Amendment No. 3 to Underwriting Agreement between Aerkomm Inc. and Boustead Securities, LLC dated June 27, 2019
Exhibit 1.1
AMENDMENT No. 3 TO UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
This Amendment is made and entered into this 27th day of June, 2019 (the “Amendment”) by and between Boustead Securities, LLC (“Boustead”) and Aerkomm Inc. (the “Company”).
BACKGROUND
Boustead and the Company entered into that certain underwriting agreement dated May 14, 2018 and amended on August 30, 2018 and November 5, 2018 (the “Underwriting Agreement”). The parties to the Underwriting Agreement wish to amend certain provision of the Underwriting Agreement as set forth in this Amendment. Section 14(a) of the Underwriting Agreement provides that the Underwriting Agreement may not be modified or amended except in writing duly executed by the parties. This Amendment constitutes a written agreement signed by the necessary parties in order to effectuate the amendments to the Underwriting Agreement specified below.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the respective covenants and agreements set forth herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:
Section 1.1 Amendments.
The parties hereto agree that the Underwriting Agreement shall be amended as set forth in this Section 1.1.
| (a) | The third sentence of Section 1(a) of the Underwriting Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows: |
“The Underwriter’s appointment shall commence upon the date of the execution of this Agreement, and shall continue for a period (such period, including any extension thereof as hereinafter provided, being herein called the “Offering Period”) from the effective date (the “Effective Date”) of the Registration Statement through November 23, 2019 (and for a period of up to 90 additional days if extended by agreement of the Company and the Underwriter), unless all of the Securities have previously been subscribed for.”
| (b) | The second sentence of Section 3(a) of the Underwriting Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows: |
“Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, and except as may otherwise be agreed or arranged between the parties, at the Closing or the Option Closing, as the case may be, payment of the purchase price for the Offered Securities sold on the Closing Date or Option Closing Date, as the case may be, shall be made by federal funds wire transfer from the escrow account, against delivery of such Offered Securities, and such Offered Securities shall be registered in such name or names and shall be in such denominations, as provided by the Sutter Securities Clearing, LLC the offering deposit account agent (“Sutter”) at least one business day prior to the Closing.”
| (c) | Section 3(b) of the Underwriting Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows: |
“Payment for the Offered Securities. The Offered Securities are being sold to the Investors at an aggregate initial public offering price per Security as set forth in the Prospectus. The purchase of Offered Securities by each of the Investors shall be evidenced by the execution of a subscription agreement by each such Investor and the Company. Investors shall pay for their Offered Securities by wire for the full purchase price of the Offered Securities, payable to Sutter. In compliance with Rule 15c2-4 under the Exchange Act, the Company and the Underwriter will instruct Investors to deliver all cash in the form of wire transfers to Sutter. Upon Sutter’ s receipt of such monies, they shall be credited to the offering deposit account. Pursuant to an offering deposit account agency agreement among the Company, the Underwriter and Sutter, the funds received in payment for Offered Securities purchased in the Offering will be wired to a non-interest bearing offering deposit account at Sutter and held until Sutter determines that the amount in the offering deposit account is equal to at least the Minimum Subscription Amount. Upon confirmation of receipt of the Minimum Subscription Amount, Sutter will release the funds in accordance with the written instructions provided by the Company and the Underwriter, indicating the date on which the Offered Securities purchased in the Offering are to be delivered to the Investors and the date the net proceeds are to be delivered to the Company. In the event that the Underwriter receives any payment from an Investor in connection with the purchase of any Offered Securities by such Investor, such payment shall be promptly transmitted to and deposited into Sutter’s account. Among other things, the Underwriter shall forward any checks so received by the Underwriter to Sutter by noon of the next business day. The Underwriter and the Company shall instruct Investors to make wire transfer payments to Sutter with the name and address of the Investor making payment. Payment by the Investors out of the escrow account for the Offered Securities to be sold by the Company shall be made at the Closing Date to the Company in compliance with Rule 15c2-4 of the Commission.”
| (d) | Section 5(p) of the Underwriting Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows: |
“The Company and the Underwriter shall have entered into an escrow agreement with Sutter (the “Escrow Agreement”) pursuant to which the Investors shall deposit their subscription funds in an escrow account at Sutter and the Company and the Underwriter shall authorize the disbursement of the funds from such escrow account. All Investor checks delivered to Sutter shall be made payable to a non-interest bearing account at Pacific Mercantile Bank entitled “Sutter Securities Clearing as Agent for the Investors in Aerkomm, Inc.” The Company shall pay the reasonable fees of Sutter.”
| (e) | Section 5(r) is hereby added to the Underwriting Agreement. |
“The Company agrees that it shall not conduct any at-the-market offering, continuous or other dilutive offering within 12 months after the final Closing.”
Section 1.2 Entire Agreement. This Amendment along with the Underwriting Agreement contains the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements, understandings, discussions and representations, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into this Amendment.
Section 1.3 Effect. All other terms, conditions, and provisions of the Underwriting Agreement not in conflict with the Amendment, shall remain in full force and effect.
Section 1.4 Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
[Signature page follows]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Amendment as of the day and year first above written.
| AERKOMM INC. | BOUSTEAD SECURITIES, LLC | |||
| By: | /s/Jeffrey Wun | By: | /s/ Keith Moore | |
| Name: Jeffrey Wun | Name: Keith Moore | |||
| Title: CEO | Title: CEO | |||
[signature page to Amendment 3 of Underwriting Agreement between Boustead and Aerkomm]
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