EX-1.1 2 d316447dex11.htm EX-1.1 EX-1.1

Exhibit 1.1

EXECUTION VERSION

38,565,220 SHARES OF COMMON STOCK

PRE-FUNDED WARRANTS TO PURCHASE 4,913,044 SHARES OF COMMON STOCK

AND

WARRANTS TO PURCHASE 32,608,698 SHARES OF COMMON STOCK

SURGALIGN HOLDINGS, INC.

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

February 10, 2022

H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC

430 Park Avenue, 3rd Floor

New York, NY 10022

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Surgalign Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, to issue and sell to H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC (the “Underwriter”) an aggregate of (i) 38,565,220 authorized but unissued shares (the “Firm Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “Common Stock”), (ii) pre-funded warrants to purchase up to 4,913,044 shares of Common Stock, at an exercise price of $0.0001 per share, in the form attached hereto as Schedule V (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”) and (iii) common warrants to purchase up to 32,608,698 shares of Common Stock, at an exercise price of $0.60 per share, in the form attached hereto as Schedule VI (the “Firm Common Warrants” and, collectively with the Firm Shares and the Pre-Funded Warrants, the “Firm Securities”). The Company also proposes to sell to the Underwriter, at the option of the Underwriter, up to an additional 6,521,736, shares of Common Stock (the “Option Shares”) and/or warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 4,891,302 shares of Common Stock (the “Option Common Warrants” and, together with the Option Shares, the “Option Securities”). The Firm Shares and the Option Shares are hereinafter referred to collectively as the “Shares”; the Firm Common Warrants and the Option Common Warrants are collectively referred to herein as the “Warrants”; the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants are collectively referred to herein as the “Warrant Shares”; the Underwriter’s Warrants (as defined in Section 3 of this Agreement (as defined below)) and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Underwriter’s Warrants (the “Underwriter Warrant Shares”) are collectively referred to herein as the “Underwriter’s Securities”). The Firm Securities, the Option Securities, the Warrant Shares and the Underwriter’s Securities purchased pursuant to this Underwriting Agreement (this “Agreement”) are hereinafter referred to collectively as the “Securities”. The Firm Shares and/or Pre-Funded Warrants and the Firm Common Warrants shall be sold together as a fixed combination, each consisting of (i) one share of Common Stock or one Pre-Funded Warrant, and (ii) one Common Warrant to purchase one share of Common Stock.


The Company and the Underwriter hereby confirm their agreement with respect to the purchase and sale of the Securities as follows:

1. REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND PROSPECTUS. The Company has prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-259893) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the rules and regulations (the “Rules and Regulations”) of the Commission promulgated thereunder, and such amendments to such registration statement as may have been required to the date of this Agreement. Such registration statement has been declared effective by the Commission on December 28, 2021. Such registration statement, at any given time, including amendments thereto at such time, the exhibits and any schedules thereto at such time, the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act at such time and the documents and information otherwise deemed to be a part thereof or included therein by Rule 430B under the Securities Act or otherwise pursuant to the Rules and Regulations at such time, is herein called the “Registration Statement.” The Registration Statement at the time it originally became effective is herein called the “Original Registration Statement.”

The Company proposes to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act a final prospectus supplement relating to the offering of the Securities to the form of prospectus included in the Registration Statement in the form heretofore delivered to the Underwriter. Such prospectus in the form in which it appears in the Registration Statement is hereinafter called the “Base Prospectus.” Such supplemental form of prospectus, in the form in which it shall be filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) (including the Base Prospectus as so supplemented) is hereinafter called the “Prospectus.” Any preliminary form of Prospectus which is filed or used prior to filing of the Prospectus is hereinafter called a “Preliminary Prospectus.” Any reference herein to the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act as of the date of such prospectus.

For purposes of this Agreement, all references to the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing shall be deemed to include the copy filed with the Commission pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System (“EDGAR”). All references in this Agreement to amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to mean and include the subsequent filing of any document under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), which is deemed to be incorporated by reference therein or otherwise deemed by the Rules and Regulations to be a part thereof.

As used in this Agreement:

Time of Sale” means 10:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on the date of this Agreement.

Time of Sale Disclosure Package” means the Issuer General Free Writing Prospectus(es) issued at or prior to the Time of Sale, the Base Prospectus, as amended or supplemented immediately prior to the Time of Sale, the Preliminary Prospectus, the information included in Section 3(a) of this Agreement, and any information set forth in Schedule I to this Agreement, considered together.

 

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Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act, relating to the offering of the Securities that (A) is required to be filed with the Commission by the Company, or (B) is exempt from filing pursuant to Rule 433(d)(5)(i) under the Securities Act because it contains a description of the Securities or of the offering that does not reflect the final terms, in each case in the form filed or required to be filed with the Commission or, if not required to be filed, in the form retained in the Company’s records pursuant to Rule 433(g) under the Securities Act.

Issuer General Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is intended for general distribution to prospective investors, as evidenced by its being specified in Schedule II to this Agreement.

Issuer Limited-Use Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is not an Issuer General Free Writing Prospectus.

2. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.

(a) The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the Underwriter as follows:

(i) Registration Statement and Prospectuses. Each of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto has become effective under the Securities Act. No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has been issued under the Securities Act, no order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus has been issued and no proceedings for any of those purposes have been instituted or are pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened by the Commission. The Company has complied with each request (if any) from the Commission for additional information. At the time the Original Registration Statement was filed with the Commission, the Company met the then-applicable requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act. The Company meets the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act. Pursuant to General Instruction I.B.1. of Form S-3, the issuance of the Securities is eligible to be registered pursuant to the Prospectus filed as part of the Company’s effective Registration Statement and is not subject to the limitations of General Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3.

Each of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, at the time it became effective, complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations. Each preliminary prospectus (if any), the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, at the time each was filed with the Commission, complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations. Each Preliminary Prospectus (if any) delivered to the Underwriter for use in connection with this offering and the Prospectus was or will be identical to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.

 

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(ii) Accurate Disclosure. Neither the Registration Statement nor any amendment thereto, at its effective time, at all other subsequent times until the expiration of the Prospectus Delivery Period (as hereinafter defined) or at the Closing Date, contained, contains or will contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted, omits or will omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. The Time of Sale Disclosure Package did not, as of the Time of Sale, include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Neither the Prospectus nor any amendment or supplement thereto (including any prospectus wrapper), as of its issue date or date of first use within the meaning of the Rules and Regulations, at the time of any filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act, at all other subsequent times until the expiration of the Prospectus Delivery Period or at the Closing Time, included, includes or will include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted, omits or will omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

The representations and warranties in this subsection shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Underwriter expressly for use therein. For purposes of this Agreement, the only information so furnished shall be the Underwriter Information (as defined below).

(iii) Free Writing Prospectuses. Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as of its issue date and at all subsequent times through the Prospectus Delivery Period or until any earlier date that the Company notified or notifies the Underwriter as described in Section 4(a)(iii)(B), did not, does not and will not include any information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Base Prospectus.

(iv) No Other Offering Materials. The Company has not distributed and will not distribute any prospectus in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities or other “written communication” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) that constitutes an offer to sell the Securities other than any Preliminary Prospectus, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or other materials permitted by the Securities Act to be distributed by the Company; provided, however, that, except as set forth on Schedule II, the Company has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute a free writing prospectus.

(v) Independent Accountants. Each of Deloitte & Touche LLP, which has expressed its opinion with respect to the financial statements and schedules of the Company, Grant Thornton LLP, the Company’s current accountants, and Baker Tilly US, LLP, which has expressed its opinion with respect to the financial statements and schedules

 

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of Holo Surgical Inc., in each case that are filed as a part of or incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, is (x) an independent public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations, (y) a registered public accounting firm (as defined in Section 2(a)(12) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”)) and (z) not in violation of the auditor independence requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

(vi) Incorporated Documents. The documents incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, at the time they became effective or were filed with the Commission, as the case may be, complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and none of such documents contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, when such documents become effective or are filed with the Commission, as the case may be, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

(vii) Financial Statements. The financial statements of the Company and Holo Surgical Inc., together with the related notes, set forth or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and fairly present the financial condition of the Company, Holo Surgical Inc. and their respective consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates indicated and the results of operations and changes in cash flows for the periods therein specified in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States consistently applied throughout the periods involved, except for any normal year-end adjustments in the Company’s quarterly financial statements and except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Disclosure Package; the supporting schedules included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement present fairly the information required to be stated therein; all non-GAAP financial information included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus complies in all material respects with the requirements of Regulation G and Item 10 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act; except as disclosed in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no material off-balance sheet arrangements (as defined in Regulation S-K under the Securities Act, Item 303(a)(4)(ii)) or any other relationships with unconsolidated entities or other persons, that are reasonably likely to have a material current or, to the Company’s knowledge, material future effect on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures, capital resources or significant components of revenue or expenses; and the pro forma financial information and the related notes thereto included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale

 

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Disclosure Package and the Prospectus have been prepared in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act in all material respects and the assumptions underlying such pro forma financial information are reasonable and are set forth in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. No other financial statements or schedules are required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus.

(viii) Absence of Certain Events. Except as contemplated in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has incurred any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, or entered into any material transactions, or declared or paid any dividends or made any distribution of any kind with respect to its capital stock (except for dividends or distributions between a Company subsidiary, on the one hand, and the Company or another Company subsidiary, on the other); and there has not been any change in the capital stock (other than a change in the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock due to (A) the exercise of outstanding options or warrants and vesting of restricted stock units and restricted stock awards, (B) the conversion of convertible securities or (C) the issuance of additional shares of Common Stock in connection with contingent consideration arrangements disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus), or any material change in the short-term or long-term debt (other than as a result of the conversion of convertible securities) outside the ordinary course of business, or any issuance of options, warrants, convertible securities or other rights to purchase the capital stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (other than the ordinary course issuance of restricted stock awards, restricted stock units and stock options under the Company’s equity incentive plans), or any Material Adverse Effect. “Material Adverse Effect” shall mean any material adverse change or effect, or any development that would be reasonably likely to cause a material adverse change or effect, in or affecting (A) the business, earnings, assets, liabilities, prospects, properties, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, general affairs, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (B) the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this Agreement, including the issuance and sale of the Securities, or to consummate the transactions contemplated in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(ix) Good Standing of the Company. Each of the Company and its subsidiaries has been duly organized and is validly existing as a corporation or other entity in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization and has power and authority (corporate or otherwise) to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement; and the Company and each subsidiary is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business and is in good standing in each other jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure so to qualify or to be in good standing would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(x) Absence of Proceedings. Except as set forth in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, there is not pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, any action, suit or proceeding (a) to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or (b) which has as the subject thereof any officer or director of the Company or any subsidiary in their capacity as such, any employee benefit plan sponsored by the Company or any subsidiary or any property or assets owned or leased by the Company or any subsidiary before or by any court or Governmental Authority (as defined below), or any arbitrator, which, individually or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries or officer or director thereof, would reasonably be expected to result in any Material Adverse Effect, or which is otherwise required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or the documents incorporated therein by reference and have not been so disclosed. There are no current or, to the knowledge of the Company, pending, legal, governmental or regulatory actions, suits or proceedings (x) to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject or (y) which has as the subject thereof any officer or director of the Company or any subsidiary in their capacity as such, any employee plan sponsored by the Company or any subsidiary or any property or assets owned or leased by the Company or any subsidiary, that are required to be described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus by the Securities Act or by the Rules and Regulations and that have not been so described.

(xi) Authorization; No Conflicts; Authority. Each of this Agreement, the Warrants, the Pre-Funded Warrants and the Underwriter’s Warrants, as applicable, has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company, and constitutes a valid, legal and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as rights to indemnity hereunder may be limited by federal or state securities laws and except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally and subject to general principles of equity. The execution, delivery and performance of each of this Agreement, the Warrants, the Pre-Funded Warrants and the Underwriter’s Warrants, as applicable, and the consummation of the transactions herein and therein contemplated will not (A) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement 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 is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, (B) result in any violation of the provisions of the Company’s charter, by-laws or other organizational documents or (C) result in the violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule, regulation or decree of any court or arbitrator or federal, state, local or foreign governmental agency or regulatory authority having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their properties or assets (each, a “Governmental Authority”), except in the case of clauses (A) and (C) as would not result in a Material Adverse Effect. No consent, approval, authorization or order of, or registration or filing with any Governmental Authority is required for the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Warrants, the Pre-Funded Warrants and the Underwriter’s Warrants, as applicable, or for the consummation of the transactions

 

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contemplated hereby and thereby, including the issuance or sale of the Securities by the Company, except such as (1) may be required under the Securities Act, the rules of FINRA or state securities or blue sky laws or (2) have already been obtained or waived, or will be obtained or waived prior to the Closing Date; and the Company has full power and authority to enter into this Agreement, the Warrants, the Pre-Funded Warrants and the Underwriter’s Warrants, as applicable, and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including the authorization, issuance and sale of the Securities as contemplated by this Agreement, the Warrants, the Pre-Funded Warrants and the Underwriter’s Warrants, as applicable.

(xii) Capitalization; the Securities; Registration Rights. All of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company, including the outstanding shares of Common Stock, are duly authorized and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in compliance with all federal, state and foreign securities laws, and were not issued in violation of or subject to any preemptive rights or other rights to subscribe for or purchase securities that have not been waived in writing (a copy of which has been delivered to counsel to the Representatives); the Securities which may be sold hereunder by the Company have been duly authorized and, when issued, delivered and paid for in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, will have been validly issued and will be fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear from any preemptive or similar rights, and will be issued in compliance with all applicable securities laws; and the capital stock of the Company, including the Common Stock, conforms in all material respects to the description thereof in the Registration Statement, in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus. The Warrant Shares and the Underwriter Warrant Shares, when issued, paid for and delivered upon due exercise of the Warrants, the Pre-Funded Warrants or the Underwriter’s Warrants, as applicable, will be duly authorized and validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, free and clear from any preemptive or similar rights, and will be issued in compliance with all applicable securities laws. The Warrant Shares and the Underwriter Warrant Shares have been reserved for issuance. Except as otherwise stated in the Registration Statement, in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, (A) there are no preemptive rights or other rights to subscribe for or to purchase, or any restriction upon the voting or transfer of, any shares of Common Stock pursuant to the Company’s charter, by-laws or any agreement or other instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound, (B) neither the filing of the Registration Statement nor the offering or sale of the Securities as contemplated by this Agreement gives rise to any rights for or relating to the registration of any shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Company (collectively “Registration Rights”) and (C) any person to whom the Company has granted Registration Rights has agreed not to exercise such rights until after expiration of the Lock-Up Period (as defined below). All of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of each of the Company’s subsidiaries have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and nonassessable, and, except as otherwise described in the Registration Statement, in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, the Company owns of record and beneficially, directly or indirectly, free and clear of any security interests, claims, liens, proxies, equities or other encumbrances, all of the issued and outstanding shares of such stock. As of the date set forth therein, the Company has an authorized and outstanding capitalization as set forth in the Registration Statement, in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus under the caption “Capitalization.” The Common Stock (including the Securities) conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

 

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(xiii) Stock Options. Except as described in the Registration Statement, in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, there are no options, warrants, agreements, contracts or other rights in existence to purchase or acquire from the Company or any subsidiary of the Company any shares of the capital stock or other equity interests of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company. The description of the Company’s stock option, stock bonus and other equity plans or arrangements (the “Company Stock Plans”), and the options, restricted stock units and restricted stock awards (collectively, the “Awards”) or other rights granted thereunder, set forth in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus accurately and fairly presents in all material respects the information required to be shown with respect to such plans, arrangements, options and rights. Each grant of an Award (A) was duly authorized no later than the date on which the grant of such Award was by its terms to be effective by all necessary corporate action, including, as applicable, approval by the board of directors of the Company (or a duly constituted and authorized committee thereof) and any required stockholder approval by the necessary number of votes or written consents, and, to the knowledge of the Company (solely with respect to a non-Company party), the award agreement governing such grant (if any) was duly executed and delivered by each party thereto and (B) was made in accordance in all material respects with the terms of the applicable Company Stock Plan, and all applicable laws and regulatory rules or requirements, including all applicable federal securities laws.

(xiv) Compliance with Laws. Except as described in the Registration Statement, in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, and except in each case as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (A) each of the Company and each of its subsidiaries holds, and is operating in compliance with, all franchises, grants, authorizations, approvals, clearances, exemptions, registrations, licenses, permits, easements, consents, certificates and orders of any Governmental Authority or self-regulatory body required for the conduct of its business; (B) all such franchises, grants, authorizations, approvals, clearances, exemptions, registrations, licenses, permits, easements, consents, certifications and orders are valid and in full force and effect; (C) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received notice of any revocation or modification of any such franchise, grant, authorization, license, permit, easement, consent, certification or order or has reason to believe that any such franchise, grant, authorization, license, permit, easement, consent, certification or order will not be renewed in the ordinary course; and (D) the Company and each of its subsidiaries is in compliance with all applicable federal, state, local and foreign laws, regulations, orders and decrees.

(xv) Ownership of Assets. The Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all property (whether real or personal) described in the Registration Statement, in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus as being owned by them, in each case free and clear of all liens, claims, security interests, or other encumbrances or title defects, except such as are described in the Registration Statement,

 

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in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus or as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The property held under lease by the Company and its subsidiaries which is material, individually or in the aggregate, to their respective businesses is held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with only such exceptions with respect to any particular lease as do not interfere in any material respect with the conduct of the business of the Company or its subsidiaries.

(xvi) Intellectual Property. The Company and each of its subsidiaries owns or possesses adequate, valid and enforceable rights to use all material Intellectual Property used in or necessary for the conduct of the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ business as now conducted or as currently proposed to be conducted, as described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus. Furthermore, (A) to the knowledge of the Company, the material Intellectual Property owned by or licensed to the Company and its subsidiaries has not been infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated by any third parties; (B) there is no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ ownership of, or rights in or to, any such Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would reasonably be expected to result in any such claim; (C) the material Intellectual Property owned by the Company and its subsidiaries, and to the knowledge of the Company, the Intellectual Property licensed to the Company and its subsidiaries, has not been adjudged invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, and there is no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the validity, enforceability or scope of any such Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would reasonably be expected to result in any such claim; (D) except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, or as otherwise would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, there is no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the Company or any of its subsidiaries infringes, misappropriates or otherwise violates any Intellectual Property or other proprietary rights of others, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any written notice of any such claim, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; (E) there is no prior art or public or commercial activity of which the Company is aware that may render any patent owned by or licensed to the Company or any of its subsidiaries invalid or that would preclude the issuance of any patent on any patent application owned by or licensed to the Company or any of its subsidiaries which has not been disclosed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or the relevant foreign patent authority, as the case may be; (F) to the Company’s knowledge, all issued patents owned by or licensed to the Company or any of its subsidiaries are valid and enforceable and the Company is unaware of any facts that would preclude the issuance of a valid and enforceable patent on any pending patent application owned by or licensed to the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (G) the Company and its subsidiaries, and to the knowledge of the Company, counsel for the Company and its subsidiaries, have complied in all material respects with the duty of candor and good faith, as required by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and all foreign officers having similar requirements, with respect to the prosecution of the issued patents and patent applications owned by the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (H) the Company and its subsidiaries have taken reasonable steps

 

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necessary to secure the interests of the Company and its subsidiaries in the material Intellectual Property purported to be owned by the Company or its subsidiaries from all employees, consultants, agents or contractors that developed (in whole or in part) such Intellectual Property; (I) the Company and its subsidiaries have taken reasonable steps in accordance with normal industry practice to maintain the confidentiality of all material Intellectual Property of the Company and its subsidiaries, the value of which to the Company or any of its subsidiaries is contingent upon maintaining the confidentiality thereof, and, to the Company’s knowledge, no such Intellectual Property has been disclosed other than to employees, representatives and agents of the Company or any of its subsidiaries all of whom are bound by written confidentiality agreements; (J) except as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, no government funding, facilities or resources of a university, college, other educational institution or research center was used in the development of any Intellectual Property that is owned or purported to be owned by the Company that would confer upon any Governmental Authority, university, college, other educational institution or research center any claim or right in or to any such Intellectual Property; and (K) to the Company’s knowledge, none of the material technology employed by the Company has been obtained or is being used by the Company in violation of the rights of any entity. “Intellectual Property” shall mean all patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, licenses, inventions, trade secrets, domain names, technology, software, know-how and all other intellectual property and proprietary rights in the United States and foreign jurisdictions (including all registrations and applications for registrations of, and all goodwill associated with, the foregoing).

(xvii) Health Care Authorizations. The Company and its subsidiaries have submitted and possess, or qualify for applicable exemptions from, such valid and current registrations, listings, approvals, clearances, licenses, certificates, authorizations or permits and supplements or amendments thereto issued or required by the appropriate state, federal or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies necessary to conduct their business as presently conducted (“Permits”), including, without limitation, all such Permits required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), the European Medicines Agency (“EMA”), Health Canada or any other comparable state, federal or foreign agencies or bodies to which it is subject (collectively, the “Regulatory Agencies”), and the Company has not received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of, or non-compliance with, any such Permit, except where the failure to possess, or revocation, modification or non-compliance with such Permits would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(xviii) Clinical Trials. The studies, tests and preclinical and clinical trials conducted by or on behalf of, or sponsored by, the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or in which the Company or any of its subsidiaries has participated, that are described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or the results of which are referred to in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, were and, if still pending, are being conducted in all material respects in accordance with all applicable medical and scientific research standards and

 

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protocols, procedures and controls and all applicable statutes, rules and regulations of the Regulatory Agencies, including, without limitation, 21 C.F.R. Parts 26, 50, 54, 56, 58, 99 and Subchapter H and current Good Clinical Practices and Good Laboratory Practices; the descriptions of the results of such studies, tests and trials contained in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus do not contain any misstatement of material fact or omit a material fact necessary to make such statements not misleading, and fairly present in all material respects data derived from such trials; the Company has no knowledge of any studies, tests or trials not described in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus the results of which reasonably call into question in any material respect the results of the studies, tests and trials described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or Prospectus; and neither the Company nor any subsidiary has received any notices or other correspondence from any Regulatory Agency or any Institutional Review Board or comparable authority requiring or threatening the termination, suspension or material modification of any studies, tests or preclinical or clinical trials conducted by or on behalf of, or sponsored by, the Company or any of its subsidiaries or in which the Company or any of its subsidiaries has participated, other than ordinary course communications with respect to modifications in connection with the design and implementation of such studies or trials, and, to the Company’s knowledge, there are no reasonable grounds for the same.

(xix) Compliance with Health Care Laws. Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, since January 1, 2018, the Company and its subsidiaries and, to the Company’s knowledge, its and its subsidiaries’ directors, employees and agents (while acting in such capacity) are and at all times have been in compliance with all health care laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Company, its subsidiaries, or any of its products or activities, including, but not limited to, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7b(b)), the Anti-Inducement Law (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7a(a)(5)), the civil False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. Section 3729 et seq.), the administrative False Claims Law (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7b(a)), the Stark law (42 U.S.C. Section 1395nn), the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7h), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. Section 1320d et seq.) as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (42 U.S.C. Section 17921 et seq.), the exclusion laws (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7), the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. Section 301 et seq.), the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. Section 801 et seq.), the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. Section 201 et seq.), the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (42 U.S.C. Section 263a), Medicare (Title XVIII of the Social Security Act), Medicaid (Title XIX of the Social Security Act), and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, the regulations promulgated pursuant to such laws, and any other similar state, federal or foreign law(collectively, “Health Care Laws”). The Company has not received any notification, correspondence or any other communication, including notification of any pending or threatened claim, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other action from any Governmental Authority or Regulatory Agency, including, without limitation, the FDA, the EMA, Health Canada, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), CMS, HHS’s Office of Inspector General, the U.S. Department of Justice and state Attorneys General or

 

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similar agencies of potential or actual non-compliance by, or liability of, the Company or any of its subsidiaries under any Health Care Laws, except, with respect to any of the foregoing, such as would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect. The statements with respect to Health Care Laws and the Company’s compliance therewith included or incorporated by reference in the Preliminary Prospectus, in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus are true and correct in all material respects.

(xx) No Shutdowns or Prohibitions. Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, since January 1, 2018, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has had any product, clinical laboratory or manufacturing site (whether Company-owned or that of a third-party manufacturer for the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ products) subject to a Governmental Authority (including FDA) shutdown or import or export prohibition, nor received any FDA Form 483 or other Governmental Authority notice of inspectional observations, “warning letters,” “untitled letters,” requests to make changes to the Company’s products, processes or operations, or similar correspondence or notice from the FDA or other Governmental Authority alleging or asserting material noncompliance with any applicable Health Care Laws. To the Company’s knowledge, neither the FDA nor any other Governmental Authority is threatening such action.

(xxi) No Safety Notices. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, or as otherwise would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) there have been no recalls, field notifications, field corrections, market withdrawals or replacements, warnings, “dear doctor” letters, investigator notices, safety alerts or other notice of action relating to an alleged lack of safety, efficacy, or regulatory compliance of the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ products (“Safety Notices”) and (ii) to the Company’s knowledge, there are no facts that would be reasonably likely to result in (x) a Safety Notice with respect to the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ products or services, (y) a change in labeling of any of the Company’s or its subsidiaries’ respective products or services, or (z) a termination or suspension of marketing or testing of any of the Company’s or its subsidiaries’ products or services.

(xxii) No Violations or Defaults. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is (A) in violation of its respective charter, by-laws or other organizational documents, or (B) in breach of or otherwise in default, and no event has occurred which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default in the performance of any material obligation, agreement or condition contained in any bond, debenture, note, indenture, loan agreement or any other material contract, lease or other instrument to which it is subject or by which any of them may be bound, or to which any of the material property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, except, in the case of this clause (B), as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(xxiii) Taxes. The Company and its subsidiaries have timely filed all federal, state, local and foreign income and franchise tax returns required to be filed and are not in default in the payment of any taxes which were payable pursuant to said returns or any assessments with respect thereto, other than any which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is contesting in good faith, except where any such default or failure to timely file would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Company, there is no pending dispute with any taxing authority relating to any of such returns, and the Company has no knowledge of any proposed liability for any tax to be imposed upon the properties or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries for which there is not an adequate reserve reflected in the Company’s financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(xxiv) Exchange Listing and Exchange Act Registration. The Securities have been approved for listing on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (“Nasdaq”) upon official notice of issuance and, on the date the Registration Statement became effective, the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A or other applicable form under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), was effective. There are no affiliations with members of FINRA among the Company’s officers or directors or, to the knowledge of the Company, any ten percent or greater stockholders of the Company or any beneficial owner of the Company’s unregistered equity securities that were acquired during the 180-day period immediately preceding the initial filing date of the Registration Statement.

(xxv) Ownership of Other Entities. Other than the subsidiaries of the Company listed in Exhibit 21 to the Registration Statement and the direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries of Company not required to be listed in Exhibit 21 to the Registration Statement pursuant to Item 601 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act, the Company does not, directly or indirectly, own any capital stock or other equity or ownership or proprietary interest in any corporation, partnership, association, trust or other entity.

(xxvi) Internal Controls. The Company and its subsidiaries maintain a system of “internal controls over financial reporting” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States and to maintain accountability for assets; (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 existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting is effective and none of the Company, its board of directors and audit committee is aware of any “significant deficiencies” or “material weaknesses” (each as defined by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board) in its internal control over financial reporting, or any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees of the Company and its subsidiaries who have a significant role in the Company’s internal controls; and, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, since the end of the latest audited

 

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fiscal year, there has been no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. The Company’s board of directors has, subject to the exceptions, cure periods and the phase-in periods specified in the applicable stock exchange rules (“Exchange Rules”), validly appointed an audit committee to oversee internal accounting controls whose composition satisfies the applicable requirements of the Exchange Rules and the Company’s board of directors and/or the audit committee has adopted a charter that satisfies the requirements of the Exchange Rules in all material respects.

(xxvii) No Brokers or Finders. Other than as contemplated by this Agreement, the Company has not incurred and will not incur any liability for any finder’s or broker’s fee or agent’s commission in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

(xxviii) Insurance. The Company and each of its subsidiaries carries, or is covered by, insurance from reputable insurers in such amounts and covering such risks as is, in the Company’s reasonable judgement, adequate for the conduct of its business and the value of its properties and the properties of its subsidiaries and as is customary for companies engaged in similar businesses in similar industries; all policies of insurance and any fidelity or surety bonds insuring the Company or any of its subsidiaries or its business, assets, employees, officers and directors are in full force and effect; the Company and its subsidiaries are in compliance with the terms of such policies and instruments in all material respects; there are no claims by the Company or any of its subsidiaries under any such policy or instrument as to which any insurance company is affirmatively denying liability or, except for the Company’s insurance providers in connection with the proceedings, litigation or investigations disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, defending under a reservation of rights clause; neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for; and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(xxix) Investment Company Act. The Company is not, and after giving effect to the sale of the Securities in accordance with this Agreement and the application of proceeds as described in the Prospectus under the caption “Use of Proceeds” will not be, required to be registered as an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

(xxx) Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, the Company is in compliance with all applicable provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

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(xxxi) Disclosure Controls. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, the Company maintains, on behalf of itself and its subsidiaries, an effective system of “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act) that complies with the requirements of the Exchange Act and that has been designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms, including controls and procedures designed to ensure that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. The Company and its subsidiaries have carried out evaluations of the effectiveness of their disclosure controls and procedures to the extent required by Rule 13a-15 of the Exchange Act.

(xxxii) Anti-Bribery and Anti-Money Laundering Laws. Each of the Company, its subsidiaries and its and their controlled affiliates and its and their respective officers and directors, and, to the knowledge of the Company, its agents, employees and non-controlled affiliates and such non-controlled affiliates’ respective officers, directors, agents and employees, has not violated, its participation in the offering will not violate, and the Company and each of its subsidiaries has instituted and maintains policies and procedures designed to ensure continued compliance with, each of the following laws: (A) anti-bribery laws, including but not limited to any applicable law, rule, or regulation of any locality, including but not limited to any applicable law, rule, or regulation promulgated to implement the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, signed December 17, 1997, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, the U.K. Bribery Act 2010, or any other applicable law, rule or regulation of similar purposes and scope or (B) anti-money laundering laws, including but not limited to, applicable federal, state, international, foreign or other laws, regulations or governmental guidance regarding anti-money laundering, including, without limitation, Title 18 US. Code section 1956 and 1957, the Patriot Act, the Bank Secrecy Act, and applicable international anti-money laundering principles or procedures by an intergovernmental group or organization, such as the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering, of which the United States is a member and with which designation the United States representative to the group or organization continues to concur, all as amended, and any executive order, directive or regulation pursuant to the authority of any of the foregoing, or any orders or licenses issued thereunder.

(xxxiii) OFAC. (A) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, nor any or their directors or officers, nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any employee, agent, affiliate or representative of the Company or its subsidiaries, is an individual or entity that is, or is owned or controlled by an individual or entity that is: (1) the subject of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury, or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor (2) located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions (including, without limitation, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria).

 

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(B) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries will, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other individual or entity: (1) to fund or facilitate any activities or business of or with any individual or entity or in any country or territory that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the subject of Sanctions; or (2) in any other manner that will result in a violation of Sanctions by any individual or entity (including any individual or entity participating in the offering, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise).

(C) For the past five years, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has knowingly engaged in, and is not now knowingly engaged in, any dealings or transactions with any individual or entity, or in any country or territory, that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject of Sanctions.

(xxxiv) Compliance with Environmental Laws. Except as disclosed in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of any statute, rule, regulation, decision or order of any Governmental Authority or any court, domestic or foreign, relating to the use, disposal or release of hazardous or toxic substances or relating to the protection or restoration of the environment or human exposure to hazardous or toxic substances (collectively, “Environmental Laws”), owns or operates any real property contaminated with any substance that is subject to any Environmental Laws, is liable for any off-site disposal or contamination pursuant to any Environmental Laws, or is subject to any claim relating to any Environmental Laws, which violation, contamination, liability or claim would individually or in the aggregate result in a Material Adverse Effect; and the Company is not aware of any pending investigation which would reasonably be expected to lead to such a claim. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries anticipates incurring any material capital expenditures relating to compliance with Environmental Laws.

(xxxv) Compliance with Occupational Laws. The Company and each of its subsidiaries (A) is in compliance, in all material respects, with any and all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws, rules, regulations, treaties, statutes and codes promulgated by any and all Governmental Authorities (including pursuant to the Occupational Health and Safety Act) relating to the protection of human health and safety in the workplace (“Occupational Laws”); (B) has received all material permits, licenses or other approvals required of it under applicable Occupational Laws to conduct its business as currently conducted, except for any failure to receive which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; and (C) is in compliance, in all material respects, with all terms and conditions of such permit, license or approval. No material action, proceeding, revocation, writ, injunction or claim is pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened against the Company or any of its subsidiaries relating to Occupational Laws, and the Company does not have knowledge of any facts, circumstances or developments relating to its operations or cost accounting practices that would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to form the basis of or give rise to such actions, suits, investigations or proceedings.

 

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(xxxvi) ERISA and Employee Benefits Matters. (A) To the knowledge of the Company, no “prohibited transaction” as defined under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and not exempt under ERISA Section 408 and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder has occurred with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan. At no time has the Company or any ERISA Affiliate maintained, sponsored, participated in, contributed to or has or had any liability or obligation in respect of any Employee Benefit Plan subject to Part 3 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA, Title IV of ERISA, or Section 412 of the Code or any “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA or any multiple employer plan for which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate has incurred or would reasonably be expected to incur liability under Section 4063 or 4064 of ERISA. No Employee Benefit Plan provides or promises, or at any time provided or promised, retiree health, life insurance, or other retiree welfare benefits except as may be required by the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended, or similar state law. Each Employee Benefit Plan is and has been operated in material compliance with its terms and all applicable laws, including but not limited to ERISA and the Code and, to the knowledge of the Company, no event has occurred (including a “reportable event” as such term is defined in Section 4043 of ERISA) and, to the Company’s knowledge, no condition exists that would reasonably be expected to subject the Company or any ERISA Affiliate to any material tax, fine, lien, penalty or liability imposed by ERISA, the Code or other applicable law. Each Employee Benefit Plan intended to be qualified under Code Section 401(a) is so qualified and has a favorable determination or opinion letter from the IRS upon which it can rely, and any such determination or opinion letter remains in effect and has not been revoked; to the knowledge of the Company, nothing has occurred since the date of any such determination or opinion letter that is reasonably likely to adversely affect such qualification; (B) with respect to each Foreign Benefit Plan, such Foreign Benefit Plan (1) if intended to qualify for special tax treatment, meets, in all material respects, the requirements for such treatment, and (2) if required to be funded, is funded to the extent required by applicable law, and with respect to all other Foreign Benefit Plans, adequate reserves therefor have been established on the accounting statements of the applicable Company or subsidiary; (C) neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has any obligations under any collective bargaining agreement with any union and no organization efforts are underway with respect to any Company or subsidiary employees. As used in this Agreement, “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; “Employee Benefit Plan” means any “employee benefit plan” within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA, including, without limitation, all stock purchase, stock option, stock-based severance, employment, change-in-control, medical, disability, fringe benefit, bonus, incentive, deferred compensation, employee loan and all other employee benefit plans, agreements, programs, policies or other arrangements, whether or not subject to ERISA, under which (x) any current or former employee, director or independent contractor of the Company or its subsidiaries has any present or future right to benefits and which are contributed to, sponsored by or maintained by the Company or any of its respective subsidiaries or (y) the Company or any of its subsidiaries has had or has any present or future obligation or liability; “ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended; “ERISA Affiliate” means any member of the company’s controlled group as defined in Code Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o); and “Foreign Benefit Plan” means any Employee Benefit Plan established, maintained or contributed to outside of the United States or which covers any employee working or residing outside of the United States.

 

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(xxxvii) Labor Matters. No material labor problem or dispute with the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is threatened or imminent, and, to the knowledge of the Company, there is not any existing or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of any of its or its subsidiaries’ principal suppliers, contractors or customers, in either case that would reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(xxxviii) Restrictions on Subsidiary Payments to the Company. No subsidiary of the Company is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, from paying any dividends to the Company, from making any other distribution on such subsidiary’s capital stock, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any of such subsidiary’s property or assets to the Company or any other subsidiary of the Company, except as described in or contemplated by the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(xxxix) Disclosure of Legal Matters. There are no statutes, regulations, legal or governmental proceedings or contracts or other documents required to be described in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or in the Prospectus or included as exhibits to the Registration Statement that are not described or included as required.

(xl) Statistical Information. Any third-party statistical and market-related data included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the Company believes to be reliable and accurate in all material respects.

(xli) Forward-looking Statements. No forward-looking statement (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act) contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus has been made or reaffirmed without a reasonable basis or has been disclosed other than in good faith.

(xlii) Cybersecurity. Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and its subsidiaries’ information technology assets and equipment, computers, systems, networks, hardware, software, websites, applications and databases (collectively, “IT Systems”) are adequate for, and operate and perform in all material respects as required in connection with, the operation of the business of the Company and its subsidiaries as currently conducted, free and clear, to the knowledge of the Company, of all material bugs, errors, defects, Trojan horses, time bombs, malware and other corruptants. The Company and its subsidiaries have implemented and maintained commercially reasonable physical, technical and administrative controls, policies, procedures and safeguards to maintain and protect their material confidential information and the integrity, continuous operation, redundancy and security of all IT Systems and data, including “Personal Data,” used in connection with their businesses (including all data of their respective employees, vendors,

 

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customers, members and any other third-party data maintained by or on behalf of the Company and its subsidiaries). “Personal Data” means (i) a natural person’s name, street address, telephone number, e-mail address, photograph, social security number or tax identification number, driver’s license number, passport number, credit card number, bank information, or customer or account number; (ii) any information which would qualify as “personally identifying information” under the Federal Trade Commission Act, as amended; (iii) “personal data” as defined by the GDPR (as defined below); (iv) any information that would qualify as “protected health information” under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (collectively, “HIPAA”); and (v) any other piece of information that allows the identification of such natural person, or his or her family, or permits the collection or analysis of any data related to an identified person’s health or sexual orientation. To the knowledge of the Company, except for those that have been remedied without material cost or liability or the duty to notify any other person, there have been no breaches, violations, outages or unauthorized uses of or accesses to the IT Systems or Personal Data (as applicable) involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries, nor any incidents under internal review or investigations relating to the same.

(xliii) Compliance with Data Privacy Laws. The Company and its subsidiaries are, and since January 1, 2018 have been, in material compliance with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation HIPAA, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) (EU 2016/679) and the California Consumer Privacy Act), and applicable judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, and, to the Company’s knowledge, contractual obligations, in each case relating to the privacy and security of Personal Data (collectively, the “Privacy Laws”). To ensure compliance with the Privacy Laws, the Company and its subsidiaries have in place, comply in all material respects with and take steps reasonably designed to ensure compliance in all material respects with policies and procedures relating to data privacy and security and the collection, storage, use, disclosure, handling and analysis of Personal Data (the “Policies”). The Company further certifies that neither it nor any subsidiary: (i) has received notice of any actual or potential material liability under or relating to, or actual or potential violation of (or investigation relating to), any Privacy Law, and has no knowledge of any event or condition that would reasonably be expected to result in any such notice; or (ii) is a party to any order, decree, or agreement that imposes any material obligation or liability under any Privacy Law.

(xliv) eXtensible Business Reporting Language. The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and has been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.

(xlv) No Indebtedness. Except as described in the Registration Statement, in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, the Company and its subsidiaries have no outstanding indebtedness for borrowed money.

 

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(xlvi) FINRA Matters. All of the information provided to the Underwriter or to counsel for the Underwriter by the Company, its counsel, its officers and directors and the holders of any securities (debt or equity) or options to acquire any securities of the Company in connection with the offering of the Securities is true, complete, correct and compliant with FINRA’s rules and any letters, filings or other supplemental information provided to FINRA pursuant to FINRA rules is true, complete and correct. The Company meets the definition of the term “experienced issuer” specified in FINRA Rule 5110(j)(6).

(b) Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company and delivered to the Underwriter or to the Underwriter’s counsel shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to the Underwriter as to the matters covered thereby.

3. PURCHASE, SALE AND DELIVERY OF SECURITIES.

(a) On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, but subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to issue and sell to each of the Underwriter, and the Underwriter agrees to purchase from the Company, (i) at a purchase price equal to $0.427707 per Firm Share (the “Per Share Price”), the Firm Shares, (ii) at a purchase price equal to $0.427607 per Pre-Funded Warrant (the “Per Pre-Funded Warrant Price”), the Pre-Funded Warrants and (iii) at a purchase price equal to $0.000093 per Common Warrant (the “Per Common Warrant Price”), the Common Warrants. In the event and to the extent that the Underwriter shall exercise the election to purchase any of the Option Shares and/or Option Warrants as provided below, the Company agrees to sell to the Underwriter, and the Underwriter agrees to purchase from the Company, at the Per Share Price, the Option Shares and/or at the Per Common Warrant Price, the Option Common Warrants, as applicable.

The Company hereby grants to the Underwriter the right to purchase at its election up to 6,521,736 Option Shares at the Per Share Price and/or Option Common Warrants to purchase up to 4,891,302 shares of Common Stock at the Per Common Warrant Price. The Underwriter may exercise its option to acquire Option Shares and/or Option Common Warrants in whole or in part from time to time only by written notice from the Underwriter to the Company, given within a period of thirty (30) calendar days after the date of this Agreement and setting forth the number of Option Shares and/or Option Common Warrants to be purchased and the date on which such Option Shares and/or Option Common Warrants are to be delivered, as determined by the Underwriter but in no event earlier than the Closing Date or, unless the Underwriter and the Company otherwise agree in writing, earlier than one or later than ten business days after the date of such notice.

(b) The Shares will be delivered by the Company to the Underwriter for the Underwriter’s accounts against payment of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer of same day funds payable to the order of the Company, as appropriate, at the offices of the Underwriter, on 430 Park Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, New York 10022, or such other location as may be mutually acceptable, at 10:30 a.m. Eastern time on February 15, 2022 (such time and date of delivery being herein referred to as the “Closing Date”). If the Underwriter so elects, delivery of the Shares may be made by credit through full fast transfer to the account at The Depository Trust Company designated by the Underwriter. The Company will deliver the certificates for the Pre-Funded Warrants and Common Warrants against payment of the purchase price therefor by the purchasers thereof, in definitive form, in such denominations and registered in such names as the Underwriter or its designees request, to the purchasers thereof on the Closing Date. In the event

 

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that a purchaser delivers a Notice of Exercise (as defined in the Pre-Funded Warrants and Common Warrants, as applicable) on or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time on the business day prior to the Closing Date, to exercise any Pre-Funded Warrants or Common Warrants, as the case may be, between the date hereof and the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver Warrant Shares with respect to such Pre-Funded Warrants or Common Warrants, as applicable, to such purchaser on the Closing Date in connection with such Notice of Exercise. Certificates representing the Securities, in definitive form and in such denominations and registered in such names as the Underwriter may request upon at least two business days’ prior notice to the Company, will be made available for checking and packaging not later than 10:30 a.m., Eastern time, on the business day next preceding the applicable closing date at the offices of the Underwriter, 430 Park Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, New York 10022, or such other location as may be mutually acceptable.

Each time for the delivery of and payment for the Option Shares and Option Common Warrants, being herein referred to as an “Option Closing Date”, which may be the Closing Date, shall be determined by the Underwriter as provided above. The Company will deliver the Option Shares being purchased on each Option Closing Date to the Underwriter for the Underwriter’s accounts against payment of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer of same day funds payable to the order of the Company at the above offices of the Underwriter, at 10:30 A.M., New York time on the applicable Option Closing Date. If the Underwriter so elects, delivery of the Option Shares may be made by credit through full fast transfer to the account at The Depository Trust Company designated by the Underwriter. The Company will deliver the certificates for the Option Common Warrants being purchased on each Option Closing Date against payment of the purchase price therefor by the Underwriter, in definitive form, in such denominations and registered in such names as the Underwriter or its designees request, to the purchasers thereof on such Option Closing Date.

(c) The Company hereby agrees to issue to the Underwriter (and/or its designees) on the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, as the case may be, warrants to purchase a number of shares of Common Stock equal to six percent (6%) of the aggregate number of Shares and/or shares of Common Stock underlying Pre-Funded Warrants issued on such date (the “Underwriter’s Warrants”). The Underwriter’s Warrants shall be in form and substance previously agreed upon by the Underwriter and the Company and shall be exercisable, in whole or in part, immediately, expiring on the five-year anniversary of the date hereof at an initial exercise price of $0.575 per share of Common Stock, which is equal to one hundred and twenty-five percent (125%) of the public offering price per Share and Common Warrant. The Company shall deliver the certificates for the Underwriter’s Warrants in definitive form, in such denominations and registered in such names as the Underwriter or its designees request, to the Underwriter or its designees on the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, as the case may be.

(d) The Company hereby grants the Underwriter (or any affiliate designated by the Underwriter) the right of first refusal for a period of nine (9) months from the Closing Date to act, in the case the Company or any Subsidiary decides to raise funds by means of a public offering (including at-the-market facility) or a private placement or any other capital-raising financing of equity, equity-linked or debt securities (other than, in each case, any such financing or other fund raising solely from insiders of the Company and/or Affiliates of any insider of the Company), as sole book-running manager, sole underwriter or sole placement agent for such financing.

 

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(e) At the Closing Date and any Option Closing Date, the Company shall pay the Underwriter a management fee equal to 1.0% of the gross proceeds raised at the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date.

(f) Upon any exercise for cash of any Warrants, the Company shall pay the Underwriter, within five (5) business days of the Company’s receipt of such exercise price, (i) a cash fee of 7.0% of the aggregate gross exercise price paid in cash with respect thereto and (ii) a management fee of 1.0% of the aggregate gross exercise price paid in cash with respect thereto.

4. COVENANTS.

(a) The Company covenants and agrees with the Underwriter as follows:

(i) Required Filings. The Company will prepare and file a Prospectus Supplement with the Commission within the time period required by, and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of, Rules 424(b) and shall comply with the provisions of Rules 424(b), 430A and 430B, as applicable, under the Securities Act and will use its reasonable efforts to confirm that any filings made by the Company under Rule 424(b) or Rule 433 were received in a timely manner by the Commission. If the Company has elected to rely upon Rule 462(b) of the Rules and Regulations to increase the size of the offering registered under the Securities Act and the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement has not yet been filed and become effective, the Company will prepare and file the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement with the Commission within the time period required by, and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of, Rule 462(b) and the Securities Act. The Company will prepare and file with the Commission, promptly upon your reasonable request, any amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or Prospectus that, in your opinion, may be necessary or advisable in connection with the distribution of the Securities by the Underwriter, and the Company will furnish the Underwriter and counsel for the Underwriter a copy of any proposed amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or Prospectus and will not file any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or Prospectus to which the Underwriter or counsel for the Underwriter shall reasonably object by notice to the Company after having been furnished a copy a reasonable time prior to the filing; provided, however, that the Company shall not be prevented from filing any amendment or supplement that the Company’s counsel has concluded is required by law; provided, further, that counsel for the Underwriter shall be given reasonable time prior to such filing to review and comment, which comments the Company shall consider in good faith.

(ii) Notification of Certain Commission Actions. The Company will advise the Underwriter, promptly after it shall receive notice or obtain knowledge thereof, of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, or any post-effective amendment thereto or preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any issuer free writing prospectus, of the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose; and the Company will promptly use its reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop order or to obtain its withdrawal if such a stop order should be issued.

 

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(iii) Continued Compliance with Securities Laws.

(A) Within the time during which a prospectus (assuming the absence of Rule 172) relating to the Securities is required to be delivered under the Securities Act by any Underwriter or dealer, the Company will comply with all requirements imposed upon it by the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as now and hereafter amended, and by the Rules and Regulations, as from time to time in force, so far as necessary to permit the continuance of sales of or dealings in the Securities as contemplated by the provisions hereof, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. If during such period any event occurs as a result of which the Prospectus (or if the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package) would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances then existing, not misleading, or if during such period it is necessary to amend the Registration Statement or supplement the Prospectus (or if the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective investors, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package) to comply with the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, the Company promptly will (x) notify the Underwriter of such untrue statement or omission, (y) amend the Registration Statement or supplement the Prospectus (or, if the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package) (or any document to be filed with the Commission and incorporated by reference therein) (at the expense of the Company) so as to correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance and (z) notify the Underwriter when any such amendment to the Registration Statement is filed or becomes effective or when any such supplement to the Prospectus (or, if the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package) (or any document to be filed with the Commission and incorporated by reference therein) is filed.

(B) If at any time following issuance of an issuer free writing prospectus there occurred or occurs an event or development as a result of which such issuer free writing prospectus conflicted or would conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus relating to the Securities or included or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances prevailing at that subsequent time, not misleading, the Company (x) has promptly notified or promptly will notify the Underwriter of such conflict, untrue statement or omission, (y) has promptly amended or will promptly amend or supplement, at its own expense, such issuer free writing prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict, untrue statement or omission and (z) has notified or promptly will notify the Underwriter when such amendment or supplement was or is filed with the Commission to the extent required to be filed by the Rules and Regulations.

 

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(iv) Blue Sky Qualifications. The Company shall take or cause to be taken all necessary action to qualify the Securities for sale under the securities laws of such domestic United States or foreign jurisdictions as the Representatives reasonably designate or as is necessary to effect the distribution of the Directed Stock and to continue such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution of the Securities, except that the Company shall not be required in connection therewith to qualify as a foreign corporation (where not otherwise required) or to execute a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction (where not otherwise required).

(v) Provision of Documents. The Company will furnish, at its own expense, to the Underwriter and counsel for the Underwriter copies of the Registration Statement, and to the Underwriter and any dealer each Preliminary Prospectus, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any issuer free writing prospectus and all amendments and supplements to such documents and documents incorporated by reference therein, in each case as soon as available and in such quantities as the Underwriter may from time to time reasonably request.

(vi) Rule 158. The Company will make generally available to its security holders as soon as practicable, but in no event later than 15 months after the end of the Company’s current fiscal quarter, an earnings statement (which need not be audited) covering a 12-month period beginning after the effective date of the Registration Statement (which, for purposes of this paragraph, will be deemed to be the effective date of the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if applicable) that shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 of the Rules and Regulations; provided, that the Company will be deemed to have furnished such statements to its security holders to the extent they are filed on EDGAR.

(vii) Expenses. The Company agrees to pay all costs, fees and expenses incurred in connection with the performance of its obligations hereunder and in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, including without limitation: (i) all expenses incident to the issuance and delivery of the Securities (including all printing and engraving costs), (ii) all fees and expenses of the registrar and transfer agent of the Securities, (iii) all necessary issue, transfer and other stamp taxes in connection with the issuance and sale of the Securities to the Underwriter, (iv) all fees and expenses of the Company’s counsel, independent public or certified public accountant and other advisors, (v) all costs and expenses incurred in connection with the printing, filing, shipping and distribution of the Registration Statement (including financial statements, exhibits, schedules, consents and certificates of experts thereto), the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, each Issuer Free Writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of, used by, or referred to by the Company, and each Preliminary Prospectus, and all amendments and supplements thereto, and this Agreement, (vi) all filing fees, attorneys’ fees and expenses incurred by the Company or the Underwriter in connection with qualifying or registering (or obtaining exemptions from the qualification or registration of) all or any part of the Securities for offer and sale under the state securities or blue sky laws, and, if requested by the Underwriter, preparing and printing a “Blue Sky Survey” or memorandum, and any supplements thereto, advising the Underwriter of such qualifications, registrations and exemptions, (vii) the costs, fees and expenses incurred by the Underwriter in connection

 

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with determining their compliance with the rules and regulations of FINRA related to the Underwriter’s participation in the offering and distribution of the Securities, including any related filings fees and the legal fees of, and disbursements by, counsel to the Underwriter (provided that the amount payable by the Company with respect to the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriter pursuant to this clause (vii) and the foregoing clause (vi), in the aggregate, will not exceed $25,000 (excluding filing fees)), (viii) the costs and expenses of the Company relating to investor presentations on any “road show”, including, without limitation, expenses associated with the preparation or dissemination of any electronic road show, expenses associated with the production of road show slides and graphics, (ix) the fees and expenses associated with listing the Securities on Nasdaq, (x) all other fees, costs and expenses of the Company, (xi) all actual and documented out-of-pocket expenses and all fees of the Underwriter’s legal counsel and other out-of-pocket expenses of the Underwriter reasonably incurred in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby; provided, that the amount payable (other than filing costs) pursuant to the foregoing clauses (vi), (vii) and (xi) in the aggregate shall not exceed $100,000, and (xii) the documented costs and fees of the Underwriter’s clearing agent which shall not exceed $15,950. At the Closing Date, the Company shall pay the Underwriter $35,000 for non-accountable expenses. Any such amount payable to the Underwriter may be deducted from the purchase price for the Securities. It is understood, however, that except as explicitly provided in this Section 4(a)(vii), the Underwriter will pay its own costs and expenses.

(viii) Use of Proceeds. The Company will apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities to be sold by it hereunder for the purposes set forth in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus.

(ix) Company Lock Up. During the period commencing on the execution of this Agreement and continuing through and including the 60th day following the date of the Prospectus (“the Lock-Up Period”), the Company will not, without the prior written consent of the Underwriter (which consent may be withheld in its sole discretion): (i) sell, offer to sell, contract to sell or lend any Common Stock or Related Securities (as defined below) directly or indirectly; (ii) effect any short sale, or establish or increase any “put equivalent position” (as defined in Rule 16a-1(h) under the Exchange Act) or liquidate or decrease any “call equivalent position “ (as defined in Rule 16a-1(b) under the Exchange Act) of any Common Stock or Related Securities; (iii) pledge, hypothecate or grant any security interest in any Common Stock or Related Securities; (iv) in any other way transfer or dispose of any Common Stock or Related Securities; (v) enter into any swap, hedge or similar arrangement or agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, the economic risk of ownership of any Common Stock or Related Securities, regardless of whether any such transaction is to be settled in securities, in cash or otherwise; (vi) announce the offering of any Common Stock or Related Securities; (vii) file any registration statement under the Securities Act under applicable securities laws in respect of any Common Stock or Related Securities (other than as contemplated by this Agreement with respect to the Securities); or (viii) publicly announce the intention to do any of the foregoing; provided, however, that the Company may (A) effect the transactions contemplated hereby; (B) issue shares of Common Stock or options to purchase shares of Common Stock or restricted stock units or similar equity securities, or issue shares of Common Stock upon exercise of options,

 

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restricted stock units or similar equity securities, pursuant to any options, share bonus or other share plan or arrangement pursuant to an incentive plan in effect on the date hereof and described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; (C) file a registration statement on Form S-8 in respect of the issuance, vesting, exercise or settlement of equity awards to officers or directors granted or to be granted pursuant to an incentive plan of the Company; (D) issue any shares of Common Stock upon the exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants or the Common Warrants, or upon the exercise of any option or warrant or upon the conversion of a convertible security outstanding on the date hereof and referred to in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, provided that such securities have not been amended since the date of this Agreement to increase the number of such securities or to decrease the exercise price, exchange price or conversion price of such securities or to extend the term of such securities; (E) issue, or enter into an agreement providing for the issuance of, any shares of capital stock of the Company or securities convertible into shares of capital stock of the Company that are issued as consideration in an acquisition, merger or similar strategic transaction approved by a majority of the disinterested directors of the Company, provided that such securities are issued as “restricted securities” (as defined in Rule 144) and carry no registration rights that require or permit the filing of any registration statement in connection therewith within sixty (60) days after the date of this Agreement, and provided that any such issuance shall only be to a person (or to the equity holders of a person) which is, itself or through its subsidiaries, an operating company or an owner of an asset in a business synergistic with the business of the Company and shall provide to the Company additional benefits in addition to the investment of funds, but shall not include a transaction in which the Company is issuing securities primarily for the purpose of raising capital or to an entity whose primary business is investing in securities; (F) the issuance of shares of Common Stock in connection with any contingent consideration arrangements disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; and (G) effect a reverse stock split with respect to the Company for purposes of maintaining the listing of the Common Stock on Nasdaq (any of the transactions listed in clauses (A) through (G) above, an “Exempt Issuance”). For purposes of the foregoing, “Related Securities” shall mean any options or warrants or other rights to acquire Common Stock or any securities exchangeable or exercisable for or convertible into Common Stock, or to acquire other securities or rights ultimately exchangeable or exercisable for, or convertible into, Common Stock. The Company will cause each person or entity listed on Schedule IV to furnish to the Underwriter, prior to the Closing Date, a letter, substantially in the form of Schedule III hereto.

(x) Variable Rate Transactions. From the date hereof until the 12-month anniversary of the Closing Date, the Company shall be prohibited from effecting or entering into an agreement to effect any issuance by the Company or any of its subsidiaries of Common Stock or any securities of the Company or its subsidiaries which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock, including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, right, option, warrant or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Common Stock (or a combination of units thereof) involving a Variable Rate Transaction. “Variable Rate Transaction” means a transaction, other than an Exempt Issuance, in which the Company (i) issues or sells any debt or equity securities that are

 

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convertible into, exchangeable or exercisable for, or include the right to receive, additional shares of Common Stock either (A) at a conversion price, exercise price or exchange rate or other price that is based upon, and/or varies with, the trading prices of or quotations for the shares of Common Stock at any time after the initial issuance of such debt or equity securities or (B) with a conversion, exercise or exchange price that is subject to being reset at some future date after the initial issuance of such debt or equity security or upon the occurrence of specified or contingent events directly or indirectly related to the business of the Company or the market for the Common Stock or (ii) enters into, or effects a transaction under, any agreement, including, but not limited to, an equity line of credit, whereby the Company may issue securities at a future determined price, provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, the presence of a customary anti-dilution protection provision shall not, in itself, cause a transaction to be deemed a Variable Rate Transaction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, on or after the sixty (60) day anniversary of the date of the Prospectus, the Company may enter into at-the-market offering facilities with the Underwriter.

(xi) No Market Stabilization or Manipulation. The Company has not taken and will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or which would reasonably be expected to cause or result in, or which has constituted, the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities, and has not effected any sales of Common Stock which are required to be disclosed in response to Item 701 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act which have not been so disclosed in the Registration Statement.

(xii) SEC Reports. The Company will file on a timely basis with the Commission such periodic and special reports as required by the Rules and Regulations.

(xiii) Free Writing Prospectuses. The Company represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior written consent of the Underwriter, and the Underwriter represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior written consent of the Company, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an issuer free writing prospectus or that would otherwise constitute a free writing prospectus required to be filed with the Commission; provided that the prior written consent of the parties hereto shall be deemed to have been given in respect of the free writing prospectuses included in Schedule III. Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Company and the Underwriter is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.” The Company represents that it has treated or agrees that it will treat each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an issuer free writing prospectus, and has complied and will comply with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 of the Rules and Regulations applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus. The Company represents that it has satisfied and agrees that it will satisfy the conditions in Rule 433 to avoid a requirement to file with the Commission any electronic road show.

5. CONDITIONS OF THE UNDERWRITER’S OBLIGATIONS. The obligations of the Underwriter hereunder are subject to the accuracy, as of the date hereof and at the Closing Date (as if made on the Closing Date), of and compliance with all representations, warranties and agreements of the Company contained herein (except to the extent any such representations or warranties expressly relate to a specified earlier date, in which case, such representations and

 

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warranties shall be true and correct as of such specified earlier date), to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions (except for any obligations or conditions that have been waived by the Underwriter in writing):

(a) If filing of the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, is required under the Securities Act or the Rules and Regulations, the Company shall have filed the Prospectus (or such amendment or supplement) or such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus with the Commission in the manner and within the time period so required; the Registration Statement shall remain effective; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, or any amendment thereof, nor suspending or preventing the use of the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been issued; no proceedings for the issuance of such an order shall have been initiated or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened by the Commission; any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the Underwriter’s reasonable satisfaction; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements.

(b) The Underwriter shall not have advised the Company that the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the Underwriter’s reasonable opinion, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Underwriter’s reasonable opinion, is material and is required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

(c) Except as contemplated in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, no event or condition of the type described in Section 2(a)(viii) shall have occurred, the effect of which, in the Underwriter’s reasonable judgment, makes it impractical or inadvisable to offer or deliver the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Registration Statement and in the Prospectus.

(d) On the Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to the Underwriter the opinion and negative assurance letter of Sidley Austin LLP, counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, and addressed to the Underwriter, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriter.

(e) On the Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to the Underwriter the negative assurance letter of Lowenstein Sandler LLP, counsel for the Underwriter, dated the Closing Date, and addressed to the Underwriter, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriter.

 

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(f) On the date of the Prospectus and on the effective date of any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement filed subsequent to the date of this Agreement, the Underwriter shall have received a letter (the “Comfort Letter”) from each of Deloitte & Touche LLP and Grant Thornton LLP (together, the “Auditors”), dated the respective dates of delivery thereof, and addressed to the Underwriter, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter.

(g) On each Closing Date, the Underwriter shall have received from the Auditors a letter, dated as of such date, to the effect that it reaffirms the statements made in the Comfort Letter, except that the specified date referred to shall be a date not more than three business days prior to the Closing Date.

(h) On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to the Underwriter a certificate, dated as of such Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriter, signed by the chief executive officer or the chief accounting officer of the Company, to the effect that:

(i) The representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct, in all material respects, as if made at and as of the Closing Date (except to the extent any such representations or warranties expressly relate to a specified earlier date, in which case, such representations and warranties shall be true and correct as of such specified earlier date), and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date (except for any such agreements or conditions that have been waived by the Underwriter in writing);

(ii) No stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof or any amendment thereof or the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale nor suspending or preventing the use of the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, has been issued, and no proceeding for that purpose has been instituted or, to the Company’s knowledge, is contemplated or threatened by the Commission or any state or regulatory body; and

(iii) The signers of said certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto (including any documents filed under the Exchange Act and deemed to be incorporated by reference into the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus), and

(A) each part of the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, does not contain, and did not contain, when such part of the Registration Statement (or such amendment) became effective, any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state, and did not omit to state when such part of the Registration Statement (or such amendment) became effective, any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, does not include and did not include as of its date, or the time of first use within the meaning of the Rules and Regulations, any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state and did not omit to state as of its date, or the time of first use within the meaning of the Rules and Regulations, a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading,

 

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(B) neither (1) the Time of Sale Disclosure Package nor (2) any individual Issuer Limited-Use Free Writing Prospectus, when considered together with the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, include, nor included as of the Time of Sale, any untrue statement of a material fact or omits, or omitted as of the Time of Sale, 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,

(C) since the Time of Sale, there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amended or supplemented Prospectus which has not been so set forth, and there has been no document required to be filed under the Exchange Act that upon such filing would be deemed to be incorporated by reference into the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Registration Statement or into the Prospectus that has not been so filed,

(D) subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, no event or condition of the type described in Section 2(a)(viii) has occurred, and

(E) except as stated in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, there is not pending, or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened or contemplated, any action, suit or proceeding to which the Company is a party before or by any court or governmental agency, authority or body, or any arbitrator, which would be reasonably expected to result in any Material Adverse Effect.

(i) On each Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to the Underwriter a certificate, dated as of such Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriter, signed by the chief accounting officer of the Company, covering certain matters for which the Auditors are unable to provide a “comfort letter” with respect to, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriter.

(j) The Company shall have furnished to the Underwriter and counsel for the Underwriter such additional documents, certificates and evidence as the Underwriter or counsel for the Underwriter may have reasonably requested.

(k) The Underwriter shall have received the written agreements, substantially in the form of Schedule III hereto, of the Persons listed on Schedule IV to this Agreement.

(l) The Shares and the Warrant Shares shall have been approved for listing on NASDAQ, subject to official notice of issuance.

(m) The Underwriter shall have received on and as of the Closing Date satisfactory evidence of the good standing of the Company in its jurisdiction of incorporation.

 

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All such opinions, certificates, letters and other documents will be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Underwriter and counsel for the Underwriter. The Company will furnish the Underwriter with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and other documents as the Underwriter shall reasonably request.

6. INDEMNIFICATION AND CONTRIBUTION.

(a) Indemnification by the Company. The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriter, its affiliates, directors and officers and each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, from and against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities (including, without limitation, legal fees and other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending against such loss, claim, damage or liability as such expenses are incurred), joint or several, to which such Underwriter may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise (including in settlement of any litigation if such settlement is effected with the written consent of the Company), insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon: (i) an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, including the 430A Information and any other information deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement at the time of effectiveness and at any subsequent time pursuant to the Rules and Regulations, if applicable, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, any issuer free writing prospectus, any issuer information that the Company has filed or is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations, or any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication, or any road show as defined in Rule 433(h) under the Securities Act (a “road show”), (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or (iii) any investigation or proceeding by any Governmental Authority, commenced or threatened, arising out of or relating to the offering contemplated by this Agreement or otherwise involving or affecting the Underwriter in its capacity as such (whether or not any Underwriter is a target of or party to such investigation or proceeding); provided, however, that the Company will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Underwriter or its counsel, specifically for use in the preparation thereof; it being understood and agreed that the only information furnished by an Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 6(e).

(b) Indemnification by the Underwriter. The Underwriter will indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its affiliates, directors and officers and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act, from and against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities (including, without limitation, legal fees and other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending against such loss, claim, damage or liability as such expenses are incurred) to which the Company may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise (including in settlement of any litigation, if such settlement is effected with the written consent of such Underwriter), insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) (i) arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the

 

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Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, any issuer free writing prospectus, any issuer information that the Company has filed or is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations, or any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication, or any road show, or (ii) arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Representatives, or by another Underwriter through any Representative or its counsel, specifically for use in the preparation thereof (it being understood and agreed that the only information furnished by an Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 6(e)).

(c) Notice and Procedures. Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under such subsection, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the omission to so notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve the indemnifying party from any liability that it may have to any indemnified party except to the extent such indemnifying party has been materially prejudiced by such failure (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses). In case any such action shall be brought against any indemnified party, and it shall notify the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate in, and, to the extent that it shall wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party, and after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of the indemnifying party’s election so to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to such indemnified party under such subsection for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation; provided, however, that if, in the sole judgment of the Underwriter, it is advisable for the Underwriter to be represented by separate counsel, the Underwriter shall have the right to employ a single counsel (in addition to local counsel) to represent the Underwriter who may be subject to liability arising from any claim in respect of which indemnity may be sought by the Underwriter under subsection (a) of this Section 6, in which event the reasonable fees and expenses of such separate counsel shall be borne by the indemnifying party or parties and reimbursed to the Underwriter as incurred. An indemnifying party shall not be obligated under any settlement agreement relating to any action under this Section 6 to which it has not agreed in writing. In addition, no indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party for all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and does not include a statement as to, or an admission of, fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of an indemnified party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel pursuant to this Section 6(c), such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 45 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request and (ii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement.

 

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(d) Contribution; Limitations on Liability; Non-Exclusive Remedy. If the indemnification provided for in this Section 6 is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above, then each indemnifying 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 subsection (a) or (b) above, (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriter on the other from the offering of the Securities 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 the Company on the one hand and the Underwriter on the other in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriter on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by the Company and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriter, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover page of the Prospectus, bear to the aggregate public offering price of the Securities. The 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 the Company or the Underwriter and the parties’ relevant intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The Company and the Underwriter agree that it would not be just and equitable if contributions pursuant to this subsection (d) were to be determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in the first sentence of this subsection (d). The amount paid by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in the first sentence of this subsection (d) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending against any action or claim which is the subject of this subsection (d). Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (d), the Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriter with respect to the Securities exceeds the amount of any damages that the Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. 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 Underwriter’s obligations in this subsection (d) to contribute are several in proportion to their respective underwriting obligations and not joint. The remedies provided for in this Section 6 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies that might otherwise be available to any indemnified party at law or in equity.

(e) Information Provided by the Underwriter. The Company hereby acknowledges that the only information that the Underwriter have furnished to the Company expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus supplement, the Base Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any free writing prospectus, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing) is the information contained in the second sentence of second paragraph under “Underwriting,” the first paragraph under “Discounts, Commissions and Expenses” and the paragraphs under “Price Stabilization, Short Positions and Penalty Bids” under the caption “Underwriting” in the Prospectus.

 

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7. REPRESENTATIONS AND AGREEMENTS TO SURVIVE DELIVERY. All representations, warranties, and agreements of the Company herein or in certificates delivered pursuant hereto, including but not limited to the agreements of the Underwriter and the Company contained in Section 6 hereof, shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Underwriter or any controlling person thereof, or the Company or any of its officers, directors, or controlling persons, and shall survive delivery of, and payment for, the Securities to and by the Underwriter hereunder.

8. TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT.

(a) The Underwriter shall have the right to terminate this Agreement by giving notice to the Company as hereinafter specified at any time at or prior to the Closing Date, if (i) the Company shall have failed, refused or been unable, at or prior to the Closing Date, to perform any agreement on its part to be performed hereunder as of such time in any material respect, (ii) any condition of the Underwriter’s obligations hereunder is not fulfilled or waived by the Underwriter in writing, (iii) trading in the Company’s Common Stock shall have been suspended by the Commission or Nasdaq or trading in securities generally on Nasdaq shall have been wholly suspended, (iv) minimum or maximum prices for trading shall have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices for securities (which includes the Company’s Common Stock) shall have been required, on Nasdaq, by such exchange or by order of the Commission or any other Governmental Authority having jurisdiction, (v) a banking moratorium shall have been declared by federal or state authorities, (vi) the Company is in material breach of any of its representations, warranties or covenants hereunder, or (vii) the Underwriter shall have become aware after the date hereof, of events that are reasonably expected to result in (A) a Material Adverse Effect, or (B) a material adverse change in general market conditions, in each case, as would make it impracticable, in the Underwriter’s reasonable judgement, to proceed with the offering, sale and/or delivery of the Securities or to enforce contracts made by the Underwriter for the sale of the Securities. Any such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party except that the provisions of Section 4(a)(vii) and Section 6 hereof shall at all times be effective and shall survive such termination.

(b) If the Underwriter elects to terminate this Agreement as provided in this Section, the Company shall be notified promptly by the Underwriter by telephone, confirmed by letter.

9. DEFAULT OF THE COMPANY. If the Company shall fail at the Closing Date to sell and deliver the Securities which it is obligated to sell hereunder, then this Agreement shall terminate without any liability on the part of the Underwriter or, except as provided in Section 4(a)(vii), any non-defaulting party. No action taken pursuant to this Section shall relieve the Company from liability, if any, in respect of such default.

10. NOTICES. Except as otherwise provided herein, all communications hereunder shall be in writing and, if to the Underwriter, shall be emailed, mailed, delivered, or telecopied to H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC, 430 Park Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, New York 10022, Attention:

 

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Head of Investment Banking; if to the Company, shall be emailed, mailed, delivered or telecopied to Surgalign Holdings, Inc., 520 Lake Cook Road, Suite 315, Deerfield, IL 60015, Attention: Josh DeRienzis, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, email: jderienzis@surgalign.com, with a copy to Sidley Austin LLP, One South Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60603, Attention: Seth H. Katz and Michael P. Heinz, email: skatz@sidley.com and mheinz@sidley.com; or in each case to such other address as the person to be notified may have requested in writing. Any party to this Agreement may change such address for notices by sending to the parties to this Agreement written notice of a new address for such purpose.

11. PERSONS ENTITLED TO BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns and the controlling persons, officers and directors referred to in Section 6. 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 Securities from the Underwriter.

12. ABSENCE OF FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIP. The Company acknowledges and agrees that: (a) the Underwriter have been retained solely to act as underwriters in connection with the sale of the Securities and that no fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship between the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriter, on the other hand, has been created in respect of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, irrespective of whether the Underwriter have advised or are advising the Company on other matters; (b) the price and other terms of the Securities set forth in this Agreement were established by the Company following discussions and arms-length negotiations with the Underwriter and the Company is capable of evaluating and understanding and understands and accepts the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; (c) it has been advised that the Underwriter and their affiliates are engaged in a broad range of transactions which may involve interests that differ from those of the Company and that the Underwriter have no obligation to disclose such interest and transactions to the Company by virtue of any fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship; and (d) it has been advised that the Underwriter are acting, in respect of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, solely for the benefit of the Underwriter, and not on behalf of the Company.

13. GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York without reference to its conflict of laws provisions. The parties hereby irrevocably and unconditionally: submit to the jurisdiction of the federal and state courts located in the State of New York, for any dispute related to this Agreement or any of the matters contemplated hereby; consent to service of process by registered or certified mail return receipt requested or by any other manner provided by applicable law; and waive any right to claim that any action, proceeding or litigation so commenced has been commenced in an inconvenient forum.

14. INTEGRATION, AMENDMENT. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) among the Company and the Underwriter with respect to the subject matter hereof. No provision hereof may be modified or amended except in a written instrument signed by the Company and the Underwriter. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the engagement agreement dated February 1, 2022, between the Company and Underwriter, shall continue to be effective and continue to survive and be enforceable by the parties in accordance with its terms.

 

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15. COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts and, if executed in more than one counterpart, the executed counterparts shall each be deemed to be an original and all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in this Agreement or in any other certificate, agreement or document related to this Agreement shall include images of manually executed signatures transmitted by facsimile or other electronic format (including, without limitation, “pdf”, “tif” or “jpg”) and other electronic signatures (including, without limitation, DocuSign and AdobeSign). The use of electronic signatures and electronic records (including, without limitation, any contract or other record created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means) shall be of the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as a manually executed signature or use of a paper-based record-keeping system to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act and any other applicable law, including, without limitation, any state law based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act or the Uniform Commercial Code. This Agreement may not be amended or modified unless in writing by all of the parties hereto, and no condition herein (express or implied) may be waived unless waived in writing by each party whom the condition is meant to benefit. The section headings herein are for the convenience of the parties only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.

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Please sign and return to the Company the enclosed duplicates of this Agreement whereupon this Agreement will become a binding agreement between the Company and the Underwriter in accordance with its terms.

 

Very truly yours,

SURGALIGN HOLDINGS, INC.

By:

 

/s/ Terry Rich

 

 

 

Name: Terry Rich

 

Title: President & Chief Executive Officer

 

Confirmed as of the date first set forth above.

H.C. WAINWRIGHT & CO., LLC

By:

  /s/ Mark W. Viklund
 

 

 

Name: Mark W. Viklund

 

Title: Chief Executive Officer

(Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement)

 

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Schedule I

Time of Sale Disclosure Package

Number of Firm Shares: 38,565,220

Number of Pre-Funded Warrants: 4,913,044

Number of Firm Common Warrants: 32,608,698

Number of Option Shares: 6,521,736

Number of Option Warrants: 4,891,302

Public Offering Price per Share: $0.4599

Public Offering Price per Pre-Funded Warrant: $0.4598

Public Offering Price per Firm Warrant: $0.0001

Public Offering Price per Option Warrant: $0.0001

Pre-Funded Warrant Exercise Price: $0.0001

Firm Warrant Exercise Price: $0.60

Option Warrant Exercise Price: $0.60

Underwriting Discount per Firm Share: $0.032193

Underwriting Discount per Pre-Funded Warrant: $0.032193

Underwriting Discount per Firm Warrant: $0.000007

Underwriting Discount per Option Share: $0.032193

Underwriting Discount per Option Warrant: $0.000007

Proceeds to Company per Share (before expenses): $0.427707

Proceeds to Company per Firm Warrant (before expenses): $0.000093

Proceeds to Company per Option Warrant (before expenses): $0.000093

Proceeds to Company per Pre-Funded Warrant (before expenses): $0.427607

 

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Schedule II

Issuer General Free Writing Prospectuses

None.

 

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Schedule III

Form of Lock-up Agreement

___________, 2022

H.C. Wainwright & Co. LLC

430 Park Avenue

New York, New York 10022

Re: Surgalign Holdings, Inc.

Ladies and Gentlemen:

This Lock-Up Agreement (this “Agreement”) is being delivered to you in connection with the proposed Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) between Surgalign Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC (the “Underwriter”) relating to the proposed public offering (the “Offering”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), pre-funded warrants to purchase Common Stock (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”) and common warrants to purchase Common Stock (the “Warrants,” and together with the Common Stock and Pre-Funded Warrants, the “Securities”).

In order to induce you and the Underwriter to enter into the Underwriting Agreement, and in light of the benefits that the Offering will confer upon the undersigned in its capacity as a securityholder and/or an officer, director or employee of the Company, and for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the undersigned agrees with the Underwriter that, during the period beginning on and including the earlier of the date hereof and the date of the Underwriting Agreement through and including the date that is the 60th day after the date of the Underwriting Agreement (the “Lock-Up Period”), the undersigned will not, without the prior written consent of the Underwriter, directly or indirectly, (i) offer, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of, or announce the intention to otherwise dispose of, any shares of Common Stock whether now owned or hereafter acquired by the undersigned (including, without limitation, Common Stock which may be deemed to be beneficially owned by the undersigned in accordance with the rules and regulations promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time (such shares, the “Beneficially Owned Shares”)) or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, (ii) enter into any swap, hedge or similar agreement or arrangement that transfers in whole or in part, the economic risk of ownership of the Beneficially Owned Shares or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, whether now owned or hereafter acquired by the undersigned or with respect to which the undersigned has or hereafter acquires the power of disposition, or (iii) engage in any short selling of the Common Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock.

 

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The restrictions set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph shall not apply to:

1. if the undersigned is a natural person, any transfers made by the undersigned (a) as a bona fide gift to any member of the immediate family (as defined below) of the undersigned or to any trust, partnership, limited liability company or other entity for the benefit of the undersigned or the immediate family of the undersigned, (b) by will or intestate succession upon the death of the undersigned, (c) as a bona fide gift to a charity or educational institution or (d) by operation of law, including pursuant to a qualified domestic order or in connection with a divorce settlement or other order of a court or administrative or regulatory agency;

2. if the undersigned is a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity, any transfers to any shareholder, partner or member of, or owner of a similar equity interest in, the undersigned, as the case may be, if, in any such case, such transfer is not for value or if the undersigned is a trust, to the beneficiary of such trust or the estate of any such beneficiary;

3. if the undersigned is a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity, any transfer made by the undersigned (a) in connection with the sale or other bona fide transfer in a single transaction of all or substantially all of the undersigned’s capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests or other similar equity interests, as the case may be, or all or substantially all of the undersigned’s assets, in any such case not undertaken for the purpose of avoiding the restrictions imposed by this Agreement or (b) to another corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity so long as the transferee is an affiliate (as defined below) of the undersigned and such transfer is not for value;

4. the sale into the market of Common Stock by the Company’s third-party administrator in connection with the vesting of stock options or other restricted equity awards solely to cover the tax obligations of the undersigned; provided, however, that in the case of any transfer described in clause (1), (2) or (3) above, it shall be a condition to the transfer that the undersigned comply with the following (A) and (B), and in the case of any transfer described in clause (4), it shall be a condition to the transfer that the undersigned comply with the following (B): (A) the transferee executes and delivers to the Underwriter, not later than one (1) business day prior to such transfer, a written agreement, in substantially the form of this Agreement and otherwise satisfactory in form and substance to the Underwriter, and (B) if the undersigned is required to file a report under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), reporting a reduction in beneficial ownership of shares of Common Stock or Beneficially Owned Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock or Beneficially Owned Shares during the Lock-Up Period (as the same may be extended as described above), the undersigned shall include a statement in such report to the effect that, in the case of any transfer pursuant to clause (1) above, such transfer is being made as a gift or by will or intestate succession or, in the case of any transfer pursuant to clause (2) above, such transfer is being made to a shareholder, partner or member of, or owner of a similar equity interest in, the undersigned and is not a transfer for value or, in the case of any transfer pursuant to clause (3) above, such transfer is being made either (a) in connection with the sale or other bona fide transfer in a single transaction of all or substantially all of the undersigned’s capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests or other similar equity interests, as the case may be, or all or substantially all of the undersigned’s assets or (b) to another corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity that is an affiliate of the undersigned and such transfer is not for value, or in the case of any transfer pursuant to clause (4) above, such transfer is being made in connection with the vesting of any restricted equity awards solely to cover the tax obligations of the undersigned;

 

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5. transactions relating to shares of Common Stock or other securities acquired in the Offering or acquisitions of Common Stock in the open market following the Offering;

6. transfers or other dispositions of shares of Common Stock or other securities to the Company in connection with the conversion of any convertible preferred stock into, or the exercise of any option or warrant for, shares of Common Stock; provided that (i) any such shares of Common Stock received by the undersigned shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement and (ii) no filing by any party under the Exchange Act or other public announcement shall be required or shall be made voluntarily during the Lock-Up Period (other than a filing on a Form 4 that reports such disposition under the transaction code “F”);

7. the establishment of any contract, instruction or trading plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act for the transfer of shares of Common Stock, provided that (i) such plan does not provide for the transfer of Common Stock during the Lock-up Period and (ii) no filing by any party under the Exchange Act or other public announcement shall be required or shall be made voluntarily by or on behalf of the undersigned or the Company in connection with the establishment of such plan; or

8. transfers or other dispositions of shares of Common Stock or such other securities pursuant to a bona fide tender offer for shares of the Company’s capital stock, merger, consolidation or other similar transaction made to all holders of the Company’s securities involving a Change of Control (as defined below) of the Company (including without limitation, the entering into of any lock-up, voting or similar agreement pursuant to which the undersigned may agree to transfer, sell, tender or otherwise dispose of shares of Common Stock or other securities in connection with such transaction) that has been approved by the board of directors of the Company; provided that, in the event that such Change of Control transaction is not consummated, this clause (8) shall not be applicable and the undersigned’s shares and other securities shall remain subject to the restrictions contained in this Agreement.

For purposes of this Agreement, “immediate family” shall mean a spouse, child, grandchild or other lineal descendant (including by adoption), father, mother, brother or sister of the undersigned; and “affiliate” shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act and “Change of Control” shall mean the transfer (whether by tender offer, merger, consolidation or other similar transaction), in one transactions or a series of related transactions, to a person or group of affiliated persons (other than an Underwriter pursuant to the Offering), of the Company’s voting securities if, after such transfer, such person or group of affiliated persons would hold at least 50% of the outstanding voting securities of the Company (or the surviving entity), provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, the Offering shall not constitute a Change of Control.

The undersigned further agrees that (i) it will not, during the Lock-Up Period, make any demand or request for or exercise any right with respect to the registration under the Securities Act of any shares of Common Stock or other Beneficially Owned Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock or other Beneficially Owned Shares, and (ii) the Company may, with respect to any Common Stock or other Beneficially Owned Shares or

 

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any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock or other Beneficially Owned Shares owned or held (of record or beneficially) by the undersigned, cause the transfer agent or other registrar to enter stop transfer instructions and implement stop transfer procedures with respect to such securities during the Lock-Up Period (as the same may be extended as described above). In addition, the undersigned hereby waives, from the date hereof until the expiration of the 60-day period following the date of the Underwriting Agreement and any extension of such period pursuant to the terms hereof, any and all rights, if any, to request or demand registration pursuant to the Securities Act, of any shares of Common Stock that are registered in the name of the undersigned or that are Beneficially Owned Shares.

The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the undersigned has full power and authority to enter into this Agreement and that this Agreement has been duly authorized (if the undersigned is not a natural person), executed and delivered by the undersigned and is a valid and binding agreement of the undersigned. The words “executed,” “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in this Agreement or in any other certificate, agreement or document related to this Agreement, if any, shall include images of manually executed signatures transmitted by facsimile or other electronic format (including, without limitation, “pdf,” “tif” or “jpg”) and other electronic signatures (including, without limitation, DocuSign and AdobeSign). The use of electronic signatures and electronic records (including, without limitation, any contract or other record created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means) shall be of the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as a manually executed signature or use of a paper-based record-keeping system to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act and any other applicable law, including, without limitation, any state law based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act or the Uniform Commercial Code. This Agreement and all authority herein conferred are irrevocable and shall survive the death or incapacity of the undersigned (if a natural person) and shall be binding upon the heirs, personal representatives, successors and assigns of the undersigned. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

It is understood that, if (A) the Company notifies the Underwriter that it does not intend to proceed with the Offering of the Securities, (B) the Underwriting Agreement (other than the provisions thereof which survive termination) shall terminate or be terminated prior to payment for and delivery of the Securities to be sold thereunder, or (C) the Offering of the Securities shall not have been completed by March 31, 2022, this Agreement shall immediately be terminated and the undersigned shall be released from all obligations under this Agreement.

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In witness whereof, the undersigned has executed this Lock-up Agreement as of the date first set forth above.

 

Very truly yours,

 

(Print Name)

 

(Signature)

 

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Schedule IV

Persons subject to Lock-Up

All current executive officers and directors of the Company

 

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Schedule V

Form of Pre-Funded Warrant

 

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Schedule VI

Form of Common Warrant

 

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