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EXHIBIT 1.1
SUPERSHUTTLE INTERNATIONAL, INC.
3,320,000 SHARES(1)
COMMON STOCK
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
July ___, 1998
HAMBRECHT & QUIST LLC
PIPER JAFFRAY INC.
c/o Hambrecht & Quist LLC
One Bush Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
Ladies and Gentlemen:
SuperShuttle International, Inc., a Delaware corporation (herein called
the Company), proposes to issue and sell 3,000,000 shares of its authorized but
unissued Common Stock, $0.01 par value (herein called the Common Stock) and the
stockholders of the Company named in Schedule II hereto (herein collectively
called the Selling Securityholders) propose to sell an aggregate of 320,000
shares of Common Stock of the Company (said 3,320,000 shares of Common Stock
being herein called the Underwritten Stock). The Company and certain Selling
Securityholders propose to grant to the Underwriters (as hereinafter defined) an
option to purchase up to 498,000 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 and the Selling Securityholders severally hereby confirm
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-_____), 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
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1 Plus an option to purchase from the Company and the Selling
Securityholders up to 498,000 additional shares to cover
overallotments.
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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.
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 AND THE SELLING
SECURITYHOLDERS.
(a) The Company and the Selling Securityholders hereby represent and
warrant as follows:
(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, 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). The Company owns all of the
shares of capital stock of each subsidiary of the Company and each of the
Company's 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).
(ii) 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 (i) has entered into any material transaction or
incurred any material liability or obligation, direct or contingent, not
referred to in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; (ii) has purchased
any of its outstanding capital stock, or declared, paid or otherwise made any
dividend or distribution of any kind on its capital stock; or (iii) has had any
material change in the capital stock, short-term debt or long-term debt of the
Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, taken as a whole, except in each case
as described or specifically contemplated in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus.
(iii) 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 best knowledge of the Company,
after due inquiry, threatened instituting proceedings for that purpose. 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
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under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that none of the
representations and warranties in this subparagraph (iii) 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.
(iv) The Common Stock (including the Stock to be sold by the
Selling Securityholders) outstanding prior to the issuance of the Common Stock
to be sold by the Company has been duly authorized and are validly issued, fully
paid and non-assessable. Except as set forth in the Prospectus and other than
options to purchase ______shares of the Company's Common Stock granted to
employees pursuant to the Company's 1998 Stock Option Plan (herein referred to
as the 1998 Plan) and the 1995 Stock Option Plan (herein referred to as the 1995
Plan) as described in the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its
subsidiaries has outstanding any options to purchase, or any preemptive rights
or other rights to subscribe for or to purchase, any securities or obligations
convertible into, or any contracts or commitments to issue or sell, shares of
its capital stock or any such options, rights, convertible securities or
obligations. All outstanding shares of capital stock and options and other
rights to acquire capital stock have been issued in compliance with the
registration and qualification provisions of all applicable securities laws (or
applicable exemptions thereof) and were not issued in violation of any
preemptive rights, rights of first refusal and other similar rights. The Stock
to be sold by the Company has been duly authorized, and when issued and
delivered in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, will be validly
issued, fully paid and non-assessable, and the issuance of such Shares will not
be subject to any preemptive or similar rights. No further approval or authority
of the stockholders or the Board of Directors of the Company will be required
for the transfer and sale of the Stock to be sold by the Selling Securityholders
or the issuance and sale of the Stock as contemplated herein.
(v) The authorized capital stock of the Company conforms as to
legal matters in all material respects to the description thereof contained in
the Prospectus. The form of certificates for the Stock conforms in all material
respects to the corporate law of the jurisdiction of the Company's
incorporation.
(vi) Prior to the Closing Date, the Stock to be sold by the
Selling Securityholders, and the Stock to be issued and sold by the Company will
be authorized for listing by the Nasdaq National Market upon official notice of
issuance.
(vii) The consolidated financial statements of the Company,
together with related notes and schedules as set forth in the Registration
Statement ("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,
schedules and related notes 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.
(viii) 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.
(ix) 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.
(x) 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
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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 violate any of the
provisions of the certificate or articles of incorporation or bylaws, as
applicable, each as amended, of the Company or violate any material order,
judgment, statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Company of any court or
of any regulatory, administrative or governmental body or agency having
jurisdiction over the Company or its properties.
(xi) 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 best of the Company's knowledge any other party, is in
material breach of or default under any of such contracts.
(xii) 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, [including but not limited to the California Public Utilities
Commission 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.
(xiii) 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.
(xiv) The Company and each of its subsidiaries is in
substantial compliance with and there are no past or present conditions,
activities, actions or plans which may prevent substantial compliance with, any
current or past law related to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use,
treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling, or the release, emission or
discharge of any hazardous substance or hazardous waste ("Hazardous Substance
Issues") or any regulations, plans, judgments, injunctions or notices
promulgated or approved thereunder which may give rise to any liability of the
Company or its subsidiaries or otherwise form the basis of any ongoing or
threatened claims, actions, demands, suits, proceedings, hearings, studies or
investigations against or relating to the Company or its subsidiaries, the
property owned or leased by the Company or its subsidiaries that are based on or
related to any Hazardous Substance Issues except for such non-compliance which
would not singly or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the
Company or its subsidiaries, taken as a whole. The Company and its subsidiaries
have no knowledge of the possible or actual presence, disposal, release or
threatened release of any hazardous substance or hazardous waste on or under any
adjacent properties to the any property owned or leased currently or in the past
by the Company, any subsidiary or any predecessor except such as would not
singly or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the Company or its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole. For purposes of this Agreement, the terms
"disposal," "release," "hazardous substance" and "hazardous waste" shall have
the definitions assigned thereto under federal, state and local laws applicable
to the Company, its subsidiaries, the Company's or any subsidiary's assets and
the property owned or leased by the Company, including
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without limitation the Federal Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. Section9601 et seq., as
amended, and any regulations promulgated thereto.
(xv) The Company and each of its subsidiaries has good and
marketable title in fee simple to all real property and 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.
(xvi) 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.
(xvii) 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 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.
(xviii) The Company is in compliance 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.
(xix) 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.
(xx) 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.
(xxi) The Company has complied with all provisions of Section
517.075, Florida Statutes relating to doing business with the Government of Cuba
or with any person or affiliate located in Cuba.
(xxii) 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
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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.
(xxiii) No material labor dispute with employees of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries or franchises 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 and franchises is terminable at the will of the Company. To its
knowledge, the Company and its subsidiaries and franchises 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, now employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or franchises,
nor any consultant or independent contractor with whom the Company or any of its
subsidiaries or franchises 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
Company or any of its subsidiaries or franchises; and to the Company's knowledge
the continued employment by the Company and its subsidiaries and franchises 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 and franchises have not received any notice alleging that any
such violation has occurred. No employee of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries or franchises 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, nor does the Company have a present intention to
terminate the employment of any of the foregoing.
(xxiv) The Company has not offered, or caused the Underwriters
to offer, Stock to any person pursuant to the Directed Share Program 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.
(b) Each of the Selling Securityholders hereby represents and
warrants as follows:
(i) Such Selling Securityholder has good and marketable title
to all the shares of Stock to be sold by such Selling Securityholder hereunder,
free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities, security interests and
claims whatsoever, with full right and authority to deliver the same hereunder,
subject, in the case of each Selling Securityholder, to the rights of (degree) ,
as Custodian (herein called the Custodian), and that upon the delivery of and
payment for such shares of the Stock hereunder, the several Underwriters will
receive good and marketable title thereto, free and clear of all liens,
encumbrances, equities, security interests and claims whatsoever.
(ii) The Selling Stockholder has duly authorized, executed and
delivered, in the form heretofore furnished to the Underwriters, a Custody
Agreement and Power of Attorney (the "Custody Agreement and Power of Attorney")
appointing _____________ and _____________ as attorneys-in-fact (collectively,
the "Attorneys" and individually, an "Attorney") and appointing _____________ as
Custodian; the Custody Agreement and Power of Attorney constitutes a valid and
binding agreement on the part of the Selling Stockholder, enforceable in
accordance with its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar
laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally or by general
equitable principles; and each of the Selling Stockholder's Attorneys, acting
alone, is authorized to execute and deliver this Agreement and the certificate
referred to in Section 9(__) hereof on behalf of the Selling Stockholder, to
determine the purchase price to be paid by the several Underwriters to the
Selling Stockholder as provided in Section 3 hereof, to authorize the delivery
of the shares of Stock to be sold by the Selling Stockholder under this
Agreement and to duly endorse (in blank or otherwise) the certificate or
certificates representing such Stock or a stock power or powers with respect
thereto, to accept payment therefor, and otherwise to act on behalf of the
Selling Stockholder in connection with this Agreement.
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(iii) All consents, approvals, authorizations and orders
required for the execution and delivery by the Selling Stockholder of the
Custody Agreement and Power of Attorney, the execution and delivery by or on
behalf of the Selling Stockholder of this Agreement and the sale and delivery of
the shares of Stock to be sold by the Selling Stockholder under this Agreement
(other than, at the time of the execution hereof (if the Registration Statement
has not yet been declared effective by the issuance of the order of the
Commission declaring the Registration Statement effective and such consents,
approvals, authorizations or orders as may be necessary under state or other
securities or Blue Sky laws) have been obtained and are in full force and
effect; the Selling Stockholder, if other than a natural person, has been duly
organized and is validly existing in good standing under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its organization as the type of entity that it purports to be;
and the Selling Stockholder has full legal right, power and authority to enter
into and perform its obligations under this Agreement and such Custody Agreement
and Power of Attorney, and to sell, assign, transfer and deliver the Stock to be
sold by the Selling Stockholder under this Agreement.
(iv) Certificates in negotiable form for the shares of the
Stock to be sold by the Selling Stockholder have been placed in custody under a
Custody Agreement and Power of Attorney for delivery under this Agreement with
the Custodian; the Selling Stockholder specifically agrees that the shares of
the Stock represented by the certificates so held in custody for the Selling
Stockholder are subject to the interests of the several Underwriters and the
Company, that the arrangements made by the Selling Stockholder for such custody,
including the Power of Attorney provided for in such Custody Agreement and Power
of Attorney, are to that extent irrevocable, and that the obligations of the
Selling Stockholder shall not be terminated by any act of the Selling
Stockholder or by operation of law, whether by the death or incapacity of the
Selling Stockholder (or, in the case of a Selling Stockholder that is not an
individual, the dissolution or liquidation of such Selling Stockholder) or the
occurrence of any other event; if any such death, incapacity, dissolution,
liquidation or other such event should occur before the delivery of such shares
of the Stock hereunder, certificates for such shares of the Stock shall be
delivered by the Custodian in accordance with the terms and conditions of this
Agreement as if such death, incapacity, dissolution, liquidation or other event
had not occurred, regardless of whether the Custodian shall have received notice
of such death, incapacity, dissolution, liquidation or other event.
(v) The Selling Stockholder will comply with all agreements
and satisfy all conditions on its part to be complied with or satisfied pursuant
to this Agreement on or prior to the Closing Date and will advise one of its
Attorneys and Hambrecht & Quist LLC prior to the Closing Date if any statement
to be made on behalf of the Selling Stockholder in the certificate contemplated
by Section 9(__) would be inaccurate if made as of the Closing Date.
(vi) The Selling Stockholder has not taken and will not take,
directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that might reasonably be
expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of the
Common Stock to facilitate the sale or resale of the Stock.
(vii) The Selling Stockholder does not have, or has waived
prior to the date hereof, any preemptive right, co-sale right or right of first
refusal or other similar right to purchase any of the Stock that are to be sold
by the Company to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement; the Selling
Stockholder does not have, or has waived prior to the date hereof, any
registration right or other similar right to participate in the offering made by
the Prospectus, other than such rights of participation as have been satisfied
by the participation of the Selling Stockholder in the transactions to which
this Agreement relates in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; and the
Selling Stockholder does not own any warrants, options or similar rights to
acquire, and does not have any right or arrangement to acquire, any capital
stock, rights, warrants, options or other securities from the Company, other
than those described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and any
document incorporated therein by reference.
(viii) The Selling Stockholder has not distributed and will
not distribute any prospectus or other offering material in connection with the
offering and sale of the Stock.
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
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Underwriters, each Selling Securityholder agrees to sell to the several
Underwriters the number of shares of the Underwritten Stock set forth in
Schedule II under the heading "Underwritten Stock" opposite the name of such
Selling Securityholder, and each of the Underwriters agrees to purchase from the
Company and the Selling Securityholders 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 the Selling Securityholders and purchased by the several Underwriters shall
be $___ per share. The obligation of each Underwriter to the Company and each of
the Selling Securityholders shall be to purchase from the Company and the
Selling Securityholders 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 and the Selling Securityholders 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 or the Selling Securityholders
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 and the Selling Securityholders
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 and the Selling
Securityholders 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 and the Selling Securityholders 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 or the Selling
Securityholders to any non-defaulting Underwriter and without any liability on
the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter to the Company or the Selling
Securityholders. 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 and certain Selling Securityholders grant an option to the
several Underwriters to purchase, severally and not jointly, up to (degree)
shares in the aggregate of the Option Stock from the Company and the Selling
Securityholders set forth on Schedule II 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
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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.
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 in paragraphs ____ 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 (degree) , (degree) , 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 Squire, Sanders &
Dempsey, LLP, Two Renaissance Square, 40 North Central Avenue, Suite 2700,
Phoenix, Arizona, 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, and payment for the Stock purchased from the
Selling Securityholders shall be made to the Custodian, for the account of the
Selling Securityholders, in each case 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, 2 Broadway, New
York, New York 10004 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
and the Selling Securityholders 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 AND THE SELLING
SECURITYHOLDERS. Each of the Company and the Selling Securityholders
respectively covenants and agrees as follows:
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(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 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 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
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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 and the Selling Securityholders jointly and
severally agree 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 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 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 and the Selling Securityholders jointly and
severally agree to reimburse you, for the account of the several Underwriters,
for blue sky fees and related disbursements (including 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 and each of the Selling Securityholders hereby
agrees that, without the prior written consent of Hambrecht & Quist LLC on
behalf of the Underwriters, the Company or such Selling Securityholder, as the
case may be, 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 the Stock to be sold to the Underwriters pursuant to this
Agreement.
(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.
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(n) The Company is familiar with the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended, and has in the past conducted its affairs, and will in the
future conduct its affairs, in such a manner to ensure that the Company was not
and will not be an "investment company" or a company "controlled" by an
"investment company" within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940,
as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder.
7. INDEMNIFICATION AND CONTRIBUTION.
(a) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (f) of this Section
7, the Company and the Selling Securityholders jointly and severally agree 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 and the Selling Securityholders jointly and severally
agree 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) 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 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 agreements of the Company
and the Selling Securityholders 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, (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, and (3) each Selling
Securityholder shall only be liable under this paragraph with respect to (A)
information pertaining to such Selling Securityholder furnished by or on behalf
of such Selling Securityholder expressly for use in any Preliminary Prospectus
or the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or any such amendment thereof or
supplement thereto or (B) facts that would constitute a breach of any
representation or warranty of such Selling Securityholder set forth in Section
2(b) hereof. The indemnity agreements of the Company and the Selling
Securityholders contained in this paragraph (a) and the representations and
warranties of the Company and the Selling Securityholders 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, and the Selling Securityholders
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
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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 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 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 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 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
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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 and the Selling Securityholders 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 Selling Securityholders 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.
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.
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) Neither the Company nor the Selling Securityholders will,
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.
(f) The liability of each Selling Securityholder under the
indemnity and reimbursement agreements contained in the provisions of this
Section 7 and Section 11 hereof shall be limited to an amount equal to the
initial public offering price of the stock sold by such Selling Securityholder
to the Underwriters. The Company and the Selling Securityholders may agree, as
among themselves and without limiting the rights of the Underwriters under this
Agreement, as to the respective amounts of such liability for which they each
shall be responsible.
8. TERMINATION. This Agreement may be terminated by you at any
time prior to the Closing Date by giving written notice to the Company and the
Selling Securityholders 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 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
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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 or the
Selling Securityholders to the Underwriters and no liability of the Underwriters
to the Company or the Selling Securityholders; provided, however, that in the
event of any such termination the Company and the Selling Securityholders agree
to indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriters from all costs or expenses
incident to the performance of the obligations of the Company and the Selling
Securityholders 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 and by the Selling Securityholders of all their
respective 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
financial statements contained therein), shall have been approved at or prior to
the Closing Date by Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian,
LLP, counsel for the Underwriters.
(c) You shall have received from Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
LLP, counsel for the Company and the Selling Securityholders, from __________,
regulatory counsel for the Company, from __________, franchise counsel for the
Company, from __________, labor counsel for the Company, opinions, addressed to
the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date, covering the matters set forth in
Annex A, Annex B, Annex C and Annex D hereto, respectively, and if Option Stock
is purchased at any date after the Closing Date, additional opinions from each
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
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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 each of Deloitte & Touche LLP
and Arthur Anderson 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 received from Deloitte & Touche LLP a
letter stating that their review of the Company's system of internal accounting
controls, to the extent they deemed necessary in establishing the scope of their
examination of the Company's financial statements as at March 31, 1998, did not
disclose any weakness in internal controls that they considered to be material
weaknesses.
(h) 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.
(i) 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.
(j) On or prior to the Closing Date, you shall have received
from stockholders agreements, in form reasonably satisfactory to Hambrecht &
Quist LLC, stating that without the prior written consent of Hambrecht & Quist
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 Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin &
Hachigian, LLP, 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 and to the Selling Securityholders. Any such termination shall
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be without liability of the Company or the Selling Securityholders to the
Underwriters and without liability of the Underwriters to the Company or the
Selling Securityholders; provided, however, that (i) in the event of such
termination, the Company and the Selling Securityholders agree to indemnify and
hold harmless the Underwriters from all costs or expenses incident to the
performance of the obligations of the Company and the Selling Securityholders
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 or the
Selling Securityholders 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 AND THE SELLING
SECURITYHOLDERS. The obligation of the Company and the Selling Securityholders
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 and the Selling
Securityholders by giving notice to you. Any such termination shall be without
liability of the Company and the Selling Securityholders to the Underwriters and
without liability of the Underwriters to the Company or the Selling
Securityholders; provided, however, that in the event of any such termination
the Company and the Selling Securityholders jointly and severally agree to
indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriters from all costs or expenses incident
to the performance of the obligations of the Company and the Selling
Securityholders 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 their other
obligations under Section 7 of this Agreement (and subject, in the case of a
Selling Securityholder, to the provisions of paragraph (f) of Section 7), the
Company and the Selling Securityholders hereby jointly and severally agree 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, the Selling Securityholders and the several
Underwriters and, with respect to the provisions of Section 7 hereof, the
several parties (in addition to the Company, the Selling Securityholders 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.
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 Hambrecht & Quist LLC, One Bush Street,
San Francisco, California 94104, Attention:______________; and if to the
Company, shall be mailed, telegraphed or delivered to it at its office,
___________, Attention: __________; 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
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Underwriter or controlling person thereof, or by or on behalf of the Company or
the Selling Securityholders 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.
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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,
SUPERSHUTTLE INTERNATIONAL, INC.
By
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Brian Wier
President and Chief Executive Officer
SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS:
[List Names]
By
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[Attorney-in-Fact]
The foregoing Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted as of the date first
above written.
HAMBRECHT & QUIST LLC
PIPER JAFFRAY INC.
By Hambrecht & Quist LLC
By
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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
UNDERWRITERS TO BE PURCHASED
Hambrecht & Quist LLC.........................................
Piper Jaffray Inc.............................................
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Total.........................................................
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SCHEDULE II
SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS
NUMBER OF SHARES
NAME AND ADDRESS OF UNDERWRITTEN STOCK NUMBER OF SHARES OF OPTION
OF SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS TO BE SOLD SHARES TO BE SOLD
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Total.........................
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ANNEX A
MATTERS TO BE COVERED IN THE OPINION OF _____________
COUNSEL FOR THE COMPANY
AND THE SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS
(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 [ (degree)
shares of (degree) Stock, of which there are outstanding (degree) shares, and]
(degree) shares of Common Stock, $ (degree) par value, of which there are
outstanding (degree) shares (including the Underwritten Stock plus the number of
shares of Option Stock issued on the date hereof) [and such additional number of
shares, if any, as may have been issued after (degree) and prior to the Closing
Date, pursuant to (degree) ]; 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 and are fully
paid and nonassessable; 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 data contained or incorporated by reference therein, 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 data contained or incorporated by reference
therein, 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
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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
plan[s] and the options granted and which may be granted thereunder [and the
options granted otherwise than under such plan[s] 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;
(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 (degree) , as Custodian, and the Power of
Attorney referred to in such Custody Agreement have been duly executed and
delivered by the several Selling Securityholders;
(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) 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 and the Stock
issued and sold by the Company will been duly authorized for listing by Nasdaq
National Market upon official notice of issuance.
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Counsel rendering the foregoing opinion may rely as to questions of law
not involving the laws of the United States or of the State of (degree) , upon
opinions of local counsel satisfactory in form and scope to counsel for the
Underwriters. Copies of any opinions so relied upon shall be delivered to the
Representative[s] and to counsel for the Underwriters and the foregoing opinion
shall also state that counsel knows of no reason the Underwriters are not
entitled to rely upon the opinions of such local counsel.
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ANNEX B
MATTERS TO BE COVERED IN THE OPINION OF ___________
REGULATORY COUNSEL FOR THE COMPANY
Such counsel are familiar with the laws, rules and regulations
applicable to the Company in its business and the manner of its compliance
thereof and have read the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, including
particularly the portions of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
referring to regulatory matters including [compliance with state and federal
regulations relating to...("Regulatory Requirements")] and:
(i) such counsel have no reason to believe that the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus (A) contains any untrue statement of a material fact
with respect to Regulatory Requirements of the Company, or the manner of its use
thereof, or any allegation on the part of any person that the Company is in
violation of the Regulatory Requirements or (B) omits to state any material fact
relating to the Regulatory Requirements of the Company, or any allegation of
which such counsel have knowledge, that is required to be stated in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus or is necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading;
(ii) to the best of such counsel's knowledge there are no legal or
governmental proceedings pending relating to the [Regulatory Requirements of the
Company, and to the best of such counsel's knowledge no such proceedings are
threatened or contemplated by governmental authorities or others;
(iii) such counsel do not know of any contracts or other documents,
relating to governmental regulation affecting the Company of a character
required to be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement or required to
be described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus that are not filed
or described as required; and
(iv) to the best of such counsel's knowledge, the Company is not
infringing or otherwise violating any [Regulatory Requirements], and to the best
of such counsel's knowledge there are no infringements by others of any of the
Company's [Regulatory Requirements] which in the judgment of such counsel could
affect materially the use thereof by the Company.
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ANNEX C
MATTERS TO BE COVERED IN THE OPINION OF ___________
FRANCHISE COUNSEL FOR THE COMPANY
Such counsel are familiar with the license agreements and other
agreements or contracts used by the Company with respect to the Company's
franchise arrangements with its operations in [ ] and have read the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus, including particularly the portions of the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus referring to [applicable federal or
state franchise law] and:
(i) The statements in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
under the caption[s] ["____________" and "_____________,"] to the best of such
counsel's knowledge and belief, are accurate and complete statements or
summaries of the matters therein set forth and nothing has come to such
counsel's attention that causes such counsel to believe that the above-described
portions of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of
the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;]
(ii) to the best of such counsel's knowledge there are no legal or
governmental proceedings pending relating to compliance by the Company with
applicable federal or state franchise law and to the best of such counsel's
knowledge no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated by governmental
authorities or others;
(iii) such counsel do not know of any contracts or other documents,
relating to applicable federal or state franchise law affecting the Company of a
character required to be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement or
required to be described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus that
are not filed or described as required; and
(iv) to the best of such counsel's knowledge, the Company is not
infringing or otherwise violating any applicable federal or state franchise law.
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ANNEX D
MATTERS TO BE COVERED IN THE OPINION OF ___________
LABOR COUNSEL FOR THE COMPANY
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