Shelf Takedowns In the event that the Company files a Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2.1.1 and such registration statement becomes effective, the Holders shall have the right at any time or from time to time to elect to sell their Registrable Shares in any manner described under “Plan of Distribution” in such registration statement, including pursuant to an underwritten offering of Registrable Shares available for sale pursuant to such registration statement (“Shelf Registrable Shares”). A Holder shall make such election with respect to an underwritten offering by delivering to the Company a written request (a “Shelf Underwriting Request”) for such underwritten offering to the Company specifying the number of Shelf Registrable Shares that the Holder(s) desire(s) to sell pursuant to such underwritten offering (the “Shelf Underwriting”); provided that the Shelf Underwriting Request shall provide for the sale of no less than $10 million of Registrable Shares. As promptly as practicable, but no later than two (2) Business Days after receipt of a Shelf Underwriting Request, the Company shall give written notice (the “Shelf Underwriting Notice”) of such Shelf Underwriting Request to all other Holders. The Company shall include in such Shelf Underwriting (x) the Registrable Shares of the Holder(s) making such Shelf Underwriting Request and (y) the Shelf Registrable Shares of any other Holder of Shelf Registrable Shares which shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in such Shelf Underwriting (which request shall specify the maximum number of Shelf Registrable Shares intended to be disposed of by such Holder) within five (5) days after the receipt of the Shelf Underwriting Notice. The Company shall, as expeditiously as possible (and in any event within 20 days after the receipt of a Shelf Underwriting Request) use its reasonable best efforts to facilitate such Shelf Underwriting. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a Holder wishes to engage in an underwritten block trade off of a Shelf Registration Statement, then notwithstanding the foregoing time periods, the Holder only needs to notify the Company of the block trade Shelf Underwriting on the day such offering is to commence and the Company shall notify other Holders on the same day and other Holders must elect whether or not to participate on the day such offering is to commence, and the Company shall as expeditiously as possible use its reasonable best efforts to facilitate such Shelf Underwriting, provided that the Holder requesting such underwritten block trade shall use reasonable best efforts to work with the Company and the underwriters prior to making such request in order to facilitate preparation of the registration statement, prospectus supplement and other offering documentation related to the underwritten block trade. The Company shall, at the request of any Holder of Registrable Shares registered on such Shelf Registration Statement, file any prospectus supplement, any post-effective amendments and otherwise take any action necessary to include therein all disclosure and language deemed necessary or advisable by any Holder of Registrable Shares registered on such Shelf Registration Statement to effect such Shelf Underwriting. Once a Shelf Registration Statement has been declared effective, the Holders of Registrable Shares may request, and the Company shall facilitate, an unlimited number of Shelf Underwritings with respect to such Shelf Registration Statement. In connection with any Shelf Underwriting, the Company shall follow the applicable procedures set forth in Section 2.3.
Shelf Takedown At any time and from time to time following the effectiveness of the shelf registration statement required by subsection 2.1.1 or 2.1.2, any Holder(s) may request to sell all or a portion of their Registrable Securities in an Underwritten Offering that is registered pursuant to such shelf registration statement (a “Shelf Underwritten Offering”) provided that such Holder(s) (a) reasonably expect aggregate gross proceeds in excess of $50,000,000 from such Shelf Underwritten Offering or (b) reasonably expects to sell all of the Registrable Securities held by such Holder in such Shelf Underwritten Offering but in no event for less than $10,000,000 in aggregate gross proceeds. All requests for a Shelf Underwritten Offering shall be made by giving written notice to the Company (the “Shelf Takedown Notice”). Each Shelf Takedown Notice shall specify the approximate number of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold in the Shelf Underwritten Offering and the expected price range (net of underwriting discounts and commissions) of such Shelf Underwritten Offering. Within five (5) business days after receipt of any Shelf Takedown Notice, the Company shall give written notice of such requested Shelf Underwritten Offering to all other Holders of Registrable Securities (the “Company Shelf Takedown Notice”) and, subject to reductions consistent with the Pro Rata calculations in subsection 2.2.4, shall include in such Shelf Underwritten Offering all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein, within five (5) days after sending the Company Shelf Takedown Notice. The Company shall enter into an underwriting agreement in a form as is customary in Underwritten Offerings of securities by the Company with the managing Underwriter or Underwriters selected by the initiating Holder(s) after consultation with the Company and shall take all such other reasonable actions as are requested by the managing Underwriter or Underwriters in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities. In connection with any Shelf Underwritten Offering contemplated by this subsection 2.1.3, subject to Section 3.4 and Article IV, the underwriting agreement into which each Holder and the Company shall enter shall contain such representations, covenants, indemnities and other rights and obligations of the Company and the selling stockholders as are customary in Underwritten Offerings of securities by the Company.
Demand Rights Subject to the conditions of this Section 3.1, if the Company shall receive a written request from the holders of at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the issued and outstanding shares of Preferred Stock that were issued in exchange for shares of series A, series AA, series B or series BB preferred stock of Renewable Energy Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“REG”), pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated , 2009 by and among the Company, REG and REG Merger Sub, Inc. (the “Initiating Holders”) that the Company file a registration statement under the Securities Act covering the registration of Registrable Securities with anticipated proceeds of at least (i) $40,000,000 at a share price (subject to appropriate adjustments in the event of any stock dividend, stock split, combination or other similar recapitalization as generally described in the Company’s Certificate of Designation of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series A Certificate of Designation”)) of at least two times the original purchase price per share of the Series A Preferred Stock for the Initial Offering or (ii) $10,000,000 for a public offering thereafter, then the Company shall, within ten (10) days of the receipt thereof, give written notice of such request to all Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 3.1, use best efforts to file, and commercially reasonable efforts to cause to become effective, as soon as practicable, the registration under the Securities Act of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered in a written request received by the Company within twenty (20) days of the mailing of the Company’s notice pursuant to this Section 3.1(a). The holders of Senior Registrable Securities shall be limited to a maximum of two (2) demand registrations pursuant to this Section 3.1, provided that a registration requested pursuant to this Section 3.1(a) shall not be deemed to have been effected (i) unless a registration statement with respect thereto has been declared effective for a period of at least one hundred twenty (120) days, (ii) if after a registration statement has become effective, such registration is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the Commission or other governmental agency or court for any reason, (iii) if the conditions to closing specified in the purchase agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such registration are not satisfied, other than as a result of the voluntary termination of such offering by the Holders of Registrable Securities, or (iv) if the Holders of Registrable Securities that would otherwise be underwritten are required to exclude or withdraw a number of Registrable Securities from such underwriting pursuant to Section 3.1(b) the result of which is gross proceeds to the Holders of Registrable Securities from the registration of less than $40,000,000 if the Initial Offering or $10,000,000 if a public offering thereafter.
Blackout Period Subject to the requirements of Regulation FD under the Exchange Act, the Company will immediately notify the Investor upon the occurrence of any of the following events in respect of a Registration Statement or related prospectus in respect of an offering of Registrable Securities; (i) receipt of any request for additional information by the SEC or any other federal or state governmental authority during the period of effectiveness of the Registration Statement for amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or related prospectus; (ii) the issuance by the SEC or any other federal or state governmental authority of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose; (iii) receipt of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification or exemption from qualification of any of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; (iv) the happening of any event that makes any statement made in such Registration Statement or related prospectus or any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference untrue in any material respect or that requires the making of any changes in the Registration Statement, related prospectus or documents so that, in the case of the Registration Statement, it will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and that in the case of the related prospectus, it will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and (v) the Company's reasonable determination that a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement would be appropriate; and the Company will promptly make available to the Investor any such supplement or amendment to the related prospectus. The Company shall not deliver to the Investor any Optional Purchase Notice during the continuation of any of the foregoing events.
Effective Demand Registration The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause any such Demand Registration to become and remain effective not later than sixty (60) days after it receives a request under Section 3(a) hereof. A registration shall not constitute a Demand Registration until it has become effective and remains continuously effective for the lesser of (i) the period during which all Registrable Securities registered in the Demand Registration are sold and (ii) 120 days; provided, however, that a registration shall not constitute a Demand Registration if (x) after such Demand Registration has become effective, such registration or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Securities thereunder is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the Commission or other governmental agency or court for any reason not attributable to the Initiating Holders and such interference is not thereafter eliminated or (y) the conditions specified in the underwriting agreement, if any, entered into in connection with such Demand Registration are not satisfied or waived, other than by reason of a failure by the Initiating Holder.
Effective Period of Demand Registrations Upon the date of effectiveness of any Demand Registration for an underwritten offering and if such offering is priced promptly on or after such date, the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep such Demand Registration Statement effective for a period equal to 60 days from such date or such shorter period which shall terminate when all of the Registrable Shares covered by such Demand Registration have been sold by the Investor. If the Company shall withdraw any Demand Registration pursuant to Section 5 before such 60 days end and before all of the Registrable Shares covered by such Demand Registration have been sold pursuant thereto, the Investor shall be entitled to a replacement Demand Registration which shall be subject to all of the provisions of this Agreement. A Demand Registration shall not count against the limit on the number of such registrations set forth in Section 2(b) if (i) after the applicable Registration Statement has become effective, such Registration Statement or the related offer, sale or distribution of Registrable Shares thereunder becomes the subject of any stop order, injunction or other order or restriction imposed by the SEC or any other governmental agency or court for any reason not attributable to the Investor or its Affiliates (other than the Company and its controlled Affiliates) and such interference is not thereafter eliminated so as to permit the completion of the contemplated distribution of Registrable Shares or (ii) in the case of an underwritten offering, the conditions specified in the related underwriting agreement, if any, are not satisfied or waived for any reason not attributable to the Investor or its Affiliates (other than the Company and its controlled Affiliates), and as a result of any such circumstances described in clause (i) or (ii), less than 75% of the Registrable Shares covered by the Registration Statement are sold by the Investor pursuant to such Registration Statement.
Demand Registration (a) At any time following the expiration of the Disposition Restriction Period, if the Company is unable to file, cause to be effective or maintain the effectiveness of a Shelf Registration Statement as required under Section 5.1 hereof, the Investors’ Representative shall have the right, by delivering a written notice to the Company (a “Demand Notice”), to require the Company to register under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act the number of Registrable Securities Beneficially Owned by any Investors and requested by such Demand Notice to be so registered (a “Demand Registration”); provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to effect more than two (2) Demand Registrations for underwritten offerings pursuant to this Section 5.2(a); and, provided, further, that the Investors shall not be entitled to deliver to the Company more than one (1) Demand Registration in any twelve (12) month period and, in any event, a Demand Notice may only be made if the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered by the Investors’ Representative is reasonably expected to result in aggregate gross cash proceeds in excess of $100,000,000 (without regard to any underwriting discount or commission); and provided, further that the Investors shall not be entitled to request more than two (2) Company Supported Distributions in the aggregate (including underwritten Demand Registrations). A Demand Notice shall also specify the expected method or methods of disposition of the applicable Registrable Securities. Following receipt of a Demand Notice, the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to file, as promptly as reasonably practicable, but not later than 30 days after receipt by the Company of such Demand Notice, a Registration Statement relating to the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by the Investors thereof in accordance with the methods of distribution elected by such Investors (a “Demand Registration Statement”) and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as practicable after the filing thereof, it being agreed that if any Investor intends to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offering it shall promptly so advise the Company and the Company shall cooperate with such Investor to facilitate such distribution, including but not limited to the actions required pursuant to Section 5.5(a)(viii) and, if a Company Supported Distribution is requested, Section 5.5(a)(xiv).
Blackout The Company undertakes and covenants that until the end of the Exclusion Period, the Company will not enter into any acquisition, merger, exchange or sale or other transaction that could have the effect of delaying the effectiveness of any pending registration statement or causing an already effective registration statement to no longer be effective or current for a period twenty (20) or more days.
Demand Notice Promptly upon receipt of a Demand Registration Request pursuant to Section 3.1.1 (but in no event more than three Business Days thereafter), the Company shall deliver a written notice (a “Demand Notice”) of any such Demand Registration Request to all other Holders and the Demand Notice shall offer each such Holder the opportunity to include in the Demand Registration that number of Registrable Securities as each such Holder may request in writing. Subject to Section 3.1.7, the Company shall include in the Demand Registration all such Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within three Business Days after the date that the Demand Notice was delivered.
Demand Registration Withdrawal A majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holders initiating a Demand Registration or a majority-in-interest of the Requesting Holders (if any), pursuant to a Registration under subsection 2.1.1 shall have the right to withdraw from a Registration pursuant to such Demand Registration for any or no reason whatsoever upon written notification to the Company and the Underwriter or Underwriters (if any) of their intention to withdraw from such Registration prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement filed with the Commission with respect to the Registration of their Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall be responsible for the Registration Expenses incurred in connection with a Registration pursuant to a Demand Registration prior to its withdrawal under this subsection 2.1.5.
