Exhibit 1.1
KRAFT
FOODS INC.
DEBT
SECURITIES
August 8, 2007
AMENDED AND RESTATED UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
1. Introductory. Kraft Foods
Inc., a Virginia corporation (the “Company”), proposes
to issue and sell from time to time certain of its unsecured debt
securities, in an aggregate principal amount expressed in U.S.
dollars or in such foreign currencies or currency units as the
Company shall designate at the time of the offering. Such debt
securities, registered under the registration statement or
statements referred to in Section 2(a), are hereinafter
referred to as “Registered Securities.” Registered
Securities involved in any offering referred to below are
hereinafter collectively referred to as “Offered
Securities” and such debt securities that are Offered
Securities are hereinafter referred to as “Offered Debt
Securities”. The Offered Debt Securities will be issued under
an Indenture, dated as of October 17, 2001 (the
“Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New
York (as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank), as Trustee,
specified in the Terms Agreement referred to in Section 3, in
one or more series or issues, which may vary as to interest rates,
maturities, redemption provisions, conversion provisions, exercise
prices, expiration dates, selling prices, currency or currency
units and other terms, with, in each case, all such terms for any
particular Offered Securities being determined at the time of sale.
Particular Offered Securities will be sold pursuant to a Terms
Agreement, for resale in accordance with terms of offering
determined at the time of sale.
The firm or firms which agree to
purchase the Offered Securities are hereinafter referred to as the
“Underwriters” of such Offered Securities, and the
representative or representatives of the Underwriters, if any,
specified in a Terms Agreement referred to in Section 3 are
hereinafter referred to as the “Representatives”;
provided, however, that if the Terms Agreement does not specify any
representative of the Underwriters, the term
“Representatives”, as used in this Agreement (other
than in Section 2(b), in the second sentence of Section 3
and the first and third use of the term
“Representatives” in Section 6, where, in each
case, the reference to the terms “through the
Representatives” or “the names of any
Representatives”, as the case may be, if the Terms Agreement
does not specify any representatives of the Underwriters, shall be
ignored), shall mean the Underwriters.
2. Representations and
Warranties of the Company. The Company, as of the date of each
Terms Agreement referred to in Section 3, represents and
warrants to, and agrees with, each Underwriter that, except as
disclosed in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus (as
hereinafter defined):
(a) The Company has filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”),
pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
“Act”) and the rules and regulations of the Commission
(the “Rules and Regulations”), a registration statement
or statements on Form S-3 under the Act, including a prospectus,
relating to the Registered Securities, and such registration
statement or statements and any post-effective amendment thereto
has or have become effective. Such registration statement or
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statements, as
amended at the time such registration statement or part thereof
became effective and at the time of any Terms Agreement referred to
in Section 3, in the form then filed with the Commission,
including any documents incorporated by reference therein and any
prospectus or prospectus supplement deemed or retroactively deemed
to be a part thereof that has not been superseded or modified, is
or are hereinafter referred to as the “Registration
Statement”. For purposes of the definition of
“Registration Statement,” information contained in a
form of prospectus or prospectus supplement that is deemed
retroactively to be a part of the Registration Statement pursuant
to Rule 430B shall be considered to be included in the
Registration Statement as of the time specified in Rule 430B.
If the Company has filed an abbreviated registration statement
pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Act to register a portion of the
Offered Securities (the “Rule 462 Registration
Statement”) then any reference herein to the term
“Registration Statement” shall be deemed to include
such Rule 462 Registration Statement. The prospectus covering
the debt securities in the form first used on May 7, 2004 to
confirm sales of the debt securities is hereinafter referred to as
the “Base Prospectus.” “Preliminary
Prospectus” means any preliminary prospectus included in the
Registration Statement; the Preliminary Prospectus relating to the
Securities that was included in the Registration Statement
immediately prior to the Applicable Time (as defined below) is
hereinafter called the “Pricing Prospectus”; and the
final prospectus, in the form first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)
under the Act, including the Base Prospectus, is hereinafter called
the “Prospectus.” “Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing
prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433 under the Act. Any
reference herein to the Registration Statement, Prospectus, Pricing
Prospectus or Preliminary Prospectus shall be deemed to include all
documents incorporated therein by reference pursuant to the
requirements of Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Act which have
been filed pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended prior to the execution of the applicable Terms Agreement
(the “Exchange Act”).
No order
preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or
any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus has been issued by the
Commission, and on the effective date of the registration statement
or statements relating to the Registered Securities, such
registration statement or statements conformed, and any further
amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement will
conform, in all material respects to the requirements of the Act,
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “Trust
Indenture Act”) and the Rules and Regulations and did not,
and will not as of the applicable effective date as to each part of
the Registration Statement, include any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading, and on the date of each Terms Agreement, on the date
when filed and on each Closing Date, each as referred to in
Section 3, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure
Package (as defined below) and each electronic roadshow used by the
Company when taken together as a whole with the Pricing Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus, and any further amendments or
supplements thereto, will conform in all material respects to the
requirements of the Act, the Trust Indenture Act and the Rules and
Regulations, and none of such documents will include any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact
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, except that the foregoing does not apply to
(i) that part of the Registration Statement which constitutes
the Statement of Eligibility and
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Qualification
(Form T-1) under the Trust Indenture Act of the Trustee and
(ii) statements in or omissions from any of such documents in
reliance upon and in conformity with Underwriter Information (as
hereinafter defined).
(b) For the purposes of this
Agreement the “Applicable Time” shall be the time
specified in the relevant Terms Agreement; the Pricing Prospectus
as supplemented by the final term sheet prepared pursuant to
Section 4 hereof, taken together (collectively, the
“Pricing Disclosure Package”) as of the Applicable
Time, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or
omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they
were made, not misleading; and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
listed on Schedule B hereto does not conflict with the
information contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing
Prospectus or the Prospectus, and each such Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, as supplemented by and taken together with the Pricing
Disclosure Package as of the Applicable Time, did not include any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material
fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of
the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not
apply to statements or omissions made in the Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with Underwriter
Information.
(c) The Company has been duly
incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good
standing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, with power
and authority to own and lease its properties and conduct its
business as described in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus;
and the Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign
corporation in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which
its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business
requires such qualification, except where such failure to be so
qualified to do business or be in good standing would not
reasonably be expected to individually or in the aggregate have a
material adverse effect on the condition (financial or other),
business, properties or results of operations of the Company and
its subsidiaries taken as a whole (“Material Adverse
Effect”).
(d) Each subsidiary of the Company
that is a “significant subsidiary” as defined in
Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Act (the
“Significant Subsidiaries”) has been duly incorporated
or organized, as the case may be, and is validly existing as a
corporation or limited liability company, as the case may be, in
good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its
incorporation or organization, with power and authority to own and
lease its properties and conduct its business as described in the
Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus; and each Significant
Subsidiary is duly qualified to do business as a foreign
corporation or limited liability company, as the case may be, in
good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or
lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such
qualification; except where the failure to be so qualified or be in
good standing would not reasonably be expected to individually or
in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect; and all of the
issued and outstanding capital stock or other equity interests of
each Significant Subsidiary has been duly authorized for issuance
and validly issued and is fully paid and nonassessable; and the
capital stock or limited liability company interests of each
Significant Subsidiary owned by the Company, directly or through
subsidiaries, is owned free from claims, liens, encumbrances and
defects.
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(f) The Indenture has been duly
authorized and the Indenture has been duly qualified under the
Trust Indenture Act; the Offered Securities have been duly
authorized for issuance; and when the Offered Securities are
delivered and paid for pursuant to the Terms Agreement on the
Closing Date, the Indenture will have been duly executed and
delivered, such Offered Securities will have been duly executed,
authenticated, issued and delivered, and the Registered Securities
conform, and, when so issued and delivered and sold, will conform
in all material respects to the description thereof contained in
the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus; the Indenture and the
Registered Securities constitute and when executed, authenticated,
issued and delivered in the manner provided in the Indenture, will
constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company,
enforceable in accordance with their terms, except to the extent
enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent
transfer, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws of
general applicability relating to or affecting the enforcement of
creditors’ rights and by the effect of general principles of
equity (regardless of whether enforceability is considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law).
(g) No consent, approval,
authorization, or order of, or filing with, any governmental agency
or body or any court is required for the consummation of the
transactions contemplated by the Terms Agreement (including the
provisions of this Agreement) in connection with the issuance and
sale of the Offered Securities by the Company, except (i) such
as have been obtained or made, as the case may be, (ii) such
as may be required under applicable state securities laws and
(iii) such as may be required under applicable foreign
securities laws.
(h) The execution, delivery and
performance of the Indenture, the Terms Agreement (including the
provisions of this Agreement) and the issuance and sale of the
Offered Securities and compliance with the terms and provisions
thereof will not result in a breach or violation of any of the
terms and provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result
in the imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any
property or assets of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company
pursuant to (i) any law, any statute, any rule, regulation or
order of any governmental agency or body or any court having
jurisdiction over the Company or any subsidiary of the Company or
any of their properties, (ii) any agreement or instrument to
which the Company or any such subsidiary is a party or by which the
Company or any such subsidiary is bound or to which any of the
properties of the Company or any such subsidiary is subject, or
(iii) the charter or by-laws of the Company or any such
Significant Subsidiary, which breach, violation, default, lien,
charge or encumbrance, in the case of clauses (i) and
(ii) only, would have a Material Adverse Effect or have a
material adverse effect on the transactions contemplated by the
Terms Agreement (including the provisions of this Agreement), and
the Company has full power and authority to authorize, issue and
sell the Offered Securities as contemplated by the Terms Agreement
(including the provisions of this Agreement).
(i) The Terms Agreement (including
the provisions of this Agreement) has been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by the Company.
(j) Except as would not individually
or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and
its Significant Subsidiaries have good and marketable
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title to all
real properties and all other properties and assets owned by them,
in each case free from liens, encumbrances and defects and the
Company and its Significant Subsidiaries hold any leased real or
personal property under valid and enforceable leases with no
exceptions; and the Company and the Significant Subsidiaries own or
lease all such properties as are necessary to the conduct of their
operations as presently conducted.
(k) The Company and its Significant
Subsidiaries possess adequate certificates, authorities or permits
issued by appropriate governmental agencies or bodies necessary to
conduct the business now operated by them and have not received any
notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of
any such certificate, authority or permit that, if determined
adversely to the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries,
would reasonably be expected to individually or in the aggregate
have a Material Adverse Effect.
(l) No labor dispute with the
employees of the Company or any subsidiary exists or, to the
knowledge of the Company, is imminent that the Company reasonably
expects to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(m) Except as would not reasonably be
expected to individually or in the aggregate have a Material
Adverse Effect, the Company and its subsidiaries own, possess
(through license or otherwise) or can acquire on reasonable terms,
trademarks, trade names and other rights to inventions, know-how,
patents, copyrights, confidential information and other
intellectual property (collectively, “Intellectual Property
Rights”) necessary to conduct the business now operated by
them, or presently employed by them, and neither the Company nor
any subsidiary has received any notice of infringement of or
conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any
intellectual property rights.
(n) Neither the Company nor any of
its subsidiaries is in violation of any statute, any rule,
regulation, decision or order of any governmental agency or body 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 have a Material
Adverse Effect; and the Company is not aware of any pending
investigation which might lead to such a claim.
(o) There are no pending actions,
suits or proceedings against or affecting the Company, any of its
subsidiaries or any of their respective properties that
individually or in the aggregate the Company reasonably expects to
have a Material Adverse Effect, or would materially and adversely
affect the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under
the Indenture or the Terms Agreement (including the provisions of
this Agreement), or which are otherwise material in the context of
the sale of the Offered Securities; and, to the Company’s
knowledge, no such actions, suits or proceedings are threatened or
contemplated.
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(p) The financial statements included
in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the
Prospectus present fairly, in all material respects, the combined
or consolidated financial position of the Company and its
subsidiaries as of the dates shown and their results of operations
and cash flows for the periods shown and all such financial
statements have been prepared in conformity with the generally
accepted accounting principles in the United States applied on a
consistent basis during the periods involved (except for changes
required by changes in such accounting principles) and comply as to
form with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act; any
schedules included in the Registration Statement present fairly, in
all material respects, the information required to be stated
therein; the summary and selected financial data included in the
Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus,
if any, present fairly, in all material respects, on the basis
stated in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and
the Prospectus, the information shown therein; and with respect to
any pro forma financial statements included in the Registration
Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, such pro
forma financial statements comply as to form in all material
respects with Regulation S-X under the Act, and the
assumptions used in preparing such pro forma financial statements
provide a reasonable basis for presenting the significant effects
directly attributable to the transactions or events described
therein, the related pro forma adjustments give appropriate effect
to those assumptions, and the pro forma columns therein reflect the
proper application of those adjustments to the corresponding
historical financial statement amounts.
(q) Since the date of the latest
audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference
in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, there has been no
material adverse change, nor any development or event reasonably
likely to have a prospective material adverse change, in the
condition (financial or other), business, properties or results of
operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole,
and there has been no extraordinary dividend or extraordinary
distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company on
any class of its capital stock.
(r) The Company is not and, after
giving effect to the offering and sale of the Offered Securities
and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the
Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, will not be an
“investment company” as defined in the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “ 1940 Act
”).
(s) The Company maintains a system of
internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined
in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that complies with
the requirements of the Exchange Act and has been designed by the
Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial
officer, or under their supervision, to provide reasonable
assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the
preparation of financial statements for external purposes in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The
Company has carried out evaluations of the effectiveness of its
internal control over financial reporting as required by
Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act and as of date of the
latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by
reference in the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus such internal
control over financial reporting is effective, and the Company is
not aware of any material weaknesses in its internal control over
financial reporting.
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(t) Except as disclosed in the
Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, since the date of the latest
audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference
in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, there has been no
change in the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to
materially affect, the Company’s internal control over
financial reporting.
(u) The Company maintains disclosure
controls and procedures (as such term is defined in
Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that comply with the
requirements of the Exchange Act; such disclosure controls and
procedures have been designed to ensure that material information
relating to the Company and its subsidiaries is made known to the
Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial
officer by others within those entities; such disclosure controls
and procedures are effective as of the date of the latest unaudited
financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the
Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus; and since such date, there
has been no change to the Company’s disclosure controls and
procedures that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to
materially affect, the Company’s disclosure controls and
procedures.
(v) The documents incorporated by
reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and
the Prospectus on or before the Closing Date, when they were or are
filed with the Commission, conformed or will conform, as the case
may be, in all material respects to the requirements of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and
regulations of the Commission thereunder.
(w) The Company is not an
“ineligible issuer” as defined under Rule 405
under the Act.
(x) There is and has been no failure
on the part of the Company and any of the Company’s directors
or officers, in their capacities as such, to comply in all material
respects with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and
the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith (the
“Sarbanes-Oxley Act”).
(y) Neither the Company nor any of
its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any
director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or
any of its subsidiaries is aware of or has taken any action,
directly or indirectly, that would result in a violation by such
persons of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended,
and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “FCPA”),
including, without limitation, making use of the mails or any means
or instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance
of an offer, payment, promise to pay or authorization of the
payment of any money, or other property, gift, promise to give, or
authorization of the giving of anything of value to any
“foreign official” (as such term is defined in the
FCPA) or any foreign political party or official thereof or any
candidate for foreign political office, in contravention of the
FCPA and the Company, its subsidiaries and, to the knowledge of the
Company, its affiliates have conducted their businesses in
compliance with the FCPA and have instituted and maintain policies
and procedures designed to ensure, and which are reasonably
expected to continue to ensure, continued compliance
therewith.
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(z) The operations of the Company and
its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in
compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping in all material
respects and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign
Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money
laundering statutes of all jurisdictions, the rules and regulations
thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or
guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental
agency (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”) and
no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or
governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving
the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Money
Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the
Company, threatened.
(aa) Neither the Company nor any of
its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any
director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or
any of its subsidiaries is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions
administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S.
Treasury Department (“OFAC”); and the Company will not
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 person or entity, for
the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently
subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.
3. Purchase and Offering of
Offered Securities. The obligation of the Underwriters to purchase
the Offered Securities will be evidenced by an agreement or
exchange of other written communications (the “Terms
Agreement”) at the time the Company determines to sell the
Offered Securities. The Terms Agreement will incorporate by
reference the provisions of this Agreement, except as otherwise
provided therein, and will specify the firm or firms which will be
Underwriters, the names of any Representatives, the principal
amount of Offered Debt Securities to be purchased by each
Underwriter, the purchase price to be paid by the Underwriters and
the terms of the Offered Securities not already specified in the
Indenture, including, but not limited to, interest rate, maturity,
any redemption provisions, any conversion provisions, and any
sinking fund requirements. Unless otherwise specified in the Terms
Agreement or unless otherwise agreed to by the Underwriter or
Underwriters designated in the applicable Terms Agreement as the
lead Underwriter or Underwriters (the “Lead
Underwriter”) and the Company, payment of the purchase price
for, and delivery of, any Offered Securities to be purchased by the
Underwriters shall be made at the office of Simpson Thacher &
Bartlett LLP, 425 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10017, no
later than 12:00 noon New York City time, on the third business day
following the date of the applicable Terms Agreement (unless the
Offered Securities are priced after 4:30 p.m. New York City time,
in which case such payment and delivery will be made no later than
12:00 noon New York City time, on the fourth business day following
the date of the applicable Terms Agreement), each such time and
date for payment and delivery being referred to herein and in the
Terms Agreement as the “Closing Date”. For purposes of
Rule 15c6-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Closing Date (if later than the otherwise applicable settlement
date) shall be the date for payment of funds and delivery of
securities for all the Offered Securities sold pursuant to the
offering. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase the
Offered Securities will be several and not joint. It is understood
that the Underwriters propose to offer the Offered Securities for
sale as set forth in the Pricing Prospectus and the
Prospectus.
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If the Terms Agreement specifies
“Book-Entry Only” settlement or otherwise states that
the provisions of this paragraph shall apply, the Company will
deliver against payment of the purchase price, the Offered
Securities in the form of one or more permanent global securities
in definitive form (the “Global Securities”) deposited
with the Trustee as custodian for The Depository Trust Company
(“DTC”) and registered in the name of Cede & Co.,
as nominee for DTC. Interests in any permanent global securities
will be held only in book-entry form through DTC, except in the
limited circumstances described in the Prospectus. Payment for the
Offered Securities shall be made by the Underwriters in Federal
(same day) funds by wire transfer to an account previously
designated by the Company to the Lead Underwriter, in each case
drawn to the order of the Company at the place of payment specified
in the Terms Agreement on the Closing Date, against delivery to the
Trustee as custodian for DTC of the Global Securities representing
all of the Offered Securities.
4. Certain Agreements of the
Company. The Company agrees with the several Underwriters that it
will furnish to counsel for the Underwriters one signed or
certified copy of the registration statement or statements relating
to the Registered Securities, including all exhibits, in the form
it became effective and of all amendments thereto and that, in
connection with each offering of Offered Securities:
(a) The Company will file the
Prospectus with the Commission pursuant to and in accordance with
Rule 424(b) not later than the Commission’s close of business
on the second business day following the execution and delivery of
the Terms Agreement or, if applicable, such earlier time as may be
required by Rule 424(b).
(b) The Company will advise the
Representatives promptly of any proposal to amend or supplement the
Registration Statement, Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus
and will afford the Representatives a reasonable opportunity to
comment on any such proposed amendment or supplement; the Company
will not undertake any such proposed amendment or supplement if the
Representatives reasonably object in writing thereto; and the
Company will also advise the Representatives promptly of the filing
of any such amendment or supplement and of the institution by the
Commission of any stop order proceedings in respect of the
Registration Statement or of any part thereof or of any order
preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or
other Prospectus in respect of the Offered Securities, and will use
its reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such
stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any
preliminary or other Prospectus and to obtain as soon as possible
its lifting, if issued.
(c) If, at any time when a prospectus
relating to the Offered Securities (or in lieu thereof, the notice
referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Act) is required to be
delivered under the Act in connection with sales by any Underwriter
or dealer, any event occurs as a result of which the Prospectus as
then amended or supplemented would include an untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make
the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading, or if it is necessary at any
time to amend the Prospectus to comply with the Act, the Company
promptly will notify the Representatives of such event and will
promptly prepare and file with the Commission, at its own expense,
an amendment or
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supplement
which will correct such statement or omission or an amendment which
will effect such compliance.
(d) As soon as practicable, but not
later than 16 months after the date of each Terms Agreement,
the Company will make generally available to its securityholders an
earnings statement, which will satisfy the provisions of Section
11(a) of the Act and the rules and regulations thereunder
(including Rule 158).
(e) The Company will furnish to the
Representatives copies of the Registration Statement, including all
exhibits, any related preliminary prospectus, any related
preliminary prospectus supplement, and all amendments and
supplements to such d
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