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Exhibit 1.1
SALESLOGIX CORPORATION
SHARES(1)
COMMON STOCK
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
_____ __, 0000
XXXXXXXXX & XXXXX LLC
BANCBOSTON XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
U.S. BANCORP PIPER XXXXXXX
XXXXXXX XXXXXX & CO., INC.
x/x Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLC
Xxx Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
SalesLogix Corporation, a Delaware corporation (herein called the
Company), proposes to issue and sell _______ shares of its authorized but
unissued Common Stock, $.001 par value (herein called the Common Stock),
proposes to sell an aggregate of _______ shares of Common Stock of the Company
(said ______ shares of Common Stock being herein called the Underwritten Stock).
The Company proposes to grant to the Underwriters (as hereinafter defined) an
option to purchase up to _________ additional shares of Common Stock (herein
called the Option Stock and with the Underwritten Stock herein collectively
called the Stock). The Common Stock is more fully described in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus hereinafter mentioned.
The Company hereby confirms the agreements made with respect to the
purchase of the Stock by the several underwriters, for whom you are acting,
named in Schedule I hereto (herein collectively called the Underwriters, which
term shall also include any underwriter purchasing Stock pursuant to Section
3(b) hereof). You represent and warrant that you have been authorized by each of
the other Underwriters to enter into this Agreement on its behalf and to act for
it in the manner herein provided.
1. REGISTRATION STATEMENT. The Company has filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (herein called the Commission) a registration statement on
Form S-1 (No. 33-75353), including the related preliminary prospectus, for the
registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (herein called the
Securities Act) of the Stock. Copies of such registration statement and of each
amendment thereto, if any, including the related preliminary prospectus (meeting
the requirements of Rule 430A of the rules and regulations of the Commission)
heretofore filed by the Company with the Commission have been delivered to you.
The term Registration Statement as used in this agreement shall mean such
registration statement, including all exhibits and financial statements, all
information omitted therefrom in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in the
Prospectus referred to below, in the form in which it became effective, and any
registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the rules and
regulations of the Commission with respect to the Stock (herein called a Rule
462(b) registration statement), and, in the event of any amendment thereto after
the effective date of such registration statement (herein called the Effective
Date), shall also mean (from and after the effectiveness of such amendment) such
registration statement as so amended (including any Rule 462(b) registration
statement). The term Prospectus as used in this Agreement shall mean the
prospectus relating to the Stock first filed with the Commission pursuant to
Rule 424(b) and Rule 430A (or if no such filing is required, as included in the
Registration Statement) and, in the event of any supplement or amendment to such
prospectus after the Effective Date, shall also mean (from and after the filing
with the Commission of such supplement or the effectiveness of such amendment)
such prospectus as so supplemented or amended. The term Preliminary Prospectus
as used in this Agreement shall mean each preliminary prospectus included in
such registration statement prior to the time it becomes effective.
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(1) Plus an option to purchase from the Company up to ___________additional
shares to cover over-allotments.
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The Registration Statement has been declared effective under the
Securities Act, and no post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement
has been filed as of the date of this Agreement. The Company has caused to be
delivered to you copies of each Preliminary Prospectus and has consented to the
use of such copies for the purposes permitted by the Securities Act.
2. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY. The Company hereby
represents and warrants as follows:
(a) Each of the Company and its subsidiaries has been duly
incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing
under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, has full
corporate power and authority to own or lease its properties and conduct
its business as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
and as being conducted, and is duly qualified as a foreign corporation and
in good standing in all jurisdictions in which the character of the
property owned or leased or the nature of the business transacted by it
makes qualification necessary (except where the failure to be so qualified
would not have a material adverse effect on the business, properties,
financial condition or results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole).
(b) The execution and delivery of the Agreement and Plan of Merger
dated as of April 30, 1999 (the "Merger Agreement") between Enact
Incorporated, an Ohio corporation ("Enact"), and the Company effecting the
merger of Enact with and into a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company,
was authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of each of
Enact and the Company. Each of Enact and the Company had all corporate
power and authority to execute and deliver the Merger Agreement, to file
the Merger Agreement with the Secretary of State of Ohio and the Secretary
of State of Delaware and to consummate the transactions contemplated by
the Merger Agreement. The Merger Agreement at the time of execution and
filing constituted a binding obligation of each of Enact and the Company,
enforceable in accordance with its terms, and the transactions
contemplated by the Merger Agreement have been consummated in accordance
with its terms.
(c) Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, all of the issued shares
of capital stock of each subsidiary of the Company have been duly and
validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable, are
owned directly by the Company, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances,
equities or claims and were issued in compliance with all federal and
state securities laws.
(d) Since the respective dates as of which information is given in
the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any
materially adverse change in the business, properties, financial condition
or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a
whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of
business, other than as set forth in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus, and since such dates, except in the ordinary course of
business, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has entered into
any material transaction not referred to in the Registration Statement and
the Prospectus.
(e) The Registration Statement and the Prospectus comply, and on the
Closing Date (as hereinafter defined) and any later date on which Option
Stock is to be purchased, the Prospectus will comply, in all material
respects, with the provisions of the Securities Act and the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (herein called the Exchange Act) and the
rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder; on the Effective Date,
the Registration Statement did not contain any untrue statement of a
material fact and did not omit to state any material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not
misleading; and, on the Effective Date the Prospectus did not and, on the
Closing Date and any later date on which Option Stock is to be purchased,
will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state
any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in
the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
provided, however, that none of the representations and warranties in this
subparagraph (e) shall apply to statements in, or omissions from, the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus made in reliance upon and in
conformity with information herein or otherwise furnished in writing to
the Company by or on behalf of the Underwriters for use in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus.
(f) The Commission has not issued any order preventing or suspending
the use of any Preliminary Prospectus relating to the proposed offering of
the Stock nor instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened
instituting proceedings for that purpose.
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(g) The shares of Common Stock are duly and validly authorized, is
(or, in the case of shares of the Stock to be sold by the Company, will
be, when issued and sold to the Underwriters as provided herein) duly and
validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable , have been issued in
compliance with all federal and state securities laws, were not issued in
violation of any preemptive right, resale right, right of first refusal or
similar right, and conform to the description thereof in the Prospectus.
No further approval or authority of the stockholders or the Board of
Directors of the Company will be required for the issuance and sale of the
Stock as contemplated herein.
(h) The Stock to be issued and sold by the Company has been approved
for listing on the Nasdaq National Market, subject only to official notice
of issuance.
(i) The consolidated financial statements of the Company, together
with related notes and schedules as set forth in the Registration
Statement ("Company Financial Statements"), present fairly the financial
position and the results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole, at the indicated dates and for the
indicated periods. The financial statements of Opis Corporation, a wholly
owned subsidiary of the Company ("Opis"), now known as SupportLogix
Express, Inc., together with related notes and schedules as set forth in
the Registration Statement ("Opis Financial Statements"), present fairly
the financial position and the results of operations of Opis, at the
indicated dates and for the indicated periods. The financial statements of
Enact Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company ("Enact"),
together with related notes and schedules as set forth on the Registration
Statement ("Enact Financial Statements"), present fairly the financial
position and results of operations of Enact, at the indicated dates and
for the indicated periods. The pro forma condensed consolidated financial
statements of the Company, together with related notes and schedules as
set forth in the Registration Statement, present fairly the pro forma
financial information required by Article 11 of Regulation S-X of the
Securities and Exchange Commission at the indicated dates and for the
indicated periods. The financial statements, schedules and related notes
of the Company, Opis and Enact have been prepared in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied through the
period involved, except as may be otherwise stated therein, and all
adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of results for such periods
have been made.
(j) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation
or default under any provision of their respective charter documents or
bylaws, as currently in effect, or any indenture, license, mortgage,
lease, franchise, permit, deed of trust or other agreement or instrument
to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the
Company or any of its subsidiaries or their respective properties is bound
or may be affected, except where such violation or default would not have
a material adverse effect on the business, financial condition or results
of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.
(k) The Company has full legal right, power and authority to enter
into this Agreement and perform the transactions contemplated hereby. This
Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company
and is a valid and binding agreement on the part of the Company,
enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as rights to indemnity
and contribution hereunder may be limited by applicable laws and except as
the enforcement hereof may be limited by applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting
creditors' rights generally, or by general equitable principles.
(l) The execution and performance of this Agreement and the
consummation of the transactions herein contemplated do not and will not
conflict with or result in a breach of, or violation of, any of the terms
or provisions of, or constitute, either by itself or upon notice or the
passage of time or both, a default under, any indenture, license,
mortgage, lease, franchise, permit, deed of trust or other agreement or
instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or
by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries or their respective
properties is bound or may be affected, except where such breach,
violation or default would not have a materially adverse effect on the
business, financial condition or results of operations of the Company and
its subsidiaries taken as a whole, or
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violate any of the provisions of the certificate or articles of
incorporation or bylaws, as applicable, each as amended, of the Company or
any of its subsidiaries or violate any order, judgment, statute, rule or
regulation applicable to the Company or any of its subsidiaries of any
court or of any regulatory, administrative or governmental body or agency
having jurisdiction over the Company, any of its subsidiaries or their
respective properties.
(m) There are no legal or governmental proceedings pending or, to
the Company's knowledge, threatened to which the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is a party or to which any of the properties of the Company
or its subsidiaries is subject that are required to be described in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus and are not so described or any
statutes, regulations, contracts or other documents that are required to
be described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or to be
filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement that are not described or
filed as required. The contracts so described in the Prospectus are in
full force and effect on the date hereof except as disclosed therein; and
neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the Company's
knowledge any other party, is in violation or breach of or default under
any of such contracts where such breach, violation or default would have
a material adverse effect on the business, financial condition or results
of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.
(n) The Company and its subsidiaries possess all consents,
approvals, orders, certificates, authorizations and permits issued by, and
has made all declarations and filings with, all appropriate federal, state
or foreign governmental and self-regulatory authorities and all courts and
other tribunals and all required state agencies in connection with
applicable franchise laws, regulations and requirements necessary to
conduct their respective businesses and to own, lease, license and use
their properties in the manner described in the Prospectus, except to the
extent that the failure to obtain or file would not have a material
adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and
neither the Company nor its subsidiaries has received any notice of
proceedings related to the revocation or modification of any such consent,
approval, order, certificate, authorization or permit that, singly or in
the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a material
adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the
earnings, business or operations of the Company and its subsidiaries,
taken as a whole.
(o) The Company and each of its subsidiaries (i) are in compliance
with any and all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws and
regulations relating to the protection of human health and safety, the
environment or hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or
contaminants ("Environmental Laws"), (ii) have received all permits,
licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable
Environmental Laws with respect to its business as conducted and as
proposed to be conducted in the Registration Statement and (iii) are in
compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or
approval, except where such noncompliance with Environmental Laws, failure
to receive required permits, licenses or other approvals or failure to
comply with the terms and conditions of such permits, licenses or
approvals would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a material adverse
effect on the Company or its subsidiaries, taken as a whole. There are no
costs or liabilities associated with Environmental Laws (including,
without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for
clean-up, closure of properties or compliance with Environmental Laws or
any permit, license or approval, any related constraints on operating
activities and any potential liabilities to third parties) which would,
singly or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the Company
and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(p) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries owns any real
properties. The Company and each of its subsidiaries has good and
marketable title to all personal property that they respectively own free
and clear of all liens, encumbrances and defects except such as are
described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or such as do
not materially affect the value of such property and do not interfere with
the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company or
its subsidiaries; and any real property and buildings held under lease by
the Company or its subsidiaries are held under valid, subsisting and
enforceable leases with such exceptions as are not material and do not
interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property and
buildings by the Company or its subsidiaries.
(q) The Company has not taken and will not take, directly or
indirectly, any action designed to cause or result in, or which
constitutes or which might reasonably be expected to constitute, the
stabilization or manipulation of the price of the shares of Common Stock
to facilitate the sale or resale of the Stock.
(r) The Company and each of its subsidiaries owns or possesses
adequate rights to use, all material patents, patent rights, licenses,
inventions, copyrights, know-how (including trade secrets and other
unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information,
systems or procedures), trademarks, service marks and trade names
currently employed by them in connection with the business now operated by
them, and, except as described in the Prospectus, neither the Company nor
its subsidiaries has received any notice of infringement of or conflict
with asserted rights of others with
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respect to any of the foregoing which, singly or in the aggregate, if the
subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would result in any
material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in
the earnings, business or operations of the Company or its subsidiaries,
taken as a whole. Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, the discoveries,
inventions, products or processes of the Company and its subsidiaries
referred to in the Prospectus do not, to the knowledge of the Company or
any of its subsidiaries, infringe or conflict with any right or patent of
any third party, or any discovery, invention, product or process which is
the subject of a patent application filed by a third party, known to the
Company or any of its subsidiaries, which such infringement or conflict
could result in any material adverse change in the condition, financial or
otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Company or
its subsidiaries, taken as a whole. The expiration of any patents, patent
rights, trade secrets, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights
or other intellectual property rights would not have a material adverse
effect on the condition, or in the earnings, business or operations of the
Company or its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(s) The Company is in compliance, in all material respects, with
all presently applicable provisions of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended, including the regulations and published
interpretations thereunder ("ERISA"); no "reportable event" (as defined in
ERISA) has occurred with respect to any "pension plan" (as defined in
ERISA) for with the Company would have any liability; the Company has not
incurred and does not expect to incur liability under (i) Title IV or
ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal from, any "pension
plan" or (ii) Sections 412 or 4971 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended, including the regulations and published interpretations
thereunder (the "Code"); and each "pension plan" for which the Company
would have any liability that is intended to be qualified under Section
401(a) of the Code is so qualified and nothing has occurred, whether by
action or failure to act, that would cause the loss of such qualification.
(t) The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering
and sale of the Stock and the application of the proceeds thereof as
described in the Prospectus, will not be an "investment company" or an
entity "controlled" by an "investment company" as such terms are defined
in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(u) There is no owner of any securities of the Company who has any
right, not effectively satisfied or waived, to require registration of any
shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with the filing of
the Registration Statement or the sale of any shares thereunder. There are
no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any
person granting such person the right to require the Company to file a
registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to any
securities of the Company or to require the Company to include such
securities with the Stock registered pursuant to the Registration
Statement, except in each case as described in the Prospectus.
(v) The Company and its subsidiaries maintain a system of internal
accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i)
transactions are executed in accordance with management's general or
specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to
permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally
accepted accounting principals of the United States and to maintain asset
accountability; (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 the existing assets at
reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any
differences.
(w) No material labor dispute with employees of the Company or any
of its subsidiaries or franchisees exists or to the knowledge of the
Company is imminent, and, without conducting any independent
investigation, the Company is not aware of any written communication of
any existing, threatened or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of
any of its principal suppliers, manufacturers or contractors that could
result in any material adverse change in the condition, financial or
otherwise, the earnings, the business or operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole. The employment of each officer and
employee of the Company and its subsidiaries is terminable at the will of
the Company. To its knowledge, the Company and its subsidiaries have each
complied in all material respects with all applicable state and federal
equal employment opportunity laws and with other laws related to
employment. To the Company's knowledge, no employee of the Company or any
of its subsidiaries, nor any consultant or independent contractor with
whom the Company or any of its subsidiaries has contracted, is in
violation of any term of any employment contract, proprietary information
agreement or any other agreement relating to the right of any such
individual to be employed by, or to contract with, the Company because of
the nature of the business to be conducted by the
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Company or any of its subsidiaries; and to the Company's knowledge the
continued employment by the Company and its subsidiaries of its present
employees, and the performance of the Company's contracts with its
independent contractors, will not result in any such violation. The
Company and its subsidiaries have not received any notice alleging the
occurrence of that any such violation which would have a material adverse
effect on the business, financial condition or results of operations of
the Company and subsidiaries, taken as a whole. Except as disclosed in the
Prospectus, no employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has been
granted the right to continued employment by the Company or to any other
material compensation following termination of employment with the
Company. The Company is not aware that any officer or key employee, or
that any group of key employees, intends to terminate their employment
with the Company or any of its subsidiaries, nor does the Company have a
present intention to terminate the employment of any of the foregoing.
(x) The Company has not offered, or caused the Underwriters to
offer, Stock to any person by way of directed shares with the specific
intent to unlawfully influence (i) a customer or supplier of the Company
to alter the customer's or supplier's level or type of business with the
Company, or (ii) a trade journalist or publication to write or publish
favorable information about the Company or its products.
(y) The Company has reviewed its operations and the operations of
its subsidiaries to evaluate the extent to which the business or
operations of the Company or any of its subsidiaries will be affected by
the Year 2000 Problem. As a result of such review, the Company has no
reason to believe, and does not believe, that the Year 2000 Problem will
have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries taken
as a whole. The "Year 2000 Problem" as used herein means any significant
risk that the computer hardware or software used in the receipt,
transmission, storage, retrieval, retransmission or other utilization of
data or in the operation of mechanical or electrical systems of any kind
will not, in the case of dates or time periods occurring after December
31, 1999, function at least as effectively as in the case of dates or time
periods occurring prior to January 1, 2000. The foregoing does not
constitute a warranty or representation that the Company's software will
be capable of recording, storing, processing, calculating and displaying
correct calendar dates based on software supplied by any party other than
the Company, or that other Company's software will properly interact with
such third party software.
(z) The Company and each of its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, are
insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such
losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary in the
business in which it is engaged, and neither the Company nor any of such
subsidiaries has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew
its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to
obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to
continue its business at a cost that would not materially and adversely
affect the condition, financial or otherwise, or the earnings, business or
operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in each
case except as described in or contemplated by the Prospectus, which cost
is material to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
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3. PURCHASE OF THE STOCK BY THE UNDERWRITERS.
(a) On the basis of the representations and warranties and subject to the
terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to issue and sell
__________ shares of the Underwritten Stock to the several Underwriters, and
each of the Underwriters agrees to purchase from the Company the respective
aggregate number of shares of Underwritten Stock set forth opposite its name in
Schedule I. The price at which such shares of Underwritten Stock shall be sold
by the Company and purchased by the several Underwriters shall be $___ per
share. The obligation of each Underwriter to the Company shall be to purchase
from the Company that number of shares of the Underwritten Stock which
represents the same proportion of the total number of shares of the Underwritten
Stock to be sold by each of the Company pursuant to this Agreement as the number
of shares of the Underwritten Stock set forth opposite the name of such
Underwriter in Schedule I hereto represents of the total number of shares of the
Underwritten Stock to be purchased by all Underwriters pursuant to this
Agreement, as adjusted by you in such manner as you deem advisable to avoid
fractional shares. In making this Agreement, each Underwriter is contracting
severally and not jointly; except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this
Section 3, the agreement of each Underwriter is to purchase only the respective
number of shares of the Underwritten Stock specified in Schedule I.
(b) If for any reason one or more of the Underwriters shall fail or refuse
(otherwise than for a reason sufficient to justify the termination of this
Agreement under the provisions of Section 8 or 9 hereof) to purchase and pay for
the number of shares of the Stock agreed to be purchased by such Underwriter or
Underwriters, the Company shall immediately give notice thereof to you, and the
non-defaulting Underwriters shall have the right within 24 hours after the
receipt by you of such notice to purchase, or procure one or more other
Underwriters to purchase, in such proportions as may be agreed upon between you
and such purchasing Underwriter or Underwriters and upon the terms herein set
forth, all or any part of the shares of the Stock which such defaulting
Underwriter or Underwriters agreed to purchase. If the non-defaulting
Underwriters fail so to make such arrangements with respect to all such shares
and portion, the number of shares of the Stock which each non-defaulting
Underwriter is otherwise obligated to purchase under this Agreement shall be
automatically increased on a pro rata basis to absorb the remaining shares and
portion which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed to purchase;
provided, however, that the non-defaulting Underwriters shall not be obligated
to purchase the shares and portion which the defaulting Underwriter or
Underwriters agreed to purchase if the aggregate number of such shares of the
Stock exceeds 10% of the total number of shares of the Stock which all
Underwriters agreed to purchase hereunder. If the total number of shares of the
Stock which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed to purchase shall
not be purchased or absorbed in accordance with the two preceding sentences, the
Company shall have the right, within 24 hours next succeeding the 24-hour period
above referred to, to make arrangements with other underwriters or purchasers
satisfactory to you for purchase of such shares and portion on the terms herein
set forth. In any such case, either you or the Company shall have the right to
postpone the Closing Date determined as provided in Section 5 hereof for not
more than seven business days after the date originally fixed as the Closing
Date pursuant to said Section 5 in order that any necessary changes in the
Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any other documents or arrangements
may be made. If neither the non-defaulting Underwriters nor the Company shall
make arrangements within the 24-hour periods stated above for the purchase of
all the shares of the Stock which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters
agreed to purchase hereunder, this Agreement shall be terminated without further
act or deed and without any liability on the part of the Company to any
non-defaulting Underwriter and without any liability on the part of any
non-defaulting Underwriter to the Company. Nothing in this paragraph (b), and no
action taken hereunder, shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability
in respect of any default of such Underwriter under this Agreement.
(c) On the basis of the representations, warranties and covenants herein
contained, and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company
grants an option to the several Underwriters to purchase, severally and not
jointly, up to ________ shares in the aggregate of the Option Stock from the
Company at the same price per share as the Underwriters shall pay for the
Underwritten Stock. Said option may be exercised only to cover over-allotments
in the sale of the Underwritten Stock by the Underwriters and may be exercised
in whole or in part at any time (but not more than once) on or before the
thirtieth day after the date of this Agreement upon written or telegraphic
notice by you to the Company setting forth the aggregate number of shares of the
Option Stock as to which the several Underwriters are exercising the option.
Delivery of certificates for the shares of Option Stock, and payment therefor,
shall be made as provided in Section 5 hereof. The number of shares of the
Option Stock to be purchased by each Underwriter shall be the same percentage of
the total number of shares of the Option Stock to be purchased by the several
Underwriters as such Underwriter is purchasing of the Underwritten Stock, as
adjusted by you in such manner as you deem advisable to avoid fractional shares.
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4. OFFERING BY UNDERWRITERS.
(a) The terms of the initial public offering by the Underwriters of the
Stock to be purchased by them shall be as set forth in the Prospectus. The
Underwriters may from time to time change the public offering price after the
closing of the initial public offering and increase or decrease the concessions
and discounts to dealers as they may determine.
(b) The information set forth in the last paragraph on the front cover
page and under "Underwriting" in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary
Prospectus and the Prospectus relating to the Stock filed by the Company
(insofar as such information relates to the Underwriters) constitutes the only
information furnished by the Underwriters to the Company for inclusion in the
Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, and the Prospectus, and you
on behalf of the respective Underwriters represent and warrant to the Company
that the statements made therein are correct.
5. DELIVERY OF AND PAYMENT FOR THE STOCK.
(a) Delivery of certificates for the shares of the Underwritten Stock and
the Option Stock (if the option granted by Section 3(c) hereof shall have been
exercised not later than 7:00 A.M., San Francisco time, on the date two business
days preceding the Closing Date), and payment therefor, shall be made at the
office of Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, at 7:00 a.m., San Francisco time, on
the fourth business day after the date of this Agreement, or at such time on
such other day, not later than seven full business days after such fourth
business day, as shall be agreed upon in writing by the Company, the Selling
Securityholders and you. The date and hour of such delivery and payment (which
may be postponed as provided in Section 3(b) hereof) are herein called the
Closing Date.
(b) If the option granted by Section 3(c) hereof shall be exercised after
7:00 a.m., San Francisco time, on the date two business days preceding the
Closing Date, delivery of certificates for the shares of Option Stock, and
payment therefor, shall be made at the office of Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx &
Xxxxxx, at 7:00 a.m., San Francisco time, on the third business day after the
exercise of such option.
(c) Payment for the Stock purchased from the Company shall be made to the
Company or its order by one or more certified or official bank check or checks
in same day funds. Such payment shall be made upon delivery of certificates for
the Stock to you for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters against
receipt therefor signed by you. Certificates for the Stock to be delivered to
you shall be registered in such name or names and shall be in such denominations
as you may request at least one business day before the Closing Date, in the
case of Underwritten Stock, and at least one business day prior to the purchase
thereof, in the case of the Option Stock. Such certificates will be made
available to the Underwriters for inspection, checking and packaging at the
offices of Lewco Securities Corporation, 0 Xxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 on
the business day prior to the Closing Date or, in the case of the Option Stock,
by 3:00 p.m., New York time, on the business day preceding the date of purchase.
It is understood that you, individually and not on behalf of the
Underwriters, may (but shall not be obligated to) make payment to the Company
for shares to be purchased by any Underwriter whose check shall not have been
received by you on the Closing Date or any later date on which Option Stock is
purchased for the account of such Underwriter. Any such payment by you shall not
relieve such Underwriter from any of its obligations hereunder.
6. FURTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE COMPANY. The Company covenants and agrees as
follows:
(a) The Company will (i) prepare and timely file with the Commission
under Rule 424(b) a Prospectus containing information previously omitted
at the time of effectiveness of the Registration Statement in reliance on
Rule 430A and (ii) not file any amendment to the Registration Statement or
supplement to the Prospectus of which you shall not previously have been
advised and furnished with a copy or to which you shall have reasonably
objected in writing or which is not in compliance with the Securities Act
or the rules and regulations of the Commission.
(b) The Company will promptly notify each Underwriter in the event
of (i) the request by the Commission for amendment of the Registration
Statement or for supplement to the Prospectus or for any additional
information, (ii) the issuance by the Commission of any stop order
suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, (iii) the
institution or notice of intended institution of any action or proceeding
for that purpose, (iv) the receipt by the Company of any notification with
respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Stock for sale in
any jurisdiction, or (v) the receipt by it of notice of the initiation or
threatening of any proceeding for such purpose. The Company
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will make every reasonable effort to prevent the issuance of such a stop
order and, if such an order shall at any time be issued, to obtain the
withdrawal thereof at the earliest possible moment.
(c) The Company will (i) on or before the Closing Date, deliver to
you a signed copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed and of
each amendment thereto filed prior to the time the Registration Statement
becomes effective and, promptly upon the filing thereof, a signed copy of
each post-effective amendment, if any, to the Registration Statement
(together with, in each case, all exhibits thereto unless previously
furnished to you) and will also deliver to you, for distribution to the
Underwriters, a sufficient number of additional conformed copies of each
of the foregoing (but without exhibits) so that one copy of each may be
distributed to each Underwriter, (ii) as promptly as possible deliver to
you and send to the several Underwriters, at such office or offices as you
may designate, as many copies of the Prospectus as you may reasonably
request, and (iii) thereafter from time to time during the period in which
a prospectus is required by law to be delivered by an Underwriter or
dealer, likewise send to the Underwriters as many additional copies of the
Prospectus and as many copies of any supplement to the Prospectus and of
any amended prospectus, filed by the Company with the Commission, as you
may reasonably request for the purposes contemplated by the Securities
Act.
(d) If at any time during the period in which a prospectus is
required by law to be delivered by an Underwriter or dealer any event
relating to or affecting the Company, or of which the Company shall be
advised in writing by you, shall occur as a result of which it is
necessary, in the opinion of counsel for the Company or of counsel for the
Underwriters, to supplement or amend the Prospectus in order to make the
Prospectus not misleading in the light of the circumstances existing at
the time it is delivered to a purchaser of the Stock, the Company will
forthwith prepare and file with the Commission a supplement to the
Prospectus or an amended prospectus so that the Prospectus as so
supplemented or amended will not contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to
make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing at
the time such Prospectus is delivered to such purchaser, not misleading.
If, after the initial public offering of the Stock by the Underwriters and
during such period, the Underwriters shall propose to vary the terms of
offering thereof by reason of changes in general market conditions or
otherwise, you will advise the Company in writing of the proposed
variation, and, if in the opinion either of counsel for the Company or of
counsel for the Underwriters such proposed variation requires that the
Prospectus be supplemented or amended, the Company will forthwith prepare
and file with the Commission a supplement to the Prospectus or an amended
prospectus setting forth such variation. The Company authorizes the
Underwriters and all dealers to whom any of the Stock may be sold by the
several Underwriters to use the Prospectus, as from time to time amended
or supplemented, in connection with the sale of the Stock in accordance
with the applicable provisions of the Securities Act and the applicable
rules and regulations thereunder for such period.
(e) Prior to the filing thereof with the Commission, the Company
will submit to you, for your information, a copy of any post-effective
amendment to the Registration Statement and any supplement to the
Prospectus or any amended prospectus proposed to be filed.
(f) The Company will cooperate, when and as requested by you, in the
qualification of the Stock for offer and sale under the securities or blue
sky laws of such jurisdictions as you may reasonably designate and, during
the period in which a prospectus is required by law to be delivered by an
Underwriter or dealer, in keeping such qualifications in good standing
under said securities or blue sky laws; provided, however, that the
Company shall not be obligated to file any general consent to service of
process or to qualify as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction in
which it is not so qualified. The Company will, from time to time, prepare
and file such statements, reports, and other documents as are or may be
required to continue such qualifications in effect for so long a period as
you may reasonably request for distribution of the Stock.
(g) During a period of five years commencing with the date hereof,
the Company will furnish to you, and to each Underwriter who may so
request in writing, copies of all periodic and special reports furnished
to stockholders of the Company and of all information, documents and
reports filed with the Commission.
(h) Not later than the 45th day following the end of the fiscal
quarter first occurring after the first anniversary of the Effective Date,
the Company will make generally available to its security holders an
earnings statement in accordance with Section 11(a) of the Securities Act
and Rule 158 thereunder.
(i) The Company agrees to pay all costs and expenses incident to the
performance of their obligations under this Agreement, including all costs
and expenses incident to (i) the preparation, printing and filing with the
Commission and the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
("NASD") of the
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Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus,
(ii) the furnishing to the Underwriters of copies of any Preliminary
Prospectus and of the several documents required by paragraph (c) of this
Section 6 to be so furnished, (iii) the printing of this Agreement and
related documents delivered to the Underwriters, (iv) the preparation,
printing and filing by the Company of all supplements and amendments to
the Prospectus referred to in paragraph (d) of this Section 6, (v) the
furnishing to you and the Underwriters of the reports and information
referred to in paragraph (g) of this Section 6 and (vi) the printing and
issuance of stock certificates, including the transfer agent's fees. The
Selling Securityholders will pay any transfer taxes incident to the
transfer to the Underwriters of the shares the Stock being sold by the
Selling Securityholders.
(j) The Company agrees to reimburse you, for the account of the
several Underwriters, for blue sky fees and related disbursements
(including reasonable counsel fees and disbursements and cost of printing
memoranda for the Underwriters) paid by or for the account of the
Underwriters or their counsel in qualifying the Stock under state
securities or blue sky laws and in the review of the offering by the NASD.
(k) The provisions of paragraphs (i) and (j) of this Section are
intended to relieve the Underwriters from the payment of the expenses and
costs which the Company and the Selling Securityholders hereby agree to
pay and shall not affect any agreement which the Company and the Selling
Securityholders may make, or may have made, for the sharing of any such
expenses and costs.
(l) The Company hereby agrees that, without the prior written
consent of Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLC acting alone or each of Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxx
LLC, BancBoston Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Inc. and U.S. Bancorp Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Inc. acting together on behalf of the Underwriters, the Company will not,
for a period of 180 days following the commencement of the public offering
of the Stock by the Underwriters, directly or indirectly, (i) sell, offer,
contract to sell, make any short sale, pledge, sell any option or contract
to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option,
right or warrant to purchase or otherwise transfer or dispose of any
shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable
or exercisable for or any rights to purchase or acquire Common Stock or
(ii) enter into any swap or other agreement that transfers, in whole or in
part, any of the economic consequences or ownership of Common Stock,
whether any such transaction described in clause (i) or (ii) above is to
be settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other securities, in cash
or otherwise. The foregoing sentence shall not apply to (A) the Stock to
be sold to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement, (B) shares of
Common Stock issued by the Company upon the exercise of options granted
under the stock option plans of the Company (the "Option Plans") or upon
the exercise of warrants outstanding as of the date hereof, all as
described under "Capitalization" in the Preliminary Prospectus, (C)
options to purchase Common Stock granted under the Option Plans and (D)
shares issued to The Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Group, L.P. and two of its affiliates
in a private placement as described in the Registration Statement.
(m) If at any time during the 25-day period after the Registration
Statement becomes effective any rumor, publication or event relating to or
affecting the Company shall occur as a result of which in your opinion the
market price for the Stock has been or is likely to be materially affected
(regardless of whether such rumor, publication or event necessitates a
supplement to or amendment of the Prospectus), the Company will, after
written notice from you advising the Company to the effect set forth
above, forthwith prepare, consult with you concerning the substance of,
and disseminate a press release or other public statement, reasonably
satisfactory to you, responding to or commenting on such rumor,
publication or event.
(n) The Company is not and after giving effect of the offering and
sale of the Stock, will not be, an "investment company" as such term is
defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
7. INDEMNIFICATION AND CONTRIBUTION.
(a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter and
each person (including each partner or officer thereof) who controls any
Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act from and
against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to
which such indemnified parties or any of them may become subject under the
Securities Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (herein called
the Exchange Act), or the common law or otherwise, and the Company agrees to
reimburse each such Underwriter and controlling person for any legal or other
expenses (including, except as otherwise hereinafter provided, reasonable fees
and disbursements of counsel) incurred by the respective indemnified parties in
connection with defending against any such losses, claims, damages or
liabilities or in connection with any investigation or inquiry of, or other
proceeding which may be brought against, the respective indemnified parties, in
each case arising out of or based upon (i) the breach of any representation or
warranty of
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the Company contained in Section 2 hereof, (ii) any untrue statement or alleged
untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement
(including the Prospectus as part thereof and any Rule 462(b) registration
statement) or any post-effective amendment thereto (including any Rule 462(b)
registration statement), or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading, or (iii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus or the
Prospectus (as amended or as supplemented if the Company shall have filed with
the Commission any amendment thereof or supplement thereto) or the omission or
alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading; provided, however, that (1) the indemnity agreement of the
Company contained in this paragraph (a) shall not apply to any such losses,
claims, damages, liabilities or expenses if such statement or omission was made
in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished as herein stated
or otherwise furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of any
Underwriter for use in any Preliminary Prospectus or the Registration Statement
or the Prospectus or any such amendment thereof or supplement thereto and (2)
the indemnity agreement contained in this paragraph (a) with respect to any
Preliminary Prospectus shall not inure to the benefit of any Underwriter from
whom the person asserting any such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or
expenses purchased the Stock which is the subject thereof (or to the benefit of
any person controlling such Underwriter) if at or prior to the written
confirmation of the sale of such Stock a copy of the Prospectus (or the
Prospectus as amended or supplemented) was not sent or delivered to such person
and the untrue statement or omission of a material fact contained in such
Preliminary Prospectus was corrected in the Prospectus (or the Prospectus as
amended or supplemented) unless the failure is the result of noncompliance by
the Company with paragraph (c) of Section 6 hereof. The indemnity agreement of
the Company contained in this paragraph (a) and the representations and
warranties of the Company contained in Section 2 hereof shall remain operative
and in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on
behalf of any indemnified party and shall survive the delivery of and payment
for the Stock.
(b) Each Underwriter severally agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the
Company, each of its officers who signs the Registration Statement on his own
behalf or pursuant to a power of attorney, each of its directors, each other
Underwriter and each person (including each partner or officer thereof) who
controls the Company or any such other Underwriter within the meaning of Section
15 of the Securities Act from and against any and all losses, claims, damages or
liabilities, joint or several, to which such indemnified parties or any of them
may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, or the common law
or otherwise and to reimburse each of them for any legal or other expenses
(including, except as otherwise hereinafter provided, reasonable fees and
disbursements of counsel) incurred by the respective indemnified parties in
connection with defending against any such losses, claims, damages or
liabilities or in connection with any investigation or inquiry of, or other
proceeding which may be brought against, the respective indemnified parties, in
each case arising out of or based upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged
untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement
(including the Prospectus as part thereof and any Rule 462(b) registration
statement) or any post-effective amendment thereto (including any Rule 462(b)
registration statement) or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading or (ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement
of a material fact contained in the Prospectus (as amended or as supplemented if
the Company shall have filed with the Commission any amendment thereof or
supplement thereto) or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a
material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of
the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, if such statement
or omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with information
furnished as herein stated or otherwise furnished in writing to the Company by
or on behalf of such indemnifying Underwriter for use in the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus or any such amendment thereof or supplement thereto.
The indemnity agreement of each Underwriter contained in this paragraph (b)
shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of any
investigation made by or on behalf of any indemnified party and shall survive
the delivery of and payment for the Stock.
(c) Each party indemnified under the provision of paragraphs (a) and (b)
of this Section 7 agrees that, upon the service of a summons or other initial
legal process upon it in any action or suit instituted against it or upon its
receipt of written notification of the commencement of any investigation or
inquiry of, or proceeding against, it in respect of which indemnity may be
sought on account of any indemnity agreement contained in such paragraphs, it
will promptly give written notice (herein called the Notice) of such service or
notification to the party or parties from whom indemnification may be sought
hereunder. No indemnification provided for in such paragraphs shall be available
to any party who shall fail so to give the Notice if the party to whom such
Notice was not given was unaware of the action, suit, investigation, inquiry or
proceeding to which the Notice would have related and was prejudiced by the
failure to give the Notice, but the omission so to notify such indemnifying
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party or parties of any such service or notification shall not relieve such
indemnifying party or parties from any liability which it or they may have to
the indemnified party for contribution or otherwise than on account of such
indemnity agreement. Any indemnifying party shall be entitled at its own expense
to participate in the defense of any action, suit or proceeding against, or
investigation or inquiry of, an indemnified party. Any indemnifying party shall
be entitled, if it so elects within a reasonable time after receipt of the
Notice by giving written notice (herein called the Notice of Defense) to the
indemnified party, to assume (alone or in conjunction with any other
indemnifying party or parties) the entire defense of such action, suit,
investigation, inquiry or proceeding, in which event such defense shall be
conducted, at the expense of the indemnifying party or parties, by counsel
chosen by such indemnifying party or parties and reasonably satisfactory to the
indemnified party or parties; provided, however, that (i) if the indemnified
party or parties reasonably determine that there may be a conflict between the
positions of the indemnifying party or parties and of the indemnified party or
parties in conducting the defense of such action, suit, investigation, inquiry
or proceeding or that there may be legal defenses available to such indemnified
party or parties different from or in addition to those available to the
indemnifying party or parties, then counsel for the indemnified party or parties
shall be entitled to conduct the defense to the extent reasonably determined by
such counsel to be necessary to protect the interests of the indemnified party
or parties and (ii) in any event, the indemnified party or parties shall be
entitled to have counsel chosen by such indemnified party or parties participate
in, but not conduct, the defense. If, within a reasonable time after receipt of
the Notice, an indemnifying party gives a Notice of Defense and the counsel
chosen by the indemnifying party or parties is reasonably satisfactory to the
indemnified party or parties, the indemnifying party or parties will not be
liable under paragraphs (a) through (c) of this Section 7 for any legal or other
expenses subsequently incurred by the indemnified party or parties in connection
with the defense of the action, suit, investigation, inquiry or proceeding,
except that (A) the indemnifying party or parties shall bear the reasonable
legal and other expenses incurred in connection with the conduct of the defense
as referred to in clause (i) of the proviso to the preceding sentence and (B)
the indemnifying party or parties shall bear such other expenses as it or they
have authorized to be incurred by the indemnified party or parties. If, within a
reasonable time after receipt of the Notice, no Notice of Defense has been
given, the indemnifying party or parties shall be responsible for any reasonable
legal or other expenses incurred by the indemnified party or parties in
connection with the defense of the action, suit, investigation, inquiry or
proceeding.
(d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 7 is unavailable
or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under paragraph (a) or (b)
of this Section 7, then each indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying such
indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such
indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities or
expenses referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section 7 (i) in such
proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by each
indemnifying party from the offering of the Stock or (ii) if the allocation
provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such
proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred
to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of each indemnifying party in
connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses,
claims, damages or liabilities, or actions in respect thereof, as well as any
other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the
Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be deemed to be
in the same respective proportions as the total net proceeds from the offering
of the Stock received by the Company and the total underwriting discount
received by the Underwriters, as set forth in the table on the cover page of the
Prospectus, bear to the aggregate public offering price of the Stock. Relative
fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the
untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged
omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by each
indemnifying party and the parties' relative intent, knowledge, access to
information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or
omission. Each indemnifying party agrees that its indemnification commitments
herein set forth shall apply whether or not the indemnified party is a formal
party to any such actions or other proceedings, that such commitments shall be
in addition to any liability such indemnifying party may have to the indemnified
party at common law or otherwise, and that such commitments shall survive any
termination of this Underwriting Agreement.
The parties agree that it would not be just and equitable if contributions
pursuant to this paragraph (d) were to be determined by pro rata allocation
(even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any
other method of allocation which does not take into account the equitable
considerations referred to in the first sentence of this paragraph (d). The
amount paid by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages
or liabilities, or actions in respect thereof, referred to in the first sentence
of this paragraph (d) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses
reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigation,
preparing to defend or defending against any action or claim which is the
subject of this paragraph (d). Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph
(d), no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the
underwriting discount applicable to the Stock purchased by such Underwriter. No
person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section
11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person
who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters'
obligations in this paragraph (d) to contribute are several in proportion to
their respective underwriting obligations and not joint.
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Each party entitled to contribution agrees that upon the service of a
summons or other initial legal process upon it in any action instituted against
it in respect of which contribution may be sought, it will promptly give written
notice of such service to the party or parties from whom contribution may be
sought, but the omission so to notify such party or parties of any such service
shall not relieve the party from whom contribution may be sought from any
obligation it may have hereunder or otherwise (except as specifically provided
in paragraph (c) of this Section 7).
(e) The Company will not, without the prior written consent of each
Underwriter, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment in any
pending or threatened claim, action, suit or proceeding in respect of which
indemnification may be sought hereunder (whether or not such Underwriter or any
person who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the
Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act is a party to such claim,
action, suit or proceeding) unless such settlement, compromise or consent
includes an unconditional release of such Underwriter and each such controlling
person from all liability arising out of such claim, action, suit or proceeding.
8. TERMINATION. This Agreement may be terminated by you at any time prior
to the Closing Date by giving written notice to the Company if after the date of
this Agreement trading in the Common Stock shall have been suspended, or if
there shall have occurred (i) the engagement in hostilities or an escalation of
major hostilities by the United States or the declaration of war or a national
emergency by the United States on or after the date hereof, (ii) any outbreak of
hostilities or other national or international calamity or crisis or change in
economic or political conditions if the effect of such outbreak, calamity,
crisis or drastic change in economic or political conditions in the financial
markets of the United States would, in the Underwriters' reasonable judgment,
make the offering or delivery of the Stock impracticable, (iii) suspension of
trading in securities generally or a material adverse decline in value of
securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock
Exchange, or The Nasdaq Stock Market, or limitations on prices (other than
limitations on hours or numbers of days of trading) for securities on either
such exchange or system, (iv) the enactment, publication, decree or other
promulgation of any federal or state statute, regulation, rule or order of, or
commencement of any proceeding or investigation by, any court, legislative body,
agency or other governmental authority which in the Underwriters' reasonable
opinion materially and adversely affects or will materially or adversely affect
the business or operations of the Company, (v) declaration of a banking
moratorium by either federal or New York State authorities or (vi) the taking of
any action by any federal, state or local government or agency in respect of its
monetary or fiscal affairs which in the Underwriters' reasonable opinion has a
material adverse effect on the securities markets in the United States. If this
Agreement shall be terminated pursuant to this Section 8, there shall be no
liability of the Company to the Underwriters and no liability of the
Underwriters to the Company; provided, however, that in the event of any such
termination the Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriters
from all costs or expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the
Company under this Agreement, including all costs and expenses referred to in
paragraphs (i) and (j) of Section 6 hereof.
9. CONDITIONS OF UNDERWRITERS' OBLIGATIONS. The obligations of the several
Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Stock shall be subject to the
performance by the Company of all of its obligations to be performed hereunder
at or prior to the Closing Date or any later date on which Option Stock is to be
purchased, as the case may be, and to the following further conditions:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective; and no
stop order suspending the effectiveness thereof shall have been issued and
no proceedings therefor shall be pending or threatened by the Commission.
(b) The legality and sufficiency of the sale of the Stock hereunder
and the validity and form of the certificates representing the Stock, all
corporate proceedings and other legal matters incident to the foregoing,
and the form of the Registration Statement and of the Prospectus (except
as to the
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financial statements contained therein), shall have been approved at or
prior to the Closing Date by Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx , counsel
for the Underwriters.
(c) You shall have received from Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, P.A., counsel for
the Company, an opinion, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the
Closing Date, covering the matters set forth in Annex A hereto and if
Option Stock is purchased at any date after the Closing Date, an
additional opinion from such counsel, addressed to the Underwriters and
dated such later date, confirming that the statements expressed as of the
Closing Date in such opinions remain valid as of such later date.
(d) You shall have received from Xxxxx & XxXxxxxx, counsel for the
Company, an opinion, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing
Date, covering the matters set forth in Annex B hereto and if Option Stock
is purchased at any date after the Closing Date, an additional opinion
from such counsel, addressed to the Underwriters and dated such later
date, confirming that the statements expressed as of the Closing Date in
such opinions remain valid as of such later date.
(d) You shall be satisfied that (i) as of the Effective Date, the
statements made in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus were true
and correct and neither the Registration Statement nor the Prospectus
omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary in order to make the statements therein, respectively, not
misleading, (ii) since the Effective Date, no event has occurred which
should have been set forth in a supplement or amendment to the Prospectus
which has not been set forth in such a supplement or amendment, (iii)
since the respective dates as of which information is given in the
Registration Statement in the form in which it originally became effective
and the Prospectus contained therein, there has not been any material
adverse change or any development involving a prospective material adverse
change in or affecting the business, properties, financial condition or
results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a
whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of
business, and, since such dates, except in the ordinary course of
business, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has entered into
any material transaction not referred to in the Registration Statement in
the form in which it originally became effective and the Prospectus
contained therein, (iv) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries
has any material contingent obligations which are not disclosed in the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus, (v) there are not any pending
or known threatened legal proceedings to which the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is a party or of which property of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is the subject which are material and which are not disclosed
in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, (vi) there are not any
franchises, contracts, leases or other documents which are required to be
filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement which have not been filed
as required, (vii) the representations and warranties of the Company
herein are true and correct in all material respects as of the Closing
Date or any later date on which Option Stock is to be purchased, as the
case may be, and (viii) there has not been any material change in the
market for securities in general or in political, financial or economic
conditions from those reasonably foreseeable as to render it impracticable
in your reasonable judgment to make a public offering of the Stock, or a
material adverse change in market levels for securities in general (or
those of companies in particular) or financial or economic conditions
which render it inadvisable to proceed.
(e) You shall have received on the Closing Date and on any later
date on which Option Stock is purchased a certificate, dated the Closing
Date or such later date, as the case may be, and signed by the President
and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, stating that the
respective signers of said certificate have carefully examined the
Registration Statement in the form in which it originally became effective
and the Prospectus contained therein and any supplements or amendments
thereto, and that the statements included in clauses (i) through (vii) of
paragraph (d) of this Section 9 are true and correct.
(f) You shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a letter or
letters, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date and any
later date on which Option Stock is purchased, confirming that they are
independent public accountants with respect to the Company within the
meaning of the Securities Act and the applicable published rules and
regulations thereunder and based upon the procedures described in their
letter delivered to you concurrently with the execution of this Agreement
(herein called the Original Letter), but carried out to a date not more
than three business days prior to the Closing Date or such later date on
which Option Stock is purchased (i) confirming, to the extent true, that
the statements and conclusions set forth in the Original Letter are
accurate as of the Closing Date or such later date, as the case may be,
and (ii) setting forth any revisions and additions to the statements and
conclusions set forth in the Original Letter which are necessary to
reflect any changes in the facts described in the Original Letter since
the date of the Original Letter or to reflect the availability of more
recent financial statements, data or information. The letters shall not
disclose any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in
or affecting the business or properties of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries which, in your sole judgment, makes it impractical or
inadvisable to proceed with the public offering of the Stock or the
purchase of the Option Stock as contemplated by the Prospectus.
(g) You shall have been furnished evidence in usual written or
telegraphic form from the appropriate authorities of the several
jurisdictions, or other evidence satisfactory to you, of the qualification
referred to in paragraph (f) of Section 6 hereof.
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(h) Prior to the Closing Date, the Stock to be issued and sold by
the Company shall have been duly authorized for listing by the Nasdaq
National Market upon official notice of issuance.
(i) On or prior to the Closing Date, you shall have received from
all stockholders agreements, in form reasonably satisfactory to Xxxxxxxxx
& Xxxxx LLC, stating that without the prior written consent of Xxxxxxxxx &
Xxxxx LLC on behalf of the Underwriters, such person or entity will not,
for a period of 180 days following the commencement of the public offering
of the Stock by the Underwriters, directly or indirectly, (i) sell, offer,
contract to sell, make any short sale, pledge, sell any option or contract
to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option,
right or warrant to purchase or otherwise transfer or dispose of any
shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable
or exercisable for or any rights to purchase or acquire Common Stock or
(ii) enter into any swap or other agreement that transfers, in whole or in
part, any of the economic consequences or ownership of Common Stock,
whether any such transaction described in clause (i) or (ii) above is to
be settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other securities, in cash
or otherwise.
All the agreements, opinions, certificates and letters mentioned above or
elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the
provisions hereof only if Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, counsel for the
Underwriters, shall be satisfied that they comply in form and scope.
In case any of the conditions specified in this Section 9 shall not be
fulfilled, this Agreement may be terminated by you by giving notice to the
Company. Any such termination shall be without liability of the Company to the
Underwriters and without liability of the Underwriters to the Company; provided,
however, that (i) in the event of such termination, the Company agrees to
indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriters from all costs or expenses incident
to the performance of the obligations of the Company under this Agreement,
including all costs and expenses referred to in paragraphs (i) and (j) of
Section 6 hereof, and (ii) if this Agreement is terminated by you because of any
refusal, inability or failure on the part of the Company to perform any
agreement herein, to fulfill any of the conditions herein, or to comply with any
provision hereof other than by reason of a default by any of the Underwriters,
the Company will reimburse the Underwriters severally upon demand for all
out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel)
that shall have been incurred by them in connection with the transactions
contemplated hereby.
10. CONDITIONS OF THE OBLIGATION OF THE COMPANY. The obligation of the
Company to deliver the Stock shall be subject to the conditions that (a) the
Registration Statement shall have become effective and (b) no stop order
suspending the effectiveness thereof shall be in effect and no proceedings
therefor shall be pending or threatened by the Commission.
In case either of the conditions specified in this Section 10 shall not be
fulfilled, this Agreement may be terminated by the Company by giving notice to
you. Any such termination shall be without liability of the Company to the
Underwriters and without liability of the Underwriters to the Company; provided,
however, that in the event of any such termination the Company agrees to
indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriters from all costs or expenses incident
to the performance of the obligations of the Company under this Agreement,
including all costs and expenses referred to in paragraphs (i) and (j) of
Section 6 hereof.
11. REIMBURSEMENT OF CERTAIN EXPENSES. In addition to its obligations
under Section 7 of this Agreement, the Company hereby agrees to reimburse on a
quarterly basis the Underwriters for all reasonable legal and other expenses
incurred in connection with investigating or defending any claim, action,
investigation, inquiry or other proceeding arising out of or based upon any
statement or omission, or any alleged statement or omission, described in
paragraph (a) of Section 7 of this Agreement, notwithstanding the absence of a
judicial determination as to the propriety and enforceability of the obligations
under this Section 11 and the possibility that such payments might later be held
to be improper; provided, however, that (i) to the extent any such payment is
ultimately held to be improper, the persons receiving such payments shall
promptly refund them and (ii) such persons shall provide to the Company, upon
request, reasonable assurances of their ability to effect any refund, when and
if due.
12. PERSONS ENTITLED TO BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT. This Agreement shall inure
to the benefit of the Company and the several Underwriters and, with respect to
the provisions of Section 7 hereof, the several parties (in addition to the
Company and the several Underwriters) indemnified under the provisions of said
Section 7, and their respective personal representatives, successors and
assigns. Nothing in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give to
any other person, firm or corporation any legal or equitable remedy or claim
under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision herein contained. The
term "successors and assigns" as herein used shall not include any purchaser, as
such purchaser, of any of the Stock from any of the several Underwriters.
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13. NOTICES. Except as otherwise provided herein, all communications
hereunder shall be in writing or by telegraph and, if to the Underwriters, shall
be mailed, telegraphed or delivered to Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLC, Xxx Xxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000; and if to the Company, shall be mailed,
telegraphed or delivered to it at its office, 0000 X. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx
000, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, 00000, Attention: President; and if to the Selling
Securityholders, shall be mailed, telegraphed or delivered to the Selling
Securityholders in care of ______________ at ______________. All notices given
by telegraph shall be promptly confirmed by letter.
14. MISCELLANEOUS. The reimbursement, indemnification and contribution
agreements contained in this Agreement and the representations, warranties and
covenants in this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect regardless of
(a) any termination of this Agreement, (b) any investigation made by or on
behalf of any Underwriter or controlling person thereof, or by or on behalf of
the Company or their respective directors or officers, and (c) delivery and
payment for the Stock under this Agreement; provided, however, that if this
Agreement is terminated prior to the Closing Date, the provisions of paragraphs
(l),(m) and (n) of Section 6 hereof shall be of no further force or effect.
This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which
shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and
the same instrument.
This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the
laws of the State of California.
Please sign and return to the Company and to the Selling Securityholders
in care of the Company the enclosed duplicates of this letter, whereupon this
letter will become a binding agreement among the Company, the Selling
Securityholders and the several Underwriters in accordance with its terms.
Very truly yours,
SALESLOGIX CORPORATION
By __________________________
[Name]
[Title]
The foregoing Agreement is hereby confirmed
and accepted as of the date first above written.
XXXXXXXXX & XXXXX LLC
BANCBOSTON XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
U.S. BANCORP PIPER XXXXXXX
XXXXXXX XXXXXX & CO., INC.
By Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLC
By __________________________
Managing Director
Acting on behalf of the several Underwriters,
including themselves, named in Schedule I hereto.
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SCHEDULE I
UNDERWRITERS
NUMBER OF
SHARES TO BE
UNDERWRITERS PURCHASED
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Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLC .........................
BancBoston Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx .................
US. Bancorp Xxxxx Xxxxxxx .....................
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx & Co., Inc. ....................
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Total ................................... 0
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ANNEX A
MATTERS TO BE COVERED IN THE OPINION OF XXXXXX XXXXXXX, P.A.
COUNSEL FOR THE COMPANY
(i) Each of the Company and its subsidiaries has been duly
incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing
under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, is duly qualified
as a foreign corporation and in good standing in each state of the United
States of America in which its ownership or leasing of property requires
such qualification (except where the failure to be so qualified would not
have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, financial
condition or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries,
taken as a whole), and has full corporate power and authority to own or
lease its properties and conduct its business as described in the
Registration Statement; all the issued and outstanding capital stock of
each of the subsidiaries of the Company has been duly authorized and
validly issued and is fully paid and nonassessable, and is owned by the
Company free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and security interests,
and to the best of such counsel's knowledge, no options, warrants or other
rights to purchase, agreements or other obligations to issue or other
rights to convert any obligations into shares of capital stock or
ownership interests in such subsidiaries are outstanding;
(ii) the authorized capital stock of the Company consists of
_________ shares of ________ Stock, of which there are outstanding
_________ shares, and _________ shares of Common Stock, $.001 par value,
of which there are outstanding _________ shares (including the
Underwritten Stock plus the number of shares of Option Stock issued on the
date hereof); proper corporate proceedings have been taken validly to
authorize such authorized capital stock; all of the outstanding shares of
such capital stock (including the Underwritten Stock and the shares of
Option Stock issued, if any) have been duly and validly issued, are fully
paid and nonassessable and have been issued in compliance with the
registration and qualification provisions of all applicable federal and
state securities laws; any Option Stock purchased after the Closing Date,
when issued and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters as provided
in the Underwriting Agreement, will have been duly and validly issued and
be fully paid and nonassessable; and no preemptive rights of, or rights of
refusal in favor of, stockholders exist with respect to the Stock, or the
issue and sale thereof, pursuant to the Certificate of Incorporation or
Bylaws of the Company and, to the knowledge of such counsel, there are no
contractual preemptive rights that have not been waived, rights of first
refusal or rights of co-sale which exist with respect to the Stock being
sold by the Selling Securityholders or the issue and sale of the Stock;
(iii) the Registration Statement has become effective under the
Securities Act and, to the best of such counsel's knowledge, no stop order
suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or suspending
or preventing the use of the Prospectus is in effect and no proceedings
for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or contemplated by
the Commission;
(iv) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (except as to the
financial statements and schedules and other financial data contained
therein, as to which such counsel need express no opinion) comply as to
form in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act
and with the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder;
(v) such counsel have no reason to believe that the Registration
Statement (except as to the financial statements and schedules and other
financial or statistical data derived therefrom, as to which such counsel
need not express any opinion or belief) at the Effective Date contained
any 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 that the Prospectus (except as to the financial
statements and schedules and other financial or statistical data derived
therefrom, as to which such counsel need not express any opinion or
belief) as of its date or at the Closing Date (or any later date on which
Option Stock is purchased), contained or contains any untrue statement of
a material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading;
(vi) the information required to be set forth in the Registration
Statement in answer to Items 9, 10 (insofar as it relates to such counsel)
and 11(c) of Form S-1 is to the best of such counsel's knowledge
accurately and adequately set forth therein in all material respects or no
response is required with respect to such Items, and, the description of
the Company's stock option plans and the options granted and which may be
granted thereunder and the options granted otherwise than under such plans
set forth in the Prospectus accurately and fairly presents the information
required to be shown with respect to said plan[s] and options to the
extent required by the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the
Commission thereunder;
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(vii) such counsel do not know of any franchises, contracts, leases,
documents or legal proceedings, pending or threatened, which in the
opinion of such counsel are of a character required to be described in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the
Registration Statement, which are not described and filed as required;
(viii) the Underwriting Agreement has been duly authorized, executed
and delivered by the Company;
(ix) the Underwriting Agreement has been duly executed and delivered
by or on behalf of the Selling Securityholders and the Custody Agreement
between the Selling Securityholders and _________, as Custodian, and the
Power of Attorney referred to in such Custody Agreement have been duly
executed and delivered by the several Selling Securityholders; and each
Selling Securityholder has full legal right and authority to enter into
the Underwriting Agreement and to sell, transfer and deliver in the manner
provided in the Underwriting Agreement the shares of Stock sold by such
Selling Securityholder hereunder;
(x) the issue and sale by the Company of the shares of Stock sold by
the Company as contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement will not
conflict with, or result in a breach of, the Certificate of Incorporation
or Bylaws of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any agreement or
instrument known to such counsel to which the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is a party or any applicable law or regulation, or so far as
is known to such counsel, any order, writ, injunction or decree, of any
jurisdiction, court or governmental instrumentality;
(xi) all holders of securities of the Company having rights to the
registration of shares of Common Stock, or other securities, because of
the filing of the Registration Statement by the Company have waived such
rights or such rights have expired by reason of lapse of time following
notification of the Company's intent to file the Registration Statement;
(xii) good and marketable title to the shares of Stock sold by the
Selling Securityholders under the Underwriting Agreement, free and clear
of all liens, encumbrances, equities, security interests and claims, has
been transferred to the Underwriters who have severally purchased such
shares of Stock under the Underwriting Agreement, assuming for the purpose
of this opinion that the Underwriters purchased the same in good faith
without notice of any adverse claims; and
(xiii) based insofar as factual matters with respect to the stock to
be sold by the Selling Securityholders are concerned solely upon
certificates of the Selling Securityholders, the accuracy of which such
counsel have no reason to question, no consent, approval, authorization or
order of any court or governmental agency or body is required for the
consummation of the transactions contemplated in the Underwriting
Agreement, except such as have been obtained under the Securities Act and
such as may be required under state securities or blue sky laws in
connection with the purchase and distribution of the Stock by the
Underwriters; and
(xiv) the Stock sold by the Selling Securityholders is listed and
duly admitted to trading on the NASDAQ National Market, and the Stock
issued and sold by the Company will been duly authorized for listing by
the NASDAQ National Market upon official notice of issuance.
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