Exhibit 1.1
$175,000,000
SUNPOWER
CORPORATION
1.25% Senior Convertible
Debentures Due 2027
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
February 2, 2007
L EHMAN B ROTHERS I NC
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C REDIT S UISSE S ECURITIES (USA) LLC
D EUTSCHE B ANK S ECURITIES I NC
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C OWEN AND C OMPANY ,
LLC
F IRST A LBANY C APITAL I NC
.
T HINK E QUITY P ARTNERS LLC
As Representatives of the Several
Underwriters,
and
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c/o
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Credit Suisse Securities (USA)
LLC
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Dear Sirs:
1.
Introductory . SunPower Corporation, a Delaware
corporation (“ Company ”), proposes to issue and
sell $175,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 1.25% Senior
Convertible Debentures due 2027 ( “Firm
Securities” ). The Company also proposes to sell to the
Underwriters, at the option of the Underwriters, up to an
additional $25,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 1.25% Senior
Convertible Debentures due 2027 (“ Optional Securities
”). The Firm Securities and the Optional Securities are
herein collectively called the “ Offered Securities
”. The Offered Securities will be issued pursuant to the
Indenture, to be dated as of February 7, 2007, as supplemented
by the First Supplemental Indenture, to be dated as of
February 7, 2007 (as amended and supplemented, the “
Indenture ”), between the Company and Wells Fargo
Bank, National Association, as Trustee. The Offered Securities will
be convertible into shares of Class A Common Stock of the
Company, par value $0.001 per share (the “ Common
Stock ”) in accordance with the terms of the Offered
Securities and the Indenture. The Common Stock into which the
Offered Securities are convertible is hereinafter referred to as
the “ Underlying Securities ”. The Company is
currently a subsidiary (as defined in Rule 405 of the Act (as
defined herein)) of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, a Delaware
corporation (“ Parent ”). The Company hereby
agrees with the several Underwriters named in Schedule A
hereto (“ Underwriters ”) as follows:
2.
Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company
represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the several
Underwriters that:
(a) The
Company has filed with the Commission a registration statement on
Form S-3 (No. 333-140272), including a related prospectus or
prospectuses, covering the registration of the Offered Securities
under the Act, which has become effective. “ Registration
Statement ” at
any particular time means such
registration statement in the form then filed with the Commission,
including any amendment thereto, any document incorporated by
reference therein and all 430B Information and all 430C Information
with respect to such registration statement, that in any case has
not been superseded or modified. “ Registration
Statement ” without reference to a time means the
Registration Statement as of the Effective Time.
For purposes of this
Agreement:
“ 430B Information
” means information included in a prospectus and deemed to be
a part of the Registration Statement pursuant to, and at the time
specified in, Rule 430B(e) or Rule 430B(f),
respectively.
“ 430C Information
” means information included in a prospectus then deemed to
be a part of the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule
430C.
“ Act ” means the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
“ Applicable Time
” means 8:30 a.m. (New York City time) on February 2,
2007;
“ Closing Date ”
has the meaning defined in Section 3 hereof.
“ Commission ”
means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“ Effective Time
” of the Registration Statement relating to the Offered
Securities means the time of the first contract of sale for the
Offered Securities.
“ Exchange Act ”
means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“ Final Prospectus
” means the Statutory Prospectus that discloses the public
offering price, other 430B Information and other final terms of the
Offered Securities and otherwise satisfies Section 10(a) of
the Act.
“ General Use Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus ” means any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus that is intended for general distribution to prospective
investors, as evidenced by its being so specified in Schedule B to
this Agreement.
“ Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus ” means any “issuer free writing
prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433, relating to the Offered
Securities 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).
“ Limited Use Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus ” means any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus that is not a General Use Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus.
“ Rules and Regulations
” means the rules and regulations of the
Commission.
“ Securities Laws
” means, collectively, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
(“ Sarbanes-Oxley ”), the Act, the Exchange Act,
the Trust Indenture Act, the Rules and Regulations, the auditing
principles, rules, standards and practices applicable to auditors
of “issuers” (as defined in Sarbanes-Oxley) promulgated
or approved by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and,
as applicable to the Company at a specific time, the rules of the
New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ Stock Market (“
Exchange Rules ”).
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“ Statutory Prospectus
” with reference to any particular time means the prospectus
relating to the Offered Securities that is included in the
Registration Statement immediately prior to that time, including
all 430B Information and all 430C Information with respect to the
Registration Statement and all information incorporated by
reference into such prospectus. For purposes of the foregoing
definition, 430B Information shall be considered to be included in
the Statutory Prospectus only as of the actual time that form of
prospectus (including a prospectus supplement) is filed with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) and not
retroactively.
“ Trust Indenture Act
” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended.
Unless otherwise specified, a
reference to a “rule” is to the indicated rule under
the Act.
(b) (A) At
the time the Registration Statement initially became effective,
(B) at the time of each amendment thereto for the purposes of
complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Act (whether by
post-effective amendment, incorporated report or form of
prospectus), (C) at the Effective Time relating to the Offered
Securities and (D) on the Closing Date, the Registration
Statement conformed and will conform in all respects to the
requirements of the Act, the Trust Indenture Act and the Rules and
Regulations and did not and will not 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 (ii) (A) on its date, (B) at the time of
filing the Final Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) and
(C) on the Closing Date, the Final Prospectus will conform in
all respects to the requirements of the Act, the Trust Indenture
Act and the Rules and Regulations, and will not include any 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. The
preceding sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions
from any such document based upon written information furnished to
the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives, if any,
specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that
the only such information is that described as such in
Section 8(b) hereof.
(c) (i) (x) At
the time of initial filing of the Registration Statement,
(y) at the time of the most recent amendment thereto for the
purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Act
(whether such amendment was by post-effective amendment,
incorporated report filed pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Exchange Act or form of prospectus), and (z) at the time
the Company or any person acting on its behalf (within the meaning,
for this clause only, of Rule 163(c)) made any offer relating
to the Offered Securities in reliance on the exemption of
Rule 163, the Company was a “well known seasoned
issuer” as defined in Rule 405, and was not an
“ineligible issuer” as defined in
Rule 405.
(ii) The
Registration Statement is an “automatic shelf registration
statement,” as defined in Rule 405, that initially
became effective within three years of the Closing Date (as defined
in Section 3) If immediately prior to the Renewal Deadline (as
hereinafter defined), any of the Offered Securities remain unsold
by the Underwriters, the Company will prior to the Renewal Deadline
file, if it has not already done so and is eligible to do so, a new
automatic shelf registration statement relating to the Offered
Securities, in a form satisfactory to Lehman Brothers Inc. (“
Lehman Brothers ”) and Credit Suisse Securities (USA)
LLC (“ CS ”). If the Company is no longer
eligible to file an automatic shelf registration statement, the
Company will prior to the Renewal Deadline, if it has not already
done so, file a new shelf registration statement relating to the
Offered Securities, in a form satisfactory to Lehman Brothers and
CS, and will use its reasonable best efforts to cause such
registration statement to be declared effective within 180 days
after the Renewal Deadline. The Company will take all other action
necessary or appropriate to permit the public offering and sale of
the Offered Securities to continue as contemplated in the expired
registration statement relating to the Offered Securities.
References herein to the Registration Statement shall include such
new automatic shelf registration statement or such new shelf
registration statement, as the case may be. “ Renewal
Deadline ” means the third anniversary of the initial
effective time of the Registration Statement.
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(d) The
Company has not received from the Commission any notice pursuant to
Rule 401(g)(2) objecting to use of the automatic shelf
registration statement form. If at any time when Offered Securities
remain unsold by the Underwriters the Company receives from the
Commission a notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) or otherwise
ceases to be eligible to use the automatic shelf registration
statement form, the Company will (i) promptly notify Lehman
Brothers and CS, (ii) promptly file a new registration
statement or post-effective amendment on the proper form relating
to the Offered Securities, in a form satisfactory to Lehman
Brothers and CS, (iii) use its reasonable best efforts to
cause such registration statement or post-effective amendment to be
declared effective as soon as practicable, and (iv) promptly
notify Lehman Brothers and CS of such effectiveness. The Company
will take all other action necessary or appropriate to permit the
public offering and sale of the Offered Securities to continue as
contemplated in the registration statement that was the subject of
the Rule 401(g)(2) notice or for which the Company has
otherwise become ineligible. References herein to the Registration
Statement shall include such new registration statement or
post-effective amendment, as the case may be.
(e) The
Company has paid or shall pay the required Commission filing fees
relating to the Offered Securities within the time required by
Rule 456(b)(1) without regard to the proviso therein and
otherwise in accordance with Rules 456(b) and
457(r).
(f) As of the
Applicable Time and of the Closing Date (as defined below), neither
(A) the General Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus(es) issued
at or prior to the Applicable Time, the last Statutory Prospectus
filed before the Applicable Time and the information set forth in
Schedule B to this Agreement, all considered together
(collectively, the “ General Disclosure Package
”), nor (B) any individual Limited Use Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus, when considered together with the General
Disclosure Package, included any untrue statement of a material
fact or omitted 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. The preceding sentence
does not apply to statements in or omissions from any prospectus
included in the Registration Statement or any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with written
information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the
Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood
and agreed that the only such information furnished by any
Underwriter consists of the information described as such in
Section 8(b) hereof.
(g) Each
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as of its issue date and at all
subsequent times through the completion of the public offer and
sale of the Offered Securities or until any earlier date that the
Company notified or notifies Lehman Brothers and CS as described in
the next sentence, did not, does not and will not include any
information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the
information then contained in the Registration Statement. 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 then contained in the Registration Statement
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,
(i) the Company has promptly notified or will promptly notify
Lehman Brothers and CS and (ii) the Company has promptly
amended or supplemented or will promptly amend or supplement such
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct such
conflict, untrue statement or omission. The foregoing two sentences
do not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with written
information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the
Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood
and agreed that the only such information furnished by any
Underwriter consists of the information described as such in
Section 8(b) hereof.
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(h) The
documents incorporated by reference in any Statutory Prospectus or
the Final Prospectus did not, and any further documents filed and
incorporated by reference therein will not, when filed with the
Commission, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit
to state any material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which
they were made, not misleading.
(i) The
Company is duly incorporated and is an existing corporation in good
standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with power and
authority (corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct
its business as described in the General Disclosure Package; 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 for any jurisdiction where the
failure to be so qualified would not, 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 ”).
(j) Each
subsidiary of the Company has been duly incorporated and is an
existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its incorporation, with power and authority
(corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct its
business as described in the General Disclosure Package; and each
subsidiary of 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 for any such
jurisdiction where the failure to be so qualified would not have a
Material Adverse Effect; all of the issued and outstanding capital
stock of each subsidiary of the Company has been duly authorized
and validly issued and is fully paid and non-assessable; and the
capital stock of each subsidiary owned by the Company, directly or
through subsidiaries, is owned free from liens, encumbrances and
defects.
(k) The
Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and, assuming due
authorization, execution and delivery of the Indenture by the
Trustee, constitutes a valid and legally binding agreement of the
Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its
terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer,
reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general
applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and
to general equity principles; the Indenture has been duly qualified
under the Trust Indenture Act and complies as to form with the
requirements of the Trust Indenture Act; the Offered Securities
have been duly authorized by the Company; and when the Offered
Securities are delivered and paid for pursuant to this Agreement on
the Closing Date, the Indenture will have been duly executed and
delivered by the Company, such Offered Securities will have been
duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered, will conform to
the information in the General Disclosure Package and to the
description of such Offered Securities contained in the Final
Prospectus and the Indenture and such Offered Securities will
constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company,
enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy,
insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and
similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting
creditors’ rights and to general equity
principles.
(l) When the
Offered Securities are delivered and paid for pursuant to this
Agreement on the Closing Date, such Offered Securities will be
convertible into Common Stock of the Company in accordance with the
terms of the Indenture; the shares of Underlying Securities
initially issuable upon conversion of such Offered Securities have
been duly authorized and reserved for issuance upon such conversion
and, when issued upon such conversion, will be validly issued,
fully paid and non-assessable; the issuance of such Underlying
Securities will not be subject to preemptive or similar rights of
any stockholder of the Company arising by law, under
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the charter or by-laws of the
Company or under any agreement to which the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is a party. The shares of Common Stock outstanding as
of the date hereof have been duly authorized and validly issued,
are fully paid and non-assessable, conform to the information in
the General Disclosure Package and to the description of the Common
Stock contained in the Final Prospectus; the stockholders of the
Company have no preemptive rights with respect to the Common Stock;
none of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are
or will have been issued in violation of any preemptive or similar
rights of any security holder; and the authorized equity
capitalization of the Company is as set forth in the General
Disclosure Package. No holder of the Underlying Securities will be
subject to liabilities of the Company solely by reason of being
such holder.
(m) Except as
disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, there are no
contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any
person that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or
any Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or
other like payment in connection with this offering.
(n) Except as
disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, there are no
contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any
person granting such person the right to require the Company to
file a registration statement under the Act with respect to any
securities of the Company owned or to be owned by such person or to
require the Company to include such securities in the securities
registered pursuant to a Registration Statement or in any
securities being registered pursuant to any other registration
statement filed by the Company under the Act.
(o) The
Company is subject to and in compliance in all material respects
with the reporting requirements of Section 13 of the Exchange
Act. The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(b)
of the Exchange Act and is listed on The Nasdaq Global Market, and
the Company has taken no action designed to, or reasonably likely
to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common
Stock under the Exchange Act or delisting the Common Stock from The
Nasdaq Global Market, nor has the Company received any notification
that the Commission or the National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc. is contemplating terminating such registration or
listing. No consent, approval, authorization or order of, or
filing, notification or registration with, The Nasdaq Global Market
is required for the listing and trading of the Common Stock on The
Nasdaq Global Market.
(p) No
consent, approval, authorization, or order of, or filing with, any
governmental agency or body or any court is required to be obtained
or made by the Company for the consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement or the Indenture in connection with
the issuance and sale of the Offered Securities by the Company,
except such as have been obtained and made under the Act, the Trust
Indenture Act and such as may be required under state securities
laws.
(q) The
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, and the
issuance and sale of the Offered Securities will not result in a
breach or violation of any of the terms and provisions of, or
constitute a default under (a) any statute, any rule,
regulation or order of any governmental agency or body or any
court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or
any subsidiary of the Company or any of their properties,
(b) 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 (c) the charter
or by-laws of the Company or any such subsidiary, except, in the
cases of clauses (a) and (b) above, as would not have a
Material Adverse Effect, and the Company has full power and
authority to authorize, issue and sell the Offered Securities as
contemplated by this Agreement.
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(r) This
Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the
Company.
(s) Except as
disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, the Company and its
subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all real properties
and all other properties and assets owned by them and material to
the Company’s business, in each case free from liens,
encumbrances and defects that would materially affect the value
thereof or materially interfere with the use made or to be made
thereof by them; and except as disclosed in the General Disclosure
Package, the Company and its subsidiaries hold any leased real or
personal property material to the Company’s business under
valid and enforceable leases with no exceptions that would
materially interfere with the use made or to be made thereof by
them.
(t) The
Company and its 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
subsidiaries, would individually or in the aggregate have a
Material Adverse Effect, except as the General Disclosure Package
discloses may occur.
(u) No labor
dispute with the employees of the Company or any subsidiary exists
or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent that is reasonably
likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(v) Except as
disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, the Company and its
subsidiaries own, possess or can acquire on reasonable terms,
adequate 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 have not
received any notice of infringement of or conflict with asserted
rights of others with respect to any intellectual property rights
that, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its
subsidiaries, would individually or in the aggregate have a
Material Adverse Effect.
(w) Except as
disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, 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 or threatened action relating to any environmental laws,
which violation, contamination, liability or claim would
individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect or
otherwise require disclosure in the General Disclosure Package; and
the Company is not aware of any pending or threatened investigation
which might lead to such a claim. In the ordinary course of
business, the Company (1) conducts a periodic review of the
effect of Environmental Laws on its business, operations and
properties, and the Company has identified and evaluated associated
costs and liabilities, and any capital or operating expenditures,
required for cleanup or closure of properties under, or compliance
with, Environmental Laws or any permit, license or approval, any
related constraints on operating activities, and any potential
liabilities to third parties; and (2) has conducted
environmental investigations of, and has reviewed information
regarding, its business, properties and operations, and those of
other properties within the vicinity of its businesses, properties
and operations; on the basis of such review and investigations, the
Company has reasonably concluded that, except as disclosed in the
General Disclosure Package, any costs and liabilities associated
with such matters would not have a Material Adverse Effect or
otherwise require disclosure in the General Disclosure
Package.
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(x) Except as
disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, there are no pending
actions, suits, charges (by any governmental entity),
investigations, requests for information (by any governmental
entity) or proceedings against or affecting the Company, any of its
subsidiaries or any of their respective properties that, if
determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries,
would individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse
Effect or otherwise require disclosure in the General Disclosure
Package or the Final Prospectus, or would materially and adversely
affect the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under
this Agreement, or which are otherwise material in the context of
the sale of the Offered Securities; and no such actions, suits or
proceedings are threatened or, to the Company’s knowledge,
contemplated.
(y) The
financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the
Final Prospectus present fairly the financial position of the
Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates shown and
their results of operations and cash flows for the periods shown,
and such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with
the generally accepted accounting principles in the United States
(“ U.S. GAAP ”) applied on a consistent basis
and the assumptions used in preparing the pro forma and as adjusted
financial information included or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the
Final Prospectus 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. The pro forma
financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the
Final Prospectus comply as to form in all material respects with
the applicable requirements of Regulation S-X under the
Act.
(z) Except as
disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, since the date of the
Company’s latest audited financial statements included or
incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package there
has been no material adverse change, nor any development or event
involving 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, except
as disclosed in or contemplated by the General Disclosure Package,
there has been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared,
paid or made by the Company on any class of its capital
stock.
(aa) All
material Tax returns required to be filed by the Company or any of
its subsidiaries have been filed in all jurisdictions where such
returns are required to be filed, which returns are true, complete,
and correct in all material respects and all Taxes shown on such
returns have been paid. All material Taxes due or claimed to be due
from the Company and each of its subsidiaries have been paid, other
than those (1) currently payable without penalty or interest
or (2) being contested in good faith and by appropriate
proceedings and for which, in the case of both clauses (1) and
(2), adequate reserves have been established on the books and
records of the Company and its subsidiaries in accordance with U.S.
GAAP. No material deficiency or adjustment for any Taxes has been
threatened, proposed, asserted or assessed against the Company or
any of its subsidiaries. To the knowledge of the Company, the
reserves on the books and records of the Company and its
subsidiaries in respect of any Tax liability for any taxable period
not finally determined are adequate to meet any assessments of Tax
for any such period. For purposes of this Agreement, the term
“ Tax ” and “ Taxes ” shall
mean all Federal, state, local and foreign taxes, and other
assessments of a similar nature (whether imposed directly or
through withholding), including any interest, additions to tax, or
penalties applicable thereto.
(bb) 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 General Disclosure Package, will not be an
“investment company” as defined in the Investment
Company Act of 1940.
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(cc) 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 and 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 or
has otherwise made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment,
kickback or other unlawful payment.
(dd) The
operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been
conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial
record keeping 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 knowledge of the
Company, threatened.
(ee) As of
the date of this Agreement, 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 with the
provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and
regulations promulgated in connection therewith (the “
Sarbanes-Oxley Act ”) applicable to the
Company.
(ff) Subject
to the facts and risks disclosed in the General Disclosure Package
with respect to clauses (B) and (D) of this paragraph,
the Company and its subsidiaries maintain a system of internal
accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that
(A) transactions are executed in accordance with
management’s general or specific authorizations;
(B) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit
preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally
accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset
accountability; (C) access to assets is permitted only in
accordance with management’s general or specific
authorization; and (D) the recorded accountability for assets
is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and
appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The
general accounting records of the Company and of each of its
subsidiaries provide the basis for the preparation of the
Company’s consolidated financial statements under U.S. GAAP
and have been maintained in compliance with applicable laws. The
Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term
is defined in Rule 13a-14 under the Exchange Act) that are
effective in ensuring that information required to be disclosed by
the Company in the reports that it will file or submit under the
Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported,
within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the
Commission, including, without limitation, controls and procedures
designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the
Company in the reports that it will file or submit under the
Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s
management, including its principal executive officer or officers
and its principal financial officer or officers, as appropriate to
allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
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(gg) The
section entitled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis
of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Critical
Accounting Policies” included or incorporated by reference in
the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus accurately
and fully describes in all material respects (1) the
accounting policies that the Company believes are the most
important in the portrayal of the Company’s financial
condition and results of operations and that require
management’s most difficult, subjective or complex judgments
(“ Critical Accounting Policies ”); (2) the
judgments and uncertainties affecting the application of Critical
Accounting Policies; and (3) the likelihood that materially
different amounts would be reported under different conditions or
using different assumptions and an explanation thereof.
(hh) Except
as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, no material
indebtedness (actual or contingent) and no material contract or
arrangement is outstanding between the Company or any of its
subsidiaries and any director or executive officer of the Company
or any of its subsidiaries or any person connected with such
director or executive officer (including his/her spouse, children,
and any company or undertaking in which he/she holds a controlling
interest). There are no relationships or transactions between the
Company or any of its subsidiaries, on the one hand, and its
affiliates, officers and directors or their stockholders, customers
or suppliers, on the other, which, although required to be
disclosed, are not disclosed in the General Disclosure
Package.
(ii) There
are no material contracts or documents that are requi