The underwriter and its affiliates are full service financial institutions engaged in
various activities, which may include sales and trading, commercial and investment banking, advisory, investment management, investment research, principal investment, hedging, market making, brokerage and other financial and non-financial activities and services. The underwriter and certain of its affiliates have provided, and may in the future provide, a variety of these services to the Company and to persons and entities with
relationships with the Company, for which they received or will receive customary fees and expenses.
In the ordinary course of their
various business activities, the underwriter and its affiliates, officers, directors and employees may purchase, sell or hold a broad array of investments and actively trade securities, derivatives, loans, commodities, currencies, credit default
swaps and other financial instruments for their own account and for the accounts of their customers, and such investment and trading activities may involve or relate to assets, securities and/or instruments of the Company (directly, as collateral
securing other obligations or otherwise) and/or persons and entities with relationships with the Company. The underwriter and its affiliates may also communicate independent investment recommendations, market color or trading ideas and/or publish or
express independent research views in respect of such assets, securities or instruments and may at any time hold, or recommend to clients that they should acquire, long and/or short positions in such assets, securities and instruments.
The underwriter and certain of its affiliates are arrangers, lenders, dealers or agents under certain of our debt facilities, including the
Companys term loan facility and the Companys revolving credit facilities and our commercial paper programs and derivative instruments. If the underwriter or its respective affiliates have lending relationships with us, certain of the
underwriter or its respective affiliates routinely hedge their credit exposure to us consistent with their customary risk management policies. Typically, the underwriter and its respective affiliates would hedge such exposure by entering into
transactions, which may consist of either the purchase of credit default swaps or the creation of short positions in our securities, including potentially the shares offered hereby. Any such credit default swaps or short positions could adversely
affect future trading prices of the shares offered hereby.
During the period beginning from the date of this prospectus supplement and
continuing to and including 45 days after the closing of this offering, we agree not to offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, make any short sale or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any
securities of ours that are substantially similar to the shares, or publicly disclose the intention to make any offer, sale, pledge, disposition or filing, without the prior written consent of the underwriter.
The selling stockholder and our executive officers and directors have entered into lock-up agreements
with the underwriter prior to the commencement of this offering pursuant to which each of these persons, subject to certain limited exceptions, will not, during the period ending 45 days after the date of this prospectus supplement, without the
prior written consent of the underwriter, (i) offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, lend or otherwise dispose of any shares of common stock or any options or warrants to purchase any shares of common stock or any
securities convertible into, exchangeable for or that represent the right to receive shares of common stock (such options, warrants or other securities, collectively, Derivative Instruments), including without limitation any such shares
or Derivative Instruments now owned or hereafter acquired by the signatories of the lock-up agreements, (ii) engage in any hedging or other transaction or arrangement (including, without limitation, any
short sale or the purchase or sale of, or entry into, any put or call option, or combination thereof, forward, swap or any other derivative transaction or instrument, however described or defined) which is designed to or which reasonably could be
expected to lead to or result in a sale, loan, pledge or other disposition (whether by the signatories of the lock-up agreements or someone other than such signatories), or transfer of any of the economic
consequences of ownership, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, of any shares of common stock or Derivative Instruments, whether any such transaction or arrangement (or instrument provided for thereunder) would be settled by delivery of
common stock or other securities, in cash or otherwise or
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