FIRST CONSULTING GROUP, INC.
_____________ SHARES(1)
COMMON STOCK
FORM OF UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
January __, ▇▇▇▇
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UBS SECURITIES
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
First Consulting Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (herein called the
"Company"), proposes to issue and sell ________ shares of its authorized but
unissued Common Stock, $0.001 par value (herein called the "Common Stock"),
and the stockholders of the Company named in Schedule II hereto (herein
collectively called the "Selling Securityholders", which term shall include,
except where otherwise noted, those stockholders named as Affiliated Selling
Securityholders in Schedule II hereto, herein collectively called the
"Affiliated Selling Securityholders") propose to sell an aggregate of
________ shares of Common Stock of the Company (said ________ shares of
Common Stock being herein called the "Underwritten Stock"). The Company
proposes to grant to the Underwriters (as hereinafter defined) an option to
purchase up to ___________ additional shares of Common Stock (herein called
the "Option Stock" and together with the Underwritten Stock herein referred
to as 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 (Registration No. 333-41121), 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
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(1) Plus an option to purchase from the Company up to ________ additional
shares to cover over-allotments.
statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the rules and regulations of the
Commission with respect to the Stock (herein called a "Rule 462(b)
Registration Statement"), and, in the event of any amendment thereto after
the effective date of such registration statement (herein called the
"Effective Date"), shall also mean (from and after the effectiveness of such
amendment) such registration statement as so amended (including any Rule
462(b) Registration Statement). The term "Prospectus" as used in this
Agreement shall mean the prospectus relating to the Stock first filed with
the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) and Rule 430A (or if no such filing is
required, as included in the Registration Statement) and, in the event of any
supplement or amendment to such prospectus after the Effective Date, shall
also mean (from and after the filing with the Commission of such supplement
or the effectiveness of such amendment) such prospectus as so supplemented or
amended. The term "Preliminary Prospectus" as used in this Agreement shall
mean each preliminary prospectus included in such registration statement
prior to the time it becomes effective.
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 Affiliated 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 properties and conduct
business as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
and as currently 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 (a "Material Adverse
Effect")).
(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 has entered into any material transaction not referred to
in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
(iii) Other than FCG (UK), FCG (Ireland), the Scottsdale
Informatics Institute, and UK Subsidiaries, none of which are
Significant Subsidiaries as defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the
Securities Act, the Company does not own, directly or indirectly, any
capital stock or other equity interest of any corporation or have any
direct equity or ownership interest in any other business, whether
organized as a corporation, partnership, joint venture or otherwise.
(iv) 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 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
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Prospectus did not and, on the Closing Date and any later date on which
Option Stock is to be purchased, will not contain any untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order
to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that none of
the representations and warranties in this subparagraph (iv) shall apply
to statements in, or omissions from, the "Underwriting" section of 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.
(v) The Company's authorized, issued and outstanding
capitalization as of December 31, 1997 is as set forth under the caption
"Capitalization" in the Prospectus. The Stock is duly and validly
authorized, and, when issued and sold to the Underwriters as provided
herein, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable,
and upon the delivery of and payment for such shares of the stock, the
several underwriters will receive good and marketable title thereto,
free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities, security interests
and claims whatsoever. The Stock conforms in all material respects to
the description thereof contained in the Prospectus. No further approval
or authority of the stockholders or the Board of Directors of the
Company will be required for the issuance and sale of the Stock as
contemplated herein or for the transfer and sale of the Stock to be sold
by the Selling Securityholders. The authorized capital stock of the
Company conforms as to legal matters to the description thereof
contained in the Prospectus. The shares of capital stock outstanding
prior to the issuance of the Underwritten Stock and, if any, the Option
Stock have been duly authorized and are validly issued, fully paid and
nonassessable.
(vi) Prior to the Closing Date, the Stock to be issued and sold
under this Agreement will be authorized for listing and duly admitted
for trading on the Nasdaq National Market (herein called "NNM") upon
official notice of issuance of the Stock.
(vii) Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, and
except for grants of stock options in the ordinary course of business
occurring after December 31, 1997, the Company does not have outstanding
any options or warrants to purchase, or any preemptive rights, or other
rights to subscribe or to purchase or rights of co-sale, any securities
or obligations convertible or exercisable into, or any contracts or
commitments to issue or sell or register for sale, shares of its capital
stock or any such options, warrants, rights, convertible securities,
exercisable securities or obligations.
(viii) ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, who have certified the consolidated
financial statements included in the Registration Statement, have
represented to the Company that they are, and the Company has no reason
to believe that such representation is incorrect, independent public
accountants as required by the Securities Act and the rules and
regulations of the Commission thereunder.
(ix) The consolidated financial statements of the Company and
its subsidiaries, 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, at the indicated dates and for the indicated periods.
The Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles, consistently applied throughout the
periods involved, and all adjustments necessary for a fair presentation
of results for such periods have been made. The selected and summary
financial data contained in the Registration Statement and the financial
information set forth under the caption "Management's Discussion and
Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" present
fairly the information shown therein and have been compiled on a basis
consistent with the Financial Statements. Other than as set forth in
the Financial Statements, the Company and its subsidiaries have no
material liabilities, contingent or otherwise, other than liabilities
incurred in the ordinary course of business and described in the
Registration Statement.
(x) The Company has filed all required tax returns and has paid or
is contesting in good faith all taxes shown thereon as due, and there is no
tax deficiency that has been or might be asserted against the
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Company that will or might have a Material Adverse Effect on the
Company, and all tax liabilities are adequately provided for in the
Financial Statements of the Company.
(xi) The Company is not in violation or default under any provision
of its Certificate of Incorporation or bylaws as of the Closing Date and
any later date upon which the Option Stock is purchased, or any
indenture, license, mortgage, lease, franchise, permit, deed of trust or
other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by
which the Company or any of its properties is bound or may be affected,
except where such violation or default would not have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(xii) 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. The execution and performance of this Agreement and the
consummation of the transactions herein contemplated, including, but not
limited to, the issuance and sale of the Stock by the Company and the
sale of the Stock by the Selling Securityholders do not and will not:
(i) conflict with, or result in a breach of, or violation of, any of the
terms or provisions of, or constitute, either by itself or upon notice
or the passage of time or both, a default under, any indenture, license,
mortgage, lease, franchise, permit, deed of trust or other agreement or
instrument to which the Company is a party or by which the Company or
any of its properties is bound or may be affected, except where such
breach, violation or default would not have a Material Adverse Effect,
(ii) violate any of the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation
or Bylaws of the Company in effect as of the Closing Date and any later
date upon which the Option Stock is purchased, (iii) violate any order,
judgment, statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Company or of
any regulatory, administrative or governmental body or agency having
jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties or assets, or
(iv) result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or
encumbrance upon any assets or properties of the Company.
(xiii) Any consent, approval, authorization, order, registration,
filing, qualification, license or permit of or with any court or any
public, governmental or regulatory agency or body having jurisdiction
over the Company or any of its properties or assets which is required
for the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement or the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including the
issuance, sale and delivery of the Stock to be issued, sold and
delivered by the Company hereunder, have been obtained, including the
registration of the Stock under the Securities Act, clearance of the
offering of the Stock with the National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc. (the "NASD") and such consents, approvals, authorizations,
orders, registrations, filings, qualifications, licenses and permits as
may be required under state securities or Blue Sky laws in connection
with the purchase and distribution of the Stock by the Underwriters.
(xiv) There is no pending or, to the Company's knowledge,
threatened action, suit, claim or proceeding against the Company or any
of its officers or any of its properties, assets or rights before any
court or governmental agency or body or otherwise which (i) might have a
Material Adverse Effect, (ii) might prevent consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby or (iii) is required to be disclosed in
the Registration Statement and not otherwise disclosed; and there are no
contracts or documents of the Company that are required to be described
in the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration
Statement which have not been fairly and accurately described in all
material respects in the Prospectus and filed as exhibits to the
Registration Statement. The contracts so described in the Prospectus are
in full force and effect on the date hereof, and neither the Company
nor, to the Company's knowledge, any other party is in breach of or
default under any of such contracts.
(xv) Other than as set forth in the Registration Statement, no
claim is pending or, to the Company's knowledge, threatened to the
effect that the present or past operations of the Company infringe upon
or conflict with the rights of others with respect to any licenses,
patents, patent rights, patent
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applications, trademarks, trademark applications, trade names,
copyrights, trade secrets, drawings, schematics, applications,
technology, know-how and other tangible and intangible proprietary
information or material ("Intellectual Property") which may impair the
ability of the Company to conduct its businesses as now conducted and
proposed to be conducted; no claim is pending or, to the Company's
knowledge, threatened regarding the Company's ownership or other
interest in, or rights under, any Intellectual Property which is
necessary in any respect to permit the Company to conduct its businesses
as now conducted and proposed to be conducted; and, no claim is pending
or, to the Company's knowledge, threatened to the effect that any
Intellectual Property owned by or licensed to the Company is invalid or
unenforceable. Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, the Company owns,
or is licensed or otherwise has sufficient rights to, all Intellectual
Property used or proposed to be used in the business of the Company as
now conducted and proposed to be conducted. Except as otherwise
disclosed in the Prospectus, no contract, agreement or understanding
between the Company and any other party exists which would impede or
prevent in any respect the continued use by the Company of the entire
right, title and interest of the Company in and to any Intellectual
Property used in the business of the Company as currently conducted.
(xvi) The Company has not taken and will not take, directly or
indirectly, any action designed to or that might be reasonably 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.
(xvii) Except as described in the Prospectus, no holder of
securities of the Company has any rights to the registration of
securities of the Company because of the filing of the Registration
Statement or otherwise in connection with the sale of the Stock
contemplated hereby. All registration rights have been waived with
respect to the sale and issuance of the Stock.
(xviii) The Company is not 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.
(xix) Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates does business
with the government of Cuba or with any person or affiliate located in
Cuba within the meaning of Section 517.075, Florida Statutes.
(b) Each of the Selling Securityholders, severally and not jointly,
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 _____________, 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) Certificates in negotiable form for the shares of the Stock
to be sold by such Selling Securityholder have been placed in custody
under a Custody Agreement for delivery under this Agreement with the
Custodian; such Selling Securityholder specifically agrees that the
shares of the Stock represented by the certificates so held in custody
for such Selling Securityholder are subject to the interests of the
several Underwriters and the Company, that the arrangements made by such
Selling Securityholder for such custody, including the Power of Attorney
provided for in such Custody Agreement, are to that extent irrevocable,
and that the obligations of such Selling Securityholder shall not be
terminated by any act of such Selling Securityholder or by operation of
law, whether by the death or incapacity of such Selling Securityholder
(or, in the case of a Selling Securityholder that is not an individual,
the dissolution or liquidation of such Selling Securityholder) 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
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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.
(iii) Such Selling Securityholder has reviewed the Registration
Statement and Prospectus and, although such Selling Securityholder has
not independently verified the accuracy or completeness of all the
information contained therein, nothing has come to the attention of such
Selling Securityholder that would lead such Selling Securityholder to
believe that on the Effective Date, the Registration Statement contained
any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted 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 contained and, on the Closing Date and any later date on
which Option Stock is to be purchased, contains any untrue statement of
a material fact or omitted or omits to state any material fact necessary
in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
3. PURCHASE OF THE STOCK BY THE UNDERWRITERS.
(a) On the basis of the representations and warranties and subject to
the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to issue and
sell __________ shares of the Underwritten Stock to the several Underwriters,
each Selling Securityholder agrees to sell to the several Underwriters the
number of shares of the Underwritten Stock set forth in Schedule II 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 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ LLC in such manner as
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ LLC deems 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
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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 grants an option to the several Underwriters to purchase,
severally and not jointly, up to ____________ shares in the aggregate of the
Option Stock from the Company at the same price per share as the Underwriters
shall pay for the Underwritten Stock. Said option may be exercised only to
cover over-allotments in the sale of the Underwritten Stock by the
Underwriters and may be exercised in whole or in part at any time (but not
more than once) on or before the thirtieth day after the date of this
Agreement upon written or telegraphic notice by you to the Company setting
forth the aggregate number of shares of the Option Stock as to which the
several Underwriters are exercising the option. Delivery of certificates for
the shares of Option Stock, and payment therefor, shall be made as provided
in Section 5 hereof. The number of shares of the Option Stock to be
purchased by each Underwriter shall be the same percentage of the total
number of shares of the Option Stock to be purchased by the several
Underwriters as such Underwriter is purchasing of the Underwritten Stock, as
adjusted by ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ LLC in such manner as ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ LLC
deems 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 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 Cooley Godward LLP, Five Palo Alto Square, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, at 7:00 a.m., California 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,
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and payment therefor, shall be made at the office of ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Godward LLP, Five
Palo Alto Square, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, at 7:00 a.m.,
California 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
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. The Company covenants and
agrees as follows:
(a) The Company will (i) prepare and timely file with the Commission
under Rule 424(b) a Prospectus containing information previously omitted at
the time of effectiveness of the Registration Statement in reliance on Rule
430A and (ii) not file any amendment to the Registration Statement or
supplement to the Prospectus of which you shall not previously have been
advised and furnished with a copy or to which you shall have reasonably
objected in writing or which is not in compliance with the Securities Act or
the rules and regulations of the Commission.
(b) The Company will promptly notify ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ LLC 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
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writing by you, shall occur as a result of which it is necessary, in the
opinion of counsel for the Company or of counsel for the Underwriters, to
supplement or amend the Prospectus in order to make the Prospectus not
misleading in the light of the circumstances existing at the time it is
delivered to a purchaser of the Stock, the Company will forthwith prepare and
file with the Commission a supplement to the Prospectus or an amended
prospectus so that the Prospectus as so supplemented or amended will not
contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material
fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances existing at the time such Prospectus is delivered to such
purchaser, not misleading. If, after the initial public offering of the
Stock by the Underwriters and during such period, the Underwriters shall
propose to vary the terms of offering thereof by reason of changes in general
market conditions or otherwise, you will advise the Company in writing of the
proposed variation, and, if in the opinion either of counsel for the Company
or of counsel for the Underwriters such proposed variation requires that the
Prospectus be supplemented or amended, the Company will forthwith prepare and
file with the Commission a supplement to the Prospectus or an amended
prospectus setting forth such variation. The Company authorizes the
Underwriters and all dealers to whom any of the Stock may be sold by the
several Underwriters to use the Prospectus, as from time to time amended or
supplemented, in connection with the sale of the Stock in accordance with the
applicable provisions of the Securities Act and the applicable rules and
regulations thereunder for such period.
(e) Prior to the filing thereof with the Commission, the Company will
submit to you, for your information, a copy of any post-effective amendment
to the Registration Statement and any supplement to the Prospectus or any
amended prospectus proposed to be filed.
(f) The Company will cooperate, when and as requested by you, in the
qualification of the Stock for offer and sale under the securities or blue
sky laws of such jurisdictions as you may reasonably designate and, during
the period in which a prospectus is required by law to be delivered by an
Underwriter or dealer, in keeping such qualifications in good standing under
said securities or blue sky laws; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Company shall
not be obligated to file any general consent to service of process or to
qualify as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction in which it is not so
qualified. The Company will, from time to time, prepare and file such
statements, reports, and other documents as are or may be required to
continue such qualifications in effect for so long a period as you may
reasonably request for distribution of the Stock.
(g) During a period of five years commencing with the date hereof, the
Company will furnish to you, and to each Underwriter who may so request in
writing, copies of all periodic and special reports furnished to stockholders
of the Company and of all information, documents and reports filed with the
Commission.
(h) Not later than the 45th day following the end of the fiscal quarter
first occurring after the first anniversary of the Effective Date, the
Company will make generally available to its security holders an earnings
statement in accordance with Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158
thereunder.
(i) The Company agrees to pay all costs and expenses incident to the
performance of the obligations of the Company and Selling Securityholders
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 of Stock being
sold by the Selling Securityholders.
(j) The Company agrees to reimburse you, for the account of the several
Underwriters, for blue sky fees and related disbursements (including
reasonable fees of counsel and disbursements and cost of printing blue sky
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.
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(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 hereby agrees to pay and shall not affect any
agreement which the Company and the Selling Securityholders may make, or may
have made, for the sharing of any such expenses and costs.
(l) The Company hereby agrees that, without the prior written consent
of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ LLC on behalf of the Underwriters, the Company will not,
for a period of 180 days following the commencement of the public offering of
the Stock by the Underwriters, directly or indirectly, (i) sell, offer,
contract to sell, make any short sale, pledge, sell any option or contract to
purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or
warrant to purchase or otherwise transfer or dispose of any shares of Common
Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for
or any rights to purchase or acquire Common Stock or (ii) enter into any swap
or other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic
consequences or ownership of Common Stock, whether any such transaction
described in clause (i) or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of Common
Stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise. The foregoing sentence
shall not apply to (A) the Stock to be sold to the Underwriters pursuant to
this Agreement, or (B) options to purchase Common Stock granted under the
Option Plans.
(m) If at any time during the 25-day period after the Registration
Statement becomes effective any rumor, publication or event relating to or
affecting the Company shall occur as a result of which in your opinion the
market price for the Stock has been or is likely to be materially affected
(regardless of whether such rumor, publication or event necessitates a
supplement to or amendment of the Prospectus), the Company will, after
written notice from you advising the Company to the effect set forth above,
forthwith prepare, consult with you concerning the substance of, and
disseminate a press release or other public statement, reasonably
satisfactory to you, responding to or commenting on such rumor, publication
or event.
(n) The Company is 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
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 each person (including each partner or officer thereof) who
controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities
Act 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
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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 (other than the Affiliated
Selling Securityholders) 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 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
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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 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
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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 such Selling
Securityholder's representations and warranties contained in paragraphs (a)
and (b) of Section 2 hereof and 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 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
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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 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ &
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, LLP, counsel for the Underwriters.
(c) You shall have received from ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Godward LLP, counsel for the
Company and the Selling Securityholders, an opinion addressed to the
Underwriters and dated the Closing Date, covering the matters set forth in
Annex A hereto, and if Option Stock is purchased at any date after the
Closing Date, an additional opinion from such counsel, addressed to the
Underwriters and dated such later date, confirming that the statements
expressed as of the Closing Date in such opinion remain valid as of such
later date.
(d) You shall be satisfied that (i) as of the Effective Date, the
statements made in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus were true
and correct and neither the Registration Statement nor the Prospectus omitted
to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in
order to make the statements therein, respectively, not misleading, (ii)
since the Effective Date, no event has occurred which should have been set
forth in a supplement or amendment to the Prospectus which has not been set
forth in such a supplement or amendment, (iii) since the respective dates as
of which information is given in the Registration Statement in the form in
which it originally became effective and the Prospectus contained therein,
there has not been any material adverse change or any development involving a
prospective material adverse change in or affecting the business, properties,
financial condition or results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in
the ordinary course of business, and, since such dates, except in the
ordinary course of business, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries
has entered into any material transaction not referred to in the Registration
Statement in the form in which it originally became effective and the
Prospectus contained therein, (iv) neither the Company nor any of its
subsidiaries has any material contingent obligations which are not disclosed
in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, (v) there are not any
pending or known threatened legal proceedings to which the Company or any of
its subsidiaries is a party or of which property of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is the subject which are material and which are not disclosed in
the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, (vi) there are not any
franchises, contracts, leases or other documents which are required to be
filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement which have not been filed as
required, (vii) the representations and warranties of the Company herein are
true and correct in all material respects as of the Closing Date or any later
date on which Option Stock is to be purchased, as the case may be, and (viii)
there has not been any material change in the market for securities in
general or in political, financial or economic conditions from those
reasonably foreseeable as to render it impracticable in your reasonable
judgment to make a public offering of the Stock, or a material adverse change
in market levels for securities in general (or those of companies in
particular) or financial or economic conditions which render it inadvisable
to proceed.
(e) You shall have received on the Closing Date and on any later date
on which Option Stock is purchased a certificate, dated the Closing Date or
such later date, as the case may be, and signed by the President and the
Chief Financial Officer of the Company, stating that the respective signers
of said certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement in the
form in which it originally became effective and the Prospectus contained
therein and any supplements or amendments thereto, and that the statements
included in clauses (i) through (vii) of paragraph (d) of this Section 9 are
true and correct.
(f) You shall have received from ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 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
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the applicable published rules and regulations thereunder and, based upon the
procedures described in such 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 ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 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 December 31, 1997,
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 and the Selling Securityholders shall have been duly authorized for
listing by the NNM upon official notice of issuance.
(j) On or prior to the Closing Date, you shall have received from all
directors, officers and stockholders, agreements, in form reasonably
satisfactory to ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ LLC, stating that without the prior written
consent of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ 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. At the end of such 180-day period, 10% of the shares held by such
stockholders shall be released from the lock-up; at the end of the period
ending 360 days after commencement of the public offering, an additional 10%
of the shares shall be released; and at the expiration of the period ending
540 days after commencement of the offering, all shares shall be released
from the lock-up.
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 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ &
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, 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. Any such termination shall 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
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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 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ LLC, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇; and if to the Company, shall be
mailed, telegraphed or delivered to it at its office, ▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇,
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer; and if to the Selling Securityholders, shall be mailed, telegraphed
or delivered to the Selling Securityholders in care of the Corporate
Secretary, ▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇. All
notices given by telegraph shall be promptly confirmed by letter.
14. MISCELLANEOUS. The reimbursement, indemnification and contribution
agreements contained in this Agreement and the representations, warranties
and covenants in this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect
regardless of (a) any termination of this Agreement, (b) any investigation
made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or controlling person thereof, or by
or on behalf of the Company or 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) and (m) of
Section 6 hereof shall be of no further force or effect.
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This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of
which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute
one and the same instrument.
This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with,
the laws of the State of California.
Please sign and return to the Company and to the Selling Securityholders
in care of the Company the enclosed duplicates of this letter, whereupon this
letter will become a binding agreement among the Company, the Selling
Securityholders and the several Underwriters in accordance with its terms.
Very truly yours,
FIRST CONSULTING GROUP, INC.
By: __________________________
▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS:
By: __________________________
Attorney-in-Fact
The foregoing Agreement is hereby confirmed
and accepted as of the date first above written.
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ LLC
BANCAMERICA ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
UBS SECURITIES
By: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ LLC
By: __________________________
Name
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
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▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇, LLC.........................
BancAmerica ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.................
UBS Securities.................................
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Total:.........................................
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SCHEDULE II
SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS
NUMBER OF
NAME AND ADDRESS SHARES
OF SELLING SECURITYHOLDER TO BE SOLD
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AFFILIATED
SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS
NUMBER OF
NAME AND ADDRESS OF SHARES
AFFILIATED SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS TO BE SOLD
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