As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 13, 2015

Registration No. 333-207454

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

Amendment No. 2 to

Form F-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

MIMECAST LIMITED

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Not Applicable

(Translation of Registrant’s name into English)

 

 

Bailiwick of Jersey   7372   Not Applicable

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(Primary Standard Industrial

Classification Code Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

Peter Bauer

Chief Executive Officer

CityPoint, One Ropemaker Street, Moorgate

London EC2Y 9AW

United Kingdom

+44 0207 847 8700

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

Mimecast North America, Inc.

480 Pleasant Street

Watertown, MA 02472

+1 781 996 5340

Attention: Peter Campbell

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

Copies to:

 

Mark J. Macenka, Esq.

Michael J. Minahan, Esq.

Goodwin Procter LLP

53 State Street

Boston, MA 02109

Tel: (617) 570-1000

 

Howard Palmer

Taylor Wessing LLP

5 New Street Square

London EC4A 3TW

United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7300 7000

 

Colin J. Diamond, Esq.

Joshua G. Kiernan, Esq.

White & Case LLP

1155 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10036

Tel: (212) 819-8200

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public : As soon as practicable after the effective date of this registration statement.

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box.  ¨

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 

TITLE OF EACH CLASS OF

SECURITIES TO BE REGISTERED

  AMOUNT TO BE
REGISTERED(1)
   

PROPOSED

MAXIMUM OFFERING
PRICE PER SHARE

   

PROPOSED

MAXIMUM

AGGREGATE

OFFERING PRICE(2)

   

AMOUNT OF

REGISTRATION FEE(3)

 

Ordinary shares, nominal value $0.012 per share

    8,912,500      $ 12.00      $ 106,950,000      $ 10,770   

 

(1) Estimated pursuant to Rule 457(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Includes additional shares that the underwriters have the option to purchase to cover over-allotments, if any.
(2) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee.
(3) Previously paid.

 

The Registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until this registration statement shall become effective on such date as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to such Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 


EXPLANATORY NOTE

The sole purpose of this Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333-207454) (the “Registration Statement”) is to file an exhibit to the Registration Statement as indicated in Item 8(a) of Part II of this amendment. No change is made to the preliminary prospectus constituting Part I of the Registration Statement or Items 6, 7, 8(b) or 9 of Part II of the Registration Statement. Accordingly, this amendment consists only of the facing page, this explanatory note, Item 8(a) of Part II, the signature page to the Registration Statement and the filed exhibit.

 

Item 8. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

 

(a)

The following exhibits are filed herewith:

 

Number

  

Exhibit Title

1.1 *    Form of Underwriting Agreement
3.1†    Articles of Association of the Registrant
3.1.1 *    Articles of Association of the Registrant to become effective following the effectiveness of the registration statement
3.2†    Form of Articles of Association of the Registrant to become effective upon closing of this offering
4.1†    Specimen certificate evidencing ordinary shares of the Registrant
4.2†    Subscription and Shareholders’ Agreement, dated September 18, 2012, by and among Mimecast Limited and the other parties thereto
4.2.1†    Shareholders’ Agreement, dated November 5, 2015, by and among the Registrant and the other parties thereto
4.3†    Registration Rights Agreement, dated September 18, 2012, by and among Mimecast Limited and the other parties thereto
4.3.1†    Registration Rights Agreement, dated November 5, 2015, by and among the Registrant and the other parties thereto
5.1 *    Opinion of Mourant Ozannes
10.1†    Form of Indemnification Agreement
10.2†    Underlease, dated August 7, 2013, by and between Mimecast Services Limited and Sands Service Company (No. 2)
10.3†    Lease, dated November 12, 2012, by and between Mimecast North America, Inc. and Farley White Aetna Mills, LLC
10.4†    Agreement of Lease, dated June 24, 2013, by and between Mimecast South Africa (Pty) Ltd and City Square Trading 522 (Pty) Ltd
10.5†    Third Amended and Restated Loan Agreement, dated May 22, 2015, by and among Mimecast Services Limited, Mimecast North America, Inc. and Silicon Valley Bank, as amended
10.5.1 *    Amendment Letter and Confirmation, dated November 13, 2015, by and among Mimecast Services Limited, Mimecast North America, Inc. and Silicon Valley Bank
10.6†    Mimecast Limited 2007 Key Employee Share Option Plan and Form of Share Option Agreement
10.7†    Mimecast Limited 2010 EMI Share Option Scheme
10.8†    Mimecast Limited Approved Share Option Plan and Form of Share Option Certificate
10.9†    Mimecast Limited 2015 Share Option and Incentive Plan
10.10†    Mimecast Limited 2015 Employee Share Purchase Plan
21.1†    Subsidiaries of the Registrant
23.1*    Consent of Mourant Ozannes (included in exhibit 5.1)
23.2†    Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm
24.1†    Power of attorney (included on signature page)

 

* Filed with this amendment
Previously filed


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form F-1 and has duly caused this Amendment No. 2 to the registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in London, United Kingdom, November 13, 2015.

 

MIMECAST LIMITED
By:   /s/ Peter Bauer

Name:

Title:

 

Peter Bauer

Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated:

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/ Peter Bauer

Peter Bauer

  

Chief Executive Officer and Director

(Principal Executive Officer)

  November 13, 2015

*

Peter Campbell

  

Chief Financial Officer and Director

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

  November 13, 2015

*

Neil Murray

   Director   November 13, 2015

*

Christopher FitzGerald

   Director   November 13, 2015

*

Norman Fiore

   Director   November 13, 2015

*

Jeffrey Lieberman

   Director   November 13, 2015

*

Bernard Dallé

   Director   November 13, 2015

*

Hagi Schwartz

   Director   November 13, 2015

 

 

*By:  

/s/ Peter Bauer

  
 

Peter Bauer

Attorney-in-Fact

  

MIMECAST NORTH AMERICA, INC.

Authorized U.S. Representative

 

By:   /s/ Peter Campbell

Name:

Title:

 

Peter Campbell

Chief Financial Officer

Exhibit 1.1

Mimecast Limited

Ordinary Shares, par value $0.01 per share

 

 

Underwriting Agreement

[●], 2015

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Barclays Capital Inc.,

As representatives of the several Underwriters

named in Schedule I hereto,

c/o Goldman, Sachs & Co.

200 West Street

New York, New York 10282-2198

c/o Barclays Capital Inc.

745 Seventh Avenue

New York, New York 10019-6801

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Mimecast Limited, a limited company incorporated under the laws of Jersey (the “Company”), proposes, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, to issue and sell to the Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), an aggregate of [●] ordinary shares, par value $0.01 per share (the “Ordinary Shares”), of the Company (the “Firm Shares”) and, at the election of the Underwriters, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, the Company proposes to sell up to [●] additional Ordinary Shares (the “Company Optional Shares”) and the shareholders of the Company named in Schedule II hereto (the “Selling Shareholders”) propose, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, to sell to the Underwriters an aggregate of [●] additional Ordinary Shares (the “Selling Shareholder Optional Shares” and, together with the Company Optional Shares, the “Optional Shares”). The Firm Shares and the Optional Shares that the Underwriters elect to purchase pursuant to Section 2 hereof are herein collectively called the “Shares”.


Prior to the date hereof, the Company effected a redomiciliation to Jersey (the “Redomiciliation”) by means of a share exchange of all of the shares of Mimecast Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales (the “Predecessor”) for newly issued shares in the Company.

1. (a) The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each of the Underwriters that:

(i) A registration statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333-207454) (the “Initial Registration Statement”) in respect of the Shares has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”); the Initial Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, each in the form heretofore delivered to you, and, excluding exhibits thereto, to you for each of the other Underwriters, have been declared effective by the Commission in such form; other than a registration statement, if any, increasing the size of the offering (a “Rule 462(b) Registration Statement”), filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), which became effective upon filing, no other document with respect to the Initial Registration Statement has heretofore been filed with the Commission; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Initial Registration Statement, any post-effective amendment thereto or the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, has been issued and no proceeding for that purpose has been initiated or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission (any preliminary prospectus included in the Initial Registration Statement or filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(a) under the Act is hereinafter called a “Preliminary Prospectus”; the various parts of the Initial Registration Statement and the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, including all exhibits thereto and including the information contained in the form of final prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof and deemed by virtue of Rule 430A under the Act to be part of the Initial Registration Statement at the time it was declared effective, each as amended at the time such part of the Initial Registration Statement became effective or such part of the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, became or hereafter becomes effective, are hereinafter collectively called the “Registration Statement”; the Preliminary Prospectus relating to the Shares that was included in the Registration Statement immediately prior to the Applicable Time (as defined in Section 1(a)(iii) hereof) is hereinafter called the “Pricing Prospectus”; such final prospectus, in the form first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act, is hereinafter called the “Prospectus”; and any “issuer free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 433 under the Act relating to the Shares is hereinafter called an “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus”); any oral or written communication with potential investors undertaken in reliance on Section 5(d) of the Act is hereinafter called a “Section 5(d) Communication”; and any Section 5(d) Communication that is a written communication within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Act is hereinafter called a “Section 5(d) Writing”;

(ii) No order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus has been issued by the

 

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Commission, and each Preliminary Prospectus, at the time of filing thereof, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and did not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided , however , that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by an Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein or information furnished in writing by a Selling Shareholder expressly for use in the preparation of the answers therein to Items 9(D) and 7(A) of Form 20-F (the “Selling Shareholder Information”);

(iii) For the purposes of this Agreement, the “Applicable Time” is [●] p.m. (Eastern time) on the date of this Agreement; the Pricing Prospectus, as supplemented by those Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses and other documents listed on Schedule III(c) hereto, taken together (collectively, the “Pricing Disclosure Package”), as of the Applicable Time, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus listed on Schedule III(a) or Schedule III(c) hereto does not conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus and each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and each Section 5(d) Writing listed on Schedule III(b) hereto, each as supplemented by and taken together with the Pricing Disclosure Package as of the Applicable Time, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided , however , that this representation and warranty shall not apply to statements or omissions made in an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or Section 5(d) Writing in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by an Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein or the Selling Shareholder Information;

(iv) The Registration Statement conforms, and the Prospectus and any further amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus will conform, in all material respects, to the requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and do not and will not, as of the applicable effective date as to each part of the Registration Statement and as of the applicable filing date as to the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided , however , that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by an Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein or the Selling Shareholder Information;

 

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(v) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the Pricing Prospectus any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental or regulatory action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus; and, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Pricing Prospectus, there has not been any change in the share capital (other than pursuant to the grant or exercise of equity awards under the Company’s plans and the conversion of preferred shares) or long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the general affairs, management, consolidated financial position, consolidated shareholders’ equity or consolidated results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole (a “Material Adverse Effect”), otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus;

(vi) The Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to all real property and good and marketable title to all personal property owned by them without considering Intellectual Property, which is covered in Section 1(a)(xxviii) hereof, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and defects except such as are described in the Pricing Prospectus or such as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its subsidiaries; and any real property and buildings held under lease by the Company and its subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with such exceptions as are not material and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property and buildings by the Company and its subsidiaries;

(vii) The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a limited company in good standing under the laws of the Bailiwick of Jersey, with power and authority (corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Pricing Prospectus, and has been duly qualified as a foreign corporation for the transaction of business and is in good standing under the laws of each other jurisdiction in which it owns or leases properties or conducts any business so as to require such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and each subsidiary of the Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation or other business entity in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation to the extent that the concept of “good standing” is applicable under the laws of such jurisdiction, except where the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;

 

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(viii) The Company and its subsidiaries are not the subject of any bankruptcy or winding up proceedings in any jurisdiction nor, to the knowledge of the Company, have any steps to commence any such proceedings been instigated in any jurisdiction. Without prejudice to the foregoing, to the knowledge of the Company, no application for the property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries to be declared en désastre or for the Company or any of its subsidiaries to make general cession of its property or for its property to be placed under the control of the Royal Court of Jersey has been made. The Company is able to pay its debts as they fall due;

(ix) The Redomiciliation was duly authorized by all necessary action of the board of directors and the shareholders of the Predecessor, the Predecessor, the shareholders of the Company, and the Company. Each shareholder of the Predecessor agreed to exchange its shares of the Predecessor for shares of the Company. The Predecessor and the Company had all necessary corporate power and authority to execute and deliver any agreements, actions, and/or filings necessary to complete the Redomiciliation, and the Redomiciliation did not (A) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, impose any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Predecessor or the Company and any of their respective subsidiaries, or constitute a default under, any material mortgages, indentures, loans, leases, contracts, covenants, plans, insurance policies or other agreements, instruments, arrangements, understandings or commitments, permits, concessions, franchises or licenses (“Contracts”) to which the Predecessor, the Company or any of their respective subsidiaries is a party or by which the Predecessor, the Company or any of their respective subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Predecessor, the Company or any of their respective subsidiaries is subject; (B) result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or by-laws (or similar organizational documents) of the Predecessor, the Company or any of their respective subsidiaries; or (C) result in any violation of any statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental or regulatory agency or body having jurisdiction over the Predecessor, the Company or any of their respective subsidiaries or any of their properties or assets. No consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing or registration with, any court or governmental or regulatory agency or body having jurisdiction over the Predecessor, the Company or any of their respective subsidiaries or any of their properties or assets was required for the consummation of the Redomiciliation, except as were obtained or made as required. The issuance of share capital by the Company in the Redomiciliation was in compliance with all applicable securities laws and was exempt from registration or qualification under the Act, the applicable laws of the Bailiwick of Jersey and the laws of England and Wales;

 

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(x) The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the Pricing Prospectus and all of the issued share capital of the Company, including the Shares to be sold by the Selling Shareholders have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable and conform to the description of the Ordinary Shares contained in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; and all of the issued share capital of each subsidiary of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and (except for directors’ qualifying shares) are owned directly or indirectly by the Company, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims;

(xi) The Shares to be issued and sold by the Company to the Underwriters hereunder have been duly and validly authorized and, when issued and delivered against payment therefor as provided herein, will be duly and validly issued and fully paid and non-assessable and will conform to the description of the Shares contained in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus;

(xii) The issue and sale of the Shares to be sold by the Company and the sale of the Shares by the Selling Shareholders, and the compliance by the Company with this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation by the Company of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, (A) any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, (B) the articles of association, by-laws or similar organizational documents of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or (C) any statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental or regulatory agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their properties, except in the cases of clauses (A) and (C), for such conflicts, breaches or violations as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect or impair the ability of the Company to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and no consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any such court or governmental or regulatory agency or body is required for the issue and sale of the Shares to be sold by the Company and the sale of the Shares by the Selling Shareholders or the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except for the registration under the Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) of the Shares, the approval by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) of the underwriting terms and arrangements, the approval from the Jersey Financial Services Commission (“JFSC”) or the Jersey Registrar of Companies, the approval for listing on the NASDAQ Global Select Market (the “Exchange”) and such consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations or qualifications as may be required under state securities or Blue Sky laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Shares by the Underwriters;

 

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(xiii) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is (A) in violation of its articles of association, by-laws or similar organizational documents or (B) in default in the performance or observance of any material obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties may be bound except in the case of clause (B), for such defaults as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;

(xiv) The statements set forth in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus under the caption “Description of Share Capital”, insofar as they purport to constitute a summary of the Company’s share capital, under the caption “Taxation”, and under the caption “Underwriting”, insofar as they purport to describe the provisions of the laws and documents referred to therein, are accurate, complete and fair in all material respects;

(xv) Other than as set forth in the Pricing Prospectus, there are no legal, governmental or regulatory proceedings pending to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or of which any property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is the subject which, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, would, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and, to the Company’s knowledge, no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated by governmental authorities or threatened by others;

(xvi) The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Shares and the application of the proceeds thereof, will not be an “investment company”, as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”);

(xvii) From the time of initial confidential submission of a registration statement relating to the Shares with the Commission (or, if earlier, the first date on which a Section 5(d) Communication was made) through the date hereof, the Company has been and is an “emerging growth company” as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the Act (an “Emerging Growth Company”);

(xviii) At the time of filing the Initial Registration Statement the Company was not and is not an “ineligible issuer,” as defined in Rule 405 under the Act;

(xix) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company;

(xx) Ernst & Young LLP, who have certified certain financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries, are independent public accountants as required by the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder;

(xxi) The Company maintains a system of internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that is

 

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designed to comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act and has been designed by the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer, or under their supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (it being understood that (i) this subsection shall in no way require the Company to comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 as of an earlier date than it would otherwise be required to so comply under applicable law and (ii) the Company has not performed an assessment of its internal control over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002). The Company is not aware of any material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting;

(xxii) Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the Pricing Prospectus, there has been no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially and adversely affected, or is reasonably likely to materially and adversely affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting;

(xxiii) The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act; such disclosure controls and procedures have been designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company and its subsidiaries is made known to the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer by others within those entities; and such disclosure controls and procedures are effective;

(xxiv) The financial statements (including the related notes thereto) of the Company filed with the Commission as a part of the Registration Statement and included in each of the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Act and present fairly the financial position of the Company as of the dates indicated and the results of its operations and cash flows for the periods specified, and no other financial statements are required to present fairly the financial position of the Company as of the dates indicated and the results of its operations and cash flows for the periods specified; and the other financial information included in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus has been derived from the accounting records of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries and presents fairly the information shown thereby. The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved;

(xxv) None of the Company, any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee, affiliate or other person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has (A) used any corporate

 

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funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity; (B) made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds; (C) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977; (D) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Bribery Act 2010 of the United Kingdom; or (E) made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment;

(xxvi) The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions where the Company and its subsidiaries conduct business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental or regulatory agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of their subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened;

(xxvii) None of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company, or any of its subsidiaries is currently the subject or the target of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. Government, including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”), or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), or is otherwise named on any restricted parties list administered by such authorities, including the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Parties List, Denied Persons List or Entity List, and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering of the Shares hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity (A) 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 subject of Sanctions or (B) 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 or applicable export control laws and regulations administered by BIS or other relevant authorities, including the Export Administration Regulations (collectively, “Export Controls”). Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, for the past five years, the Company and its subsidiaries have not engaged in, and are not now engaged in, any dealings or transactions with any person, or in any country or territory, that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject of Sanctions or Export Controls or would violate Sanctions or Export Controls;

 

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(xxviii) The Company and its subsidiaries own or possess sufficient rights to use all 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 and other intellectual property (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) used in, held for use in or necessary for the conduct of the business now operated by them, except where the failure to own or possess any of the foregoing would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any written notice or claim alleging any infringement, misappropriation, violation of or conflict with any such rights of others, except in each case as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by any party challenging the validity, scope, enforceability or ownership of any Intellectual Property owned by the Company or its subsidiaries, and all Intellectual Property owned by the Company or its subsidiaries is owned solely by the Company or its subsidiaries, is valid and enforceable, and is owned free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, defects or other restrictions. The Company and its subsidiaries have taken reasonable steps in accordance with normal industry practice to maintain the confidentiality of all material trade secrets and confidential information owned, used or held for use by the Company or any of its subsidiaries;

(xxix) The Company and its subsidiaries have complied in all material respects with their respective privacy policies and other legal obligations regarding the collection, use, transfer, storage, protection, disposal and disclosure by the Company and its subsidiaries of personal and user information gathered or accessed in the course of their respective operations, and with respect to all such information, the Company and its subsidiaries have taken the steps reasonably necessary to protect such information against loss and against unauthorized access, use, modification, disclosure or other misuse, and other than as set forth in the Pricing Prospectus, to the knowledge of the Company, there has been no unauthorized access to or other misuse of such information that would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;

(xxx) (A) Each employee benefit plan (each, a “Plan”), within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), for which the Company would have any liability has been maintained in compliance with its terms and the requirements of any applicable statutes, orders, rules and regulations, including but not limited to, ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), except for such noncompliance, as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (B) no prohibited transaction, within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, has occurred with respect to any Plan that would result in material liability to the Company, excluding

 

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transactions effected pursuant to a statutory or administrative exemption; (C) 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, to the knowledge of the Company, reasonably expected to be satisfied in the future (without taking into account any waiver thereof or extension of any amortization period); (D) the fair market value of the assets of each Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA exceeds the present value of all benefits accrued under such Plan (determined based on those assumptions used to fund such Plan); (E) no “reportable event” (within the meaning of Section 4043(c) of ERISA) has occurred or, to the knowledge of the Company, is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA; (F) 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 (G) 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 could reasonably be expected to result in material liability to the Company or its subsidiaries;

(xxxi) The Company and its subsidiaries possess all licenses, permits, certificates and other authorizations from, and have made all declarations and filings with, all governmental and regulatory authorities, required or necessary to own or lease, as the case may be, and to operate their respective properties and to carry on their respective businesses as now or proposed to be conducted as set forth in the Pricing Prospectus (“Permits”), except where the failure to obtain such Permits would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; the Company and its subsidiaries have fulfilled and performed all of their respective obligations with respect to such Permits and no event has occurred which allows, or after notice or lapse of time would allow, revocation or termination thereof or results in any other impairment of the rights of the holder of any such Permit except, in each case, as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;

(xxxii) No person has the right to require the Company or any of its subsidiaries to register any securities for sale under the Act by reason of the filing of the Registration Statement with the Commission, or the issuance and sale of the Shares, other than such rights as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and have been duly satisfied or waived;

(xxxiii) The Company and each of its subsidiaries have filed all federal, state, local and foreign tax returns required to be filed through the date of this Agreement or have requested extensions thereof (except where the failure to file would not,

 

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individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect) and have paid all taxes required to be paid thereon (except for cases in which the failure to file or pay would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, or, except as currently being contested in good faith and for which reserves required by U.S. GAAP have been created in the financial statements of the Company), and no unpaid tax deficiency has been determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries which has had a Material Adverse Effect; neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries have notice or knowledge of any unpaid tax deficiency which is reasonably expected to be determined adversely to the Company or its subsidiaries and would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;

(xxxiv) The Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are ordinary and customary in the businesses in which they are engaged;

(xxxv) The Company is a “foreign private issuer” as defined in Rule 405 under the Act (a “Foreign Private Issuer”);

(xxxvi) No stamp or other issuance of transfer taxes or duties and no capital gains, income or other taxes are payable by or on behalf of the Underwriters, or otherwise imposed on any payments made to the Underwriters, to the Bailiwick of Jersey or to any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by the Company of this Agreement;

(xxxvii) It is not necessary under the laws of the Bailiwick of Jersey that any Underwriter be licensed, qualified or entitled to carry on business in the Bailiwick of Jersey to enable such Underwriter to enforce its respective rights under this Agreement or the performance of the terms and conditions of this Agreement outside of the Bailiwick of Jersey. The Underwriters will not be deemed resident, domiciled, to be carrying on business or subject to taxation in the Bailiwick of Jersey solely by reason of the issuance, acceptance, delivery, performance or enforcement of this Agreement;

(xxxviii) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries or their properties or assets has immunity under the laws of the Bailiwick of Jersey, or U.S. federal or New York state law from any legal action, suit or proceeding, from the giving of any relief in any such legal action, suit or proceeding, from set-off or counterclaim, from the jurisdiction of the courts of the Bailiwick of Jersey, or the U.S. federal or New York state court, from service of process, attachment upon or prior to judgment, or attachment in aid of execution of judgment, or from execution of a judgment, or other legal process or proceeding for the giving of any relief or for the enforcement of a judgment, in any such court with respect to their respective obligations, liabilities or any other matter under or arising out of or in connection herewith; and, to the extent that the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of its properties, assets or revenues may have or may hereafter become entitled to any such right of immunity in any such court in which proceedings arising out of, or relating to the

 

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transactions contemplated by the Agreement, may at any time be commenced, the Company has, pursuant to Section 20 of this Agreement, waived, and it will waive, or will cause its subsidiaries to waive, such right to the extent permitted by law;

(xxxix) Any final judgment for a fixed or determined sum of money rendered by any U.S. federal or New York state court located in the State of New York having jurisdiction under its own laws in respect of any suit, action or proceeding against the Company based upon the Agreement would be declared enforceable against the Company by the courts of the Bailiwick of Jersey, without reconsideration or reexamination of the merits, subject to the restrictions described under the caption “Service of Process and Enforcement of Judgments” in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus;

(xl) The choice of laws of the State of New York as the governing law of the Agreement is a valid choice of law under the laws of the Bailiwick of Jersey and will be honored by the courts of the Bailiwick of Jersey, subject to the restrictions described under the caption “Service of Process and Enforcement of Judgments” in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. The Company has the power to submit, and pursuant to Section 18 of this Agreement, has legally, validly, effectively and irrevocably submitted, to the personal jurisdiction of each New York state and United States federal court sitting in the City of New York and has validly and irrevocably waived any objection to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding brought in such court;

(xli) Subject to the qualifications and assumptions set forth in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and based on the Company’s current projected income, assets and activities, the Company does not expect that it will be classified as a passive foreign investment company (a “PFIC”), as defined in section 1297 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, for the taxable year ending December 31, 2015;

(xlii) The legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility into evidence of any of the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, this Agreement or the Shares in any jurisdiction in which the Company is organized or does business is not dependent upon such document being submitted into, filed or recorded with any court or other authority in any such jurisdiction on or before the date hereof or that any tax, imposition or charge be paid in any such jurisdiction on or in respect of any such document;

(xliii) The Company has no employees in Jersey and is therefore not required to have a license to operate its undertaking under the Control of Housing and Work (Jersey) Law 2012;

(xliv) The Company is not resident for tax purposes in Jersey and the Company is not be liable to Jersey income tax other than on Jersey source income (except where such income is exempted from income tax pursuant to the Income Tax (Jersey) Law 1961, as amended);

 

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(xlv) The Company is and always has been an international services entity (as defined in the Goods and Services Tax (Jersey) Law 2007);

(xlvi) The Company has submitted a prospectus (the “Jersey Prospectus”) to JFSC within the time periods required under the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991, as amended, the Companies (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 2002, as amended and the Control of Borrowing (Jersey) Order 1958, as amended (the “Jersey Companies Law”). As of the time of its initial availability and as of the time of its filing with JFSC, the Jersey Prospectus (a) conformed in all material respects with any and all applicable laws, regulations, directives, statutes, subordinate legislation, customary and common law and civil codes, including, but not limited to, the Jersey Companies Law and (b) contains all such material information as an investor in the Shares would reasonably require to enable the investor to make an informed judgment about the merits of investing in the Shares to which the Jersey Prospectus relates but does not contain any untrue or misleading statement or the omission of a statement of a material fact likely to affect its import. No order preventing or suspending the use or, or, requiring any amendment to, the Jersey Prospectus has been issued by any Jersey authority; and

(xlvii) All documents which are required to have been delivered by the Company to the Registrar of Companies in Jersey have been so properly delivered.

(b) Each of the Selling Shareholders severally represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each of the Underwriters and the Company that:

(i) All consents, approvals, authorizations and orders necessary for the execution and delivery by such Selling Shareholder of this Agreement and the Power of Attorney and Paying Agent Agreement hereinafter referred to (the “Power of Attorney and Paying Agent Agreement”), and for the sale and delivery of the Shares to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder, have been obtained; and such Selling Shareholder has full right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement, the Power of Attorney and Paying Agent Agreement and to sell, assign, transfer and deliver the Shares to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder;

(ii) The sale of the Shares to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder and the compliance by such Selling Shareholder with this Agreement, the Power of Attorney and Paying Agent Agreement and the consummation of the transactions herein and therein contemplated will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument to which such Selling Shareholder is a party or by which such Selling Shareholder is bound or to which any of the property or assets of such Selling Shareholder is subject, nor will such action result in any violation of the deed of trust or other governing documents of any Selling Shareholder that is a trust or any statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over such Selling Shareholder or any property or assets of such

 

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Selling Shareholder, except in each case where such breach, violation or default as would not impair the consummation of such Selling Shareholder’s obligations under this Agreement or the Power of Attorney and Paying Agent Agreement; and no consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any such court or governmental body or agency is required for the performance by such Selling Shareholder of its obligations under this Agreement, the Power of Attorney and Paying Agent Agreement and the consummation by such Selling Shareholder of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Power of Attorney and Paying Agent Agreement in connection with the Shares to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder, except the registration under the Act of the Shares, the approval by FINRA of the underwriting terms and arrangements and such consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations or qualifications as may be required under state securities or Blue Sky laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Shares by the Underwriters;

(iii) Such Selling Shareholder has, and immediately prior to the Time of Delivery (as defined in Section 4 hereof) such Selling Shareholder will have, good and valid title to the Shares to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims; and, upon delivery of such Shares and payment therefor pursuant hereto, good and valid title to such Shares, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims, will pass to the several Underwriters;

(iv) On or prior to the date of the Pricing Prospectus, such Selling Shareholder has executed and delivered to the Underwriters an agreement substantially in the form of Annex IV hereto;

(v) Such Selling Shareholder has not taken and will not take, directly or indirectly, any action that is designed to or that has constituted or might reasonably be expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Shares;

(vi) To the extent that any statements or omissions made in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto are made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Selling Shareholder pursuant to Items 9(D) and 7(A) of Form 20-F expressly for use therein, such Registration Statement and Preliminary Prospectus did, and the Prospectus and any further amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus will, when they become effective or are filed with the Commission, as the case may be, conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading;

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with respect to the transactions herein contemplated, such Selling Shareholder will deliver to you prior to or at the Time of Delivery a properly completed and executed United States Treasury Department Form W-9 (or other applicable form or statement specified by Treasury Department regulations in lieu thereof);

(viii) The Shares to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder are subject to the Power of Attorney and Paying Agent Agreement relating to such Shares, in the form heretofore furnished to you, duly executed and delivered by such Selling Shareholder to Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as transfer agent and registrar. Each such Selling Shareholder has duly executed and delivered the Power of Attorney and Paying Agent Agreement, appointing the person or persons indicated in Schedule II hereto, and each of them, as such Selling Shareholder’s attorneys-in-fact (the “Attorneys-in-Fact” or any one of them the “Attorney-in Fact”) with authority to execute and deliver this Agreement on behalf of such Selling Shareholder, to determine the purchase price to be paid by the Underwriters to the Selling Shareholders as provided in Section 2 hereof, to authorize the delivery of the Shares to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder and otherwise to act on behalf of such Selling Shareholder in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Power of Attorney and Paying Agent Agreement;

(ix) Each such Selling Shareholder specifically agrees that the Shares are subject to the interests of the Underwriters hereunder; the arrangements made by such Selling Shareholder pursuant to the Power of Attorney and Paying Agent Agreement, and the appointment by such Selling Shareholder of the Attorneys-in-Fact by the Power of Attorney and Paying Agent Agreement, are to that extent irrevocable; the obligations of the Selling Shareholders hereunder shall not be terminated by operation of law, whether by the death or incapacity of any individual Selling Shareholder or, in the case of an estate or trust, by the death or incapacity of any executor or trustee or the termination of such estate or trust, or by the occurrence of any other event; if any individual Selling Shareholder or any such executor or trustee should die or become incapacitated, or if any such estate or trust should be terminated, or if any other such event should occur, before the delivery of the Shares to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder, such Shares shall be delivered by or on behalf of the Selling Shareholders in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement and of the Powers of Attorney and Paying Agent Agreements, and actions taken by the Attorneys-in-Fact pursuant to the Powers of Attorney and Paying Agent Agreements shall be as valid as if such death, incapacity, termination or other event had not occurred, regardless of whether or not the Paying Agent, the Attorneys-in-Fact, or any of them, shall have received notice of such death, incapacity, termination or other event;

(x) Such Selling Shareholder is not prompted to sell its Shares pursuant to this Agreement by any material non-public information concerning the Company or any of its subsidiaries that is not disclosed in the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus;

 

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(xi) No stamp or other issuance of transfer taxes or duties and no capital gains, income or other taxes are payable by or on behalf of the Underwriters, or otherwise imposed on any payments made to the Underwriters, to the Bailiwick of Jersey or to any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by the Selling Shareholders of this Agreement;

(xii) None of the Selling Shareholders or their properties or assets has immunity under the laws of the Bailiwick of Jersey, or U.S. federal or New York state law from any legal action, suit or proceeding, from the giving of any relief in any such legal action, suit or proceeding, from set-off or counterclaim, from the jurisdiction of the courts of the Bailiwick of Jersey, or the U.S. federal or New York state court, from service of process, attachment upon or prior to judgment, or attachment in aid of execution of judgment, or from execution of a judgment, or other legal process or proceeding for the giving of any relief or for the enforcement of a judgment, in any such court with respect to their respective obligations, liabilities or any other matter under or arising out of or in connection herewith; and, to the extent that the Selling Shareholders or any of their properties, assets or revenues may have or may hereafter become entitled to any such right of immunity in any such court in which proceedings arising out of, or relating to the transactions contemplated by the Agreement, may at any time be commenced, the Selling Shareholders have, pursuant to Section 20 of this Agreement, waived, and will waive, such right to the extent permitted by law;

(xiii) Any final judgment for a fixed or determined sum of money rendered by any U.S. federal or New York state court located in the State of New York having jurisdiction under its own laws in respect of any suit, action or proceeding against the Selling Shareholders based upon the Agreement would be declared enforceable against the Selling Shareholders by the courts of the Bailiwick of Jersey, without reconsideration or reexamination of the merits, subject to the restrictions described under the caption “Service of Process and Enforcement of Judgments” in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; and

(xiv) The choice of laws of the State of New York as the governing law of the Agreement is a valid choice of law under the laws of the Bailiwick of Jersey and will be honored by the courts of the Bailiwick of Jersey, subject to the restrictions described under the caption “Service of Process and Enforcement of Judgments” in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. The Selling Shareholders have the power to submit, and pursuant to Section 18 of this Agreement, have legally, validly, effectively and irrevocably submitted, to the personal jurisdiction of each New York state and United States federal court sitting in the City of New York and has validly and irrevocably waived any objection to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding brought in such court.

 

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2. Subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, (a) the Company agrees to issue and sell to each of the Underwriters, and each of the Underwriters agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company at a purchase price per share of $[●], the number of Firm Shares set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule I hereto and (b) in the event and to the extent that the Underwriters shall exercise the election to purchase Optional Shares as provided below, the Company and the Selling Shareholders agree, as and to the extent indicated in Schedule II hereto agree, severally and not jointly, to sell to each of the Underwriters, and each of the Underwriters agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company and each of the Selling Shareholders, at the purchase price per share set forth in clause (a) of this Section 2, that portion of the number of Optional Shares as to which such election shall have been exercised (to be adjusted by you so as to eliminate fractional shares) determined by multiplying such number of Optional Shares by a fraction, the numerator of which is the maximum number of Optional Shares which such Underwriter is entitled to purchase as set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule I hereto and the denominator of which is the maximum number of Optional Shares that all of the Underwriters are entitled to purchase hereunder.

The Company and the Selling Shareholders, as and to the extent indicated in Schedule II hereto, hereby grant, severally and not jointly, to the Underwriters the right to purchase at their election up to [●] Optional Shares, at the purchase price per share set forth in the paragraph above, for the sole purpose of covering sales of shares in excess of the number of Firm Shares, provided that the purchase price per Optional Share shall be reduced by an amount per share equal to any dividends or distributions declared by the Company and payable on the Firm Shares but not payable on the Optional Shares. Any such election to purchase Optional Shares shall be made in proportion to the maximum number of Optional Shares to be sold by the Company and all Selling Shareholders as set forth in Schedule II hereto initially with respect to the Optional Shares to be sold by the Selling Shareholders in proportion to the maximum number of Optional Shares to be sold by each Selling Shareholder as set forth in Schedule II hereto and then the Company. Any such election to purchase Optional Shares may be exercised only by written notice from you to the Company and the Attorneys-in-Fact, given within a period of 30 calendar days after the date of this Agreement, setting forth the aggregate number of Optional Shares to be purchased and the date on which such Optional Shares are to be delivered, as determined by you but in no event earlier than the First Time of Delivery (as defined in Section 4 hereof) or, unless you and the Company and the Attorneys-in-Fact otherwise agree in writing, earlier than two or later than ten business days after the date of such notice.

3. Upon the authorization by you of the release of the Firm Shares, the several Underwriters propose to offer the Firm Shares for sale upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus.

 

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4. (a) The Shares to be purchased by each Underwriter hereunder, in definitive form, and in such authorized denominations and registered in such names as Goldman, Sachs & Co. may request upon at least forty-eight hours’ prior notice to the Company and/or the Selling Shareholders shall be delivered by or on behalf of the Company and/or the Selling Shareholders to Goldman, Sachs & Co., through the facilities of the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), for the account of such Underwriter, against payment by or on behalf of such Underwriter of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer of Federal (same-day) funds to the account(s) specified by the Company and/or the Attorneys-in-Fact with respect to Shares to be sold by the Selling Shareholders to Goldman, Sachs & Co. at least forty-eight hours in advance. The Company and/or the Selling Shareholders will cause the certificates representing the Shares to be made available for checking and packaging at least twenty-four hours prior to the Time of Delivery (as defined below) with respect thereto at the office of DTC or its designated custodian (the “Designated Office”). The time and date of such delivery and payment shall be, with respect to the Firm Shares, [●] a.m., New York City time, on [●], 2015 or such other time and date as Goldman, Sachs & Co. and the Company may agree upon in writing, and, with respect to the Optional Shares, [●] a.m., New York City time, on the date specified by Goldman, Sachs & Co. in each written notice given by Goldman, Sachs & Co. of the Underwriters’ election to purchase such Optional Shares, or such other time and date as Goldman, Sachs & Co., the Company and the Attorneys-in-Fact may agree upon in writing. Such time and date for delivery of the Firm Shares is herein called the “First Time of Delivery”, each such time and date for delivery of the Optional Shares, if not the First Time of Delivery, is herein called the “Second Time of Delivery”, and each such time and date for delivery is herein called a “Time of Delivery”.

(b) The documents to be delivered at each Time of Delivery by or on behalf of the parties hereto pursuant to Section 8 hereof, including the cross receipt for the Shares and any additional documents requested by the Underwriters pursuant to Section 8(n) hereof, will be delivered at the offices of the Underwriters’ counsel: White & Case LLP, 1155 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036 (the “Closing Location”), and the Shares will be delivered at the Designated Office, all at such Time of Delivery. A meeting will be held at the Closing Location at [●] p.m., New York City time, on the New York Business Day next preceding such Time of Delivery, at which meeting the final drafts of the documents to be delivered pursuant to the preceding sentence will be available for review by the parties hereto. For the purposes of this Section 4, “New York Business Day” shall mean each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in New York City are generally authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.

5. The Company agrees with each of the Underwriters:

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close of business on the second business day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement, or, if applicable, such earlier time as may be required by Rule 430A(a)(3) under the Act; to make no further amendment or any supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus prior to the last Time of Delivery which shall be disapproved by you promptly after reasonable notice thereof; to advise you, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the time when any amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus has been filed and to furnish you with copies thereof; to file promptly all material required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act; to advise you, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the issuance by the Commission or JFSC of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or other prospectus in respect of the Shares, of the suspension of the qualification of the Shares for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose, or of any request by the Commission or JFSC for the amending or supplementing of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or other prospectus or for additional information; and, in the event of the issuance of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or other prospectus or suspending any such qualification, to promptly use its best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of such order;

(b) Promptly from time to time to take such action as you may reasonably request to qualify the Shares for offering and sale under the securities laws of such jurisdictions as you may request and to comply with such laws so as to permit the continuance of sales and dealings therein in such jurisdictions for as long as may be necessary to complete the distribution of the Shares, provided that in connection therewith the Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction or subject itself to taxation in any jurisdiction in which it is otherwise not subject to taxation on the date hereof;

(c) Prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the New York Business Day next succeeding the date of this Agreement (or such later time as may be agreed to by the Company and Goldman, Sachs & Co.) and from time to time, to furnish the Underwriters with written and electronic copies of the Prospectus in New York City in such quantities as you may reasonably request, and, if the delivery of a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Act) is required at any time prior to the expiration of nine months after the time of issue of the Prospectus in connection with the offering or sale of the Shares and if at such time any event shall have occurred as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made when such Prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Act) is delivered, not misleading, or, if for any other reason it shall be necessary during such same

 

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period to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to comply with the Act, to notify you and upon your request to prepare and furnish without charge to each Underwriter and to any dealer in securities as many written and electronic copies as you may from time to time reasonably request of an amended Prospectus or a supplement to the Prospectus which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance; and in case any Underwriter is required to deliver a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Act) in connection with sales of any of the Shares at any time nine months or more after the time of issue of the Prospectus, upon your request but at the expense of such Underwriter, to prepare and deliver to such Underwriter as many written and electronic copies as you may request of an amended or supplemented Prospectus complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Act;

(d) To make generally available to its securityholders as soon as practicable, but in any event not later than sixteen months after the effective date of the Registration Statement (as defined in Rule 158(c) under the Act), an earnings statement of the Company and its subsidiaries (which need not be audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (including, at the option of the Company, Rule 158);

(e) (1) During the period beginning from the date hereof and continuing to and including the date 180 days after the date of the Prospectus (the “Lock-Up Period”), not to (i) offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, make any short sale or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, or, except in the case of a registration statement on Form S-8, file with the Commission a registration statement under the Act relating to any securities of the Company that are substantially similar to the Shares, including but not limited to any options or warrants to purchase Ordinary Shares or any securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, Ordinary Shares or any such substantially similar securities, or publicly disclose the intention to make any offer, sale, pledge, disposition or filing or (ii) enter into any swap or other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Ordinary Shares or any such other securities, whether any such transaction described in clause (i) or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of Ordinary Shares or such other securities, in cash or otherwise (other than (A) the Shares to be sold hereunder, (B) pursuant to employee share option plans existing on, or upon the conversion or exchange of convertible or exchangeable securities outstanding as of, the date of this Agreement or as otherwise disclosed in the Pricing Disclosure Package, (C) in connection with the acquisition by the Company or any of its subsidiaries of the securities, business, property or other assets of another person or entity or pursuant to an employee benefit plan assumed by the Company in connection with such acquisition, (D) in connection with the Company’s joint ventures, commercial relationships, equipment leasing, debt financing or other commercial transactions; provided that in the case of clauses (C) and (D), the aggregate number of ordinary shares that the Company may sell or issue shall not

 

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exceed 5% of the total number of shares outstanding immediately following the completion of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and provided further that the Company shall cause each recipient of such securities to execute and deliver to you an agreement in form and substance similar to the lock-up letter described in Section 8(m) hereof), without the consent of Goldman, Sachs & Co.;

(e) (2) If Goldman, Sachs & Co., in its sole discretion, agrees to release or waive the restrictions set forth in the lock-up letter described in Section 8(m) hereof for an officer or director of the Company and provides the Company with notice of the impending release or waiver at least three business days before the effective date of the release or waiver, the Company agrees to announce the impending release or waiver by a press release substantially in the form of Annex III hereto through a major news service at least two business days before the effective date of the release or waiver;

(f) During a period of three years from the effective date of the Registration Statement (so long as the Company is subject to the reporting requirements of either Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act), to furnish to its shareholders as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year an annual report (including a balance sheet and statements of income, shareholders’ equity and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries certified by independent public accountants) and, as soon as practicable after the end of each of the first three quarters of each fiscal year (beginning with the fiscal quarter ending after the effective date of the Registration Statement), to make available to its shareholders consolidated summary financial information of the Company and its subsidiaries for such quarter in reasonable detail, provided that no reports, documents or other information need to be furnished pursuant to this Section 5(f) to the extent they are available on EDGAR;

(g) During a period of three years from the effective date of the Registration Statement (so long as the Company is subject to the reporting requirements of either Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act), to furnish to you copies of all reports or other communications (financial or other) furnished to shareholders, and to deliver to you (i) as soon as they are available, copies of any reports and financial statements furnished to or filed with the Commission or any national securities exchange on which any class of securities of the Company is listed; and (ii) such additional information concerning the business and financial condition of the Company as you may from time to time reasonably request (such financial statements to be on a consolidated basis to the extent the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries are consolidated in reports furnished to its shareholders generally or to the Commission); provided that no reports, statements communicating or other information need be furnished pursuant to this Section 5(g) to the extent they are available on EDGAR.

 

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(h) To use the net proceeds received by it from the sale of the Shares pursuant to this Agreement in the manner specified in the Pricing Prospectus under the caption “Use of Proceeds”;

(i) To use its best efforts to list, subject to notice of issuance, the Shares on the Exchange;

(j) To file with the Commission such information on Form 20-F as may be required by Rule 463 under the Act;

(k) If the Company elects to rely upon Rule 462(b), the Company shall file a Rule 462(b) Registration Statement with the Commission in compliance with Rule 462(b) by 10:00 p.m., Washington, D.C. time, on the date of this Agreement, and the Company shall at the time of filing either pay to the Commission the filing fee for the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement or give irrevocable instructions for the payment of such fee pursuant to Rule 3a(c) of the Commission’s Informal and Other Procedures (16 CFR 202.3a);

(l) Upon request of any Underwriter, to furnish, or cause to be furnished, to such Underwriter an electronic version of the Company’s trademarks, servicemarks and corporate logo for use on the website, if any, operated by such Underwriter for the purpose of facilitating the on-line offering of the Shares (the “License”); provided, however , that the License shall be used solely for the purpose described above, is granted without any fee and may not be assigned or transferred;

(m) To promptly notify you if the Company ceases to be an Emerging Growth Company or a Foreign Private Issuer at any time prior to the later of (i) completion of the distribution of the Shares within the meaning of the Act and (ii) completion of the Lock-Up Period referred to in Section 5(e)(1);

6. (a) The Company represents and agrees that, without the prior consent of Goldman, Sachs & Co., it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Shares that would constitute a “free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 405 under the Act; each Selling Shareholder represents and agrees that, without the prior consent of the Company and Goldman, Sachs & Co., it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Shares that would constitute a free writing prospectus; and each Underwriter represents and agrees that, without the prior consent of the Company and Goldman, Sachs & Co., it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Shares that would constitute a free writing prospectus; any such free writing prospectus the use of which has been consented to by the Company and Goldman, Sachs & Co. is listed on Schedule III(a) or Schedule III(c) hereto;

(b) The Company represents and agrees that (i) it has not engaged in, or authorized any other person to engage in, any Section 5(d) Communications, other than Section 5(d) Communications with the prior consent of Goldman, Sachs & Co. with entities that are qualified institutional buyers as defined in Rule 144A under the

 

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Act or institutions that are accredited investors as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Act; and (ii) it has not distributed, or authorized any other person to distribute, any Section 5(d) Writings, other than those distributed with the prior consent of Goldman, Sachs & Co. that are listed on Schedule III(b) hereto; and the Company reconfirms that the Underwriters have been authorized to act on its behalf in engaging in Section 5(d) Communications;

(c) The Company has complied and will comply with the requirements of Rule 433 under the Act applicable to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including timely filing with the Commission or retention where required and legending; and the Company represents that it has satisfied and agrees that it will satisfy the conditions under Rule 433 under the Act to avoid a requirement to file with the Commission any electronic road show;

(d) Each Underwriter represents and agrees that any Section 5(d) Communications undertaken by it were with entities that are qualified institutional buyers as defined in Rule 144A under the Act or institutions that are accredited investors as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Act and it will not distribute, or authorize any other person to distribute, any Section 5(d) Writing, other than those distributed with the prior consent of the Company; and

(e) The Company agrees that if at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or Section 5(d) Writing any event occurred or occurs as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or Section 5(d) Writing would conflict with the information in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances then prevailing, not misleading, the Company will give prompt notice thereof to Goldman, Sachs & Co. and, if requested by Goldman, Sachs & Co., will prepare and furnish without charge to each Underwriter an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, Section 5(d) Writing or other document which will correct such conflict, statement or omission; provided , however , that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions in an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by an Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein or the Selling Shareholder Information.

7. The Company and each of the Selling Shareholders covenant and agree with one another and with the several Underwriters that the Company will pay or cause to be paid the following: (a) (i) the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Company’s counsel and accountants and counsel to the Selling Shareholders in connection with the registration of the Shares under the Act and all other expenses in connection with the preparation, printing, reproduction and filing of the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing

 

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Prospectus and the Prospectus and amendments and supplements thereto, except for the mailing and delivering of copies thereof beyond initial distribution directly to the Underwriters; (ii) the cost of printing or producing any Agreement among Underwriters, this Agreement, the Blue Sky Memorandum, if any, closing documents (including any compilations thereof) and any other documents in connection with the offering, purchase, sale and delivery of the Shares; (iii) all expenses in connection with the qualification of the Shares for offering and sale under state securities laws as provided in Section 5(b) hereof, including the reasonable and documented fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with such qualification and in connection with the Blue Sky survey not to exceed $10,000; (iv) all fees and expenses in connection with listing the Shares on the Exchange; (v) the filing fees incident to, and the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with, any required review by FINRA of the terms of the sale of the Shares, provided that such fees and disbursements of counsel shall not exceed $25,000; (vi) the cost of preparing share certificates, if applicable; (vii) the cost and charges of any transfer agent or registrar; (viii) all expenses incurred by the Company in connection with any “road show” presentation to potential investors ( provided that the cost of any aircraft chartered for the road show shall be borne 50% by the Underwriters); and (ix) all other costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder which are not otherwise specifically provided for in this Section; and (b) each Selling Shareholder will pay or cause to be paid all costs and expenses incident to the performance of such Selling Shareholder’s obligations hereunder which are not otherwise specifically provided as to be paid for by the Company in this Section or otherwise agreed to be paid for by the Company, including all expenses and taxes incident to the sale and delivery of the Shares to be sold by such Selling Shareholder to the Underwriters hereunder. In connection with clause (b) of the preceding sentence, Goldman, Sachs & Co. agrees to pay New York State stock transfer tax, and the Selling Shareholder agrees to reimburse Goldman, Sachs & Co. for associated carrying costs if such tax payment is not rebated on the day of payment and for any portion of such tax payment not rebated. It is understood, however, that the Company shall bear, and the Selling Shareholders shall not be required to pay or to reimburse the Company for, the cost of any other matters not directly relating to the sale and purchase of the Shares pursuant to this Agreement, and that except as provided in this Section, and Sections 9 and 12 hereof, the Underwriters will pay all of their own costs and expenses, including the fees of their counsel, stock transfer taxes on resale of any of the Shares by them, and any advertising expenses connected with any offers they may make.

 

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8. The obligations of the Underwriters hereunder, as to the Shares to be delivered at each Time of Delivery, shall be subject, in their discretion, to the condition that all representations and warranties and other statements of the Company and the Selling Shareholders herein are, at and as of such Time of Delivery, true and correct, the condition that the Company and the Selling Shareholders shall have performed all of its and their obligations hereunder theretofore to be performed, and the following additional conditions:

(a) The Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by the rules and regulations under the Act and in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof; all material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by Rule 433; if the Company has elected to rely upon Rule 462(b) under the Act, the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement shall have become effective by 10:00 p.m., Washington, D.C. time, on the date of this Agreement; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof shall have been issued and no proceeding for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission; no stop order suspending or preventing the use of the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission; and all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission shall have been complied with to your reasonable satisfaction;

(b) White & Case LLP, U.S. counsel for the Underwriters, shall have furnished to you its written opinion or opinions, dated such Time of Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to you, with respect to such matters as you may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters;

(c) Carey Olsen, Jersey counsel for the Underwriters, shall have furnished to you its written opinion or opinions, dated such Time of Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to you, with respect to such matters as you may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters;

(d) Goodwin Procter LLP, U.S. counsel for the Company and the Selling Shareholders, shall have furnished to you its written opinion or opinions, dated such Time of Delivery, in form and substance previously agreed upon and reasonably satisfactory to you;

(e) Mourant Ozannes, Jersey counsel for the Company and the Selling Shareholders (other than The Butterworth Trust), shall have furnished to you its written opinion or opinions, dated such Time of Delivery, in form and substance previously agreed upon and reasonably satisfactory to you;

(f) Taylor Wessing LLP, U.K. counsel for the Company and the Selling Shareholders, shall have furnished to you its written opinion or opinions, dated such Time of Delivery, in form and substance previously agreed upon and reasonably satisfactory to you;

 

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(g) Peter Campbell, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, shall have furnished, on the date of the Prospectus and at a time prior to the execution of this Agreement and at such Time of Delivery, a certificate dated the date of the Prospectus and such Time of Delivery, respectively, substantially as set forth in Annex II hereto;

(h) On the date of this Agreement, on the effective date of any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement filed subsequent to the date of this Agreement and also at each Time of Delivery, Ernst & Young LLP shall have furnished to you a letter or letters, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof, in form and substance satisfactory to you, to the effect set forth in Annex I hereto (a draft of the form of letter to be delivered on the date of this Agreement is attached as Annex I(a) hereto and a draft of the form of letter to be delivered on the effective date of any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement and as of each Time of Delivery is attached as Annex I(b) hereto);

(i) (i) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall have sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the Pricing Prospectus any loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental or regulatory action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus, and (ii) since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Pricing Prospectus there shall not have been any change in the share capital (other than as a result of the exercise of share options or award of share options or other rights to acquire ordinary shares in the ordinary course of business pursuant to the Company’s equity incentive plans described in the Pricing Prospectus) or long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the general affairs, management, financial position, shareholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus, the effect of which, in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii), is in your judgment so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Shares being delivered at such Time of Delivery on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus;

(j) On or after the Applicable Time, if the Company’s debt securities or preferred shares are rated by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as that term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the Act (i) no downgrading of such securities shall have occurred, and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any of the Company’s debt securities or preferred shares;

 

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(k) On or after the Applicable Time there shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) a suspension or material limitation in trading in securities generally on the Exchange; (ii) a suspension or material limitation in trading in the Company’s securities on the Exchange; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities declared by either Federal or New York State authorities or a material disruption in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States; (iv) the outbreak or escalation of hostilities involving the United States or the declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war or (v) the occurrence of any other calamity or crisis or any change in financial, political or economic conditions in the United States or elsewhere, if the effect of any such event specified in clause (iv) or (v) in your judgment makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Shares being delivered at such Time of Delivery on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus;

(l) The Shares to be sold at such Time of Delivery shall have been duly listed, subject to official notice of issuance, on the Exchange;

(m) The Company shall have obtained and delivered to the Underwriters executed copies of an agreement from directors, officers and the holders of no less than [98]% of the Company’s outstanding share capital, substantially to the effect set forth in Annex IV hereto;

(n) The Company shall have complied with the provisions of Section 5(c) hereof with respect to the furnishing of prospectuses on the New York Business Day next succeeding the date of this Agreement;

(o) The Company and the Selling Shareholders shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to you at such Time of Delivery certificates of officers of the Company and of the Selling Shareholders, respectively, satisfactory to you as to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company and of the Selling Shareholders, respectively, herein at and as of such Time of Delivery, as to the performance by the Company of all of their respective obligations hereunder to be performed at or prior to such Time of Delivery, as to the matters set forth in subsections (a) and (i) of this Section; and

(p) The written consent of the JFSC to circulation of the Prospectus pursuant to the Jersey Companies (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 2002 shall have been obtained (where required) and shall be subsisting, and the written consent of the JFSC to the issue or transfer (as applicable) of the Shares pursuant to the Jersey Control Of Borrowing (Jersey) Order 1958 shall have been obtained and shall be subsisting.

9. (a) The Company will indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Underwriter may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or

 

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are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or any Section 5(d) Writing, 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, and will reimburse each Underwriter for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Underwriter in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as such expenses are incurred; provided , however , that the Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability 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 Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or any Section 5(d) Writing, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein.

(b) Each of the Selling Shareholders, severally and not jointly, will indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which such Underwriter may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, 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 Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus 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 Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Selling Shareholder expressly for use therein; and will reimburse each Underwriter for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Underwriter in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as such expenses are incurred.

(c) Each Underwriter will indemnify and hold harmless the Company and each Selling Shareholder against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which the Company or each Selling Shareholder may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, 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

 

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Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or any Section 5(d) Writing, 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 Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or any Section 5(d) Writing, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein; and will reimburse the Company and each Selling Shareholder for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company or such Selling Shareholder in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as such expenses are incurred.

(d) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriters from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities related to, arising out of, or in connection with the Jersey Prospectus, other than losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or expenses relating thereto), if any, that are finally judicially determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the bad faith or gross negligence of the Underwriters.

(e) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection (a), (b), (c) or (d) 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 subsection, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party otherwise than under such subsection. 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 therein and, to the extent that it shall wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and, after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to such indemnified party under such subsection for any legal expenses of other counsel or any other expenses, in each case subsequently incurred by such indemnified party, in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation. No indemnifying party shall, without the written consent of the indemnified party, effect the settlement or compromise of, or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to, any pending or threatened action or claim in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified party is an actual or potential party to

 

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such action or claim) unless such settlement, compromise or judgment (i) includes an unconditional release of the indemnified party from all liability arising out of such action or claim and (ii) 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.

(f) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 9 is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsection (a), (b), (c) or (d) above in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and/or the Selling Shareholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Shares. If, however, the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is not permitted by applicable law or if the indemnified party failed to give the notice required under subsection (e) above, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to such amount paid or payable by such indemnified party in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Company and/or the Selling Shareholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company and/or the Selling Shareholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by the Company and/or the Selling Shareholders bear to the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters, 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 Selling Shareholders on the one hand or the Underwriters on the other and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Company, each of the Selling Shareholders and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this subsection (f) were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this subsection (f). The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to above in this subsection (f) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (f), no Underwriter shall be

 

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required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Shares underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages which such 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 Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations in this subsection (f) to contribute are several in proportion to their respective underwriting obligations and not joint.

(g) The obligations of the Company and the Selling Shareholders under this Section 9 shall be in addition to any liability which the Company and the Selling Shareholders may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of the Act and each broker-dealer affiliate of any Underwriter; and the obligations of the Underwriters under this Section 9 shall be in addition to any liability which the respective Underwriters may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each officer and director of the Company (including any person who, with his or her consent, is named in the Registration Statement as being expected to become a director of the Company) and to each person, if any, who controls the Company or any Selling Shareholder within the meaning of the Act.

10. (a) If any Underwriter shall default in its obligation to purchase the Shares that it has agreed to purchase hereunder at a Time of Delivery, you may in your discretion arrange for you or another party or other parties to purchase such Shares on the terms contained herein. If within thirty-six hours after such default by any Underwriter you do not arrange for the purchase of such Shares, then the Company and the Selling Shareholders shall be entitled to a further period of thirty-six hours within which to procure another party or other parties satisfactory to you to purchase such Shares on such terms. In the event that, within the respective prescribed periods, you notify the Company and the Selling Shareholders that you have so arranged for the purchase of such Shares, or the Company or a Selling Shareholder notifies you that it has so arranged for the purchase of such Shares, you or the Company or the Selling Shareholders shall have the right to postpone such Time of Delivery for a period of not more than seven days, in order to effect whatever changes may thereby be made necessary in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any other documents or arrangements, and the Company agrees to file promptly any amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus which in your opinion may thereby be made necessary. The term “Underwriter” as used in this Agreement shall include any person substituted under this Section with like effect as if such person had originally been a party to this Agreement with respect to such Shares.

(b) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Shares of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by you, the Company and the

 

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Selling Shareholders as provided in subsection (a) above, the aggregate number of such Shares which remains unpurchased does not exceed one-eleventh of the aggregate number of all of the Shares to be purchased at such Time of Delivery, then the Company and the Selling Shareholders shall have the right to require each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase the number of Shares which such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder at such Time of Delivery and, in addition, to require each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase its pro rata share (based on the number of Shares which such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder) of the Shares of such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters for which such arrangements have not been made; but nothing herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default.

(c) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Shares of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by you, the Company and the Selling Shareholders as provided in subsection (a) above, the aggregate number of such Shares which remains unpurchased exceeds one-eleventh of the aggregate number of all of the Shares to be purchased at such Time of Delivery, or if the Company and the Selling Shareholders shall not exercise the right described in subsection (b) above to require non-defaulting Underwriters to purchase Shares of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters, then this Agreement (or, with respect to the Second Time of Delivery, the obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and of the Company and/or the Selling Shareholders to sell the Optional Shares) shall thereupon terminate, without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter, the Company or the Selling Shareholders, except for the expenses to be borne by the Company, the Selling Shareholders and the Underwriters as provided in Section 7 hereof and the indemnity and contribution agreements in Section 9 hereof; but nothing herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default.

11. The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company, the Selling Shareholders and the several Underwriters, as set forth in this Agreement or made by or on behalf of them, respectively, pursuant to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation (or any statement as to the results thereof) made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or any controlling person of any Underwriter, or the Company, or any of the Selling Shareholders, or any officer or director or controlling person of the Company, or any controlling person of any Selling Shareholder, and shall survive delivery of and payment for the Shares.

12. If this Agreement shall be terminated pursuant to Section 10 hereof, neither the Company nor the Selling Shareholders shall then be under any liability to any Underwriter except as provided in Sections 7 and 9 hereof; but, if for any other reason (other than those set forth in clauses (i), (iii), (iv) and (v) of Section 8(j)), any Shares are not delivered by or on behalf of the Company and/or the Selling Shareholders as provided herein, the Company and/or each Selling Shareholder, pro rata (based on the number of Shares to be sold by the Company

 

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and/or such Selling Shareholder hereunder) will reimburse the Underwriters through you for all out-of-pocket expenses approved in writing by you, including fees and disbursements of counsel, reasonably incurred by the Underwriters in making preparations for the purchase, sale and delivery of the Shares not so delivered, but the Company and/or the Selling Shareholders shall then be under no further liability to any Underwriter except as provided in Sections 7 and 9 hereof.

13. In all dealings hereunder, you shall act on behalf of each of the Underwriters, and the parties hereto shall be entitled to act and rely upon any statement, request, notice or agreement on behalf of any Underwriter made or given by you jointly or by Goldman, Sachs & Co. on behalf of you as the Representatives; and in all dealings with any Selling Shareholder hereunder, you and the Company shall be entitled to act and rely upon any statement, request, notice or agreement on behalf of such Selling Shareholder made or given by any or all of the Attorneys-in-Fact for such Selling Shareholder.

All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall be in writing, and if to the Underwriters shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to you as the Representatives at (i) Goldman, Sachs & Co., 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282-2198, Attention: Registration Department and (ii) Barclays Capital Inc., 745 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019-6801, Attention: Syndicate Registration; if to any Selling Shareholder shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to counsel for such Selling Shareholder at its address set forth in Schedule II hereto; and if to the Company shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to the address of the Company set forth in the Registration Statement, Attention: Secretary; provided , however , that any notice to an Underwriter pursuant to Section 9(e) hereof shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to such Underwriter at its address set forth in its Underwriters’ Questionnaire, or telex constituting such Questionnaire, which address will be supplied to the Company by you upon request; provided , however , that notices under Section 5(e) shall be in writing, and if to the Underwriters shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to you as the Representatives at (i) Goldman, Sachs & Co., 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282-2198, Attention: Control Room and (ii) Barclays Capital Inc., Director of Litigation, Office of the General Counsel, 745 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019-6801. Any such statements, requests, notices or agreements shall take effect upon receipt thereof.

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

 

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14. This Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure solely to the benefit of, the Underwriters, the Company and the Selling Shareholders and, to the extent provided in Sections 9 and 11 hereof, the officers and directors of the Company and each person who controls the Company, any Selling Shareholder or any Underwriter, and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, and no other person shall acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement. No purchaser of any of the Shares from any Underwriter shall be deemed a successor or assign by reason merely of such purchase.

15. Time shall be of the essence of this Agreement. As used herein, the term “business day” shall mean any day when the Commission’s office in Washington, D.C. is open for business.

16. The Company and the Selling Shareholders acknowledge and agree that (i) the purchase and sale of the Shares pursuant to this Agreement is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company and the Selling Shareholders, on the one hand, and the several Underwriters, on the other, (ii) in connection therewith and with the process leading to such transaction each Underwriter is acting solely as a principal and not the agent or fiduciary of the Company or any Selling Shareholder, (iii) no Underwriter has assumed an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company or any Selling Shareholder with respect to the offering contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such Underwriter has advised or is currently advising the Company or any Selling Shareholder on other matters) or any other obligation to the Company or any Selling Shareholder except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement and (iv) the Company and each Selling Shareholder has consulted its own legal and financial advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate. The Company and each Selling Shareholder agrees that it will not claim that the Underwriters, or any of them, has rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owes a fiduciary or similar duty to the Company or any Selling Shareholder, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.

17. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) between the Company, the Selling Shareholders and the Underwriters, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof.

18. THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY MATTERS RELATED TO THIS TRANSACTION SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF ANY LAW OTHER THAN THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. The Company and each Selling Shareholder agrees that any suit or proceeding arising in respect of this agreement or our engagement will be tried exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York or, if that court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, in any state court located in The City and County of New York and the Company and

 

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each Selling Shareholder agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of, and to venue in, such courts. The Company and each Selling Shareholder waives any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such suit or proceeding in such courts. The Company and each Selling Shareholder agrees that final judgment in any such suit, action or proceeding brought in such court shall be conclusive and binding upon the Company and such Selling Shareholder and may be enforced in any court to the jurisdiction in which the Company or such Selling Shareholder is subject by a suit upon such judgment. The Company and each Selling Shareholder that is not a U.S. resident or who ceases to be a U.S. resident (each, a “Non-U.S. Selling Shareholder”) irrevocably appoints Mimecast North America, Inc. as its authorized agent to receive service of process or other legal summons for purposes of any suit or proceeding, and agrees that service of process upon such authorized agent, and written notice of such service to the Company or such Non-U.S. Selling Shareholder, as the case may be, by the person serving the same to the address provided in this Section 18, shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon the Company or such Non-U.S. Selling Shareholder in any such suit or proceeding. The Company and each Non-U.S. Selling Shareholder hereby represents and warrants that such authorized agent has accepted such appointment and has agreed to act as such authorized agent for service of process. The Company and each Non-U.S. Selling Shareholder further agrees to take any and all action as may be necessary to maintain such designation and appointment of such authorized agent in full force and effect for a period of seven years from the date of this Agreement.

19. The Company agrees to indemnify each Underwriter, its directors, officers, affiliates and each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, against any loss incurred by such Underwriter as a result of any judgment or order being given or made for any amount due hereunder and such judgment or order being expressed and paid in a currency (the “judgment currency”) other than U.S. dollars and as a result of any variation as between (i) the rate of exchange at which the U.S. dollar amount is converted into the judgment currency for the purpose of such judgment or order, and (ii) the rate of exchange at which such indemnified person is able to purchase U.S. dollars with the amount of the judgment currency actually received by the indemnified person. The foregoing indemnity shall constitute a separate and independent obligation of the Company and shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding any such judgment or order as aforesaid. The term “rate of exchange” shall include any premiums and costs of exchange payable in connection with the purchase of, or conversion into, the relevant currency.

20. To the extent that the Company has or hereafter may acquire any immunity (sovereign or otherwise) from jurisdiction of any court of (i) the Bailiwick of Jersey, or any political subdivision thereof, (ii) the United States or the State of New York, (iii) any jurisdiction in which it owns or leases property or assets or from any legal process (whether through service of notice, attachment prior to judgment,

 

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attachment in aid of execution, execution, set-off or otherwise) with respect to themselves or their respective property and assets or this Agreement, the Company hereby irrevocably waives such immunity in respect of its obligations under this Agreement to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

21. The Company, each Selling Shareholder and each of the Underwriters hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

22. This Agreement may be executed by any one or more of the parties hereto in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.

23. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company and the Selling Shareholders are authorized to disclose to any persons the U.S. federal and state income tax treatment and tax structure of the potential transaction and all materials of any kind (including tax opinions and other tax analyses) provided to the Company and the Selling Shareholders relating to that treatment and structure, without the Underwriters imposing any limitation of any kind. However, any information relating to the tax treatment and tax structure shall remain confidential (and the foregoing sentence shall not apply) to the extent necessary to enable any person to comply with securities laws. For this purpose, “tax structure” is limited to any facts that may be relevant to that treatment.

If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please sign and return to us counterparts hereof, and upon the acceptance hereof by you, on behalf of each of the Underwriters, this letter and such acceptance hereof shall constitute a binding agreement among each of the Underwriters, the Company and each of the Selling Shareholders. It is understood that your acceptance of this letter on behalf of each of the Underwriters is pursuant to the authority set forth in a form of Agreement among Underwriters, the form of which shall be submitted to the Company and the Selling Shareholders for examination upon request, but without warranty on your part as to the authority of the signers thereof.

 

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Any person executing and delivering this Agreement as Attorney-in-Fact for a Selling Shareholder represents by so doing that he has been duly appointed as Attorney-in-Fact by such Selling Shareholder pursuant to a validly existing and binding Power-of-Attorney that authorizes such Attorney-in-Fact to take such action.

 

Very truly yours,
Mimecast Limited
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:

Solely as Selling Shareholders

named on Schedule II hereto

By:  

 

  Name: Peter Bauer

THE BUTTERWORTH TRUST

 

By: Rock Trustees Limited as Trustees of the Butterworth Trust

By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:
By:  

 

  Name: Neil Murray
By:  

 

  Name: Peter Campbell

 

Accepted as of the date hereof:
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:
Barclays Capital Inc.
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:

 

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On behalf of each of the Underwriters

 

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SCHEDULE I

Underwriter

 

     Total
Number
of Firm
Shares
to be
Purchased
   Number of
Optional
Shares to
be
Purchased
if Maximum
Option
Exercised

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

     

Barclays Capital Inc.

     

Jefferies LLC

     

RBC Capital Markets, LLC

     

Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.

     
  

 

  

 

Total

     
  

 

  

 

 

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SCHEDULE II

 

     Total Number
of
Firm Shares
to be Sold
   Number of
Optional
Shares to be
Sold if
Maximum
Option
Exercised

The Company.

     

The Selling Shareholder(s):

     

Peter Bauer(a)

     

Butterworth Trust(b)

     

Neil Murray(c)

     

Peter Campbell(d)

     
  

 

  

 

Total

     
  

 

  

 

 

(a) This Selling Shareholder is represented by [Name and Address of Counsel] and has appointed [Names of Attorneys-in-Fact (not less than two)] , and each of them, as the Attorneys-in-Fact for such Selling Shareholder.
(b) This Selling Shareholder is represented by [Name and Address of Counsel] and has appointed [Names of Attorneys-in-Fact (not less than two)] , and each of them, as the Attorneys-in-Fact for such Selling Shareholder.
(c) This Selling Shareholder is represented by [Name and Address of Counsel] and has appointed [Names of Attorneys-in-Fact (not less than two)] , and each of them, as the Attorneys-in-Fact for such Selling Shareholder.
(d) This Selling Shareholder is represented by [Name and Address of Counsel] and has appointed [Names of Attorneys-in-Fact (not less than two)] , and each of them, as the Attorneys-in-Fact for such Selling Shareholder.


SCHEDULE III

 

(a) Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses not included in the Pricing Disclosure Package:

 

(b) Section 5(d) Writings

 

(c) Materials other than the Pricing Prospectus that comprise the Pricing Disclosure Package:


ANNEX I

FORM OF COMFORT LETTER


ANNEX I(a)

FORM OF COMFORT LETTER TO BE DELIVERED

ON THE DATE OF THIS AGREEMENT

 

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ANNEX I(b)

FORM OF COMFORT LETTER TO BE DELIVERED

AT EACH TIME OF DELIVERY

 

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ANNEX II

FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER


ANNEX III

FORM OF PRESS RELEASE

Mimecast Limited

[Date]

(“Mimecast”) announced today that Goldman, Sachs & Co., as representative in the Company’s recent public sale of                  ordinary shares, is [waiving] [releasing] a lock-up restriction with respect to                  of the Company’s ordinary shares held by [certain officers or directors] [an officer or director] of the Company. The [waiver] [release] will take effect on     ,              20    , and the shares may be sold on or after such date.

This press release is not an offer for sale of the securities in the United States or in any other jurisdiction where such offer is prohibited, and such securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended.


ANNEX IV

FORM OF LOCK-UP AGREEMENT

Mimecast Limited

Lock-Up Agreement

                             , 2015

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

c/o Goldman, Sachs & Co.

200 West Street

New York, NY 10282-2198

 

  Re: Mimecast Limited - Lock-Up Agreement

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The undersigned understands that you, as representative (the “Representative”), propose to enter into an Underwriting Agreement on behalf of the several Underwriters named in Schedule I to such agreement (collectively, the “Underwriters”), with Mimecast Limited, a company organized under the laws of England and Wales or any successor company thereto (the “Company”), providing for a public offering (the “Offering”) of ordinary shares of the Company (the “Shares”) pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form F-1 to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).

In consideration of the agreement by the Underwriters to offer and sell the Shares, and of other good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the undersigned agrees that, during the period specified in the following paragraph (the “Lock-Up Period”), the undersigned will not offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, make any short sale or otherwise dispose of any ordinary shares of the Company (the “Ordinary Shares”), or any options or warrants to purchase any Ordinary Shares, or any securities convertible into, exchangeable for or that represent the right to receive Ordinary Shares, whether now owned or hereinafter acquired, owned directly by the undersigned (including holding as a custodian) or with respect to which the undersigned has beneficial ownership within the rules and regulations of the SEC (collectively the “Undersigned’s Shares”). The foregoing restriction is expressly agreed to preclude the undersigned from engaging in any hedging or other transaction which is designed to or which reasonably would be expected to lead to or result in a sale or disposition of the Undersigned’s Shares even if the Undersigned’s Shares would be disposed of by someone other than the undersigned. Such prohibited hedging or other transactions would include without limitation any short sale or any purchase, sale or grant of any right (including without limitation any put or call option) with respect to any of the Undersigned’s Shares or with respect to any security that includes, relates to, or derives any significant part of its value from the Undersigned’s Shares. If the undersigned is an officer or director of the issuer, the undersigned further agrees that the foregoing provisions shall be equally applicable to any issuer-directed Shares the undersigned may purchase in the offering.

The Lock-Up Period will commence on the date of this Lock-Up Agreement and continue for 180 days after the public offering date set forth on the final prospectus used to sell the Shares pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement.


If the undersigned is an officer or director of the Company, (i) Goldman, Sachs & Co. agrees that, at least three business days before the effective date of any release or waiver of the foregoing restrictions in connection with a transfer of Ordinary Shares, Goldman, Sachs & Co. will notify the Company of the impending release or waiver, and (ii) the Company has agreed in the Underwriting Agreement to announce the impending release or waiver by press release through a major news service at least two business days before the effective date of the release or waiver. Any release or waiver granted by Goldman, Sachs & Co. hereunder to any such officer or director shall only be effective two business days after the publication date of such press release. The provisions of this paragraph will not apply if (a) the release or waiver is effected solely to permit a transfer not for consideration and (b) the transferee has agreed in writing to be bound by the same terms described in this letter to the extent and for the duration that such terms remain in effect at the time of the transfer.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the undersigned may:

(a) transfer the Undersigned’s Shares:

(i) as a bona fide gift or gifts,

(ii) to any trust for the direct or indirect benefit of the undersigned or the immediate family of the undersigned, or if the undersigned is a trust, to its grantor or beneficiaries, provided that any such transfer shall not involve a disposition for value,

(iii) to the Company if the Company exercises its right to repurchase, at any time after the termination of an employment or consulting relationship by an employee or consultant,

(iv) if the undersigned is a partnership, limited liability company or corporation, as a distribution or transfer to partners, members or shareholders of the undersigned,

(v) to another corporation, partnership or other business entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with the undersigned or to partners, members or shareholders of the undersigned,

(vi) by will or under the laws of descent, or pursuant to a court order or settlement agreement related to the distribution of assets in connection with the dissolution of a marriage or civil union, and

(vii) if such shares were acquired in the Offering or in open market transactions following the Offering;

(b) enter into a written plan meeting the requirements of Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), provided that the securities subject to such plan may not be sold until after the expiration of the Lock-Up Period;

(c) exercise for cash any stock options issued pursuant to the Company’s equity incentive plans or warrants described in the final prospectus used to sell the Shares, provided that any securities received upon such exercise will also be subject to this Lock-Up Agreement; and


provided, further, that (x) in the case of clauses (a), (b) and (c) above, no filing by the undersigned or any other party under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or other public announcement shall be required or shall be made voluntarily in connection with such transfer, plan, option exercise or warrant exercise (other than a Form 5 made after the expiration of the Lock-Up Period), and (y) in the cases of clauses (a)(i), (ii), (iv), (v) and (vi), the transferee of the Undersigned’s Share agrees to be bound in writing by the restrictions set forth herein.

For purposes of this Lock-Up Agreement, “immediate family” shall mean any relationship by blood, marriage or adoption, not more remote than first cousin. The undersigned now has, and, except as contemplated by the exceptions set forth in clauses (a) through (d) above, for the duration of this Lock-Up Agreement will have, good and marketable title to the Undersigned’s Shares, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, and claims whatsoever. 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 Undersigned’s Shares except in compliance with the foregoing restrictions.

In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the restrictions contained herein shall not apply to any transfers, sales, tenders or other dispositions of the Undersigned’s Shares pursuant to a bona fide third party tender offer, merger, amalgamation, consolidation or other similar transaction made to or involving all holders of the Ordinary Shares pursuant to which ninety percent (90%) of the ownership of the Company is transferred to such third party (including, without limitation, the entering into any lock-up, voting or similar agreement pursuant to which the undersigned may agree to transfer, sell, tender or otherwise dispose of the Undersigned’s Shares in connection with such transaction, or vote any of such Undersigned’s Shares in favor of any such transaction); provided, that if such tender offer, merger, amalgamation, consolidation or other similar transaction is not completed, any of the Undersigned’s Shares subject to this Lock-Up Agreement shall remain subject to the restrictions contained in this Lock-Up Agreement.

[In the event that, during the Lock-Up Period, Goldman, Sachs & Co. waives any prohibition set forth in this Lock-Up Agreement or any similar agreement on the transfer of Ordinary Shares, or any securities convertible into or exercisable for Ordinary Shares, held by any person or entity that beneficially owns 5% or more of the outstanding Shares at the time of such waiver, the Representatives shall be deemed to have also waived the prohibitions set forth in this Lock-Up Agreement that would otherwise have applied to the undersigned on the same terms and on a pro-rata basis with respect to such number of shares rounded down to the nearest whole share equal to the product of (i) the maximum percentage of Ordinary Shares held by the record or beneficial holder(s) with respect to which such waiver is being granted multiplied by (ii) the total number of Ordinary Shares held by the undersigned. The provisions of this paragraph will not apply if: (1) (a) the release or waiver is effected solely to permit a transfer not for consideration and (b) the transferee has agreed in writing to be bound by the same terms described in this Lock-Up Agreement to the extent and for the duration that such terms remain in effect at the time of the transfer, or (2) the release or waiver is granted with respect to a transfer of no more than 750,000 Shares (as adjusted for any stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization or other similar event) with respect to any holder of shares and its affiliates during the Lock-Up Period.] 1

This Lock-Up Agreement shall automatically terminate upon the earliest to occur, if any, of (a) the date on which the Company, or the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, advises the other party in writing, prior to the execution of the Underwriting Agreement, that it

 

1   Provision to be included only in lock-up agreements of 5% or greater holders.


has determined not to proceed with the Offering, (b) termination of the Underwriting Agreement before the closing of the Offering or (c) December 31, 2015, in the event that the Underwriting Agreement has not been executed by such date.

The undersigned understands that the Company and the Underwriters are relying upon this Lock-Up Agreement in proceeding toward consummation of the offering. The undersigned further understands that this Lock-Up Agreement is irrevocable and shall be binding upon the undersigned’s heirs, legal representatives, successors, and assigns.

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Very truly yours,
 

 

Exact Name of Shareholder
 

 

Authorized Signature
 

 

Title

Exhibit 3.1.1

Company no. 119119

COMPANIES (JERSEY) LAW 1991

A PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

MEMORANDUM

AND

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

MIMECAST LIMITED

Conformed copy of the memorandum of association last amended by special resolution

passed on 5 November 2015 and the articles of association last amended by special

resolution passed on 13 November 2015.


Company no. 119119

COMPANIES (JERSEY) LAW 1991

A PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION

OF

MIMECAST LIMITED

 

1. The name of the Company is Mimecast Limited.

 

2. The Company is a private company.

 

3. The Company is a par value company.

 

4. The share capital of the Company is $1,581,400.84 divided into:

 

    8,107,039 shares designated as Founder Shares of $0.012 each;

 

    7,051,814 shares designated as Series A Preferred Shares of $0.012 each;

 

    5,524,550 shares designated as Series B Preferred Shares of $0.012 each;

 

    70,000,000 shares designated as Class A Ordinary Shares of $0.012 each;

 

    40,000,000 shares designated as Class B Ordinary Shares of $0.012 each;

 

    550,000 shares designated as Class C Ordinary Shares of $0.012 each; and

 

    550,000 shares designated as Deferred Shares of $0.012 each.

 

5. The liability of a member of the Company is limited to the amount unpaid (if any) on such member’s share or shares.

 

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Company no. 119119

COMPANIES (JERSEY) LAW 1991

A PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

of

MIMECAST LIMITED

 

3


CONTENTS

 

1.  

Preliminary

     6   
2.  

Interpretation

     6   
3.  

Share capital

     18   
4.  

Share Certificates

     19   
5.  

Register of Members

     19   
6.  

Joint Holders

     19   
7.  

Lien

     20   
8.  

Calls on Shares

     21   
9.  

Forfeiture and Surrender of Shares

     22   
10.  

Number of directors

     23   
11.  

Proceedings of directors

     23   
12.  

Directors’ Resolutions in Writing

     26   
13.  

Minute Book

     26   
14.  

Appointment and removal of directors

     26   
15.  

Directors, observers and Chairman

     27   
16.  

Transactions or other arrangements with directors

     29   
17.  

Secretary

     31   
18.  

Dividends

     31   
19.  

Liquidation preference

     34   
20.  

Exit provisions

     35   
21.  

shares

     37   
22.  

Variation of class rights

     38   
23.  

Conversion of Shares

     41   
24.  

Anti-dilution

     44   
25.  

Pre-emption rights on the issue of further shares

     47   
26.  

Transfer and transmission of shares: general

     51   
27.  

Permitted transfers of shares

     54   

 

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28.  

Pre-emption rights on the transfer of shares

     55   
29.  

Valuation

     61   
30.  

Compulsory transfers

     63   
31.  

Mandatory offer on change of control

     63   
32.  

Drag along

     64   
33.  

Co-sale

     67   
34.  

Members’ Resolutions in Writing

     68   
35.  

General meetings

     69   
36.  

Notice of general meetings

     69   
37.  

proceedings at general meetings

     70   
38.  

Voting

     71   
39.  

Proxies for General Meetings and Corporate Members

     73   
40.  

Notices

     74   
41.  

Indemnity and insurance

     75   
42.  

Data protection

     76   
43.  

Process for terminating Active Founder status

     76   
44.  

Share Premium Account and Reserve Fund

     80   
45.  

Execution of Instruments, Seals and Authentication of Documents

     80   
46.  

Capitalisation

     81   
47.  

Accounts and Audit

     82   
48.  

Winding Up

     82   

 

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1. PRELIMINARY

This document comprises the articles of association of the Company. The regulations constituting the Standard Table in the Companies (Standard Table) (Jersey) Order 1992 shall not apply to the Company.

 

2. INTERPRETATION

 

2.1 In these Articles, unless expressly provided otherwise, the following words have the following meanings:

A Ordinary Shares ” means the A ordinary shares of $0.012 each in the capital of the Company;

Accepting Member ” has the meaning given to it in Article 31.4.2;

acting in concert ” has the meaning given to it in the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers published by the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers (as amended);

Active Founder ” means: (a) Peter Bauer; and (b) Neil Murray, PROVIDED THAT, in each case, if he ceases to be a party to a Relevant Contract, the Board, pursuant to and in accordance with Article 43, may at any time thereafter resolve that such Founder is no longer active in the business of any Group Company, whereupon such Founder shall immediately cease to be an Active Founder (in accordance with and subject to the provisions of Article 43);

Adoption Date ” means the date of adoption of these articles;

Allocation Notice ” has the meaning given to it in Article 28.16;

Anti-Dilution A Shares ” has the meaning given to it in Article 24.1;

Anti-Dilution B Shares ” has the meaning given to it in Article 24.3;

Anti-Dilution Shares ” means the Anti-Dilution A Shares and/or the Anti-Dilution B Shares (as the case may be);

Applicant ” has the meaning given to it in Article 28.16;

Articles ” means the Company’s articles of association for the time being in force;

auditors ” means the auditors (if any) of the Company;

Available Profits ” means profits of the Company available for distribution as the directors may declare;

B Ordinary Shares ” means the B ordinary shares of $0.012 each in the capital of the Company;

bankrupt ” has the meaning given to that expression in the Interpretation (Jersey) Law, 1954;

 

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Board ” means the board of directors of the Company;

Business Day ” means any day (other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday in the United Kingdom) on which clearing banks in the City of London are generally open for business;

Buyer ” has the meaning given to it in Article 31.1;

C Ordinary Shares ” means the C ordinary shares of $0.012 each in the capital of the Company;

Called Members ” has the meaning given to it in Article 32.1;

Called Shares ” has the meaning given to it in Article 32.2.1;

Chairman ” has the meaning given to it in Article 15.9;

Cash Offer ” means the cash offer (including the acceptance and authority) to be made by the Insight to certain Members in accordance with the terms of the Investment Agreement;

clear days ” in relation to the period of a notice, shall mean that period excluding the day when the notice is served or deemed to be served and the day for which it is given or on which it is to take effect;

Company ” means Mimecast Limited (Company number 119119);

Conflict ” has the meaning given to it in Article 16.2;

connected ” has the meaning given to it in section 252 of the Companies Act 2006;

Controlling Interest ” means an interest in Shares conferring on the holder or holders control of the Company within the meaning of section 1124 of the CTA;

Co-Sale Buyer ” has the meaning given to it in Article 33.2;

Co-Sale Notice ” has the meaning given to it in Article 33.2;

CTA ” means the Corporation Tax Act 2010;

Dawn Capital ” means Dawn Enterprise Capital Fund LP, Dawn Mimecast Holdings Limited, Dawn Mimecast Holdings (II) Limited, Dawn Mimecast (III) Holdings Limited and Dawn Mimecast (IV) Holdings Limited or any one or more of them, as the context requires;

Dawn Capital Consent ” means the prior consent in writing of any of the Dawn Capital entities;

Dawn Capital Director ” has the meaning given to it in Article 15.2;

 

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Deemed Transfer Notice ” means a Transfer Notice which is deemed to have been served by any of the provisions of article 26.3, 26.8, 27.4, 27.5, 30.1 or 30.2 of these Articles;

Deferred Shares ” means deferred shares of $0.012 each in the capital of the Company;

Directors ” means the directors of the Company from time to time;

Disposal ” means the disposal by the Company of all, or substantially all of its business and assets or the grant of an exclusive license over all or substantially all of the Intellectual Property of the Group;

distribution ” has the meaning given to that expression in Article 114 of the Law;

Distribution Shares ” means the Series A Preferred Shares and the Ordinary Shares (other than the C Ordinary Shares);

Dividend Shares ” means the Preferred Shares and the Ordinary Shares (other than the C Ordinary Shares);

Drag Along Notice ” has the meaning given to it in Article 32.2;

Drag Along Option ” has the meaning given to it in Article 32.1;

Eligible Director ” means a Director who would be entitled to vote on the matter at a meeting of Directors (but excluding any Director whose vote is not to be counted in respect of the particular matter);

Employee Trust ” means a trust, the terms of which are approved by the Board, whose beneficiaries are the bona fide employees of the Group;

Equity Shares ” means the Preferred Shares and the Ordinary Shares;

Exercising A Investor ” has the meaning given to it in Article 24.1;

Exercising B Investor ” has the meaning given to it in Article 24.3;

Exercising Investor ” means the Exercising A Investor and/or the Exercising B Investor (as the case may be);

Excess Securities ” has the meaning given to it in Articles 25.3.3 and 25.7.3;

Exit ” means a Share Sale, a Disposal or a Listing;

Exit Shares ” means the Preferred Shares, the Founder Shares and the Relevant Ordinary Shares;

Fair Value ” has the meaning given to it in Article 29.2;

Family Trust ” means as regards any particular individual Member (or deceased or former individual Member) trusts (whether arising under a settlement, declaration of trust or other instrument by whomsoever or

 

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wheresoever made, or under a testamentary disposition or on an intestacy) under which no immediate beneficial interest in any of the Shares in question is for the time being vested in any person other than the particular Member and/or any of the Privileged Relations of that Member (and so that for this purpose a person shall be considered to be beneficially interested in a Share if such Share or the income thereof is liable to be transferred or paid or applied or appointed to or for the benefit of any such person or any voting or other rights attaching thereto are exercisable by or as directed by any such person pursuant to the terms of the relevant trusts or in consequence of an exercise of a power or discretion conferred thereby on any person or persons);

First Offerees ” means the persons to whom the offer is to be made first in accordance with Articles 28.8, 28.9 or 28.10;

First Offer Period ” has the meaning given to it in Article 28.11;

Founders ” means Peter Bauer, Neil Murray and the Butterworth Trust, and

Founder ” shall be construed accordingly;

Founder Consent ” means the consent of each Active Founder, which may be given orally (if properly recorded in the minutes at a board meeting) or in writing;

Founder Director ” has the meaning given to it in Article 15.4;

Founder Shares ” means the founder ordinary shares of $0.012 each in the capital of the Company;

fully paid ” and “ paid up ” in relation to a share, means that the issue price agreed to be paid for that share has been fully paid or credited as fully paid and partly paid means a share that is not fully paid;

Fund Manager ” means a person whose principal business is to make, manage or advise upon investments in securities;

Group ” means the Company and its subsidiaries (if any) from time to time and Group Company shall be construed accordingly;

holding company ” has the meaning given to it in section 1159 of the Act;

Independent Expert ” means the auditors for the time being of the Company or, if they decline the instruction, an independent firm of accountants appointed by the Company and the Seller (or, (x) for the purposes of the definition of Series A Previously Paid Amount, a Series A Majority, (y) for the purposes of the definition of Series B Previously Paid Amount, a Series B Majority and (z) for the purposes of Article 24.7, an Investor Majority with Founder Consent) or, in the absence of agreement between the Company and the Seller (or Investor Majority with Founder Consent, Series A Majority or Series B Majority, as the case may be) on the identity of the expert or its terms of appointment within 10 Business Days of the expiry of the 10 Business Day period referred to in Article 29.1 or within 10 Business Days after a written request to agree to the value of any Series A Previously Paid Amount or Series B Previously Paid Amount (as the case may be), an independent firm of accountants appointed, and whose terms of appointment are agreed, by the President, for the time being, of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (in each case acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator);

 

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“Index” means Index Ventures V (Jersey), L.P., Index Ventures V Parallel Entrepreneur Fund (Jersey), L.P. and Yucca (Jersey) SLP, or any one or more of them, as the context requires;

Index Director ” has the meaning given to it in Article 15.1;

Initial Surplus Shares ” has the meaning given to it in Article 28.12.3;

Insight ” means Insight Venture Partners VII, L.P., Insight Venture Partners (Cayman) VII, L.P., Insight Venture Partners VII (Co-Investors), L.P., Insight Venture Partners (Delaware) VII, L.P. and Insight Venture Partners Coinvestment Fund II, L.P., or any one or more of them, as the context requires, and their Permitted Transferees;

Insight Director ” has the meaning given to it in Article 15.3;

Intellectual Property ” means copyrights, trade and service marks, including the Trade Marks, trade names, rights in logos and get-up, inventions, confidential information, trade secrets and know-how, registered designs, design rights, patents, utility models, semi-conductor topographies, all rights of whatsoever nature in computer software and data, all rights of privacy and all intangible rights and privileges of a nature similar or allied to any of the foregoing, in every case in any part of the world and whether or not registered; and including all granted registrations and all applications for registration in respect of any of the same;

Investment Agreement ” means the investment agreement dated on or around the Adoption Date between, amongst others, the Investors, the Founders and the Company (in each case, as defined therein), as the same may have been varied, supplemented, adhered to or superseded in accordance with its terms for the time being;

Investment Fund ” has the meaning given in the definition below of “Member of the Same Fund Group”;

Investor ” means a holder for the time being of one or more Preferred Shares;

Investor Consent ” means the prior consent in writing of an Investor Majority;

Investor Majority ” means the holder(s) for the time being of a majority by nominal value of the Preferred Shares in issue from time to time (voting together as if the Preferred Shares constituted one and the same class);

Issue or Re-organisation ” has the meaning given to it in Article 24.11;

Issue Price ” means in respect of any Share, the subscription price paid (or credited as paid) in respect of that Share, including any share premium;

 

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Jersey ” means the Island of Jersey and its dependencies;

Law ” means the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991;

Lead Index Investor ” means Index Ventures V (Jersey), L.P.;

Listing ” means the successful application and admission of all or any of the Shares, or securities representing such Shares (including American depositary receipts, American depositary shares and/or other instruments) to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority, the AIM Market operated by the London Stock Exchange plc, the NASDAQ Global Market, NASDAQ Global Select Market or the Nasdaq Capital Market of the NASDAQ OMX Group Inc., the NYSE and The NYSE MKT of the New York Stock Exchange and, in each case their successors and any future public markets established by the London Stock Exchange plc, NYSE and NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. or to any recognised investment exchange (as defined in section 285 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000);

Member ” means a person whose name is entered in the Register as the holder of Shares;

Member of the Same Fund Group ” means, if the Member is a fund, partnership, company, syndicate or other entity whose business is managed by a Fund Manager (an “ Investment Fund ”) or a nominee of that person:

 

  (a) where the Member is an Insight or company or a nominee of an Insight fund or company, any other Insight fund;

 

  (b) where the Member is an Index fund or company or a nominee of an Index fund or company, any other Index fund (including, without limitation, Index Ventures V Parallel Entrepreneur Fund (Jersey) L.P.);

 

  (c) where the Member is a Dawn Capital fund or company or a nominee of a Dawn Capital fund or company, any other Dawn Capital fund or company;

 

  (d) any participant or partner in or member of any such Investment Fund or the holders of any unit trust which is a participant or partner in or member of any Investment Fund (but only in connection with the dissolution of the Investment Fund or any distribution of assets of the Investment Fund pursuant to the operation of the Investment Fund in the ordinary course of business);

 

  (e) any Investment Fund managed by that Fund Manager or a Fund Manager which is a Member of the Same Group as that Fund Manager;

 

  (f) any trustee, nominee or custodian of such Investment Fund and vice versa;

 

  (g) the Fund Manager of that Investment Fund or a Fund Manager of any other Investment Fund which is a Member of the Same Fund Group as that Investment Fund (or a nominee of any such Fund Manager) and vice versa; or

 

  (h) any Member of the Same Group as that Fund Manager;

 

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Member of the Same Group ” means as regards any company, a company which is from time to time a direct or indirect holding company or a direct or indirect subsidiary of that company or a subsidiary of any such holding company;

Mimecast UK ” means Mimecast Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales with company number 04698693;

Mimecast UK Equity Shares ” means the A ordinary preferred shares, B ordinary preferred shares, A ordinary shares and B ordinary shares each of £0.000001 each in the capital of Mimecast UK;

Minimum Transfer Condition ” has the meaning given in Article 28.2.4;

New Member ” has the meaning given to it in Article 32.10;

month ” means a calendar month;

nominal capital account ” has the meaning given to that expression in Article 1 of the Law;

notice ” means a written notice unless otherwise specifically stated;

Offer ” has the meaning given to it in Article 31.2;

Offer Notice ” has the meaning given to it in Article 31.3;

Offer Period ” has the meaning given to it in Article 31.3;

Offer Price ” has the meaning given to it in Article 31.2;

Office ” means the registered office of the Company;

Ordinary Shares ” means the Founder Shares, the A Ordinary Shares, the B Ordinary Shares and the C Ordinary Shares;

Original Member ” has the meaning given to it in Article 27.1;

Permitted Transfer ” means a transfer of Shares made in accordance with Article 27;

Permitted Transferee ” means in relation to:

 

  (a) any Member, any Employee Trust;

 

  (b) any Member which is an Employee Trust, any employee or former employee of any Group Company;

 

  (c) a Member who is an individual, any of his Privileged Relations or the trustee(s) of a Family Trust of that Member;

 

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  (d) a Member which is a company, a Member of the Same Group as that company; and

 

  (e) an Investor, (i) a Member of the Same Fund Group as that Investor, (ii) a Member of the Same Group as that Investor, or (iii) any nominee of that Investor (or of a Member of the Same Fund Group as that Investor or a Member of the Same Group as that Investor);

Preferred Shares ” means the Series A Preferred Shares and the Series B Preferred Shares;

Pre-New Money Valuation ” means the result of multiplying the total number of A Ordinary Shares in issue immediately after the Listing (but excluding any new A Ordinary Shares issued upon the Listing) by the subscription price per share (including any premium) in respect of new A Ordinary Shares issued at the time of the Listing;

present in person ” in relation to general meetings of the Company and to meetings of the holders of any class of shares, shall include present by attorney or by proxy or, in the case of a corporate shareholder, by representative;

Privileged Relation ” means in relation to a Member who is an individual Member (or a deceased or former individual Member) means a spouse, civil partner (as defined in the Civil Partnerships Act 2004), child or grandchild (including step or adopted or illegitimate child and their issue);

Proposed Buyer ” has the meaning given to it in Article 32.1;

Proposed Exit ” has the meaning given to it in Article 20.3;

Proposed Sale Price ” has the meaning given to it in Article 28.2.3;

Proposed Transfer ” has the meaning given to it in Article 31.1;

Qualifying A Issue ” has the meaning given to it in Article 24.1;

Qualifying B Issue ” has the meaning given to it in Article 24.3;

Qualifying Issue ” means the Qualifying A Issue and/or the Qualifying B Issue (as the case may be);

Qualifying Listing ” means a firmly underwritten Listing in which the aggregate issue price of shares issued or subscribed at the time of the Listing is US$50,000,000 or more and the issue price per Share is US$21.72 or more (such price per Share being adjusted to take account of any subdivision, consolidation or other re-organisation of the equity share capital of the Company after the date of adoption of these Articles) or any Listing designated by notice in writing (addressed to the Company) as a Qualifying Listing by an Investor Majority and a Series B Majority;

Realisation Price ” means the value of each A Ordinary Share in issue immediately prior to a Listing, determined by reference to the price per share at which A Ordinary Shares are to be offered for sale, placed or otherwise marketed pursuant to such Listing;

 

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Recipient ” has the meaning given to it in Article 42.1;

Recipient Group Company ” has the meaning given to it in Article 42.2.1;

Register ” means the register of Members to be kept pursuant to Article 5;

Registration Rights Agreement ” means the registration rights agreement dated on or around the Adoption Date between, amongst others, the Investors, the Founders and the Company, as the same may have been varied, supplemented, adhered to or superseded in accordance with its terms for the time being;

Relevant Contract ” means an employment contract or consulting agreement between a Founder and any Group Company, the terms of which require such Founder to work for such Group Company for at least an aggregate of four days per calendar month;

Relevant Loss ” has the meaning given to it in Article 41.4;

Relevant Officer ” has the meaning given to it in Article 41.4;

Relevant Ordinary Shares ” means the A Ordinary Shares and the B Ordinary Shares;

Relevant Securities ” means any Shares or other securities convertible into, or carrying the right to subscribe for Shares, issued by the Company after the Adoption Date or the grant by the Company from the Adoption Date of any right to subscribe or acquire any such Shares or other securities, in each case, other than:

 

  (a) the grant of any options under a Share Option Plan (and the issue of Shares on the exercise of any such options);

 

  (b) any Shares or other securities issued by the Company in order for the Company to comply with its obligations under these Articles and/or the Investment Agreement;

 

  (c) any C Ordinary Shares issued by the Company which has been approved by the Board and by Investor Consent, by the Dawn Capital Director and by the Insight Director;

 

  (d) any Shares or other securities issued by the Company in consideration of the acquisition of any company or business which has been approved by the Board and by Investor Consent, by the Dawn Capital Director and by the Insight Director;

 

  (e) any Shares or other securities issued by the Company to customers, suppliers or original equipment manufacturers (or other strategic partners) (excluding to any Member) in connection with the supply of goods or services to or from them which has been approved by the Board and by Investor Consent;

 

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  (f) the issue of up to 50,000 B Ordinary Shares which may be payable in consideration for the lapse of an agreement between the Company and Barry Gill; and

 

  (g) the issue of up to 16,667 B Ordinary Shares which may be payable in consideration for the lapse of an agreement between the Company and Dharshan Singh;

Restricted Shares ” has the meaning given to it in Article 30.4;

Sale Date ” has the meaning given to it in Article 31.3;

Sale Proceeds ” has the meaning given to it in Article 20.1;

Sale Shares ” has the meaning given to it in Article 28.2.1;

Second Offerees ” means the persons to whom the offer is to be made second in accordance with Articles 28.8, 28.9 or 28.10;

Second Offer Period ” has the meaning given to it in Article 28.13;

Secretary ” means any person duly appointed to perform any of the duties of secretary of the Company (including a temporary or assistant secretary), and in the event of two or more persons being appointed as joint secretaries any one or more of the persons so appointed;

Seller ” has the meaning given to it in Article 28.2;

Sellers’ Shares ” has the meaning given to it in Article 32.1;

Selling Founder ” has the meaning given to it in Article 33.1;

Selling Members ” has the meaning given to it in Article 32.1;

Series A Majority” means the consent of the holders of a majority of the Series A Preferred Shares then in issue;

Series A Preference Amount ” has the meaning given to it in Article 19.1.2;

Series A Previously Paid Amount ” means in respect of a Series A Preferred Share an amount equal to the total of all capital and income paid in respect of a Series A Preferred Share pursuant to and in accordance with Article 20.2 (whether by way of dividend, redemption, cancellation, special distribution or otherwise) and, where the whole or any part of the amount paid pursuant to and in accordance with Article 20.2 is in a form other than cash, the value of the Series A Previously Paid Amount which is not paid in cash shall be the amount agreed in writing between the Board and a Series A Majority (in the absence of agreement within 10 Business Days after a written request from the Board or a Series A Majority, the amount certified by the Independent Expert (acting as experts and not as arbitrators) as being, in their opinion, the current cash value of the non-cash part of any such amount;

 

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Series B Majority” means the consent of the holders of a majority of the Series B Preferred Shares then in issue;

Series B Preference Amount ” has the meaning given to it in Article 19.1.1;

Series A Preferred Shares ” means the convertible series A preferred shares of $0.012 each in the capital of the Company;

Series B Preferred Shares ” means the convertible series B preferred shares of $0.012 each in the capital of the Company;

Series B Previously Paid Amount ” means in respect of a Series B Preferred Share an amount equal to the total of all capital and income paid in respect of a Series B Preferred Share pursuant to and in accordance these Articles (whether by way of dividend, redemption, cancellation, special distribution or otherwise) and, where the whole or any part of the amount paid pursuant to and in accordance with these Articles is in a form other than cash, the value of the Series B Previously Paid Amount which is not paid in cash shall be the amount agreed in writing between the Board and a Series B Majority, or, in the absence of agreement within 10 Business Days after a written request from the Board or a Series B Majority, the amount certified by the Independent Expert (acting as experts and not as arbitrators) as being, in their opinion, the current cash value of the non-cash part of any such amount;

Member ” means a holder for the time being of Shares;

Share Option Plan ” means any share option plan for the benefit of directors, employees and/or consultants of any Group Company in effect on the Adoption Date and any new share option plan for the benefit of directors, employees and/or consultants of any Group Company adopted by the remuneration committee of the Board pursuant to the Investment Agreement or otherwise which the Board and an Investor Majority with Founder Consent identifies in writing as being a Share Option Plan for the purposes of these Articles;

Shares ” means shares (of any class) in the capital of the Company;

Share Sale ” means the sale of (or the grant of a right to acquire or to dispose of) any Shares (in one transaction or as a series of transactions) which would, if completed, result in the buyer of those Shares (or grantee of that right) and persons acting in concert with him together acquiring a Controlling Interest, except where the Members and the proportion of Shares held by each of them following completion of the sale are the same as the Members and their shareholdings in the Company immediately prior to the sale;

 

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Special Resolution ” means a resolution of the Company passed as a special resolution in accordance with the Law save that the majority required to pass the resolution shall be three quarters of the votes cast by those Members who (being entitled to do so) vote in person or by proxy at the relevant meeting;

Trade Marks ” the trade and service marks and applications, together with associated logos, owned by any Group Company;

Transfer Notice ” has the meaning given to it in Article 28.2;

Transfer Price ” has the meaning given to it in Article 29.1;

Written Instruments ” means any document or instrument in writing and includes contracts, agreements, deeds, mortgages, hypothecs, charges, conveyances, transfers, assignments, releases, receipts, discharges, all paper writings, all cheques, drafts or orders for the payment of money and all notes, acceptances and bills of exchange.

 

2.2 In these Articles, unless inconsistent with the subject or context:

 

  2.2.1 a reference to an “Article” is a reference to the relevant numbered article of these Articles unless expressly provided otherwise

 

  2.2.2 the word “may” shall be construed as permissive and the word “shall” shall be construed as imperative;

 

  2.2.3 the word “signed” shall be construed as including a signature or representation of a signature affixed by mechanical or other means;

 

  2.2.4 the words “in writing” shall be construed as including written, printed, telexed, electronically transmitted or any other mode of representing or reproducing words in a visible form;

 

  2.2.5 the expression “ officer ” shall include, in relation to a body corporate, a director, alternate director, manager, executive officer and company secretary (including, in the case of the Company, the Directors, any alternate Directors, the Secretary and any executive officers of the Company who are not Directors) but shall not include auditors (being, in the case of the Company, the Auditors);

 

  2.2.6 words importing “persons” shall be construed as including companies or associations or bodies of persons whether incorporated or unincorporated; words importing the singular number shall be construed as including the plural number and vice versa; words importing one gender only shall be construed as including any other gender;

 

  2.2.7 a reference to the Company being a “private company” or a “public company” is a reference to such status as determined for the time being in accordance with the Law;

 

  2.2.8 the word “includes” shall mean “includes without limitation”;

 

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  2.2.9 the words “pay” and “paid” shall be construed as including every form of settlement, including a transfer or vesting of moveable or immoveable property;

 

  2.2.10 references to A Ordinary Shares being in issue immediately after a Listing or A Ordinary Shares being offered as part of a Listing or words with a similar effect shall be deemed to be references to any class of shares into which the A Ordinary Shares are redesignated as part of the Listing;

 

  2.2.11 any word or expression defined in the Law on the adoption of these Articles shall, if not inconsistent with the subject or context and unless otherwise expressly defined in these Articles, bear the same meaning in these Articles except that company shall mean any body corporate;

 

  2.2.12 references to $, dollars or cents are to the lawful currency of the United States of America;

 

  2.2.13 where any expression is defined or the interpretation of it is set out herein, other parts of speech of such expression shall have a corresponding meaning; and

 

  2.2.14 references to enactments are to such enactments as are from time to time modified, re-enacted or consolidated and shall include any enactment made in substitution for an enactment that is repealed.

 

2.3 Headings in these Articles are used for convenience only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of these Articles.

 

2.4 In these Articles, words denoting the singular include the plural and vice versa and reference to one gender includes the other gender and neuter and vice versa.

 

2.5 Unless expressly provided otherwise, a reference to a statute, statutory provision or subordinate legislation is a reference to it as it is in force from time to time, taking account of:

 

  2.5.1 any subordinate legislation from time to time made under it; and

 

  2.5.2 any amendment or re-enactment and includes any statute, statutory provision or subordinate legislation which it amends or re-enacts.

 

3. SHARE CAPITAL

The share capital of the Company is as specified in the Memorandum of Association as at the date of adoption of these Articles and the shares of the Company shall have the rights and be subject to the conditions contained in these Articles.

 

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4. SHARE CERTIFICATES

 

4.1 Every Member shall be entitled:

 

  4.1.1 without payment, to one certificate for all his shares of each class and, when part only of the shares comprised in a certificate is sold or transferred, to a new certificate for the remainder of the shares so comprised; or

 

  4.1.2 upon payment of such sum for each certificate as the Directors shall from time to time determine, to several certificates each for one or more of his shares of any class.

 

4.2 Every certificate shall be issued within two months after allotment or lodgement of transfer (or within such other period as the conditions of issue shall provide), shall be issued either under seal or signed by two Directors or by one Director and the Secretary, and shall specify the shares to which it relates, whether or not the shares are fully paid up and, if so required by the Law, the distinguishing numbers of such shares.

 

4.3 In respect of a share held jointly by several persons, the Company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate, and delivery of a certificate for a share to one of several joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all such holders.

 

4.4 If a share certificate is defaced, damaged, lost or destroyed, it may be renewed on payment of such fee and on such terms (if any) as to evidence and indemnity and the payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Company in relation thereto as the Directors think fit.

 

5. REGISTER OF MEMBERS

The Directors shall keep or cause to be kept at the Office or at such other place in Jersey where it is made up, as the Directors may from time to time determine, a Register in the manner required by the Law. In each year the Directors shall prepare or cause to be prepared and filed an annual return containing the particulars required by the Law.

 

6. JOINT HOLDERS

 

6.1 Where two or more persons are registered as the holders of any share they shall be deemed to hold the same as joint tenants with the benefit of survivorship, subject to the following provisions:

 

  6.1.1 the Company shall not be bound to register more than four persons as the joint holders of any share;

 

  6.1.2 the joint holders of any share shall be liable, severally as well as jointly, in respect of all payments to be made in respect of such share;

 

  6.1.3 any one of such joint holders may give a good receipt for any distribution, bonus issue, return of capital or other monies payable to such joint holders in respect of that share;

 

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  6.1.4 only the senior of the joint holders of a share shall be entitled to delivery of the certificate relating to such share or to receive notices from the Company and any notice given to the senior joint holder shall be deemed notice to all the joint holders; and

 

  6.1.5 for the purpose of the provisions of this Article, seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names of the joint holders appear in the Register.

 

7. LIEN

 

7.1 The Company shall have a first and paramount lien on every share (not being a fully paid share) for all monies, whether presently payable or not, called or payable at a fixed time in respect of such shares; and the Company shall also have a first and paramount lien on all shares (other than fully paid shares) registered in the name of a single Member for all the debts and liabilities of such Member or his estate to the Company, whether the same shall have been incurred before or after notice to the Company of any interest of any person other than such Member and whether the period for the payment or discharge of the same shall have actually commenced or not, and notwithstanding that the same are joint debts or liabilities of such Member or his estate and any other person whether a Member or not. The Company’s lien (if any) on a share shall extend to all distributions, bonus issues, returns of capital or other monies payable thereon or in respect thereof. The Directors may resolve that any share shall, for such period as they think fit, be exempt from the provisions of this Article.

 

7.2 The Company may sell any shares on which the Company has a lien in such manner as the Directors think fit, but no sale shall be made unless some monies in respect of which the lien exists are presently payable, and fourteen days have expired after a notice, stating and demanding payment of the monies presently payable and giving notice of intention to sell in default, shall have been served on the holder for the time being of the shares or the person entitled by reason of his death or bankruptcy to the shares.

 

7.3 The net proceeds of such sale, after payment of the costs of such sale, shall be applied in or towards payment or satisfaction of the debt or liability in respect whereof the lien exists, so far as the same is presently payable, and any residue shall (subject to a like lien for debts or liabilities not presently payable as existed upon the shares prior to the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the shares at the time of the sale. For giving effect to any such sale the Directors may authorise a person to execute an instrument of transfer of the shares sold to the purchaser thereof. The purchaser shall be registered as the holder of the shares so transferred and he shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money nor shall his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the sale.

 

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8. CALLS ON SHARES

 

8.1 The Directors may, subject to the provisions of these Articles and to any conditions of allotment, from time to time make calls upon the Members in respect of any monies unpaid on their shares (whether on account of the nominal amount of the shares or by way of premium), provided that (except as otherwise fixed by the conditions of application or allotment) no call on any share shall be payable within fourteen days of the date appointed for payment of the last preceding call, and each Member shall (subject to being given at least fourteen clear days’ notice specifying the time or times and place of payment) pay to the Company at the time or times and place so specified the amount called on his shares.

 

8.2 A call may be made payable by instalments. A call may be postponed or wholly or in part revoked as the Directors may determine. A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Directors authorising the call was passed.

 

8.3 If a sum called in respect of a share is not paid before or on the day appointed for payment thereof, the person from whom the sum is due may be required to pay interest on the sum from the day appointed for payment thereof to the time of actual payment at a rate determined by the Directors not exceeding the rate of ten per cent per annum.

 

8.4 Any sum which by or pursuant to the terms of issue of a share becomes payable upon allotment or at any fixed date (whether on account of the nominal amount of the share or by way of premium) shall, for all the purposes of these Articles, be deemed to be a call duly made and payable on the date on which, by or pursuant to the terms of issue, the same becomes payable, and in case of non-payment, all the relevant provisions of these Articles as to payment of interest, forfeiture or otherwise shall apply as if such sum had become payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.

 

8.5 The Directors may make arrangements on the issue of shares for a difference between the holders in the amount of calls to be paid and in the times of payment.

 

8.6 The Directors may, if they think fit, receive from any Member willing to advance the same, all or any part of the money uncalled and unpaid upon the shares held by him beyond the sums actually called up thereon as a payment in advance of calls. Any such payment in advance of calls shall extinguish, so far as the same shall extend, the liability upon the shares in respect of which it is advanced. The Company may pay interest upon the money so received, or upon so much thereof as from time to time exceeds the amount of the calls then made upon the shares in respect of which it has been received, at such rate as the Directors shall think fit provided that any amount paid up in advance of calls shall not entitle the holder of the shares upon which such amount is paid to participate in respect thereof in any distribution or bonus issue until the same would but for such advance become presently payable.

 

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9. FORFEITURE AND SURRENDER OF SHARES

 

9.1 If a Member fails to pay any call or instalment of a call on or before the day appointed for payment thereof, the Directors may at any time thereafter, during such time as any part of such call or instalment remains unpaid, serve a notice on him requiring payment of so much of the call or instalment as is unpaid, together with any interest which may have accrued and any expenses which may have been incurred by the Company by reason of such non-payment or accept their surrender instead of causing them to be so forfeited.

 

9.2 The notice shall name a further day (not earlier than fourteen days from the date of service thereof) on or before which and the place where the payment required by the notice is to be made, and shall state that in the event of non-payment at or before the time and at the place appointed, the shares on which the call was made will be liable to be forfeited.

 

9.3 If the requirements of any such notice as aforesaid are not complied with, any share in respect of which such notice has been given may at any time thereafter, before payment of all calls and interest due in respect thereof have been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Directors to that effect, and such forfeiture shall include all distributions, bonus issues, returns of capital or other monies which shall have been resolved to be paid or made on the forfeited shares and not actually paid or made before the forfeiture.

 

9.4 When any share has been forfeited in accordance with these Articles, notice of the forfeiture shall forthwith be given to the holder of the share or the person entitled to the share by transmission, as the case may be, and an entry of such notice having been given, and of the forfeiture with the date thereof, shall forthwith be made in the Register opposite to the entry of the share; but no forfeiture shall be invalidated in any manner by any omission or neglect to give such notice or to make such entry as aforesaid.

 

9.5 A forfeited or surrendered share may be sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed of, either to the person who was before forfeiture or surrender the holder thereof or entitled thereto, or to any other person, upon such terms and in such manner as the Directors think fit, and at any time before a sale, re-allotment or disposition the forfeiture or surrender may be cancelled on such terms as the Directors think fit. The Directors may, if necessary, authorise some person to transfer a forfeited or surrendered share to any other person as aforesaid.

 

9.6 A Member whose shares have been forfeited or surrendered shall cease to be a Member in respect of the forfeited or surrendered shares but shall, notwithstanding the forfeiture or surrender, remain liable to pay to the Company all monies which at the date of forfeiture or surrender were presently payable by him to the Company in respect of the shares, with interest thereon at a rate determined by the Directors not exceeding ten per cent per annum from the date of forfeiture or surrender as the case may be until payment and the Directors may enforce payment without any allowance for the value of the shares at the time of forfeiture or surrender.

 

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9.7 An affidavit by a Director or the Secretary that a share has been duly forfeited or surrendered on the date stated therein shall be conclusive evidence of the facts so stated as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share and such affidavit and the receipt of the Company for the consideration (if any) given for the share on the sale, re-allotment or disposal thereof, together with the certificate for the share delivered to a purchaser or allottee thereof, shall (subject to the execution of a transfer if the same be so required) constitute good title to the share and the person to whom the share is sold, re-allotted or disposed of shall be registered as the holder of the share and shall not be bound to see to the application of the consideration (if any), nor shall his title to the share be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in respect of the forfeiture, surrender, sale, re-allotment or disposal of the share.

 

9.8 The provisions of these Articles as to forfeiture and surrender shall apply in the case of non-payment of any sum which by the terms of issue of a share becomes payable at a fixed time (whether on account of the nominal amount of the share or by way of premium) as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.

 

10. NUMBER OF DIRECTORS

The number of Directors shall not exceed eight but shall not be less than two.

 

11. PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS

 

11.1 The business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors who may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not by the Law or these Articles required to be exercised by the Company in general meeting, and the power and authority to represent the Company in all transactions relating to moveable and immoveable property and all other legal or judicial transactions, acts and matters and before all courts of law shall be vested in the Directors.

 

11.2 The Directors’ powers shall be subject to these Articles, the Law and to such regulations, being not inconsistent with these Articles or the Law, as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting, but no regulations made by the Company in general meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors which would have been valid if such regulations had not been made.

 

11.3 The Directors may, acting with Investor Consent and Founder Consent, by power of attorney, mandate or otherwise, appoint any person to be the agent of the Company for such purposes and on such conditions as they determine, including authority for the agent to delegate all or any of his powers.

 

11.4 Any decision of the Directors must be taken at a meeting of Directors in accordance with these Articles or must be a decision taken in accordance with Article 11.5 (subject to Articles 11.6 and 11.7). All decisions made at any meeting of the Directors (or any committee of the Directors) shall be made only by resolution and resolutions at any meeting of the Directors (or committee of the Directors) shall be decided by a majority of votes (subject to any specific consent rights of any Director set forth herein).

 

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11.5 A unanimous decision of the Directors is taken when all Eligible Directors indicate to each other by any means that they share a common view on a matter.

 

11.6 A decision taken in accordance with Article 11.5 may take the form of a resolution in writing, where each Eligible Director has signed one or more copies of it, or to which each Eligible Director has otherwise indicated agreement in writing.

 

11.7 A decision may not be taken in accordance with Article 11.5 if the Eligible Directors would not have formed a quorum at a Directors’ meeting to vote on the matter in accordance with Articles 11.12 and 11.13.

 

11.8 The Directors may delegate any of their powers (and, if the directors so specify, any such delegation may authorise further delegation of the directors’ powers by any person to whom they are delegated) acting with Investor Consent and Founder Consent to committees consisting of such Directors or Director or such other persons as they think fit. Any committee so formed shall in the exercise of the powers so delegated conform to any procedures or regulations that may be imposed on it by the Directors and which prevail over rules derived from these articles of association if they are not consistent with them (acting with Investor Consent and Founder Consent). The meetings and proceedings of any such committee consisting of two or more persons shall be governed by the provisions of these Articles regulating the meetings and proceedings of the Directors, so far as the same are applicable and are not superseded by any regulations made by the Directors under this Article. The directors may revoke any delegation in whole or in part or alter its terms and conditions, in each case acting with Investor Consent and Founder Consent.

 

11.9 If a Director is by any means in communication with one or more other Directors so that each Director participating in the communication can hear what is said by any other of them, each Director so participating in the communication is deemed to be present at a meeting with the other Directors so participating, notwithstanding that all the Directors so participating are not present together in the same place. The place of any such meeting shall be recorded as the place at which the chairman is present, unless the Directors otherwise determine.

 

11.10 All acts done bona fide by any meeting of Directors or of a committee appointed by the Directors or by any person acting as a Director shall, notwithstanding that it is afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any such Director or committee or person acting as aforesaid, or that they or any of them were disqualified or had vacated office or were not entitled to vote, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and was qualified and had continued to be a Director or a member of a committee appointed by the Directors and had been entitled to vote.

 

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11.11 Meetings of the Directors shall take place at least six (6) times in each year, at least four (4) of which will be held in person (meaning at least a quorum of Directors are physically present in the same location), with a period of not more than ten (10) weeks between any two meetings. Any Director may call a meeting of the Directors, or authorise the company secretary (if any) to give such notice. At least five Business Days’ advance notice in writing of each such meeting shall be given to each Director (except with the prior consent in writing of the Insight Director, the Index Director, the Dawn Capital Director and Founder Consent, when meetings of the Directors may take place less frequently or on shorter notice).

 

11.12 Subject to Article 43, the quorum for any meeting (or, where specified below, part of a meeting) of the Directors shall be five Eligible Directors, which must include the Insight Director, the Index Director, the Dawn Capital Director and the Founder Directors (but, in each case, only if the appointing Founder continues to be an Active Founder) in office for the time being, unless:

 

  11.12.1 there is no such director in office for the time being; or

 

  11.12.2 such director has, in respect of any particular meeting (or part of a meeting), otherwise agreed ahead of such meeting; or

 

  11.12.3 such director is not, in respect of any particular meeting (or part of a meeting), an Eligible Director,

in which case, subject to Article 11.13, the quorum for such meeting (or part of the meeting, as the case may be) shall be any two Eligible Directors. If the necessary quorum is not present within 30 minutes from the time appointed for the meeting, or if, during a meeting, such quorum ceases to be present, the meeting shall stand adjourned to such time and place as the Directors determine being no less than 7 and no more than 14 days later. If a quorum is not present at any such adjourned meeting within 30 minutes from the time appointed, then the meeting shall proceed.

 

11.13 For the purposes of any meeting (or part of a meeting) held pursuant to Article 16.2 to authorise a Conflict (as defined in Article 16.2), if there is only one Eligible Director in office other than the conflicted Director(s), the quorum for such meeting (or part of a meeting) shall be one Eligible Director.

 

11.14 If the number of Directors in office for the time being is less than two, the Director in office must not take any decision other than a decision to:

 

  11.14.1 appoint further Directors; or

 

  11.14.2 call a general meeting so as to enable the Members to appoint further Directors.

 

11.15 Questions arising at any meeting of the Directors shall be decided by a majority of votes. If there is an equality of votes, the Chairman (or other chairman of the meeting) shall not have a second or casting vote.

 

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11.16 Where decisions of the Directors are taken by electronic means, such decisions shall be recorded by the Directors in permanent form, so that they may be read with the naked eye.

 

12. DIRECTORS’ RESOLUTIONS IN WRITING

 

12.1 A resolution in writing of which notice has been given to all of the Directors or to all of the members of a committee appointed pursuant to Article 11.8 (as the case may be), if signed by all of the Directors or all of the members of such committee (as the case may be), shall be valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Directors or of the relevant committee duly convened and held and may consist of two or more documents in like form each signed by one or more of the Directors or members of the relevant committee.

 

13. MINUTE BOOK

 

13.1 The Directors shall cause all resolutions in writing passed in accordance with Articles 34.1 and 11 and minutes of proceedings at all general meetings of the Company or of the holders of any class of the Company’s shares and of the Directors and of committees appointed by the Directors to be entered in books kept for the purpose. Any minutes of a meeting, if purporting to be signed by the chairman of the meeting or by the chairman of the next succeeding meeting, shall be evidence of the proceedings.

 

14. APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS

 

14.1 Subject to the provisions of Article 10, the Directors shall have power at any time and from time to time to appoint any person to be a Director, either to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to the existing Directors.

 

14.2 At any general meeting at which a Director retires or is removed from office the Company may elect a Director to fill the vacancy, unless the Company determines to reduce the number of Directors in office.

 

14.3 If the Company in general meeting determines to increase the number of Directors in office the Company shall elect additional Directors.

 

14.4 Seven clear days’ notice shall be given to the Company of the intention of any Member to propose any person for election to the office of Director provided always that, if the Members present in person at a general meeting unanimously consent, the chairman of such meeting may waive the said notice and submit to the meeting the name of any person duly qualified and willing to act.

 

14.5 The office of a Director shall be vacated if:

 

  14.5.1 he resigns his office by notice to the Company; or

 

  14.5.2 he ceases to be a Director by virtue of any provision of the Law or becomes prohibited or disqualified by law from being a Director; or

 

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  14.5.3 he becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors generally; or

 

  14.5.4 he is removed from office by resolution of the Members; or

 

  14.5.5 he is convicted of a criminal offence (other than a minor motoring offence) and a majority of the other Directors resolve that he cease to be a Director; or

 

  14.5.6 a majority of the other Directors resolve that he cease to be a Director, save in the case of an Insight Director, an Index Director, a Dawn Capital Director and a Founder Director who may not be so removed.

 

14.6 Unless otherwise specified in the instrument or resolution of appointment, a Director shall hold office until he resigns, or is disqualified or removed in accordance with Article 14.5.

 

15. DIRECTORS, OBSERVERS AND CHAIRMAN

 

15.1 For so long as it is a Member, the Lead Index Investor shall from time to time have the right:

 

  15.1.1 to appoint, by notice in writing addressed to the Company, and to maintain in office, one person as a Director (the “Index Director”) and to remove such Index Director and to appoint a replacement; or

 

  15.1.2 to appoint a representative to attend as an observer at each and any meeting of the Board and of each and any committee of the Board who will be entitled to speak at any such meetings but will have no vote and no authority to bind the Company in any way.

 

15.2 For so long as it is a Member, Dawn Capital shall from time to time have the right jointly:

 

  15.2.1 to appoint, by notice in writing addressed to the Company, and to maintain in office, one person as a Director (the “Dawn Capital Director”) and jointly to remove such Dawn Capital Director and to appoint a replacement; or

 

  15.2.2 to appoint a representative to attend as an observer at each and any meeting of the Board and of each and any committee of the Board who will be entitled to speak at any such meetings but will have no vote and no authority to bind the Company in any way.

 

15.3 For so long as it is a Member, Insight shall from time to time have the right:

 

  15.3.1 to appoint, by notice in writing addressed to the Company, and to maintain in office, one person as a Director (the “Insight Director”) and to remove such Insight Director and to appoint a replacement; or

 

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  15.3.2 to appoint a representative to attend as an observer at each and any meeting of the Board and of each and any committee of the Board who will be entitled to speak at any such meetings but will have no vote and no authority to bind the Company in any way.

 

15.4 Peter Bauer and Neil Murray shall each have the right:

 

  15.4.1 to appoint, by notice in writing addressed to the Company, and to maintain in office, one person as a Director (each a “ Founder Director ”) and to remove any such Founder Director and to appoint a replacement; or

 

  15.4.2 to appoint a representative to attend as an observer at each and any meeting of the Board and of each and any committee of the Board who will be entitled to speak at any such meetings but will have no vote and no authority to bind the Company in any way.

 

15.5 Any appointment or removal of an Index Director, a Dawn Capital Director, an Insight Director or a Founder Director made in accordance with Articles 15.1 to 15.4 (inclusive) shall take immediate effect upon receipt (or deemed receipt) by the Company of such notice in writing, or the production of such notice at a meeting of the Directors or, if later, the date (if any) specified in such notice.

 

15.6 Each of the Index Director, the Dawn Capital Director and the Insight Director shall be entitled to be appointed to any committee of the Directors established from time to time. On the receipt of the request in writing of his appointor(s), the Company shall procure that an Index Director, the Dawn Capital Director, the Insight Director and the Founder Directors (as the case may be) shall be appointed as a director of any other Group Company, to the extent specified in such request.

 

15.7 A Director need not be a Member but shall nevertheless be entitled to receive notice of and to attend and speak at any general meeting or at any separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the Company.

 

15.8 The reasonable expenses of each Director and each observer shall be payable by the Company.

 

15.9 The Directors may appoint any person as chairman of the Board (“ Chairman ”) and may remove and replace any such Chairman. If there is no Chairman in office for the time being, or the Chairman is unable to attend any meeting of the Directors, the Directors present at the meeting must appoint another Director present at the meeting to chair the meeting and the appointment of the chairman of the meeting must be the first business of the meeting.

 

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16. TRANSACTIONS OR OTHER ARRANGEMENTS WITH DIRECTORS

 

16.1 A Director, including an alternate Director, may hold any other office or place of profit under the Company (other than the office of auditor) in conjunction with his office of Director and may act in a professional capacity to the Company on such terms as to tenure of office, remuneration and otherwise as the Directors may determine.

 

16.2 Subject to the provisions of the Law and provided he has declared the nature and extent of his interests which conflict or may conflict to a material extent with the interests of the Company (a “Conflict” ), a Director who is in any way, whether directly or indirectly, interested in an existing or proposed transaction or arrangement with the Company:

 

  16.2.1 may be a party to, or otherwise interested in, any existing or proposed transaction or arrangement with the Company or in which the Company is otherwise (directly or indirectly) interested;

 

  16.2.2 shall be an Eligible Director for the purposes of any proposed decision of the Directors (or committee of the Directors) in respect of such existing or proposed transaction or arrangement in which he is interested;

 

  16.2.3 shall be entitled to vote at a meeting of Directors (or of a committee of the Directors) or participate in any unanimous decision, in respect of such existing or proposed transaction or arrangement in which he is interested;

 

  16.2.4 may act by himself or his firm in a professional capacity for the Company (otherwise than as auditor) and he or his firm shall be entitled to remuneration for professional services as if he were not a Director;

 

  16.2.5 may be a Director or other officer of, or employed by, or a party to a transaction or arrangement with, or otherwise interested in, any body corporate in which the Company is otherwise (directly or indirectly) interested; and

 

  16.2.6 shall not, save as he may otherwise agree, be accountable to the Company for any benefit which he (or a person connected with him) derives from any such transaction or arrangement or from any such office or employment or from any interest in any such body corporate and no such transaction or arrangement shall be liable to be avoided on the grounds of any such interest or benefit.

 

16.3 For the purposes of Article 16.2:

 

  16.3.1 a general notice given to the Directors or Secretary in the manner there specified that a Director is to be regarded as having an interest of the nature and extent specified in the notice in any transaction or arrangement in which a specified person or class of persons is interested shall be deemed to be a disclosure that the Director has an interest in any such transaction of the nature and extent so specified; and

 

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  16.3.2 an interest of which a Director has no knowledge and of which it is unreasonable to expect him to have knowledge shall not be treated as an interest of that Director.

 

16.4 Where disclosure of an interest is made to the Secretary the Secretary shall inform the Directors that it has been made and table the notice of the disclosure at the next meeting of the Directors. Any disclosure at a meeting of the Directors shall be recorded in the minutes of the meeting.

 

16.5 A Director, notwithstanding his interest, may be counted in the quorum present at any meeting at which he is appointed to hold any office or place of profit under the Company, or at which the terms of his appointment are arranged, but he may not vote on his own appointment or the terms thereof.

 

16.6 The continuing Directors or a sole continuing Director may act notwithstanding any vacancies in their number, but if the number of Directors is less than:

 

  16.6.1 the minimum number of Directors fixed by the Company in general meeting; or

 

  16.6.2 the number fixed by the Directors as the quorum for meetings of the directors,

the continuing Directors or Director may act only for the purpose of filling vacancies or of calling a general meeting of the Company.

 

16.7 If there are no Directors or no Director is able or willing to act, then any Member or the Secretary may summon a general meeting for the purpose of appointing Directors.

 

16.8 An Index Director, a Dawn Capital Director, an Insight Director and a Founder Director shall be entitled from time to time to disclose to his respective appointor(s) (and to any Permitted Transferee of such appointor) such information concerning the business and affairs of the Company as he shall at his discretion see fit.

 

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16.9 A Director is not required, by reason of being a Director (or because of the fiduciary relationship established by reason of being a Director), to account to the Company for any remuneration, profit or other benefit which he derives from or in connection with a relationship involving a Conflict which has been authorised by the Directors in accordance with these Articles or by the Company in general meeting (subject in each case to any terms and conditions attaching to that authorisation) and no contract shall be liable to be avoided on such grounds.

 

17. SECRETARY

The Directors may appoint any person who is willing to act as the Secretary for such term, at such remuneration and upon such conditions as they may think fit and from time to time remove such person and, if the Directors so decide, appoint a replacement, in each case by a decision of the Directors. Anything required or authorised to be done by or to the Secretary may, if the office is vacant or there is for any other reason no secretary capable of acting, be done by or to any assistant or deputy secretary or if there is no assistant or deputy secretary capable of acting, by or to any officer of the Company authorised generally or specially in that behalf by the Directors provided that any provisions of these Articles requiring or authorising a thing to be done by or to a Director and the Secretary shall not be satisfied by its being done by or to the same person acting both as Director and as, or in place of, the Secretary. The Company shall keep or cause to be kept at the Office a register of particulars with regard to its Secretary in the manner required by the Law.

 

18. DIVIDENDS

 

18.1 Any Available Profits which the Company may determine to distribute will be distributed among the holders of the Dividend Shares (pari passu as if they constituted Shares of the same class) pro rata to their respective holdings of Dividend Shares. For the avoidance of doubt, the C Ordinary Shares and the Deferred Shares do not carry the right to receive dividends in any circumstances.

 

18.2 The Directors may authorise and pay distributions (in cash or otherwise) at any time in accordance with the Law and these Articles provided that the Company obtains Investor Consent, Series B Majority Consent and Founder Consent to any such distributions.

 

18.3 In addition to the powers conferred on the Directors by Articles 18.1 and 18.2, subject to the provisions of the Law and these Articles, a distribution may be declared and paid as a dividend. A distribution declared and paid in accordance with the provisions of Article 18.4 and identified as a dividend shall be a dividend.

 

18.4 Subject to the provisions of the Law and these Articles:

 

  18.4.1 the Company may by resolution declare a dividend in accordance with the respective rights of the Members, but no dividend shall exceed the amount recommended by the Directors;

 

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  18.4.2 a general meeting declaring a dividend may, upon the recommendation of the Directors, direct payment of such dividend wholly or in part by the distribution of specific assets, and in particular of paid up shares or debentures of any other company, and the Directors shall give effect to such resolution; and where any difficulty arises in regard to the distribution they may settle the same as they think expedient, and in particular may issue certificates representing part of a shareholding or fractions of shares, and may fix the value for distribution of such specific assets or any part thereof, and may determine that cash payment shall be made to any Members upon the footing of the value so fixed, in order to adjust the rights of Members, and may vest any specific assets in trustees upon trust for the persons entitled to the dividend as may seem expedient to the Directors, and generally may make such arrangements for the allotment, acceptance and sale of such specific assets or certificates representing part of a shareholding or fractions of shares, or any part thereof, and otherwise as they think fit;

 

  18.4.3 the Directors may, if they think fit, from time to time pay to the Members such interim dividends provided that:

 

  18.4.3.1 the Available Profits of the Company justify the payment; and

 

  18.4.3.2 the Company obtains Investor Consent, the consent of the Series B Majority and Founder Consent to any such interim dividend; and

 

  18.4.4 if at any time the share capital of the Company is divided into different classes, the Directors may pay interim dividends in respect of those shares in the capital of the Company which confer on the holders thereof deferred or non-preferred rights, as well as in respect of those shares which confer on the holders thereof preferential rights with regard to dividends, provided that no interim dividend may be paid on shares carrying deferred or non-preferred rights if, at the time of payment, any preferential dividend is in arrear; the Directors may also pay half-yearly, or at other suitable intervals to be settled by them, any dividend which may be payable at a fixed rate if they are of the opinion that the financial resources of the Company justify the payment. Provided the Directors act bona fide they shall not incur any personal liability to the holders of shares conferring a preference for any damage that they may suffer by reason of the payment of an interim dividend on any shares having deferred or non-preferred rights.

 

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18.5 Subject to any particular rights or limitations as to distributions for the time being attached to any shares, as may be specified in these Articles or upon which such shares may be issued, all distributions shall be declared, apportioned and paid pro-rata according to the number of shares held by each Member save that, where a share is not fully paid, distributions shall be declared, apportioned and paid on that share in the same proportion as the amount paid up on that share bears to the aggregate issue price of that share during the portion or portions of the period in respect of which the distribution is paid. For the purposes of this Article, no amount paid up on a share in advance of a call shall be treated as paid up on that share.

 

18.6 The Directors may deduct from any distribution or other monies payable to any Member on or in respect of a share all sums of money (if any) presently payable by him to the Company on account of calls or otherwise in relation to the shares of the Company.

 

18.7 All unclaimed distributions may be invested or otherwise made use of by the Directors for the benefit of the Company until claimed. No distribution shall bear interest as against the Company.

 

18.8 Any distribution which has remained unclaimed for a period of ten years from the date of declaration thereof shall, if the Directors so resolve, be forfeited and cease to remain owing by the Company and shall thenceforth belong to the Company absolutely.

 

18.9 Any distribution or other monies payable on or in respect of a share may be paid by bank transfer or by cheque or warrant sent through the post to the registered address of the Member or person entitled thereto, and in the case of joint holders to any one of such joint holders, or to such person and to such address as the holder or joint holders may in writing direct. Every such cheque or warrant shall be made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent or to such other person as the holder or joint holders may in writing direct, and payment of the cheque or warrant shall be a good discharge to the Company. Every such cheque or warrant shall be sent at the risk of the person entitled to the money represented thereby.

 

18.10 Any resolution approving or declaring a distribution (whether as a dividend or otherwise) on the shares of any class, whether a resolution of the Company in general meeting or a resolution of the Directors may specify that the same shall be payable to the persons registered as the holders of shares of the class concerned at the close of business on a particular date, notwithstanding that it may be a date prior to that on which the resolution is passed, and thereupon such distribution shall be payable to them in accordance with their respective holdings so registered, but without prejudice to the rights inter se in respect of such distribution of transferors and transferees of any shares of the relevant class.

 

18.11 Each dividend shall be distributed to the holders of the Dividend Shares (pari passu as if they constituted shares of the same class) pro rata to their respective holdings of Dividend Shares. All dividends shall be paid in cash.

 

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19. LIQUIDATION PREFERENCE

On a return of assets on liquidation, capital reduction or otherwise, the assets of the Company remaining after the payment of its liabilities shall be applied (to the extent that the Company is lawfully able to do so) in the following order of priority:

 

  19.1.1 first, in paying to the holders of the Series B Preferred Shares in respect of each Series B Preferred Share held the Issue Price of that Series B Preferred Share, together with a sum equal to any arrears of any dividend due on that share (the Issue Price and any such dividend arrears, together, the “Series B Preference Amount”) less the Series B Previously Paid Amount and, if there is a shortfall of assets remaining to satisfy such payments in full, the proceeds shall be distributed to the holders of the Series B Preferred Shares pro rata to the aggregate amounts due under this Article 19.1.1 to each such Series B Preferred Share held; or

 

  19.1.2 second, in paying to the holders of the Series A Preferred Shares in respect of each Series A Preferred Share held the Issue Price of that Series A Preferred Share, together with a sum equal to any arrears of any dividend due on that share (the Issue Price and any such dividend arrears, together, the “Series A Preference Amount”) less the Series A Previously Paid Amount and, if there is a shortfall of assets remaining to satisfy such payments in full, the proceeds shall be distributed to the holders of the Series A Preferred Shares pro rata to the aggregate amounts due under this Article 19.1.2 to each such Series A Preferred Share held;

 

  19.1.3 third, in paying to the holders of the Distribution Shares an amount of £0.372 in respect of each Distribution Share held (as if they all constituted shares of the same class) (provided that if there are insufficient surplus assets to pay an amount of £0.372 in respect of each Distribution Share, the remaining surplus assets shall be distributed to the holders of the Distribution Shares pro rata to the number of Distribution Shares held (as if they all constituted shares of the same class));

 

  19.1.4 fourth, in paying to the holders of the Deferred Shares, if any, a total of £6.00 for the entire class of Deferred Shares (which payment shall be deemed satisfied by payment to any one holder of Deferred Shares);

 

  19.1.5 thereafter:

 

  19.1.5.1 where the amount available for distribution to holders of B Ordinary Shares under this Article 19 is equal to or exceeds £1.842 per share, in distributing the balance among the holders of the Equity Shares (other than Series B Preferred Shares) pro rata to the number of Equity Shares (other than Series B Preferred Shares) held (as if they all constituted shares of the same class); or

 

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  19.1.5.2 where the amount available for distribution to holders of B Ordinary Shares under this Article 19 is less than £1.842 per share, in paying to the holders of the C Ordinary Shares, if any, a total of £6.00 for the entire class of C Ordinary Shares (which payment shall be deemed satisfied by payment to any one holder of C Ordinary Shares); and thereafter in distributing the balance among the holders of the Distribution Shares pro rata to the number of Distribution Shares held (as if they all constituted shares of the same class).

Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, upon a liquidation, capital reduction or otherwise, the holders of Series A Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive the greater of (i) the amount such holders would have received under Article 19 as holders of Series A Preferred Shares, subject to a maximum amount in respect of each Series A Preferred Share equal to three (3) times the Series A Preference Amount, less the Series A Previously Paid Amount, and (ii) the amount such holders would have received if such holders had converted their Series A Preferred Shares into A Ordinary Shares in accordance with Article 23. For the avoidance of doubt, Series A Preferred Shares so converted (or deemed converted) into A Ordinary Shares shall be deemed “Distribution Shares” and “Ordinary Shares” for all purposes hereunder.

Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, upon a liquidation, capital reduction or otherwise, the holders of Series B Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive the greater of (i) the amount such holders would have received under Article 19.1.1 and (ii) the amount such holders would have received if such holders had converted their Series B Preferred Shares into A Ordinary Shares in accordance with Article 23. For the avoidance of doubt, Series B Preferred Shares so converted (or deemed converted) into A Ordinary Shares shall be deemed “Distribution Shares” and “Ordinary Shares” for all purposes hereunder.

 

20. EXIT PROVISIONS

 

20.1 The proceeds of a Share Sale shall be distributed amongst the Members selling Shares under a Share Sale in the order of priority set out in Article 19. The Directors shall not register any transfer of Shares if the consideration payable (including any deferred consideration) whether in cash or otherwise to those Members selling Shares under a Share Sale ( Sale Proceeds ”) is not distributed in that manner provided that, if the Sale Proceeds are not settled in their entirety upon completion of the Share Sale:

 

  20.1.1 the Directors may register the transfer of the relevant Shares, provided that the Sale Proceeds due on the date of completion of the Share Sale have been distributed amongst the Members selling Shares under a Share Sale in the order of priority set out in Article 19; and

 

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  20.1.2 each Member shall take any action (to the extent lawful and within its control) required by an Investor Majority to ensure that the balance of the Sale Proceeds are distributed amongst the Members selling Shares under a Share Sale in the order of priority set out in Article 19.

 

20.2 On a Disposal, the surplus assets of the Company remaining after payment of its liabilities shall be distributed (to the extent that the Company is lawfully permitted to do so) in the order of priority set out in Article 19, provided always that if it is not lawful for the Company to distribute its surplus assets in accordance with the provisions of these Articles, each Member shall (to the extent lawful and within its control) take any action required by an Investor Majority (including, but without prejudice to the generality of this Article 20.2, such action as may be necessary to put the Company into voluntary liquidation) so that Article 19 applies.

 

20.3 In the event of an Exit (including for these purposes a sale of the entire issued share capital of the Company to a new holding company of the Company, pursuant to a transaction where the Members and the proportion of Shares held by each of them following completion of the sale are the same as the Members and their shareholdings in the Company immediately prior to the sale) approved by the Directors (acting with Investor Consent, the consent of the holders of a majority of the Exit Shares in issue for the time being (treating the Exit Shares as the same class for this purpose), Founder Consent and the consent of the Series B Majority) (“ Proposed Exit ”), all Members shall consent to, vote for, raise no objections to and waive any applicable rights of pre-emption on transfer of Shares in connection with the Proposed Exit. The Members shall be required to take all lawful actions with respect to the Proposed Exit as are reasonably required by the Directors to facilitate the Proposed Exit, including signing any lock-up arrangements in respect of their Shares. If any Member fails to comply with the provisions of this Article 20.3:

 

  20.3.1 the Company shall be constituted the agent of each defaulting Member for taking such actions as are necessary to effect the Proposed Exit;

 

  20.3.2 the Directors may authorise an officer of the Company or a Member to execute and deliver on behalf of such defaulting Member all or any necessary documents; and

 

  20.3.3 the Company may receive any purchase money due to the defaulting Member in trust for each of the defaulting Members (without any obligation to pay interest).

 

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21. SHARES

 

21.1 Without prejudice to any special rights for the time being conferred on the holders of any class of shares (which special rights shall not be varied or abrogated except with such consent or sanction as is required by Article 22 and subject to the Law) any share in the Company (including any share created on an increase or other alteration of share capital) may be issued with such preferred, deferred or other special rights, or such restrictions, whether in regard to distributions, return of capital, bonus issues, voting or otherwise, as the Company may from time to time, by Special Resolution, determine.

 

21.2 Shares in the capital of the Company that are authorised but unissued shall be at the disposal of the Directors, and they may (subject to the provisions of Articles 21.1, 24 and 25) allot, grant options over, or otherwise dispose of them to such persons at such times and on such terms as they think proper.

 

21.3 The Company may issue fractions of shares in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Law, provided that:

 

  21.3.1 a fraction of a share shall be taken into account in determining the entitlement of a Member as regards distributions, return of capital, bonus issues or on a winding up; and

 

  21.3.2 a fraction of a share shall not entitle a Member to a vote in respect thereof.

 

21.4 Subject to the Law and without prejudice to any special rights for the time being conferred on the holders of any class of shares (which special rights shall not be varied or abrogated except with such consent or sanction as is required by Article 22 and subject to the Law) the Company may, by Special Resolution, convert any existing non-redeemable limited shares (whether issued or not) into limited shares that are to be redeemed, or are liable to be redeemed in accordance with their terms, which may include provision for redemption at the option of either or both of the Company or the holder thereof.

 

21.5 Except as required by law, no person shall be recognised by the Company as holding any share upon any trust, and the Company shall not be bound by or recognise any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any share, or (except only as by these Articles otherwise provided or as by law required) any interest in any fraction of a share, or any other right in respect of any share, except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the registered holder.

 

21.6 The Company may, subject to the Law and without prejudice to any special rights for the time being conferred on the holders of any class of shares (which special rights shall not be varied or abrogated except with such consent or sanction as is required by Article 22 and subject to the Law), by altering its Memorandum of Association by Special Resolution, alter its share capital in any manner permitted by the Law.

 

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21.7 Subject to the provisions of the Law and without prejudice to any special rights for the time being conferred on the holders of any class of shares (which special rights shall not be varied or abrogated except with such consent or sanction as is required by Article 22 and subject to the Law), the Company may, by Special Resolution, reduce its share capital in any way.

 

22. VARIATION OF CLASS RIGHTS

 

22.1 Whenever the share capital of the Company is divided into different classes of Shares, the special rights attached to any such class may only be varied or abrogated (either whilst the Company is a going concern or during or in contemplation of a winding up) with the consent in writing of the holders of at least 75% in nominal value of the issued shares of that class (excluding any holders of Restricted Shares), save that the special rights attached to:

 

  22.1.1 the Series A Preferred Shares may only be varied or abrogated with the consent of a Series A Majority,

 

  22.1.2 the Series B Preferred Shares may only be varied or abrogated with the consent of a Series B Majority;

 

  22.1.3 the Preferred Shares may only be varied or abrogated with Investor Consent; and

 

  22.1.4 the Founder Shares may only be varied or abrogated with Founder Consent.

 

22.2 Without prejudice to the generality of Article 22.1, the special rights attaching to the Series A Preferred Shares shall be deemed to be varied if the Company:

 

  22.2.1 alters or changes the rights, preferences or privileges attaching to the Series A Preferred Shares;

 

  22.2.2 creates any new class or series of shares in the capital of the Company having rights, preferences or privileges senior to or on a parity with the Series A Preferred Shares;

 

  22.2.3 offers or grants any registration rights to any shareholder or potential shareholder in the Company that are senior to or on parity with the registration rights as set out in the Registration Rights Agreement;

 

  22.2.4 permits any amendment to these Articles (as adopted on the Adoption Date) or the passing of any resolution which is inconsistent with these Articles (as adopted on the Adoption Date); or

 

  22.2.5 save as provided in Article 15, removes the Index Director.

 

22.3 Without prejudice to the generality of Article 22.1, the special rights attaching to the Series B Preferred Shares shall be deemed to be varied if the Company:

 

  22.3.1 alters or changes the rights, preferences or privileges attaching to the Series B Preferred Shares;

 

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  22.3.2 creates any new class or series of shares in the capital of the Company having rights, preferences or privileges senior to or on a parity with the Series B Preferred Shares;

 

  22.3.3 offers or grants any registration rights to any shareholder or potential shareholder in the Company that are senior to or on parity with the registration rights as set out in the Registration Rights Agreement;

 

  22.3.4 permits any amendment to these Articles (as adopted on the Adoption Date) or the passing of any resolution which is inconsistent with these Articles (as adopted on the Adoption Date); or

 

  22.3.5 save as provided in Article 15, removes the Insight Director.

 

22.4 Without prejudice to the generality of Article 22.1, the special rights attaching to the Preferred Shares (voting together as if the Preferred Shares constituted one and the same class) shall be deemed to be varied (but otherwise such matters shall not constitute a variation of the special rights of the Series A Preferred Shares or the Series B Preferred Shares unless such matters are expressly contemplated by Article 22.1 or 22.2, as the case may be) if the Company:

 

  22.4.1 purchases, buys-in, redeems or reduces (other than pursuant to an existing agreement with a director, employee or consultant) share capital or consolidates or sub-divides share capital;

 

  22.4.2 proposes or pays any dividend or proposes or makes any other distribution (as defined under sections 1000 or 1064 of CTA);

 

  22.4.3 increases or decreases the maximum or minimum number of directors set out in these Articles;

 

  22.4.4 ceases to carry on its business or takes any step to wind up any Group Company, save where it is insolvent (within the meaning of section 123 of the Insolvency Act 1986);

 

  22.4.5 takes any step to place any Group Company into administration (whether by the filing of an administration application, a notice of intention to appoint an administrator or a notice of appointment), or enters into any arrangement, scheme, moratorium, compromise or composition with its creditors (whether under Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986, the Law or otherwise) or applies for an interim order under Part 1 of the Insolvency Act 1986, or invites the appointment of a receiver or administrative receiver over all or any part of any Group Company’s assets or undertaking;

 

  22.4.6 negotiates or permits the disposal or issue of shares in the Company amounting to a Share Sale or Listing or negotiates or permits a Disposal;

 

  22.4.7 makes any material change to the nature of the business of any Group Company;

 

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  22.4.8 grants options to directors, employees and/or consultants of any Group Company in excess of the aggregate number set out in clause 7 of the Investment Agreement or amends or adopts any Share Option Plan other than pursuant the Investment Agreement;

 

  22.4.9 makes any change to its auditors or its accounting reference date; or

 

  22.4.10 incurs any obligation (whether or not conditional) to do any of the foregoing.

 

22.5 Without prejudice to the generality of Article 22.1, the special rights attaching to the Founder Shares shall be deemed to be varied if the Company:

 

  22.5.1 purchases, buys-in, redeems or reduces (other than pursuant to an existing agreement with a director, employee or consultant) share capital or consolidates or sub-divides share capital;

 

  22.5.2 proposes or pays any dividend or proposes or makes any other distribution (as defined under sections 1000 or 1064 of CTA);

 

  22.5.3 increases or decreases the maximum or minimum number of directors set out in these Articles;

 

  22.5.4 ceases to carry on its business or takes any step to wind up any Group Company, save where it is insolvent (within the meaning of section 123 of the Insolvency Act 1986);

 

  22.5.5 takes any step to place any Group Company into administration (whether by the filing of an administration application, a notice of intention to appoint an administrator or a notice of appointment), or enters into any arrangement, scheme, moratorium, compromise or composition with its creditors (whether under Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986, the Law or otherwise) or applies for an interim order under Part 1 of the Insolvency Act 1986, or invites the appointment of a receiver or administrative receiver over all or any part of any Group Company’s assets or undertaking;

 

  22.5.6 negotiates or permits the disposal or issue of shares in the Company amounting to a Share Sale or Listing or negotiates or permits a Disposal;

 

  22.5.7 offers or grants any registration rights to any shareholder or potential shareholder in the Company that are senior to or on parity with the registration rights as set out in the Registration Rights Agreement;

 

  22.5.8 permits any amendment to these Articles (as adopted on the Adoption Date) or the passing of any resolution which is inconsistent with these Articles (as adopted on the Adoption Date);

 

  22.5.9 makes any material change to the nature of the business of any Group Company;

 

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  22.5.10 grants options to directors, employees and/or consultants of any Group Company in excess of the aggregate number set out in clause 7 of the Investment Agreement or amends or adopts any Share Option Plan other than pursuant the Investment Agreement;

 

  22.5.11 save as provided in Article 15, removes a Founder Director; or

 

  22.5.12 incurs any obligation (whether or not conditional) to do any of the foregoing.

 

22.6 The creation of a new class of Shares which has preferential rights to one or more existing classes of Shares shall not, except as provided in Articles 22.2, 22.3 and/or 22.5, constitute a variation of the rights of those existing classes of Shares.

 

23. CONVERSION OF SHARES

 

23.1 Any holder of Series B Preferred Shares may at any time, by notice in writing to the Company, require conversion of all of the Series B Preferred Shares held by it at any time into the same number of A Ordinary Shares. Those Series B Preferred Shares specified in any such notice shall convert automatically on the date of service of such notice on the Company (unless such notice states that conversion is to be effective on some later date, or when any conditions specified in the notice have been fulfilled, in which case conversion shall take effect on that later date, or when such conditions have been fulfilled, as the case may be). All of the Series B Preferred Shares shall automatically convert into the same number of A Ordinary Shares on the date of:

 

  23.1.1 closing of a Qualifying Listing; or

 

  23.1.2 service on the Company of a notice by the Series B Majority requiring conversion of all of the Series B Preferred Shares (unless such notice states that conversion is to be effective on some later date, or when any conditions specified in the notice have been fulfilled, in which case conversion shall take effect on that later date, or when such conditions have been fulfilled, as the case may be).

 

23.2 Any holder of Series A Preferred Shares may at any time, by notice in writing to the Company, require conversion of all of the Series A Preferred Shares held by it at any time into the same number of A Ordinary Shares. Those Series A Preferred Shares specified in any such notice shall convert automatically on the date of service of such notice on the Company (unless such notice states that conversion is to be effective on some later date, or when any conditions specified in the notice have been fulfilled, in which case conversion shall take effect on that later date, or when such conditions have been fulfilled, as the case may be). All of the Series A Preferred Shares shall automatically convert into the same number of A Ordinary Shares on the date of closing of a Qualifying Listing.

 

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23.3 Any holder of Founder Shares may at any time, by notice in writing to the Company, require conversion of all or any of the Founder Shares held by it at any time into the same number of A Ordinary Shares. Those Founder Shares specified in any such notice shall convert automatically on the date of service of such notice on the Company (unless such notice states that conversion is to be effective on some later date, or when any conditions specified in the notice have been fulfilled, in which case conversion shall take effect on that later date, or when such conditions have been fulfilled, as the case may be). All of the Founder Shares shall automatically convert into the same number of A Ordinary Shares on the date of closing of a Qualifying Listing.

 

23.4 All of the B Ordinary Shares shall automatically be re-designated into the same number of A Ordinary Shares on the date of closing of a Listing. The B Ordinary Shares shall not otherwise be convertible into any other class of shares.

 

23.5 Any holder of C Ordinary Shares may at any time, by notice in writing to the Company, require conversion of some or all of the C Ordinary Shares held by it at any time into the same number of Deferred Shares. Immediately upon the closing of a Listing the C Ordinary Shares shall be automatically converted into such number of A Ordinary Shares so that the aggregate Realisation Price of such A Ordinary Shares would be equal to the value of any payment due to the holder of such C Ordinary Shares pursuant to Article 19 if such Listing was a Share Sale at the Pre-New Money Valuation. Where the total number of A Ordinary Shares to be received by a person holding C Ordinary Shares as a result of the conversion under this Article 23.5 would not be a whole number, it will be rounded to the nearest whole number. The remaining C Ordinary Shares shall be automatically converted into the same number of Deferred Shares. The C Ordinary Shares shall not otherwise be convertible into any other class of shares.

 

23.6 In the case of a conversion or re-designation (as the case may be) pursuant to:

 

  23.6.1 Articles 23.1, 23.2, 23.3 or 23.5 (other than on a Qualifying Listing), at least 10 Business Days after the date of conversion or re-designation; or

 

  23.6.2 a Listing and/or Qualifying Listing (as the case may be), at least 5 Business Days before the date of the Listing and/or Qualifying Listing (as the case may be),

each holder of the relevant Shares converted or re-designated or to be converted or re-designated shall deliver the certificate(s) (or an indemnity in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Directors for any lost share certificate) for the Shares being converted or re-designated (together with such other evidence (if any) as the Directors may reasonably require to prove good title to those Shares) to the Company at its registered office for the time being.

 

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23.7 Where conversion or re-designation of any Share is mandatory on the closing of a Listing and/or a Qualifying Listing (as the case may be), that conversion or re-designation shall only be effective immediately before closing of such a Listing and/or a Qualifying Listing (as the case may be). If closing of such a Listing and/or a Qualifying Listing (as the case may be) does not occur, or does not take place, such conversion or re-designation shall be deemed not to have occurred.

 

23.8 On conversion or re-designation pursuant to this Article 23:

 

  23.8.1 the relevant Shares shall (without any further authority than that contained in these Articles) stand converted or re-designated into such number of A Ordinary Shares and Deferred Shares (in the case of the C Ordinary Shares only) as determined in accordance with the provisions of this Article 23 (subject to adjustment to take account of any sub-division, consolidation of either the Shares being converted or the A Ordinary Shares at any time before a conversion in accordance with this Article 23) and the A Ordinary Shares and the Deferred Shares (in the case of the C Ordinary Shares only) resulting from the conversion or re-designation shall rank pari passu in all respects with the existing issued A Ordinary Shares or Deferred Shares (as the case may be); and

 

  23.8.2 the Company shall, if it has sufficient Available Profits, pay to the holder(s) of the Shares being converted or re-designated a dividend equal to any arrears and accruals of dividends in relation to those Shares. If the Company has insufficient Available Profits to pay all such arrears and accruals of dividend amounts in full then it shall pay the same to the extent that it is lawfully able to do so and the unpaid balance shall be a debt due from the Company which shall accrue interest daily (assuming a 365 day year) at the rate of 2% above the base lending rate of Barclays Bank plc in respect of the period from the due date to the actual date of payment. The first Available Profits arising shall be applied in or towards paying off the debt and interest accrued.

 

23.9 Forthwith following a conversion or re-designation pursuant to this Article 23, the Company shall enter the holder(s) of the converted or re-designated Shares in the register of Members of the Company as the holder(s) of the appropriate number of A Ordinary Shares and Deferred Shares (in the case of the C Ordinary Shares only) subject to the relevant holder of Shares delivering the relevant share certificate(s) (or indemnity or other evidence) in respect of the Shares being converted or re-designated in accordance with Article 23.6.

 

23.10 The Deferred Shares may be redeemed or otherwise bought-back by the Company at any time at its option for one penny for all the Deferred Shares registered in the name of any holder without obtaining the sanction of the holder or holders.

 

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23.11 The allotment or issue of Deferred Shares shall be deemed to confer irrevocable authority on the Board at any time after their allotment or issue to appoint any person to execute or give on behalf of the holder of those shares a transfer of them to such person or persons as the Company may determine.

 

23.12 Whenever as a result of a consolidation of Shares any Members would become entitled to fractions of a Share, the Directors may, on behalf of those Members, sell the Shares representing the fractions for the best price reasonably obtainable to any person (including, subject to the provisions of the Law, the Company) and distribute the net proceeds of sale in due proportion among those Members, and the Directors may authorise any person to execute an instrument of transfer of the Shares to, or in accordance with the directions of, the purchaser. The transferee shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money nor shall his title to the Shares be affected by any irregularity in or invalidity of the proceedings in reference to the sale.

 

24. ANTI-DILUTION

 

24.1 If the Company issues any Relevant Securities without consideration or for a consideration per Share less than the Issue Price of the Series A Preferred Shares (a “ Qualifying A Issue ”), the Company shall make a bonus issue of such number of Series A Preferred Shares (“ Anti-Dilution A Shares ”) to each holder for the time being of Series A Preferred Shares (unless and to the extent, in respect of any holder of Series A Preferred Shares, such holder has specifically waived the application of its rights under this Article 24 in respect of any particular issue of Relevant Securities) (each an “ Exercising A Investor ”) as shall be calculated in accordance with Article 24.2.

 

24.2 The number of Anti-Dilution A Shares to be issued to each Exercising A Investor shall be the number equal to A (rounded down to the nearest whole number), where A is calculated as follows:

A     =    ((P / WA) x T)) – T

Where:

A = the number of Anti-Dilution A Shares to be issued to the Exercising A Investor.

WA = ((N x P) + (K x L)) / (N + K).

N = the total number of Series A Preferred Shares in issue immediately prior to the Qualifying A Issue.

P = the Issue Price of each Series A Preferred Share subscribed by the relevant Exercising A Investor.

K = the total number of Relevant Securities comprised within the Qualifying A Issue.

L = the Issue Price (in pounds sterling) per Relevant Security of the Qualifying A Issue.

 

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T = the number of Series A Preferred Shares held by the relevant Exercising A Investor prior to the Qualifying A Issue.

 

24.3 If the Company issues any Relevant Securities without consideration or for a consideration per Share less than the Issue Price of the Series B Preferred Shares (a “ Qualifying B Issue ”), the Company shall make a bonus issue of such number of Series B Preferred Shares (“ Anti-Dilution B Shares ”) to each holder for the time being of Series B Preferred Shares (unless and to the extent, in respect of any holder of Series B Preferred Shares, such holder has specifically waived the application of its rights under this Article 24 in respect of any particular issue of Relevant Securities) (each an “ Exercising B Investor ”) as shall be calculated in accordance with Article 24.4.

 

24.4 The number of Anti-Dilution B Shares to be issued to each Exercising B Investor shall be the number equal to A (rounded down to the nearest whole number), where A is calculated as follows:

A     =    ((P / WA) x T)) – T

Where:

A = the number of Anti-Dilution B Shares to be issued to the Exercising B Investor.

WA = ((N x P) + (K x L)) / (N + K).

N = the total number of Series B Preferred Shares in issue immediately prior to the Qualifying B Issue.

P = the Issue Price of each Series B Preferred Share subscribed by the relevant Exercising B Investor.

K = the total number of Relevant Securities comprised within the Qualifying B Issue.

L = the Issue Price (in pounds sterling) per Relevant Security of the Qualifying B Issue.

T = the number of Series B Preferred Shares held by the relevant Exercising B Investor prior to the Qualifying B Issue.

 

24.5 The Anti-Dilution Shares shall:

 

  24.5.1 be issued at a price per share equal to the nominal value of each Anti-Dilution Share which shall be paid up by the automatic capitalisation of available reserves of the Company (without any further authority required than that contained in these Articles);
  24.5.2 within 10 Business Days of the date of the Qualifying Issue be issued to the relevant Exercising Investors who accept the offer in accordance with Articles 24.1 and/or 24.3 and credited as fully paid up in cash; and

 

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  24.5.3 shall rank pari passu in all respects with the existing Series A Preferred Shares in the case of Anti-Dilution A Shares and the existing Series B Preferred Shares in the case of Anti-Dilution B Shares.

 

24.6 If and to the extent that the Company is prohibited from issuing all of the Anti-Dilution Shares in accordance with Article 24.5 (whether by virtue of the Law or otherwise), the entitlement of each Exercising Investor to such an issue of Anti-Dilution Shares shall be reduced:

 

  24.6.1 in the case of Anti-Dilution A Shares, in the same proportion that its holding of Series A Preferred Shares bears to the total number of Series A Preferred Shares held by the Exercising A Investors and each Exercising A Investor shall be notified by the Company and shall, in addition, be entitled, at any time within the period of 15 Business Days from the date of such notice, to subscribe at par for the balance of that number of Anti-Dilution A Shares to which he would otherwise be entitled to receive pursuant to Article 24.2;

 

  24.6.2 in the case of Anti-Dilution B Shares, in the same proportion that its holding of Series B Preferred Shares bears to the total number of Series B Preferred Shares held by the Exercising B Investors and each Exercising B Investor shall be notified by the Company and shall, in addition, be entitled, at any time within the period of 15 Business Days from the date of such notice, to subscribe at par for the balance of that number of Anti-Dilution B Shares to which he would otherwise be entitled to receive pursuant to Article 24.4;

in each case, (without any further authority required than that contained in these Articles) and Article 24.5.3 shall apply to the shares issued as a result of such a subscription;

 

24.7 In the case of an issue of Relevant Securities for a consideration in whole or in part other than in cash, the Issue Price of each Relevant Security for the purposes of Articles 24.1 to 24.4 (inclusive) shall be a price certified by the Independent Expert (acting as experts and not as arbitrators) as being, in their opinion, the current cash value of the non-cash consideration for the allotment of the Relevant Securities.

 

24.8 In the event of any Issue or Re-organisation, the Issue Price of each Series B Preferred Share and the Issue Price of each Series A Preferred Share shall be adjusted to take account of such Issue or Re-organisation on such basis as may be agreed between (x) the Directors and a Series B Majority (in the case of an adjustment to the Issue Price of the Series B Preferred Shares) and (y) the Directors and a Series A Majority (in the case of an adjustment to the Issue Price of the Series A Preferred Shares) or, failing such agreement within 10 Business Days after (and excluding) the date of such Issue or Re-organisation, as determined by the Independent Expert (at the Company’s cost).

 

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24.9 If there is a dispute between the Company and any holder for the time being of Preferred Shares as to the operation of this Article 24, the matter shall be referred (at the cost of the Company) to the Independent Expert who shall determine the number of Anti-Dilution Shares to be issued.

 

24.10 The Independent Expert’s determination of any matter under this Article 24 shall, in the absence of manifest error, be final and binding on the Company and each of its Members.

 

24.11 In this Article 24, “ Issue or Re-organisation ” means any return of capital, issue of Relevant Securities by way of capitalisation of profits or reserves (other than a capitalisation issue in substitution for, or as an alternative to, a cash dividend which is made available to the holders of Series A Preferred Shares and/or Series B Preferred Shares), any consolidation, sub-division or any repurchase or redemption of Shares (other than Series A Preferred Shares and/or Series B Preferred Shares), or any variation in the Issue Price or conversion rate applicable to any other outstanding Shares of the Company.

 

25. PRE-EMPTION RIGHTS ON THE ISSUE OF FURTHER SHARES

 

25.1 The Directors may not offer or allot more than 6,606,021 B Ordinary Shares.

 

25.2 If the Company proposes to allot, grant or issue any Relevant Securities, those Relevant Securities shall not be allotted, granted or issued to any person unless:

 

  25.2.1 if the Relevant Securities are Series B Preferred Shares, the Company has first offered them to the holders (on the date of the offer) of the Series B Preferred Shares on a pari passu basis and in the respective proportions that the number of Series B Preferred Shares held by each such holder bears to the total number of Series B Preferred Shares held by all such holders (as nearly as possible without involving fractions);

 

  25.2.2 if the Relevant Securities are Series A Preferred Shares, the Company has first offered them to the holders (on the date of the offer) of the Series A Preferred Shares on a pari passu basis and in the respective proportions that the number of Series A Preferred Shares held by each such holder bears to the total number of Series A Preferred Shares held by all such holders (as nearly as possible without involving fractions); and

 

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  25.2.3 if the Relevant Securities are shares of any other class the Company has first offered them to the holders (on the date of the offer) of the Series A Preferred Shares, the Series B Preferred Shares, the Founder Shares and the Relevant Ordinary Shares on a pari passu basis (as if the same constituted one class of share) and in the respective proportions that the number of Series A Preferred Shares, Series B Preferred Shares, Founder Shares and Relevant Ordinary Shares held by each such holder bears to the total number of Series A Preferred Shares, the Series B Preferred Shares, Founder Shares and Relevant Ordinary Shares held by all such holders (as nearly as possible without involving fractions);

in each case, and on the same terms, and at the same price, as those Relevant Securities are being, or are to be, offered to any other person.

 

25.3 An offer made under Article 25.2 shall:

 

  25.3.1 be in writing and give details of the number, class and subscription price (including any share premium) of the Relevant Securities being offered;

 

  25.3.2 remain open for a period of at least 15 Business Days from the date of service of the offer; and

 

  25.3.3 stipulate that any offeree who wishes to subscribe for a number of Relevant Securities in excess of the number to which he is entitled under Article 25.2 shall, in his acceptance, state the number of excess Relevant Securities (“ Excess Securities ”) for which he wishes to subscribe.

 

25.4 If, on the expiry of an offer made in accordance with Article 25.2, the total number of Relevant Securities applied for is less than the total number of Relevant Securities so offered, the Directors shall allot the Relevant Securities to the offerees in accordance with their applications, subject to a maximum of each offeree’s proportionate entitlement.

 

25.5 Any Relevant Securities not accepted by offerees pursuant to an offer made in accordance with Article 25.2 shall be used to satisfy any requests for Excess Securities made pursuant to Article 25.3.3. If there are insufficient Excess Securities to satisfy such requests, the Excess Securities shall be allotted to the applicants in the respective proportions that the number of Series B Preferred Shares (in the case of an offer of Series B Preferred Shares), the number of Series A Preferred Shares (in the case of an offer of Series A Preferred Shares) or the number of Series A Preferred Shares, Series B Preferred Shares, Founder Shares and Relevant Ordinary Shares (in any other case) held by each such applicant bears to the total number of such Shares held by all applicants (as nearly as possible without involving fractions or increasing the number of Excess Securities allotted to any Member beyond that applied for by him).

 

25.6 If, after completion of the allotments referred to in Articles 25.4 and 25.5 as a result of an offer made pursuant to:

 

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  25.6.1 Article 25.2, not all of the Series B Preferred Shares have been allotted, the balance of such Series B Preferred Shares shall, subject to Article 25.11, be offered to the holders (on the date of the offer) of the Series A Preferred Shares, the Founder Shares and the Relevant Ordinary Shares on a pari passu basis (as if the same constituted the same class of share) and in the respective proportions that the number of Series A Preferred Shares, Founder Shares and Relevant Ordinary Shares held by each such holder bears to the total number of Series A Preferred Shares, Founder Shares and Relevant Ordinary Shares held by all such holders (as nearly as possible without involving fractions) and on the same terms, and at the same price, as those Series B Preferred Shares were offered pursuant to Article 25.2.1

 

  25.6.2 Article 25.2.2, not all of the Series A Preferred Shares have been allotted, the balance of such Series A Preferred Shares shall, subject to Article 25.11, be offered to the holders (on the date of the offer) of the Series B Preferred Shares, the Founder Shares and the Relevant Ordinary Shares on a pari passu basis (as if the same constituted the same class of share) and in the respective proportions that the number of Series B Preferred Shares, Founder Shares and Relevant Ordinary Shares held by each such holder bears to the total number of Series B Preferred Shares, Founder Shares and Relevant Ordinary Shares held by all such holders (as nearly as possible without involving fractions) and on the same terms, and at the same price, as those Series A Preferred Shares were offered pursuant to Article 25.2.2.

 

25.7 An offer made under Article 25.6 shall:

 

  25.7.1 be in writing and give details of the number, class and subscription price (including any share premium) of the Series B Preferred Shares or Series A Preferred Shares (as the case may be) being offered;

 

  25.7.2 remain open for a period of at least 15 Business Days from the date of service of the offer; and

 

  25.7.3 stipulate that any offeree who wishes to subscribe for a number of Series B Preferred Shares or Series A Preferred Shares (as the case may be) in excess of the number to which he is entitled under Article 25.6 shall, in his acceptance, state the number of excess Series B Preferred Shares or Series A Preferred Shares (as the case may be) (also “Excess Securities”) for which he wishes to subscribe.

 

25.8 If, on the expiry of an offer made in accordance with Article 25.6, the total number of Series B Preferred Shares or Series A Preferred Shares (as the case may be) applied for is less than the total number of Series B Preferred Shares or Series A Preferred Shares (as the case may be) so offered, the Directors shall allot the Series B Preferred Shares or Series A Preferred Shares (as the case may be) to the offerees in accordance with their applications, subject to a maximum of each offeree’s proportionate entitlement.

 

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25.9 Any Series B Preferred Shares or Series A Preferred Shares (as the case may be) not accepted by offerees pursuant to an offer made in accordance with Article 25.6 shall be used to satisfy any requests for Excess Securities made pursuant to Article 25.7.3. If there are insufficient Excess Securities to satisfy such requests, the Excess Securities shall be allotted to the applicants in the respective proportions that the number of Series B Preferred Shares or Series A Preferred Shares (as the case may be), Founder Shares and Relevant Ordinary Shares held by each such holder bears to the total number of Series B Preferred Shares or Series A Preferred Shares (as the case may be), Founder Shares and Relevant Ordinary Shares held by all such holders (as nearly as possible without involving fractions or increasing the number of Excess Securities allotted to any Member beyond that applied for by him).

 

25.10 If, after completion of the allotments referred to in Articles 25.4 (where Article 25.2.3 was applicable) or 25.8 (where Article 25.6 was applicable), not all of the Relevant Securities have been allotted, the balance of such Relevant Securities shall, subject to Article 25.11, be offered to any other person(s) as the Directors may determine within one month of the date of the service of the Offer Notice made under Article 31.3 or, if so required, under Article 25.6, at the same price and on the same terms as the offer to the Members in accordance with this Article 25.

 

25.11 No Shares shall be allotted to any current or prospective employee or director of any Group Company unless such person shall first have entered into a joint election with the relevant Group Company under section 431 of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 for the full disapplication of Chapter 2 of Part 7 of that Act.

 

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26. TRANSFER AND TRANSMISSION OF SHARES: GENERAL

 

26.1 In these Articles, reference to the transfer of a Share includes the transfer, assignment or other disposal of a beneficial or other interest in that Share, or the creation of a trust or encumbrance over that Share, and reference to a Share includes a beneficial or other interest in a Share.

 

26.2 No Share shall be transferred, and the Directors shall refuse to register a transfer of any Share, unless it is made in accordance with these Articles. Subject to Article 26.5, the Directors shall register any transfer made in accordance with these Articles, unless they have reasonable grounds to suspect that the proposed transfer may be fraudulent or to a person in liquidation or bankruptcy or of unsound mind.

 

26.3 If a Member transfers (or purports to transfer) a Share other than in accordance with these Articles, he shall if requested by the Directors or an Investor or a Founder in writing to remedy the position take such steps as are necessary to ensure that such transfer (or purported transfer) is in accordance with these Articles and if the holder fails to remedy that situation to the reasonable satisfaction of the Directors, such Investor or such Founder (as the case may be) within 15 Business Days of receipt of such written notice, then he shall be deemed to have immediately served a Transfer Notice in respect of all Shares held by him.

 

26.4 Any transfer of a Share by way of sale which is required to be made under Articles 30, 31 and 32 shall be deemed to include a warranty that the transferor sells the Share with full title guarantee.

 

26.5 The Directors may, as a condition to the registration of any transfer of Shares, require the transferee to execute and deliver to the Company a deed, in favour of the Company and the Investors agreeing to be bound by the terms of the Investment Agreement, in such form as the Directors may reasonably require (but not so as to oblige the transferee to have any obligations or liabilities greater than those of the proposed transferor). If any condition is imposed in accordance with this Article 26.5, the transfer may not be registered unless and until that deed has been executed and delivered to the Company’s registered office by the transferee.

 

26.6 To enable the Directors to determine whether or not there has been any transfer (or purported transfer) of Shares the Directors may require:

 

  26.6.1 any holder (or the legal representatives of a deceased holder); or

 

  26.6.2 any person named as a transferee in a transfer lodged for registration; or

 

  26.6.3 such other person as the Directors may reasonably believe to have information relevant to that purpose,

to provide the Company with any information and evidence that the Directors think fit regarding any matter which they deem relevant to that purpose.

 

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26.7 If any such information or evidence referred to in Article 26.6 is not provided to enable the Directors to determine to their reasonable satisfaction that no breach has occurred, or that as a result of the information and evidence provided the Directors are reasonably satisfied that a breach has occurred, the Directors shall immediately notify the holder of such Shares of that fact in writing and, if the holder fails to remedy that situation to the reasonable satisfaction of the Directors within 15 Business Days of receipt of such written notice, then, unless otherwise directed in writing by the Directors:

 

  26.7.1 the relevant Shares shall cease to confer on the holder of them any rights:

 

  26.7.1.1 to vote (whether on a show of hands, on a poll or otherwise and whether in person, by proxy or otherwise), including in respect of any resolution of any class of Shares; and

 

  26.7.1.2 to receive dividends or other distributions; and

 

  26.7.2 the Directors may, by notice in writing to the relevant holder, determine that a Transfer Notice shall be deemed to have been given in respect of some or all of his Shares with effect from the date of service of the notice (or such later date as may be specified in such notice).

The Directors may reinstate the rights referred to in Article 26.7.1 at any time and, in any event, such rights shall be reinstated in respect of any Shares transferred pursuant to Article 26.7.2 on completion of such transfer.

 

26.8 Unless expressly provided otherwise in these Articles, if a Transfer Notice is deemed by the Directors to have been given under these Articles, the Deemed Transfer Notice shall be treated as having specified that:

 

  26.8.1 it does not contain a Minimum Transfer Condition; and

 

  26.8.2 the Seller wishes to transfer all the Shares held by him (including any Shares acquired after the date the relevant Transfer Notice is deemed given but before completion of the transfer of Shares pursuant to the relevant Transfer Notice).

 

26.9 Any Transfer Notice (but not an Offer Notice (as defined in Article 31) or a Drag Along Notice (as defined in Article 32)) served in respect of the transfer of any Share which has not completed before the date of service of a Deemed Transfer Notice shall automatically be revoked by the service of a Deemed Transfer Notice.

 

26.10 The Directors may in their absolute discretion, and without assigning any reason therefor, refuse to register any transfer of a partly paid share, including a transfer of such shares to a person of whom they do not approve and may refuse to register any transfer of shares on which the Company has a lien.

 

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26.11 If the Directors refuse to register any transfer of shares they shall, within two months after the date on which the Transfer Notice was lodged with the Company, send to the proposed transferor and transferee notice of the refusal.

 

26.12 The registration of transfers of shares or of any class of shares may not be suspended.

 

26.13 In respect of any allotment of any share the Directors shall have the same right to decline to approve the registration of any renouncee of any allottee as if the application to allot and the renunciation were a transfer of a share under these Articles.

 

26.14 In the case of the death of a Member, the survivors or survivor, where the deceased was a joint holder, and the executors or administrators of the deceased, where he was a sole or only surviving holder, shall be the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to his interest in the shares, but nothing in this Article shall release the estate of a deceased joint holder from any liability in respect of any share jointly held by him.

 

26.15 Any guardian of an infant Member and any curator or guardian or other legal representative of a Member under legal disability and any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or insolvency or bankruptcy of a Member or otherwise by operation of law may, upon such evidence as to his entitlement being produced as may from time to time be required by the Directors and subject as hereinafter provided, elect either to be registered himself as the holder of the share or to have some person nominated by him registered as the holder thereof.

 

26.16 If the person so becoming entitled shall elect to be registered himself, he shall deliver or send to the Company a notice signed by him stating that he so elects together with such evidence as to his entitlement as may from time to time be required by the Directors. If he shall elect to have another person registered, he shall testify his election by signing a Transfer Notice in favour of that person. All the limitations, restrictions and provisions of these Articles relating to the right to transfer and the registration of transfers of shares shall be applicable to any such notice or Transfer Notice as aforesaid as would have existed had such transfer occurred before the death, insolvency or bankruptcy of the Member concerned.

 

26.17 A person becoming entitled to a share by reason of the death or insolvency or bankruptcy of a Member or otherwise by operation of law shall, upon such evidence as to his entitlement being produced as may from time to time be required by the Directors, be entitled to the same distributions and other rights to which he would be entitled if he were the registered holder of the share, except that he shall not, before being registered as a Member in respect of the share, be entitled in respect of it to exercise any right conferred by membership in relation to meetings of the Company provided always that the Directors may at any time give notice requiring any such person to elect either to be registered himself or to transfer the share and if the notice is not complied with within one month such person shall be deemed to have so elected to be registered himself and all the restrictions on the transfer and transmission of shares contained in these Articles shall apply to such election.

 

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26.18 Unless otherwise decided by the Directors in their sole discretion, no fee shall be charged in respect of the registration of any probate, letters of administration, certificate of marriage or death, power of attorney or other document relating to or affecting the title to any shares.

 

27. PERMITTED TRANSFERS OF SHARES

 

27.1 A Member (the “Original Member”) may transfer all or any of his or its Shares to a Permitted Transferee without the consent or approval or any party and such transfer shall be registered by the Directors.

 

27.2 Where Shares are held by the trustee(s) of a Family Trust, the trustee(s) may transfer Shares to:

 

  27.2.1 the Original Member;

 

  27.2.2 any Privileged Relation(s) of the Original Member;

 

  27.2.3 subject to Article 27.3, the trustee(s) of another Family Trust of which the Original Member is the Settlor; or

 

  27.2.4 subject to Article 27.3, to the new (or remaining) trustee(s) upon a change of trustee(s) of a Family Trust,

without any price or other restriction.

 

27.3 A transfer of Shares may only be made to the trustee(s) of a Family Trust if the Directors are satisfied:

 

  27.3.1 with the terms of the trust instrument and, in particular, with the powers of the trustee(s);

 

  27.3.2 with the identity of the proposed trustee(s);

 

  27.3.3 that the proposed transfer will not result in 50% or more of the aggregate of the Company’s equity share capital being held by trustees of that and any other trusts; and

 

  27.3.4 that no costs incurred in connection with the setting up or administration of that Family Trust are to be paid by the Company.

 

27.4 If the Original Member is a company, and a Permitted Transfer has been made, the Permitted Transferee shall, within 20 Business Days of ceasing to be a Member of the Same Group as the Original Member, transfer the Shares held by it to:

 

  27.4.1 the Original Member; or

 

  27.4.2 a Member of the Same Group as the Original Member,

 

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  (which in either case is not in liquidation), without any price or other restriction. If the Permitted Transferee fails to make a transfer in accordance with this Article 27.4, a Transfer Notice shall be deemed to have been given in respect of such Shares on the expiry of the period set out in this Article 27.4.

 

27.5 If the Original Member is an individual and a Permitted Transfer has been made to a Privileged Relation of the Original Member, the Permitted Transferee (or the transmittee(s) of any such person) shall, within 20 Business Days of ceasing to be a Privileged Relation of the Original Member (whether by reason of death, divorce or otherwise) either:

 

  27.5.1 execute and deliver to the Company a transfer of the Shares held by him to the Original Member (or to any Permitted Transferee of the Original Member) for such consideration as may be agreed between them; or

 

  27.5.2 give a Transfer Notice to the Company in accordance with Article 28,

failing which a Transfer Notice shall be deemed to have been given in respect of such Shares on the expiry of the period set out in this Article 27.5. This Article 27.5 shall not apply to a transmittee of a Permitted Transferee if that transmittee is also a Permitted Transferee of the Original Member, to the extent that such transmittee is legally or beneficially entitled to those Shares.

 

27.6 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article 27:

 

  27.6.1 a transfer of any Relevant Ordinary Shares may be made without any price or other restriction and any such transfer shall be registered by the Directors, unless the Directors reasonably consider that the transferee is a person (or a nominee for a person) whom the Directors determine to be a competitor (or a Member of the Same Group as a competitor) of the business of any Group Company; and

 

  27.6.2 a transfer of any Shares (other than Relevant Ordinary Shares) approved by the Directors (including the affirmative approval of the Insight Director) may be made without any price or other restriction and any such transfer shall be registered by the Directors.

 

27.7 Any Shares may at any time be transferred where there is a sale of the entire issued share capital of the Company to a new holding company of the Company, pursuant to a transaction and on terms which have been approved by a majority of the Directors, with Investor Consent, Founder Consent, Dawn Capital Consent and a Series B Majority.

 

28. PRE-EMPTION RIGHTS ON THE TRANSFER OF SHARES

 

28.1 Except where the provisions of Articles 27, 31 or 32 apply, any transfer of Shares by a Member shall be subject to the pre-emption rights in this Article 28.

 

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28.2 A Member who wishes to transfer Shares (a “Seller”) shall, before transferring or agreeing to transfer any Shares, give notice in writing (a “Transfer Notice”) to the Company specifying:

 

  28.2.1 subject to Article 26.8.2, the number of Shares he wishes to transfer (“Sale Shares”);

 

  28.2.2 the name of the proposed transferee, if any;

 

  28.2.3 the price per Sale Share (in cash), if any, at which he wishes to transfer the Sale Shares (the “Proposed Sale Price”); and

 

  28.2.4 subject to Article 26.8.1, whether the Transfer Notice is conditional on all or a specific number of the Sale Shares being sold (a “Minimum Transfer Condition”).

 

28.3 Immediately upon:

 

  28.3.1 any transfer of a Founder Share (other than a Permitted Transfer or a transfer to another Founder, save in each case where the transfer is a Permitted Transfer made pursuant to Article 27.6), such Founder Share shall automatically be re-classified as a B Ordinary Share (without any further authority required than that contained in this Article); and

 

  28.3.2 the holder of a Founder Share ceasing to be an Active Founder, such Founder Share shall automatically be re-classified as an A Ordinary Share (without any further authority required than that contained in this Article),

provided always that at least one Founder Share shall remain in issue for as long as Founder Shares retain the right to receive notice of, attend and vote at general meetings. For the purpose of this Article 28.3: (a) Peter Bauer shall be deemed to hold all of the Founder Shares held by The Butterworth Trust; and (b) each Founder shall be deemed to hold any and all of the Founder Shares which he may have transferred to any Permitted Transferee(s) at any time. Each Founder Share which is deemed to be held by a Founder pursuant to this Article 28.3 shall be automatically re-classified as an A Ordinary Share upon such Founder ceasing to be an Active Founder.

 

28.4 Immediately upon:

 

  28.4.1 any transfer of an A Ordinary Share (other than (i) a Permitted Transfer, save where the Permitted Transfer is a transfer made pursuant to Article 27.6 or (ii) as provided in Article 28.4.2, such A Ordinary Share shall automatically be re-classified as a B Ordinary Share (without any further authority required than that contained in this Article); and

 

  28.4.2 the transfer of any A Ordinary Shares which may be transferred to Insight pursuant to the Cash Offer, such A Ordinary Shares shall remain as A Ordinary Shares (without any further authority required than that contained in this Article) and notwithstanding any other provision contained in these Articles such shares shall remain as A Ordinary Shares in the event of any subsequent transfer of such shares,

 

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  provided always that at least one A Ordinary Share shall remain in issue for as long as A Ordinary Shares retain the right to receive notice of, attend and vote at general meetings.

 

28.5 Except in the case of a Deemed Transfer Notice (which may not be withdrawn), where the Transfer Price of the Sale Shares comprised within a Transfer Notice is to be the Fair Value and such Fair Value is less than the Proposed Sale Price the Seller may, within 10 Business Days of receipt of notification of the Fair Value, withdraw the Transfer Notice. Otherwise, a Transfer Notice may only be withdrawn with the consent of the Directors.

 

28.6 A Transfer Notice (or Deemed Transfer Notice) constitutes the Company the agent of the Seller for the sale of the Sale Shares at the Transfer Price.

 

28.7 As soon as practicable following the later of:

 

  28.7.1 receipt of a Transfer Notice (or in the case of a Deemed Transfer Notice, the date such notice is deemed to be served); and

 

  28.7.2 the determination of the Transfer Price,

the Directors shall (unless the Transfer Notice is withdrawn in accordance with Article 28.5) offer the Sale Shares for sale in the manner set out in the remaining provisions of this Article 28 at the Transfer Price. Each offer shall be in writing and give details of the number and Transfer Price of the Sale Shares offered.

 

28.8 If the Sale Shares are Series B Preferred Shares, the Company shall offer them in the following order of priority:

 

  28.8.1 first, to the holders of Series B Preferred Shares; and

 

  28.8.2 second, to the holders of Series A Preferred Shares, Founder Shares and Relevant Ordinary Shares (pro rata as if the same constituted one class of share),

 

  in each case on the basis set out in Articles 28.11 to 28.19 (inclusive).

 

28.9 If the Sale Shares are Series A Preferred Shares, the Company shall offer them in the following order of priority:

 

  28.9.1 first, to the holders of Series A Preferred Shares; and

 

  28.9.2 second, to the holders of Series B Preferred Shares, Founder Shares and Relevant Ordinary Shares (pro rata as if the same constituted one class of share),

 

  in each case on the basis set out in Articles 28.11 to 28.19 (inclusive).

 

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28.10 If the Sale Shares are Ordinary Shares, the Company shall offer them in the following order of priority:

 

  28.10.1 first, to any Employee Trust or Employee (other than the Founders) that the Directors may nominate for the purpose;

 

  28.10.2 second, to the holders of Series B Preferred Shares, Series A Preferred Shares, Founder Shares and Relevant Ordinary Shares (pro rata as if the same constituted one class of share),

in each case on the basis set out in Articles 28.11 to 28.19 (inclusive).

 

28.11 The Directors shall offer the Sale Shares to the First Offerees (other than the Seller), inviting them to apply in writing within the period from the date of the offer to the date 10 Business Days after the offer (both dates inclusive) (the “First Offer Period”) for the maximum number of Sale Shares they wish to buy.

 

28.12 If:

 

  28.12.1 at the end of the First Offer Period, the number of Sale Shares applied for is equal to or exceeds the number of Sale Shares, the Directors shall allocate the Sale Shares to each First Offeree. In an offer pursuant to Article 28.10.1, the Sale Shares shall be allocated to the Employee Trust or Employees (other than the Founders) who has applied for Sale Shares in such proportions as the Board shall determine. In an offer pursuant to Article 28.9.1, the Sale Shares shall be allocated to each First Offeree who has applied for Sale Shares in the proportion which his existing holding of Series A Preferred Shares bears to the total number of Series A Preferred Shares held by all First Offerees (other than the Seller). In an offer pursuant to Article 28.8.1, the Sale Shares shall be allocated to each First Offeree who has applied for Sale Shares in the proportion which his existing holding of Series B Preferred Shares bears to the total number of Series B Preferred Shares held by all First Offerees (other than the Seller). Fractional entitlements shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number (save where such rounding would result in not all Sale Shares being allocated, in which case, the allocation of any such fractional entitlements shall be determined by the Directors). No allocation shall be made to a Member of more than the maximum number of Sale Shares which he has stated he is willing to buy;

 

  28.12.2 not all Sale Shares are allocated following allocations in accordance with Article 28.12.1, but there are applications for Sale Shares that have not been satisfied, the Directors shall allocate the remaining Sale Shares to such applicants in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 28.12.1. The procedure set out in this Article 28.12.2 shall apply on any number of consecutive occasions until either all Sale Shares have been allocated or all applications for Sale Shares have been satisfied; and

 

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  28.12.3 at the end of the First Offer Period, the total number of Sale Shares applied for is less than the number of Sale Shares, the Directors shall allocate the Sale Shares to the First Offerees in accordance with their applications. The balance (the “Initial Surplus Shares”) shall be dealt with in accordance with Articles 28.13 and 28.14.

 

28.13 At the end of the First Offer Period, the Directors shall offer the Initial Surplus Shares (if any) to the Second Offerees (other than the Seller), inviting them to apply in writing within the period from the date of the offer to the date 10 Business Days after the offer (both dates inclusive) (the “Second Offer Period”) for the maximum number of Initial Surplus Shares they wish to buy.

 

28.14 If:

 

  28.14.1 at the end of the Second Offer Period, the number of Initial Surplus Shares applied for is equal to or exceeds the number of Initial Surplus Shares, the Directors shall allocate the Initial Surplus Shares to each Second Offeree who has applied for Initial Surplus Shares in the proportion which his existing holding of Shares of the classes required to be held by Second Offerees bears to the total number of Shares of the classes required to be held by all Second Offerees (other than the Seller). Fractional entitlements shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number (save where such rounding would result in not all Initial Surplus Shares being allocated, in which case, the allocation of any such fractional entitlements shall be determined by the Directors). No allocation shall be made to a Member of more than the maximum number of Initial Surplus Shares which he has stated he is willing to buy;

 

  28.14.2 not all Initial Surplus Shares are allocated following allocations in accordance with Article 28.14.1, but there are applications for Initial Surplus Shares that have not been satisfied, the Directors shall allocate the remaining Initial Surplus Shares to such applicants in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 28.14.1. The procedure set out in this Article 28.14.2 shall apply on any number of consecutive occasions until either all Initial Surplus Shares have been allocated or all applications for Initial Surplus Shares have been satisfied; and

 

  28.14.3 at the end of the Second Offer Period, the total number of Initial Surplus Shares applied for is less than the number of Initial Surplus Shares, the Directors shall allocate the Initial Surplus Shares to the Second Offerees in accordance with their applications. The balance (the “Second Surplus Shares”) shall, subject to Article 28.20, be offered to any other person in accordance with Article 28.19.

 

28.15 Where the Transfer Notice contains a Minimum Transfer Condition:

 

  28.15.1 any allocation made under Articles 28.8 to 28.14 (inclusive) shall be conditional on the fulfilment of the Minimum Transfer Condition; and

 

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  28.15.2 if the total number of Sale Shares applied for under Articles 28.8 to 28.14 (inclusive) is less than the number of Sale Shares, the Board shall notify the Seller and all those Members to whom Sale Shares have been conditionally allocated stating that the condition has not been met and that the relevant Transfer Notice has lapsed with immediate effect.

 

28.16 Where:

 

  28.16.1 the Transfer Notice does not contain a Minimum Transfer Condition; or

 

  28.16.2 the Transfer Notice includes a Minimum Transfer Condition which has been met, but allocations have not been made in respect of all the Sale Shares; or

 

  28.16.3 allocations have been made in respect of all the Sale Shares,

the Directors shall, when no further offers or allocations are required to be made under Articles 28.8 to 28.14 (inclusive), give notice in writing of the allocations of Sale Shares (an “ Allocation Notice ”) to the Seller and each Member to whom Sale Shares have been allocated (each an “ Applicant ”). The Allocation Notice shall specify the number of Sale Shares allocated to each Applicant and the place and time for completion of the transfer of the Sale Shares (which shall be at least 10 Business Days, but not more than 15 Business Days, after the date of the Allocation Notice).

 

28.17 On the date specified for completion in the Allocation Notice, the Seller shall, against payment from an Applicant, transfer the Sale Shares allocated to such Applicant, in accordance with any requirements specified in the Allocation Notice.

 

28.18 If the Seller fails to comply with Article 28.17:

 

  28.18.1 the Chairman (or, failing him, any other Director or some other person nominated by a resolution of the Directors) may, as agent on behalf of the Seller):

 

  28.18.1.1 complete, execute and deliver in his name all documents necessary to give effect to the transfer of the relevant Sale Shares to the Applicants;

 

  28.18.1.2 receive the Transfer Price and give a good discharge for it (and no Applicant shall be obliged to see to the distribution of the Transfer Price); and

 

  28.18.1.3 enter the Applicants in the register of Members as the holders of the Shares purchased by them; and

 

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  28.18.2 the Company shall pay the Transfer Price into a separate bank account in the Company’s name on trust (but without interest) for the Seller until he has delivered his certificate(s) for the relevant Shares (or an indemnity, in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Directors, in respect of any lost certificate, together with such other evidence (if any) as the Board may reasonably require to prove good title to those Shares) to the Company.

 

28.19 Where an Allocation Notice does not relate to all the Sale Shares or the Transfer Notice lapses pursuant to Article 28.15.2 then, subject to Article 28.20, the Seller may, at any time during the 30 Business Days following the date of service of the Allocation Notice, transfer the Sale Shares (in the case of a lapsed offer) or the Initial Surplus Shares (as the case may be) to any person at a price at least equal to the Transfer Price. The sale of the Sale Shares (following the lapse of a Transfer Notice) in accordance with this Article 28.19 shall continue to be subject to any Minimum Transfer Condition.

 

28.20 The Seller’s right to transfer Shares under Article 28.19 does not apply if the Directors reasonably consider that:

 

  28.20.1 the transferee is a person (or a nominee for a person) whom the Directors determine to be a competitor (or a Member of the Same Group as a competitor) of the business of any Group Company;

 

  28.20.2 the sale of the Sale Shares is not bona fide or the price is subject to a deduction, rebate or allowance to the transferee; or

 

  28.20.3 the Seller has failed or refused to promptly provide information reasonably requested from him and available to him to enable the Directors to form the opinion referred to in Article 28.20.2.

 

29. VALUATION

 

29.1 The Transfer Price for each Sale Share the subject of a Transfer Notice (or Deemed Transfer Notice) shall, save where expressly provided otherwise in these Articles, be the price per Sale Share (in cash) set out in the Transfer Notice as being the Proposed Sale Price or if no Proposed Sale Price is stated (or in the case of a Deemed Transfer Notice) as agreed between the Directors (any Director with whom the Seller is connected not voting) and the Seller or, in default of agreement within 10 Business Days of the date of service of the Transfer Notice (or, in the case of a Deemed Transfer Notice, the date on which the board of Directors first has actual knowledge of the facts giving rise to such deemed service), the Fair Value of each Sale Share.

 

29.2 The Fair Value shall be the price per Sale Share determined by the Independent Expert using commonly accepted and used valuation conventions and techniques applicable to the relevant industry sector and adopting the following bases and assumptions:

 

  29.2.1 valuing the Sale Shares as on an arm’s-length sale between a willing seller and a willing buyer as at the date the Transfer Notice was served (or deemed served);

 

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  29.2.2 if the Company is then carrying on business as a going concern, on the assumption that it will continue to do so;

 

  29.2.3 that the Sale Shares are capable of being transferred without restriction;

 

  29.2.4 having regard to the rights and restrictions attached to the Sale Shares in respect of income, capital and voting;

 

  29.2.5 any re-classification to take place pursuant to Articles 28.3 or 28.4 shall be disregarded in the determination of the Transfer Price of a share being offered for sale;

 

  29.2.6 valuing the Sale Shares as a rateable proportion of the total value of all the issued Shares without any premium or discount being attributable to the percentage of the issued share capital of the Company which they represent; and

 

  29.2.7 reflecting any other factors which the Independent Expert reasonably believes should be taken into account.

 

29.3 If any difficulty arises in applying any of these assumptions or bases then the Independent Expert shall resolve that difficulty in whatever manner it shall in its absolute discretion think fit.

 

29.4 The Directors will give the Independent Expert access to all accounting records or other relevant documents of the Group, subject to it agreeing such confidentiality provisions as the Directors may reasonably impose.

 

29.5 The Directors and the Seller are entitled to make submissions to the Independent Expert and shall provide (or procure that others provide) the Independent Expert with such assistance and documents as the Independent Expert may reasonably require for the purpose of reaching a decision.

 

29.6 The Independent Expert shall act as expert and not as arbitrator and its determination shall be final and binding on the parties (in the absence of fraud or manifest error).

 

29.7 The Independent Expert shall be requested to determine the Fair Value within 15 Business Days of its appointment and to deliver its certificate to the Company. As soon as reasonably practicable following receipt, the Company shall deliver a copy of the certificate to the Seller.

 

29.8 The cost of obtaining the Independent Expert’s certificate shall be borne by the Company and the Seller equally or in such other proportions as the Independent Expert directs unless:

 

  29.8.1 the Seller withdraws the relevant Transfer Notice in accordance with Article 28.5; or

 

  29.8.2 in respect of a Deemed Transfer Notice, the Fair Value is less than the price per Sale Share offered to the Seller by the Directors before the appointment of the Independent Expert,

 

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in which case the Seller shall bear the cost.

 

30. COMPULSORY TRANSFERS

 

30.1 A person entitled to a Share in consequence of the bankruptcy of a Member (or equivalent procedure in any jurisdiction outside Jersey) shall be deemed to have given a Transfer Notice in respect of that Share at such time as the Directors may determine.

 

30.2 If a Member which is a body corporate becomes bankrupt or either suffers or resolves to appoint a liquidator, administrator or administrative receiver over it, or any material part of its assets (other than a voluntary liquidation for the purpose of a bona fide scheme of solvent amalgamation or reconstruction) or suffers or takes any equivalent action in any jurisdiction outside Jersey, that Member shall be deemed to have given a Transfer Notice in respect of all Shares held by it at such time as the Directors may determine.

 

30.3 If there is a change in control (as ‘control’ is defined in section 1124 of the CTA) of any Member which is a company, it shall be bound at any time, if and when required in writing by the Directors to do so, to give (or procure the giving in the case of a nominee) a Transfer Notice in respect of all the Shares registered in its name (or the name of its nominee(s)) save that, where that Member acquired Shares as a Permitted Transferee of an Original Member, it shall first be permitted to transfer those Shares back to the Original Member from whom it received its Shares or to any other Permitted Transferee of that Original Member before being required to serve a Transfer Notice. This Article 30.3 shall not apply to a Member that is an Investor.

 

30.4 Forthwith upon a Transfer Notice being deemed to be served under this Article 30, the Shares subject to the relevant Deemed Transfer Notice (“ Restricted Shares ”) shall cease to confer on the holder of them any rights:

 

  30.4.1 to vote (whether on a show of hands, on a poll or otherwise and whether in person, by proxy or otherwise), including in respect of any resolution of any class of Shares; and

 

  30.4.2 to receive dividends or other distributions.

 

30.5 The Directors may reinstate the rights referred to in Article 30.4 at any time and, in any event, such rights shall be reinstated in respect of any Shares transferred pursuant to the Transfer Notice referred to in Article 30.4.

 

31. MANDATORY OFFER ON CHANGE OF CONTROL

 

31.1 In the event that a proposed transfer of Shares (other than a transfer of Shares made pursuant to Article 27 or Article 30, but after the operation of the pre-emption procedure set out in Article 28), whether made as one or as a series of transactions (a “ Proposed Transfer ”) would, if completed, result in any person (the “ Buyer ”), together with any person acting in concert with the Buyer, acquiring a Controlling Interest, the remaining provisions of this Article 31 shall apply.

 

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31.2 The Seller shall procure that, prior to the completion of the Proposed Transfer, the Buyer shall make an offer (the “ Offer ”) to each Member on the date of the Offer other than any holder(s) of Restricted Shares, to buy all of the Equity Shares held by such Members on the date of the Offer for a consideration in cash per Equity Share (the “ Offer Price ”) which is equal to the highest price per Equity Share offered, paid or to be paid by the Buyer, or any person acting in concert with the Buyer, for any Equity Shares in connection with the Proposed Transfer or any transaction in the 12 calendar months preceding the date of completion of the Proposed Transfer PROVIDED THAT the consideration for which a Member shall be entitled to sell each C Ordinary Share pursuant to the Offer shall be equal to the Offer Price less £0.372 per share.

 

31.3 The Offer shall be made by notice in writing (an “ Offer Notice ”) addressed to each Member on the date of the Offer other than any holder(s) of Restricted Shares at least 10 Business Days (the “ Offer Period ”) before the date fixed for completion of the Proposed Transfer (the “ Sale Date ”). To the extent not described in any accompanying documents, the Offer Notice shall specify:

 

  31.3.1 the identity of the Buyer (and any person(s) acting in concert with the Buyer);

 

  31.3.2 the Offer Price (and the price per C Ordinary Share) and any other terms and conditions of the Offer;

 

  31.3.3 the Sale Date; and

 

  31.3.4 the number of Equity Shares which would be held by the Buyer (and persons acting in concert with the Buyer) on completion of the Proposed Transfer.

 

31.4 The completion of the Proposed Transfer shall be conditional in all respects on:

 

  31.4.1 the making of an Offer in accordance with this Article 31; and

 

  31.4.2 the completion of the transfer of any Equity Shares by any Member (each an “ Accepting Member ”) who accepts the Offer within the Offer Period,

and the Directors shall refuse to register any Proposed Transfer made in breach of this Article 31.

 

31.5 The Proposed Transfer is, but the purchase of Shares from Accepting Members pursuant to an Offer made under this Article 31 shall not be, subject to the pre-emption provisions of Article 28.

 

32. DRAG ALONG

 

32.1 If:

 

  32.1.1 a Series B Majority;

 

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  32.1.2 a Series A Majority;

 

  32.1.3 the holders of a majority of the Exit Shares in issue for the time being (treating the Exit Shares as the same class for this purpose);

 

  32.1.4 Peter Bauer (if he remains an Active Founder); and

 

  32.1.5 Neil Murray (if he remains an Active Founder),

(together, the “ Selling Members ”) wish to transfer all of their interest in Equity Shares (“ Sellers’ Shares ”) to a bona fide arm’s-length purchaser (“ Proposed Buyer ”), the Selling Members shall have the option (“ Drag Along Option ”) to require all the other holders of Equity Shares on the date of the request (“ Called Members ”) to sell and transfer all their interest in Equity Shares with full title guarantee to the Proposed Buyer (or as the Proposed Buyer may direct) in accordance with the provisions of this Article 32.

 

32.2 The Selling Members may exercise the Drag Along Option by giving notice in writing to that effect (a “ Drag Along Notice ”), at any time before the completion of the transfer of the Sellers’ Shares, to the Company which the Company shall forthwith copy to the Proposed Buyer and each Called Member. A Drag Along Notice shall specify:

 

  32.2.1 that the Called Members are required to transfer all their Equity Shares (“ Called Shares ”) pursuant to this Article 32;

 

  32.2.2 the identity of the Proposed Buyer (and, if relevant, the transferee(s) nominated by the Proposed Buyer);

 

  32.2.3 the consideration payable for the Called Shares calculated in accordance with Article 32.4;

 

  32.2.4 the proposed date of completion of transfer of the Called Shares.

 

32.3 Once given, a Drag Along Notice may not be revoked save with the prior consent of the Directors. However, a Drag Along Notice shall lapse if, for any reason, the Selling Members have not completed the transfer of all the Sellers’ Shares to the Proposed Buyer (or as the Proposed Buyer may direct) within 30 Business Days of serving the Drag Along Notice. The Selling Members may serve further Drag Along Notices following the lapse of any particular Drag Along Notice.

 

32.4 The consideration for which the Called Members shall be obliged to sell each of the Called Shares shall be:

 

  32.4.1 that to which they would be entitled if the total consideration proposed to be paid by the Proposed Buyer were distributed to the holders of the Called Shares and the Sellers’ Shares in accordance with the provisions of Article 19; and

 

  32.4.2 in the same form of consideration as is received by the Selling Members.

 

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32.5 No Drag Along Notice shall require a Called Member to agree to any terms except those specifically set out in this Article 32.

 

32.6 Completion of the sale and purchase of the Called Shares shall take place on the same date as, and conditional upon the completion of, the sale and purchase of the Sellers’ Shares unless:

 

  32.6.1 all of the Called Members and the Selling Members otherwise agree; or

 

  32.6.2 that date is less than 10 Business Days after the date of service of the Drag Along Notice, in which case completion of the sale and purchase of the Called Shares shall take place 15 Business Days after the date of service of the Drag Along Notice.

 

32.7 Within 15 Business Days of the Selling Members serving a Drag Along Notice on the Called Members, the Called Members shall deliver stock transfer forms for their Equity Shares in favour of the Proposed Buyer (or as the Proposed Buyer may direct), together with the share certificate(s) in respect of those Equity Shares (or a suitable indemnity in respect thereof) to the Company. On the expiration of that 15 Business Day period the Company shall pay the Called Members, on behalf of the Proposed Buyer, the amounts they are respectively due pursuant to Article 32.4 to the extent the Proposed Buyer has put the Company in the requisite funds. The Company’s receipt for the amounts due pursuant to Article 32.4 shall be a good discharge to the Proposed Buyer. The Company shall hold the amounts due to the Called Members pursuant to Article 32.4 in trust for the Called Members without any obligation to pay interest.

 

32.8 To the extent that the Proposed Buyer has not, on the expiration of the 10 Business Day period, put the Company in funds to pay the amounts due pursuant to Article 32.4, the Called Members shall be entitled to the return of the stock transfer forms and share certificate(s) (or suitable indemnity) for the relevant Equity Shares and the Called Members shall have no further rights or obligations under this Article 32 in respect of that Drag Along Option.

 

32.9 If any Called Member fails to deliver to the Company a duly executed stock transfer form (or forms) in respect of the Called Shares held by him (together with the share certificate(s) in respect of those Called Shares (or a suitable indemnity in respect thereof)) the defaulting Called Member shall be deemed to have appointed any person nominated for the purpose by the Selling Members to be his agent to execute and deliver all necessary transfers on his behalf, against receipt by the Company (on trust for such holder) of the consideration payable for the Called Shares. After the Proposed Buyer (or person(s) nominated by the Proposed Buyer) has been registered as the holder of any such Called Shares, the validity of such proceedings shall not be questioned by any person. Failure to produce a share certificate shall not impede the registration of any transfer of Shares under this Article 32.

 

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32.10 Upon any person, following the issue of a Drag Along Notice, becoming a Member (or increasing an existing shareholding) including, without limitation, pursuant to the exercise of any option, warrant or other right to acquire or subscribe for, or to convert any security into, Equity Shares, whether or not pursuant to a Share Option Plan (a “ New Member ”), a Drag Along Notice shall be deemed to have been served upon the New Member, on the same terms as the previous Drag Along Notice, and the New Member shall then be bound to sell and transfer all such Equity Shares acquired by him to the Proposed Buyer (or as the Proposed Buyer may direct) and the provisions of this Article 32 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the New Member, save that completion of the sale of such Equity Shares shall take place forthwith upon the later of the Drag Along Notice being deemed served on the New Member and the date of completion of the sale of the Called Shares.

 

32.11 A transfer of Called Shares to a Proposed Buyer (or as the Proposed Buyer may direct) pursuant to a sale in respect of which a Drag Along Notice has been duly served (or deemed served) shall not be subject to the pre-emption provisions of Article 28.

 

32.12 Any Transfer Notice or Deemed Transfer Notice served in respect of the transfer of any Share which has not completed before the date of service of a Drag Along Notice shall automatically be revoked by the service (or deemed service) of a Drag Along Notice.

 

33. CO-SALE

 

33.1 No transfer (other than a Permitted Transfer) of any of the Equity Shares held by a Founder or a Permitted Transferee of a Founder may be made or validly registered to the extent that it results in a transfer by the relevant Founder or Permitted Transferee: (i) of more than 5 per cent of the Equity Shares equivalent to the number of Mimecast UK Equity Shares held by the relevant Founder as at 12 September 2012 in any 12 month period following 12 September 2012; or (ii) of more than 10 per cent of the Mimecast UK Equity Shares held by the relevant Founder as at 12 September 2012, unless the relevant Founder or Permitted Transferee (a “ Selling Founder ”) shall have observed the following procedures of this Article 33.

 

33.2 After the Selling Founder has gone through the pre-emption process set out in Article 28, but prior to selling or agreeing to sell any Sale Shares pursuant to Article 28.19, the Selling Founder shall give to the Investors and the other holders of Founder Shares (an “ Equity Holder ”) not less than 15 Business Days’ notice in advance of the proposed sale (a “ Co-Sale Notice ”). The Co-Sale Notice shall specify:

 

  (a) the identity of the proposed purchaser (the “ Co-Sale Buyer ”);

 

  (b) the price per share which the Co-Sale Buyer is proposing to pay;

 

  (c) the manner in which the consideration is to be paid;

 

  (d) the number of Equity Shares which the Selling Founder proposes to sell; and

 

  (e) the address where the counter-notice should be sent.

 

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33.3 Each Equity Holder shall be entitled within five Business Days after receipt of the Co-Sale Notice, to notify the Selling Founder that they wish to sell a certain number of Equity Shares held by them at the proposed sale price, by sending a counter-notice which shall specify the number of Equity Shares which such Equity Holder wishes to sell. The maximum number of shares which an Equity Holder can sell under this procedure shall be:

 

   (   

  X  

  )   ×Z
   Y    

where

 

  X is the number of Equity Shares held by the Equity Holder;

 

  Y is the total number of Equity Shares;

 

  Z is the number of Equity Shares the Selling Founder proposes to sell.

Any Equity Holder who does not send a counter-notice within such five Business Day period shall be deemed to have specified that they wish to sell no shares.

 

33.4 Following the expiry of five Business Days from the date the Equity Holders receive the Co-Sale Notice, the Selling Founder shall be entitled to sell to the Co-Sale Buyer on the terms notified to the Equity Holders a number of shares not exceeding the number specified in the Co-Sale Notice less any shares which Equity Holders have indicated they wish to sell, provided that at the same time the Co-Sale Buyer (or another person) purchases from the Equity Holders the number of shares they have respectively indicated they wish to sell on terms no less favourable than those obtained by the Selling Founder from the Co-Sale Buyer.

 

33.5 No sale by the Selling Founder shall be made pursuant to any Co-Sale Notice more than three months after service of that Co-Sale Notice.

 

33.6 Sales made in accordance with this Article 33 shall not be subject to Article 28.

 

34. MEMBERS’ RESOLUTIONS IN WRITING

 

34.1 A resolution in writing (including a Special Resolution but excluding a resolution removing an auditor) signed by Members (who would be entitled to receive notice of and to attend and vote at a general meeting at which such a resolution would be proposed) or by their duly appointed agents or attorneys representing such number of voting rights of eligible Members as would have been required to pass such resolution on a poll taken at a meeting of the Members (or of a class of Members) shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a general meeting of the Company duly convened and held.

 

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34.2 Any such resolution may consist of several documents in the like form each signed by one or more of the Members or their agent or attorneys and signature in the case of a corporate body which is a Member shall be sufficient if made by a director or other duly authorised officer thereof or its duly appointed agent or attorney.

 

35. GENERAL MEETINGS

 

35.1 The Directors may whenever they think fit, and upon a requisition made in writing by Members in accordance with the Law the Directors shall, convene a general meeting of the Company.

 

35.2 Each general meeting shall be held at such time and such place (either in or outside Jersey) as may be determined by the Directors.

 

35.3 At any general meeting called pursuant to a requisition, unless such meeting is called by the Directors, no business other than that stated in the requisition as the objects of the meeting shall be transacted.

 

36. NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETINGS

 

36.1 At least fourteen clear days’ notice shall be given of every general meeting. Every notice shall specify the place, the day and the time of the meeting, the general nature of the business to be transacted at the meeting and, in the case of an annual general meeting, shall specify the meeting as such. Notice of every meeting shall be given in the manner hereinafter mentioned to all the Members and to the Directors and to the auditors.

 

36.2 A meeting of the Company shall, notwithstanding that it is called by shorter notice than that specified in Article 36.1, be deemed to have been duly called if it is so agreed:

 

  36.2.1 in the case of an annual general meeting, by all the Members entitled to attend and vote thereat;

 

  36.2.2 in the case of any meeting (other than an annual general meeting) at which it is intended to propose a resolution as a special resolution, by a majority in number of Members having a right to attend and vote at the meeting, being a majority together holding not less than ninety-five per cent of the total voting rights of the Members who have that right; and

 

  36.2.3 in the case of any other meeting, by a majority in number of Members having a right to attend and vote at the meeting, being a majority together holding not less than ninety per cent of the total voting rights of the Members who have that right.

 

36.3 In every notice calling a meeting of the Company there shall appear with reasonable prominence a statement that a Member entitled to attend and vote is entitled to appoint one or more proxies to attend and vote instead of him and that a proxy need not also be a Member.

 

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36.4 It shall be the duty of the Company, subject to the provisions of the Law, on the calling of a meeting on the requisition in writing of such number of Members as is specified by the Law:

 

  36.4.1 to give to the Members entitled to receive notice of general meetings and to the Directors notice of any resolution which may properly be moved and which it is intended to move at that meeting; and

 

  36.4.2 to circulate to Members entitled to have notice of any general meeting sent to them, any statement of not more than one thousand words with respect to the matter referred to in any proposed resolution or the business to be dealt with at that meeting.

 

36.5 The accidental omission to give notice of a meeting to, or the non-receipt of notice of a meeting by, any person entitled to receive notice shall not invalidate the proceedings at that meeting.

 

37. PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS

 

37.1 The business of an annual general meeting shall be to receive and consider the accounts of the Company and the reports of the Directors and auditors (if any), to elect Directors (if necessary), to elect auditors (if applicable) and fix their remuneration, to declare a dividend if thought fit so to do, and to transact any other business of which notice has been given.

 

37.2 No business shall be transacted at any general meeting except the appointment of a Chairman in accordance with Article 37.3 and/or the adjournment of the meeting unless a quorum of Members is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business. Such quorum shall consist of not less than two Members present in person, but so that not less than two individuals will constitute the quorum provided that, if at any time all of the issued shares in the Company are held by one Member, such quorum shall consist of the Member present in person.

 

37.3 The Chairman shall chair general meetings. If there is no Chairman in office for the time being, or the Chairman is unable to attend any general meeting, the Directors present (or, if no Directors are present, the meeting) must appoint another Director present at the meeting (or, if no Directors are present, a Member) to chair the meeting and the appointment of the chairman of the meeting must be the first business of the meeting.

 

37.4 If within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present, or if during the meeting a quorum ceases to be present, the meeting, if convened by or upon the requisition of Members, shall be dissolved. If otherwise convened the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and place or such day, time and place as the Directors shall determine.

 

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37.5 The chairman may with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is present (and shall if so directed by the meeting) adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place. When a meeting is adjourned for thirty days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of the original meeting. Save as aforesaid, it shall not be necessary to give any notice of any adjourned meeting or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting.

 

37.6 If a Member is by any means in communication with one or more other Members so that each Member participating in the communication can hear what is said by any other of them, each Member so participating in the communication is deemed to be present in person at a meeting with the other Members so participating, notwithstanding that all the Members so participating are not present together in the same place. A meeting at which any or all of the Members participate as aforesaid shall be deemed to be a general meeting of the Company for the purposes of these Articles notwithstanding any other provisions of these Articles and all of the provisions of these Articles and of the Law relating to general meetings of the Company and to the proceedings thereat shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to every such meeting.

 

37.7 The Directors and the auditors shall be entitled to receive notice of and to attend and speak at any meeting of Members.

 

38. VOTING

 

38.1 Save where otherwise provided in these Articles, no person shall be entitled to be present or take part in any proceedings or vote either personally or by proxy at any general meeting unless his name has been entered in the Register as a holder of the shares in respect of which he claims to vote.

 

38.2 Save where otherwise provided in the Law or in these Articles, all resolutions shall be adopted if approved by a majority of the votes cast. In the event of an equality of votes at any general meeting, whether upon a show of hands or on a poll, the chairman shall not be entitled to a second or casting vote.

 

38.3 The Founder Shares carry the right to ten votes per share held.

 

38.4 In relation to any resolution or written resolution of the Company, the Series A Preferred Shares together shall carry the right to the same proportion of the total number of votes capable of being cast as is represented by the proportion that the issued Series A Preferred Shares bears to aggregate of the Preferred Shares and the Ordinary Shares in issue at that time. Such votes shall be split between the holders of Series A Preferred Shares pro rata to the number of Series A Preferred Shares held.

 

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38.5 In relation to any resolution or written resolution of the Company, the Series B Preferred Shares together shall carry the right to the same proportion of the total number of votes capable of being cast as is represented by the proportion that the issued Series B Preferred Shares bears to aggregate of the Preferred Shares and the Ordinary Shares in issue at that time. Such votes shall be split between the holders of Series B Preferred Shares pro rata to the number of Series B Preferred Shares held.

 

38.6 The Relevant Ordinary Shares each carry the right to one vote per share.

 

38.7 The C Ordinary Shares do not carry the right to vote.

 

38.8 The Deferred Shares do not carry the right to vote.

 

38.9 The Founder Shares, the Series A Preferred Shares, the Series B Preferred Shares and the Relevant Ordinary Shares carry the right to receive notice of and to attend, speak and vote at all general meetings of the Company and on any written resolution of the Company. The C Ordinary Shares and the Deferred Shares do not carry the right to receive notice of or to attend speak or vote at general meetings of the Company or to receive or vote on any written resolution of the Company.

 

38.10 Every resolution put to a general meeting of the Company shall be determined by a poll.

 

38.11 Where there are joint registered holders of any share, such persons shall not have the right of voting individually in respect of such share but shall elect one of their number to represent them and to vote whether in person or by proxy in their name. In default of such election the person whose name appears first in order in the Register in respect of such share shall be the only person entitled to vote in respect thereof.

 

38.12 A Member for whom a special or general attorney is appointed or who is suffering from some other legal incapacity or interdiction in respect of whom an order has been made by any court having jurisdiction (whether in Jersey or elsewhere) in matters concerning legal incapacity or interdiction may vote, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, by his attorney, curator, or other person authorised in that behalf appointed by that court, and any such attorney, curator or other person may vote by proxy. Evidence to the satisfaction of the Directors of the authority of such attorney, curator or other person may be required by the Directors prior to any vote being exercised by such attorney, curator or other person.

 

38.13 No objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter except at the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote objected to is given or tendered, and every vote not disallowed at such meeting shall be valid for all purposes. Any such objection made in due time shall be referred to the chairman of the meeting whose decision shall be final and conclusive.

 

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38.14 Where a person is authorised under Article 39.8 to represent a body corporate at a general meeting of the Company the Directors or the chairman of the meeting may require such person to produce a certified copy of the resolution from which the authority of such person is derived.

 

39. PROXIES FOR GENERAL MEETINGS AND CORPORATE MEMBERS

 

39.1 The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney duly authorised in writing or if the appointor is a corporation either under seal or under the hand of an officer or attorney duly authorised. A proxy need not be a Member.

 

39.2 The instrument appointing a proxy in respect of a meeting or adjourned meeting or for the taking of a poll at which the person named in the instrument proposes to vote must be deposited at the Office no later than the time specified in the notice calling the meeting (as determined by the Directors, in accordance with the Law) together with:

 

  39.2.1 the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed; or

 

  39.2.2 a copy of that power or authority certified as a true copy to the satisfaction of the Secretary.

 

39.3 A Member may, by one or more instruments specifically identifying the number (and, if applicable, the class) of shares to which it relates and otherwise complying with these Articles, appoint different proxies in respect of different shares held by such Member and who shall each have the right to attend, speak and vote at the meeting for which he is appointed. Each such proxy shall take effect in accordance with these Articles only in respect of such specified number of shares held by such Member.

 

39.4 The instrument appointing a proxy may be in any common form or in any other form approved by the Directors including the following form:

“(Insert name of Company)

I/We (            ) of (            ) being a Member/Members of the above named Company hereby appoint (            ) of (            ) or failing him (            ) of (            ) as my/our proxy to vote for me/us on my/our behalf at the (annual or extraordinary as the case may be) general meeting of the Company to be held on the (            ) day of (            ) and at any adjournment thereof.

Signed this (            ) day of (            )”

 

39.5 Unless the contrary is stated thereon the instrument appointing a proxy shall be as valid as well for any adjournment of the meeting as for the meeting to which it relates.

 

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39.6 A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal or revocation of the proxy or of the authority under which the proxy was executed provided that no intimation in writing of such death, insanity or revocation shall have been received by the Company at the Office before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting or the taking of the poll at which the proxy is used.

 

39.7 The Directors may at the expense of the Company send by post or otherwise to the Members instruments of proxy (with or without provision for their return prepaid) for use at any general meeting or at any separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares of the Company either in blank or nominating in the alternative any one or more of the Directors or any other persons. If for the purpose of any meeting invitations to appoint as proxy a person or one or more of a number of persons specified in the invitations are issued at the Company’s expense they shall be issued to all (and not to some only) of the Members entitled to be sent a notice of the meeting and to vote thereat by proxy.

 

39.8 Any body corporate which is a Member may by resolution of its directors or other governing body authorise such person or persons as it thinks fit to act as its representative or representatives at any meeting of Members (or of any class of Members). The person or persons so authorised shall be entitled to exercise on behalf of the body corporate which is represented the same powers as that body corporate could exercise if it were an individual provided always that, where more than one person is authorised to represent a body corporate and more than one person purports to exercise a power on behalf of that body corporate:

 

  39.8.1 if each such person purports to exercise the power in the same way, the power is treated as exercised in that way; and

 

  39.8.2 if each such person does not purport to exercise the power in the same way, the power is treated as not exercised.

 

40. NOTICES

 

40.1 Any notice to be given to or by any person pursuant to these Articles shall be in writing. In the case of joint holders of a share, all notices shall be given to that one of the joint holders whose name stands first in the Register in respect of the joint holding and notice so given shall be sufficient notice to all the joint holders.

 

40.2 Any notice may be posted to or left at the registered address of any person, and any notice so posted shall be deemed to be served one clear day after the day it was posted.

 

40.3 Any Member present in person at any meeting of the Company shall, for all purposes, be deemed to have received due notice of such meeting and, where requisite, of the purposes for which such meeting was convened.

 

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40.4 Any notice or document served on a Member shall, notwithstanding that such Member be then dead or bankrupt and whether or not the Company has notice of his death or bankruptcy, be deemed to have been duly served on such Member as sole or joint holder, unless his name shall at the time of the service of the notice or document have been removed from the Register, and such service shall for all purposes be deemed a sufficient service of such notice or document on all persons interested (whether jointly with or as claiming through or under him) in the shares of such Member.

 

40.5 Notwithstanding any of the provisions of these Articles, any notice to be given by the Company to a Director or to a Member may be given in any manner agreed in advance by any such Director or Member.

 

41. INDEMNITY AND INSURANCE

 

41.1 Subject to Article 41.2, but without prejudice to any indemnity to which a Relevant Officer is otherwise entitled:

 

  41.1.1 each Relevant Officer shall, so far as the Law allows, be indemnified out of the Company’s assets against all costs, charges, losses, expenses and liabilities incurred by him as a Relevant Officer in the actual or purported execution and/or discharge of his duties, or in relation thereto, including any liability incurred by him in defending any civil or criminal proceedings, in which judgment is given in his favour or in which he is acquitted, or the proceedings are otherwise disposed of without any finding or admission of any material breach of duty on his part, or in connection with any application in which the court grants him, in his capacity as a Relevant Officer, relief from liability for negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust in relation to the Company’s (or other Group Company’s) affairs; and

 

  41.1.2 the Company may provide any Relevant Officer with funds to meet expenditure incurred or to be incurred by him in connection with any proceedings or application referred to in Article 41.1 and otherwise may take any action to enable such Relevant Officer to avoid incurring such expenditure.

 

41.2 This Article 41 does not authorise any indemnity to the extent it would be prohibited or rendered void by any provision of the Law.

 

41.3 The Directors may decide to purchase and maintain insurance, at the expense of the Company, for the benefit of any Relevant Officer in respect of any Relevant Loss.

 

41.4 In this Article 41:

 

  41.4.1 Relevant Loss means any loss or liability which has been or may be incurred by a Relevant Officer in connection with that Relevant Officer’s duties or powers in relation to the Company (or other Group Company) or any pension fund or employees’ share scheme of the Company (or other Group Company); and

 

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  41.4.2 Relevant Officer means any director or other officer or former director or other officer of any Group Company, but excluding in each case any person engaged by a Group Company as auditor (whether or not he is also a director or other officer), to the extent he acts in his capacity as auditor.

 

42. DATA PROTECTION

 

42.1 Each of the Members and Directors (from time to time) consents to the processing of his personal data by the Company, its Members and Directors (each a “ Recipient ”) for the purposes of due diligence exercises, compliance with applicable laws, regulations and procedures and the exchange of information amongst themselves. A Recipient may process such personal data either electronically or manually.

 

42.2 The personal data that may be processed for such purposes under this Article 42 shall include any information which may have a bearing on the prudence or commercial merits of investing in, or disposing of any Shares (or other investment or security) in, the Company. Save as required by law, court order or any regulatory authority, that personal data shall not be disclosed by a Recipient or any other person, except to:

 

  42.2.1 a Member of the Same Group as the Recipient (each a “ Recipient Group Company ”);

 

  42.2.2 employees, directors and professional advisers of that Recipient or any Recipient Group Company; and

 

  42.2.3 funds managed by any of the Recipient Group Companies.

 

42.3 Each of the Members and Directors consent (from time to time) to the transfer of such personal data to persons acting on behalf of any Recipient and to the offices of any Recipient, both within and outside the European Economic Area, for the purposes stated above, where it is necessary or desirable to do so.

 

43. PROCESS FOR TERMINATING ACTIVE FOUNDER STATUS

 

43.1 Subject to Article 43.15, if a Founder ceases at any time to be employed by, or to provide his services to, any Group Company pursuant to a Relevant Contract (a “ Relevant Founder ”), any Director (a “ Serving Director ”) may convene a meeting of the Board (an “ Evaluation Meeting ”) by giving notice in writing (an “ Evaluation Notice ”) to the Company, each of the Directors and each of the Founders (including the Relevant Founder). The purpose of an Evaluation Meeting shall be for the Board (excluding the Relevant Founder) to determine whether or not the Relevant Founder remains active (or should otherwise be deemed to be active) in the business of any Group Company and, accordingly, whether or not such Relevant Founder should continue to retain his status as an Active Founder.

 

43.2 An Evaluation Notice:

 

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  43.2.1 must specify a date, time and place for the Evaluation Meeting (such date being a Business Day which is not less than 10 days after the date of the Evaluation Notice); and

 

  43.2.2 may contain such other information as the Serving Director may deem necessary or appropriate for consideration by the Directors.

 

43.3 If the Relevant Founder wishes to attend the Evaluation Meeting, he shall promptly (and, in any event, not less than 2 days prior to the Evaluation Meeting) notify the Company of such fact and deliver to the Company any documents or information which the Relevant Founder wishes the Board to consider at the Evaluation Meeting.

 

43.4 The quorum for an Evaluation Meeting shall be all of the Directors other than the Relevant Founder.

 

43.5 At an Evaluation Meeting, the Board shall consider:

 

  43.5.1 any materials or information which accompanied the Evaluation Notice;

 

  43.5.2 any materials or information submitted to the Company by the Relevant Founder for consideration at the Evaluation Meeting pursuant to and in accordance with Article 43.3;

 

  43.5.3 any other materials or information which any Director present at the Evaluation Meeting may deem necessary or appropriate; and

 

  43.5.4 subject to Article 43.16, whether the Relevant Founder either:

 

  43.5.4.1 remains active (or should otherwise be deemed to be active) in the business of any Group Company, and should therefore retain his status as an Active Founder; or

 

  43.5.4.2 is no longer active (and should not otherwise be deemed to be active) in the business of any Group Company, and should therefore lose his status as an Active Founder.

 

43.6 If a resolution pursuant to Article 43.5.4.2 is passed unanimously by the Directors present at the Evaluation Meeting (excluding the Relevant Founder, if applicable), the Relevant Founder shall not cease to be an Active Founder, but the Company shall promptly notify the Relevant Founder of the Board’s decision (an “ Active Founder Termination Notice ”).

 

43.7 Upon receipt of an Active Founder Termination Notice, the Relevant Founder shall have 10 days to deliver to the Company a notice (an “ Appeal Notice ”) appealing the decision of the Directors taken at the Evaluation Meeting. An Appeal Notice must be accompanied by a written submission from the Relevant Founder setting out:

 

  43.7.1 the reasons for appealing the decision taken at the Evaluation Meeting;

 

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  43.7.2 the basis upon which the Relevant Founder believes he continues to be actively involved in the business of a Group Company (or should otherwise be deemed to be active); and

 

  43.7.3 any other materials or information which the Relevant Founder wishes the Directors to consider.

 

43.8 Upon receipt of an Appeal Notice, the Company shall promptly convene a second meeting of the Board (a “ Second Evaluation Meeting ”). If the Relevant Founder does not serve an Appeal Notice within the 10 day period referred to in Article 43.7, the Relevant Founder shall cease to be an Active Founder immediately upon the expiry of such 10 day period.

 

43.9 The chairman of the Board will confirm the date, time and location of the Second Evaluation Meeting to the Relevant Founder in writing not less than 7 days prior to the meeting.

 

43.10 If the Relevant Founder wishes to attend the Second Evaluation Meeting, he shall promptly (and, in any event, not less than 2 days prior to the Second Evaluation Meeting) notify the Company of such fact.

 

43.11 The quorum for a Second Evaluation Meeting shall be all of the Directors, including the Relevant Founder, where the Relevant Founder has notified the Company of his intention to attend pursuant to and in accordance with Article 43.10. If the necessary quorum is not present within 30 minutes from the time appointed for the meeting, or if, during a meeting, such quorum ceases to be present, the meeting shall stand adjourned to such time and place as the Directors determine (and notify to the Directors including the Relevant Founder) being no less than 2 and no more than 5 days later. If the Relevant Founder is not present at any such adjourned meeting within 30 minutes from the time appointed, then the meeting shall proceed provided that all the Directors other than the Relevant Founder are present, and the quorum for any subsequently adjourned meeting shall be all of the Directors other than the Relevant Founder.

 

43.12 At a Second Evaluation Meeting, the Board shall consider:

 

  43.12.1 the written submissions from the Relevant Founder which accompanied the Appeal Notice;

 

  43.12.2 any other materials or information which any Director present at the Second Evaluation Meeting may deem necessary or appropriate; and

 

  43.12.3 subject to Article 43.16, whether the Relevant Founder either:

 

  43.12.3.1 remains active (or should otherwise be deemed to be active) in the business of any Group Company, and should therefore retain his status as an Active Founder; or

 

  43.12.3.2 is no longer active (and should not otherwise be deemed to be active) in the business of any Group Company, and should therefore lose his status as an Active Founder.

 

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43.13 If a resolution pursuant to Article 43.12.3.2 is not passed unanimously by the Directors present at the Second Evaluation Meeting (excluding the Relevant Founder, if applicable), the Relevant Founder shall continue to have his status as an Active Founder and the Company shall promptly notify the Relevant Founder of the Board’s decision at the Second Evaluation Meeting.

 

43.14 If a resolution pursuant to Article 43.12.3.2 is passed unanimously by the Directors present at the Second Evaluation Meeting (excluding the Relevant Founder, if applicable), the Relevant Founder shall immediately cease to be an Active Founder and the Company shall promptly:

 

  43.14.1 notify the Relevant Founder of the Board’s decision at the Second Evaluation Meeting; and

 

  43.14.2 re-classify all of the Founder Shares held by the Relevant Founder as A Ordinary Shares (and, for such purpose, the Company is appointed to act as attorney for and on behalf of the Relevant Founder to execute and deliver such documents as the Board may deem necessary or appropriate for the purpose of effecting such re-classification).

 

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43.15 There shall be no limit on the number of times an Evaluation Notice may be served but no Evaluation Notice may be served during the 6 month period immediately following the service of the previous Evaluation Notice.

 

43.16 For all purposes under or in connection with this Article 43, whether or not a Relevant Founder:

 

  43.16.1 is active in the business of any Group Company; and/or

 

  43.16.2 should be deemed to be active in the business of any Group Company,

shall be determined by the Board (excluding the Relevant Founder) in its absolute discretion (but having regard to their statutory duties as directors of the Company).

 

44. SHARE PREMIUM ACCOUNT AND RESERVE FUND

 

44.1 There shall be transferred to a share premium account as required by the Law, the amount or value of any premium paid up on shares issued by the Company.

 

44.2 The Directors may from time to time:

 

  44.2.1 transfer amounts to a share premium account from any other account of the Company other than its capital redemption reserve or nominal capital account; or

 

  44.2.2 set aside any part of the profits of the Company to create a reserve fund, and may apply the same either by employing it in the business of the Company or by investing it in such a manner as they think fit.

 

44.3 Any reserve fund created pursuant to Article 44.2.1 or 44.2.2 may be applied for the purpose of maintaining the property of the Company, replacing wasting assets, meeting contingencies, forming an insurance fund, or for any other purpose for which the profits of the Company may lawfully be used, and until the same shall be applied it shall remain as a reserve of profit.

 

45. EXECUTION OF INSTRUMENTS, SEALS AND AUTHENTICATION OF DOCUMENTS

 

45.1 The Company may have a common seal and may, in accordance with the Law, have an official seal for use outside of Jersey and an official seal for sealing securities issued by the Company or for sealing documents creating or evidencing securities so issued. The Directors shall provide for the safe custody of all seals. No seal of the Company shall be used except by the authority of a resolution of the Directors or of a committee of the Directors authorised in that behalf by the Directors.

 

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45.2 The Directors may, by resolution, authorise a person or persons to witness the affixing of the Company’s common seal to any Written Instrument to which the Company is a party. In the absence of an express authorisation, either generally or with respect to a specific Written Instrument, any two Directors or a Director and the Secretary, are authorised to witness the affixing of the Company’s common seal to any Written Instrument to which the affixing of the common seal has been approved by the Directors.

 

45.3 Written Instruments to which the Company’s common seal is not to be affixed may be signed on behalf of the Company by such person or persons as the Directors may from time to time by resolution authorise. In the absence of an express authorisation, either generally or with respect to a specific Written Instrument, any one Director is authorised to sign any Written Instrument on behalf of the Company.

 

45.4 Any Director or the Secretary or any person appointed by the Directors for the purpose shall have power to authenticate any documents affecting the constitution of the Company (including the Memorandum of Association and these Articles) and any resolutions passed by the Company or the Directors and any books, records, documents and accounts relating to the business of the Company, and to certify copies thereof or extracts therefrom as true copies or extracts; and where books, records, documents or accounts are elsewhere than at the Office, the local manager or other officer of the company having the custody thereof shall be deemed to be a person appointed by the Directors as aforesaid.

 

46. CAPITALISATION

 

46.1 The Company may upon the recommendation of the Directors, resolve that it is desirable to capitalise any sum standing to the credit of its share premium account, capital redemption reserve, profit and loss account or other account or reserve of the Company and that the Directors be authorised and directed to appropriate the amount resolved to be capitalised to the Members in the proportion in which such amount would have been divisible amongst them had the same been applicable and had been applied in making a distribution, and to apply such amount on their behalf, either in or towards paying up the amounts, if any, for the time being unpaid on any shares held by such Members respectively, or in paying up in full either at par or at such premium as the said resolution may provide, any unissued shares or, subject to the Law, debentures of the Company, such shares or debentures to be allotted and distributed, credited as fully paid up, to and amongst such Members in the proportions aforesaid, or partly in one way and partly in the other. The Company may not capitalise any undistributed profits that are required to be applied in paying dividends in respect of any share entitled to a fixed or preferential dividend.

 

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46.2 Whenever such a resolution as aforesaid shall have been passed, the Directors shall make all appropriations and applications of the amount resolved to be capitalised thereby, and all allotments and issues of fully paid shares or debentures, if any, and generally shall do all acts and things required to give effect thereto, with full power to the Directors to make such provision by the issue of certificates representing part of a shareholding or fractions of shares or by payments in cash or otherwise as they think fit in the case of shares or debentures becoming distributable in fractions, and also to authorise any person to enter on behalf of all the Members entitled to the benefit of such appropriations and applications into an agreement with the Company providing for the allotment to them respectively, credited as fully paid up, of any further shares or debentures to which they may be entitled upon such capitalisation, and any agreement made under such authority shall be effective and binding on all such Members.

 

47. ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT

 

47.1 The Company shall keep accounting records and the Directors shall prepare accounts of the Company, made up to such date in each year as the Directors shall from time to time determine, in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Law.

 

47.2 No Member shall have any right to inspect any accounting records or other book or document of the Company except as conferred by the Law or these Articles or authorised by the Directors or by resolution of the Company.

 

47.3 Where required by the Law or determined to be necessary or appropriate for any other reason, auditors shall be appointed for any period or periods either by the Directors or the Company by resolution in general meeting, to examine the accounts of the Company and to report thereon in accordance with the Law.

 

48. WINDING UP

 

48.1 Subject to any particular rights or limitations for the time being attached to any shares, as may be specified in these Articles or upon which such shares may be issued (including pursuant to Article 19), if the Company is wound up, the assets available for division among the Members shall be divided and paid to Members pro rata according to the number of shares held by each Member at the time of the commencement of the winding up save that, where any share is not fully paid, that share shall only carry the right to receive a payment calculated on the basis of the proportion that the amount paid up on that share bears to the aggregate issue price of that share.

 

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48.2 If the Company is wound up, the Company may, with the sanction of a Special Resolution and any other sanction required by the Law, divide the whole or any part of the assets of the Company among the Members in specie and the liquidator or, where there is no liquidator, the Directors, may, for that purpose, value any assets and determine how the division shall be carried out as between the Members or different classes of Members, and with the like sanction, vest the whole or any part of the assets in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the Members as he with the like sanction determines, but no Member shall be compelled to accept any assets upon which there is a liability.

 

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Exhibit 5.1

 

  

22 Grenville Street

St Helier

Jersey JE4 8PX

Channel Islands

T +44 1534 676 000 F +44 1534 676 333

mourantozannes.com

The Directors

Mimecast Limited

22 Grenville Street

St. Helier

Jersey JE4 8PX

13 November 2015

Our ref:             8019596/65370382/5

Dear Sirs

Mimecast Limited (the Company )

Registration of Shares under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act )

We have acted as the Company’s Jersey legal advisers in connection with the offering by the Company of the Primary Shares (as defined below) and the registration of up to 8,912,500 ordinary shares of $0.012 nominal value each in the capital of the Company (the Shares ), which includes up to 1,162,500 ordinary shares to cover any over allotments granted under the Underwriting Agreement (as defined below), under the Securities Act (the IPO ).

Of the Shares, up to 8,341,000 Shares (the Primary Shares ) are being offered by the Company and up to 571,500 Shares (the Selling Shareholder Shares ) are being offered by the selling shareholders (the Selling Shareholders ) identified as such in the Registration Statement (as defined below).

Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, the Shares will be sold to the Underwriters (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement) for resale to the members of the public in the United States as described in the Registration Statement.

The Company has asked us to provide this opinion in connection with the registration of the Shares under the Securities Act.

 

1. Documents examined

 

  (a) For the purposes of this opinion, we have examined and relied upon the following documents:

 

  (i) a draft registration statement on Form F-1 dated 16 October 2015, as amended by Amendment No. 1 thereto dated 6 November 2015 and Amendment No. 2 thereto dated 13 November 2015 (the Registration Statement ) relating to the registration of the Shares under the Securities Act;

 

  (ii) a draft underwriting agreement relating to the Shares (the Underwriting Agreement ) between the Company, the Selling Shareholders and Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Barclays Capital Inc. as representatives of the Underwriters;

 

  (iii) minutes of meetings of the board of directors of the Company held on 12 August 2015, 2 September 2015 and 20 October 2015 and minutes of meetings of committees of the board held on 20 October 2015, 3 November 2015 (at 6.15pm London time) and 3 November 2015 (at 6.25pm London time);

Mourant Ozannes is a Jersey partnership

A list of the partners is available at mourantozannes.com


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  (iv) written resolutions of the shareholders of the Company (including class consents) passed on 20 October 2015, 4 November 2015, 5 November 2015 and 13 November 2015;

 

  (v) written consents dated 22 September 2015 of certain of the Company’s shareholders relating to, among other things, the offering by the Company of the Primary Shares;

 

  (vi) the Company’s certificate of incorporation (including upon change of name) and memorandum and articles of association as in force from time to time;

 

  (vii) a consent to issue shares dated 28 July 2015 issued to the Company by the Jersey Financial Services Commission under the Control of Borrowing (Jersey) Order 1958; and

 

  (viii) the Company’s register of members dated the date of this opinion.

 

  (b) For the purposes of this opinion, we have, with the Company’s consent, relied upon certificates and other assurances of directors and other officers of the Company as to matters of fact, without having independently verified such factual matters.

 

  (c) In this opinion, non-assessable means, in relation to a Share, that the purchase price for which the Company agreed to issue that Share has been paid in full to the Company, so that no further sum is payable to the Company by any holder of that Share in respect of the purchase price of that Share.

 

2. Assumptions

For the purposes of giving this opinion we have assumed:

 

  (a) the authenticity, accuracy, completeness and conformity to original documents of all copy documents and certificates of officers of the Company examined by us;

 

  (b) that the signatures on all documents examined by us are the genuine signatures of persons authorised to execute or certify such documents;

 

  (c) the accuracy and completeness in every respect of all certificates of directors or other officers of the Company given to us for the purposes of giving this opinion and that (where relevant) such certificates would be accurate if they had been given as of the date hereof;

 

  (d) that the directors have not exceeded any applicable allotment authority conferred on the directors by the shareholders;

 

  (e) that the IPO Pricing Committee of the board of directors of the Company will hold a duly convened and quorate meeting at which it will be resolved to approve the allotment and issue of the Primary Shares and the transfer of the Selling Shareholder Shares in accordance with the Underwriting Agreement;


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  (f) that in approving the Company’s entry into the Underwriting Agreement and the transactions contemplated by it, the directors of the Company were acting in the best interests of, and for a proper purpose of, the Company;

 

  (g) that the Company is not insolvent or unable to pay its debts as they fall due and will not become insolvent or unable to pay its debts as they fall due or bankrupt (as defined in Article 8 of the Interpretation (Jersey) Law 1954 as a result of its entry into the Underwriting Agreement and the transactions contemplated by it;

 

  (h) that there is no provision of any law (other than Jersey law) that would affect anything in this opinion; and

 

  (i) that closing of the IPO occurs and that no other event occurs after the date hereof which would affect the opinions herein stated.

 

3. Opinion

As a matter of Jersey law, and based on, and subject to, the foregoing and the qualifications mentioned below, we are of the opinion that:

 

  (a) the Selling Shareholder Shares to be sold by the Selling Shareholders pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement are validly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable; and

 

  (b) the Primary Shares to be issued by the Company pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement have been validly authorized, and once (i) the Company has received in full the purchase price payable for the Primary Shares in accordance with the Underwriting Agreement, and (ii) Cede & Co. (as designee for each Underwriter) has been entered in the Company’s register of members as the holder of the Primary Shares in accordance with the Company’s articles of association and the Underwriting Agreement, the Primary Shares will have been validly issued, and will be fully paid and non-assessable.

 

4. Jersey law

This opinion is limited to matters of, and is interpreted in accordance with, Jersey law as at the date of this opinion. We express no opinion with respect to the laws of any other jurisdiction. We assume no obligation to update or supplement this opinion to reflect any facts or circumstances which may come to our attention, or any changes in law which may occur, after the date of this opinion.

 

5. Consent

 

  (a) This opinion is addressed to the Company in connection with the registration of the Shares under the Securities Act.


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  (b) We consent to the filing of a copy of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement and to reference to us being made in the paragraph of the Registration Statement headed Legal Matters . In giving this consent, we do not admit that we are included in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations promulgated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act.

Yours faithfully

/s/ Mourant Ozannes

Mourant Ozannes

Exhibit 10.5.1

Mimecast Services Limited (“ MSL ”)

Mimecast North America, Inc. (“ MNA ”)

Mimecast Limited (incorporated in England and Wales) (“ ML England ”)

Mimecast USD Limited (“ MUSD ”)

Mimecast Limited (incorporated in Jersey) (“ ML Jersey ”)

c/o

Citypoint

Ropemaker Street

London EC2Y 9AW

Attn:     Peter Campbell

Dated: 13 November 2015

Dear Sirs

Amendment Letter and Confirmation

We refer to the loan agreement dated 18 January 2012 as amended and restated on 31 January 2013, 15 July 2014 and 22 May 2015 between (1) MSL and MNA as borrowers, (2) ML England and MUSD as guarantors and (3) Silicon Valley Bank (the “ Bank ”) (the “ Loan Agreement ”).

Definitions and Interpretation

 

1. Terms defined in the Loan Agreement and not otherwise defined herein shall have the same meaning in this letter, and the following terms shall have the following meanings in this letter:

 

  Effective Date ” is defined in paragraph 6.

 

  Obligors ” means together MSL, MNA, ML England, MUSD and ML Jersey.

 

2. Unless the context otherwise requires, references in the Loan Agreement to “ this Agreement ” shall be to the Loan Agreement as amended by this letter and otherwise from time to time.

Amendments to the Loan Agreement

 

3. On and from the Effective Date, the Loan Agreement shall be amended as follows:

 

  (a) the preamble and parties section to the Loan Agreement shall be deleted and replaced with the following:

 

   

“This LOAN AGREEMENT (this “ Agreement ”) dated as of 18 January 2012 (the “ Effective Date ”) as amended and restated on 31 January 2013 (the “ First Amendment and Restatement Date ”), as further amended and restated on 15 July 2014 (the “ Second Amendment and Restatement Date ”), as further amended and restated on 22 May 2015 (the “ Third Amendment and Restatement Date ”) and as further amended by an amendment letter dated                     2015 (the “ Fourth Amendment Date ”), between SILICON VALLEY BANK , a California corporation, through its United Kingdom branch located at 41 Lothbury, London EC2R 7HF (“ Bank ”) and (i)  MIMECAST SERVICES LIMITED (the “ UK Borrower ”), a company registered under the laws of England and


  Wales under company number 04901524 whose registered office is at 6th Floor, Citypoint, One Ropemaker Street, London EC2Y 9AW, and (ii)  MIMECAST NORTH AMERICA , INC. (the “ US Borrower ”) a Delaware corporation with offices at 480 Pleasant Street, Watertown, MA, USA, 02472, USA (the UK Borrower and the US Borrower are jointly and severally liable and are hereinafter together referred to as “ Borrower ” and each a “ Borrower ”), provides the terms on which Bank shall extend credit to Borrower and Borrower shall repay Bank. The parties agree as follows:”;

 

  (b) Clause 5.1 shall be amended by the addition of the following language at the end of that clause: “ The Jersey Obligor is a public company, duly incorporated and validly existing under the laws of Jersey and has power to carry on its business as it is now being conducted and to own its property and other assets. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which the Jersey Obligor is a party are within the corporate powers of the Jersey Obligor and have been duly authorised by all necessary corporate and other action and do not and will not conflict with (i) any law or regulation applicable to it; (ii) the constitutional documents of the Jersey Obligor; or (iii) any agreement or instrument binding on the Jersey Obligor. The Jersey Obligor is not in default under any agreement to which or by which it is bound in which the default would reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Change.”

 

  (c) Clause 6.7 ( Financial Covenants ) shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

  “6.7 Financial Covenants .

 

  (a) Recurring Revenue to Plan .

 

    Borrower shall at all times prior to the occurrence of the IPO or the Equity Trigger Event maintain:

 

    Quarterly Recurring Revenue for the quarterly periods set out in column A below of at least the minimum amount set out in column B below:

 

A

Period

   B
Minimum Amount

the quarterly period ending on 30 June 2015

   $30,000,000

the quarterly period ending on 30 September 2015

   $30,500,000

the quarterly period ending on 31 December 2015

   $31,000,000

the quarterly period ending on 31 March 2016

   $32,000,000

the quarterly period ending on 30 June 2016

   $33,500,000

the quarterly period ending on 30 September 2016

   $35,000,000

the quarterly period ending on 31 December 2016

   $36,500,000

the quarterly period ending on 31 March 2017

   $37,000,000

each quarterly period thereafter ending on 30 September, 31 December, 31 March and 30 June in each year

   The $ figures agreed by the
Borrower and the Bank
pursuant to this Clause 6.7
(a)

 

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    If the IPO or the Equity Trigger Event have not occurred, Bank and Borrower shall discuss the minimum amounts of Quarterly Recurring Revenue to be maintained by Borrower for the test periods commencing on 31 March 2017 and continuing thereafter. Bank shall set (acting reasonably following such discussions) and Borrower shall agree such minimum amounts of Quarterly Recurring Revenue by no later than 30 June 2017.

 

    The Advance Rate will be recalculated on each date that the financial covenant set out in this Clause 6.7 (a) is tested or if such financial covenant is no longer applicable then on each date the financial information required under Clause 6.2 (c) is provided.”

 

  (b) Adjusted Quick Ratio .

 

    Borrower shall maintain at all times an Adjusted Quick Ratio of at least 1.20 to 1.00 rising to 1.60:1 following (i) an IPO or (ii) the Equity Trigger Event, to be tested monthly.

 

  (d) A new clause 7.11 shall be added as follows:

 

    “7.11 Restriction of Assets held in Jersey . Jersey Obligor will not keep any cash, Cash Equivalents or any other material asset (other than any Investment in any Subsidiary) in a jurisdiction other than England & Wales.”

 

  (e) Clause 8.6 shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

    Insolvency Proceedings ” any of the following occurs in respect of Borrower or any Affiliate of Borrower (each of which shall be an “Insolvency Proceeding”): (i) any step is taken with a view to a moratorium or a composition, assignment or similar arrangement with any of its creditors; (ii) a meeting of its shareholders, directors or other officers is convened for the purpose of considering any resolution for, to petition for or to make an application to or to file documents with a court or any registrar for, its winding-up, administration, to obtain a declaration that its assets be “en desastre” or dissolution or any such resolution is passed; (iii) save in the case of a solvent winding-up of an Affiliate of Borrower with the prior written approval of Bank, an order is made for its winding-up, its assets to be declared “en desastre”, administration or dissolution, or any Person presents a petition, or makes an application to or files documents with a court or any registrar, for its winding-up, its assets to be declared “en desastre”, administration or dissolution, or gives notice to the Bank of an intention to appoint an administrator (save for any winding-up petition in respect of UK Borrower which is frivolous or vexatious and which is discharged, stayed or dismissed within fourteen (14) days of commencement); (iv) any liquidator, receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, Viscount of Jersey or similar officer is appointed in respect of it or any of its assets; (v) its shareholders, directors or other officers request the appointment of, or give notice of their intention to appoint, a liquidator, receiver, administrator or similar officer; (vi) Borrower begins a US Insolvency Proceeding; or (vii) a US Insolvency Proceeding is begun against Borrower.

 

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  (f) The final paragraph of clause 11 ( Choice of Law ) shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

    “Without prejudice to any other mode of service allowed under any relevant law, US Borrower and Jersey Obligor irrevocably appoints UK Borrower (at its registered address from time to time) as its agent for service of process in relation to any proceedings before the English Courts in connection with any Loan Documents (and UK Borrower hereby confirms it accepts such appointment) and agrees that a failure by UK Borrower to notify US Borrower or Jersey Obligor (as applicable) of any process will not invalidate the proceedings concerned.”

 

  (g) A new definition of “Equity Trigger Event” shall be added as follows:

 

    Equity Trigger Event ” means any equity raising event of the Borrower or the Jersey Obligor where the Borrower or the Jersey Obligor raises $30,000,000 or more.”

 

  (h) A new definition of “Fourth Amendment Date” shall be added as follows:

 

    Fourth Amendment Date ” is defined in the preamble to this Agreement.”

 

  (i) The definition of “Group” shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

    Group ” is Jersey Obligor and its Subsidiaries.”

 

  (j) The definition of “Guarantee” shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

    Guarantee ” is (i) the guarantee in the Agreed Form to be granted on or about the Effective Date by Mimecast Limited in favour of the Bank, (ii) the guarantee in the Agreed Form to be granted on or about the Third Amendment and Restatement Date by Mimecast USD Limited in favour of the Bank, (iii) the guarantee in the Agreed Form to be granted on or about the Fourth Amendment Date by Jersey Obligor in favour of the Bank and (iv) any other guarantee of the Obligations granted in favour of Bank from time to time, in each case as amended and/or restated, supplemented, varied or novated from time to time.”

 

  (k) The definition of “Guarantor” shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

    Guarantor ” is together or separately as the context may require, (i) Mimecast Limited, a company registered under the laws of England and Wales under company number 04698693 whose registered office is at 6th Floor, Citypoint, One Ropemaker Street, London EC2Y 9AW, (ii) Mimecast USD Limited, a company registered under the laws of England and Wales under company number 09102524 whose registered office is at 6th Floor, Citypoint, One Ropemaker Street, London EC2Y 9AW and (iii) Mimecast Limited, a company registered under the laws of Jersey with registration number 119119 whose registered office is at 22 Grenville Street, St Helier, Jersey JE4 8PX.”

 

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  (l) The definition of “Guarantor Debenture” shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

    Guarantor Debenture ” is (i) the debenture in the Agreed Form to be executed on or about the Effective Date by Mimecast Limited in favour of the Bank, as amended and/or restated, supplemented, varied or novated from time to time, (ii) the debenture in the Agreed Form to be executed on or about the Third Amendment and Restatement Date by Mimecast USD Limited in favour of the Bank, as amended and/or restated, supplemented, varied or novated from time to time and (iii) the debenture in the Agreed Form to be executed on or about the Fourth Amendment Date by Jersey Obligor in favour of the Bank, as amended and/or restated, supplemented, varied or novated from time to time .”

 

  (m) A new definition of “IPO” shall be added as follows:

 

    IPO ” means the successful application and admission of all or any of the shares (of any class) in the capital of the Jersey Obligor, or securities representing such shares (including American depositary receipts, American depositary shares and/or other instruments) to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority, the AIM Market operated by the London Stock Exchange plc, the NASDAQ Global Market, NASDAQ Global Select Market or the Nasdaq Capital Market of the NASDAQ OMX Group Inc., the NYSE and The NYSE MKT of the New York Stock Exchange and, in each case their successors and any future public markets established by the London Stock Exchange plc, NYSE and NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. or to any recognised investment exchange (as defined in section 285 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000);”

 

  (n) A new definition of “Jersey Obligor” shall be added as follows:

 

    Jersey Obligor ” means Mimecast Limited, a company registered under the laws of Jersey with company number 119119 whose registered office is at 22 Grenville Street, St Helier, Jersey JE4 8PX.”

 

  (o) The definition of “Material Change of Control” shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

    Material Change of Control ” means (a) with respect to any entity, a sale, assignment or other disposition by such entity of all or substantially all of its assets; (b) a sale, assignment or other disposition, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, of a majority of the outstanding voting equity securities of an entity to an equity holder who was not an equity holder immediately prior to such transaction, or the issuance by any entity, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, of voting equity securities constituting a majority of the total issued and outstanding voting equity securities of such entity immediately following the closing of such transaction or series of related transactions to an equity holder who was not an equity holder immediately prior to such transaction; or (c) with respect to any entity, a merger or consolidation of such entity into or with another person or entity (other than a merger effected solely for the purpose of changing such entity’s domicile) in which a majority of the outstanding voting equity securities of the surviving entity are held by an equity holder who was not an equity holder immediately prior to such transaction;”

 

  (p) The definition of “Revolving Line Availability Amount” shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

    Revolving Line Availability Amount ” is (calculated in pounds Sterling):

 

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  (a) Ten Million pounds Sterling (£10,000,000);

 

    minus

 

  (b) the outstanding principal balance of any Revolving Advances.”

 

  (q) The definitions of “Term Loan Reserve Amount” and “Term Loan Reserve Period” shall be deleted in their entirety.

 

  (r) The definition of “UK Obligor” shall be amended to add the following additional words at the end of that definition: “(other than the Jersey Obligor)”.

 

  Representations and Warranties

 

4. The Obligors represent and warrant to the Bank that they have the power to enter into, have taken all necessary action to authorise the entry into of, and that they have duly entered into the agreement set out in this letter.

 

5. The Obligors represent and warrant to the Bank as at the date of this letter that all of the repeating representations contained in clause 5 ( Representations and warranties ) of the Loan Agreement (as amended by this letter) and clause 4 ( Representations and warranties ) of the Guarantees (as appropriate) are true and accurate:

 

  (a)   as if repeated on the date of this letter with reference to the facts and circumstances subsisting on that date; and

 

  (b) as at the Effective Date with reference to the facts and circumstances subsisting on that date.

Conditions Precedent

 

6. Subject to paragraph 7, the Loan Agreement shall be amended as provided in paragraph 3 ( Amendments to the Loan Agreement ) upon the date (the “ Effective Date ”) on which we the Bank, or our solicitors, Osborne Clarke, confirm to the Obligors or their solicitors that each of the conditions listed in the schedule to this letter have been satisfied or waived.

 

7. The Effective Date shall be a Business Day on or before 13 November 2015. If the Effective Date shall not have occurred by close of business in London on that day (or such later date as all parties may agree), this letter shall cease to have effect (unless the parties agree otherwise in writing) except for paragraph 9 ( Confirmation ) . For the purposes of this paragraph 7, references in paragraph 9 ( Confirmation ) to “as amended by this letter” shall be ignored.

 

8. The conditions precedent referred to in paragraph 6 are for the benefit of the Bank and the Bank may accordingly waive all or any of them, unconditionally or on such conditions as it may in its sole discretion think fit. That waiver shall not limit or restrict any other rights of the Bank in respect of the Loan Agreement.

Confirmation

 

9. By countersigning this letter, each Obligor confirms that (to the extent applicable):

 

  (a) the Security Documents to which each Obligor is a party remain in full force and effect and continue to secure the obligations of the Obligors under the Loan Documents (including the Loan Agreement as amended by this letter); and

 

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  (b) all guarantees granted by the Obligors in favour of the Bank shall remain in full force and continue to guarantee the obligations of each Obligor under the Loan Documents (including the Loan Agreement as amended by this letter).

Incorporation of Terms

 

10. Save as amended as set out in paragraph 3, the terms of the Loan Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and the Loan Agreement and this letter shall be read and construed as one document.

 

11. The provisions of clause 11 ( Choice of Law ) and clause 12 ( General Provisions ) of the Loan Agreement shall apply to this letter as if they were set out in full in this letter, but as if references to “this Agreement” or “the Loan Documents” were references to this letter.

Fees and expenses

 

12. The Obligors shall pay on demand and on a full indemnity basis all pre-agreed costs and expenses (including legal and out of pocket expenses and any value added tax thereon) incurred by the Bank in connection with the negotiation, preparation and execution of this letter.

Miscellaneous

 

13. This letter is a Loan Document.

 

14. Please indicate your agreement to the foregoing by signing and returning to us an executed counterpart of this letter.

Yours faithfully

/s/ illegible

 

For and on behalf of Silicon Valley Bank

 

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We hereby acknowledge receipt of this letter and confirm our acceptance of its terms and conditions.

MSL

Executed as a Deed

by Mimecast Services Limited

acting by

/s/ Peter Campbell

 

Director Peter Campbell

/s/ Michelle L. Anzivino

 

Witness:

Witness Name: Michelle Anzivino

Witness address:

Witness occupation: Executive Assistant

MNA

Signed by Mimecast North America, Inc.

/s/ Peter Campbell

 

Signature

Name: Peter Campbell

Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

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ML England

Executed as a Deed

by Mimecast Limited

acting by

/s/ Peter Campbell

 

Director Peter Campbell

/s/ Michelle L. Anzivino

 

Witness:

Witness Name: Michelle Anzivino

Witness address:

Witness occupation: Executive Assistant

MUSD

Executed as a Deed

by Mimecast USD Limited

acting by

/s/ Peter Campbell

 

Director Peter Campbell

/s/ Michelle L. Anzivino

 

Witness:

Witness Name: Michelle L. Anzivino

Witness address:

Witness occupation: Executive Assistant

 

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ML Jersey

Executed as a Deed

by Mimecast Limited

acting by

/s/ Peter Campbell

 

Director Peter Campbell

/s/ Michelle L. Anzivino

 

 

Witness:

Witness Name: Michelle L. Anzivino

Witness address:

Witness occupation: Executive Assistant

 

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Schedule

Conditions Precedent

 

1. A Guarantee and Guarantor Debenture duly executed by Jersey Obligor.

 

2. A certified copy group structure chart.

 

3. A certificate from a duly authorised director of the UK Borrower that the memorandum and articles of association of the UK Borrower delivered in relation to the Original Loan Agreement remain true, complete and up-to-date or that the only changes to them are fully set out in copy documents attached to the certificate.

 

4. A copy, certified a true copy by a duly authorised director of the UK Borrower, of the minutes of a meeting or written resolutions (or an extract of such minutes or written resolutions) of the Board of Directors of the UK Borrower satisfactory to the Bank approving the execution, delivery and performance of this Amendment Agreement and approving the terms and conditions of this Amendment Agreement and authorising a named person or persons or appointing an attorney to sign on behalf of the UK Borrower this Amendment Agreement and any documents or further agreements to be delivered by the UK Borrower pursuant to this Amendment Agreement.

 

5. Save to the extent previously supplied to the Bank a specimen signature of each person referred to in paragraph 4 above.

 

6. A certificate from a duly authorised director of each Guarantor either (i) confirming that the memorandum and articles of association of the Guarantor delivered in relation to the Original Loan Agreement remain true, complete and up-to-date or that the only changes to them are fully set out in copy documents attached to the certificate or (ii) attaching copies of the true, complete and up-to-date memorandum and articles of association of the Guarantor

 

7. A copy, certified a true copy by a duly authorised director of each Guarantor, of the minutes of a meeting or written resolutions (or an extract of such minutes or written resolutions) of the Board of Directors (or a committee thereof) of such Guarantor satisfactory to the Bank approving the execution of this Amendment Agreement and the documents referenced herein by such Guarantor, approving the terms and conditions of such documents and authorising a named person or persons or appointing an attorney to sign on behalf of the Guarantor such documents.

 

8. Save to the extent previously supplied to the Bank a specimen signature of each person referred to in paragraph 7 above.

 

9. A Jersey legal opinion from Walkers.

 

10. A Perfection Certificate for ML Jersey.

 

11. UCC lien searches for ML Jersey.

 

12. The payment of the arrangement fees and costs and expenses referred to in paragraph 12 of this Amendment Agreement.

 

13. A copy of any other authorisation or other document, opinion or assurance which the Bank considers to be necessary in connection with the entry into and performance of this Amendment Agreement or for the validity or enforceability of this Amendment Agreement.

 

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