Demand Registration Clause Samples
The Demand Registration clause outlines the process by which shareholders can require a company to register their shares for public sale. Typically, this clause specifies the minimum number of shares needed to trigger the registration, the procedures for making a demand, and any limitations on the frequency or timing of such requests. Its core function is to provide shareholders with a mechanism to achieve liquidity by facilitating the public resale of their shares, thereby addressing the problem of restricted transferability in private companies.
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Demand Registration. (i) At any time any Holder that holds any Registrable Securities shall have the option and right, exercisable by delivering a written notice to the Company (a “Demand Notice”), to require the Company to, pursuant to the terms of and subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, prepare and file with the Commission a Registration Statement registering the offering and sale of the number and type of Registrable Securities on the terms and conditions specified in the Demand Notice, which may include sales on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement (a “Demand Registration”). The Demand Notice must set forth the number of Registrable Securities that the Initiating Holder intends to include in such Demand Registration and the intended methods of disposition thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in no event shall the Company be required to effectuate a Demand Registration for Registrable Securities having an aggregate value of less than $30.0 million based on the VWAP of such Registrable Securities as of the date of the Demand Notice (the “Minimum Amount”).
(ii) Within five Business Days of the receipt of the Demand Notice, the Company shall give written notice of such Demand Notice to all Holders and, within thirty days thereof (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case, within ninety days thereof), shall, subject to the limitations of this Section 2(a), file a Registration Statement in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Demand Notice, which Registration Statement shall cover all of the Registrable Securities that the Holders shall in writing request (such request to be given to the Company within ten days of receipt of notice of the Demand Notice given by the Company pursuant to this Section 2(a)(ii)) to be included in the Demand Registration. The Company shall use reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become and remain effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of (A) 180 days (or two years if a Shelf Registration Statement is requested) after the Effective Date or (B) the date on which all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold (the “Effectiveness Period”); provided, however, that such period shall be extended for a period of time equal to the period the Holders refrain from selling any securities included in such ...
Demand Registration. (a) At any time from the earlier of (i) six (6) months following the completion of an IPO or (ii) the third (3rd) anniversary of the date of this Agreement, if the Holders representing at least a majority of the Registrable Shares then outstanding (the “Initiating Holders”) shall state in writing that such Holders desire to sell Registrable Shares in the public securities markets and request the Company to effect the registration of Registrable Shares under the Securities Act, the Company shall promptly use its best efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Shares which the Company has been so requested to register by the Holders. For the avoidance of doubt, the Company shall not be required to register the sale or re-sale of any True-Up Shares or Conversion True-Up Shares in an IPO.
(b) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Section 2 to the contrary, the Company shall not be obligated to effect any registration under the Securities Act except in accordance with the following provisions:
(i) The Company shall not be obligated to use its best efforts to file and cause to become effective (A) more than two (2) long-form registration statements initiated pursuant to Section 2(a) (other than those on form S-3 as set forth in Section 4) at the Company’s expense; (B) more than two (2) long-form registration statements initiated pursuant to Section 2(a) at the Holders’ expense; (C) any demand registration statement pursuant to Section 2(a) with an anticipated aggregate offering price of less than $10,000,000; nor (D) any registration statement during any period in which any other registration statement (other than on Form S-8 promulgated under the Securities Act or any successor form thereto) pursuant to which Primary Shares are to be or were sold has been filed and not withdrawn or has been declared effective within the prior one hundred eighty (180) days.
(ii) The Company may delay the filing or effectiveness of any registration statement for a period of up to ninety (90) days after the date of a request for registration pursuant to this Section 2 if at the time of such request the Company furnishes to the Holders requesting such registration statement pursuant to this Section 2, a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that (i) the Company is engaged, or has fixed plans to engage within thirty (30) days of the time of such request, in a firm commitment underwritten public offering of P...
Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the conditions of this Section 2.1, if the Company shall receive a written request from Initiating Holders that the Company file a registration statement under the Securities Act covering the registration of the Registrable Securities resulting in net offering proceeds of at least $20,000,000, then the Company will (x) promptly give written notice of the requested registration to all Holders and (y) prepare and file a registration statement and otherwise use its best efforts to cause such shares, and all Registrable Securities of any Holder or Holders joining in such registration pursuant to a written request delivered to the Company within thirty (30) days after receipt by such Holder or Holders of initial written notice from the Company, to be registered under the Securities Act within ninety (90) days of the request.
(b) If the Initiating Holders intend to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by their request by means of an underwriting, then the Initiating Holders shall so advise the Company as a part of their written request made pursuant to this Section 2.1 or any request pursuant to Section 2.3, and the Company shall include such information in the written notice referred to in Section 2.1(a) or Section 2.3(a), as applicable. In such event, the right of any Holder to include its Registrable Securities in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Holder’s participation in such underwriting and the inclusion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in the underwriting to the extent provided herein. The Company shall (together with all Holders proposing to distribute their Registrable Securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Company (which underwriter or underwriters shall be reasonably acceptable to a majority in interest of the Initiating Holders). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.1 or Section 2.3, if the underwriter advises the Company that marketing factors require a limitation of the number of securities to be underwritten (including Registrable Securities), then the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities that would otherwise be underwritten pursuant hereto, and the number of shares that may be included in the underwriting shall be allocated to the Holders of such Registrable Securities on a pro rata basis based on the number of Registrable Securitie...
Demand Registration. (A) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, at any time and from time to time during such periods when a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, that the Company register, under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated by the Investor. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii), the Company shall promptly (and in any event within thirty (30) days of the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SEC, and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective as promptly as practicable, a registration statement on the appropriate form for the registration and sale as shall be selected by the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution (which may be by an underwritten offering), of the total number of Registrable Securities specified by the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”). If the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offering, it shall promptly so advise the Company and the Company shall take all reasonable steps to facilitate such distribution, including the actions required pursuant to Section 3.12(c). The managing underwriters in any such distribution shall be acceptable to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in such underwritten offering. Any Demand Registration Statement may, at the request of the Holders submitting the Demand Notice, be a “shelf” registration pursuant to Rule 415, if available.
(B) The Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously effective and usable for the resale of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from the date on which the SEC declares such Demand Registration Statement effective, as such period may be extended pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B). The time period for which the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended ...
Demand Registration. (a) If at any time after one hundred eighty (180) days after the effective date of the registration statement for the IPO, the Company receives a request from Holders of at least a majority of the Registrable Securities Then Outstanding that the Company file a Form S-1 registration statement with respect to all or any portion of their Registrable Securities if the anticipated aggregate offering price, net of Selling Expenses, would exceed $15,000,000, then the Company shall (i) within ten (10) days after the date such request is given, give notice thereof (the “Demand Notice”) to all Holders other than the Initiating Holders, and (ii) as soon as practicable, and in any event within sixty (60) days after the date such request is given by the Initiating Holders, file a Form S-1 registration statement under the Securities Act covering all Registrable Securities that the Initiating Holders requested to be registered and any additional Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by any other Holders, as specified by notice given by each such Holder to the Company within twenty (20) days of the date the Demand Notice is given, and in each case, subject to the limitations of Section 2.1(c) and Section 2.3.
(b) If at any time when it is eligible to use a Form S-3 registration statement, the Company receives a request from Holders of at least twenty percent (20%) of the Registrable Securities Then Outstanding that the Company file a Form S-3 registration statement with respect to outstanding Registrable Securities of such Holders having an anticipated aggregate offering price, net of Selling Expenses, of at least $1,000,000, then the Company shall (i) within ten (10) days after the date such request is given, give a Demand Notice to all Holders other than the Initiating Holders; and (ii) as soon as practicable, and in any event within forty-five (45) days after the date such request is given by the Initiating Holders, file a Form S-3 registration statement under the Securities Act covering all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by any other Holders, as specified by notice given by each such Holder to the Company within twenty (20) days of the date the Demand Notice is given, and in each case, subject to the limitations of Section 2.1(c) and Section 2.3.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing obligations, if the Company furnishes to Holders requesting a registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 a certificate sign...
Demand Registration. (a) On or prior to each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. Each Registration Statement filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, subject to the provisions of Section 2(d)) and shall contain (unless otherwise directed by at least 85% in interest of the Holders or to make any disclosure contained therein not misleading) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A and substantially the “Selling Stockholder” section attached hereto as Annex B; provided, however, that no Holder shall be required to be named as an “underwriter” without such Holder’s express prior written consent. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to cause a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use reasonable best efforts to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date that all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement cease to be Registrable Securities (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall notify the Holders via e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement as promptly as practicable, and shall, if requested, provide the Holders with copies of the final Prospectus to be used in connection with the sale or other disposition of the securities covered thereby.
(b) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use reasonable best efforts to file an amendment or amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form ...
Demand Registration. (a) Subject to the conditions of this Section 2.2, if the Company shall receive a written request from the Holders of not less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the outstanding shares of the Registrable Securities (the “Initiating Holders”) that the Company file a registration statement under the Securities Act having an aggregate offering price to the public of not less than $5,000,000 (a “Qualified Public Offering”), then the Company shall, within thirty (30) days of the receipt thereof, give written notice of such request to all Holders, and subject to the limitations of this Section 2.2, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of all Registrable Securities that the Holders request to be registered.
(b) If the Initiating Holders intend to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by their request by means of an underwriting, they shall so advise the Company as a part of their request made pursuant to this Section 2.2 or any request pursuant to Section 2.4 and the Company shall include such information in the written notice referred to in Section 2.2(a) or Section 2.4(a), as applicable. In such event, the right of any Holder to include its Registrable Securities in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Holder’s participation in such underwriting and the inclusion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in the underwriting to the extent provided herein. All Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by a majority in interest of the Initiating Holders (which underwriter or underwriters shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.2 or Section 2.4, if the underwriter advises the Company that marketing factors require a limitation of the number of securities to be underwritten (including Registrable Securities) then the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities which would otherwise be underwritten pursuant hereto, and the number of shares that may be included in the underwriting shall be allocated to the Holders of such Registrable Securities on a pro rata basis based on the number of Registrable Securities held by all such Holders (including the Initiating Holders); provided, however, that the number of shares of Registrable Securities to ...
Demand Registration. (1) At any time commencing one year from the effective date of the registration statement and expiring four (4) years thereafter, the Holders of the Warrants and/or Warrant Securities representing a "Majority" (as hereinafter defined) of such securities (assuming the exercise of all of the Warrants) shall have the right (which right is in addition to the registration rights under Section (i) hereof), exercisable by written notice to the Company, to have the Company prepare and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"), on one occasion, a registration statement and such other documents, including a prospectus, as may be necessary in the opinion of both counsel for the Company and counsel for the Underwriter and Holders, in order to comply with the provisions of the Act, so as to permit a public offering and sale of their respective Warrant Securities for nine (9) consecutive months by such Holders and any other holders of the Warrants and/or Warrant Securities who notify the Company within ten (10) days after receiving notice from the Company of such request.
(2) The Company covenants and agrees to give written notice of any registration request under this Section (i) by any Holder or Holders to all other registered Holders of the Warrants and the Warrant Securities within ten (10) days from the date of the receipt of any such registration request.
(3) In addition to the registration rights under this Section (i) at any time commencing one year after the effective date of the registration statement and expiring four (4) years thereafter, the Holders of Representative's Warrants and/or Warrant Securities shall have the right, exercisable by written request to the Company, to have the Company prepare and file, on one occasion, with the Commission a registration statement so as to permit a public offering and sale for nine (9) consecutive months by such Holders of its Warrant Securities; provided, however, that the provisions of Section (i)(2) hereof shall not apply to any such registration request and registration and all costs incident thereto shall be at the expense of the Holder or Holders making such request.
Demand Registration. (a) Following the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date hereof and upon receipt of a written request from a Holder (such Holder, together with its Affiliates, the “Exercising Holder”) requesting that CRIC effect a registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act covering all or part of the Registrable Securities, and which notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, CRIC shall use its best efforts to, as soon as reasonably practicable, after receipt of such written request, file with the SEC and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective, a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the Registrable Securities that CRIC has been so requested to register for sale, to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered.
(b) If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises CRIC and the Exercising Holder that, in its reasonable opinion, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by CRIC or any other security holder, including any Holders other than the Exercising Holder (such Holders, the “Non-Exercising Holders”) exceeds the largest number of securities which reasonably can be sold in such offering without having a material adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size” ), then CRIC shall include in such Demand Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Exercising Holder proposes to register, second, the Registrable Securities any Non-Exercising Holder proposes to register, and third, any securities CRIC proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. CRIC shall not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the rights of priority provided in this Section 2(b).
(c) Each of the E-House Holders and the Sina Holders, in each case, collectively, shall be entitled to an aggregate of three (3) registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2; provided, that a registration requeste...
Demand Registration. (i) If one or more Holders that own an aggregate of 51% or more of the Registrable Securities then outstanding (the “Demanding Holders”) shall at any time make a written request to the Company, the Company shall cause there to be filed with the Commission a registration statement meeting the requirements of the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”), and each Demanding Holder shall be entitled to have included therein (subject to Section 2.7) all or such number of such Demanding Holder’s Registered Shares, as the Demanding Holder shall report in writing; provided, however, that no request may be made pursuant to this Section 2.1 if within six (6) months prior to the date of such request a Demand Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 2.1 shall have been declared effective by the Commission. Any request made pursuant to this Section 2.1 shall be addressed to the attention of the Secretary of the Company, and shall specify the number of Registrable Securities to be registered, the intended methods of disposition thereof and that the request is for a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1(i).
(ii) The Company shall be entitled to postpone for up to one hundred twenty (120) days the filing of any Demand Registration statement otherwise required to be prepared and filed pursuant to this Section 2.1, if the Board determines, in its good faith reasonable judgment (with the concurrence of the managing underwriter, if any), that such registration and the Transfer or Registrable Securities contemplated thereby would materially interfere with, or require premature disclosure of, any financing, acquisition or reorganization involving the Company or any of its wholly owned subsidiaries and the Company promptly gives the Demanding Holders notice of such determination; provided, however, that the Company shall not have postponed pursuant to this Section 2.1(ii) the filing of any other Demand Registration statement otherwise required to be prepared and filed pursuant to this Section 2.1 during the 24 month period ended on the date of the relevant request pursuant to Section 2.1(i).
(iii) Whenever the Company shall have received a demand pursuant to Section 2.1(i) to effect the registration of any Registrable Shares, the Company shall promptly give written notice of such proposed registration to all Holders. Any such Holder may, within twenty (20) days after receipt of such notice, request in writing that all of such Holder’s Registrable Shares, or any...
