First Mercury Financial Corporation (a Delaware Corporation) 3,301,260 Shares1 Common Stock ($0.01 par value ) Underwriting AgreementFirst Mercury Financial Corp • June 14th, 2007 • Fire, marine & casualty insurance • New York
First Mercury Financial Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the several Underwriters listed in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), an aggregate of 200,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company and, at the option of the Underwriters, up to an additional 495,189 shares of Common Stock of the Company, and Glencoe Capital, LLC, Jerome M. Shaw, William S. Weaver and Thomas B. Dulapa (collectively, the “Selling Stockholders”) propose to sell to the Underwriters an aggregate of 3,101,260 shares of Common Stock of the Company. The aggregate of 3,301,260 shares of Common Stock of the Company to be sold by the Company and the Selling Stockholders are herein referred to as the “Underwritten Shares” and the aggregate of 495,189 shares of Common Stock of the Company to be sold by the Company at the option of the Underwriters are here
