RICE ENERGY INC. Common Stock UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTUnderwriting Agreement • August 19th, 2014 • Rice Energy Inc. • Crude petroleum & natural gas • New York
Rice Energy Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and certain stockholders of the Company named in Schedule II attached hereto (the “Selling Stockholders”), propose to sell an aggregate of 11,938,826 shares (the “Firm Stock”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”). Of the 11,938,826 shares of the Firm Stock, 7,500,000 are being sold by the Company and 4,438,826 are being sold by the Selling Stockholders. In addition, the Selling Stockholders identified in Schedule II attached hereto propose to grant to the underwriters (the “Underwriters”) named in Schedule I attached to this agreement (this “Agreement”) an option to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,790,824 additional shares of the Common Stock on the terms set forth in Section 3 (the “Option Stock”). The Firm Stock and the Option Stock, if purchased, are hereinafter collectively called the “Stock”. This Agreement is to confirm the agreement concerning the purchase of the Stock from the Co
