Underwriting Agreement, dated June 25, 2018, between Senseonics Holdings, Inc. and BTIG, LLC

EX-1.1 2 a18-15878_3ex1d1.htm EX-1.1

Exhibit 1.1

 

33,110,053 SHARES

 

SENSEONICS HOLDINGS, INC.

 

COMMON STOCK

 

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

 

June 25, 2018

 

BTIG, LLC

825 Third Avenue, 6th Floor

New York, NY 10022

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

Senseonics Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, to issue and sell to BTIG, LLC (the “Underwriter”) an aggregate of 33,110,053 authorized but unissued shares (the “Firm Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “Common Stock”), and, at the election of the Underwriter, upon the terms and conditions stated herein, up to 4,966,508 additional shares (the “Additional Shares”) of Common Stock, if any (the Firm Shares and the Additional Shares that the Underwriter elects to purchase pursuant to Section 3 hereof being collectively called the “Securities”).

 

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

 

1.  REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND PROSPECTUS. The Company has prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-224057) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the rules and regulations (the “Rules and Regulations”) of the Commission promulgated thereunder, and such amendments to such registration statement as may have been required to the date of this Underwriting Agreement (this “Agreement”). Such registration statement has been declared effective by the Commission. Such registration statement, at any given time, including amendments thereto at such time, the exhibits and any schedules thereto at such time, the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act at such time and the documents and information otherwise deemed to be a part thereof or included therein by Rule 430B under the Securities Act or otherwise pursuant to the Rules and Regulations at such time, is herein called the “Registration Statement.” The Registration Statement at the time it originally became effective is herein called the “Original Registration Statement.”

 

The Company proposes to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act a final prospectus supplement relating to the Securities to a form of prospectus included in the Registration Statement relating to the Securities in the form heretofore delivered

 

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

 

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

 

As used in this Agreement:

 

Time of Sale” means 7:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) on the date of this Agreement.

 

Time of Sale Disclosure Package” means the Base Prospectus, as amended or supplemented immediately prior the Time of Sale, the Preliminary Prospectus, and any information set forth in Schedule I to this Agreement, considered together.

 

As of the date hereof, the business of the Company is conducted through its wholly owned subsidiary, Senseonics Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (“Senseonics”).

 

2.                                      REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.

 

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

 

(i)                                    Registration Statement and Prospectuses. Each of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto has become and remains effective under the Securities Act. No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has been issued under the Securities Act, no order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus has been issued or threatened and no proceedings for any of those purposes have been instituted or are pending or threatened by the Commission. The Company has complied with each request (if any) from the Commission for additional information. At the time the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017 (the “Annual Report”) was filed with the Commission, the Company met the then-applicable requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act. The Company meets

 

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the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act. Pursuant to General Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3, the issuance of the Firm Shares and the Additional Shares is eligible to be registered pursuant to the Prospectus filed as part of the Company’s effective Registration Statement.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

(iii)                            Free Writing Prospectuses. The Company is an ineligible issuer as defined under Rule 405 of the Securities Act.

 

(iv)                             Other Communications. Other than the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, and the Prospectus, the Company (including its agents

 

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and representatives, other than the Underwriter in its capacity as such) has not made, used, prepared, authorized, approved or referred to, and will not prepare, make, 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 Securities.

 

(v)                                 Emerging Growth Company Status. From the time of the initial filing of the Registration Statement with the Commission through the date hereof, the Company has been and is an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act (an “Emerging Growth Company”).

 

(vi)                             Independent Accountants. Ernst & Young LLP (“E&Y” or the “Auditor”), the accountants who certified the financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, are independent public accountants as required by the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

 

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

 

(viii)                     Financial Statements; Non-GAAP Financial Measures. The financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, together with the related schedules and notes, present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company and Senseonics at the dates indicated and the statement of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Company and Senseonics for the periods specified; such financial statements have been prepared

 

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in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved except, in the case of unaudited financial statements, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the exclusion of certain footnotes as permitted by the applicable rules of the Commission. The selected financial data incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus present fairly, in all material respects, the information shown therein and have been compiled on a basis consistent with that of the audited financial statements incorporated by reference therein. Except as included therein, no historical or pro forma financial statements or supporting schedules are required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus under the Securities Act or the Rules and Regulations.  All disclosures contained in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus regarding “non-GAAP financial measures” (as such term is defined by the rules and regulations of the Commission) comply with Regulation G of the Exchange Act and Item 10 of Regulation S-K, to the extent applicable.

 

(ix)                             No Material Adverse Change in Business. Except as otherwise stated therein, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, (A) there has been no material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and Senseonics, considered as one entity, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business (a “Material Adverse Effect”), (B) there have been no transactions entered into by the Company and Senseonics, considered as one entity, other than those in the ordinary course of business, which are material, individually or in the aggregate, to the Company and Senseonics, (C) there has been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company or Senseonics on any class of its capital stock, (D) there has not been any change in the capital stock (other than a change in the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise of outstanding options or warrants or the settlement of outstanding restricted stock units), (E) there has not been any material change in the short-term or long-term debt of the Company except for the extinguishment thereof, and (F) there has not been any issuance of options, warrants, convertible securities or other rights to purchase the capital stock of the Company (other than issuances of equity compensation awards under equity compensation arrangements approved by the Board of Directors of the Company or committee thereof comprised entirely of independent directors).

 

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

 

(xi)                             Subsidiaries. The Company has one subsidiary (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act). Such subsidiary, Senseonics, has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation and has the corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. Senseonics is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure so to qualify or to be in good standing would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. All of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Senseonics has been duly authorized and validly issued, is fully paid and non-assessable and is owned by the Company, directly or through subsidiaries, free and clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien, encumbrance, adverse claim or equity. None of the outstanding shares of capital stock of Senseonics were issued in violation of any preemptive or similar rights of any securityholder of Senseonics. The Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any corporation, association or other entity other than the subsidiaries listed on Exhibit 21 to the Company’s Annual Report. Senseonics is the only “Significant Subsidiary” as defined in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act.

 

(xii)                         Capitalization. The authorized, issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus in the column “Actual” under the caption “Capitalization” (except for (i) the increase in authorized capital stock as reflected in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 5, 2018 and (ii) subsequent issuances, if any, pursuant to this Agreement, pursuant to reservations, agreements or employee benefit plans referred to in the

 

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Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, or pursuant to the exercise or conversion of convertible securities, options or warrants referred to in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus). The outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable. None of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company or Senseonics were issued in violation of the preemptive or other similar rights of any securityholder of the Company.

 

(xiii)                     Authorization of Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.

 

(xiv)                      Authorization and Description of Securities. The Securities to be purchased by the Underwriter from the Company have been duly authorized for issuance and sale to the Underwriter pursuant to this Agreement and, when issued and delivered by the Company pursuant to this Agreement against payment of the consideration set forth herein, will be duly and validly issued and fully paid and non-assessable; and the issuance of the Securities is not subject to the preemptive or other similar rights of any securityholder of the Company. The Common Stock conforms, in all material respects, to all statements relating thereto contained in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and such description conforms, in all material respects, to the rights set forth in the instruments defining the same. No holder of Securities will be subject to personal liability solely by reason of being such a holder.

 

(xv)                          Registration Rights. There are no persons with registration rights or other similar rights to have any securities registered for sale pursuant to the Registration Statement or otherwise registered for sale or sold by the Company or Senseonics under the Securities Act pursuant to this Agreement, other than those rights that have been disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and have been validly waived; and there are no persons with co-sale rights, tag-along rights or other similar rights to have any securities included in the offering contemplated by this Agreement or sold in connection with the sale of Securities pursuant to this Agreement.

 

(xvi)                      Stock Options. With respect to the stock options (the “Stock Options”) granted pursuant to the stock-based compensation plans of the Company and Senseonics (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) since January 1, 2012, (a) each grant of a Stock Option was duly authorized no later

 

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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 stockholder 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 except for where such failure to so duly execute and deliver would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, (b) each such grant was made in accordance with the applicable terms of the Company Stock Plans, the Exchange Act and all other applicable laws and regulatory rules or requirements, including the rules of the NYSE American and any other exchange on which Company securities are traded, (c) the per share exercise price of each Stock Option was equal to the fair market value of a share of Common Stock on the applicable Grant Date and (d) each such grant was properly accounted for in accordance with GAAP in the financial statements (including the related notes) of the Company and disclosed in the Company’s filings with the Commission in accordance with the Exchange Act and all other applicable laws. The Company has no policy or practice of granting Stock Options prior to, or otherwise coordinating the grant of Stock Options with, the release or other public announcement of material information regarding the Company or Senseonics or their consolidated results of operations or prospects.

 

(xvii)                  Descriptions of the Agreement. This Agreement conforms, in all material respects, to the description thereof contained in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

 

(xviii)              Listing. The Securities have been approved for listing on the NYSE American, subject only to official notice of issuance. The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is listed on the NYSE American and the Company has taken no action designed to, or likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act or delisting the Common Stock from the NYSE American nor is the Company aware that the Commission or the NYSE American is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. The Company has complied in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the NYSE American for maintenance of inclusion of the Common Stock on the NYSE American.

 

(xix)                      Absence of Violations, Defaults and Conflicts. Neither the Company nor Senseonics is (A) in violation of its charter, bylaws or similar organizational document, (B) in default in the performance or observance of any

 

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obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or Senseonics is a party or by which any one of them may be bound or to which any of their respective properties or assets are subject (collectively, “Agreements and Instruments”), except for such defaults that would not, singly or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or (C) in violation of any law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree of any arbitrator, court, governmental body, regulatory body, administrative agency or other authority, body or agency having jurisdiction over the Company or Senseonics or any of their respective properties, assets or operations (each, a “Governmental Entity”), except for such violations that would not, singly or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (including the issuance and sale of the Securities and the use of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities as described therein under the caption “Use of Proceeds”) and compliance by the Company with its obligations hereunder have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company and do not and will not, whether with or without the giving of notice or passage of time or both, conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default or Repayment Event (as defined below) under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any properties or assets of the Company or Senseonics pursuant to, the Agreements and Instruments (except for such conflicts, breaches, defaults or Repayment Events or liens, charges or encumbrances that would not, singly or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect), nor will such action result in any violation of the provisions of the charter, by-laws or similar organizational document of the Company or Senseonics or, except as would not be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect and adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated in this Agreement, any applicable law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree of any Governmental Entity. As used herein, a “Repayment Event” means any event or condition which gives the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by the Company or Senseonics.

 

(xx)                          Absence of Labor Dispute. No labor dispute with the employees of the Company or Senseonics exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent, and the Company is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of any of its principal suppliers, manufacturers,

 

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collaborators, customers or contractors, which, in either case, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(xxi)                      Absence of Proceedings. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or brought by any Governmental Entity (including, without limitation, any action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or brought by the Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”), the European Commission, the European Medicines Agency or any other competent authorities of the Member States of the European Economic Area (collectively, the “EMA”) or any other Health Regulatory Agency (as defined below)) now pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company or Senseonics, which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or which could reasonably be expected to materially adversely affect its properties or assets or the consummation of the transactions contemplated in this Agreement or the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder; and the aggregate of all pending legal or governmental proceedings to which the Company or Senseonics is a party or of which any of their respective properties or assets is the subject which are not described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, including ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(xxii)                  Accuracy of Exhibits. There are no contracts or documents which are required to be described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement which have not been so described in all material respects and filed as required.

 

(xxiii)              Accuracy of Descriptions. The information in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the captions “Description of Capital Stock,” “Description of Debt Securities,” “Description of Warrants,” “Antitakover Effects of Provisions of Charter Documents and Delaware Law” and “Certain Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations” and the information in the Registration Statement under Item 15, in each case to the extent that it constitutes matters of law, summaries of legal matters, summaries of provisions of the Company’s charter or bylaws or other instruments or agreements, summaries of legal proceedings, or legal conclusions, is correct in all material respects; all descriptions in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus of the bylaws and certificate of incorporation of the Company are accurate in all material respects.

 

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(xxiv)               Absence of Further Requirements. No filing with, or authorization, approval, consent, license, order, registration, qualification or decree of, any Governmental Entity is necessary or required for the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, in connection with the offering, issuance or sale of the Securities hereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except such as have been already obtained or as may be required under the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the rules of the NYSE American, state securities laws or the rules of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”). No authorization, approval, vote or other consent of the stockholders or creditors of the Company, including, without limitation, under the rules and regulations of NYSE American, is required for the Company to issue and deliver the Securities to the Underwriter. No waiver or consent under any agreements is required to be made or obtained by the Company or Senseonics in connection with the offering, issuance or sale of the Securities hereunder, except where the failure to obtain such waiver or consent would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(xxv)                   Possession of Licenses and Permits. The Company and Senseonics possess such permits, licenses, approvals, consents and other authorizations (collectively, “Governmental Licenses”) issued by the appropriate Governmental Entities necessary to conduct their respective businesses now operated by each of them, except where the failure so to possess would not, singly or in the aggregate, be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and Senseonics are in compliance with the terms and conditions of all Governmental Licenses, except where the failure so to comply would not, singly or in the aggregate, be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. All of the Governmental Licenses are valid and in full force and effect, except when the invalidity of such Governmental Licenses or the failure of such Governmental Licenses to be in full force and effect would not, singly or in the aggregate, be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor Senseonics have received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any Governmental Licenses which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(xxvi)               Title to Property. The Company and Senseonics have good and marketable title to all real property owned and good title to all other properties owned, in each case, free and clear of all mortgages, pledges, liens, security interests, claims, restrictions or encumbrances of any kind except such as (A) are described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or (B) do not, singly or in the aggregate, if title were so

 

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encumbered, be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; and all of the leases and subleases material to the business of the Company or Senseonics, and under which the Company and Senseonics hold properties described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, are in full force and effect, and neither the Company nor Senseonics have received notice of any material claim of any sort that has been asserted by anyone adverse to the rights of the Company or Senseonics under any of the leases or subleases mentioned above, or affecting or questioning the rights of the Company or Senseonics to the continued possession of the leased or subleased premises under any such lease or sublease.

 

(xxvii)           Possession of Intellectual Property. The Company and Senseonics own or possess, or they reasonably believe they can acquire on reasonable terms, adequate patents, patent rights, licenses, inventions, copyrights, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures), trademarks, service marks, trade names or other intellectual property (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) necessary to carry on the business now operated by each of them, and neither the Company nor Senseonics has received any notice or is otherwise aware of any infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any Intellectual Property or is aware of any facts or circumstances which would render any Intellectual Property invalid or inadequate to protect the interest of the Company or Senseonics therein, and which infringement or conflict (if the subject of any unfavorable decision, ruling or finding) or invalidity or inadequacy, singly or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(xxviii)       FDA Compliance. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, or would not, singly or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and the Subsidiaries: (A) are and at all times have been in compliance with all statutes, rules or regulations of the FDA and other comparable Governmental Entities applicable to the ownership, testing, development, manufacture, packaging, processing, use, distribution, marketing, labeling, promotion, offer for sale, storage, import, export or disposal of any product under development, manufactured or distributed by the Company (“Applicable Laws”); (B) have not received any FDA Form 483, notice of adverse finding, warning letter, untitled letter or other correspondence or notice from the FDA or any Governmental Authority alleging or asserting noncompliance with any Applicable Laws or any licenses, certificates, approvals, clearances, exemptions, authorizations, permits and supplements or amendments thereto

 

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required by any such Applicable Laws (“Authorizations”); (C) possess all Authorizations and such Authorizations are valid and in full force and effect and are not in violation of any term of any such Authorizations; (D) have not received notice of any claim, action, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other action from the FDA or any Governmental Authority or third party alleging any violation of any Applicable Laws or Authorizations and has no knowledge that the FDA or any Governmental Authority or third party is considering any such claim, litigation, arbitration, action, suite, investigation or proceeding; (E) have not received notice that the FDA or any Governmental Authority has taken, is taking or intends to take action to limit, suspend, modify or revoke any Authorizations and have no knowledge that the FDA or any Governmental Authority is considering such action; and (F) have filed, obtained, maintained or submitted all reports, documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims, submissions and supplements or amendments as required by any Applicable Laws or Authorizations and that all such reports, documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims, submissions and supplements or amendments were complete and correct on the date filed (or were corrected or supplemented by a subsequent submission).

 

(xxix)               Environmental Laws. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or would not, singly or in the aggregate, be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (A) neither the Company nor Senseonics is in violation of any applicable federal, state, local or foreign statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code, policy or rule of common law or any judicial or administrative interpretation thereof, including any judicial or administrative order, consent, decree or judgment, relating to pollution or protection of human health, the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata) or wildlife, including, without limitation, laws and regulations relating to the release or threatened release of hazardous chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, hazardous wastes, toxic substances, hazardous substances, petroleum or petroleum products, asbestos-containing materials or toxic mold (collectively, “Hazardous Materials”) or to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials (collectively, “Environmental Laws”), (B) the Company and Senseonics have all permits, authorizations and approvals required under any applicable Environmental Laws for the operation of their respective businesses and are in compliance with their requirements, (C) there are no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of noncompliance or violation, investigations or proceedings relating to any Environmental Law

 

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against the Company or Senseonics, and (D) to the Company’s knowledge, there are no events or circumstances that would reasonably be expected to form the basis of an order for clean-up or remediation, or an action, suit or proceeding by any private party or Governmental Entity, against or affecting the Company or Senseonics relating to Hazardous Materials or any Environmental Laws.

 

(xxx)                   Compliance with ERISA. (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 all material respects 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, except for noncompliance that would not reasonably be expected to result in material liability to the Company or Senseonics; (ii) no prohibited transaction, within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, that would reasonably be expected to give rise to any material liability has occurred with respect to any Plan (excluding transactions effected pursuant to a statutory or administrative exemption) that would reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the Company or Senseonics; (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) no “reportable event” (within the meaning of Section 4043(c) of ERISA) has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur that either has resulted, or could reasonably be expected to result, in material liability to the Company or Senseonics; (v) 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 (vi) 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 that would reasonably be expected to result in material liability to the Company or Senseonics. None of the following events has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur: (x) a material increase in the aggregate amount of contributions required to be made to all Plans

 

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by the Company or Senseonics in the current fiscal year of the Company and Senseonics compared to the amount of such contributions made in the Company and Senseonics’ most recently completed fiscal year; or (y) a material increase in the Company and Senseonics’ “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 Senseonics’ most recently completed fiscal year.

 

(xxxi)               Accounting Controls. The Company and Senseonics maintain a system of internal control over financial reporting (as defined under Rule 13-a15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act) and a system of internal accounting controls designed to provide reasonable assurances that: (A) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (B) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain accountability for assets; (C) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (D) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences; and (E) the interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language 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 described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, since the end of each of the Company’s and Senseonics’ most recent audited fiscal year, there has been (1) no material weakness in the Company’s or Senseonics’ internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) and (2) no change in the Company’s or Senseonics’ internal control over financial reporting that has materially adversely affected, or is reasonably likely to materially adversely affect, the Company’s or Senseonics’ internal control over financial reporting.

 

(xxxii)           eXtensible Business Reporting Language.  The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language 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.

 

(xxxiii)       Disclosure Controls. The Company and Senseonics have established and maintain disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act) designed to provide reasonable assurance that material information relating to the Company and Senseonics is

 

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made known to the principal executive officer and the principal financial officer, and such disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the last date of the most recent fiscal quarter for which the Company has filed a quarterly or annual report with the Commission. The Company and Senseonics have utilized such controls and procedures in preparing and evaluating the disclosures in the Registration Statement, in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus. The Company is not aware of any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

(xxxiv)        Compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Company and its directors and officers, in their capacities as such, are in compliance in all material respects with all applicable provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith applicable to the Company and its directors and officers.

 

(xxxv)            Payment of Taxes. All United States federal income tax returns of the Company and Senseonics required by law to be filed have been filed and all material taxes shown by such returns or otherwise assessed, which are due and payable, have been paid, except assessments against which appeals have been or will be promptly taken and as to which adequate reserves have been provided. The United States federal income tax returns of the Company through the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017 have been settled and no assessment in connection therewith has been made against the Company. The Company and Senseonics have filed all other tax returns that are required to have been filed by any of them or have timely requested extensions thereof pursuant to applicable foreign, state, local or other law except insofar as the failure to file such returns would not be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, and have paid all taxes due pursuant to such returns or pursuant to any assessment received by the Company or Senseonics, except for such taxes, if any, as are being contested in good faith and as to which adequate reserves have been established by the Company or Senseonics and except where failure to pay such taxes would not be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The charges, accruals and reserves on the books of the Company or Senseonics in respect of any income and corporation tax liability for any years not finally determined are adequate to meet any assessments or re-assessments for additional income tax for any years not finally determined, except to the extent of any inadequacy that would not be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(xxxvi)        Insurance. The Company and Senseonics each carry or are entitled to the benefits of insurance with financially sound and reputable insurers,

 

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in such amounts and covering such risks as is generally maintained by companies of established repute and comparable size engaged in the same or similar business, and all such insurance is in full force and effect. The Company has no reason to believe that it or Senseonics will not be able (A) to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such policies expire or (B) to obtain comparable coverage from similar institutions as may be necessary or appropriate to conduct its business as now conducted and at a cost that would not be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor Senseonics has been denied any insurance coverage which it has sought or for which it has applied.

 

(xxxvii)    Investment Company Act. Neither the Company nor Senseonics is required, nor upon the issuance and sale of the Securities as herein contemplated and the application of the net proceeds therefrom as described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus will either be required, to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”).

 

(xxxviii) Absence of Manipulation. None of the Company, Senseonics or, to the Company’s knowledge, any affiliate of the Company has taken, nor will the Company or Senseonics take, directly or indirectly, any action which is designed, or would reasonably be expected, to cause or result in, or which constitutes, the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities or to result in a violation of Regulation M under the Exchange Act.

 

(xxxix)        Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Neither the Company nor Senseonics nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee, affiliate or other person acting on behalf of the Company or Senseonics (A) has used any funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity, (B) has made or taken an act in furtherance of an offer, promise or authorization of any direct or indirect unlawful payment or benefit to any foreign or domestic government or regulatory official or employee, including of any government-owned or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any political party or party official or candidate for political office, (C) is aware of or has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that would result in a violation by such persons of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “FCPA”), the United Kingdom Bribery Act 2010, as amended (the “U.K. Bribery Act”) or any other applicable comparable law (all such laws together with the

 

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FCPA and the U.K. Bribery Act, the “Anti-Corruption Laws”), including, without limitation, making an offer, payment, promise to pay or authorization of the payment of any money, or other property, gift, promise to give, or authorization of the giving of anything of value to any “foreign official” (as such term is defined in the FCPA) or any political party or official thereof or any candidate for political office, in contravention of the Anti-Corruption Laws and the Company and Senseonics, or (D) has agreed, requested or taken an act in furtherance of any unlawful bribe or other unlawful benefit, including, without limitation, any rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful or improper payment or benefit; and the Company and Senseonics have, and to the knowledge of the Company and Senseonics, their affiliates have, conducted their businesses in compliance with the Anti-Corruption Laws and have instituted, maintain and enforce policies and procedures designed to promote and ensure, and which are reasonably expected to continue to promote and ensure, continued compliance therewith.

 

(xl)                             Money Laundering Laws. The operations of the Company and Senseonics are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of all applicable jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any Governmental Entity (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”), in each case, to the extent applicable to the Company and Senseonics; and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any Governmental Entity involving the Company or Senseonics with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.

 

(xli)                         OFAC. Neither the Company nor Senseonics nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee, affiliate, representative or other person acting on behalf of the Company or Senseonics is an individual or entity (“Person”) currently the target of any sanctions administered or enforced by the United States Government (including, without limitation, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and 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 are the Company or Senseonics located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the target of Sanctions (a “Sanctioned Country”); and the Company and Senseonics will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the sale of the Securities, or lend, contribute or otherwise make

 

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available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partners or other Person, to fund any activities of or business with any Person, or in any country or territory, that, at the time of such funding, is the target of Sanctions or in any other manner that will result in a violation by any Person (including any Person participating in the transaction, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise) of Sanctions. For the past five years, the Company and Senseonics have not knowingly engaged in, are not now knowingly engaged in, and will not engage in, any dealings or transactions with any Person that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the target of Sanctions or with any Sanctioned Country.

 

(xlii)                     No Undisclosed Relationships. No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company or Senseonics, on the one hand, and the directors, officers, stockholders, customers or suppliers of the Company or Senseonics, 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 Time of Sale Disclosure Package.

 

(xliii)                 Related Party Transactions. Except (i) to the extent not required to be described or filed pursuant to the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, (ii) as described in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or (iii) for the agreements referred to herein, none of the Company’s or Senseonics’ directors, officers, interest holders, stockholders, members, partners, members of management, other employees or their respective affiliates is a party to any contracts or agreements with the Company or Senseonics.

 

(xliv)                  Lending Relationship. (i) Neither the Company nor Senseonics has any material lending or other relationship with any bank or lending affiliate of the Underwriter and (ii) the Company does not intend to use any of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities to repay any outstanding debt owed to any affiliate of the Underwriter.

 

(xlv)                      Statistical and Market-Related Data. Any statistical and market-related data included in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the Company believes, after reasonable inquiry, to be reliable and accurate in all material respects and, to the extent required, the Company has obtained the written consent to the use of such data from such sources.

 

(xlvi)                  No Rated Securities. Neither the Company nor Senseonics has any debt securities or preferred shares that are rated by any “nationally recognized

 

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statistical rating agency” (as that term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act).

 

(xlvii)              Health Care Authorizations. The Company and Senseonics have submitted and possess, or qualify for applicable exemptions to, such valid and current registrations, listings, approvals, clearances, licenses, certificates, authorizations or permits and supplements or amendments thereto (collectively, “Health Care Authorizations”) issued or required by the appropriate local, state, federal, national, supranational or other foreign regulatory agencies or bodies (collectively, “Health Regulatory Agencies”) necessary to conduct their respective businesses as described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, including, without limitation, all such Health Care Authorizations required by the FDA, the Department of Health and Human Services, the European Commission, the EMA or any other Health Regulatory Agencies engaged in the regulation of medical devices, except as would not be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor Senseonics has received any notice of proceedings, or has any knowledge of any threatened proceedings, relating to the revocation or modification of, or non-compliance with, any such Health Care Authorization, except where such revocation, modification or non-compliance would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(xlviii)          Compliance with Health Care Laws. The Company and Senseonics are, and have been, in compliance with all applicable Health Care Laws, and have not engaged in activities which are, as applicable, cause for false claims liability, civil penalties, or mandatory or permissive exclusion from Medicare, Medicaid or any other state, federal or national health care program, except where such noncompliance, false claims liability or civil penalties would not reasonably be expected to, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect. For purposes of this Agreement, “Health Care Laws” means all health care laws applicable to the Company, including, but not limited to: the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. Section 301 et seq.); the Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7b(b)); the Civil Monetary Penalties Law (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7a); the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7h); the Civil False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. Section 3729 et seq.); the criminal False Claims Law (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(a)); all criminal laws relating to health care fraud and abuse, including, but not limited to, 18 U.S.C. Sections 286 and 287, and the health care fraud criminal provisions under the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) (42 U.S.C. Section 1320d et seq.); the exclusion laws (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7); HIPAA, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical

 

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Health Act (42 U.S.C. Section 17921 et seq.); Medicare (Title XVIII of the Social Security Act), Medicaid (Title XIX of the Social Security Act); any and all other applicable comparable local, state, federal, national, supranational and foreign health care laws and the regulations promulgated pursuant to such laws, each as amended from time to time. Neither the Company nor Senseonics has received written notice of any claim, action, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other action from any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority or third party alleging that any product operation or activity is in material violation of any Health Care Laws, and, to the knowledge of the Company or Senseonics, no such claim, action, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other action is threatened. Neither the Company nor Senseonics has received any written notice of adverse filing, warning letter, untitled letter or other correspondence or notice from the FDA, the European Commission, the EMA or any other Health Regulatory Agencies, or any other court or arbitrator, alleging or asserting material noncompliance with the Health Care Laws. Neither the Company nor Senseonics is a party to or has any ongoing reporting obligations pursuant to any corporate integrity agreements, deferred prosecution agreements, monitoring agreements, consent decrees, settlement orders, plans of correction or similar agreements with or imposed by any governmental or regulatory authority. Additionally, neither the Company nor Senseonics nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any of their respective employees, officers or directors has been excluded, suspended or debarred from participation in any U.S. federal health care program or human research study or trial or, to the knowledge of the Company, is subject to a governmental inquiry, investigation, proceeding, or other similar action that could reasonably be expected to result in debarment, suspension or exclusion.

 

(xlix)                  Research Studies and Trials. (A) The research studies and trials conducted by or, to the Company’s knowledge, on behalf of, or sponsored by, the Company or Senseonics, or in which the Company or Senseonics has participated, that are described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or the results of which are referred to in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, as applicable, were and, if still pending, are being, conducted in all material respects in accordance with applicable experimental protocols, procedures and controls pursuant to, where applicable, accepted professional and scientific standards for products or product candidates comparable to those being developed by the Company or Senseonics and all applicable statutes, rules and regulations of the FDA, the European Commission, the EMA and any other Health Regulatory Agencies to which it is subject; (B) the descriptions of the results of such studies and trials contained in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure

 

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Package or the Prospectus do not contain any misstatement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make such statements not misleading; (C) the Company and Senseonics have no knowledge of any research studies or trials not described in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus the results of which reasonably call into question in any material respect the results of the research studies and trials described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or Prospectus; (D) neither the Company nor Senseonics has received any notices or correspondence from the FDA, the European Commission, the EMA or any Health Regulatory Agency or any institutional review board or comparable authority requiring or threatening the premature termination, suspension, material modification or clinical hold of any research studies or trials conducted by or on behalf of, or sponsored by, the Company or Senseonics or in which the Company or Senseonics have participated that are described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, and, to the Company’s knowledge, there are no reasonable grounds for the same; and (E) there has not been any violation of applicable law or regulation by the Company or Senseonics in any of their product development efforts, submissions or reports to the FDA, the European Commission, the EMA or any other Health Regulatory Agency that could reasonably be expected to require investigation, corrective action or result in enforcement action, except where such violation would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(l)                                    Health Care Products Manufacturing. The manufacture of the Company’s or Senseonics’ products by or, to the knowledge of the Company, on behalf of the Company or Senseonics is being conducted in compliance with all applicable Health Care Laws, including, without limitation, the FDA’s current good manufacturing practice regulations at 21 CFR Part 820, and, to the extent applicable, the respective counterparts thereof promulgated by the European Commission, the EMA or other Health Regulatory Agencies. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor Senseonics has had any manufacturing site (whether owned by the Company or Senseonics or, to the knowledge of the Company, that of a third party manufacturer for the Company’s or Senseonics’ products) subject to an FDA, European Commission, EMA or other Health Regulatory Agency shutdown or import or export prohibition, nor received any FDA, European Commission, EMA or other Health Regulatory Agency “warning letters,” or “untitled letters” alleging or asserting material noncompliance with any applicable Health Care Laws, requests to make material changes to the Company’s or Senseonics’ products, processes or operations, or similar correspondence or notice from the FDA, the European Commission, the EMA or

 

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other Health Regulatory Agency alleging or asserting material noncompliance with any applicable Health Care Laws, other than those that have been satisfactorily addressed and/or closed with the FDA, the European Commission, the EMA or other Health Regulatory Agency. To the knowledge of the Company, none of the FDA, the European Commission, the EMA or any other Health Regulatory Agency is considering such action.

 

(li)                                No Restrictions on Subsidiaries. Except as described in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, Senseonics is not 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 Senseonics’ capital stock or similar ownership interest, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to Senseonics from the Company or from transferring any of Senseonics’ properties or assets to the Company.

 

(lii)                            No Brokers’ Fees. Other than as contemplated by this Agreement, neither the Company nor Senseonics has incurred or will incur any liability for any finder’s or broker’s fee or agent’s commission in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby. Other than in connection with the issuance of the Company’s 5.25% convertible senior subordinated notes due 2023, within the six (6) months prior to the date the Registration Statement was initially filed with the Commission, neither the Company nor Senseonics has made any direct or indirect payments (in cash, securities or otherwise) to (i) any person as a finder’s or broker’s fee, consulting fee or otherwise in consideration of such person raising capital for the Company or introducing to the Company persons who raised or provided capital to the Company, (ii) to any FINRA member, or (iii) to any person or entity that has any direct or indirect affiliation or association with any FINRA member, other than the payment to the Underwriter as provided hereunder in connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder. None of the net proceeds of the transactions contemplated hereunder will be paid by the Company or Senseonics to any participating FINRA member or its affiliates, except as specifically authorized herein.

 

(liii)                        Corporate Governance Compliance; Listing Standards. The Company is in compliance with (i) the applicable corporate governance requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder and (ii) the continued listing standards under the NYSE American Rules, except where the failure to be in compliance would not

 

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reasonably be expected to result in delisting or any suspension of trading or other privileges.

 

(liv)                         Accounting Principles. The section entitled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Critical Accounting Policies and Significant Judgments and Estimates” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017 and incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus truly, correctly and completely describes in all material respects (i) accounting policies which the Company believes are the most important in the portrayal of the Company’s financial position and results of operations and which require management’s most difficult, subjective or complex judgments (“Critical Accounting Policies”), (ii) judgements and uncertainties affecting the application of Critical Accounting Policies, and (iii) the likelihood that materially different amounts would be reported under different conditions or using different assumptions. The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company and management have reviewed and agreed with the selection, application and disclosure of Critical Accounting Policies and management have consulted with the Auditor regarding such disclosure.

 

(lv)                             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 Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus has been made without a reasonable basis or has been disclosed other than in good faith.

 

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

 

3.  PURCHASE, SALE AND DELIVERY OF SECURITIES.

 

(a)                                 On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, but subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, (i) the Company agrees to issue and sell to the Underwriter, and the Underwriter agrees to purchase from the Company, at a purchase price equal to $3.9263 per share, the Firm Shares and (ii) in the event and to the extent that the Underwriter shall exercise the election to purchase Additional Shares as provided below, the Company agrees to issue and sell to the Underwriter, and the Underwriter agrees to purchase from the Company, at the purchase price per share set forth in the paragraph immediately below, that number of Additional Shares as to which such election shall have been exercised.

 

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As referenced in Section 3(a)(ii) above, the Company hereby grants to the Underwriter the option to purchase from the Company up to 4,966,508 Additional Shares, at a purchase price equal to $3.9263 per share. This option may be exercised by the Underwriter at any time (but not more than once) on or before the date that is thirty (30) days following the date hereof, by written notice to the Company. Such notice shall set forth the aggregate number of Additional Shares as to which the option is being exercised, and the date and time when the Additional Shares are to be delivered (such date and time being herein referred to as the “Option Closing Date”); provided, however, that the Option Closing Date shall not be earlier than two full business days after the date on which the option to purchase Additional Shares shall have been exercised nor later than five full business days after the date on which such option shall have been exercised unless the Company and the Underwriter otherwise agree.

 

Payment of the purchase price for and delivery of the Additional Shares shall be made at the Option Closing Date in the same manner and at the same office as the payment for the Firm Shares as set forth in subparagraph (b) below.

 

(b)                                 The Firm Shares will be delivered by the Company to the Underwriter for the Underwriter’s accounts against payment of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer of same day funds payable to the order of the Company, as appropriate, at the offices of BTIG, LLC, 825 Third Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10022, or such other location as may be mutually acceptable, (1) with respect to the Firm Shares, at 8:00 a.m. Pacific time on the second (or if the Firm Shares are priced, as contemplated by Rule 15c6-1(c) under the Exchange Act, after 4:30 p.m. Eastern time, the third) full business day following the date hereof, or at such other time and date as the Underwriter and the Company determine pursuant to Rule 15c6-1(a) under the Exchange Act (such time and date of delivery being herein referred to as the “Closing Date”) and (2) with respect to the Additional Shares, at 8:00 a.m. Pacific time on the Option Closing Date. If the Underwriter so elects, delivery of the Securities may be made by credit through full fast transfer to the account at The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) designated by the Underwriter. Certificates representing the Securities, in definitive form and in such denominations and registered in such names as the Underwriter may request upon at least two business days’ prior notice to the Company, will be made available for checking and packaging not later than 10:30 a.m. Pacific time on the business day next preceding the applicable closing date at the offices of BTIG, LLC, 825 Third Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10022, or such other location as may be mutually acceptable.

 

4.  COVENANTS.

 

(a)                                 During the period beginning on the date hereof and ending on the later of the Closing Date (or the Option Closing Date, if applicable) or such date, as in the opinion of counsel to the Underwriter, the Prospectus is no longer required by law to be delivered (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Securities Act is no

 

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longer required to be provided), in connection with sales by an underwriter or dealer (the “Prospectus Delivery Period”), prior to amending or supplementing the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, the Company shall furnish to the Underwriter for review a copy of each such proposed amendment or supplement, and the Company shall not file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which the Underwriter promptly and reasonably objects in writing.

 

(b)                                 During the Prospectus Delivery Period, the Company shall promptly advise the Underwriter in writing (i) of the receipt of any comments of, or requests for additional or supplemental information from, the Commission, (ii) of the time and date of any filing of any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to any Preliminary Prospectus, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, (iii) of the time and date that any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement becomes effective and (iv) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto or of any order preventing or suspending its use or the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or of any proceedings to remove, suspend or terminate from listing or quotation the Common Stock from any securities exchange upon which it is listed for trading or included or designated for quotation, or of the threatening or initiation of any proceedings for any of such purposes. If the Commission shall enter any such stop order at any time, the Company will use its reasonable efforts to obtain the lifting of such order as soon as reasonably practicable. Additionally, the Company agrees that it shall comply with the provisions of Rules 424(b), 430A and 430B, as applicable, under the Securities Act and will use its reasonable efforts to confirm that any filings made by the Company under Rule 424(b) or Rule 433 were received in a timely manner by the Commission.

 

(c)                                  During the Prospectus Delivery Period, the Company will comply as far as it is able with all requirements imposed upon it by the Securities Act, as now and hereafter amended, and by the Rules and Regulations, as from time to time in force, and by the Exchange Act so far as necessary to permit the continuance of sales of or dealings in the Securities as contemplated by the provisions hereof, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, and the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. If during such period any event occurs as a result of which the Prospectus (or if the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package) would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances then existing, not misleading, or if during such period it is necessary or appropriate in the opinion of the Company or its counsel or the Underwriter or counsel to the Underwriter to amend the Registration Statement or supplement the Prospectus (or if the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package) to comply with the

 

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Securities Act or to file under the Exchange Act any document which would be deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Prospectus in order to comply with the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, the Company will promptly notify the Underwriter and will amend the Registration Statement or supplement the Prospectus (or if the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package) or file such document (at the expense of the Company) so as to correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance.

 

(d)                                 The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to take or cause to be taken all necessary action to qualify the Securities for sale under the securities laws of such jurisdictions as the Underwriter may reasonably designate and to maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution of the Securities, except that the Company shall not be required in connection therewith to qualify as a foreign corporation or as a dealer in securities in any state in which it is not so qualified or to execute a general consent to service of process in any state or to subject itself to taxation in respect of doing business in any state in which it is not otherwise required to be so subject.

 

(e)                                  The Company will furnish to the Underwriter and counsel to the Underwriter, without charge, copies of the Registration Statement, each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and all amendments and supplements to such documents, in each case as soon as available and in such quantities as the Underwriter may from time to time reasonably request.

 

(f)                                   The Company will timely file such reports pursuant to the Exchange Act as are necessary in order to make generally available to its securityholders as soon as practicable an earnings statement for the purposes of, and to provide to the Underwriter the benefits contemplated by, the last paragraph of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act.

 

(g)                                 The Company, whether or not the transactions contemplated hereunder are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, will pay or cause to be paid (A) all filing fees and communication expenses relating to the registration of the Common Stock to be sold hereunder (including the Additional Shares) with the Commission, (B) all filing fees and other expenses (including the reasonable, documented fees and disbursements of counsel to the Underwriter) incurred in connection with qualification of the Common Stock for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Underwriter reasonably designates, (C) costs and expenses related to the review of the offer and sale of the Securities hereunder by FINRA (including all filing fees and the reasonable, documented fees and disbursements of counsel to the Underwriter relating to such review), (D) costs and expenses relating to investor presentations or any “road show” in connection with the offer and sale of the Securities hereunder, including, without limitation, the costs of

 

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recording and hosting on the Internet of the Company’s road show presentation and any travel expenses of the Company’s officers and employees and any other expenses of the Company, (E) fees and expenses incident to listing or continued listing of the Common Stock on the NYSE American and on such other stock exchanges as the Company and the Underwriter together determine, (F) the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Company’s counsel, accountants and other advisors in connection with the offer and sale of the Securities hereunder, (G) expenses incurred in preparing, printing and distributing the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus (including any amendments and supplements thereto) to the Underwriter in connection with the offer and sale of the Securities hereunder, if any, (I) the costs and expenses of a public relations firm selected by the Company in its sole discretion, if any, (J) the costs of preparing, printing and delivering certificates representing the Common Stock, (K) fees and expenses of the transfer agent for the shares of Common Stock, (L) stock transfer and/or stamp taxes, if any, payable upon the transfer of Securities from the Company to the Underwriter, (M) to the extent approved by the Company in writing, the costs associated with post-closing advertising of the offer and sale of the Securities hereunder in the national editions of the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, (N) fees, expenses and disbursements relating to background checks of the Company’s officers and directors in connection with the offer and sale of the Securities hereunder and (O) all other costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder that are not otherwise specifically provided for herein; provided, however, that the maximum amount of fees, costs and expenses incurred by the Underwriter with respect to subparagraphs (A) through (O) above, including, without limitation, the fees, disbursements and expenses of counsel to the Underwriter, that the Company shall be required to pay under this Section 4(g) shall be $50,000, which shall be payable at the closing of the sale of the Firm Shares (or, in the event this Agreement is terminated, within five (5) business days following the presentment to the Company of a written accounting related to the fees and disbursements).

 

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

 

(i)                                    Neither the Company nor Senseonics has taken or will take and, to the Company’s knowledge, none of its or their employees, officers or directors has taken or will take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or which might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, or which has constituted, the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities.

 

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(j)                                    Except as contemplated herein, the Company will not incur any liability for any finder’s or broker’s fee or agent’s commission in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

(k)                                 During the Prospectus Delivery Period, the Company will file on a timely basis with the Commission such periodic and current reports as are required by the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

(l)                                    Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company and Senseonics will maintain such controls and other procedures, including without limitation those applicable to the Company and required by Sections 302 and 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the applicable regulations thereunder, that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the 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, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including its principal executive officer and its principal financial officer, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure, to ensure that material information relating to Company and Senseonics, is made known to them by others within those entities.

 

(m)                             The Company and Senseonics will substantially comply with all effective applicable provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

 

(n)                                 The Company will not, during the period of ninety (90) days from the date of the Prospectus (the “Lock-Up Period”), without the prior written consent of the Underwriter, directly or indirectly offer, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, other than (A) the Company’s sale of the Securities hereunder, (B) the issuance of Common Stock or any equity awards (including the issuance of Common Stock upon exercise or settlement of such equity awards) pursuant to the Company’s employee benefit plans, stock option and employee stock purchase plans or other employee compensation plans as such plans are in existence on the date hereof and described in the Prospectus or under any other equity compensation plan or agreement of the Company duly adopted for such purpose by a majority of the Company’s non-employee directors or a committee comprised of non-employee directors, (C) the issuance of Common Stock pursuant to the vesting or exercises of options, restricted stock units, warrants or rights outstanding on the date hereof and (D) the issuance by the Company of securities pursuant to acquisitions or

 

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strategic transactions approved by a majority of the Company’s disinterested directors, provided that such issuances are not primarily for the purpose of raising capital; provided, in the case of clauses (B) and (C), that if such shares of Common Stock are issued to a director or officer of the Company, such issued shares will be covered by the lock-up agreements executed by such person. The Company will cause each person or entity listed on Schedule III attached hereto to furnish to the Underwriter, prior to the Closing Date, a letter, substantially in the form of Schedule II attached hereto, pursuant to which each such person or entity shall agree, among other things, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in each such letter, not to directly or indirectly offer, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, not to engage in any swap or other agreement or arrangement that transfers, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, the economic risk of ownership of Common Stock or any such securities, during the period of sixty (60) days from the date of the Prospectus, without the prior written consent of the Underwriter. The Company also agrees that during the Lock-Up Period, the Company will not file any registration statement, preliminary prospectus or prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, under the Securities Act for any such transaction or which registers, or offers for sale, Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, except for registration statements on Form S-8 relating to employee benefit plans or prospectus supplements relating to any “at-the-market offering.”

 

(o)                                 The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to maintain the listing of the Common Stock on NYSE American.

 

(p)                                 From the date hereof until the earlier of (i) a date thirty (30) days after the Closing Date and (ii) the Option Closing Date, the Company will not issue press releases, proposed communications with shareholders or other interested constituencies, or other public announcements or engage in any other publicity, without (i) providing the Underwriter and its counsel with advance copies of the same and (ii) permitting the Underwriter and its counsel to comment thereon; provided, however, that ordinary and routine communications not related to the transactions contemplated hereunder or the financial position of the Company may be provided concurrently with their release.

 

(q)                                 The Company and Senseonics will use their commercially reasonable efforts to permit the Securities to be eligible for clearance and settlement through DTC.

 

(r)                                  Prior to the Closing Date, the Company and Senseonics will notify the Underwriter in writing immediately if any event occurs that renders any of the representations and warranties of the Company and/or Senseonics contained herein inaccurate or incomplete.

 

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(s)                                   The Company will take such steps as shall be reasonably necessary to ensure that none of the Company and Senseonics shall become an “investment company” within the meaning of such term under the Investment Company Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

5.                                      CONDITIONS OF THE UNDERWRITER’S OBLIGATIONS. The obligations of the Underwriter hereunder are subject to the accuracy, as of the date hereof and at each of the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date (as if made on the Closing Date or Option Closing Date, as applicable), of and compliance with all representations, warranties and agreements of the Company contained herein (except to the extent any such representations or warranties expressly relate to a specified earlier date, in which case, such representations and warranties shall be true and correct as of such specified earlier date), to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions (except for any obligations or conditions that have been waived by the Underwriter in writing):

 

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

 

(b)                                 Except as contemplated in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus, subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, no Material Adverse Event shall have occurred or shall exist, which is not described in the Time of Sale 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 Underwriter makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Securities on the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, on the terms and in the manner contemplated by this Agreement and the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and Prospectus.

 

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(c)                                  On the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to the Underwriter the opinion and negative assurance letter of Cooley LLP, counsel to the Company and Senseonics, dated the Closing Date and Option Closing Date, respectively, and addressed to the Underwriter, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriter.

 

(d)                                 On the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to the Underwriter the opinion of Rothwell, Fig, Ernst & Manbeck, p.c., intellectual property counsel to the Company, dated the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, respectively, and addressed to the Underwriter, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriter.

 

(e)                                  On the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, there shall have been furnished to the Underwriter the negative assurance letter of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, counsel to the Underwriter, dated the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, respectively, and addressed to the Underwriter, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriter.

 

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

 

(g)                                 On the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, the Underwriter shall have received from the Auditor a letter, dated as of such date, to the effect that it reaffirms the statements made in the Comfort Letter.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

(A)                               each part of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto (including any documents filed under the Exchange Act and deemed to be incorporated by reference into the Prospectus) contain, and contained, when such part of the Registration Statement (or such amendment) became effective, all statements and information required to be included therein, each part of the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereof, does not contain, and did not contain, when such part of the Registration Statement (or such amendment) became effective, any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state, and did not omit to state when such part of the Registration Statement (or such amendment) became effective, any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, does not include and did not include as of its date, or the time of first use within the meaning of the Rules and Regulations, any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state and did not omit to state as of its date, or the time of first use within the meaning of the Rules and Regulations, a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading,

 

(B)                               the Time of Sale Disclosure Package does not include, nor did it include as of the Time of Sale any untrue statement of a material fact or omits, or omitted as of the Time of Sale, to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading,

 

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

 

(D)                               subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, no Material Adverse Event shall have occurred or shall exist.

 

(i)                                    The Underwriter shall have received a letter from FINRA confirming that FINRA has determined to raise no objections with respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements of the offering contemplated hereby.

 

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

 

(k)                                 The Underwriter shall have received the written agreements, substantially in the form of Schedule II attached hereto, of the directors and executive officers of the Company listed on Schedule III attached to this Agreement.

 

(l)                                    The Securities to be delivered on the Closing Date or Option Closing Date, as the case may be, shall have been approved for listing on the NYSE American, subject to official notice of issuance.

 

(m)                             The Underwriter shall have received on and as of the Closing Date and Option Closing Date, as the case may be, satisfactory evidence of the good standing of the Company and Senseonics in their respective jurisdictions of incorporation.

 

(n)                                 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 or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities by the Company; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities by the Company.

 

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(o)                                 At the date of this Agreement, the Underwriter shall have received a lock-up agreement in the form attached hereto as Schedule II signed by the directors, officers and stockholders of the Company listed on Schedule III attached hereto.

 

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

 

6.                                      INDEMNIFICATION AND CONTRIBUTION.

 

(a)                                 The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriter, its affiliates, their respective officers, directors, employees and agents, and each person, if any, who controls the Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act, against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which the Underwriter may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise (including in settlement of any litigation if such settlement is effected with the written consent of the Company), insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (i) an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any amendment or supplement thereto (including any documents filed under the Exchange Act and deemed to be incorporated by reference into the Prospectus), or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and will reimburse the Underwriter for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Underwriter in connection with investigating or defending against such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred (provided that any payment as expenses are incurred shall be reimbursed to the extent it is determined that the recipient was not entitled to payment of such expenses under this Agreement); or (ii) in whole or in part, upon any inaccuracy in or breach of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein; or (iii) in whole or in part, upon any failure of the Company to perform its obligations hereunder or under applicable law; provided, however, that the Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, or any such amendment or supplement, in reliance upon and in conformity with the Underwriter Information.

 

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inquiry or other proceeding arising out of or based upon any statement or omission, or any alleged statement or omission, described in this Section 6(a), it will reimburse the Underwriter on a monthly basis for all reasonable legal fees or other expenses incurred in connection with investigating or defending any such claim, action, investigation, inquiry or other proceeding upon presentation of a written accounting in reasonable detail (but without the need to include the underlying statements or evidence of payment), notwithstanding the absence of a judicial determination as to the propriety and enforceability of the Company’s obligation to reimburse the Underwriter for such expenses and the possibility that such payments might later be held to have been improper by a court of competent jurisdiction. To the extent that any such interim reimbursement payment is so held to have been improper, the Underwriter shall promptly return it to the Company, together with interest, compounded daily, determined on the basis of the prime rate (or other commercial lending rate for borrowers of the highest credit standing) announced from time to time by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (the “Prime Rate”). Any such interim reimbursement payments which are not made to the Underwriter within thirty (30) days of a request for reimbursement shall bear interest at the Prime Rate from the date of such request. This indemnity agreement shall be in addition to any liabilities which they may otherwise have.

 

(b)                                 The Underwriter agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, each of 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 against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which the Company may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise (including in settlement of any litigation, if such settlement is effected with the written consent of such Underwriter), insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any amendment or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any amendment or supplement thereto in reliance upon and in conformity with the Underwriter Information, and will reimburse the Company or any such director, officer or controlling person for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company or any such director, officer or controlling person in connection with investigating or defending against any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action.

 

(c)                                  Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under such

 

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subsection, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve the indemnifying party from any liability that it may have to any indemnified party except to the extent such indemnifying party has been materially prejudiced by such failure. In case any such action shall be brought against any indemnified party, and it shall notify the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate in, and, to the extent that it shall wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party, and after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of the indemnifying party’s election so to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to such indemnified party under such subsection for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation; provided, however, that if, in the sole judgment of the Underwriter, it is advisable for the Underwriter to be represented by separate counsel, the Underwriter shall have the right to employ a single counsel to represent the Underwriter in any claim in respect of which indemnity may be sought by the Underwriter under subsection (a) of this Section 6, in which event the reasonable fees and expenses of such separate counsel shall be borne by the indemnifying party or parties and reimbursed to the Underwriter as incurred (in accordance with the provisions of the second paragraph in subsection (a) above).

 

The indemnifying party under this Section 6 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 party agrees to indemnify the indemnified party against any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense by reason of such settlement or judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by this Section 6, the indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than thirty (30) days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request and (ii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed the indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement, compromise or consent to the entry of judgment in any pending or threatened action, suit or proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity was or could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement, compromise or consent (a) includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such action, suit or proceeding and (b) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

 

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each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in subsection (a) or (b) above, (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriter on the other from the offering of the Securities or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriter on the other in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriter on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering (net of underwriting discounts and commissions but before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriter, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover page of the Prospectus. The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or the Underwriter and the parties’ relevant intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The Company and the Underwriter agree that it would not be just and equitable if contributions pursuant to this subsection (d) were to be determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in the first sentence of this subsection (d). The amount paid by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in the first sentence of this subsection (d) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending against any action or claim which is the subject of this subsection (d). Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (d), the Underwriter shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Securities were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages that the Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.

 

(e)                                  The obligations of the Company under this Section 6 shall be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have and the benefits of such obligations shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each person, if any, who controls the respective Underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act; and the obligations of the Underwriter under this Section 6 shall be in addition to any liability that the

 

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Underwriter may otherwise have and the benefits of such obligations shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each director of the Company (including any person who, with his consent, is named in the Registration Statement as about to become a director of the Company), to each officer of the Company who has signed the Registration Statement and to each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act.

 

(f)                                   The Underwriter confirms and the Company acknowledges that there is no information concerning the Underwriter furnished in writing to the Company by the Underwriter specifically for inclusion in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, or the Prospectus, except for the Underwriter Information.

 

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

 

8.                                      TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT.

 

(a)                                 This Agreement may be terminated in the absolute discretion of the Underwriter, by giving notice to the Company as hereinafter specified at any time at or prior to the Closing Date, if (i) the Company shall have failed, refused or been unable, at or prior to the Closing Date, to perform any material agreement on its part to be performed hereunder, (ii) any condition of the Underwriter’s obligations hereunder is not fulfilled or waived by the Underwriter in writing, (iii) trading of any securities issued or guaranteed by the Company shall have been suspended on any exchange or in any over-the-counter market, (iv) trading in securities generally on any of the NYSE American, the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Global Market or the Nasdaq Global Select Market shall have been suspended, (v) minimum or maximum prices for trading shall have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices for securities (which includes the Company’s Common Stock) shall have been required, on any of the NYSE American, the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Global Market or the Nasdaq Global Select Market or by order of the Commission, FINRA or any other governmental authority having jurisdiction, (vi) a banking moratorium shall have been declared by New York, California or federal authorities, (vii) the Company is in material breach of any of its representations, warranties or covenants hereunder, (viii) the Underwriter shall have become aware after the date hereof, of events that are reasonably expected to result in

 

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(A) a Material Adverse Change, or (B) a material adverse change in general market conditions, in each case, as would make it impracticable or inadvisable, in the Underwriter’s sole judgement, to proceed with the offering, sale and/or delivery of the Securities or to enforce contracts made by the Underwriter for the sale of the Securities, or (ix) an officer or director of the Company: (A) is charged with a felony offense relating to any financial or corporate matter arising from conduct relating to the Company; (B) becomes the subject of a public action or investigation by a governmental body arising from conduct relating to the Company (or such governmental body announces that it intends to take any such action or undertake any such investigation); or (C) is enjoined, suspended or otherwise limited from serving as an officer or director under the federal securities laws. Any such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party except that the provisions of Section 4(g) and Section 6 hereof shall at all times be effective and shall survive such termination.

 

(b)                                 If the Underwriter elects to terminate this Agreement as provided in this Section 8, the Company shall be notified promptly by the Underwriter by telephone, confirmed by letter.

 

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

 

10.                               NOTICES. Except as otherwise provided herein, all communications hereunder shall be in writing and, if to the Underwriter, shall be mailed, delivered or telecopied to BTIG, LLC, 600 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94111 (fax: (212) 593-7576), attention: Capital Markets, with a copy to the Legal / Compliance Department; if to the Company or Senseonics, shall be mailed, delivered or telecopied to Senseonics Holdings, Inc., 20451 Seneca Meadows Parkway, Germantown, MD 20876, attention: Chief Financial Officer, with a copy to Cooley LLP, 11951 Freedom Drive, Reston, VA 20190, attention: Darren K. DeStefano; or in each case to such other address as the person to be notified may have requested in writing. Any party to this Agreement may change such address for notices by sending to the parties to this Agreement written notice of a new address for such purpose.

 

11.                               PERSONS ENTITLED TO BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns and the controlling persons, officers and directors referred to in Section 6. Nothing in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give to any other person, firm or corporation any legal or equitable remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision herein

 

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contained. The term “successors and assigns” as herein used shall not include any purchaser, as such purchaser, of any of the Securities from the Underwriter.

 

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

 

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

 

14.                               INTEGRATION, AMENDMENT. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) between the Company and the Underwriter with respect to the subject matter hereof. No provision hereof may be modified or amended except in a written instrument signed by the Company and the Underwriter.

 

15.                               COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts and, if executed in more than one counterpart, the executed counterparts shall each be deemed to be an original and all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.

 

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

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

 

 

SENSEONICS HOLDINGS, INC.

 

 

 

By:

/s/ R. Don Elsey

 

 

Name: R. Don Elsey

 

 

Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

Confirmed as of the date first above mentioned by the Underwriter.

 

 

 

 

BTIG, LLC

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Charles Mather

 

 

Name: Charles Mather

 

 

Title: Managing Director

 

 

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Schedule I

 

Time of Sale Disclosure Package

 

None.

 



 

Schedule II

 

Form of Lockup Agreement

 

June   , 2018

 

BTIG, LLC

as Underwriter

 

c/o
BTIG, LLC
825 Third Avenue, 6th Floor

 

New York, NY 10022

 

Re:                             Proposed Public Offering by Senseonics Holdings, Inc.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

The undersigned, a stockholder and/or an officer and/or director of Senseonics Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), understands that BTIG, LLC (the “Underwriter”) proposes to enter into an Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with the Company providing for the public offering of common stock (the “Common Stock”) by the Company (the “Offering”). In recognition of the benefit the Offering will confer upon the undersigned as a stockholder and, if applicable, an officer and/or director, of the Company, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the undersigned agrees with the Underwriter that, during the period beginning on the date hereof and ending on the date that is 90 days from the date of the final prospectus supplement filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Lock-Up Period”), the undersigned will not, without the prior written consent of the Underwriter, (i) directly or indirectly, offer, pledge, sell, assign, transfer, lend, 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 any shares of the Company’s Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, whether now owned or hereafter acquired by the undersigned or with respect to which the undersigned has or hereafter acquires the power of disposition (collectively, the “Lock-Up Securities”), or exercise any right with respect to the registration of any of the Lock-Up Securities, or file or cause to be filed any registration statement in connection therewith, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; (ii) enter into any swap, hedge or any other agreement or any transaction that transfers, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, the economic consequence of ownership of the Lock-Up Securities, whether any such swap or transaction is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or other securities, in cash or otherwise; or (iii) engage in any short selling of any Lock-Up Securities.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, and subject to the conditions below, the undersigned may, transfer the Lock-Up Securities, without the prior written consent of the Underwriter:

 



 

(a)                                 provided that (1) the Underwriter receives a signed lock-up agreement for the balance of the Lock-Up Period from each donee, trustee, distributee or transferee, as the case may be, (2) any such transfer shall not involve a disposition for value, (3) with respect to clauses (i) through (v) below, such transfers are not required to be reported with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 4 in accordance with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and (4) the undersigned does not otherwise voluntarily effect any public filing or report regarding such transfers:

 

(i)             as a bona fide gift or gifts or for bona fide estate planning purposes; or

 

(ii)          by will or intestate succession upon the death of the undersigned; or

 

(iii)       to any trust or other entity for the direct or indirect benefit of the undersigned or the immediate family of the undersigned (for purposes of this lock-up agreement, “immediate family” shall mean any relationship by blood, marriage or adoption, not more remote than first cousin), or if the undersigned is a trust, to any beneficiary (including such beneficiary’s estate) of the undersigned; or

 

(iv)      as a distribution to limited partners, general partners, limited liability company members or stockholders of the undersigned; or

 

(v)         to the undersigned’s affiliates or to any investment fund or other entity controlled or managed by the undersigned; or

 

(vi)      by operation of law, including pursuant to a domestic order, a negotiated divorce settlement or other court order; provided that to the extent a filing under the Exchange Act, if any, is required by or on behalf of the undersigned, such filing shall indicate that the filing relates to the circumstances described in this clause (vi); or

 

(b)                                 by exercise of any option or warrant for cash or transfer of Lock-Up Securities to the Company upon a vesting event of the Company’s securities, pursuant to arrangements under which the Company has the option to repurchase such shares or a right of first refusal with respect to transfers of such shares or upon the exercise or conversion of options or warrants to purchase the Company’s securities, in each case, on a “cashless” or “net exercise” basis or to cover tax withholding obligations of the undersigned in connection with such vesting or exercise, provided that (1) any filing under Section 16 of the Exchange Act made during the Lock-Up Period shall clearly indicate in the footnotes thereto that (A) the filing relates to the circumstances described above, and (B) no Lock-Up Securities were sold by the undersigned and (2) the undersigned does not otherwise voluntarily effect any other public filing or report regarding such transfers during the Lock-Up Period; or

 

(c)                                  by any conversion of shares of preferred stock of the Company into shares of Common Stock of the Company, provided that any shares of Common Stock received upon such conversion remain subject to the terms of this lock-up agreement; or

 



 

(d)                                 by transfer of Lock-Up Securities pursuant to a bona fide third party tender offer, merger, consolidation or other similar transaction made to all holders of Lock-Up Securities involving a change of control of the Company approved by the Company’s board of directors, provided that in the event that the tender offer, merger, consolidation or other such transaction is not completed, the Lock-Up Securities owned by the undersigned shall remain subject to the restrictions contained in this lock-up agreement. For purposes of this lock-up agreement, “change of control” means the transfer (whether by tender offer, merger, consolidation or other similar transaction), in one transaction or a series of related transactions, to a person or group of affiliated persons (other than an underwriter pursuant to the Offering), of the Company’s voting securities if, after such transfer, such person or group of affiliated persons would hold more than 50% of the outstanding voting securities of the Company (or the surviving entity).

 

In addition, the restrictions on transfer and disposition of the Lock-Up Securities during the Lock-Up Period shall not apply to the repurchase of Lock-Up Securities by the Company in connection with the termination of the undersigned’s employment or other service with the Company, provided that to the extent a filing under the Exchange Act, if any, is required by or on behalf of the undersigned, such filing shall indicate that the disposition of Lock-Up Securities was made back to the Company in connection with the undersigned’s employment termination.

 

Nothing in this lock-up agreement shall preclude [(A) any sale of Lock-Up Securities pursuant to any contract, instruction or plan in effect on the date hereof meeting the requirements of Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act and (B)] the establishment of a new trading plan meeting the requirements of Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act; provided, that[, in case of (B),] (i) no public report or filing under Section 16 of the Exchange Act shall be required during the Lock-Up Period, (ii) the undersigned does not otherwise voluntarily effect any public filing or report regarding the establishment of such plan during the Lock-Up Period, and (iii) no sales are made during the Lock-Up Period pursuant to such plan.

 

The undersigned also agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the transfer of the Lock-Up Securities except in compliance with the foregoing restrictions. This lock-up agreement shall automatically terminate, and the undersigned shall be released from its obligations hereunder upon the earliest to occur, if any, of (a) July 13, 2018, in the event that the Underwriting Agreement has not been executed by such date (provided, that the Company may by written notice to the undersigned prior to July 13, 2018 extend such date for a period of up to an additional three months), (b) the date the Company notifies the Underwriter in writing prior to the date of execution of the Underwriting Agreement that it does not intend to proceed with the Offering or (c) the date the Underwriting Agreement (other than the provisions thereof that survive termination) shall terminate or be terminated prior to payment for and delivery of the Common Stock to be sold thereunder.

 

The undersigned understands that the Company and the Underwriter are relying upon this lock-up agreement in proceeding toward consummation of the Offering. The undersigned further agrees that this lock-up agreement is irrevocable and shall be binding upon the undersigned’s heirs, legal representatives, successors and assigns.  The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that it has full power and authority to enter into this lock-up agreement.

 



 

This lock-up agreement and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this lock-up agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to the conflict of laws principles thereof.

 

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In witness whereof, the parties hereto have entered into this lock-up agreement as of the date first set forth above.

 

 

Very truly yours,

 



 

Schedule III

 

Persons subject to Lock-Up

 

M. James Barrett, Ph.D.

Stephen P. DeFalco

Steven Edelman, M.D.

R. Don Elsey

Edward J. Fiorentino

Mike Gill

Timothy T. Goodnow, Ph.D.

Mukul Jain, Ph.D.

Peter Justin Klein, M.D., J.D.

Mirasol Panlilio

Douglas S. Prince

Douglas A. Roeder

 

Entities affiliated with New Enterprise Associates, Inc.

 

Entities affiliated with Delphi Ventures