UNITED STATES	OMB APPROVAL	
 	SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION	 OMB Number: 3235-0145	
 	Washington, D.C. 20549	 Expires: February 28, 2009	
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Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(Amendment No. 14)*
 
Broadwind Energy, Inc.
(Name of Issuer)
 
Common Stock
(Title of Class of Securities)
 
11161T108
(CUSIP Number)
 
Jeffrey L. Gendell
55 Railroad Avenue
Greenwich, Connecticut 06830
(Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person
Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications)
 
January 14, 2010
(Date of Event Which Requires Filing of this Statement)

If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition that is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of §§240.13d-1(e), 240.13d-1(f) or 240.13d-1(g), check the following box. o
Note : Schedules filed in paper format shall include a signed original and five copies of the schedule, including all exhibits. See §240.13d-7 for other parties to whom copies are to be sent.
*  The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting person’s initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and for any subsequent amendment containing information which would alter disclosures provided in a prior cover page.
The information required on the remainder of this cover page shall not be deemed to be “filed” for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Act”) or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act (however, see the Notes).

 

CUSIP No.   891861106	
 	
 	1.	Names of Reporting Persons. I.R.S. Identification Nos. of above persons (entities only)
Tontine Capital Partners, L.P.	
 	
 	2.	Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group (See Instructions)	
 	 	(a)	  x	
 	 	(b)	  o	
 	
 	3.	SEC Use Only	
 	
 	4.	Source of Funds (See Instructions)
WC	
 	
 	5.	Check if Disclosure of Legal Proceedings Is Required Pursuant to Items 2(d) or 2(e)      o	
 	
 	6.	Citizenship or Place of Organization
Delaware	
 	
Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned by
Each
Reporting
Person With	7.	Sole Voting Power
-0-	
	 	
	8.	Shared Voting Power 
16,520,728	
	 	
	9.	Sole Dispositive Power 
-0-	
	 	
	10.	Shared Dispositive Power 
16,520,728	
 	
 	11.	Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person: 
16,520,728	
 	
 	12.	Check if the Aggregate Amount in Row (11) Excludes Certain Shares (See Instructions)    o	
 	
 	13.	Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11) 
15.5%	
 	
 	14.	Type of Reporting Person (See Instructions) 
PN	

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CUSIP No.   891861106	
 	
 	1.	Names of Reporting Persons. I.R.S. Identification Nos. of above persons (entities only)
Tontine Capital Management, L.L.C.	
 	
 	2.	Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group (See Instructions)	
 	 	(a)	  x	
 	 	(b)	  o	
 	
 	3.	SEC Use Only	
 	
 	4.	Source of Funds (See Instructions)
WC	
 	
 	5.	Check if Disclosure of Legal Proceedings Is Required Pursuant to Items 2(d) or 2(e)      o	
 	
 	6.	Citizenship or Place of Organization
Delaware	
 	
Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned by
Each
Reporting
Person With	7.	Sole Voting Power
-0-	
	 	
	8.	Shared Voting Power 
19,711,740	
	 	
	9.	Sole Dispositive Power 
-0-	
	 	
	10.	Shared Dispositive Power 
19,711,740	
 	
 	11.	Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person 
19,711,740	
 	
 	12.	Check if the Aggregate Amount in Row (11) Excludes Certain Shares (See Instructions)    o	
 	
 	13.	Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11) 
18.5%	
 	
 	14.	Type of Reporting Person (See Instructions) 
OO	

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CUSIP No.   891861106	
 	
 	1.	Names of Reporting Persons. I.R.S. Identification Nos. of above persons (entities only)
Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P.	
 	
 	2.	Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group (See Instructions)	
 	 	(a)	  x	
 	 	(b)	  o	
 	
 	3.	SEC Use Only	
 	
 	4.	Source of Funds (See Instructions)
WC	
 	
 	5.	Check if Disclosure of Legal Proceedings Is Required Pursuant to Items 2(d) or 2(e)      o	
 	
 	6.	Citizenship or Place of Organization
Cayman Islands	
 	
Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned by
Each
Reporting
Person With	7.	Sole Voting Power
-0-	
	 	
	8.	Shared Voting Power 
4,724,413	
	 	
	9.	Sole Dispositive Power 
-0-	
	 	
	10.	Shared Dispositive Power 
4,724,413	
 	
 	11.	Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person :
4,724,413	
 	
 	12.	Check if the Aggregate Amount in Row (11) Excludes Certain Shares (See Instructions)    o	
 	
 	13.	Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11) 
4.4%	
 	
 	14.	Type of Reporting Person (See Instructions) 
IA, PN	

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CUSIP No.   891861106	
 	
 	1.	Names of Reporting Persons. I.R.S. Identification Nos. of above persons (entities only)
Tontine Capital Overseas GP, L.L.C.	
 	
 	2.	Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group (See Instructions)	
 	 	(a)	  x	
 	 	(b)	  o	
 	
 	3.	SEC Use Only	
 	
 	4.	Source of Funds (See Instructions)
WC	
 	
 	5.	Check if Disclosure of Legal Proceedings Is Required Pursuant to Items 2(d) or 2(e)      o	
 	
 	6.	Citizenship or Place of Organization
Delaware	
 	
Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned by
Each
Reporting
Person With	7.	Sole Voting Power
-0-	
	 	
	8.	Shared Voting Power 
4,724,413	
	 	
	9.	Sole Dispositive Power 
-0-	
	 	
	10.	Shared Dispositive Power 
4,724,413	
 	
 	11.	Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person: 
4,724,413	
 	
 	12.	Check if the Aggregate Amount in Row (11) Excludes Certain Shares (See Instructions)    o	
 	
 	13.	Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11) 
4.4%	
 	
 	14.	Type of Reporting Person (See Instructions) 
OO	

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CUSIP No.   891861106	
 	
 	1.	Names of Reporting Persons. I.R.S. Identification Nos. of above persons (entities only)
Tontine Partners, L.P.	
 	
 	2.	Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group (See Instructions)	
 	 	(a)	  x	
 	 	(b)	  o	
 	
 	3.	SEC Use Only	
 	
 	4.	Source of Funds (See Instructions)
WC	
 	
 	5.	Check if Disclosure of Legal Proceedings Is Required Pursuant to Items 2(d) or 2(e)      o	
 	
 	6.	Citizenship or Place of Organization
Delaware	
 	
Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned by
Each
Reporting
Person With	7.	Sole Voting Power
-0-	
	 	
	8.	Shared Voting Power 
11,188,667	
	 	
	9.	Sole Dispositive Power 
-0-	
	 	
	10.	Shared Dispositive Power 
11,188,667	
 	
 	11.	Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person: 
11,188,667	
 	
 	12.	Check if the Aggregate Amount in Row (11) Excludes Certain Shares (See Instructions)    o	
 	
 	13.	Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11) 
10.5%	
 	
 	14.	Type of Reporting Person (See Instructions) 
PN	

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CUSIP No.   891861106	
 	
 	1.	Names of Reporting Persons. I.R.S. Identification Nos. of above persons (entities only)
Tontine Management, L.L.C.	
 	
 	2.	Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group (See Instructions)	
 	 	(a)	  x	
 	 	(b)	  o	
 	
 	3.	SEC Use Only	
 	
 	4.	Source of Funds (See Instructions)
WC	
 	
 	5.	Check if Disclosure of Legal Proceedings Is Required Pursuant to Items 2(d) or 2(e)      o	
 	
 	6.	Citizenship or Place of Organization
Delaware	
 	
Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned by
Each
Reporting
Person With	7.	Sole Voting Power
-0-	
	 	
	8.	Shared Voting Power 
11,188,667	
	 	
	9.	Sole Dispositive Power 
-0-	
	 	
	10.	Shared Dispositive Power 
11,188,667	
 	
 	11.	Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person: 
11,188,667	
 	
 	12.	Check if the Aggregate Amount in Row (11) Excludes Certain Shares (See Instructions)    o	
 	
 	13.	Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11) 
10.5%	
 	
 	14.	Type of Reporting Person (See Instructions) 
OO	

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CUSIP No.   891861106	
 	
 	1.	Names of Reporting Persons. I.R.S. Identification Nos. of above persons (entities only)
Tontine Overseas Associates, L.L.C.	
 	
 	2.	Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group (See Instructions)	
 	 	(a)	  x	
 	 	(b)	  o	
 	
 	3.	SEC Use Only	
 	
 	4.	Source of Funds (See Instructions)
WC	
 	
 	5.	Check if Disclosure of Legal Proceedings Is Required Pursuant to Items 2(d) or 2(e)      o	
 	
 	6.	Citizenship or Place of Organization
Delaware	
 	
Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned by
Each
Reporting
Person With	7.	Sole Voting Power
-0-	
	 	
	8.	Shared Voting Power 
4,338,815	
	 	
	9.	Sole Dispositive Power 
-0-	
	 	
	10.	Shared Dispositive Power 
4,338,815	
 	
 	11.	Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person: 
4,338,815	
 	
 	12.	Check if the Aggregate Amount in Row (11) Excludes Certain Shares (See Instructions)    o	
 	
 	13.	Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11) 
4.1%	
 	
 	14.	Type of Reporting Person (See Instructions) 
OO	

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CUSIP No.   891861106	
 	
 	1.	Names of Reporting Persons. I.R.S. Identification Nos. of above persons (entities only)
Tontine 25 Overseas Master Fund, L.P.	
 	
 	2.	Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group (See Instructions)	
 	 	(a)	  x	
 	 	(b)	  o	
 	
 	3.	SEC Use Only	
 	
 	4.	Source of Funds (See Instructions)
WC	
 	
 	5.	Check if Disclosure of Legal Proceedings Is Required Pursuant to Items 2(d) or 2(e)      o	
 	
 	6.	Citizenship or Place of Organization
Cayman Islands	
 	
Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned by
Each
Reporting
Person With	7.	Sole Voting Power
-0-	
	 	
	8.	Shared Voting Power 
3,191,012	
	 	
	9.	Sole Dispositive Power 
-0-	
	 	
	10.	Shared Dispositive Power 
3,191,012	
 	
 	11.	Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person: 
3,191,012	
 	
 	12.	Check if the Aggregate Amount in Row (11) Excludes Certain Shares (See Instructions)    o	
 	
 	13.	Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11) 
3.0%	
 	
 	14.	Type of Reporting Person (See Instructions) 
PN	

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CUSIP No.   891861106	
 	
 	1.	Names of Reporting Persons. I.R.S. Identification Nos. of above persons (entities only)
Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	
 	2.	Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group (See Instructions)	
 	 	(a)	  x	
 	 	(b)	  o	
 	
 	3.	SEC Use Only	
 	
 	4.	Source of Funds (See Instructions)
OO	
 	
 	5.	Check if Disclosure of Legal Proceedings Is Required Pursuant to Items 2(d) or 2(e)      o	
 	
 	6.	Citizenship or Place of Organization
United States	
 	
Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned by
Each
Reporting
Person With	7.	Sole Voting Power
-0-	
	 	
	8.	Shared Voting Power 
39,963,635	
	 	
	9.	Sole Dispositive Power 
-0-	
	 	
	10.	Shared Dispositive Power 
39,963,635	
 	
 	11.	Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person 
39,963,635	
 	
 	12.	Check if the Aggregate Amount in Row (11) Excludes Certain Shares (See Instructions)    o	
 	
 	13.	Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11) 
37.5%	
 	
 	14.	Type of Reporting Person (See Instructions) 
IN	

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Item 1.	Security and Issuer	
 	This Amendment No. 14 to Schedule 13D is being filed by the Reporting Persons to further amend the Schedule 13D originally filed on March 5, 2007 (the “Original Schedule 13D”) and amended on August 29, 2007, October 26, 2007, November 13, 2007, November 30, 2007, January 25, 2008, April 29, 2008, June 6, 2008, July 25, 2008, September 22, 2008, November 4, 2008, November 10, 2008, January 9, 2009 and October 23, 2009 (the Original Schedule 13D, together with the amendments, the “Schedule 13D”), relating to the common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “Common Stock”), of Broadwind Energy, Inc. (formerly known as Tower Tech Holdings Inc.) (the “Company”).  The Company’s principal executive offices are located at 47 East Chicago Avenue, Suite 332, Naperville, Illinois 60540.	
 	 	
Item 2.	Identity and Background	
 	(a)   This statement is filed by:
 
(i) Tontine Capital Partners, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“TCP”), with respect to the shares of Common Stock directly owned by it;
 
(ii) Tontine Capital Management, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (“TCM”), with respect to the shares of Common Stock directly owned by each of TCP and T25;
 
(iii) Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P. a Cayman Islands limited partnership (“TMF”) with respect to shares of Common Stock directly owned by it;
 
(iv)  Tontine Capital Overseas GP, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (“TCO”), with respect to shares of Common Stock owned by TMF;
 
(v) Tontine Partners, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“TP”), with respect to the shares of Common Stock directly owned by it;
 
(vi) Tontine Management, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (“TM”), with respect to the shares of Common Stock directly owned by TP;
 
(vii) Tontine Overseas Associates, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (“TOA”), with respect to the shares of Common Stock directly owned by Tontine Overseas Fund, Ltd., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“TOF”);
 
(viii) Tontine 25 Overseas Master Fund, L.P., a Cayman Islands limited partnership (“T25”), with respect to the shares of Common Stock directly owned by it; and
 
(ix) Jeffrey L. Gendell (“Mr. Gendell”) with respect to the shares of Common Stock directly owned by each of TCP, TMF, TP, TOF and T25.
 
TCP, TCM, TMF, TCO, TP, TM, TOA, T25 and Mr. Gendell are hereinafter sometimes collectively referred to as the “Reporting Persons.”  Any disclosures herein with respect to persons other than the Reporting Persons are made on information and belief after making inquiry to the appropriate party.
 
(b)   The address of the principal business and principal office of each of TCP, TCM, TMF, TCO, TP, TM, TOA and T25 is 55 Railroad Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut 06830.  The business address of Mr. Gendell is 55 Railroad Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut 06830.
 
(c)   The principal business of each of TMF, TCP, TP and T25 is serving as a private investment limited partnership.  The principal business of TCM is serving as the general partner of both TCP and T25.  The principal business of TCO is serving as the general partner of TMF.  The principal business of TM is serving as the general partner of TP.  The principal business of TOA is serving as the investment advisor of TOF.  Mr. Gendell serves as the managing member of TCM, TCO, TM and TOA.
 
(d)   None of the Reporting Persons has, during the last five years, been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors).
 
(e)   None of the Reporting Persons has, during the last five years, been a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and, as a result of such proceeding, was, or is subject to, a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, Federal or State securities laws or finding any violation with respect to such laws.
 
(f)    Each of TCP and TP is a limited partnership organized under the laws of the State of Delaware.  Each of TCO, TCM,	
 
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 	TM and TOA is a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Delaware.  Each of TMF and T25 is a limited partnership organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands.  Mr. Gendell is a United States citizen.	
 	 	
Item 3.	Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration	
 	All of the shares of Common Stock owned by the Reporting Persons were purchased with working capital and on margin.  The Reporting Persons’ margin transactions are with UBS Securities LLC, on such firm’s usual terms and conditions.  All or part of the shares of Common Stock directly owned by the Reporting Persons may from time to time be pledged with one or more banking institutions or brokerage firms as collateral for loans made by such bank(s) or brokerage firm(s) to the Reporting Persons.  Such loans bear interest at a rate based upon the broker’s call rate from time to time in effect.  Such indebtedness may be refinanced with other banks or broker dealers.	
 	 	
Item 4.	Purpose of Transaction	
 	The Reporting Persons acquired the shares of Common Stock for investment purposes and in the ordinary course of business.
 
The Reporting Persons expect that they may hold and/or dispose of their shares of Common Stock as a part of their ongoing investment strategy, with any such dispositions expected to be made consistent with the alternatives and timing originally reported in Amendment No. 11 to this Schedule 13D.
 
On October 30, 2009, the Company filed a registration statement on Form S-1, which was subsequently amended by filings on November 16, 2009, December 2, 2009, December 10, 2009, January 5, 2010, January 6, 2010 and January 14, 2010 (as amended, the “Offering Registration Statement”).  The Offering Registration Statement was declared effective by the SEC on January 14, 2010.  The Offering Registration Statement, together with a final prospectus filed by the Company on January 15, 2010, pursuant to Rule 424(b)(4) under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Prospectus”), in part registers the sale in a firm commitment underwritten public offering (the “Offering”) of 5,000,000 shares of Common Stock owned by the Reporting Persons (the “Firm Shares”), with up to an additional 1,125,000 shares of Common Stock owned by the Reporting Persons (the “Option Shares”) to be sold in the Offering at the option (the “Over-Allotment Option”) of the Underwriters (as defined below), which Over-Allotment Option is exercisable within 30 days from the date of the Underwriting Agreement (as defined below).  The Firm Shares and the Option Shares were previously registered for resale under the Resale Registration Statement (as defined below).  On January 14, 2009, the Reporting Persons entered into an Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., as the representatives of the underwriters set forth therein (collectively, the “Underwriters”), the Company and J. Cameron Drecoll, which provides in part for the purchase and sale in a firm commitment underwritten public offering of the Firm Shares, and upon the exercise of the Over-Allotment Option by the Underwriters, a portion or all of the Option Shares.  Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement: (a) TCP agreed to sell 2,066,970 shares to the Underwriters, and up to an additional 465,068 shares in connection with the Over-Allotment Option; (b) TMF agreed to sell 591,089 shares to the Underwriters, and up to an additional 132,995 shares in connection with the Over-Allotment Option; (c) TP agreed to sell 1,399,856 shares to the Underwriters, and up to an additional 314,968 shares in connection with the Over-Allotment Option; (d) TOF agreed to sell 542,845 shares to the Underwriters, and up to an additional 122,140 shares in connection with the Over-Allotment Option; and (e) T25 agreed to sell 399,240 shares to the Underwriters, and up to an additional 89,829 shares in connection with the Over-Allotment Option.  All of the Firm Shares and any Option Shares were to be purchased by the Underwriters at a price of $5.4625 per share, and will be offered to the public by the Underwriters at a price of $5.75 per share as set forth in the Prospectus.  Prior to the closing of the purchase and sale of the Firm Shares, the Underwriters notified the Reporting Persons that the Underwriters had elected to exercise the Over-Allotment Option in full.  The closing of the purchase and sale of the Firm Shares and all of the Option Shares (the “Closing”) occurred on January 21, 2010, and resulted in aggregate proceeds to the Reporting Persons of $33,457,813, which amount is net of all underwriting discounts.  In connection with the Offering, the Reporting Persons have agreed, pursuant to the Lock-Up Agreement (as defined below), to a lock-up period in which the Reporting Persons will refrain from making certain sales or transfers of Common Stock until after March 31, 2010.
 
The Reporting Persons have formed Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund II, L.P. (“TMF 2).  It is anticipated that TMF 2 will become the beneficial owner of an as-yet-undetermined portion of the Common Stock currently held by the Reporting Persons.  To the extent that TMF 2 acquires beneficial ownership of any such Common Stock, TMF 2 may hold and/or dispose of such Common Stock or may purchase additional securities of the Company, at any time and from time to time in the open market or otherwise.
 
One of the members of the Board of Directors of the Company is an employee of Tontine Associates, LLC, an affiliate of the Reporting Persons.  In connection with the board appointment rights of the Reporting Persons as discussed in Item 6, a	
 
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 	sale of the Reporting Persons’ holdings in the Company may result in changes to the size and/or composition of the Company’s Board of Directors.
 
Although the forgoing represents the range of activities presently contemplated by the Reporting Persons with respect to the Company, it should be noted that the possible activities of the Reporting Persons are subject to change at any time.  Accordingly, the Reporting Persons reserve the right to change their plans or intentions and to take any and all actions that they may deem to be in their best interests.
 
Except as set forth in the Schedule 13D, the Reporting Persons do not have any current intention, plan or proposal with respect to: (a) the acquisition by any person of additional securities of the Company, or the disposition of securities of the Company; (b) an extraordinary corporate transaction, such as a merger, reorganization or liquidation, involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (c) a sale or transfer of a material amount of assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (d) any change in the present Board of Directors or management of the Company, including any plans or proposals to change the number or term of directors or to fill any existing vacancies on the Board; (e) any material change in the present capitalization or dividend policy of the Company; (f) any other material change in the Company’s business or corporate structure; (g) changes in the Company’s charter, bylaws or instruments corresponding thereto or other actions which may impede the acquisition of control of the Company by any person; (h) causing a class of securities of the Company to be delisted from a national securities exchange, if any, or cease to be authorized to be quoted in an inter-dealer quotation system of a registered national securities association; (i) a class of equity securities of the Company becoming eligible for termination of registration pursuant to Section 12(g)(4) of the Securities Act, or (j) any action similar to any of those enumerated in items (a) through (i) above.	
 	 	
Item 5.	Interest in Securities of the Issuer	
 	The following disclosure of share ownership by the Reporting Persons is as of the date of this Amendment No. 14 to Schedule 13D.
 
A. Tontine Capital Partners, L.P.
 
(a)  Aggregate number of shares beneficially owned:  16,520,728.   Percentage: 15.5%.  The percentages used herein and in the rest of Item 5 are calculated based upon 106,696,687 shares of Common Stock, which consists of 96,696,687 shares of Common Stock of the Company issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2009, as disclosed in the Company’s Prospectus filed with the SEC on January 15, 2010, plus 10,000,000 newly issued shares of Common Stock issued by the Company on January 21, 2010 pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement.
 
(b)  1. Sole power to vote or direct vote: -0-
 
2. Shared power to vote or direct vote:  16,520,728
 
3. Sole power to dispose or direct the disposition: -0-
 
4. Shared power to dispose or direct the disposition:  16,520,728
 
(c)  On January 21, 2010, TCP sold 2,532,038 shares of Common Stock at a price of $5.4625 per share.
 
(d)  TCM, the general partner of TCP, has the power to direct the affairs of TCP, including decisions respecting the receipt of dividends from, and the disposition of the proceeds from the sale of, the shares.  Mr. Gendell is the Managing Member of TCM and in that capacity directs its operations.
 
(e)  Not applicable.	
 
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 	B.  Tontine Capital Management, L.L.C.
 
(a)  Aggregate number of shares beneficially owned:  19,711,740.   Percentage:  18.5%.
 
(b)  1. Sole power to vote or direct vote:  -0-
 
2. Shared power to vote or direct vote:  19,711,740
 
3. Sole power to dispose or direct the disposition: -0-
 
4. Shared power to dispose or direct the disposition:  19,711,740
 
(c)  TCM has not engaged in any transactions in Common in the last 60 days.  On January 21, 2010, TCP sold 2,532,038 shares of Common Stock at a price of $5.4625 per share, and T25 sold 489,069 shares of Common Stock at a price of $5.4625 per share.
 
(d)  Not applicable .
 
(e)  Not applicable.
 
C. Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P.
 
(a)  Aggregate number of shares beneficially owned: 4,724,413.  Percentage: 4.4%.
 
(b)  1. Sole power to vote or direct vote: -0-
 
2. Shared power to vote or direct vote:  4,724,413
 
3. Sole power to dispose or direct the disposition: -0-
 
4. Shared power to dispose or direct the disposition:  4,724,413
 
(c)  On January 21, 2010, TMF sold 724,084 shares of Common Stock at a price of $5.4625 per share.
 
(d)  TCO, the general partner of TMF, has the power to direct the affairs of TMF, including decisions respecting the receipt of dividends from, and the disposition of the proceeds from the sale of, the shares.  Mr. Gendell is the Managing Member of TCO and in that capacity directs its operations.
 
(e)  Not applicable.
 
D. Tontine Capital Overseas GP, L.L.C.
 
(a)  Aggregate number of shares beneficially owned: 4,724,413.  Percentage: 4.4%.
 
(b)  1. Sole power to vote or direct vote: -0-
 
2. Shared power to vote or direct vote:  4,724,413
 
3. Sole power to dispose or direct the disposition: -0-
 
4. Shared power to dispose or direct the disposition:  4,724,413
 
(c)  TCO has not engaged in any transactions in Common Stock in the last 60 days.  On January 21, 2010, TMF sold 724,084 shares of Common Stock at a price of $5.4625 per share.
 
(d)  Not applicable.
 
(e)  Not applicable.
 
E. Tontine Partners, L.P.
 
(a)  Aggregate number of shares beneficially owned: 11,188,667.  Percentage: 10.5%.
 
(b)  1. Sole power to vote or direct vote: -0-
 
2. Shared power to vote or direct vote:  11,188,667
 
3. Sole power to dispose or direct the disposition: -0-
 
4. Shared power to dispose or direct the disposition:  11,188,667	
 
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 	(c)  On January 21, 2010, TP sold 1,714,824 shares of Common Stock at a price of $5.4625 per share.
 
(d)  TM, the general partner of TP, has the power to direct the affairs of TP, including decisions respecting the receipt of dividends from, and the disposition of the proceeds from the sale of, the shares.  Mr. Gendell is the Managing Member of TM and in that capacity directs its operations.
 
(e)  Not applicable.
 
F. Tontine Management, L.L.C.
 
(a)  Aggregate number of shares beneficially owned: 11,188,667.  Percentage: 10.5%.
 
(b)  1. Sole power to vote or direct vote: -0-
 
2. Shared power to vote or direct vote:  11,188,667
 
3. Sole power to dispose or direct the disposition: -0-
 
4. Shared power to dispose or direct the disposition:  11,188,667
 
(c)  TM has not engaged in any transactions in Common Stock in the last 60 days.  On January 21, 2010, TP sold 1,714,824 shares of Common Stock at a price of $5.4625 per share.
 
(d)  Not applicable.
 
(e)  Not applicable.
 
G. Tontine Overseas Associates, L.L.C.
 
(a)  Aggregate number of shares beneficially owned: 4,338,815.  Percentage: 4.1%.
 
(b)  1. Sole power to vote or direct vote: -0-
 
2. Shared power to vote or direct vote:  4,338,815
 
3. Sole power to dispose or direct the disposition: -0-
 
4. Shared power to dispose or direct the disposition:  4,338,815
 
(c)  TOA has not engaged in any transactions in Common Stock in the last 60 days.  On January 21, 2010, TOF sold 664,985 shares of Common Stock at a price of $5.4625 per share.
 
(d)  Each of the clients of TOA has the power to direct the receipt of dividends from or the proceeds of the sale of the shares of the Company.  Mr. Gendell is the Managing Member of TOA and in that capacity directs its operations.
 
(e)  Not applicable.
 
H. Tontine 25 Overseas Master Fund, L.P.
 
(a)  Aggregate number of shares beneficially owned: 3,191,012.   Percentage: 3.0%.
 
(b)  1. Sole power to vote or direct vote: -0-
 
2. Shared power to vote or direct vote:  3,191,012
 
3. Sole power to dispose or direct the disposition: -0-
 
4. Shared power to dispose or direct the disposition:  3,191,012
 
(c)  On January 21, 2010, T25 sold 489,069 shares of Common Stock at a price of $5.4625 per share.
 
(d)  TCM, the general partner of T25, has the power to direct the affairs of T25, including decisions respecting the receipt of dividends from, and the disposition of the proceeds from the sale of, the shares.  Mr. Gendell is the Managing Member of TCM and in that capacity directs its operations.
 
(e)  Not applicable.
 
I.  Jeffrey L. Gendell
 
(a)  Aggregate number of shares beneficially owned: 39,963,635.  Percentage: 37.5%.
 
(b)  1. Sole power to vote or direct vote:  -0-	
 
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 	2. Shared power to vote or direct vote:  39,963,635
 
3. Sole power to dispose or direct the disposition:  -0-
 
4. Shared power to dispose or direct the disposition:  39,963,635
 
(c)  Mr. Gendell has not engaged in any transactions in Common Stock in the last 60 days.  On January 21, 2010, TCP sold 2,532,038 shares of Common Stock, TMF sold 724,084 shares of Common Stock, TP sold 1,714,824 shares of Common Stock, TOF sold 664,985 shares of Common Stock, and T25 sold 489,069 shares of Common Stock, with all sales occurring at a price of $5.4625 per share.
 
(d)  Not applicable.
 
(e)  Not applicable.	
 	 	
Item 6.	Contracts, Arrangements, Understandings or Relationships with Respect to Securities of the Issuer	
 	On March 1, 2007, the Company, TCP and TMF entered into a Registration Rights Agreement, which was subsequently amended by (i) an Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement dated October 19, 2007 by and among the Company, TCP, TMF, TP, TOF and T25, (ii) an Amendment No. 2 to Registration Rights Agreement dated July 18, 2008 by and among the Company, TCP, TMF, TP, TOF and T25, (iii) an Amendment No. 3 to Registration Rights Agreement dated September 12, 2008 by and among the Company, TCP, TMF, TP, TOF and T25, and (iv) an Amendment No. 4 to Registration Rights Agreement dated October 31, 2008 by and among the Company, TCP, TMF, TP, TOF and T25 (as amended, the “Registration Rights Agreement”).  On January 9, 2009, TCP, TMF, TP, TOF and T25 entered into a letter agreement (the “RRA Letter Agreement”), which (i) waived the requirement under the Registration Rights Agreement that the Company must file a shelf registration statement by December 31, 2008 to register the resale of the shares of Common Stock owned by the Reporting Persons and (ii) extended the date by which the Company is required to file the shelf registration statement to March 31, 2009.  The demand and “piggyback” registration rights granted to the Reporting Persons (and their qualifying transferees) under the Registration Rights Agreement are unaffected by the RRA Letter Agreement.
 
Pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, on May 27, 2009, the Company filed a registration statement on Form S-1 registering, among other things, the resale of 47,003,635 shares of Common Stock held by the Reporting Persons (the “Resale Registration Statement”).  The Resale Registration Statement was declared effective on August 17, 2009.  Pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company has agreed to maintain the effectiveness of the Resale Registration Statement until the Reporting Persons no longer hold any securities eligible for registration thereunder.
 
As previously discussed in this Amendment No. 14 to Schedule 13D, the Company has filed the Offering Registration Statement, which was declared effective by the SEC on January 14, 2010.  The Offering Registration Statement in part registers the sale in the Offering of the Firm Shares and the Option Shares.
 
As previously discussed in this Amendment No. 14 to Schedule 13D, on January 14, 2010, the Reporting Persons entered into the Underwriting Agreement which provides for the sale at a price of $5.4625 per share by the Reporting Persons to the Underwriters of the Firm Shares and, upon the exercise of the Over-Allotment Option by the Underwriters, a portion or all of the Option Shares.  The Closing of the sale of the Firm Shares and all of the Option Shares occurred on January 21, 2010.
 
In connection with the Offering, on December 10, 2009, the Reporting Persons each executed a letter (the “Lock-Up Agreement”) addressed to Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., the representatives of the Underwriters, in which the Reporting Persons agreed to a lock-up period in which the Reporting Persons would refrain from making certain sales or transfers of Common Stock until the date that is 75 days after the date of the Prospectus filed in connection with the Offering, subject to certain exceptions and potential extension as set forth therein.
 
Under the terms of a Securities Purchase Agreement between TCP, TP, TOF, T25 and the Company dated April 22, 2008, the parties affirmed certain rights initially granted to the Reporting Persons under a Securities Purchase Agreement between the Company, TCP, TMF, TP, TOF and T25, dated August 22, 2007 (the “August 2007 SPA”) and a Securities Purchase Agreement between the Company, TCP and TMF dated March 1, 2007 (the “March 2007 SPA”), such that so long as the Reporting Persons hold up to 10% of the outstanding Common Stock, they will have the right to appoint up to two nominees to the Company’s Board of Directors and the right to appoint a representative to observe meetings of the respective Board and committee meetings of the Company and its subsidiaries, and for so long as the Reporting Persons hold up to 20% of the outstanding Common Stock, they will have the right to appoint up to three nominees to the	
 
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 	Company’s Board of Directors and a representative to observe Board and committee meetings.
 
TCP and TMF have entered into an agreement with J. Cameron Drecoll, Patrick Rosmonowski, Dennis Palmer and Noel Davis (collectively, the “Former BF Shareholders”), the former shareholders of Brad Foote Gear Works, Inc., a corporation that was acquired by the Company on October 19, 2007, whereby (i) TCP and TMF agreed that, so long as the Former BF Shareholders collectively own at least 15% of the Common Stock of the Company, TCP and TMF and their affiliates would vote their shares of the Common Stock of the Company in favor of the election of J. Cameron Drecoll as a director of the Company, and (ii) the Former BF Shareholders agreed that, so long as the Reporting Persons have the right to appoint at least one director to the Board of Directors of the Company (in connection with their rights under the August 2007 SPA or the March 2007 SPA), the Former BF Shareholders would vote their shares of Common Stock of the Company in favor of the election of those individuals appointed by the Reporting Persons.
 
At the time the parties entered into the March 2007 SPA, TCP, TMF and each of Christopher Allie, Raymond L. Brickner, III, Terence P. Fox and Daniel P. Wergin (each a “Seller” and collectively, the “Sellers”) entered into a separate Securities Purchase Agreement dated March 1, 2007 (the “Founders SPA”).  Pursuant to the terms of the March 2007 SPA and the Founders SPA, TCP, TMF and the Sellers entered into an Irrevocable Proxy (the “Irrevocable Proxies”) granting TCP and TMF a right to vote each of their shares of Common Stock (i) to ensure that any future acquisitions by the Reporting Persons of up to 35% of the fully-diluted outstanding Common Stock will not be subject to anti-takeover provisions included in any of the Company’s organizational documents or the laws and regulations of any governmental authority; and (ii) for the election of directors for the purpose of enforcing the right of the Reporting Persons to appoint its designees to the Company’s Board of Directors.   Pursuant to the Irrevocable Proxies, each Seller also agreed in his capacity as a director of the Company to vote for the Board designees of the Reporting Persons and to enforce the rights of the TMF and TCP in connection with any future acquisitions by them of Common Stock.
 
On March 1, 2007, TCP, Integritas, Inc., the Sellers, Samuel W. Fairchild and certain trusts affiliated with the Sellers (the “Stockholders”), entered into a letter agreement (the “Right of First Offer/Refusal”), whereby the Stockholders granted TCP and its affiliates a right of first offer and a right of first refusal for the shares of Common Stock owned or acquired by the Stockholders or certain of their affiliates following the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the March 2007 SPA and the Founders SPA.  Under the Right of First Offer/Refusal, any Stockholder who desires to transfer Common Stock to an unaffiliated third party must provide TCP a right of first offer.  If TCP makes an offer, the Stockholder may either accept TCP’s offer, attempt to sell the Common Stock to another party (at no less than 105% of TCP’s offer price within 30 days of TCP’s offer), or determine not to transfer the Common Stock.  If TCP does not make an offer, such stockholder may solicit offers to sell all or a portion of its offered shares to any party for a two month period.  In addition, and subject to certain conditions, if a Stockholder who desires to transfer Common Stock receives an unsolicited offer from a third party who is not an affiliate of such Stockholder, TCP shall have a right of first refusal to purchase such Common Stock upon the same terms presented by the third party.  Under the Right of First Offer/Refusal, the Company agreed to instruct its transfer agent to impose restrictions on the shares subject to the Right of First Offer/Refusal.
 
Except as described in the Schedule 13D, the Reporting Persons do not have any contracts, arrangements, understandings or relationships (legal or otherwise) with any person with respect to any securities of the Company, including but not limited to the transfer or voting of any of the securities, finder’s fees, joint ventures, loan or option arrangements, puts or calls, guarantees of profits, division of profits or losses, or the giving or withholding of proxies.	
 	 	
Item 7.	Material to be Filed as Exhibits	
 	1.                Underwriting Agreement, dated January 14, 2010, by and among Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P., Tontine Capital Partners, L.P., Tontine Overseas Fund, Ltd., Tontine Partners, L.P. and Tontine 25 Overseas Master Fund, L.P., Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., as the representatives of the Underwriters set forth therein, the Company and J. Cameron Drecoll.
 
2.                Letter, dated December 10, 2009, by Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P., Tontine Capital Partners, L.P., Tontine Overseas Fund, Ltd., Tontine Partners, L.P. and Tontine 25 Overseas Master Fund, L.P.
 
3.                Securities Purchase Agreement, dated March 1, 2007, by and among Tontine Capital Partners, L.P., Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P. and the Company (Previously filed as Exhibit 1 to the Reporting Persons’ Schedule 13D filed on March 5, 2007)
 
4.                Securities Purchase Agreement, dated March 1, 2007, by and among Tontine Capital Partners, L.P., Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P., Christopher Allie, Raymond L. Brickner, III, Terence P. Fox and Daniel P.	
 
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 	Wergin (Previously filed as Exhibit 2 to the Reporting Persons’ Schedule 13D filed on March 5, 2007).
 
5.                Registration Rights Agreement, dated March 1, 2007, by and among Tontine Capital Partners, L.P., Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P. and the Company (Previously filed as Exhibit 3 to the Reporting Persons’ Schedule 13D filed on March 5, 2007).
 
6.                Right of First Offer/Refusal Letter Agreement, dated March 1, 2007, from Tontine Capital Partners, L.P., and agreed and accepted to by each of Integritas, Inc., Christopher Allie, Raymond L. Brickner, III, Terence P. Fox, Daniel P. Wergin, Samuel W. Fairchild and certain of their trusts (Previously filed as Exhibit 4 to the Reporting Persons’ Schedule 13D filed on March 5, 2007).
 
7.                Form of Irrevocable Proxy of each of Christopher Allie, Raymond L. Brickner, III, Terence P. Fox and Daniel P. Wergin, each dated March 1, 2007 (Previously filed as Exhibit 5 to the Reporting Persons’ Schedule 13D filed on March 5, 2007).
 
8.                Proxy Agreement, dated August 22, 2007, by and among Tontine Capital Partners, L.P., Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P., J. Cameron Drecoll, Patrick Rosmonowski, Dennis Palmer and Noel Davis (Previously filed as Exhibit 5 to the Company’s Schedule 13D filed on August 29, 2007).
 
9.                Securities Purchase Agreement, dated August 22, 2007, by and among Tontine Capital Partners, L.P., Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P. and the Company (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 24, 2007).
 
10.          Securities Purchase Agreement, dated August 23, 2007, by and among Tontine Capital Partners, L.P., Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P., Alex C. Allie, Peter C. Allie, Christopher C. Allie, Stacey C. Culligan, Wergin Family Dynasty Trust 2005, Daniel P. Wergin and Terence P. Fox  (Previously filed as Exhibit 4 to the Reporting Persons’ Schedule 13D filed on August 23, 2007).
 
11.          Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement dated October 19, 2007 by and among the Company, Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P., Tontine Capital Partners, L.P., Tontine Overseas Fund, Ltd., Tontine Partners, L.P. and Tontine 25 Overseas Master Fund, L.P. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 6 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 24, 2007).
 
12.          Securities Purchase Agreement, dated October 29, 2007, by and among Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P., Tontine Capital Partners, L.P., Tontine Overseas Fund, Ltd., Raymond L. Brickner III, Terence P. Fox and Daniel P. Wergin (Previously filed as Exhibit 1 to the Reporting Persons’ Schedule 13D filed on November 13, 2007).
 
13.          Amendment No. 2 to Registration Rights Agreement dated July 18, 2008 by and among the Company, Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P., Tontine Capital Partners, L.P., Tontine Overseas Fund, Ltd., Tontine Partners, L.P. and Tontine 25 Overseas Master Fund, L.P. (Previously filed as Exhibit 1 to the Reporting Persons’ Schedule 13D filed on July 25, 2008).
 
14.          Amendment No. 3 to Registration Rights Agreement, by and among, dated September 12, 2008, by and among the Company, Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P., Tontine Capital Partners, L.P., Tontine Overseas Fund, Ltd., Tontine Partners, L.P. and Tontine 25 Overseas Master Fund, L.P. (Previously filed as Exhibit 1 to the Reporting Persons’ Schedule 13D filed on September 22, 2008).
 
15.          Amendment No. 4 to Registration Rights Agreement, dated October 31, 2008, by and among by and among the Company, Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P., Tontine Capital Partners, L.P., Tontine Overseas Fund, Ltd., Tontine Partners, L.P. and Tontine 25 Overseas Master Fund, L.P. (Previously filed as Exhibit 1 to the Reporting Persons’ Schedule 13D filed on November 4, 2008).
 
16.          Letter Agreement, dated January 9, 2009 by and among the Company, Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P., Tontine Capital Partners, L.P., Tontine Overseas Fund, Ltd., Tontine Partners, L.P. and Tontine 25 Overseas Master Fund, L.P. (Previously filed as Exhibit 1 to the Reporting Persons’ Schedule 13D filed on January 15, 2009).	
 
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Signature
 
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

 	January 22, 2010	
 	Date	
 	
/s/ Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	Signature	
 	
Jeffrey L. Gendell, individually, as managing member of Tontine Capital Management, L.L.C., general partner of Tontine Capital Partners, L.P. and Tontine 25 Overseas Master Fund, L.P., as managing member of Tontine Capital Overseas GP, L.L.C., general partner of Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P., as managing member of Tontine Management, L.L.C., general partner of Tontine Partners, L.P., and as managing member of Tontine Overseas Associates, L.L.C., investment advisor of Tontine Overseas Fund, Ltd.	
 	Name/Title	
 
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Exhibit 1
 
15,000,000 Shares
 
BROADWIND ENERGY, INC.
 
COMMON STOCK, PAR VALUE $0.001 PER SHARE

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

January 14, 2010

 

 	January 14, 2010	
 
Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc.
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
c/o        Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc.
135 West 55 Street
New York, New York 10019
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
 
Broadwind Energy, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), proposes to issue and sell to the several Underwriters named in Schedule II hereto (the “ Underwriters ”), and certain of the shareholders of the Company named in Schedule I hereto (the “ Selling Shareholders ”) severally propose to sell to the several Underwriters, an aggregate of 15,000,000 shares of the common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company (the “ Firm Shares ”), of which 10,000,000 shares are to be issued and sold by the Company and 5,000,000 shares are to be sold by the Selling Shareholders, each Selling Shareholder selling the amount set forth opposite such Selling Shareholder’s name in Schedule I hereto.
 
The Selling Shareholders also propose to sell to the several Underwriters not more than an additional 2,250,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share of the Company, (the “ Additional Shares ”) if and to the extent that you, as Managers of the offering, shall have determined to exercise, on behalf of the Underwriters, the right to purchase such shares of common stock granted to the Underwriters in Section 3 hereof.  The Firm Shares and the Additional Shares are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “ Shares .” The shares of the common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company to be outstanding after giving effect to the sales contemplated hereby are hereinafter referred to as the “ Common Stock .” The Company and the Selling Shareholders are hereinafter sometimes collectively referred to as the “ Sellers .”
 
The Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ Commission ”) a registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-162790), including a prospectus, relating to the Shares.  The registration statement as amended at the time it becomes effective, including the information (if any) deemed to be part of the registration statement at the time of effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), is hereinafter referred to as the “ Registration Statement ”; the prospectus in the form first used to confirm sales of Shares (or in the form first made available to the Underwriters by the Company to meet requests of purchasers pursuant to Rule 173 under the Securities Act) is hereinafter referred to as the “ Prospectus .”  If the Company has filed an abbreviated registration statement to register additional shares of Common Stock pursuant to Rule 462(b)

 
under the Securities Act (the “ Rule 462 Registration Statement ”), then any reference herein to the term “ Registration Statement ” shall be deemed to include such Rule 462 Registration Statement.
 
For purposes of this Agreement, “ free writing prospectus ” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, “ Time of Sale Prospectus ” means the preliminary prospectus together with the free writing prospectuses, if any, each identified in Schedule III hereto, and “ broadly available road show ” means a “bona fide electronic road show” as defined in Rule 433(h)(5) under the Securities Act that has been made available without restriction to any person.  As used herein, the terms “Registration Statement,” “preliminary prospectus,” “Time of Sale Prospectus” and “Prospectus” shall include the documents, if any, incorporated by reference therein. The terms “ supplement, ” “ amendment ” and “ amend ” as used herein with respect to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus or any free writing prospectus shall include all documents subsequently filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”), that are deemed to be incorporated by reference therein.
 
1.                              Representations and Warranties of the Company .  The Company represents and warrants to and agrees with each of the Underwriters that:
 
(a)                                   The Registration Statement has become effective; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement is in effect, and no proceedings for such purpose are pending before or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission.
 
(b)                                  (i) Each document, if any, filed or to be filed pursuant to the Exchange Act and incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus complied or will comply when so filed in all material respects with the Exchange Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, (ii) the Registration Statement, when it became effective, did not contain and, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (iii) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus comply and, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will comply in all material respects with the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, (iv) the Time of Sale Prospectus does not, and at the time of each sale of the Shares in connection with the offering when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers and at the Closing Date (as defined in Section 5), the Time of Sale Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented by the Company, if applicable, will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, (v) each broadly available road show, if any, when considered together with the Time of
 
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Sale Prospectus, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading and (vi) the Prospectus does not contain and, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, except that the representations and warranties set forth in this paragraph do not apply to statements or omissions in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus based upon information furnished to the Company in writing by or on behalf of an Underwriter expressly for use therein.
 
(c)                                   The Company is not an “ineligible issuer” in connection with the offering pursuant to Rules 164, 405 and 433 under the Securities Act.  Any free writing prospectus that the Company is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act has been, or will be, filed with the Commission in accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.  Each free writing prospectus that the Company has filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act or that was prepared by or on behalf of or used or referred to by the Company complies or will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.  Except for the free writing prospectuses, if any, identified in Schedule III hereto, and electronic road shows, if any, each furnished to you before first use, the Company has not prepared, used or referred to, and will not, without your prior consent, not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed, prepare, use or refer to, any free writing prospectus.
 
(d)                                  The Company has been duly incorporated, is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, has the corporate power and authority to own its property and to conduct its business as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus and is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the conduct of its business or its ownership or leasing of property requires such qualification, except to the extent that the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
 
(e)                                   Each subsidiary of the Company has been duly incorporated, formed or organized, as the case may be, is validly existing, is in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, formation or organization, as the case may be, has the corporate or other power and authority to own its property and to conduct its business as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus and is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the conduct of its business or its ownership or leasing of property requires such qualification, except, in each case, to the extent that the failure to be so duly incorporated, formed or organized, validly existing or
 
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qualified, to have such power or to be in good standing would not have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole; all of the issued shares of capital stock of each subsidiary of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned directly or indirectly by the Company, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims other than any liens, encumbrances, equities or claims described in the Time of Sale Prospectus. The subsidiaries of the Company listed on Schedule IV hereto are the only significant subsidiaries (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act) of the Company.
 
(f)                                     This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
 
(g)                                  The authorized capital stock of the Company conforms as to legal matters in all material respects to the description thereof contained in each of the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus.
 
(h)                                  The shares of Common Stock (including the Shares to be sold by the Selling Shareholders) outstanding prior to the issuance of the Shares to be sold by the Company have been duly authorized and are validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.
 
(i)                                      The Shares to be sold by the Company have been duly authorized and, when issued and delivered in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, and the issuance of such Shares will not be subject to any preemptive or similar rights.
 
(j)                                      The execution and delivery by the Company of, and the performance by the Company of its obligations under, this Agreement will not contravene any provision of applicable law or the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the Company or any agreement or other instrument binding upon the Company or any of its subsidiaries that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or any judgment, order or decree of any governmental body, agency or court having jurisdiction over the Company or any subsidiary, and no consent, approval, authorization or order of, or qualification with, any governmental body or agency is required for the performance by the Company of its obligations under this Agreement, except such as may be required by the securities or Blue Sky laws of the various states in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares.
 
(k)                                   There has not occurred any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, from that set forth in the Time of Sale Prospectus.
 
(l)                                      There are no legal or governmental proceedings pending or, to the
 
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knowledge of the Company, threatened to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or to which any of the properties of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject (i) other than proceedings accurately described in all material respects in the Time of Sale Prospectus and proceedings that would not have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or on the power or ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this Agreement or to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Time of Sale Prospectus or (ii) that are required to be described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus and are not so described; and there are no statutes, regulations, contracts or other documents that are required to be described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement that are not described or filed as required.
 
(m)                                Each preliminary prospectus filed as part of the registration statement as originally filed or as part of any amendment thereto, or filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act, complied when so filed in all material respects with the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.
 
(n)                                  The Company is not, and after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Shares and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Prospectus will not be, required to register as an “investment company” as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
 
(o)                                  The Company and its subsidiaries (i) are in compliance with any and all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to the protection of human health and safety, the environment or hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants (“ Environmental Laws ”), (ii) have received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses and (iii) are in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or approval, except (A) where such noncompliance with Environmental Laws, failure to receive required permits, licenses or other approvals or failure to comply with the terms and conditions of such permits, licenses or approvals would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (B) as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus.
 
(p)                                  There are no costs or liabilities associated with Environmental Laws (including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for clean-up, closure of properties or compliance with Environmental Laws or any permit, license or approval, any related constraints on operating activities and any potential liabilities to third parties) except (i) which would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole or (ii) as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus.
 
(q)                                  Except as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus, there are no
 
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contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any person granting such person the right to require the Company to file a registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to any securities of the Company or to require the Company to include such securities with the Shares registered pursuant to the Registration Statement other than as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus.
 
(r)                                     Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, nor any director, officer, or employee, nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any agent or representative of the Company or of any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, has taken or will take any action in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization or approval of the payment or giving of money, property, gifts or anything else of value, directly or indirectly, to any “government official” (including any officer or employee of a government or government-owned or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any political party or party official or candidate for political office) to influence official action or secure an improper advantage; and the Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates have conducted their businesses in compliance with applicable anti-corruption laws and have instituted and maintain and will continue to maintain policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance with such laws and with the representation and warranty contained herein.
 
(s)                                   The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in material compliance with all applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements, including those of the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended by Title III of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), and the applicable anti-money laundering statutes of jurisdictions where the Company and its subsidiaries conduct business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “ Anti-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 Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened.
 
(t)                                     (i)  The Company represents that neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries (collectively, the “ Entity ”) or, to the knowledge of the Entity, any director, officer, employee, agent, affiliate or representative of the Entity, is an individual or entity (“ Person ”) that is, or is owned or controlled by a Person that is:
 
(A)  the subject of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“ OFAC ”) (collectively, “ Sanctions ”), nor
 
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(B)  located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions (including, without limitation, Burma/Myanmar, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria).
 
(ii)  The Entity represents and covenants that it 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:
 
(A)  to fund or facilitate any activities or business of or with any Person or in any country or territory that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the subject of Sanctions; or
 
(B)  in any other manner that will result in a violation of Sanctions by any Person (including any Person participating in the offering, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise).
 
(iii)  The Entity represents and covenants that it has not knowingly engaged in, is not now knowingly engaged in, and will not engage in, any dealings or transactions with any Person, or in any country or territory, that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject of Sanctions.
 
(u)                                  Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, (i) the Company and its subsidiaries have not incurred any material liability or obligation, direct or contingent, nor entered into any material transaction; (ii) the Company has not purchased any of its outstanding capital stock, nor declared, paid or otherwise made any dividend or distribution of any kind on its capital stock other than ordinary and customary dividends; and (iii) there has not been any material change in the capital stock, short-term debt or long-term debt of the Company and its subsidiaries, except in each case as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, respectively.
 
(v)                                  The Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to all real property and good and marketable title to all personal property owned by them which is material to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and defects except such as are described in the Time of Sale Prospectus or such as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its subsidiaries; and any real property and buildings held under lease by the Company and its subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with such exceptions as are not material and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property and buildings by the Company and its subsidiaries, in each case except as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus.
 
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(w)                                Except as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Company and its subsidiaries own or possess, or can acquire on reasonable terms, all material patents, patent rights, licenses, inventions, copyrights, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures), trademarks, service marks and trade names currently employed by them in connection with the business now operated by them, and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notice of infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any of the foregoing which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
 
(x)                                    No material labor dispute with the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists, except as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus, or, to the knowledge of the Company, is threatened; and the Company is not aware of any existing or threatened labor disturbance by the employees of any of its principal suppliers, manufacturers or contractors that could have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
 
(y)                                  The Company and each of its subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary in the businesses in which they are engaged.
 
(z)                                    The Company and its subsidiaries possess all material certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate federal, state or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses, and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such certificate, authorization or permit which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, except as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus.
 
(aa)                             Except as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Company and each of its subsidiaries maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance 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 generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States of America and to maintain asset accountability; (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 the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. Except as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus, since the end of the Company’s most recent audited fiscal year, there has been (i) no “material weakness” (as defined in Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Standard No. 5) in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as
 
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defined in Rule 13a-15(f)) (whether or not remediated) and (ii) 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.
 
(bb)                           Except as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Company has not sold, issued or distributed any shares of Common Stock during the six-month period preceding the date hereof, including any sales pursuant to Rule 144A under, or Regulation D or S of, the Securities Act, other than shares issued pursuant to employee benefit plans, qualified stock option plans or other employee compensation plans or pursuant to outstanding options, rights or warrants.
 
(cc)                             There are no ratings accorded to any of the securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization,” as such term is defined for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the Securities Act.
 
2.                              Representations and Warranties of the Selling Shareholders .  (A) Each Selling Shareholder (jointly and severally as among Tontine Capital Partners, L.P., Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P., Tontine Partners, L.P., Tontine Overseas Fund, Ltd., Tontine 25 Overseas Master Fund, L.P. (together, the “Tontine Selling Shareholders”) , and severally only and not jointly as between the Tontine Selling Shareholders and J. Cameron Drecoll ) represents and warrants to and agrees with each of the Underwriters and the Company that:
 
(a)                             This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by or on behalf of such Selling Shareholder.
 
(b)                            The execution and delivery by such Selling Shareholder of, and the performance by such Selling Shareholder of its obligations under, this Agreement and the Custody Agreement signed by such Selling Shareholder and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. , as Custodian, relating to the deposit of the Shares to be sold by such Selling Shareholder (the “ Custody Agreement ”), will not contravene any provision of applicable law, or the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of such Selling Shareholder (if such Selling Shareholder is a corporation), or any material agreement or other instrument binding upon such Selling Shareholder or any judgment, order or decree of any governmental body, agency or court having jurisdiction over such Selling Shareholder, and no consent, approval, authorization or order of, or qualification with, any governmental body or agency is required for the performance by such Selling Shareholder of its obligations under this Agreement or the Custody Agreement of such Selling Shareholder, except such as may be required by the Securities Act or securities or Blue Sky laws of any relevant jurisdiction in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares.
 
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(c)                             Such Selling Shareholder has, and on the Closing Date will have, 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 to be sold by such Selling Shareholder free and clear of all security interests, claims, liens, equities or other encumbrances and the legal right and power, and all authorization and approval required by law, to enter into this Agreement and the Custody Agreement and to sell, transfer and deliver the Shares to be sold by such Selling Shareholder or a security entitlement in respect of such Shares.
 
(d)                            The Custody Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Selling Shareholder and is a valid and binding agreement of such Selling Shareholder.
 
(e)                             Upon payment for the Shares 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 ”), registration of such Shares in the name of Cede or such other 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 UCC to such Shares), (A) DTC shall be a “protected purchaser” of such Shares within the meaning of Section 8-303 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 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.
 
(f)                               (i) The Registration Statement, when it became effective, did not contain and, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (ii) the Time of Sale Prospectus does not, and at the time of each sale of the Shares in connection with the offering when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers and at the Closing Date (as defined in Section 5), the Time of Sale Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented by the Company, if applicable, will not,
 
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contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, (iii) each broadly available road show, if any, when considered together with the Time of Sale Prospectus, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading and (iv) the Prospectus does not contain and, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the representations and warranties set forth in this paragraph 2(A)(g) are limited to statements or omissions made in reliance upon information relating to such Selling Shareholder furnished to the Company in writing by such Selling Shareholder expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto.
 
(g)                                            Such Selling Shareholder is not prompted by any information concerning the Company or its subsidiaries which is not set forth in the Time of Sale Prospectus to sell its Shares pursuant to this Agreement.
 
3.                     Agreements to Sell and Purchase . Each Seller, severally and not jointly, hereby agrees to sell to the several Underwriters, and each Underwriter, upon the basis of the representations and warranties herein contained, but subject to the conditions hereinafter stated, agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from such Seller at $5.4625 a share (the “ Purchase Price ”) the number of Firm Shares (subject to such adjustments to eliminate fractional shares as you may determine) that bears the same proportion to the number of Firm Shares to be sold by such Seller as the number of Firm Shares set forth in Schedule II hereto opposite the name of such Underwriter bears to the total number of Firm Shares.
 
On the basis of the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement, and subject to its terms and conditions, each Selling Shareholder (jointly and severally as among the Tontine Selling Shareholders , and severally only and not jointly as between the Tontine Selling Shareholders and J. Cameron Drecoll ), agrees to sell to the Underwriters the portion of the Additional Shares shown on Schedule I hereto, and the Underwriters shall have the right to purchase, severally and not jointly, up to 2,250,000 Additional Shares at the Purchase Price, provided, however, that the amount paid by the Underwriters for any Additional Shares shall be reduced by an amount per share equal to any dividends declared by the Company and payable on the Firm Shares but not payable on such Additional Shares.  Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.  You may exercise this right on behalf of the Underwriters in whole or from time to time in part by giving written notice to the Company and the Selling Shareholders not later than 30 days after the date of this Agreement.
 
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Any exercise notice shall specify the number of Additional Shares to be purchased by the Underwriters and the date on which such shares are to be purchased.  Each purchase date must be at least one business day after the written notice is given and may not be earlier than the closing date for the Firm Shares nor later than ten business days after the date of such notice.  Additional Shares may be purchased as provided in Section 5 hereof solely for the purpose of covering over-allotments made in connection with the offering of the Firm Shares.  On each day, if any, that Additional Shares are to be purchased (an “ Option Closing Date ”), each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase the number of Additional Shares (subject to such adjustments to eliminate fractional shares as you may determine) that bears the same proportion to the total number of Additional Shares to be purchased on such Option Closing Date as the number of Firm Shares set forth in Schedule II hereto opposite the name of such Underwriter bears to the total number of Firm Shares.
 
The Company hereby agrees that, without the prior written consent of Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. on behalf of the Underwriters, it will not, during the period ending 75 days after the date of the Prospectus, (1) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Common Stock beneficially owned (as such term is used in Rule 13d-3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”) or any other securities so owned convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock or (2) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Common Stock, whether any such transaction described in clause (1) or (2) above is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise or (3) file any registration statement with the Commission relating to the offering of any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock (other than on Form S-8 or a successor form), it being understood and agreed that the filing by the Company of supplements or amendments (including an amendment on Form S-3) to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-159487) shall not be prohibited or otherwise limited by this clause (3).
 
The restrictions contained in the preceding paragraph shall not apply to  (a) the Shares to be sold hereunder, (b) the issuance by the Company of shares of Common Stock upon the exercise of an option or warrant or the conversion of a security outstanding on the date hereof of which the Underwriters have been advised in writing, (c) the issuance of any options, restricted stock or restricted stock units pursuant to any stock or option plan of the Company in existence on the date hereof or the issuance of any Common Stock upon the exercise of such options or (d) the issuance of shares of Common Stock for matching awards under the Company’s Employees’ 401(k) Savings Plan in existence on the date hereof.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if (1) during the last 17 days of the 75-day restricted
 
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period the Company issues an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to the Company occurs; or (2) prior to the expiration of the 75-day restricted period the Company announces that it will release earnings results during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the 75-day period, the restrictions imposed by this agreement shall 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.
 
4.                              Terms of Public Offering . The Sellers are advised by you that the Underwriters propose to make a public offering of their respective portions of the Shares as soon after the Registration Statement and this Agreement have become effective as in your judgment is advisable.  The Sellers are further advised by you that the Shares are to be offered to the public initially at $5.75 a share (the “ Public Offering Price ”) and to certain dealers selected by you at a price that represents a concession not in excess of $0.10 a share under the Public Offering Price.
 
5.                              Payment and Delivery . Payment for the Firm Shares to be sold by each Seller shall be made to such Seller in Federal or other funds immediately available in New York City to an account specified by such Seller against delivery of such Firm Shares for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters at 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on January 21, 2010, or at such other time on the same or such other date, not later than January 23, 2010, as shall be designated in writing by you.  The time and date of such payment are hereinafter referred to as the “ Closing Date .”
 
Payment for any Additional Shares shall be made to the Selling Shareholders in Federal or other funds immediately available in New York City to an account specified by such Selling Shareholder against delivery of such Additional Shares for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters at 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date specified in the corresponding notice described in Section 3 or at such other time on the same or on such other date, in any event not later than February 19, 2010, as shall be designated in writing by you.
 
The Firm Shares and Additional Shares shall be registered in such names and in such denominations as you shall request in writing not later than two full business days prior to the Closing Date or the applicable Option Closing Date, as the case may be.  The Firm Shares and Additional Shares shall be delivered to you on the Closing Date or an Option Closing Date, as the case may be, for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters, with any transfer taxes payable in connection with the transfer of the Shares to the Underwriters duly paid, against payment of the Purchase Price therefor.
 
6.                              Conditions to the Underwriters’ Obligations . The obligations of the Sellers to sell the Shares to the Underwriters and the several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Shares on the Closing Date are subject
 
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to the condition that the Registration Statement shall have become effective not later than 4:30 p.m. (New York City time) on the date hereof.
 
The several obligations of the Underwriters are subject to the following further conditions:
 
(a)                     Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date there shall not have occurred any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, from that set forth in the Time of Sale Prospectus as of the date of this Agreement that, in your judgment, is material and adverse and that makes it, in your judgment, impracticable to market the Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus.
 
(b)                    The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by an executive officer of the Company, to the effect set forth in Section 6(a) above and to the effect that the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement are true and correct as of the Closing Date and that the Company has complied with all of the agreements and satisfied all of the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder on or before the Closing Date. The officer signing and delivering such certificate may rely upon the best of his or her knowledge as to proceedings threatened.
 
(c)                     The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by the chief financial officer of the Company, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.
 
(d)                    The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of Sidley Austin LLP, outside counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B.
 
(e)                     The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of J.D. Rubin, general counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit H.
 
(f)                       The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of Barrack Ferrazzano et al LLP, U.S. counsel for the Tontine Selling Shareholders, and opinions of Walkers, Cayman Island counsel for the Tontine Selling Shareholders, each dated the Closing Date, in the forms attached hereto as Exhibit C and D.
 
(g)                    The Underwriters shall have received on the Option Closing Date an opinion of Loeb & Loeb LLP, counsel for J. Cameron Drecoll , dated the Closing Date, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E.
 
(h)                    The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an
 
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opinion of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date.
 
(i)                        The Underwriters shall have received, on each of the date hereof and the Closing Date, letters dated the date hereof or the Closing Date, as the case may be, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters, from Grant Thornton LLP, Pasquesi Sheppard LLC and Carver Moquist & O’Connor, LLC, respectively, each being independent public accountants, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus; provided that the letters delivered on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off date” not earlier than the date hereof.
 
(j)                        The “lock-up” agreements between you and the Tontine Selling Shareholders, each substantially in the form of Exhibit F hereto, and all officers and directors of the Company, each substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto, relating to sales and certain other dispositions of shares of Common Stock or certain other securities, delivered to you on or before the date hereof, shall be in full force and effect on the Closing Date.
 
The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase Additional Shares hereunder are subject to the delivery to you on the applicable Option Closing Date of such documents as you may reasonably request with respect to the good standing of the Company, the due authorization and issuance of the Additional Shares to be sold on such Option Closing Date and other matters related to the issuance of such Additional Shares.
 
7.                              Covenants of the Company . The Company covenants with each Underwriter as follows:
 
(a)                     To furnish to you, upon request and without charge, four signed copies of the Registration Statement (including exhibits filed therewith and documents incorporated by reference) and for delivery to each other Underwriter a conformed copy of the Registration Statement (without exhibits thereto but including documents incorporated by reference) and to furnish to you in New York City, without charge, prior to 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the business day next succeeding the date of this Agreement and during the period mentioned in Section 7(e) or 7(f) below, as many copies of the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus any documents incorporated therein by reference and any supplements and amendments thereto or to the Registration Statement as you may reasonably request.
 
(b)                    Before amending or supplementing the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus, to furnish to you a copy of each such proposed amendment or supplement and not to file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which you reasonably object, and to file with the Commission
 
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within the applicable period specified in Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act any prospectus required to be filed pursuant to such Rule.
 
(c)                     To furnish to you a copy of each proposed free writing prospectus to be prepared by or on behalf of, used by, or referred to by the Company and not to use or refer to any proposed free writing prospectus to which you reasonably object.
 
(d)                    Not to 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 the Underwriter that the Underwriter otherwise would not have been required to file thereunder.
 
(e)                     If the Time of Sale Prospectus is being used to solicit offers to buy the Shares at a time when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers and any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Time of Sale Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances, not misleading, or if any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which the Time of Sale Prospectus conflicts with the information contained in the Registration Statement then on file, or if, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, it is necessary to amend or supplement the Time of Sale Prospectus to comply with applicable law, forthwith to prepare, file with the Commission and furnish, at its own expense, to the Underwriters and to any dealer upon request, either amendments or supplements to the Time of Sale Prospectus so that the statements in the Time of Sale Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances when the Time of Sale Prospectus is delivered to a prospective purchaser, be misleading or so that the Time of Sale Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will no longer conflict with the Registration Statement, or so that the Time of Sale Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will comply with applicable law.
 
(f)                       If, during such period after the first date of the public offering of the Shares as in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Securities Act) is required by law to be delivered in connection with sales by an Underwriter or dealer, any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Securities Act) is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading, or if, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with applicable law, forthwith to prepare, file with the Commission and furnish, at its own expense, to the Underwriters and to the dealers (whose names and addresses you will furnish to the Company) to which Shares may have been sold by you on behalf of the Underwriters and to any other dealers upon request, either amendments or supplements to the
 
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Prospectus so that the statements in the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Securities Act) is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will comply with applicable law.
 
(g)                    To endeavor to qualify the Shares for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as you shall reasonably request, provided that, in connection therewith, the Company shall not be required to (i) qualify as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction in which it would not otherwise be required to so qualify, (ii) file a general consent to service of process in any such jurisdiction or (iii) subject itself to taxation in any jurisdiction in which it would not otherwise be subject.
 
(h)                    To make generally available to the Company’s security holders and to you as soon as practicable an earning statement covering a period of at least twelve months beginning with the first fiscal quarter of the Company occurring after the date of this Agreement which shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.
 
8.                              Expenses .  Whether or not the transactions contemplated in this Agreement are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, the Sellers agree to pay or cause to be paid all expenses incident to the performance of their obligations under this Agreement, including: (i) the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Company’s counsel, the Company’s accountants and counsel for the Selling Shareholders in connection with the registration and delivery of the Shares under the Securities Act and all other fees or expenses in connection with the preparation and filing of the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus, any free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of, used by, or referred to by the Company and amendments and supplements to any of the foregoing, including all printing costs associated therewith, and the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the Underwriters and dealers, in the quantities hereinabove specified, (ii) all costs and expenses related to the transfer and delivery of the Shares to the Underwriters, including any transfer or other taxes payable thereon, (iii) the cost of printing or producing any Blue Sky or Legal Investment memorandum in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares under state securities laws and all expenses in connection with the qualification of the Shares for offer and sale under state securities laws as provided in Section 7(g) hereof, including filing fees and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with such qualification and in connection with the Blue Sky or Legal Investment memorandum, (iv) all filing fees and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the Underwriters incurred in connection with the review and qualification of the offering of the Shares by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc., (v) all costs and expenses incident to listing the Shares on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, (vi) the cost of printing certificates representing
 
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the Shares, (vii) the costs and charges of any transfer agent, registrar or depositary, (viii) the costs and expenses of the Company relating to investor presentations on any “road show” undertaken in connection with the marketing of the offering of the Shares, including, without limitation, expenses associated with the preparation or dissemination of any electronic road show, expenses associated with the production of road show slides and graphics, fees and expenses of any consultants engaged in connection with the road show presentations with the prior approval of the Company, travel and lodging expenses of the representatives and officers of the Company and any such consultants, and the cost of any aircraft chartered in connection with the road show, (ix) the document production charges and expenses associated with printing this Agreement, and (x) all other costs and expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the Company hereunder for which provision is not otherwise made in this Section.  It is understood, however, that except as provided in this Section 8, Section 10 entitled “Indemnity and Contribution” and the next to last paragraph of Section 13 below, the Underwriters will pay all of their costs and expenses, including fees and disbursements of their counsel, stock transfer taxes payable on resale of any of the Shares by them and any advertising expenses connected with any offers they may make.
 
The provisions of this Section shall not supersede or otherwise affect any agreement that the Sellers may otherwise have for the allocation of such expenses among themselves.
 
9.                              Covenants of the Underwriters .  Each Underwriter severally covenants with the Company not to take any action that would result in the Company being required to file with the Commission under Rule 433(d) a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of such Underwriter that otherwise would not be required to be filed by the Company thereunder, but for the action of the Underwriter.
 
10.                        Indemnity and Contribution .  (a) The Sellers, severally and not jointly, agree to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, and each affiliate of any Underwriter within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with defending or investigating any such action or claim) caused by any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, any issuer free writing prospectus as defined in Rule 433(h) under the Securities Act, any Company information that the Company has filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except insofar as such
 
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losses, claims, damages or liabilities are caused by any such untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission based upon information furnished to the Company in writing by or on behalf of an Underwriter expressly for use therein, it being understood that such information consists solely of the third, fifth and ninth paragraphs in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus under the heading “Underwriting.”  The liability of each Selling Shareholder under the indemnity agreement contained in this paragraph shall be limited to: (i) an amount equal to the proceeds (net of underwriting discounts and commissions but before deducting other expenses) received by the Selling Shareholder from the sale of the Shares sold by such Selling Shareholder under this Agreement, and (ii) such liability arising out of information relating to such Selling Shareholder furnished in writing by or on behalf of such Selling Shareholder expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto.
 
(b)                    Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Selling Shareholders, the directors of the Company, the officers of the Company who sign the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company or any Selling Shareholder within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act and each affiliate of the Company or any Selling Shareholder within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with defending or investigating any such action or claim) caused by any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, any issuer free writing prospectus as defined in Rule 433(h) under the Securities Act, any Company information that the Company has filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, or the Prospectus (as amended or supplemented if the Company shall have furnished any amendments or supplements thereto), or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, but only with reference to information furnished to the Company in writing by or on behalf of an Underwriter expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, any issuer free writing prospectus or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, it being understood that such information consists solely of the third, fifth and ninth paragraphs under the heading “Underwriting.”
 
(c)                     In case any proceeding (including any governmental investigation) shall be instituted involving any person in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to Section 10(a) or 10(b), such person (the “ indemnified party ”) shall promptly notify the person against whom such indemnity may be sought (the “ indemnifying party ”) in writing and the indemnifying party, upon request of the indemnified party, shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified
 
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party to represent the indemnified party and any others the indemnifying party may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the reasonable fees and disbursements of such counsel related to such proceeding.  In any such proceeding, any indemnified party shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i) the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have mutually agreed to the retention of such counsel or (ii) the named parties to any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the indemnifying party and the indemnified party and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them.  It is understood that the indemnifying party shall not, in respect of the legal expenses of any indemnified party in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, be liable for (i) the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all Underwriters and all persons, if any, who control any Underwriter within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act or who are affiliates of any Underwriter within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act, (ii) the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for the Company, its directors, its officers who sign the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of either such Section and (iii) the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all Selling Shareholders and all persons, if any, who control any Selling Shareholder within the meaning of either such Section, and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred.  In the case of any such separate firm for the Underwriters and such control persons and affiliates of any Underwriters, such firm shall be designated in writing by Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.  In the case of any such separate firm for the Company, and such directors, officers and control persons of the Company, such firm shall be designated in writing by the Company.  In the case of any such separate firm for the Selling Shareholders and such control persons of any Selling Shareholders, such firm shall be designated in writing by each of the Selling Shareholders.  The indemnifying party shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify the indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment.  Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by the second and third sentences of this paragraph, the indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 30 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request and (ii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed the indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement.  No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or
 
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threatened proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding.
 
(d)           To the extent the indemnification provided for in Section 10(a) or 10(b) is unavailable to an indemnified party or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein, then each indemnifying party under such paragraph, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the indemnifying party or parties on the one hand and the indemnified party or parties on the other hand from the offering of the Shares or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause 10(d)(i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause 10(d)(i) above but also the relative fault of the indemnifying party or parties on the one hand and of the indemnified party or parties on the other hand in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.  The relative benefits received by the Sellers on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand in connection with the offering of the Shares shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the net proceeds from the offering of the Shares (before deducting expenses) received by each Seller and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover of the Prospectus, bear to the aggregate Public Offering Price of the Shares.  The relative fault of the Sellers on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand 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 Sellers or by the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.  The Underwriters’ respective obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 10 are several in proportion to the respective number of Shares they have purchased hereunder, and not joint.  The liability of each Selling Shareholder under the contribution agreement contained in this paragraph shall be limited to an amount equal to the proceeds (net of underwriting discounts and commissions but before deducting other expenses) received by the Selling Shareholder from the sale of the Shares sold by such Selling Shareholder under this Agreement.
 
(e)           The Sellers and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just or equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 10 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in Section 10(d).  The amount paid or payable by an
 
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indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to in Section 10(d) shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 10, no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Shares underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages that such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission.  No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.  The remedies provided for in this Section 10 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available to any indemnified party at law or in equity.
 
(f)            The indemnity and contribution provisions contained in this Section 10 and the representations, warranties and other statements of the Company and the Selling Shareholders contained in this Agreement shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of (i) any termination of this Agreement, (ii) any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, any person controlling any Underwriter or any affiliate of any Underwriter, any Selling Shareholder or any person controlling any Selling Shareholder, or the Company, its officers or directors or any person controlling the Company and (iii) acceptance of and payment for any of the Shares.
 
11.           Withholding on Payments Made to Selling Shareholders . (a)  The Underwriters shall be permitted to withhold from the payment(s) for the Shares of each Selling Shareholder such amounts as the Underwriters deem appropriate under Section 3406 of the Code unless on or before the Closing Date, such Selling Shareholder delivers to the Underwriters all applicable documentation as required under the applicable Treasury Regulations (in the case of a nonwithholding foreign partnership, a nonwithholding foreign partnership withholding certificate (including a withholding statement), together with all required documentations for its beneficial owners, in compliance with Treasury Regulation Section 1.1441-5(c)(3)(iii)).
 
(b)           The Underwriters shall be permitted to withhold from the payment(s) for the Shares of each Selling Shareholder such amounts as the Representatives deem appropriate under Section 897 and Section 1445 of the Code, unless, on or before the Closing Date, (i) such Selling Shareholder delivers to the Underwriters a certification (as described under the applicable Treasury Regulations), certifying that such Selling Shareholder is not a “foreign person,” or (ii) the Company delivers to the Underwriters a statement (as described under the applicable Treasury Regulations), certifying that the interest in the Company is not a “U.S. real property interest.”  In the event that the Company delivers the statement described in clause (ii) of the preceding sentence, the Company shall
 
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also deliver to the Underwriters an executed version of the notice described in Treasury Regulation § 1.897-2(h)(2) on or before the Closing Date, which the Underwriters shall mail to the Internal Revenue Service by the date specified in Treasury Regulation § 1.897-2(h)(2)(v).
 
(c)           If a Selling Shareholder or the Company, as the case may be, delivers the documentation required by paragraphs (a) or (b) to the Underwriters prior to the Closing Date and the Underwriters determine that withholding of the amounts described in paragraph (a) or (b) is still required, the Underwriters shall notify the relevant Selling Shareholders of such determination and the reason for such determination within a reasonable period of time prior to the Closing Date.
 
12.           Termination .  The Underwriters may terminate this Agreement by notice given by you to the Company, if  after the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date (i) trading generally shall have been suspended or materially limited on, or by, as the case may be, any of the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ Global Market, (ii) trading of any securities of the Company shall have been suspended on any exchange or in any over-the-counter market at a time when trading generally shall not have been suspended or materially limited on or by, as the case may be, the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ Global Market, (iii) a material disruption in securities settlement, payment or clearance services in the United States shall have occurred, (iv) any moratorium on commercial banking activities shall have been declared by Federal or New York State authorities or (v) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities, or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis that, in your judgment, is material and adverse and which, singly or together with any other event specified in this clause (v), makes it, in your judgment, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offer, sale or delivery of the Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus.
 
13.           Effectiveness; Defaulting Underwriters . This Agreement shall become effective upon the execution and delivery hereof by the parties hereto.
 
If, on the Closing Date or an Option Closing Date, as the case may be, any one or more of the Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Shares that it has or they have agreed to purchase hereunder on such date, and the aggregate number of Shares which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase is not more than one-tenth of the aggregate number of the Shares to be purchased on such date, the other Underwriters shall be obligated severally in the proportions that the number of Firm Shares set forth opposite their respective names in Schedule II bears to the aggregate number of Firm Shares set forth opposite the names of all such non-defaulting Underwriters, or in such other proportions as you may specify, to purchase the Shares which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase on such date; provided that in no event shall the number of Shares that any Underwriter has agreed to purchase pursuant to this Agreement be increased
 
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pursuant to this Section 13 by an amount in excess of one-ninth of such number of Shares without the written consent of such Underwriter.  If, on the Closing Date, any Underwriter or Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Firm Shares and the aggregate number of Firm Shares with respect to which such default occurs is more than one-tenth of the aggregate number of Firm Shares to be purchased on such date, and arrangements satisfactory to you, the Company and the Selling Shareholders for the purchase of such Firm Shares are not made within 36 hours after such default, this Agreement shall terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter, the Company or the Selling Shareholders.  In any such case either you or the relevant Sellers shall have the right to postpone the Closing Date, but in no event for longer than seven days, in order that the required changes, if any, in the Registration Statement, in the Time of Sale Prospectus, in the Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements may be effected.  If, on an Option Closing Date, any Underwriter or Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Additional Shares and the aggregate number of Additional Shares with respect to which such default occurs is more than one-tenth of the aggregate number of Additional Shares to be purchased on such Option Closing Date, the non-defaulting Underwriters shall have the option to (i) terminate their obligation hereunder to purchase the Additional Shares to be sold on such Option Closing Date or (ii) purchase not less than the number of Additional Shares that such non-defaulting Underwriters would have been obligated to purchase in the absence of such default.  Any action taken under this paragraph shall not relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of such Underwriter under this Agreement.
 
If this Agreement shall be terminated by the Underwriters, or any of them, because of any failure or refusal on the part of any Seller to comply with the terms or to fulfill any of the conditions of this Agreement, or if for any reason any Seller shall be unable to perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Sellers will reimburse the Underwriters or such Underwriters as have so terminated this Agreement with respect to themselves, severally, for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including the reasonable fees and disbursements of their counsel) incurred by such Underwriters in connection with this Agreement or the offering contemplated hereunder.  The provisions of this Section shall not supersede or otherwise affect any agreement that the Sellers may otherwise have for the allocation of such expenses among themselves.
 
14.           Entire Agreement .  (a) This Agreement, together with any contemporaneous written agreements and any prior written agreements (to the extent not superseded by this Agreement) that relate to the offering of the Shares, represents the entire agreement between the Company and the Selling Shareholders, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other, with respect to the preparation of any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus, the conduct of the offering, and the purchase and sale of the Shares.
 
(b)           The Company acknowledges that in connection with the offering of the Shares:  (i) the Underwriters have acted at arms length, are not agents of,
 
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and owe no fiduciary duties to, the Company or any other person, (ii) the Underwriters owe the Company only those duties and obligations set forth in this Agreement and prior written agreements (to the extent not superseded by this Agreement), if any, and (iii) the Underwriters may have interests that differ from those of the Company.  The Company waives to the full extent permitted by applicable law any claims it may have against the Underwriters arising from an alleged breach of fiduciary duty in connection with the offering of the Shares.
 
15.           Counterparts .  This Agreement may be signed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.
 
16.           Applicable Law .  This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York.
 
17.           Headings .  The headings of the sections of this Agreement have been inserted for convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed a part of this Agreement.
 
18.           Notices.  All communications hereunder shall be in writing and effective only upon receipt and if to the Underwriters shall be delivered, mailed or sent to you in care of Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc., 135 West 55 Street New York, New York 10019, Attention: Equity Syndicate Desk, with a copy to the Legal Department, and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179, Attention: Equity Syndicate Desk (Fax: (212) 622-8358), with a copy to the Legal Department; if to the Company shall be delivered, mailed or sent to J.D. Rubin, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Broadwind Energy, Inc., 47 East Chicago Avenue, Suite 332, Naperville, IL 60540 with a copy to Robert L. Verigan, Sidley Austin LLP, One South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60603; if to the Tontine Selling Shareholders shall be delivered, mailed or sent to Jeffrey L. Gendell, Tontine Capital Partners, L.P., 55 Railroad Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06830, with a copy to Sarah M. Bernstein, Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP, 200 West Madison Street, Suite 3900, Chicago, IL 60606; and if to J. Cameron Drecoll shall be delivered, mailed or sent to J. Cameron Drecoll, Chief Executive Officer, Broadwind Energy, Inc., 47 East Chicago Avenue, Suite 332, Naperville, IL 60540, with a copy to Robert L. Verigan, Sidley Austin LLP, One South Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60603.
 
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 	Very truly yours,	
 	 	
 	BROADWIND ENERGY, INC.	

 	By:	/s/ J. Cameron Drecoll	
 	 	Name:	J. Cameron Drecoll	
 	 	Title:	Chief Executive Officer	
 
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 	TONTINE CAPITAL PARTNERS, L.P.	

 	By:	Tontine Capital Management, L.L.C., its general partner	
 	 	 	
 	By:	/s/ Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Name:	Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Title:	Managing Member	
 	 	 	
 	TONTINE PARTNERS, L.P.	

 	By:	Tontine Management, L.L.C., its general partner	
 	 	 	 	
 	By:	/s/ Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Name:	Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Title:	Managing Member	
 	 	
 	TONTINE CAPITAL OVERSEAS MASTER FUND, L.P.	

 	By:	Tontine Capital Overseas GP, L.L.C., its general partner	
 	 	 	
 	By:	/s/ Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Name:	Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Title:	Managing Member	
 	 	
 	TONTINE OVERSEAS FUND, LTD.	

 	By:	Tontine Overseas Associates, L.L.C., its investment advisor	
 	 	 	
 	By:	/s/ Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Name:	Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Title:	Managing Member	
 
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 	TONTINE 25 OVERSEAS MASTER FUND, L.P.	

 	By:	Tontine Capital Management, L.L.C., its general partner	
 	 	 	 	
 	By:	/s/ Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Name:	Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Title:	Managing Member	
 
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 	By:	/s/ J. Cameron Drecoll	
 	 	Name:	J. Cameron Drecoll	
 
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Accepted as of the date hereof by:	 	
 	 	
Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc.	 	
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.	 	

Acting severally on behalf of themselves and the several Underwriters named in Schedule II hereto	 	

By:	Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc.	 	

By:  	/s/ Tim Bishop	 	
 	Name:	Tim Bishop	
 	Title:	President	
 	 	 	
By:	/s/ Anna Boniface	 	
 	Name:	Anna Boniface	
 	Title:	Secretary	

By:	J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.	

By:	/s/ Yaw Asamoah-Duodu	 	
 	Name:	Yaw Asamoah-Duodu	
 	Title:	Executive Director	

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SCHEDULE I

Selling Shareholder	 	Number of Firm Shares
To Be Sold	 	Number of Additional
Shares To Be Sold	 	
Tontine Capital Partners, L.P.	 	2,066,970	 	465,068	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	
Tontine Partners, L.P.	 	1,399,856	 	314,968	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	
Tontine Capital Overseas Master Fund, L.P.	 	591,089	 	132,995	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	
Tontine Overseas Fund, Ltd.	 	542,845	 	122,140	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	
Tontine 25 Overseas Master Fund, L.P.	 	399,240	 	89,829	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	
J. Cameron Drecoll	 	0	 	1,125,000	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	
Total:	 	5,000,000	 	2,250,000	 	
 
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SCHEDULE II

Underwriter	 	Number of Firm Shares
To Be Purchased	 	
 	 	 	 	
Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc.	 	7,500,000	 	
 	 	 	 	
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.	 	5,250,000	 	
 	 	 	 	
Raymond James & Associates, Inc.	 	1,500,000	 	
 	 	 	 	
Lazard Capital Markets LLC	 	750,000	 	
 	 	 	 	
Total:	 	15,000,000	 	
 
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SCHEDULE III
 
Time of Sale Prospectus
 
1.                                        Preliminary Prospectus issued January 4, 2010
 
2.                                        Orally communicated pricing information of $5.75 per Share
 
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SCHEDULE IV
 
Significant Subsidiaries of the Company

Subsidiary	 	State of Incorporation/Formation	
Badger Transport, Inc.	 	Wisconsin	
Brad Foote Gear Works, Inc.	 	Illinois	
Energy Maintenance Service, LLC	 	Delaware	
Tower Tech Systems Inc.	 	Wisconsin	
 
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EXHIBIT A
 
FORM OF CFO CERTIFICATE

 
EXHIBIT B
 
FORM OF OPINION OF SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP

 
EXHIBIT C
 
FORM OF OPINION OF BARRACK FERRAZZANO ET AL LLP

 
EXHIBIT D
 
FORM OF OPINIONS OF WALKERS

 
EXHIBIT E
 
FORM OF OPINION OF LOEB & LOEB LLP

 
EXHIBIT F
 
FORM OF TONTINE SELLING SHAREHOLDER LOCK-UP LETTER

 
EXHIBIT G
 
FORM OF DIRECTOR AND OFFICER LOCK-UP LETTER

 
EXHIBIT H
 
FORM OF GC OPINION

Exhibit 2
 
December 10, 2009
 
Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc.
125 West 55th Street, 22nd Floor
New York, NY 10019
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
 
The undersigned understands that Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. (the “ Representatives ”), on behalf of the several underwriters (the “ Underwriters ”), propose to enter into an Underwriting Agreement (the “ Underwriting Agreement ”) with Broadwind Energy, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), and certain Selling Shareholders listed therein (the “ Selling Shareholders ”), providing for the public offering (the “ Public Offering ”) by the Underwriter of 15,000,000 shares (the “ Shares ”) of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company (the “ Common Stock ”).
 
To induce the Underwriter that may participate in the Public Offering to continue its efforts in connection with the Public Offering, the undersigned hereby agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Underwriter, it will not, during the period commencing on the date hereof and ending 75 days after the date of the final prospectus relating to the Public Offering (the “ Prospectus ”), (1) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Common Stock beneficially owned (as such term is used in Rule 13d-3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”)), by the undersigned or any other securities so owned convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock or (2) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Common Stock, whether any such transaction described in clause (1) or (2) above is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise.  The foregoing sentence shall not apply to (a) transactions relating to shares of Common Stock or other securities acquired in open market transactions after the completion of the Public Offering, provided that no filing under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act  shall be required or shall be voluntarily made in connection with subsequent sales of Common Stock or other securities acquired in such open market transactions, (b) transfers of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into Common Stock as a bona fide gift, (c) distributions of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into Common Stock to limited partners or stockholders of the undersigned, or (d) transfers of any direct or indirect ownership interest in the Common Stock by the undersigned (including distributions of ownership interests in the undersigned) to TCP Overseas Master Fund II, L.P., provided that in the case of any transfer or distribution pursuant to clause (b), (c) or (d), (i) each donee or distributee (whether direct or indirect) shall sign and deliver a lock-up letter substantially in the form of this letter and (ii) no filing under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act, reporting a reduction in beneficial ownership of shares of Common

 
Stock, shall be required or shall be voluntarily made during the restricted period referred to in the foregoing sentence, or (e) the establishment of a trading plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act for the transfer of shares of Common Stock, provided that such plan does not provide for the transfer of Common Stock during the restricted period and no public announcement or filing under the Exchange Act regarding the establishment of such plan shall be required of or voluntarily made by or on behalf of the undersigned or the Company.  In addition, the undersigned agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Underwriter, it will not, during the period commencing on the date hereof and ending 60 days after the date of the Prospectus, make any demand for or exercise any right with respect to, the registration of any shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock.  The undersigned also agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the transfer of the undersigned’s shares of Common Stock except in compliance with the foregoing restrictions.
 
If:
 
(1)           during the last 17 days of the restricted period the Company issues an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to the Company occurs; or
 
(2)           prior to the expiration of the restricted period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the restricted period;
 
the restrictions imposed by this agreement shall 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.
 
The undersigned shall not engage in any transaction that may be restricted by this agreement during the 34-day period beginning on the last day of the initial restricted period unless the undersigned requests and receives prior written confirmation from the Company or the Underwriter that the restrictions imposed by this agreement have expired.
 
The undersigned understands that the Company and the Underwriter are relying upon this agreement in proceeding toward consummation of the Public Offering.  The undersigned further understands that this agreement is irrevocable and shall be binding upon the undersigned’s heirs, legal representatives, successors and assigns.
 
Whether or not the Public Offering actually occurs depends on a number of factors, including market conditions.  Any Public Offering will only be made pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement, the terms of which are subject to negotiation between the Company and the Underwriter.
 
This agreement shall automatically terminate upon the earliest to occur, if any, of (1) either the Underwriter, on the one hand, or the Company, on the other hand, advising the other in writing, prior to the execution of the Underwriting Agreement, that

 
they have determined not to proceed with the public offering contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement, (2) termination of the Underwriting Agreement before the sale of any Common Stock to the Underwriter, (3) the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to the public offering contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement is withdrawn, or (4) February 15, 2010, in the event that the Underwriting Agreement has not been executed by such date.

 

 	Very truly yours,	
 	 	
 	TONTINE CAPITAL PARTNERS, L.P.	

 	By:	Tontine Capital Management, L.L.C., its general partner	
 	 	 	
 	By:	/s/ Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Name:	Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Title:	Managing Member	
 	 	
 	TONTINE PARTNERS, L.P.	

 	By:	Tontine Management, L.L.C., its general partner	
 	 	 	 	
 	By:	/s/ Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Name:	Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Title:	Managing Member	
 	 	
 	TONTINE CAPITAL OVERSEAS MASTER FUND, L.P.	

 	By:	Tontine Capital Overseas GP, L.L.C., its general partner	
 	 	 	
 	By:	/s/ Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Name:	Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Title:	Managing Member	
 	 	
 	TONTINE OVERSEAS FUND, LTD.	

 	By:	Tontine Overseas Associates, L.L.C., its investment advisor	
 	 	 	
 	By:	/s/ Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Name:	Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Title:	Managing Member	

 

 	TONTINE 25 OVERSEAS MASTER FUND, L.P.	

 	By:	Tontine Capital Management, L.L.C., its general partner	
 	 	 	
 	By:	/s/ Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Name:	Jeffrey L. Gendell	
 	 	Title:	Managing Member