Agreements of the Company The Company agrees with you:
(a) To advise you promptly and, if requested by you, to confirm such advice in writing,
(i) of any request by the Commission for amendments to the Registration Statement or amendments or supplements to the Prospectus or for additional information,
(ii) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of the suspension of qualification of any of the Shares for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or the initiation of any proceeding for such purposes,
(iii) when any amendment to the Registration Statement becomes effective,
(iv) if the Company is required to file a Rule 462(b) Registration Statement after the effectiveness of this Agreement, when the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement has become effective and
(v) of the happening of any event during the period referred to in Section 5(d) below which makes any statement of a material fact made in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus untrue or which requires any additions to or changes in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus in order to make the statements therein not misleading. If at any time the Commission shall issue any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, the Company will use its best efforts to obtain the withdrawal or lifting of such order at the earliest possible time.
(b) To furnish to you four signed copies of the Registration Statement as first filed with the Commission and of each amendment to it, including all exhibits, and to furnish to you and each Underwriter designated by you such number of conformed copies of the Registration Statement as so filed and of each amendment to it, without exhibits, as you may reasonably request.
(c) To prepare the Prospectus, the form and substance of which shall be satisfactory to you, and to file the Prospectus in such form with the Commission within the applicable period specified in Rule 424(b) under the Act; and during the period specified in Section 5(d) below, not to file any further amendment to the Registration Statement and not to make any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus of which you shall not previously have been advised or to which you shall reasonably object after being so advised.
(d) Prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the first business day after the date of this Agreement and from time to time thereafter for such period as in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters a prospectus is required by law to be delivered in connection with sales by an Underwriter or a dealer, to furnish in New York City to each Underwriter and any dealer as many copies of the Prospectus (and of any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus) as you may reasonably request; provided, however, that in case any Underwriter or dealer is so required to deliver a prospectus in connection with sales of any of the Shares at any time nine months or more after the time of issue of the Prospectus, the preparation and delivery of such copies of the Prospectus (and of any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus) as you so request shall be at the expense of such Underwriter or dealer.
(e) If during the period specified in Section 5(d), any event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, it becomes necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading, or if, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with applicable law, upon your request forthwith to prepare and file with the Commission an appropriate amendment or supplement to the Prospectus so that the statements in the Prospectus, as so amended or supplemented, will not, in the light of the circumstances when it is so delivered, be misleading, or so that the Prospectus will comply with applicable law, and to furnish to each Underwriter and to any dealer as many copies thereof as you may reasonably request; provided, however, that in case any Underwriter or dealer is required to deliver a prospectus in connection with the sale of any of the Shares at any time nine months or more after the time of issue of the Prospectus, the preparation and delivery of such copies of the Prospectus (and of any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus) as you so request shall be at the expense of such Underwriter or dealer.
(f) Prior to any public offering of the Shares, to cooperate with you and counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the registration or qualification of the Shares for offer and sale by the several Underwriters and by dealers under the state securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as you may request, to continue such registration or qualification in effect so long as required for distribution of the Shares and to file such consents to service of process or other documents as may be necessary in order to effect such registration or qualification; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required in connection therewith to qualify as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction in which it is not now so qualified or to take any action that would subject it to general consent to service of process or taxation other than as to matters and transactions relating to the Prospectus, the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus or the offering or sale of the Shares, in any jurisdiction in which it is not now so subject.
(g) To make generally available to its stockholders as soon as practicable but in any event not later than eighteen months after the "effective date of the Registration Statement" (as defined in Rule 158(c) under the Act), an earnings statement (which need not be audited) that shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Act (including, at the option of the Company, Rule 158 under the Act), and to advise you in writing when such statement has been so made available.
(h) During the period of five years after the date of this Agreement, to furnish to you as soon as available copies of all reports or other communications furnished to the record holders of Common Stock generally or non-confidential reports, financial statements and other communications furnished to or filed with the Commission or any national securities exchange on which any class of securities of the Company is listed and such other publicly available information concerning the Company and its subsidiaries as you may reasonably request.
(i) Regardless of whether the transactions contemplated in this Agreement are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, and except as otherwise provided herein, to pay or cause to be paid all expenses incident to the performance of the Sellers' obligations under this Agreement, including:
(i) the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Company's counsel, the Company's accountants and any Selling Stockholder's counsel (in addition to the Company's counsel) in connection with the registration and delivery of the Shares under the Act and all other fees and expenses in connection with the preparation, printing, filing and distribution of the Registration Statement (including financial statements and exhibits), any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus and all amendments and supplements to any of the foregoing, including the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the Underwriters and dealers in the quantities specified herein,
(ii) all costs and expenses related to the transfer and delivery of the Shares to the Underwriters, including any transfer or other taxes payable thereon,
(iii) all costs of printing or producing this Agreement and any other agreements or documents in connection with the offering, purchase, sale or delivery of the Shares,
(iv) all expenses in connection with the registration or qualification of the Shares for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of the several states and all costs of printing or producing any Preliminary and Supplemental Blue Sky Memoranda in connection therewith (including the filing fees, and the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with such registration or qualification and memoranda relating thereto),
(v) the filing fees, fees, charges and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the review and clearance of the offering of the Shares by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.,
(vi) all fees and expenses in connection with the preparation and filing of the registration statement on Form 8-A relating to the Common Stock and all costs and expenses incident to the listing of the Shares on the Nasdaq National Market,
(vii) the cost of printing certificates representing the Shares,
(viii) the costs and charges of any transfer agent, registrar and/or depositary, and (ix) the fees, if any, and expenses, if any, of the QIU (including the fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the QIU), and
(ix) all other costs and expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the Company and the Selling Stockholders hereunder for which provision is not otherwise made in this Section. The provisions of this Section shall not supersede or otherwise affect any agreement that the Company and the Selling Stockholders may otherwise have for allocation of such expenses among themselves. It is understood, however, that, except as provided in this Section 5 and Sections 8, 9 and 13 hereof, the Underwriters will pay all of their own costs and expenses, including the fees of their counsel, stock transfer taxes on resale of any of the Shares by them, and any advertising expenses connected with any offers they may make.
(j) To list for quotation the Shares on the Nasdaq National Market and to use its best efforts to maintain the listing of the Shares on the Nasdaq National Market for a period of three years after the date of this Agreement.
(k) To use its best efforts to do and perform all things required or necessary to be done and performed under this Agreement by the Company on or prior to the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as the case may be, and to satisfy all conditions precedent to the delivery of the Shares.
(l) If the Registration Statement at the time of the effectiveness of this Agreement does not cover all of the Shares, to file a Rule 462(b) Registration Statement with the Commission registering the Shares not so covered in compliance with Rule 462(b) by 10:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement and to pay to the Commission the filing fee for such Rule 462(b) Registration Statement at the time of the filing thereof or to give irrevocable instructions for the payment of such fee pursuant to Rule 111(b) under the Act.