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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 3, 2007
Registration No. 333-144746
 
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
 
 
 
Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1
to
Form S-1
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 
 
 
 
Double-Take Software, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
         
Delaware   7372   20-0230046
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
 
 
 
 
257 Turnpike Road, Suite 210
Southborough, Massachusetts 01772
877-335-5674
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
 
 
 
 
Dean Goodermote
President and Chief Executive Officer
Double-Take Software, Inc.
257 Turnpike Road, Suite 210
Southborough, Massachusetts 01772
877-335-5674
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)
 
 
 
 
Copies to:
     
Michael J. Silver
Thene M. Martin
Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.
111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1600
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
(410) 659-2700
  Selim Day
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Professional Corporation
1301 Avenue of the Americas, 40th Floor
New York, New York 10019
(212) 999-5800
 
 
 
 
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:  As soon as practicable after this registration statement becomes effective.
 
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.  o
 
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.  o
 
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.  o
 
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.  o
 
 
 
 
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 the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.
 


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The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.
 
PROSPECTUS (Subject to Completion) Dated August 3, 2007
 
2,790,000 Shares
 
(DOUBLE-TAKE SOFTWARE LOGO)
 
Common Stock
 
 
We are selling 100,000 shares of common stock and the selling stockholders are selling 2,690,000 shares of common stock. We will not receive any proceeds from the shares of common stock sold by the selling stockholders.
 
Our common stock is traded on The NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “DBTK.” The last reported sale price on August 2, 2007 was $16.03 per share.
 
Our business and an investment in our common stock involve significant risks. These risks are described under the caption “Risk Factors” beginning on page 7 of this prospectus.
 
Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the adequacy or accuracy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
 
 
                 
    Per Share     Total  
 
Public offering price
  $             $          
Underwriting discount
  $       $    
Proceeds, before expenses, to Double-Take Software, Inc. 
  $       $    
Proceeds, before expenses, to the selling stockholders
  $       $  
 
The underwriters may also purchase up to an additional 15,750 shares from us and up to an additional 402,750 shares from one of the selling stockholders at the public offering price, less the underwriting discount, within 30 days from the date of this prospectus to cover overallotments.
 
The underwriters expect to deliver the shares against payment in New York, New York on          , 2007.
 
 
Thomas Weisel Partners LLC Cowen and Company
 
 
CIBC World Markets Needham & Company, LLC
 
Canaccord Adams JMP Securities
 
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You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus. We have not, and the selling stockholders and underwriters have not, authorized any other person to provide you with different information. If anyone provides you with different or inconsistent information, you should not rely on it. We are not, and the selling stockholders and underwriters are not, making an offer to sell these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted. You should assume that the information appearing in this prospectus is accurate only as of the date on the front cover of this prospectus. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since that date.
 
Market data and industry statistics used in this prospectus are based on independent industry publications and other publicly available information.
 
 


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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY
 
This summary does not contain all of the information you should consider before investing in our common stock and you should read this entire prospectus, including the documents incorporated in this prospectus by reference, carefully before investing, especially the information discussed under “Risk Factors” beginning on page 7. As used in this prospectus, the terms “we,” “our,” “us,” or “Double-Take Software” refer to Double-Take Software, Inc. and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as well as any predecessor entities, unless the context otherwise indicates.
 
Double-Take Software, Inc.
 
Double-Take Software develops, sells and supports affordable software that reduces downtime and protects data for business-critical systems. We believe that we are the leading supplier of replication software for Microsoft server environments and that our business is distinguished by our focus on software license sales, our productive distribution network and our efficient services infrastructure. Organizations of all sizes increasingly rely on application systems and stored electronic data to conduct business. Threats of business disruptions from events such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina and new regulations that have increased data protection requirements for businesses in many industries are causing more organizations to re-examine their data and server recovery strategies. Our software responds to these needs by continuously replicating changes made to application data on a primary operating server to a duplicate server located on- or off-site. Because the duplicate server can commence operating in place of the primary server at almost any time, our software facilitates rapid failover and application recovery in the event of a disaster or other service interruption.
 
Our success has been driven in large part by our software technology, which was first released in 1995 and has been enhanced by years of customer feedback. Residing on the server operating system, our software continuously monitors and captures file system activity. Intercepting file system changes enables our software to replicate only those changes that are being written to files. Our hardware- and application-independent software efficiently protects data created by any application on almost any type or brand of disk storage on any brand of server running Windows file systems or VMware ESX Server.
 
We sell our software through multiple channels, including a global distribution network that is supported by an experienced direct sales force. Our distribution partners include leading server manufacturers, such as Dell Computer Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Company, leading distributors, such as Bell Microproducts Inc. and Tech Data Corporation, and over 250 value-added resellers that we believe are generally well-connected with small- and medium-sized enterprises. Our direct sales force augments the revenue generated by our distribution partners and actively supports them in their third-party sales efforts.
 
Our broad distribution network, coupled with affordable price points, feature-rich proven software, modest implementation costs and dependable support, makes our software accessible and scalable from small enterprises of 20 people to Fortune 500 companies. As of March 31, 2007, our customer base of more than 10,000 organizations included over half of the Fortune 500 companies as well as a large number of law firms, financial institutions, hospitals, school districts and governmental entities. We believe that we have a highly satisfied customer base. Many of our customers provide references that help us to generate new sales opportunities and to shorten sales cycles. Our sales personnel often enlist the assistance of satisfied customers to recommend our software to potential customers in similar industries or that have similar applications or server configurations. The breadth and diversity of our customers frequently allows us to refer to a similar configuration when making a new sale. The satisfaction of our customer base also contributes to reduced support costs.
 
Our Markets and Opportunities
 
We believe that the software replication market is large and growing, and that our software is particularly attractive to businesses in the small and medium-sized enterprise information technology market, which has

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been growing at a faster rate than the large enterprise information technology market. We expect that growth in our market will continue to be driven by a number of factors, including the following:
 
  •  the rapid growth in digital data, driven by increased usage of automated systems;
 
  •  an increased focus on protecting a growing number of business-critical applications, such as email applications, particularly in service-oriented industries;
 
  •  a heightened awareness of the potential for natural and man-made disasters;
 
  •  the increasingly high cost of downtime, which is partly attributable to an increase in the sharing of applications with customers, partners and remote users; and
 
  •  government and industry regulations, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which require data protection and recovery.
 
Our Software
 
By combining efficient, continuous, remote and local data replication with the ability to monitor and quickly switch critical applications to alternate servers, we believe that we have designed our software to provide an affordable, easy to implement and scalable approach to reduce downtime and enhance data recovery for business-critical applications.
 
Our software provides organizations with recovery solutions that we believe meet their needs by providing the following:
 
  •  Fast and Reliable Data Recovery.  Our software provides fast recovery for the server and application itself, creating a server ready to take over, substantially on command, and provide rapid access or failover to the replicated data to meet the new availability requirements of business-critical applications, such as Microsoft Exchange Server or Microsoft SQL Server.
 
  •  Simple and Affordable Software.  Our software can be easily installed on new or existing file or application servers, can work with most existing storage and network infrastructure and is hardware and application independent. This makes it possible to install and begin protecting an existing server easily and quickly and makes the solution more cost effective than some other approaches. Once installed, our application recovery tools automate failover and user redirection. With a median selling price of approximately $4,000, our software is affordable for a wide variety of organizations.
 
  •  Flexible and Scalable Software.  Our software works with a variety of applications within the Windows server environment and almost any type of storage architecture from almost any mix of vendors. It efficiently captures changes, optimizes data transmission, and controls which files and which changes need to be replicated, rather than blindly copying disk block changes regardless of whether they contain required information. Our software is easily deployed and can be centrally managed across any number of machines, including “virtual machines” partitioned with software such as VMware.
 
  •  Continuous Backup of Data.  Our software minimizes or eliminates data loss by continuously and efficiently replicating data changes to one or more protected, local or remote locations. Even open applications and files can be mirrored and changes replicated, which enables our software to protect 24x7 applications, such as email and databases.
 
  •  Efficient, Optimized Protection.  Our software captures the exact changes an application is generating before those changes are abstracted into generic “disk blocks.” For example, it can distinguish between a new email being sent to an Exchange mailbox that needs to be immediately replicated from a temporary file that does not need to be protected. Efficiently transmitting the minimum amount of data to maintain protection is a significant architectural advantage.
 
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  server environment because of its large position in the business critical market place, we anticipate that we can apply our technology in other server environments to the extent market dynamics shift.
 
Our suite of software is offered in a variety of versions that are aligned to operating system capabilities. Additional versions include those that have been specifically crafted to run within virtual systems, to perform replication only, and versions designed to run within Microsoft Cluster Services called GeoCluster. Some versions are also available from OEM partners under different brand names.
 
Our Strategy
 
Our goal is to provide affordable software that will reduce our customers’ downtime for business-critical systems to as close to zero as possible and offer effective protection and recovery for less critical systems. In striving for this goal, we seek to be the leading provider of software for application availability and data protection. We are pursuing the following key initiatives:
 
  •  Expand our customer base within our current markets;
 
  •  Cross-sell existing and new software to our customer base;
 
  •  Enter new markets;
 
  •  Expand globally; and
 
  •  Continue to innovate.
 
Recent Developments
 
On July 24, 2007, we announced financial results for our second quarter ended June 30, 2007. Total revenue for the quarter, which consists of software revenue, maintenance and professional services revenue, increased 36.2% to $20.0 million from $14.7 million in the second quarter of 2006. Revenue for the second quarter of 2007 includes revenue from Double-Take EMEA for the entire quarter. (Double-Take EMEA, which was Double-Take Software’s near exclusive distributor in Europe, was acquired by the Company on May 23, 2006). Software revenue increased 24.4% to $12.0 million in the second quarter of 2007 from $9.6 million in the second quarter of 2006. Maintenance and professional services revenue increased 58.7% to $8.0 million in the second quarter of 2007 from $5.1 million in the second quarter of 2006. Operating expenses for the second quarter of 2007 increased 35.6% to $13.9 million from $10.3 million in the second quarter of 2006. Included in the operating expenses are: (i) stock option expense of $0.5 million in the second quarter of 2007 related to SFAS 123R as compared to $0.3 million in the same quarter in 2006 related to SFAS 123R and the vesting of stock options for the former Chief Executive Officer; and (ii) amortization of intangible assets of $0.2 million for the second quarter of 2007 as compared to $0.1 million in the second quarter of 2006 related to the acquisition of Double Take EMEA. Income from operations was $4.0 million in the second quarter of 2007 compared to $2.1 million in the second quarter of 2006.
 
We recently completed an analysis of the valuation allowance recorded against our deferred tax assets and concluded that we should reduce the valuation allowance related to the deferred tax assets by $4.7 million. This amount represents the benefit that we have determined, in the second quarter, that we are more likely than not to realize in future periods from utilization of net operating loss carryforwards. Additionally, we recorded a current tax expense of $1.9 million in the second quarter. The result was a net tax benefit during the quarter of $2.8 million.
 
Net income attributable to common stockholders, which includes the aforementioned deferred tax benefit, was $7.5 million, or $0.33 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2007 compared to net income attributable to common stockholders of $0.1 million, or $0.02 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2006.
 
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About Us
 
We were organized as a New Jersey corporation in 1991, and we reincorporated in Delaware in 2003. In July 2006, we changed our name to Double-Take Software, Inc. from NSI Software, Inc. Our principal executive offices are located at 257 Turnpike Road, Suite 210, Southborough, Massachusetts 01772, and our main telephone number at that address is (877) 335-5674. We maintain our general corporate website at www.doubletake.com. The contents of our website, however, are not a part of this prospectus.
 
We own, or claim ownership rights to, a variety of trade names, service marks and trademarks for use in our business, including Double-Take®, GeoCluster®, Balancetm, Double-Take for Virtual Systemstm and Double-Take for Virtual Serverstm in the United States and, where appropriate, in foreign countries. This prospectus also includes product names and other trade names and service marks owned by us and other companies. The trade names and service marks of other companies are the property of those other companies.


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THE OFFERING
 
Common stock offered by us 100,000 shares
 
Common stock offered by the selling stockholders 2,690,000 shares
 
Common stock to be outstanding after this offering 21,242,121 shares
 
Use of proceeds We estimate that our net proceeds from this offering will be approximately $1.0 million (or $1.3 million if the underwriters exercise their overallotment option in full). We intend to use the net proceeds of this offering for working capital and other general corporate purposes.
 
We will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of shares of our common stock by the selling stockholders, except for the exercise price of the stock options being exercised by a selling stockholder.
 
Risk factors See “Risk Factors” and other information included and incorporated by reference in this prospectus for a discussion of factors you should carefully consider before deciding whether to invest in shares of our common stock.
 
NASDAQ Global Market symbol “DBTK”
 
The share information above is based on 21,137,121 shares of common stock outstanding as of June 30, 2007, excludes 3,006,457 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding stock options outstanding as of June 30, 2007 at a weighted average exercise price of $5.28, and includes 5,000 shares of our common stock that are being sold in this offering and that are to be issued upon the exercise of employee stock options in connection with the consummation of this offering to a selling stockholder who is an executive officer.
 
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Summary Financial Data
 
The following table shows our summary statement of operations data for each of the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004 and the three months ended March 31, 2007 and 2006, and summary balance sheet data at March 31, 2007. The summary statement of operations and balance sheet data at and for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004 are derived from our audited financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, which are incorporated by reference into this prospectus. The summary statement of operations data for the three months ended March 31, 2007 and 2006 and the summary balance sheet data at March 31, 2007 are derived from our unaudited financial statements that are also incorporated by reference into this prospectus, and include, in the opinion of management, all adjustments, consisting of normal, recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair presentation of such data. Our historical results are not necessarily indicative of our results for any future period.
 
This information should be read in conjunction with our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, and our quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2007, including the “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” and our financial statements and related notes appearing in each of those reports.
 
                                         
          Three Months ended
 
    Year ended December 31,     March 31,  
    2006     2005     2004     2007     2006  
                      (unaudited)  
    (in thousands)  
 
Statement of Operations Data:
                                       
Revenue:
                                       
Software licenses
  $ 38,418     $ 26,222     $ 19,943     $ 10,390     $ 6,372  
Maintenance and professional services
    22,422       14,488       9,895       7,535       4,307  
                                         
Total revenue
    60,840       40,710       29,838       17,925       10,679  
                                         
Cost of revenue:
                                       
Software licenses
    1,355       38       559       27       4  
Maintenance and professional services
    6,193       4,357       3,694       1,857       1,261  
                                         
Total cost of revenue
    7,548       4,395       4,253       1,884       1,265  
Gross profit
    53,292       36,315       25,585       16,041       9,414  
                                         
Operating expenses:
                                       
Sales and marketing
    22,211       17,191       16,188       6,903       4,330  
Research and development
    10,679       9,748       8,717       2,875       2,464  
General and administrative
    11,824       6,730       5,666       3,217       2,027  
Depreciation and amortization
    1,613       805       527       549       251  
Legal fees and settlement costs
          5,671       1,755              
                                         
Total operating expenses
    46,327       40,145       32,853       13,544       9,072  
                                         
Income (loss) from operations
    6,965       (3,830 )     (7,268 )     2,497       342  
Interest income
    319       83       7       643       51  
Interest expense
    (91 )     (36 )     (765 )     (19 )     (17 )
Foreign exchange gains (losses)
    56                   (1 )      
                                         
Income (loss) before income taxes
    7,249       (3,783 )     (8,026 )     3,120       376  
Income tax expense
    494                   182       3  
                                         
Net income (loss)
    6,755       (3,783 )     (8,026 )     2,938       373  


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          Three Months ended
 
    Year ended December 31,     March 31,  
    2006     2005     2004     2007     2006  
                      (unaudited)  
    (in thousands)  
 
Less:
                                       
Accretion of redeemable preferred stock
  $ (4,496 )   $ (5,332 )   $ (5,314 )         $ (1,334 )
Dividends on preferred stock
    (2,830 )     (2,686 )     (2,029 )           (698 )
                                         
Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders
  $ (571 )   $ (11,801 )   $ (15,369 )   $ 2,938     $ (1,659 )
                                         
Net loss attributable to common stockholders per share:
                                       
Basic
  $ (0.13 )   $ (3.11 )   $ (4.06 )   $ 0.14     $ (0.44 )
                                         
Diluted
  $ (0.13 )   $ (3.11 )   $ (4.06 )   $ 0.13     $ (0.44 )
                                         
Weighted average shares used in computing per share amounts:
                                       
Basic
    4,306       3,789       3,786       20,888       3,791  
                                         
Diluted
    4,306       3,789       3,786       22,946       3,791  
                                         
 
                 
    As of March 31, 2007  
    Actual     As Adjusted(1)  
    (unaudited, in thousands)  
 
Balance Sheet Data:
               
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 56,651     $ 57,671  
Working capital
    46,593       47,613  
Total assets
    76,968       77,988  
Deferred revenue
    17,273       17,273  
Long-term deferred revenue
    4,264       4,264  
Long-term deferred rent
    372       372  
Long-term capital lease obligations
    12       12  
Total stockholders’ equity
    48,669       49,689  
 
 
(1) As adjusted to reflect the sale of 100,000 shares of common stock by us in the offering at an assumed public offering price of $16.03 per share (the last reported sale price of our common stock on The NASDAQ Global Market on August 2, 2007), after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses, and to reflect the 5,000 shares of our common stock that are being sold in the offering and that are to be issued upon the exercise of employee stock options in connection with the consummation of the offering to a selling stockholder who is an executive officer.

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RISK FACTORS
 
An investment in our stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the following risks and all of the other information set forth or incorporated by reference in this prospectus before deciding to invest in shares of our common stock. If any of the events or developments described below occur, our business, financial condition or results of operations could be negatively affected. In that case, the trading price of our common stock could decline, and you could lose all or part of your investment in our common stock. Please see “Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” and “Incorporation by Reference.”
 
Risks Related to Our Business
 
Intense competition in our industry may hinder our ability to generate revenue and may adversely affect our margins.
 
The market for our software is intensely competitive. Our primary competitors include EMC Corporation (Legato), Neverfail Group, Ltd., Symantec Corporation (Veritas) and CA, Inc. (XOsoft Inc.). Some of these companies and many of our other current and potential competitors have longer operating histories and substantially greater financial, technical, sales, marketing and other resources than we do, as well as larger installed customer bases and greater name recognition. Our competitors may be able to devote greater resources to the development, marketing, distribution, sale and support of their products than we can and some may have the ability to bundle their data replication offerings with their other products. The extensive relationships that these competitors have with existing customers may make it increasingly difficult for us to increase our market share. The resources of these competitors also may enable them to respond more rapidly to new or emerging technologies and changes in customer requirements and to reduce prices to win new customers.
 
As this market continues to develop, a number of other companies with greater resources than ours, including Microsoft, could attempt to enter the market or increase their presence by acquiring or forming strategic alliances with our competitors or business partners or by introducing their own competing products.
 
Our success will depend on our ability to adapt to these competitive forces, to develop more advanced products more rapidly and less expensively than our competitors, to continue to develop a global sales and support network, and to educate potential customers about the benefits of using our software rather than our competitors’ products. Existing or new competitors could introduce products with superior features, scalability and functionality at lower prices. This could dramatically affect our ability to sell our software. In addition, some of our customers and potential customers may buy other software, other competing products and related services from our competitors, and to the extent that they prefer to consolidate their software purchasing from fewer vendors, they may choose not to continue to purchase our software and support services.
 
We expect additional competition from other established and emerging companies. Increased competition could result in reduced revenue, price reductions, reduced gross margins and loss of market share, any of which would harm our results of operations.
 
Because a large majority of our sales are made to or through distributors, value-added resellers and original equipment manufacturers, none of which have any obligation to sell our software applications, the failure of this distribution network to sell our software effectively could materially adversely affect our revenue and results of operations.
 
We rely on distributors, value-added resellers and original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, together with our inside and field-based direct sales force, to sell our products. These distributors, resellers and OEMs sell our software applications and, in some cases, incorporate our software into systems that they sell. We expect that these arrangements will continue to generate a large majority of our total revenue. Sales to or through our distributors, resellers and OEMs accounted for approximately 93% of our total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2005 and 94% for the year ended December 31, 2006. Sales to or through our top five distributors, resellers and OEMs accounted for approximately 63% of our total revenue for 2005 and 47% of our total revenue for 2006.


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We have limited control over the amount of software that these businesses purchase from us or sell on our behalf, we do not have long term contracts with any of them, and they have limited obligations to recommend, offer or sell our software applications. Thus there is no guarantee that this source of revenue will continue at the same level as it has in the past. Any material decrease in the volume of sales generated by our larger distributors, resellers and OEMs could materially adversely affect our revenue and results of operations in future periods.
 
We depend on growth in the storage replication market, and lack of growth or contraction in this market could materially adversely affect our sales and financial condition.
 
Demand for data replication software is driven by several factors, including an increased focus on protecting business-critical applications, government and industry regulations requiring data protection and recovery, a heightened awareness of the potential for natural and man-made disasters and the growth in stored data from the increased use of automated systems. Segments of the computer and software industry have in the past experienced significant economic downturns and decreases in demand as a result of changing market factors. A change in the market factors that are driving demand for data replication software could adversely affect our sales, profitability and financial condition.
 
Our current products are designed exclusively for the Microsoft server environment, which exposes us to risks if Microsoft products are not compatible with our software or if Microsoft chooses to compete more substantially with us in the future.
 
We currently depend exclusively on customers that deploy Microsoft products within their organizations. Microsoft could make changes to its software that render our software incompatible or less effective. Furthermore, Microsoft may choose to focus increased resources on applications that compete with our applications, including competing applications that Microsoft bundles with its operating platform. These actions could materially adversely affect our ability to generate revenue and maintain acceptable profit margins.
 
We have not generated net profits for any year since our inception and we may be unable to achieve or sustain profitability in the future.
 
We generated net losses of $15.3 million for 2004, $11.8 million for 2005 and $0.6 million for 2006. We may be unable to achieve or sustain profitability in future periods. We intend to continue to expend significant funds in developing our software offerings and for general corporate purposes, including marketing, services and sales operations, hiring additional personnel, upgrading our infrastructure, and regulatory compliance obligations in connection with being a public reporting company. We expect that associated expenses will precede any revenue generated by the increased spending. If we experience a downturn in our business, we may incur or continue to incur losses and negative cash flows from operations, which could materially adversely affect our results of operations and capitalization.
 
Because we generate substantially all of our revenue from sales of our Double-Take software and related services, a decline in demand for our Double-Take software could materially adversely affect our revenue, profitability and financial condition.
 
We derive nearly all of our software revenue from our Double-Take software, which generated approximately 97% of our total revenue for the years ended December 31, 2005 and December 31, 2006. In addition, we derive substantially all of our maintenance and professional services revenue from associated maintenance and customer support of these applications. As a result, we are particularly vulnerable to fluctuations in demand for these software applications, whether as a result of competition, product obsolescence, technological change, budgetary constraints of our customers or other factors. If demand for any of these software applications declines significantly, our revenue, profitability and financial condition would be adversely affected.


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We may not be able to respond to technological changes with new software applications, which could materially adversely affect our sales and profitability.
 
The markets for our software applications are characterized by rapid technological changes, changing customer needs, frequent introduction of new software applications and evolving industry standards. The introduction of software applications that embody new technologies or the emergence of new industry standards could make our software applications obsolete or otherwise unmarketable. As a result, we may not be able to accurately predict the lifecycle of our software applications, which may become obsolete before we receive any revenue or the amount of revenue that we anticipate from them. If any of the foregoing events were to occur, our ability to retain or increase market share in the storage replication market could be materially adversely affected.
 
To be successful, we need to anticipate, develop and introduce new software applications on a timely and cost-effective basis that keep pace with technological developments and emerging industry standards and that address the increasingly sophisticated needs of our customers and their budgets. We may fail to develop or sell software applications that respond to technological changes or evolving industry standards, experience difficulties that could delay or prevent the successful development, introduction or sale of these applications or fail to develop applications that adequately meet the requirements of the marketplace or achieve market acceptance. Our failure to develop and market such applications and services on a timely basis, or at all, could materially adversely affect our sales and profitability.
 
Our failure to offer high quality customer support services could harm our reputation and could materially adversely affect our sales of software applications and results of operations.
 
Our customers depend on us, and, to some extent, our distribution partners, to resolve implementation, technical or other issues relating to our software. A high level of service is critical for the successful marketing and sale of our software. If we or our distribution partners do not succeed in helping our customers quickly resolve post-deployment issues, our reputation could be harmed and our ability to make new sales or increase sales to existing customers could be damaged.
 
Defects or errors in our software could adversely affect our reputation, result in significant costs to us and impair our ability to sell our software.
 
If our software is determined to contain defects or errors our reputation could be materially adversely affected, which could result in significant costs to us and impair our ability to sell our software in the future. The costs we would incur to correct product defects or errors may be substantial and would adversely affect our operating results. After the release of our software, defects or errors have been identified from time to time by our internal team and by our clients. Such defects or errors may occur in the future.
 
Any defects that cause interruptions to the data recovery functions of our applications, or that cause other applications on the operating system to malfunction or fail, could result in:
 
  •  lost or delayed market acceptance and sales of our software;
 
  •  loss of clients;
 
  •  product liability suits against us;
 
  •  diversion of development resources;
 
  •  injury to our reputation; and
 
  •  increased maintenance and warranty costs.
 
We may fail to realize the anticipated benefits of our acquisition of Sunbelt System Software S.A.S.
 
Our future success will depend in significant part on our ability to realize the operating efficiencies, new revenue opportunities and cost savings we expect to result from the integration of Sunbelt System Software S.A.S., which is now known as Double-Take Software S.A.S., or Double-Take EMEA. Our operating results


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and financial condition may be adversely affected if we are unable to integrate successfully the operations of Double-Take EMEA, or incur unforeseen costs and expenses or experience unexpected operating difficulties that offset anticipated cost savings. In particular, the integration may involve, among other items, integration of sales, marketing, billing, accounting, management, personnel, payroll, network infrastructure and other systems and operating hardware and software, some of which may be incompatible with our existing systems and therefore may need to be replaced. The integration may place significant strain on our management, financial and other resources.
 
We may not receive significant revenue from our research and development efforts for several years, if at all.
 
We have made a significant investment in developing and improving our software. Our research and development expenditures were $8.7 million, or approximately 29% of our total revenue, for 2004, $9.7 million, or approximately 24% of our total revenue, for 2005 and $10.7 million, or approximately 18% of our total revenue, for 2006. We believe that we must continue to dedicate a significant amount of our resources to our research and development efforts to maintain our competitive position, and we plan to do so. However, we may not receive significant revenue from these investments for several years following each investment, if ever.
 
The loss of key personnel or the failure to attract and retain highly qualified personnel could adversely affect our business.
 
Our future performance depends on the continued service of our key technical, sales, services and management personnel. We rely on our executive officers and senior management to execute our existing business plans and to identify and pursue new opportunities. The loss of key employees could result in significant disruptions to our business, and the integration of replacement personnel could be time consuming, cause additional disruptions to our business and be unsuccessful. We do not carry key person life insurance covering any of our employees.
 
Our future success also depends on our continued ability to attract and retain highly qualified technical, services and management personnel. Competition for such personnel is intense, and we may fail to retain our key technical, services and management employees or attract or retain other highly qualified technical, services and management personnel in the future. Conversely, if we fail to manage employee performance or reduce staffing levels when required by market conditions, our personnel costs would be excessive and our business and profitability could be adversely affected.
 
We will not be able to maintain our sales growth if we do not retain or attract and train qualified sales personnel.
 
A portion of our revenue is generated by our direct sales force, and our future success will depend in part upon its continued productivity and expansion. To the extent we experience attrition in our direct sales force, we will need to hire replacements. We face intense competition for sales personnel in the software industry, and we may not be successful in retaining, hiring or training our sales personnel in accordance with our plans. If we fail to retain the experienced members of our sales force, or maintain and expand our sales force as needed, our future sales and profitability could be adversely affected.
 
Changes in the regulatory environment and general economic condition and other factors in countries in which we have international sales and operations could adversely affect our operations.
 
We derived approximately 24% of our revenue from sales outside the United States in 2005 and approximately 29% of our revenue from sales outside the United States in 2006. We anticipate that our acquisition of Double-Take EMEA in May 2006 will significantly increase the percentage of our revenue generated from sales outside the United States in future periods. Our international operations are subject to


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risks related to the differing legal, political, social and regulatory requirements and economic conditions of many countries, including:
 
  •  difficulties in staffing and managing our international operations;
 
  •  costs and delays in downsizing non-United States workforces, if necessary, as a result of applicable non-United States employment and other laws;
 
  •  the adoption or imposition by foreign countries of additional withholding taxes, other taxes on our income, or tariffs or other restrictions on foreign trade or investment, including currency exchange controls;
 
  •  general economic conditions in the countries in which we operate could adversely affect our earnings from operations in those countries;
 
  •  imposition of, or unexpected adverse changes in, foreign laws or regulatory requirements may occur, including those pertaining to export duties and quota, trade and employment restrictions;
 
  •  longer payment cycles for sales in foreign countries and difficulties in collecting accounts receivables;
 
  •  competition from local suppliers; and
 
  •  political unrest, war or acts of terrorism.
 
Each of the foregoing risks could reduce our revenue or increase our expenses.
 
We are exposed to domestic and foreign currency fluctuations that could harm our reported revenue and results of operations.
 
Historically, our international sales were generally denominated in the United States dollar. As a result of our acquisition of Double-Take EMEA, we now have international sales that are denominated in foreign currencies, and this revenue could be materially affected by currency exchange rate fluctuations. Our primary exposures are to fluctuations in exchange rates for the United States dollar versus the Euro and, to a lesser extent, the British Pound. Changes in currency exchange rates could adversely affect our reported revenue and could require us to reduce our prices to remain competitive in foreign markets, which could also materially adversely affect our results of operations. We have not historically hedged exposure to changes in foreign currency exchange rates and, as a result, we could incur unanticipated gains or losses.
 
Protection of our intellectual property is limited, and any misuse of our intellectual property by others could materially adversely affect our sales and results of operations.
 
Proprietary technology in our software is important to our success. To protect our proprietary rights, we rely on a combination of patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, confidentiality procedures and contractual provisions. While we own two issued patents, we have not emphasized patents as a source of significant competitive advantage and have also sought to protect our proprietary technology under laws affording protection for trade secrets, copyright and trademark protection of our software, products and developments where available and appropriate. In addition, our issued patents may not provide us with any competitive advantages or may be challenged by third parties, and the patents of others may seriously impede our ability to conduct our business. Further, any patents issued to us may not be timely or broad enough to protect our proprietary rights.
 
We also have five registered trademarks in the U.S., including the Double-Take mark. Although we attempt to monitor use of and take steps to prevent third parties from using our trademarks without permission, policing the unauthorized use of our trademarks is difficult. If we fail to take steps to enforce our trademark rights, our competitive position and brand recognition may be diminished.
 
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our consultants to protect our confidential and proprietary information. There can be no assurance that our confidentiality agreements with our employees, consultants and other third parties will not be breached, that we will be able to effectively enforce these agreements, have adequate remedies for any breach, or that our trade secrets and other proprietary information will not be disclosed or otherwise be protected. Furthermore, there also can be no assurance that others will not independently develop technologies that are similar or superior to our technology or reverse engineer our products.
 
Protection of trade secret and other intellectual property rights in the markets in which we operate and compete is highly uncertain and may involve complex legal and scientific questions. The laws of countries in which we operate may afford little or no protection to our trade secrets and other intellectual property rights. Policing unauthorized use of our trade secret technologies and proving misappropriation of our technologies is particularly difficult, and we expect software piracy to continue to be a persistent problem. Piracy of our products represents a loss of revenue to us. Furthermore, any changes in, or unexpected interpretations of, the trade secret and other intellectual property laws in any country in which we operate may adversely affect our ability to enforce our trade secret and intellectual property rights. Costly and time-consuming litigation could be necessary to enforce and determine the scope of our confidential information and trade secret protection. If we are unable to protect our proprietary rights or if third-parties independently develop or gain access to our or similar technologies, our competitive position and revenue could suffer.
 
Claims that we misuse the intellectual property of others could subject us to significant liability and disrupt our business, which could materially adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.
 
Because of the nature of our business, we may become subject to material claims of infringement by competitors and other third-parties with respect to current or future software applications, trademarks or other proprietary rights. Our competitors, some of which may have substantially greater resources than us and have made significant investments in competing technologies or products, may have, or seek to apply for and obtain, patents that will prevent, limit or interfere with our ability to make, use and sell our current and future products, and we may not be successful in defending allegations of infringement of these patents. Further, we may not be aware of all of the patents and other intellectual property rights owned by third-parties that may be potentially adverse to our interests. We may need to resort to litigation to enforce our proprietary rights or to determine the scope and validity of a third party’s patents or other proprietary rights, including whether any of our products or processes infringe the patents or other proprietary rights of third-parties. The outcome of any such proceedings is uncertain and, if unfavorable, could significantly harm our business. If we do not prevail in this type of litigation, we may be required to:
 
  •  pay damages, including actual monetary damages, royalties, lost profits or other damages and third-party’s attorneys’ fees, which may be substantial;
 
  •  expend significant time and resources to modify or redesign the affected products or procedures so that they do not infringe a third-party’s patents or other intellectual property rights; further, there can be no assurance that we will be successful in modifying or redesigning the affected products or procedures;
 
  •  obtain a license in order to continue manufacturing or marketing the affected products or processes, and pay license fees and royalties; if we are able to obtain such a license, it may be non-exclusive, giving our competitors access to the same intellectual property, or the patent owner may require that we grant a cross-license to part of our proprietary technologies; or
 
  •  stop the development, manufacture, use, marketing or sale of the affected products through a court-ordered sanction called an injunction, if a license is not available on acceptable terms, or not available at all, or our attempts to redesign the affected products are unsuccessful.
 
Any of these events could adversely affect our business strategy and the value of our business. In addition, the defense and prosecution of intellectual property suits, interferences, oppositions and related legal and administrative proceedings in the United States and elsewhere, even if resolved in our favor, could be expensive, time consuming, generate negative publicity and could divert financial and managerial resources.


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In December 2005, we agreed to terms for settlement of a legal proceeding with a provider of information storage systems that involved claims regarding some of the intellectual property components of our software. Pursuant to a settlement agreement, we paid $3.8 million in January 2006 and agreed to pay, or make purchase of their products for our use or for resale in amounts equal to, $500,000 in each of January 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. For January 2007, we purchased products to fulfill this agreement in December of 2006.
 
We expect that software developers will increasingly be subject to infringement claims as the number of software applications and competitors in our industry segment grows and the functionality of software applications in different industry segments overlaps. Thus, we could be subject to additional patent infringement claims in the future. There can be no assurance that the claims that may arise in the future can be amicably disposed of, and it is possible that litigation could ensue.
 
Intellectual property litigation can be complex, costly and protracted. As a result, any intellectual property litigation to which we are subject could disrupt our business operations, require us to incur substantial costs and subject us to significant liabilities, each of which could severely harm our business.
 
Plaintiffs in intellectual property cases often seek injunctive relief. Any intellectual property litigation commenced against us could force us to take actions that could be harmful to our business, including the following:
 
  •  stop selling our products or using the technology that contains the allegedly infringing intellectual property;
 
  •  attempt to obtain a license to use the relevant intellectual property, which may not be available on reasonable terms or at all; and
 
  •  attempt to redesign the products that allegedly infringed upon the intellectual property.
 
If we are forced to take any of the foregoing actions, our business, financial position and operating results could be harmed. We may not be able to develop, license or acquire non-infringing technology under reasonable terms, if at all. These developments would result in an inability to compete for customers and would adversely affect our ability to increase our revenue. The measure of damages in intellectual property litigation can be complex, and is often subjective or uncertain. If we were to be found liable for the infringement of a third party’s proprietary rights, the amount of damages we might have to pay could be substantial and would be difficult to predict.
 
We may engage in future acquisitions or investments that present many risks, and we may not realize the anticipated financial and strategic goals for any of these transactions.
 
We do not have significant experience acquiring companies. Since our inception, our only acquisition has been the acquisition of Double-Take EMEA. We may acquire or make investments in additional companies. Acquisitions and investments involve a number of difficulties that present risks to our business, including the following:
 
  •  we may be unable to achieve the anticipated benefits from the acquisition or investment;
 
  •  we may have difficulty integrating the operations and personnel of the acquired business, and may have difficulty retaining the key personnel of the acquired business;
 
  •  we may have difficulty incorporating the acquired technologies or products with our existing software and technology;
 
  •  our ongoing business and management’s attention may be disrupted or diverted by transition or integration issues and the complexity of managing geographically and culturally diverse locations;
 
  •  we may have difficulty maintaining uniform standards, controls, procedures and policies across locations; and
 
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These factors could materially adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition or cash flow, particularly in the case of a larger acquisition or multiple acquisitions in a short period of time. From time to time, we may enter into negotiations for acquisitions or investments that are not ultimately consummated. These negotiations could result in significant diversion of management time, as well as expense.
 
The consideration paid for an investment or acquisition may also affect our financial results. If we were to proceed with one or more significant acquisitions in which the consideration included cash, we could be required to use a substantial portion of our available cash, including proceeds of our initial public offering and this offering. To the extent we issue shares of our capital stock or other rights to purchase shares of our capital stock as consideration for the acquisitions, including options or other rights, our existing stockholders may be diluted, and our earnings per share may decrease. In addition, acquisitions may result in the incurrence of debt, write-offs and restructuring charges. They may also result in goodwill and other intangible assets that are subject to an impairment test, which could result in future impairment charges.
 
We cannot predict our future capital needs and we may be unable to obtain additional financing to fund acquisitions, which could materially adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
 
We may need to raise additional funds in the future in order to acquire complementary businesses, technologies, products or services. Any required additional financing may not be available on terms acceptable to us, or at all. If we raise additional funds by issuing equity securities, you may experience significant dilution of your ownership interest, and the newly-issued securities may have rights senior to those of the holders of our common stock. If we raise additional funds by obtaining loans from third parties, the terms of those financing arrangements may include negative covenants or other restrictions on our business that could impair our operational flexibility, and would also require us to fund additional interest expense. If additional financing is not available when required or is not available on acceptable terms, we may be unable to successfully develop or enhance our software and services through acquisitions in order to take advantage of business opportunities or respond to competitive pressures, which could materially adversely affect our software and services offerings, revenue, results of operations and financial condition. We have no current plans, nor are we currently considering any proposals or arrangements, written or otherwise, to acquire a material business, technology, product or service.
 
We are incurring significant costs as a result of operating as a public company that we have not previously incurred, and our management and key employees are required to devote substantial time to compliance initiatives.
 
We have operated as a public company only since December 14, 2006. As a public company, we incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company. In addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as well as new rules implemented by the SEC and NASDAQ, impose various new requirements on public companies, including requiring changes in corporate governance practices. Our management and other personnel are devoting substantial amounts of time to these new compliance initiatives. Moreover, these rules and regulations have significantly increased our legal and financial compliance costs and have made some activities more time-consuming and costly. In addition, we have and will continue to incur additional costs associated with our public company reporting requirements. We will incur significant costs to remediate any material weaknesses we identify through these efforts. These rules and regulations have made it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance. We currently are evaluating and monitoring developments with respect to these rules, and we cannot predict or estimate the amount of additional costs we may incur or the timing of such costs. If our profitability is adversely affected because of these additional costs, it could have a negative effect on the trading price of our common stock.


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Risks Related to Our Common Stock
 
We may experience a decline in revenue or volatility in our operating results, which may adversely affect the market price of our common stock.
 
We cannot predict our future revenue with certainty because of many factors outside of our control. A significant revenue or profit decline, lowered forecasts or volatility in our operating results could cause the market price of our common stock to decline substantially. Factors that could affect our revenue and operating results include the following:
 
  •  the possibility that our customers may cancel, defer or limit purchases as a result of reduced information technology budgets;
 
  •  the possibility that our customers may defer purchases of our software applications in anticipation of new software applications or updates from us or our competitors;
 
  •  the ability of our distributors, value-added resellers and OEMs to meet their sales objectives;
 
  •  market acceptance of our new applications and enhancements;
 
  •  our ability to control expenses;
 
  •  changes in our pricing and distribution terms or those of our competitors;
 
  •  the demands on our management, sales force and services infrastructure as a result of the introduction of new software applications or updates; and
 
  •  the possibility that our business will be adversely affected as a result of the threat of terrorism or military actions taken by the United States or its allies.
 
Our expense levels are relatively fixed and are based, in part, on our expectations of our future revenue. If revenue levels fall below our expectations, our net income would decrease because only a small portion of our expenses varies with our revenue. Therefore, any significant decline in revenue for any period could have an immediate adverse impact on our results of operations for the period. We believe that period-to-period comparisons of our results of operations should not be relied upon as an indication of future performance. In addition, our results of operations could be below expectations of public market analysts and investors in future periods, which would likely cause the market price of our common stock to decline.
 
If securities analysts do not publish research or reports about our business or if they publish negative evaluations of our stock, the price of our stock could decline.
 
The trading market for our common stock relies in part on the research and reports that industry or financial analysts publish about us or our business. If one or more of the analysts covering us downgrade their evaluations of our stock, the price of our stock could decline. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of our company, we could lose visibility in the market for our stock, which in turn could cause our stock price to decline.
 
Sales of outstanding shares of our common stock into the market in the future could cause the market price of our common stock to drop significantly, even if our business is doing well.
 
If our existing stockholders sell, or indicate an intention to sell, substantial amounts of our common stock in the public market, the trading price of our common stock could decline. As of June 30, 2007, almost all of the approximately 21 million shares of our common stock outstanding are freely tradeable, although an aggregate of 3,839,702 shares will be subject to the 90-day lock-up restrictions described below under “Underwriting,” and shares held by affiliates of ours are subject to volume and manner of sale restrictions under SEC Rule 144. ABS Capital Partners and affiliates have registration rights with respect to the shares they hold. These registration rights include demand registration rights, in which these stockholders are entitled to require us to register the sale of their shares under the Securities Act on up to three occasions on SEC Form S-1 and on an unlimited number of occasions on SEC Form S-3, and piggyback registration rights, in


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which the stockholders with the registration rights are entitled to require us to include their shares in a registration of our securities for sale by us or by other security holders.
 
Sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock in the public market could occur at any time. These sales, or the perception in the market that the holders of a large number of shares intend to sell shares, could reduce the market price of our common stock.
 
Some of our stockholders may exert significant influence over us.
 
Two general partners of ABS Capital Partners currently serve on our board of directors. Affiliates of ABS Capital Partners currently own in the aggregate shares representing approximately 29.5% of our outstanding common stock, but expect to reduce their ownership as a result of this offering to approximately 14.2% of our outstanding shares . Even after this offering, these stockholders will be able to continue to exert significant influence over all matters presented to our stockholders for approval, including election and removal of our directors and change of control transactions. The interests of these stockholders may not coincide with the interests of the other holders of our common stock with respect to our operations or strategy.
 
We do not anticipate paying any dividends on our common stock.
 
We do not anticipate paying any cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. If we do not pay cash dividends, you could only receive a return on your investment in our common stock if the market price of our common stock increases before you sell your shares. In addition, the terms of our loan and security agreement restrict our ability to pay dividends.
 
Provisions in our organizational documents and in the Delaware General Corporation Law may prevent takeover attempts that could be beneficial to our stockholders.
 
Provisions in our charter and bylaws and in the Delaware General Corporation Law may make it difficult and expensive for a third party to pursue a takeover attempt we oppose even if a change in control of our company would be beneficial to the interests of our stockholders. Our board of directors has the authority to issue up to 20,000,000 shares of preferred stock in one or more series and to fix the powers, preferences and rights of each series without stockholder approval. The ability to issue preferred stock could discourage unsolicited acquisition proposals or make it more difficult for a third party to gain control of our company, or otherwise could adversely affect the market price of our common stock. Further, as a Delaware corporation, we are subject to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. This section generally prohibits us from engaging in mergers and other business combinations with stockholders that beneficially own 15% or more of our voting stock, or with their affiliates, unless our directors or stockholders approve the business combination in the prescribed manner. However, because funds affiliated with ABS Capital Partners acquired their shares prior to our initial public offering, Section 203 is currently inapplicable to any business combination or transaction with it or its affiliates.
 
A research report published by a previously named underwriter that will not participate as an underwriter in this offering might have been issued in violation of the Securities Act.
 
On July 25, 2007, prior to effectiveness of the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, a firm previously named as an underwriter of the common stock offered hereby published a research report about us. We were not involved in the preparation or distribution of the research report, we did not consent to its publication and we had no knowledge of it prior to its publication. After we learned of the publication we informed the firm that it will not participate as an underwriter in this offering.
 
The research report may have been issued in violation of the Securities Act and its restrictions on written offers prior to the effectiveness of a registration statement. We, the selling stockholders and the underwriters participating in this offering disclaim all responsibility for the contents of the research report. You should not place any reliance on the contents of the research report in evaluating whether or not to invest in the common stock offered hereby. All potential investors should base their investment decisions solely on information contained or incorporated in this prospectus and any “free writing prospectus” authorized by us.


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We do not believe that the publication of the research report constitutes a violation by us of the Securities Act. However, if a court were to conclude that publication of the research report constituted a violation by us of the Securities Act, the recipients of the research report, if any, who purchase shares of our common stock in this offering might have the right, under certain circumstances and for a limited period of time, to obtain recovery of the consideration they paid for the shares. We cannot currently quantify any potential liability related to such right because it would depend upon the number of shares purchased by the recipients of the research report and the public offering price of our common stock. We do not believe that we will be subject to any material liability as a result of the publication of the research report. If any claim of liability on our part is asserted, we intend to contest the matter vigorously.


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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
 
Statements contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus that are not historical facts may be forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). We intend such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in Section 21E of the Exchange Act. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they were made.
 
We may, in some cases, use words such as “project,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “plan,” “expect,” “estimate,” “intend,” “should,” “would,” “could,” “potentially,” “will,” or “may,” or other words that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes to identify these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus include statements about:
 
  •  competition and competitive factors in the markets in which we operate;
 
  •  demand for replication software;
 
  •  the advantages of our technology as compared to others;
 
  •  changes in customer preferences and our ability to adapt our product and services offerings;
 
  •  our ability to obtain and maintain distribution partners and the terms of these arrangements;
 
  •  our ability to develop and maintain positive relationships with our customers;
 
  •  our ability to maintain and establish intellectual property rights;
 
  •  our ability to retain and hire necessary employees and appropriately staff our development, marketing, sales and distribution efforts;
 
  •  our cash needs and expectations regarding cash flow from operations;
 
  •  our ability to manage and grow our business and execution of our business strategy; and
 
  •  our financial performance.
 
The forward-looking statements are based on our beliefs, assumptions and expectations of our future performance, taking into account all information currently available to us at the time they were made. These beliefs, assumptions and expectations can change as a result of many possible events or factors, not all of which are known to us or are within our control. If a change occurs, our business, financial condition and results of operations may vary materially from those expressed in our forward-looking statements. There are a number of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results anticipated by these forward-looking statements. These important factors include those that we discuss in Item 1A. Risk Factors and Item 1. Business in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, which we incorporate by reference in this prospectus and elsewhere in this prospectus and the documents that we incorporate by reference. You should read these factors and the other cautionary statements made, or incorporated by reference, in this prospectus as being applicable to all related forward-looking statements wherever they appear, or are incorporated by reference, in this prospectus. If one or more of these factors materialize, or if any underlying assumptions prove incorrect, our actual results, performance or achievements may vary materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.


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USE OF PROCEEDS
 
The net proceeds to us from this offering will be approximately $1.0 million (or $1.3 million if the underwriters exercise their overallotment option in full), after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us and at an assumed offering price of $16.03 per share (the last reported sale price of our common stock on The NASDAQ Global Market on August 2, 2007). We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by selling stockholders, except for the exercise price of the stock options being exercised by a selling stockholder. We intend to use the net proceeds from this offering for working capital and general corporate purposes.


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CAPITALIZATION
 
The following table shows our cash and capitalization as of March 31, 2007:
 
  •  on an actual basis; and
 
  •  on an as adjusted basis to reflect the sale of 100,000 shares of common stock in the offering by us at an assumed public offering price of $16.03 per share (the last reported sale price of our common stock on The NASDAQ Global Market on August 2, 2007), after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses, and to reflect the 5,000 shares of our common stock that are being sold in the offering and that are to be issued upon the exercise of employee stock options in connection with the consummation of the offering to a selling stockholder who is an executive officer.
 
You should read this table together with the information under “Use of Proceeds” as well as our financial statements and related notes and the other financial information incorporated by reference in this prospectus.
 
                 
    As of March 31, 2007  
    Actual     As Adjusted  
    (unaudited, in thousands)  
 
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 56,651     $ 57,671  
                 
Total long-term-debt, including current portion
           
                 
Stockholders’ equity:
               
Preferred stock, par value $.01 per share, 20,000,000 shares authorized, no shares outstanding, actual and as adjusted
           
Common stock, par value $.001 per share, 130,000,000 shares authorized, 20,988,938 shares outstanding, actual, 21,093,938 shares outstanding as adjusted
    21       21  
Additional paid-in capital
    139,031       140,051  
Accumulated deficit
    (90,379 )     (90,379 )
Cumulative foreign translation adjustment
    (4 )     (4 )
                 
Total stockholders’ equity
    48,669       49,689  
                 
Total capitalization
  $ 48,669     $ 49,689  
                 
 
MARKET PRICE OF COMMON STOCK
 
Our common stock has been traded on The NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “DBTK” since December 15, 2006. The following table sets forth the intra-day high and low per share sale price of our common stock as reported by The NASDAQ Global Market.
 
                 
    Low     High  
 
Year Ended December 31, 2006
               
Fourth Quarter (beginning December 15, 2006)
  $ 11.80     $ 13.60  
Year Ended December 31, 2007
               
First Quarter
  $ 10.25     $ 16.48  
Second Quarter
  $ 13.29     $ 17.99  
Third Quarter (through August 2, 2007)
  $ 14.50     $ 19.10  
 
On August 2, 2007, the last reported sale price of our common stock on The NASDAQ Global Market was $16.03. As of July 15, 2007, there were approximately 212 holders of record of our common stock.


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PRINCIPAL AND SELLING STOCKHOLDERS
 
The table presented below shows information regarding the beneficial ownership of our common stock as of July 15, 2007, before and after giving effect to the offering, by:
 
  •  each person or entity known by us to own beneficially more than 5% of the outstanding shares of our common stock;
 
  •  each of our directors;
 
  •  each of our named executive officers;
 
  •  all of our directors and executive officers as a group; and
 
  •  the selling stockholders.
 
For purposes of calculating beneficial ownership, we have assumed that:
 
  •  we will issue 5,000 shares of common stock in connection with the consummation of this offering to an executive officer upon the exercise of employee stock options;
 
  •  we will issue 100,000 shares of common stock in the offering, assuming the underwriters do not exercise their overallotment option, or 115,750 shares of our common stock, assuming the underwriters exercise their overallotment option in full; and
 
  •  the selling stockholders will sell 2,690,000 shares of our common stock, assuming the underwriters do not exercise their overallotment option, or 3,092,750 shares of our common stock, assuming the underwriters exercise their overallotment option in full.
 
The information in the following table is based on the assumptions set forth above and 21,260,044 shares of common stock actually outstanding as of July 15, 2007, and has been presented in accordance with the rules of the SEC and is not necessarily indicative of beneficial ownership for any other purpose. Under SEC rules, beneficial ownership of a class of capital stock includes any shares of such class as to which a person, directly or indirectly, has or shares voting power or investment power and also any shares as to which a person has the right to acquire such voting or investment power within 60 days through the exercise of any stock option, warrant or other right. If two or more persons share voting power or investment power with respect to specific securities, all of such persons may be deemed to be the beneficial owners of such securities. Except as we otherwise indicate in the footnotes to the table and under applicable community property laws, we believe that the selling stockholders listed below, based on information they have furnished to us, have sole voting and investment power with respect to the shares shown.
 
                                                                 
                            Shares Beneficially
    Shares Beneficially
 
                      Number of
    Owned After
    Owned After
 
                Number of
    Shares Being
    Offering Assuming
    Offering Assuming
 
    Shares Beneficially
    Shares Being
    Offered
    No Exercise of
    Full Exercise of
 
    Owned Before
    Offered Assuming
    Assuming Full
    Overallotment
    Overallotment
 
    Offering     No Exercise of
    Exercise of
    Option     Option  
    Number of
          Overallotment
    Overallotment
    Number of
          Number of
       
Name of Beneficial Owner
  Shares     %(1)     Option     Option     Shares     %(1)     Shares     %(1)  
 
5% Stockholders
                                                               
Entities affiliated with ABS Capital Partners(2)
    6,272,269       29.5 %     2,685,000       3,087,750       3,587,269       16.8 %     3,184,519       14.9 %
Directors and Named Executive Officers
                                                               
Paul Birch(3)
    35,430       *                 35,430       *     35,430       *
Dean Goodermote(4)
    661,358       3.0 %                 661,358       3.1 %     661,358       3.1 %
Ashoke (Bobby) Goswami (2)
    6,272,269       29.5 %     2,685,000       3,087,750       3,587,269       16.8 %     3,184,519       14.9 %
John B. Landry(5)
    35,430       *                 35,430       *     35,430       *
Laura L. Witt(2)
    6,272,269       29.5 %     2,685,000       3,087,750       3,587,269       16.8 %     3,184,519       14.9 %
John W. Young(6)
    25,510       *                 25,510       *     25,510       *
Michael Lesh(7)
    121,264       *     5,000       5,000       116,264       *     116,264       *
David J. Demlow(8)
    137,577       *                 137,577       *     137,577       *
S. Craig Huke(9)
    198,999       *                 198,999       *     198,999       *
Daniel M. Jones(10)
    110,931       *                 110,931       *     110,931       *
All executive officers and directors as a group (12 persons)(11)
    7,775,994       34.5 %     2,690,000       3,092,750       5,085,994       23.8 %     4,683,244       21.9 %


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Represents beneficial ownership of less than 1%.
 
(1) The percentage of beneficial ownership, as to any person, as of a particular date, is calculated by dividing the number of shares beneficially owned by such person, which includes the number of shares as to which such person has the right to acquire voting or investment power within 60 days after such date, by the sum of the number of shares outstanding as of such date plus the number of shares as to which such person has the right to acquire voting or investment power within 60 days after such date. Consequently, the denominator for calculating beneficial ownership percentages may be different for each beneficial owner.
 
(2) Based solely on a Schedule 13G filed February 14, 2007 jointly filed on behalf of ABS Capital Partners IV, L.P. (“ABS IV”), ABS Capital Partners IV-A, L.P. (“ABS IV-A”), ABS Capital Partners IV-Offshore, L.P. (“ABS IV-O”) and ABS Capital Partners IV-Special Offshore, L.P. (“ABS IV-SO”) (collectively referred to as the “Funds”); ABS Partners IV L.L.C., as the general partner of the Funds (the “General Partner”); and Donald B. Hebb, Jr., Phillip A. Clough, Timothy T. Weglicki, John D. Stobo, Jr., Frederic G. Emry, Ashoke Goswami, Ralph S. Terkowitz and Laura L. Witt, as the managers of the General Partner (the “Managers”, and, collectively with the Funds and the General Partners, the “Reporting Persons”). The Funds have shared voting and dispositive power over the shares of common stock in the amounts indicated: ABS IV 5,550,318, ABS IV-A 185,830, ABS IV-O 318,775, and ABS IV-SO 217,346. The General Partner has voting and dispositive power over these shares, which is shared by the Managers. Each of the Managers, including Mr. Goswami and Ms. Witt, both of whom are members of our Board of Directors, disclaims beneficial ownership of these shares except to the extent of his or her respective pecuniary interests. The address for the Reporting Persons is 400 East Pratt Street, Suite 910, Baltimore, Maryland 21202.
 
(3) Includes 35,430 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options that are exercisable within 60 days of July 15, 2007.
 
(4) Includes 503,363 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options that are exercisable within 60 days of July 15, 2007.
 
(5) Includes 35,430 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options that are exercisable within 60 days of July 15, 2007.
 
(6) Includes 25,510 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options that are exercisable within 60 days of July 15, 2007.
 
(7) Includes 106,264 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options that are exercisable within 60 days of July 15, 2007.
 
(8) Includes 117,539 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options that are exercisable within 60 days of July 15, 2007.
 
(9) Includes 192,702 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options that are exercisable within 60 days of July 15, 2007.
 
(10) Includes 90,967 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options that are exercisable within 60 days of July 15, 2007.
 
(11) The shares of common stock shown as beneficially owned by all directors and executive officers as a group include 1,251,292 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options that are exercisable within 60 days of July 15, 2007.


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CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PERSONS TRANSACTIONS
 
In 2007, our Board adopted a Related Persons Transactions Policy. The Related Persons Transactions Policy sets forth our policy and procedures for review, approval and monitoring of transactions in which we and “related persons” are participants. Related persons include directors, nominees for director, officers, stockholders owning five percent or greater of our outstanding stock or any immediate family members of the aforementioned. The Related Persons Transactions Policy is administered by a committee designated by the Board, which is currently the Audit Committee.
 
The Related Persons Transactions Policy covers any related person transaction that meets the minimum threshold for disclosure in our annual meeting proxy statement under the relevant SEC rules, which is currently transactions involving amounts exceeding $120,000 in which a related person has a direct or indirect material interest. Related person transactions must be approved, ratified or rejected, or referred to the Board, by the Audit Committee. The policy provides that as a general rule all related person transactions should be on terms reasonably comparable to those that could be obtained by us in arm’s length dealings with an unrelated third party. However, the policy takes into account that in certain cases it may be impractical or unnecessary to make such a comparison. In such cases, the transaction may be approved in accordance with the provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law.
 
The Related Persons Transaction Policy provides that management or the affected director or officer will bring any relevant transaction to the attention of the Audit Committee. Any director who has a direct or indirect material interest in the related person transaction should not participate in the Audit Committee or Board action regarding whether to approve or ratify the transaction. However, we recognize that there may be certain cases in which all directors are deemed to have a direct or indirect material interest in a transaction. In such cases, we may enter into such transaction if it is approved in accordance with the provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law. The transaction must be approved in advance whenever practicable, and if not practicable, must be ratified as promptly as practicable. All related person transactions will be disclosed to the full Board, in our proxy statement and other appropriate filings as required by the rules and regulations of the SEC and NASDAQ.
 
Our Board has determined that any related person transaction with another company at which a related person’s only relationship is as an employee (other than an executive officer or an employee having direct supervisory authority over the transaction constituting the related party transaction) or beneficial owner of less than 10% of that company’s equity interests, if the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the greater of $500,000 or 2% of that company’s total annual revenues, shall be deemed to be pre-approved. A summary of any transaction entered into by us pursuant to the pre-approval policy described in this paragraph shall be submitted to the Audit Committee.
 
In addition, the Related Persons Transaction Policy provides that transactions under our distribution agreement with Sunbelt Distribution, described further below, need not be reviewed in advance but will be reviewed by the Audit Committee on a quarterly basis, and management will provide such information regarding these transactions as the Audit Committee may request.
 
Since January 1, 2004, we have entered into the following transactions with related persons:
 
Sale of Convertible Preferred Stock.  In June 2004, we issued 8% subordinated convertible promissory notes in an aggregate amount of $2,000,000 to ABS Capital Partners IV, L.P., ABS Capital Partners IV-A, L.P., ABS Capital Partners IV Offshore L.P. and ABS Capital Partners IV Special Offshore L.P., which we refer to collectively as the ABS Entities. Two general partners of the ABS Entities, Ashoke Goswami and Laura Witt, are members of our board of directors. In October 2004, we sold 7,717,398 shares of Series C convertible preferred stock to the ABS Entities at a purchase price of $0.98 per share, or $7.6 million in the aggregate. The ABS Entities paid a portion of the purchase price for the Series C convertible preferred stock through the conversion of the June 2004 promissory notes. The ABS Entities had previously acquired shares of our Series B convertible preferred stock.
 
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preferred stock, including Donald E. Beeler, Jr., our former chief executive officer, LSC Fund II LP and the Seligman Group, which includes Seligman Communications & Information Fund Inc., Seligman Investment Opportunities (Master) Fund NTV II Portfolio, Seligman Investment Opportunities (Master) Fund NTV Portfolio and Seligman New Technologies Fund Inc. At the time, LSC Fund II LP and the Seligman Group each beneficially owned stock having greater than 5% of our outstanding voting power. In connection with our initial public offering in December 2006, the holdings of LSC Fund II LP and the Seligman Group dropped below 5%. Currently, only the ABS entities have registration rights pursuant to the registration rights agreement. The ABS Entities have the right to require us to register for public resale under the Securities Act the shares of our common stock that they hold. This “demand” registration right began to be exercisable six months after our initial public offering. If this demand registration is exercised for an underwritten offering and if the managing underwriters advise in writing that the number of shares of common stock to be included in the registration exceeds the number that can be sold in such offering, the number of shares that may be included in the offering will be limited. The number of the demand registrations is limited to three if the registrations cover the full amount of the shares requested to be registered. The ABS Entities are participating in this offering pursuant to the terms of the registration rights agreement.
 
If we propose to file a registration statement for the sale of our common stock by us or by our other security holders, other than a registration statement in connection with a demand registration or in connection with employee benefit or acquisition related matters, then the ABS Entities are entitled to require us to include their shares of common stock in that registration statement. Pursuant to a formula set forth in the registration rights agreement, we can limit the number of shares that the ABS Entities are entitled to include in this type of “piggyback” registration or in a demand registration if the offering is an underwritten offering and the managing underwriters advise in writing that the number of shares of common stock to be included in the registration exceeds the number that can be sold in such offering.
 
In addition, in the event that we become eligible to register securities by means of a registration statement on Form S-3 under the Securities Act, the ABS Entities may require us to register the sale of the shares provided that the reasonably anticipated aggregate price to the public of such securities is at least $1 million.
 
We are required to bear all registration fees and expenses related to the registrations under the registration rights agreement, excluding any transfer taxes relating to the sale of the shares held by the ABS Entities, any underwriting discounts or selling commissions and certain expenses that may be necessary to enable the stockholders entitled to registration rights to consummate the disposition of shares in certain jurisdictions. In addition, we will indemnify the selling stockholders in such transactions.
 
Amended and Restated Stockholders’ Agreement.  In October 2004, in connection with the sale of our Series C convertible preferred stock, we entered into an amended and restated stockholders’ agreement with the holders of our Series C and Series B convertible preferred stock, including the ABS Entities, Donald L. Beeler, Jr., the Seligman Group and LSC Fund II LP. The agreement sets forth agreements to appoint directors to our board, including the right of the ABS Entities to appoint two members to our board, transfer restrictions regarding our common stock, rights of first refusal regarding sales of our common stock, and preemptive rights, among other requirements. The agreement terminated by its terms upon the completion of our initial public offering.
 
Initial Public Offering.  In December 2006, we completed our initial public offering. Our shares of Series B convertible preferred stock and our Series C convertible preferred stock converted into shares of our common stock in that offering. The ABS Entities received an aggregate of 8,752,563 shares of our common stock as a result of these conversions. As part of the conversions, the holders of our Series B convertible preferred stock were also entitled to receive a special dividend, which totaled $10.2 million in the aggregate. The ABS Entities’ pro rata share of this special dividend was $7.3 million in the aggregate.
 
The ABS Entities also participated in the initial public offering as selling stockholders pursuant to the terms of the registration rights agreement described above. The ABS Entities sold an aggregate of 1,525,542 shares in December 2006 for gross proceeds of $15,606,295 and an aggregate of 954,752 in


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January 2007 upon the exercise of the underwriters’ overallotment option for additional gross proceeds of $9,767,113. Mr. Goswami and Ms. Witt are both managing members of the general partner of each of the ABS Entities, and Mr. Goodermote, our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of our Board of Directors, is a non-voting member of the general partner. Mr. Goswami, Ms. Witt and Mr. Goodermote each disclaim beneficial ownership of these shares except to the extent of their respective pecuniary interests. In connection with the sale of the shares by the ABS Entities, we paid $20,000 in legal expenses incurred by the ABS Entities pursuant to the terms of a registration rights agreement among us and the ABS Entities.
 
Double-Take EMEA Acquisition and Agreements with Jo Murciano.  In May 2006, we entered into a share purchase agreement for the acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of Sunbelt System Software S.A.S., from its stockholders, Jo Murciano, who is one of our executive officers, and Sunbelt International S.A.R.L., of which Mr. Murciano is the Managing Director. Sunbelt Systems Software is now known as Double-Take Software S.A.S., or Double-Take EMEA, which was our primary distributor in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. As a result of his former shareholdings in Double-Take EMEA and his interest in Sunbelt International, Mr. Murciano is entitled to receive 62.5% of the amounts we paid and will pay in connection with the acquisition of Double-Take EMEA. In addition, in connection with the acquisition, Mr. Murciano became our Vice President of EMEA and remains President of Double-Take EMEA.
 
Pursuant to the share purchase agreement, we paid $1.1 million to the former stockholders of Double-Take EMEA as the initial payment for the acquisition. The remaining portion of the total purchase price, which we estimate will range between $10.0 million and $12.0 million, will be payable in monthly payments based upon a percentage of the intercompany amounts paid by Double-Take EMEA to us each month in respect of purchases under our intercompany distribution agreement with Double-Take EMEA from the date of the share purchase agreement through December 31, 2007, which we refer to as the earn-out period. The base percentage for the calculation of the earn-out payments is 50% of the intercompany amounts for the month, although this percentage is decreased to 15% once the aggregate payments total $10 million. In 2006, we paid an aggregate of $3.5 million to the former stockholders.
 
An escrow account was established to hold 20% of our initial $1.1 million payment and 20% of each of our earn-out payments through December 31, 2007 to satisfy claims against the selling stockholders that we may have from time to time as a result of breaches of representations, warranties or covenants through December 31, 2007. The share purchase agreement provides that Double-Take EMEA may obtain short-term loans out of the escrow fund for the amount of any shortfall in Double-Take EMEA’s monthly sales, up to an aggregate amount of $532,000, and subject to certain other conditions specified in the agreement. In the event that there is a change of control of our company prior to the end of the earn-out period, we are obligated to make a mandatory payment to the former stockholders of Double-Take EMEA, including Mr. Murciano, equal to the lesser of $2.5 million or the difference between the aggregate earn-out payments made prior to the change of control and the target amount, which is $10.0 million.
 
The share purchase agreement provides that during the earn-out period we will continue to operate Double-Take EMEA in accordance with its past practices and the intercompany distribution agreement. Double-Take EMEA will also serve as our exclusive distributor in Europe and the United Kingdom, subject to exceptions for worldwide licenses that we may grant and certain agreements with our OEMs. In addition, during the earn-out period we have agreed that Mr. Murciano will remain as President of Double-Take EMEA and that he will continue to receive the same compensation that he received prior to the acquisition. Should we terminate Mr. Murciano’s employment without cause during the term of the earn-out period, the former stockholders of Double-Take EMEA will continue to receive the earn-out payments, or they can elect to receive a lump-sum payment equal to the average monthly earn-out payment prior to the termination multiplied by the number of months remaining in the earn-out period.
 
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customers. In addition, Double-Take EMEA may receive credits of up to 3% of its quarterly sales to be used to fund mutually agreed upon marketing programs. Double-Take EMEA may purchase maintenance contracts for purchased software licenses at 40% off our then-current list price. The intercompany distribution agreement provides for minimum sales goals of orders of new licenses for each quarter in the year ending December 31, 2007 that in the aggregate total $13,390,000. If Double-Take EMEA achieves at least 87.5% of a quarterly goal, it will be eligible to receive a rebate on purchases of new software licenses equal to 5% of the list price for those software licenses purchased in that quarter. This rebate will be increased to 7.5% if Double-Take EMEA achieves at least 93.49% of its quarterly goal, and 10% if it achieves 100% or more of its quarterly goal. In addition, should we enter into any worldwide agreements for which we require Double-Take EMEA to provide technical support, we have agreed to pay Double-Take EMEA 5% of our then-current list price for each license for which it provides technical support during the first year of the license.
 
Mr. Murciano is also a director and chief executive officer of Sunbelt Software Distribution, Inc., or Sunbelt Distribution, which is a reseller of our software and services. Mr. Murciano is the beneficial owner of approximately 31% of Sunbelt Distribution, which is also partly owned by Sunbelt International S.A.R.L. In 2006 and 2005, our sales to Sunbelt Distribution totaled $7.5 million and $6.4 million, respectively. Sunbelt Distribution continues to serve as a reseller of our software and services. From the date of acquisition of Double-Take EMEA through December 31, 2006, our sales to Sunbelt Distribution were approximately $4.5 million.
 
Under our distribution agreement with Sunbelt Distribution, which expires on December 31, 2007, Sunbelt Distribution receives a 35% discount on all orders for software licenses and internal training services, and a 10% discount on all orders for training services that we provide to its customers. In addition, Sunbelt Distribution may receive credits of up to 2% of its total quarterly sales to be used to fund mutually agreed upon marketing programs. Sunbelt Distribution may purchase maintenance contracts for purchased software licenses at 35% off our then-current list price. The distribution agreement provides for minimum sales goals of orders of new licenses for each quarter in the year ending December 31, 2006 that in the aggregate total $7,000,000. If Sunbelt Distribution achieves at least 60% of a quarterly goal, it is eligible to receive a rebate equal to 10% of the aggregate value of licenses sold in that quarter multiplied by the percentage of the quarterly goal achieved. Sunbelt Distribution attained 100% of the goals and received 10% of the aggregate value of licenses sold.
 
Agreements with Former Chief Executive Officer.  In November 2006 we entered into a settlement agreement and mutual release with Donald E. Beeler, Jr., our former chief executive officer and director who resigned in March 2005, relating to the reimbursement of expenses incurred by Mr. Beeler while he was our employee. As part of the settlement agreement, Mr. Beeler agreed to reimburse us $300,000, which amount was offset by a credit in an equal amount that was made available to him at the time of his resignation in March 2005. The settlement agreement contained customary releases and terminated prior agreements including a memorandum agreement and an independent contractor agreement we had entered into with Mr. Beeler at the time of his resignation. The settlement agreement also provided that all outstanding stock options held by Mr. Beeler would vest in full and he would have the right to exercise those options until their expiration dates, as modified by the settlement agreement.
 
In connection with his resignation, Mr. Beeler had also entered into a non-disclosure confidentiality agreement, which remains in effect. The non-disclosure confidentiality agreement contains provisions for the protection of our confidential information and also contains Mr. Beeler’s agreement that he will not compete with us or solicit our employees to leave for a period of one year after the termination of the independent contractor agreement.


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DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK
 
Our authorized capital stock consists of 130,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share, and 20,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $0.01 par value per share. The following description summarizes important terms of our common stock. Because it is only a summary, it does not contain all the information that may be important to you. For a complete description, you should refer to our certificate of incorporation and bylaws, copies of which have been filed as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part or documents incorporated by reference herein, as well as the relevant portions of the Delaware General Corporation Law.
 
Common Stock
 
Holders of common stock are entitled:
 
  •  to cast one vote for each share held of record on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders;
 
  •  to receive, on a pro rata basis, dividends and distributions, if any, that the board of directors may declare out of legally available funds; and
 
  •  upon our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, to share equally and ratably in any assets remaining after the payment of all debt and other liabilities, subject to the prior rights, if any, of holders of any outstanding shares of preferred stock.
 
The holders of our common stock are entitled to receive dividends as they may be lawfully declared from time to time by our board of directors, subject to any preferential rights of holders of any outstanding shares of preferred stock. Any dividends declared on the common stock will not be cumulative.
 
The holders of our common stock do not have any preemptive, cumulative voting, subscription, conversion, redemption or sinking fund rights. The common stock is not subject to future calls or assessments by us.
 
Except as otherwise required by law, holders of the common stock, as such, are not entitled to vote on any amendment to our certificate of incorporation, including the certificate of designation of any series of preferred stock, that relates solely to the terms of one or more outstanding series of preferred stock, if the holders of the affected series are entitled, either voting separately or together with the holders of one or more other affected series, to vote on such amendment under the certificate of incorporation, including the certificate of designation of any series of preferred stock, or under the Delaware General Corporation Law.
 
The shares of our common stock are traded on The NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “DBTK.”
 
Continental Stock Transfer & Trust serves as the transfer agent and registrar for the common stock.
 
Preferred Stock
 
Under our certificate of incorporation, the board of directors has the authority, without further action by our stockholders, except as described below, to issue up to 20,000,000 shares of preferred stock in one or more series and to fix the voting powers, designations, preferences and the relative participating, optional or other special rights and qualifications, limitations and restrictions of each series, including dividend rights, conversion rights, voting rights, terms of redemption, liquidation preferences and the number of shares constituting any series. Upon completion of the offering, no shares of our authorized preferred stock will be outstanding. Because the board of directors has the power to establish the preferences and rights of the shares of any additional series of preferred stock, it may afford holders of any preferred stock preferences, powers and rights, including voting and dividend rights, senior to the rights of holders of the common stock, which could adversely affect the holders of the common stock and could discourage a takeover of us even if a change of control of our company would be beneficial to the interests of our stockholders.
 
Anti-Takeover Effect of Our Charter and Bylaw Provisions
 
Our certificate of incorporation and bylaws contain provisions that could make it more difficult to complete an acquisition of Double-Take Software by means of a tender offer, a proxy contest or otherwise.
 
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be taken only at an annual meeting or special meeting of stockholders and may not be taken by written consent instead of a meeting, unless the action to be taken by written consent of stockholders and the taking of this action by written consent has been expressly approved in advance by the board of directors. Failure to satisfy any of the requirements for a stockholder meeting could delay, prevent or invalidate stockholder action.
 
Stockholder Advance Notice Procedure.  Our bylaws establish an advance notice procedure for stockholders to make nominations of candidates for election as directors or to bring other business before an annual meeting of our stockholders. The bylaws provide that any stockholder wishing to nominate persons for election as directors at, or bring other business before, an annual meeting must deliver to our secretary a written notice of the stockholder’s intention to do so. To be timely, the stockholder’s notice must be delivered to or mailed and received by us not less than 60 days before the meeting, except that if we provide stockholders with less than 75 days’ notice or prior public disclosure of the date of the meeting, we must receive the notice not later than the close of business on the tenth day following the day on which we provide the notice or public disclosure. The notice must include the following information:
 
  •  the name and address of the stockholder who intends to make the nomination and the name and address of the person or persons to be nominated or the nature of the business to be proposed;
 
  •  a representation that the stockholder is a holder of record of our capital stock entitled to vote at such meeting and intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to nominate the person or persons or to introduce the business specified in the notice;
 
  •  if applicable, a description of all arrangements or understandings between the stockholder and each nominee and any other person or persons, naming such person or persons, pursuant to which the nomination is to be made by the stockholder;
 
  •  such other information regarding each nominee or each matter of business to be proposed by such stockholder as would be required to be included in a proxy statement filed under the SEC’s proxy rules if the nominee had been nominated, or intended to be nominated, or the matter had been proposed, or intended to be proposed, by the board of directors; and
 
  •  if applicable, the consent of each nominee to serve as a director if elected.
 
We may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as we may reasonably require to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as one of our directors.
 
Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law.  We are subject to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which, with specified exceptions, prohibits a Delaware corporation from engaging in any “business combination” with any “interested stockholder” for a period of three years following the time that the stockholder became an interested stockholder unless:
 
  •  before that time, the board of directors of the corporation approved either the business combination or the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder;
 
  •  upon consummation of the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder, the interested stockholder owned at least 85% of the voting stock of the corporation outstanding at the time the transaction commenced, excluding for purposes of determining the number of shares outstanding those shares owned by persons who are directors and also officers and by employee stock plans in which employee participants do not have the right to determine confidentially whether shares held subject to the plan will be tendered in a tender or exchange offer; or
 
  •  at or after that time, the business combination is approved by the board of directors and authorized at an annual or special meeting of stockholders, and not by written consent, by the affirmative vote of at least 662/3% of the outstanding voting stock that is not owned by the interested stockholder.
 
Section 203 defines “business combination” to include the following:
 
  •  any merger or consolidation of the corporation with the interested stockholder;
 
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  •  subject to specified exceptions, any transaction that results in the issuance or transfer by the corporation of any stock of the corporation to the interested stockholder;
 
  •  any transaction involving the corporation that has the effect of increasing the proportionate share of the stock of any class or series of the corporation beneficially owned by the interested stockholder; or
 
  •  any receipt by the interested stockholder of the benefit of any loans, advances, guarantees, pledges or other financial benefits provided by or through the corporation.
 
In general, Section 203 defines an “interested stockholder” as any entity or person beneficially owning 15% or more of the outstanding voting stock of the corporation and any entity or person affiliated with or controlling or controlled by that entity or person. Because ABS Capital Partners IV, L.P., ABS Capital Partners IV-A, L.P., ABS Capital Partners IV Offshore L.P. and ABS Capital Partners IV Special Offshore L.P., which we refer to collectively as the ABS Entities, acquired their shares prior to our initial public offering, Section 203 is currently inapplicable to any business combination or transaction with the ABS Entities or their affiliates.
 
The application of Section 203 may make it difficult and expensive for a third party to pursue a takeover attempt we approve even if a change in control of us would be beneficial to the interests of our stockholders.
 
Majority Voting Provisions for Director Elections
 
Under our bylaws, election of directors will be by a majority of votes cast, or a plurality in the case where there are more director candidates for election than seats to be filled. A director who fails to achieve a majority of votes cast in an uncontested election will be required to offer irrevocably to resign from the board of directors, and the remaining directors will determine whether to accept the resignation. Vacancies created by resignations or otherwise may be filled by vote of the remaining directors.
 
Limitation of Liability and Indemnification
 
Our certificate of incorporation limits the personal liability of our board members for breaches by them of their fiduciary duties. Our bylaws also require us to indemnify our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. Delaware law provides that directors of a corporation will not be personally liable for monetary damages for breach of their fiduciary duties as directors, except liability for any of the following acts:
 
  •  any breach of their duty of loyalty to us or our stockholders;
 
  •  acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;
 
  •  unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases, redemptions or other distributions; and
 
  •  any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.
 
Such a limitation of liability may not apply to liabilities arising under the federal securities laws and does not affect the availability of equitable remedies such as injunctive relief or rescission.
 
In accordance with Delaware law, our bylaws permit us to secure insurance on behalf of any officer, director, employee or other agent for any liability arising out of his or her actions in such capacity, regardless of whether indemnification would be permitted under Delaware law. We currently maintain liability insurance for our directors and officers.
 
We have entered into agreements to indemnify our directors and executive officers, in addition to the indemnification provided for in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws. These agreements, among other things, provide for indemnification of our directors and executive officers for some expenses, including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by any such person in any action or proceeding, including any action by us or in our right, arising out of such person’s services as a director or executive officer of ours, any subsidiary of ours or any other company or enterprise to which the person provided services at our request. We believe that these provisions and agreements will help us to attract and retain qualified persons as directors and executive officers.


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MATERIAL U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSIDERATIONS
FOR NON-U.S. HOLDERS OF COMMON STOCK
 
The following is a summary of some U.S. federal income and estate tax consequences of the acquisition, ownership and disposition of shares of our common stock purchased pursuant to this offering by a holder that, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, is not a “U.S. person,” as we define that term below. A beneficial owner of our common stock who is not a U.S. person is referred to below as a “non-U.S. holder.” This summary is based upon current provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder, judicial opinions, administrative pronouncements and published rulings of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, all as in effect as of the date hereof. These authorities may be changed, possibly retroactively, resulting in U.S. federal tax consequences different from those set forth below. We have not sought, and will not seek, any ruling from the IRS or opinion of counsel with respect to the statements made in the following summary, and there can be no complete assurance that the IRS will not take a position contrary to such statements or that any such contrary position taken by the IRS would not be sustained.
 
This summary is limited to non-U.S. holders who purchase shares of our common stock issued pursuant to this offering and who hold our common stock as a capital asset, which is generally property held for investment. This summary also does not address the tax considerations arising under the laws of any state, local or non-U.S. jurisdiction, or under U.S. federal estate or gift tax laws, except as specifically described below. In addition, this summary does not address tax considerations that may be applicable to an investor’s particular circumstances nor does it address the special tax rules applicable to special classes of non-U.S. holders, including, without limitation:
 
  •  banks, insurance companies or other financial institutions;
 
  •  partnerships or other entities treated as partnerships for U.S. federal income tax purposes;
 
  •  U.S. expatriates;
 
  •  tax-exempt organizations;
 
  •  tax-qualified retirement plans;
 
  •  brokers or dealers in securities or currencies;
 
  •  traders in securities that elect to use a mark-to-market method of accounting for their securities holdings; or
 
  •  persons that will hold common stock as a position in a hedging transaction, “straddle” or “conversion transaction” for tax purposes.
 
If a partnership, including any entity treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, is a holder, the tax treatment of a partner in the partnership will generally depend upon the status of the partner and the activities of the partnership. A holder that is a partnership, and partners in such partnership, should consult their own tax advisors regarding the tax consequences of the purchase, ownership and disposition of shares of our common stock.
 
For purposes of this discussion, a U.S. person means a person who is for U.S. federal income tax purposes:
 
  •  a citizen or resident of the United States;
 
  •  a corporation, including any entity treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes created or organized under the laws of the United States, any state within the United States, or the District of Columbia;
 
  •  an estate the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income taxation regardless of its source; or
 
  •  a trust, if its administration is subject to the primary supervision of a U.S. court and one or more U.S. persons have the authority to control all of its substantial decisions, or other trusts considered U.S. persons for U.S. federal income tax purposes.


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THE FOREGOING SUMMARY DOES NOT CONSTITUTE TAX ADVICE, AND, UNDER APPLICABLE U.S. TREASURY REGULATIONS, WE ARE REQUIRED TO INFORM YOU THAT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS NOT INTENDED OR WRITTEN TO BE USED, AND CANNOT BE USED TO AVOID PENALTIES IMPOSED UNDER THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE. ACCORDINGLY, YOU ARE URGED TO CONSULT YOUR TAX ADVISOR WITH RESPECT TO THE APPLICATION OF THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL INCOME TAX LAWS TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION AS WELL AS ANY TAX CONSEQUENCES ARISING UNDER THE FEDERAL ESTATE OR GIFT TAX RULES OR UNDER THE LAWS OF ANY STATE, LOCAL, NON-U.S. OR OTHER TAXING JURISDICTION OR UNDER ANY APPLICABLE TAX TREATY.
 
Dividends
 
If distributions are paid on shares of our common stock, the distributions will constitute dividends for U.S. federal income tax purposes to the extent paid from our current or accumulated earnings and profits, as determined under U.S. federal income tax principles. To the extent a distribution exceeds our current and accumulated earnings and profits, it will constitute a return of capital that is applied against and reduces, but not below zero, the adjusted tax basis of your shares in our common stock. Any remainder will constitute gain on the common stock. Dividends paid to a non-U.S. holder generally will be subject to withholding of U.S. federal income tax at the rate of 30% or such lower rate as may be specified by an applicable income tax treaty. If the dividend is effectively connected with the non-U.S. holder’s conduct of a trade or business in the United States or, if a tax treaty applies, attributable to a U.S. permanent establishment maintained by such non-U.S. holder, the dividend will not be subject to any withholding tax, provided certification requirements are met, as described below, but will be subject to U.S. federal income tax imposed on net income on the same basis that applies to U.S. persons generally. A corporate holder under certain circumstances also may be subject to a branch profits tax equal to 30%, or such lower rate as may be specified by an applicable income tax treaty, of a portion of its effectively connected earnings and profits for the taxable year.
 
To claim the benefit of a tax treaty or to claim exemption from withholding because the income is effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the United States, a non-U.S. holder must provide a properly executed IRS Form W-8BEN for treaty benefits or W-8ECI for effectively connected income, or such successor forms as the IRS designates, prior to the payment of dividends. These forms must be periodically updated. Non-U.S. holders may obtain a refund of any excess amounts withheld by timely filing an appropriate claim for refund.
 
Gain on Disposition
 
A non-U.S. holder generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax, including by way of withholding, on gain recognized on a sale or other disposition of shares of our common stock unless any one of the following is true:
 
  •  the gain is effectively connected with the non-U.S. holder’s conduct of a trade or business in the United States or, if a tax treaty applies, attributable to a U.S. permanent establishment or a fixed base maintained by such non-U.S. holder;
 
  •  the non-U.S. holder is a nonresident alien individual present in the United States for 183 days or more in the taxable year of the disposition and certain other requirements are met; or
 
  •  our common stock constitutes a United States real property interest by reason of our status as a “United States real property holding corporation,” or USRPHC, for U.S. federal income tax purposes at any time during the shorter of (1) the period during which the non-U.S. holder held our common stock or (2) the 5-year period ending on the date such holder disposes of our common stock.
 
We believe that we are not currently and will not become a USRPHC. However, because the determination of whether we are a USRPHC depends on the fair market value of our United States real property interests relative to the fair market value of our other business assets, we cannot assure you that we will not become a USRPHC in the future. As long as our common stock is regularly traded on an established securities market, however, it will not be treated as a United States real property interest, in general, with respect to any non-U.S. holder that holds no more than 5% of such regularly traded common stock. If we are determined to


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be a USRPHC and the foregoing exception does not apply, a purchaser may be required to withhold 10% of the proceeds payable to a non-U.S. holder from a disposition of our common stock and the non-U.S. holder generally will be taxed on its net gain derived from the disposition at the graduated U.S. federal income tax rates applicable to U.S. persons.
 
Unless an applicable treaty provides otherwise, gain described in the first bullet point above will be subject to the U.S. federal income tax imposed on net income on the same basis that applies to U.S. persons generally but will generally not be subject to withholding. Corporate holders also may be subject to a branch profits tax on such gain. Gain described in the second bullet point above will be subject to a flat 30% U.S. federal income tax, which may be offset by U.S. source capital losses. Non-U.S. holders should consult any applicable income tax treaties that may provide for different rules.
 
U.S. Federal Estate Taxes
 
Shares of our common stock owned or treated as owned by an individual who at the time of death is a non-U.S. holder are considered U.S. situs assets and will be included in the individual’s estate for U.S. federal estate tax purposes, unless an applicable estate tax treaty provides otherwise.
 
Information Reporting and Backup Withholding
 
Under U.S. Treasury regulations, we must report annually to the IRS and to each non-U.S. holder the gross amount of distributions on our common stock paid to such non-U.S. holder and the tax withheld with respect to those distributions. These information reporting requirements apply even if withholding was not required because the dividends were effectively connected dividends or withholding was reduced or eliminated by an applicable tax treaty. Pursuant to an applicable tax treaty, that information may also be made available to the tax authorities in the country in which the non-U.S. holder resides.
 
Backup withholding generally will not apply to payments of dividends made by us or our paying agents, in their capacities as such, to a non-U.S. holder of our common stock if the holder has provided the required certification that it is not a U.S. person, or if other requirements are met. Dividends paid to a non-U.S. holder who fails to certify status as a non-U.S. person in accordance with the applicable U.S. Treasury regulations generally will be subject to backup withholding at the applicable rate, which is currently 28%. Dividends paid to non-U.S. holders subject to the 30% withholding tax described above under “Dividends,” generally will be exempt from backup withholding.
 
Payments of the proceeds from a disposition or a redemption effected outside the United States by a non-U.S. holder of our common stock made by or through a foreign office of a broker generally will not be subject to information reporting or backup withholding. However, information reporting, but not backup withholding, generally will apply to such a payment if the broker has specified types of connections with the U.S. unless the broker has documentary evidence in its records that the beneficial owner is a non-U.S. holder and specified conditions are met or an exemption is otherwise established.
 
Payment of the proceeds from a disposition by a non-U.S. holder of common stock made by or through the U.S. office of a broker is generally subject to information reporting and backup withholding unless the non-U.S. holder certifies under penalties of perjury that it is not a U.S. person and satisfies other requirements, or otherwise establishes an exemption from information reporting and backup withholding.
 
Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Any amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules may be refunded or credited against the non-U.S. holder’s U.S. federal income tax liability if required information is furnished to the IRS. Non-U.S. holders should consult their own tax advisors regarding application of backup withholding to them and the availability of, and procedure for obtaining an exemption from, backup withholding.


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UNDERWRITING
 
We, the selling stockholders and the underwriters named below have entered into an underwriting agreement with respect to the shares being offered. Subject to the terms and conditions of the underwriting agreement, the underwriters named below have severally agreed to purchase from us and the selling stockholders the number of shares of our common stock set forth opposite their names on the table below at the public offering price, less the underwriting discounts and commissions set forth on the cover page of this prospectus. Thomas Weisel Partners LLC and Cowen and Company, LLC are the representatives of the underwriters.
 
         
    Number of
 
Name
  Shares  
 
Thomas Weisel Partners LLC
       
Cowen and Company, LLC
       
CIBC World Markets Corp. 
       
Needham & Company, LLC
       
Canaccord Adams Inc. 
       
JMP Securities LLC
       
         
Total
    2,790,000  
         
 
Thomas Weisel Partners LLC and Cowen and Company, LLC are acting as joint bookrunning managers for the underwriting syndicate. As joint bookrunning managers, both Thomas Weisel Partners LLC and Cowen and Company, LLC are responsible for recording a list of potential investors that have expressed an interest in purchasing shares of our common stock.
 
The underwriting agreement provides that the obligations of the underwriters to purchase the shares of common stock offered hereby on a firm commitment basis may be terminated in the event of a material adverse change in economic, political or financial conditions. The obligations of the underwriters may also be terminated upon the occurrence of other events specified in the underwriting agreement. The underwriters have agreed, severally and not jointly, to purchase all of the shares sold under the underwriting agreement if any of these shares are purchased, other than those shares covered by the overallotment option described below. If an underwriter defaults, the underwriting agreement provides that the purchase commitments of the non-defaulting underwriters may be increased or the underwriting agreement may be terminated. The underwriting agreement provides that decisions of the underwriters regarding various matters will be made jointly by Thomas Weisel Partners LLC and Cowen and Company, LLC as joint bookrunning managers. The most significant of these matters include procedures regarding the closing of the offering, whether or not to exercise the overallotment option, whether to grant a waiver to us or certain of our shareholders from lock-up agreements, and whether or not to terminate the underwriters’ obligation to purchase the shares from us and the selling stockholders.
 
We and the selling stockholders have agreed to indemnify the underwriters against specified liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, and to contribute to payments the underwriters may be required to make in respect thereof. The underwriters are offering the shares, subject to prior sale, when, as and if issued to and accepted by them, subject to approval of legal matters by their counsel and other conditions specified in the underwriting agreement. The underwriters reserve the right to withdraw, cancel or modify offers to the public and to reject orders in whole or in part.
 
Overallotment Option to Purchase Additional Shares.  We and one of the selling stockholders have granted an option to the underwriters to purchase up to 418,500 additional shares of common stock at the public offering price, less the underwriting discount. This option is exercisable for a period of 30 days. The underwriters may exercise this option solely for the purpose of covering overallotments, if any, made in connection with the sale of common stock offered hereby. To the extent that the underwriters exercise this option, the underwriters will purchase additional shares from us and the selling stockholder in approximately the same proportion as shown in the table above.


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Discounts and Commissions.  The following table shows the public offering price, underwriting discount and proceeds, before expenses to us and the selling stockholders. These amounts are shown assuming both no exercise and full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares.
 
                         
          Total  
          Without
    With
 
    Per Share     Overallotment     Overallotment  
 
Public offering price
  $             $             $          
Underwriting discounts and commissions payable by us
                       
                         
Proceeds, before expenses, to us
                       
                         
Proceeds, before expenses, to selling stockholders
                       
                         
 
We estimate that the total expenses of this offering, excluding underwriting discounts and commissions, will be approximately $500,000 and are payable by us.
 
We have agreed to indemnify the underwriters against certain civil liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, and to contribute to payments the underwriters may be required to make in respect of any such liabilities.
 
The underwriters propose to offer the shares of common stock to the public at the public offering price set forth on the cover of this prospectus. The underwriters may offer the shares of common stock to securities dealers at the public offering price less a concession not in excess of $ per share. The underwriters may allow, and the dealers may reallow, a discount not in excess of $ per share to other dealers. If all of the shares are not sold at the public offering price, the underwriters may change the offering price and other selling terms.
 
Discretionary Accounts.  The underwriters do not intend to confirm sales of the shares to any accounts over which they have discretionary authority.
 
Market Information.  Our common stock trades on The Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “DBTK.”
 
Stabilization. In connection with this offering, the underwriters may engage in stabilizing transactions, overallotment transactions, syndicate covering transactions, penalty bids and purchases to cover positions created by short sales.
 
  •  Stabilizing transactions permit bids to purchase shares of common stock so long as the stabilizing bids do not exceed a specified maximum, and are engaged in for the purpose of preventing or retarding a decline in the market price of the common stock while the offering is in progress.
 
  •  Overallotment transactions involve sales by the underwriters of shares of common stock in excess of the number of shares the underwriters are obligated to purchase. This creates a syndicate short position which may be either a covered short position or a naked short position. In a covered short position, the number of shares over-allotted by the underwriters is not greater than the number of shares that they may purchase in the overallotment option. In a naked short position, the number of shares involved is greater than the number of shares in the overallotment option. The underwriters may close out any short position by exercising their overallotment option and/or purchasing shares in the open market.
 
  •  Syndicate covering transactions involve purchases of common stock in the open market after the distribution has been completed in order to cover syndicate short positions. In determining the source of shares to close out the short position, the underwriters will consider, among other things, the price of shares available for purchase in the open market as compared with the price at which they may purchase shares through exercise of the overallotment option. If the underwriters sell more shares than could be covered by exercise of the overallotment option and, therefore, have a naked short position, the position can be closed out only by buying shares in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if the underwriters are concerned that after pricing there could be downward pressure on the price of the shares in the open market that could adversely affect investors who purchase in the offering.


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  •  Penalty bids permit the representatives to reclaim a selling concession from a syndicate member when the common stock originally sold by that syndicate member is purchased in stabilizing or syndicate covering transactions to cover syndicate short positions.
 
These stabilizing transactions, syndicate covering transactions and penalty bids may have the effect of raising or maintaining the market price of our common stock or preventing or retarding a decline in the market price of our common stock. As a result, the price of our common stock in the open market may be higher than it would otherwise be in the absence of these transactions. Neither we nor the underwriters make any representation or prediction as to the effect that the transactions described above may have on the price of our common stock. These transactions may be effected on The Nasdaq Global Market, in the over-the-counter market or otherwise and, if commenced, may be discontinued at any time.
 
Passive Market Making.  In connection with this offering, underwriters and selling group members may engage in passive market making transactions in our common stock on The Nasdaq Global Market in accordance with Rule 103 of Regulation M under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, during a period before the commencement of offers or sales of common stock and extending through the completion of the distribution. A passive market maker must display its bid at a price not in excess of the highest independent bid of that security. However, if all independent bids are lowered below the passive market maker’s bid, that bid must then be lowered when specified purchase limits are exceeded.
 
Lockup Agreements.  Pursuant to certain “lockup” agreements, we and our executive officers, directors and certain of our other stockholders have agreed, subject to certain exceptions, not to offer, sell, contract to sell, announce any intention to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of, enter into any swap or other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, the economic consequence of ownership of, directly or indirectly, or file with the SEC a registration statement under the Securities Act relating to, any common stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for any common stock without the prior written consent of Thomas Weisel Partners LLC and Cowen and Company, LLC, for a period of 90 days after the date of the pricing of the offering. The 90-day restricted period will be automatically extended if (i) during the last 17 days of the 90-day restricted period we issue an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to us occurs or (ii) prior to the expiration the 90-day restricted period, we announce that we will release earnings results or become aware that material news or a material event will occur during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the 90-day restricted period, in either of which case the restrictions described above will continue to apply until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the material news or material event. Thomas Weisel Partners LLC and Cowen and Company, LLC may, in their sole discretion, at any time without prior notice, release all or any portion of the shares from the restrictions in any such agreements.
 
There are no agreements between Thomas Weisel Partners LLC, Cowen and Company, LLC and any of our shareholders, optionholders or affiliates releasing them from these lockup agreements prior to the expiration of the 90-day lockup period. In considering any request to release shares subject to a lockup agreement, Thomas Weisel Partners LLC and Cowen and Company, LLC will consider the facts and circumstances relating to a request at the time of the request, which may include, among other factors, the shareholder’s reason for requesting the release, the number of shares for which the release is being requested and market conditions at that time.
 
This lockup provision generally applies to common stock and to securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for or repayable with common stock. It also applies to common stock owned now or acquired later by the person executing the agreement or for which the person executing the agreement later acquires the power of disposition. The exceptions permit us, among other things and subject to restrictions, to: (a) issue common stock or options pursuant to employee benefit plans, (b) issue common stock upon exercise of outstanding options or warrants, or (c) file registration statements on Form S-8. The exceptions permit parties to the “lockup” agreements, among other things and subject to restrictions, to: (a) participate in transfers or exchanges involving common stock or securities convertible into common stock, (b) make certain gifts and (c) effect sales of up to 119,000 shares, in the aggregate, pursuant to pre-existing 10b5-1 plans. In addition, the lockup provision will not restrict broker-dealers from engaging in market making and similar activities conducted in the ordinary course of their business.


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Electronic Offer, Sale and Distribution of Shares.  A prospectus in electronic format may be made available on the websites maintained by one or more of the underwriters or selling group members, if any, participating in this offering and one or more of the underwriters participating in this offering may distribute prospectuses electronically. The representatives may agree to allocate a number of shares to underwriters and selling group members for sale to their online brokerage account holders. Internet distributions will be allocated by the underwriters and selling group members that will make internet distributions on the same basis as other allocations. Other than the prospectus in electronic format, the information on these websites is not part of this prospectus or the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, has not been approved or endorsed by us or any underwriter in its capacity as underwriter, and should not be relied upon by investors.
 
Other Relationships.  Certain of the underwriters and their affiliates may in the future provide, various investment banking, commercial banking and other financial services for us and our affiliates in the ordinary course of business for which they may in the future receive customary fees.


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LEGAL MATTERS
 
The legal validity of the shares of common stock offered by this prospectus will be passed upon for Double-Take Software and the selling stockholders by Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., Baltimore, Maryland. Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. has in the past provided, and may continue to provide, legal services to ABS Capital Partners and its affiliates. Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. owns a limited partnership interest of less than 1% in ABS Capital Partners IV, L.P., which is a principal stockholder of Double-Take Software. Selected legal matters will be passed upon for the underwriters by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation, New York, New York.
 
EXPERTS
 
The financial statements of Double-Take Software, Inc. at December 31, 2006 and 2005 and for each of the years in the three year period ended December 31, 2006, and the consolidated financial statement schedules incorporated by reference from our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, have been so included in reliance on the report of Eisner LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, given on the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting.
 
WHERE YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
 
We file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. We have also filed a registration statement on Form S-1 under the Securities Act with respect to the offering of common stock. This prospectus, which forms a part of the registration statement, does not contain all of the information set forth in the registration statement. For further information with respect to us and the shares of our common stock, reference is made to the registration statement. Statements contained in this prospectus as to the contents of any contract or other document are not necessarily complete. You may read and copy the registration statement, such reports and other information at the Public Reference Room of the SEC, 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549, at prescribed rates. You may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at (800) SEC-0330.
 
The SEC also maintains an internet Web site that contains reports, proxy statements and other information about issuers, like us, who file electronically with the SEC. The address of that site is www.sec.gov.
 
INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
 
The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” information in this prospectus that we have filed with it. This means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to another document already on file with the SEC. The information incorporated by reference is an important part of this prospectus, except for any information that is superseded by information that is included directly in this prospectus.
 
We incorporate by reference into this prospectus the following documents:
 
  •  our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, filed with the SEC on March 30, 2007, which incorporates by reference certain sections from our proxy statement filed with the SEC on April 9, 2007, which we also incorporate by reference into this prospectus;
 
  •  our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2007, filed with the SEC on May 15, 2007; and
 
  •  our Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on July 19, 2007, as amended by our Current Report on Form 8-K/A, filed with the SEC on July 23, 2007.


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We will provide to each person, including any beneficial owner, to whom a prospectus is delivered, a copy of the reports and documents that have been incorporated by reference in this prospectus, at no cost. Any such request may be made by writing or telephoning us at the following address or phone number:
 
Double-Take Software, Inc.
257 Turnpike Road
Suite 210
Southborough, MA 01772
Attention: Corporate Secretary
(877) 335-5674
 
These documents can also be requested through, and are available in, the Investor Relations section of our website, which is located at www.doubletake.com, or as described under “Where You Can Find Additional Information” above. The information and other content contained on or linked from our internet website are not part of this prospectus.


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2,790,000 Shares
 
(DOUBLE-TAKE LOGO)
 
Common Stock
 
 
 
PROSPECTUS
 
 
Thomas Weisel Partners LLC
Cowen and Company
 
Joint Bookrunning Managers
 
 
CIBC World Markets
Needham & Company, LLC
Canaccord Adams
JMP Securities
 
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PART II
 
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
 
Item 13.   Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution
 
The following table sets forth the various fees and expenses, other than the underwriting discounts and commissions, payable by Double-Take Software, Inc. (the “Registrant”) in connection with the sale of the common stock being registered hereby. All amounts shown are estimates except for the SEC registration fee.
 
         
    Amount  
 
SEC registration fee
  $ 2,464  
NASD filing fee
    8,526  
Blue sky qualification fees and expenses
    15,000  
Accounting fees and expenses
    150,000  
Legal fees and expenses
    150,000  
Printing and engraving expenses
    100,000  
Transfer agent and registrar fees
    2,500  
Miscellaneous expenses
    71,510  
         
Total
  $ 500,000  
 
Item 14.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers
 
Delaware General Corporation Law.  Section 145(a) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “Delaware General Corporation Law”) provides that a corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation) by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the person’s conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that the person’s conduct was unlawful.
 
Section 145(b) of the Delaware General Corporation Law states that a corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which the person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the Delaware Court of Chancery or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, the person is fairly and


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reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses as the Delaware Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.
 
Section 145(c) of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides that to the extent that a present or former director or officer of a corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 145, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, such person shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection therewith.
 
Section 145(d) of the Delaware General Corporation Law states that any indemnification under subsections (a) and (b) of Section 145 (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the present or former director, officer, employee or agent is proper in the circumstances because the person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 145. Such determination shall be made with respect to a person who is a director or officer at the time of such determination (1) by a majority vote of the directors who are not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, even though less than a quorum, (2) by a committee of such directors designated by majority vote of such directors, even though less than a quorum, (3) if there are no such directors, or if such directors so direct, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (4) by the stockholders.
 
Section 145(f) of the Delaware General Corporation Law states that the indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, the other subsections of Section 145 shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office.
 
Section 145(g) of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides that a corporation shall have the power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity or arising out of such person’s status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under the provisions of Section 145.
 
Section 145(j) of the Delaware General Corporation Law states that the indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, Section 145 shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified, continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.
 
Certificate of Incorporation.  The Registrant’s certificate of incorporation provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Registrant’s directors will not be personally liable to the Registrant or its stockholders for monetary damages resulting from a breach of their fiduciary duties as directors. However, nothing contained in such provision will eliminate or limit the liability of directors (1) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the Registrant or its stockholders, (2) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of the law, (3) under section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law or (4) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.
 
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person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be or not opposed to the best interests of the Registrant and had no reason to believe that such person’s conduct was illegal.
 
Insurance.  The Registrant maintains directors and officers liability insurance, which covers directors and officers of the Registrant against certain claims or liabilities arising out of the performance of their duties.
 
Indemnification Agreements.  The Registrant has entered into agreements to indemnify its directors and executive officers, in addition to the indemnification provided for in the Registrant’s certificate of incorporation and bylaws. These agreements, among other things, provide for indemnification of the Registrant’s directors and executive officers for some expenses, including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by any such person in any action or proceeding, including any action by the Registrant or in the Registrant’s right, arising out of such person’s services as a director or executive officer of the Registrant, any subsidiary of the Registrant or any other company or enterprise to which the person provided services at our request.
 
Underwriting Agreement.  The Registrant’s underwriting agreement with the underwriters will provide for the indemnification of the directors and officers of the Registrant and certain controlling persons against specified liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act.
 
Item 15.   Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
 
The information presented below describes sales and issuances of securities by the Registrant since January 1, 2003. The information presented below regarding the aggregate consideration received by the Registrant is provided before deduction of offering and other related expenses. Unless otherwise indicated below, the consideration for all such sales and issuances, other than issuances of stock options, was cash.
 
(1) In June 2004, the Registrant issued 8% Subordinated Convertible Promissory Notes to accredited investors in an aggregate amount of $2,000,000 (the “Promissory Notes”).
 
(2) In October 2004, the Registrant issued 5,102,041 shares of the Registrant’s Series C Convertible Preferred Stock, at a purchase price of $0.98 per share, or $5,000,000 in the aggregate, to four accredited investors. In connection with that issuance, the Registrant also issued to the same four accredited investors an aggregate of 2,615,357 share of the Registrant’s Series C Convertible Preferred Stock upon the conversion of the principal amount and all accrued interest under the Promissory Notes.
 
(3) In August 2005, the Registrant issued 54,696 shares of the Registrant’s Series C Convertible Preferred Stock to six of the Registrant’s executive officers pursuant to the Registrant’s annual bonus plan for executive officers.
 
(4) In February 2006, the Registrant issued 67,998 shares of the Registrant’s Series C Convertible Preferred Stock to five of the Registrant’s executive officers pursuant to the Registrant’s annual bonus plan for executive officers.
 
(5) In 2004, the Registrant issued 449 shares (after giving effect to the 1-for-4.9 reverse split that was implemented by the Registrant immediately before completion of its initial public offering) of the Registrant’s common stock upon the exercise of employee benefit options to one of the Registrant’s employees at an exercise price of $4.56 per share (after giving effect to the 1-for-4.9 reverse split that was implemented by the Registrant immediately before completion of its initial public offering), for aggregate consideration of $2,048. In 2005, the Registrant issued an aggregate of 303 shares (after giving effect to the 1-for-4.9 reverse split) of the Registrant’s common stock upon the exercise of employee benefit options to two of the Registrant’s employees at an exercise price of $4.56 per share, (after giving effect to the 1-for-4.9 reverse split) for aggregate consideration of $1,384. In 2006, the Registrant issued an aggregate of 1,686 shares (after giving effect to the 1-for-4.9 reverse split) of the Registrant’s common stock upon the exercise of employee benefit options to six of the Registrant’s employees at a weighted


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average exercise price of $4.56 per share, (after giving effect to the 1-for-4.9 reverse split) for aggregate consideration of $8,276.
 
(6) Since January 1, 2003, the Registrant has issued to directors, officers and employees options to purchase approximately 663,792 shares (after giving effect to the 1-for-4.9 reverse split) of the Registrant’s common stock under the Registrant’s 2003 Employees Stock Option Plan, the Registrant’s Non-Executive Director Stock Option Plan and the Registrant’s 2006 Omnibus Incentive Plan at exercise prices from $4.56 to $34.59 per share (after giving effect to the 1-for-4.9 reverse split).
 
(7) On December 15, 2006, the Registrant issued 67,996 shares of our common stock upon the conversion of outstanding warrants to purchase common stock (“December Warrants”), which the Registrant originally issued on June 24, 2004. The December Warrants were exercisable for up to 81,632 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $1.8375 per share of common stock, but were converted into 67,996 shares of common stock pursuant to a “cashless” exercise provision. The Registrant received no proceeds in connection with the conversion of the December Warrants.
 
(8) On January 18, 2007, the Registrant issued 26,272 shares of our common stock upon the conversion of outstanding warrants to purchase common stock (“January Warrants”), which the Registrant originally issued on April 1, 2002. The January Warrants were exercisable for up to 30,612 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $1.8375 per share of common stock, but were converted into 26,272 shares of common stock pursuant to a “cashless” exercise provision. The Registrant received no proceeds in connection with the conversion of the January Warrants.
 
(9) On February 6, 2007, the Registrant issued 4,394 shares of our common stock upon the conversion of outstanding warrants to purchase common stock (“February Warrants”), which the Registrant originally issued on April 1, 2002. The February Warrants were exercisable for up to 5,102 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $1.8375 per share of common stock, but were converted into 4,394 shares of common stock pursuant to a “cashless” exercise provision. The Registrant received no proceeds in connection with the conversion of the February Warrants.
 
(10) On June 1, 2007, the Registrant issued 37,252 shares of our common stock upon the conversion of outstanding warrants to purchase common stock (“May Warrants”), which the Registrant originally issued on October 16, 2003. The May Warrants were exercisable for up to 45,917 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $2.94 per share of common stock, but were converted into 37,252 shares of common stock pursuant to a “cashless” exercise provision. We received no proceeds in connection with the conversion of the May Warrants.
 
*  *  *  *
 
The issuances of securities in the transactions described in paragraphs 1 and 2 above were effected without registration under the Securities Act in reliance on Section 4(2) thereof or Rule 506 of Regulation D thereunder in that such sales were to purchasers who represented that they were accredited investors as defined under the Securities Act. The issuances of securities in the transactions described in paragraphs 3, 4, 5 and 6 above were effected without registration under the Securities Act in reliance on Section 4(2) thereof or Rule 701 thereunder as transactions pursuant to compensatory benefit plans and contracts relating to compensation. The issuances of securities in the transactions described in paragraphs 7, 8, 9 and 10 above were effected without registration under the Securities Act in reliance on Section 3(a)(9) thereof because no commission or other remuneration was paid for soliciting the conversion of these warrants. None of the foregoing transactions was effected using any form of general advertising or general solicitation as such terms are used in Regulation D under the Securities Act. The recipients of securities in each such transaction represented their intention to acquire the securities for investment only and not with a view to or for sale in connection with any distribution thereof and appropriate legends were affixed to the share certificates or other instruments issued in such transactions. No underwriters were involved in the foregoing sales of securities. Appropriate legends were affixed to the stock certificates issued in such transactions.


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Item 16.   Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
 
(a)  Exhibits
 
The following exhibits are filed herewith or incorporated by reference as indicated below:
 
         
  1 .01**   Form of Underwriting Agreement.
  2 .01   Share Purchase Agreement dated as of May 23, 2006, by and among Double-Take Software, Inc. (the “Company”), Sunbelt International S.A.R.L. and Mr. Joe Murciano.
  3 .01   Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.01 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 20, 2006).
  3 .02   Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company.
  4 .01   Form of certificate representing the Common Stock, par value $.001 per share, of the Company.
  5 .01**   Opinion of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. regarding the validity of the Common Stock.
  10 .01   1996 Employees Stock Option Plan.
  10 .02   Form of Incentive Stock Award pursuant to the 1996 Employees Stock Option Plan.
  10 .03   Non-Executive Director Stock Option Plan.
  10 .04   Form of Non-Qualified Incentive Stock Option Award pursuant to the Non-Executive Director Stock Option Plan.
  10 .05   2003 Employees Stock Option Plan.
  10 .06   Form of Incentive Stock Award pursuant to the 2003 Employees Stock Option Plan.
  10 .07   Double-Take Software 2006 Omnibus Incentive Plan.
  10 .08A   Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement pursuant to the Double-Take Software 2006 Omnibus Incentive Plan.
  10 .08B   Form of Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement pursuant to the Double-Take Software 2006 Omnibus Incentive Plan.
  10 .08C   Form of Director Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement pursuant to the Double-Take Software 2006 Omnibus Incentive Plan.
  10 .09   Form of Double-Take Software, Inc. Indemnification Agreement.
  10 .10   NSI Executive Compensation Plan 2006.
  10 .11   Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement dated as of October 6, 2004, among the Company and the Holders Named Therein (the “Registration Rights Agreement”).
  10 .13   Lease Agreement, dated June 12, 2000, between E-L Allison Pointe II, LLP and the Company.
  10 .14   First Amendment to the Lease Agreement, dated June 15, 2000, by and between E-L Allison Pointe II, LLP and the Company.
  10 .15   Loan and Security Agreement dated as of October 16, 2003, among the Company and Silicon Valley Bank.
  10 .16   Loan Modification Agreement, dated as of April 26, 2004, by and between Silicon Valley Bank and the Company.
  10 .17   Third Loan Modification Agreement by and between Silicon Valley Bank and the Company.
  10 .18   Fifth Loan Modification Agreement by and between Silicon Valley Bank and the Company.
  10 .19   Seventh Loan Modification Agreement by and between Silicon Valley Bank and the Company.
  10 .20   Eighth Loan Modification Agreement between Silicon Valley Bank and the Company.
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  10 .21A   Tenth Loan Modification Agreement by and between Silicon Valley Bank and the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2007 (File No.: 001-33184)).
  10 .22   Employment Letter, dated August 7, 2006, between Double-Take Software, Inc. and Dean Goodermote.
  10 .23   Employment Letter, dated October 31, 2006, between Double-Take Software, Inc. and S. Craig Huke.
  10 .24   Employment Letter, dated October 31, 2006, between Double-Take Software, Inc. and Daniel M. Jones.
  10 .25+   Products License and Distribution Agreement, dated as of November 16, 2001, by and between the Company and Dell Products L.P. by and on behalf of itself and Dell Computer Corporation.
  10 .26   Amendment 3 to Products License and Distribution Agreement, dated as of December 2, 2003, between the Company and Dell Computer Corporation.
  10 .27+   Amendment 4 to Products License and Distribution Agreement, effective as of July 25, 2003, between the Company and Dell Computer Corporation.
  10 .28+   Amendment 5 to Products License and Distribution Agreement, dated as of December 2, 2003, between the Company and Dell Computer Corporation.
  10 .29   Amendment 6 to Products License and Distribution Agreement, effective as of February 26, 2004, between the Company and Dell Computer Corporation.
  10 .30   Amendment 7 to Products License and Distribution Agreement, effective as of February 18, 2005, between the Company and Dell Computer Corporation.
  10 .31+   Amendment to Products License and Distribution Agreement, effective as of January 31, 2006, between the Company and Dell Computer Corporation.
  10 .31A   Amendment to Products License and Distribution Agreement, effective as of June 13, 2007, between the Company and Dell Computer Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.31A of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K/A, filed on July 23, 2007).
  10 .32   Restated Xcelerate! Distributor Agreement, dated as of August 28, 2006, between Double-Take Software, Inc. and Sunbelt International.
  10 .33   Xcelerate! Partner Agreement, dated August 2, 2001, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
  10 .34   Addendum 1 to Xcelerate Partner Agreement, dated August 2, 2001, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
  10 .35   Addendum 3 to Xcelerate Partner Agreement, dated November 27, 2001, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
  10 .36   Addendum 4 to Xcelerate Partner Agreement, dated May 31, 2002, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
  10 .37   Addendum 4 to Xcelerate Partner Agreement, dated August 27, 2002, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
  10 .38   Amendment 5 to Xcelerate Partner Agreement, dated February 13, 2004, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
  10 .39   Amendment 6 to Xcelerate Partner Agreement, dated February 14, 2004, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
  10 .40   Amendment 7 to Xcelerate Partner Agreement, dated March 22, 2005, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
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  10 .42   Amendment 9 to Xcelerate Partner Agreement, dated February 15, 2006, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
  10 .46†   Amended and Restated Employment/Severance Agreement, dated October 31, 2006, between Double-Take Software, Inc. and Robert L. Beeler.
  10 .47†   Amended and Restated Employment/Severance Agreement, dated October 31, 2006, between Double-Take Software, Inc. and David J. Demlow.
  10 .48†   Form of Non-Disclosure Confidentiality Agreement.
  21 .01   Subsidiaries of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 21.01 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 (File No.: 001-33184)).
  23 .01**   Consent of Eisner LLP.
  23 .03**   Consent of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. (included in Exhibit 5.01).
  24 .01*   Power of Attorney (included on signature page).
 
 
Unless otherwise noted, all exhibits are incorporated by reference to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-136499).
 
* Previously filed.
 
** Filed herewith.
 
+ Confidential treatment has been granted for certain portions of these agreements, and the confidential portions were filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
 
Represents a management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
 
  (b)   Financial Statement Schedules
 
Not applicable.
 
Item 17.   Undertakings
 
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that:
 
(1) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.
 
(2) For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
 
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant has duly caused this Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Southborough, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on August 3, 2007.
 
DOUBLE-TAKE SOFTWARE, INC.
 
  By: 
/s/  Dean Goodermote
Dean Goodermote
President, Chief Executive Officer and
Chairman of the Board of Directors
(Duly Authorized Officer)
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 has been signed as of August 3, 2007 by the following persons in the capacities indicated.
 
     
Name
 
Title
 
     
/s/  Dean Goodermote

Dean Goodermote
  President, Chief Executive Officer,
and Chairman of the Board of Directors
(Principal Executive Officer)
     
/s/  S. Craig Huke

S. Craig Huke
  Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer and
Principal Accounting Officer)
     
*

Paul Birch
  Director
     
*

Ashoke (Bobby) Goswami
  Director
     
*

John B. Landry
  Director
     
*

Laura L. Witt
  Director
     
*

John W. Young
  Director
     
*/s/  Dean Goodermote
Dean Goodermote
Attorney-in-fact
   


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EXHIBIT INDEX
 
         
  1 .01**   Form of Underwriting Agreement.
  2 .01   Share Purchase Agreement dated as of May 23, 2006, by and among Double-Take Software, Inc. (the “Company”), Sunbelt International S.A.R.L. and Mr. Joe Murciano.
  3 .01   Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.01 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 20, 2006).
  3 .02   Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company.
  4 .01   Form of certificate representing the Common Stock, par value $.001 per share, of the Company.
  5 .01**   Opinion of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. regarding the validity of the Common Stock.
  10 .01   1996 Employees Stock Option Plan.
  10 .02   Form of Incentive Stock Award pursuant to the 1996 Employees Stock Option Plan.
  10 .03   Non-Executive Director Stock Option Plan.
  10 .04   Form of Non-Qualified Incentive Stock Option Award pursuant to the Non-Executive Director Stock Option Plan.
  10 .05   2003 Employees Stock Option Plan.
  10 .06   Form of Incentive Stock Award pursuant to the 2003 Employees Stock Option Plan.
  10 .07   Double-Take Software 2006 Omnibus Incentive Plan.
  10 .08A   Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement pursuant to the Double-Take Software 2006 Omnibus Incentive Plan.
  10 .08B   Form of Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement pursuant to the Double-Take Software 2006 Omnibus Incentive Plan.
  10 .08C   Form of Director Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement pursuant to the Double-Take Software 2006 Omnibus Incentive Plan.
  10 .09   Form of Double-Take Software, Inc. Indemnification Agreement.
  10 .10   NSI Executive Compensation Plan 2006.
  10 .11   Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement dated as of October 6, 2004, among the Company and the Holders Named Therein (the “Registration Rights Agreement”).
  10 .13   Lease Agreement, dated June 12, 2000, between E-L Allison Pointe II, LLP and the Company.
  10 .14   First Amendment to the Lease Agreement, dated June 15, 2000, by and between E-L Allison Pointe II, LLP and the Company.
  10 .15   Loan and Security Agreement dated as of October 16, 2003, among the Company and Silicon Valley Bank.
  10 .16   Loan Modification Agreement, dated as of April 26, 2004, by and between Silicon Valley Bank and the Company.
  10 .17   Third Loan Modification Agreement by and between Silicon Valley Bank and the Company.
  10 .18   Fifth Loan Modification Agreement by and between Silicon Valley Bank and the Company.
  10 .19   Seventh Loan Modification Agreement by and between Silicon Valley Bank and the Company.
  10 .20   Eighth Loan Modification Agreement between Silicon Valley Bank and the Company.
  10 .21   Ninth Loan Modification Agreement between Silicon Valley Bank and the Company.
  10 .21A   Tenth Loan Modification Agreement by and between Silicon Valley Bank and the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2007 (File No.: 001-33184)).
  10 .22   Employment Letter, dated August 7, 2006, between Double-Take Software, Inc. and Dean Goodermote.


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  10 .23   Employment Letter, dated October 31, 2006, between Double-Take Software, Inc. and S. Craig Huke.
  10 .24   Employment Letter, dated October 31, 2006, between Double-Take Software, Inc. and Daniel M. Jones.
  10 .25+   Products License and Distribution Agreement, dated as of November 16, 2001, by and between the Company and Dell Products L.P. by and on behalf of itself and Dell Computer Corporation.
  10 .26   Amendment 3 to Products License and Distribution Agreement, dated as of December 2, 2003, between the Company and Dell Computer Corporation.
  10 .27+   Amendment 4 to Products License and Distribution Agreement, effective as of July 25, 2003, between the Company and Dell Computer Corporation.
  10 .28+   Amendment 5 to Products License and Distribution Agreement, dated as of December 2, 2003, between the Company and Dell Computer Corporation.
  10 .29   Amendment 6 to Products License and Distribution Agreement, effective as of February 26, 2004, between the Company and Dell Computer Corporation.
  10 .30   Amendment 7 to Products License and Distribution Agreement, effective as of February 18, 2005, between the Company and Dell Computer Corporation.
  10 .31+   Amendment to Products License and Distribution Agreement, effective as of January 31, 2006, between the Company and Dell Computer Corporation.
  10 .31A   Amendment to Products License and Distribution Agreement, effective as of June 13, 2007, between the Company and Dell Computer Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.31A of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K/A, filed on July 23, 2007).
  10 .32   Restated Xcelerate! Distributor Agreement, dated as of August 28, 2006, between Double-Take Software, Inc. and Sunbelt International.
  10 .33   Xcelerate! Partner Agreement, dated August 2, 2001, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
  10 .34   Addendum 1 to Xcelerate Partner Agreement, dated August 2, 2001, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
  10 .35   Addendum 3 to Xcelerate Partner Agreement, dated November 27, 2001, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
  10 .36   Addendum 4 to Xcelerate Partner Agreement, dated May 31, 2002, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
  10 .37   Addendum 4 to Xcelerate Partner Agreement, dated August 27, 2002, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
  10 .38   Amendment 5 to Xcelerate Partner Agreement, dated February 13, 2004, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
  10 .39   Amendment 6 to Xcelerate Partner Agreement, dated February 14, 2004, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
  10 .40   Amendment 7 to Xcelerate Partner Agreement, dated March 22, 2005, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
  10 .41   Amendment 8 to Xcelerate Partner Agreement, dated April 1, 2005, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
  10 .42   Amendment 9 to Xcelerate Partner Agreement, dated February 15, 2006, between the Company and Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc.
  10 .46†   Amended and Restated Employment/Severance Agreement, dated October 31, 2006, between Double-Take Software, Inc. and Robert L. Beeler.
  10 .47†   Amended and Restated Employment/Severance Agreement, dated October 31, 2006, between Double-Take Software, Inc. and David J. Demlow.
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  21 .01   Subsidiaries of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 21.01 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 (File No.: 001-33184)).
  23 .01**   Consent of Eisner LLP.
  23 .03**   Consent of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. (included in Exhibit 5.01).
  24 .01*   Power of Attorney (included on signature page).
 
 
Unless otherwise noted, all exhibits are incorporated by reference to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-136499).
 
* Previously filed.
 
** Filed herewith.
 
+ Confidential treatment has been granted for certain portions of these agreements, and the confidential portions were filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
 
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EX-1.01 2 x37324a1exv1w01.htm EXHIBIT 1.01 exv1w01
 

Exhibit 1.01
[       ]
DOUBLE-TAKE SOFTWARE, INC.
Common Stock
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
______, 2007
Thomas Weisel Partners LLC
Cowen and Company, LLC
As representatives of the
several Underwriters
c/o Thomas Weisel Partners LLC
Lever House
390 Park Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, New York 10022
c/o Cowen and Company, LLC
1221 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10020
Dear Sirs:
1. Introductory. Double-Take Software, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and the selling shareholders named in Schedule B hereto (the “Selling Shareholders”), propose to sell, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and acting severally and not jointly, to the several underwriters named in Schedule A hereto (the “Underwriters,” or, each, an “Underwriter”), an aggregate of [       ] shares of the common stock, $0.001 par value per share of the Company (the “Common Stock”). The aggregate of [       ] shares of the Common Stock so proposed to be sold is hereinafter referred to as the “Firm Stock.” The Selling Shareholders also propose to sell to the Underwriters, upon the terms and conditions set forth in Section 3 hereof, up to an additional [       ] shares of the Common Stock (the “Optional Stock”). The Firm Stock and the Optional Stock are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Stock.” Thomas Weisel Partners LLC (“Thomas Weisel”) and Cowen and Company, LLC (“Cowen”) are acting as Representatives of the several underwriters and in such capacity are hereinafter referred to as the “Representatives.”
2. Representations and Warranties of The Company And The Selling Shareholders
          (I) Representations and Warranties of The Company. The Company represents and warrants to the several Underwriters, as of the date hereof and as of each Closing Date, and agrees with the several Underwriters, that:
(a) A registration statement of the Company on Form S-1 (File No. 333-144746) (including all pre-effective amendments thereto and any documents filed under the Exchange Act (as defined herein) and incorporated by reference in any such document, the “Initial Registration Statement”) in respect of the Stock has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission


 

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(the “Commission”). The Initial Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, each in the form heretofore delivered to you for each of the Underwriters, and, excluding exhibits thereto, have been declared effective by the Commission in such form and meets the requirements in all material respects of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (the “Rules and Regulations”). Other than a registration statement, if any, increasing the size of the offering filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations (a “Rule 462(b) Registration Statement”) which became effective upon filing, and the Prospectus (as defined below) contemplated hereby to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act in accordance with Section 4(I)(a) hereof, no other document with respect to the Initial Registration Statement or the offer and sale of the Stock has heretofore been filed with the Commission or distributed. 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 or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act has been initiated or, to Company’s knowledge, threatened by the Commission (any preliminary prospectus included in the Initial Registration Statement, including any documents filed under the Exchange Act and incorporated by reference in any such document, or filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(a) of the Rules and Regulations is hereinafter called a “Preliminary Prospectus”). The various parts of the Initial Registration Statement and the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, in each case including (i) any documents filed under the Exchange Act and incorporated by reference in any such document, (ii) all exhibits thereto, and (iii) the information contained in the Prospectus (as defined below) filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act and deemed by virtue of Rule 430A under the Securities Act to be part of the Initial Registration Statement at the time it became effective are hereinafter collectively called the “Registration Statements.” The final prospectus, in the form filed pursuant to and within the time limits described in Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act, including any documents filed under the Exchange Act and incorporated by reference in any such document, is hereinafter called the “Prospectus.” Any reference herein to the Initial Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statements or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to General Instruction VII of Form S-1.
(b) As of the Applicable Time (as defined below) and as of the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, neither (i) the General Use Free Writing Prospectus(es) (as defined below) issued at or prior to the Applicable Time, and the Pricing Prospectus (as defined below) and the information included on Schedule C-2 hereto, all considered together (collectively, the “General Disclosure Package”), nor (ii) any individual Limited Use Free Writing Prospectus (as defined below), when considered together with the General Disclosure Package, included or will include any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or will omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the Company makes no representations or warranties as to information contained in or omitted from the General Disclosure Package or any Limited Use Free Writing Prospectus, in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company through Thomas Weisel and Cowen by or on behalf of any Underwriter expressly for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Underwriter’s Information (as defined in Section 17). As used in this paragraph (b) and elsewhere in this Agreement:
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     “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act relating to the Stock in the form filed or required to be filed with the Commission or, if not required to be filed, in the form retained in the Company’s records pursuant to Rule 433(g) under the Securities Act.
     “General Use Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is identified on Schedule C-1 to this Agreement.
     “Limited Use Free Writing Prospectuses” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is not a General Use Free Writing Prospectus.
     “Pricing Prospectus” means the Preliminary Prospectus relating the Stock that is included in the Registration Statement immediately prior to the Applicable Time.
(c) No order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus relating to the proposed offering of the Stock has been issued by the Commission, and no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act has been instituted or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened by the Commission; and each Preliminary Prospectus, at the time of filing thereof, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations, and the Pricing Prospectus, at the time of filing thereof, 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 the Company makes no representations or warranties as to information contained in or omitted from any Preliminary Prospectus, in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company through Thomas Weisel and Cowen by or on behalf of any Underwriter expressly for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Underwriter’s Information (as defined in Section 17).
(d) At the respective times the Registration Statements and any amendments thereto became or become effective and at each Closing Date, each Registration Statement and any amendments thereto conformed and will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and did not and will 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; and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, at time the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto was issued and at each Closing Date, conformed and will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and did not and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the foregoing representations and warranties in this paragraph (d) shall not apply to information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statements or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company through Thomas Weisel and Cowen by or on behalf of any Underwriter expressly for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Underwriter’s Information (as defined in Section 17).
(e) Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as of its issue date and at all subsequent times through the completion of the public offer and sale of the Stock or until any earlier date that the Company notified or notifies the Representatives as described in Section 4(I)(f) did not, does not and will not include any information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or included or


 

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would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances prevailing at the subsequent time, not misleading. The foregoing sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company through the Representatives by or on behalf of any Underwriter specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Underwriter’s Information (as defined in Section 17).
(f) The Company has not, directly or indirectly, distributed and will not distribute any offering material in connection with the offering and sale of the Stock other than any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and other materials, if any, permitted under the Securities Act and consistent with Section 4(I)(b) below. The Company will file with the Commission all Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses in the time and manner required under Rules 163(b) and 433(d) under the Securities Act.
(g) (i) At the earliest time after the filing of the Registration Statement that the Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) of the Securities Act) and (ii) as of the date hereof (with such date being used as the determination date for purposes of this clause (g)(ii)), the Company was not and is not an “ineligible issuer” as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act (without taking into account of any determination by the Commission pursuant to Rule 405 that it is not necessary that the Company be considered an “ineligible issuer,”) including without limitation, for purposes of Rules 164 and 433 under the Securities Act with respect to the offering of the Stock as contemplated by the Registration Statement.
(h) The Company and each of its subsidiaries (as defined in Section 15) have been duly incorporated and are validly existing as corporations or other legal entities in good standing (or the foreign equivalent thereof) under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of incorporation. The Company and each of its subsidiaries are duly qualified to do business and are in good standing as foreign corporations or other legal entities in each jurisdiction in which their respective ownership or lease of property or the conduct of their respective businesses requires such qualification and have all power and authority (corporate or other) necessary to own or hold their respective properties and to conduct the businesses in which they are engaged, except where the failure to so qualify, be in good standing or have such power or authority would not have, singularly or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, assets, business or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole (a “Material Adverse Effect”). The Company owns or controls, directly or indirectly, only the following corporations, partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability companies, associations or other entities: Double-Take EMEA, f/k/a Double-Take Software S.A.S., existing under the laws of the Republic of France (“Sunbelt”) (100%).
(i) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
(j) The Stock to be issued and sold by the Company to the Underwriters hereunder has been duly authorized and, when issued and delivered against payment therefor as provided herein, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free of any preemptive or similar rights and will conform to the description thereof contained in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
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shares of capital stock of the Company, including the Stock to be sold by the Selling Shareholders, have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable, have been issued in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws, and conform to the description thereof contained in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. As of the date of such table, there were [20,988,938] shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding and [1,947,954] shares of Common Stock were issuable upon the exercise of all options, warrants and convertible securities outstanding as of such date. Since such date, the Company has not issued any securities other than Common Stock issued pursuant to the exercise of stock options outstanding under the Company’s stock option plans, the issuance of restricted Common Stock pursuant to employee stock purchase plans, the issuance of securities pursuant to reservations and other transactions, in each such case, as described in the General Disclosure Package or Prospectus or the issuance of common stock pursuant to the conversion of convertible securities referred to in the General Disclosure Package or Prospectus. None of the outstanding shares of Common Stock was issued in violation of any preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities of the Company. There are no authorized or outstanding             shares of capital stock, options, warrants, preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other rights to purchase, or equity or debt securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for, any capital stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries other than those described above or accurately described in the General Disclosure Package. The description of the Company’s stock option, stock bonus and other stock plans or similar equity incentive arrangements, and the options or other rights granted thereunder, as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, accurately and fairly present the information required by the Securities Act or Rules and Regulations to be shown with respect to such plans, arrangements, options and rights.
(l) All the outstanding shares of capital stock of each subsidiary of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable and, except to the extent set forth in the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, are owned by the Company directly or indirectly through one or more wholly-owned subsidiaries, free and clear of any claim, lien, encumbrance, security interest, restriction upon voting or transfer or any other claim of any third party.
(m) The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company, the issuance and sale of the shares of Stock to be sold by the Company and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby to be consummated by the Company will not (with or without notice or lapse of time or both) (i) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, constitute a default under, give rise to any right of termination or other right or the cancellation or acceleration of any right or obligation or loss of a benefit under, or give rise to the creation or imposition of any lien, encumbrance, security interest, claim or charge upon any property or assets of the Company or any subsidiary pursuant to, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, except (A) under such indentures, mortgages, deeds of trust, loan agreements or other agreements or instruments that are not material, and (B) for such conflicts, breaches, violations, defaults, rights, losses, creations or impositions that would not, in the aggregate, be material), (ii) violate the provisions of the charter or by-laws (or analogous governing instruments, as applicable) of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or (iii) violate any law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree of any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their properties or assets, except, in the case of clause (iii) for such conflicts, breaches, violations, defaults, rights, liens,


 

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encumbrances, security interests, claims and charges that would not have, singularly or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
(n) Except for (x) the registration of the Stock under the Securities Act and such consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations or qualifications as may be required under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and applicable state securities laws, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (“NASD”) and the Nasdaq Global Market in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Stock by the Underwriters, and (y) such as have been obtained and are in full force and effect under the laws and regulations of jurisdictions, if any, outside the United States in which the Stock is offered, no consent, approval, authorization, license, certificate, permit, notice or order of, or filing, qualification or registration with (each an “Authorization”), any court, tribunal, government, governmental or regulatory authority, self—regulatory organization or body (each, a “Regulatory Body”), foreign or domestic, which has not been made, obtained or taken and is not in full force and effect, is required for the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company, the offer or sale of the Stock or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby to be consummated by the Company; and to the knowledge of the Company, no event has occurred that allows or results in, or after notice or lapse of time or both would allow or result in, revocation, suspension, termination or invalidation of any such Authorization or any other impairment of the rights of the holder or maker of any such Authorization. All corporate approvals (including those of stockholders) necessary for the Company to consummate the transactions contemplated in this Agreement have been obtained and are in effect.
(o) Eisner LLP which has certified certain financial statements and related schedules included in, and incorporated by reference in, the Registration Statements, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus is, to the Company’s knowledge, an independent registered public accounting firm as required by the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations, including Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Rules and Regulations and the Rules and Regulations and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (the “PCAOB”).
(p) The financial statements, together with the related notes, included in the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and in each Registration Statement fairly present the financial position and the results of operations and changes in financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries at the respective dates or for the respective periods therein specified. Such statements and related notes have been prepared in accordance with the generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved except as may be set forth in the related notes included in the General Disclosure Package; provided, however, that those financial statements that are unaudited are subject to year-end adjustment and do not contain all of the footnotes required under GAAP. The financial statements, together with the related notes and schedules, included in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus comply in all material respects with the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations. No other financial statements or supporting schedules or exhibits are required by the Securities Act or the Rules and Regulations to be included in the Registration Statements, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus. The pro forma and pro forma as adjusted financial information and the related notes included in the Registration Statements, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus have been properly compiled and prepared in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and present fairly the information shown therein, and the assumptions used in the preparation thereof are reasonable and the adjustments used therein are appropriate to give effect to the transactions and circumstances referred to therein. The summary and selected financial data included in the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and each Registration Statement


 

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fairly present the information shown therein as at the respective dates and for the respective periods specified.
(q) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the General Disclosure Package, any material loss or material 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 action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the General Disclosure Package; and, since such date, there has not been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any material adverse changes, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the business, assets, management, financial position, prospects, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the General Disclosure Package.
(r) Except as set forth in the General Disclosure Package, there is no legal or governmental proceeding 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 is required to be described in the Registration Statements, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus and which is not described therein, or which, singularly or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, could reasonably be expected to 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.
(s) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries (i) is in violation of its charter or by-laws (or analogous governing instrument, as applicable), (ii) is in default, and no event has occurred which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute a default, in the performance or observance of any term, 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 is bound or to which any of its property or assets is subject or (iii) is in violation in any respect of any law, ordinance, governmental rule, regulation or court order, decree or judgment to which it or its property or assets may be subject except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph (s), for any violations, defaults or events which, singularly or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(t) The Company and each of its subsidiaries possess all permits issued by, and have made all declarations and filings with, each appropriate local, state, federal or foreign Regulatory Body that are necessary or desirable for the ownership of their respective properties or the conduct of their respective businesses as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (collectively, the “Governmental Permits”) except where any failures to possess or make the same, singularly or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and its subsidiaries are in compliance with all such Governmental Permits, and all such Governmental Permits are valid and in full force and effect, except where such non-compliance, invalidity or failure to be in full force and effect would not, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any subsidiary has received notification of any revocation, modification, suspension, termination or invalidation (or proceedings related thereto) of any such Governmental Permit and, to the knowledge of the Company, no event has occurred that allows or results in, or after notice or lapse of time or both would allow or result in, revocation, modification, suspension, termination or invalidation (or proceedings related thereto) of any such Governmental Permit will not be renewed, except where such revocation, modification, suspension, termination, invalidation or lack of renewal would not, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.


 

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(u) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is or, immediately after giving effect to the offering of the Stock and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, will be required to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.
(v) Neither the Company nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any of its officers or directors has taken or will take, and the Company has used reasonable efforts to cause each of its affiliates not to have taken or take, directly or indirectly, any action designed or intended to stabilize or manipulate the price of any security of the Company, or which caused or resulted in, or which would reasonably be expected to cause or result in, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company, in each case to facilitate the sale or resale of the shares of the Stock.
(w) (i) The Company and its subsidiaries own or possess the right to use all patents, trademarks, trademark registrations, service marks, service mark registrations, trade names, copyrights, licenses, inventions, software, databases, know-how, Internet domain names, trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures, and other intellectual property (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) necessary to carry on their respective businesses as currently conducted, and as proposed to be conducted and described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and the Company has no knowledge of any claim to the contrary or any challenge by any other person to the rights of the Company and its subsidiaries with respect to the foregoing. To the Company’s knowledge, the Intellectual Property licenses described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus are valid, binding upon, and enforceable by or against the parties thereto in accordance with its terms. The Company has complied in all material respects with, and is not in breach nor has received any asserted or threatened claim of breach, except for such claims that have been fully resolved or are not material, of any Intellectual Property license, and the Company has no knowledge of any breach or anticipated breach by any other person to any Intellectual Property license. The Company’s business as now conducted does not, and to the Company’s knowledge, as proposed to be conducted will not, infringe or conflict with any Intellectual Property or franchise right of any person. Except as described in the General Disclosure Package, no claim has been made against the Company alleging the infringement by the Company or any of its licensees or other third parties of any Intellectual Property right or franchise right of any person, except for such as would not have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company has taken all reasonable steps to protect, maintain and safeguard its rights in all Intellectual Property, including the execution of appropriate nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements. Each employee of and consultant to the Company and its subsidiaries has entered into a confidentiality and invention assignment agreement in favor of the Company or its applicable subsidiary as a condition of the employment or retention of services of such employee or consultant, except where the failure to enter into such an agreement would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
  (ii)   Except for matters relating to third parties expressly identified and named in the Prospectus: (A) there are no rights of third parties to any Intellectual Property owned by or licensed to the Company or any of its subsidiaries that conflict with the rights of the Company or its subsidiaries related to such Intellectual Property, except for any such rights that, singularly or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect; (B) to the Company’s knowledge, there is no infringement by third parties of any Intellectual Property right owned by or licensed to the Company or its subsidiaries that would have a Material Adverse Effect; (C) other than in connection with assertions or inquiries made by patent office examiners in the ordinary course of the prosecution of the patent applications of the Company or its subsidiaries, there is no pending or threatened


 

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      action, suit, proceeding or other claim by others challenging the rights of the Company or any of its subsidiaries in or to, or the validity or scope of, any Intellectual Property owned by or licensed to the Company or its subsidiaries, except for any such claim that would not have a Material Adverse Effect, and the Company is unaware of any facts that would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; (D) there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or other claim by others that the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any of their respective licensees, infringes or otherwise violates, or would infringe or otherwise violate upon commercialization of its products and product candidates described in the Prospectus, any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary rights of others, and there are no facts that would form a reasonable basis for any such claim by others that the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any of their respective licensees, infringes or otherwise violates, or would infringe or otherwise violate upon commercialization of its products and product candidates described in the Prospectus, any Intellectual Property of others, except, in each case in this clause (D), for any such claims that would not have a Material Adverse Effect; and (E) there is no patent or, to the Company’s knowledge, patent application that contains claims that conflict with any Intellectual Property described in the Prospectus as being owned by or licensed to the Company or any of its subsidiaries or that is necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses as currently or contemplated to be conducted, except for such as would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
  (iii)   The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not result in the loss or impairment of or payment of any additional amounts with respect to, nor require the consent of any other person in respect of, the Company’s right to own, use, or hold for use any of the Intellectual Property as owned, used or held for use in the conduct of the business as currently conducted. With respect to the use of the software in the Company’s business as it is currently conducted, the Company has not experienced any material defects in such software including any material error or omission in the processing of any transactions other than defects which have been corrected, and to the knowledge of the Company, no such software contains any device or feature designed to disrupt, disable, or otherwise impair the functioning of any software or is subject to the terms of any “open source” or other similar license that provides for the source code of the software to be publicly distributed or dedicated to the public. The Company has at all times complied in all material respects with all applicable laws relating to privacy, data protection, and the collection and use of personal information collected, used, or held for use by the Company in the conduct of the Company’s business. To the Company’s knowledge, no claims have been asserted or threatened against the Company alleging a violation of any person’s privacy or personal information or data rights and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not breach or otherwise cause any violation of any law related to privacy, data protection, or the collection and use of personal information collected, used, or held for use by the Company in the conduct of the Company’s business. The Company takes reasonable measures to ensure that such information is protected against unauthorized access, use, modification, or other misuse.
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by them, in each case, which are material to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, and, in each case, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, security interests, claims and defects that could, singularly or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; and all of the leases and subleases material to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, and under which the Company or any of its subsidiaries holds properties described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, are in full force and effect, and neither the Company nor any subsidiary has received any notice of any material claim (i) of any sort that has been asserted by anyone adverse to the rights of the Company or any subsidiary under any of the leases or subleases mentioned above, or (ii) affecting or questioning the rights of the Company or such subsidiary to the continued possession of any leased or subleased premises under any such lease or sublease.
(y) No labor disturbance by the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the Company’s knowledge, is imminent, and the Company is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of any of its or its subsidiaries principal suppliers, manufacturers, customers or contractors that could reasonably be expected, singularly or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company is not aware that any key employee or significant group of employees of the Company or any subsidiary has plans to terminate employment with the Company or any such subsidiary.
(z) To the knowledge of the Company, no “prohibited transaction” as defined under Section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) and not exempt under ERISA Section 408 and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder has occurred with respect to any “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA which the Company or any member of the Company’s controlled group as defined in Code Section 414(b), (c), (m), or (o) (an “ERISA Affiliate”) sponsors or to which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate could have an obligation to contribute (each an “Employee Benefit Plan”). At no time has the Company or any ERISA Affiliate maintained, sponsored, participated in, or contributed to any Employee Benefit Plan subject to Part 3 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA, Title IV of ERISA, or Section 412 of the Code or any “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA. No Employee Benefit Plan provides or promises retiree health, life insurance, or other retiree welfare benefits except as may be required by the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended, or similar state law. Each Employee Benefit Plan is and has been operated in material compliance with its terms and all applicable laws, including but not limited to ERISA and the Code. Each Employee Benefit Plan intended to be qualified under Code Section 401(a) has a favorable determination or opinion letter from the IRS upon which it can rely, and any such determination or opinion letter remains in effect and has not been revoked; to the Company’s knowledge, nothing has occurred since the date of any such determination or opinion letter that is reasonably likely to adversely affect such qualification. The Company does not have any obligations under any collective bargaining agreement with any union and, to the Company’s knowledge, no organization efforts are underway with respect to Company employees.
(aa) The Company and its subsidiaries are in compliance with all foreign, federal, state and local rules, laws and regulations relating to the use, treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous or toxic substances or waste and protection of health and safety or the environment which are applicable to their businesses (“Environmental Laws”), except where the failure to comply would not, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. There has been no storage, generation, transportation, handling, treatment, disposal, discharge, emission, or other release of any kind of toxic or other wastes or other hazardous substances by, due to, or caused by the Company or any of its subsidiaries (or, to the Company’s knowledge, any other entity for whose


 

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acts or omissions the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may otherwise be liable) upon any of the property now or previously owned or leased by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or upon any other property, in violation of any law, statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit or which would, under any law, statute, ordinance, rule (including rule of common law), regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit, give rise to any liability, except for any violation or liability which would not have, singularly or in the aggregate with all such violations and liabilities, a Material Adverse Effect; and there has been no disposal, discharge, emission or other release of any kind onto such property or into the environment surrounding such property of any toxic or other wastes or other hazardous substances with respect to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries has knowledge, except for any such disposal, discharge, emission, or other release of any kind which would not have, singularly or in the aggregate with all such discharges and other releases, a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Company, the associated costs and liabilities, with respect to compliance with all Environmental laws, (including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for clean-up, closure of properties or compliance with Environmental Laws or Governmental Permits issued thereunder, any related constraints on operating activities and any potential liabilities to third parties) to the Company and its subsidiaries, would not, singularly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(bb) The Company and its subsidiaries each (i) have timely filed all necessary federal, state, local and foreign tax returns, and all such returns were true, complete and correct, (ii) have paid all federal, state, local and foreign taxes, assessments, governmental or other charges due and payable for which it is liable, including, without limitation, all sales and use taxes and all taxes which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is obligated to withhold from amounts owing to employees, creditors and third parties, and (iii) do not have any tax deficiency or claims outstanding or assessed or, to its knowledge, proposed against any of them, except those, in each of the cases described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph (bb), that could not reasonably be expected to, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect or that are disclosed in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. The Company and its subsidiaries have not engaged in any transaction which is a corporate tax shelter or which has a reasonable basis to be characterized as such by the Internal Revenue Service or any other taxing authority.
(cc) The Company and each of its subsidiaries carry, or are covered by, insurance in such amounts and covering such risks as is reasonably adequate for the conduct of their respective businesses and the value of their respective properties and as is customary for companies engaged in similar businesses in similar industries.
(dd) The Company and each of its subsidiaries maintains a system of internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that has been designed by the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer, or under their supervision, to provide reasonable assurances that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The Company’s internal control over financial reporting is effective in all material respects. Since the end of the Company’s most recent audited fiscal year, there has been (A) no material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) and (B) no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.


 

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(ee) The minute books of the Company and each of its subsidiaries have been made available to the Underwriters and counsel for the Underwriters, and such books (i) contain a summary that is complete in all material respects of all meetings and actions of the board of directors (including each board committee) and shareholders of the Company (or analogous governing bodies and interest holders, as applicable) and each of its subsidiaries since the time of its respective incorporation or organization through the date of the latest meeting and action and (ii) accurately in all material respects reflect all meetings and actions referred to in such minutes.
(ff) There is no franchise, lease, contract, agreement or document required by the Securities Act or by the Rules and Regulations to be described in the General Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus or to be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statements which is not described or filed therein as required; and all descriptions of any such franchises, leases, contracts, agreements or documents contained in the Registration Statements are accurate and complete descriptions of such documents in all material respects. Other than as described in the General Disclosure Package, no such franchise, lease, contract or agreement has been suspended or terminated for convenience or default by the Company or any of the other parties thereto, and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received notice and the Company does not have knowledge of any such pending or threatened suspension or termination, except for such pending or threatened suspensions or terminations that would not reasonably be expected to, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
(gg) No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company on the one hand, and the directors, officers, stockholders (or analogous interest holders), customers or suppliers of the Company or any of its affiliates on the other hand, which is required to be described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and which is not so described.
(hh) No person or entity has the right to require registration of shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries because of the filing or effectiveness of the Registration Statements or otherwise in connection with the offering and sale of the Stock as contemplated by this Agreement, except for persons and entities (i) who have been given proper notice and who are Selling Shareholders, (ii) who have expressly waived such right in writing or (iii) who have been given timely and proper written notice and have failed to exercise such right within the time or times required under the terms and conditions of such right. Except as described in the General Disclosure Package, there are no persons with registration rights or similar rights to have any securities registered by the Company or any of its subsidiaries under the Securities Act.
(ii) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries own any “margin securities” as that term is defined in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve Board”), and none of the proceeds of the sale of the Stock will be used, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any margin security, for the purpose of reducing or retiring any indebtedness which was originally incurred to purchase or carry any margin security or for any other purpose which might cause any of the Stock to be considered a “purpose credit” within the meanings of Regulation T, U or X of the Federal Reserve Board.
(jj) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to any contract, agreement or understanding with any person that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or the Underwriters for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or like payment in connection with the offering and sale of the Stock or any transaction contemplated by this Agreement.
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Prospectus has been made or reaffirmed without a reasonable basis or has been disclosed other than in good faith.
(ll) The Common Stock is listed on the Nasdaq Global Market (“Nasdaq GM”) of The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) under the symbol “DBTK.” The Company has taken no action designed to, or likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act or the listing of the Common Stock on the Nasdaq GM, nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission or Nasdaq is contemplating terminating such registration or listing.
(mm) The Company has filed on a timely basis with the Commission all reports, registration statements and other documents required by the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act or the Exchange Act. All of such reports, registration statements and other documents, when they were filed with the Commission, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as appropriate.
(nn) The Company is in compliance with all provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder or implementing the provisions thereof (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”) that are in effect and that the Company is required to comply with and is actively taking steps to ensure that it will be in compliance with other provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act when such provisions will become applicable to the Company.
(oo) The Company is in compliance with all corporate governance requirements set forth in the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules that are in effect and that the Company is required to comply with and is actively taking such steps to ensure that it will be in compliance with other corporate governance requirements set forth in the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules when such provisions will become applicable to the Company.
(pp) To the Company’s knowledge after due inquiry, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, nor any employee or agent of the Company or any subsidiary, has (i) used any corporate funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses relating to political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) violated any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended or (iv) made any other unlawful payment.
(qq) There are no transactions, arrangements or other relationships between and/or among the Company or, the knowledge of the Company, any of its affiliates (as such term is defined in Rule 405 of the Rules and Regulations), on the one hand, and any unconsolidated entity, including, but not limited to, any structure finance, special purpose or limited purpose entity, on the other hand, that could reasonably be expected to materially affect the Company’s liquidity or the availability of or requirements for its capital resources required to be described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus that have not been described as required.
(rr) There are no outstanding loans, advances (except normal advances for business expenses in the ordinary course of business) or guarantees or indebtedness by the Company or any of its subsidiaries to or for the benefit of any of the executive officers or directors of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective family members, except as disclosed in the Registration Statements, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.


 

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(ss) The statistical and market related data included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the Company believes to be reliable and accurate.
(tt) 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, applicable money laundering statutes and applicable rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending, or to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.
(uu) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC, in violation of such sanctions.
(vv) The Company does not directly or indirectly control an associated person (within the meaning of Article I, Section 1(ee) of the By-laws of the NASD) of, any member firm of the NASD. The Company (i) does not control, (ii) is not controlled by, and (iii) is not under common control by any entity, other than as set forth on Schedule E.
(ww) To the knowledge of the Company, after reasonable investigation under the circumstances, there are no affiliations or associations between any member of the NASD and any Company officer, director or holder of five percent (5%) or more of the Company’s securities, except as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Pricing Prospectus.
Any certificate signed by or on behalf of the Company and delivered to the Representatives or to counsel for the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Company to each Underwriter as to the matters covered thereby.
          (II) Representations and Warranties and Agreements of The Selling Shareholders. Each Selling Shareholder severally and not jointly represents and warrants to the several Underwriters as of the date hereof and as of each Closing Date, and agrees with the several Underwriters, that such Selling Shareholder:
(a) Such Selling Shareholder has, except to the extent that shares of Stock will be acquired by such Selling Shareholder upon the exercise of employee stock options, and immediately prior to each Closing Date (as defined in Section 3 hereof) the Selling Shareholder will have, good and valid title to, or a valid “security entitlement” within the meaning of Section 8-501 of the New York Uniform Commercial Code (the “UCC”) in respect of, the shares of Stock to be sold by the Selling Shareholder hereunder on such date, free and clear of all liens, security interests, encumbrances, equities or claims of any kind, other than pursuant to this Agreement and the Custody Agreement; upon payment for the shares of Stock to be sold by such Selling Shareholder pursuant to this Agreement, delivery of such shares, as directed by the Underwriters, to Cede & Co. (“Cede”) or such other nominee as may be designated by the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) (unless delivery of such shares is unnecessary because such shares are already in


 

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possession of Cede or such nominee), registration of such shares in the name of Cede or such other nominee (unless registration of such shares is unnecessary because such shares are already registered in the name of Cede or such nominee), and the crediting of such shares on the books of DTC to securities accounts of the Underwriters (assuming that neither DTC nor any such Underwriter has notice of any “adverse claim,” within the meaning of Section 8-105 of the New York Uniform Commercial Code (the “UCC”) to such shares), (A) DTC shall be a “protected purchaser” of such shares within the meaning of Section 8-303 of the UCC and will acquire its interest in the shares (including without limitation, all rights that such Selling Shareholder had or has the power to transfer in such shares) free and clear of any “adverse claim” within in the meaning of Section 8-102 of the UCC, (B) under Section 8-501 of the UCC, the Underwriters will acquire a valid security entitlement in respect of such             shares and (C) no action based on any “adverse claim” within the meaning of Section 8-102 of the UCC to such shares may be asserted against the Underwriters with respect to such security entitlement; for purposes of this representation, such Selling Shareholder may assume that when such payment, delivery (if necessary) and crediting occur, (x) such shares will have been registered in the name of Cede or another nominee designated by DTC, in each case on the Company’s share registry in accordance with its certificate of incorporation, bylaws and applicable law, (y) DTC will be registered as a “clearing corporation” within the meaning of Section 8-102 of the UCC and (z) appropriate entries to the accounts of the several Underwriters on the records of DTC will have been made pursuant to the UCC.
(b) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by or on behalf of such Selling Shareholder.
(c) Except to the extent that the shares of Stock to be sold by such Selling Stockholder hereby will be acquired by such Selling Shareholder upon the exercise of employee stock options, such Selling Shareholder has duly and irrevocably authorized, executed and delivered a custody agreement, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit II (the “Custody Agreement”), with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Co. as custodian for such Selling Shareholder (in such capacity, the “Custodian”), pursuant to which such Selling Shareholder has placed in custody with the Custodian for delivery under this Agreement certificates for all of the shares of Stock to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder, in negotiable and suitable form for transfer or delivery or accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer or assignment in blank; and the Custody Agreement is a valid and binding agreement of such Selling Shareholder, enforceable against such Selling Shareholder in accordance with its terms.
(d) Such Selling Shareholder has full right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement and the Custody Agreement, to the extent applicable; the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Custody Agreement, to the extent applicable, by such Selling Shareholder, the consummation by such Selling Shareholder of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and the compliance by such Selling Shareholder with its obligations hereunder and thereunder have been duly authorized and do not and will not (with or without notice or lapse of time or both) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, constitute a default under, or give rise to the creation or imposition of any lien, encumbrance, security interest, claim or charge upon the Stock to be sold by such Selling Shareholder hereunder or any other property or assets of such Selling Shareholder pursuant to, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which such Selling Shareholder is a party or by which the Selling Shareholder is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Selling Shareholder is subject, except (A) as to such property and assets (other than the Stock) that are not material, and (B) for such conflicts, breaches, violations, defaults, rights, losses, creations or impositions that would not have an adverse effect on the ability of the Selling Shareholder to perform its obligations under the Agreement, nor will such


 

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actions result in any violation of the provisions of the charter, by-laws or the articles of partnership (or analogous governing instruments, as applicable) of the Selling Shareholder, any law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree of any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Selling Shareholder or any property or assets of the Selling Shareholder; and, except for the registration of the Stock under the Securities Act and such consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations or qualifications as may be required under applicable state securities laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Stock by the Underwriters, no consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing or registration with, any such court or governmental agency or body is required for the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement or the Custody Agreement, to the extent applicable, by such Selling Shareholder, and the consummation by such Selling Shareholder of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.
(e) The representations and warranties of such Selling Shareholder in Section 8 of the Custody Agreement, to the extent applicable, are as of the date hereof and as of each Closing Date true and correct.
(f) At the respective times the Registration Statements and any amendments thereto became or become effective and at each Closing Date, each Registration Statement and any amendments thereto did not and will 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; and the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, at time the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto was issued and at the Applicable Time and each Closing Date, did not and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the foregoing representations and warranties in this paragraph (f) apply only to the extent that any information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statements, the General Disclosure Package or Prospectus was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Selling Shareholder specifically for inclusion therein which information the parties hereto agree is limited to Underwriters’ Information (as defined in Section 17).
(g) Such Selling Shareholder has not taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed or intended to stabilize or manipulate the price of any security of the Company, or which caused or resulted in, or which would reasonably be expected to cause or result in, the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company, in each case to facilitate the sale or resale of the shares of the Stock.
(h) The NASD Questionnaire completed by such Selling Shareholder is accurate and complete.
Any certificate signed by or on behalf of a Selling Shareholder and delivered to the Representatives or to counsel for the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by such Selling Shareholder to each Underwriter as to the matters covered thereby.
3. Purchase, Sale and Delivery of Offered Securities. On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, but subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company and each Selling Shareholder agrees, severally and not jointly, to sell to each Underwriter, and each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company and each Selling Shareholder, that number of shares of Firm Stock (rounded up or down, as determined by Thomas Weisel and Cowen in their discretion, in order to avoid fractions) obtained by multiplying [ ] shares of Firm


 

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Stock in the case of the Company and the number of shares of Firm Stock set forth opposite the name of such Selling Shareholder in Schedule B hereto, in the case of a Selling Shareholder, in each case by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Firm Stock set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule A hereto and the denominator of which is the total number of shares of Firm Stock.
     The purchase price per share to be paid by the Underwriters to the Company and the Selling Shareholders for the Stock will be $[ ] (the “Purchase Price”).
     The Company and the Custodian, on behalf of the Selling Shareholders, will deliver the Firm Stock to the Representatives for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters, through the facilities of The Depositary Trust Company, in each such case, credited to such accounts and in such denominations as the Representatives may direct by notice in writing to the Company and the Custodian given at or prior to 12:00 Noon, New York time, on the second (2nd) full business day preceding the First Closing Date (as defined below) against payment of the aggregate Purchase Price therefor by wire transfer in federal (same day) funds to an account at a bank reasonably acceptable to Thomas Weisel and Cowen payable to the order of the Company and, Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Co. as Custodian for the Selling Shareholders for the Firm Stock sold by them all at the offices of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation, in New York, New York. Time shall be of the essence, and delivery at the time and place specified pursuant to this Agreement is a further condition of the obligations of each Underwriter hereunder. The time and date of the delivery and closing shall be at 10:00 A.M., New York time, on [ ], 2007, in accordance with Rule 15c6-1 of the Exchange Act. The time and date of such payment and delivery are herein referred to as the “First Closing Date.” The First Closing Date and the location of delivery of, and the form of payment for, the Firm Stock may be varied by agreement among the Company, the Selling Shareholders, Thomas Weisel and Cowen.
     The Company, in the event the Representatives elect to have the Underwriters take delivery of definitive certificates instead of delivery from the Company of the certificates through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company, and the Custodian, on behalf of the Selling Shareholders, shall make certificates for the Firm Stock available to the Representatives for examination on behalf of the Underwriters in New York, New York at least one (1) full business day prior to the First Closing Date.
     For the purpose of covering any over allotments in connection with the distribution and sale of the Firm Stock as contemplated by the Prospectus, the Underwriters may purchase all or less than all of the Optional Stock. The price per share to be paid for the Optional Stock shall be the Purchase Price. The Selling Shareholders agree, severally and not jointly, to sell to the Underwriters the respective numbers of shares of Optional Stock obtained by multiplying the number of shares of Optional Stock specified in such notice by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares set forth opposite the names of such Selling Shareholders in Schedule B hereto under the caption “Number of Shares of Optional Stock to be Sold” and the denominator of which is the total aggregate number of shares of Optional Stock to be sold (subject to adjustment by Thomas Weisel and Cowen to eliminate fractions). Such shares of Optional Stock shall be purchased from each Selling Shareholder for the account of each Underwriter in the same proportion as the number of shares of Firm Stock set forth opposite such Underwriter’s name on Schedule A bears to the total number of shares of Firm Stock (subject to adjustment by Thomas Weisel and Cowen to eliminate fractions). The option granted hereby may be exercised as to all or any part of the Optional Stock at any time, and from time to time, not more than thirty (30) days subsequent to the date of this Agreement. No Optional Stock shall be sold and delivered unless the Firm Stock previously has been, or simultaneously is, sold and delivered. The right to purchase the Optional Stock or any portion thereof may be surrendered and terminated at any time upon notice by Thomas Weisel and Cowen to the Company and Selling Shareholders.


 

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     The option granted hereby may be exercised by written notice being given to the Company, the Custodian and the Selling Shareholders by Thomas Weisel and Cowen setting forth the number of shares of the Optional Stock to be purchased by the Underwriters and the date and time for delivery of and payment for the Optional Stock. Each date and time for delivery of and payment for such Optional Stock (which may be the First Closing Date, but not earlier) is herein referred to as the “Option Closing Date” and shall in no event be earlier than two (2) business days nor later than five (5) business days after written notice is given. (Each Option Closing Date and the First Closing Date are herein referred to as the “Closing Dates.”)
     The Custodian, on behalf of the Selling Shareholders, will deliver the Optional Stock to the Representatives for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters, in the form of definitive certificates, in each such case, issued in such names and in such denominations as the Representatives may direct by notice in writing to the Company and the Custodian given at or prior to 12:00 Noon, New York time, on the second (2nd) full business day preceding the Option Closing Date (as defined above)) against payment of the aggregate Purchase Price therefor by wire transfer in federal (same day) funds to, an account at a bank acceptable to Thomas Weisel and Cowen payable to the order of Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Co. as Custodian for the Selling Shareholders for the Optional Stock sold by them, all at the offices of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation. Time shall be of the essence, and delivery at the time and place specified pursuant to this Agreement is a further condition of the obligations of each Underwriter hereunder. The Selling Shareholders shall make the certificates for the Optional Stock available to the Representatives for examination on behalf of the Underwriters in New York, New York not later than 10:00 A.M., New York Time, at least one (1) full business day prior to the Option Closing Date. The Option Closing Date and the location of delivery of, and the form of payment for, the Optional Stock may be varied by agreement among the Company, the Selling Shareholders, Thomas Weisel and Cowen.
     The several Underwriters propose to offer the Stock for sale upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus.
4. Further Agreements Of The Company and The Selling Shareholders
          (I) Further Agreements Of The Company. The Company agrees with the several Underwriters:
(a) To prepare the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if necessary, in a form approved by the Representatives and file such Rule 462(b) Registration Statement with the Commission by 10:00 P.M., New York time, on the date hereof, 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 111(b) under the Act; to prepare the Prospectus in a form approved by the Representatives containing information previously omitted at the time of effectiveness of the Registration Statement in reliance on rules 430A, 430B and 430C and to file such Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act not later than the second (2nd) business day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if applicable, such earlier time as may be required by Rule 430A of the Rules and Regulations; to notify the Representatives immediately of the Company’s intention to file or prepare any supplement or amendment to any Registration Statement or to the Prospectus and to make no amendment or supplement to the Registration Statements, the General Disclosure Package or to the Prospectus to which the Representatives shall reasonably object by notice to the Company after a reasonable period to review; to advise the Representatives, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the time when any amendment to any Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective or any supplement to the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or any amended Prospectus has been filed and to furnish the Underwriters with copies thereof; to


 

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file promptly all material required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) or 163(b)(2), as the case may be; to advise the Representatives, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus, of the suspension of the qualification of the Stock for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding of which the Company is aware for any such purpose, or of any request by the Commission for the amending or supplementing of the Registration Statements, the General Disclosure Package or the 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, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus or suspending any such qualification, and promptly to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of such order.
(b) The Company represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the Representatives, it has not made and will not, other than the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 4(I)(c) hereof, make any offer relating to the Stock that would constitute a “free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act (each, a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus”); provided that the prior written consent of the Representatives hereto shall be deemed to have been given in respect of the Issuer Free Writing Prospectus included in Schedule C-1 hereto. The Company represents that it has treated and agrees that it will treat each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, comply with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 under the Securities Act applicable to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including the requirements relating to timely filing with the Commission, legending and record keeping and will not take any action that would result in an Underwriter or the Company being required to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of such Underwriter that such Underwriter otherwise would not have been required to file thereunder. The Company will satisfy the condition in Rule 433 under the Securities Act to avoid a requirement to file with the Commission any electronic road show.
(c) If the Company elects to prepare a final term sheet relating to the Stock, the Company will prepare such final term sheet (the “Final Term Sheet”) reflecting the final terms of the Stock, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, and shall file such Final Term Sheet as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus pursuant to Rule 433 under the Securities Act prior to the close of business two (2) business days after the date hereof; provided that the Company shall provide the Representatives with copies on any such Final Term Sheet a reasonable amount of time prior to such proposed filing and will not use or file any such document to which the Representatives or counsel to the Underwriters shall reasonably object.
(d) If at any time prior to the expiration of nine (9) months after the later of (i) the latest effective date of the Registration Statement or (ii) the date of the Prospectus, when a prospectus relating to the Stock is required to be delivered (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Securities Act) any event occurs or condition exists as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact, or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made when the Prospectus is delivered (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Securities Act), not misleading, or if it is necessary at any time to amend or supplement any Registration Statement or the Prospectus to comply with the Securities Act, that the Company will promptly notify the Representatives thereof and upon their request will prepare an appropriate amendment or supplement in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance and will use its best efforts to have any amendment to any Registration Statement


 

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declared effective as soon as possible. The Company will furnish without charge to each Underwriter and to any dealer in securities as many copies as the Representatives may from time to time reasonably request of such amendment or supplement. In case any Underwriter is required to deliver a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Securities Act) relating to the Stock nine (9) months or more after the later of (i) the latest effective date of the Registration Statement or (ii) the date of the Prospectus, the Company upon the request of the Representatives and at the expense of such Underwriter will prepare promptly an amended or supplemented Prospectus as may be necessary to permit compliance with the requirements of Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act and deliver to such Underwriter as many copies as such Underwriter may request of such amended or supplemented Prospectus complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act.
(e) If the General Disclosure Package is being used to solicit offers to buy the Stock at a time when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers and any event shall occur as a result of which, in the judgment of the Company or in the reasonable opinion of the Underwriters, it becomes necessary to amend or supplement the General Disclosure Package in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances then prevailing, not misleading, or to make the statements therein not conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement then on file and not superseded or modified, or if it is necessary at any time to amend or supplement the General Disclosure Package to comply with any law, the Company promptly will prepare, file with the Commission (if required) and furnish to the Underwriters and any dealers an appropriate amendment or supplement to the General Disclosure Package so that the General Disclosure Package as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances then prevailing, be misleading or conflict with the Registration Statement then on file, or so that the General Disclosure Package will comply with law.
(f) If at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus there occurred or occurs an event or development as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or will conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, Pricing Prospectus or Prospectus and not superseded or modified or included or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances prevailing at the subsequent time, not misleading, the Company has promptly notified or will promptly notify the Representatives so that any use of the Issuer Free Writing Prospectus may cease until it is amended or supplemented and has promptly amended or will promptly amend or supplement, at its own expense, such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict, untrue statement or omission. The foregoing sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company through the Thomas Weisel and Cowen by or on behalf of any Underwriter expressly for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Underwriter’s Information (as defined in Section 17).
(g) To furnish promptly to each of the Representatives and to counsel for the Underwriters a signed copy of each of the Registration Statements as originally filed with the Commission, and of each amendment thereto filed with the Commission, including all consents and exhibits filed therewith.
(h) To deliver promptly to the Representatives in New York City such number of the following documents as the Representatives shall reasonably request: (i) conformed copies of the Registration Statements as originally filed with the Commission (in each case excluding exhibits), (ii) each Preliminary Prospectus, (iii) any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, (iv) the Prospectus (the delivery of the documents referred to in clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) of this paragraph (h) to be


 

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made not later than 10:00 A.M., New York time, on the business day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement), (v) conformed copies of any amendment to the Registration Statement (excluding exhibits), and (vi) any amendment or supplement to the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (the delivery of the documents referred to in clauses (v) and (vi) of this paragraph (h) to be made not later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the business day following the date of such amendment or supplement).
(i) To make generally available to its shareholders as soon as practicable, but in any event not later than the Availability Date (as defined below), an earnings statement of the Company and its subsidiaries (which need not be audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations (including, at the option of the Company, Rule 158). For the purpose of the preceding sentence, “Availability Date” means the 45th day after the end of the fourth fiscal quarter following the fiscal quarter that includes such Effective Date, except that, if such fourth fiscal quarter is the last quarter of the Company’s fiscal year, “Availability Date” means the 90th day after the end of such fourth fiscal quarter.
(j) To take promptly from time to time such actions as the Representatives may reasonably request to qualify the Stock for offering and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions (domestic or foreign) as the Representatives may designate and to continue such qualifications in effect, and to comply with such laws, for so long as required to permit the offer and sale of Stock in such jurisdictions; provided that the Company and its subsidiaries shall not be obligated (i) to qualify as foreign corporations or entities in any jurisdiction in which they are not so qualified, (ii) to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction or (iii) to subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction in which it is not otherwise subject.
(k) Upon request, during the period of five (5) years from the date hereof, to deliver to each of the Underwriters, (i) as soon as they are available, copies of all reports or other communications furnished to shareholders, and (ii) as soon as they are available, copies of any reports and financial statements furnished or filed with the Commission or any national securities exchange or automatic quotation system on which the Stock is listed or quoted; provided, however, that in no case shall the Company be required to furnish materials pursuant to this paragraph that are filed and publicly available on the Commission’s EDGAR database.
(l) That the Company will not, for a period of ninety (90) days from the date of this Agreement (the “Lock-Up Period”), without the prior written consent of Thomas Weisel and Cowen, directly or indirectly offer, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, or publicly announce the offering of, or file any registration statement under the Securities Act, other than the Company’s sale of the Stock hereunder and the issuance of restricted Common Stock or options to acquire Common Stock pursuant to the Company’s employee benefit plans, qualified stock option plans or other employee compensation or similar plans as such plans, with respect to the material terms and number of shares subject to such plans, are in existence on the date hereof and described in the Prospectus and the issuance of Common Stock pursuant to the valid exercises of options, warrants or rights outstanding on the date hereof. The Company will cause each officer, director, shareholder, optionholder and warrantholder listed in Schedule D to furnish to the Representatives, prior to the First Closing Date, a letter, substantially in the form of Exhibit I-A or Exhibit I-B, as the case may be, hereto, pursuant to which each such person shall agree, among other things not to directly or indirectly offer, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, not to engage in any swap or other agreement or arrangement that transfers, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, the economic risk of ownership of Common Stock or any such


 

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securities and not to engage in any short selling of any Common Stock or any such securities, during the Lock-Up Period, without the prior written consent of Thomas Weisel and Cowen. The Company also agrees that during such period, the Company will not file any registration statement, preliminary prospectus or prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, under the Securities Act for any such transaction or which registers, or offers for sale, Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, except for a registration statement on Form S-8 relating to employee benefit plans. The Company hereby agrees that (i) if it issues an earnings release or material news, or if a material event relating to the Company occurs, during the last seventeen (17) days of the Lock-Up Period, or (ii) if prior to the expiration of the Lock-Up Period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results during the sixteen (16)-day period beginning on the last day of the Lock-Up Period, the restrictions imposed by this paragraph (l) or the letter shall continue to apply until the expiration of the eighteen (18)-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the material news or material event, unless Thomas Weisel and Cowen waive such extension in writing. The Company will provide the Representatives and any co-managers and each stockholder subject to the Lock-Up Period pursuant to the lock-up letters described in Sections 6(q) with prior notice (in accordance with Section 14 herein) of any such announcement that gives rise to an extension of the Lock-Up Period.
(m) To supply the Representatives with copies of all correspondence to and from, and all documents issued to and by, the Commission in connection with the registration of the Stock under the Securities Act or any of the Registration Statements, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto or document incorporated by reference therein.
(n) Prior to each of the Closing Dates, to furnish to the Representatives, as soon as they have been prepared, copies of any unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of the Company for any periods subsequent to the periods covered by the financial statements appearing in the Registration Statements and the Prospectus.
(o) Prior to the latest of the Closing Dates, not to issue any press release or other communication directly or indirectly or hold any press conference with respect to the Company, its condition, financial or otherwise, or earnings, business affairs or business prospects (except for routine oral marketing communications in the ordinary course of business and consistent with the past practices of the Company and of which the Representatives are notified), without the prior written consent of the Representatives, unless in the judgment of the Company and its counsel, and after notification to the Representatives, such press release or communication is required by law.
(p) Until Thomas Weisel and Cowen shall have notified the Company of the completion of the resale of the Stock, that the Company will not, and will use reasonable efforts to cause its affiliated purchasers (as defined in Regulation M under the Exchange Act) not to, either alone or with one or more other persons, bid for or purchase, for any account in which it or any of its affiliated purchasers has a beneficial interest, any Stock, or attempt to induce any person to purchase any Stock; and not to, and to cause its affiliated purchasers not to, make bids or purchase for the purpose of creating actual, or apparent, active trading in or of raising the price of the Stock.
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(r) To at all times comply with all applicable provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in effect from time to time and to file with the Commission such information on Form 10-Q or Form 10-K as may be required by Rule 463 under the Act, in each case, when the Prospectus is required to be delivered.
(s) To apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Stock as set forth in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the heading “Use of Proceeds.”
(t) To use its best efforts to maintain the quotation of the Stock on the Nasdaq GM.
(u) To use its commercially reasonable best efforts to do and perform all things required to be done or performed under this Agreement by the Company prior to each Closing Date and to satisfy all conditions precedent to the delivery of the Firm Stock and the Optional Stock.
(v) To file all documents required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15 of the Exchange Act in the manner and within the time periods required by the Exchange Act.
(w) To file, on a timely basis, with the Commission and the Nasdaq Global Market all reports and documents required to be filed under the Exchange Act.
          (II) Further Agreements of the Selling Shareholders. Each Selling Shareholder, severally and not jointly, agrees with the several Underwriters that:
(a) The shares of Stock represented by the certificates held in custody under the Custody Agreement for such Selling Shareholder are for the benefit of and coupled with and subject to the interests of the Underwriters hereunder, and the arrangements made by such Selling Shareholder for such custody and the appointment of the Custodian is irrevocable. The obligations of such Selling Shareholder hereunder shall not be terminated by operation of law, whether by death or incapacity of any Selling Shareholder that is an individual or, in the case of a Selling Shareholder that is an estate or trust, by the death or incapacity of any executor or trustee thereof or the termination of such trust or estate, or in the case of a Selling Shareholder that is a partnership or corporation, by the dissolution or liquidation of such partnership or corporation, or by the occurrence of any other event before the delivery of the Stock hereunder. If any individual Selling Shareholder or trustee or executor of any estate or trust Selling Shareholder should die or become incapacitated, if any estate or trust Selling Shareholder should be terminated, if any partnership or corporation Selling Shareholder should be dissolved or liquidated or if any other event should occur before the delivery of the Stock to the Underwriters hereunder, certificates for the Stock to be sold by such Selling Shareholder shall be delivered on behalf of such Selling Shareholder in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement as if such death, incapacity, termination, dissolution, liquidation or other event had not occurred and all action taken by the by the Custodian under the Custody Agreement shall be as valid as if such death, incapacity, termination, dissolution, liquidation or other event had not occurred, whether or not the Custodian shall have notice of such death, incapacity, termination, dissolution, liquidation or other event.
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(c) Such Selling Shareholder will deliver to Thomas Weisel and Cowen on or prior to the First Closing Date a properly completed and executed United States Treasury Department Form W-8 (if the Selling Shareholder is a non-United States person) or Form W-9 (if the Selling Shareholder is a United States person) or such other applicable form or statement specified by Treasury Department regulations in lieu thereof.
(d) Such Selling Shareholder agrees that it will not prepare of have prepared on its behalf or use or refer to any “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) and agrees that it will not distribute any written materials in connection with the offer or sale of the Stock.
(e) During the period when delivery of a prospectus (or, in lieu thereof, the notice referred to under Rule 173(a) under the Securities Act) is required under the Securities Act, such Selling Shareholder will advise the Representatives promptly, and will confirm such advice in writing to the Representatives, of any change in the information relating to such Selling Shareholder in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any document comprising the General Disclosure Package.
(f) Such Selling Shareholder will use his, her or its commercially reasonable best efforts to do and perform all things required to be done or performed under this Agreement by such Selling Shareholder prior to each Closing Date and to satisfy all conditions precedent to the delivery of the Firm Stock and the Optional Stock.
5. Payment of Expenses. The Company agrees to pay, or reimburse if paid by any Underwriter, whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated or this Agreement is terminated: (a) the costs incident to the authorization, issuance, preparation, printing and delivery of certificates for the Stock, including any taxes payable in that connection; (b) the costs incident to the Registration of the Stock under the Securities Act; (c) the costs incident to the preparation, printing and distribution of the Registration Statements, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any amendments, supplements and exhibits thereto and the costs of printing, reproducing and distributing the Custody Agreement, the “Agreement Among Underwriters” between the Representatives and the Underwriters, the Master Selected Dealers’ Agreement, the Underwriters’ Questionnaire, this Agreement and any closing documents by mail, facsimile transmission or other means of communications, in all cases, as may be reasonably requested for use in connection with the offering and sale of the Stock; (d) the fees and expenses (including related reasonable fees and expenses of a single counsel for the Underwriters) incurred in connection with securing any required review by the NASD of the terms of the sale of the Stock and any filings made with the NASD; (e) any applicable listing, quotation or other fees; (f) the fees and expenses (including related reasonable fees and expenses of a single counsel to the Underwriters) of qualifying the Stock under the securities laws of the several jurisdictions as provided in Section 4(I)(j)) and of preparing, printing and distributing wrappers, Blue Sky Memoranda and Legal Investment Surveys; (g) all fees and expenses of the registrar and transfer agent of the Stock; and (i) all other costs and expenses incident to the offering of the Stock or the performance of the obligations of the Company under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the fees and expenses of the Company’s counsel and the Company’s independent accountants); provided that, except to the extent otherwise provided in this Section 5 and in Sections 9 and 10, the Underwriters shall pay their own costs and expenses, including the fees and expenses of their counsel, any transfer taxes on the resale of any Stock by them and the expenses of advertising any offering of the Stock made by the Underwriters.
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Selling Shareholder’s pro rata share of fees and expenses of the Custodian and all expenses and taxes incident to the sale and delivery of the Stock to be sold by such Selling Shareholder to the Underwriters hereunder, unless any agreement between the Company and the Selling Shareholders provides that the Company shall pay some or all of such fees and expenses, in which case the Company shall pay such specified fees and expenses and the Selling Shareholder shall pay the remainder.
6. Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The respective obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder are subject, in their discretion, to the accuracy, when made and at the Applicable Time and on such Closing Date, of the representations and warranties of the Company and the Selling Shareholders contained herein, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company and the Selling Shareholders made in any certificates pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company and the Selling Shareholders of their obligations hereunder, and to each of the following additional terms and conditions:
(a) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement or any part thereof, preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus or any part thereof shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A under the Securities Act shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission and all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission (to be included in the Registration Statements or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Representatives; the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus shall have been filed with, the Commission within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by, and in compliance with, the Rules and Regulations and in accordance with Section 4(I)(a), and the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, shall have become effective immediately upon its filing with the Commission; and the NASD shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the terms of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
(b) None of the Underwriters shall have discovered and disclosed to the Company on or prior to such Closing Date that any Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of a fact which, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, is material or omits to state any fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or that the General Disclosure Package, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material or omits to state any fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is necessary in order to make the statements, in the light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading.
(c) All corporate proceedings and other legal matters incident to the authorization, form and validity of each of this Agreement, the Custody Agreements, the Stock, the Registration Statements, the General Disclosure Package, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and all other legal matters relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be reasonably satisfactory in all material respects to counsel for the Underwriters, and the Company and the Selling Shareholders shall have furnished to such counsel all documents and information that they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.
(d) Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. shall have furnished to the Representatives such counsel’s (i) written opinion, as counsel to the Company, addressed to the Underwriters and dated such Closing Date, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit III-A and (ii) written statement,


 

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as counsel to the Company, addressed to the Underwriters and dated such Closing Date, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit III-B.
(e) Hogan & Hartson MNP shall have furnished to the Representatives such counsel’s written opinion, as foreign counsel to the Company, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit IV.
(f) Each of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. (as counsel to certain Selling Shareholders) and Maples and Calder (as counsel to ABS Capital Partners IV Offshore, L.P. and ABS Capital Partners IV Special Offshore, L.P.) shall have furnished to the Representatives such counsel’s written opinion, as counsel to such Selling Shareholders, addressed to the Underwriters and dated such Closing Date, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibits V-A and V-B, respectively.
(g) The Representatives shall have received from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation, counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated such Closing Date, with respect to such matters as the Underwriters may reasonably require, and the Company and the Selling Shareholders shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they request for enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(h) At the time of the execution of this Agreement, the Representatives shall have received from Eisner LLP a letter, addressed to the Underwriters, executed and dated such date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives (i) confirming that they an independent registered accounting firm with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and PCAOB and (ii) stating the conclusions and findings of such firm, of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters, with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statements, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(i) On the effective date of any post-effective amendment to any Registration Statement and on such Closing Date, the Representatives shall have received a letter (the “bring-down letter”) from Eisner LLP addressed to the Underwriters and dated such Closing Date confirming, as of the date of the bring-down letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, as the case may be, as of a date not more than three (3) business days prior to the date of the bring-down letter), the conclusions and findings of such firm, of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters, with respect to the financial information and other matters covered by its letter delivered to the Representatives concurrently with the execution of this Agreement pursuant to paragraph (h) of this Section 6.
(j) The Company shall have furnished to the Representatives a certificate, dated such Closing Date, of its chief executive officer and its chief financial officer stating that (i) such officers have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and, to knowledge of such officer, at the respective times the Registration Statements and any amendments thereto became or become effective and at each Closing Date did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and the General Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time and as of such Closing Date, any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as of its date and as of such Closing Date, the Prospectus and each amendment or supplement thereto, as of the respective date thereof and as of such Closing Date, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the


 

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circumstances in which they were made, not misleading, (ii) since the effective date of the Initial Registration Statement, no event has occurred which should have been set forth in a supplement or amendment to the Registration Statements, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, (iii) to the best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation, as of such Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct and the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to such Closing Date, and (iv) to their knowledge, there has not been, subsequent to the date of the most recent audited financial statements included in the General Disclosure Package, any material adverse change in the financial position or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, or any change or development that, singularly or in the aggregate, would involve a material adverse change or a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business, assets or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, except as set forth in the Prospectus.
(k) At the time of the execution of this Agreement, the Representatives shall have received copies of the Custody Agreement executed by each Selling Shareholder and Custodian.
(l) Each Selling Shareholder (or the Custodian) shall have furnished to the Representatives on such Closing Date a certificate, dated the such date, signed by, or on behalf of, such Selling Shareholder stating that the representations, warranties and agreements of such Selling Shareholder contained herein are true and correct as of such Closing Date and that such Selling Shareholder has complied with all agreements contained herein to be performed by such Selling Shareholder at or prior to such Closing Date.
(m) Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the General Disclosure Package, (i) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall have sustained 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 action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth in the General Disclosure Package, and (ii) there shall not have been any change in the capital stock 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 business, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, otherwise than as set forth in the General Disclosure Package, the effect of which, in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii) of this paragraph (m), is, in the judgment of the Representatives, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale or delivery of the Stock on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the General Disclosure Package.
(n) No action shall have been taken and no law, statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any governmental agency or body which would prevent the issuance or sale of the Stock or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company; and no injunction, restraining order or order of any other nature by any federal or state court of competent jurisdiction shall have been issued which would prevent the issuance or sale of the Stock or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company.
(o) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement there shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq GM or in the over-the-counter market, or trading in any securities of the Company on any exchange or in the over-the-counter market, shall have been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or maximum prices or maximum range for prices shall have been established on any


 

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such exchange or such market by the Commission, by such exchange or market or by any other regulatory body or governmental authority having jurisdiction, (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared by Federal or state authorities or a material disruption has occurred in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States, (iii) the United States shall have become engaged in hostilities, or the subject of an act of terrorism, or there shall have been an outbreak of or escalation in hostilities involving the United States, or there shall have been a declaration of a national emergency or war by the United States or (iv) there shall have occurred such a material adverse change in general economic, political or financial conditions (or the effect of international conditions on the financial markets in the United States shall be such) so as to make it, in the judgment of the Representatives, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale or delivery of the Stock on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(p) The Nasdaq GM shall have approved the Stock for inclusion therein, subject only to official notice of issuance and evidence of satisfactory distribution.
(q) Thomas Weisel and Cowen shall have received the written agreements, substantially in the form of Exhibit I-A or Exhibit I-B, as the case may be, hereto, of the officers, directors, shareholders, optionholders and warrantholders of the Company listed in Schedule D to this Agreement.
          All opinions, letters, evidence and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters.
7. Indemnification And Contribution.
(a) The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its directors, officers, managers, members, employees, Representatives and agents and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (collectively the “Underwriter Indemnified Parties,” and each an “Underwriter Indemnified Party”) against any loss, claim, damage, expense or liability whatsoever (or any action, investigation or proceeding in respect thereof), joint or several, to which such Underwriter Indemnified Party may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding arises out of or is based upon (A) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto, (B) the omission or alleged omission to state in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; or (C) any act or failure to act, or any alleged act or failure to act, by any Underwriter in connection with, or relating in any manner to, the Stock or the offering contemplated hereby, and which is included as part of or referred to in any loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding arising out of or based upon matters covered by subclause (A) or (B) above of this Section 7(a) (provided that the Company shall not be liable in the case of any matter covered by this subclause (C) to the extent that it is determined in a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction that such loss, claim, damage, expense or liability resulted directly from any such act or failure to act undertaken or omitted to be taken by such Underwriter through its gross negligence or willful misconduct), and shall reimburse each


 

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Underwriter Indemnified Party promptly upon demand for any legal fees or other expenses reasonably incurred by that Underwriter Indemnified Party in connection with investigating, or preparing to defend, or defending against, or appearing as a third party witness in respect of, or otherwise incurred in connection with, any such loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding, as such fees and 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, expense or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement in, or omission or alleged omission from any Preliminary Prospectus, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or any such amendment or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company through the Representatives by or on behalf of any Underwriter specifically for use therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Underwriter’s Information (as defined in Section 17).
The indemnity agreement in this Section 7(a) is not exclusive and is in addition to each other liability which the Company might have under this Agreement or otherwise, and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available under this Agreement, at law or in equity to any Underwriter Indemnified Party.
(b) The Selling Shareholders each, severally and not jointly, shall indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter Indemnified Party, against any loss, claim, damage, expense or liability whatsoever (or any action, investigation or proceeding in respect thereof), joint or several, to which that Underwriter Indemnified Party may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding arises out of or is based upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto, or (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto, a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, but in each case only to the extent that the untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information provided to the Company by or on behalf of a Selling Shareholder specifically for inclusion therein, and shall reimburse each Underwriter Indemnified Party promptly upon demand for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by that Underwriter Indemnified Party in connection with investigating or preparing to defend or defending against or appearing as a third party witness in connection with any such loss, claim, damage, liability, action, investigation or proceeding, as such fees and expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the liability of each Selling Shareholder pursuant to this Section 7(b) shall not exceed the aggregate gross proceeds received after underwriting commissions and discounts, but before expenses, from the sale of Offered Securities by such Selling Shareholder pursuant to this Agreement (with respect to each Selling Shareholder, such amount being referred to herein as such Selling Shareholder’s “Net Proceeds”). This indemnity agreement is not exclusive and will be in addition to any liability which the Selling Shareholders might have under this Agreement or otherwise, and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available under this Agreement, at law or in equity to each Underwriter Indemnified Party.
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Section 20 of the Exchange Act (collectively the “Company Indemnified Parties” and each individually a “Company Indemnified Party”) and the Selling Shareholders against any loss, claim, damage, expense or liability whatsoever (or any action, investigation or proceeding in respect thereof), joint or several, to which such Company Indemnified Party may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding arises out of or is based upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto, or (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto, a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, but in each case only to the extent that the untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company through the Representatives by or on behalf of that Underwriter specifically for use therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Underwriter’s Information as defined in Section 17, and shall reimburse the Company Indemnified Parties, reasonably and promptly for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with investigating or preparing to defend or defending against or appearing as third party witness in connection with any such loss, claim, damage, liability, action, investigation or proceeding, as such fees and expenses are incurred. This indemnity agreement is not exclusive and will be in addition to any liability which the Underwriters might otherwise have and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available under this Agreement, at law or in equity to the Company Indemnified Parties.
(d) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 7 of notice of the commencement of any action, the indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against an indemnifying party under this Section 7, notify such indemnifying party in writing of the commencement of that action; provided, however, that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have under this Section 7 except to the extent it has been materially prejudiced by such failure; and, provided, further, that the failure to notify an indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have to an indemnified party otherwise than under this Section 7. If any such action shall be brought against an indemnified party, and it shall notify the indemnifying party thereof, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it wishes, jointly with any other similarly notified indemnifying party, to assume the defense of such action with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party (which counsel shall not, except with the written consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party). After notice from the indemnifying party to the indemnified party of its election to assume the defense of such action, except as provided herein, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to the indemnified party under Section 7 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by the indemnified party in connection with the defense of such action other than reasonable costs of investigation; provided, however, that any indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and to participate in the defense of such action but the fees and expenses of such counsel (other than reasonable costs of investigation) shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized in writing by the Company in the case of a claim for indemnification under Section 7(a), the Selling Shareholder in the case of a claim for indemnification under Section 7(b) or Thomas Weisel and Cowen in the case of a claim for indemnification under Section 7(c), (ii) such indemnified party shall have been advised by its counsel that there may be one or more legal defenses available to it which are different from or


 

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additional to those available to the indemnifying party, (iii) the indemnifying party has failed to assume the defense of such action and employ counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party within a reasonable period of time after notice of the commencement of the action or the indemnifying party does not diligently defend the action after assumption of the defense, in which case, if such indemnified party notifies the indemnifying party in writing that it elects to employ separate counsel at the expense of the indemnifying party, the indemnifying party shall not have the right to assume the defense of (or, in the case of a failure to diligently defend the action after assumption of the defense, to continue to defend) such action on behalf of such indemnified party and the indemnifying party shall be responsible for legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense of such action; provided, however, that the indemnifying party shall not, in connection with any one such action or separate but substantially similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances, be liable for the reasonable fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys at any time for all such indemnified parties (in addition to any local counsel), which firm shall be designated in writing by Thomas Weisel and Cowen if the indemnified parties under this Section 7 consist of any Underwriter Indemnified Party or by the Company if the indemnified parties under this Section 7 consist of any Company Indemnified Parties. Subject to this Section 7(d), the amount payable by an indemnifying party under Section 7 shall include, but not be limited to, (x) reasonable legal fees and expenses of counsel to the indemnified party and any other expenses in investigating, or preparing to defend or defending against, or appearing as a third party witness in respect of, or otherwise incurred in connection with, any action, investigation, proceeding or claim, and (y) all amounts paid in settlement of any of the foregoing. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of judgment with respect to any pending or threatened action or any claim whatsoever, in respect of which indemnification or contribution could be sought under this Section 7 (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties thereto), unless such settlement, compromise or consent (i) includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such 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. Subject to the provisions of the following sentence, no indemnifying party shall be liable for settlement of any pending or threatened action or any claim whatsoever that is effected without its written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), but if settled with its written consent, if its consent has been unreasonably withheld or delayed or if there be a judgment for the plaintiff in any such matter, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify and hold harmless any indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. In addition, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested that an indemnifying party reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel, such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of the nature contemplated by Sections 7(a) or 7(b) effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than forty-five (45) days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the request for reimbursement, (ii) such indemnifying party shall have received notice of the terms of such settlement at least thirty (30) days prior to such settlement being entered into and (iii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement.
(e) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 7 is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under Section 7(a), 7(b) or 7(c), then each indemnifying party shall, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party, contribute to the amount paid, payable or otherwise incurred by such indemnified party as a result of such loss, claim, damage, expense or liability (or any action, investigation or proceeding in respect thereof), as incurred, (i) in such proportion as shall be appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the


 

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Selling Shareholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Stock, or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) of this Section 7(e) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) of this Section 7(e) but also the relative fault of the Company and the Selling Shareholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other with respect to the statements, omissions, acts or failures to act which resulted in such loss, claim, damage, expense or liability (or any action, investigation or proceeding in respect thereof) as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company and the Selling Shareholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other with respect to such offering shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering of the Stock purchased under this Agreement (before deducting expenses) received by the Company and the Selling Shareholders bear to the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters with respect to the Stock purchased under this Agreement, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover page of the Prospectus. The relative fault of the Company and the Selling Shareholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company and the Selling Shareholders on the one hand or the Underwriters on the other, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement, omission, act or failure to act; provided that the parties hereto agree that the written information furnished to the Company through the Representatives by or on behalf of the Underwriters for use in the Preliminary Prospectus, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto, consists solely of the Underwriter’s Information as defined in Section 17. The Company, the Selling Shareholders and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contributions pursuant to this Section 7(e) were to be 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 into account the equitable considerations referred to herein. The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding referred to above in this Section 7(e) shall be deemed to include, for purposes of this Section 7(e), any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating, preparing to defend or defending against or appearing as a third party witness in respect of, or otherwise incurred in connection with, any such loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 7(e), (i) no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Stock underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered to the public less the amount of any damages which such Underwriter has otherwise paid or become liable to pay by reason of any untrue or alleged untrue statement, omission or alleged omission, act or alleged act or failure to act or alleged failure to act and (ii) no Selling Shareholder shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of such Selling Shareholder’s “Net Proceeds”). No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations to contribute as provided in this Section 7(e) are several in proportion to their respective underwriting obligations and not joint.
8. Termination. The obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be terminated by Thomas Weisel and Cowen, in their absolute discretion, by notice given to the Company and the Selling Shareholder prior to delivery of and payment for the Firm Stock if, prior to that time, any of the events described in Sections 6(m), 6(n) and 6(o) have occurred or if the Underwriters shall decline to purchase the Stock for any reason permitted under this Agreement.


 

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9. Reimbursement of Underwriters’ Expenses. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if (a) this Agreement shall have been terminated pursuant to Section 8 (other than a termination upon the occurrence of any of the events described in Section 6(o)) or Section 10 (b) the Company or any Selling Shareholder shall fail to tender the Stock for delivery to the Underwriters for any reason not permitted under this Agreement, (c) the Underwriters shall decline to purchase the Stock for any reason permitted under this Agreement or (d) the sale of the Stock is not consummated because any condition to the obligations of the Underwriters set forth herein is not satisfied or because of the refusal, inability or failure on the part of the Company or any Selling Shareholder to perform any agreement herein or to satisfy any condition or to comply with the provisions hereof, then in addition to the payment of amounts in accordance with Section 5, the Company and each Selling Shareholder shall, pro rata based on the number of shares of Stock each agreed to sell hereunder, reimburse the Underwriters for the actual, out-of-pocket expenses, including, without limitation, the actual fees and expenses of Underwriters’ counsel and for such other out-of-pocket expenses as shall have been reasonably incurred by them in connection with this Agreement and the proposed purchase of the Stock consistent with Section 5, and upon demand the Company and the Selling Shareholders shall pay the full amount thereof to the Cowen; provided that if this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 10 by reason of the default of one or more Underwriters, neither the Company nor any Selling Shareholder shall be obligated to reimburse any defaulting Underwriter on account of expenses to the extent incurred by such defaulting Underwriter; provided further that the foregoing shall not limit any reimbursement obligation of the Company to any non-defaulting Underwriter under this Section 9.
10. Substitution of Underwriters. If any Underwriter or Underwriters shall default in its or their obligations to purchase shares of Stock hereunder on any Closing Date and the aggregate number of shares which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase does not exceed ten percent (10%) of the total number of shares to be purchased by all Underwriters on such Closing Date, the other Underwriters shall be obligated severally, in proportion to their respective commitments hereunder, to purchase the shares which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase on such Closing Date. If any Underwriter or Underwriters shall so default and the aggregate number of shares with respect to which such default or defaults occur is more than ten percent (10%) of the total number of shares to be purchased by all Underwriters on such Closing Date and arrangements satisfactory to the Representatives and the Company for the purchase of such shares by other persons are not made within forty eight (48) hours after such default, this Agreement shall terminate.
     If the remaining Underwriters or substituted Underwriters are required hereby or agree to take up all or part of the shares of Stock of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters on such Closing Date as provided in this Section 10, (i) the Company and the Selling Shareholders shall have the right to postpone such Closing Dates for a period of not more than five (5) full business days in order that the Underwriters, the Company and the Selling Shareholders may effect whatever changes may thereby be made necessary in the Registration Statements or the Prospectus, or in any other documents or arrangements, and the Company agrees promptly to file any amendments to the Registration Statements or supplements to the Prospectus which may thereby be made necessary, and (ii) the respective numbers of shares to be purchased by the remaining Underwriters or substituted Underwriters shall be taken as the basis of their underwriting obligation for all purposes of this Agreement. Nothing herein contained shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter of its liability to the Company, the Selling Shareholders or the other Underwriters for damages occasioned by its default hereunder. Any termination of this Agreement pursuant to this Section 10 shall be without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter, the Selling Shareholders or the Company, except that the representations, warranties, covenants, indemnities, agreements and other statements set forth in Section 2, the obligations with respect to expenses to be paid or reimbursed pursuant to Sections 5 and 9 and the provisions of Section 7 and Sections 11 through 21, inclusive, shall not terminate and shall remain in full force and effect.


 

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11. Absence of Fiduciary Relationship. The Company and the Selling Shareholders acknowledge and agree that:
(a) each Underwriter’s responsibility to the Company and the Selling Shareholders are solely contractual in nature, the Representatives are acting solely as underwriters in connection with the sale of the Stock and no fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship between the Company of the Selling Shareholders and the Representatives has been created in respect of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, irrespective of whether any of the Representatives has advised or is advising the Company or the Selling Shareholders on other matters;
(b) the price of the Stock set forth in this Agreement was established by the Company and the Selling Shareholders following discussions and arms-length negotiations with the Representatives, and the Company and the Selling Shareholders is capable of evaluating and understanding, and understands and accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;
(c) they have been advised that the Representatives and their affiliates are engaged in a broad range of transactions which may involve interests that differ from those of the Company and the Selling Shareholders and that the Representatives have no obligation to disclose such interests and transactions to the Company or the Selling Shareholders by virtue of any fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship; and
(d) they waive, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims they may have against the Representatives for breach of fiduciary duty in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and agree that the Representatives shall have no liability (whether direct or indirect) to the Company or the Selling Shareholders in respect of such a fiduciary duty claim or to any person asserting a fiduciary duty claim on behalf of or in right of the Company or the Selling Shareholders, including stockholders, employees or creditors of the Company or the Selling Shareholders.
12. Successors; Persons Entitled to Benefit of Agreement. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the several Underwriters, the Company and the Selling Shareholders and their respective successors and assigns. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person, other than the persons mentioned in the preceding sentence, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement, or any provisions herein contained, this Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof being intended to be and being for the sole and exclusive benefit of such persons and for the benefit of no other person; except that the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements and indemnities of the Company and the Selling Shareholders contained in this Agreement shall also be for the benefit of the Underwriter Indemnified Parties, and the indemnities of the several Underwriters shall be for the benefit of the Company Indemnified Parties and the Selling Shareholders. It is understood that each Underwriter’s responsibility under this Agreement to the Company and the Selling Shareholders is solely contractual in nature and the Underwriters do not owe the Company, or any other party, any fiduciary duty as a result of this Agreement. No purchaser of any of the Stock from any Underwriter shall be deemed to be a successor or assign by reason merely of such purchase.
13. Survival of Indemnities, Representations, Warranties, etc. The respective indemnities, covenants, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company and the Selling Shareholders and the several Underwriters, as set forth in this Agreement or made by them respectively, pursuant to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, the Selling Shareholders, the Company or any person controlling any of them and shall survive delivery of and payment for the Stock. Notwithstanding any termination of this


 

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Agreement, including without limitation any termination pursuant to Section 8 or Section 10, the indemnities, covenants, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements forth in Sections 2, 5, 7 and 9 and Sections 11 through 21, inclusive, of this Agreement shall not terminate and shall remain in full force and effect at all times.
14. Notices. All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall be in writing, and:
(a) if to the Underwriters, shall be delivered or sent by mail, facsimile transmission or email to (i) Thomas Weisel Partners LLC, Attention: Jack Helfand, Fax: 415-364-2694 and email: jhelfand@tweisel.com, and (ii) Cowen and Company, LLC, Attention: Patricia Murphy, Fax: 646-562-1861 and email: patricia.murphy@cowen.com; and
(b) if to the Company shall be delivered or sent by mail, facsimile transmission or email to Double-Take Software, Inc., Attention: Craig Huke, Fax: 317-572-1864, and email: chuke@doubletake.com; and
(c) if to any Selling Shareholder, to such Selling Shareholder at the address set forth for such Selling Shareholder on Schedule B hereto for such Selling Shareholder;
provided, however, that any notice to an Underwriter pursuant to Section 7 shall be delivered or sent by mail or facsimile transmission to such Underwriter at its address set forth in its acceptance notice to the Representatives, which address will be supplied to any other party hereto by the Representatives upon request. Any such statements, requests, notices or agreements shall take effect at the time of receipt thereof, except that any such statement, request, notice or agreement delivered or sent by email shall take effect at the time of confirmation of receipt thereof by the recipient thereof.
15. Definition of Certain Terms. For purposes of this Agreement, (a) “business day” means any day on which the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. is open for trading and (b) “subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 of the Rules and Regulations.
16. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, including without limitation Section 5-1401 of the New York General Obligations. The Company and each Selling Shareholder irrevocably (a) submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the Federal and state courts in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York for the purpose of any suit, action or other proceeding arising out of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Registration Statements and any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, (b) agrees that all claims in respect of any such suit, action or proceeding may be heard and determined by any such court, (c) waives to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any immunity from the jurisdiction and venue of any such court or from any legal process, (d) agrees not to commence any such suit, action or proceeding other than in such courts, and (e) waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any claim that any such suit, action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum.
17. Underwriters’ Information. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that, for all purposes of this Agreement, the Underwriters’ Information consists solely of the following information in the Prospectus: (i) the last paragraph on the front cover page concerning the terms of the offering by the Underwriters; and (ii) the statements concerning the Underwriters and the distribution of the Stock contained in the ninth paragraph under the heading “Underwriting.”
18. Authority of The Representatives. In connection with this Agreement, you will act for and on behalf of the several Underwriters, and any action taken under this Agreement by the Representatives, will be binding on all the Underwriters.


 

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19. Partial Unenforceability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any Section, paragraph, clause or provision of this Agreement shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other Section, paragraph, clause or provision hereof. If any Section, paragraph, clause or provision of this Agreement is for any reason determined to be invalid or unenforceable, there shall be deemed to be made such minor changes (and only such minor changes) as are necessary to make it valid and enforceable.
20. General. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties to this Agreement and supersedes all prior written or oral and all contemporaneous oral agreements, understandings and negotiations with respect to the subject matter hereof. In this Agreement, the masculine, feminine and neuter genders and the singular and the plural include one another. The section headings in this Agreement are for the convenience of the parties only and will not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement. This Agreement may be amended or modified, and the observance of any term of this Agreement may be waived, only by a writing signed by the Company, the Selling Shareholders and the Representatives.
21. Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.


 

 

     If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of the agreement between the Company, the Selling Shareholders and the several Underwriters, kindly indicate your acceptance in the space provided for that purpose below.
         
  Very truly yours,

DOUBLE-TAKE SOFTWARE, INC.
 
 
         
  By:      
  Name:      
  Title:      


 

 
         
  MICHAEL LESH
 
 
  By:      
       
       


 

 
         
         
  ABS CAPITAL PARTNERS IV, L.P.
 
 
  By:   ABS Partners IV, L.L.C.,    
    Its General Partner   
       
 
         
     
  By:      
    Name:   Bobby Goswami   
    Title:   Managing Member   
 
         
  ABS CAPITAL PARTNERS IV-A, L.P.
 
 
  By:   ABS Partners IV, L.L.C.,    
    Its General Partner   
       
 
         
     
  By:      
    Name:   Bobby Goswami   
    Title:   Managing Member   
 
         
  ABS CAPITAL PARTNERS IV OFFSHORE, L.P.
 
 
  By:   ABS Partners IV, L.L.C.,    
    Its General Partner   
       
 
         
     
  By:      
    Name:   Bobby Goswami   
    Title:   Managing Member   
 
         
  ABS CAPITAL PARTNERS IV SPECIAL OFFSHORE, L.P.
 
 
  By:   ABS Partners IV, L.L.C.,    
    Its General Partner   
       
 
         
     
  By:      
    Name:   Bobby Goswami   
    Title:   Managing Member   


 

 
         

Accepted as of
the date first above written:
Thomas Weisel Partners LLC
Cowen and Company, LLC
Acting on their own behalf
and as Representatives of several
Underwriters referred to in the
foregoing Agreement.
By: Thomas Weisel Partners, LLC
             
 
  By:        
 
     
 
   
    Name: Bill McLeod    
Title: Partner, Head of Capital Markets
By: Cowen and Company, LLC
             
 
  By:        
 
     
 
   
    Name: Richard Ng-Yow    
    Title: Co-Head of Equity Capital Markets


 

 

SCHEDULE A
                 
    Number of Shares of     Number of Shares of  
    Firm Stock to be     Optional Stock to be  
Name   Purchased     Purchased  
Cowen and Company, LLC
               
Thomas Weisel Partners LLC
               
CIBC World Markets Corp.
               
Needham & Company, LLC
               
Canaccord Adams Inc.
               
JMP Securities LLC
               
     
Total
               


 

 

SCHEDULE B
                 
    Number of Shares of     Number of Shares of  
    Firm Stock to be     Optional Stock to  
              Selling Shareholders   Sold     be Sold  
ABS Capital Partners IV, LP
               
400 East Pratt Street
               
Suite 910
               
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
               
ABS Capital Partners IV-A, LP
               
(see address above)
               
ABS Capital Partners IV Offshore, LP
               
(see address above)
               
ABS Capital Partners IV Special Offshore, LP
               
(see address above)
               
Michael Lesh
               
c/o Double-Take Software, Inc.
               
Baker Waterfront Plaza
               
Two Hudson Place, Suite 700
               
Hoboken, NJ 07030
               
 
           
 
Total
               


 

 

SCHEDULE C-1
General Use Free Writing Prospectuses
     None.


 

 

SCHEDULE C-2
  Issuer: Double-Take Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: DBTK) (the “Company”)
 
  Total Shares Offered:       (with overallotment:       )
 
  Total Shares Offered by the Company:
 
  Total Shares Offered by the Selling Shareholders:
 
  Overallotment Option Offered by the Company:
 
  Overallotment Option Offered by the Selling Shareholders:
 
  Price to Public: $[ ]


 

 

SCHEDULE D
     [ ]


 

 

SCHEDULE E
ABS Capital Partners IV, LP
ABS Capital Partners IV-A, LP
ABS Capital Partners IV Offshore, LP
ABS Capital Partners IV Special Offshore, LP
Double-Take Software S.A.S.


 

 

Exhibit I-A
Form of Lock Up Agreement
July __, 2007
Thomas Weisel Partners LLC
Cowen and Company, LLC
As representatives of the
several Underwriters
c/o Thomas Weisel Partners LLC
Lever House
390 Park Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, New York 10022
c/o Cowen and Company, LLC
1221 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10020
     Re: Double-Take Software Registration Statement on Form S-1 for Shares of Common Stock
     Dear Sirs:
     This Agreement is being delivered to you in connection with the proposed Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) between Double-Take Software, Inc., a Delaware Corporation (the “Company”) and Thomas Weisel Partners LLC (“Thomas Weisel”) and Cowen and Company, LLC (“Cowen”), as representatives of a group of underwriters (collectively, the “Underwriters”), to be named therein, and the other parties thereto (if any), relating to the proposed public offering (the “Offering”) of shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”) of the Company.
     In order to induce you and the other Underwriters to enter into the Underwriting Agreement, and in light of the benefits that the offering of the Common Stock will confer upon the undersigned in its capacity as a securityholder and/or officer, director or employee of the Company, and for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the undersigned agrees with each Underwriter that, during the period beginning on and including the date hereof through and including the date that is ninety (90) days following the date of the Underwriting Agreement (the “Lock-Up Period”), the undersigned will not, without the prior written consent of Thomas Weisel and Cowen, directly or indirectly,
     (i) offer, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of, or announce the intention to otherwise dispose of, any shares of Common Stock (including, without limitation, Common Stock which may be deemed to be beneficially owned by the undersigned in accordance with Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time (such shares, the “Beneficially Owned Shares”)) or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable into Common Stock or Beneficially Owned Shares, (ii) enter into any swap, hedge or similar agreement or arrangement that transfers in whole or in part, the economic risk of ownership of the Beneficially Owned Shares or securities convertible into or


 

 

exercisable or exchangeable into Common Stock, whether now owned or hereafter acquired by the undersigned or with respect to which the undersigned has or hereafter acquires the power of disposition, or (iii) engage in any short selling of the Common Stock.
     The restrictions set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph shall not apply to:
     (1) if the undersigned is a natural person, any transfers made by the undersigned (a) as a bona fide gift to any member of the immediate family (as defined below) of the undersigned or to a trust the direct or indirect beneficiaries of which are exclusively the undersigned or members of the undersigned’s immediate family, (b) by will or intestate succession upon the death of the undersigned or (c) as a bona fide gift to a charity or educational institution,
     (2) if the undersigned is a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity, any transfers to any shareholder, partner or member of, or owner of a similar equity interest in, the undersigned, as the case may be, if, in any such case, such transfer is not for value, and
     (3) if the undersigned is a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity, any transfer made by the undersigned (a) in connection with the sale or other bona fide transfer in a single transaction of all or substantially all of the undersigned’s capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests or other similar equity interests, as the case may be, or all or substantially all of the undersigned’s assets, in any such case not undertaken for the purpose of avoiding the restrictions imposed by this agreement or (b) to another corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity so long as the transferee is an affiliate (as defined below) of the undersigned and such transfer is not for value;
provided, however, that in the case of any transfer described in clause (1), (2) or (3) above, it shall be a condition to the transfer that (A) the transferee executes and delivers to Thomas Weisel and Cowen, acting on behalf of the Underwriters, not later than one business day prior to such transfer, a written agreement, in substantially the form of this agreement (it being understood that any references to “immediate family” in the agreement executed by such transferee shall expressly refer only to the immediate family of the undersigned and not to the immediate family of the transferee) and otherwise satisfactory in form and substance to Thomas Weisel and Cowen, and (B) if the undersigned is required to file a report under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, reporting a reduction in beneficial ownership of shares of Common Stock or Beneficially Owned Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock or Beneficially Owned Shares during the Lock-Up Period (as the same may be extended as described above), the undersigned shall include a statement in such report to the effect that, in the case of any transfer pursuant to clause (1) above, such transfer is being made as a gift or by will or intestate succession or, in the case of any transfer pursuant to clause (2) above, such transfer is being made to a shareholder, partner or member of, or owner of a similar equity interest in, the undersigned and is not a transfer for value or, in the case of any transfer pursuant to clause (3) above, such transfer is being made either (a) in connection with the sale or other bona fide transfer in a single transaction of all or substantially all of the undersigned’s capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests or other similar equity interests, as the case may be, or all or substantially all of the undersigned’s assets or (b) to another corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity that is an affiliate of the undersigned and such transfer is not for value. For purposes of this paragraph, “immediate family” shall mean a spouse, child, grandchild or other lineal descendant (including by adoption), father, mother, brother or sister of the undersigned; and “affiliate” shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Furthermore, anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the undersigned may sell common stock of the Company in the aggregate amount not to exceed ___shares of common stock of the Company pursuant to the undersigned’s Rule 10b5-1 plan in existence as of July 1, 2007.
     If (i) the Company issues an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to the Company occurs during the last seventeen (17) days of the Lock-Up Period, or (ii) prior to the expiration of the Lock-Up Period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results during the sixteen (16)-day period beginning on the last day of the Lock-Up Period, the Lock-Up Period shall be extended and the restrictions imposed by this Agreement shall continue to apply until the expiration of the eighteen (18)-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the material news or material event, as applicable, unless Thomas Weisel and Cowen waive, in writing, such extension.


 

 

     The undersigned hereby acknowledges that the Company has agreed in the Underwriting Agreement to provide written notice of any event that would result in an extension of the Lock-Up Period pursuant to the previous paragraph to the undersigned (in accordance with Section 15 of the Underwriting Agreement) and agrees that any such notice properly delivered will be deemed to have been given to, and received by, the undersigned. The undersigned hereby further agrees that, prior to engaging in any transaction or taking any other action that is subject to the terms of this Agreement during the period from the date hereof to and including the 34th day following the expiration of the Lock-Up Period, it will give notice thereof to the Company and will not consummate such transaction or take any such action unless it has received written confirmation from the Company that the Lock-Up Period (as such may have been extended pursuant to the previous paragraph) has expired.
     The undersigned further agrees that (i) it will not, during the Lock-Up Period (as the same may be extended as described above), make any demand or request for or exercise any right with respect to the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of any shares of Common Stock or other Beneficially Owned Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock or other Beneficially Owned Shares, and (ii) the Company may, with respect to any Common Stock or other Beneficially Owned Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock or other Beneficially Owned Shares owned or held (of record or beneficially) by the undersigned, cause the transfer agent or other registrar to enter stop transfer instructions and implement stop transfer procedures with respect to such securities during the Lock-Up Period (as the same may be extended as described above). In addition, the undersigned hereby waives, other than as described in the registration statement in connection with the Offering, from the date hereof until the expiration of the ninety (90) day period following the date of the Underwriting Agreement and any extension of such period pursuant to the terms hereof, any and all rights, if any, to request or demand registration pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of any shares of Common Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable into Common Stock that are registered in the name of the undersigned or that are Beneficially Owned Shares.
     The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the undersigned has full power and authority to enter into this agreement and that this agreement has been duly authorized (if the undersigned is not a natural person), executed and delivered by the undersigned and is a valid and binding agreement of the undersigned. This agreement and all authority herein conferred are irrevocable and shall survive the death or incapacity of the undersigned (if a natural person) and shall be binding upon the heirs, personal representatives, successors and assigns of the undersigned. If the Company decides to terminate the Offering, then upon written notice of such decision to the undersigned and the Underwriters this agreement shall terminate.
     The undersigned acknowledges and agrees that whether or not any public offering of Common Stock actually occurs depends on a number of factors, including market conditions.
         
  Very truly yours,
 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      


 

 
         

Exhibit I-B
Form of Lock Up Agreement
July __, 2007
Thomas Weisel Partners LLC
Cowen and Company, LLC
As representatives of the
several Underwriters
c/o Thomas Weisel Partners LLC
Lever House
390 Park Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, New York 10022
c/o Cowen and Company, LLC
1221 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10020
     Re: Double-Take Software Registration Statement on Form S-1 for Shares of Common Stock
     Dear Sirs:
     This Agreement is being delivered to you in connection with the proposed Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) between Double-Take Software, Inc., a Delaware Corporation (the “Company”) and Thomas Weisel Partners LLC (“Thomas Weisel”) and Cowen and Company, LLC (“Cowen”), as representatives of a group of underwriters (collectively, the “Underwriters”), to be named therein, and the other parties thereto (if any), relating to the proposed public offering (the “Offering”) of shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”) of the Company.
     In order to induce you and the other Underwriters to enter into the Underwriting Agreement, and in light of the benefits that the offering of the Common Stock will confer upon the undersigned in its capacity as a securityholder and/or officer, director or employee of the Company, and for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the undersigned agrees with each Underwriter that, during the period beginning on and including the date hereof through and including the date that is ninety (90) days following the date of the Underwriting Agreement (the “Lock-Up Period”), the undersigned will not, without the prior written consent of Thomas Weisel and Cowen, directly or indirectly,
     (i) offer, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of, or announce the intention to otherwise dispose of, any shares of Common Stock (including, without limitation, Common Stock which may be deemed to be beneficially owned by the undersigned in accordance with Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time (such shares, the “Beneficially Owned Shares”)) or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable into Common Stock or Beneficially Owned Shares, (ii) enter into any swap, hedge or similar agreement or arrangement that transfers in whole or in part, the economic risk of ownership of the Beneficially Owned Shares or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable into Common Stock, whether now owned or hereafter acquired by the undersigned or with respect to which the undersigned has or hereafter acquires the power of disposition, or (iii) engage in any short selling of the Common Stock.


 

 

     The restrictions set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph shall not apply to:
     (1) if the undersigned is a natural person, any transfers made by the undersigned (a) as a bona fide gift to any member of the immediate family (as defined below) of the undersigned or to a trust the direct or indirect beneficiaries of which are exclusively the undersigned or members of the undersigned’s immediate family, (b) by will or intestate succession upon the death of the undersigned or (c) as a bona fide gift to a charity or educational institution,
     (2) if the undersigned is a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity, any transfers to any shareholder, partner or member of, or owner of a similar equity interest in, the undersigned, as the case may be, if, in any such case, such transfer is not for value, and
     (3) if the undersigned is a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity, any transfer made by the undersigned (a) in connection with the sale or other bona fide transfer in a single transaction of all or substantially all of the undersigned’s capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests or other similar equity interests, as the case may be, or all or substantially all of the undersigned’s assets, in any such case not undertaken for the purpose of avoiding the restrictions imposed by this agreement or (b) to another corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity so long as the transferee is an affiliate (as defined below) of the undersigned and such transfer is not for value;
provided, however, that in the case of any transfer described in clause (1), (2) or (3) above, it shall be a condition to the transfer that (A) the transferee executes and delivers to Thomas Weisel and Cowen, acting on behalf of the Underwriters, not later than one business day prior to such transfer, a written agreement, in substantially the form of this agreement (it being understood that any references to “immediate family” in the agreement executed by such transferee shall expressly refer only to the immediate family of the undersigned and not to the immediate family of the transferee) and otherwise satisfactory in form and substance to Thomas Weisel and Cowen, and (B) if the undersigned is required to file a report under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, reporting a reduction in beneficial ownership of shares of Common Stock or Beneficially Owned Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock or Beneficially Owned Shares during the Lock-Up Period (as the same may be extended as described above), the undersigned shall include a statement in such report to the effect that, in the case of any transfer pursuant to clause (1) above, such transfer is being made as a gift or by will or intestate succession or, in the case of any transfer pursuant to clause (2) above, such transfer is being made to a shareholder, partner or member of, or owner of a similar equity interest in, the undersigned and is not a transfer for value or, in the case of any transfer pursuant to clause (3) above, such transfer is being made either (a) in connection with the sale or other bona fide transfer in a single transaction of all or substantially all of the undersigned’s capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests or other similar equity interests, as the case may be, or all or substantially all of the undersigned’s assets or (b) to another corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity that is an affiliate of the undersigned and such transfer is not for value. For purposes of this paragraph, “immediate family” shall mean a spouse, child, grandchild or other lineal descendant (including by adoption), father, mother, brother or sister of the undersigned; and “affiliate” shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
     If (i) the Company issues an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to the Company occurs during the last seventeen (17) days of the Lock-Up Period, or (ii) prior to the expiration of the Lock-Up Period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results during the sixteen (16)-day period beginning on the last day of the Lock-Up Period, the Lock-Up Period shall be extended and the restrictions imposed by this Agreement shall continue to apply until the expiration of the eighteen (18)-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the material news or material event, as applicable, unless Thomas Weisel and Cowen waive, in writing, such extension.
     The undersigned hereby acknowledges that the Company has agreed in the Underwriting Agreement to provide written notice of any event that would result in an extension of the Lock-Up Period pursuant to the previous paragraph to the undersigned (in accordance with Section 15 of the Underwriting Agreement) and agrees that any such notice properly delivered will be deemed to have been given to, and received by, the undersigned. The undersigned hereby further agrees that, prior to engaging in any transaction or taking any other action that is subject to the terms of this Agreement during the period from the date hereof to and including the 34th day following the


 

 

expiration of the Lock-Up Period, it will give notice thereof to the Company and will not consummate such transaction or take any such action unless it has received written confirmation from the Company that the Lock-Up Period (as such may have been extended pursuant to the previous paragraph) has expired.
     The undersigned further agrees that (i) it will not, during the Lock-Up Period (as the same may be extended as described above), make any demand or request for or exercise any right with respect to the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of any shares of Common Stock or other Beneficially Owned Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock or other Beneficially Owned Shares, and (ii) the Company may, with respect to any Common Stock or other Beneficially Owned Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock or other Beneficially Owned Shares owned or held (of record or beneficially) by the undersigned, cause the transfer agent or other registrar to enter stop transfer instructions and implement stop transfer procedures with respect to such securities during the Lock-Up Period (as the same may be extended as described above). In addition, the undersigned hereby waives, other than as described in the registration statement in connection with the Offering, from the date hereof until the expiration of the ninety (90) day period following the date of the Underwriting Agreement and any extension of such period pursuant to the terms hereof, any and all rights, if any, to request or demand registration pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of any shares of Common Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable into Common Stock that are registered in the name of the undersigned or that are Beneficially Owned Shares.
     The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the undersigned has full power and authority to enter into this agreement and that this agreement has been duly authorized (if the undersigned is not a natural person), executed and delivered by the undersigned and is a valid and binding agreement of the undersigned. This agreement and all authority herein conferred are irrevocable and shall survive the death or incapacity of the undersigned (if a natural person) and shall be binding upon the heirs, personal representatives, successors and assigns of the undersigned. If the Company decides to terminate the Offering, then upon written notice of such decision to the undersigned and the Underwriters this agreement shall terminate.
     The undersigned acknowledges and agrees that whether or not any public offering of Common Stock actually occurs depends on a number of factors, including market conditions.
         
  Very truly yours,
 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
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Exhibit 5.01
     
(HOGAN & HARTSON LOGO)   (HOGAN & HARTSON LETTERHEAD)
August 3, 2007
Board of Directors
Double-Take Software, Inc.
257 Turnpike Road, Suite 210
Southborough, Massachusetts 01772
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We are acting as counsel to Double-Take Software, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with its registration statement on Form S-1, as amended (Registration No. 333-144746) (the “Registration Statement”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the proposed public offering of up to 3,208,500 shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “Shares”), of which (i) up to 115,750 Shares are to be sold by the Company (the “Primary Shares”) and (ii) up to 3,092,750 Shares are to be sold by the stockholders identified in the Registration Statement (the “Secondary Shares”). Of the Secondary Shares, 3,087,750 (the “Outstanding Shares”) are currently outstanding, and 5,000 of the Secondary Shares (the “Option Shares”) are issuable upon the exercise of employee stock options held by a Selling Stockholder. This opinion letter is furnished to you at your request to enable you to fulfill the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K, 17 C.F.R. § 229.601(b)(5), in connection with the Registration Statement.
For purposes of this opinion letter, we have examined copies of the following documents:
  1.   An executed copy of the Registration Statement.
 
  2.   The Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, as certified by the Secretary of the State of the State of Delaware on July 27, 2007 and by the Secretary of the Company on the date hereof as being complete, accurate, and in effect.
 
  3.   The Bylaws of the Company, as certified by the Secretary of the Company on the date hereof as being complete, accurate, and in effect.

 


 

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August 3, 2007
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  4.   The proposed form of Underwriting Agreement among the Company and the several Underwriters to be named therein, for whom Thomas Weisel Partners LLC and Cowen and Company, LLC will act as representatives, filed as Exhibit 1.01 to the Registration Statement (the “Underwriting Agreement”).
 
  5.   Certain resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company, as certified by the Secretary of the Company on the date hereof as being complete, accurate, and in effect, relating to, among other things, the authorization of the Underwriting Agreement and arrangements in connection therewith, and establishment of a pricing committee of the Board of Directors with respect to the determination of the issue price of the Shares.
 
  6.   Certain resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company, certain resolutions of the stockholders of the Company, and the stock record books of the Company, as certified by the Secretary of the Company on the date hereof as being complete, accurate, and in effect, relating to, among other things, authorization of the issuance and sale of the Outstanding Shares and the issuance and sale of the Option Shares.
 
  7.   A certificate of the Secretary of the Company as to certain facts relating to the Company.
In our examination of the aforesaid documents, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of all natural persons, the accuracy and completeness of all documents submitted to us, the authenticity of all original documents, and the conformity to authentic original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies (including telecopies). This opinion letter is given, and all statements herein are made, in the context of the foregoing.
This opinion letter is based as to matters of law solely on the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended. We express no opinion herein as to any other laws, statutes, ordinances, rules, or regulations. As used herein, the term “Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended” includes the statutory provisions contained therein, all applicable provisions of the Delaware Constitution and reported judicial decisions interpreting these laws.
Based upon, subject to and limited by the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:
  1.   Following (a) action by the Board of Directors or the pricing committee thereof authorizing the specific number of Primary Shares to be issued and establishing the issue price of the Primary Shares (the “Board Action”), (b) execution and delivery by the Company of the Underwriting Agreement, (c) issuance of the Primary Shares pursuant to the terms of the Underwriting Agreement and the Board Action, and (d) receipt by the Company of the consideration for the Primary Shares specified in the Board Action, the Primary Shares will be validly issued, fully paid, and nonassessable.

 


 

Board of Directors
Double-Take Software, Inc.
August 3, 2007
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  2.   The Outstanding Shares are validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
 
  3.   Assuming the due and proper exercise of the related employee stock options in accordance with the terms thereof, the Option Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
This opinion letter has been prepared for your use in connection with the Registration Statement and speaks as of the date hereof. We assume no obligation to advise you of any changes in the foregoing subsequent to the delivery of this opinion letter.
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as Exhibit 5.01 to the Registration Statement and to the reference to this firm under the caption “Legal Matters” in the prospectus constituting a part of the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are an “expert” within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.
HOGAN & HARTSON L.L.P.

 

EX-23.01 4 x37324a1exv23w01.htm EXHIBIT 23.01 exv23w01
 

Exhibit 23.01

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the reference to our firm under the caption “Experts” and to the incorporation by reference of our report dated March 29, 2007 with respect to our audit of the financial statements and the financial statement schedule of Double-Take Software, Inc. (formerly NSI Software, Inc.) as of December 31, 2006 and 2005 and for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2006 in the Registration Statement on Form S-1 and related Prospectus of Double-Take Software, Inc. for the registration of shares of its common stock.

/s/ Eisner LLP
New York, New York
August 1, 2007

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