect to which such default relates does not exceed in the aggregate 10% of the
number of Firm Units or Option Units that all Underwriters have agreed to purchase hereunder, then
such Firm Units or Option Units to which the default relates shall be purchased by the
non-defaulting Underwriters in proportion to their respective commitments hereunder.
6.2 Default Exceeding 10% of Firm Units or Option Units. In the event that the default
addressed in Section 6.1 above relates to more than 10% of the Firm Units or Option Units, you may
in your discretion arrange for yourself or for another party or parties to purchase such Firm Units
or Option Units to which such default relates on the terms contained herein. If within one business
day after such default relating to more than 10% of the Firm Units or Option Units you do not
arrange for the purchase of such Firm Units or Option Units, then the Company shall be entitled to
a further period of one business day within which to procure another party or parties satisfactory
to you to purchase said Firm Units or Option Units on such terms. In the event that neither you nor
the Company arrange for the purchase of the Firm Units or Option Units to which a default relates
as provided in this Section 6, this Agreement will be
terminated by you or the Company without liability on the part of the Company (except as provided
in Sections 3.13 and 5 hereof) or the several Underwriters (except as provided in Section 5
hereof); provided, however, that if such default occurs with respect to the Option Units, this
Agreement will not terminate as to the Firm Units; and provided further that nothing herein shall
relieve a defaulting Underwriter of its liability, if any, to the other several Underwriters and to
the Company for damages occasioned by its default hereunder.
6.3 Postponement of Closing Date. In the event that the Firm Units or Option Units to
which the default relates are to be purchased by the non-defaulting Underwriters, or are to be
purchased by another party or parties as aforesaid, you or the Company shall have the right to
postpone the Closing Date or Option Closing Date for a reasonable period, but not in any event
exceeding five business days, in order to effect whatever changes may thereby be made necessary in
the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or in any other documents and arrangements, and the
Company agrees to file promptly any amendment to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus that
in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters may thereby be made necessary. The term
“Underwriter” as used in this Agreement shall include any party substituted under this Section 6
with like effect as if it had originally been a party to this Agreement with respect to such
Securities.
7. Right to Appoint Representative. For the period of two years from the Effective Date, upon
notice from the Representative to the Company, the Representative shall have the right to send a
representative (who need not be the same individual from meeting to meeting, provided such person
is reasonably acceptable to the Company) to observe each meeting of the Board of Directors of the
Company; provided that such representative shall sign a Regulation FD compliant confidentiality
agreement which is reasonably acceptable to the Representative and its counsel in connection with
such representative’s attendance at meetings of the Board of Directors; and provided further that
upon written notice to the Underwriters, the Company may exclude the representative from meetings
where, in the written opinion of counsel for the Company, the representative’s presence would
destroy the attorney-client privilege. The Company agrees to give the Representative written notice
of each such meeting and to provide the Representative with an agenda and minutes of the meeting no
later than it gives such notice and provides such items to the other directors.
8. Additional Covenants.
8.1 Additional Shares or Options. The Company hereby agrees that until the earlier of
(1) six months after the Effective Date and (2) the time, the Company consummates a Business
Combination, it shall not issue any shares of Common Stock or any options or other securities
convertible into Common Stock, or any shares of Preferred Stock which participate in any manner in
the Trust Fund or which vote as a class with the Common Stock on a Business Combination; except
that the foregoing shall not restrict the Company’s ability to issue shares in connection with the
Business Combination or pursuant to a stock option or other similar compensation plan.
8.2 Trust Fund Waiver Acknowledgment. The Company hereby agrees that it will not
commence its due diligence investigation of any operating business which the Company seeks to
acquire (“Target Business”) or obtain the services of any vendor unless and until such Target
Business or vendor acknowledges in writing, whether through a letter of intent, memorandum of
understanding or other similar document (and subsequently acknowledges the same in any definitive
document replacing any of the foregoing), that (a) it has read the Prospectus and understands that
the Company has established the Trust Fund, initially in an amount of $23,387,117 for the benefit
of the public stockholders and that the Company may disburse monies from the Trust Fund only (i) to
the public stockholders in the event they elect to convert their IPO Shares (as defined below in
Section 8.8), (ii) to the public stockholders upon the liquidation of the Company if the Company
fails to consummate a Business Combination or (iii) to the Company, net of any deferred amounts
payable to the Underwriters under Sections 3.11.2 or 3.23, after, or concurrently with, the
consummation of a Business Combination and (b) for and in consideration of the Company (1) agreeing
to evaluate such Target Business for purposes of consummating a Business Combination with it or (2)
agreeing to engage the services of the vendor, as the case may be, such Target Business or vendor
agrees that it does not have any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to
any monies in the Trust Fund (“Claim”) and waives any Claim it may have in the future as a result
of, or arising out of, any negotiations, contracts or agreements with the Company and will not seek
recourse against the Trust Fund for any reason whatsoever.
8.3 Insider Letters. The Company shall not take any action or omit to take any action
which would cause a breach of any of the Insider Letters executed by each Insider and will not
allow any amendments to, or waivers of, such Insider Letters without the prior written consent of
the Representative.
8.4 Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws. The Company shall not take any action or
omit to take any action that would cause the Company to be in breach or violation of its
Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws. Prior to the consummation of a Business Combination, the
Company will not amend its Certificate of Incorporation without the prior written consent of the
Representative (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld).
8.5 Blue Sky Requirements. The Company shall provide counsel to the Underwriter with ten
copies of all proxy information and all related material filed with the Commission in connection
with a Business Combination concurrently with such filing with the Commission. In addition, the
Company shall furnish any other state in which its initial public offering was registered, such
information as may be requested by such state.
8.6 Acquisition/Liquidation Procedure. The Company agrees: (i) that, prior to the
consummation of any Business Combination, it will submit such transaction to the Company’s
stockholders for their approval (“Business Combination Vote”) even if the nature of the acquisition
is such as would not ordinarily require stockholder approval under applicable state law; and (ii)
that, in the event that the Company does not effect a Business Combination within 18 months from
the consummation of this Offering (subject to extension for an additional six-month period, as
described in the Prospectus), the Company will be liquidated and will distribute to all holders of
IPO Shares (defined below) an aggregate sum equal to the Company’s “Liquidation Value.” The
Company’s “Liquidation Value” shall mean the Company’s book value, as determined by the Company and
audited by CPA. In no event, however, will the Company’s Liquidation Value be less than the Trust
Fund, inclusive of any net interest income thereon. Only holders of IPO Shares shall be entitled to
receive liquidating distributions and the Company shall pay no liquidating distributions with
respect to any other shares of capital stock of the Company. With respect to the Business
Combination Vote, the Company shall cause all of the Initial Stockholders to vote the shares of
Common Stock owned by them immediately prior to this Offering, as well as any shares of Common
Stock acquired in connection with or following the offering, in accordance with the vote of the
holders of a majority of the IPO Shares present, in person or by proxy, at a meeting of the
Company’s stockholders called for the Business Combination Vote. At the time the Company seeks
approval of any potential Business Combination, the Company will offer each holder of Common Stock
issued in this Offering (“IPO Shares”) the right to convert their IPO Shares at a per share price
(“Conversion Price”) equal to the amount in the Trust Fund (inclusive of any interest income
therein) calculated as of two business days prior to the consummation of the proposed Business
Combination divided by the total number of IPO Shares. If holders of less than 30% in interest of
the Company’s IPO Shares elect to convert their IPO Shares, the Company may, but will not be
required to, proceed with such Business Combination. If the Company elects to so proceed, it will
convert shares, based upon the Conversion Price, from those holders of IPO Shares who affirmatively
requested such conversion and who voted against the Business Combination. If holders of 30% or more
in interest of the IPO Shares, who vote against approval of any potential Business Combination,
elect to convert their IPO Shares, the Company will not proceed with such Business Combination and
will not convert such shares.
8.7 Rule 419. The Company agrees that it will use its best efforts to prevent the
Company from becoming subject to Rule 419 under the Act prior to the consummation of any Business
Combination, including but not limited to using its best efforts to prevent any of the Company’s
outstanding securities from being deemed to be a “xxxxx stock” as defined in Rule 3a-51-1 under the
Exchange Act during such period.
8.8 Affiliated Transactions. The Company shall cause each of the Initial Stockholders to
agree that, in order to minimize potential conflicts of interest which may arise from multiple
affiliations, the Initial Stockholders will present to the Company for its consideration, prior to
presentation to any other person or company, any suitable opportunity to acquire an operating
business, until the earlier of the consummation by the Company of a Business Combination, the
liquidation of the Company or until such time as the Initial Stockholders cease to be an officer or
director of the Company, subject to any pre-existing fiduciary or contractual obligations the
Initial Stockholders might have, or new fiduciary obligations related to or affiliated with
entities to whom such Initial Stockholders have pre-existing fiduciary obligations including, but
not limited to, fiduciary obligations to next generation, follow-on or successor entities to any
entities to which such Initial Stockholders have pre-existing obligations or as otherwise set forth
in the Registration Statement.
8.9 Target Net Assets. The Company agrees that the initial Target Business that it
acquires must have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the Company’s net assets (all of
the Company’s assets, including the funds held in the Trust Fund, less the Company’s liabilities)
at the time of such acquisition. The fair market value of such business must be determined by the
Board of Directors of the Company based upon standards generally accepted by the financial
community, such as actual and potential sales, earnings and cash flow and book value. If the Board
of Directors of the Company is not able to independently determine that the target business has a
fair market value of at least 80% of the Company’s net assets at the time of such acquisition, the
Company will obtain an opinion from an unaffiliated, independent investment banking firm which is a
member of the FINRA with respect to the satisfaction of such criteria. The Company is not required
to obtain an opinion from an investment banking firm as to the fair market value if the Company’s
Board of Directors independently determines that the Target Business does have sufficient fair
market value.
8.10 Exchange Act Compliance. The Company agrees that until the consummation of a Business
Combination as contemplated in the Prospectus, it will use its best efforts to comply with the
rules and regulations under the Exchange Act with respect to (a) the furnishing and content of
proxy statements related to the Business Combination; and (b) the requirements and filing deadlines
for current reports on Form 8-K.
9. Representations and Agreements to Survive Delivery. Except as the context otherwise
requires, all representations, warranties and agreements contained in this Agreement shall be
deemed to be representations, warranties and agreements at the Closing Date or Option Closing Date
and such representations, warranties and agreements of the Underwriters and Company, including the
indemnity agreements contained in Section 5 hereof, shall remain operative and in full force and
effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, the Company or any
controlling person, and shall survive termination of this Agreement or the issuance and delivery of
the Securities to the several Underwriters until the earlier of the expiration of any applicable
statute of limitations and the seventh anniversary of the later of the Closing Date or the Option
Closing Date, if any, at which time the representations, warranties and agreements shall terminate
and be of no further force and effect.
10. Effective Date of This Agreement and Termination Thereof.
10.1 Effective Date. This Agreement shall become effective on the Effective Date at the
time the Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission.
10.2 Termination. You shall have the right to terminate this Agreement at any time prior
to any Closing Date, (i) if any domestic or international event or act or occurrence has materially
disrupted, or in your opinion will in the immediate future materially disrupt, general securities
markets in the United States; or (ii) if trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock
Exchange, Nasdaq or on the FINRA OTC Bulletin Board (or successor trading market) shall have been
suspended, or minimum or maximum prices for trading shall have been fixed, or maximum ranges for
prices for securities shall have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices for securities shall have
been required on any exchange, Nasdaq or the FINRA OTC Bulletin Board or by order of the Commission
or any other government authority having jurisdiction, or (iii) if the United States shall have
become involved in a new war or an
increase in major hostilities, or (iv) if a banking moratorium has been declared by a New York
State or federal authority, or (v) if a moratorium on foreign exchange trading has been declared
which materially adversely impacts the United States securities market, or (vi) if the Company
shall have sustained a material loss by fire, flood, accident, hurricane, earthquake, theft,
sabotage or other calamity or malicious act which, whether or not such loss shall have been
insured, will, in your opinion, make it inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of the Units, or
(vii) if any of the Company’s representations, warranties or covenants hereunder are breached, or
(viii) if the Representative shall have become aware after the date hereof of such a material
adverse change in the conditions or prospects of the Company, or such adverse material change in
general market conditions, including without limitation as a result of terrorist activities after
the date hereof, as in the Representative’s judgment would make it impracticable to proceed with
the offering, sale and/or delivery of the Units or to enforce contracts made by the Underwriters
for the sale of the Securities.
10.3 Expenses. In the event that this Agreement shall not be carried out for any reason
whatsoever, within the time specified herein or any extensions thereof pursuant to the terms
herein, the obligations of the Company to pay the out of pocket expenses related to the
transactions contemplated herein shall be governed by Section 3.10 hereof.
10.4 Indemnification. Notwithstanding any contrary provision contained in this
Agreement, any election hereunder or any termination of this Agreement, and whether or not this
Agreement is otherwise carried out, the provisions of Section 5 shall not be in any way effected
by, such election or termination or failure to carry out the terms of this Agreement or any part
hereof.
11. Miscellaneous.
11.1 Notices. All communications hereunder, except as herein otherwise specifically
provided, shall be in writing and shall be mailed, delivered or telecopied and confirmed and shall
be deemed given when so delivered or telecopied and confirmed or if mailed, two days after such
mailing
If to the Representative:
Xxxxxx Xxxxx Securities, Inc.
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx — 0xx Xxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000
Attn: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, CEO]
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx — 0xx Xxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000
Attn: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, CEO]
and
Capital Growth Financial, LLC
0000 X. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000
Attn: Xxxx X. Xxxxxx, Chairman & CEO
0000 X. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000
Attn: Xxxx X. Xxxxxx, Chairman & CEO
with copies to:
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, LLP
777 South Flagler Drive
Suite 000 Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000
Attn: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esq.
777 South Flagler Drive
Suite 000 Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000
Attn: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esq.
and
Cozen X’Xxxxxx
The Army and Navy Building
0000 X Xxxxxx, XX, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Fax: (000) 000-0000
Attn: Xxxxx X. Xx Xxxxxxx, Esq.
The Army and Navy Building
0000 X Xxxxxx, XX, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Fax: (000) 000-0000
Attn: Xxxxx X. Xx Xxxxxxx, Esq.
If to the Company:
Lumax Acquisition Corp.
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx,
Chief Executive Officer
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx,
Chief Executive Officer
Copy to:
Pillsbury Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx LLP
0000 Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000
Attn: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Esq.
0000 Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000
Attn: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Esq.
11.2 Headings. The headings contained herein are for the sole purpose of convenience of
reference, and shall not in any way limit or affect the meaning or interpretation of any of the
terms or provisions of this Agreement.
11.3 Amendment. This Agreement may only be amended by a written instrument executed by
each of the parties hereto.
11.4 Entire Agreement. This Agreement (together with the other agreements and documents
being delivered pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement) constitute the entire agreement
of the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof, and supersede all
prior agreements and understandings of the parties, oral and written, with respect to the subject
matter hereof.
11.5 Binding Effect. This Agreement shall inure solely to the benefit of and shall be
binding upon the Representative, the Underwriters, the Company and the controlling persons,
directors and officers referred to in Section 5 hereof, and their respective successors, legal
representatives and assigns, and no other person shall have or be construed to have any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of or by virtue of this Agreement or any
provisions herein contained.
11.6 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in
accordance with the laws of the State of Florida, without giving effect to conflicts of law
principles that would result in the application of the substantive laws of another jurisdiction.
The Company hereby agrees that any action, proceeding or claim against it arising out of, or
relating in any way to this Agreement shall be brought and enforced in the courts of the State of
Florida, and irrevocably submits to such jurisdiction, which jurisdiction shall be exclusive. The
Company hereby waives any objection to such
exclusive jurisdiction and that such courts represent an inconvenient forum. Any such process or
summons to be served upon the Company may be served by transmitting a copy thereof by registered or
certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, addressed to it at the address set forth
in Section 11 hereof. Such mailing shall be deemed personal service and shall be legal and binding
upon the Company in any action, proceeding or claim. The Company agrees that the prevailing
party(ies) in any such action shall be entitled to recover from the other party(ies) all of its
reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses relating to such action or proceeding and/or incurred in
connection with the preparation therefor.
11.7 Execution in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more original
or facsimile counterparts, and by the different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of
which shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which taken together shall constitute one and
the same agreement, and shall become effective when one or more counterparts has been signed by
each of the parties hereto and delivered to each of the other parties hereto.
11.8 Waiver, Etc. The failure of any of the parties hereto to at any time enforce any of
the provisions of this Agreement shall not be deemed or construed to be a waiver of any such
provision, nor to in any way effect the validity of this Agreement or any provision hereof or the
right of any of the parties hereto to thereafter enforce each and every provision of this
Agreement. No waiver of any breach, non-compliance or non-fulfillment of any of the provisions of
this Agreement shall be effective unless set forth in a written instrument executed by the party or
parties against whom or which enforcement of such waiver is sought; and no waiver of any such
breach, non-compliance or non-fulfillment shall be construed or deemed to be a waiver of any other
or subsequent breach, non-compliance or non-fulfillment.
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If the foregoing correctly sets forth the understanding between the Underwriters and the
Company, please so indicate in the space provided below for that purpose, whereupon this letter
shall constitute a binding agreement between us.
| Very truly yours, LUMAX ACQUISITION CORP. |
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| By: | ||||
| Name: | Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |||
| Accepted on the date first above written. XXXXXX XXXXX SECURITIES, INC. |
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