Borrowed Shares Underwriting Agreement, dated June 28, 2018

EX-1.2 3 d662928dex12.htm EX-1.2 EX-1.2

Exhibit 1.2

EXECUTION VERSION

INTREXON CORPORATION

Common Stock, no par value

Underwriting Agreement

June 28, 2018

J. P. Morgan Securities LLC

As Representative of the

several Underwriters listed

in Schedule 1 hereto

c/o J. P. Morgan Securities LLC

383 Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10179

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Intrexon Corporation, a Virginia corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and lend to J. P. Morgan Securities LLC (“J.P. Morgan” and, in such capacity, the “Borrower”) as a share loan, pursuant to and upon the terms set forth in the share lending agreement (the “Share Lending Agreement”), dated as of the date hereof, among the Company, the Borrower and JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, New York Branch, as Collateral Agent, 7,479,431 shares of Common Stock, no par value per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company (the “Borrowed Shares”). The Company has been advised that the several underwriters listed in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Underwriters”) will sell such Borrowed Shares to the public in a public offering by the Underwriters described below, and for whom J.P. Morgan has agreed to act as representative (the “Representative”). To the extent the firm or firms listed on Schedule 1 hereto include only the Representative, the term “Representative” and “Underwriters” as used herein shall mean J.P. Morgan, as Underwriter.

Concurrently with the issuance of the Borrowed Shares, the Company is offering (the “Notes Offering”), in an offering registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) thereunder (collectively, the “Securities Act”), by means of a prospectus supplement and related prospectus, an aggregate principal amount of $200,000,000 of 3.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 (the “Notes”) to be issued pursuant to an indenture (the “Base Indenture”) to be dated on or prior to the initial issuance of the Notes between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by a supplemental indenture to be dated on or prior to the initial issuance of the Notes between the Company and the Trustee (the “Supplemental Indenture” and together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”). The Notes will be convertible into shares of Common Stock, cash or a combination thereof, at the Company’s option. In connection with such offering of the Notes, the Company will enter into an underwriting agreement dated as of the date hereof between the Company and J.P. Morgan, as representative of the several underwriter(s) (the “Notes Underwriters”), relating to the Notes Offering (the “Notes Underwriting Agreement”). The Notes are expected to be issued on the Closing Date (as defined in the Notes Underwriting Agreement), which is referred to herein as the “Notes Closing Date.”


The Company hereby confirms its agreement with the several Underwriters concerning the purchase and sale of the Borrowed Shares, as follows:

1.    Registration Statement. The Company has prepared and filed with the Commission under the Securities Act an automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3ASR (File No. 333-220326), including a prospectus, relating to the Borrowed Shares. Such registration statement, as amended at the time it became effective, including the information, if any, deemed pursuant to Rule 430A, 430B or 430C under the Securities Act to be part of the registration statement at the time of its effectiveness (“Rule 430 Information”), is referred to herein as the “Registration Statement”; and as used herein, the term “Preliminary Prospectus” means any prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(a) under the Securities Act and the prospectus included in the Registration Statement at the time of its effectiveness that omits Rule 430 Information, and the term “Prospectus” means the prospectus in the form first used (or made available upon request of purchasers pursuant to Rule 173 under the Securities Act) in connection with confirmation of sales of the Borrowed Shares. If the Company has filed an abbreviated registration statement pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act (the “Rule 462 Registration Statement”), then any reference herein to the term “Registration Statement” shall be deemed to include such Rule 462 Registration Statement. Any reference in this underwriting agreement (this “Agreement”) to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act, as of the effective date of the Registration Statement or the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be, and any reference to “amend”, “amendment” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any documents filed after such date under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “Exchange Act”) that are deemed to be incorporated by reference therein. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.

At or prior to the Applicable Time (as defined below), the Company had prepared the following information (the “Pricing Disclosure Package”): a Preliminary Prospectus dated June 27, 2018 and each “free-writing prospectus” (as defined pursuant to Rule 405 under the Securities Act) listed on Annex A hereto.

“Applicable Time” means 11:40 P.M., New York City time, on June 28, 2018.

2.    Delivery and Acceptance of the Borrowed Shares.

(a)    On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements contained herein, and upon the terms set forth herein, and subject to the terms and conditions in the Share Lending Agreement, (i) the Company agrees to deliver in accordance with instructions specified by the Borrower and (ii) the Borrower agrees to borrow from the Company, the Borrowed Shares.

(b)    The Company understands that the Underwriters intend to make a public offering of the Borrowed Shares as soon after the effectiveness of this Agreement as in the judgment of the Representative is advisable, and initially to offer the Borrowed Shares on the terms set forth in the Pricing Disclosure Package. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Underwriters may offer and sell Borrowed Shares to or through any affiliate of an Underwriter and that any affiliate may offer and sell Securities purchased by it to or through any Underwriter.

(c)    In accordance with the Share Lending Agreement, delivery of the Borrowed Shares shall be made to the Borrower at 9:00 A.M., New York City time, on July 3, 2018, or at such other times on the same or such other date, not later than the fifth business day thereafter, as the Representative and the Company may agree upon in writing. The time and date of such delivery for the Borrowed Shares is referred to herein as the “Closing Date.”

 

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(d)    The Borrowed Shares shall be delivered by the Company to the Borrower on or before the Closing Date in accordance with the terms of the Share Lending Agreement and this Section 2. Delivery of the Borrowed Shares shall be made through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company unless the Representative shall otherwise instruct, and the Borrowed Shares shall be registered in such names and in such denominations as the Representative shall request in writing not later than one business day prior to the Closing Date.

(e)    The Company acknowledges and agrees that each Underwriter and the Borrower are each acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length contractual counterparty to the Company with respect to the offering of Borrowed Shares contemplated hereby and not as a financial advisor or a fiduciary to, or an agent of, the Company or any other person. Additionally, none of the Representative, any other Underwriter or the Borrower is advising the Company or any other person as to any legal, tax, investment, accounting or regulatory matters in any jurisdiction. The Company shall consult with its own advisors concerning such matters and shall be responsible for making its own independent investigation and appraisal of the transactions contemplated hereby, and the none of the Underwriters or the Borrower shall have any responsibility or liability to the Company with respect thereto. Any review by the Underwriters or the Borrower of the Company, the transactions contemplated hereby or other matters relating to such transactions will be performed solely for the benefit of the Underwriters or the Borrower, as the case may be, and shall not be on behalf of the Company.

3.    Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and warrants to each Underwriter and the Borrower that:

(a)    Preliminary Prospectus. No order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus has been issued by the Commission, and each Preliminary Prospectus included in the Pricing Disclosure Package, at the time of filing thereof, complied in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, and no Preliminary Prospectus included in the Pricing Disclosure Package, at the time of filing thereof, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted 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; provided that the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter or the Borrower furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representative or the Borrower expressly for use in any Preliminary Prospectus, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter or the Borrower consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof.

(b)    Pricing Disclosure Package. The Pricing Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time, did not, and as of the Closing Date will not, contain any 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; provided that the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter or the Borrower furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representative or the Borrower expressly for use in such Pricing Disclosure Package, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter or the Borrower consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof.

(c)    Issuer Free Writing Prospectus. Other than the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, the Company (including its agents and representatives, other than the Underwriters or the Borrower in their respective capacities as such)

 

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has not prepared, used, authorized, approved or referred to and will not prepare, use, authorize, approve or refer to any “written communication” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) that constitutes an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy the Borrowed Shares (each such communication by the Company or its agents and representatives (other than a communication referred to in clause (i) below) an “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus”) other than (i) any document not constituting a prospectus pursuant to Section 2(a)(10)(a) of the Securities Act or Rule 134 under the Securities Act or (ii) the documents listed on Annex A hereto, each electronic road show and any other written communications approved in writing in advance by the Representative. Each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus complied in all material respects with the Securities Act, has been or will be (within the time period specified in Rule 433) filed in accordance with the Securities Act (to the extent required thereby), and, when taken together with the Preliminary Prospectus filed prior to the first use of such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, did not, and at the Closing Date will not, contain any 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; provided that the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or Preliminary Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter or the Borrower furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representative or the Borrower expressly for use in such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or Preliminary Prospectus, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter or the Borrower consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof.

(d)    Registration Statement and Prospectus. The Registration Statement is an “automatic shelf registration statement” as defined under Rule 405 of the Securities Act that has been filed with the Commission not earlier than three (3) years prior to the date hereof; and no notice of objection of the Commission to the use of such Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act has been received by the Company. No order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued by the Commission, and no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act against the Company or related to the offering of the Borrowed Shares has been initiated or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission; as of the applicable effective date of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, the Registration Statement and any such post-effective amendment complied and will comply in all material respects with the Securities Act, and did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; and as of the date of the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto and as of the Closing Date the Prospectus does not and will not contain any 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; provided that the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished to the Company in writing by any Underwriter or the Borrower expressly for use in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter or the Borrower consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof.

(e)    Incorporated Documents. The documents incorporated by reference in each of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Pricing Disclosure Package, when they were filed with the Commission conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act, and none of such documents contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to

 

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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 Pricing Disclosure Package, when such documents are filed with the Commission, 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.

(f)    Financial Statements. The financial statements (including the related notes thereto) of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and present fairly in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates indicated and the results of their operations and the changes in their cash flows for the periods specified; such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods covered thereby, except in the case of any unaudited financial statements, which are subject to normal year-end adjustments and do not contain certain footnotes as permitted by the applicable rules of the Commission, and any supporting schedules included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement present fairly in all material respects the information required to be stated therein; and the other financial information included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus has been derived from the accounting records of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries and presents fairly in all material respects the information shown thereby; and the pro forma financial information and the related notes thereto included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus have been prepared in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the assumptions underlying such pro forma financial information are reasonable and are set forth in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(g)    No Material Adverse Change. Since the date of the most recent financial statements of the Company included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (i) there has not been any change in the capital stock (other than the issuance of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of stock options and warrants described as outstanding in, and the grant of options and awards under existing equity incentive plans described in, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus), short-term debt (outside the ordinary course of business) or long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, set aside for payment, paid or made by the Company on any class of capital stock, or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the business, properties, management, financial position, shareholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; (ii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has entered into any transaction or agreement (whether or not in the ordinary course of business) that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or incurred any liability or obligation, direct or contingent, that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; and (iii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained any loss or interference with its business that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole and that is either from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor disturbance or dispute or any action, order or decree of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except in each of clauses (i)-(iii) as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

 

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(h)    Organization and Good Standing. The Company and each of its subsidiaries have been duly organized and are validly existing and in good standing (or jurisdictional equivalent) under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of organization, are duly qualified to do business and are in good standing in each jurisdiction in which their respective ownership or lease of property or the conduct of their respective businesses requires such qualification, and have all corporate power and authority necessary to own or hold their respective properties and to conduct the businesses in which they are engaged, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing or have such power or authority would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, management, financial position, shareholders’ equity, results of operations or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or on the performance by the Company of its obligations under the Transaction Documents (as defined below) (a “Material Adverse Effect”). The Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any corporation, association or other entity other than the subsidiaries listed in Exhibit 21.1 to its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.

(i)    Capitalization. The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the heading “Capitalization”; all the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable and are not subject to any pre-emptive or similar rights that have not been duly waived or satisfied; except as described in or expressly contemplated by the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no outstanding rights (including, without limitation, pre-emptive rights), warrants or options to acquire, or instruments convertible into or exchangeable for, any shares of capital stock or other equity interest in the Company or any of its wholly owned subsidiaries, or any contract, commitment, agreement, understanding or arrangement of any kind relating to the issuance of any capital stock of the Company or any of its wholly owned subsidiaries, any such convertible or exchangeable securities or any such rights, warrants or options; and the capital stock of the Company conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; and all the outstanding shares of capital stock or other equity interests of each subsidiary owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned directly or indirectly by the Company, free and clear of any lien, charge, encumbrance, security interest, restriction on voting or transfer or any other claim of any third party.

(j)    Stock Options. With respect to the outstanding stock options (the “Stock Options”) granted pursuant to the stock-based compensation plans of the Company and its subsidiaries (the “Company Stock Plans”), (i) each Stock Option intended to qualify as an “incentive stock option” under Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), so qualifies, (ii) each grant of a Stock Option was duly authorized no later than the date on which the grant of such Stock Option was by its terms to be effective (the “Grant Date”) 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 shareholder approval by the necessary number of votes or written consents, and the award agreement governing such grant (if any) was duly executed and delivered by each party thereto, (iii) each such grant was made in all material respects in accordance with the terms of the Company Stock Plans and all applicable laws and regulatory rules or requirements, and (iv) each such grant was properly accounted for in accordance with GAAP in the financial statements (including the related notes) of the Company.

 

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(k)    Due Authorization. The Company has full corporate right, power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the Share Lending Agreement (together, the “Transaction Documents”) and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder; and all corporate action required to be taken for the due and proper authorization, execution and delivery by it of each of the Transaction Documents and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated thereby or hereby has been duly and validly taken.

(l)    Underwriting Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.

(m)    Share Lending Agreement. The Share Lending Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and constitutes a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability.

(n)    The Borrowed Shares. The Borrowed Shares to be issued and delivered by the Company hereunder have been duly authorized and, when issued and delivered as provided in the Transaction Documents, will be duly and validly issued, will be fully paid and nonassessable and will conform to the descriptions thereof in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; and the issuance of the Borrowed Shares is not subject to any preemptive or similar rights that have not been duly waived.

(o)    Descriptions of the Transaction Documents. Each Transaction Document conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(p)    No Violation or Default. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is (i) in violation of its charter or bylaws or similar organizational documents; (ii) in default, and no event has occurred that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default, in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or condition contained in 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 (collectively, “Company Contracts”); or (iii) in violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, for any such default or violation that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Company, all third parties that are parties to any Company Contracts are in compliance with the terms, covenants and conditions contained in such Company Contracts, except for any violation that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(q)    No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of each of the Transaction Documents, the issuance and delivery of the Borrowed Shares by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by each of the Transaction Documents will not (i) 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

 

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its subsidiaries is subject, (ii) result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or by-laws or similar organizational documents of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (iii) result in the violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except, in the case of clauses (i) and (iii) above, for any such conflict, breach, violation or default that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(r)    No Consents Required. No consent, approval, authorization, order, license, registration or qualification of or with any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority is required for the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, the issuance and delivery of the Borrowed Shares and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, except for the registration of the Borrowed Shares under the Securities Act and such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders and registrations or qualifications as may be required by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”), the New York Stock Exchange, under applicable state securities laws in connection with the borrowing and distribution of the Borrowed Shares by the Borrower and the Underwriters, and the waiver under that certain Eighth Amended and Restated Investors’ Rights Agreement, dated as of March 1, 2013, from certain investors in our capital stock.

(s)    Legal Proceedings. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no legal, governmental or regulatory investigations, actions, suits or proceedings pending to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or to which any property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is the subject that, individually or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; to the knowledge of the Company, no such investigations, actions, suits or proceedings are threatened or contemplated by any governmental or regulatory authority or threatened by others; and (i) there are no current or pending legal, governmental or regulatory actions, suits or proceedings that are required under the Securities Act to be described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus that are not so described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and (ii) there are no statutes, regulations or contracts or other documents that are required under the Securities Act to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement or described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus that are not so filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement or described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(t)    Independent Accountants. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC who have certified certain financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries, and RSM US LLP, who have certified certain financial statements of ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc., is each an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries and ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc., as applicable, within the applicable rules and regulations adopted by the Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and as required by the Securities Act.

(u)    Title to Real and Personal Property. The Company owns no real property and the Company and its subsidiaries have valid rights to lease or otherwise use, all items of real and personal property that are material to the respective businesses of the Company and its subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims and defects and imperfections of title except those that (i) do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its subsidiaries or (ii) would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(v)    Intellectual Property. Except as described, or incorporated by reference, in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company and its subsidiaries own or possess adequate rights to use all material patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trademark registrations, service mark registrations, domain names, goodwill associated with the foregoing, copyrights, licenses, inventions, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures) and other technology and intellectual property rights (“Intellectual Property”) necessary for the conduct of its business as currently conducted and as proposed to be conducted as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, except where the failure to own or possess adequate rights to use such Intellectual Property would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and, to the knowledge of the Company, the conduct of their respective businesses as currently conducted and as proposed to be conducted as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, does not infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate any such rights of others, except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Company has not received any notice in the past six years or any written notice of any claim of infringement, misappropriation or other violation of any Intellectual Property of any third party, or any claim challenging the validity, scope, or enforceability of any Intellectual Property owned by or licensed to the Company or the Company’s rights therein, excluding office actions before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and foreign patent and trademark offices arising in the ordinary course of prosecuting any pending applications included within such Intellectual Property. Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, to the knowledge of the Company, no third party has infringed, misappropriated or otherwise used Intellectual Property owned by the Company in conflict with the Company’s rights therein. Except as described, or incorporated by reference, in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, all Intellectual Property owned by the Company is owned solely by the Company and is owned free and clear of all material liens, encumbrances, defects or other restrictions. Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, all licenses pursuant to which any material Intellectual Property is licensed to the Company are free and clear of all liens and free of any restrictions or defects that would conflict with the conduct of the business of the Company. The Company has no knowledge of any specific facts that would support a finding that any of the issued or granted patents owned by or licensed to the Company is invalid or unenforceable and, to the knowledge of the Company, all such issued or granted patents are valid and enforceable. To the knowledge of the Company, there is no patent or patent application of any third party that contains claims that would interfere with a patent or patent application owned by or licensed to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, and no such patent interference has been provoked or declared. The Company is not subject to any judgment, order, writ, injunction or decree of any court or any federal, state, local, foreign or other governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, or any arbitrator, nor has it entered into or is it a party to any agreement made in settlement of any pending or threatened litigation, which materially restricts or impairs their respective use of any Intellectual Property. The Company and its subsidiaries have taken all reasonable steps necessary to secure interests in the Intellectual Property owned by the Company from their employees, consultants, agents and contractors. There are no outstanding options, licenses or agreements of any kind relating to the Intellectual Property owned by the Company or any of its subsidiaries that are required to be described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and are not described in all material respects. The Company and its subsidiaries are not a party to or bound by any options, licenses or agreements with respect to the Intellectual Property of any other person or entity that are required to be set forth in the Prospectus and are not described in all material respects. To the knowledge of the Company, no governmental agency or body or other third party has any claim or right in or to any Intellectual

 

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Property owned by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the conduct of its business as currently conducted and as proposed to be conducted as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. No software governed by a license commonly referred to as an open source, free software, copyleft or community source code license, including, but not limited to, the GNU General Public License or GNU Lesser General Public License (such software, “Open Source Software”), is used by the Company or any of its subsidiaries in a manner that obligates the Company to (A) distribute or disclose any other software combined, distributed or otherwise made available with such Open Source Software in source code form or (B) license or otherwise make available such Open Source Software and/or other software combined, distributed or otherwise made commercially available with such Open Source Software or any associated Intellectual Property on a royalty free basis, except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and its subsidiaries have taken all reasonable security measures to protect its rights in material confidential information and material trade secrets they own, including, without limitation, requiring each employee and consultant and any other person with access to material trade secrets to execute a binding confidentiality agreement and, to the knowledge of the Company, there has not been any breach by any party to such confidentiality agreements, except where such breach would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(w)    No Undisclosed Relationships. No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company or any of its subsidiaries, on the one hand, and the directors, officers, shareholders, customers or suppliers of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, on the other, that is required by the Securities Act to be described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and that is not so described in such documents and in the Pricing Disclosure Package.

(x)    Investment Company Act. The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and delivery of the Borrowed Shares and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and the Share Lending Agreement, will not be required to register as an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (the “Investment Company Act”).

(y)    Taxes. The Company and its subsidiaries have filed all material tax returns that are required to have been filed by them pursuant to applicable state, local or foreign law, and have paid all taxes shown thereon or otherwise assessed, which are due and payable, except assessments against which appeals have been or will be promptly taken and as to which adequate reserves have been provided; and except as otherwise disclosed, or incorporated by reference, in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there is no material tax deficiency that has been, or would reasonably be expected to be, asserted against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties or assets.

(z)    Licenses and Permits. The Company and its subsidiaries possess all licenses, certificates, permits and other authorizations issued by, and have made all declarations and filings with, the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory authorities that are necessary for the ownership or lease of their respective properties or the conduct of their respective businesses as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, except where the failure to possess or make the same would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and except as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received notice of any revocation or modification of any such license, certificate,

 

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permit or authorization or has any reason to believe that any such license, certificate, permit or authorization will not be renewed in the ordinary course, except where such revocation, modification or nonrenewal would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(aa)    No Labor Disputes. No labor disturbance by or dispute with employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is contemplated or threatened, and the Company is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by, or dispute with, the employees of any of its or its subsidiaries’ principal suppliers, contractors or customers, except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

(bb)    Compliance with and Liability under Environmental Laws. (i) The Company and its subsidiaries (a) are, and during the past five years were, in compliance with any and all applicable federal, state, local and foreign laws, rules, regulations, requirements, decisions, judgments, decrees, orders and the common law relating to pollution or the protection of the environment, natural resources or human health or safety, including those relating to the generation, storage, treatment, use, handling, transportation, Release (as defined below) or threat of Release of Hazardous Materials (as defined below) (collectively, “Environmental Laws”), (b) have received and are in compliance with all permits, licenses, certificates or other authorizations or approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses, (c) have not received notice of any actual or potential liability under or relating to, or actual or potential violation of, any Environmental Laws, including for the investigation or remediation of any Release or threat of Release of Hazardous Materials, and have no knowledge of any event or condition that would reasonably be expected to result in any such notice, (d) are not conducting or paying for, in whole or in part, any investigation, remediation or other corrective action pursuant to any Environmental Law at any location, and (e) are not a party to any order, decree or agreement that imposes any obligation or liability under any Environmental Law, and (ii) there are no costs or liabilities associated with Environmental Laws of or relating to the Company or its subsidiaries, except in the case of each of (i) and (ii) above, for any such matter, as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (iii) except as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (a) there are no proceedings that are pending, or that are known by the Company to be contemplated, against the Company or any of its subsidiaries under any Environmental Laws in which a governmental entity is also a party, other than such proceedings regarding which it is reasonably believed no monetary sanctions of $100,000 or more will be imposed against the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (b) to the knowledge of the Company, there are no facts or issues regarding compliance with Environmental Laws, or liabilities or other obligations under Environmental Laws, including the Release or threat of Release of Hazardous Materials, that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (c) none of the Company and its subsidiaries anticipates material capital expenditures relating to any Environmental Laws.

(cc)    Regulatory Compliance. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, to the knowledge of the Company, all third parties that are collaborating with the Company are (i) in material compliance with all applicable statutes, rules and regulations of the applicable regulatory authorities (collectively, “Applicable Laws”) and (ii) have not received any notice of adverse finding, warning letter, untitled letter or other correspondence or notice from any regulatory authority alleging or asserting material noncompliance with any Applicable Laws or any licenses, certificates, approvals, clearances, exemptions, authorizations, permits and supplements or amendments thereto required by any such Applicable Laws, in either case of (i) or (ii) above, solely related to products being developed in collaboration with the Company.

 

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(dd)    Hazardous Materials. There has been no storage, generation, transportation, use, handling, treatment, Release (as defined below) or threat of Release of Hazardous Materials (as defined below) by, relating to or caused by the Company or any of its subsidiaries (or, to the knowledge of the Company and its subsidiaries, any other entity (including any predecessor) for whose acts or omissions the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or would reasonably be expected to be liable) at, on, under or from any property or facility now or, to the knowledge of the Company, previously owned, operated or leased by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or, to the knowledge of the Company, at, on, under or from any other property or facility, in violation of any Environmental Laws or in a manner or amount or to a location that would reasonably be expected to result in any liability under any Environmental Law, except for any violation or liability which would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. “Hazardous Materials” means any material, chemical, substance, waste, pollutant, contaminant, compound, mixture, or constituent thereof, in any form or amount, including petroleum (including crude oil or any fraction thereof) and petroleum products, natural gas liquids, asbestos and asbestos containing materials, naturally occurring radioactive materials, brine, and drilling mud, regulated or which can give rise to liability under any Environmental Law. “Release” means any spilling, leaking, seepage, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, disposing, depositing, dispersing, or migrating in, into or through the environment, or in, into, from or through any building or structure.

(ee)    Compliance with ERISA. Except, in each case, for any such matter as would not, individually, or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) each employee benefit plan, within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), for which the Company or any member of its “Controlled Group” (defined as any organization which is a member of a controlled group of corporations within the meaning of Section 414 of the Code) would have any liability (each, a “Plan”) has been maintained in compliance with its terms and the requirements of any applicable statutes, orders, rules and regulations, including but not limited to ERISA and the Code; (ii) no prohibited transaction, within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, has occurred with respect to any Plan excluding transactions effected pursuant to a statutory or administrative exemption; (iii) for each Plan that is subject to the funding rules of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, as applicable, has been satisfied (without taking into account any waiver thereof or extension of any amortization period) and is reasonably expected to be satisfied in the future (without taking into account any waiver thereof or extension of any amortization period); (iv) the fair market value of the assets of each Plan that is subject to the funding rules of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA exceeds the present value of all benefits accrued under such Plan (determined based on those assumptions used to fund such Plan); (v) no “reportable event” (within the meaning of Section 4043(c) of ERISA) has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur; (vi) neither the Company nor any member of the Controlled Group has incurred, nor reasonably expects to incur, any liability under Title IV of ERISA (other than contributions to the Plan or premiums to the PBGC, in the ordinary course and without default) in respect of a Plan (including a “multiemployer plan”, within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA); and (vii) to the knowledge of the Company, there is no pending audit or investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any other governmental agency or any foreign regulatory agency with respect to any Plan. None of the following events has occurred or, to the knowledge of the Company, is reasonably likely to occur: (x) a material increase in the aggregate amount of contributions required to be made to all Plans by the Company or its subsidiaries in the current fiscal year of the Company and its subsidiaries compared to the amount of such contributions made in the Company and its

 

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subsidiaries’ most recently completed fiscal year; or (y) an increase that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in the Company and its subsidiaries’ “accumulated post-retirement benefit obligations” (within the meaning of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 106) compared to the amount of such obligations in the Company and its subsidiaries’ most recently completed fiscal year.

(ff)    Disclosure Controls. The Company and its subsidiaries maintain 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.

(gg)    Accounting Controls. The Company and its subsidiaries maintain systems of “internal control over financial reporting” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that have been designed to comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act and have been designed by, or under the supervision of, their respective principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, 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, including, but not limited to, internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences and (v) 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 is prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no material weaknesses in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. The Company’s auditors and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company have been advised of: (i) all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal controls over financial reporting which have adversely affected or are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting.

(hh)    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.

(ii)    Insurance. The Company and its subsidiaries have insurance covering their respective properties, operations, personnel and businesses, including business interruption insurance, which insurance is in amounts and insures against such losses and risks as the Company reasonably believes are adequate to protect the Company and its subsidiaries and their

 

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respective businesses; and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has (i) received notice from any insurer or agent of such insurer that capital improvements or other expenditures are required or necessary to be made in order to continue such insurance or (ii) any 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 at reasonable cost from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business in all material respects.

(jj)    No Unlawful Payments. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee, affiliate or other person authorized to act on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity; (ii) made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any applicable law or regulation implementing the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, or committed an offence under the Bribery Act 2010 of the United Kingdom or any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption law; or (iv) made, offered, agreed, requested any unlawful bribe or other unlawful benefit, including, without limitation, any rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful or improper payment or benefit. The Company and its subsidiaries have instituted, maintain and enforce, and will continue to maintain and enforce policies and procedures designed to promote and ensure compliance with all applicable anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws.

(kk)    Compliance with Anti-Money Laundering Laws. The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements, including those of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the applicable money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions where the Company or any of its subsidiaries conducts business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Anti-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 Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.

(ll)    No Conflicts with Sanctions Laws. None of the Company, any of its subsidiaries, or, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee, affiliate or other person associated with or authorized to act on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is currently the subject or the target of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. government, (including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State and including, without limitation, the designation as a “specially designated national” or “blocked person”), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor is the Company, any of its subsidiaries located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject or target of Sanctions, including, without limitation, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and Crimea (each, a “Sanctioned Country”); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering of the Borrowed Shares hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity (i) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business with any person that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the subject or target of Sanctions, (ii) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business in any Sanctioned Country or (iii) in any other manner that will result in a violation by any person (including any person

 

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participating in the transaction, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise) of Sanctions. For the past five years, the Company and its subsidiaries have not knowingly engaged in and are not now knowingly engaged in any dealings or transactions with any person that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject or the target of Sanctions or with any Sanctioned Country.

(mm)    No Restrictions on Subsidiaries. Except as prohibited by law, no wholly owned subsidiary of the Company is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, under any agreement or other instrument to which it is a party or is subject, from paying any dividends to the Company, from making any other distribution on such wholly owned subsidiary’s capital stock or similar ownership interest, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such wholly owned subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any of such wholly owned subsidiary’s properties or assets to the Company or any other subsidiary of the Company.

(nn)    No Broker’s Fees. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to any contract, agreement or understanding with any person (other than this Agreement) that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any Underwriter or the Borrower for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or like payment in connection with the offering and sale of the Borrowed Shares.

(oo)    No Registration Rights. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, no person has the right to require the Company or any of its subsidiaries to register any securities for sale under the Securities Act by reason of the filing of the Registration Statement with the Commission or the issuance and sale of the Borrowed Shares, except for such rights that have been waived.

(pp)    No Stabilization. The Company has not taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would reasonably be expected to cause or result in any stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Borrowed Shares.

(qq)    Margin Rules. The application of the proceeds received by the Company from the issuance and delivery of the Borrowed Shares as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and the Share Lending Agreement will not violate Regulation T, U or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any other regulation of such Board of Governors.

(rr)    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 in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus has been made or reaffirmed without a reasonable basis or has been disclosed other than in good faith.

(ss)    Statistical and Market Data. Nothing has come to the attention of the Company that has caused the Company to believe that the statistical and market-related data included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus is not based on or derived from sources that are reliable and accurate in all material respects.

(tt)    Sarbanes-Oxley Act. There is and has been no failure on the part of the Company or, to the knowledge of the Company, any of the Company’s directors or officers, in their capacities as such, to comply with any applicable provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith, including Section 402 related to loans and Sections 302 and 906 related to certifications.

 

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(uu)    Status under the Securities Act. At the time of filing the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, at the earliest time thereafter that the Company or any offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) under the Securities Act) of the Borrowed Shares and at the date hereof, the Company was not and is not an “ineligible issuer,” and is a well-known seasoned issuer, in each case as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

(vv)    Insolvency. The Company is not “insolvent” (as such term is defined under Section 101(32) of Title 11 of the United States Code), and the Company would be able to purchase a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the number of Borrowed Shares in compliance with the corporate law of the Company’s jurisdiction of incorporation.

4.    Further Agreements of the Company. The Company covenants and agrees with each Underwriter and the Borrower that:

(a)    Required Filings. The Company will file the final Prospectus with the Commission within the time periods specified by Rule 424(b) and Rule 430A, 430B or 430C under the Securities Act, will file any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (including the term sheet substantially in the form of Annex B hereto) to the extent required by Rule 433 under the Securities Act; and the Company will furnish copies of the Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (to the extent not previously delivered) to the Underwriters and the Borrower in New York City prior to 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the business day next succeeding the date of this Agreement in such quantities as the Representative or the Borrower may reasonably request. The Company will pay the registration fee for this offering within the time period required by Rule 456(b)(1) under the Securities Act (without giving effect to the proviso therein) and in any event prior to the Closing Date.

(b)    Delivery of Copies. The Company will deliver, without charge, (i) to the Representative, two (2) signed copies of the Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment thereto, in each case including all exhibits and consents filed therewith and documents incorporated by reference therein; and (ii) to each Underwriter and the Borrower (A) a conformed copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment thereto (without exhibits) and (B) during the Prospectus Delivery Period (as defined below), as many copies of the Prospectus (including all amendments and supplements thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein) and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus as the Representative or the Borrower may reasonably request. As used herein, the term “Prospectus Delivery Period” means such period of time after the first date of the public offering of the Borrowed Shares as in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters and the Borrower a prospectus relating to the Borrowed Shares is required by law to be delivered (or required to be delivered but for Rule 172 under the Securities Act) in connection with sales of the Borrowed Shares by any Underwriter or dealer.

(c)    Amendments or Supplements, Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses. Before preparing, using, authorizing, approving, referring to or filing any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and before filing any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, whether before or after the time that the Registration Statement becomes effective, the Company will furnish to the Representative, the Borrower and counsel for the Underwriters and the Borrower a copy of the proposed Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, amendment or supplement for

 

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review and will not prepare, use, authorize, approve, refer to or file any such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which the Representative or the Borrower reasonably object.

(d)    Notice to the Representative and the Borrower. The Company will advise the Representative and the Borrower promptly, and confirm such advice in writing, (i) when the Registration Statement has become effective; (ii) when any amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective; (iii) when any supplement to the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any amendment to the Prospectus has been filed or distributed; (iv) of any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or the receipt of any comments from the Commission relating to the Registration Statement or any other request by the Commission for any additional information; (v) of the issuance by the Commission of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any of the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or the initiation or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatening of any proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act; (vi) of the occurrence of any event or development within the Prospectus Delivery Period as a result of which the Prospectus, the Pricing Disclosure Package or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any 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 existing when the Prospectus, the Pricing Disclosure Package or any such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading; (vii) of the receipt by the Company of any notice of objection of the Commission to the use of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act; and (viii) of the receipt by the Company of any notice with respect to any suspension of the qualification of the Borrowed Shares for offer and sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; and the Company will use its commercially reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any of the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or suspending any such qualification of the Borrowed Shares and, if any such order is issued, will obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof.

(e)    Ongoing Compliance. (i) If during the Prospectus Delivery Period (A) any event or development shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading or (B) it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with law, the Company will as soon as practicable, but in no event later than one (1) business day, notify the Underwriters and the Borrower thereof and forthwith prepare and, subject to paragraph (c) above, file with the Commission and furnish to the Underwriters, the Borrower and to such dealers as the Representative may designate, such amendments or supplements to the Prospectus (or any document to be filed with the Commission and incorporated by reference therein) as may be necessary so that the statements in the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented (or any document to be filed with the Commission and incorporated by reference therein) will not, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the Prospectus will comply with law and (ii) if at any time prior to the Closing Date (A) any event or development shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which the Pricing Disclosure Package as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein,

 

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in the light of the circumstances existing when the Pricing Disclosure Package is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading or (B) it is necessary to amend or supplement the Pricing Disclosure Package to comply with law, the Company will immediately notify the Underwriters and the Borrower thereof and forthwith prepare and, subject to paragraph (c) above, file with the Commission (to the extent required) and furnish to the Underwriters, the Borrower and to such dealers as the Representative may designate, such amendments or supplements to the Pricing Disclosure Package (or any document to be filed with the Commission and incorporated by reference therein) as may be necessary so that the statements in the Pricing Disclosure Package as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Pricing Disclosure Package is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the Pricing Disclosure Package will comply with applicable law.

(f)    Blue Sky Compliance. The Company will use its commercially reasonable best efforts, with the Underwriters’ and the Borrower’s cooperation, if necessary, to qualify the Borrowed Shares for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as the Representative and the Borrower shall reasonably request and will use its commercially reasonable best efforts, with the Underwriters’ cooperation, if necessary, to continue such qualifications in effect so long as required for distribution of the Borrowed Shares; provided that the Company shall not be required to (i) qualify as a foreign corporation or other entity or as a dealer in securities in any such jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to so qualify, (ii) file any general consent to service of process in any such jurisdiction or (iii) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction if it is not otherwise so subject.

(g)    Earning Statement. The Company will make generally available to its security holders and the Representative as soon as practicable an earning statement that satisfies the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 of the Commission promulgated thereunder covering a period of at least twelve (12) months beginning with the first fiscal quarter of the Company occurring after the “effective date” (as defined in Rule 158) of the Registration Statement, it being understood and agreed that such earning statement shall be deemed to have been made available by the Company if the Company is in compliance with its reporting obligations pursuant to the Exchange Act, if such compliance satisfies the conditions of Rule 158, and if such earning statement is made available on the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system (“EDGAR”).

(h)    Clear Market. For a period of ninety (90) days after the date of the Prospectus, the Company will not (i) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, or file with the Commission a registration statement under the Securities Act relating to, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, or publicly disclose the intention to make any offer, sale, pledge, disposition or filing (other than filings on Form S-8 relating to Company Stock Plans that are in existence at the Applicable Time and disclosed in the Prospectus), or (ii) enter into any swap or other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Common Stock or any such other securities, whether any such transaction described in clause (i) or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise, without the prior written consent of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, other than (A) to effect the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Share Lending Agreement (including, without limitation, the issuance of the Borrowed Shares), (B) any shares of Common Stock of the Company issued upon the exercise of options granted under the Company Stock Plans, (C) any shares of Common Stock of the Company issued upon the exercise of warrants outstanding on the date of the Prospectus, (D)

 

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sales of shares pursuant to the Company’s employee stock purchase plan and grants of equity awards granted under Company Stock Plans, in each case as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (E) the issuance of up to that number of shares equal to seven percent (7%) of the Company’s outstanding shares of Common Stock, calculated prior to the issuance of the Common Stock to the Borrower pursuant to the Share Lending Agreement, in connection with mergers or acquisitions of businesses, entities, property or other assets, joint ventures or strategic alliances (“Carveout Shares”), provided that the Company shall cause each such recipient of Carveout Shares to execute and deliver to the Representative a lock-up letter substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto for the balance of the 90-day restricted period and (F) the Notes to be sold pursuant to the Notes Underwriting Agreement and any Underlying Securities (as defined in the Notes Underwriting Agreement) issuable upon conversion of the Notes.

(i)    No Stabilization. The Company will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would reasonably be expected to cause or result in any stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Common Stock.

(j)    Exchange Listing. The Company will cause the Borrowed Shares to be listed, subject to notice of issuance, on the New York Stock Exchange and will maintain the listing of the Borrowed Shares at all times prior to the termination of the Share Lending Agreement.

(k)    Reports. For a period of three (3) years from the date of this Agreement, the Company will furnish to the Representative, as soon as commercially reasonable after the date they are available, copies of all reports or other communications (financial or other) furnished to holders of the Borrowed Shares, and copies of any reports and financial statements furnished to or filed with the Commission or any national securities exchange or automatic quotation system; provided the Company will be deemed to have furnished such reports and financial statements to the Representative to the extent they are filed on EDGAR.

(l)    Record Retention. The Company will, pursuant to reasonable procedures developed in good faith, retain copies of each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is not filed with the Commission in accordance with Rule 433 under the Securities Act.

(m)    Filings. The Company will file with the Commission such reports as may be required by Rule 463 under the Securities Act.

(n)    Investment Company. The Company will not invest, or otherwise use the proceeds received by the Company from its sale of the Borrowed Shares in such a manner as would require the Company to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act.

(o)    Transfer Agent. The Company will maintain a transfer agent and, if necessary under the jurisdiction of incorporation of the Company, a registrar for the Common Stock.

(p)    Lock-up Agreements. The Company has caused each officer and director and certain shareholders of the Company to furnish to J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, on or prior to the date of this Agreement, a “lock-up” agreement, each substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Notes Underwriting Agreement.

 

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5.    Certain Agreements of the Underwriters and the Borrower.    Each Underwriter and the Borrower hereby represents and agrees that:

(a)    It has not used, authorized use of, referred to or participated in the planning for use of, and will not use, authorize use of, refer to or participate in the planning for use of, any “free writing prospectus”, as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act (which term includes use of any written information furnished to the Commission by the Company and not incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and any press release issued by the Company) other than (i) a free writing prospectus that contains no “issuer information” (as defined in Rule 433(h)(2) under the Securities Act) that was not included (including through incorporation by reference) in the Preliminary Prospectus or a previously filed Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, (ii) any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus listed on Annex A or prepared pursuant to Section 3(c) or Section 4(c) above (including any electronic road show), or (iii) any free writing prospectus prepared by such Underwriter and/or the Borrower and approved by the Company in advance in writing (each such free writing prospectus referred to in clauses (i) or (iii), an “Underwriter Free Writing Prospectus”).

(b)    It has not and will not, without the prior written consent of the Company, use any free writing prospectus that contains the final terms of the Borrowed Shares unless such terms have previously been included in a free writing prospectus filed with the Commission; provided that the Underwriters and the Borrower may use a term sheet substantially in the form of Annex B hereto without the consent of the Company; provided further that any Underwriter using such term sheet shall notify the Company, and provide a copy of such term sheet to the Company, prior to, or substantially concurrently with, the first use of such term sheet.

(c)    It is not subject to any pending proceeding under Section 8A of the Securities Act with respect to the offering contemplated by this Agreement (and will promptly notify the Company if any such proceeding against it is initiated during the Prospectus Delivery Period).

6.    Conditions of Underwriters’ and Borrower’s Obligations. The obligation of each Underwriter and the Borrower with respect to the Borrowed Shares to be delivered on the Closing Date as provided herein is subject to the performance by the Company of its covenants and other obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:

(a)    Registration Compliance; No Stop Order. No order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall be in effect, and no proceeding for such purpose, pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) or pursuant to Section 8A under the Securities Act shall be pending before or threatened by the Commission; the Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been timely filed with the Commission under the Securities Act (in the case of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, to the extent required by Rule 433 under the Securities Act) and in accordance with Section 4(a) hereof; and all requests by the Commission for additional information shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Representative and the Borrower.

(b)    Representations and Warranties; Covenants. The representations and warranties of the Company contained herein shall be true and correct on the date hereof and on and as of the Closing Date; and the statements of the Company and its officers made in any certificates delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be true and correct on and as of the Closing Date. The Company shall have performed and complied with all covenants, agreements, obligations and conditions contained in this Agreement that are required to be performed or complied with by the Company on or before the Closing Date.

 

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(c)    No Material Adverse Change. No event or condition of a type described in Section 3(g) hereof shall have occurred or shall exist, which event or condition is not described in the Pricing Disclosure Package (excluding any amendment or supplement thereto) and the Prospectus (excluding any amendment or supplement thereto) and the effect of which in the judgment of the Representative or the Borrower makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Borrowed Shares on the Closing Date on the terms and in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, the Share Lending Agreement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(d)    Officer’s Certificate. The Representative and the Borrower shall have received on and as of the Closing Date a certificate of the chief financial officer or chief accounting officer of the Company and one additional senior executive officer of the Company who is satisfactory to the Representative and the Borrower (i) confirming that such officers have carefully reviewed the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and, to the knowledge of such officers, the representations of the Company set forth in Sections 3(b) and 3(d) hereof are true and correct, (ii) confirming that the other representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct and that the Company has complied in all material respects with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date and (iii) to the effect set forth in paragraphs (a) and (c) above.

(e)    Comfort Letters.

(i)    On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP shall have furnished to the Representative and the Borrower, at the request of the Company, letters, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof and addressed to the Underwriters and the Borrower, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative, the Borrower and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, containing statements and information of the type customarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; provided, that the letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off” date no more than three (3) business days prior to such Closing Date.

(ii)    On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, if requested by the Representative and the Borrower, the Company shall have furnished to the Representative and the Borrower a certificate, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof and addressed to the Underwriters and the Borrower, of its chief financial officer with respect to certain financial data contained in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, providing “management comfort” with respect to such information, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative and the Borrower.

(f)    Opinion and 10b-5 Statement of Counsel for the Company. Troutman Sanders LLP, counsel for the Company, shall have furnished to the Representative and the Borrower, at the request of the Company, their written opinion and 10b-5 statement, dated the Closing Date, and addressed to the Underwriters and the Borrower, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative and the Borrower.

(g)    Intellectual Property Opinion of Counsel for the Company. Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein and Fox, intellectual property counsel for the Company, shall have furnished to the Representative and the Borrower, at the request of the Company, their written opinion, dated the Closing Date, and addressed to the Underwriters and the Borrower, covering certain intellectual property matters in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative and the Borrower.

 

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(h)    Opinion and 10b-5 Statement of Counsel for the Underwriters. The Representative shall have received on and as of the Closing Date, an opinion and 10b-5 statement of Goodwin Procter LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, with respect to such matters as the Representative may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such documents and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.

(i)    Opinion of Counsel for the Underwriters and the Borrower. The Representative and the Borrower shall have received on and as of the Closing Date, an opinion of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, counsel for the Underwriters and the Borrower, with respect to such matters as the Representative and the Borrower may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such documents and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.

(j)    No Legal Impediment to Issuance. No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance, delivery or sale of the Borrowed Shares; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance, delivery or sale of the Borrowed Shares.

(k)    Good Standing. The Representative and the Borrower shall have received on and as of the Closing Date, satisfactory evidence of the good standing of the Company and its subsidiaries in their respective jurisdictions of organization and their good standing as foreign entities in such other jurisdictions as the Representative and the Borrower may reasonably request, in each case in writing or any standard form of telecommunication from the appropriate governmental authorities of such jurisdictions.

(l)    Exchange Listing. The Borrowed Shares to be delivered on the Closing Date shall have been approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange, subject to official notice of issuance.

(m)    Lock-up Agreements. The “lock-up” agreements, each substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Notes Underwriting Agreement, between J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and certain shareholders, officers and directors of the Company relating to sales and certain other dispositions of shares of Common Stock or certain other securities, delivered to J.P. Morgan Securities LLC on or before the date hereof, shall be in full force and effect on the Closing Date.

(n)    Borrowed Shares. The Borrower shall have received from the Company the Borrowed Shares pursuant to the terms of the Share Lending Agreement prior to 9:00 A.M. New York City time on the Closing Date.

(o)    Share Lending Agreement. The Company shall have entered into the Share Lending Agreement as of the date hereof, and the Borrower shall have received executed copies thereof.

(p)    Notes Offering. The Notes Offering, substantially on the terms described in the Prospectus, shall have been consummated.

 

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(q)    Additional Documents. On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Representative and the Borrower such further certificates and documents as the Representative or the Borrower may reasonably request.

All opinions, letters, certificates and evidence mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters and the Borrower.

7.    Indemnification and Contribution.

(a)    Indemnification of the Underwriters and the Borrower. The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter and the Borrower, their respective affiliates, directors and officers and each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter or the Borrower within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, reasonable and documented legal fees and other expenses incurred in connection with any suit, action or proceeding or any claim asserted, as such fees and expenses are incurred), joint or several, that arise out of, or are based upon, (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, not misleading, (ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, any road show as defined in Rule 433(h) under the Securities Act (a “road show”) or any Pricing Disclosure Package (including any Pricing Disclosure Package that has subsequently been amended), or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in each case except insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information relating to any Underwriter or the Borrower furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representative or the Borrower expressly for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter or the Borrower consists of the information described as such in subsection (b) below.

(b)    Indemnification of the Company. Each Underwriter and the Borrower agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, its officers who signed the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act to the same extent as the indemnity set forth in paragraph (a) above, but only with respect to any losses, claims, damages or liabilities (including, without limitation, reasonable and documented legal fees and other expenses incurred in connection with any suit, action, or proceeding or any claim asserted, as such fees and expenses are incurred) that arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information relating to such Underwriter or the Borrower furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representative or the Borrower expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any road show or any Pricing Disclosure Package (including any Pricing Disclosure Package that has subsequently been amended), it being understood and agreed upon that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter or the Borrower consists of the following information in the Prospectus furnished on behalf of each Underwriter or the Borrower, in each case, under the caption “Underwriting; conflicts of interest,” the information contained in the seventh and twelfth paragraphs and the second sentence of the thirteenth paragraph, and under the caption “Underwriting; conflicts of interest—Share lending agreement,” the information contained in the first,

 

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third and fifth through seventh sentences of the second paragraph, the information contained in the ninth sentence of the second paragraph with respect to the determination of allocations and the information contained in the third paragraph.

(c)    Notice and Procedures. If any suit, action, proceeding (including any governmental or regulatory investigation), claim or demand shall be brought or asserted against any person in respect of which indemnification may be sought pursuant to either paragraph (a) or (b) above, such person (the “Indemnified Person”) shall promptly notify the person against whom such indemnification may be sought (the “Indemnifying Person”) in writing; provided that the failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have under paragraph (a) or (b) above except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses) by such failure; and provided, further, that the failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to an Indemnified Person otherwise than under paragraph (a) or (b) above. If any such proceeding shall be brought or asserted against an Indemnified Person and it shall have notified the Indemnifying Person thereof, the Indemnifying Person shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person (who shall not, without the consent of the Indemnified Person, be counsel to the Indemnifying Person) to represent the Indemnified Person in such proceeding and shall pay the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of such counsel related to such proceeding, as incurred. In any such proceeding, any Indemnified Person shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Indemnified Person unless (i) the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person shall have mutually agreed to the contrary; (ii) the Indemnifying Person has failed within a reasonable time to retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person; (iii) the Indemnified Person shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it that are different from or in addition to those available to the Indemnifying Person; or (iv) the named parties in any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interest between them. It is understood and agreed that the Indemnifying Person shall not, in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all Indemnified Persons, and that all such fees and expenses shall be paid or reimbursed as they are incurred. Any such separate firm for any Underwriter or the Borrower, their respective affiliates, directors and officers and any control persons of such Underwriter or Borrower shall be designated in writing by the Representative or the Borrower, as applicable, and any such separate firm for the Company, its directors, its officers who signed the Registration Statement and any control persons of the Company shall be designated in writing by the Company. The Indemnifying Person shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the Indemnifying Person agrees to indemnify each Indemnified Person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an Indemnified Person shall have requested that an Indemnifying Person reimburse the Indemnified Person for reasonable and documented fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by this paragraph, the Indemnifying Person shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 45 days after receipt by the Indemnifying Person of such request and (ii) the Indemnifying Person shall not have reimbursed the Indemnified Person in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement. No Indemnifying Person shall, without the written consent of the Indemnified Person, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any Indemnified Person is or could have been a party and indemnification could have been sought hereunder by such Indemnified Person, unless such settlement (x) includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Person, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Person, from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and (y) does not include any statement as to or any admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any Indemnified Person.

 

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(d)    Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in paragraphs (a) and (b) above is unavailable to an Indemnified Person or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein, then each Indemnifying Person under such paragraph, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Person thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Person as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters and the Borrower on the other, from the offering of the Borrowed Shares or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) but also the relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters and the Borrower 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 Underwriters and the Borrower on the other, shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the net proceeds (before deducting expenses) received by the Company from the sale of the Notes in the Notes Offering and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Notes Underwriters in connection with the Notes Offering, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover of the Prospectus (as defined in the Notes Underwriting Agreement), bear to the aggregate offering price of the Notes in the Notes Offering. The relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters and the Borrower on the other, 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 by the Underwriters and the Borrower and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.

(e)    Limitation on Liability. The Company, the Borrower and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to paragraph (d) above were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Borrower and the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in paragraph (d) above. The amount paid or payable by an Indemnified Person as a result of the losses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to in paragraph (d) above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any reasonable and documented legal or other expenses incurred by such Indemnified Person in connection with any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (d) above and this paragraph (e), in no event shall an Underwriter nor the Borrower be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by such Underwriter with respect to the offering of the Borrowed Shares exceeds the amount of any damages that such Underwriter or the Borrower 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 Underwriters’ obligations to contribute pursuant to paragraphs (d) and (e) are several in proportion to their respective purchase obligations hereunder and not joint.

(f)    Non-Exclusive Remedies. The remedies provided for in this Section 7 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available to any Indemnified Person at law or in equity.

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9.    Termination. This Agreement may be terminated in the absolute discretion of the Representative or the Borrower, by notice to the Company, if after the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date (i) trading generally shall have been suspended or materially limited on or by any of the New York Stock Exchange or The Nasdaq Stock Market; (ii) trading of any securities issued or guaranteed by the Company shall have been suspended on any exchange or in any over-the-counter market; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities shall have been declared by federal or New York State authorities; or (iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis, either within or outside the United States, that, in the judgment of the Representative, is material and adverse and makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Borrowed Shares on the Closing Date, on the terms and in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, the Share Lending Agreement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

10.    Defaulting Underwriter.

(a)    If, on the Closing Date, any Underwriter defaults on its obligation to purchase the Borrowed Shares that it has agreed to purchase hereunder on such date, the non-defaulting Underwriters may in their discretion arrange for the purchase of such Borrowed Shares by other persons satisfactory to the Company on the terms contained in this Agreement. If, within 36 hours after any such default by any Underwriter, the non-defaulting Underwriters do not arrange for the purchase of such Borrowed Shares, then the Company shall be entitled to a further period of 36 hours within which to procure other persons satisfactory to the non-defaulting Underwriters to purchase such Borrowed Shares on such terms. If other persons become obligated or agree to purchase the Borrowed Shares of a defaulting Underwriter, either the non-defaulting Underwriters or the Company may postpone the Closing Date for up to five (5) full business days in order to effect any changes that in the opinion of counsel for the Company or counsel for the Underwriters may be necessary in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or in any other document or arrangement, and the Company agrees to promptly prepare any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus that effects any such changes. As used in this Agreement, the term “Underwriter” includes, for all purposes of this Agreement unless the context otherwise requires, any person not listed in Schedule 1 hereto that, pursuant to this Section 10, purchases Borrowed Shares that a defaulting Underwriter agreed but failed to purchase.

(b)    If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Borrowed Shares of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company as provided in paragraph (a) above, the aggregate number of Borrowed Shares that remain unpurchased on the Closing Date does not exceed one-eleventh of the aggregate number of Borrowed Shares to be purchased on such date, then the Company shall have the right to require each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase the number of Borrowed Shares that such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder on such date plus such Underwriter’s pro rata share (based on the number of Borrowed Shares that such Underwriter agreed to purchase on such date) of the Borrowed Shares of such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters for which such arrangements have not been made.

(c)    If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Borrowed Shares of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company as provided in paragraph (a) above, the aggregate number of Borrowed Shares that remain unpurchased on the Closing Date exceeds one-eleventh of the aggregate amount of Borrowed Shares to be purchased on such date, or if the Company shall not exercise the right described in paragraph (b) above, then this Agreement shall terminate without liability on the part of the non-defaulting Underwriters. Any termination of this Agreement pursuant to this Section 10 shall be without liability on the part of the Company, except that the Company and the Underwriters will continue to be liable for the payment of expenses as set forth in Section 11 hereof and except that the provisions of Section 7 hereof shall not terminate and shall remain in effect.

 

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(d)    Nothing contained herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter of any liability it may have to the Company or any non-defaulting Underwriter for damages caused by its default.

11.    Payment of Expenses.

(a)    Whether or not the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, the Company will pay or cause to be paid all costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder, including without limitation, (i) the costs incident to the authorization, issuance, sale, preparation and delivery of the Borrowed Shares and any taxes payable in that connection; (ii) the costs incident to the preparation, printing and filing under the Securities Act of the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (including all exhibits, amendments and supplements thereto) and the distribution thereof; (iii) the costs of reproducing and distributing each of the Transaction Documents; (iv) the fees and expenses of the Company’s counsel and independent accountants; (iv) the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the registration or qualification of the Borrowed Shares and determination of eligibility of investment thereof under the state or foreign securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as the Representative may designate and the preparation, printing and distribution of a Blue Sky Memorandum (including the related fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters and the Borrower) not to exceed $30,000 without the prior written consent of the Company when taken together with the amount incurred in connection with clause (viii) below); (v) the cost of preparing stock certificates; (vi) the costs and charges of any transfer agent and any registrar; (vii) all expenses and application fees incurred in connection with any filing with, and clearance of the offering by, FINRA, in an amount not to exceed $30,000 (exclusive of filing fees) without the prior written consent of the Company when taken together with the amount incurred in connection with clause (iv) above; (viii) all reasonable and documented expenses incurred by the Company in connection with any “road show” presentation to potential investors, provided, however, the Company and the Underwriters shall each pay 50% of the total costs of chartering any aircraft to be used in connection with any such “road shows”; and (ix) all expenses and application fees related to the listing of the Borrowed Shares on the New York Stock Exchange.

(b)    Except as provided for by this Agreement, the Underwriters and the Borrower will pay all of their own expenses, including the fees of their counsel and travel and lodging expenses of the Representative.

(c)    If (i) this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 9, (ii) the Company for any reason fails to tender the Borrowed Shares for delivery to the Borrower or the Underwriters at the Closing Date in accordance with this Agreement or (iii) the Borrower or the Underwriters decline to borrow the Borrowed Shares because any of the conditions to the Borrower’s or Underwriters’ obligations set forth in Section 6 have not been met, the Company agrees to reimburse the Borrower and/or the Underwriters for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of their counsel) reasonably incurred by the Borrower and/or the Underwriters in connection with this Agreement and the offering contemplated hereby. For the avoidance of doubt, the Company will not pay or reimburse any costs, fees or expenses incurred by any Underwriter that defaults on its obligations to purchase the Borrowed Shares.

12.    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 the officers and directors and any controlling persons referred to herein, and the affiliates of each Underwriter referred to in Section 7 hereof. Nothing in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any other person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision contained herein. No purchaser of Borrowed Shares from any Underwriter or the Borrower shall be deemed to be a successor merely by reason of such purchase.

 

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13.    Survival. The respective indemnities, rights of contribution, representations, warranties and agreements of the Company, the Borrower and the Underwriters contained in this Agreement or made by or on behalf of the Company, the Borrower or the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement or any certificate delivered pursuant hereto shall survive the delivery of and payment for the Borrowed Shares and shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any termination of this Agreement or any investigation made by or on behalf of the Company, the Borrower or the Underwriters.

14.    Certain Defined Terms. For purposes of this Agreement, (a) except where otherwise expressly provided, the term “affiliate” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act; (b) the term “business day” means any day other than a day on which banks are permitted or required to be closed in New York City; and (c) the term “subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

15.    Compliance with USA Patriot Act. In accordance with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), the Underwriters and the Borrower are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies their respective clients, including the Company, which information may include the name and address of their respective clients, as well as other information that will allow the Underwriters and the Borrower to properly identify their respective clients.

16.    Miscellaneous.

(a)    Authority of the Representative. Any action by the Underwriters hereunder may be taken by the Representative on behalf of the Underwriters, and any such action taken by the Representative shall be binding upon the Underwriters.

(b)    Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if mailed or transmitted and confirmed by any standard form of telecommunication. Notices to the Underwriters shall be given to the Representative: c/o J. P. Morgan Securities LLC, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179 (fax: (212)  ###-###-####); Attention: Equity Syndicate Desk and with a copy to Goodwin Procter LLP, The New York Times Building, 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10018; Attention: Michael D. Maline, James Barri and Daniel A. Lang. Notices to the Borrower shall be given to it at J. P. Morgan Securities LLC, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179 (fax: (212)  ###-###-####); Attention: Equity Syndicate Desk and with a copy to Goodwin Procter LLP, The New York Times Building, 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10018; Attention: Michael D. Maline, James Barri and Daniel A. Lang. Notices to the Company shall be given to it at Intrexon Corporation, 20358 Seneca Meadows Parkway, Germantown, Maryland 20876 (fax: (301) 556-9902); Attention: Donald P. Lehr; with a copy to Troutman Sanders LLP, 1001 Haxall Point, Richmond, Virginia 23219 (fax: (804)  ###-###-####); Attention: John Owen Gwathmey.

(c)    Governing Law. This Agreement and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to agreements made and to be performed in such state.

(d)    Waiver of Jury Trial. Each of the parties hereto hereby waives any right to trial by jury in any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement.

 

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(e)    Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in counterparts (which may include counterparts delivered by any standard form of telecommunication), each of which shall be an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

(f)    Amendments or Waivers. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, nor any consent or approval to any departure therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the parties hereto.

(g)    Headings. The headings herein are included for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of, or to affect the meaning or interpretation of, this Agreement.

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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please indicate your acceptance of this Agreement by signing in the space provided below.

 

Very truly yours,

INTREXON CORPORATION

By:

 

/s/ Donald P. Lehr

Name:

  Donald P. Lehr

Title:

  Chief Legal Officer

Accepted: As of the date first written above

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC

 

By: /s/ Kevin Cheng                                         

Authorized Signatory

Name: Kevin Cheng                                         

Title: Vice President                                         

On behalf of itself and each of the Underwriters

[Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement (Share Borrowing)]


Schedule 1

 

Underwriter

   Number of Shares  

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

     7,479,431  
  

 

 

 

Total

     7,479,431  
  

 

 

 

 

Sch. 1-1


Annex A

a.    Pricing Disclosure Package

Pricing term sheet, substantially in the form of Annex B.

Launch press release dated June 27, 2018 filed with the Commission as a free writing prospectus on June 27, 2018

Pricing press release to be dated June 29, 2018

 

Ann. A-1


Annex B

Pricing Term Sheet

 

Pricing Term Sheet

Dated June 28, 2018

  

Issuer Free Writing Prospectus

Filed pursuant to Rule 433

Registration Statement No. 333-220326

Relating to Preliminary Prospectus Supplements dated June 27, 2018

(To Prospectus dated September 1, 2017)

Intrexon Corporation

Concurrent Offerings of

3.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023

and

Common Stock Issued Pursuant to a Share Lending Agreement

The information in this pricing term sheet relates to Intrexon Corporation’s offering of its 3.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 (the “Notes Offering”) and its offering of shares of its common stock pursuant to the share lending agreement described below (the “Borrowed Shares Offering”) and should be read together with the preliminary prospectus supplement dated June 27, 2018 relating to the Notes Offering (the “Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement”) and the preliminary prospectus supplement dated June 27, 2018 relating to the Borrowed Shares Offering (the “Borrowed Shares Preliminary Prospectus Supplement”), in each case, including the documents incorporated by reference therein, and the base prospectus dated September 1, 2017 (the “Base Prospectus”). The information in this pricing term sheet supersedes the information in the Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, the Borrowed Shares Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the Base Prospectus to the extent inconsistent with the information therein. Terms used herein but not defined herein shall have the respective meanings as set forth in the Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement or the Borrowed Shares Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, as applicable. All references to dollar amounts are references to U.S. dollars.

General

 

Issuer:   Intrexon Corporation (“Intrexon”)
Ticker / Exchange:   XON / The New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”)
NYSE last reported sale price on June 28, 2018:   $13.37 per share of common stock of Intrexon (the “Common Stock”)
Trade date:   June 29, 2018
Settlement date:   July 3, 2018
Sole book-running manager:   J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

Notes Offering

 

Securities offered:   3.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 (the “Notes”)
Aggregate principal amount offered:   $200,000,000 principal amount. The underwriters will not have an option to purchase additional Notes.
Interest:   The Notes will bear interest at a rate of 3.50% per annum from July 3, 2018

 

Ann. B-1


Interest payment dates:   January 1 and July 1 of each year, beginning on January 1, 2019
Maturity date:   July 1, 2023
Conversion premium:   Approximately 27.50% above the NYSE last reported sale price on June 28, 2018
Initial conversion price:   Approximately $17.05 per share of Common Stock
Initial conversion rate:   58.6622 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes
Concurrent offering of Borrowed Shares and share lending agreement:  

Concurrently with the Notes Offering, Intrexon is offering 7,479,431 shares of Common Stock pursuant to the Borrowed Shares Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the Base Prospectus. Such shares (the “Borrowed Shares”) will be loaned by Intrexon to J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (in such capacity, the “Share Borrower”), the underwriter for the Borrowed Shares Offering. The Share Borrower or its affiliates will receive all of the proceeds of the Borrowed Shares Offering and Intrexon will not receive any proceeds of that offering. The Notes Offering is contingent upon the closing of the Borrowed Shares Offering, and the Borrowed Shares Offering is contingent upon the closing of the Notes Offering. Randal J. Kirk, the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and principal shareholder of Intrexon, has agreed with the Share Borrower to purchase all of the shares of Common Stock offered in the Borrowed Shares Offering.

 

Intrexon has been informed by the Share Borrower that it or one of its affiliates intends to use the short position created by the share loan and the concurrent short sales of the Borrowed Shares to facilitate transactions by which investors in the Notes may hedge their investments through short sales or privately negotiated derivatives transactions. Intrexon expects to make delivery of the Borrowed Shares concurrently with the closing of the Notes Offering. See “Description of share lending agreement” in the Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement.

Use of proceeds:  

Intrexon estimates that the net proceeds from the Notes Offering will be approximately $193.9 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by Intrexon in connection with the Notes Offering and the Borrowed Shares Offering.

 

Intrexon intends to use the net proceeds from the Notes Offering for general corporate purposes and for strategic acquisitions or investments. General corporate purposes may include additions to working capital, financing internal research and development programs, financing of capital expenditures, repayment or redemption of existing indebtedness or payments to satisfy commitments under Intrexon’s ECCs, joint ventures and other collaborations. In addition, Intrexon intends to use the net proceeds for future strategic acquisitions and strategic investment opportunities, but Intrexon has not determined the amount of net proceeds to be used specifically for such purposes, or any particular acquisitions or investments.

 

Ann. B-2


Public offering price, underwriting discount and proceeds:   The following table shows the public offering price, underwriting discounts and commissions and proceeds, before expenses, to Intrexon:

 

     Per Note      Total  

Public offering price(1)

   $ 1,000.00      $ 200,000,000.00  

Underwriting discounts and commissions

   $ 27.50      $ 5,500,000.00  

Proceeds, before expenses, to Intrexon

   $ 972.50      $ 194,500,000.00  

(1)  Plus accrued interest, if any, from the settlement date.

     

 

CUSIP:   46122T AA0
ISIN:   US46122TAA07
Increase in conversion rate upon conversion upon a make-whole fundamental change:   The table below sets forth the number of additional shares, if any, of Common Stock to be added to the conversion rate per $1,000 principal amount of Notes that are converted in connection with a “make-whole fundamental change” as described in the Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, based on the stock price and effective date of the make-whole fundamental change.

 

     Stock price  

Effective date

   $13.37      $15.00      $17.05      $20.00      $25.00      $30.00      $35.00      $40.00      $45.00      $50.00      $60.00      $70.00  

July 3, 2018

     16.1321        13.0033        10.1685        7.4065        4.6576        3.1057        2.1406        1.4973        1.0451        0.7146        0.2748        0.0259  

July 1, 2019

     16.1321        12.8193        9.8341        6.9930        4.2616        2.7823        1.8920        1.3123        0.9113        0.6212        0.2383        0.0223  

July 1, 2020

     16.1321        12.5353        9.3372        6.3895        3.7036        2.3410        1.5629        1.0740        0.7438        0.5074        0.1963        0.0187  

July 1, 2021

     16.1321        11.9327        8.4368        5.3820        2.8460        1.7047        1.1109        0.7595        0.5282        0.3638        0.1443        0.0144  

July 1, 2022

     16.1321        10.6740        6.6916        3.5965        1.5444        0.8507        0.5511        0.3870        0.2793        0.2008        0.0893        0.0119  

July 1, 2023

     16.1321        8.0045        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000  

The exact stock prices and effective dates may not be set forth in the table above, in which case:

 

    If the stock price is between two stock prices in the table or the effective date is between two effective dates in the table, the number of additional shares by which the conversion rate will be increased will be determined by a straight-line interpolation between the number of additional shares set forth for the higher and lower stock prices and the earlier and later effective dates, as applicable, based on a 365-day year.

 

    If the stock price is greater than $70.00 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the stock prices set forth in the column headings of the table above), no additional shares will be added to the conversion rate.

 

    If the stock price is less than $13.37 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the stock prices set forth in the column headings of the table above), no additional shares will be added to the conversion rate.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event will the conversion rate per $1,000 principal amount of Notes exceed 74.7943 shares of Common Stock, subject to adjustment in the same manner as the conversion rate as set forth under “Description of the Notes—Conversion rights—Conversion rate adjustments” in the Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement.

 

Ann. B-3


Borrowed Shares Offering

 

Offering of Borrowed Shares:    Intrexon will lend 7,479,431 shares of Common Stock to the Share Borrower, the underwriter for the Borrowed Shares offering, pursuant to a share lending agreement. Intrexon has been informed by the Share Borrower that it or one of its affiliates intends to use the short position created by the share loan and the concurrent short sales of the Borrowed Shares to facilitate transactions by which investors in the Notes may hedge their investments through short sales of the Common Stock or privately negotiated derivatives transactions. See “Description of share lending agreement” in the Borrowed Shares Preliminary Prospectus Supplement.
Use of proceeds:    Intrexon will not receive any proceeds from the sale of the Borrowed Shares. The Share Borrower or its affiliates will receive all of the proceeds from the sale of the Borrowed Shares.
Insider participation:    Randal J. Kirk, the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and principal shareholder of Intrexon, has agreed with the Share Borrower to purchase at the public offering price all of the shares of Common Stock offered in the Borrowed Shares Offering.
Public offering price, underwriting discount and proceeds:    The following table shows the public offering price, underwriting discounts and commissions and proceeds, before expenses, to Intrexon:
     Per Borrowed Share      Total  
Public offering price    $ 13.37      $ 99,999,992.47  
Underwriting discounts and commissions    $ 0.00      $ 0.00  
Proceeds, before expenses, to Intrexon    $ 0.00      $ 0.00  

 

 

Intrexon has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the SEC for the offerings to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement, the Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, the Borrowed Shares Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and other documents Intrexon has filed with the SEC that are incorporated therein by reference for more complete information about Intrexon and these offerings. You may obtain these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, you may request the prospectus for each offering from J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717, telephone: 1 ###-###-####.

This communication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities, in any state in which such solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification of these securities under the laws of any such state.

ANY DISCLAIMERS OR OTHER NOTICES THAT MAY APPEAR BELOW ARE NOT APPLICABLE TO THIS COMMUNICATION AND SHOULD BE DISREGARDED. SUCH DISCLAIMERS OR OTHER NOTICES WERE AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED AS A RESULT OF THIS COMMUNICATION BEING SENT VIA BLOOMBERG OR ANOTHER EMAIL SYSTEM.

 

Ann. B-4


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Ann. B-5