Private Placement (or non-public offering) is a funding round of securities which are sold without an initial public offering, usually to a small number of chosen private investors. In the United States, although these placements are subject to the Securities Act of 1933, the securities offered do not have to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission if the issuance of the securities conforms to an exemption from registrations as set forth in the Securities Act of 1933 and SEC rules promulgated thereunder. Most private placements are offered under the Rules known as Regulation D. Private placements may typically consist of stocks, shares of common stock or preferred stock or other forms of membership interests, warrants or promissory notes (including convertible promissory notes), bonds, and purchasers are often institutional investors such as banks, insurance companies or pension funds.
Proffesional Agreements can be made up in several formats from a one page simple agreement to a more complex and covering document. Below we have given you a draft.
If you feel in doubt after having made your own draft, do consult a lawyer.
This Share Placement Agreement (hereinafter the “Agreement”) was entered on Month the Date 2010 between THE PARTIES.
Template Ltd, (TPL) (under construction) a company whose trading office is at …………………………. Street, London, UK, (the “the Company”)
and
ABC Ltd, reg. no 123456, a company whose registered office is at Address- ………………………………………… Street, London, represented by Name (or as otherwise advised).(the “the Placement agent”)
WHEREAS:
A TPL is a company designed to sell products suitable for the banking, financial, real estate and insurance industry. In the case that the principle(s) Name and chooses to transfer the business and the rights to System to another company or unit this agreement shall also be transferred to that company or unit. If for some reason Name chooses to participate in transactions where the rights to the System are transferred to a new company/owner the rights of this contract should also be transferred to the company /new owner.
B The Placement Agent understands the industry and has contacts with a number of potential investors.
1.0 Placement
The placement agent will have exclusivity in placing shares of the Company with (Name Potential Investors). The time frame for exclusivity is during the initial funding process and X months after the initial funding process has been completed. Any other potential investors will have to be cleared with TLP regarding exclusivity and time frame.
2.0 Fees and Commissions
The commission to the placing agent is 5% of the amount placed irrespectively of the type of instrument used (shares, convertible etc). If the placing agent is placing the shares or a hybrid instrument in corporation with a broker the commission shall be reduced by the commission that the broker demands, although not to less than 3%.
The company shall itself cover separately any fees paid to lawyers, accountants, and other advisors in the funding process. When the company has received the proceeds the commission shall immediately be paid the placing agent.
3.0 Confidentiality
The placing agent shall keep in strict confidence all information, technical or commercial know-how, specifications, inventions, processes or initiatives which are of a confidential nature and have been disclosed to the Receiving Party by the other Party (Disclosing Party), its employees, agents or subcontractors, and any other confidential information concerning the Disclosing Party’s business or its products or its services which the Receiving Party may obtain.
The Receiving Party shall restrict disclosure of such confidential information to such of its employees, agents or subcontractors as need to know it for the purpose of discharging the Receiving Party’s obligations under the Agreement, and shall ensure that such employees, agents or subcontractors are subject to obligations of confidentiality corresponding to those which bind the Receiving Party. This clause 3 shall survive termination of the Agreement.
4.0 Limitation of liability/Indemnity
The placing agent shall not be liable in any way for the correctness of information given by the company to the investors by either written material or verbally.
5.0 Commencement, Term and Termination
The Agreement shall become valid on execution and shall continue in full force until the initial funding process has been completed and 12 months thereafter.
6.0 Governing Law and Jurisdiction
This Agreement, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims), shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, English law, and the Parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
EXECUTED under hand on the date at the beginning of this Agreement.
SIGNED on behalf of: SIGNED for and on behalf of:
Template Ltd ABC Ltd
_________________________ ________________________
Name Name
CEO CEO
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