Exhibit 1.1

Jersey Mike’s Subs Inc.

Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share

Underwriting Agreement

[ ], 2026

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

Jefferies LLC

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

As representatives (the “Representatives”) of the several Underwriters
named in Schedule I hereto,

c/o Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
1585 Broadway
New York, New York 10036

c/o Jefferies LLC
520 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10022

c/o J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
270 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Jersey Mike’s Subs Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes, subject to the terms and conditions stated in this agreement (this “Agreement”), to issue and sell to the several Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (the “Underwriters”) an aggregate of [____] shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class A Common Stock”), of the Company, and certain stockholders of the Company named in Schedule II hereto (the “Selling Stockholders”) propose, subject to the terms and conditions stated in this Agreement, to sell to the Underwriters an aggregate of [____] shares of Class A Common Stock and, at the election of the Underwriters, to sell to the Underwriters up to [____] additional shares of Class A Common Stock. The aggregate of [____] shares of Class A Common Stock to be sold by the Company and [____] shares of Class A Common Stock to be sold by the Selling Stockholders are herein called the “Firm Shares” and the aggregate of up to [____] additional shares of Class A Common Stock to be sold by the Selling Stockholders are herein called the “Optional Shares.” The Firm Shares and the Optional Shares that the Underwriters elect to purchase pursuant to Section 2 hereof are herein collectively called the “Shares.”

On the date hereof, the business of the Company is conducted through Jersey Mike’s HoldCo, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Jersey Mike’s Holdings”), and its subsidiaries. Prior to the First Time of Delivery (as defined in Section 4(a) hereof), the Reorganization Transactions (as defined in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus (each as defined below)) will be effected, pursuant to which, among other things, (i) the Company will become the managing member of Jersey Mike’s Holdings, and (ii) the Company


 

will amend and restate its certificate of incorporation (the “Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation”) and will be authorized to issue shares of Class A Common Stock and shares of Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class B Common Stock” and, together with the Class A Common Stock, “Common Stock”), in each case with the rights and privileges as set out in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus. The Company and Jersey Mike’s Holdings are each referred to herein as a “Jersey Mike’s Party” and collectively referred to herein as the “Jersey Mike’s Parties.”

In connection with the offering contemplated by this Agreement, the Class A Common Stock to be sold by each Selling Stockholder (i) is currently held directly by such Selling Stockholder (or is currently held directly by an affiliate of such Selling Stockholder and will be transferred to such Selling Stockholder prior to the applicable Time of Delivery (as defined herein)) or (ii) will be issued by the Company to such Selling Stockholder upon exchange (the “Unit Exchange”) of membership interests in Jersey Mike’s Holdings (“Units”), held by such Selling Stockholder at a ratio of one Unit for one share of Class A Common Stock of the Company, pursuant to the terms of the Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of Jersey Mike’s Holdings (the “Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement”), and the terms of the Exchange Agreement (the “Exchange Agreement”) by and among the Company, Jersey Mike’s Holdings and the other parties named therein. The Class A Common Stock to be sold in the offering by the Selling Stockholders has been registered for resale pursuant to the Registration Statement (as defined below) in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) between the Company and the other parties named therein.

The offering contemplated by this Agreement includes, in addition to the offering in the United States, a public offering of the Shares (including in the form of DIs (as defined in Schedule V)) in the United Kingdom without admission to trading on a regulated market or primary MTF (as such terms are defined in Regulation 3 of The Public Offers and Admissions to Trading Regulations 2024) and without publication of a prospectus in the United Kingdom, as described in Schedule V.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (the “Directed Share Underwriter”) has agreed to reserve out of the Shares set forth opposite its name on Schedule I to this Agreement, up to [___] Shares, for sale at the direction of the Company to certain parties related to the Company (collectively, “Participants”), as set forth in the Prospectus under the heading “Underwriting (Conflicts of Interest) – Directed Share Program (the “Directed Share Program”). The Shares to be sold by the Directed Share Underwriter and its affiliates pursuant to the Directed Share Program at the direction of the Company are hereinafter referred to as the “Directed Shares.” Any Directed Shares not confirmed for purchase by the deadline established therefor by the Directed Share Underwriter in consultation with the Company will be offered to the public by the Underwriters as set forth in the Prospectus.

1. (a) Each Jersey Mike’s Party, jointly and severally, represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each of the Underwriters that:

(i) A registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-297228) (the “Initial Registration Statement”) in respect of the Shares has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”); the Initial Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, each in the form heretofore delivered to the Representatives and to the Representatives for each of the other Underwriters, excluding exhibits thereto, have been

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declared effective by the Commission in such form; other than a registration statement, if any, increasing the size of the offering (a “Rule 462(b) Registration Statement”), filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) (“Rule 462(b)”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), which became effective upon filing, no other document with respect to the Initial Registration Statement has heretofore been filed with the Commission; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Initial Registration Statement, any post-effective amendment thereto or the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, has been issued and no proceeding for that purpose has been initiated or, to the knowledge of the Jersey Mike’s Parties, threatened by the Commission (any preliminary prospectus included in the Initial Registration Statement or filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(a) under the Act is hereinafter called a “Preliminary Prospectus”; the various parts of the Initial Registration Statement and the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, including all exhibits thereto and including the information contained in the form of final prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof and deemed by virtue of Rule 430A under the Act to be part of the Initial Registration Statement at the time it was declared effective, each as amended at the time such part of the Initial Registration Statement became effective or such part of the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, became or hereafter becomes effective, are hereinafter collectively called the “Registration Statement”; the Preliminary Prospectus relating to the Shares that was included in the Registration Statement immediately prior to the Applicable Time (as defined in Section 1(a)(iii) hereof) is hereinafter called the “Pricing Prospectus”; such final prospectus, in the form first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act, is hereinafter called the “Prospectus”; any oral or written communication with potential investors undertaken in reliance on Section 5(d) or Rule 163B under the Act is hereinafter called a “Testing-the-Waters Communication”; any Testing-the-Waters Communication that is a written communication within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Act is hereinafter called a “Written Testing-the-Waters Communication”; and any “issuer free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 433 under the Act relating to the Shares is hereinafter called an “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus”);

(ii) (A) No order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus has been issued by the Commission, and (B) each Preliminary Prospectus, at the time of filing thereof, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and did not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with the Underwriter Information (as defined in Section 9(c) of this Agreement);

(iii) For the purposes of this Agreement, the “Applicable Time” is [____] p.m. (Eastern time) on the date of this Agreement; the Pricing Prospectus, as supplemented by the information listed on Schedule III(b) hereto, taken together (collectively, the “Pricing Disclosure Package”), as of the Applicable Time, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus listed on Schedule III(a) hereto does not conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, and each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and each Written Testing-the-Waters Communication listed on Schedule III(c), each, as supplemented by and taken together with the Pricing Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with the Underwriter Information;

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(iv) The Registration Statement conforms, and the Prospectus and any further amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus will conform, in all material respects to the applicable requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. As of the applicable effective date as to each part of the Registration Statement and any amendment thereto, the Registration Statement did not and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and as of the applicable filing date of the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, the Prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with the Underwriter Information;

(v) The Company (i) has not alone engaged in any Testing-the-Waters Communication other than Testing-the-Waters Communications with the consent of the Representatives with entities that are qualified institutional buyers within the meaning of the Rule 144A under the Act or institutions that are accredited investors within the meaning of Rule 501 under the Act and (ii) has not authorized anyone other than the Representatives to engage in Testing-the-Waters Communications. The Company reconfirms that the Representatives have been authorized to act on its behalf in undertaking Testing-the-Waters Communications. The Company has not distributed any Written Testing-the-Waters Communications other than as listed in Schedule III(c);

(vi) Each Jersey Mike’s Party (i) has been duly incorporated or organized, as applicable, and is validly existing as a company under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, as applicable, (ii) has corporate power and authority (x) to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, as applicable and (y) to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement and (iii) is duly qualified as a foreign entity to transact business and is in good standing (to the extent such concept exists in the applicable jurisdiction) or equivalent status in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) where the failure to have such power or authority or to be so qualified or in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a material adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise), or in the business, results of operations or prospects, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, of the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries, taken as a whole and after giving effect to the Reorganization Transactions and the sale of the Shares, or on the power or ability of any Jersey Mike’s Party to perform in all material respects its obligations under the Transaction Documents (as defined below), or to consummate in all material respects the transactions contemplated by each of the Registration Statement, Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus (any such change, a “Material Adverse Effect”);

(vii) Each “significant subsidiary” (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X) (each a “Subsidiary” and collectively, the “Subsidiaries”) of the Company (i) has been duly organized and is validly existing as a corporation, limited liability company or other legal entity, as applicable, in good standing (to the extent such concept exists in the applicable jurisdiction) under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or formation, (ii) has the power and authority to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, and (iii) has been duly qualified as a foreign corporation or other entity, as the case may be, for the transaction of business and is in good standing (to the extent

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such concept exists in the applicable jurisdiction) under the laws of each other jurisdiction in which it owns or leases properties or conducts any business so as to require such qualification, except, in the case of clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), where the failure to be so organized and in existence, to have such power or authority or to be so qualified or in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;

(viii) None of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective Subsidiaries has sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the Pricing Prospectus any material loss or material interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus; and, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Pricing Prospectus, (i) there has been no Material Adverse Effect and (ii) the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries, considered as one entity, have not (x) incurred any material liability or obligation (whether indirect, direct or contingent) that would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or (y) except as otherwise disclosed in the Pricing Prospectus, entered into any material transaction or agreement, in each case, not in the ordinary course of business, except for transactions and agreements related to the Reorganization Transactions and the sale of the Shares, including this Agreement, the Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement, the Exchange Agreement, the Tax Receivable Agreement (the “Tax Receivable Agreement”) between the Company, Jersey Mike’s Holdings and certain other holders of Units, and the Stockholders Agreement (the “Stockholders Agreement” and, together with this Agreement, the Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement, the Exchange Agreement and the Tax Receivable Agreement, the “Transaction Documents”) between the Company and certain stockholders of the Company party thereto;

(ix) The Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective Subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all the properties and assets reflected as owned in the financial statements referred to in Section 1(a)(viii) hereof, and hold any leased real or personal property under valid and enforceable leases, except, in each case, as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(x) (i) The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the Pricing Prospectus and, immediately after giving effect to the Reorganization Transactions and the issuance and sale of the Firm Shares to be sold by the Company and the use of the net proceeds therefrom as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, the Company would have an authorized capitalization as set forth under the pro forma column of the capitalization table in the section of the Pricing Prospectus entitled “Capitalization”; following the filing of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the State of Delaware on or prior to the First Time of Delivery, (x) all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company (including the Shares to be sold by the Selling Stockholders) will have been duly authorized and (other than the Shares issued pursuant to the Unit Exchange, which will be described in clause (y)) will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and will conform in all material respects to the description of the Company’s capital stock contained in the Pricing Disclosure Package and Prospectus and (y) all of the Shares (including the Shares issued pursuant to the Unit Exchange to certain Selling Stockholders) will have been duly authorized and, when issued and delivered against payment therefor as provided herein and in accordance with the provisions of the Exchange Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and will conform in all material respects to the description of the Company’s capital stock contained in the Pricing Disclosure Package and Prospectus; and, upon the effectiveness

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of the Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement and after giving effect to the Reorganization Transactions, all of the issued equity interests of Jersey Mike’s Holdings and its subsidiaries will have been duly and validly authorized and issued, fully paid and non-assessable and (except, (A) in the case of any foreign subsidiary, for directors’ qualifying shares and (B) the Units owned by the Continuing Unitholders (each, as defined in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus)) are owned directly or indirectly by the Company, free and clear of all liens, mortgages, pledges, security interest, encumbrances, equities or claims other than as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, and (ii) there are no outstanding options, warrants, preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other rights to purchase, or equity or debt securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for, any capital stock of the Jersey Mike’s Parties other than as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus.

(xi) Neither the Jersey Mike’s Parties nor any of their respective subsidiaries is in violation of its charter or by-laws or similar organizational documents, as applicable, or is in default (“Default”) under any indenture, mortgage, loan or credit agreement, note, contract, lease or other instrument to which the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries is a party or by which the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries may be bound, or to which any of their respective property or assets is subject (each, an “Existing Instrument”), except for such Defaults as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or that would not reasonably be expected to adversely affect, in any material respect, the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated or any of their obligations under this Agreement;

(xii) The execution and delivery of, and the compliance with, this Agreement, the issue and sale of the Shares to be sold by the Company and the consummation of the Reorganization Transactions and the transactions herein contemplated (i) after giving effect to the Reorganization Transactions, will not result in any violation of the provisions of the charters, by-laws or similar organizational documents of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries, as applicable, (ii) will not conflict with or constitute a breach of, or Default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries pursuant to, or require the consent (except as shall have been obtained prior to the Time of Delivery) of any other party to, any Existing Instrument and (iii) will not result in any violation of any law, administrative regulation or administrative or court decree applicable to the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries, except, solely in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), for such conflicts, breaches, Defaults, liens, charges, encumbrances or violations as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or that would not reasonably be expected to adversely affect, in any material respect, the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein or any of the obligations of the Jersey Mike’s Parties under this Agreement; and no consent, approval, authorization or other order of, or registration, qualification or filing with, any court or other governmental or regulatory authority or agency is required for the issue of the Shares to be sold by the Company, the sale of the Shares or the consummation by the Jersey Mike’s Parties of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except for (w) the registration under the Act of the Shares, (x) the approval by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) of the underwriting terms and arrangements, (y) such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders, registrations, qualifications or filings as may be required under state securities or Blue Sky laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Shares by the Underwriters, the filing of the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State for the State of Delaware and (z) as shall have been obtained or made prior to the Time of Delivery; except where the failure to obtain any such consents, approvals,

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authorizations, orders, registrations or qualifications or make such filings would not impair, in any material respect, the ability of the Company to issue and sell the Shares to be sold by the Company or consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;

(xiii) The statements set forth in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus under the caption “Description of Capital Stock,” insofar as they purport to constitute a summary of the terms of the Common Stock, constitute an accurate summary of the terms of such Common Stock in all material respects;

(xiv) The statements set forth in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus under the caption “Certain U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences to Non-U.S. Holders,” insofar as they purport to describe provisions of laws or regulations or legal conclusions with respect thereto, are accurate, complete and fair in all material respects;

(xv) There is no legal or governmental action, suit or proceeding pending or, to the Jersey Mike’s Parties’ knowledge, threatened (i) against or affecting the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries or (ii) which has as the subject thereof any property owned or leased by the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries that would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or would materially and adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;

(xvi) The Jersey Mike’s Parties are not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Shares to be sold by the Company and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, will not be required to register as an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended;

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

(xviii) Deloitte & Touche LLP, who have expressed their opinion with respect to certain financial statements (which term as used in this Agreement includes the related notes thereto) of the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries included in the Registration Statement, are independent registered public accountants with respect to such parties within the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission and as required by the Act;

(xix) Each Jersey Mike’s Party maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (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 (“U.S. GAAP”); (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences; and each Jersey Mike’s Party is not aware of any material weaknesses in its respective internal accounting controls;

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(xx) Each of the Jersey Mike’s Parties maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) that have been designed to ensure that material information relating to the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries is made known to the chief executive officer and chief financial officer of each of the Jersey Mike’s Parties by others within the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries;

(xxi) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Jersey Mike’s Parties; each of the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party has been duly authorized by each Jersey Mike’s Party and, when duly executed and delivered in accordance with its terms by each of the parties thereto, will constitute a valid and legally binding obligation of each such Jersey Mike’s Party enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except, in the case of each Transaction Document, as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability; and each such Transaction Document conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Pricing Prospectus;

(xxii) The consolidated historical financial statements of Jersey Mike’s Holdings and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates indicated and the related notes thereto included in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus present fairly in all material respects the consolidated financial position of Jersey Mike’s Holdings and its consolidated subsidiaries as of and at the dates indicated and the results of their operations and cash flows for the periods specified in conformity with U.S. GAAP applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved (except as otherwise stated therein). The historical financial data of Jersey Mike’s Holdings and its subsidiaries included in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus under the caption “Summary—Summary Historical and Pro Forma Condensed Consolidated Financial and Other Data” present fairly in all material respects the information set forth therein on a basis consistent with that of the audited financial statements contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus. The unaudited pro forma financial statements and the related notes thereto included under the captions “Summary—Summary Historical and Pro Forma Condensed Consolidated Financial and Other Data” and “Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Consolidated Financial Information” present fairly in all material respects the information contained therein, have been prepared in all material respects in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines with respect to pro forma financial statements, and the assumptions used in the preparation thereof are believed by each Jersey Mike's Party to be reasonable and the adjustments used therein are believed by each Jersey Mike's Party to be appropriate to give effect to the transactions and circumstances referred to therein. Except as included therein, no historical or pro forma financial statements or supporting schedules are required to be included in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus under the Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. All disclosures contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus regarding “non-GAAP financial measures” (as such term is defined by the rules and regulations of the Commission) comply in all material respects with Regulation G of the Exchange Act and Item 10 of Regulation S-K under the Act, to the extent applicable;

(xxiii) No transaction has occurred between or among the Jersey Mike’s Parties and any of their respective officers or directors, stockholders or any affiliate or affiliates of the foregoing that is required to be described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus and is not so described;

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(xxiv) There are no contracts or other documents that are required under the Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder to be described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus or to be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement that have not been described or filed as an exhibit as required;

(xxv) Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect: (i) the Jersey Mike’s Parties, their respective subsidiaries, and their respective operations and properties, are in compliance with all applicable federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations relating to pollution or protection of the environment and of human health, including, without limitation, laws and regulations relating to emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, or petroleum and petroleum products in any form (collectively, “Materials of Environmental Concern”), or otherwise relating to the use, generation, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Materials of Environmental Concern (collectively, “Environmental Laws”), (ii) there is no claim, action or cause of action filed with a court or governmental authority, no investigation with respect to which the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries have received written notice, and no written notice by any person or entity alleging violation of, or actual or potential liability on the part of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or their respective subsidiaries under, the Environmental Laws (collectively, “Environmental Claims”), pending or, to the knowledge of the Jersey Mike’s Parties, threatened against the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Jersey Mike’s Parties, any person or entity whose liability for any Environmental Claim that the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries have retained or assumed either contractually or by operation of law; and (iii) to the knowledge of the Jersey Mike’s Parties, there are no past or present actions, activities, circumstances, conditions, events or occurrences, including, without limitation, the release, emission, discharge, presence or disposal of any Materials of Environmental Concern, that reasonably would be expected to result in a violation of or liability of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or their respective subsidiaries under any Environmental Law or form the basis of an Environmental Claim against the Jersey Mike’s Parties or their respective subsidiaries or against any person or entity whose liability for any Environmental Claim that the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries have retained or assumed either contractually or by operation of law;

(xxvi) The Company has taken all necessary actions to ensure that, upon the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, it will be in compliance with all provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder or implementing the provisions thereof that are then in effect and which the Company is required to comply with as of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement;

(xxvii) Except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus or as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries own or have adequate rights to use all trademarks, service marks, trade names, patents, inventions, copyrights, rights in software, domain names, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary information, systems or procedures) and all other intellectual property and similar proprietary rights in any jurisdiction throughout the world (including all registrations and applications for registration of, and all goodwill associated with, any of the foregoing) (collectively, “Intellectual Property Rights”) used in or reasonably necessary to conduct their businesses as currently conducted and as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus; (ii) the Intellectual Property Rights owned by the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries are subsisting and,

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to the knowledge of the Jersey Mike’s Parties, valid and enforceable, and there is no pending or, to the knowledge of the Jersey Mike’s Parties, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the ownership, validity, scope or enforceability of, or any rights of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries in, any such Intellectual Property Rights; (iii) none of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries has received any notice alleging any infringement, misappropriation or other violation of any Intellectual Property Rights of others that remains pending; (iv) to the knowledge of the Jersey Mike’s Parties, no person or entity is infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating, or has infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated any Intellectual Property Rights owned or controlled by the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries in the preceding three years of the date hereof; (v) to the knowledge of the Jersey Mike’s Parties, none of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries is infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating, or has infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated in the preceding three years of the date hereof, any Intellectual Property Rights of others, and the conduct of each of the respective businesses of the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus does not infringe, misappropriate, or otherwise violate any Intellectual Property Rights of others; and (vi) the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries use, and have used, commercially reasonable efforts to maintain the confidentiality of all Intellectual Property Rights (including software code) of the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries the value of which to the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries is contingent upon maintaining the confidentiality thereof;

(xxviii) Except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus or as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i)(A) the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries own or have a right to use all information technology assets and equipment, computer systems, networks, hardware, software, websites, databases, data (including the personal, personally identifiable, sensitive, household, confidential or regulated data of their respective users, customers, employees, suppliers, vendors and any third party data used, gathered, accessed, stored, maintained or otherwise processed by or on behalf of them) and technology required in connection with the operation of the Jersey Mike’s Parties’ and their respective subsidiaries’ businesses as currently conducted (collectively, “IT Systems and Data”); (B) the Jersey Mike’s Parties’ and their respective subsidiaries’ IT Systems and Data are adequate for, and operate and perform in all respects as required in connection with the operation of the business of the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries as currently conducted, free and clear of all bugs, errors, defects, Trojan horses, time bombs, back doors, drop dead devices, malware and other corruptants; (C) the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries have taken commercially reasonable measures to protect their IT Systems and Data, and without limiting the foregoing, the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries have used commercially reasonable efforts to establish and maintain, and have established and maintained, reasonable information technology and information security policies, procedures, controls and safeguards designed to maintain and protect the integrity, continuous operation, redundancy and security of their IT Systems and Data and to protect against and prevent breach, destruction, loss, unauthorized disclosure, use, access, disablement, misappropriation or modification, or other compromise or misuse of or relating to their IT Systems and Data (“Breach”), including the commercially reasonable mitigation of any known vulnerabilities; and (D) except for any Breach that has been resolved without material liability or requirement to notify any person, there has been no such Breach; and (ii)(A) the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries have complied in the preceding three years of the date hereof, and are currently in compliance with, all applicable laws, statutes, judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or other governmental or regulatory authority, binding industry standards,

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internal and external posted privacy policies and contractual obligations, in each case, relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and Data (including the collection, use, transfer, import, export, storage, protection, disposal, disclosure and other processing by or on behalf of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries of personal data) and to the protection of such IT Systems and Data from a Breach (“Data Security Obligations”); (B) the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries have not received any notification of or complaint regarding non-compliance with any Data Security Obligation by the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries that remains unresolved; and (C) there is no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body pending or, to the knowledge of the Jersey Mike’s Parties, threatened alleging non-compliance with any Data Security Obligation by the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries;

(xxix) Except as would not, either individually or in the aggregate, be reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (i) the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries and any “employee benefit plan” (as defined under Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (collectively, “ERISA”)) (“Plan”) established or maintained by the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries or their respective ERISA Affiliates (as defined below) are in compliance with ERISA; (ii) no “reportable event” (as defined under ERISA) has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA (“Pension Plan”) established or maintained by the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates; (iii) no Pension Plan established or maintained by the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates, if such Pension Plan were terminated, would have any “amount of unfunded benefit liabilities” (as defined under ERISA); (iv) no failure to satisfy the minimum funding standard under Section 412 of the Code (as defined below), whether or not waived, has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any Pension Plan established or maintained by the Jersey Mike’s Parties, their respective subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates; (v) neither the Jersey Mike’s Parties, their respective subsidiaries nor any of their respective ERISA Affiliates has incurred or reasonably expects to incur any liability under (A) Title IV of ERISA (including any liability under Section 4062(e) of ERISA) with respect to termination of, or withdrawal from, any “employee benefit plan” or (B) Section 430, 4971, 4975 or 4980B of the Code and (vi) each Plan established or maintained by the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates that is intended to be qualified under Section 401 of the Code has received a current favorable Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) determination letter or is comprised of a master, prototype or volume submitter plan that has received such a favorable letter from the IRS and, to the knowledge of the Jersey Mike’s Parties, no event, whether by action or failure to act, has occurred since the date of such qualification that would materially and adversely affect such qualification. “ERISA Affiliate” means, with respect to the Jersey Mike’s Parties or their respective subsidiaries, any member of any group of organizations described in Section 414 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (collectively, the “Code”) of which the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries are a member;

(xxx) Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (i) there is (A) no unfair labor practice complaint pending or, to the Jersey Mike’s Parties’ knowledge, threatened against the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries before the National Labor Relations Board, and no grievance or arbitration proceeding arising out of or under collective bargaining agreements pending or, to the Jersey Mike’s Parties’ knowledge, threatened against the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries, (B) no strike, labor dispute, slowdown or stoppage pending or, to the

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Jersey Mike’s Parties’ knowledge, threatened against the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries and (C) no union representation question existing with respect to the employees of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries and, to the Jersey Mike’s Parties’ knowledge, no union organizing activities taking place and (ii) there has been no violation of any federal, state or local law relating to discrimination in hiring, promotion or pay of employees or of any applicable wage or hour laws;

(xxxi) The Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries, taken as a whole, are insured against such losses and risks and in such amounts as in their reasonable judgment are prudent and customary in the businesses in which they are engaged or as required by law;

(xxxii) The Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries possess such valid and current authorizations, licenses, permits consents and orders issued by the appropriate state, federal or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies necessary to conduct their respective businesses and as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (collectively, “Governmental Licenses”), except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, and none of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or their respective subsidiaries has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or adverse modification of, or non-compliance with, any such Governmental License which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(xxxiii) Except as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package, there are no persons with registration rights or other similar rights to have any securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement or otherwise registered by the Company under the Act, except as have been validly waived or complied with and except for the Shares to be sold by the Selling Stockholders;

(xxxiv) The Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses comply in all material respects, and any further amendments or supplements thereto will comply in all material respects, with any applicable laws or regulations of foreign jurisdictions in which the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, are distributed in connection with the Directed Share Program;

(xxxv) No authorization, approval, consent, license, order, registration or qualification of or with any government, governmental instrumentality or court, other than such as have been obtained, is necessary in any jurisdiction in which the Directed Shares are being offered;

(xxxvi) The Company has specifically directed in writing the allocation of Shares to each Participant in the Directed Share Program, and neither the Directed Share Underwriter nor any other Underwriter has had any involvement or influence, directly or indirectly, in such allocation decision;

(xxxvii) The Company has not offered, or caused the Directed Share Underwriter or its affiliates to offer, Shares to any person pursuant to the Directed Share Program (i) for any consideration other than the cash payment of the initial public offering price per share set forth in Schedule III hereof or (ii) with the specific intent to unlawfully influence (x) a customer or supplier of the Company to alter the customer or supplier's terms, level or type of business with the Company or (y) a trade journalist or publication to write or publish favorable information about the Company or its products;

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(xxxviii) Except as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, after giving effect to the Reorganization Transactions, the holders of outstanding shares of the Company’s capital stock will not be entitled to preemptive or other rights to subscribe for the Shares that have not been complied with or otherwise validly waived;

(xxxix) For the past five years, none of the Jersey Mike’s Parties nor any of their respective subsidiaries, directors or officers, nor, to the Jersey Mike’s Parties’ knowledge, any employee or agent or representative of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or of any of their respective subsidiaries or controlled affiliates (each in their capacity as such), has taken any action in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization or approval of the payment, giving or receipt of money, property, gifts or anything else of value, directly or indirectly, to any person to improperly influence official action by that person for the benefit of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries or controlled affiliates, or to otherwise secure any improper advantage, or to any person in each case in violation of (a) the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 or (b) any other applicable law, regulation, order, decree or directive having the force of law and relating to bribery or corruption, including, if applicable, the UK Bribery Act of 2010 (collectively, the “Anti-Corruption Laws”);

(xl) The operations of the Jersey Mike’s Parties and each of their respective subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance in all material respects with all applicable anti-money laundering laws, rules, and regulations, including the financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements contained therein, and including, without limitation, the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, applicable provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, and the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”);

(xli) None of the Jersey Mike’s Parties, nor any of their respective subsidiaries, directors or officers, nor to the knowledge of the Jersey Mike’s Parties any employee, agent or controlled affiliate of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or their respective subsidiaries, is an individual or entity (“Person”) that is:

(A) the subject of any sanctions administered or enforced by the United States Government (including the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and the U.S. Department of State), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, or His Majesty’s Treasury, or any other applicable sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”) (each such Person a “Sanctioned Person”), or

(B) located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of comprehensive territorial Sanctions (including, without limitation, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic, or any other Covered Region of Ukraine identified pursuant to Executive Order 14065, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, and North Korea) (collectively, “Sanctioned Countries” and each a “Sanctioned Country”);

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(xlii) The Jersey Mike’s Parties and each of their respective subsidiaries (a) have not, since the more recent of April 24, 2019 or 10 years prior to the date of the Agreement, engaged in, (b) are not now engaged in, and (c) will not engage in, any dealings or transactions with any Sanctioned Person or Sanctioned Country in each case in violation of applicable Sanctions.

(xliii) The Company will not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other Person:

(A) to fund or facilitate any activities or business of or with any Sanctioned Person or Sanctioned Country;

(B) to fund or facilitate any money laundering or terrorist financing activities; or

(C) in any other manner that would cause or result in a violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws, Anti-Money Laundering Laws, or Sanctions by any Person (including any Person participating in the offering, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise);

(xliv) For the past five years, the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries have conducted their businesses in compliance with applicable Anti-Corruption Laws, Anti-Money Laundering Laws, and Sanctions, and no investigation, inquiry, 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 an alleged violation of the Anti-Corruption Laws, the Anti-Money Laundering Laws, or Sanctions is pending or, to the knowledge of the Jersey Mike’s Parties, threatened. The Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries have instituted and maintained or are subject to and will continue to maintain or be subject to policies and procedures reasonably designed to promote and achieve compliance with the Anti-Corruption Laws, Anti-Money Laundering Laws, and Sanctions;

(xlv) None of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries has taken or will take, directly or indirectly, any action that is designed to or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in unlawful stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Shares;

(xlvi) Except as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, there are (and prior to the Time of Delivery, will be) no debt securities or preferred stock issued or guaranteed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries that are rated by a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as such term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act.

(xlvii) The statistical and market related data included in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the Jersey Mike’s Parties believe to be reliable and accurate in all material respects and represent their good faith estimates that are made on the basis of data derived from such sources;

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(xlviii) Except for any failures or exceptions that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect: (i) the Jersey Mike’s Parties and each of their respective subsidiaries have timely filed (taking into account valid extensions) all U.S. federal, state, local and non-U.S. tax returns required to be filed by them in any jurisdiction through the date hereof and has paid all U.S. federal, state, local and non-U.S. taxes (and any related interest, penalties and additions to tax) required to be paid by them (whether or not shown on a tax return and including in its capacity as a withholding agent), except for any taxes being properly contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been provided in accordance with U.S. GAAP; (ii) there are no current, pending or reasonably expected tax deficiencies, audits, assessments or other claims or proceedings with respect to the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries; and (iii) the Jersey Mike’s Parties and each of their respective subsidiaries have made adequate charges, accruals and reserves in the applicable financial statements in respect of all U.S. federal, state, local and non-U.S. taxes in any jurisdiction (and any related interest, penalties and additions to tax) for all periods as to which the tax liability of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries (as applicable) has not been finally determined;

(xlix) None of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries is a party to any contract, agreement or understanding with any person (other than this Agreement) that would give rise to a valid claim against any of them or any Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or like payment in connection with the offering and sale of the Shares;

(l) (i) Each of the franchise agreements entered into by the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries and described or referred to in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus (collectively, the “Franchise Agreements”) is in full force and effect; (ii) to the Jersey Mike’s Parties’ knowledge, none of the persons or entities (the “Franchise Owners”) holding franchise rights from the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries is in breach or violation of, or in default under (nor has any event occurred which with notice, lapse of time, or both would result in any breach or violation of, or constitute a default under) any such Franchise Agreement; (iii) none of the Jersey Mike’s Parties, any of their respective subsidiaries or, to the Jersey Mike’s Parties’ knowledge, any Franchise Owner has the right to terminate any Franchise Agreement prior to the termination of its stated term, and no event or circumstance has occurred which, with notice, lapse of time or both, would create such a right; and (iv) neither the Jersey Mike’s Parties nor any of their respective subsidiaries has received, or, to the Jersey Mike’s Parties’ knowledge, been threatened with, a termination notice from any Franchise Owner or any other party with respect to a Franchise Agreement, nor is any Jersey Mike’s Party aware that any person or entity intends to furnish such a notice; except, in the case of clauses (i) through (iv), as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and

(li) The Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries are in compliance with the applicable requirements of the Federal Trade Commission rules governing franchising and applicable provisions of federal, provincial, state or local laws or regulations governing the business of a franchise or that are applicable to their business as presently conducted, except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b) Each Selling Stockholder severally represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each of the Underwriters and the Jersey Mike’s Parties that:

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(i) Except (A) as will have been obtained on or prior to the Time of Delivery for the registration under the Act of the Shares, (B) as may be required under foreign or state securities (or Blue Sky) laws or by FINRA or by the Exchange (as defined herein) in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Shares by the Underwriters and (C) as would not impair in any material respect the ability of such Selling Stockholder to consummate its obligations hereunder, all consents, approvals, authorizations and orders necessary for the execution and delivery by such Selling Stockholder of this Agreement and for the sale and delivery of the Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder hereunder, have been obtained or will be obtained on or prior to the Time of Delivery; and such Selling Stockholder has full right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement and has or will have at the Time of Delivery, after giving effect to the Unit Exchange, full right, power and authority to sell, assign, transfer and deliver the Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder hereunder;

(ii) The sale of the Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder hereunder and the compliance by such Selling Stockholder with this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions herein and contemplated in the Pricing Disclosure Package will not (A) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any statute, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which such Selling Stockholder is a party or by which such Selling Stockholder is bound or to which any of the property or assets of such Selling Stockholder is subject, (B) result in any violation of the provisions of the charter, by-laws, partnership agreement or similar organizational documents of such Selling Stockholder or (C) result in any violation of any statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over such Selling Stockholder or any property or assets of such Selling Stockholder, except in the case of (A) and (C), as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to materially impact such Selling Stockholder’s ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement;

(iii) Upon payment for the Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder 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 New York Uniform Commercial Code (the “UCC”)) to such Shares), (A) DTC shall be a “protected purchaser” of such Shares within the meaning of Section 8 303 of the UCC, (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 Stockholder 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;

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

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(v) To the extent that any statements or omissions made in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto are made in reliance upon and in conformity with the Selling Stockholder Information (as defined below), such statements made in the Registration Statement and Pricing Disclosure Package did not, and the Prospectus and any further amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus that are made in reliance upon and in conformity with the Selling Stockholder Information will not, when they become effective or are filed with the Commission, as the case may be, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. “Selling Stockholder Information” consists solely of the information with respect to such Selling Stockholder in the beneficial ownership table under the caption “Principal and Selling Stockholders” in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus;

(vi) Such Selling Stockholder will deliver to you prior to or at the First Time of Delivery (as hereinafter defined) a properly completed and executed United States Treasury Department Form W-9 or Form W-8 (or other applicable form or statement specified by Treasury Department regulations in lieu thereof), together with all required attachments to such form;

(vii) The obligations of such Selling Stockholder hereunder shall not be terminated by operation of law, whether by the dissolution of such Selling Stockholder or by the occurrence of any other event; if such Selling Stockholder shall be dissolved, or if any other such event should occur, before the delivery of the Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder hereunder, such Shares shall be delivered by or on behalf of such Selling Stockholder in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement;

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

(ix) Such Selling Stockholder will not, directly or knowingly indirectly, use the proceeds of the offering contemplated by this Agreement, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other individual or entity in any manner that will result in a violation of applicable Sanctions by, or could result in the imposition of applicable Sanctions against, any person (including any person participating in the offering contemplated by this Agreement, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise).

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

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as to which such election shall have been exercised (to be adjusted by the Representatives so as to eliminate fractional shares) determined by multiplying such number of Optional Shares by a fraction, the numerator of which is the maximum number of Optional Shares which such Underwriter is entitled to purchase as set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule I hereto and the denominator of which is the maximum number of Optional Shares that all of the Underwriters are entitled to purchase hereunder.

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

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

4. (a) The Shares to be purchased by each Underwriter hereunder, in book-entry form, and in such authorized denominations and registered in such names as the Representatives may request upon at least forty-eight hours’ prior notice to the Company and the Selling Stockholders, shall be delivered by or on behalf of the Company and the Selling Stockholders to the Representatives, through the facilities of DTC, for the account of such Underwriter, against payment by or on behalf of such Underwriter of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer of Federal (same-day) funds to the accounts specified by the Company and the Selling Stockholders to the Representatives at least forty-eight hours in advance. To the extent the Shares are delivered in certificated form and not in book-entry form through the facilities of DTC, the Company and the Selling Stockholders will cause the certificates representing the Shares, if any, to be made available for checking and packaging at least twenty-four hours prior to the Time of Delivery (as defined below) with respect thereto at the office of DTC or its designated custodian (the “Designated Office”). The time and date of such delivery and payment shall be, with respect to the Firm Shares, [9:30 a.m.], New York time, on [  ], 2026, or such other time and date as the Representatives, the Company and the Selling Stockholders may agree upon in writing, and, with respect to the Optional Shares, [9:30 a.m.], New York time, on the date specified by the Representatives in each written notice given by the Representatives of the Underwriters’ election to purchase such Optional Shares, or such other time and date as the Representatives, the Company and the Selling Stockholders may agree upon in writing. Such time and date for delivery of the Firm Shares is herein called the “First Time of Delivery,” each such time and date for delivery of the Optional Shares, if not the First Time of Delivery, is herein called the “Second Time of Delivery,” and each such time and date for delivery is herein called a “Time of Delivery.”

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(b) The documents to be delivered at each Time of Delivery by or on behalf of the parties hereto pursuant to Section 8 hereof, including the cross receipt for the Shares and any additional documents requested by the Underwriters pursuant to Section 8(l) hereof will be delivered at the offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, 450 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10017 (the “Closing Location”), and the Shares will be delivered through the facilities of DTC in the case of book-entry shares or at the Designated Office in the case of certificated Shares, all at such Time of Delivery. A meeting will be held at the Closing Location at 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on the New York Business Day next preceding such Time of Delivery, at which meeting the final drafts of the documents to be delivered pursuant to the preceding sentence will be available for review by the parties hereto. “New York Business Day” shall mean each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in New York are generally authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.

5. Each Jersey Mike’s Party, jointly and severally, agrees with each of the Underwriters:

(a) To prepare the Prospectus in a form approved by the Representatives and to file such Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act prior to the earlier of (i) the First Time of Delivery and (ii) the Commission’s close of business on the second business day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement, or, if applicable, such earlier time as may be required by Rule 430A(a)(3) under the Act; to make no further amendment or any supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus prior to the last Time of Delivery, which shall be reasonably disapproved by the Representatives promptly after reasonable notice thereof; to advise the Representatives, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the time when any amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus has been filed and to furnish the Representatives with copies thereof; to file promptly all material required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act; to advise the Representatives, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or other prospectus in respect of the Shares, of the suspension of the qualification of the Shares for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose, or of any request by the Commission for the amending or supplementing of the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or for additional information; and, in the event of the issuance of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or other prospectus relating to the Shares or suspending any such qualification, to promptly use its best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of such order;

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

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(c) Prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second New York Business Day following the date of this Agreement (or such other time as may be agreed to by the Company and the Representatives) and from time to time, to furnish the Underwriters with written and electronic copies of the Prospectus in New York City in such quantities as the Representatives may reasonably request, and, if the delivery of a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Act) is required at any time prior to the expiration of nine months after the time of issue of the Prospectus in connection with the offering or sale of the Shares and if at such time any event shall have occurred as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made when such Prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Act) is delivered, not misleading, or, if for any other reason it shall be necessary during such same period to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to comply with the Act, to notify the Representatives and upon the Representatives’ request to prepare and furnish without charge to each Underwriter and to any dealer in securities as many written and electronic copies as the Representatives may from time to time reasonably request of an amended Prospectus or a supplement to the Prospectus which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance; and in case any Underwriter is required under the Act to deliver a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Act) in connection with sales of any of the Shares at any time nine months or more after the time of issue of the Prospectus, upon the Representatives’ request but at the expense of such Underwriter, to prepare and deliver to such Underwriter as many written and electronic copies as the Representatives may reasonably request of an amended or supplemented Prospectus complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Act;

(d) To make generally available to its security holders as soon as practicable (which may be satisfied by filing with the Commission’s EDGAR system), an earnings statement of the Company and its subsidiaries (which need not be audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (including, at the option of the Company, Rule 158);

(e) During the period beginning from the date hereof and continuing to and including the date 180 days after the date of the Prospectus (the “Lock-Up Period”), not to (i) offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, make any short sale or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, or publicly file with the Commission a registration statement under the Act relating to, any securities of the Company that are substantially similar to the Shares (except for any Registration Statement on Form S-8, or any amendment thereto, to register shares issuable upon exercise of awards granted pursuant to the terms of any employee equity incentive plan), including but not limited to any options or warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock or any securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, shares of Common Stock or any such substantially similar securities, or publicly disclose the intention to make any offer, sale, pledge, disposition or filing or (ii) enter into any swap or other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the shares of Common Stock or any such other securities, whether any such transaction described in clause (i) or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of shares of Common Stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise (other than (t) the Shares to be sold hereunder or securities issued, transferred, redeemed or exchanged in connection with the Reorganization Transactions, (u) Common Stock or any such substantially similar securities to be issued pursuant to employee incentive plans existing as of the date of this Agreement (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Jersey Mike’s Management Aggregator LLC Equity Incentive Plan, the Jersey Mike’s Subs Inc. 2026 Omnibus Incentive Plan, the Jersey Mike’s Subs Inc. 2026

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Employee Stock Purchase Plan and any long-term incentive awards disclosed in the Pricing Disclosure Package), (v) Common Stock in respect of tax withholding payments due upon the exercise, vesting and/or settlement, as applicable, of any long-term incentive awards described in the Pricing Disclosure Package, (w) the shares or any such substantially similar securities to be transferred as a bona fide gift or gifts, including to charitable organization transferees or recipients, provided that, in the case of this clause (w) each recipient of such shares or substantially similar securities shall execute and deliver to the Representatives a lock-up agreement substantially to the effect set forth in Annex III, (x) Common Stock or substantially similar securities to be issued upon the conversion or exchange of convertible or exchangeable securities outstanding as of the date of this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Units),(y) the issuance of up to 10% of the outstanding Class A Common Stock (assuming all outstanding Units are exchanged for newly issued shares of Common Stock on a one-for-one basis) or securities convertible into, exercisable for, or which are otherwise exchangeable for, Common Stock (including, without limitation Units or any such substantially similar securities of the Company) in connection with the acquisition of, a joint venture with or a merger with, another company, and the filing of a registration statement with respect thereto, provided that, in the case of this clause (y), each recipient of such Common Stock shall execute and deliver to the Representatives, on or prior to the issuance of such Common Stock, a lock-up agreement substantially to the effect set forth in Annex III), without the prior written consent of any two Representatives or (z) the facilitation of the establishment of a trading plan on behalf of a stockholder, officer or director of the Company pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act for the transfer of Common Stock; provided that (a) such plans do not provide for the transfer of Common Stock during the Lock-Up Period and (b) no filing by any party under the Exchange Act or other public announcement shall be required or made voluntarily in connection with such trading plan (other than the required disclosure on Form 10-Q or Form 10-K or any other applicable SEC form, as applicable, of the entrance into any trading plan during the relevant reporting period, provided that such disclosure includes a statement to the effect that no transfers may be made pursuant to such trading plan during the Lock-Up Period). In addition, during the Lock-Up Period, the Jersey Mike’s Parties agree to (A) enforce the Lock-Up LLCA Provisions (as defined below), except that this provision shall not prevent the Jersey Mike’s Parties from effecting a waiver or amendment to permit a transfer of securities that would be permissible under the terms of the lock-up agreement in the form attached as Annex II hereto or from effecting the Reorganization Transactions, and (B) not amend or waive any such transfer restrictions with respect to any such holder without the prior written consent of any two Representatives. Each such Lock-Up LLCA Provision is in full force and effect as of the date hereof and shall remain in full force and effect during the Lock-Up Period, except as described in (A) above. For purposes of this provision, “Lock-Up LLCA Provisions” shall refer to the lock-up provisions set forth in the Amended & Restated LLC Agreement of Jersey Mike’s Management Aggregator LLC entered into in connection with the Reorganization Transactions, pursuant to which all members have agreed, subject to certain exceptions, not to gift, sell, assign, transfer, pledge or otherwise dispose such holder’s securities or any interest therein during the Lock-Up Period without the consent of Jersey Mike’s Holdings.

(f) If any two Representatives, in their sole discretion, agree to release or waive the restrictions in lock-up letters delivered pursuant to Section 8(i) and Section 8(m) hereof, in each case for an officer or director of the Company, and provide the Company with notice of the impending release or waiver at least three business days before the effective date of the release or waiver, the Company agrees to announce the impending release or waiver by a press release substantially in the form of Annex I hereto through a major news service at least two business days before the effective date of the release or waiver;

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(g) During a period of two years from the effective date of the Registration Statement, to furnish to the Representatives copies of all reports or other communications (financial or other) furnished to stockholders, and to deliver to the Representatives as soon as they are available, copies of any current, periodic or annual reports and financial statements furnished to or filed with the Commission or any national securities exchange on which any class of securities of the Company is listed; provided that any report, communication or financial statement furnished or filed with the Commission that is publicly available on the Commission’s EDGAR system shall be deemed to have been furnished to the Representatives at the time furnished or filed with the Commission;

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

(i) To use its best efforts to list for trading, subject to official notice of issuance, the Shares on the New York Stock Exchange (the “Exchange”);

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

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

(l) To comply with all applicable securities and other laws, rules and regulations in each jurisdiction in which the Directed Shares are offered in connection with the Directed Share Program.

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

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

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(c) The Company agrees that if at any time following the distribution of a Written Testing-the-Waters Communication or issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus any event occurred or occurs as a result of which such Written Testing-the-Waters Communication or Issuer Free Writing Prospectus would conflict with the information in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances then prevailing, not misleading, the Company will (i) in the case of a Written Testing-the-Waters Communication, cease use of the Written Testing-the-Waters Communication until it is amended or supplemented and amend or supplement the Written Testing-the-Waters Communication to correct such statement or omission, or (ii) in the case of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, give prompt notice thereof to the Representatives and, if requested by the Representatives, will prepare and furnish without charge to each Underwriter an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or other document which will correct such conflict, statement or omission; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions in a Written Testing-the-Waters Communication or an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with the Underwriter Information or the Selling Stockholder Information.

7. Each Jersey Mike’s Party and Selling Stockholder jointly and severally covenants and agrees with the several Underwriters that:

(a) the Jersey Mike’s Parties will pay or cause to be paid the following: (i) the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Jersey Mike’s Parties’ counsel and the Jersey Mike’s Parties’ accountants in connection with the registration of the Shares under the Act and all other expenses in connection with the preparation, printing, reproduction and filing of the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and amendments and supplements thereto and the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the Underwriters and dealers; (ii) the cost of printing or producing any Agreement among Underwriters, this Agreement, the Blue Sky Memorandum, closing documents (including any compilations thereof) and any other documents in connection with the offering, purchase, sale and delivery of the Shares; (iii) all expenses in connection with the qualification of the Shares for offering and sale under state securities laws as provided in Section 5(b) hereof, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with such qualification and in connection with the Blue Sky survey in an amount not to exceed $10,000; (iv) all fees and expenses in connection with listing the Shares on the Exchange; and (v) the filing fees incident to, and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in an amount not to exceed $50,000 in connection with, any required review by FINRA of the terms of the sale of the Shares;

(b) the Jersey Mike’s Parties will pay or cause to be paid (i) the cost of preparing share certificates, if applicable; (ii) the cost and charges of any transfer agent or registrar; (iii) all costs and expenses incident to the performance of each Selling Stockholders’ obligations hereunder which are not otherwise specifically provided for in this Section; and (iv) all other reasonable costs and expenses incidental to the performance of their respective obligations hereunder which are not otherwise specifically provided for in this Section; provided, however, that 50% of the cost of any aircraft chartered in connection with the road show shall be paid by the Underwriters (with the Jersey Mike’s Parties paying the remaining 50% of the cost); the Jersey Mike’s Parties shall pay any transfer taxes payable on the issuance, sale and delivery of the Shares to be sold by the Company; and each Selling Stockholder shall pay any transfer taxes payable on the sale and delivery of the Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder, in each case to the Underwriters. In addition, the Company shall pay or cause to be paid all fees and

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disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the Directed Share Program and stamp duties, similar taxes or duties or other taxes, if any, incurred by the Underwriters in connection with the Directed Share Program; and

(c) Except as provided in this Section, and Sections 9, 11 and 13 hereof, the Underwriters will pay all of their own costs and expenses, including the fees of their counsel, stock transfer taxes on resale of any of the Shares by them, and any advertising expenses connected with any offers they may make.

8. The obligations of the Underwriters hereunder, as to the Shares to be delivered at each Time of Delivery, shall be subject, in their discretion, to the condition that all representations and warranties and other statements of the Jersey Mike’s Parties and the Selling Stockholders herein are, on the date hereof and at and as of such Time of Delivery, true and correct, the condition that the Jersey Mike’s Parties and the Selling Stockholders shall have performed all of their respective obligations hereunder theretofore to be performed, and the following additional conditions:

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

(b) Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, shall have furnished to the Representatives such written opinion and negative assurance letter, dated such Time of Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives;

(c) Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, counsel for the Company, Submarine Buyer LLC and Boardwalk II Aggregator L.P., shall have furnished to the Representatives their written opinion and negative assurance letter, dated such Time of Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives;

(d) On the date of the Prospectus concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, at 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the effective date of any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement filed subsequent to the date of this Agreement and also at each Time of Delivery, Deloitte & Touche LLP shall have furnished to the Representatives a letter or letters, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives;

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(e) On the date of the Prospectus at a time prior to the execution of this Agreement, at 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the effective date of any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement filed subsequent to the date of this Agreement and also at each Time of Delivery, the Company shall have furnished to the Representatives a certificate or certificates, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof, of its chief financial officer with respect to certain financial data contained in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, providing “management comfort” with respect to such information, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives;

(f) (i) None of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries shall have sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements of Jersey Mike’s Holdings included in the Pricing Prospectus any loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus, and (ii) since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Pricing Prospectus there shall not have been any change in the capital stock (other than as a result of (x) the exercise or settlement, if any, of stock options or other equity awards or the grant or award, if any, of stock options, restricted stock or other equity pursuant to any of the Jersey Mike’s Parties equity plans that are described in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus or (y) the issuance, if any, of stock upon conversion or exchange of Company securities or securities of Jersey Mike’s Holdings, as described in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus) or in the long-term debt of the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in the condition (financial or otherwise), business or results of operations, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, of the Jersey Mike’s Parties and their respective subsidiaries, taken as a whole, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus, the effect of which, in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii), is in the judgment of the Representatives (other than a defaulting Underwriter under Section 11 hereof) so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Shares being delivered at such Time of Delivery on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus;

(g) On or after the Applicable Time there shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) a suspension or material limitation in trading in securities generally on the Exchange; (ii) a suspension or material limitation in trading in the Company’s securities on the Exchange; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities declared by either Federal or New York State authorities or a material disruption in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States; (iv) the outbreak or escalation of hostilities involving the United States or the declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war; or (v) the occurrence of any other calamity or crisis or any change in financial, political or economic conditions in the United States or elsewhere, if the effect of any such event specified in clause (iv) or (v) in the judgment of the Representatives (other than a defaulting Underwriter under Section 11 hereof) makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Shares being delivered at such Time of Delivery on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus;

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

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(i) The Company shall have obtained and delivered to the Underwriters executed copies of an agreement from each of the parties listed on Schedule IV hereto, substantially to the effect set forth in Annex II hereto;

(j) Prior to or concurrent with the First Time of Delivery, the Reorganization Transactions shall have been consummated in a manner consistent with the description thereof in the Registration Statement, Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus (except those Reorganization Transactions that are ongoing or recurring in nature);

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

(l) The Company and the Selling Stockholders shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to the Representatives at such Time of Delivery certificates of officers of the Company and of the Selling Stockholders, respectively, reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives as to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company and the Selling Stockholders, respectively, herein at and as of such Time of Delivery, as to the performance by the Jersey Mike’s Parties and the Selling Stockholders of all of their respective obligations hereunder to be performed at or prior to such Time of Delivery, and as to such other matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, and the Jersey Mike’s Parties shall have furnished or caused to be furnished certificates as to the matters set forth in subsections (a) and (g) of this Section 8 and the Company shall have furnished such other certificates and documents as the Representatives may reasonably request; and

(m) The Selling Stockholders shall have executed and delivered to the Underwriters an agreement substantially in the form of Annex II hereto.

9. (a) The Jersey Mike’s Parties, jointly and severally, agree to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its affiliates, directors, officers and employees and each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of the Act and the Exchange Act, and each Selling Stockholder and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees and each person, if any, who controls such Selling Stockholder, within the meaning of the Act and the Exchange Act, against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Underwriter and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees or control persons, or such Selling Stockholder and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees or control persons may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (i) an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto, or an omission or alleged omission therefrom to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statement therein not misleading, or (ii) an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act or any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication, any “bona fide electronic road show” as defined in Rule 433(h) under the Securities Act and any additional information listed on Schedule VI hereto (a “road show”), or an omission or alleged omission therefrom to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and will reimburse each Underwriter, its affiliates, directors, officers and employees, and each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of the Act and the Exchange Act, and each Selling Stockholder and its affiliates, directors, officers and

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employees, and each person, if any, who controls such Selling Stockholder with the meaning of the Act and the Exchange Act, for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Underwriter, affiliate, director, officer, employee or control person, or Selling Stockholder in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Jersey Mike’s Parties shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication, in reliance upon and in conformity with the Underwriter Information in the case of the Underwriters, or the Selling Stockholder Information in the case of the Selling Stockholders.

(b) Each of the Selling Stockholders, severally and not jointly, will indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its affiliates, directors, officers and employees, and each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of the Act and the Exchange Act against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Underwriter, its affiliates, directors, officers and employees, and each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of the Act and the Exchange Act may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (i) an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto, or the omission or alleged omission therefrom to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statement therein not misleading, or (ii) an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication, or the omission or alleged omission therefrom to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication, in reliance upon and in conformity with the Selling Stockholder Information; and will reimburse each Underwriter, its affiliates, directors, officers and employees, and each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of the Act and the Exchange Act for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Underwriter, its affiliates, directors, officers and employees, and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of the Act and the Exchange Act in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that such Selling Stockholder shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication, in reliance upon and in conformity with the Underwriter Information; provided, further, that the liability of such Selling Stockholder pursuant to this subsection (b) shall not exceed the product of the number of Shares sold by such Selling Stockholder including any Optional Shares and the price per Share referenced in Section 2 hereof (each such amount, the “Selling Stockholder Proceeds”) as set forth in the Prospectus.

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(c) Each Underwriter will, severally and not jointly, indemnify and hold harmless the Jersey Mike’s Parties, the directors, officers and employees and each person, if any, who controls the Jersey Mike’s Parties within the meaning of the Act and the Exchange Act and each Selling Stockholder against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which such Jersey Mike’s Party or such affiliate, director, officer, employee or control person or such Selling Stockholder may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (i) an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto, or an omission or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or (ii) an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication, or arise out of or are based upon an omission or alleged omission to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any road show or any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication, in reliance upon and in conformity with the Underwriter Information; and will reimburse such Jersey Mike’s Party, its directors, officers and employees and each person, if any, who controls such Jersey Mike’s Party within the meaning of the Act and the Exchange Act and each Selling Stockholder for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Jersey Mike’s Parties or such affiliate, director, officer, employee or control person or such Selling Stockholder in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as such expenses are incurred, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by the Underwriters consists of the following information: the concession and reallowance figures appearing in the fifth paragraph under the caption “Underwriting (Conflicts of Interest)” and the information appearing in the ninth, tenth and eleventh paragraphs under the caption “Underwriting (Conflicts of Interest)” (such information, the “Underwriter Information”).

(d) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection (a), (b), or (c) of this Section 9 of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under such subsection, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; provided that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have under the preceding paragraphs of this Section 9 except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses) by such failure; and provided further that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to an indemnified party otherwise than under the preceding paragraphs of this Section 9. In case any such action shall be brought against any indemnified party and it shall notify the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it shall wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and, after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to such indemnified party under such subsection for any legal expenses of other counsel or any other expenses, in each case subsequently incurred by such indemnified party, in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation. It is understood that the indemnifying party or parties shall not, in connection with any one action or proceeding or separate but substantially similar actions

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or proceedings arising out of the same general allegations, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys at any time for all indemnified parties except to the extent that local counsel or counsel with specialized expertise (in addition to any regular counsel) is required to effectively defend against any such action or proceeding. No indemnifying party shall, without the written consent of the indemnified party, effect the settlement or compromise of, or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to, any pending or threatened action or claim in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified party is an actual or potential party to such action or claim) unless such settlement, compromise or judgment (i) includes an unconditional release of the indemnified party from all liability arising out of such action or claim and (ii) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act, by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

(e) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 9 is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsection (a), (b) or (c) above in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Jersey Mike’s Parties and the Selling Stockholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Shares. If, however, the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is not permitted by applicable law or if the indemnified party failed to give the notice required under subsection (d) above, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to such amount paid or payable by such indemnified party in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Jersey Mike’s Parties and the Selling Stockholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Jersey Mike’s Parties and the Selling Stockholders on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering (net of underwriting discounts and commissions but before deducting expenses) received by the Company and the Selling Stockholders bear to the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover page of the Prospectus. The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Jersey Mike’s Parties or the Selling Stockholders on the one hand or the Underwriters on the other and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Jersey Mike’s Parties, each of the Selling Stockholders and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this subsection (e) were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this subsection (e). The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to above in this subsection (e) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (e), (i) 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 which such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission and (ii) each Selling Stockholder’s obligation to contribute any amount under this Section 9(e) is limited

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in the manner and to the extent set forth in Section 11(b) and such Selling Stockholder shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the applicable Selling Stockholder Proceeds. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations in this subsection (e) to contribute are several in proportion to their respective underwriting obligations and not joint, and the Selling Stockholders’ obligations in this subsection (e) to contribute are several in proportion to their respective Selling Stockholder Proceeds and not joint.

(f) The obligations of the Jersey Mike’s Parties and the Selling Stockholders under this Section 9 shall be in addition to any liability which the Jersey Mike’s Parties and the Selling Stockholders may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each employee, officer and director of each Underwriter and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of the Act and each broker-dealer or other affiliate of any Underwriter; and the obligations of the Underwriters under this Section 9 shall be in addition to any liability which the respective Underwriters may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each officer and director of the Company (including any person who, with his or her consent, is named in the Registration Statement as about to become a director of the Company) and to each person, if any, who controls the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any Selling Stockholder within the meaning of the Act.

(g)

(i) The Jersey Mike’s Parties, jointly and severally, agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Directed Share Underwriter against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which the Directed Share Underwriter may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) (x) arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any material prepared by or with the consent of the Company for distribution to Participants in connection with the Directed Share Program or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (y) arise out of or are based upon the failure of any Participant to pay for and accept delivery of Directed Shares that the Participant agreed to purchase, or (z) are related to, arise out of or are in connection with the Directed Share Program, and will reimburse the Directed Share Underwriter for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Directed Share Underwriter in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that with respect to clauses (y) and (z) above, the Jersey Mike’s Parties shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability is finally judicially determined to have resulted from the bad faith or gross negligence of the Directed Share Underwriter.

(ii) Promptly after receipt by the Directed Share Underwriter of notice of the commencement of any action, the Directed Share Underwriter shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the Jersey Mike’s Parties under subsection (g)(i), notify the Jersey Mike’s Parties in writing of the commencement thereof; provided that the failure to notify the Jersey Mike’s Parties shall not relieve the Jersey Mike’s Parties from any liability that it may have under the preceding paragraph of this Section 9(g) except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses) by such failure; and provided further that the failure to notify the Jersey Mike’s Parties shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to the Directed Share Underwriter otherwise than under the preceding paragraph of this Section 9(g). In case any such action shall be brought against the Directed Share Underwriter

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and it shall notify the Jersey Mike’s Parties of the commencement thereof, the Jersey Mike’s Parties shall be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it shall wish, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel satisfactory to the Directed Share Underwriter (who shall not, except with the consent of the Directed Share Underwriter, be counsel to the Jersey Mike’s Parties), and, after notice from the Jersey Mike’s Parties to the Directed Share Underwriter of its election so to assume the defense thereof, the Jersey Mike’s Parties shall not be liable to the Directed Share Underwriter under this subsection for any legal expenses of other counsel or any other expenses, in each case subsequently incurred by the Directed Share Underwriter, in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation. No Jersey Mike’s Party, without the written consent of the Directed Share Underwriter, effect the settlement or compromise of, or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to, any pending or threatened action or claim in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the Directed Share Underwriter is an actual or potential party to such action or claim) unless such settlement, compromise or judgment (x) includes an unconditional release of the Directed Share Underwriter from all liability arising out of such action or claim and (y) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act, by or on behalf of the Directed Share Underwriter.

(iii) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 9(g) is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless the Directed Share Underwriter under Section 9(g)(i) above in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to therein, then each Jersey Mike’s Party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by the Directed Share Underwriter as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Directed Share Underwriter on the other from the offering of the Directed Shares. If, however, the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is not permitted by applicable law, then each Jersey Mike’s Party shall contribute to such amount paid or payable by the Directed Share Underwriter in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Jersey Mike’s Parties on the one hand and the Directed Share Underwriter on the other in connection with any statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Jersey Mike’s Parties on the one hand and the Directed Share Underwriter on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering of the Directed Shares (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Directed Share Underwriter for the Directed Shares. If the loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, the relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Jersey Mike’s Parties on the one hand or the Directed Share Underwriter on the other and the parties' relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Jersey Mike’s Parties and the Directed Share Underwriter agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 9(g)(iii) were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this Section 9(g)(iii). The amount paid or payable by the Directed Share Underwriter as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to above in this Section 9(g)(iii) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Directed Share Underwriter in connection with

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investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 9(g)(iii), the Directed Share Underwriter shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Directed Shares sold by it and distributed to the Participants exceeds the amount of any damages which the Directed Share Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.

(iv) The obligations of the Jersey Mike’s Parties under this Section 9(g) shall be in addition to any liability which the Jersey Mike’s Parties may otherwise have. The indemnity and contribution provisions contained in this Section 9(g) shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of (x) any termination of this Agreement, (y) any investigation made by or on behalf of any Directed Share Underwriter or any Jersey Mike’s Party, its officers or directors or any person controlling such Jersey Mike’s Party and (z) acceptance of and payment for any of the Directed Shares.

10. [Reserved]

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

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

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

12. The respective indemnities, rights of contribution, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Jersey Mike’s Parties, or the Selling Stockholders, and the several Underwriters, as set forth in this Agreement or made by or on behalf of them, respectively, pursuant to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation (or any statement as to the results thereof) made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or any director, officer, employee, affiliate or controlling person of any Underwriter, or the Jersey Mike’s Parties, or any Selling Stockholder, or any officer, director or controlling person of the Jersey Mike’s Parties, or any controlling person of any Selling Stockholder, and shall survive delivery of and payment for the Shares.

13. If this Agreement shall be terminated pursuant to Section 11 hereof, neither the Jersey Mike’s Parties nor the Selling Stockholders shall then be under any liability to any Underwriter except as provided in Sections 7 and 9 hereof; but, if for any other reason any Shares are not delivered by or on behalf of the Company and the Selling Stockholders as provided herein, or the Underwriters decline to purchase the Shares for any reason permitted under this Agreement, each Jersey Mike’s Party and Selling Stockholder pro rata (based on the numbers of Shares to be sold by the Company and such Selling Stockholder hereunder) will reimburse the Underwriters through the Representatives for all accountable and documented out‑of‑pocket expenses approved in writing by the Representatives, including fees and disbursements of counsel, actually incurred by the Underwriters in making preparations for the purchase, sale and delivery of the Shares not so delivered, but the Jersey Mike’s Parties and the Selling Stockholders shall then be under no further liability to any Underwriter except as provided in Sections 7 and 9 hereof.

14. In all dealings hereunder, the Representatives shall act on behalf of each of the Underwriters, and the parties hereto shall be entitled to act and rely upon any statement, request, notice or agreement on behalf of any Underwriter made or given by the Representatives; and in dealings with any Selling Stockholder hereunder, the Representatives and the Company shall be entitled to act and rely upon any statement, request, notice or agreement given by any Selling Stockholder.

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

All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall be in writing, and if to the Underwriters shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to: (i) Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC at 1585 Broadway, New York, New York 10036, Attention: Equity Syndicate Desk, with a copy to the Legal and Compliance Division; (ii) Jefferies LLC at 520 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10022, Attention: General Counsel; and (iii) J.P. Morgan Securities LLC at 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017, Fax: (212) 622-8358, Attention: Equity Syndicate Desk; if to the Jersey Mike’s Parties shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to the address of the Company set forth on the cover of the Registration Statement, Attention: General Counsel; and if to any of the parties that has delivered a lock-up letter described in Section 7(i) hereof shall be delivered or sent by mail to the respective address provided in Schedule IV hereto or such other address as such party provides in writing to the Company; provided, however, that any notice to an Underwriter pursuant to Section 9(c) hereof shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to such Underwriter at its address set forth in its Underwriters’ Questionnaire or telex constituting such Questionnaire, which address will be supplied to the Company or the Selling Stockholders by the Representatives on request. Any such statements, requests, notices or agreements shall take effect upon receipt thereof.

15. This Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure solely to the benefit of, the Underwriters, the Jersey Mike’s Parties, the Selling Stockholders and, to the extent provided in Sections 9 and 11 hereof, the officers and directors of the Jersey Mike’s Parties and each person who controls the Jersey Mike’s Parties, any Selling Stockholder or any director, officer, employee or affiliate of any Selling Stockholder, or any Underwriter or any director, officer, employee, or affiliate of any Underwriter, and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, and no other person shall acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement. No purchaser of any of the Shares from any Underwriter shall be deemed a successor or assign by reason merely of such purchase.

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

17. The Company and the Selling Stockholders hereby acknowledge that (a) the purchase and sale of the Shares pursuant to this Agreement, including without limitation the determination of the public offering price of the Shares and any interaction that the Underwriters have with the Company, the Selling Stockholders and/or their respective representatives or agents in relation thereto, is part of an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company and the Selling Stockholders, on the one hand, and the Underwriters and any affiliate through which it may be acting, on the other, (b) the Underwriters are acting as principal and not as an agent or fiduciary of the Company or the Selling Stockholders and (c) the Jersey Mike’s Parties’ and Selling Stockholders’ engagement of the Underwriters in connection with the offering and the process leading up to the offering is as independent contractors and not in any other capacity. Furthermore, the Jersey Mike’s Parties and the Selling Stockholders agree that they are solely responsible for making their own judgments in connection with the offering and other matters addressed herein or contemplated hereby (irrespective of whether any of the Underwriters has advised or is currently advising the Jersey Mike’s Parties or any Selling Stockholder on related or other matters). The Jersey Mike’s Parties and the Selling Stockholders also acknowledge and

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agree that the Underwriters have not rendered to them any investment advisory services of any nature or respect and will not claim that the Underwriters owe any agency, fiduciary or similar duty to the Jersey Mike’s Parties and the Selling Stockholders, in connection with the offering and such other matters or the process leading thereto. The Jersey Mike’s Parties further acknowledge and agree that in any and all discussions with the Underwriters in connection with this Agreement and the matters contemplated hereby, that the Underwriters are providing services solely to the Jersey Mike’s Parties and all such employees, officers or directors of the Jersey Mike’s Parties engaged in such discussions are acting solely as representatives of the Jersey Mike’s Parties not in their individual or personal capacity as potential selling stockholders or as representatives of the Selling Stockholders (or any individual Selling Stockholder), and that any view expressed or recommendation that may be deemed to be made by the Underwriters is expressed or made solely to and for the benefit of the Jersey Mike’s Parties. The Selling Stockholders further acknowledge and agree that, although the Underwriters may provide the Selling Stockholders with certain Regulation Best Interest and Form CRS disclosures or other related documentation in connection with the offering, the Underwriters are not making a recommendation to the Selling Stockholder to participate in the offering or sell any Shares at the purchase price per Share determined in the offering, and nothing set forth in such disclosures or documentation is intended to suggest that any Underwriter is making such a recommendation.

18. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) between or among the Jersey Mike’s Parties, the Selling Stockholders and the Underwriters, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof.

19. This Agreement and any transaction contemplated by this Agreement and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related thereto shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York without regard to principles of conflict of laws that would result in the application of any other law than the laws of the State of New York. Each Jersey Mike’s Party and Selling Stockholder agrees that any suit or proceeding arising in respect of this Agreement or any transaction contemplated by this Agreement will be tried exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York or, if that court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, in any state court located in The City and County of New York and each Jersey Mike’s Party and Selling Stockholder agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of, and to venue in, such courts, and waive, to the fullest extent they may effectively do so, any objection which they may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such proceeding.

20. Each Jersey Mike’s Party, Selling Stockholder and each of the Underwriters hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

21. This Agreement may be executed by any one or more of the parties hereto in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument. Counterparts may be delivered via facsimile, electronic mail (including any electronic signature covered by the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000, Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, the Electronic Signatures and Records Act or other applicable law, e.g., www.docusign.com) or other transmission method and any counterpart so delivered shall be deemed to have been duly and validly delivered and be valid and effective for all purposes.

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

23. Without limiting the applicability of Section 2 hereof or any other provision of this Agreement, with respect to any Underwriter who is affiliated with any person or entity engaged to act as an investment adviser on behalf of a client who has a direct or indirect interest in the Shares being sold by any Selling Stockholder, the Shares being sold to such Underwriter shall not include any shares of Stock attributable to such client (with any such Shares instead being allocated and sold to the other Underwriters) and, accordingly, the fees or other amounts received by such Underwriter in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby shall not include any fees or other amounts attributable to such client.

24. Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolution Regimes.

(a) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer from such Underwriter of this Agreement, and any interest and obligation in or under this Agreement, will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement, and any such interest and obligation, were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.

(b) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity or a BHC Act Affiliate of such Underwriter becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under this Agreement that may be exercised against such Underwriter are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.

(c) As used in this section:

“BHC Act Affiliate” has the meaning assigned to the term “affiliate” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. § 1841(k).

“Covered Entity” means any of the following:

(i) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b);

(ii) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or

(iii) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).

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“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.

“U.S. Special Resolution Regime” means each of (i) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

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

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Very truly yours,

 

JERSEY MIKE’S SUBS INC.

 

 

By:

 

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

JERSEY MIKE’S HOLDCO, LLC

 

 

By:

 

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

SUBMARINE BUYER LLC

 

 

By:

 

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

BOARDWALK II AGGREGATOR L.P.

 

 

By:

 

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

 

 


 

 

Accepted as of the date hereof
[in , ( )]

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

Jefferies LLC

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

 

 

 

MORGAN STANLEY & CO. LLC

By:

 

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

JEFFERIES LLC

By:

 

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC

By:

 

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

On behalf of each of the Underwriters

 


 

SCHEDULE I

 

Underwriter

Total Number of

Firm Shares

to be Purchased

Number of Optional

Shares to be

Purchased if

Maximum Option

Exercised

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

[____]

[____]

Jefferies LLC

[____]

[____]

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

[____]

[____]

Barclays Capital Inc.

[____]

[____]

Guggenheim Securities, LLC

[____]

[____]

BofA Securities, Inc.

[____]

[____]

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

[____]

[____]

Evercore Group L.L.C.

[____]

[____]

UBS Securities LLC

[____]

[____]

Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated

[____]

[____]

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

[____]

[____]

William Blair & Company, L.L.C

[____]

[____]

RBC Capital Markets, LLC

[____]

[____]

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

[____]

[____]

Nomura Securities International, Inc.

[____]

[____]

WR Securities, LLC

[____]

[____]

Piper Sandler & Co.

[____]

[____]

Raymond James & Associates, Inc

[____]

[____]

Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated

[____]

[____]

TD Securities (USA) LLC

[____]

[____]

BTIG, LLC

[____]

[____]

Mizuho Securities USA LLC

[____]

[____]

SG Americas Securities, LLC

[____]

[____]

Truist Securities, Inc.

[____]

[____]

Blackstone Securities Partners L.P.

[____]

[____]

PJT Partners LP

[____]

[____]

Schedule I-1


 

Rabo Securities USA, Inc.

[____]

[____]

Loop Capital Markets LLC

[____]

[____]

Tigress Financial Partners LLC

[____]

[____]

Academy Securities, Inc.

[____]

[____]

Drexel Hamilton, LLC

[____]

[____]

Penserra Securities LLC

[____]

[____]

Roberts & Ryan, Inc.

[____]

[____]

Telsey Advisory Group LLC

[____]

[____]

Total

[____]

[____]

 

 

 

 


 

SCHEDULE II

 

 

 

Total Number of
Firm Shares

 

Number of Optional Shares to
be Sold if Maximum Option

The Company

 

[____]

 

[____]

The Selling Stockholders:

 

 

 

 

Submarine Buyer LLC

 

[____]

 

[____]

Boardwalk II Aggregator L.P.

 

[____]

 

[____]

Total

 

[____]

 

[____]

 

Schedule II-1


 

SCHEDULE III

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

[____]

(b) Information other than the Pricing Prospectus that comprise the Pricing Disclosure Package

The initial public offering price per share for the Shares is $[____]

The number of Firm Shares purchased by the Underwriters is [____].

The number of Optional Shares to be sold by the Selling Stockholders is up to [____].

(c) Written Testing-the-Waters Communications

[____]

Schedule III-1


 

SCHEDULE IV

1. Charles R. Morrison

2. Michele Allen

3. Stacy Peterson

4. Scott G. McLester

5. Betsy J. Mercado

6. Andrew G. Skehan

7. Nigel Travis

8. Peter Cancro

9. Fran Horowitz

10. David N. Kestnbaum

11. Cheryl S. Miller

12. Devon L. Rinker

13. Michael J. Staub

14. James Whalen

15. Matthew Bromberg

16. Submarine Buyer LLC

17. Boardwalk II Aggregator L.P.

18. Original 56ers, Inc.

19. Paul Cancro Exempt Trust UA Cancro Family Dynasty Trust

20. Robert Cancro Exempt Trust UA Cancro Family Dynasty Trust

21. Caroline Jones Exempt Trust UA Cancro Family Dynasty Trust

22. Christine Cancro Exempt Trust UA Cancro Family Dynasty Trust

23. Jersey Mike’s Management Aggregator LLC

Schedule IV-1


 

SCHEDULE V

SELECT ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THE UK OFFERING

Schedule V-1


 

SCHEDULE VI

 

[____]

 

 

Schedule VI-1


 

ANNEX I

[FORM OF PRESS RELEASE]

Jersey Mike’s Subs Inc.
[Date]

Jersey Mike’s Subs Inc. (the “Company”) announced today that Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Jefferies LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, the lead book-running managers in the recent public sale of [ ] shares of Class A common stock of the Company, are [waiving] [releasing] a lock-up restriction with respect to [ ] shares of Class A common stock of the Company held by [certain officers or directors] [an officer or director] of the Company. The [waiver] [release] will take effect on [ ], 20[ ], and the shares may be sold on or after such date.

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

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ANNEX II

[FORM OF LOCK-UP AGREEMENT]

[Date]

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
Jefferies LLC
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
As representatives (the “Representatives”) of the several Underwriters
named in Schedule I of the Underwriting Agreement

c/o Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
1585 Broadway
New York, New York 10036

c/o Jefferies LLC
520 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10022

c/o J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
270 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017

Re: Jersey Mike’s Subs Inc. - Lock-Up Agreement

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The undersigned understands that you, as representatives (the “Representatives”), propose to enter into an Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) on behalf of the several Underwriters named in Schedule I to such agreement (collectively, the “Underwriters”), with Jersey Mike’s Subs Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), Jersey Mike’s HoldCo, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Jersey Mike’s Holdings”) and the Selling Stockholders named in Schedule II to such agreement, providing for a public offering (the “Offering”) of the Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class A Common Stock”), of the Company (the “Shares”) pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the “Registration Statement”) to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).

In consideration of the agreement by the Underwriters to offer and sell the Shares, and of other good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the undersigned agrees that, during the period beginning from the date of this agreement (the “Lock-Up Agreement”) and ending immediately after the close of the Trading Day occurring on the 180th Day after the date of the final prospectus relating to the Public Offering (the “180th Day”) or, if the 180th Day is not a Trading Day, ending immediately after the close of the last Trading Day immediately preceding the 180th Day (such period of time between the date of this Lock-Up Agreement and, as the case may be, the 180th Day or the last Trading Day immediately preceding the 180th Day, referred to herein as the “Lock-Up Period”), the undersigned will not offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, make any short sale or otherwise dispose of any shares of Class A Common Stock, Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class B Common Stock” and, together with the Class A Common Stock, “Common Stock”), of the Company, or any options or warrants to purchase any shares of

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Common Stock of the Company, or any securities convertible into, exchangeable for or that represent the right to receive shares of Common Stock of the Company (including, without limitation, membership interests in Jersey Mike’s Holdings (the “Units”)), whether now owned or hereinafter acquired, owned directly by the undersigned (including holding as a custodian) or with respect to which the undersigned has beneficial ownership within the rules and regulations of the SEC (the Units, together with the Common Stock, the “Undersigned’s Securities”). The foregoing restriction is expressly agreed to preclude the undersigned from engaging in any hedging or other transaction which is designed to or which reasonably could be expected to lead to or result in a sale or disposition of the Undersigned’s Securities even if the Undersigned’s Securities would be disposed of by someone other than the undersigned. Such prohibited hedging or other transactions would include without limitation any short sale or any purchase, sale or grant of any right (including without limitation any put or call option) with respect to any of the Undersigned’s Securities or with respect to any security that includes, relates to, or derives any significant part of its value from the Undersigned’s Securities. If the undersigned is an officer or director of the Company, the undersigned further agrees that the foregoing provisions shall be equally applicable to Company-directed Shares, if any, the undersigned may purchase in the Offering. For the purposes of this Lock-Up Agreement, a “Trading Day” is a day on which the New York Stock Exchange is open for the buying and selling of securities.

If the undersigned is an officer or director of the Company, (i) the Representatives agree that, at least three business days before the effective date of any release or waiver of the foregoing restrictions by any two Representatives, on behalf of the Underwriters, in connection with a transfer of shares of Common Stock, the Representatives will notify the Company of the impending release or waiver, provided, that the failure to provide such notice shall not give rise to any claim or liability against the Representatives or the Underwriters and (ii) if so notified, the Company has agreed in the Underwriting Agreement to announce the impending release or waiver by press release through a major news service at least two business days before the effective date of the release or waiver. Any release or waiver granted hereunder by any two Representatives, on behalf of the Underwriters, to any such officer or director shall only be effective two business days after the publication date of such press release. The provisions of this paragraph will not apply if (a) the release or waiver is effected solely to permit a transfer not for consideration and (b) the transferee has agreed in writing to be bound by the same terms described in this Lock-Up Agreement to the extent and for the duration that such terms remain in effect at the time of the transfer. [In addition, in the event of any release or waiver of the foregoing restrictions in respect of shares of Common Stock or Units held by an affiliate of Blackstone Inc. and/or Peter Cancro and/or his affiliates, the Representatives agree that shares of Common Stock or Units held by the undersigned shall be immediately, fully and irrevocably released in the same manner and on the same terms from any remaining restrictions on a pro rata basis. The undersigned acknowledges that the Representatives are under no obligation to inquire into whether, or to ensure that, the Company notifies the undersigned of the delivery by any two Representatives, on behalf of the Underwriters, of any notice or waiver, which is a matter between the undersigned and the Company.]

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the undersigned may transfer the Undersigned’s Securities:

(i) by will, other testamentary document or intestacy;

(ii) as a bona fide gift or gifts, or for bona fide estate planning purposes, including without limitation to charitable organizations or educational institutions;

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(iii) to any trust, partnership, limited liability company or other entity for the direct or indirect benefit of the undersigned or the immediate family of the undersigned, or if the undersigned is a trust, to a trustor or beneficiary of the trust or to the estate of a beneficiary of such trust;

(iv) to any immediate family member or other dependent of the undersigned;

(v) as a distribution, transfer or disposition to limited partners, members, stockholders or other equity holders of the undersigned or its affiliates (including a fund managed by the same manager or managing member or general partner or management company or by an entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with such manager or managing member or general partner or management company as the undersigned or who shares a common investment advisor with the undersigned);

(vi) to the undersigned’s affiliates (as defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) or to any investment fund or other entity controlling, controlled by, managed by or under common control, or common investment management, with the undersigned or affiliates of the undersigned (including, for the avoidance of doubt, where the undersigned is a partnership, to its general partner or a successor partnership or fund, or any other funds managed by such partnership);

(vii) to a nominee or custodian of a person or entity to whom a disposition or transfer would be permissible under clauses (i) through (vi) above;

(viii) by operation of law, including pursuant to an order of a court (including a final domestic order, divorce settlement, divorce decree or separation agreement or other order) or regulatory agency;

(ix) to the Company from the undersigned upon death, disability or termination of employment, in each case, of the undersigned pursuant to any contractual arrangement that provides the Company with a right to purchase the Undersigned’s Securities;

(x) in connection with transactions by any person other than the Company relating to Shares acquired in open market transactions after the completion of the Offering, provided that in the case of this clause (x) no public reports or filings (including filings under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) reporting a reduction in beneficial ownership of Common Stock shall be required or shall be voluntarily made during the Lock-Up Period or any extension thereof;

(xi) to the Company pursuant to the “net” or “cashless” exercise at expiration of options, warrants or other rights to purchase shares of Common Stock of the Company granted pursuant to any employee equity incentive plan of the Company outstanding at or prior to the closing of the Offering and referred to in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (each, an “Incentive Plan”), provided that any shares of Common Stock or Units received by the Undersigned in connection therewith shall be subject to the terms of this Lock-up Agreement;

(xii) in respect of tax withholding payments (including estimated taxes) due upon the exercise at expiration of options or the vesting of any awards granted by the Company pursuant to any Incentive Plan of the Company (only to the extent the shares received upon such exercise or vesting are subject to the terms of this agreement), provided that any filings required to be made with the SEC or other publicity made regarding the same will indicate that such transactions relate to such tax withholding payments;

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(xiii) [as any pledge, charge, hypothecation or other granting of a security interest in the Common Stock, Units or as any security convertible into Common Stock to one or more banks, financial or other lending institutions (“Lenders”) as collateral or security for or in connection with any margin loan or other loans, advances or extensions of credit entered into by the undersigned or any of its direct or indirect subsidiaries and any transfers of such Common Stock, Units or such other securities to the applicable Lender(s) or other third parties upon or following foreclosure upon or enforcement of such Common Stock, Units or such securities in accordance with the terms of the documentation governing any margin loan or other loan, advance, or extension of credit (including, without limitation, pursuant to any agreement or arrangement existing as of the date hereof), provided that the undersigned or the Company, as the case may be, shall provide the Representatives prior written notice informing them of any public filing, report or announcement with respect to such pledge, hypothecation or other grant of a security interest;]

(xiv) in connection with the sale of the Undersigned’s Securities to be sold by the undersigned in the manner described in the final prospectus used to sell the Shares;

(xv) pursuant to a bona fide third-party tender offer, merger, consolidation or other similar transaction that is approved by the board of directors of the Company and made to all holders of the Company’s capital stock involving a Change of Control (as defined below) of the Company (for purposes hereof, “Change of Control” shall mean the transfer (whether by tender offer, merger, consolidation or other similar transaction), in one transaction or a series of related transactions, to a person or group of affiliated persons, of shares of capital stock if, after such transfer, such person or group of affiliated persons would hold at least a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Company (or the surviving entity)); provided that in the event that such tender offer, merger, consolidation or other similar transaction is not completed, the Undersigned’s Securities shall remain subject to the provisions of this Lock-Up Agreement; and/or

(xvi) with the prior written consent of any two Representatives, on behalf of the Underwriters; provided that the Company or undersigned shall also provide prior written notice to the other Representatives;

provided that:

(1)(a) in the case of each transfer or distribution pursuant to clauses (ii) through (viii) above, each donee, trustee, distributee or transferee, as the case may be, agrees to be bound in writing by the restrictions set forth herein (and, in the case of clause (viii), the undersigned shall use reasonable best efforts to cause the transferee to deliver to the Representatives a lock-up letter in the form of this Lock-Up Agreement); and (b) in the case of transfers pursuant to clauses (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) and (vii), any such transfer or distribution shall not involve a disposition for value, other than with respect to any such transfer or distribution for which the transferor or distributor receives (x) equity interests of such transferee or (y) such transferee’s interests in the transferor;

(2) in the case of each transfer or distribution pursuant to clauses (ii) through (vii), if any public reports or filings (including filings under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act) reporting a reduction in beneficial ownership of Common Stock shall be required or shall be voluntarily made during the Lock-Up Period or any extension thereof (a) the undersigned shall provide the Representatives prior written notice informing it of such report or filing and (b) such report or filing shall disclose that such donee, trustee, distributee or transferee, as the case may be, agrees to be bound in writing by the restrictions set forth herein; and

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(3) in the case of each transfer or distribution pursuant to clauses (viii) and (xii), if any public reports or filings (including filings under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act) reporting a reduction in beneficial ownership of Common Stock shall be required or shall be voluntarily made during the Lock-Up Period or any extension thereof (a) the undersigned shall provide the Representatives prior written notice informing it of such report or filing and (b) such report or filing shall disclose that such transfer or distributions was made under the circumstances described in clause (viii) or (xii), as applicable.

[Notwithstanding the foregoing, clauses (1)(a) and 2(b) above shall not apply with respect to any transfer of shares of Common Stock to charitable organization transferees or recipients (including any direct or indirect member or partner of the undersigned that receives such shares of Common Stock pursuant to a distribution in-kind to such member or partner and is subject to restrictions requiring such shares of Common Stock to be transferred only to charitable organizations pursuant to clause (ii) above) in an aggregate amount, together with any such transfers by the undersigned and the undersigned’s affiliates pursuant to any substantially similar lock-up agreement with the Representatives, not to exceed 1.0% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (treating as outstanding, shares of Class A Common Stock issuable on exchange of Units in Jersey Mike’s Holdings not held by the Company). For the avoidance of doubt, any transfer of shares of Common Stock to a charitable organization transferee or recipient that has agreed in writing to be bound by the same terms described in this Lock-Up Agreement to the extent and for the duration that such terms remain in effect at the time of the transfer shall not count towards the percentage in the preceding sentence.]

In addition, notwithstanding the foregoing, if the undersigned is a corporation, the corporation may transfer the Undersigned’s Securities to any wholly owned subsidiary of such corporation; provided, however, that in any such case, it shall be a condition to the transfer that the transferee execute an agreement stating that the transferee is receiving and holding such shares of Common Stock or Units subject to the provisions of this Lock-Up Agreement and there shall be no further transfer of such shares of Common Stock or Units except in accordance with this Lock-Up Agreement.

The restrictions described in this Lock-Up Agreement shall not apply to [(1)] the establishment of a trading plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act, provided that (i) no transfers occur under such plan during the Lock-Up Period and (ii) no public announcement, filing or report under the Exchange Act shall be voluntarily made by any person in connection therewith during the Lock-Up Period (other than general disclosure in Company periodic reports to the effect that Company directors and officers may enter into such trading plans from time to time) and, if any announcement, filing or report shall be legally required during the Lock-Up Period, such announcement, filing or report shall clearly indicate therein that none of the securities subject to such plan may be transferred, sold, or otherwise disposed of pursuant to such plan until after expiration of the Lock-Up Period [and/or][,] (2) any sales made pursuant to a trading plan adopted pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 of the Exchange Act prior to the date of this Lock-Up Agreement, provided that any filing under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act that is made in connection with any such sales during the Lock-Up Period shall state that such sales have been executed under a trading plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act, and shall also state the date such trading plan was adopted [[and/or] (3) [any disposition of the Undersigned’s Securities made upon exercise of call options written by the undersigned that were entered into prior to the date of the Underwriting Agreement, and any pledge of such Undersigned’s Securities as security thereunder and any exercises of remedies with respect to such Undersigned’s Securities under such pledges].

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For purposes of this Lock-Up Agreement, “immediate family” shall mean any relationship by blood, marriage or adoption, not more remote than first cousin.

The restrictions described in this Lock-Up Agreement shall not apply to (i) the sale of the Undersigned’s Securities as contemplated in the Pricing Disclosure Package; (ii) any exchange, transfer or sale in connection with, and as contemplated by, the Reorganization Transactions (as such term is defined in the Pricing Disclosure Package); or (iii) any reclassification or conversion of Shares or conversion or exchange of Units for Shares, provided that, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) such Shares shall be subject to the provisions of this Lock-Up Agreement.

In furtherance of the foregoing, the Company, and any duly appointed transfer agent for the registration or transfer of the securities described herein, are hereby authorized to decline to make any transfer of securities if such transfer would constitute a violation or breach of this Lock-Up Agreement.

The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the undersigned has full power and authority to enter into this Lock-Up Agreement. All authority herein conferred or agreed to be conferred and any obligations of the undersigned shall be binding upon the successors, assigns, heirs or personal representatives of the undersigned. Any signature to this Lock-Up Agreement may be delivered by facsimile, electronic mail (including pdf) or any electronic signature complying with the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000 or the New York Electronic Signature and Records Act or other transmission method and any counterpart so delivered shall be deemed to have been duly and validly delivered and be valid and effective for all purposes to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

The undersigned acknowledges and agrees that the Representatives and the other Underwriters have not provided any recommendation or investment advice nor have the Underwriters solicited any action from the undersigned with respect to the Offering and the undersigned has consulted their own legal, accounting, financial, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent deemed appropriate. The undersigned further acknowledges and agrees that, although the Representatives may be required or choose to provide certain Regulation Best Interest and Form CRS disclosures to you in connection with the Offering, the Representatives and the other Underwriters are not making a recommendation to you to enter into this Lock-Up Agreement, and nothing set forth in such disclosures is intended to suggest that the Representatives or any Underwriter is making such a recommendation.

The undersigned understands that, if (i) the Underwriting Agreement (other than the provisions which survive termination under the terms thereof) shall terminate or be terminated prior to payment for the delivery of the Shares to be sold thereunder, (ii) the Registration Statement is withdrawn by the Company, (iii) the Company notifies the Representatives (or the Representatives notify the Company) in writing that it does not intend to proceed with the Offering, or (iv) the Underwriting Agreement is not executed by August 31, 2026, the undersigned shall be released from all obligations under this Lock-Up Agreement and this Lock-Up Agreement shall be of no further effect.

This Lock-Up Agreement and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Lock-Up Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

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

 

Very truly yours,

 

 

 

Exact Name of Stockholder, Director or Officer

 

Authorized Signature:

 

Title: