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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement. (C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d). (D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 5 contracts
Sources: Investment Agreement (Central Pacific Financial Corp), Investment Agreement (Central Pacific Financial Corp), Investment Agreement (Anchorage Capital Group, L.L.C.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to requestIf, at any time and from during the time to time during such periods when a after the Closing Date, the Shelf Registration Statement is not effective or Shelf Registration Statements covering otherwise available, the Investor may request in a written notice to the Company (the “Request”) that the Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of some or all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effectivethen owned by the Investor; provided, however, that the Company registerwill not be required to effect more than one registration pursuant to this Section. Following the receipt of a Request, the Company shall, subject to the limitations of this Section 3, use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, Act of all or any portion of Registrable Securities that the Investor requests to be registered.
(b) If the Investor intends to distribute the Registrable Securities designated covered 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 request 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 as a part of its request made pursuant to this Section 3.12(c)3. The managing underwriters in any In such distribution shall be acceptable to event, the right of the Investor registering to include its Registrable Securities in such registration shall be conditioned upon the Investor’s participation in such underwriting and the inclusion of Registrable Securities in the underwriting to the extent provided herein. The Investor shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by the Investor (which underwriter or underwriters shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 3, if the underwriter advises the Company that marketing factors require a limitation of the number of securities to be underwritten offering(including Registrable Securities), then the Company shall so advise the Investor,; provided, however, that the number of shares of Registrable Securities to be included in such underwriting and registration will not be reduced unless all other securities of the Company that are entitled by contract or otherwise to be included therein are first entirely excluded from such underwriting and registration. Any Demand Registration Statement may, at Registrable Securities excluded or withdrawn from such underwriting shall be withdrawn from the request of the Holders submitting the Demand Notice, be a “shelf” registration pursuant to Rule 415, if availableregistration.
(Bc) The Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed may postpone having a registration statement pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii3 declared effective for a reasonable period not to exceed thirty (30) continuously effective and usable for consecutive trading days if the resale Board of Directors of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period Company shall have determined in good faith because of one hundred eighty valid business reasons (180) days from not including avoidance of the date on which Company’s obligations hereunder), including without limitation the SEC declares such Demand Registration Statement effectiveacquisition or divestiture of assets, as such period may be extended pursuant capital raising activities, pending corporate developments and similar events, that postponing effectiveness is in the best interests of the Company, and prior to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B). The time period for which postponing the effectiveness the Company is required provides the Investor with written notice of such postponement, which notice need not specify the nature of the event giving rise to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statementpostponement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 4 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Waste Services, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Waste Services, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Prides Capital Partners, LLC)
Demand Registration. Upon the written request (A) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the a “Demand Notice”) given to by the CompanyHolder, to requestthe Company shall file with the Commission, as soon as reasonably practicable, but in no event more than 30 days following the receipt of the Notice, a registration statement (each, a “Registration Statement”) under the Securities Act providing for the resale of the Registrable Securities (which may, at any time and the option of the Holder, be a registration statement under the Securities Act that provides for the resale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 415 from time to time during such periods when by the Holder (a “Shelf Registration Statement”)). The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause each Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable after the initial filing of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, that Registration Statement. Any Registration Statement shall provide for 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 resale pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)any method or combination of methods legally available to, and requested by, the Holder. To the extent the initial Registration Statement is not made on Form S-3, the Company shall promptly (shall, upon becoming eligible to file a registration statement on Form S-3, prepare and in any event within thirty (30) days of file a new Registration Statement on Form S-3 to replace the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SEC, initial Registration Statement and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause such subsequent Registration Statement 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 Commission as shall be soon as 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”)practicable thereafter. 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 its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep cause each Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) 2.1 to be continuously effective effective, supplemented and usable amended to the extent necessary to ensure that it is available for the resale of all Registrable Securities by the Holder until all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have ceased to be Registrable Securities (the “Effectiveness Period”). Each Registration Statement when effective (and the documents incorporated therein by reference) shall comply as to form in all material respects with all applicable requirements of the Securities Act and shall 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. The Holder shall be limited to two demand registrations under this Section 2.1 in any twelve-month period (provided, however, that there shall be no limit on the number of Shelf Registration Statements that may be required by the Holder hereunder), and the Company shall not be obligated to file more than one Registration Statement within 120 days after the effective date of any Registration Statement filed by the Company; provided, further, that no demand registration under this Section 2.1 shall be deemed to have occurred for purposes of this sentence if the Registration Statement relating thereto (a) does not become effective within 180 days of the date first filed with the Commission, (b) is not maintained effective for the Effectiveness Period required under this Section 2.1 or (c) the offering of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from the date on which the SEC declares pursuant to such Demand Registration Statement effectiveis subject to a stop order, as injunction, or similar order or requirement of the Commission during 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statementperiod.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 4 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Biovie Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Acuitas Group Holdings, LLC), Registration Rights Agreement (Biovie Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, at At any time and from time to time during such periods when a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all following the six month anniversary of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effectivedate of this Agreement, the Holder Representative may request that the Company register, Parent register under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, 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 Stock on which the Company receives Form S-3 or 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 other short-form registration statement on under the appropriate form for the registration and sale as shall be selected by the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable Securities Act then available 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 Parent (a “Demand Registration StatementRegistration”), including a shelf registration statement providing for the resale from time to time of any and all Registrable Stock pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act or any successor rule thereto (a “Shelf Registration”). Promptly after receipt of any request for Demand Registration, Parent shall deliver written notice of such request to all other holders of Registrable Stock and such holders shall have ten (10) Business Days from the date of such notice to notify Parent in writing of their desire to include Registrable Stock in such Demand Registration. Parent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the registration statement with respect to such Demand Registration to become effective under the Securities Act as soon as reasonably practicable, except to the extent such registration statement is already effective. Parent shall not be required to effect a Demand Registration more than three (3) times (and no more than two (2) times in any twelve (12) month period) for the holders of Registrable Stock as a group; provided, that a Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have been effected unless (i) it has become effective under the Securities Act, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 4.3(b), and (iii) the offering of Registrable Stock pursuant to such Demand Registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC (other than any such stop order, injunction, or other requirement of the SEC prompted by any act or omission of holders of Registrable Stock).
(b) If the Investor registering Registrable Securities Holder intends to distribute any the Registrable Securities Stock covered by the Demand Registration request by means of an underwritten offering, it shall promptly so advise Parent as part of its request for Demand Registration, and Parent shall include such information in its notice to the Company other holders of Registrable Stock. In such event, the holders of a majority of the Registrable Stock initially requesting the Demand Registration shall select the managing underwriter of such offering; provided, that such selection shall be subject to Parent’s prior written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed).
(c) Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary:
(i) Except as provided in Section 4.9(a) with respect to a Take Down Notice, Parent shall not be required to effect a Demand Registration within (A) 90 days following the latest of the effective date of a registration statement or the date of the filing of a prospectus or prospectus supplement pertaining to a public offering of securities for the account of Parent or (B) six months following the latest of the effective date of a registration statement or the date of the filing of a prospectus or prospectus supplement pertaining to (x) a previous Demand Registration or (y) a previous Piggyback Registration in which holders of Registrable Stock sold at least 80% of the shares of Registrable Stock requested to be included therein;
(ii) if the Board determines in good faith that it would (A) materially adversely affect Parent’s ability to pursue or consummate a proposed or pending acquisition, disposition, strategic alliance, financing transaction or other material event involving Parent, (B) require the premature disclosure of material non-public information, or (C) prevent Parent from complying with the Securities Act or Exchange Act, Parent may (1) postpone the filing or effectiveness of any registration pursuant to this Section 4.1 and (2) suspend the rights of any holder of Registrable Stock to use any prospectus with respect to an effective Demand Registration, in each case for a period of no more than 45 days; provided, that such right to postpone or suspend a registration pursuant to this Section 4.1(c)(ii) shall be exercised by Parent (a) only if Parent has generally exercised (or is concurrently exercising) similar black-out rights (if any) against holders of similar securities that have registration rights and (b) not more than two (2) times in any twelve (12) month period and not more than 90 days in the aggregate in any twelve (12) month period; provided, further, that in the event Parent gives such notice, Parent shall extend the period during which such registration statement shall be maintained effective as provided in Section 4.3(b) by the number of days by which Parent suspends such registration statement;
(iii) Parent shall not be obligated to cause any audit to be undertaken in connection with any such registration that Parent is not otherwise required to undertake at that time in connection with its obligations under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the Company rules and regulations thereunder; and
(iv) Parent may satisfy its obligations to effect a Demand Registration by filing one or more prospectus supplements to a registration statement previously filed and that has become effective under the Securities Act that permits Parent to register resales of Parent Common Stock by naming in such prospectus supplement the selling stockholders of such Parent Common Stock.
(d) Parent shall take all reasonable steps to facilitate not include in any Demand Registration any securities that are not Registrable Stock without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority of the Registrable Stock initially requesting such distributionDemand Registration (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, including the actions required pursuant to Section 3.12(cconditioned or delayed). The If a Demand Registration involves an underwritten offering and the managing underwriters underwriter advises Parent that in any its opinion the number of shares of Registrable Stock (and, if permitted hereunder, other securities requested to be included in such distribution shall offering), exceeds the number of securities that can be acceptable sold in such underwritten offering without adversely affecting the marketability or the price per share of the Registrable Stock proposed to the Investor registering Registrable Securities be sold in such underwritten offering. Any , Parent shall include in such Demand Registration Statement may(i) first, at the request number of shares of Parent Common Stock that the Holders submitting holders of Registrable Stock propose to sell, and (ii) second, the Demand Notice, number of securities proposed to be a “shelf” registration pursuant included therein by any other Persons (including securities 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 be sold for the resale account of Parent and/or other holders of Parent Common Stock) allocated among such Persons in such manner as they may agree. If the managing underwriter determines that less than all of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from Stock proposed to be sold can be included in such offering, then the date on which the SEC declares Registrable Stock that is included in 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 offering shall be extended by allocated pro rata among the aggregate respective holders thereof on the basis of the number of days shares of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to Registrable Stock held by each such Demand Registration Statementholder.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 4 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement, Investor Rights Agreement (Fleetcor Technologies Inc), Investor Rights Agreement (Ceridian LLC)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to requestIf, at any time and from time to time during such periods when a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all commencing six (6) months after the date of consummation of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effectiveInitial Public Offering, the Company shall receive a written request from Oak Hill (the “Requesting Stockholder”) that the Company register, effect the registration under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, Act of all or any portion of such Requesting Stockholder’s Registrable Securities (which shall be effected by a shelf registration if so requested by the Requesting Stockholder), and specifying the intended method of disposition thereof, then the Company shall promptly give notice of such requested registration (each such request shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”) at least fifteen (15) Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Registration to the Other Stockholders holding Registrable Securities and thereupon shall use its best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) all Registrable Securities for which the Requesting Stockholder has requested registration under this Section 1.01.
(ii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 1.01(f) and 1.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Stockholders that any Stockholders with rights to request registration under Section 1.02 (all such Stockholders, together with the Requesting Stockholders, the “Registering Stockholders”) have requested the Company to register by request received by the Company within ten (10) Business Days after such Stockholders receive the Company’s notice of the Demand Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities designated so to be registered.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the ten (10) Business Day period referred to in Section 1.01(a)(ii) hereof, the Company will notify all Registering Stockholders of the identities of the other Registering Stockholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Stockholders may revoke such request, without liability to any of the other Registering Stockholders, by providing a notice to the Investor. Upon receipt Company revoking such request.
(c) Oak Hill shall have an unlimited number of Demand Registrations.
(d) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with each Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Registration is effected.
(e) A Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have occurred:
(i) unless the registration statement relating thereto (A) has become effective under the Securities Act and (B) has remained effective for a period of at least 120 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Registering Stockholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder), provided that such registration statement shall not be considered a Demand Notice from Registration if, after such registration statement becomes effective, (1) such registration statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the Investor pursuant SEC or other governmental agency or court and (2) less than 75% of the Registrable Securities included in such registration statement have been sold thereunder; or
(ii) if the Maximum Offering Size (as defined below) is reduced in accordance with Section 1.01(f) such that less than 50% of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Stockholders sought to this Section 3.12(a)(iibe included in such registration are included.
(f) If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the managing underwriter advises the Company and the Requesting Stockholders that, in its view, the number of Company Securities that the Registering Stockholders and the Company propose to include in such registration exceeds the largest number of shares that can be sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such Company Securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size”), the Company shall promptly include in such registration, in the priority listed below, up to the Maximum Offering Size:
(and in any event within thirty i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be registered by the Registering Stockholders (30) days allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Registering Stockholders on the basis 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 relative number of Registrable Securities specified so requested to be included in such registration by each); and
(ii) second, all Registrable Securities proposed to be registered 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 availableCompany.
(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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 4 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.)
Demand Registration. 2.1 So long as the Manager holds Registrable Shares or can be reasonably foreseen to acquire Registrable Shares pursuant to future Management Fee Investments that have not been previously registered pursuant hereto, the Company agrees, upon request of the Manager, to use its best efforts to either (Aa) The Investor shall have if there is no Automatically Effective Shelf, file one or more Shelf Registration Statements (which may include Registrable Shares covered by a prior Shelf Registration Statement) providing for the rightregistration, and the sale on a continuous or delayed basis (including through brokers and dealers) by written notice the Manager, of all such Registrable Shares, pursuant to Rule 415 or any similar rule that may be adopted by the Commission or (the b) if there is an Automatically Effective Shelf, file one or more prospectus supplements (each, a “Demand NoticeProspectus Supplement”) given with the Commission for the sale and distribution of all or such portion of the Manager’s Registrable Shares as are specified in such request; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to file more than four (4) such Shelf Registration Statements or Prospectus Supplements in any twelve-month period. Each such request from the CompanyManager shall indicate whether the Manager wishes to sell the Registrable Shares pursuant to an underwritten offering. The Manager shall be named as a selling security holder in such Shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus Supplement, in such a manner as to requestpermit the Manager to deliver such Shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus Supplement to purchasers of Registrable Shares in accordance with applicable law.
2.2 The Company further agrees that it shall cause each Shelf Registration Statement and the related Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, as of the effective date of such Shelf Registration Statement or the date of any such amendment or supplement, and each Prospectus Supplement, as of the date of such Prospectus Supplement, (i) to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act; and (ii) not to contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein (in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading. If any Shelf Registration Statement, as amended or supplemented from time to time, ceases to be effective for any reason at any time and from time during an Effective Period (other than because all Registrable Shares registered thereunder shall have been sold pursuant thereto or shall have otherwise ceased to time during such periods when be Registrable Shares), the Company shall use its best efforts to obtain the prompt withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness thereof.
2.3 The Manager agrees that if it wishes to sell Registrable Shares pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effectiveProspectus Supplement, that the Company register, under and it will do so only in accordance with the provisions this Section 2.3. The Manager agrees to deliver a Notice and Questionnaire, a form 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 which is attached as Schedule 1 to this Section 3.12(a)(iiAgreement (the “Notice and Questionnaire”), to the Company shall promptly at least ten (and in any event within thirty (3010) 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 Business Days prior to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods filing 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 Shelf Registration Statement may, at the request of the Holders submitting the Demand Notice, be a “shelf” registration pursuant to Rule 415, if availableor Prospectus Supplement.
(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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 4 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Macquarie Infrastructure Holdings, LLC), Registration Rights Agreement (Macquarie Infrastructure Holdings, LLC), Registration Rights Agreement (Macquarie Infrastructure Co LLC)
Demand Registration. At any time after the end of the Lock-Up Period and at which time the shelf registration statement required pursuant to Section 5.1 shall not be available for the resale of the Registrable Securities or an Underwritten Offering, including if for any reason the Company shall be ineligible to maintain or use a shelf registration statement, the Company shall, as promptly as reasonably practicable following the written request of the Stockholder or its Subsidiary for registration under the Securities Act of all or part of the Registrable Securities (A) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the a “Demand NoticeRequest”), file a registration statement with the SEC (a “Demand Registration Statement”) given with respect to resales of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the CompanyStockholder’s or its Subsidiary’s intended method of distribution thereof or an Underwritten Offering with anticipated aggregate gross proceeds for at least $50 million, and shall, subject to the terms of this Article V, use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Demand Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as reasonably practicable after the filing thereof; provided that such Demand Registration Statement shall be filed on (i) Form S-3, if the Company is then S-3 Eligible, or (ii) any other appropriate form under the Securities Act for the type of offering contemplated by the Stockholder or its Subsidiary, if the Company is not then S-3 Eligible, and provided further, that, 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, extent that the Company registerStockholder or any of its Subsidiaries would, in the Company’s reasonable determination, be deemed to be an “underwriter” for purposes of Section 11 under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, all or any portion registration statement under this Section 5.2 shall include disclosure to such effect and any other information deemed reasonably necessary by the Company to comply with the rules and regulations of the SEC in connection therewith, it being understood that the Company shall only be required to register such amount of Registrable Securities as it reasonably determines would be permitted in accordance with such rules and regulations. Each Demand Request shall specify the Registrable Securities designated by the Investor. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)be registered, 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 SECtheir aggregate amount, 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 thereof. The Stockholder agrees to provide the Company with such information in connection with a Demand Request as may be by an underwritten offering), of the total number of Registrable Securities specified reasonably requested 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 availableRequest.
(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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 4 contracts
Sources: Stockholder's Agreement (Horton D R Inc /De/), Stockholder Agreement (Horton D R Inc /De/), Stockholder's Agreement (Forestar Group Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, at 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 least one hundred eighty (180) days following the Distribution, either of the Stockholders may, submit a Registration Request for Demand Registration covering all or part of his Registerable Shares, which request must request registration of at least the Minimum Amount. The Registration Request shall state the number of Registerable Shares to be registered and the intended plan of distribution thereof. uBid shall be obligated to register Registerable Shares pursuant to this Section 2 on a total of only two (2) occasions. A request withdrawn pursuant to Subsection 2(c) hereof or deemed to be a Piggyback Registration pursuant to Subsection 2(d) hereof shall be ignored for this purpose. uBid shall be deemed to have satisfied its obligation under this Section 2 with respect to a Registration Request if a registration statement filed pursuant to a Registration Request becomes effective under the Act and remains effective for the period required hereby, or if the failure of such a registration statement to become or remain effective results primarily from any action or inaction of either or both of the Stockholders. Subject to the conditions and limitations of Section 4 hereof, uBid will use its best efforts to file a registration statement under the Act registering the Registerable Shares covered by a Registration Request within forty-five (45) days after it receives such Registration Request unless such Registration Request is withdrawn as permitted by Subsection 2(c) hereof.
(b) The right to Demand Registration is subject to the procedures in Section 4 hereof and the following additional conditions and limitations:
(i) Any individual Stockholder joining a Registration Request may withdraw such Stockholder's Registerable Shares from the Registration Request at any time prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective, provided that uBid may ignore a notice of withdrawal made within 24 hours of the time the registration statement becomes effective. Following such a withdrawal, uBid shall not take any further action to register the withdrawn Registerable Shares, and shall not be obligated to register any Registerable Shares if the number of non-withdrawn Registerable Shares is less than the Minimum Amount. However, except as otherwise provided in Subsection 2(c) or (d) hereof, a Registration Request, once made, shall count as having been made for purposes of Subsection 2(a), unless it is withdrawn by all Stockholders making such request within fifteen (15) days after having been made or it is withdrawn before uBid devotes any significant efforts to the preparation of the registration statement.
(ii) Unless otherwise agreed to by uBid, any Demand Registration must relate to a firm commitment underwriting for which the managing underwriter shall be reasonably satisfactory to uBid (such satisfaction not to be withheld unreasonably) or a non-underwritten offering on a "shelf" basis in accordance with Rule 415 under the Act.
(iii) uBid shall be permitted to use any registration form available to it for the registration of Registerable Shares, and shall not be obligated to include in the prospectus any information that may be incorporated by reference or that is not required to be included therein by the applicable registration form.
(iv) No Registration Request may be made by a Stockholder if the amount of shares proposed to be sold could be sold by such Stockholder without limitation under Rule 144 under the Act.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if uBid is aware at the time it receives a Registration Request that a registered public sale of Shares is being contemplated or is in the process of being prepared (except as provided in Section 7 hereof), it will notify the Stockholders of the relevant facts, and any Stockholder who joined such Registration Request shall have the right to withdraw the request by written notice given to uBid within ten (10) days after uBid's notice under this Subsection 2(c), in which case such Registration Request will be deemed not to have been made for purposes of Subsection 2(a).
(d) For an additional ninety (90) days following the date on which the SEC declares such Stockholders may first submit a Registration Request for Demand Registration Statement effectiveRegistration, as such period may uBid will be extended pursuant entitled to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B). The time period for which the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of include Shares in any Demand Registration Statement shall and to reduce the number of Shares to be extended sold by the aggregate Stockholders thereunder to a minimum of 20%, collectively, of the total offering plus any underwriters' over-allotment option. If, as a result of this cutback procedure, the number of days Shares sold by uBid in such offering constitutes more than one-half of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under total shares sold in the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubtoffering, the rights provided pursuant registration would be treated as a Piggyback Registration under Section 3 below, and a Registration Request will be deemed not to this Section 3.12(a)(iihave been made for purposes of Subsection 2(a) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadlinehereof.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Separation and Distribution Agreement (Ubid Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Ubid Inc), Separation and Distribution Agreement (Ubid Inc)
Demand Registration. (A) The Investor shall have holders of the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to requestRegistrable Shares, at any time and from time time, may require the Company to time during such periods when a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all effect the registration of the Investor’s Registrable Securities Shares. The right to request registration under this Section 10.2 may be exercised on two (2) separate occasions, only unless such request is or are not existing and effective, that the Company register, under and withdrawn in accordance with the provisions terms hereof. The two (2) rights granted hereunder are distinct and separate from any other rights to request registration which have been granted to any other Person. A shelf registration may be demanded pursuant to this Section 10.2. These demand registration rights may only be exercised if the holders of a majority of Conversion Stock (whether or not the Conversion Stock have been issued) (the "Majority Holders") provided, however, that if Tennessee Farmers holds any Registrable Shares, the Majority Holders must include Tennessee Farmers, shall give notice to the Company to the effect that holders of Notes or Conversion Stock intend to (i) transfer all or any part of the Conversion Stock or (ii) exercise all or any part of the Note and transfer all or any part of the Conversion Stock under such circumstances that a public distribution (within the meaning of the Securities Act, all or any portion ) of the Registrable Securities designated by Conversion Stock will be involved, then the Investor. Upon Company (A) within ten (10) days after receipt of a Demand Notice from such notice shall give written notice of the Investor proposed registration pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii), 10.2 to the Company shall promptly other holders of Notes and Conversion Stock and (and in any event B) within thirty (30) days after receipt of such notice from the date on Majority Holders, shall file a registration statement pursuant to the Securities Act to the end that all Conversion Stock the holders of which requested registration thereof either pursuant to the original notice from the Majority Holders given pursuant to this sentence or by written notice given to the Company receives during such Demand Notice) file with 30-day period, may be sold under the SEC, and the Securities Act as promptly as is practicable thereafter. The Company shall thereafter use its best commercially reasonable efforts to cause any such registration to be declared become effective and to keep the prospectus included therein current for 135 days; provided, however, that such holders shall furnish the Company with such appropriate information as promptly is required in connection with such registration as practicable, a registration statement on the appropriate form Company may reasonably request in writing. If the managing underwriter for the registration and sale as any offering made pursuant to this Section 10.2 (who shall be selected by the Majority Holders, subject to the consent of the Company, which shall not be unreasonably withheld) advises the Company in writing that, in its opinion, the inclusion of all of the Conversion Stock requested to be included in such registration by the holders of Notes and as Conversion Stock would materially adversely affect the distribution of all such securities, then there shall be reasonably acceptable included in such registration shares of the holders of Notes or Conversion Stock pro rata based on the number of shares originally proposed to be registered by each holder of Notes or Conversion Stock and no other Common Shares shall be included in such registration. A registration will not count as a demand registration under this Section 10.2 until it has become effective and the Investor registering Registrable Securities holders of the Warrants or Conversion Stock participating in accordance the demand registration are able to register and sell at least 90% of the Conversion Stock originally requested to be included in such registration. The Company agrees to enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the intended method or methods of distribution (which may be managing underwriter. Such underwriting agreement will contain such representations and warranties 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 other terms and provisions as are customarily contained 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring underwriting agreements with respect to such Demand Registration Statementsecondary distributions, including, without limitation, indemnities and contribution.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Bridge and Consolidated Term Loan Agreement (Donlar Corp), Bridge and Consolidated Term Loan Agreement (Donlar Biosyntrex Corp), Bridge and Consolidated Term Loan Agreement (Donlar Corp)
Demand Registration. (Ai) The Investor In connection with and following the issuance of the Purchased Securities pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Holder that holds Registrable Securities shall have the option and right, exercisable by delivering a written notice to the Company (the a “Demand Notice”) given ), to require the Company to, pursuant to the Companyterms 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 request, at any time and from time Rule 415 pursuant to time during such periods when a Shelf Registration Statement (a “Demand Registration”); provided, however, that in no event shall any eligible Holder be entitled to exercise more than two Demand Registrations for its Registrable Securities. The Demand Notice must set forth the name and address of the Initiating Holder, 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 representing an Equity Percentage of less than 5% (the “Minimum Amount”).
(ii) Within five Business Days of the receipt of the Demand Notice, the Company 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 to be included in the Demand Registration. The Company shall use commercially reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared and remain effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of (A) 180 days (or two years if a Shelf Registration Statements 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 Holder is required to refrain from selling any securities included in such Registration Statement at the request of an underwriter of the Company or the Company pursuant to this Agreement or an underwriters’ lock-up agreement.
(iii) Subject to the other limitations contained in this Agreement, the Company is not obligated hereunder to effect (A) a Demand Registration within 180 days of the closing of any Underwritten Offering or such longer period of time as may be set in the underwriters’ lock-up agreement for the Underwritten Offering (provided such Underwritten Offering is completed), (B) a subsequent Demand Registration pursuant to a Demand Notice if a Registration Statement covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities held by the Holder providing such Demand Notice shall have become effective under the Securities Act and remains effective under the Securities Act and is or are not existing sufficient to permit offers and effective, that sales of the Company register, under number and type of Registrable Securities on the terms and conditions specified in the Demand Notice in accordance with the provisions intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof specified in the Demand Notice or (C) more than one Demand Registration or Underwritten Offering every 180 days. No Demand Registration shall be deemed to have occurred for purposes of this Section 2(a)(iii) if the Registration Statement relating thereto does not become effective or is not maintained effective for the period required pursuant to Section 2(a)(ii), in which case the Initiating Holder shall be entitled to an additional Demand Registration in lieu thereof.
(iv) An Initiating Holder and any other Holder that has requested its Registrable Securities Act, be included in a Demand Registration may withdraw all or any portion of the its Registrable Securities designated included in a Demand Registration from such Demand Registration at any time prior to the effectiveness of the applicable Registration Statement. Upon delivery of a notice by the InvestorInitiating Holder to the effect that the Initiating Holder is withdrawing all or an amount such that the remaining amount is below the Minimum Amount of its Registrable Securities to be included in a Demand Registration, the Company may, at its option, cease all efforts to secure effectiveness of the applicable Registration Statement. Upon receipt Such registration shall be deemed a Demand Registration unless (i) the Initiating Holder shall have paid or reimbursed the Company for its pro rata share of all commercially reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses incurred by the Company in connection with the withdrawn registration of such Registrable Securities (based on the number of securities the Initiating Holder sought to register, as compared to the total number of securities included in such Demand Registration) or (ii) the withdrawal is made (A) following the occurrence of a Demand Notice from Material Adverse Change or (B) because the Investor pursuant Registration would require disclosure of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential.
(v) Subject to the limitations contained in this Section 3.12(a)(ii)Agreement, the Company shall promptly (and in effect any event within thirty (30) days Demand Registration on such appropriate registration form of the date on which the Company receives such Demand NoticeCommission (x) 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 (y) as shall be reasonably acceptable to permit the Investor registering disposition of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution (which may be by an underwritten offering)disposition specified in the Holder’s requests for such registration; provided that if the Company becomes, and is at the time of its receipt of a Demand Notice, a WKSI, the total number Demand Registration for any offering and selling of Registrable Securities specified by the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand shall be effected pursuant to an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement”, which shall be on Form S-3 or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act (if available to the Company). If at any time a Registration Statement on Form S-3 is effective and the Investor registering Holder provides written notice to the Company that it intends to effect an offering of all or part of the Registrable Securities intends to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offeringincluded on such Registration Statement, it shall promptly so advise the Company will amend or supplement such Registration Statement as soon as reasonably practicable as may be necessary in order to enable such offering to take place.
(vi) Without limiting Section 3, in connection with any Demand Registration pursuant to and in accordance with this Section 2(a), the Company shall take all reasonable steps (A) promptly prepare and file or cause to facilitate be prepared and filed (1) such distributionadditional forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents, as may be necessary or advisable to register or qualify the securities subject to such Demand Registration, including under the actions securities laws of such states as the Holder shall reasonably request; provided, however, that no such qualification shall be required pursuant to Section 3.12(c). The managing underwriters in any jurisdiction where, as a result thereof, the Company would become subject to general service of process or to taxation or qualification to do business in such distribution shall jurisdiction solely as a result of registration and (2) such forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents as may be acceptable necessary to apply for listing or to list the Investor registering Registrable Securities subject to such Demand Registration on the Trading Market and (B) do any and all other acts and things that may be commercially reasonably necessary or appropriate or reasonably requested by the Holder to enable the Holder to consummate a public sale of such Registrable Securities in such underwritten offering. Any Demand accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof.
(vii) In the event the Holder transfers Registrable Securities included on a Registration Statement mayand such Registrable Securities remain Registrable Securities following such transfer, at the request of the Holders submitting Holder, the Demand Notice, Company shall amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be a “shelf” registration necessary in order to enable such transferee to offer and sell such Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 415such Registration Statement; provided that in no event shall the Company be required to file a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement unless (A) such Registration Statement includes only Registrable Securities held by the Holder, if available.
Affiliates of the Holder or transferees of the Holder, (B) The the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand has received written consent therefor from whom Registrable Securities have been registered on (but not yet sold under) such Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously effective and usable for Statement, other than the resale Holder, Affiliates of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period Holder or transferees 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
Holder and (C) The the Company shall receives a written request from the subsequent transferee, requesting that its shares of Common Stock be entitled to suspend included in the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under Statement, with all information reasonably requested by the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d)Company.
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Silverbow Resources, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Silverbow Resources, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Silverbow Resources, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (A) The If an 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 wishes 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 necessary to facilitate such distribution, including the actions required pursuant to by this Section 3.12(c)6. The managing underwriters lead underwriter to administer the offering in connection with any such distribution shall Demand Registration will be mutually acceptable to the Investors participating in the registration. Any registration requested by an Investor registering or Investors or Holders pursuant to this Section 6(c) is referred to in this Agreement as a “Demand Registration.” The Company is not required to complete more than (i) two underwritten offerings with respect to each Investor and its permitted transferees and assigns and (ii) one underwritten offering for all Investors during any period of twelve consecutive months. Whenever the Company receives a request for Demand Registration hereunder, the Company will give prompt written notice to each Investor of its intention to effect such a registration (but in no event less than ten days prior to the anticipated filing date) and will include in such registration all Registrable Securities in with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion from Investors therein within ten business days after the date of the Company’s notice. Any such person that has made such a written request may withdraw its Registrable Securities from such underwritten offering by giving written notice to the Company and the managing underwriter, if any, on or before the fifth business day prior to the planned effective date of such underwritten offering. Any Demand Registration Statement mayIf the managing underwriter(s) of such underwritten offering advises the Investors that in its reasonable opinion the number of securities requested to be included in such offering exceeds the number which can be sold without adversely affecting the marketability of such offering (including an adverse effect on the per share offering price), at the request Investors will include in such registration or prospectus only such number of securities that in the reasonable opinion of such underwriters can be sold without adversely affecting the marketability of the Holders submitting offering (including an adverse effect on the Demand Noticeper share offering price), which securities will be so included on a “shelf” registration pursuant pro rata basis by each Investor in proportion 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to Registrable Securities held by such Investor on the date that such request for Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled was made. Anything to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under contrary in this Section 3.12(a)(ii6(c) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubtnotwithstanding, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) Company shall not be exercisable until obligated to effect a Demand Registration for aggregate gross proceeds of less than $25,000,000 (the Effectiveness Deadline“Minimum Threshold”); provided that the Minimum Threshold shall not apply to an Investor proposing to sell all of its remaining Registrable Securities of the Company.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Investors Rights Agreement (SWS Group Inc), Investors Rights Agreement (SWS Group Inc), Funding Agreement (Hilltop Holdings Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have If at any time after the right, date of this Agreement the Company receives a request from a Holder of Registrable Securities that the Company file a Registration Statement on Form S-1 covering the resale of the Registrable Securities held by written notice such Holder (the a “Demand Notice”), then the Company shall (i) given within five (5) days after the date it receives the Demand Notice, give notice thereof to all other Holders and (ii) as soon as reasonably practicable, but in no event later than the CompanyFiling Date, to request, at any time and from time to time during such periods when file with the Commission a Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-1 covering the resale of all Registrable Securities of the Holder that provided the Demand Notice and any additional Registrable Securities requested by the other Holders to be included therein, as specified by each such other Holder within twenty (20) days after such Holder has received notice from the Company pursuant to clause (i); provided that such Registration Statement need not include Registrable Securities already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement The Registration Statement shall be for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement shall contain (except if otherwise required pursuant to written comments received from the Commission upon a review of such Registration Statement) the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as practicable but, in any event, no later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep the Registration Statement effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or Shelf may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(b)(i) promulgated under the Securities Act (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(b) If for any reason the Commission does not permit all of the Registrable Securities requested by a Holder to be included in the Registration Statements Statement filed pursuant to Section 2(a), or for any other reason any such Registrable Securities are not permitted by the Commission to be included on a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement, then the Company shall prepare and file as soon as possible after the date on which such filing may be made, an additional Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities requested by Holder not already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis at the market pursuant to Rule 415 or otherwise as may be acceptable to a Holder whose Registrable Securities were not registered for resale. Each such Registration Statement shall contain (except if otherwise required pursuant to written comments received from the Commission upon a review of such Registration Statement) the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause each such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as possible but, in any event, no later than its Effectiveness Date, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep such Registration Statement effective under the Securities Act during the entire Effectiveness Period.
(c) If: (i) a Registration Statement covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities required to be covered thereby is or are not existing and effective, that filed by the Company register, under and in accordance with the provisions of Commission on or prior to the Securities ActFiling Date (or the applicable filing date if the Registration Statement is not the initial Registration Statement required to be filed under Section 2(a)), (ii) a Registration Statement covering all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated is not declared effective by the Investor. Upon receipt of Commission on or prior to its required Effectiveness Date (it being understood that if the Company shall not have filed a Demand Notice from “final” prospectus for the Investor pursuant to this Registration Statement with the SEC under Rule 424(b) in accordance with Section 3.12(a)(ii2(f) below (whether or not such a prospectus is technically required by such rule), the Company shall promptly not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (ii)), (iii) the Company fails to file a request for the acceleration of the Effectiveness Date of the applicable Registration Statement as required by Section 3(c), (iv) there is a suspension or delisting of the Company’s Common Stock (or the Company fails to timely list all the Registrable Securities) on its principal trading market or exchange, (v) after its Effective Date, other than during an Allowable Grace Period (as defined below), such Registration Statement ceases to be effective and available for use by the Holders as to any Registrable Securities to which it is required to cover at any time prior to the expiration of its Effectiveness Period for up to no more than 3 consecutive Trading Days (or 20 Trading Days in any event within thirty 12 month period in the aggregate) (30) days any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clauses (i)-(iv), on the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (v), the date on which the Company receives Allowable Grace Period or other specified period is exceeded, being referred to as “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights available to the Holders under this Agreement or under applicable law: (x) on each such Demand Notice) file with the SEC, and Event Date the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts pay to cause each Holder an amount in cash, as partial damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.5% of the aggregate Investment Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement; and (y) on each 30-day anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.5% of the aggregate Investment Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. The partial damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the partial damages under this Section 2(d) exceed an amount equal to 20% of the aggregate Investment Amounts.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, in the event the staff of the Commission (the “Staff”) or the Commission requires any Holder seeking to sell securities under a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Agreement to be declared effective specifically identified as promptly an “underwriter” in order to permit such Registration Statement to become effective, and such Holder does not consent to being so named as practicablean underwriter in such Registration Statement, a registration statement on the appropriate form for the registration and sale as shall be selected by then in each such case, 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 reduce the total number of Registrable Securities specified to be registered on behalf of such Holder, until such time as the Staff or the Commission does not require such identification or until such Holder accepts such identification and the manner thereof. Any reduction pursuant to this paragraph will first reduce all Registrable Securities other than those issued pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and in the event of any reduction pursuant to this paragraph, no Holder shall have any claim against the Company as a result of such reduction and any Event or other delay or breach of this Agreement occurring primarily due to such action by the Holders Staff or the Commission and any such relating reduction shall not require the Company to pay any partial damages pursuant to Section 2(d) hereof or otherwise provide the basis for any claim by any Holder against the Company pursuant to the Transaction Documents (it being understood that the foregoing does not constitute a waiver of Section 3.2(f) of the Securities Purchase Agreement by any Holder or the obligations of the Company under this paragraph and elsewhere in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”relation thereto). If In the Investor registering event of any reduction in Registrable Securities intends pursuant to distribute any Registrable Securities by means this paragraph, an affected Holder shall have the right to require, upon delivery of an underwritten offering, it shall promptly so advise a written request to the Company signed by the Holder, the Company to file a registration statement within 30 days of such request (subject to any restrictions imposed by Rule 415 or required by the Staff or the Commission) for re-sale by such Holder in a manner acceptable to such Holder, and the Company shall take following such request cause to be and keep effective such registration statement in the same manner as otherwise contemplated in this Agreement for registration statements hereunder, in each case until such time as: (i) all reasonable steps to facilitate Registrable Securities held by such distribution, including the actions required Holder have been registered pursuant to Section 3.12(c). The managing underwriters an effective Registration Statement in a manner acceptable to such Holder or (ii) the Registrable Securities may be resold by such Holder without restriction (including volume limitations) pursuant to Rule 144(b)(i) of the Securities Act (taking account of any Staff position with respect to “affiliate” status) or (iii) the Holder agrees to be named as an underwriter in any such distribution shall be Registration Statement in a manner acceptable to Holder as to all Registrable Securities held by such Holder and that have not theretofore been included in a Registration Statement under this Agreement (it being understood that the Investor registering special demand right under this sentence may be exercised by a Holder multiple times and with respect to limited amounts of Registrable Securities in order to permit the re-sale thereof by 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 availableHolder as contemplated above).
(Be) The In the event that Form S-1 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii(i) continuously effective and usable for register the resale of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty on another appropriate form reasonably acceptable to the Holders and (180ii) days from undertake to register the date Registrable Securities on which the SEC declares such Demand Registration Statement effective, Form S-1 as soon as such period may be extended pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B). The time period for which form is available, provided that the Company is required shall use reasonable best efforts to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand the Registration Statement shall be extended then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-1 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the aggregate number Commission. In the event the Company becomes eligible to register the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to promptly register the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, provided that the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to maintain the effectiveness of days the Registration Statement(s) then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-3 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the Commission.
(f) By 5:30 p.m. on the Trading Day immediately following the Effective Date of all suspension periods each Registration Statement, the Company shall file with the Commission in accordance with Rule 424 under the Securities Act the final prospectus to be used in connection with sales pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (InsPro Technologies Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (InsPro Technologies Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (InsPro Technologies Corp)
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 any Holder at any time after the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)180th day after the Closing Date, 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 Commission as promptly as practicable, reasonably practicable a registration statement on under 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 Act (which may be by an underwritten offering)each, 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 providing for the resale of the Registrable Securities covered thereby identified in such Notice, which may, at the option of the Holder giving such Notice, be a Registration Statement that provides for a period the resale of one hundred eighty the Registrable Securities from time to time pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective as soon as reasonably practicable after the initial filing of the Registration Statement and to remain effective and available for the resale of the Registrable Securities by the Selling Holders named therein until the earlier of (180i) days from six months following such Registration Statement’s effective date and (ii) the date on which the SEC declares all Registrable Securities covered by such Demand Registration Statement effective, as have been sold. In the event one or more Holders request in a Notice to dispose of a number of Registrable Securities that such period may be extended Holder or Holders reasonably anticipates will result in gross proceeds of at least $30 million in the aggregate pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B)a Registration Statement in an Underwritten Offering, the Company shall retain underwriters that are reasonably acceptable to such Selling Holders in order to permit such Selling Holders to effect such disposition through an Underwritten Offering; provided, however, that the Company shall have the exclusive right to select the bookrunning managers. The time period for which Company and such Selling Holders shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form that is reasonably acceptable to the Company is required and take all reasonable actions as are requested by the managing underwriters to maintain facilitate the effectiveness Underwritten Offering and sale of any Demand Registrable Securities therein. No Holder may participate in the Underwritten Offering unless it agrees to sell its Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement on the terms and conditions of the underwriting agreement and completes and delivers all necessary documents and information reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting agreement. In the event that the managing underwriter of such Underwritten Offering advises the Company and the Holder in writing that in its opinion the inclusion of all or some Registrable Securities would adversely and materially affect the timing or success of the Underwritten Offering, the amount of Registrable Securities that each Selling Holder requested be included in such Underwritten Offering shall be extended by reduced on a Pro Rata basis to the aggregate number amount that the managing underwriter deems will not have such material and adverse effect. Any Holder may withdraw from such Underwritten Offering by notice to the Company and the managing underwriter; provided such notice is delivered prior to the launch of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration StatementUnderwritten Offering.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Sources: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Hess Midstream LP), Agreement of Limited Partnership (Hess Midstream LP), Partnership Restructuring Agreement (Hess Midstream Partners LP)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have At any time after the rightearlier of 180 days after the IPO or five (5) years after the date of this Agreement, by written notice holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities then outstanding may request (the “Demand NoticeRegistration Request”) 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, registration under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, Act of all or any portion of the their Registrable Securities designated by pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-1 or any successor form thereto (each, a “Long-Form Registration”). Each Registration Request for a Long-Form Registration shall specify the Investornumber of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Long-Form Registration. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)any such Registration Request, the Company shall promptly (but in no event later than 15 days following receipt thereof) deliver notice of such Registration Request to all other holders of Registrable Securities who shall then have 15 days from the date such notice is given to notify the Company in writing of their desire to be included in such registration. The Company shall prepare and file with (or confidentially submit to) the Commission a Registration Statement on Form S-1 or any successor form thereto covering all of the Registrable Securities that the holders thereof have requested to be included in any event such Long-Form Registration within thirty (30) 90 days of after the date on which the Registration Request is given (the “Long-Form Filing Deadline”) and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as practicable thereafter (but, in the case of any such Long-Form Registration filed after the IPO only, in no event later than the 45th calendar day following the date on which such Long-Form Registration Statement is required to be filed hereunder (or, in the event of a “full review” by the Commission, the 90th calendar day following the date such Long-Form Registration Statement is required to be filed hereunder) (the “Post-IPO Long-Form Effectiveness Deadline”)). The Company receives shall not be required to effect a Long-Form Registration more than two (2) times for the holders of Registrable Securities as a group.
(b) After an IPO, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to qualify and remain qualified to register the offer and sale of securities under the Securities Act pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 or any successor form thereto. At such time as the Company shall have qualified for the use of a Registration Statement on Form S-3 or any successor form thereto, the holders of Registrable Securities shall have the right to deliver a Registration Request to request registrations under the Securities Act of all or any portion of their Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 or any similar short-form Registration Statement (each, a “Short-Form Registration” and, together with each Long-Form Registration, a “Demand Registration”). Each Registration Request for a Short-Form Registration shall specify the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Short-Form Registration. Upon receipt of any such request, the Company shall promptly (but in no event later than 15 days following receipt thereof) deliver notice of such Registration Request to all other holders of Registrable Securities who shall then have 15 days from the date such notice is given to notify the Company in writing of their desire to be included in such registration. The Company shall prepare and file with (or confidentially submit to) the Commission a Registration Statement on Form S-3 or any successor form thereto covering all of the Registrable Securities that the holders thereof have requested to be included in such Short-Form Registration within 30 days after the date on which the Registration Request (the “Short-Form Filing Deadline” and, together with the Long-Form Filing Deadline, the “Filing Deadlines”) is given and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as practicable thereafter but in no event later than the 45th calendar day following the date on which such Registration Statement is required to be filed hereunder (or, in the event of a “full review” by the Commission, the 90th calendar day following the date such additional Registration Statement is required to be filed hereunder) (the “Short-Form Effectiveness Deadline” and, together with the Post-IPO Long-Form Effectiveness Deadline, the “Effectiveness Deadlines”). The Company shall not be required to effect a Short-Form Registration more than two (2) times for the holders of Registrable Securities as a group.
(c) If a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities required to be covered thereby and required to be filed by the Company pursuant to this Agreement (A) is not filed with the Commission on or before the applicable Filing Deadline for such Registration Statement (a “Filing Failure”) (it being understood that if the Company files a Registration Statement without affording one counsel selected by holders of a majority of such Registrable Securities the opportunity to review and comment on the same, the Company shall be deemed to not have satisfied this clause (A) and such event shall be deemed to be a Filing Failure) or (B) is not declared effective by the SEC on or before the applicable Effectiveness Deadline for such Registration Statement (an “Effectiveness Failure”) (it being understood that if on the second Business Day immediately following the effective date for such Registration Statement the Company shall not have filed a “final” prospectus for such Registration Statement with the Commission under Rule 424(b) (whether or not such a prospectus is technically required by such rule), the Company shall be deemed to not have satisfied this clause (B) and such event shall be deemed to be an Effectiveness Failure), or (C) on any day after the effective date of a Registration Statement, sales of all of the Registrable Securities required to be included on such Registration Statement cannot be made pursuant to such Registration Statement (including, without limitation, because of a failure to keep such Registration Statement effective, a failure to disclose such information as is necessary for sales to be made pursuant to such Registration Statement, a suspension or delisting of (or a failure to timely list) the Common Equity on the then principal market for such Common Equity or any other limitations imposed by the principal market for the Common Equity, or a failure to register a sufficient number of Common Equity or by reason of a stop order) or the prospectus contained therein is not available for use for any reason, for more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of fifteen (15) calendar days (which need not be consecutive calendar days) during any 12-month period (a “Maintenance Failure”; and each of a Filing Failure, an Effectiveness Failure and a Maintenance Failure being referred to as a “Registration Default”), then, as partial relief for the damages to any holder by reason of any such delay in, or reduction of, its ability to sell its Registrable Securities (which remedy shall not be exclusive of any other remedies available at law or in equity, including, without limitation, specific performance), the Company shall pay to each holder of Registrable Securities relating to such Registration Statement an amount in cash equal to one percent (1%) of the aggregate purchase price paid by the Investor with respect to the Registrable Securities required to be included in such Registration Statement (1) on the date of such Filing Failure, Effectiveness Failure, or Maintenance Failure as applicable; (2) on every thirty (30) day anniversary of (I) a Filing Failure until such Filing Failure is cured or (II) an Effectiveness Failure until such Effectiveness Failure is cured or (III) a Maintenance Failure until such Maintenance Failure is cured. The payments to which a holder of Registrable Securities shall be entitled pursuant to this Section 2(c) are referred to herein as “Registration Delay Payments.” Following the initial Registration Delay Payment for any particular event or failure (which shall be paid on the date of such event or failure, as set forth above), without limiting the foregoing, if an event or failure giving rise to the Registration Delay Payments is cured prior to any thirty (30) day anniversary of such event or failure, then such Registration Delay Payment shall be made on the third (3rd) Business Day after such cure. In the event the Company fails to make Registration Delay Payments in a timely manner in accordance with the foregoing, such Registration Delay Payments shall bear interest at the rate of 1.5% per month (prorated for partial months) until paid in full. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Registration Delay Payments shall be owed to an Investor with respect to any period during which all of such Investor’s Registrable Securities may be sold by such Investor without restriction under Rule 144 (including, without limitation, volume restrictions) and without the need for current public information required by Rule 144(c)(1). In addition, notwithstanding the foregoing, a Registration Default shall be deemed not to have occurred and be continuing, and no Registration Delay Payments shall accrue as a result thereof, in relation to a Registration Statement if (i) (A) such Registration Default has occurred solely as a result of material events, with respect to the Company that would need to be described in such Registration Statement or the related Prospectus, and the Company is proceeding promptly and in good faith to amend or supplement the Registration Statement to describe such material events or (B) the Registration Default relates to any information supplied or failed to be supplied by a holder of Registrable Securities.
(d) The Company shall not be obligated to effect any Long-Form Registration within 180 days after the effective date of a previous Long-Form Registration or a previous Piggyback Registration in which holders of Registrable Securities were permitted to register the offer and sale under the Securities Act, and actually included such Registrable Securities for registration thereunder and sold all of the shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Company may postpone for up to 180 days the filing or effectiveness of a Registration Statement for a Demand Registration or the filing of a supplement for the purpose of effecting an offering pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act or any successor rule thereto (a “Shelf Takedown”) if the Board determines in its reasonable good faith judgment that such Demand NoticeRegistration or Shelf Takedown would (i) file materially interfere with a significant acquisition, corporate organization, financing, securities offering or other similar transaction involving the SECCompany; (ii) require premature disclosure of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential; or (iii) render the Company unable to comply with requirements under the Securities Act or Exchange Act (each, a “Grace Period Event”); provided, that in such event the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities initiating such Demand Registration or Shelf Takedown shall be entitled to withdraw such request and, if such request for a Demand Registration is withdrawn, such Demand Registration shall not count as one of the permitted Demand Registrations hereunder and the Company shall pay all registration expenses in connection with such registration; provided, further that a Registration Default shall be deemed not to have occurred and be continuing, and no Registration Delay Payments shall accrue as a result thereof, in relation to a Registration Statement during the period that the Grace Period Event or its effect is continuing (up to a maximum 180-day allowable grace period). The Company may delay a Demand Registration or ▇▇▇▇▇ Takedown hereunder only once in any period of 12 consecutive months.
(e) If the holders of the Registrable Securities initially requesting a Demand Registration or Shelf Takedown elect to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by their request in an underwritten offering, they shall so advise the Company as a part of their request made pursuant to Section 2(a), Section 2(b) or Section 2(c), and the Company shall thereafter use include such information in its best efforts notice to cause the other holders of Registrable Securities. The holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities initially requesting the Demand Registration or Shelf Takedown shall select the investment banking firm or firms to be declared effective act as promptly as practicablethe managing underwriter or underwriters in connection with such offering; provided, a registration statement on the appropriate form for the registration and sale as that such selection shall be selected by subject to the consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
(f) The Company shall not include in any Demand Registration or Shelf Takedown any securities which are not Registrable Securities without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities initially requesting such Demand Registration or Shelf Takedown. If a Demand Registration or Shelf Takedown involves an underwritten offering and the managing underwriter of the requested Demand Registration or Shelf Takedown advises the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Investor registering holders of Registrable Securities in accordance with writing that in its reasonable and good faith opinion the intended method number of units or methods shares of distribution (which may Common Equity proposed to be by an included in the Demand Registration or Shelf Takedown, including all Registrable Securities and all other units or shares of Common Equity proposed to be included in such underwritten offering), exceeds the number of units or shares of Common Equity which can be sold in such underwritten offering and/or the number of units or shares of Common Equity proposed to be included in such Demand Registration or Shelf Takedown would adversely affect the price per share of the total Common Equity proposed to be sold in such underwritten offering, the Company shall include in such Demand Registration or Shelf Takedown (i) first, the units or shares of Common Equity that the holders of Registrable Securities propose to sell, and (ii) second, the units or shares of Common Equity proposed to be included therein by any other Persons (including units or shares of Common Equity to be sold for the account of the Company and/or other holders of Common Equity) allocated among such Persons in such manner as they may agree. If the managing underwriter determines that less than all of the Registrable Securities proposed to be sold can be included in such offering, then the Registrable Securities that are included in such offering shall be allocated pro rata among the respective holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities specified owned by the Holders in each 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 availableholder.
(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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (ASP Isotopes Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (ASP Isotopes Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (ASP Isotopes Inc.)
Demand Registration. (A) The Investor A. CapGen 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 InvestorCapGen’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, that the Company register, register under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, Act all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated by the InvestorCapGen. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the Anchor Investment Agreement or from the Investor CapGen pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)3.14, the Company shall promptly (and in any event within thirty ten (3010) Business Days from the date of receipt of such Demand Notice), notify CapGen or the Anchor Investors of the receipt of such Demand Notice and allow such other Persons in the proposed registration by submitting their own Demand Notice(s). The Company, within 45 days of the date on which the Company receives such earlier Demand Notice) , shall 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 CapGen and the Investor Anchor Investors having given Demand Notice registering Registrable Securities 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 CapGen 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(c3.14(c). The managing underwriters in any such distribution of Registrable Securities being sold only by CapGen shall be selected by CapGen. Otherwise, the underwriters shall be mutually acceptable to CapGen and the Investor registering Anchor Investors who propose to sell 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) B. The Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii3.14(a)(2) 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)(B3.14(a)(2)(B). The time period for which the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d3.14(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) C. The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii3.14(a)(2) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d3.14(d).
(D) D. For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii3.14(a)(2) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Investment Agreement (Hampton Roads Bankshares Inc), Investment Agreement (Hampton Roads Bankshares Inc), Investment Agreement (Hampton Roads Bankshares Inc)
Demand Registration. (Ai) The Investor shall have At any time during the rightDemand Registration Period upon delivery to the Company by the holder or holders of at least 50% of all Warrants and Warrant Shares (such percentage determined by aggregating the number of Warrant Shares into which Warrants are then exercisable and the number of Warrant Shares then outstanding) (such holder or holders, by written notice (the “Demand NoticeInitiating Holders”) given to the Company, to request, at any time and from time to time during such periods when of a Shelf written request (a “Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, Request”) that the Company registereffect a registration under the Securities Act of Registrable Securities, under and in accordance with which Registration Request shall specify the provisions number of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold (which number of Registrable Securities for all such Initiating Holder(s) must aggregate at least 50% of the Securities ActWarrant Shares as of such date), all or any portion and the intended method 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)disposition thereof, the Company shall will:
(x) promptly (and but in any event case within thirty (3010 days) days give written notice of the date on such Registration Request to all other holders of Warrants and to all other holders of Registrable Securities, which holders shall be entitled to join such Registration Request by delivering to the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with within 30 days a notice specifying the SEC, number of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold and the Company intended method of disposition thereof, in which case the term “Initiating Holders” shall thereafter include such other holders and the Registration Request shall be deemed to cover such holders and such number of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold by such holders; and
(y) use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective effect, as promptly expeditiously as practicable, the registration of all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Request; provided that (A) subject to Section 6(a)(ii) the Company shall not be obligated to effect 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 pursuant to the Warrants on more than one occasion for Registration Requests from each of the Initial Holders (provided that 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 offeringevent that notwithstanding its best efforts, it shall promptly so advise the Company and the Company shall take all reasonable steps is unable 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 register 100% of the Registrable Securities covered thereby in connection with such Registration Request by an Initial Holder, such Initial Holder shall be entitled to one additional Registration Request), (B) the Company shall not be obligated to effect a registration of Registrable Securities pursuant hereto on more than one occasion in any six month period, and (C) notwithstanding any provision to the contrary herein, the Company may delay the filing of a registration statement for such Registrable Securities for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days up to 90 days, measured from the date on which that the SEC declares Company receives the applicable Registration Request, by furnishing to each Initiating Holder within 10 Business Days of such Demand receipt a certified resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board it would be detrimental or otherwise disadvantageous to the Company and its shareholders for such a registration statement to be filed at such time. If the Company furnishes such certified resolution, the Initiating Holders may, in their discretion, elect to relieve the Company of its obligation to proceed to effect the requested registration of the Registrable Securities upon the expiration of the 90-day period by withdrawing their Registration Statement effective, as such period may be extended Request. A Registration Request withdrawn 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) previous sentence shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadlinecounted as a Registration Request for purposes hereof.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Warrant (Brooke Corp), Warrant Agreement (Brooke Corp), Warrant Agreement (Brooke Corp)
Demand Registration. (Ai) The Investor At any time after the expiration of the Lock-Up Period, any Holder(s) shall have the option and right, exercisable by delivering a written notice to the Company (the a “Demand Notice”) given ), to require the Company to, pursuant to the Companyterms 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 requestRule 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(s) intend 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 unless the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holder(s) and their respective Affiliates to be included therein have an aggregate value, based on the VWAP as of the date of the Demand Notice, of at any time and from time to time during such periods when least $50 million (the “Minimum Amount”).
(ii) Within five Business Days (or if the Registration Statement will be a Shelf Registration Statement or relates to an Overnight Underwritten Offering or “bought deal,” within two Business Days) after the receipt of a Demand Notice, the Company shall give written notice of such Demand Notice to all Holders and, within 60 Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Notice (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, within 45 days thereof), the Company shall, subject to the limitations of this Section 2(a), file a Registration Statement in accordance with the terms and conditions of, and the intended timing and method of disposition described in, the Demand Notice, which Registration Statement shall cover all of the Registrable Securities that the Holders shall in writing request to be included in the Demand Registration (such request to be given to the Company within three Business Days after receipt of notice of the Demand Notice given by the Company pursuant to this Section 2(a)(ii)). The Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become and remain effective as soon as reasonably practicable after the filing thereof under the Securities Act until the earlier of (A) 180 days (or three years if a Shelf Registration Statements Statement is requested) after the Effective Date of such Registration Statement or (B) the date on which all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold or otherwise disposed of or such Shares are no longer Registrable Securities (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 Registration Statement at the request of an underwriter of the Company or the Company pursuant to this Agreement.
(iii) Subject to the other limitations contained in this Agreement, the Company is not obligated hereunder to (A) file any Registration Statement pursuant to a Demand Registration within 90 days after the closing of a Requested Underwritten Offering, unless as a result of Section 2(d), the Requested Underwritten Offering includes less than (the “Requested Underwritten Offering Minimum Condition”) the lesser of (1) Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holder(s) having an aggregate value, based on the VWAP as of the effective date of the related Registration Statement, of $50 million, and (2) two-thirds of the number of Registrable Securities the Initiating Holder(s) set forth in the applicable Underwritten Offering Notice, or (B) effect a subsequent Demand Registration pursuant to a Demand Notice if a Registration Statement covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities held by the Initiating Holder(s) shall have become and remains effective under the Securities Act and is or are not existing sufficient to permit offers and effective, that sales of the Company register, under number and type of Registrable Securities on the terms and conditions specified in the Demand Notice in accordance with the provisions intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof specified in the Securities ActDemand Notice. No Demand Registration shall be deemed to have occurred for purposes of this Section 2(a)(iii) if the Registration Statement relating thereto does not become effective or is not maintained effective for its entire Effectiveness Period, in which case the Initiating Holder(s) shall be entitled to an additional Demand Registration in lieu thereof.
(iv) A Holder may withdraw all or any portion of the its Registrable Securities designated by included in a Demand Registration from such Demand Registration at any time prior to the Investoreffectiveness of the applicable Registration Statement. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice notice from an Initiating Holder that such Initiating Holder is withdrawing all of its Registrable Securities from the Investor pursuant Demand Registration or a notice from a Holder to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)the effect that the Holder is withdrawing an amount of its Registrable Securities such that the remaining amount of Registrable Securities to be included in the Demand Registration is below the Minimum Amount, the Company shall promptly cease all efforts to secure effectiveness of the applicable Registration Statement. Such registration nonetheless shall be deemed a Demand Registration with respect to an Initiating Holder for purposes of Section 2(a)(iii) unless (A) the Initiating Holder shall have paid or reimbursed the Company for its pro rata share of all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses incurred by the Company in connection with the withdrawn registration of such Registrable Securities (based on the number of securities such Initiating Holder sought to register, as compared to the total number of securities included in such Demand Registration) or (B) the withdrawal is made following the occurrence of a Material Adverse Change or pursuant to the Company’s request for suspension pursuant to Section 3(o).
(v) The Company may include in any event within thirty (30) days of the date on which the Company receives such Demand NoticeRegistration other Company Securities for sale for its own account or for the account of any other Person, subject to Section 2(d).
(vi) file with Subject to the SEClimitations contained in this Agreement, and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective as promptly as practicable, a effect any Demand Registration on such appropriate registration statement on form of the appropriate form for the registration and sale Commission (A) as shall be selected by the Company and (B) as shall be reasonably acceptable to permit the Investor registering disposition of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution (which may be by an underwritten offering)disposition specified in the Demand Notice; provided that if the Company becomes, and is at the time of its receipt of a Demand Notice, a WKSI, the total number Demand Registration for any offering and selling of Registrable Securities specified shall be effected pursuant to an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, which shall be on Form S-3 or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act (if available to the Company). If at any time a Registration Statement on Form S-3 is effective and a Holder provides written notice to the Company that it intends to effect an offering of all or part of the Registrable Securities included on such Registration Statement, the Company will amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to enable such offering to take place.
(vii) Without limiting Section 3, in connection with any Demand Registration pursuant to and in accordance with this Section 2(a), the Company shall (A) promptly prepare and file or cause to be prepared and filed (1) such additional forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents, as may be necessary or advisable to register or qualify the securities subject to such Demand Registration, including under the securities laws of such jurisdictions as the Holders shall reasonably request; provided, however, that no such qualification shall be required in any jurisdiction where, as a result thereof, the Company would become subject to general service of process or to taxation or qualification to do business in such jurisdiction solely as a result of registration and (2) such forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents as may be necessary to apply for listing or to list the Registrable Securities subject to such Demand Registration on the Trading Market and (B) do any and all other acts and things that may be reasonably necessary or appropriate or reasonably requested by the Holders in to enable the Holders to consummate a public sale of 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 accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof.
(viii) In the event a Holder transfers Registrable Securities included on a Registration Statement mayand such Registrable Securities remain Registrable Securities following such transfer, at the request of such Holder, the Holders submitting the Demand Notice, Company shall amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be a “shelf” registration necessary in order to enable such transferee to offer and sell such Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 415such Registration Statement; provided that in no event shall the Company be required to file a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement unless (A) such Registration Statement includes only Registrable Securities held by the Holder, if available.
Affiliates of the Holder or transferees of the Holder or (B) The the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand has received written consent therefor from a Person for whom Registrable Securities have been registered on (but not yet sold under) such Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously effective and usable for Statement, other than the resale Holder, Affiliates of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period Holder or transferees 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration StatementHolder.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Atlas Energy Solutions Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Atlas Energy Solutions Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Atlas Energy Solutions Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by As promptly as practicable following 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 demand from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(iiAdministrative Agent following the occurrence of an Event of Default (as defined in the Credit Agreement), the Company shall promptly (and but in any no event within later than thirty (30) days following receipt of such demand, the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) Partnership shall file with the SECCommission a registration statement under the Securities Act providing for the resale of all Registrable Securities (the “Shelf Registration Statement”), and including the Company prospectus to be used in connection therewith. The Shelf Registration Statement shall thereafter be filed on Form S-3 pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act or any successor form or rule thereto. No other Person shall be permitted to offer securities under the Shelf Registration Statement unless the Administrative Agent consents in writing. The Partnership shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Shelf Registration Statement to be declared become effective as promptly as practicable, a registration statement on practicable and to remain effective to the appropriate form extent necessary to ensure that it is available for the registration and sale as shall be selected by the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Investor registering resale of all Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution (which may be by an underwritten offering), of the total number of until all Registrable Securities specified covered by such Shelf Registration Statement have ceased to be Registrable Securities (the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration StatementEffectiveness Period”). If In connection with any registration pursuant to this Section 2.1, the Investor registering Partnership shall (x) promptly prepare and file such documents as may be necessary to register or qualify the Registrable Securities intends subject to distribute such registration under the securities laws of such states as such Holder shall reasonably request, and do any Registrable Securities by means and all other acts and things that may reasonably be necessary or advisable to enable the Holder to consummate a public sale 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 offeringstates and (y) promptly prepare and file such documents as may be necessary to apply for listing or to list the Registrable Securities subject to such registration on such national securities exchange as the Registrable Securities are then listed or admitted for trading. Any Demand Except as set forth herein, all Registration Statement mayExpenses shall be paid by the Partnership, at without reimbursement by the request of the Holders submitting the Demand Notice, be a “shelf” registration pursuant to Rule 415, if availableHolder.
(Bb) The Company shall Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Partnership may, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent, suspend the Selling Holders’ use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand of any prospectus which is a part of the Shelf Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously effective and usable for the resale (in which event each such Selling Holder shall discontinue sales of the Registrable Securities covered thereby pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement but such Selling Holder may settle any contracted sales of Registrable Securities), if (i) the Partnership is pursuing an acquisition, merger, reorganization, disposition or other similar transaction and the Partnership determines in good faith that its ability to pursue or consummate such a transaction would be materially adversely affected by any required disclosure of such transaction in the Shelf Registration Statement or (ii) the Partnership has experienced some other material non-public event, the disclosure of which at such time, in the good faith judgment of the Partnership, would materially adversely affect the Partnership; provided, however, in no event shall such Selling Holders be suspended under this Section 2.1(b) from selling Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement for a period that exceeds an aggregate of one hundred eighty 30 days in any 90-day period or 90 days in any 365-day period. Upon public disclosure of the events described in clauses (180i) days from or (ii) above or the date on which the SEC declares termination of such Demand Registration Statement effective, as such period may be extended pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(Bcondition(s). The time period for which the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant Partnership shall (A) provide prompt written notice of the same to the Administrative Agent instructing the Administrative Agent that sales of Registrable Securities are permitted and (B) take such other actions to permit sales of Registrable Securities as contemplated in this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness DeadlineAgreement.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Atlas Resource Partners, L.P.), Registration Rights Agreement (Atlas Resource Partners, L.P.), Registration Rights Agreement (Atlas Pipeline Partners Lp)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by Upon receipt of a written notice (the “request from a Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, Holder at any time following the 180th day after the date hereof, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement under the Securities Act (a “Registration Statement”) providing for the resale of the Registrable Securities, which may, at the option of the Demand Holder, be a registration statement that provides for the resale of the Registrable Securities from time to time during such periods when pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (a “Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all Statement”). Within five (5) business days of the Investor’s receipt of a Demand Notice, the Company shall give written notice of such Demand Notice to all Holders, and the Holders shall have three (3) business days following receipt of such notice of the Demand Notice from the Company to request in writing (including by electronic mail) to the Company to be included as a seller of Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, that in such Registration Statement. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Company register, under and in accordance with Registration Statement to be declared effective by the provisions Commission as soon as reasonably practicable after the initial filing of the Securities ActRegistration Statement. The Registration Statement shall provide for the resale pursuant to any method or combination of methods legally available to, and requested by, the Holders of any and all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated covered by the Investor. Upon receipt such Registration Statement (including those elected to be included in such Registration Statement following notice of a Demand Notice from the Investor Company 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”2.01). 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 its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand cause the Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) 2.01 to be continuously effective effective, supplemented and usable amended to the extent necessary to ensure that it is available for the resale of all Registrable Securities by the Holders until all Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from the date on which the SEC declares by such Demand Registration Statement effective, as such period may have ceased to be extended pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(BRegistrable Securities (the “Effectiveness Period”). The time period for which Registration Statement when effective (and the documents incorporated therein by reference) shall comply as to form in all material respects with all applicable requirements of the Securities Act and shall 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. As soon as practicable following the date that the Registration Statement becomes effective, but in any event within two (2) business days of such date, the Company is required to maintain shall provide the Holders with written notice of the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) . The Company shall only be entitled obligated to suspend the use of any effective effect two (2) demand registrations on a Long-Form Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii2.01 in any twelve-month period; provided, however, that a registration on a Long-Form Registration Statement shall not count as a registration under this Section 2.01 unless it has become effective. The Company shall be obligated to effect an unlimited number of registrations under this Section 2.01 on Short-Form Registration Statements. The Company shall not be obligated to file more than one (1) under the circumstances set forth Registration Statement (including Short-Form Registration Statements) in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided response to requests pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii2.01 within 90 days after the effective date of any Registration Statement filed by the Company in response to requests pursuant to this Section 2.01. Once a Holder’s Registrable Securities become eligible for resale without restriction and without the need for current public information pursuant to any section of Rule 144 (or any similar provision then in effect) under the Securities Act, assuming the Holder of such Registrable Securities is not an affiliate (as defined in Rule 144(a)(1) under the Securities Act) of the Company, then such Holder may, at its option, at any time, request that the Company take such steps as are reasonably necessary to deregister such Holder’s Registrable Securities. In connection with such request, such Holder’s rights under this Agreement shall not all be exercisable until terminated, including without limitation the Effectiveness Deadlineright to demand an Underwritten Offering and the right to participate in a Piggyback Registration, and such Holder, to the extent such Holder beneficially owns less than 0.5% of the Common Stock then outstanding, shall no longer be subject to any obligations under this Agreement, including without limitation the obligation to enter into letter agreements with underwriters pursuant to Section 2.13.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement (Smart Sand, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Smart Sand, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor Initiating Holders 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 InvestorHolder’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, that the Company register, register under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, Act all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated by the Investorsuch Initiating Holders. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)Notice, the Company shall promptly (and in any event within thirty ten (3010) business days from the date of receipt of such Demand Notice), notify each Holder (other than the Initiating Holders) of the receipt of such Demand Notice and allow such other Holder the opportunity to include Registrable Securities held by such Holders in the proposed registration by submitting its own written notice to the Company within ten (10) business days of receipt of the Company notice to such other Holder. The Company, within forty-five (45) days of the date on which the Company receives such the Demand Notice) , shall 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 Holders registering Registrable Securities 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 Holders registering Registrable Securities intends intend to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offering, it they 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)3. The managing underwriters in any such distribution shall be mutually acceptable to the Investor Company and the Holders 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.
(Bb) The Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) 1.2 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)(B1.2(b). The time period for which the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) 4 occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(Cc) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) 1.2 under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d)4.
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas Inc)
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)any Holder, the Company Partnership 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 Commission as promptly as practicable, reasonably practicable a registration statement on under 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 Act (which may be by an underwritten offering)each, 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 providing for the resale of the Registrable Securities covered thereby identified in such Notice, which may, at the option of the Holder giving such Notice, be a Registration Statement that provides for a period the resale of one hundred eighty the Registrable Securities from time to time pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act. The Partnership shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective as soon as reasonably practicable after the initial filing of the Registration Statement and to remain effective and available for the resale of the Registrable Securities by the Selling Holders named therein until the earlier of (180i) days from six months following such Registration Statement’s effective date and (ii) the date on which the SEC declares all Registrable Securities covered by such Demand Registration Statement effective, as have been sold. In the event one or more Holders request in a Notice to dispose of a number of Registrable Securities that such period may be extended Holder or Holders reasonably anticipates will result in gross proceeds of at least $30 million in the aggregate pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B)a Registration Statement in an Underwritten Offering, the Partnership shall retain underwriters that are reasonably acceptable to such Selling Holders in order to permit such Selling Holders to effect such disposition through an Underwritten Offering; provided, however, that the Partnership shall have the exclusive right to select the bookrunning managers. The time period for which Partnership and such Selling Holders shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form that is reasonably acceptable to the Company is required Partnership and take all reasonable actions as are requested by the managing underwriters to maintain facilitate the effectiveness Underwritten Offering and sale of any Demand Registrable Securities therein. No Holder may participate in the Underwritten Offering unless it agrees to sell its Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement on the terms and conditions of the underwriting agreement and completes and delivers all necessary documents and information reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting agreement. In the event that the managing underwriter of such Underwritten Offering advises the Partnership and the Holder in writing that in its opinion the inclusion of all or some Registrable Securities would adversely and materially affect the timing or success of the Underwritten Offering, the amount of Registrable Securities that each Selling Holder requested be included in such Underwritten Offering shall be extended by reduced on a Pro Rata basis to the aggregate number amount that the managing underwriter deems will not have such material and adverse effect. Any Holder may withdraw from such Underwritten Offering by notice to the Partnership and the managing underwriter; provided, such notice is delivered prior to the launch of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration StatementUnderwritten Offering.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Exchange Agreement (CNX Resources Corp), Agreement of Limited Partnership (CNX Midstream Partners LP), Limited Partnership Agreement (CNX Midstream Partners LP)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have At any time following the rightearlier of (x) the Company consummating an Initial Public Offering of the Class A Common Stock or (y) the first anniversary of the Emergence Effective Date, by any Requesting Stockholder may give a written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given request to the Company, Company to request, at effect the registration under the Securities Act (other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or Form S-8 or any time and from time to time during such periods when a Shelf Registration Statement similar or Shelf Registration Statements covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, that the Company register, successor form under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, ) of all or any portion of such Requesting Stockholder’s Registrable Securities, which written request shall specify the number of Registrable Securities to be registered and the intended method of disposition thereof. At any time the Company is eligible for use of an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, such registration shall occur on such form. Upon the receipt of such written request, the Company shall promptly give notice (via facsimile or electronic transmission) to the other Stockholder Groups of such requested registration (each such registration shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”) at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the Registration Statement relating to such Demand Registration. Thereafter, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as soon as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:
(i) all Registrable Securities for which the Requesting Stockholder has requested registration under this Section 2.01;
(ii) all other Registrable Securities of the same class or series as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Stockholder that any other Stockholder Group (all such Stockholder Groups, together with the Requesting Stockholder, and any Stockholder Groups participating in a Piggyback Registration pursuant to Section 2.03, the “Registering Stockholders”) have requested the Company to register by request received by the Company within ten (10) Business Days after such Stockholder Groups receive the Company’s notice of the Demand Registration; and
(iii) any Company Securities to be offered or sold by the Company; all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities designated by the Investor. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant so to this be registered; provided that, subject to Section 3.12(a)(ii2.01(d), the Company shall promptly not be obligated to effect (x) more than five (5) Demand Registrations requested by the Oaktree Stockholder, three (3) Demand Registrations requested by the JPMorgan Stockholder and three (3) Demand Registrations requested by the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Stockholder, in each case, other than Demand Registrations to be effected pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or any event successor or similar form) under the Securities Act (“Form S-3”) for which an unlimited number of Demand Registrations shall be permitted, (y) any such Demand Registration (i) within thirty the Specified Period (30or such shorter period as the Company may determine in its sole discretion) days after the effective date of any other registration statement of the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file (other than a registration statement filed in connection with the SEC, and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective as promptly as practicable, an employee benefit plan or business combination transaction or a registration statement on the appropriate Form S¬4 or Form S-8 or any similar or successor 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 thereto) or (ii) in accordance with Section 2.01(f) or (z) any Demand Registration if the intended method or methods aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of distribution the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration is less than the lesser of (which may be by an underwritten offeringi) $100,000,000 and (ii) 2.5% of the market capitalization determined in good faith as of the date the Company receives a written request for Demand Registration.
(b) Promptly after the expiration of the ten (10) Business Day period referred to in Section 2.01(a)(ii), the Company will notify all Registering Stockholders of the total identities of the other Registering Stockholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities specified requested to be included in the Demand Registration by each of them. At any time prior to the Holders effective date of the Registration Statement relating to such Demand Registration, the Requesting Stockholder may upon notice to the Company, revoke such request in whole or in part with respect to the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”). If the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends , without liability 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 availableother Registering Stockholders.
(Bc) The Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Demand Registration Statement filed becomes effective; provided, however, that if the Requesting Stockholder revokes its request in whole pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii2.01(b), the Requesting Stockholder shall reimburse the Company for and/or pay directly all Registration Expenses incurred relating to such Demand Registration.
(d) A Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have occurred:
(i) unless the Registration Statement relating thereto (A) has become effective under the Securities Act and (B) has remained continuously effective and usable for the resale of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of at least (x) one hundred eighty (180) days from (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Registering Stockholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder) or (y) with respect to a Shelf Registration, until the date on which the SEC declares set forth in Section 2.05(a)(ii); provided that 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 not be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such considered a Demand Registration Statementif, after such Registration Statement becomes effective, (1) such Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court and (2) less than 75% of the Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement have been sold thereunder; or
(ii) if the Maximum Offering Size is reduced in accordance with Section 2.01(e) such that less than 66 2⁄3% of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Stockholder sought to be included in such registration are included.
(Ce) The If a Demand Registration involves a Public Offering and the lead managing underwriter advises the Company and the Requesting Stockholder that, in its view, the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including any securities that the Company proposes to be included that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the largest number of shares that can be sold without having a material and adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such shares can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size”), the Company shall include in such registration, in the priority listed below, up to the Maximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be registered by the Requesting Stockholder and all other Registering Stockholders (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, to give first priority to the inclusion of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Stockholder and, thereafter, pro rata among the remaining Registering Stockholders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each such Registering Stockholder);
(ii) second, any securities proposed to be registered by the Company; and
(iii) third, any securities proposed to be registered for the account of any other Persons, with such priorities among them as the Company shall determine.
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, but subject to the limitation set forth in the next succeeding paragraph, the Company shall be entitled to suspend its obligation to file (but not the use preparation of) any Registration Statement in connection with a Demand Registration, any Shelf Registration (including any Shelf Public Offering), file any amendment to such a Registration Statement, file or furnish any supplement or amendment to a prospectus included in such a Registration Statement, make any other filing with the SEC, cause such a Registration Statement or other filing with the SEC to become or remain effective or take any similar action (collectively, “Registration Actions”) upon (i) the issuance by the SEC of a stop order suspending the effectiveness of any effective such Registration Statement or the initiation of proceedings with respect to such a Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii8(d) under or 8(e) of the circumstances set forth Securities Act, (ii) the Board’s determination, in Section 3.12(dits good faith judgment, that any such Registration Action should not be taken because it would reasonably be expected to materially interfere with or require the public disclosure of any material corporate development or plan, including any material financing, securities offering, acquisition, disposition, corporate reorganization or merger or other transaction involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (iii) the Company possessing material non-public information the disclosure of which the Board determines, in its good faith judgment, would reasonably be expected to not be in the best interests of the Company. Upon the occurrence of any of the conditions described in (i).
, (Dii) For the avoidance of doubtor (iii) above in connection with undertaking a Registration Action, the rights provided Company shall give prompt notice of such suspension (and whether such action is being taken pursuant to (i), (ii) or (iii) above) (a “Suspension Notice”) to the Stockholders. Upon the termination of such condition, the Company shall give prompt notice thereof to the Stockholders and shall promptly proceed with all Registration Actions that were suspended pursuant to this paragraph. The Company may only suspend Registration Actions pursuant to the preceding paragraph on one (1) occasion during any period of six (6) consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the Suspension Notice but not exceeding ninety (90) days (which period may not be extended or renewed) (each such occasion, a “Suspension Period”). Each Suspension Period shall be deemed to begin on the date the relevant Suspension Notice is given to the Stockholders and shall be deemed to end on the earlier to occur of (i) the date on which the Company gives the Stockholders a notice that the Suspension Period has terminated and (ii) the date on which the number of days during which a Suspension Period has been in effect exceeds the ninety (90) day period. If the filing of any Demand Registration or Shelf Registration is suspended pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii2.01(f), once the Suspension Period ends the Requesting Stockholder may request a new Demand Registration or a new Shelf Registration (neither such request shall be counted as an additional Demand Registration for purposes of subclause (x) in the proviso of Section 2.01(a)). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall not be exercisable until in breach of, or have failed to comply with, any obligation under this Agreement where the Effectiveness DeadlineCompany acts or omits to take any action in order to comply with applicable law, any interpretation of the staff of the SEC or any order or decree of any court or governmental agency.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement (Tribune Media Co)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the rightSubject to Section 5 hereof, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, if 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 any Holder shall request the Company register, in writing to register under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, Act all or any portion a part of the Registrable Securities designated held by the Investor. Upon receipt of such Holder (a "Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(iiRegistration"), 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 all reasonable efforts to cause to be filed and declared effective as promptly soon as practicable, reasonably practicable (but in no event later than the 45th day after such Holder's request is made) a registration statement statement, on the such appropriate form as the Company in its discretion shall determine, providing for the registration and sale as shall be selected by the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Investor registering of all such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution (which may be by an underwritten offering), of the total number such Holder. The Company agrees to use its reasonable efforts to keep any such registration statement continuously effective and usable for resale of Registrable Securities specified by for so long as the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”). If the Investor registering Holder whose Registrable Securities intends to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offering, it are included therein 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)request. 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 be obligated to keep each Demand Registration Statement file registration statements pursuant to this Section 2(a) until all Registrable Securities have ceased to be Registrable Securities. Each registration statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii2(a) continuously effective and usable for is hereinafter referred to as a "Demand Registration Statement."
(b) The Company agrees(i), unless it obtains the resale prior written consent of Hay, not to effect any public or private sale, distribution or purchase of any of its securities which are the same as or similar to the Registrable Securities, including a sale pursuant to Regulation D under the Securities covered thereby Act, during the 15-day period prior to, and during the 45-day period beginning on, the closing date of each underwritten offering under any Demand Registration Statement, and (ii) to use reasonable efforts to cause each holder of its securities purchased from the Company, at any time on or after the date of this Agreement (other than in a registered public offering) to agree not to effect any public sale or distribution of any such securities during such period, including a sale pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act.
(c) The Company may postpone for a reasonable period of one hundred eighty (180) days from time, not to exceed 60 days, 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 filing or the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended if the Board of Directors of the Company in good faith determines that (A) such registration might have a material adverse effect on any plan or proposal by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring Company with respect to such Demand Registration Statementany financing, acquisition, recapitalization, reorganization or other material transaction, or (B) the Company is in possession of material non-public information that, if publicly disclosed, could result in a material disruption of a major corporate development or transaction then pending or in progress or in other material adverse consequences to the Company.
(Cd) The Company shall If at any time any Holder of Registrable Securities to be entitled to suspend the use of any effective covered by a Demand Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(iidesires to sell Registrable Securities in an underwritten offering, such Holder shall have the right to select any nationally recognized investment banking firm(s) under to administer the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For offering, subject to the avoidance approval of doubtthe Company, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) which approval shall not be exercisable until unreasonably withheld, and the Effectiveness DeadlineCompany shall enter into underwriting agreements with the underwriter(s) of such offering, which agreements shall contain such representations and warranties by the Company, and such other terms, conditions and indemnities as are at the time customarily contained in underwriting agreements for similar offerings.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Swisher International Group Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Swisher International Group Inc)
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)(ii3.13(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 reasonable 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(c3.13(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)(ii3.13(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)(B3.13(a)(ii)(B). The time period for which the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d3.13(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii3.13(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d3.13(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii3.13(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Investment Agreement (FNB United Corp.), Investment Agreement (FNB United Corp.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, If at any time and from time the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to time during such periods when Section 4.01 is not available for the resale of the Registrable Securities, including if for any reason the Company is ineligible to maintain or use a Shelf Registration Statement, the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to (as promptly as reasonably practicable and, in any event, within 60 days in the case of a Registration Statement on Form S-1) following the written request of ▇▇▇▇▇▇ for Registration under the Securities Act of all or Shelf Registration Statements covering all part of the Investor’s Jacobs’ Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective(a “Demand Request”), that the Company register, under and in accordance file a Registration Statement with the provisions of the Securities Act, all or any portion SEC (a “Demand Registration Statement”) with respect to resales 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 ▇▇▇▇▇▇’ intended method of the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SECdistribution thereof, and shall, subject to the Company shall thereafter terms of this Article IV, use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Demand Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act (promptly and, in any event, no later than 60 days after such filing) and, if required, to qualify under the “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions as promptly as practicable, a registration statement ▇▇▇▇▇▇ or any underwriter reasonably requests; provided that such Demand Registration Statement shall be filed on the an appropriate form under the Securities Act for the registration and sale as type of offering contemplated by ▇▇▇▇▇▇. Each Demand Request shall be selected by specify the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in accordance with to be Registered, their aggregate amount, and the intended method or methods of distribution (which thereof. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ agrees to provide the Company with such information in connection with a Demand Request as may be reasonably requested by an underwritten offering), the Company to ensure that the Demand Registration Statement complies with the requirements of the total number Securities Act, including any financial statements or other information of Registrable Securities specified the SpinCo Business relating to any date or any period ending on or prior to the Merger Closing Date to the extent required to be included or incorporated by the Holders reference in such Demand Notice (a “any Demand Registration Statement”)Statement and not already in the possession of the Company. If Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offeringcontrary, it shall promptly so advise the Company and the Company shall take all reasonable steps only be obligated 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 file and cause up to three Demand Registration Statement filed Statements to be declared effective under the Securities Act 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement4.02.
(Cb) The Company shall be entitled deemed to suspend have effected a Demand Registration for purposes of this Section 4.02, Section 4.03(a) and Section 4.04(a) if the use of any effective Demand Registration Statement under becomes effective by the SEC and remains effective until the earlier of (i) 90 days after the effective date or (ii) such time as all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been Sold or withdrawn in accordance with this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under 4.02, or if such Registration Statement relates to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), such longer period as, in the circumstances set forth opinion of outside legal counsel for the underwriter or underwriters, a Prospectus is required by law to be delivered in Section 3.12(d).
connection with Sales of Registrable Securities by an underwriter or dealer (D) For the avoidance of doubtapplicable period, the rights “Demand Period”); provided that (i) if, during the Demand Period, such Registration or the successful completion of the relevant Sale is prevented by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court, or a Blackout Period or the need to update or supplement the Registration Statement, the Demand Period shall be extended on a day-for-day basis by the number of days such Registration or successful completion is prevented and (ii) no Demand Registration shall be deemed to have been effective for purposes of Section 4.03(a) and Section 4.04(a) if the conditions to closing specified in the underwriting agreement, if any, entered into in connection with any Underwritten Offering pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall such Demand Registration are not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadlinesatisfied other than by reason of a wrongful act, misrepresentation or breach of such applicable underwriting agreement by ▇▇▇▇▇▇.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Amentum Holdings, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Amazon Holdco Inc.)
Demand Registration. (A) The During the Effectiveness Period and after the filing and effectiveness of the Initial Registration Statement and any Follow-On Registration Statement covering all of the Initial Registrable Securities, Investor shall have the right, by right to provide the Company with written notice (the each a “Demand Notice”) given requiring the Company to the Company, to request, at any time and from time to time during such periods when a Shelf file an Additional Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all such number of the Investor’s Additional Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, that the Company register, under and as Investor requests 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 subject to Section 2(b)(2) (the “shelf” registration pursuant to Rule 415Demand Registrable Securities”), if available.as follows:
(Bi) The if Investor has sold all of the Initial Registrable Securities, Investor shall have the right to require the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand prepare and file an Additional Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously effective and usable for covering the resale of the Demand Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty within sixty (18060) days from of (i) the effective date of the Initial Registration Statement, or any Follow-On Registration Statement, or (ii) the date on which of the SEC declares such Demand Registration Statement effectiveNotice, as such period may be extended pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B). The time period for which the Company whichever is required to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statementlater.
(Cii) The if Investor has not sold all of the Initial Registrable Securities, Investor shall have the right to require the Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective prepare and file an Additional Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(iicovering the resale of the Demand Registrable Securities within ninety (90) under days of (i) the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d)effective date of the Initial Registration Statement, or any Follow-On Registration Statement, or (ii) the date of the Demand Notice, whichever is later.
(Diii) For if Investor has sold all of the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided Demand Registrable Securities registered pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(iian Additional Registration Statement, Investor shall have the right to require the Company to prepare and file an Additional Registration Statement covering the resale of additional Demand Registrable Securities within sixty (60) days of (i) the effective date of the of the previous Additional Registration Statement, or (ii) the date of the Demand Notice, whichever is later.
(iv) if Investor has not sold all of the Demand Registrable Securities registered pursuant to an Additional Registration Statement, Investor shall not be exercisable until have the Effectiveness Deadlineright to require the Company to prepare and file an Additional Registration Statement covering the resale of additional Demand Registrable Securities within ninety (90) days of (i) the effective date of the of the previous Additional Registration Statement, or (ii) the date of the Demand Notice, whichever is later.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Janus Resources, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (New Energy Technologies, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (A) The Investor shall have At any time during the rightfive year period following the Closing Date, by USAA may make a written notice request (the “"Demand Notice”") given for registration under the Securities Act (a "Demand Registration") of the Registrable Securities held by it. The Demand Notice will specify the number of shares of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold and will also specify the intended method of disposition thereof. Unless USAA shall consent in writing, no other party, including the Company, shall be permitted to requestoffer securities under any such Demand Registration. The Company shall not be required to effect more than three Demand Registrations under this Section 2(b). A registration requested pursuant to this Section 2(b) will not be deemed to have been effected (and it shall not count as one of the three Demand Registrations) unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has become effective under the Securities Act; provided, however that if, after such Registration Statement has become effective, the offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court, such registration will be deemed not to have been effected (and it shall not count as one of the three Demand Registrations). USAA may, at any time and from time prior to time during such periods when a Shelf the effective date of the Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all relating to such registration, revoke its Demand Notice by providing a written notice to the Company. If USAA so elects, the offering of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is pursuant to a Demand Registration shall be in the form of an Underwritten Offering. If the managing underwriter or are not existing and effective, that underwriters of such offering advise the Company register, under and USAA in accordance with writing that in their opinion the provisions number of the Securities Act, all or any portion shares of the Registrable Securities designated by requested to be included in such offering is sufficiently large to materially and adversely affect the Investor. Upon receipt success of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)such offering, the Company shall promptly (and will include in any event within thirty (30) days of such registration 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 aggregate number of Registrable Securities specified which in the opinion of such managing underwriter or underwriters can be sold without any such material adverse effect; provided, however, that Registrable Securities may be excluded before all shares proposed to be sold by other parties, including the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”)Company, have been excluded. If the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offeringare excluded, it such registration 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 not count as one of the Holders submitting the three Demand Notice, be a “shelf” Registrations. No registration pursuant to Rule 415, if available.
(Ba request or requests referred to in this subsection 2(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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant deemed to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statementbe a Shelf Registration.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (American Industrial Properties Reit Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (American Industrial Properties Reit Inc)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have On or after the rightdate that is fourteen (14) months after the closing of the Initial Public Offering, by written notice the Holders may, subject to Section 2.4 (the “Demand Notice”Black-Out Rights; Suspension Rights) given and Section 2.5 (Holdback Agreements), deliver to the Company, to request, at any time and from time to time during such periods when Company a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, written request that the Company register, under prepare 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, Commission a registration statement on the an appropriate form for under 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 Act (together with the intended method any amendments or methods of distribution (which may be by an underwritten offering)supplements thereto, of the total number of Registrable Securities specified by the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”). If , registering under the Investor registering Securities Act Registrable Securities intends then outstanding having a Market Value of not less than $10,000,000 to distribute any effect an underwritten public offering of Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offeringthe initiating Holders (a “Demand Registration”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, it shall promptly so advise the Company and the Company shall take not be obligated to effect more than one Demand Registration in any twelve (12) month period.
(b) Any request for a Demand Registration shall specify the number of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold and the intent to effect an underwritten public offering of such Registrable Securities. Within 10 Business Days after receipt of such request, the Company will give written notice of such registration request to all reasonable steps other Holders and include in such registration all such Registrable Securities with respect to facilitate which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within 15 Business Days after the mailing of the Company’s notice. Each such distribution, including request will also specify the actions required pursuant number of Registrable Securities to be registered and the intent to effect an underwritten public offering of such Registrable Securities.
(c) Subject to Section 3.12(c2.3(d). The managing underwriters in any such distribution shall be acceptable to , if all Holders that request the Investor registering Registrable Securities in such underwritten offering. Any filing of a Demand Registration Statement mayhave a sufficient number of Registrable Securities registered for sale pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement, at the Company may satisfy the request to effect a Demand Registration by filing an appropriate prospectus supplement with the Commission to effect an underwritten public offering; provided, that such underwritten public offering shall be deemed a Demand Registration and shall be required to satisfy each of the Holders submitting the conditions and other requirements for a Demand Notice, be a “shelf” registration pursuant to Rule 415, if availableRegistration specified in this Agreement.
(Bd) The Company shall use reasonable best efforts select the lead underwriter or underwriters and any co-manager or co-managers in connection with any underwritten public offering pursuant to keep each this Agreement, after consultation with the Holders initiating such Demand Registration.
(e) A registration will not count as a Demand Registration until it has become effective. For purposes of this Agreement, (i) an offering on a Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant is deemed to this Section 3.12(a)(iibe effected on the effective date thereof, and (ii) continuously effective and usable for the resale of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for an underwritten public offering on a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from the date on which the SEC declares such Shelf Registration Statement that is deemed to be a 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d2.2(c) occurring is deemed to be effected on the date a prospectus supplement is filed with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
the Commission (C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend other than any preliminary prospectus supplement). Notwithstanding the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubtforegoing, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) an offering shall not be exercisable until deemed to have been effected if such offering is not consummated as a result of (i) a breach by the Effectiveness DeadlineCompany of its obligations under this Agreement or any underwriting agreement relating to an underwritten public offering, or (ii) the Company exercising its rights under Section 2.4 (Black-Out Rights; Suspension Rights), and, in either case, after the offering would otherwise have been deemed to have been effected pursuant to the preceding sentence.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Thomas Properties Group Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Thomas Properties Group Inc)
Demand Registration. (A) The Investor shall have In addition, to the rightextent the Company does not maintain an effective registration statement for the Registrable Securities at any time when it is eligible to use a Form S-3 registration statement, by written notice then the Holders (the “Demand NoticeDemanding Holders”) given may make a written request 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 Company for the registration 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 a portion of the Registrable Securities designated (the “Demand Registration”). Such written request shall specify the aggregate number of Registrable Securities to be registered. If the Demanding Holders intend to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by their request by means of an underwritten public offering, they shall so advise the InvestorCompany as a part of their written request. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from Notwithstanding the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)foregoing, the Company shall promptly not be obligated to effectuate any Demand Registration unless the aggregate value of the Registrable Securities to be registered on such registration statement is at least $50,000,000 (and in any based on the market price of the Company’s publicly-traded class or series of common stock listed as of the date of the Demand Registration request). In the event of a Demand Registration, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to register the applicable Registrable Securities within thirty (30) days after receiving the Demand Registration. The Demanding Holders of the date Registrable Securities proposing to distribute their securities through a Demand Registration that involves an underwriter or underwriters shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such Demand Registration. The selection of the underwriters shall be subject to the Company’s prior approval (which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed). Furthermore, each Holder must provide the Selling Holder Information to be included in the registration statement timely or the Company may elect to exclude such Holder from the registration statement. The Company shall not be obligated to effect (A) more than one (1) Demand Registration on an non-underwritten basis per consecutive 12-month period and (B) more than one (1) Demand Registration on an underwritten basis per consecutive 12-month period, not to exceed a maximum of three (3) Demand Registrations on an underwritten basis in the aggregate. In an underwritten offering, if the managing underwriter(s) advise the Company that the dollar amount or number of the Registrable Securities that the Demanding Holders desire to sell, taken together with all of the other securities which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with desires to sell or for which registration has been requested pursuant to written contractual piggy-back registration rights held by other stockholders, exceeds the SECMaximum Number of Securities, and then the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause limit the securities to be declared effective as promptly as practicableincluded in such underwritten offering to: (x) first, the Registrable Securities of the Demanding Holders pro rata based on the number of securities requested to be sold that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (y) second, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clause (x), the securities that the Company desires to sell for its own account, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; and (z) third, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (x) and (y), the securities of other persons that the Company is obligated to register in a registration statement on pursuant to separate written contractual arrangements with such persons and that can be sold without exceeding the appropriate form Maximum Number of Securities. A majority in interest of the Demanding Holders initiating an underwritten offering shall have the right to withdraw its Registrable Securities included in an underwritten offering for the registration and sale as shall be selected by any or no reason whatsoever upon written notification to the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable the underwriter or underwriters (if any) of its intention to so withdraw at any time up to one business (1) day prior to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in accordance with filing of the intended method applicable preliminary prospectus or methods of distribution (which may be by prospectus supplement used for marketing such underwritten offering. If withdrawn, a demand for an underwritten offeringoffering shall constitute a demand for an underwritten offering by the withdrawing Demanding Holders for purposes of this Section 2(b), unless such Demanding Holders reimburse the Company for all expenses with respect to such underwritten offering (or, if there is more than one Demanding Holder, each Demanding Holder reimburses the Company for a pro rata portion of such expenses based on the total respective number of Registrable Securities specified by the Holders that each Demanding Holder has requested be included in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”underwritten offering). If Following the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends to distribute receipt of any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offeringwithdrawal notice, it shall promptly so advise the Company and the Company shall take all reasonable steps promptly forward such withdrawal notice to facilitate such distribution, including the actions required pursuant any other Holders that had elected to Section 3.12(c). The managing underwriters in any such distribution shall be acceptable to the Investor registering Registrable Securities participate in such underwritten offering. Any Demand Registration Statement mayNotwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, at the request of Company shall be responsible for the Holders submitting the Demand Noticeregistration expenses incurred in connection with an underwritten offering prior to its withdrawal under this Section 2(b), be other than if a “shelf” Demanding Holder elects to pay such registration expenses pursuant to Rule 415the immediately preceding sentence. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if available.
(B) The the Company shall use reasonable best efforts not be obligated to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant take any action 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 effect any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by (x) during the aggregate number period that is thirty (30) days before the Company’s good faith estimate of the date of, and ending on a date that is ninety (90) days of all suspension periods after the consummation of, a Company-initiated offering (pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand which the Piggyback Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances rights set forth in Section 3.12(d)2(a) are exercised or waived) or (y) if a Piggyback Registration became effective within the preceding ninety (90) days.
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Cerebras Systems Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Cerebras Systems Inc.)
Demand Registration. If at any time after the Market Stand-Off Period Novo Nordisk and Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Inc. desire to effect the registration on Form S-3 or other applicable form under the 1933 Act of any of the Shares owned by them or any of their Affiliates (A“Registrable Shares”), they may make one (1) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice request (the “Demand NoticeRequest”) given that Aradigm effect such registration; provided that such request is made no earlier than (i) sixty (60) days prior 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 expiration of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is Market Stand-Off Period or are not existing (ii) sixty (60) days prior to the expiration of any “lock-up” period required of Novo Nordisk and effectiveNovo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, that the Company register, under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated Inc. by the Investorunderwriters in connection with a public offering by Aradigm. The Demand Request will specify the number of Registrable Shares proposed to be sold and will also specify the intended method of disposition thereof. Upon receipt of a such Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(iiRequest, Aradigm shall, at its own expense (which expense shall include all fees and expenses of counsel, public accountants or other advisors or experts retained by Aradigm, all reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for Novo Nordisk, Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and their Affiliates (which counsel shall be selected by Novo Nordisk and Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) in an amount which shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), all filing fees, all fees and expenses incurred to comply with blue sky or other securities laws, all printing expenses and all internal expenses of Aradigm, but shall not include underwriting fees, discounts or commissions attributable to the Company shall promptly (and in any event within thirty (30) days sale of the date on which Registrable Shares, out-of-pocket expenses of Novo Nordisk, Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Inc. or any of their Affiliates, transfer taxes or the Company receives such Demand Noticefees and expenses of underwriter’s counsel) prepare and file with the SEC, and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective as promptly as practicable, SEC a registration statement on Form S-3 or other applicable form (the appropriate form “Resale Registration Statement”) under the 1933 Act to provide for the registration resale by Novo Nordisk, Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 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), their Affiliates of the total number of Registrable Securities Shares specified by in the Holders in such Demand Notice (Request. In the event Novo Nordisk and Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Inc. deliver to Aradigm a Demand Request prior to the end of a Market Stand-Off Period or a “Demand lock-up” period, Aradigm shall use its reasonable efforts to file and cause the Resale Registration Statement”). If the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends Statement 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 effective prior to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in expiration of such underwritten offeringMarket Stand-Off Period or “lock-up” period, as the case may be. Any Demand In all other cases, Aradigm will use its reasonable efforts to cause the Resale Registration Statement may, at the request to be filed and become effective as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt of the Holders submitting Demand Request. Aradigm shall cause 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 Resale Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii1.4 to remain effective for no less than six (6) continuously effective and usable for months (or, if earlier, until the resale date all of the Registrable Securities Shares covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from by the date on which the SEC declares such Demand Resale Registration Statement effectivehave been sold); provided, as however, Aradigm may suspend the use of, or delay the effective date of, any Resale Registration Statement by giving written notice to the sellers identified therein, if Aradigm shall have determined, in its good faith reasonable judgment, that such period may suspension or delay in the effective date of the Resale Registration Statement is advisable because the filing or effectiveness of the Resale Registration Statement would be extended detrimental to Aradigm and its shareholders; and provided further that Aradigm suspends the use of or delays the effective date of all other registration statements of Aradigm that register the securities of Aradigm being or to be resold by the holders thereof. Any suspension or delay in the effective date of the Resale Registration Statement by Aradigm 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 1.4 shall be extended by for the aggregate number shortest reasonable period of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(dtime (but shall not exceed one hundred twenty (120) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(ddays).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Restructuring Agreement (Aradigm Corp), Restructuring Agreement (Aradigm Corp)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have Company shall, for the rightbenefit of the Holders, by written notice (in the “Demand Notice”) given event that the Company is unable 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 register all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effectivein the Automatic Registration Statement, that on one occasion, upon the Company register, under and in accordance with the provisions demand by Holders of a majority of the then Registrable Securities, commencing six months after the Automatic Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC:
(i) Following a demand (a "Demand") by the Holders of a majority of the then Registrable Securities Act, to register all or any a portion of the Registrable Securities, use commercially reasonable efforts to file with the SEC a Demand Registration Statement relating to the offer and sale of such Registrable Securities designated by the Investor. Upon receipt Holders (but are not subject to an existing Registration Statement which is current and available for use by the Holders) from time to time; provided, however, that if the SEC shall comment or inquire about the Company's use of a the Demand Notice from Registration Statement to register all of the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)Registrable Securities, the Company shall promptly may exclude such Registrable Securities in accordance with Section 2.7 as it deems necessary or appropriate to respond to the SEC's comment or inquiry in order to permit the SEC to declare the Demand Registration Statement effective for a lesser number of Registrable Securities.
(ii) Use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Demand Registration Statement continuously effective, other than during Black-out Periods, in order to permit the Prospectus forming part thereof to be usable by Holders for a period of 365 days from the date that the Demand Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC.
(iii) Notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that (i) any Demand Registration Statement and any amendment thereto and any Prospectus forming part thereof and any supplement thereto complies in all material respects with the 1933 Act, (ii) any event Demand Registration Statement and any amendment thereto does not, when it becomes effective, 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 (iii) any Prospectus forming part of any Demand Registration Statement, and any supplement to such Prospectus (as amended or supplemented from time to time), does not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(b) If a Demand Registration Statement is not filed with the SEC within thirty forty-five (3045) days of the request of the Purchasers, provided that, if the Company is required to include audited financial statements in such registration statement which have not previously been filed (and were not previously required to have been filed) with the SEC prior to the expiration of such forty-five (45) day period, such period shall be extended to the 30th day following 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 file (subject to any applicable extensions under Rule 12b-25 under the effectiveness 1934 Act (or any similar provision then in force)) an annual report on Form 10-KSB (or Form 10-K) including such financial statements, subject to Black-out Periods, the Company will make pro rata payments to each of the Purchasers, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, in an amount equal to 1.00% of the product of (x) $0.10 multiplied by (y) the number of Shares of such Purchaser as to which the Demand relates for each 30-day period or pro rata for any Demand portion thereof following the date by which such Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring should have been filed for which no Registration Statement is filed with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use Registrable Securities; provided, however, that the amount of any effective Registration Statement liquidated damages payable under this Section 3.12(a)(ii2.1(b) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant payable to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) each Purchaser shall not exceed the aggregate amount paid by such Purchaser for such Registrable Securities less any other amount the Company otherwise actually pays to such Purchaser plus an amount equal to Purchaser's reasonable attorney fees and costs of collection in respect of such liquidated damages as a remedy for such event. Such payments shall be exercisable until in partial compensation to the Effectiveness DeadlinePurchasers, and shall not constitute the Purchasers' exclusive remedy for such events. Such payments shall be made to each Purchaser in cash.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Gilman & Ciocia Inc), Investor Purchase Agreement (Gilman & Ciocia Inc)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, at At any time and from time to time during such periods when a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all after the date of this Agreement, holders of at least 25% of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, that the Company register, then outstanding may request registration under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, Act of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated by on Form S-1 or any successor form thereto (each a “Long-Form Registration”). Each request for a Long-Form Registration shall specify the Investorapproximate number of Registrable Securities required to be registered. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)such request, the Company shall promptly (and but in no event later than five (5) days following receipt thereof) deliver notice of such request to all other holders of Registrable Securities who shall then have fifteen (15) days from the date such notice is given to notify the Company in writing of their desire to be included in such registration. The Company shall cause a Registration Statement on Form S-1 (or any event successor form) to be filed within thirty (30) days of after the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SEC, initial request is given and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause such Registration Statement 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 Commission as soon as practicable thereafter. The Company shall not be required to effect a Long-Form Registration more than two (2) times under this Agreement; provided, that a Registration Statement shall not count as a Long-Form Registration requested under Section 2(a) unless and as shall be reasonably acceptable until it has become effective and the holders requesting such registration are able to register and sell all of the Investor registering Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution (which may requested to be by an underwritten offering), of the total number of Registrable Securities specified by the Holders included 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 availableregistration.
(Bb) The Company shall use reasonable its best efforts to keep each Demand qualify and remain qualified to register securities under the Securities Act pursuant to a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously effective and usable on Form S-3 or any successor form thereto. At such time as the Company shall have qualified for the resale use of a Registration Statement on Form S-3, the holders of Registrable Securities shall have the right to request an unlimited number of registrations of the Registrable Securities covered thereby on Form S-3 or any similar short-form registration (each a “Short-Form Registration” and, together with each Long-Form Registration, a “Demand Registration”). Each request for a period Short-Form Registration shall specify the approximate number of one hundred eighty Registrable Securities requested to be registered. Upon receipt of any such request, the Company shall promptly (180but in no event later than five (5) days following receipt thereof) deliver notice of such request to all other holders of Registrable Securities who shall then have fifteen (15) days from the date such notice is given to notify the Company in writing of their desire to be included in such registration. The Company shall cause a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or any successor form) to be filed within thirty (30) days after the date on which the SEC declares initial request is given and shall use its best efforts to cause such Demand Registration Statement effective, as such period may to 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 declared effective by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration StatementCommission as soon as practicable thereafter.
(Cc) The Company shall not be obligated to effect any Demand Registration within ninety (90) days after the effective date of a previous Demand Registration or a previous Piggyback Registration in which holders of Registrable Securities were permitted to register, and actually sold, at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein. The Company may postpone for up to sixty (60) days the filing or effectiveness of a Registration Statement for a Demand Registration if the Company’s Board determines in its reasonable good faith judgment that such Demand Registration would (i) materially interfere with a significant acquisition, corporate organization or other similar transaction involving the Company; (ii) require premature disclosure of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential; or (iii) render the Company unable to comply with requirements under the Securities Act or Exchange Act; provided, however, that in such event the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities initiating such Demand Registration shall be entitled to suspend withdraw such request and, if such request is withdrawn, such Demand Registration shall not count as one of the use permitted Demand Registrations hereunder and the Company shall pay all registration expenses in connection with such registration. The Company may delay a Demand Registration hereunder only once in any period of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(iitwelve (12) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d)consecutive months.
(Dd) For If the avoidance holders of doubtthe Registrable Securities initially requesting a Demand Registration elect to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by their request in an underwritten offering, they shall so advise the rights provided Company as a part of their request made pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii2(a) or Section 2(b), and the Company shall include such information in its notice to the other holders of Registrable Securities. The holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities initially requesting the Demand Registration shall select the investment banking firm or firms to act as the managing underwriter or underwriters in connection with such offering.
(e) The Company shall not include in any Demand Registration any securities which are not Registrable Securities without the prior written consent of the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities initially requesting such registration, which consent shall not be exercisable until unreasonably withheld or delayed. If a Demand Registration involves an underwritten offering and the Effectiveness Deadlinemanaging underwriter of the requested Demand Registration advises the Company and the holders of Registrable Securities in writing that in its opinion the number of shares of Common Stock proposed to be included in the Demand Registration, including all Registrable Securities and all other shares of Common Stock proposed to be included in such underwritten offering, exceeds the number of shares of Common Stock which can be sold in such underwritten offering and/or the number of shares of Common Stock proposed to be included in such registration would adversely affect the price per share of the Registrable Securities proposed to be sold in such underwritten offering, the Company shall include in such Demand Registration (i) first, the number of shares of Common Stock that the holders of Registrable Securities propose to sell, and (ii) second, the number of shares of Common Stock proposed to be included therein by any other Persons (including shares of Common Stock to be sold for the account of the Company and/or other holders of Common Stock) allocated among such Persons in such manner as they may agree. If the managing underwriter determines that less than all of the Registrable Securities proposed to be sold can be included in such offering, then the Registrable Securities that are included in such offering shall be allocated pro rata among the respective holders thereof on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities owned by each such holder.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Computer Vision Systems Laboratories Corp.), Registration Rights Agreement (Computer Vision Systems Laboratories Corp.)
Demand Registration. At any time following the last day of the Initial Restricted Period (A“Initial Restriction Expiration Date”), any Holder or Holders holding an aggregate of not less than 50% of the then outstanding Registrable Securities (“Initial Holders”) The Investor shall have the rightmay request, by written notice (the a “Demand NoticeDemand”) given to ETE, specifying 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 desired to be sold (which shall not be less than 10% of the Holders Registrable Securities, and which may not exceed the limits set forth in such Demand Notice Section 3.01 during the Final Restricted Period), that ETE prepare and file a registration statement under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration Statement”) to permit the public resale of Registrable Securities either (a) in an Underwritten Offering or (b) from time to time as permitted by Rule 415 under the Securities Act (either, a “Demand Registration”). If Promptly upon receipt of a Demand, ETE shall give written notice thereof to all other Holders. All such Holders who notify ETE in writing within fifteen (15) days after the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends date of such notice that they desire 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 include Registrable Securities in such underwritten offering. Any the Demand Registration Statement may, at shall be permitted to do so. ETE shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause a Demand Registration Statement to become effective no later than 180 days after the request date 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. A Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii2.01(a) shall be on such appropriate registration form of the Commission as shall be selected by ETE; provided, however, that if a prospectus or a prospectus supplement will be used in connection with the marketing of an Underwritten Offering from the Demand Registration Statement and the Managing Underwriter selected by the Selling Holders at any time shall notify ETE in writing that, in the sole judgment of such Managing Underwriter, inclusion of detailed information to be used in such prospectus or prospectus supplement is of material importance to the success of the Underwritten Offering of such Registrable Securities, ETE shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to include such information in such a prospectus or prospectus supplement. In the case of a shelf registration, ETE will cause a Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 2.01(a) to be continuously effective and usable for under the resale of the Securities Act until all Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from by the date on which Demand Registration Statement have been distributed in the SEC declares manner set forth and as contemplated in the Demand Registration Statement or there are no longer any Registrable Securities outstanding covered by such Demand Registration Statement (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Demand Registration Statement when declared effective (including the documents incorporated therein by reference) will comply as to form with all applicable requirements of the Securities Act 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. As soon as practicable following the date a Demand Registration Statement becomes effective, as but in any event within two Business Days after such period may be extended date, ETE shall provide the Selling Holders with written notice thereof. ETE is obligated to effect only three (3) Demand Registrations 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement2.01.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Unitholder Rights and Restrictions Agreement (Energy Transfer Equity, L.P.), Unitholder Rights and Restrictions Agreement (Enterprise GP Holdings L.P.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by Upon written notice (the a “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, at any time and from time to time during such periods when on one occasion by Holders owning a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all majority of the Investor’s then outstanding Registrable Securities on or after the date that is or are not existing and effective120 days after the date of this Agreement, that the Company registershall file a registration statement covering the sale or distribution by the Holders, under and in accordance with the provisions on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 of the Securities Act, all including without limitation, by way of underwritten offering, block sale or any portion other distribution plan designated by the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities designated from time to time, of all of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered in the Demand Notice on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case such registration shall be on another appropriate form and shall provide for the registration of such Registrable Securities for resale by such Holders in accordance with any reasonable method of distribution elected by the Investor. Upon receipt Holders) (the “Demand Shelf Registration”) within 30 days after the date of a the Demand Notice from and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Shelf Registration to be declared effective by the Investor Commission as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event within 90 days after the date such Shelf Registration is filed.
(b) Once declared effective, the Company shall, subject to Section 9(j), use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Demand Shelf Registration to be continuously effective until the earlier of (i) such time as there are no longer any Registrable Securities or (ii) such as all Registrable Securities can be resold without restriction as to volume in any and all three month periods under Rule 144 (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(c) If any Shelf Registration ceases to be effective under the Securities Act for any reason at any time during the Effectiveness Period, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to promptly cause such Shelf Registration to again become effective under the Securities Act (including obtaining the prompt withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of such Shelf Registration), and in any event shall use its reasonable best efforts to, within 30 days of such cessation of effectiveness, amend such Shelf Registration in a manner reasonably expected to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of such Shelf Registration or (ii) at the option of the Company, file an additional registration statement (a “Subsequent Shelf Registration”) for an offering to be made on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to this Rule 415 of the Securities Act registering the resale from time to time by Holders thereof of all securities that are Registrable Securities as of the time of such filing. If a Subsequent Shelf Registration is filed, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to (x) cause such Subsequent Shelf Registration to become effective under the Securities Act as promptly as is reasonably practicable after such filing, but in no event later than the date that is 90 days after such Subsequent Shelf Registration is filed and (y) keep such Subsequent Shelf Registration (or another Subsequent Shelf Registration) continuously effective until the end of the Effectiveness Period. Any such Subsequent Shelf Registration shall be a Registration Statement on Form S-3 to the extent that the Company is eligible to use such form. Otherwise, such Subsequent Shelf Registration shall be on another appropriate form and shall provide for the registration of such Registrable Securities for resale by such Holders in accordance with any reasonable method of distribution elected by the Holders.
(d) The Company shall supplement and amend any Shelf Registration if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used by the Company for such Shelf Registration if required by the Securities Act or as reasonably requested by the Holders covered by such Shelf Registration.
(e) If a person becomes a Holder of Registrable Securities after the Shelf Registration becomes effective under the Securities Act, the Company shall, as promptly as is reasonably practicable following delivery of written notice to the Company of such person becoming a Holder and requesting for its name to be included as a selling securityholder in the prospectus related to the Shelf Registration (a “Subsequent Holder Notice”), and in any event within 15 days after such date:
(i) if required and permitted by applicable law, file with the Commission a supplement to the related prospectus or a post-effective amendment to the Shelf Registration and any necessary supplement or amendment to any document incorporated therein by reference and file any other required document with the Commission so that such Holder is named as a selling securityholder in a Shelf Registration and the related prospectus in such a manner as to permit such Holder to deliver a prospectus to purchasers of the Registrable Securities in accordance with applicable law; provided, however, that if a post-effective amendment is required by the rules and regulations of the Commission in order to permit resales by such Holder, the Company shall not be required to file more than one post-effective amendment or a supplement to the related prospectus for such purpose in any 60-day period;
(ii) if, pursuant to Section 3.12(a)(ii5(e)(i), the Company shall promptly (and in any event within thirty (30) days of have filed a post-effective amendment to the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SECShelf Registration, and the Company shall thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to cause such post-effective amendment to be declared become effective under the Securities Act as promptly as is reasonably practicable, a registration statement on the appropriate form for the registration and sale as shall be selected but in any event by the date that is 60 days after the date such post-effective amendment is required by this Section 5(e) to be filed; and
(iii) the Company and shall notify such Holder as promptly as is reasonably practicable after the effectiveness under the Securities Act of any post-effective amendment filed pursuant to clause (i) above.
(f) If a Demand Notice delivered in accordance with Section 5(a) specifies that the sale of the Registrable Securities is intended to be conducted through an underwritten offering, the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Notice shall have the right to select the managing underwriter or underwriters to administer the offering; provided, however, that such managing underwriter or underwriters shall be reasonably acceptable to the Investor registering Company. The Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Demand Notice and the Company shall enter into an underwriting agreement in such customary form as shall have been negotiated and agreed to by the Company with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting.
(g) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 5, if the managing underwriter or underwriters of a proposed underwritten offering of the Registrable Securities advise the Board of Directors of the Company that in its or their opinion the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Shelf Registration and all other securities proposed to be sold in the offering contemplated thereby exceeds the number which can be sold in such underwritten offering in light of market conditions, the Registrable Securities and such other securities to be included in such underwritten Shelf Registration shall be allocated, (i) first, up to the total number of securities the Holders have requested to be included in such Shelf Registration (pro rata based upon the number of securities that each of them shall have requested to be included in such offering), (ii) second, and only if all the Registrable Securities referred to in clause (i) have been included, up to the total number of securities that the holders of piggyback registration rights have requested to be included in such Shelf Registration (pro rata based upon the number of securities that each of them shall have requested to be included in such Shelf Registration) and (iii) third, and only if all the securities referred to in clause (ii) have been included, the number of securities that the Company and other holders have proposed to include in such Shelf Registration that, in the opinion of the managing underwriter or underwriters can be sold without having such adverse effect. To facilitate the allocation of shares in accordance with the intended method above provisions, the Company or methods the managing underwriters may round the number of distribution (which may be by an underwritten offering), shares allocated to any Holder or other holder to the nearest 100 shares. If any Holder disapproves of the total number terms of Registrable Securities specified any such underwriting, such Holder may elect to withdraw therefrom by the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”). If the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends written notice 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 managing underwriter or underwriters. Any securities excluded or withdrawn from such distribution, including the actions required pursuant to Section 3.12(c). The managing underwriters in any such distribution underwriting shall be acceptable to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in withdrawn from 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 availableregistration.
(Bh) The Company shall use reasonable best efforts In the event any Holder requests to keep each Demand participate in a Shelf Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii5 in connection with a distribution of Registrable Securities to its partners or members, the Shelf Registration shall in the event such distribution and subsequent resale is permitted by applicable law provide for resale by such partners or members, if requested by such Holder.
(i) continuously effective and usable for The Investors shall have the resale right to have any registration initiated by them under Section 5(a) terminated or withdrawn prior to the effectiveness thereof; provided, however, that the Investors shall pay all Selling Expenses incurred by them in connection therewith and, unless such termination or withdrawal was effected by the Investors primarily as a result of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from Company taking, or failing to take, any action that would be reasonably expected to cause the date on which the SEC declares Investors to effect such Demand Registration Statement effective, as such period may be extended pursuant to termination or withdrawal under this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B5(i). The time period for which , shall promptly reimburse to the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended Expenses incurred by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods Company in connection therewith. If the Investors cause a registration to be terminated or withdrawn in accordance with this Section 5(i), they shall again be entitled to exercise their demand rights pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d5(a).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Investor Rights Agreement (Thestreet Com), Investor Rights Agreement (TCV Vi L P)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor Any Holder(s) of Registrable Securities (the “Initiating Holder”) shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given right 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, request that the Company registerfile a Registration Statement, under and on behalf of itself or, in accordance the case of any member of the Shareholder Group, on behalf of any other member of the Shareholder Group, with the provisions of SEC on the Securities Act, appropriate registration form for all or any portion part of the Registrable Securities designated held by such Initiating Holder, by delivering a written request thereof to the InvestorCompany specifying the number of shares of Registrable Securities such Initiating Holder wishes to register (a “Demand Registration”); provided, however, that the anticipated aggregate number of Company Ordinary Shares subject to such Demand Registration exceeds 2% of the total issued and outstanding Company Shares. Upon The Company shall (i) within five (5) Business Days of the receipt of a Demand Notice from Registration, give written notice of such Demand Registration to all Holders of Registrable Securities, (ii) use its reasonable best efforts to prepare and file the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii), the Company shall promptly (and Registration Statement as expeditiously as possible but in any event within thirty (30) 45 days of the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SECrequest, and the Company shall thereafter (iii) use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared become 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 respect of each Demand Registration in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution set forth in the written request delivered by the Initiating Holder; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to cause such Registration Statement to become effective prior to the Listing Date. The Company shall include in such Registration all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company receives, within the five (which may be 5) Business Days immediately following the receipt by an underwritten offering)the Holder(s) of such notice from the Company, of a request for inclusion in the total number Registration from the Holder(s) thereof. Each such request from a Holder of Registrable Securities specified for inclusion in the Registration shall also specify the aggregate amount of Registrable Securities proposed to be Registered. The Initiating Holder may request that the Registration Statement be on any appropriate form, including Form F-4 in the case of an Exchange Offer or a Shelf Registration Statement, and the Company shall effect the Registration on the form so requested.
(b) The Holder(s) may collectively make a total of six (6) Demand Registration requests pursuant to Section 2.01(a) (including any exercise of rights to Demand Registration transferred pursuant to Section 3.08); provided that the Holder(s) may not make more than two (2) Demand Registration requests in any 365-day period.
(c) The Company shall be deemed to have effected a Registration for purposes of this Section 2.01 if the Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC or becomes effective upon filing with the SEC and remains effective until the earlier of (i) the date when all Registrable Securities thereunder have been Sold and (ii) 60 days from the effective date of the Registration Statement (or from the date the applicable Prospectus is filed with the SEC if the Company is satisfying a request for a Demand Registration by filing a Prospectus under an effective Shelf Registration Statement) (the “Registration Period”). No Registration shall be deemed to have been effective if the conditions to closing specified in the underwriting agreement or dealer manager agreement, if any, entered into in connection with such Registration are not satisfied by reason of a wrongful act, misrepresentation or breach of such applicable underwriting agreement or dealer manager agreement by the Company. If during the Registration Period, such Registration is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other Governmental Entity or the need to update or supplement the Registration Statement, the Registration Period shall be extended on a day-for-day basis for any period in which the Holders in are unable to complete an offering as a result of such Demand Notice stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other Governmental Entity.
(d) With respect to any Registration Statement, whether filed or to be filed pursuant to this Agreement, if the Company shall reasonably determine, upon the advice of legal counsel, that maintaining the effectiveness of such Registration Statement or filing an amendment or supplement thereto (or, if no Registration Statement has yet been filed, filing such a Registration Statement) would require the public disclosure of material nonpublic information concerning any transaction or negotiations involving the Company or any of its consolidated Subsidiaries that would materially interfere with such transaction or negotiations (a “Disadvantageous Condition”), the Company may, for the shortest period reasonably practicable, and in any event for not more than 60 consecutive calendar days (a “Blackout Period”), notify the Holders whose offers and Sales of Registrable Securities are covered (or to be covered) by such Registration Statement (a “Blackout Notice”) that such Registration Statement is unavailable for use (or will not be filed as requested). Upon the receipt of any such Blackout Notice, the Holders shall forthwith discontinue use of the Prospectus contained in any effective Registration Statement; provided, that, if at the time of receipt of such Blackout Notice any Holder shall have Sold its Registrable Securities (or have signed a firm commitment underwriting agreement with respect to the purchase of such shares) and the Disadvantageous Condition is not of a nature that would require a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement, then the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to take such action as to eliminate any restriction imposed by federal securities laws on the timely delivery of such Registrable Securities. When any Disadvantageous Condition as to which a Blackout Notice has been previously delivered shall cease to exist, the Company shall as promptly as reasonably practicable notify the Holders and take such actions in respect of such Registration Statement as are otherwise required by this Agreement. The effectiveness period for any Demand Registration Statement”)for which the Company has given notice of a Blackout Period shall be increased by the length of time of such Blackout Period. In connection with the Company’s Registration obligation under this Section 2.01 and Section 2.03, Section 2.04 and Section 2.05, the Company shall not impose, in any 365-day period, Blackout Periods more than twice, and any such Blackout Periods may not last, in the aggregate, in excess of 90 calendar days during such 365-day period. If the Investor registering Company declares a Blackout Period with respect to a Demand Registration for a Registration Statement that has not yet been declared effective, (i) the Holders may by notice to the Company withdraw the related Demand Registration request without such Demand Registration request counting against the number of Demand Registration requests permitted to be made under Section 2.01(b) and (ii) the Holders shall not be responsible for any of the Company’s related Registration Expenses.
(e) If the Initiating Holder so indicates at the time of its request pursuant to Section 2.01(a), such offering of Registrable Securities shall be in the form of an Underwritten Offering or an Exchange Offer, and the Company shall include such information in the written notice to the Holders required under Section 2.01(a). In the event that the Initiating Holder intends to distribute any Sell the Registrable Securities by means of an Underwritten Offering or Exchange Offer, the right of any Holder to include Registrable Securities in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Holder’s participation in such Underwritten Offering or Exchange Offer and the inclusion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in the Underwritten Offering or the Exchange Offer to the extent provided herein. The Holders of a majority of the outstanding Registrable Securities being included in any Underwritten Offering or Exchange Offer shall select the underwriter(s) in the case of an Underwritten Offering or the dealer manager(s) in the case of an Exchange Offer; provided that such underwriter(s) or dealer manager(s) are reasonably acceptable to the Company.
(f) If the managing underwriter or underwriters of a proposed Underwritten Offering of Registrable Securities included in a Registration pursuant to this Section 2.01 inform(s) in writing the Holders participating in such Registration, with a copy of such writing provided to the Company, that, in its or their opinion, the number of securities requested to be included in such Registration exceeds the number that can be Sold in such offering without being likely to have a significant adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of the securities offered or the market for the securities offered, the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such Registration shall be reduced to the maximum number recommended by the managing underwriter or underwriter and allocated pro rata among the Holders, including the Initiating Holder, in proportion to the number of Registrable Securities each Holder has requested to be included in such Registration; provided, that the Initiating Holder may notify the Company in writing that the Registration Statement shall be abandoned or withdrawn, in which event the Company shall abandon or withdraw such Registration Statement. In the event the Initiating Holder notifies the Company that such Registration Statement shall be abandoned or withdrawn, such Holder shall not be deemed to have requested a Demand Registration pursuant to Section 2.01(a), and the Company shall not be deemed to have effected a Demand Registration pursuant to Section 2.01(b). If the amount of Registrable Securities to be underwritten offeringhas not been limited in accordance with the first sentence of this Section 2.01(f), it shall promptly so advise the Company and the holders of Company shall take all reasonable steps to facilitate Shares or, if the Registrable Securities include securities other than Company Shares, the holders of securities of the same class of those securities included in the Registrable Securities, in each case, other than the Holders (“Other Holders”), may include such distribution, including securities for their own account or for the actions required pursuant to Section 3.12(c). The managing underwriters account of Other Holders in any such distribution shall be acceptable Registration if the underwriter(s) so agree and to the Investor registering Registrable Securities extent that, in the opinion of such underwritten offering. Any Demand Registration Statement mayunderwriter(s), at the request inclusion of such additional amount will not adversely affect 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 offering of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from the date on which the SEC declares included in 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration StatementRegistration.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Terex Corp), Stock and Asset Purchase Agreement (Terex Corp)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor Following the Lock-Up Period, Management Stockholder shall have the right, subject to the terms of this Agreement, to require Activision to register for offer and sale under the Securities Act all or a portion of the Registrable Securities then owned by Management Stockholder subject to the requirements and limitations in this Section 6.1. In order to exercise such right, Management Stockholder must give written notice to Activision (the a “Demand Notice”) given to requesting that Activision register under the Company, to request, at any time Securities Act the offer and from time to time during such periods when a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all sale of the Investor’s Registrable Securities (i) having a market value on the date the Demand Notice is received (the “Demand Date”) of at least $50 million based on the then prevailing market price, or are not existing and effective, that the Company register, under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, (ii) representing all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated then held by the InvestorManagement Stockholder. Upon receipt of the Demand Notice, Activision shall (i) promptly notify such other Persons as may be entitled to participate in such sale of the receipt of such Demand Notice, (ii) prepare and file with the Commission as soon as practicable and in no event later than 90 days after the Demand Date a Demand Registration Statement relating to the offer and sale of the Applicable Securities on any available form agreed to by the Management Stockholder and Activision for which Activision then qualifies (which may include a “shelf” Registration Statement under Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act solely for use in connection with delayed underwritten offerings under Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act) and (iii) use reasonable efforts to cause such Demand Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as practicable. Activision shall use reasonable efforts to have each Demand Registration Statement remain effective until the earlier of (i) one year (in the case of a shelf Demand Registration Statement) or 60 days (in the case of any other Demand Registration Statement) from the Effective Time of such Registration Statement and (ii) such time as all of the Applicable Securities have been disposed of by the Electing Holders.
(b) Activision shall have the right to postpone (or, if necessary or advisable, withdraw) the filing, or to delay the effectiveness, of a Registration Statement or offers and sales of Applicable Securities registered under a shelf Demand Registration Statement if a majority of the Independent Directors (as defined in Activision’s bylaws) of Activision determines in good faith that the sale of Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement (i) would interfere with any pending financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or other corporate transaction involving Activision or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) would require disclosure of any event or condition that such directors determine would be disadvantageous for Activision to disclose and which Activision is not otherwise required to disclose at such time, or (iii) would otherwise be materially detrimental to Activision and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and furnishes to the Electing Holders a copy of a resolution of such Independent Directors setting forth such determination; provided, however, that no single postponement shall exceed 120 days in the aggregate. Activision shall advise the Electing Holders of any such determination as promptly as practicable.
(c) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 6.1, Activision shall not be obligated to take any action under this Section 6.1:
(i) with respect to more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements relating to underwritten offerings which have become effective and which covered all the Registrable Securities requesting to be included therein; or
(ii) with respect to more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements which have become and remained effective as required by this Agreement in a twenty-four month period.
(d) Activision may include in any registration requested pursuant to Section 6.1(a) hereof other securities for sale for its own account or for the account of another Person, subject to the following sentence. In connection with an underwritten offering, if the managing underwriter advises Activision and the Electing Holders that in its good faith view the number of securities requested to be registered exceeds the maximum number which can be sold in such offering without materially adversely affecting the pricing, timing or likely success of the offering (with respect to any offering, the “Maximum Number”), Activision shall include such Maximum Number in such Registration Statement as follows: (i) first, the Applicable Securities requested to be registered by Management Stockholder, (ii) second, the Applicable Securities requested to be included by any other Electing Holders, if any, (iii) third, any securities proposed to be included by Activision and (iv) fourth, any other securities requested to be included in such Registration Statement. For purposes of this Agreement, an “underwritten offering” shall be an offering pursuant to which securities are sold to a broker-dealer or other financial institution or group thereof for resale by them to investors.
(e) Management Stockholder shall have the right to withdraw his Demand Notice (in which case such Demand Notice shall be deemed never to have been given for purposes of Section 6.1(a) or Section 6.1(c)) (i) at any time prior to the time the Demand Registration Statement has been declared or becomes effective if Management Stockholder reimburses Activision for the reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by it prior to such withdrawal in effecting such Registration, (ii) upon the issuance by the Commission or any court or other governmental agency or authority of a stop order, injunction or other order which prohibits or interferes with such Registration, (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 default by Management Stockholder, or (iv) if Activision exercises any of its rights under Section 6.1(b) of this Agreement. If Management Stockholder withdraws a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)6.1(e) and Activision nevertheless decides to continue with the Registration as to securities other than the Applicable Securities, then Management Stockholder shall be entitled to participate in such Registration pursuant to Section 6.2 hereof, but in such case the Company shall promptly (and in any event within thirty (30) Intended Offering Notice must be given to Management Stockholder at least 10 business days prior to the anticipated filing date of the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SEC, Registration Statement 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 Management Stockholder shall be selected by required to give the Company Piggyback Notice no later than five (5) business days after Activision’s delivery of such Intended Offering Notice.
(f) If any Registration pursuant to this Section 6.1 shall relate to an underwritten offering, Management Stockholder and as Activision shall be select a joint lead managing underwriter reasonably acceptable to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution (other party, 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) consent shall not be exercisable until unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed, and the Effectiveness Deadlineright of any other stockholder to participate therein shall be conditioned upon such stockholder’s participation in the underwriting agreements and arrangements required by this Agreement.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Voting and Lock Up Agreement (Activision Inc /Ny), Voting and Lock Up Agreement (Activision Inc /Ny)
Demand Registration. Subject to the Stockholder’s satisfaction of its obligations under Section 5.25 of the Purchase Agreement with respect to the financial statements then required, from and after the end of the Lock-Up Period, the Stockholder may request in writing (Aa “Request”) The Investor shall have (a) that the right, by written notice Company file a prospectus supplement (the “Demand NoticeTakedown Prospectus Supplement”) given to the Company, to request, at any time and from time to time during such periods when a an effective 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)(iiRule 424 under the Securities Act with respect to the Registrable Securities identified in the Request (a “Takedown Request”) continuously effective and usable or, (b) if such Shelf Registration Statement is not available for the resale of the Registrable Securities, including if for any reason the Company shall be ineligible to maintain or use a Shelf Registration Statement, that the Company register under the Securities covered thereby Act all or part of the Registrable Securities that are Beneficially Owned by the Stockholder or its Affiliates (i) on a Registration Statement on Form S-3 or, (ii) if the Company is not then eligible to file a Form S-3, any other available form (a “Demand Registration”), in each case, including sales or distributions by way of underwritten offering, block trade or other distribution plan designated by the Stockholder. The Stockholder shall be entitled to make no more than three (3) Requests for an underwritten offering in any twelve-month period (it being understood that each underwritten offering (including any underwritten block trade) under this Agreement shall count as a period Request, even if such offering is a Takedown Request conducted pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement and regardless of one hundred eighty whether such offering is publicly marketed before or after the underwriters agree to purchase the Registrable Securities, unless the Stockholder withdraws its request in the circumstances described in the second sentence of Section 5.6), and each such Request shall be to register an amount of Registrable Securities equal to the lesser of (180i) days from an aggregate market value as of the date on which of such Request of at least fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) and (ii) the SEC declares total outstanding Registrable Securities then held by the Stockholder; provided, that any Request pursuant to this clause (ii) shall have a minimum aggregate market value as of the date of such Request of at least twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000). The Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration or Takedown Request during the sixty (60) day period following the effective date of a Registration Statement effective, as such period may be extended pursuant to any other Demand Registration or the closing of any underwritten offering pursuant to a Takedown Request. Each Request 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 5.1(a) shall be extended by in writing and shall specify the aggregate number of days Registrable Securities requested to be registered and the intended method of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to distribution of such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company Registrable Securities. Nothing in this Article 5 shall be entitled to suspend affect, supersede or otherwise modify any of the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances restrictions on Transfer set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) Article 2 or any other provision of this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadlineunderwritten overnight bought deals will count as a Request.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Purchase Agreement (Circor International Inc), Purchase Agreement (Colfax CORP)
Demand Registration. (Ai) The Investor At any time after the Effective Date, any Holder that holds Registrable Securities (the “Initiating Holder”) shall have the option and right, exercisable by delivering a written notice to the Company (the a “Demand Notice”) given ), to require the Company to, pursuant to the Companyterms and subject to the limitations set forth in this Agreement, to request, at any time prepare and from time to time during such periods when file with the Commission a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all registering the offering and sale of the Investor’s number and type of Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, that on the Company register, under and terms set forth in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated by the InvestorDemand Notice (a “Demand Registration”). Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from any Initiating Holder (the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii“Initiating Holder”), the Company shall file with the Commission as promptly (as reasonably practicable a Registration Statement providing for the offer and in any event within thirty (30) days sale of the Registrable Securities identified in such Demand Notice, which Registration Statement may, at the option of the Initiating Holder, be a Registration Statement that provides for the resale of the Registrable Securities from time to time pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof specified in the Demand Notice. The Company shall have the right to elect that any Demand Registration be made pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective as soon as reasonably practicable after the initial filing of the Registration Statement and to remain effective and available for the resale of the Registrable Securities by the Selling Holders named therein for not less than six months following such Registration Statement’s effective date on which or such shorter period when all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold (the “Effectiveness Period”); provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to effect the registration of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2(a) unless at least an aggregate of 1,500,000 Registrable Securities (as adjusted to reflect splits, combinations, dividends and recapitalizations) are offered or the Registrable Securities are offered at an aggregate proposed offering price of not less than $30 million. In the event the Company receives such a Demand Notice) file with Notice from one or more Holders request that satisfies the SECconditions set forth in the immediately preceding sentence, and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective retain such underwriters and bookrunning managers as promptly as practicable, a registration statement on the appropriate form for the registration and sale as shall be selected are mutually agreed by the Company and the Selling Holders in order to permit such Selling Holders to offer and sell the Registrable Securities set forth in the Demand Notice through an Underwritten Offering. The Company and such Selling Holders shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form and take all reasonable actions as are requested by the managing underwriters to facilitate the Underwritten Offering and sale of Registrable Securities therein. No Holder may participate in the Underwritten Offering unless it agrees to sell its Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement on the terms and conditions set forth in the underwriting agreement and completes and delivers all necessary documents and information reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting agreement or as the General Partner may determine is reasonably necessary to effect such Underwritten Offering. Any Holder may withdraw from such Underwritten Offering by notice to the Company and the managing underwriter, provided such notice is delivered prior to the launch of such Underwritten Offering.
(ii) Within five (5) Trading Days of the Company’s receipt of a Demand Notice, the Company shall give written notice of such Demand Notice to all Holders eligible to participate in the Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) (the “Demand Eligible Holders”). and shall, subject to the limitations of this Section 2(a), as promptly as is reasonably practicable, file a Registration Statement covering all of the Registrable Securities that the Demand Eligible Holders shall in writing request (such request to be given to the Company within five (5) Trading Days of receipt of such notice of the Demand Notice given by the Company pursuant to this Section 2(a)(ii)) to be included in such Demand Registration as directed by the Initiating Holder in the Demand Notice.
(iii) Subject to the other limitations contained in this Agreement, the Company is not obligated hereunder to effect more than (A) one (1) Demand Registration on Form S-1 (or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act) in any twelve (12) month period and (B) two (2) Demand Registrations on Form S-3 (or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act) in any twelve (12) month period.
(iv) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2(a), the Company shall not be required to effect a registration or file a Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 2(a), and may suspend the use of an effective Registration Statement: (A) during the period starting with the date that is sixty (60) days prior to the General Partner’s good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on the date that is ninety (90) days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated registration that is approved by the board of directors of the General Partner, provided that the Company is actively employing commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective; (B) for a period of up to ninety (90) days after the date a Demand Notice is received by the Company pursuant to this Section 2(a) if the General Partner determines that the Company’s compliance with its obligations under this Agreement would be detrimental to the Company because such registration would be reasonably likely to (x) materially interfere with a significant acquisition, financing, merger, reorganization or other similar transaction involving the Company or otherwise have a material adverse effect on the Company, (y) require disclosure of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential or (z) render the Company unable to comply with requirements under applicable securities laws (any such period, a “Suspension Period”); provided, however, that in no event shall the Company postpone or defer any Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2(a)(iv) for more than an aggregate of one hundred and eighty (180) days in any twelve (12) month period.
(v) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2(a), in the event that the managing underwriter of an Underwritten Offering advises the Company and the Demand Eligible Holders in writing that, in such managing underwriter’s opinion, the inclusion of all or some Registrable Securities of Demand Eligible Holders in a subject Registration Statement would have a material adverse effect on the timing or success of the Underwritten Offering (including the price received for the securities to be offered in such Underwritten Offering), the total number of Registrable Securities of each Demand Eligible Holder that shall be reasonably acceptable included in such Underwritten Offering shall be reduced on a Pro Rata basis until the total number of Registrable Securities offered in such Underwritten Offering will not, in the opinion of the managing underwriter, have such a material adverse effect. Any Registrable Securities excluded or withdrawn from such Underwritten Offering shall be withdrawn from the registration.
(vi) The Company may include in any such Demand Registration other Company Securities for sale for its own account or for the account of any other Person; provided that if the managing underwriter for the offering determines that the number of Company Securities proposed to be offered in such offering would have a material adverse effect on the timing or success of such offering (including the price received for the securities to be offered in such offering), then the Registrable Securities to be sold by the Demand Eligible Holders shall be included in such registration before any Company Securities proposed to be sold for the account of the Company or any other Person. Any such Registrable Securities to be offered in such offering shall be allocated among the Demand Eligible Holders on a Pro Rata basis.
(vii) Subject to the Investor registering limitations contained in this Agreement, the Company shall effect any Demand Registration on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case such Demand Registration shall be effected on another appropriate form for such purpose pursuant to the Securities Act) and if the Company becomes, and is at the time of its receipt of a Demand Notice, a WKSI, the Demand Registration for any offering and selling of Registrable Securities through a firm commitment underwriting shall be effected pursuant to an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, which shall be on Form S-3 or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act (if available to the Company); provided, however, that if at any time a Registration Statement on Form S-3 is effective and a Holder provides written notice to the Company that it intends to effect an offering of all or part of the Registrable Securities included on such Registration Statement, the Company will amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to enable such offering to take place.
(viii) Without limiting Section 3, in connection with any Demand Registration pursuant to and in accordance with this Section 2(a), the Company shall, (A) promptly prepare and file or cause to be prepared and filed (1) such additional forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents, as may be necessary or advisable to register or qualify the securities subject to such Demand Registration, including under the securities laws of such states as the Demand Eligible Holders shall reasonably request; provided, however, that no such qualification shall be required in any jurisdiction where, as a result thereof, the Company would become subject to general service of process or to taxation or qualification to do business in such jurisdiction solely as a result of registration and (2) such forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents as may be necessary to apply for listing or to list the Registrable Securities subject to such Demand Registration on the Trading Market and (B) do any and all other acts and things that may be necessary or appropriate or reasonably requested by the Demand Eligible Holders to enable such Holders to consummate a public sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof.
(which may be by an underwritten offeringix) In the event a Holder transfers Registrable Securities included on a Registration Statement in accordance with Section 7(e), of the total number of and such Registrable Securities specified by the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”). If the Investor registering remain 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 following 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 maytransfer, at the request of such Holder, the Holders submitting the Demand Notice, Company shall amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be a “shelf” registration necessary in order to enable such transferee to offer and sell such Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 415, if availablesuch Registration Statement.
(Bx) The Company shall use commercially reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant become eligible to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously effective use Form S-3 and, after becoming eligible to use Form S-3, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to remain eligible to use Form S-3, including by timely filing all reports with the Commission and usable for meeting the resale other requirements 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration StatementExchange Act.
(Cxi) The Company shall Whenever an Underwritten Offering has been initiated, each Holder participating in such Underwritten Offering shall, if applicable, cause such Registrable Securities to be entitled to suspend redeemed or exchanged for Class A Shares in accordance with the use terms of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d)HESM Agreement before or substantially concurrently with the sale of such Registrable Securities.
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Hess Midstream LP), Partnership Restructuring Agreement (Hess Midstream Partners LP)
Demand Registration. (Ai) The Investor At any time after the expiration of the Lock-Up Period, any Sponsoring Holder shall have the option and right, exercisable by delivering a written notice to the Company (the a “Demand Notice”) given ), to require the Company to, pursuant to the Companyterms 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 request, at any time and from time Rule 415 pursuant to time during such periods when 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 unless the Registrable Securities of the Sponsoring Holder and its Affiliates to be included therein have an aggregate value, based on the VWAP as of the date of the Demand Notice, of at least $50 million (the “Minimum Amount”).
(ii) Within fifteen Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Notice (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, within forty-five days thereof), the Company 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. The Company shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become and remain effective under the Securities Act until all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(iii) Subject to the other limitations contained in this Agreement, the Company is not obligated hereunder to effect (A) a Demand Registration within 90 days after the closing of any Underwritten Offering, or Shelf (B) a subsequent Demand Registration Statements pursuant to a Demand Notice if a Registration Statement covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities held by the Initiating Holder shall have become and remains effective under the Securities Act and is or are not existing sufficient to permit offers and effective, that sales of the Company register, under number and type of Registrable Securities on the terms and conditions specified in the Demand Notice in accordance with the provisions intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof specified in the Securities ActDemand Notice. No Demand Registration shall be deemed to have occurred for purposes of this Section 2(a)(iii) if the Registration Statement relating thereto does not become effective or is not maintained effective for its entire Effectiveness Period, in which case the Initiating Holder shall be entitled to an additional Demand Registration in lieu thereof.
(iv) A Holder may withdraw all or any portion of the its Registrable Securities designated by included in a Demand Registration from such Demand Registration at any time prior to the Investoreffectiveness of the applicable Registration Statement. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice notice from the Investor pursuant Initiating Holder that the Initiating Holder is withdrawing all of its Registrable Securities from the Demand Registration or a notice from a Holder to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)the effect that the Holder is withdrawing an amount of its Registrable Shares such that the remaining amount of Registrable Shares to be included in the Demand Registration is below the Minimum Amount, the Company shall promptly cease all efforts to secure effectiveness of the applicable Registration Statement. Such registration nonetheless shall be deemed a Demand Registration with respect to the Initiating Holder for purposes of Section 2(a)(iii) unless (A) the Initiating Holder shall have paid or reimbursed the Company for its pro rata share of all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses incurred by the Company in connection with the withdrawn registration of such Registrable Securities (based on the number of securities the Initiating Holder sought to register, as compared to the total number of securities included in such Demand Registration) or (B) the withdrawal is made following the occurrence of a Material Adverse Change or pursuant to the Company’s request for suspension pursuant to Section 3(o).
(v) The Company may include in any event within thirty (30) days of the date on which the Company receives such Demand NoticeRegistration other Company Securities for sale for its own account or for the account of any other Person, subject to Section 3(c)(iii).
(vi) file with Subject to the SEClimitations contained in this Agreement, and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective as promptly as practicable, a effect any Demand Registration on such appropriate registration statement on form of the appropriate form for the registration and sale Commission (A) as shall be selected by the Company and (B) as shall be reasonably acceptable to permit the Investor registering disposition of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution (which may be by an underwritten offering)disposition specified in the Demand Notice; provided that if the Company becomes, and is at the time of its receipt of a Demand Notice, a WKSI, the total number Demand Registration for any offering and selling of Registrable Securities specified shall be effected pursuant to an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, which shall be on Form S-3 or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act (if available to the Company). If at any time a Registration Statement on Form S-3 is effective and a Holder provides written notice to the Company that it intends to effect an offering of all or part of the Registrable Securities included on such Registration Statement, the Company will amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to enable such offering to take place.
(vii) Without limiting Section 3, in connection with any Demand Registration pursuant to and in accordance with this Section 2(a), the Company shall (A) promptly prepare and file or cause to be prepared and filed (1) such additional forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents, as may be necessary or advisable to register or qualify the securities subject to such Demand Registration, including under the securities laws of such jurisdictions as the Holders shall reasonably request; provided, however, that no such qualification shall be required in any jurisdiction where, as a result thereof, the Company would become subject to general service of process or to taxation or qualification to do business in such jurisdiction solely as a result of registration and (2) such forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents as may be necessary to apply for listing or to list the Registrable Securities subject to such Demand Registration on the Trading Market and (B) do any and all other acts and things that may be reasonably necessary or appropriate or reasonably requested by the Holders in to enable the Holders to consummate a public sale of 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 accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof.
(viii) In the event a Holder transfers Registrable Securities included on a Registration Statement mayand such Registrable Securities remain Registrable Securities following such transfer, at the request of such Holder, the Holders submitting the Demand Notice, Company shall amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be a “shelf” registration necessary in order to enable such transferee to offer and sell such Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 415such Registration Statement; provided that in no event shall the Company be required to file a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement unless (A) such Registration Statement includes only Registrable Securities held by the Holder, if available.
Affiliates of the Holder or transferees of the Holder or (B) The the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand has received written consent therefor from a Person for whom Registrable Securities have been registered on (but not yet sold under) such Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously effective and usable for Statement, other than the resale Holder, Affiliates of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period Holder or transferees 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration StatementHolder.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Jagged Peak Energy Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Jagged Peak Energy Inc.)
Demand Registration. If holders of at least twenty-five percent (A25%) The Investor of the outstanding Registrable Securities as of the date of original issuance of the Preferred Stock (the "Requisite Holders") shall have at any time make a written request (a "Demand Registration Request") to the rightCompany in compliance with this Section 2, the Company shall cause to be filed with the Commission a registration statement (a "Demand Registration Statement") under the Securities Act covering all or any part of the Registrable Securities (a "Demand Registration"), as such holders (the "Initiating Holders") shall request in writing; provided that
(i) any request made pursuant to this Section 2(b) by Requisite Holders shall be addressed to the attention of the Secretary of the Company, and shall specify the number of Registrable Securities to be registered (which shall comprise at least 25% of the outstanding Registrable Securities as of date of original issuance of the Preferred Stock; provided however, and notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2b hereof, the holders of any number of Registrable Securities may make a Demand Registration Request for such Registrable Securities where such holders request registration of all of the remaining such Registrable Securities), the intended method of distribution thereof and that the request is for a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2(b);
(ii) As promptly as practicable, but no later than ten (10) days after receipt of a Demand Registration Request, the Company shall give written notice (the “"Demand Exercise Notice”") given of such Demand Registration Request 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 holders 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 InvestorSecurities. Upon receipt of Following a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)Registration Request, the Company shall promptly include in a Demand Registration (x) the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and (y) the Registrable Securities of any other holders of Registrable Securities who shall have made a written request to the Company for inclusion in any event such registration (which request shall specify the maximum number of Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such holder) within thirty (30) days after the receipt of the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file Exercise Notice (together with the SECInitiating Holders, and the "Electing Holders");
(iii) Following receipt of a Demand Registration Request, the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective file the Demand Registration Statement with the Commission as promptly as reasonably 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 use all reasonable steps efforts to facilitate such distribution, including have 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 maydeclared effective under the Securities Act as soon as reasonably practicable, at in each instance giving due regard to the request of the Holders submitting the Demand Notice, be need to conduct due diligence and complete other actions that are reasonably necessary to effect a “shelf” registration pursuant to Rule 415, if available.
(B) The Company registered public offering and shall use all reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand such Registration Statement filed pursuant continuously effective, for up 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 or until such earlier date as of which all the date on which Registrable Securities under the SEC declares such Demand Registration Statement effective, as such period may shall have been disposed of in the manner described in the Registration Statement;
(iv) The Company shall not be extended obligated to effect more than two (2) Demand Registrations by Requisite Holders pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B2(b). The time A right to demand a registration pursuant to this Section 2(b) shall be deemed to have been satisfied upon the earlier of (x) the date as of which all of the Registrable Securities included therein shall have been distributed pursuant to the Registration Statement, and (y) the date as of which such Demand Registration shall have been continuously effective for a 180-day period for which the Company is required to maintain or other period specified in Section 2(b)(iii) following the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
, provided no stop order or similar order, or proceedings for such an order, is thereafter entered or initiated whereupon the 180-day period shall extend for the period which such stop order or similar order or proceedings for such order is in effect (C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective "Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(dPeriod").
(Dv) For If the avoidance Underwriter in connection with any underwritten offering described in this Section 2(b) shall have informed the Company that in its opinion the total number of doubtshares of Common Stock that the holders of the Registrable Securities, and any other Persons desiring to participate in such registration, intend to include in such offering is such as to materially and adversely affect the success and pricing of such offering, then the Company shall include in such Demand Registration (a) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Electing Holders of Registrable Securities; provided that if the number of shares of Common Stock so elected to be included in such registration by all Electing Holders of Registrable Securities exceeds the number recommended by the Underwriter, then the number of Registrable Securities to be so included in such registration will be reduced pro rata in accordance with the number of shares requested to be included by each Electing Holder, to such number recommended by the Underwriter; and (b) if all Registrable Securities so elected to be included by the Electing Holders are so included in such Registration, such additional number of shares of Common Stock that the Company desires to include in such registration and that the Underwriter has informed the Company may be included in such registration without adversely affecting the success and pricing of the offering of all the Registrable Securities so requested to be included therein; and
(vi) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the rights provided Company shall not be obligated to take any action to effect any such Demand Registration, qualification or compliance pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii2(b) shall if: (i) the Board of Directors determines in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment that effecting such Demand Registration at such time would require disclosure of a material fact that would have a material adverse effect on any proposal or plan by the Company or any of its subsidiaries to engage in a significant transaction, then, in which case the Company may defer such Demand Registration for a single period not to exceed ninety (90) days once every twelve (12) months; (ii) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be exercisable until required to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance unless the Effectiveness DeadlineCompany is already subject to service in such jurisdiction and except as may be required by the Securities Act; or (iii) the Board of Directors determines in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment that effecting such Demand Registration at such time would otherwise have a material adverse effect on the Company, then, in such case the Company may defer (the "Deferral") such Demand Registration for a single period not to exceed ninety (90) days once during every twelve (12) months, but only on the condition that a deferral under clause (i) of this Section 2(b)(vi) does not occur during the twelve (12) month period proceeding or following the Deferral; provided, however that notwithstanding the restrictions contained in clauses (i) and (iii) of this Section 2(b)(vi) with respect to the number of deferrals of Demand Registrations in any twelve month period, the Company may defer a Demand Registration for a period not to exceed ninety (90) days at any time when the Board determines, in its reasonable good faith judgment, that a failure so to defer the Demand Registration would be a violation of its fiduciary duties.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (Ibs Interactive Inc), Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (Infonautics Inc)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor At any time following the exercise of the Warrant and prior to the Registration of all of the Warrant Shares, and subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, Capital Research shall have the right, exercisable by making a written notice request (the “Demand Notice”"REGISTRATION REQUEST") 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, demand that the Company register, under and effect the Registration of any Registrable Securities in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act. Upon receipt of the Registration Request, all or any portion the Company shall be obligated to register each of the Registrable Securities designated beneficially owned by Capital Research in the Investormanner set forth in Section 2(b) hereof. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from Any provision herein to the Investor contrary notwithstanding, the right to demand Registration pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)2 shall be limited to one (1) Registration demand. A right to demand Registration hereunder shall be deemed to have been exercised and all of the Company's demand Registration obligations hereunder shall be deemed to be fully satisfied when the registration statement filed on account of such exercise has been declared effective by the Commission.
(b) Following receipt of the Registration Request pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof, the Company shall promptly (and in any event i) file within thirty ninety (3090) 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 under the Act for the registration shares of Common Stock that the Company has been requested to Register; (ii) if the applicable Offering is pursuant to an underwriting agreement, enter into an underwriting agreement in such form as said managing or sole underwriter shall require (which must only contain terms and sale as shall be selected by conditions customary for offerings of equity securities of entities with market capitalizations that are approximately equal to the Company's then current market capitalization and may contain customary provisions requiring the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable Capital Research to indemnify and provide contribution to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method underwriter or methods underwriters of distribution such Offering); and (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.
(Biii) The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant have such registration statement declared effective as promptly as practicable and to this Section 3.12(a)(iiremain effective for at least One Hundred and Twenty (120) continuously effective days. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, Capital Research acknowledges and usable for the resale of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days agrees that there can be no guarantee or warranty 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 or by the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of that any Demand Registration Statement shall such registration statement will ever be extended declared effective by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to Commission, and that the Company makes no such Demand Registration Statementguarantee or warranty in this Agreement or otherwise.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Genetic Vectors Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Genetic Vectors Inc)
Demand Registration. (A1) The Investor At any time after the Employment Commencement Date, and subject to the other provisions of this Section 12, the Executive shall have the right, exercisable by making a written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given request 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, demand that the Company register, under and effect the Registration of any Registrable Securities in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act. The Company shall then comply with Section 12(a)(2) hereof. Any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding, all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated by the Investor. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor right to demand Registration pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)12 shall be limited to one Registration demand per calendar year. A right to demand Registration hereunder shall be deemed to have been exercised and all of the Company's demand Registration obligations hereunder for such calendar year shall be deemed to be fully satisfied when the registration statement filed on account of such exercise has been declared effective by the Commission. If any other executive of the Company exercises his or her right, if any, to demand that the Company effect the Registration of any Registrable Securities, then the Executive shall have the right to Register an equivalent number of Registrable Securities without reducing the number demand Registrations the Executive shall have in any calendar year.
(2) Following receipt of a request pursuant to Section 12(a)(1) hereof, the Company shall promptly (and in any event i) file within thirty ninety (3090) 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 under the Act for the registration and sale as shall be selected by shares of Common Stock that the Company has been requested to Register; (ii) if the applicable Offering is pursuant to an underwriting agreement, enter into an underwriting agreement in such form as said managing or sole underwriter shall require (which must only contain terms and as shall be reasonably acceptable conditions customary for offerings of equity securities of entities with market capitalizations that are approximately equal to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution (which Company's then current market capitalization and 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 contain customary provisions requiring the Company and the Company shall take all reasonable steps Executive to facilitate such distribution, including the actions required pursuant to Section 3.12(c). The managing underwriters in any such distribution shall be acceptable indemnify and provide contribution to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in underwriter or underwriters of 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.
Offering); and (Biii) The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant have such registration statement declared effective as promptly as practicable and to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously remain effective and usable for the resale of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of at least one hundred eighty (180) days days. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the Executive acknowledges and agrees that there can be no guarantee or warranty 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 or by the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of that any Demand Registration Statement shall such registration statement will ever be extended declared effective by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to Commission, and that the Company makes no such Demand Registration Statementguarantee or warranty in this Agreement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Executive Employment Agreement (Regional Capital Management Corp), Executive Employment Agreement (Regional Capital Management Corp)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor At any time after the date hereof, Oaktree may make a written demand for registration under the Securities Act of all or part of their Registrable Securities (a “Demand Registration”); any Demand Registration shall have specify the rightnumber of shares of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold and the intended method(s) of distribution thereof (each stockholder making a Demand Registration is referred to herein individually as a “Demanding Stockholder” and, by written notice (collectively, the “Demand NoticeDemanding Stockholders”) given to the Company). As soon as practicable, 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) 60 days after the receipt of such request, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to file a Registration Statement to effect the registration under the Securities Act of the date on Registrable Securities which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SEC, and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts has been requested 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 register 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”)Demanding Stockholders. 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 Each Registration Statement may, prepared at the request of the Holders submitting the Demand Noticea Demanding Stockholder shall be effected on such form as reasonably requested by such Demanding Stockholder, be including by a “shelf” registration that permits sales on a continuous or delayed basis pursuant to Rule 415415 under the Securities Act on Form S-3 (a “Shelf Registration”) if so requested by such Demanding Stockholder and the Company is then eligible to effect a Shelf Registration. If permitted under the Securities Act, if availablesuch Shelf Registration will be one that is automatically effective upon filing.
(b) If the Demanding Stockholders intend to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by their demand by means of an underwriting, the Demanding Stockholders shall so advise the Company as a part of their demand made pursuant to Section 2.1(a). The Underwriter or Underwriters will be selected by Oaktree. Oaktree shall (together with the Company as provided in Section 2.3(e)) enter into an underwriting agreement, in usual and customary form and reasonably acceptable to Oaktree, with the Underwriter or Underwriters of such offering.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.1, if the Underwriter advises the Company in writing that marketing factors require a limitation of the number of Registrable Securities to be underwritten, then the Company shall so advise all holders of Registrable Securities which would otherwise be underwritten pursuant hereto, and shall allocate the number of Registrable Securities to be underwritten among all Stockholders who have indicated an intention to participate in the underwriting pro rata in accordance with the number of Registrable Securities that each such Stockholder has requested to be included in such Registration, regardless of the number of Registrable Securities held by each such Stockholder (such proportion is referred to herein as “Pro Rata”).
(d) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Agreement, if the Company shall furnish to the Demanding Stockholders a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that, in the good faith judgment of the Board, either (i) the filing, initial effectiveness or continued use of a registration statement would be seriously detrimental to the Company and its stockholders for such registration statement and it is therefore essential to delay the filing or initial effectiveness of, or suspend the use of, such registration statement, or (ii) the filing or initial effectiveness of a Demand Registration, or the continued use of any Registration, at any time would require the Company to make an Adverse Disclosure or would require the inclusion in such registration statement of financial statements that are unavailable to the Company for reasons beyond the Company’s control, the Company shall, upon promptly delivering such a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company to the Stockholders otherwise participating in such Registration, have the right to delay the filing or initial effectiveness of, or suspend the use of, such registration statement for the shortest possible period of time determined in good faith by the Board to be necessary for such purpose. In no event shall the Company be permitted to (A) delay the filing or initial effectiveness of, or suspend the use of, a registration statement pursuant to this Section 2.1(d) for a period in excess of 90 days, or (B) The exercise its rights under this Section 2.1(d) more than once in any 12 month period. In the event the Company exercises its rights under this Section 2.1(d), Oaktree agrees to suspend, immediately upon its receipt of notice referred to above, its use of the prospectus relating to the Registration in connection with any sale or offer to sell Registrable Securities.
(e) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 2.1, the Company shall use not be obligated to effect, or to take any action to effect, any Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1 during the period starting with the date 60 days prior to the Company’s good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date 180 days after the effective date of, a Registration subject to Section 2.2 hereof (including a Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1); provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith its reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand cause such registration statement to become effective.
(f) Demanding Stockholders may elect to withdraw from such offering by giving written notice to the Company and the Underwriter or Underwriters of their request to withdraw prior to the effectiveness of the 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 with 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration. Subject to compliance with the other provisions of this Agreement, the Company (whether on its own determination or as the result of a withdrawal by the Demanding Stockholders) may withdraw a Registration Statement pursuant to a Demand Registration at any time prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.
(C) The . Notwithstanding any such withdrawal, the Company shall be entitled to suspend pay all expenses incurred by the use holders of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth Registrable Securities as provided in Section 3.12(d)2.5.
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (AdvancePierre Foods Holdings, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (AdvancePierre Foods Holdings, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) If at any time after the date of this Agreement the Company receives a request from a Holder of Registrable Securities that the Company file a Registration Statement on Form S-1 covering the resale of the Registrable Securities held by such Holder (a "Demand Notice"), then the Company shall (i) within five (5) days after the date it receives the Demand Notice, give notice thereof to all other Holders and (ii) as soon as reasonably practicable, but in no event later than the Filing Date, file with the Commission a Registration Statement on Form S-1 covering the resale of all Registrable Securities of the Holder that provided the Demand Notice and any additional Registrable Securities requested by the other Holders to be included therein, as specified by each such other Holder within twenty (20) days after such Holder has received notice from the Company pursuant to clause (i); provided that such Registration Statement need not include Registrable Securities already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement The Investor Registration Statement shall be for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement shall contain (except if otherwise required pursuant to written comments received from the Commission upon a review of such Registration Statement) the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as practicable but, in any event, no later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep the Registration Statement effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(b)(i) promulgated under the right, by written notice Securities Act (the “Demand NoticeEffectiveness Period”).
(b) given If for any reason the Commission does not permit all of the Registrable Securities requested by a Holder to be included in the Company, to request, at any time and from time to time during such periods when a Shelf Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2(a), or Shelf for any other reason any such Registrable Securities are not permitted by the Commission to be included on a Registration Statements Statement filed under this Agreement, then the Company shall prepare and file as soon as possible after the date on which such filing may be made, an additional Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities requested by Holder not already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis at the market pursuant to Rule 415 or otherwise as may be acceptable to a Holder whose Registrable Securities were not registered for resale. Each such Registration Statement shall contain (except if otherwise required pursuant to written comments received from the Commission upon a review of such Registration Statement) the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause each such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as possible but, in any event, no later than its Effectiveness Date, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep such Registration Statement effective under the Securities Act during the entire Effectiveness Period.
(c) If: (i) a Registration Statement covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities required to be covered thereby is or are not existing and effective, that filed by the Company register, under and in accordance with the provisions of Commission on or prior to the Securities ActFiling Date (or the applicable filing date if the Registration Statement is not the initial Registration Statement required to be filed under Section 2(a)), (ii) a Registration Statement covering all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated is not declared effective by the Investor. Upon receipt of Commission on or prior to its required Effectiveness Date (it being understood that if the Company shall not have filed a Demand Notice from “final” prospectus for the Investor pursuant to this Registration Statement with the SEC under Rule 424(b) in accordance with Section 3.12(a)(ii2(f) below (whether or not such a prospectus is technically required by such rule), the Company shall promptly not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (ii)), (iii) the Company fails to file a request for the acceleration of the Effectiveness Date of the applicable Registration Statement as required by Section 3(c), (iv) there is a suspension or delisting of the Company’s Common Stock (or the Company fails to timely list all the Registrable Securities) on its principal trading market or exchange, (v) after its Effective Date, other than during an Allowable Grace Period (as defined below), such Registration Statement ceases to be effective and available for use by the Holders as to any Registrable Securities to which it is required to cover at any time prior to the expiration of its Effectiveness Period for up to no more than 3 consecutive Trading Days (or 20 Trading Days in any event within thirty 12 month period in the aggregate) (30) days any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clauses (i)-(iv), on the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (v), the date on which the Company receives Allowable Grace Period or other specified period is exceeded, being referred to as “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights available to the Holders under this Agreement or under applicable law: (x) on each such Demand Notice) file with the SEC, and Event Date the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts pay to cause each Holder an amount in cash, as partial damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.5% of the aggregate Investment Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement; and (y) on each 30-day anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.5% of the aggregate Investment Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. The partial damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the partial damages under this Section 2(d) exceed an amount equal to 20% of the aggregate Investment Amounts.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, in the event the staff of the Commission (the “Staff”) or the Commission requires any Holder seeking to sell securities under a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Agreement to be declared effective specifically identified as promptly an “underwriter” in order to permit such Registration Statement to become effective, and such Holder does not consent to being so named as practicablean underwriter in such Registration Statement, a registration statement on the appropriate form for the registration and sale as shall be selected by then in each such case, 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 reduce the total number of Registrable Securities specified to be registered on behalf of such Holder, until such time as the Staff or the Commission does not require such identification or until such Holder accepts such identification and the manner thereof. Any reduction pursuant to this paragraph will first reduce all Registrable Securities other than those issued pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and in the event of any reduction pursuant to this paragraph, no Holder shall have any claim against the Company as a result of such reduction and any Event or other delay or breach of this Agreement occurring primarily due to such action by the Holders Staff or the Commission and any such relating reduction shall not require the Company to pay any partial damages pursuant to Section 2(d) hereof or otherwise provide the basis for any claim by any Holder against the Company pursuant to the Transaction Documents (it being understood that the foregoing does not constitute a waiver of Section 3.2(f) of the Securities Purchase Agreement by any Holder or the obligations of the Company under this paragraph and elsewhere in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”relation thereto). If In the Investor registering event of any reduction in Registrable Securities intends pursuant to distribute any Registrable Securities by means this paragraph, an affected Holder shall have the right to require, upon delivery of an underwritten offering, it shall promptly so advise a written request to the Company signed by the Holder, the Company to file a registration statement within 30 days of such request (subject to any restrictions imposed by Rule 415 or required by the Staff or the Commission) for re-sale by such Holder in a manner acceptable to such Holder, and the Company shall take following such request cause to be and keep effective such registration statement in the same manner as otherwise contemplated in this Agreement for registration statements hereunder, in each case until such time as: (i) all reasonable steps to facilitate Registrable Securities held by such distribution, including the actions required Holder have been registered pursuant to Section 3.12(c). The managing underwriters an effective Registration Statement in a manner acceptable to such Holder or (ii) the Registrable Securities may be resold by such Holder without restriction (including volume limitations) pursuant to Rule 144(b)(i) of the Securities Act (taking account of any Staff position with respect to “affiliate” status) or (iii) the Holder agrees to be named as an underwriter in any such distribution shall be Registration Statement in a manner acceptable to Holder as to all Registrable Securities held by such Holder and that have not theretofore been included in a Registration Statement under this Agreement (it being understood that the Investor registering special demand right under this sentence may be exercised by a Holder multiple times and with respect to limited amounts of Registrable Securities in order to permit the re-sale thereof by 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 availableHolder as contemplated above).
(Be) The In the event that Form S-1 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii(i) continuously effective and usable for register the resale of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty on another appropriate form reasonably acceptable to the Holders and (180ii) days from undertake to register the date Registrable Securities on which the SEC declares such Demand Registration Statement effective, Form S-1 as soon as such period may be extended pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B). The time period for which form is available, provided that the Company is required shall use reasonable best efforts to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand the Registration Statement shall be extended then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-1 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the aggregate number Commission. In the event the Company becomes eligible to register the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to promptly register the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, provided that the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to maintain the effectiveness of days the Registration Statement(s) then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-3 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the Commission.
(f) By 5:30 p.m. on the Trading Day immediately following the Effective Date of all suspension periods each Registration Statement, the Company shall file with the Commission in accordance with Rule 424 under the Securities Act the final prospectus to be used in connection with sales pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (InsPro Technologies Corp), Registration Rights Agreement (Health Benefits Direct Corp)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor As soon as possible after the date hereof, the Company 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 file a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements with the SEC covering the resale of all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, Securities. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to have the Registration Statement declared effective as soon as practicable. In the event that the Company register, is unable to register for resale under and in accordance with the provisions Rule 415 all of the Registrable Securities Acton the Registration Statement that it has agreed to file pursuant to Section 2(a) due to limits imposed by the SEC?s interpretation of Rule 415, all or any then the Company shall be obligated to include in such Registration Statement (as withdrawn and refiled if necessary to comply with Rule 415) only such limited portion of the Registrable Securities designated as the SEC shall permit. Any exclusion of Registrable Securities shall be made pro rata among the Holders in proportion to the number of Registrable Securities held by such Holders. Any request for acceleration of the InvestorRegistration Statement shall seek effectiveness at 5:00 p.m., New York time, or as soon thereafter as practicable. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii), the The Company shall notify the Holders by facsimile or e-mail as soon as promptly (practicable, and in any event within thirty (30) days of event, prior to 9:00 a.m., New York time, on the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) day after any Registration Statement is declared effective, shall file with the SEC, and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective SEC under Rule 424 a final prospectus as promptly as practicable, a registration statement and in any event, prior to 9:00 a.m., New York time, 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 day after 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 availableis declared effective.
(Bb) The Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand prepare, and, as soon as practicable but in no event later than the Additional Filing Deadline, file with the SEC an Additional Registration Statement filed pursuant on Form S-1 (or Form S-3, if applicable) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities not previously registered in a Registration Statement or a preceding Additional Registration Statement as the case may be. To the extent the SEC does not permit the aforesaid Registrable Securities to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously effective and usable for be registered on an Additional Registration Statement, the Company shall file Additional Registration Statements successively trying to register on each such Additional Registration Statement the maximum number of remaining Registrable Securities until the resale of the remaining Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from have been registered with the date on which SEC. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to have each Additional Registration Statement declared effective by the SEC declares such Demand Registration Statement effectiveas soon as practicable, as such period may but in no event later than the Additional Effectiveness Deadline. By 9:00 a.m. New York time on the business day following the Additional Effective Date, the Company shall file with the SEC in accordance with Rule 424 the final prospectus to be extended used in connection with sales 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Additional Registration Statement.
(Cc) The If a Registration Statement or Additional Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities is not filed with the SEC on or prior to the Filing Deadline or Additional Filing Deadline, respectively, the Company will make pro rata payments to each Holder, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, in an aggregate amount equal to 2% of the Fully Diluted Shares Outstanding for each 30-day period or pro rata for any portion thereof following the Filing Deadline or Additional Filing Deadline for which no Registration Statement or Additional Registration Statement, as the case may be, is filed with respect to the Registrable Securities. If a Registration Statement or Additional Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the SEC prior to the earlier of (i) five (5) business days after the SEC shall have informed the Company that there will be no further comments on the Registration Statement, or the Additional Registration Statement, as the case may be, (ii) the Effective Deadline or (iii) an Additional Effectiveness Deadline (either (i), (ii) or (iii) shall be entitled deemed the ?Effectiveness Deadline?), the Company will make pro rata payments to suspend each Holder, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, in an aggregate amount equal to 2% of the use of Fully Diluted Shares Outstanding for each 30-day period or pro rata for any effective portion thereof following the Effectiveness Deadline for which no Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(iiis declared effective with respect to the Registrable Securities; provided, however, that no such damages shall apply to the extent the delay is caused by any act or omission of the Holder in furnishing information needed to register the shares. Such issuance shall constitute the Holders exclusive remedy for such events, but shall not affect the right of the Holders to seek injunctive relief. Such issuance shall be made to each Holder via delivery of a Common Stock certificate within five (5) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d)business days of such event.
(Dd) For Notwithstanding the avoidance provisions of doubtthis Section 2.1, in no event shall the Company be liable for liquidated damages in the event that the Company is unable to register for resale all of the Registrable Securities on the Registration Statement that it has agreed to file pursuant to Section 2(a) due to limits imposed by the SEC?s interpretation of Rule 415 provided, however, in such event, the rights provided Company shall timely file and obtain effectiveness of an Additional Registration Statement pursuant to this the provisions of Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline2(b).
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (AMBER Ready, Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (AMBER Ready, Inc)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have Following the rightLock-up Release Date, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, if at any time and from time the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to time during such periods when Section 6.01 is not available for the resale of the Registrable Securities, including if for any reason the Company is ineligible to maintain or use a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effectiveStatement, that the Company registershall use reasonable best efforts to (as promptly as reasonably practicable and, in any event, within (i) 45 days in the case of a Registration Statement on Form S-3 or (ii) 60 days in the case of a Registration Statement on Form S-1) following the written request of Sponsor Stockholder for Registration under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, Act of all or any portion part of the Registrable Securities designated by (a “Demand Request”), file a Registration Statement with the Investor. Upon receipt SEC (a “Demand Registration Statement”) with respect to resales of a Demand Notice from the Investor Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii), the Company shall promptly (and in any event within thirty (30) days Sponsor Stockholder’s intended method of the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SECdistribution thereof, and shall, subject to the Company shall thereafter terms of this Article VI, use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Demand Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act (promptly and, in any event, no later than 60 days after such filing) and, if required, to qualify under the “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions as promptly as practicableSponsor Stockholder or any underwriter reasonably requests; provided that such Demand Registration Statement shall be filed on (A) Form S-3, a registration statement on if the Company is then S-3 Eligible, or (B) any other appropriate form under the Securities Act for the registration and sale as shall be selected type of offering contemplated by Sponsor Stockholder, if the Company and as is not then S-3 Eligible. Each Demand Request shall be reasonably acceptable to specify the Investor registering Registrable Securities in accordance with to be Registered, their aggregate amount, and the intended method or methods of distribution (which thereof. Sponsor Stockholder agrees to provide the Company with such information in connection with a Demand Request as may be reasonably requested by an underwritten offering), the Company to ensure that the Demand Registration Statement complies with the requirements of the total number of Registrable Securities specified by Act. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to 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 offeringcontrary, it shall promptly so advise the Company and the Company shall take all reasonable steps only be obligated 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 file and cause up to three Demand Registration Statement filed Statements to be declared effective under the Securities Act within any 365-day period 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement6.02.
(Cb) The Company shall be entitled deemed to suspend have effected a Demand Registration for purposes of this Section 6.02, Section 6.03(a) and Section 6.04(a) if the use of any effective Demand Registration Statement under becomes effective by the SEC and remains effective until the earlier of (i) 90 days after the effective date or (ii) such time as all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold or withdrawn in accordance with this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under 6.02, or if such Registration Statement relates to an Underwritten Offering (as defined below), such longer period as, in the circumstances set forth opinion of outside legal counsel for the underwriter or underwriters, a Prospectus is required by law to be delivered in Section 3.12(d).
connection with sales of Registrable Securities by an underwriter or dealer (D) For the avoidance of doubtapplicable period, the rights “Demand Period” ); provided that (i) if, during the Demand Period, such Registration or the successful completion of the relevant sale is prevented by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court, or a Blackout Period or the need to update or supplement the Registration Statement, the Demand Period shall be extended on a day-for-day basis by the number of days such Registration or successful completion is prevented and (ii) no Demand Registration shall be deemed to have been effective for purposes of Section 6.03(a) and Section 6.04(a) if the conditions to closing specified in the underwriting agreement, if any, entered into in connection with any Underwritten Offering pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall such Demand Registration are not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadlinesatisfied other than by reason of a wrongful act, misrepresentation or breach of such applicable underwriting agreement by Sponsor Stockholder.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Stockholders Agreement (Amentum Holdings, Inc.), Stockholders Agreement (Amazon Holdco Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The At any time following the first Business Day following the Closing Date, each Demand Investor shall have the right, by written notice may request in writing (the a “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 part of the Registrable Securities designated held by such Demand Investor shall be registered under the Securities Act (a “Demand Registration”), to the extent the Company is not then eligible to file a Resale Shelf Registration Statement; provided that the Company shall not be required to comply with this Section 1.9 unless (i) such Demand Investor holds any Registrable Securities and (ii) such Demand Investor (A) is, or within three (3) months prior thereto was, an Affiliate of the Company or (B) such Demand Investor beneficially owns a number of shares of Common Stock issued or issuable to such Demand Investor upon conversion of the Preferred Stock that exceeds 3% of the Company’s outstanding Common Stock (after giving effect to any such conversion). The Company shall effect the registration of all such or such part of Demand Investor Registrable Securities as soon as practicable; provided that (i) the Company shall not be required to effect any registration under this Section 1.9 within a period of ninety (90) days following the effective date of a previous registration for which such Demand Investor had an opportunity to participate, and (ii) this provision shall not apply if a Resale Shelf Registration Statement, as applicable, has been filed pursuant to Section 1.1 and is effective and available for use. The Company shall not be required to effect (x) more than two (2) registrations under this Section 1.9 requested by the applicable Demand Investor; or (y) any offering the anticipated gross proceeds of which shall be less than $300,000,000. Upon receipt of a Any Demand Investor may elect to withdraw from any offering for which such Demand Investor delivered its 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 1.9 by giving written notice 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 underwriter(s) of its request to facilitate such distribution, including the actions required pursuant withdraw prior 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring registration statement filed with the SEC with respect to such Demand Registration. If such Demand Investor withdraws from a proposed offering relating to a Demand Registration, then such Demand Investor shall reimburse the Company for the costs associated with the withdrawn Demand Registration Statement.
(Cin which case such registration shall not count as a Demand Registration provided for in this Section 1.9) or such withdrawn registration shall count as a Demand Registration provided for in this Section 1.9. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 1.9, if the managing underwriter advises the applicable Demand Investor in writing that marketing factors require a limitation on the dollar amount or the number of shares to be underwritten, then the amount of Demand Investor Registrable Securities proposed to be registered shall be reduced appropriately. The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of not register securities for sale for its own account in any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided registration requested pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until 1.9 unless permitted to do so by the Effectiveness Deadlinewritten consent of such Demand Investor.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.), Investment Agreement (Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given Subject to the Company, to requestSection 6.1(b), at any time and from time to time during such periods when time, Sponsor Holdings or SHUSA (the “Requesting Demand Shareholder”) may, in a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all of written notice (a “Demand Notice”) to the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effectiveCompany, request that the Company registerfile a registration statement (a “Demand Registration Statement”) under the Securities Act covering the registration of all or a portion of such Requesting Demand Shareholder’s Registrable Securities, as specified in the Demand Notice. Upon the receipt of such Demand Notice, the Company shall use reasonable efforts to file a Demand Registration Statement providing for the registration under and the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register by such Requesting Demand Shareholders, to the extent necessary to permit the disposition of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the provisions intended methods of distribution thereof specified in such request, and shall use its reasonable efforts to have such Demand Registration Statement declared effective by the Commission as soon as practicable thereafter and to keep such Demand Registration Statement continuously effective for a period of time necessary following the date on which such Demand Registration Statement is declared effective for 60 days or such shorter period which will terminate when all of the Registrable Securities covered by such Demand Registration Statement have been sold pursuant thereto (including, if necessary, by filing with the Commission a post-effective amendment or a supplement to the Demand Registration Statement or the related prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or by filing any other required document or otherwise supplementing or amending the Demand Registration Statement, if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used by the Company for such Demand Registration Statement or by the Securities Act, all any state securities or “blue sky” laws, or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated other rules and regulations thereunder). Within five days after receipt by the Investor. Upon receipt Company of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to in accordance with this Section 3.12(a)(ii6.1(a), the Company shall promptly give written notice of such Demand Notice to all other holders of Registrable Securities.
(and in b) The Company will not be obligated to file any event Demand Registration Statement within thirty (30) 180 days following the completion of the IPO or within 180 days of the effective date on which of a previous Demand Registration Statement. The maximum number of registrations that the Company receives is required to effect in response to Demand Notices given by (i) SHUSA is one and (ii) Sponsor Holdings is four (each, a “Demand Registration Right”). A Demand Registration Statement shall be deemed not to have become effective (and the related registration shall be deemed not to have been effected) unless it has been declared effective by the Commission and remains effective for the period required by Section 6.1(a); provided, however, that if, after it has been declared effective, the offering of any Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand NoticeRegistration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the Commission or any other Governmental Authority (other than any such stop order or injunction issued as a result of the inclusion in such Demand Registration Statement of any information supplied to the Company for inclusion therein by a Requesting Demand Shareholder), such Demand Registration Statement will be deemed not to have become effective.
(c) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, with respect to any Demand Registration, if (A) (i) the Company is planning to prepare and file with a registration statement for a primary offering by the SECCompany of its Securities, or (ii) there is any pending or contemplated material acquisition, corporate reorganization or other material matter involving the Company or there is any pending or contemplated financing by the Company (each, a “Material Transaction”), and (B) the CEO or CFO of the Company notifies in writing each Requesting Demand Shareholder that such officer has reasonably concluded that under such circumstances it would be in the Company’s best interest to postpone the filing of a Demand Registration Statement, then the Company may postpone for up 60 days the filing or the effectiveness (but not the preparation) of a Demand Registration Statement (a “Blackout Period”); provided, that the Company may not on any of the foregoing grounds postpone the filing or effectiveness of Demand Registration Statement more than once during any 12-month period (unless the Requesting Demand Shareholders consent in writing to a longer postponement of the filing or effectiveness of such registration statement). Upon notice by the Company to the Requesting Demand Shareholder of any such determination, the Requesting Demand Shareholder covenants that it shall keep the fact of any such notice strictly confidential, and, in the case of a Blackout Period pursuant to clause (i) above, promptly halt any offer, sale, trading or other Transfer by it or any of its Affiliates of any Registrable Securities for the duration of the Blackout Period set forth in such notice (or until such Blackout Period shall be earlier terminated in writing by the Company) and promptly halt any use, publication, dissemination or distribution of the Demand Registration Statement, each prospectus included therein, and any amendment or supplement thereto by it and any of its Affiliates for the duration of the Blackout Period set forth in such notice (or until such Blackout Period shall be earlier terminated in writing by the Company) and, if so directed by the Company, will deliver to the Company any copies then in the Requesting Demand Shareholder’s possession of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that was in effect at the time of receipt of such notice. After the expiration of any Blackout Period and without further request from any Requesting Demand Shareholder, the Company shall thereafter effect the filing of the Demand Registration Statement and shall use its best reasonable efforts to cause any such Demand Registration Statement to be declared effective as promptly as practicablepracticable unless the Requesting Demand Shareholder shall have, prior to the effective date of such Demand Registration Statement, withdrawn in writing its initial request, in which case such withdrawn request shall not constitute a registration statement on Demand Registration Right for purposes of determining the appropriate form for number of Demand Registration Rights to which Sponsor Holdings or SHUSA is entitled under this Agreement.
(d) If at any time or from time to time any Requesting Demand Shareholder desires to sell Registrable Securities in an Underwritten Offering pursuant to a Demand Registration Statement, the registration managing underwriter and sale as all other underwriters shall be selected by the Company and as Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) if Sponsor Holdings exercises its Demand Registration Rights, Sponsor Holdings shall be reasonably acceptable have the right to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution (which may be by an underwritten offering), select one of the total number joint lead managing underwriters and one of Registrable Securities specified by the Holders in such Demand Notice co-managers and (a “ii) if SHUSA exercises its Demand Registration Statement”). If Rights, SHUSA, shall have the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends right to distribute any Registrable Securities by means select one 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 joint lead 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 and one of the Holders submitting the Demand Notice, be a “shelf” registration pursuant to Rule 415, if availableco-managers.
(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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Shareholder Agreement (Santander Holdings USA, Inc.), Shareholder Agreement (Santander Consumer USA Holdings Inc.)
Demand Registration. (A) The Investor A. Each of the Anchor Investors 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 Anchor Investors’ Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, that the Company register, register under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, Act all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated by the such Anchor Investor. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)Notice, the Company shall promptly (and in any event within thirty ten (3010) Business Days from the date of receipt of such Demand Notice), notify the other Anchor Investor of the receipt of such Demand Notice and allow such other Anchor Investor the opportunity to include Registrable Securities held by such Anchor Investor in the proposed registration by submitting its own Demand Notice. The Company, within 45 days of the date on which the Company receives such earlier Demand Notice) , shall 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 Anchor Investors registering Registrable Securities 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 Anchor Investors registering Registrable Securities intends intend to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offering, it they 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(c3.14(c). The managing underwriters in any such distribution shall be acceptable to selected by the Investor Anchor Investors registering Registrable Securities in such underwritten offeringSecurities. 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) B. The Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii3.14(a)(2) 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)(B3.14(a)(2)(B). The time period for which the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d3.14(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) C. The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii3.14(a)(2) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d3.14(d).
(D) D. For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii3.14(a)(2) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Investment Agreement (Hampton Roads Bankshares Inc), Investment Agreement (Hampton Roads Bankshares Inc)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by Upon written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, provided at any time and after the date hereof from time to time during such periods when a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all any Holder of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, requesting that Nabisco effect the Company register, registration under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, Act of any or all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated held by such Holder, which notice shall specify the Investor. Upon receipt intended method or methods of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)disposition of such Registrable Securities, the Company Nabisco 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 effect the registration under the Securities Act and sale as shall be selected by the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Investor registering applicable state securities laws of such Registrable Securities for disposition in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition stated in such request (including in a Rule 415 Offering, if Nabisco is then eligible to register such Registrable Securities on Form S-3 (or a successor form) for such offering); provided that:
(i) with respect to any registration statement filed, or to be filed, pursuant to this Section 3.01, if Nabisco shall furnish to the Holders of Registrable Securities that have made such request a certified resolution of the Board of Directors of Nabisco (adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors not designated by the Holdings Entities) stating that in the Board of Directors' good faith judgment it would (because of the existence of, or in anticipation of, any acquisition or financing activity, or the unavailability for reasons beyond Nabisco's reasonable control of any required financial statements, or any other event or condition of similar significance to Nabisco) be significantly disadvantageous (a "Disadvantageous Condition") to Nabisco for such a registration statement to be maintained effective, or to be filed and become effective, and setting forth the general reasons for such judgment, Nabisco shall be entitled to cause such registration statement to be withdrawn and the effectiveness of such registration statement terminated, or, in the event no registration statement has yet been filed, shall be entitled not to file any such registration statement, until such Disadvantageous Condition no longer exists (notice of which Nabisco shall promptly deliver to such Holders). Upon receipt of any such notice of a Disadvantageous Condition, such Holders shall promptly discontinue use of the prospectus contained in such registration statement and, if so directed by Nabisco, each such Holder will deliver to Nabisco all copies, other than permanent file copies then in such Holder's possession, of the prospectus then covering such Registrable Securities current at the time of receipt of such notice; provided, that the filing of any such registration statement may not be delayed for a period in excess of six months due to the occurrence of any particular Disadvantageous Condition;
(ii) after any Holdings Ownership Reduction, the Holders of Registrable Securities may collectively exercise their rights under this Section 3.01 on not more than three occasions (it being acknowledged that prior to any Holdings Ownership Reduction, there shall be no limit to the number of occasions on which such Holders (other than any Holdings Transferees and their Affiliates (other than Holdings Entities)) may exercise such rights); and
(iii) the Holders of Registrable Securities shall not have the right to exercise registration rights pursuant to this Section 3.01 in any six-month period following the registration and sale of Registrable Securities effected pursuant to a prior exercise of the registration rights provided in this Section 3.01.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, a registration requested by a Holder of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3.01 shall not be deemed to have been effected (and, therefore, not requested for purposes of paragraph (a) above), (i) unless it has become effective, (ii) if after it has become effective such registration is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court for any reason other than a misrepresentation or an omission by such Holder and, as a result thereof, the Registrable Securities requested to be registered cannot be completely distributed in accordance with the plan of distribution set forth in the related registration statement or (which may be iii) if the conditions to closing specified in the purchase agreement or underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such registration are not satisfied or waived other than by reason of some act or omission by such Holder of Registrable Securities.
(c) In the event that any registration pursuant to this Section 3.01 shall involve, in whole or in part, an underwritten offering), the Holders of a majority of the total Registrable Securities to be registered shall have the right to designate an underwriter or underwriters as the lead or managing underwriters of such underwritten offering and, in connection with each registration pursuant to this Section 3.01, such Holders may select one counsel to represent all such Holders.
(d) Nabisco shall have the right to cause the registration of additional equity securities for sale for the account of any Person (including, without limitation, Nabisco and any existing or former directors, officers or employees of the Nabisco Entities) in any registration of Registrable Securities requested by the Holders pursuant to paragraph (a) above; provided, that if such Holders are advised in writing (with a copy to Nabisco) by a nationally recognized investment banking firm selected by such Holders (which shall be the lead underwriter or a managing underwriter in the case of an underwritten offering) that, in such firm's good faith view, all or a part of such additional equity securities cannot be sold and the inclusion of such additional equity securities in such registration would be likely to have an adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities then contemplated by any Holder, the registration of such additional equity securities or part thereof shall not be permitted. The Holders with respect to the Registrable Securities to be offered may require that any such additional equity securities be included in the offering proposed by such Holders on the same conditions as the Registrable Securities that are included therein. If the number of Registrable Securities specified requested to be included in a registration statement by the Holders thereof exceeds the number which, in the good faith view of such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”). If investment banking firm, can be sold, the Investor registering number shall be allocated pro rata among the requesting Holders on the basis of the relative number of Registrable Securities intends to distribute then held by each such Holder (provided that any Registrable Securities by means number in excess 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 a Holder's 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 reallocated among the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth remaining requesting Holders in Section 3.12(da like manner).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Corporate Agreement (Nabisco Group Holdings Corp), Corporate Agreement (Nabisco Inc)
Demand Registration. At any time after the expiration of any applicable lock-up period agreed to by any Holder with the Managing Underwriter in connection with the IPO (A) The Investor shall have or if such lock-up period is waived by such Managing Underwriter, from and after such earlier date), upon the right, by written notice request (the a “Demand Notice”) given by a Holder or Holders collectively owning at least 250,000 of the then outstanding Registrable Securities, subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 3.04, the Partnership shall file with the Commission, as soon as reasonably practicable, but in no event more than 60 days following the receipt of the Notice, a registration statement under the Securities Act (each, a “Registration Statement”) providing for the resale of the Registrable Securities. Each Registration Statement shall be on (i) Form S-3 providing for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act relating to the Company, to request, at any time offer and sale of securities from time to time during such periods when (a “Shelf Registration Statement Statement”), or Shelf Registration Statements covering all of (ii) if the Investor’s Registrable Securities Partnership is not then eligible to file on Form ▇-▇, ▇▇▇▇ ▇-▇ or are not existing and effective, that the Company register, another form pursuant to any other rule or regulation promulgated under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated successor rule that may be adopted by the InvestorCommission. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii), the Company The Partnership 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 commercially reasonable efforts to cause each Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as promptly soon as practicable, a registration statement on reasonably practicable after the appropriate form initial filing of the Registration Statement. Any Registration Statement shall provide for the registration and sale as shall be selected by the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable resale pursuant to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended any method or combination of methods of distribution (which may be by an underwritten offering), of the total number of Registrable Securities specified legally available and requested by the Holders in of any and all Registrable Securities covered by 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 Partnership shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep cause each Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) 2.01 to be continuously effective effective, supplemented and usable amended to the extent necessary to ensure that it is available for the resale of all Registrable Securities by the Holders until all Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from the date on which the SEC declares by such Demand Registration Statement effective, have ceased to be Registrable Securities (the “Effectiveness Period”). Each Registration Statement when effective (and the documents incorporated therein by reference) shall comply as such period to form in all material respects with all applicable requirements of the Securities Act and shall 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. There shall be no limit on the number of Registration Statements that 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration StatementHolders hereunder.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Lehigh Gas Partners LP), Registration Rights Agreement (Lehigh Gas Partners LP)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor On or prior to each Filing Date, the Company shall have prepare and file with 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 Commission a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering the resale of 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 that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a Demand Notice from the Investor 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(e)) and shall contain (unless otherwise directed by at least 50% 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. Subject to the terms of this Section 3.12(a)(ii)Agreement, 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 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 practicablepossible after the filing thereof, but in any event no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its 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 (i) have been sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a registration statement written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall notify the Holders via e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of such Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) on the Trading Day after the effective date of such Registration Statement, file a final Prospectus to be used in connection with the sale or other disposition of the securities covered thereby, and shall, if requested, provide the Holders with copies of such final Prospectus.
(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 its 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 S-3 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, subject to the provisions of Section 2(e); and subject to the provisions of Section 2(d) with respect to payment of liquidated damages with respect to filing on Form S-3 or other appropriate form form; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall be obligated to use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration and sale as shall be selected by of all of the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Securities Act Rules Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(d), if the Commission or methods any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of distribution Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (which and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission to maximize the number of Registrable Securities to be registered), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:
(i) First, the Company shall reduce or eliminate any securities to be included other than Registrable Securities; and
(ii) Second, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by Shares (applied, in the case that some Shares may be by an underwritten offering)registered, of to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of Registrable Securities specified unregistered Shares held by the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”Holders). If In the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends to distribute any Registrable Securities by means event of an underwritten offeringa reduction hereunder, it shall promptly so advise the Company and the Company shall take all reasonable steps give the Holder at least five (5) Trading Days’ prior written notice along with the calculations as to facilitate such distribution, including ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s allotment. In the actions required pursuant to Section 3.12(c). The managing underwriters in any such distribution shall be acceptable to event the Investor registering Registrable Securities in such underwritten offering. Any Demand Company amends the Initial Registration Statement mayin accordance with the foregoing, at then the request of the Holders submitting the Demand Notice, be a “shelf” registration pursuant to Rule 415, if available.
(B) The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand file with the Commission, as promptly thereafter as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended.
(d) If: (i) the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Initial Registration Statement without affording the Investor the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause as of the Filing Date), (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act within five (5) Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review, (iii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date of the Initial Registration Statement or (iv) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for more than fifteen (15) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of twenty (20) calendar days (which need not be consecutive calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clauses (i) and (iii), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such five (5) Trading Day period is exceeded, and for purpose of clause (iv) the date on which such fifteen (15) or twenty (20) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to the product of 1.0% multiplied by the aggregate Share Purchase Price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Investment Agreement for any Registrable Securities held by such Holder on the Event Date. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to a Holder under this Agreement shall be 10.0% of the aggregate Share Purchase Price paid by such Holder pursuant to the Investment Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(iiin full within seven (7) continuously effective and usable Trading Days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 10.0% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.
(e) If Form S-3 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall (i) register the resale of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty on another appropriate form and (180ii) days from undertake to register the date Registrable Securities on which the SEC declares such Demand Registration Statement effective, Form S-3 as soon as such period may be extended pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B). The time period for which form is available, provided that the Company is required to shall maintain the effectiveness of any Demand the Registration Statement shall be extended then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-3 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration StatementCommission.
(Cf) The Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, in no event shall the Company shall be entitled permitted to suspend name any Holder or affiliate of a Holder as any underwriter without the use prior written consent of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d)such Holder.
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Perspective Therapeutics, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Lantheus Holdings, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor If at any time the Company shall have the right, by receive a written notice request (the a “Demand Notice”) given to from 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, Majority Holders that the Company register, effect the registration under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, Act of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated by specified in 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 StatementRegistration”). If , specifying the Investor registering information set forth under Section 2.4(j), then the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as expeditiously as reasonably practicable, subject to paragraphs (c) and (d) of this Section 2.1, the registration under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities intends for which the Majority Holders have requested registration under this Section 2.1, all to distribute any the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be registered.
(b) At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Majority Holders may revoke such Demand Registration request by means of providing a notice to the Company revoking such request. The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration.
(c) If a Demand Registration is an underwritten offeringprimary registration on behalf of the Company, it shall promptly so and the managing underwriters advise the Company and in writing that in their opinion the number of shares of Common Stock requested to be included in such registration exceeds the number which can be sold in such offering without adversely affecting the marketability of the offering, the Company shall take all reasonable steps will include in such registration (i) first, the number of shares of Common Stock the Company proposes to facilitate sell in such distributionregistration; and (ii) second, including the actions required pursuant to Section 3.12(c). The managing underwriters in any such distribution shall be acceptable to the Investor registering number of Registrable Securities requested to be included 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 2, pro rata among the resale respective holders of such Common Stock or Registrable Securities on the basis of the number of shares requested to be included in such registration. If a Demand Registration is an underwritten secondary registration on behalf of holders of Common Stock who have the contractual right to initiate such a registration, and the managing underwriters advise the Company in writing that in their opinion the number of shares of Common Stock requested to be included in such registration exceeds the number which can be sold in such offering without adversely affecting the Company or the marketability of the offering, the Company will include in such registration (A) first, the number of Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from the date on which the SEC declares requested to be included in such Demand Registration Statement effective, as such period may be extended registration pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B). The time period for which 2, pro rata among the respective holders thereof on the basis of the number of shares requested to be included in such registration; and (B) second, the number of shares of Common Stock the Company is required proposes to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to sell in such Demand Registration Statementregistration.
(Cd) The Company shall be entitled Upon notice to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubtMajority Holders, the rights provided Company may postpone effecting a registration pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall 2.1 for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 120 days in the aggregate (which period may not be exercisable until extended or renewed), if (i) the Effectiveness DeadlineBoard shall determine in good faith that effecting the registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of the Company the preparation of which had then been commenced or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice the Board believes in good faith would not be in the best interests of the Company.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Fifth Street Asset Management Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Fifth Street Asset Management Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Ai) The Investor shall have Until such time as all Registrable Securities cease to be Registrable Securities, the rightCompany agrees to use its reasonable efforts to keep current and effective a shelf Registration Statement, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given and to the Company, file such supplements or amendments to request, at any time and from time to time during such periods when a Shelf Registration Statement as may be necessary or Shelf appropriate in order to keep such shelf Registration Statements covering all Statement continuously effective and useable, for the resale of Registrable Securities under the Securities Act.
(ii) If the Company is no longer eligible to use a shelf Registration Statement, the Company agrees within 30 days of a Holder’s written request to register the resale of a specified amount of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, that (which shall represent at least 5% of the Company register, outstanding Common Stock) under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, all or any portion the Company will file a Registration Statement, on an appropriate form, to register the resale of such Registrable Securities, which Registration Statement will (if specified in the Holder’s notice) contemplate the ability of the Holders to effect an underwritten offering, and will use its reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become or be declared effective, and to file such supplements or amendments to such Registration Statement as may be necessary or appropriate in order to keep such Registration Statement effective and useable, for the resale of Registrable Securities designated by under the Investor. Upon receipt Securities Act, through the completion of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant offering thereof.
(iii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 3.12(a)(ii)Agreement, 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 SECbe entitled, and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts from time to cause to be declared effective as promptly as practicabletime, 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 providing prior written notice to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution (which may be by an underwritten offering)Holders, of the total number of Registrable Securities specified by the to require such 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of the Prospectus included in any effective Registration Statement for resales of Registrable Securities under this any shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 3.12(a)(ii2(a)(i) or to postpone the filing or suspend the use of any Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(a)(ii) for a reasonable period of time not to exceed 60 days in succession (or a longer period of time with the prior written consent of AIG, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld) or two times in any one year period (a “Suspension Period”) if (A) the Board determines in good faith that effecting the registration (or permitting sales under an effective registration) would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of the circumstances set forth Company, (B) the Company is in Section 3.12(d)possession of material non-public information and the Board determines in good faith that the disclosure of such information during the period specified in such notice would be materially detrimental to the Company, or (C) the Company shall determine that it is required to disclose in any such Registration Statement a contemplated financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or other similar transaction or other material event or circumstance affecting the Company or its securities, and the Board determines in good faith that the disclosure of such information at such time would be materially detrimental to the Company or the holders of its equity securities.
(Div) For After the avoidance expiration of doubtany Suspension Period and without any further request from a Holder, the rights Company shall as promptly as reasonably practicable prepare a Registration Statement or post-effective amendment or supplement to the applicable shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus, or any document incorporated therein by reference, or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to purchasers of the Registrable Securities included therein, the Prospectus will not include a material misstatement or omission or be not effective and useable for resale of Registrable Securities.
(v) If at any time or from time to time the Holders desire to sell Registrable Securities representing at least 5% of the outstanding Common Stock in an underwritten offering, the managing underwriter or underwriters for such offering shall be selected by AIG. The Holders will provide the Company with prior notice of any such underwritten offering, such notice to be provided as soon as reasonably practicable after the Holders determine to proceed with such offering. The Company shall use its reasonable efforts to assist such managing underwriter or underwriters in their efforts to sell Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) such Registration Statement and shall not be exercisable until use reasonable efforts to make senior executives with appropriate seniority and expertise reasonably available for “road show” or other presentations during the Effectiveness Deadlinemarketing period.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Transatlantic Holdings Inc), Registration Rights Agreement (Transatlantic Holdings Inc)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice Each Important Shareholder (the “Demand NoticeRequesting Holder”) given to may request registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Company, to request, at any time and from time to time during such periods when a Shelf Registration Statement Securities Act of all or Shelf Registration Statements covering all part of its Registrable Securities. Each request must specify the Investor’s number of Registrable Securities for which registration is requested and the intended method or are not existing and effective, that the Company register, under and in accordance with the provisions methods of the Securities Act, all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated by the Investordistribution thereof. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)such request, the Company shall promptly (but no later than (10) days following receipt thereof) deliver notice of such request to all other Holders, who shall then have fifteen (15) days from the date such notice is given to notify the Company in writing of their desire to be included in such registration (the Requesting Holder and any Holder that delivers such writing to the Company, the “Selling Holders”). The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts, after receipt of such written requests, to file with the SEC at the earliest practicable date, but in any event within not later than (i) sixty (60) days after the receipt of such notice or (ii) if, as of such sixtieth (60th) day, the Company does not have audited financial statements required to be included in the registration statement, thirty (30) days of the date on which after receipt by the Company receives from its independent public accountants of such Demand Notice) file with the SECaudited financial statements, and the Company shall thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective as promptly as practicable, a registration statement on (a “Demand Registration Statement”) relating to all of the appropriate form for the registration and sale as shall be selected by Registrable Securities that the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable has been so requested to register for sale, to the Investor registering Registrable Securities extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof) of the Registrable Securities so registered; provided that the Company shall not be required to file a Demand Registration Statement unless the aggregate offering value of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered by the Selling Holders is at least $10,000,000.
(b) The Company shall not include in any Demand Registration any securities which may are not Registrable Securities without the prior written consent of the Selling Holders holding a majority of the Registrable Securities proposed to be by included in the offering. If the Demand Registration relates to an underwritten offering)public offering and the managing underwriter of such proposed public offering advises the Company and the Selling Holders in writing that, of in its reasonable and good faith opinion, the total number of Registrable Securities specified requested to be included in the Demand Registration (including securities to be sold by the Holders Company or any other security holder) 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 the Company shall include in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”)Registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size, first, the Registrable Securities the Selling Holders propose to register, and second, any securities the Company proposes to register and any securities with respect to which any other security holder has requested registration. If the Investor registering managing underwriter determines that less than all of the Registrable Securities intends proposed to distribute any be sold can be included in such offering, then the Registrable Securities that are included in such offering shall be allocated pro rata among the respective Selling Holders thereof on the basis of Registrable Securities sought to be registered by means of an underwritten offering, it shall promptly so advise the Company and the each Selling Holder. The Company shall take all reasonable steps to facilitate such distribution, including not hereafter enter into any agreement which is inconsistent with the actions required pursuant to rights of priority provided in this Section 3.12(c2.1(b). 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.
(Bc) The Company Each Important Shareholder shall use reasonable best efforts be entitled to keep each an aggregate of three (3) Demand Registration Statement filed Registrations pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii2.1; provided that a Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2.1 shall not be deemed to have been effected for purposes of this Section 2.1(c) continuously unless (i) it has been declared effective by the SEC and usable for the resale all of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from the date on which the SEC declares Selling Holders included in such Demand Registration Statement effectivehave actually been sold thereunder, (ii) it has remained effective for the period set forth in Section 2.5(a) and (iii) the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is not subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC; provided that if a Requesting Holder revokes a Demand Registration pursuant to Section 2.4 hereof, such Demand Registration shall not count as one of the permitted Demand Registration requests; and provided further that, in the event the Requesting Holder revokes a Demand Registration request (which revocation may only be made prior to the Company requesting acceleration of effectiveness of the registration statement) for a reason other than as stated in Section 2.4 hereof, then such period may be extended Demand Registration shall count as having been effected unless the Requesting Holder pays all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked Demand Registration within twenty-one (21) days of written request therefor by the Company.
(d) If after any Demand Registration Statement requested pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B). The time period for which 2.1 becomes effective, such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the Company is required SEC or other governmental agency or court solely due to maintain the effectiveness actions or omissions to act of any the Company, such Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by at the aggregate number sole expense of days the Company and shall not be included as one of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such the Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall Registrations which may be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided requested pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii2.1.
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be exercisable until required to prepare and file (i) more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements in any twelve (12) month period, or (ii) any Demand Registration Statement within one hundred and twenty (120) days following the Effectiveness Deadlinedate of effectiveness of any other Registration Statement.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Investor Rights Agreement (E-House (China) Holdings LTD), Investor Rights Agreement (Leju Holdings LTD)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to requestIf a Purchaser is unable, at any time and from time following the six-month holding period provided in Rule 144, to time during such periods when a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all of the Investor’s sell its Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effectivepursuant to Rule 144, such Purchaser may demand, in writing, that the Company register, under prepare and in accordance file with the provisions Commission a “Shelf” Registration Statement covering the resale of the Securities Act, all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated by (or the Investor. Upon receipt of maximum lesser amount as the Commission allows) for an offering to be made on a Demand Notice from the Investor continuous basis pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)Rule 415. Thereupon, the Company shall as expeditiously as practicable, and in any event on or prior to the Filing Date, use all commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration on the Registration Statement of all Registrable Securities which the Company has been requested to so register. The Registration Statement 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, in which case such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith as the Purchasers may consent) and shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Purchasers) the “Plan of Distribution” substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C.
(b) The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event prior to the Required Effectiveness Date, and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the fifth anniversary of the Effective Date or such earlier date when all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold publicly or may be sold pursuant to Rule 144 (“Effectiveness Period”).
(c) The Company shall notify each Purchaser in writing promptly (and in any event within thirty one Trading Day) after receiving notification from the Commission that the Registration Statement has been declared effective.
(30d) days of As promptly as possible, and in any event no later than the date on which Post-Effective Amendment Filing Deadline, the Company receives such Demand Notice) shall prepare and file with the SEC, and the Commission a Post-Effective Amendment. The Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause the Post-Effective Amendment to be declared effective by the Commission as promptly as practicablepossible after the filing thereof, a registration statement but in any event prior to the fifteenth Trading Day after the Post-Effective Amendment Filing Deadline. The Company shall notify each Purchaser in writing promptly (and in any event within one business day) after receiving notification from the Commission that the Post-Effective Amendment has been declared effective.
(e) Upon the occurrence of any Event (as defined below) and on every monthly anniversary thereof until the appropriate form applicable Event is cured, as partial relief for the registration damages suffered therefrom by the Purchasers (which remedy shall not be exclusive of any other remedies available under this Agreement, at law or in equity), the Company shall pay to each Purchaser an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and sale not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% of the greater of (i) the aggregate purchase price paid by such Purchaser hereunder and (ii) the Market Value of the Shares then outstanding for the first month and 1.0% for each month such event exists or until there are no Registrable Securities issued and outstanding (whichever is earlier), prorated for any partial month. The payments to which a Purchaser shall be selected entitled pursuant to this Section 6.1(e) are referred to herein as “Event Payments”. Any Event Payment may, with the prior written consent of the Purchaser receiving such Event Payment, be paid by the Company and in Common Stock in lieu of cash (in such number of shares as shall be reasonably acceptable is equal to the Investor registering nearest whole number obtained by dividing the dollar value of the Event Payment to be made by the Closing Price on the day such Event Payment is made). Any Event Payments payable pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. In the event the Company fails to make Event Payments in a timely manner, such Event Payments shall bear interest at the rate of 1.5% per month (prorated for partial months) until paid in full. For such purposes, each of the following shall constitute an “Event”:
(i) the Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date or is not declared effective on or prior to the Required Effectiveness Date unless such occurrence is caused by the breach of Purchasers’ obligation to cooperate with the Company;
(ii) a Post-Effective Amendment is not filed on or prior to the Post-Effective Amendment Filing Deadline or is not declared effective on or prior to the fifteenth Trading Day after the Post-Effective Amendment Filing Deadline;
(iii) after the Effective Date, the Registration Statement (or a subsequent Registration Statement filed in replacement thereof) ceases to be effective or is suspended for five or more Trading Days (whether or not consecutive) during the Effectiveness Period (for any reason other than the requirement of the Company to file a Post-Effective Amendment and for such Post-Effective Amendment to be declared effective), except as otherwise permitted by this Agreement;
(iv) after the Effective Date, any Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement are not listed on an Eligible Market;
(v) the Common Stock is not listed or quoted, or is suspended from trading, on an Eligible Market for a period of three Trading Days (which need not be consecutive Trading Days), other than pursuant to Section 6.1(f);
(vi) the Company fails for any reason (other than any Purchaser's actions or omissions to act) to deliver a certificate evidencing any Securities to a Purchaser within three Trading Days after delivery of such certificate is required pursuant to any Transaction Document or the exercise rights of the Purchasers pursuant to the Transaction Documents are otherwise suspended for any reason; or
(vii) the Company fails to have available a sufficient number of authorized but unissued and otherwise unreserved shares of Common Stock available to issue Underlying Shares upon any exercise of the Warrants or, at any time following the Effective Date, any Shares or Underlying Shares are not listed on an Eligible Market.
(f) Following the Effective Date, if (i) there is material non-public information regarding the Company which the Company's Board of Directors (the “Board”) determines, in accordance its good faith judgment in reliance on the advice of counsel, not to be in the Company’s best interest to disclose and which the Company is not otherwise required to disclose, or (ii) there is a significant business opportunity (including, but not limited to, the acquisition or disposition of significant assets (other than in the ordinary course of business) or any merger, consolidation, tender offer or other similar transaction) available to the Company that would require disclosure under the Exchange Act and with respect to which the Board has determined in its good faith judgment in reliance on the advice of counsel that compliance with this Agreement may reasonably be expected to either materially interfere with the intended method Company’s ability to consummate such transaction in a timely fashion or methods of distribution (which require the Company to disclose material, non-public information prior to such time as it would be required to be disclosed, then the Company may be by an underwritten offering), of the total number notice in writing to each holder of Registrable Securities specified by to which a Prospectus relates, require such holder to suspend, for up to 30 days (the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration StatementSuspension Period”). If , the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends use of any Prospectus included in a Registration Statement filed with the Commission pursuant to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offering, it shall promptly so advise this Agreement; provided that the Company and the Company shall take all reasonable steps to facilitate such distributionmay not postpone, including the actions required pursuant to delay or suspend its obligation under this Section 3.12(c). The managing underwriters 6.1(f) more than 2 times in any such distribution shall be acceptable to the Investor registering Registrable Securities twelve-month period and 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 availableno event for more than 45 days in any twelve-month period.
(Bg) The Company shall use reasonable best efforts not, prior to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously effective and usable for the resale Effective Date of the Registrable Registration Statement, prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement relating to an offering for its own account or the account of others under the 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 Act of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statementits equity securities.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Securities Purchase Agreement (International Isotopes Inc), Securities Purchase Agreement (International Isotopes Inc)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, at At any time and from time to time during such periods when a Shelf on or following the Plan Effective Date, any Holder or group of Holders may request in writing (“Demand Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, Request”) that the Company register, effect the registration of all or part of such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities with the Commission under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act. The Company will file a Registration Statement covering such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities requested to be registered, all and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective, as promptly as practicable after receipt of such request, provided that (i) the number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered on such Registration Statement is at least fifteen percent (15%) of the Initial Registrable Securities Number, or any portion (ii) the Registrable Securities requested to be sold by the Holders pursuant to such Registration Statement shall have an anticipated aggregate offering price (before deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of at least $100 million; provided, however, that the Company will not be required to file a Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 3 if:
(A) the Registrable Securities requested to be registered are already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement and such Registration Statement may be utilized for the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities designated requested to be registered;
(B) a Registration Statement shall have previously been initially declared effective by the Investor. Upon receipt Commission within the ninety (90) days preceding the date such Demand Registration Request is made; or
(C) the number of a Demand Notice from the Investor Registration Requests previously made pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii), 3(a) shall be three or more; provided that a Demand Registration Request shall not be considered made for purposes of this clause (C) unless the Company shall promptly (and in any event within thirty (30) days requested Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Commission for at least 75% of the date on amount of Registrable Securities for which registration has been requested.
(b) A Demand Registration Request shall specify (i) the Company receives then-current name and address of such Demand NoticeHolder or Holders, (ii) file with the SEC, and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be declared effective as promptly as practicableregistered, 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 iii) the total number of Registrable Securities specified then beneficially owned by such Holder or Holders and (iv) the intended means of distribution. If at the time the Demand Registration Request is made the Company shall be eligible to use Form S-3 or another appropriate form, the Holder or Holders making such request may specify that the registration be in the form of a Shelf Registration Statement.
(c) The Company may satisfy its obligations under Section 3(a) hereof by amending (to the extent permitted by applicable law) any registration statement previously filed by the Holders Company under the Securities Act, so that such amended registration statement will permit the disposition (in such Demand Notice (accordance with the intended methods of disposition specified as aforesaid) of all of the Registrable Securities for which a “Demand Registration Statement”)demand for registration has been properly made under Section 3(b) hereof. If the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offeringCompany so amends a previously filed registration statement, it will be deemed to have effected a registration for purposes of Section 3(a) hereof; provided that the date such registration statement is amended pursuant to this Section 3(c) shall promptly so advise be the Company and “the first day of effectiveness” of such Registration Statement for purposes of determining the period during which the Registration Statement is required to be maintained effective in accordance with Section 3(e) hereof.
(d) Within ten (10) days after receiving a Demand Registration Request, the Company shall take give written notice of such request to all other Holders of Registrable Securities and shall, subject to the provisions of Section 4(c) in the case of an Underwritten Offering, include in such registration all such Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within fifteen (15) days after the Company’s giving of such notice, provided that such Registrable Securities are not already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement that may be utilized for the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered in the manner so requested.
(e) The Company will use its commercially reasonable steps efforts to facilitate such distributionkeep a Registration Statement that has become effective as contemplated by this Section 3 continuously effective, including and not subject to any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the actions required Commission:
(A) in the case of a Registration Statement other than a Shelf Registration Statement, until all Registrable Securities registered thereunder have been sold pursuant to Section 3.12(c). The managing underwriters such Registration Statement, but in any no event later than ninety (90) days from the Effective Date of 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.Statement; and
(B) in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the earlier of (x) three (3) years following the Effective Date of the Shelf Registration Statement; and (y) the date that all the remaining securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement shall cease to be Registrable Securities; provided, however, that in the event of any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the Commission relating to any Registration Statement, the period during which the Registration Statement shall be required to remain effective will be extended by the number of days during which such stop order, injunction or similar order or requirement is in effect.
(f) The Holder or Holders making a Demand Registration Request may, at any time prior to the Effective Date of the Registration Statement relating to such registration, revoke their request for the Company to effect the registration of all or part of such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities by providing a written notice to the Company. If, pursuant to the preceding sentence, the entire Demand Registration Request is revoked, then, at the option of the Holder or Holders who revoke such request, either (i) such Holder or Holders shall use reimburse the Company for all of its reasonable best efforts and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred in the preparation, filing and processing of the Registration Statement, which out-of-pocket expenses, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include overhead expenses. or (ii) the requested registration that has been revoked will be deemed to keep each Demand have been effected for purposes of Section 3(a)(C).
(g) If a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii3 is a Shelf Registration Statement, then upon the request of one or more Holders, and subject to Section 4(e) continuously effective and usable for hereof, the resale Company shall facilitate a “takedown” of Registrable Securities in the form of an Underwritten Offering, in the manner described in this Agreement, provided that either (i) the number of Registrable Securities included in such “takedown” shall equal at least fifteen percent (15%) of the Initial Registrable Securities Number or (ii) 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 requested to 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 sold by the Holders in such “takedown” shall have an anticipated aggregate number offering price (before deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statementat least $100 million.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement (Vantage Drilling International)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor Company shall use its best efforts to qualify and remain qualified to register securities under the Securities Act pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 or any successor form thereto. At such time as the Company shall have qualified for the use of a Registration Statement on Form S-3, the holder of Registrable Securities shall have the right, right to request an initial registration and thereafter on a quarterly basis after the first Demand Registration shall have been declared effective by written notice the Commission registrations of its Registrable Securities on Form S-3 or any similar short-form registration (the each a “Demand NoticeRegistration”) given ). Each request for a Demand Registration shall specify the approximate number of Registrable Securities requested to the Company, to request, at any time and from time to time during such periods when be registered. The Company shall cause 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 on Form S-3 (or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated by the Investor. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant successor form) to this Section 3.12(a)(ii), the Company shall promptly be filed within ten (and in any event within thirty (3010) days of after the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SEC, initial request is given and the Company shall thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement 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 Commission as soon as practicable thereafter.
(b) The Company and may postpone for up to ninety (90) days the filing or effectiveness of a Registration Statement for a Demand Registration if the Company's Board determines in its reasonable good faith judgment that such Demand Registration would (i) materially interfere with a significant acquisition, corporate organization or other similar transaction involving the Company; (ii) require premature disclosure of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as shall be reasonably acceptable confidential; or (iii) render the Company unable to comply with requirements under the Investor registering Securities Act or Exchange Act.
(c) If the holder of the Registrable Securities in accordance with requesting a Demand Registration elects to distribute the intended method or methods of distribution (which may be by an underwritten offering), of the total number of Registrable Securities specified covered by the Holders its request 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 as a part of their request made pursuant to Section 3.12(c2(a). The holder of the Registrable Securities requesting the Demand Registration shall select the investment banking firm or firms to act as the managing underwriter or underwriters in any connection with such distribution offering; provided, that such selection shall be acceptable subject to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in such underwritten offering. Any Demand Registration Statement may, at the request consent of the Holders submitting the Demand NoticeCompany, which consent shall not be a “shelf” registration pursuant to Rule 415, if availableunreasonably withheld or delayed.
(Bd) The Company shall use reasonable best efforts not grant registration rights to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously effective and usable for the resale any other holder of the Registrable Securities covered thereby Company’s securities for a period of one hundred eighty twelve (18012) days months from the date on which the SEC declares such Demand Registration Statement effective, as such period may be extended pursuant to of this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B)Agreement. The time period for which Nothing contained in this Agreement shall prevent the Company is required from filing a registration statement solely for the Company’s account including without limitation, a registration statement relating to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring employee benefit plan filed on Form S-8 or similar form or, with respect to such Demand Registration Statementany corporate reorganization or other transaction under Rule 145 of the Securities Act, a registration statement on Form S-4 or similar form, or any registration statement relating to the registration of securities issued to raise financing for the Company.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Twinlab Consolidated Holdings, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Capstone Financial Group, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Ai) The If (i) a Shelf Registration Statement has not been filed in accordance with Section 2(a) registering the offer and sale of such Registrable Securities as required in accordance with Section 2(a) or (ii) following the effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement contemplated by Section 2(a), the Company thereafter ceases to have an effective Shelf Registration Statement registering the offer and sale of all Registrable Securities during the Shelf Period (other than during any Suspension Period), subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, at any time after the expiration of the Lock‑Up Period, any Investor Holder shall have the option and right, exercisable by delivering a written notice to the Company (the a “Demand Notice”) given ), to require the Company to, pursuant to the Companyterms 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 request, at any time and from time to time during such periods when Rule 415 on 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 timing and method of disposition thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in no event shall the Company be required to effectuate a Demand Registration unless the Registrable Securities of the Holders to be included therein after compliance with Section 2(b)(ii) (A) represent at least 5% of the total outstanding Common Shares or (B) have an aggregate value of at least $50 million based on the VWAP (the “Minimum Amount”) as of the date of the Demand Notice.
(ii) Within five Business Days (or if the Registration Statement will be a Shelf Registration Statements Statement, within three Business Days) after the receipt of the Demand Notice, the Company shall give written notice of such Demand Notice to all Holders and, within 30 days after receipt of the Demand Notice (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for offer and resale the Registrable Securities on Form S‑3, in which case, within 90 days thereof), shall, subject to the limitations of this Section 2(b), file a Registration Statement in accordance with the terms and conditions of, and the intended timing and method of disposition described in, the Demand Notice, which Registration Statement shall cover all of the Registrable Securities that the Holders shall in writing request to be included in the Demand Registration (such request to be given to the Company within three Business Days after receipt of notice of the applicable Demand Notice given by the Company pursuant to this Section 2(b)(ii)). Each Holder agrees that such Holder shall treat as confidential the receipt of the notice of such Demand Notice, and shall not disclose or use the information contained in such notice without the prior written consent of the Company or until such time as the information contained therein is or becomes available to the public generally other than as a result of disclosure by the Holder in breach of the terms of this Agreement. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become, as soon as reasonably practicable after the filing thereof (but no later than five Business Days after the date the Company is notified by the Commission that the Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review), and remain continuously, effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of (A) 180 days (or the expiration of the Shelf Period if a Shelf Registration Statement is requested) after the Effective Date of such Registration Statement or (B) the date on which all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold or otherwise disposed of or such Shares are no longer Registrable Securities (the “Effectiveness Period”); provided 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 Registration Statement at the request of an underwriter of the Company or the Company pursuant to this Agreement.
(iii) Subject to the other limitations contained in this Agreement, the Company is not obligated hereunder to effect (A) a Demand Registration within 60 days after the closing of any Requested Underwritten Offering, or (B) a subsequent Demand Registration pursuant to a Demand Notice if a Registration Statement covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities held by the Initiating Holder shall have become and remains effective under the Securities Act and is or are not existing sufficient to permit offers and effective, that sales of the Company register, under number and type of Registrable Securities on the terms and conditions specified in the Demand Notice in accordance with the provisions intended timing and method of disposition thereof specified in the Demand Notice. No Demand Registration shall be deemed to have occurred for purposes of this Section 2(b)(iii) if the Registration Statement relating thereto does not become effective or is not maintained effective for its entire Effectiveness Period, in which case the Initiating Holder shall be entitled to an additional Demand Registration in lieu thereof. Further, a Demand Registration shall not constitute a Demand Registration of the Initiating Holder for purposes of this Section 2(b)(iii) if, as a result of Section 2(b)(v), there is included in the Demand Registration less than the lesser of (x) Registrable Securities Act, of the Initiating Holder having a VWAP measured on the Effective Date of the applicable Registration Statement of $50 million and (y) two-thirds of the number of Registrable Securities the Initiating Holder set forth in the applicable Demand Notice.
(iv) A Holder may withdraw all or any portion of the its Registrable Securities designated included in a Demand Registration from such Demand Registration at any time prior to the effectiveness of the applicable Registration Statement by delivering written notice to the InvestorCompany setting forth the number of Registrable Securities that the Holder intends to withdraw from such Demand Registration. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice written notice from the Investor pursuant Initiating Holder that the Initiating Holder is withdrawing all of its Registrable Securities from the Demand Registration or written notice from a Holder to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)the effect that the Holder is withdrawing an amount of its Registrable Securities such that the remaining amount of Registrable Securities to be included in the Demand Registration is below the Minimum Amount, the Company shall promptly cease all efforts to secure effectiveness of the applicable Registration Statement. Such registration nonetheless shall be deemed a Demand Registration with respect to the Initiating Holder for purposes of Section 2(b)(iii) unless (A) the Initiating Holder shall have paid or reimbursed the Company for its pro rata share of all reasonable and documented out‑of‑pocket fees and expenses (including the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of the Company’s counsel) incurred by the Company in connection with the withdrawn registration of such Registrable Securities (based on the number of securities the Initiating Holder sought to register, as compared to the total number of securities included in such Demand Registration) or (B) the withdrawal is made following the occurrence of a Material Adverse Change or the occurrence of a Suspension Period or Blackout Period.
(v) The Company may include in any event within thirty such Demand Registration other Company Securities for sale for its own account or for the account of any other Person, subject to Section 2(b)(v) and Section 2(e)(iii).
(30vi) days In the case of a Demand Registration not being underwritten, if the applicable Initiating Holder advises the Company that in its reasonable opinion the aggregate number of securities requested to be included in such registration exceeds the number that can be included without being likely to have a significant adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of the date on which securities offered or the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with market for the SECsecurities offered, and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause include in such Demand Registration only that number of securities that, in the reasonable opinion of such Initiating Holder, will not have such adverse effect, with such number to be declared effective allocated as promptly as practicablefollows: (A) first, a registration statement pro‑rata among all Holders (including the Initiating Holder) that have requested to participate in such Demand Registration based on the relative number of Registrable Securities then held by each such Holder, (B) second, if there remains availability for additional securities to be included in such Demand Registration, to the Company, and (C) third, if there remains availability for additional securities to be included in such Demand Registration following the allocation provided in clauses (A) and (B) above, to any other holders of Company Securities entitled to participate in such Demand Registration, if applicable, based on the relative number of Company Securities such holder is entitled to include in such Demand Registration.
(vii) Subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, the Company shall effect any Demand Registration on such appropriate registration form for of the registration and sale Commission (A) as shall be selected by the Company and (B) as shall be reasonably acceptable to permit the Investor registering disposition of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution (which may be by an underwritten offering)disposition as reasonably specified in the Demand Notice; provided that if the Company becomes, and is at the time of its receipt of a Demand Notice, a WKSI, the total number Demand Registration for any offering and selling of Registrable Securities specified shall be effected pursuant to an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, which shall be on Form S‑3 (if available to the Company). If at any time a Registration Statement on Form S‑3 is effective and a Holder provides written notice to the Company that it intends to effect an offering of all or part of the Registrable Securities included on such Registration Statement, the Company shall amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to enable such offering to take place.
(viii) Without limiting Section 3, in connection with any Demand Registration pursuant to and in accordance with this Section 2(b), the Company shall (A) promptly prepare and file or cause to be prepared and filed (1) such additional forms, amendments, supplements, Prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents as may be necessary or advisable to register or qualify the Registrable Securities subject to such Demand Registration, including under the securities laws of such jurisdictions as any Investor Holder shall reasonably request; provided that no such qualification shall be required in any jurisdiction where, as a result thereof, the Company would become subject to general service of process or to taxation or qualification to do business in such jurisdiction solely as a result of such registration and (2) such forms, amendments, supplements, Prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents as may be necessary to apply for listing or to list the Registrable Securities subject to such Demand Registration on the Trading Market and (B) do any and all other acts and things that may be reasonably necessary or appropriate or reasonably requested by the Holders in to enable the Holders to consummate a public sale of 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 accordance with the intended timing and method of distribution thereof.
(ix) In the event a Holder transfers Registrable Securities included on a Registration Statement mayand such Registrable Securities remain Registrable Securities following such transfer, at the request of such Holder, the Holders submitting Company shall amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to enable the Demand Notice, be a “shelf” registration transferee of such Registrable Securities to offer and sell such Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 415such Registration Statement; provided that in no event shall the Company be required to file a post‑effective amendment to the Registration Statement unless (A) such Registration Statement includes only Registrable Securities held by the Holder, if available.
Affiliates of the Holder or transferees of the Holder or (B) The the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep has received written consent therefor from each Demand other Holder for whom Registrable Securities have been registered on (but not yet sold under) such Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously effective and usable for Statement, other than the resale Holder, Affiliates of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period Holder or transferees 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration StatementHolder.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (WaterBridge Infrastructure LLC), Registration Rights Agreement (WaterBridge Infrastructure LLC)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given Subject to the Companylimitations contained in this Section 3, to requestat any time following the 30 month anniversary of the date of the closing of the Purchase Agreement, the Investor may 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, request that the Company register, under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, register for sale all or any portion of its Registrable Securities under the Securities Act in connection with an Underwritten Offering by sending the Company a written request setting forth such request and specifying the number of Registrable Securities required to be registered and the intended method of disposition (any such registration being referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”); provided that the minimum number of Registrable Securities to be registered on behalf of the Investor in any Demand Registration must be equal to at least (i) 33.3% of the Registrable Securities designated held 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 (30on an as converted basis) days of on 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”)hereof. 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided Investor’s right to Demand Registration includes, without limitation, the right to require registration of an underwritten public offering of Registrable Securities (an “Underwritten Offering”) or the right to require the filing of a preliminary and final prospectus supplement to the extent that a Shelf Registration Statement is then effective. However, the registration of shares of Common Stock pursuant to any continuous offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act (a “Shelf Offering”) shall be governed by Section 2 hereof.
(b) Subject to the limitations contained in this Section 3, upon the receipt by the Company of a written request for a Demand Registration pursuant to Section 3(a), the Company shall cause a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or, if the Company is not then eligible to register the Shares for resale on Form S-3, on another appropriate form in accordance with the Securities Act) to be filed within sixty (60) days after the date on which the initial request is given (provided, however, that no filing of a Demand Registration shall be made earlier than the 36 month anniversary of the date of the closing of the Purchase Agreement) and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as practicable thereafter covering all of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered in the Demand Registration. The Company shall not be required to effect more than three (3) Demand Registrations pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii3. Any registration initiated as a Demand Registration pursuant to Section 3(a) shall not be exercisable count as a Demand Registration unless and until the Effectiveness DeadlineRegistration Statement with respect to such registration shall have become effective.
(c) The Company shall not be obligated to effect any Demand Registration within one-hundred eighty (180) days after the effective date of a previous Demand Registration or a previous registration in which the Investor was given Piggyback Registration rights. The Company may postpone the filing or effectiveness of a Registration Statement for a Demand Registration (i) for up to ninety (90) days if the Company, in good faith, determines that such Demand Registration would reasonably be expected to result in an Adverse Disclosure or (ii) for up to ninety (90) days, if the Company, in good faith, intends to conduct a primary offering of Common Stock within ninety (90) days of the proposed Demand Registration; provided, that in such event the Investor shall be entitled to withdraw such request and, if such request is withdrawn, such Demand Registration shall not count as one of the permitted Demand Registrations hereunder and the Company shall pay all registration expenses in connection with such registration.
(d) The Investor may withdraw its Registrable Securities from a Demand Registration at any time prior to the effectiveness of the applicable Registration Statement. Upon receipt of notice from the Investor to such effect, the Company shall cease all efforts to secure effectiveness of the applicable Registration Statement and such registration shall nonetheless be deemed a Demand Registration hereunder unless the withdrawal is made after a material adverse change to the Company or after notice of a postponement based on an Adverse Disclosure pursuant to Section 3(c).
(e) In the case of any Demand Registration that relates to an Underwritten Offering, the Investor shall select the investment banking firms as the Investor and Company may mutually agree to act as the managing underwriter or underwriters in connection with such Underwritten Offering.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement (Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Ai) The Investor At any time after the 180th day after the Closing Date, any Holder that holds Registrable Securities (the “Initiating Holder”) shall have the option and right, exercisable by delivering a written notice to the Partnership (the a “Demand Notice”) given ), to require the Partnership to, pursuant to the Companyterms and subject to the limitations set forth in this Agreement, to request, at any time prepare and from time to time during such periods when file with the Commission a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all registering the offering and sale of the Investor’s number and type of Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, that on the Company register, under and terms set forth in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated by the InvestorDemand Notice (a “Demand Registration”). Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from any Initiating Holder (the Investor “Initiating Holder”), the Partnership shall file with the Commission as promptly as reasonably practicable a Registration Statement providing for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities identified in such Demand Notice, which Registration Statement may, at the option of the Initiating Holder, be a Registration Statement that provides for the resale of the Registrable Securities from time to time pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof specified in the Demand Notice. The Partnership shall have the right to elect that any Demand Registration be made pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement. The Partnership shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective as soon as reasonably practicable after the initial filing of the Registration Statement and to remain effective and available for the resale of the Registrable Securities by the Selling Holders named therein for not less than six months following such Registration Statement’s effective date or such shorter period when all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold (the “Effectiveness Period”); provided, however, that the Partnership shall not be required to effect the Registration of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii2(a) unless at least an aggregate of Registrable Securities (as adjusted to reflect splits, combinations, dividends and recapitalizations) are offered or the Registrable Securities are offered at an aggregate proposed offering price of not less than $30 million. In the event the Partnership receives a Demand Notice from one or more Holders request that satisfies the conditions set forth in the immediately preceding sentence, the Partnership shall retain such underwriters and bookrunning managers as are mutually agreed by the Partnership and the Selling Holders in order to permit such Selling Holders to offer and sell the Registrable Securities set forth in the Demand Notice through an Underwritten Offering. The Partnership and such Selling Holders shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form and take all reasonable actions as are requested by the managing underwriters to facilitate the Underwritten Offering and sale of Registrable Securities therein. No Holder may participate in the Underwritten Offering unless it agrees to sell its Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement on the terms and conditions set forth in the underwriting agreement and completes and delivers all necessary documents and information reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting agreement or as the General Partner may determine is reasonably necessary to effect such Underwritten Offering. Any Holder may withdraw from such Underwritten Offering by notice to the Partnership and the managing underwriter, provided such notice is delivered prior to the launch of such Underwritten Offering.
(ii) Within five (5) Trading Days of the Partnership’s receipt of a Demand Notice, the Partnership shall give written notice of such Demand Notice to all Holders eligible to participate in the Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) (the “Demand Eligible Holders”). and shall, subject to the limitations of this Section 2(a), as promptly as is reasonably practicable, file a Registration Statement covering all of the Registrable Securities that the Demand Eligible Holders shall in writing request (such request to be given to the Partnership within five (5) Trading Days of receipt of such notice of the Demand Notice given by the Partnership pursuant to this Section 2(a)(ii)) to be included in such Demand Registration as directed by the Initiating Holder in the Demand Notice.
(iii) Subject to the other limitations contained in this Agreement, the Partnership is not obligated hereunder to effect more than (A) one (1) Demand Registration on Form S-1 (or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act) in any twelve (12) month period and (B) two (2) Demand Registrations on Form S-3 (or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act) in any twelve (12) month period.
(iv) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2(a), the Company Partnership shall promptly not be required to effect a registration or file a Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 2(a), and may suspend the use of an effective Registration Statement: (and in any event within thirty A) during the period starting with the date that is sixty (3060) days prior to the General Partner’s good faith estimate of the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SECof filing of, and ending on the Company shall thereafter use its best date that is ninety (90) days after the effective date of, a Partnership-initiated registration that is approved by the board of directors of the General Partner, provided that the Partnership is actively employing commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective; (B) for a period of up to ninety (90) days after the date a Demand Notice is received by the Partnership pursuant to this Section 2(a) if the General Partner determines that the Partnership’s compliance with its obligations under this Agreement would be detrimental to the Partnership because such registration would be reasonably likely to (x) materially interfere with a significant acquisition, financing, merger, reorganization or other similar transaction involving the Partnership or otherwise have a material adverse effect on the Partnership, (y) require disclosure of material information that the Partnership has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential or (z) render the Partnership unable to comply with requirements under applicable securities laws (any such period, a “Suspension Period”); provided, however, that in no event shall the Partnership postpone or defer any Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2(a)(iv) for more than an aggregate of one hundred and eighty (180) days in any twelve (12) month period.
(v) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2(a), in the event that the managing underwriter of an Underwritten Offering advises the Partnership and the Demand Eligible Holders in writing that, in such managing underwriter’s opinion, the inclusion of all or some Registrable Securities of Demand Eligible Holders in a subject Registration Statement would have a material adverse effect on the timing or success of the Underwritten Offering (including the price received for the securities to be declared effective as promptly as practicableoffered in such Underwritten Offering), the total number of Registrable Securities of each Demand Eligible Holder that shall be included in such Underwritten Offering shall be reduced on a registration statement Pro Rata basis until the total number of Registrable Securities offered in such Underwritten Offering will not, in the opinion of the managing underwriter, have such a material adverse effect. Any Registrable Securities excluded or withdrawn from such Underwritten Offering shall be withdrawn from the registration.
(vi) The Partnership may include in any such Demand Registration other Partnership Securities for sale for its own account or for the account of any other Person; provided that if the managing underwriter for the offering determines that the number of Partnership Securities proposed to be offered in such offering would have a material adverse effect on the timing or success of such offering (including the price received for the securities to be offered in such offering), then the Registrable Securities to be sold by the Demand Eligible Holders shall be included in such registration before any Partnership Securities proposed to be sold for the account of the Partnership or any other Person. Any such Registrable Securities to be offered in such offering shall be allocated among the Demand Eligible Holders on a Pro Rata basis.
(vii) Subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, the Partnership shall effect any Demand Registration on Form S-3 (except if the Partnership is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case such Demand Registration shall be effected on another appropriate form for such purpose pursuant to the Securities Act) and if the Partnership becomes, and is at the time of its receipt of a Demand Notice, a WKSI, the Demand Registration for any offering and selling of Registrable Securities through a firm commitment underwriting shall be effected pursuant to an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, which shall be on Form S-3 or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act (if available to the Partnership); provided, however, that if at any time a Registration Statement on Form S-3 is effective and a Holder provides written notice to the Partnership that it intends to effect an offering of all or part of the Registrable Securities included on such Registration Statement, the Partnership will amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to enable such offering to take place.
(viii) Without limiting Section 3, in connection with any Demand Registration pursuant to and in accordance with this Section 2(a), the Partnership shall, (A) promptly prepare and file or cause to be prepared and filed (1) such additional forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents, as may be necessary or advisable to register or qualify the securities subject to such Demand Registration, including under the securities laws of such states as the Demand Eligible Holders shall reasonably request; provided, however, that no such qualification shall be required in any jurisdiction where, as a result thereof, the Partnership would become subject to general service of process or to taxation or qualification to do business in such jurisdiction solely as a result of registration and sale (2) such forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents as shall may be selected necessary to apply for listing or to list the Registrable Securities subject to such Demand Registration on the Trading Market and (B) do any and all other acts and things that may be necessary or appropriate or reasonably requested by the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable Demand Eligible Holders to the Investor registering enable such Holders to consummate a public sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof.
(which may be by an underwritten offeringix) In the event a Holder transfers Registrable Securities included on a Registration Statement in accordance with Section 7(e), of the total number of and such Registrable Securities specified by the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”). If the Investor registering remain 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 following 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 maytransfer, at the request of such Holder, the Holders submitting the Demand Notice, Partnership shall amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be a “shelf” registration necessary in order to enable such transferee to offer and sell such Registrable Securities 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(Cx) The Company Partnership shall be entitled use commercially reasonable efforts to suspend become eligible to use Form S-3 and, after becoming eligible to use Form S-3, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to remain eligible to use Form S-3, including by timely filing all reports with the use Commission and meeting the other requirements of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d)Exchange Act.
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Hess Midstream Partners LP), Registration Rights Agreement (Hess Midstream Partners LP)
Demand Registration. (Ai) The Investor At any time after the expiration of the Lock-Up Period, any Holder shall have the option and right, exercisable by delivering a written notice to the Company (the a “Demand Notice”) given ), to require the Company to, pursuant to the Companyterms 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 request, at any time and from time Rule 415 pursuant to time during such periods when 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 unless the Registrable Securities to be included therein have an aggregate value, based on the VWAP as of the date of the Demand Notice, of at least $25 million (the “Minimum Amount”).
(ii) Within fifteen Business Days after the receipt of the Demand Notice (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, within forty-five days thereof), the Company 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. The Company shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become and remain effective under the Securities Act until all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold (the “Effectiveness Period”).
(iii) Subject to the other limitations contained in this Agreement, the Company is not obligated hereunder to effect (A) a Demand Registration within 90 days after the closing of any Requested Underwritten Offering or Shelf (B) a subsequent Demand Registration Statements pursuant to a Demand Notice if a Registration Statement covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities held by the Initiating Holder shall have become and remains effective under the Securities Act and is or are not existing sufficient to permit offers and effective, that sales of the Company register, under number and type of Registrable Securities on the terms and conditions specified in the Demand Notice in accordance with the provisions intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof specified in the Securities Act, Demand Notice.
(iv) A Holder may withdraw all or any portion of the its Registrable Securities designated by included in a Demand Registration from such Demand Registration at any time prior to the Investoreffectiveness of the applicable Registration Statement. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice notice from a Holder to the effect that the Holder is withdrawing an amount of its Registrable Shares from the Investor pursuant Demand Registration such that the remaining amount of Registrable Shares to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)be included in the Demand Registration is below the Minimum Amount, the Company shall promptly cease all efforts to secure effectiveness of the applicable Registration Statement.
(and v) The Company may include in any event within thirty (30) days of the date on which the Company receives such Demand NoticeRegistration other Company Securities for sale for its own account or for the account of any other Person, subject to Section 2(c)(iii).
(vi) file with Subject to the SEClimitations contained in this Agreement, and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective as promptly as practicable, a effect any Demand Registration on such appropriate registration statement on form of the appropriate form for the registration and sale Commission (A) as shall be selected by the Company and (B) as shall be reasonably acceptable to permit the Investor registering disposition of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution (which may be by an underwritten offering)disposition specified in the Demand Notice; provided that if the Company becomes, and is at the time of its receipt of a Demand Notice, a WKSI, the total number Demand Registration for any offering and selling of Registrable Securities specified shall be effected pursuant to an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, which shall be on Form S-3 or any equivalent or successor form under the Securities Act (if available to the Company). If at any time a Registration Statement on Form S-3 is effective and a Holder provides written notice to the Company that it intends to effect an offering of all or part of the Registrable Securities included on such Registration Statement, the Company will amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to enable such offering to take place.
(vii) Without limiting Section 3, in connection with any Demand Registration pursuant to and in accordance with this Section 2(a), the Company shall (A) promptly prepare and file or cause to be prepared and filed (1) such additional forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents, as may be necessary or advisable to register or qualify the securities subject to such Demand Registration, including under the securities laws of such jurisdictions as the Holders shall reasonably request; provided, however, that no such qualification shall be required in any jurisdiction where, as a result thereof, the Company would become subject to general service of process or to taxation or qualification to do business in such jurisdiction solely as a result of registration and (2) such forms, amendments, supplements, prospectuses, certificates, letters, opinions and other documents as may be necessary to apply for listing or to list the Registrable Securities subject to such Demand Registration on the Trading Market and (B) do any and all other acts and things that may be reasonably necessary or appropriate or reasonably requested by the Holders in to enable the Holders to consummate a public sale of 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 accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof.
(viii) In the event a Holder transfers Registrable Securities included on a Registration Statement mayand such Registrable Securities remain Registrable Securities following such transfer, at the request of such Holder, the Holders submitting the Demand Notice, Company shall amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be a “shelf” registration necessary in order to enable such transferee to offer and sell such Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 415such Registration Statement; provided that in no event shall the Company be required to file a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement unless (A) such Registration Statement includes only Registrable Securities held by the Holder, if available.
Affiliates of the Holder or transferees of the Holder or (B) The the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand has received written consent therefor from a Person for whom Registrable Securities have been registered on (but not yet sold under) such Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously effective and usable for Statement, other than the resale Holder, Affiliates of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period Holder or transferees 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration StatementHolder.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Ranger Energy Services, Inc.), Registration Rights Agreement (Ranger Energy Services, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Ai) The At any time following the expiration of the Lock-Up Period, the Investor shall have the option and right, exercisable by delivering a written notice to the Partnership (the a “Demand Notice”) given to the Company), to request, at any time require the Partnership to prepare 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 under 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 Act (a “Demand Registration Statement”). If ) to permit the public resale of (a) the Purchased Units purchased by the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends pursuant to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offeringthe Unit Purchase Agreement, it shall promptly so advise or (b) Distribution Units issued to the Company and Investor pursuant to the Company shall take all reasonable steps to facilitate such distributionUnit Purchase Agreement, including but not included in the actions required Distribution Unit Registration Statement filed 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 offering2.01(a) above. Any Demand Registration Statement may, at the request shall be on Form S-3 or such appropriate registration form of the Holders submitting Commission as shall be selected by the Demand NoticePartnership so long as such form permits the continuous offering of the Purchased Units and Distribution Units, be a “shelf” registration as applicable, pursuant to Rule 415, if available.
(B) 415 of the Securities Act or such other rule as is then applicable at the then prevailing market prices. The Company Partnership shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep each cause any Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously be declared effective as soon as practicable thereafter. The Partnership shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause any Demand Registration Statement to be effective, supplemented and usable amended to the extent necessary to ensure that it is available for the resale of the all Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from the date on which the SEC declares by such Demand Registration Statement by a Selling Investor until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by such Demand Registration Statement have ceased to be Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 1.02 of this Agreement (the “Demand Registration Statement Effectiveness Period”). Any Demand Registration Statement when effective (including the documents incorporated therein by reference) will comply as to form in all material respects with all applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act 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 (in the case of any prospectus contained in such Demand Registration Statement, in the light of the circumstances under which a statement is made). As soon as practicable following the date that the Demand Registration Statement becomes effective, as but in any event within two (2) Business Days of such period may date, the Partnership shall provide the Investor with written notice of the effectiveness of the Demand Registration Statement.
(ii) The Partnership shall not be extended pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B). The time period for which the Company is required to maintain comply with any Demand Notice at any time that a Registration Statement relating to the subject Registrable Securities is effective.
(iii) the Partnership shall not be required to comply with any Demand Notice that is received within 180 calendar days after the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(Civ) The Company Any Demand Notice shall specify: (i) the approximate aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be entitled registered for sale in such Demand Notice, (ii) the intended method of disposition in connection with such Demand Notice, to suspend the use extent then known and (iii) the identity of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d)each Selling Investor.
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Stonemor Partners Lp)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have If (i) for any reason, during any period when the rightShelf Registration Statement is required under Section 5.01 to be effective, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given Company is not qualified under the Securities Act to maintain the Company, to request, at any time and from time to time during such periods when a effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering fails to do so, or (ii) during the period between the termination of the Company's obligations under Section 5.01 and the termination of the Company's obligations under this Section 5.02 (any such period, a "Demand Period"), then at any time during a Demand Period, Holders of not less than 25% of the Registrable Securities may make a written request to the Company (which request shall specify the Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Persons and the intended method of distribution thereof) that the Company register any and all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effectiverequested to be so registered by filing with the SEC a Registration Statement covering such Registrable Securities (a "Demand Registration Statement"). Upon the receipt of such a request, that the Company registershall promptly notify all Holders from whom notice has not been received, under and such Holders shall then be entitled within 10 days thereafter to request the Company to include in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, such Demand Registration Statement all or any portion of their Registrable Securities. Promptly following the Registrable Securities designated by expiration of such 10-day period, and provided the Investor. Upon receipt of Company is then in a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)Period, the Company shall promptly (and in any event within thirty (30) days cause to be filed a Demand Registration Statement providing for the registration under the Securities Act of the date on Registrable Securities which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SEC, and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts has been so requested 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 register to the Investor registering extent necessary to permit the disposition of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution (thereof specified in such request, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to have such Demand Registration Statement declared effective by the SEC as soon as practicable thereafter and to keep such Demand Registration Statement continuously effective for a period of time necessary following the date on which may be by an underwritten offering)such Demand Registration Statement is declared effective for the underwriters or Selling Holders, of as applicable, to sell all the total number of Registrable Securities specified covered 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 but in any event a period of no more than 150 days following the date on which such distribution shall be acceptable to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in such underwritten offering. Any Demand Registration Statement may, at is declared effective (the request of the Holders submitting the Demand Notice, be a “shelf” registration pursuant to Rule 415, if available.
(B"Selling Period") 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 or such shorter period which will terminate when all of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from the date on which the SEC declares by such Demand Registration Statement effectivehave been sold pursuant thereto (including, as if necessary, by filing with the SEC a post-effective amendment or a supplement to the Demand Registration Statement or the related prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or by filing any other required document or otherwise supplementing or amending the Demand Registration Statement, if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used by the Company for such period may Demand Registration Statement or by the Securities Act, any state securities or "blue sky" laws, or any other rules and regulations thereunder). The Company shall not be extended required to cause to be effective more than two Demand Registration Statements pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B)5.02. The time period for which In no event shall the Company is required grant any "incidental" or "piggyback" registration rights to maintain any Person other than the effectiveness Holders in connection with the filing of any a Demand Registration Statement relating to an underwritten sale of the securities to be so registered, and other than Spanish Holders.
(b) Subject to the provisions of Section 5.02(e), a Demand Registration Statement shall be extended deemed not to have become effective (and the related registration shall be deemed not to have been effected) unless it has been declared effective by the aggregate number SEC; provided, however, that if, after it has been declared effective, the offering of days of all suspension periods any Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration StatementStatement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court (other than any such stop order or injunction issued as a result of the inclusion in such Demand Registration Statement of any information supplied to the Company for inclusion therein by a Selling Holder), the Selling Period shall be extended by that number of days during which such stop order, injunction or other order or requirement remains in effect or is not reversed, vacated, waived or otherwise lifted.
(Cc) The Company If at any time or from time to time any Selling Holder desires to sell Registrable Securities in an Underwritten Offering pursuant to a Demand Registration Statement, the underwriters, including the managing underwriter, shall be entitled selected by the Selling Holders and shall be reasonably acceptable to suspend the use Company (it being acknowledged and agreed that each of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(dGoldman Sachs & Co. and Needham & Co. is an acceptable managing unde▇▇▇▇▇▇▇).
(D▇) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided If a registration pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii5.02 involves an underwritten offering of the securities being registered (an "Underwritten Offering"), which securities are to be distributed on a firm commitment basis by or through one or more underwriters of recognized standing under underwriting terms appropriate for such transaction, and the underwriter or the managing underwriter, as the case may be, of such Underwritten Offering shall inform the Company and the Selling Holders that, in its opinion, the amount of securities requested to be included in such registration exceeds the amount which can be sold in such offering without adversely affecting the distribution of the securities being offered, then the Company will include in such registration only the amount of Registrable Securities and other securities that the Company is so advised can be sold in such offering; provided, however, that (i) any securities requested by any parties other than the Spanish Holders to be included in such registration shall be excluded from such registration before any Registrable Securities may be so excluded, and (ii) the amount of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration that the Company is so advised can be sold in such offering shall be allocated pro rata among the Selling Holders on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered by all Selling Holders.
(e) The Selling Holders, at any time prior to the effective date of a Demand Registration Statement, may revoke the Demand Registration Statement, without liability to any Holder except as may be provided under this Section 5.02(e), by providing a written notice to the Company revoking such request. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5.02(b), any Demand Registration Statement revoked by Selling Holders (whether before or after such Demand Registration Statement has been declared effective) shall not be exercisable until deemed to have been "effective" for purposes of this Agreement unless (i) such revocation was made by the Effectiveness DeadlineSelling Holders due to adverse, material non-public information about the Company of which none of the Selling Holders were aware at the time of initiating the request for such Demand Registration Statement, or (ii) the Selling Holders, within 30 days of such revocation, reimburse the Company for all Registration Expenses incurred by the Company in connection with the Demand Registration Statement so revoked.
(f) The Company's obligations under this Section 5.02 shall terminate after the first date on which (i) the Total Ownership Amount is less than the Registration Share Total, (ii) following the first anniversary of the date hereof, all Registrable Securities held by all members of the Investor Group represent less than 1% of all then Outstanding Shares, or (iii) no member of the Investor Group is an "affiliate" of the Company as such term is defined in Rule 144 (other than in situations in which the only reason no member of the Investor Group is such an "affiliate" is the Company's breach of its obligations under Section 2.01) and all Registrable Securities held by all members of the Investor Group may be sold in a single transaction under Rule 144(k).
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Purchase Agreement (Ionics Inc)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor At any time on or after the Registration Trigger, the Holder shall have the right, right by delivering a written notice to the Company (the a “Demand Notice”) given to require the Company to, pursuant to the Companyterms of this Agreement, 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, register under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities ActAct of 1933 the number of Registrable Securities Beneficially Owned by the Holder and requested by such Demand Notice to be so registered (a “Demand Registration”); provided, however, that (i) the number of Demand Registrations in any 12-month period shall not exceed one, and the number of Demand Registrations together with any Shelf Offerings in any 12-month period shall not exceed two. The Company shall not be required to register the Registrable Securities requested by the Demand Notice unless the Holder has requested to include in such Demand Registration either (x) Registrable Securities having a principal amount of at least $200,000,000 or (y) all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated then held by such Holder. No Demand Registration shall be required to be made by the InvestorCompany for a Holder if it is within six (6) months of another registration that included such Holder’s Registrable Securities. Upon The Demand Notice shall also specify the expected method or methods of disposition of the applicable Registrable Securities.
(b) Subject to Section 3.4, following receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)Notice, 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 reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective file, as promptly as reasonably practicable, a registration statement on Registration Statement relating to the appropriate form for the registration offer and sale as shall of the Registrable Securities requested to be selected included therein by the Company Holder (and as shall any Other Securities requested to be reasonably acceptable to included therein by the Investor registering Registrable Securities holders thereof) 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 elected by the Holders Holder in such the Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”). If ) and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Investor registering Securities Act of 1933 as promptly as practicable after the filing thereof.
(c) The Holder may withdraw its Registrable Securities intends from a Demand Registration at any time by providing the Company with written notice. Upon receipt of such written notice, the Company shall cease all efforts to distribute secure registration; provided, however, such registration shall nonetheless be deemed a Demand Registration for all purposes hereunder unless (i) the withdrawal is made following the occurrence of a Material Adverse Change not known to the Holder at the time of the Demand Notice, (ii) the withdrawal is made because the registration would require the Company to make an Adverse Disclosure or (iii) the Holder has paid or reimbursed the Company for all of the reasonable out-of-pocket fees and expenses incurred by the Company in the preparation, filing and processing of the withdrawn registration.
(d) If any of the Registrable Securities by means of to be registered pursuant to a Demand Registration Statement are to be sold in an underwritten public offering, it and such offering is subject to an Offering Limitation, then there shall promptly so advise be included in such offering: (i) first, the dollar amount of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Holder (up to an aggregate principal amount of $500,000,000), (ii) second, the dollar amount of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by the Holder and the dollar amount of securities requested to be included in such registration by the Company that in the mutual opinion of one underwriter selected by the Company and one underwriter selected by the Holder can be sold without adversely affecting the price, timing, distribution or marketability of such offering of the securities referred to in clause (i) above and this clause (ii), with such dollar amount of securities allocated for inclusion pro rata and without priority among the Company and the Holder on the basis of the dollar amount of Registrable Securities owned by the Holder and the dollar amount of the securities requested to be included in such registration by the Company in good faith, and (iii) third, the dollar amount of any Other Securities requested to be included therein by the holders thereof that in the opinion of the managing or lead underwriter(s) selected by the Company can be sold without adversely affecting the size, price, timing, distribution or marketability of such offering of the securities referred to in clauses (i) or (ii) above or the price, timing, distribution or marketability of such offering of the securities referred to in this clause (iii), and such dollar amount of securities shall be allocated for inclusion pro rata and without priority among the holders of all such securities on the basis of the dollar amount of such securities of the Company owned by each such holder.
(e) In connection with any underwritten public offering pursuant to a Demand Registration, the Company shall take all reasonable steps have the right to facilitate such distribution, including select one or more nationally recognized underwriters as the actions required pursuant to Section 3.12(c). The lead or managing underwriters in any of such distribution Demand Registration, who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in such underwritten offering. Any Demand Registration Statement mayHolder, at and the request Holder shall have the right to select one or more nationally recognized co-managers (which, for avoidance of doubt, shall not be named or function as lead underwriters or as bookrunners, or otherwise appear on the left-hand side 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 cover of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring prospectus, prospectus supplement, offering circular or other similar document, with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(CRegistration) The Company of such Demand Registration, who shall be entitled reasonably acceptable to suspend the Company. In connection with any such underwritten public offering, the Holder and the Company agree that they will each enter into a customary underwriting agreement with the underwriters selected pursuant to the preceding sentence, such underwriting agreement to be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Company, the Holder and the underwriters (it being understood that the Holder shall not be required to make any representations and warranties other than with respect to itself, its ownership of the Registrable Securities and its intended method of distribution thereof and shall not be required to provide an indemnity other than with respect to information it provides to the Company in writing expressly for use in such underwritten public offering pursuant to a Demand Registration, and any such indemnity shall be limited in amount to the net proceeds of any effective such underwritten public offering pursuant to a Demand Registration Statement actually received by the Holder). The Holder and the Company agree that all decisions under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
3.2 regarding whether an Offering Limitation is necessary (D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided and any related determinations pursuant to this clause (i) or (iii) of Section 3.12(a)(ii3.2(d), other than any determination under clause (ii) of Section 3.2(d), which shall be made in the sole discretion of the co-manager(s) selected by the Holder) shall not be exercisable until made in the Effectiveness Deadlinesole discretion of the managing or lead underwriter(s) selected by the Company.
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Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have During the right, by written notice period commencing on the first (1st) anniversary of the “Demand Notice”) given to Closing Date and expiring on the date on which 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, 's obligations under and this Section 4.01 shall terminate in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.01(f) below (such period, the "DEMAND PERIOD"), Holders of not less than 25% of the Registrable Securities Actmay make a written request to the Company (which request shall specify the Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Persons and the intended method of distribution thereof) that the Company register any and all of the Registrable Securities requested to be so registered by filing with the SEC a Registration Statement covering such Registrable Securities (a "DEMAND REGISTRATION STATEMENT"). Upon the receipt of such a request, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders from whom notice has not been received, and such Holders shall then be entitled within ten (10) days thereafter to request the Company to include in such Demand Registration Statement all or any portion of their Registrable Securities. Not later than the forty-fifth (45th) day after the earlier of (i) the expiration of such 10-day period and (ii) the date on which all Holders have indicated their intention to have Registrable Securities designated held by them included in such Demand Registration Statement, and provided the Investor. Upon receipt of a Company is then in the Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)Period, the Company shall promptly (and in any event within thirty (30) days cause to be filed a Demand Registration Statement providing for the registration under the Securities Act of the date on Registrable Securities which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SEC, and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts has been so requested 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 register to the Investor registering extent necessary to permit the disposition of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution (thereof specified in such request, and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to have such Demand Registration Statement declared effective by the SEC as soon as practicable thereafter and to keep such Demand Registration Statement continuously effective for a period of time necessary following the date on which may be by an underwritten offering)such Demand Registration Statement is declared effective for the underwriters or Selling Holders, of as applicable, to sell all the total number of Registrable Securities specified covered 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 but in any event a period of no more than 150 days following the date on which such distribution shall be acceptable to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in such underwritten offering. Any Demand Registration Statement may, at is declared effective (the request of the Holders submitting the Demand Notice, be a “shelf” registration pursuant to Rule 415, if available.
(B"SELLING PERIOD") 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 or such shorter period which will terminate when all of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from the date on which the SEC declares by such Demand Registration Statement effectivehave been sold pursuant thereto (including, as if necessary, by filing with the SEC a post-effective amendment or a supplement to the Demand Registration Statement or the related prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or by filing any other required document or otherwise supplementing or amending the Demand Registration Statement, if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used by the Company for such period may Demand Registration Statement or by the Securities Act, any state securities or "blue sky" laws, or any other rules and regulations thereunder). The Company shall not be extended required to cause to be effective more than two (2) Demand Registration Statements pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B)4.01. The Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, at any time period for which that the Company is required eligible to maintain register a primary offering of securities on Form S-3 (or its successor Form) under the effectiveness General Instructions to such Form, the Selling Holders shall be entitled to require that either or both of the demand registrations hereunder be effected as a shelf registration in accordance with Rule 415 under the Securities Act (or any similar rule that may be adopted by the SEC), and the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Demand Registration Statement effecting such shelf registration continuously effective during the period from the date the Demand Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC until the earlier to occur of (i) the second (2nd) anniversary of the effective date of such Demand Registration Statement, (ii) following the first anniversary of the Closing Date, the first date on which all Registrable Securities held by all members of the Investor Group represent less than 1% of all then Outstanding Shares, or (iii) the first date on which no member of the Investor Group is an "affiliate" of the Company as such term is defined in Rule 144 and all Registrable Securities held by all members of the Investor Group may be sold to the public without SEC registration in a single transaction under Rule 144(k).
(b) Subject to the provisions of Section 4.01(e), a Demand Registration Statement shall be extended deemed not to have become effective (and the related registration shall be deemed not to have been effected) unless it has been declared effective by the aggregate number SEC; provided, however, that if, after it has been declared effective, the offering of days of all suspension periods any Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration StatementStatement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court (other than any such stop order or injunction issued as a result of the inclusion in such Demand Registration Statement of any information supplied to the Company for inclusion therein by a Selling Holder), the Selling Period shall be extended by that number of days during which such stop order, injunction or other order or requirement remains in effect or is not reversed, vacated, waived or otherwise lifted.
(Cc) The Company If at any time or from time to time any Selling Holder desires to sell Registrable Securities in an Underwritten Offering pursuant to a Demand Registration Statement, the underwriters, including the managing underwriter, shall be entitled selected by the Selling Holders and shall be reasonably acceptable to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d)Company.
(Dd) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided If a registration pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii4.01 involves an underwritten offering of the securities being registered (an "UNDERWRITTEN OFFERING"), which securities are to be distributed on a firm commitment basis by or through one or more underwriters of recognized standing, and the underwriter or the managing underwriter, as the case may be, of such Underwritten Offering shall inform the Company and the Selling Holders that, in its opinion, the amount of securities requested to be included in such registration exceeds the amount which can be sold in such offering without adversely affecting the distribution of the securities being offered, then the Company will include in such registration only the amount of Registrable Securities and other securities that the Company is so advised can be sold in such offering; provided, however, that the amount of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration that the Company is so advised can be sold in such offering shall be allocated pro rata among the Selling Holders on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered by all Selling Holders.
(e) The Selling Holders, at any time prior to the effective date of a Demand Registration Statement, may revoke the Demand Registration Statement, without liability to any Holder except as may be provided under this Section 4.01(e), by providing a written notice to the Company revoking such request. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4.01(b), any Demand Registration Statement revoked by Selling Holders (whether before or after such Demand Registration Statement has been declared effective) shall not be exercisable until deemed to have been "effective" for purposes of this Agreement unless the Effectiveness DeadlineSelling Holders, within 30 days of such revocation, reimburse the Company for all Registration Expenses incurred by the Company in connection with the Demand Registration Statement so revoked.
(f) The Company's obligations under this Section 4.01 shall terminate upon the first date on which: (i) following the first anniversary of the Closing Date, all Registrable Securities held by all members of the Investor Group represent less than 1% of all then Outstanding Shares, or (ii) no member of the Investor Group is an "affiliate" of the Company as such term is defined in Rule 144 (other than in situations in which the only reason no member of the Investor Group is such an "affiliate" is the Company's breach of its obligations under Section 2.01) and all Registrable Securities held by all members of the Investor Group may be sold to the public without SEC registration in a single transaction under Rule 144(k).
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Sources: Shareholders' Agreement (Wireless Telecom Group Inc)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the rightShareholder may, by providing written notice (the a “Demand NoticeRegistration Request”) given to the Company, request to requestsell all or a portion of the Registrable Securities Beneficially Owned by the Shareholder and the Affiliate Shareholders, as applicable, pursuant to a Registration Statement in the manner specified in such notice (a “Demand Registration”). Each Demand Registration Request shall specify the number of Registrable Securities intended to be offered and sold pursuant to the Demand Registration and the intended method of disposition thereof, including whether the registration requested is for an underwritten offering. A Demand Registration shall be effected by way of a Registration Statement on Form S-3 or any similar short-form registration to the extent the Company is permitted to use such form at such time (or to the extent the Company is not permitted to use such form, on Form S-1 or a similar long-form registration). A Demand Registration may be, at the option of the Shareholder, (i) a request to file a Registration Statement (including a Shelf Registration Statement) which will be used to offer the Registrable Securities, or (ii) a request to provide a prospectus supplement for an already effective Registration Statement. If the Company is then ASR Eligible, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be an ASRS containing a Prospectus naming the Shareholder as the selling shareholder and registering the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities by the Shareholder on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause any time Registration Statement (or prospectus supplement, as applicable) relating to a Demand Registration (A) to be filed with the SEC as promptly as reasonably practicable following the receipt of the Demand Registration Request, and from time in no event more than ten (10) days after receipt of a Demand Registration Request and all necessary information regarding the Shareholder that is required to time be included in such Registration Statement (or prospectus supplement, as applicable) provided pursuant to Section 2.10, (B) to be declared effective by the SEC or otherwise become effective under the Securities Act as promptly as reasonably practicable after the filing thereof and (C) to remain continuously effective during the Effectiveness Period.
(b) The Shareholder shall have the right to request up to a total of two (2) Demand Registrations in any twelve (12)-month period pursuant to this Section 2.1; provided, that such periods obligation shall be deemed satisfied (and such request shall count as one Demand Registration Request for the Shareholder) only when a Registration Statement covering all the Registrable Securities specified in the Demand Registration Request shall have become effective and (i) if the method of disposition thereof is a firm commitment Public Offering, all of such Registrable Securities requested to be sold, after giving effect to any Underwriter Cutback (described in Section 2.1(e)), shall have been sold pursuant thereto, and (ii) in any other case, such Registration Statement shall have remained effective for the Effectiveness Period. The Shareholder may revoke a request for a Demand Registration by notifying the Company prior to the effective date of the applicable Registration Statement or the filing of any prospectus supplement with respect to any particular underwritten offering; provided that such request shall count as one of the Shareholder’s requests for a Demand Registration unless the Shareholder (A) provides such notice of revocation (x) within five (5) Business Days after requesting such Demand Registration, or (y) pursuant to Section 2.4(c) as a result of a Notice of Suspension, or (B) reimburses the Company for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses (including Registration Expenses) actually incurred by the Company relating to such Demand Registration.
(c) If a Demand Registration is a Public Offering, the Shareholder shall have the right to select the investment banking firm(s) to act as the managing underwriter(s) and counsel for the Shareholder in connection with such offering (including in any underwritten offering under a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all any Underwritten Block Trade).
(d) In no event shall any Person, including the Company or any other holder of Capital Stock (other than the Shareholder), be entitled to include any securities of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is Company in any Registration Statement 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 offering requested pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii2.1 without the prior written consent of the Shareholder. In the event the managing underwriter shall be of the opinion that the number of shares of Common Stock requested to be included in a Public Offering pursuant to a Demand Registration Request would adversely affect the marketing of such offering (including the price at which the securities of the Company may be sold), then the number of securities of the Company to be included in such underwritten offering will be reduced (an “Underwriter Cutback”), with the securities of the Company to be included in such offering based on the following priority: (i) first, the number of Shares of Common Stock requested to be included on behalf of the Shareholder up to the number that, in the opinion of the managing underwriter, would not adversely affect the marketing of the offering (including the price at which the Shares of Common Stock may be sold); and (ii) second, in addition to the Shares of Common Stock included pursuant to the preceding clause (i), the number of the securities of the Company requested to be included, with the prior written permission of the Shareholder, on behalf of each participating Person up to the number that, in the opinion of the managing underwriter, would not adversely affect the marketing of the offering (including the price at which the securities of the Company (including the Shares of Common Stock) may be sold). The Company may not file a Registration Statement or commence an offering of securities on behalf of any of the other holders of Capital Stock until the expiration of the Effectiveness Period of a Demand Registration.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article II, but subject to Section 2.4, if the Shareholder wishes to engage in an underwritten block trade or similar transaction or other transaction with a one-day or less marketing period, including overnight bought deals (collectively, an “Underwritten Block Trade”), pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement (either through filing an ASRS or through a take-down from an already effective Shelf Registration Statement), then notwithstanding any other time periods in this Article II, the Shareholder shall notify the Company of the Underwritten Block Trade three (3) Business Days prior to the date such Underwritten Block Trade is to commence. As expeditiously as possible, 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 commercially reasonable 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 facilitate such Underwritten Block Trade (which may be by an underwritten offering), of close as early as three (3) Business Days after the total number of Registrable Securities specified by the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”date it commences). If the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends The Shareholder shall use commercially reasonable efforts to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offering, it shall promptly so advise work with the Company and the Company shall take all reasonable steps underwriters (including by disclosing the maximum number of Shares of Common Stock proposed to be the subject of such Underwritten Block Trade) in order to facilitate such distributionpreparation of the Registration Statement (including filing of an ASRS), including the actions required pursuant to Section 3.12(c). The managing underwriters in any such distribution shall be acceptable Prospectus and other offering documentation related 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 availableUnderwritten Block Trade.
(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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Sources: Investor Rights Agreement (Outlook Therapeutics, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, at At any time and from time to time during such periods when a after the Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities referred to in Section 1 is or are not existing and effective, that one or more Investors may notify the Company register, under and that they intend to offer or cause to be offered in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, an underwritten public offering all or any portion of their Registrable Securities, provided that the Registrable Securities designated by aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the Investorsale of securities requested to be included in such registration must equal or exceed $15,000,000. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)such request, the Company shall promptly deliver notice of such request to all Investors holding Registrable Securities who shall then have twenty (20) days to notify the Company in writing of their desire to be included in such registration. The Company shall state such in the written notice and in such event the right of any event within thirty (30) days Person to participate in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Person’s participation in such underwritten public offering and the inclusion of such Person’s Registrable Securities in the date on which underwritten public offering to the extent provided herein. The Company receives will use its reasonable best efforts to expeditiously effect the registration of all Registrable Securities whose holders request participation in such Demand Notice) file with registration under the SECSecurities Act, and but only to the extent provided for in this Agreement; provided however, that the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts not be required to cause effect registration pursuant to a request under this Section 2 more than three times for the Investors as a group (at least one of which must be declared initiated by a Principal Investor). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no request may be made under this Section 2 within ninety (90) days after the effective as promptly as practicable, date of a registration statement on the appropriate form for the registration and sale as shall be selected filed by the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable to covering a firm commitment underwritten public offering in which the Investor registering holders of Registrable Securities shall have been entitled to join pursuant to Section 3 and in which there shall have been effectively registered all Registrable Securities as to which registration shall have been requested. A registration will not count as a requested registration under this Section 2(a) unless and until the registration statement relating to such registration has been declared effective by the Commission; provided however, that the participating Investors holding a majority of the Registrable Securities being registered by all participating Investors (a “Participating Majority”) may request, in writing, that the Company withdraw a registration statement which has been filed under this Section 2(a) but has not yet been declared effective, and a Participating Majority may thereafter request the Company to reinstate such registration statement, if permitted under the Securities Act, or the holders of Registrable Securities may request that the Company file another registration statement, in accordance with the intended method procedures set forth herein and without reduction in the number of demand registrations permitted under this Section 2(a).
(b) If the managing underwriter of such offering referred to in this Section 2 determines in good faith that the number of securities sought to be offered should be limited due to market conditions, then the number of securities to be included in such underwritten public offering shall be reduced to a number deemed satisfactory by such managing underwriter; provided, that the shares to be excluded shall be determined in the following order of priority: (i) persons not having any contractual or methods other right to include such securities in the registration statement, (ii) securities held by any other Persons (other than the holders of distribution Registrable Securities) having a contractual, incidental “piggy back” right to include such securities in the registration statement, (which may iii) securities to be registered by an underwritten offeringthe Company pursuant to such registration statement, (iv) Registrable Securities of Investors who did not make the original request for registration and, if necessary, (v) Registrable Securities of Investors who requested such registration pursuant to Section 2(a), . If there is a reduction of the total number of Registrable Securities specified by pursuant to clauses (iv) or (v), such reduction shall be made on a pro rata basis (based upon the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”). If the Investor registering aggregate number of Registrable Securities intends held by such holders).
(c) With respect 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 a request for registration pursuant to Section 3.12(c2(a), the managing underwriter shall be chosen by the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be sold in such offering (which approval will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed). The managing underwriters in Company may not cause any such distribution shall be acceptable other registration of securities for sale for its own account (other than a registration effected solely to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in such underwritten offering. Any Demand Registration Statement may, at the request implement an employee benefit plan or a transaction to which Rule 145 of the Holders submitting Securities Act is applicable) to become effective within one hundred twenty (120) days following the Demand Notice, be a “shelf” effective date of any registration pursuant to Rule 415, if available.
(B) The Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed required 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement2.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Global Clean Energy Holdings, Inc.)
Demand Registration. At any time following the date that is 180 days following the Closing Date but prior to the expiration of the Effectiveness Period, if the Company shall be requested (Aa “Registration Request”) The Investor by Holders holding at least a majority of the then outstanding Registrable Securities to effect the registration under the Securities Act of Registrable Securities, then the Company shall have (i) within ten (10) days of the rightreceipt of such Registration Request, by give written notice of such request to all Holders describing the terms of such registration and, if applicable, the underwriting and (ii) as soon as practicable cause to be prepared and filed with the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, at any time and from time to time during such periods when SEC a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf providing for the resale of all Registrable Securities which Holders request to be registered. The Registration Statement 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, in which case such registration shall be on another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Company shall cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof. The Company shall keep the Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold. The Company shall not be obligated to file and cause to become effective more than two (2) Registration Statements covering all pursuant to this Section 2(b). A Registration Statement shall not be counted for purposes of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing foregoing until such time as such Registrations Statement has been declared effective by the SEC 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 offered pursuant to such Registration Statement are sold thereunder upon the Investorprice and terms offered. Upon receipt Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the amount of a Demand Notice from Registrable Securities required to be included in the Investor initial Registration Statement as described in this Section 2(b) shall equal the lesser of (a) the amount of Registrable Securities that Holders request to have so registered pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii), 2(b) and (b) the Company shall promptly (and in any event within thirty (30) days maximum amount 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 included 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 without exceeding the request of the Holders submitting the Demand Notice, be a “shelf” registration pursuant to Rule 415, if available415 Amount.
(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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Demand Registration. Upon the written request (A) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the a “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, by Holdings or by Holders owning at any time and from time to time during such periods when a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all least twenty percent (20%) of the Investor’s then outstanding 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)Securities, the Company Partnership shall promptly (and in any event within thirty (30) days of the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SECCommission, and as soon as reasonably practicable, but in no event more than 90 days following the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective as promptly as practicablereceipt of the Notice, 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)each, of the total number of Registrable Securities specified by the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”). If ) under 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 Act (which Registration Statement may, at the request option of the Holders submitting the Demand giving such Notice, be a “shelf” registration statement under the Securities Act that provides for the resale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 415, if available.
415 from time to time by the Holders (B) a “Shelf Registration Statement”)). The Company Partnership shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to keep cause each Demand Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable after the initial filing of the Registration Statement. Any Registration Statement shall provide for the resale pursuant to any method or combination of methods legally available to, and requested by, the Holders of any and all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement. The Partnership shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause each Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) 2.01 to be continuously effective effective, supplemented and usable amended to the extent necessary to ensure that it is available for the resale of all Registrable Securities by the Holders until all Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from the date on which the SEC declares by such Demand Registration Statement effective, as such period may have ceased to be extended pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(BRegistrable Securities (the “Effectiveness Period”). The time period for which Each Registration Statement when effective (and the Company is documents incorporated therein by reference) shall comply as to form in all material respects with all applicable requirements of the Securities Act and shall not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to maintain be stated therein or necessary to make the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement statements therein not misleading. Each Holder shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant limited to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement two demand registrations under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under 2.01 in any twelve-month period (provided, however, that there shall be no limit on the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(dnumber of Shelf Registration Statements that may be required by the Holders hereunder).
(D) For , and the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) Partnership shall not be exercisable until obligated to file more than one Registration Statement within 120 days after the Effectiveness Deadlineeffective date of any Registration Statement filed by the Partnership.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (PES Logistics Partners LP)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, at At any time and from time to time during such periods when a after the Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities referred to in Section 1 is or are not existing and effective, that the Investor may notify the Company register, under and that it intends to offer or cause to be offered in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, an underwritten public offering all or any portion of its Registrable Securities, provided that the Registrable Securities designated by aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the Investorsale of securities requested to be included in such registration must equal or exceed $15,000,000. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)such request, the Company shall promptly deliver notice of such request to all holders of Registrable Securities (other than the Investor) who shall then have twenty (20) days to notify the Company in writing of their desire to be included in such registration. The Company shall state such in the written notice and in such event the right of any event Person to participate in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Person’s participation in such underwritten public offering and the inclusion of such Person’s Registrable Securities in the underwritten public offering to the extent provided herein. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to expeditiously effect the registration of all Registrable Securities whose holders request participation in such registration under the Securities Act, but only to the extent provided for in this Agreement; provided however, that the Company shall not be required to effect registration pursuant to a request under this Section 2 more than three times. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no request may be made under this Section 2 within thirty ninety (3090) days after the effective date of a registration statement filed by the date on Company covering a firm commitment underwritten public offering in which the holders of Registrable Securities shall have been entitled to join pursuant to Section 3 and in which there shall have been effectively registered all Registrable Securities as to which registration shall have been requested. A registration will not count as a requested registration under this Section 2(a) unless and until the registration statement relating to such registration has been declared effective by the Commission; provided however, that the Investor may request, in writing, that the Company receives such Demand Noticewithdraw a registration statement which has been filed under this Section 2(a) file with the SECbut has not yet been declared effective, and the Company shall Investor may 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 request the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable to reinstate such registration statement, if permitted under the Securities Act, or the Investor registering Registrable Securities may request that the Company file another registration statement, in accordance with the intended method procedures set forth herein and without reduction in the number of demand registrations permitted under this Section 2(a).
(b) If the managing underwriter of such offering referred to in this Section 2 determines in good faith that the number of securities sought to be offered should be limited due to market conditions, then the number of securities to be included in such underwritten public offering shall be reduced to a number deemed satisfactory by such managing underwriter; provided, that the shares to be excluded shall be determined in the following order of priority: (i) persons not having any contractual or methods other right to include such securities in the registration statement, (ii) securities held by any other Persons (other than the holders of distribution Registrable Securities or Lender Registrable Securities) having a contractual, incidental “piggy back” right to include such securities in the registration statement, (which may iii) securities to be registered by an underwritten offering)the Company pursuant to such registration statement, (iv) Registrable Securities of the total Investor and holders of Lender Registrable Securities who did not make the original request for registration and, if necessary, (v) Registrable Securities of the Investor who requested such registration pursuant to Section 2(a). If there is a reduction of the number of Registrable Securities specified and Lender Registrable Securities pursuant to clause (iv), such reduction shall be made on a pro rata basis (based upon the aggregate number of Registrable Securities and Lender Registrable Securities held by the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”holders). If there is a reduction of the Investor registering number of Registrable Securities intends pursuant to distribute any clause (v), such reduction shall be made on a pro rata basis (based upon the aggregate number of Registrable Securities held by means of an underwritten offering, it shall promptly so advise the Company and the Company shall take all reasonable steps such holders).
(c) With respect to facilitate such distribution, including the actions required a request for registration pursuant to Section 3.12(c2(a), the managing underwriter shall be chosen by the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be sold in such offering (which approval will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed). The managing underwriters in Company may not cause any such distribution shall be acceptable other registration of securities for sale for its own account (other than a registration effected solely to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in such underwritten offering. Any Demand Registration Statement may, at the request implement an employee benefit plan or a transaction to which Rule 145 of the Holders submitting Securities Act is applicable) to become effective within one hundred twenty (120) days following the Demand Notice, be a “shelf” effective date of any registration pursuant to Rule 415, if available.
(B) The Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed required 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement2.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Global Clean Energy Holdings, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (A) The Investor shall have Commencing on the rightsecond anniversary of the Issue Date, in addition to any other rights of the Holders, upon written request by written notice the Holders of at least 50% of the Registrable Securities then outstanding (the “Demand Notice”"Demanding Holders") given to the Company, to request, at Company that the Company effect a registration of 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 and specifying the intended method of disposition thereof, the amount of the Registrable Securities proposed to be sold and the jurisdiction (if known) in which registration is or are desired (a "Demand Registration"), such demands to be given on not existing and effective, that more than two (2) separate occasions (but in no event shall the Company registerbe required to effect more than one Demand Registration in any nine-month period), then the Company will (i) promptly notify all other Holders of Registrable Securities and (ii) use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under and the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders for disposition, in accordance with the provisions intended method of the Securities Actdisposition stated in such request, 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 within ninety (and in any event within thirty (3090) days of the date on which request therefor. All Holders who are not Demanding Holders shall be entitled to participate in such offering in accordance with the terms hereof if they so notify the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with of their desire to do so, specifying the SECamount of Registrable Securities they wish to include, and within 15 days of receipt of notice from the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective as promptly as practicable, a Company. If any registration statement on relating to any such registration is not declared effective, such registration shall not count towards the appropriate form limit set forth in this paragraph. The Demanding Holders shall have the right to designate the managing underwriters for the registration and sale as shall be selected by the Company and as any underwritten offering pursuant to a Demand Registration, which underwriters 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”)Company. 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend include in any Demand Registration authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock, shares of Common Stock held by the use Company as treasury stock and shares of Common Stock held by other shareholders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the managing underwriter or underwriters of such offering determine in good faith that the total amount of Registrable Securities and shares of Common Stock requested to be included in such offering would adversely affect the success of such offering, then the number of shares of Common Stock to be offered for the account of the Demanding Holders and any other selling shareholder and the number of shares of Common Stock to be offered by the Company to the public shall each be reduced, to the extent necessary to reduce the total amount of shares to be included in such offering to the amount recommended by such managing underwriter or underwriters, in the following order of priority: first, the shares of Common Stock proposed to be registered by any other selling shareholders or Holders; second, the shares of Common Stock proposed to be registered by the Company; and third, the shares of Registrable Securities proposed to be registered by the Demanding Holders. If any of such categories is to be reduced and consists of more than one shareholder, the part of the total reduction to that category of shares imposed on each shareholder in that category shall be in the same proportion that the total number of shares of Common Stock held (including shares issuable upon conversion of convertible debentures) by such shareholder bears to the total number of shares of Common Stock held (including shares issuable upon conversion of convertible debentures) by all shareholders in that category who sought to have shares registered. If more than 50% of the shares requested to be registered by Demanding Holders in such Demand Registration are not included in such Demand Registration as a result of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances reduction set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For this paragraph, such Demand Registration shall not count towards the avoidance of doubtlimit set forth in the preceding paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the rights provided Company shall have the right to delay any registration of Registrable Securities requested pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii2 for up to one hundred twenty (120) shall not be exercisable until days if such registration would, in the Effectiveness Deadlinereasonable good faith judgment of the Company's Board of Directors, substantially interfere with any material transaction being considered at the time of receipt of the request.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Berlitz International Inc)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, at At any time and or 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 effectivetime, 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), if the Company shall promptly (and be requested in any event within thirty (30) days writing by the Purchaser, by one or more Affiliates of the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SECPurchaser who beneficially own Registrable Securities, and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts or by one or more Holders who beneficially own at least 250,000 Registrable Securities, to cause to be declared effective as promptly as practicable, effect a registration statement on under 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 Securities Act of Registrable Securities in accordance with this Section 2 (a registration effected by the Company pursuant to this Section 2 is referred to as a “Demand Registration”), then the Company shall promptly give written notice of such proposed Demand Registration to each Holder and shall offer to include (subject to the terms of this Agreement) in such proposed Demand Registration any Registrable Securities requested to be included in such proposed Demand Registration by such Holders who respond in writing to the Company’s notice within fifteen (15) days after delivery of such notice (which response shall specify the number of Registrable Securities proposed to be included in such Demand Registration and the intended method or methods of distribution, which may be pursuant to a shelf registration). Such written Demand Registration request shall specify the number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered, and the anticipated per share price range for such offering, if applicable, and the intended method of distribution (which may be by pursuant to a shelf Registration Statement). Following the expiration of such fifteen (15)-day response period, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to promptly effect such Demand Registration on an underwritten offering), appropriate form under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to effect any Demand Registration under the Securities Act except in accordance with the following provisions:
1. the Company shall not be obligated to file more than three Registration Statements in total pursuant to this Section 2; and
2. with respect to any Demand Registration of Registrable Securities, the Company may include in the Registration Statement related thereto any Other Units; provided, however, that if the managing underwriter of any offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement advises the Company in writing that the inclusion of all Registrable Securities and Other Units proposed to be included in such Demand Registration would adversely and materially affect the successful marketing (including pricing) of all such securities, then the number of Registrable Securities specified by the Holders and Other Units proposed to be included 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 included in the Investor registering Registrable Securities in such underwritten offering. Any Demand Registration Statement mayfollowing order:
I. First, 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 held by all Selling Holders, pro rata based upon the number of one hundred eighty (180) days from Registrable Securities beneficially owned by each such Selling Holder at the date on which the SEC declares time of 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.Registration; and
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Constellation Energy Partners LLC)
Demand Registration. (i) Promptly following the Closing Date, but no later than 30 days after the Closing Date (the “Filing Deadline”), Brooklyn shall prepare and file with the SEC one Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities. No Holder shall be named as an “underwriter” in such Registration Statement without such Holder’s prior written consent, and if the SEC requests that the Holder be identified as a statutory underwriter in the Registration Statement, such Holder shall have an opportunity to withdraw its Registrable Securities from the Registration Statement. Such Registration Statement also shall cover, to the extent allowable under the Securities Act (including Rule 416), such indeterminate number of additional shares of Common Stock resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions with respect to the Registrable Securities. Such Registration Statement shall not include any shares of Common Stock or other securities for the account of any other holder without the prior written consent of each of the Required Holders. Such Registration Statement (and each amendment or supplement thereto, and each request for acceleration of effectiveness thereof) shall be provided in accordance with Section 5(c) to the Holders prior to its filing or other submission. Further, Brooklyn shall provide a draft of the Registration Statement to the Holders for review at least three Business Days in advance of filing the Registration Statement; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, in no event shall Brooklyn be required to delay or postpone the filing of such Registration Statement as a result of or in connection with any Holder’s review.
(ii) The Registration Statement referred to in Section 2(a)(i) shall be on Form S-3. In the event that Form S-3 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, Brooklyn shall (A) The Investor shall have register 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 resale of the Registrable Securities designated by on such other form as is available to Brooklyn and (B) so long as Registrable Securities remain outstanding, promptly following the Investor. Upon receipt of date (the “Qualification Date”) upon which Brooklyn becomes eligible to use a Demand Notice from registration statement on Form S-3 to register the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(iiRegistrable Securities for resale, but in no event more than thirty days after the Qualification Date (the “Qualification Deadline”), file a registration statement on Form S-3 covering the Company shall promptly Registrable Securities (or a post-effective amendment on Form S-3 to a registration statement on Form S-1) (a “Shelf Registration Statement”) 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 commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Shelf Registration Statement to be declared effective as promptly as practicable, a registration statement on the appropriate form for the registration and sale as practicable thereafter; provided that Brooklyn 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 the Registration Statement shall be extended then in effect until such time as a Shelf Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration StatementSEC.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have At any time following the rightRestricted Period, the Shareholder may, by providing written notice (the a “Demand NoticeRegistration Request”) given to the Company, request 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, sell all or any a portion of the Registrable Securities designated Beneficially Owned by the InvestorShareholder pursuant to a Registration Statement in the manner specified in such notice, provided that the aggregate market value of such Registrable Securities so requested to be sold, as measured by the market price of such Registrable Securities on the date of the Demand Registration Request, shall not be less than $100 million (a “Demand Registration”). Upon receipt Each Demand Registration Request shall specify the number of Registrable Securities intended to be offered and sold pursuant to the Demand Registration and the intended method of disposition thereof, including whether the registration requested is for an underwritten offering. A Demand Registration shall be effected by way of a Registration Statement on Form S-3 or any similar short-form registration to the extent the Company is permitted to use such form at such time (or to the extent the Company is not permitted to use such form, on Form S-1 or a similar long-form registration). The Company may, after consultation with the Shareholder, comply with a Demand Notice from Registration Request by, at the Investor pursuant Company’s option, (x) filing a Registration Statement (including a Shelf Registration Statement) which will be used to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)offer the Registrable Securities and/or (y) providing a prospectus supplement for an already effective Registration Statement. If the Company is then ASR Eligible, 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 commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective an ASRS containing a Prospectus naming the Shareholder as promptly as practicable, a registration statement on the appropriate form for selling shareholder and registering the registration offering and sale as shall be selected of the Registrable Securities by the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable Shareholder on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution Rule 415 (which may be by an underwritten offering), of the total number of Registrable Securities specified by the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand ASRS Resale Shelf Registration Statement”). If The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause any Registration Statement (or prospectus supplement, as applicable) relating to a Demand Registration (xx) to be filed with the Investor registering SEC as promptly as reasonably practicable following the receipt of the Demand Registration Request, and in no event more than twenty (20) Business Days after receipt of a Demand Registration Request (or such longer period agreed to by the Shareholder), (yy) to be declared effective by the SEC or otherwise become effective under the Securities Act as promptly as reasonably practicable after the filing thereof and (zz) to remain continuously effective during the Effectiveness Period.
(b) The Shareholder shall have the right to request up to a total of two (2) Demand Registrations in any twelve (12)-month period pursuant to this Section 2.1; provided, that such obligation shall be deemed satisfied (and such request shall count as one Demand Registration Request for the Shareholder) only when a Registration Statement shall have become effective and (x) if the method of disposition thereof is a firm commitment Public Offering, at least 50% of such Registrable Securities intends requested to distribute be sold, after giving effect to any Registrable Securities Underwriter Cutback (described in Section 2.1(e)), shall have been sold pursuant thereto, and (y) in any other case, such Registration Statement shall have remained effective for the Effectiveness Period. The Shareholder may revoke a request for a Demand Registration by means notifying the Company prior to the effective date of an the applicable Registration Statement or the filing of any prospectus supplement with respect to any particular underwritten offering; provided that such request shall count as one of the Shareholder’s requests for a Demand Registration unless the Shareholder (i) provides such notice of revocation (A) except with respect to Underwritten Block Trades, it shall promptly so advise the Company and the Company shall take all reasonable steps to facilitate within three (3) Business Days after requesting such distributionDemand Registration, including the actions required or (B) pursuant to Section 3.12(c). The managing underwriters in any 2.4(c) as a result of a Notice of Suspension, or (ii) reimburses the Company for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses (including Registration Expenses) actually incurred by the Company relating to 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 availableRegistration.
(Bc) The Company shall (i) prepare, (ii) file with the SEC and (iii) use commercially reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously have effective and usable for the resale of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of starting one hundred eighty (180) days from the date of this Agreement, a Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 or such other form as the Company is then eligible to use (such Shelf Registration Statement shall be an ASRS to the extent that the Company is then ASR Eligible) (or, at its option, after consultation with the Shareholder, provide a prospectus supplement for an already effective Shelf Registration Statement) with respect to the registration under the Securities Act of the resale of up to 25,691,349 Shares (the “Transaction Shelf Registration Statement”) (such Transaction Shelf Registration Statement shall include a prospectus sufficient to permit the resale of all such Shares by the Shareholder). The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Transaction Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective for the Effectiveness Period, including by filing subsequent registration statements, if necessary, subject to the Securities Act and the provisions of Section 2.4. For a period of two (2) years following the Closing Date, any Shares which have been registered on the SEC declares such Transaction Shelf Registration Statement may be included in any underwritten offering conducted by the Company upon the proper exercise of a demand or piggyback right hereunder pursuant to and in accordance with Section 2.1 or Section 2.2, as applicable, subject to compliance with the notice and cutback procedures contained herein.
(d) If a Demand Registration is a Public Offering, the Shareholder shall have the right to select the investment banking firm(s) to act as the managing underwriter(s) (subject to the consent of the Company, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and counsel for the Shareholder in connection with such offering (including in any underwritten offering under a Shelf Registration Statement effectiveor any Underwritten Block Trade).
(e) For the first two (2) years following the date of this Agreement, as such period may in no event shall any Person (other than the Company with respect to a primary offering of its equity securities) be extended entitled to include any equity securities of the Company in any offering requested pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B)2.1 without the prior written consent of the Shareholder, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld after consultation with its advisors. The time period for In the event the managing underwriter shall be of the opinion that the number of such securities, when taken together with the Registrable Securities requested to be included in a Public Offering pursuant to a Demand Registration Request, alone or taken together with the equity securities of the Company to be included therein, would adversely affect the marketing of such offering (including the price at which the securities of the Company is required may be sold), then the number of securities of the Company to maintain be included in such underwritten offering will be reduced (an “Underwriter Cutback”), with the effectiveness securities of the Company to be included in such offering based on the following priority: (x) first, the number of Shares requested to be included on behalf of the Shareholder up to the number that, in the opinion of the managing underwriter, would not adversely affect the marketing of the offering (including the price at which the Shares may be sold); and (y) second, in addition to the Shares included pursuant to the preceding clause (x), the number of the equity securities of the Company elected to be included by the Company (whether for the Company’s own account or for the account of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended other holder of equity security of the Company consented by the aggregate Shareholder to participate in the offering) up to the number that, in the opinion of days the managing underwriter, would not adversely affect the marketing of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(dthe offering (including the price at which the securities of the Company (including the Shares) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall may be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(dsold).
(Df) For Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article II, but subject to Section 2.4, if the avoidance of doubtShareholder wishes to effect a Demand Registration through an underwritten block trade or similar transaction or other transaction with a one-day or less marketing period, including overnight bought deals (collectively, an “Underwritten Block Trade”), pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement (either through filing an ASRS or through a take-down from an already effective Shelf Registration Statement), then notwithstanding any other time periods in this Article II, the rights provided Shareholder shall notify the Company of the Underwritten Block Trade five (5) Business Days prior to the date such Underwritten Block Trade is to commence. As expeditiously as possible, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to facilitate such Underwritten Block Trade (which may price as early as five (5) Business Days after the date it commences). The Shareholder shall use commercially reasonable efforts to work with the Company and the underwriters prior to making such request (including by disclosing the maximum number of Shares proposed to be the subject of such Underwritten Block Trade) in order to facilitate preparation of the Registration Statement (including filing of an ASRS), Prospectus and other offering documentation related to the Underwritten Block Trade and any related due diligence and comfort procedures.
(g) Notwithstanding anything else in this agreement, the Company shall have no obligation to facilitate a Public Offering of Registrable Securities initiated by the Shareholder except pursuant to, and subject to the limitations contained in, this Section 2.1, Section 2.2, and in accordance with Section 2.6.
(h) The Company hereby represents that, as of the date hereof, it is a “well-known seasoned issuer” (having the meaning given thereto pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(iiRule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadlineand eligible to use Form S-3.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Stockholders' Agreement (American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc)
Demand Registration. At any time on and after November 24, 2002, the Required Holders may make one request of the Company to effect the registration (Athe "Demand Registration") or qualification under applicable federal or state securities laws of such Holders' Registrable Securities. The Investor Company shall promptly (but no more than 10 days later) give written notice to all remaining Holders of Registrable Securities of receipt of such notice, and, subject to the last paragraph of this Section 2.1(a) and to the conditions of Section 3 hereof, as expeditiously as possible, effect such registration or qualification of all Registrable Securities of Holders with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein. All requests made pursuant to this Section 2.1(a) will be delivered to the Company in writing within 30 days after receipt of the Company's written notice of the requested Demand Registration and will specify the aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered. If the managing underwriter engaged by the Company in connection with an underwritten Demand Registration determines in good faith and for valid business reasons that registration of all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration would have a material adverse effect on the marketability or the price of such offering, such managing underwriter shall give prompt written notice of such determination to such requesting Holder or Holders, setting forth in reasonable detail the reasons for such determination. In such event, the Company, upon written notice to the Holders of such Registrable Securities, shall have the right, by written notice (right to limit the “Demand Notice”) given number of Registrable Securities to be registered to the Companylargest number which would not result in such adverse effect on marketability or the price of such offering. Securities shall be included in such registration in the following priority: (i) first, securities to request, at any time be issued 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 sold by the Company registerand Registrable Securities, under and pro rata in accordance with the provisions number of securities the Company and each Holder have requested to be included in such registration, and (ii) second, any securities of the Securities ActCompany requested to be included by Persons other than the Company or Holders, all or any portion pro rata in accordance with the number of securities each such other holder has requested to be included in such registration; provided that if the number of shares which the Holders of Registrable Securities designated by the Investor. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor request to be included in such offering are reduced pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii2.1(a), then such registration shall not constitute the Company shall promptly (and in any event within thirty (30) days of the date on Demand Registration which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SECHolders are entitled to initiate, and the Company Holders may, thereafter, request a Demand Registration of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2.1(a). Reductions of Registrable Securities made pursuant to this Section 2.1 and pursuant to Section 2.2 shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective as promptly as practicable, a registration statement applied pro rata based 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 requested to be included 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 availableeach Holder.
(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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Nexell Therapeutics Inc)
Demand Registration. Investor may make a written demand to the Corporation for registration of all or part of its Registrable Securities, which written demand shall describe the amount and type of securities to be included in such registration and the intended method(s) of distribution thereof (Asuch written demand a “Demand Registration”); provided, however, that an Investor may not request a Demand Registration unless the class of securities of the Corporation subject to the Demand Registration are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) The of the Exchange Act. Upon receipt by the Corporation of such written request for a Demand Registration from an Investor, the Investor shall be entitled to have its Registrable Securities included in a registration at the rightcost and expense of the Corporation and the Corporation shall effect, as soon thereafter as is commercially reasonable, the registration of all Registrable Securities requested by written notice (the “Investor pursuant to such request for a Demand Notice”) given to the CompanyRegistration, to request, at any time and from time to time during such periods when including by filing a Shelf Registration Statement on an appropriate form under the Securities Act relating thereto as soon as practicable, but not more than forty five (45) days immediately after the Corporation’s receipt of the request for a Demand Registration. Under no circumstances shall the Corporation be obligated to (i) effect more than an aggregate of two (2) Demand Registrations with respect to any or Shelf Registration Statements covering all of the an Investor’s Registrable Securities Securities, and never more than one (1) Demand Registration in a twelve (12) month period and (ii) proceed if the required minimum offering size of at least US$3.5 million is or are not existing and effectivemet; provided, however, that the Company register, under a registration pursuant to a request for a Demand Registration shall not be counted for such purposes unless a Registration Statement with respect to such request for a Demand Registration has become effective and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated requested by the InvestorInvestor to be registered have been sold. Upon receipt of Notwithstanding the foregoing obligations, if the Corporation furnishes to holders requesting a Demand Notice from the Investor registration pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii), 2.1 a certificate signed by the Company shall promptly (and Corporation’s chief executive officer stating that in any event within thirty (30) days the good faith judgment of the date on which Board of Directors it would be materially detrimental to the Company receives Corporation and its shareholders for 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 to either become effective or remain effective for as long as such registration statement otherwise would be required to remain effective, because such action would (i) materially interfere with a significant acquisition, corporate reorganization, or other similar transaction involving the appropriate form Corporation; (ii) require premature disclosure of material information that the Corporation has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential; or (iii) render the registration and sale as Corporation unable to comply with requirements under the Securities Act or Exchange Act, then the Corporation shall be selected by have the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable right to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in accordance defer taking action 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 respect to 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 filing for a period of one hundred eighty not more than sixty (18060) days from after the date on which request; provided, however, that the SEC declares such Demand Registration Statement effective, as such period Corporation may be extended pursuant to not invoke this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B). The time period right more than once in any twelve (12) month period; and provided further that the Corporation shall not register any securities for which the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness its own account or that of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(dother stockholder during such sixty (60) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statementday period.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Investor's Rights Agreement (Aptose Biosciences Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, at At any time and from time to time during such periods when a Shelf beginning one hundred eighty (180) days after the Plan Effective Date, any Holder or group of Holders may request in writing (“Demand Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, Request”) that the Company register, effect the registration of all or part of such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities with the Commission under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities ActAct (subject to such Holder providing a Selling Stockholder Questionnaire at least three (3) business days prior to the required filing date). The Company will file a Registration Statement covering such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities requested to be registered, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective, as promptly as reasonably practicable after receipt of such request, so long as, prior to the Company’s request for effectiveness, the Registration Statement reflects or has been amended to reflect post-plan Effective Date fresh-start accounting (subject to postponement or blackout pursuant to a Grace Period as set forth in Section 7(a)); provided, however, that the Company will not be required to file a Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 5(a):
(A) unless (i) the number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered on such Registration Statement equals at least twenty-five percent (25%) of all Registrable Securities at such time (with the New Warrants included on an as exercised basis, assuming cashless exercise of the New Existing Equity Warrants) or any portion (ii) the Registrable Securities requested to be sold by the Holders pursuant to such Registration Statement have an anticipated aggregate gross offering price (before deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of at least $75 million;
(B) if the Registrable Securities requested to be registered are already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement and such Registration Statement may be utilized for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities designated requested to be registered;
(C) if a registration statement filed by the Investor. Upon receipt Company shall have previously been initially declared effective by the Commission within the one hundred eighty (180) days preceding the date such Demand Registration Request is made; and
(D) if the number of a Demand Notice from the Investor Registration Requests previously made pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii5(a) shall equal or exceed three (3); provided, however, that a Demand Registration Request shall not be considered made for purposes of this clause (D) unless the Company shall promptly (and in any event within thirty (30) days requested Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Commission for more than 75% of the date on full amount of Registrable Securities for which registration has been requested.
(b) A Demand Registration Request shall specify (i) the Company receives then-current name and address of such Demand NoticeHolder or Holders, (ii) file with the SEC, and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause aggregate number of Registrable Securities requested to be declared effective as promptly as practicableregistered, 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 iii) the total number of Registrable Securities specified then beneficially owned by such Holder or Holders, and (iv) the intended means of distribution. If at the time the Demand Registration Request is made the Company appears, based on public information available to such Holder or Holders, eligible to use Form S-3 for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities, the Holder or Holders making such request may request that the registration be in the form of a Shelf Registration Statement (for the avoidance of doubt, the Company shall not be under the obligation to file a Shelf Registration on Form S-3 if, upon the advice of its counsel, it is not eligible to make such a filing).
(c) The Company may satisfy its obligations under Section 5(a) hereof by amending (to the extent permitted by applicable law) any registration statement previously filed by the Holders Company under the Securities Act, so that such amended registration statement will permit the disposition (in such Demand Notice (accordance with the intended methods of disposition specified as aforesaid) of all of the Registrable Securities for which a “Demand Registration Statement”)Request has been properly made under Section 5(b) hereof. If the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offeringCompany so amends a previously filed registration statement, it will be deemed to have effected a registration for purposes of Section 5(a) hereof; provided, however, that the Effective Date of the amended registration statement, as amended pursuant to this Section 5(c), shall promptly so advise be the Company and “the first day of effectiveness” of such Registration Statement for purposes of determining the period during which the Registration Statement is required to be maintained effective in accordance with Section 5(e) hereof.
(d) Within ten (10) days after receiving a Demand Registration Request, the Company shall take give written notice of such request to all other Holders of Registrable Securities and shall, subject to the provisions of Section 6(c) in the case of an Underwritten Offering, include in such registration all such Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein (subject to any such Holder requesting inclusion of its Registrable Securities providing a Selling Stockholder Questionnaire at least three (3) business days prior to the required filing date) within fifteen (15) days after the Company’s giving of such notice, provided that such Registrable Securities are not already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement that may be utilized for the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be registered in the manner so requested.
(e) The Company will use its commercially reasonable steps efforts to facilitate such distribution, including the actions required keep a Registration Statement that has become effective as contemplated by this Section 5 continuously effective (subject to postponement or blackout pursuant to a Grace Period as set forth in Section 3.12(c7(a). The managing underwriters ), and not subject to any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the Commission:
(A) in any such distribution shall be acceptable to the Investor registering case of a Registration Statement other than a Shelf Registration Statement, until all 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 registered thereunder have been sold pursuant to Rule 415such Registration Statement, if available.but in no event later than two hundred seventy (270) days from the Effective Date of such Registration Statement; and
(B) in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, until the earlier of: (x) three (3) years following the Effective Date of such Shelf Registration Statement; and (y) the date that all Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement shall cease to be Registrable Securities; provided, however, that in the event of any stop order, injunction or other similar order or requirement of the Commission relating to any Shelf Registration Statement, if any Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement remain unsold, the period during which such Shelf Registration Statement shall be required to remain effective will be extended by the number of days during which such stop order, injunction or similar order or requirement is in effect; provided further, however, that if any Shelf Registration Statement was initially declared effective on Form S-3 and, prior to the date determined pursuant to Section 5(e)(B), the Company becomes ineligible to use Form S-3, the period during which such Shelf Registration Statement shall be required to remain effective will be extended by the number of days during which the Company did not have an effective Registration Statement covering unsold Registrable Securities initially registered on such Shelf Registration Statement.
(f) The Holder or Holders making a Demand Registration Request may, at any time prior to the Effective Date of the Registration Statement relating to such registration, revoke their request for the Company to effect the registration of all or part of such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities by providing a written notice to the Company. If, pursuant to the preceding sentence, the entire Demand Registration Request is revoked, then, at the option of the Holder or Holders who revoke such request, either (i) such Holder or Holders shall use reimburse the Company for all of its reasonable best efforts and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred in the preparation, filing and processing of the Registration Statement, which out-of-pocket expenses, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include overhead expenses and which requested registration shall not count as one of the permitted Demand Registration Requests hereunder or (ii) the requested registration that has been revoked will be deemed to keep each Demand have been effected for purposes of Section 5(a).
(g) If a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii5 is a Shelf Registration Statement, then upon the demand of one or more Holders, the Company shall facilitate a “takedown” of Registrable Securities in the form of an Underwritten Offering, in the manner and subject to the conditions described in Section 6 of this Agreement, provided that (i) continuously effective and usable for the resale number of securities included in such “takedown” shall equal at least twenty-five percent (25%) of all Registrable Securities at such time (with the New Warrants included on an as exercised basis, assuming cashless exercise of the New Existing Equity Warrants) or (ii) 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 requested to 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 sold by the Holders in such “takedown” shall have an anticipated aggregate number offering price (before deducting underwriting discounts and commission) of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statementat least $75 million.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Gulfmark Offshore Inc)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor If at any time following the third IPO Anniversary Date, Lazard Ltd shall have the right, by receive a written notice request (the a “Demand Notice”) given to from a Covered Person or group of Covered Persons (a “Demand Requesting Covered Person”) that Lazard Ltd effect 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, registration under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, Act of all or any portion of the such Covered Person’s or Covered Persons’ Registrable Securities designated by representing Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration equal to or in excess of the Investor. Upon receipt of a Minimum 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 Number as of the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with Registration is made (a “Demand Registration”), specifying the SECintended method of disposition thereof, and the Company then Lazard Ltd shall thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective effect, as promptly expeditiously as reasonably practicable, a registration statement on subject to the appropriate form for restrictions in Section 4.2(d), the registration and sale as shall be selected by under the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable Securities Act of the Registrable Securities for which such Demand Requesting Covered Person has requested registration under this Section 4.2, all to the Investor registering Registrable Securities extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended method methods thereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be registered. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) a Demand Requesting Covered Person shall be entitled to no more than one demand registration during any six-month period, and (ii) Lazard Ltd shall not be obligated make a Demand Registration with respect to a Demand Requesting Covered Person in the event that an Annual Registration or methods Piggyback Registration (as defined below) had been available to any such Demand Requesting Covered Person within the 180 days preceding the date of distribution the Demand Notice.
(which b) At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Demand Requesting Covered Person may revoke such Demand Registration request by providing a notice to Lazard Ltd revoking such request. Lazard Group shall be by liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration.
(c) If a Demand Registration involves an underwritten offering)Public Offering and the managing underwriter advises Lazard Ltd and the Demand Requesting Covered Person that, in its view, the number of the total number shares of Registrable Securities specified by the Holders requested to be included in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”). If registration exceeds the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends to distribute any Registrable Securities by means largest number of shares that can be sold without having an underwritten adverse effect on such 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(cprice at which such shares can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size”). The managing underwriters , Lazard Ltd shall include in any such distribution shall be acceptable registration, in the priority listed below, up to the Investor registering Maximum Offering Size:
(i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be registered in the Demand Registration by the Demand Requesting Covered Person and all other Registrable Securities requested to be included in such underwritten offering. Any Demand Registration Statement mayregistration by any Covered Persons (allocated, at if necessary for the request offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Covered Persons on the basis of the Holders submitting relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each);
(ii) second, any securities proposed to be registered by Lazard Ltd or any securities proposed to be registered for the Demand Noticeaccount of any other persons, be a “shelf” registration pursuant to Rule 415, if availablewith such priorities among them as Lazard Ltd shall determine.
(Bd) The Company shall use reasonable best efforts Upon notice to keep each the Demand Registration Statement filed Requesting Covered Person, Lazard Ltd may postpone effecting a registration pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously effective and usable for the resale 4.1 on one occasion during any period of the Registrable Securities covered thereby six consecutive months for a period of one hundred eighty reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 120 days (180) days from the date on which the SEC declares such Demand Registration Statement effective, as such period may not be extended pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(Bor renewed). The time , if (i) Lazard Ltd shall determine in good faith that effecting the registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of such company the preparation of which had then been commenced or (ii) Lazard Ltd is in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period for which the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to specified in such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth notice Lazard Ltd believes in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall good faith would not be exercisable until in the Effectiveness Deadline.best interests of Lazard Ltd.
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Sources: Stockholders' Agreement (Lazard LTD)
Demand Registration. (A) The Investor XLV shall have the right, by written notice right on any two (2) occasions between the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, at any time second and from time to time during such periods when a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all fourth anniversary of the Investor’s Registrable date on which the issuance of the Shares was approved by the AXSI stockholders (July 21, 1998) to make a written request of AXSI for registration with the Securities is or are not existing and effective, that the Company registerExchange Commission ("SEC") (a "Demand Registration"), under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, all or any portion for the offer and sale by XLV of the Shares issued pursuant to this Agreement (the "Registrable Securities designated by the InvestorSecurities"). Upon receipt of the written request by XLV of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)Registration, the Company AXSI shall promptly (prepare and in any event within thirty (30) days of the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SEC, and within sixty (60) days following the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective as promptly as practicablereceipt of such request, a registration statement on Form S-3 (or another appropriate form) (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 offer and sale by XLV of the Registrable Securities covered thereby and use reasonable efforts to have each such Demand Registration Statement declared effective by the SEC as promptly as reasonably practicable after the filing thereof with the SEC. AXSI shall use its reasonable efforts to keep such Demand Registration Statement and the prospectus used in connection therewith effective and in compliance with applicable law for a period of one hundred eighty at least twelve (18012) days from months (the date on "Effectiveness Period"). All expenses incident to AXSI's performance or compliance with this Section VII.A shall be paid by AXSI; provided, however, XLV shall be responsible for and shall pay any underwriting, brokerage or selling agent's fees, discounts or commissions, and shall be responsible for and pay all legal fees and expenses of counsel to XLV or counsel to any underwriter or selling agent. In connection with any underwritten offering to which AXSI shall have consented, AXSI shall provide, or cause to be provided, such representations, warranties, covenants, opinions, "cold comfort" letters, indemnifications, opportunities for due diligence and other matters, and shall take all such other reasonable actions, as are customary in underwritten public offerings of securities. Failure of AXSI to cause the SEC declares such Demand Registration Statement effective, as such period may to 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 by the aggregate number of declared effective within one hundred fifty (150) days of all suspension periods pursuant filing shall result in a sum payable to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand XLV by AXSI (the "Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.Penalty"
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Sources: Intellectual Property Transfer Agreement (Axcess Inc/Tx)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, at At any time following the one (1) year anniversary of the Initial Closing Date (or such earlier date if the Company waives in writing the transfer restrictions contained in Article 5 hereof) if there is no registration statement in effect pursuant to Section 6.2 hereof, the Purchaser may make two (2) written requests for registration under the Securities Act covering the resale of the Initial Common Stock, the Warrant Shares and the Additional Common Stock, if any (all of them, together with any shares of capital stock issued or issuable, from time to time during such periods when time, upon any reclassification, share combination, share subdivision, stock split, share dividend, merger, consolidation or similar transaction or event or otherwise as a Shelf Registration Statement distribution on, in exchange for or Shelf Registration Statements covering all with respect to any of the Investor’s foregoing, in each case held at the relevant time by the Purchaser, the “Registrable Securities”) by the Purchaser (each, a “Demand Registration”), it being understood that the Purchaser shall not be able to exercise its second right for a Demand Registration until after the achievement of the development milestone set forth in Section 1.2(e) hereof. Any such request will specify the number of shares of 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 proposed to be offered for sale by the Investor. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii), the Company shall promptly (Purchaser 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 will also specify 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 offeringdisposition thereof. 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)(ii6.1 is referred to as a “Demand Registration Statement.”
(b) continuously effective and usable for If the resale Purchaser elects, the offering of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from the date on which the SEC declares pursuant to such Demand Registration Statement effectivewill be in the form of an underwritten offering. Subject to the reasonable approval of the Company (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), the Purchaser will select the managing underwriter and any additional underwriters in connection with the offering. If, in connection with any Demand Registration that is to be an underwritten offering, the Company or any other stockholders also desire to sell shares of Common Stock and the managing underwriter of an underwritten public offering determines and advises in writing that the inclusion of all Registrable Securities proposed to be included in the underwritten public offering, together with any shares proposed to be sold by the Company for its own account and any other issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock or other securities proposed to be included therein by holders other than the holders of Registrable Securities (such other holders’ shares hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Other Shares”), would interfere with the successful marketing of the securities proposed to be included in the underwritten public offering, including the price at which such period may securities can be extended pursuant sold, then the Company will include in such registration (i) first, the Registrable Securities requested to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B)be included by the Purchaser so that the total number of Registrable Securities to be included in such offering for the account of the Purchaser will not exceed the number recommended by such managing underwriter, (ii) second, the shares of Common Stock the Company proposes to offer for sale, which number of shares to be registered will be reduced to the extent necessary to reduce the total number of shares to be included in such offering to the number recommended by such managing underwriter and (iii) third, such number of Other Shares as the holders thereof desire to offer for sale and the Company and the managing underwriter recommend be included in such offering. The time period for which Purchaser shall be permitted to remove all or any part of the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of Registrable Securities held by it from any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by at any time prior to the aggregate number effective date of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to the registration statement covering such Demand Registration StatementRegistrable Securities.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Sources: Securities Purchase Agreement (Palatin Technologies Inc)
Demand Registration. (Ai) The Investor Selling Shareholder 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 in accordance with the intended timing and method or methods of distribution thereof specified in the Demand Notice, which may include sales on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 (the “Demand Registration”).
(ii) Following receipt of a Demand Notice”) given to , the Company, to request, at any time and from time to time during such periods when Company shall file a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements as promptly as practicable covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, that the Company register, under and Selling Shareholder requests on such Demand Notice to be included in such Demand Registration in accordance with the provisions terms and conditions of this Agreement and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective under the Securities Act, Act and remain effective under the Securities Act for not less than twenty four (24) months following the Effective Date or such shorter period when all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated covered by such Registration Statement have been sold (the Investor. Upon receipt “Effectiveness Period”); provided, however, (i) that the Company shall not be required to effect the registration of a Demand Notice from the Investor Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii2(a) unless the Registrable Securities are offered at an aggregate proposed offering price of not less than and (ii) the Effectiveness Period shall be extended by one (1) day for each additional day during any Suspension Period in effect following the Effective Date applicable thereto pursuant to Section 2(a)(iii). Subject to the other limitations contained in this Agreement, the Company is not obligated hereunder to effect more than Demand Registrations. A registration will not count as a requested registration under this Section 2(a) until the Registration Statement relating to such registration has been declared effective by the Commission and unless Selling Shareholder was able to register all the Registrable Securities requested by it to be included in such registration.
(iii) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2(a), the Company shall promptly not be required to:
(A) file a Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 2(a) during the period starting with the date thirty (30) days prior to a good faith estimate by the majority of the members of the board of directors of the Company (excluding any members of the board of directors that are employees or Affiliates of Selling Shareholder)(the “Unaffiliated Board Members”), of the date of filing of, and in any event ending on a date ninety (90) days after the effective date of, a Company initiated registration; provided that the Company is actively employing its reasonable best efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective;
(B) effect a registration or file a Registration Statement for a period of up to one hundred twenty (120) days after the date of a Demand Notice for registration pursuant to this Section 2(a) if at the time of such request (1) the Company is engaged, or has plans to engage, within thirty (30) days of the date on which the Company receives time of such Demand Notice, in a firm commitment underwritten public offering of Common Shares, or (2) file with the SEC, Company is currently engaged in a self-tender or exchange offer and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to filing of a Registration Statement would cause to be declared effective as promptly as practicable, a violation of the Exchange Act;
(C) effect a registration statement on or file a Registration Statement for a period of up to ninety (90) days, if (1) the appropriate form for the Unaffiliated Board Members determine such registration and sale as shall be selected by would render the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable unable to comply with applicable securities laws or (2) the Investor registering Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods Unaffiliated Board Members determine such registration would require premature disclosure 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 material information that the Company and has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential; or
(D) if 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 has filed a “shelf” registration statement pursuant to Rule 415, if available.
(B) The Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each a Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant to Notice under this Section 3.12(a)(ii2(a) continuously effective and usable for the resale of the has included Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty therein (180) days from the date on which the SEC declares each 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The , a “Shelf Registration Statement”), the Company shall be entitled to suspend, for a reasonable period of time not in excess of 45 consecutive days and not more than 90 days in any 12-month period (except as a result of a review of any post-effective amendment by the Commission before declaring any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement effective; provided, that the Company has used its reasonable best efforts to cause such post-effective amendment to be declared effective), the offer or sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement by any holder of Registrable Securities if:
(1) a “road show” is not then in progress with respect to a proposed offering of Registrable Securities by such holder; and,
(2) either
(A) the Unaffiliated Board Members, in good faith, determine that (i) the offer or sale of any shares of Common Shares would materially impede, delay or interfere with a significant transaction under negotiation by the Company, including any proposed financing, offer or sale of securities, acquisition, merger, tender offer, business combination, corporate reorganization, or consolidation, (ii) after the advice of counsel, the sale of Common Shares covered by the Shelf Registration Statement would require disclosure of non-public material information not otherwise required to be disclosed under applicable law, and (iii) either (x) the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving the confidentiality of the proposed transaction, (y) disclosure would have a material adverse effect on the Company or the Company’s ability to consummate the proposed transaction, or (z) the proposed transaction renders the Company unable to comply with requirements of the Commission; or
(B) the Unaffiliated Board Members, in good faith, determine that the Company is required by law, rule or regulation to supplement the Shelf Registration Statement or file a post-effective amendment to the Shelf Registration Statement in order to incorporate information into the Shelf Registration Statement for the purpose of (i) including in the Shelf Registration Statement any Prospectus required under Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act or (ii) reflecting in the Prospectus included in the Shelf Registration Statement any facts or events arising after the effective date of the Shelf Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment) that, individually or in the aggregate, represents a fundamental change in the information set forth in the Prospectus (any such period referred to in this Section 2(a)(iii), a “Suspension Period”); provided, however, that (i) in no event shall the Company postpone, defer or suspend any Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2(a)(iii) and/or Section 7(g) for more than an aggregate of ninety (90) days in any twelve (12) month period, and
(ii) in the event the Company postpones, defers or suspends any Demand Registration pursuant to Section 2(a)(iii)(C)(1) or (2) or Section 2(a)(iii)(D), then during such Suspension Period, the Company shall not engage in any transaction involving the offer, issuance, sale, or purchase of Common Shares (whether for the benefit of the Company or a third Person), except transactions involving the issuance or purchase of Common Shares as contemplated by Company employee benefit plans or employee or director arrangements. In order to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided registration statement pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) 2(a)(iii)(D), the Company shall not be exercisable until promptly upon determining to seek such suspension, deliver to the Effectiveness Deadlineholders of Registrable Securities included in such registration statement, a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company stating that the Company is suspending use of such registration statement pursuant to Section 2(a)(iii)(D), the basis therefor in reasonable detail and a good faith estimate as to the anticipated duration of such suspension.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Kenon Holdings Ltd.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, at At any time and from time when the Company is eligible to time during such periods when a Shelf register the Registrable Securities for resale by the investors on an appropriate Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all with the SEC, Investors holding at least 35% of the Investor’s then issued Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, may request that the Company register, under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, register some or all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated pursuant a Registration Statement by submitting a Filing Notice with the InvestorCompany (each a “Demand Registration”). Upon After receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)each Filing Notice, the Company shall promptly (prepare and in any event within thirty (30) days of the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SEC, and on or before the Filing Date, a Registration Statement covering the resale of all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration or such maximum portion of such Registrable Securities as permitted by SEC Guidance (provided that, the Company shall thereafter use its best reasonable commercial efforts to cause to be declared effective as promptly as practicable, a registration statement on the appropriate form for obtain the registration and sale as shall be selected by the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Investor registering of all such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09) 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 the appropriate form under the Securities Act and shall contain (unless otherwise directed by at least a majority in interest of the Investors) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its reasonable commercial efforts to cause a Registration Statement filed hereunder to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as reasonably practicable after the filing thereof, but in any event prior to the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its reasonable commercial efforts to keep such Registration Statement current and continuously effective under the Securities Act until such date as all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement (i) have been sold, thereunder or methods pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) in the opinion of distribution counsel to the Investors, (which A) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and (B) (I) may be sold without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144 or (II) the Company is in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144 (the “Effectiveness Period”). Such Registration Statement (including any amendments or supplements thereto and prospectuses contained therein), except for information provided by an underwritten offeringInvestor or any transferee of an Investor, shall 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 light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The Company shall telephonically request effectiveness of a Registration Statement as of 5:00 p.m. New York City time on a Trading Day. The Company shall immediately notify the Investors via facsimile or by e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the SEC, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of such Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. New York City time on the Trading Day after the effective date of such Registration Statement, file a final Prospectus with the SEC as required by Rule 424. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement (and notwithstanding that the Company used its reasonable commercial efforts to obtain the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will first be reduced by Registrable Securities represented by Warrant Shares (applied, in the case that some Warrant Shares may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of Registrable Securities specified unregistered Warrant Shares held by the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”Holders). If In the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends to distribute any Registrable Securities by means event of an underwritten offeringa cutback hereunder, 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 give the Investor registering Registrable Securities in at least five (5) Trading Days prior written notice along with the calculations as to 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 availableInvestor’s allotment.
(Bb) The Company shall use reasonable best efforts not be obligated to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed effect, or to take any action to effect, any registration pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii2(a) continuously effective and usable for (i) during the resale period that is ninety (90) days before the Company’s good faith estimate of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for date of filing of, and ending on a period of one date that is one-hundred eighty (180) days from after the effective date on which the SEC declares such Demand Registration Statement effectiveof, as such period may be extended pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B). The time period for which a Company-initiated registration, provided that the Company is required actively employing its good faith and commercially reasonable efforts to maintain cause such registration statement to become effective; or (ii) after the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods Company has effected four registrations pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d2(a).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) . A registration shall not be exercisable counted as “effected” for purposes of this Section 2(b) until such time as the Effectiveness Deadlineapplicable Registration Statement has been declared effective by the SEC.
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Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor Company shall use its best efforts to qualify and remain qualified to register securities under the Securities Act pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 or any successor form thereto. At such time as the Company shall have qualified for the use of a Registration Statement on Form S-3, the holder of Registrable Securities shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given right 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 request an unlimited number of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, that the Company register, registrations under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, Act of all or any portion of the its Registrable Securities designated pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 or any similar short-form Registration Statement (each a “Demand Registration”). Each request for a Demand Registration shall specify the approximate number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered. The Company shall cause a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or any successor form) to be filed within ten (10) days after the date on which a Demand Registration request is given and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Investor. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii), the Company shall promptly (Commission as soon as practicable thereafter and in any event within thirty (30) days of remain effective until the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with Investor has disposed of all of the SEC, and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause Common Shares it requested 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 registered in such Demand Notice Registration.
(b) The Company may postpone for up to ninety (90) days the filing or effectiveness of a “Registration Statement for a Demand Registration Statement”). if the Company's Board determines in its reasonable good faith judgment that such Demand Registration would (i) materially interfere with a significant acquisition, corporate organization or other similar transaction involving the Company; (ii) require premature disclosure of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential; or (iii) render the Company unable to comply with requirements under the Securities Act or Exchange Act.
(c) If the Investor registering holder of the Registrable Securities intends requesting a Demand Registration elects to distribute any the Registrable Securities covered by means of its request in 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 as a part of their request made pursuant to Section 3.12(c2(a). The holder of the Registrable Securities requesting the Demand Registration shall select the investment banking firm or firms to act as the managing underwriter or underwriters in any connection with such distribution offering; provided, that such selection shall be acceptable subject to the Investor registering consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
(d) The Company shall not grant registration rights to any other holder of the Company’s securities for a period of twelve (12) months from the date of this Agreement.
(e) The Company shall not include in any Demand Registration any securities which are not Registrable Securities without the prior written consent of the Investor, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. If a Demand Registration involves an underwritten offering and the managing underwriter of the requested Demand Registration advises the Company and Investor in writing that in its reasonable and good faith opinion the number of Common Shares proposed to be included in the Demand Registration, including all Registrable Securities and all other Common Shares proposed to be included in such underwritten offering. Any , exceeds the number of shares of Common Shares which can be sold in such underwritten offering and/or the number of shares of Common Shares proposed to be included in such Demand Registration Statement may, at would adversely affect the request price per share of the Holders submitting Common Shares proposed to be sold in such underwritten offering, the Company shall include in such Demand NoticeRegistration (i) first, the Common Shares that the Investor proposes to sell, and (ii) second, the Common Shares proposed to be a “shelf” registration pursuant included therein by any other Persons (including Common Shares to Rule 415, if availablebe sold for the account of the Company and/or other holders of Common Shares) allocated among such Persons in such manner as they may agree.
(Bf) The Nothing contained in this Agreement shall prevent 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 from filing a registration statement solely for the resale of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for Company’s account including without limitation, a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from the date registration statement relating to any employee benefit plan filed on which the SEC declares such Demand Registration Statement effectiveForm S-8 or similar form or, 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statementany corporate reorganization or other transaction under Rule 145 of the Securities Act, a registration statement on Form S-4 or similar form, or any registration statement relating to the registration of securities issued to raise financing for the Company.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Twinlab Consolidated Holdings, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given Subject to the Company, to requestterms and conditions of this Agreement, at any time and from time to time during such periods when after the initial public offering or listing on a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all securities exchange of the InvestorCompany’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, that the Company register, Common Units pursuant to an effective registration under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities may notify the Company that they intend to offer or cause to be offered for public sale all or any portion of the their Registrable Securities designated by in the Investormanner specified in such request. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)such request, the Company shall promptly (and in any event within deliver notice of such request to all Holders holding Registrable Securities who shall then have thirty (30) days of the date on which to notify the Company receives in writing of their desire to be included in such Demand Notice) file with registration. If the SECrequest for registration contemplates an underwritten public offering, and the Company shall thereafter state such in the written notice and in such event the right of any Person to participate in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Person’s participation in such underwritten public offering and the inclusion of such Person’s Registrable Securities in the underwritten public offering to the extent provided herein. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to cause file a registration to effect (but in any event no later than thirty (30) days after such request) the registration of all Registrable Securities whose holders request participation in such registration under the Securities Act, but only to the extent provided for in this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no request may be declared made under this Section 2 within ninety (90) days after the effective as promptly as practicable, date of a registration statement on filed by the appropriate form for Company; provided, that the Company shall have complied with its obligations in respect of Registrable Securities as to which registration shall have been requested. Each Holder of Registrable Securities agrees that such Holder shall treat as confidential the receipt of the notice of Demand Registration and shall not disclose or use the information contained in such notice of Demand Registration without the prior written consent of the Company until such time as the information contained therein is or becomes available to the public generally.
(b) If a requested registration involves an underwritten public offering and the managing underwriter of such offering determines in good faith that the number of securities sought to be offered should be limited due to market conditions, then the number of securities to be included in such underwritten public offering shall be reduced to a number deemed satisfactory by such managing underwriter; provided, that the securities to be excluded shall be determined in the following order of priority: (i) persons not having any contractual or other right to include such securities in the registration and sale as shall statement, (ii) securities held by any other Persons (other than the holders of Registrable Securities) having a contractual, incidental “piggy back” right to include such securities in the registration statement, (iii) securities to be selected registered by the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable pursuant to the Investor registering such registration statement, (iv) Registrable Securities in accordance with of holders who did not make the intended method or methods original request for registration and, if necessary, (v) Registrable Securities of distribution (which may be by an underwritten offeringholders who requested such registration pursuant to Section 2(a), . If there is a reduction of the total number of Registrable Securities specified by pursuant to clauses (iv) or (v), such reduction shall be made on a pro rata basis (based upon the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”). If the Investor registering aggregate number of Registrable Securities intends held by such holders).
(c) With respect 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 a request for registration pursuant to Section 3.12(c2(a) which is for an underwritten public offering, the managing underwriter shall be chosen by the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be sold in such offering, subject to the approval of the Company (which approval will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed). The managing underwriters in Company may not cause any such distribution shall be acceptable other registration of securities for sale for its own account (other than a registration effected solely to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in such underwritten offering. Any Demand Registration Statement may, at the request implement an employee benefit plan or a transaction to which Rule 145 of the Holders submitting Securities Act is applicable) to become effective within one hundred twenty (120) days following the Demand Notice, be a “shelf” effective date of any registration pursuant to Rule 415, if available.
(B) The Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed required 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement2.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Capstone Green Energy Holdings, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Ai) The Investor At any time after the Lock-Up Release Date, any Holder(s) shall have the option and right, exercisable by delivering a written notice to the Company (the a “Demand Notice”) given ), to require the Company to, pursuant to the Companyterms 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 request, at any time and from time Rule 415 pursuant to time during such periods when a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf (a “Demand Registration”). The Demand Notice must set forth the number of Registrable Securities that the Initiating Holder(s) intend to include in such Demand Registration Statements covering all 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 unless the Registrable Securities of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing Initiating Holder(s), their respective Affiliates and effectiveany other Holders to be included therein have an aggregate value, that based on the VWAP as of the date of the Demand Notice, of at least $30 million (the “Minimum Amount”). In addition, as promptly as reasonably practicable, but in no event later than 30 days after the later of the date hereof, the Lock-Up Release Date and the date the Company register, is eligible to use Form S-3 or any equivalent or successor form 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 (prepare and in any event within thirty (30) days of the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SEC, and Commission a Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 to permit the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective as promptly as practicable, a registration statement on public resale of all of 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 terms 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”)this Agreement. 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 its reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand cause such Shelf Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously be declared effective and usable by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable after the initial filing of such Shelf Registration Statement (or 90 days following the filing thereof if the Commission notifies the Company that it will “review” the Shelf Registration Statement). The Shelf Registration Statement shall provide 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.Registrable
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Innovex Downhole Solutions, Inc.)
Demand Registration. If the Company shall receive at any -------------------- time after its initial firm-commitment public offering (A) The Investor shall have so long as such request is not within 180 days after the right, effective date of a registration statement filed by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given Company covering an underwritten offering of an of its securities to the Company, public) a written request from Sellers holding at least 100,000 shares of Common Stock issued or to request, at be issued upon exercise of 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, Warrants ("Warrant Stock") that the Company registerfile a registration statement for its Common Stock, 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), then 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 effect such registration, on Form S-3 or successor form replacing Form S-3, if practicable, as would permit or facilitate the sale and distribution of all or such portion of such Warrant Stock as is specified in such request. For purposes of this Agreement, the term "Seller" or "Sellers" shall mean a holder of Restricted Securities of the Company for which the Company shall be required to file a registration statement on the appropriate form for the registration and sale as or which shall be selected by registered under the Securities Act at the request of such holder pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2. Neither the Company and nor any of its Affiliates (as defined in the Warrants) shall be reasonably acceptable to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods deemed a "Seller" for any purposes 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”)this Agreement. If the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten managing underwriter for the respective offering, it if any, advises the Company in writing that the inclusion in such registration of some or all of the Warrant Stock sought to be registered by the Seller or Sellers in its opinion will cause the proceeds or the price per unit the Company or the requesting or demanding holder of securities will derive from such registration to be reduced or that the number of securities to be registered at the instance of the Company or such requesting or demanding holder plus the number of securities sought to be registered by the Sellers is too large a number to be reasonably sold, the number of securities sought to be registered for each Seller shall promptly so advise be reduced pro rata, in proportion to the number of securities sought to be registered by all Sellers, to the extent necessary to reduce the number of securities to be registered to the number recommended by the managing underwriter (the "Recommended Number"), subject at all times to those registration rights granted to certain holders of the Company's securities set forth in the Investors' Rights Agreement dated July 9, 1999 between 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 availableinvestors listed therein.
(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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have If at any time after the right, date of this Agreement the Company receives a request from a Holder of Registrable Securities that the Company file a Registration Statement on Form S-1 covering the resale of the Registrable Securities held by written notice such Holder (the a “Demand Notice”), then the Company shall (i) given within five (5) days after the date it receives the Demand Notice, give notice thereof to all other Holders and (ii) as soon as reasonably practicable, but in no event later than the CompanyFiling Date, to request, at any time and from time to time during such periods when file with the Commission a Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-1 covering the resale of all Registrable Securities of the Holder that provided the Demand Notice and any additional Registrable Securities requested by the other Holders to be included therein, as specified by each such other Holder within twenty (20) days after such Holder has received notice from the Company pursuant to clause (i); provided that such Registration Statement need not include Registrable Securities already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement The Registration Statement shall be for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement shall contain (except if otherwise required pursuant to written comments received from the Commission upon a review of such Registration Statement) the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as practicable but, in any event, no later than the Effectiveness Date, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep the Registration Statement effective under the Securities Act until the date when all Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement have been sold or Shelf may be sold without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(b)(i) promulgated under the Securities Act (the “Effectiveness Period").
(b) If for any reason the Commission does not permit all of the Registrable Securities requested by a Holder to be included in the Registration Statements Statement filed pursuant to Section 2(a), or for any other reason any such Registrable Securities are not permitted by the Commission to be included on a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement, then the Company shall prepare and file as soon as possible after the date on which such filing may be made, an additional Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities requested by Holder not already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis at the market pursuant to Rule 415 or otherwise as may be acceptable to a Holder whose Registrable Securities were not registered for resale. Each such Registration Statement shall contain (except if otherwise required pursuant to written comments received from the Commission upon a review of such Registration Statement) the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause each such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as possible but, in any event, no later than its Effectiveness Date, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep such Registration Statement effective under the Securities Act during the entire Effectiveness Period..
(c) If: (i) a Registration Statement covering all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities required to be covered thereby is or are not existing and effective, that filed by the Company register, under and in accordance with the provisions of Commission on or prior to the Securities ActFiling Date (or the applicable filing date if the Registration Statement is not the initial Registration Statement required to be filed under Section 2(a)), (ii) a Registration Statement covering all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated is not declared effective by the Investor. Upon receipt of Commission on or prior to its required Effectiveness Date (it being understood that if the Company shall not have filed a Demand Notice from “final” prospectus for the Investor pursuant to this Registration Statement with the SEC under Rule 424(b) in accordance with Section 3.12(a)(ii2(f) below (whether or not such a prospectus is technically required by such rule), the Company shall promptly not be deemed to have satisfied this clause (ii)), (iii) the Company fails to file a request for the acceleration of the Effectiveness Date of the applicable Registration Statement as required by Section 3(c), (iv) there is a suspension or delisting of the Company’s Common Stock (or the Company fails to timely list all the Registrable Securities) on its principal trading market or exchange, (v) after its Effective Date, other than during an Allowable Grace Period (as defined below), such Registration Statement ceases to be effective and available for use by the Holders as to any Registrable Securities to which it is required to cover at any time prior to the expiration of its Effectiveness Period for up to no more than 3 consecutive Trading Days (or 20 Trading Days in any event within thirty 12 month period in the aggregate) (30) days any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event,” and for purposes of clauses (i)-(iv), on the date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (v), the date on which the Company receives Allowable Grace Period or other specified period is exceeded, being referred to as “Event Date"), then, in addition to any other rights available to the Holders under this Agreement or under applicable law: (x) on each such Demand Notice) file with the SEC, and Event Date the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts pay to cause each Holder an amount in cash, as partial damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.5% of the aggregate Investment Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement; and (y) on each 30-day anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.5% of the aggregate Investment Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. The partial damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the partial damages under this Section 2(d) exceed an amount equal to 20% of the aggregate Investment Amounts.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, in the event the staff of the Commission (the “Staff”) or the Commission requires any Holder seeking to sell securities under a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Agreement to be declared effective specifically identified as promptly an “underwriter” in order to permit such Registration Statement to become effective, and such Holder does not consent to being so named as practicablean underwriter in such Registration Statement, a registration statement on the appropriate form for the registration and sale as shall be selected by then in each such case, 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 reduce the total number of Registrable Securities specified to be registered on behalf of such Holder, until such time as the Staff or the Commission does not require such identification or until such Holder accepts such identification and the manner thereof. Any reduction pursuant to this paragraph will first reduce all Registrable Securities other than those issued pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and in the event of any reduction pursuant to this paragraph, no Holder shall have any claim against the Company as a result of such reduction and any Event or other delay or breach of this Agreement occurring primarily due to such action by the Holders Staff or the Commission and any such relating reduction shall not require the Company to pay any partial damages pursuant to Section 2(d) hereof or otherwise provide the basis for any claim by any Holder against the Company pursuant to the Transaction Documents (it being understood that the foregoing does not constitute a waiver of Section 3.2(f) of the Securities Purchase Agreement by any Holder or the obligations of the Company under this paragraph and elsewhere in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”relation thereto). If In the Investor registering event of any reduction in Registrable Securities intends pursuant to distribute any Registrable Securities by means this paragraph, an affected Holder shall have the right to require, upon delivery of an underwritten offering, it shall promptly so advise a written request to the Company signed by the Holder, the Company to file a registration statement within 30 days of such request (subject to any restrictions imposed by Rule 415 or required by the Staff or the Commission) for re-sale by such Holder in a manner acceptable to such Holder, and the Company shall take following such request cause to be and keep effective such registration statement in the same manner as otherwise contemplated in this Agreement for registration statements hereunder, in each case until such time as: (i) all reasonable steps to facilitate Registrable Securities held by such distribution, including the actions required Holder have been registered pursuant to Section 3.12(c). The managing underwriters an effective Registration Statement in a manner acceptable to such Holder or (ii) the Registrable Securities may be resold by such Holder without restriction (including volume limitations) pursuant to Rule 144(b)(i) of the Securities Act (taking account of any Staff position with respect to “affiliate” status) or (iii) the Holder agrees to be named as an underwriter in any such distribution shall be Registration Statement in a manner acceptable to Holder as to all Registrable Securities held by such Holder and that have not theretofore been included in a Registration Statement under this Agreement (it being understood that the Investor registering special demand right under this sentence may be exercised by a Holder multiple times and with respect to limited amounts of Registrable Securities in order to permit the re-sale thereof by 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 availableHolder as contemplated above).
(Be) The In the event that Form S-1 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii(i) continuously effective and usable for register the resale of the Registrable Securities covered thereby for a period of one hundred eighty on another appropriate form reasonably acceptable to the Holders and (180ii) days from undertake to register the date Registrable Securities on which the SEC declares such Demand Registration Statement effective, Form S-1 as soon as such period may be extended pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B). The time period for which form is available, provided that the Company is required shall use reasonable best efforts to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand the Registration Statement shall be extended then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-1 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the aggregate number Commission. In the event the Company becomes eligible to register the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to promptly register the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, provided that the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to maintain the effectiveness of days the Registration Statement(s) then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-3 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the Commission.
(f) By 5:30 p.m. on the Trading Day immediately following the Effective Date of all suspension periods each Registration Statement, the Company shall file with the Commission in accordance with Rule 424 under the Securities Act the final prospectus to be used in connection with sales pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Health Benefits Direct Corp)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, If at any time and from time to time during on or after the date hereof, the Company shall receive a request from one or more Legato Founders or Key Shareholders (such periods when Legato Founders or Key Shareholders, collectively, the “Requesting Shareholders”) that the Company, (i) effect a Shelf Registration Statement registration under the Securities Act if any Registrable Securities are listed on a U.S. National Securities Exchange or Shelf Registration Statements covering all the Company is otherwise subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Investor’s Exchange Act, or (ii) effect a qualification for distribution by prospectus under Canada Securities Laws if any Registrable Securities is are listed on a Canada National Securities Exchange or are not existing and effective, that the Company registeris a reporting issuer in any province or territory of Canada under Canada Securities Laws, under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, all or any portion of the Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities, specifying the intended method of disposition thereof, including whether to be conducted via an underwritten offering (each such request shall be referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”). The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the filing of a Registration Filing and the effectiveness of the Demand Registration, or the filing of a prospectus under Canada Securities designated by Laws and the Investorissuance of a final receipt for such prospectus, or both, subject to the restrictions set forth in this ARTICLE III. Upon receipt The Company shall give reasonably prompt notice of a Demand Notice Registration (and in no event later than 15 Business Days or 4 Business Days in the case of a Bought Deal prior to the anticipated filing date of the Registration Filing relating to such Demand Registration) to the other Legato Founders and Key Shareholders with respect to all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Shareholders (all such Legato Founders and Key Shareholders, together with the Requesting Shareholders, and any other Shareholders participating in a Demand Registration or Piggyback Registration, the “Registering Shareholders”) that such Shareholders have the right to request the Company to register by request received by the Company within 10 Business Days, or 2 Business Days in the case of a Bought Deal, after the date of the Company’s notice of the Demand Registration, and the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to include all Registrable Securities requested to be registered by the Registering Shareholders in such Registration Filing. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration (i) unless the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the Investor pursuant sale of the Registrable Securities requested to this be included in such Demand Registration equals or exceeds C$50,000,000 and (ii) if the Company shall have effected a Demand Registration or Piggyback Registration in which Legato Founders and Key Shareholders had the opportunity to sell Registrable Securities within the six-month period prior to receipt of the Demand Registration.
(b) At any time prior to the Public Offering Launch of a Demand Registration, the Requesting Shareholders may revoke such request, without liability to any of the other Registering Shareholders, by providing a notice to the Company revoking such request.
(c) The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Demand Registration is completed.
(d) A Demand Registration shall be deemed not to have occurred:
(i) unless the Public Offering Pricing has been completed and a final Prospectus or Shelf Prospectus Supplement relating to the applicable Registration Filing containing pricing information has been filed with the SEC or one or more Canada Securities Authorities; provided that a Demand Registration shall be deemed not to have occurred if either (1) such Registration Filing is interfered with by any cease trade or stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC, a Canada Securities Authority or any other governmental agency or court or (2) less than 75% of the Registrable Securities included in such Registration Filing have been sold thereunder; or
(ii) if the Maximum Offering Size is reduced in accordance with Section 3.12(a)(ii3.1(e) such that less than 75% of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Shareholders sought to be included in such registration are included.
(e) If a Demand Registration involves an underwritten Public Offering and the managing underwriters advise the Company and the Registering Shareholders that, in their view, the amount of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration (including any securities that the Company proposes to include) exceeds the largest amount of Registrable Securities that can be sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such Registrable Securities can be sold (the “Maximum Offering Size”), the Company shall promptly include in such registration, in the priority listed below, up to the Maximum Offering Size:
(and in any event within thirty i) first, all Registrable Securities requested to be registered by the Registering Shareholders (30) days allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Persons on the basis 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 relative number of Registrable Securities beneficially owned by such Registering Shareholders); and
(ii) second, any securities proposed to be registered by any other Persons (including the Company), with such priorities among them as the Company shall determine.
(f) The Company may postpone effecting a Demand Registration on one occasion during any period of twelve consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 120 days (which period may not be extended or renewed), if the Company provides a certificate signed by the Holders principal executive officer of the Company stating that in the good faith judgement of the Board that (A) the Company is in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such Demand Notice notice the Company reasonably believes would not be in the best interests of the Company or (a “Demand Registration Statement”). If the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends B) that it would otherwise be seriously detrimental to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offering, it shall promptly so advise the Company and its shareholders for such Demand Registration to be effected at such time. It is agreed that the existence or anticipation of a material acquisition or financing activity will be sufficient reason for the Company to postpone a Demand Registration.
(g) At any time that Legato Founders or Key Shareholders may request a Demand Registration, upon the request of one or more Legato Founders or Key Shareholders that satisfy the Registration Requirements, the Company shall take all use its commercially reasonable steps efforts to facilitate file a Registration Filing for a Shelf Registration with respect to the Registrable Securities and to cause such distribution, including Shelf Registration to become effective. Any request for the actions required Company to prepare and file a Shelf Prospectus Supplement pursuant to Section 3.12(c). The managing underwriters a Shelf Registration in any such distribution underwritten Public Offering shall be acceptable deemed to be a Demand Registration subject to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in such provisions of Section 3.1(a); provided that none of (x) the filing of a Shelf Base Prospectus or (y) the filing of Shelf Prospectus Supplement that does not relate to an underwritten offeringPublic Offering and is only for the purpose of updating a Shelf Base Prospectus with the identities of any selling shareholders, the amounts of securities to be sold and any related information required by the applicable Registration Filing, shall constitute a Demand Registration. 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 give notice of any Shelf 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth procedures in Section 3.12(d3.1(a).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Sources: Investor Rights Agreement (Algoma Steel Group Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor Stockholders collectively owning at least 2,500,000 Registrable Shares (or the equivalent number in the event of a stock split, reverse stock split, stock dividend or a 71 reclassification or recapitalization subsequent to the date hereof) shall have the right, exercisable at any time after the date hereof, on any one occasion, by written notice to the Company (the “Demand "Registration Notice”") given to signed by Stockholders requesting such registration (the Company"Requesting Stockholders"), 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 require the Company register, to use its best efforts to register under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, all or any portion part of the Registrable Securities designated Shares held by the InvestorStockholders (the "Demand Registration"). Upon The Company, upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)Registration Notice, 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 effect the Demand Registration. The Company shall send written notice of such Demand Registration to be declared effective as promptly as practicablethe remaining Stockholders, if any (the "Notification"), within ten days of the Company's receipt of the Registration Notice. Unless a registration statement on remaining Stockholder shall deliver a written request for inclusion in the appropriate form for Demand Registration of a specified number of his Registrable Shares within ten days of the registration and sale as shall be selected date of the Notification by the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable Company, the right of such remaining Stockholder 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 participate in such Demand Notice (a “Registration shall terminate. If such remaining Stockholder so notifies the Company within the period specified above of his desire to participate in the Demand Registration, such Stockholder's Registrable Shares shall be included in the Demand Registration. Each of the Stockholders participating in any Demand Registration Statement”). If is referred to herein as a "Selling Stockholder" and collectively, as the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of "Selling Stockholders."
(b) The Registration Notice shall state whether the registration shall be an underwritten offeringoffering or a shelf offering pursuant to Rule 415 of the Securities Act. In the event that the shelf registration is requested, 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 its 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 such registration for at least 90 days. In connection with such registration, the Company shall be obligated as soon as practicable (but in any event within 90 days) to prepare and file a registration statement (the "Registration Statement") upon receipt of any such Registration Notice and shall be further obligated to have the Registration Statement declared effective under the Securities Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and the applicable securities or "blue sky" laws of each state, as soon as practicable after the filing date thereof. The Company shall be deemed to have completed a Demand Registration if the Registration Statement shall be extended is declared effective by the aggregate number Commission and the Company uses its best efforts to keep such Registration Statement effective for 90 days or such lesser period of days time as is necessary for the Selling Stockholders to sell all of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring the Registrable Shares registered thereunder. The registration rights contained herein with respect to the Registrable Shares held by a Stockholder shall terminate upon the transfer, sale or other disposition by a Stockholder of his Registrable Shares so transferred, sold or disposed of unless such Demand Registrable Shares are transferred, sold or disposed of to an "affiliate" of a Stockholder, as such term is defined in the Securities Act, or are transferred by gift or inheritance in which case the registration rights contained herein shall automatically be assigned to such affiliate or other transferee.
(c) The Company may include in the Registration Statement referred to in Section 1(b) above a primary offering by the Company of a number of shares of Common Stock that the Company proposes to issue and sell for its own account, not to exceed three hundred percent (300%) of the number of Registrable Shares included in such Registration Statement.
(Cd) In connection with any underwritten registration hereunder, if the managing underwriter shall advise the Company in writing (with a copy to the Selling Stockholders) stating that, in its opinion, the number of shares of Common Stock proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the number which can be sold in such offering within the price range acceptable to the Company and the Selling Stockholders (such writing to state the approximate number of shares of Common Stock that may be included in such offering without such effect and, if possible, the basis of such opinion), then the Company will include in such registration, to the extent of the number of shares of Common Stock that the Company is so advised can be sold in such offering, (i) first, the Registrable Shares requested by the Selling Stockholders to be registered pursuant to this Section, and (ii) second, all remaining shares of Common Stock proposed to be included in such registration.
(e) In the event that the Company's Board of Directors reasonably determines in good faith that the filing of the Registration Statement would be significantly disadvantageous to the Company, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company may postpone the preparation and filing of the Registration Statement for a period up to 120 days as the Company shall in good fait▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇essary.
(f) The Company shall not be entitled obligated to suspend the use of take any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubtaction to effect any such registration, the rights provided qualification or compliance pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until 1.1 during the Effectiveness Deadlineperiod starting with the date 60 days prior to the Company's estimated date of filing of, and ending on the date 180 days following the effective date of, any registration statement relating to securities of the Company (other than a registration statement primarily relating to an offering of securities to employees or a dividend reinvestment plan), provided that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective.
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Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor At any time or from time to time, if the Partnership shall have the right, be requested in writing 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 by one or Shelf Registration Statements covering all more affiliates of the Investor’s Company who Beneficially Own Registrable Securities is Securities, or are not existing and effectiveby one or more Holders who Beneficially Own at least 250,000 Registrable Securities, that the Company register, to effect a registration under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, all or any portion Act 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 this Section 2 (a registration effected by the Partnership pursuant to this Section 2 is referred to as a “Demand Registration”), then the Partnership shall promptly give written notice of such proposed Demand Registration to each Holder and shall offer to include (subject to the terms of this Agreement) in such proposed Demand Registration any Registrable Securities requested to be included in such proposed Demand Registration by such Holders who respond in writing to the Partnership’s notice within 15 days after delivery of such notice (which response shall specify the number of Registrable Securities proposed to be included in such Demand Registration and the intended method or methods of distribution, which may be pursuant to a shelf Registration Statement). Such written Demand Registration request shall specify the number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered, and the anticipated per unit price range for such offering, if applicable, and the intended method of distribution (which may be by pursuant to a shelf Registration Statement). Following the expiration of such 15-day response period, the Partnership shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to promptly effect such Demand Registration on an underwritten offering), appropriate form under the Securities Act of the Registrable Securities which the Partnership has been so requested to register; provided, however, that the Partnership shall not be obligated to effect any Demand Registration under the Securities Act except in accordance with the following provisions:
1. the Partnership shall not be obligated to file more than three Registration Statements in total pursuant to this Section 2; and
2. with respect to any Demand Registration of Registrable Securities, the Partnership may include in the Registration Statement related thereto any Other Units; provided, however, that if the managing underwriter of any offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement advises the Partnership in writing that the inclusion of all Registrable Securities and Other Units proposed to be included in such Demand Registration or offering would adversely and materially affect the successful marketing (including pricing) of all such securities, then the number of Registrable Securities specified by the Holders and Other Units proposed to be included in such Demand Notice (a “Registration or offering shall be included in the following order:
I. First, the Registrable Securities held by all Selling Holders, pro rata based upon the number of Registrable Securities Beneficially Owned by each such Selling Holder at the time of such Demand Registration Statement”)or offering; and
II. If Second, the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offeringOther Units.
(b) The Holder or Holders requesting a Demand Registration may, it shall promptly so advise in the Company and the Company shall take all reasonable steps to facilitate such distribution, including the actions required notice delivered pursuant to Section 3.12(c). The managing underwriters 2(a) or in connection with any “shelf take-down” under such distribution shall be acceptable to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in such underwritten offering. Any Demand Registration Statement may, at (which offerings the request of the Selling Holders submitting the Demand Notice, be a “shelf” registration pursuant may elect to Rule 415, if available.
(B) The Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand conduct from time-to-time under any shelf Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(iiRule 415), elect that such Demand Registration or offering, as the case may be, cover an underwritten public offering. Upon such election, such Holder(s) continuously effective shall elect one or more nationally recognized firms of investment banks to act as the lead managing underwriter(s) and usable for shall select any additional investment banks to be used in connection with such offering, provided that such investment banks must be approved by the resale Partnership, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed. The Partnership shall, together with the Selling Holders, enter into a customary underwriting agreement with such underwriters.
(c) A requested Demand Registration may be rescinded only by written notice to the Partnership by the Selling Holders holding a majority of the Registrable Securities covered thereby to be included in the related Registration Statement and only (i) once in any 12 month period prior to the sale of any Registrable Securities under the Registration Statement or (ii) upon such Selling Holders reimbursing the Partnership in whole for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the date on which the SEC declares Partnership in connection with such rescinded Demand Registration unless such Selling Holders (i) (x) reasonably believed that the Registration Statement effectivecontained an untrue statement of material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements made therein not misleading, (y) notified the Partnership of such fact and requested that the Partnership correct such alleged misstatement or omission and (z) the Partnership refused to correct such alleged misstatement or omission or (ii) could not include at least eighty percent (80%) of the Registrable Securities requested to be included on such Registration Statement as such period may be extended a result of Section 2(d). Any Demand Registration rescinded by the Selling Holders in accordance with this Section 2(c) shall not count as a Registration Statement initiated pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B). The time period 2 for which purposes of Section 2(a) (except for a rescission under clause (i) hereof, unless such Selling Holders shall have reimbursed the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended Partnership in whole for all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring Partnership in connection with respect to such rescinded Demand Registration StatementRegistration).
(Cd) The Company Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if in connection with any review of a Registration Statement prior to effectiveness, the Commission objects based on any SEC Guidance to the number of Registrable Securities registered on a particular Registration Statement (in which event the Partnership shall use its commercially reasonable diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all Registrable Securities intended to be included therein), the Partnership shall be entitled to suspend the use of any remove by pre-effective amendment such Registrable Securities from such Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under to the circumstances set forth extent in Section 3.12(d)excess of such limitation and shall be permitted to reduce the Registrable Securities allocated amongst the Selling Holders on a pro rata basis based upon the number of Registrable Securities known to the Partnership to be Beneficially Owned by each such Selling Holder at the time of such registration.
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Sanchez Production Partners LP)
Demand Registration. (A1) The Investor Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, if no Coordinated Registration Statement shall have been filed pursuant to Section 2(a) for a period of six (6) months after 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 closing of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effectivefirst Financing of the Acquiror Company to occur after the date of this Agreement, that the Acquiror Company register, under and Principal Shareholders shall be entitled to request registration in accordance with this Section 2(b) as follows: if the provisions Acquiror Company receives a written request from the holders of the Securities Act, all fifty percent (50%) or any portion more of the Registrable Securities designated by then outstanding (the Investor. Upon receipt “Initiating Holders”) that the Acquiror Company file a Registration Statement under the Securities Act covering the registration of a Demand Notice from at least fifty percent (50%) of the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)then outstanding Registrable Securities, then the Acquiror Company shall promptly (will promptly, and in any no event within thirty later than fifteen (3015) days of the date on which the receipt thereof, give written notice of such request to all Acquiror 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 Principal Shareholders (a “Demand Registration StatementNotice”). If An Acquiror Company Principal Shareholder may elect to have its Registrable Securiteis included in such Demand Registration Statement by giving written notice to Acquiror Company within fifteen (15) days after Acquiror Company has given the Investor registering Demand Registration Notice, which notice shall include the number of Registrable Securities intends such Acquiror Company Principal Shareholder wishes to distribute any Registrable Securities have included in the Demand Registration Notice, together with a true and complete Selling Securityholder Questionnaire with respect to such Company Principal Shareholder 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 Response Deadline.
(2) Upon request for registration pursuant to Section 3.12(c2(b)(1). The managing underwriters in any such distribution , the Acquiror Company shall be acceptable use its commercially reasonable efforts to file with the Investor registering Registrable Securities in such underwritten offering. Any Commission, as expeditiously as possible but no later than sixty (60) days after the Response Deadline, a Demand Registration Statement may, at for the request registration of all the Holders submitting Registrable Securities that the Acquiror Company Principal Shareholders have elected to include in the Demand NoticeRegistration Statement, be a and to include the Acquiror Company Principal Shareholders as “shelfselling shareholders” registration pursuant to Rule 415, if available.
(B) in such Demand Registration Statement. The Acquiror Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as possible, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep each Demand such Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously effective and usable for the resale a period of at least one (1) year, or until all of the Registrable Securities covered thereby are eligible for a period resale under Rule 144. By 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Business Day immediately following the Effective Date of one hundred eighty (180) days from each Registration Statement, the date on which Acquiror Company shall file with the SEC declares Commission in accordance with Rule 424 under the Securities Act the final prospectus to be used in connection with sales pursuant to such Demand Registration Statement effective, as (if such period may be extended pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B). The time period for which the Company filing is required to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to under such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(dRule).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (AFH Holding I, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, at At any time and from time after the Company becomes eligible to time during such periods when file 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 on Form S-3 (or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated by the Investor. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant successor form relating to this Section 3.12(a)(iisecondary offerings), the Company shall promptly (and Purchaser may request, in any event within thirty (30) days of the date on which writing, 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 effect 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 on Form S-3 (or methods of distribution such successor form) (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”), of the Shares having an aggregate value of at least three million dollars ($3,000,000) (based on the then current public market price). The rights granted by the Company under this Section 8.1 shall terminate on the [************************************************************].
(b) Upon receipt of such request for registration pursuant to this Section 8, the Company shall, as expeditiously as possible, cause to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Demand Registration Statement providing for the registration under the Securities Act of the Shares which the Company has been requested to so register by the Purchaser, and shall use its best efforts to have such Demand Registration Statement declared effective by the SEC as soon as practicable thereafter and to keep such Demand Registration Statement continuously effective for a period of time necessary following the date on which such Demand Registration Statement is declared effective to permit the sale of all the Shares covered by such Demand Registration Statement or such shorter period which will terminate when all the Shares covered by such Demand Registration Statement have been sold pursuant thereto (including, if necessary, by filing with the SEC a post-effective amendment or a supplement to the Demand Registration Statement or the related prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or by filing any other required document or otherwise supplementing or amending the Demand Registration Statement, if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form under the Securities Act used by the Company for such Demand Registration Statement or by the Securities Act, any state securities or “blue sky” laws, or any other rules and regulations thereunder).
(c) A Demand Registration Statement shall be deemed not have become effective unless it has been declared effective by the SEC; provided, however, that if, after it has been declared effective, the offering of any Shares pursuant to such Demand Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court (other than such stop order or injunction issued as a result of (i) the inclusion in such Demand Registration Statement of any information supplied to the Company for inclusion therein by the Purchaser or (ii) the conduct of the offering by the Purchaser of its agents), such Demand Registration Statement will be deemed not to have become effective.
(d) The Purchaser shall be entitled to two Demand Registration Statements pursuant to Section 8.1(a). For purposes of this Section 8.1(d), a registration shall not be counted until such time as a Registration Statement covering the applicable Shares has been declared effective by the SEC (subject to Section 8.1(c)), except that a registration shall count if prior to the Registration Statement being declared effective the Purchasers withdraw their request for such registration by providing written notice to the Company and elect not to pay the registration expenses therefor pursuant to Section 8.3. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event the withdrawal by the Purchaser is based upon material adverse information related to the Company that is different from the information known or available to the Purchaser at the time of its request for registration, or a material change in the business, assets, liabilities, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Company after the time of such request, then such registration shall not be counted for purposes of this Section 8.1(d) even though the Purchaser does not bear the Registration Expenses therefor.
(e) If the Investor registering Registrable Securities Purchaser intends to distribute any Registrable Securities the Shares covered by its request by means of an underwritten offeringunderwriting, it shall promptly so advise the Company and as a part of its request made pursuant to Section 8.1(a). If the Company desires that any officers or directors of the Company holding securities of the Company be included in any registration for an underwritten offering requested pursuant to Section 8.1(e) or if other holders of securities of the Company who are entitled, by contract with the Company, to have securities included in such a registration (the “Other Holders”) request such inclusion, the Company shall take offer to include the securities of such officers, directors and Other Holders in such registration and underwriting. The Company shall (together with the Purchasers, officers, directors and Other Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form (including, without limitation, customary indemnification and contribution provisions on the part of the Company) with the underwriter. The Company may include securities for its own account in such registration if the underwriter so agrees and if the number of Shares and other securities that would otherwise have been included in such registration and underwriting will not thereby be limited. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 8.1, if the underwriter determines that the inclusion of the number Shares requested to be registered would have a material adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of the Common Stock to be registered, the Company shall limit the number of Shares to be included in the registration and underwriting to such number of Shares that the Purchaser is so advised can be sold without having such a material adverse effect. The Company shall so advise all reasonable steps holders of Shares requesting registration, and the number of shares that are entitled to facilitate be included in the registration and underwriting shall be allocated in the following manner: first, all securities initially proposed to be sold pursuant to the Demand Registration Statement by the Purchaser; and second, the number of Shares requested to be included in such distributionregistration by the Other Holders that the Purchaser is so advised can be sold without having a material adverse effect on the price, including timing or distribution of the actions required Common Stock, allocated pro rata among the Other Holders requesting such registration on the basis of the number of Shares requested to be included by all such Other Holders.
(f) If at the time of any request to register Shares by the Purchaser pursuant to Section 3.12(c8.1(a). The managing underwriters , the Company is engaged or has plans to engage in a registered public offering or is engaged in any such distribution shall be acceptable to other material activity which, in the Investor registering Registrable Securities in such underwritten offering. Any Demand Registration Statement may, at the request good faith and reasonable determination of the Holders submitting Company’s Board of Directors, would be materially adversely affected by the Demand Noticerequested registration, then the Company may at its option direct that such request 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 delayed for a period not in excess of one hundred eighty ninety (18090) days from the date on which of such request, such right to delay a request to be exercised by the SEC declares such Demand Registration Statement effective, as such period may be extended Company not more than once in any twelve-month period.
(g) The Purchaser shall have the right to select the underwriter for an underwritten offering requested 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such a Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled , subject to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubtCompany’s approval, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall which will not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadlineunreasonably withheld.
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Sources: Stock Purchase Agreement (Coley Pharmaceutical Group, Inc.)
Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the right, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, at At any time and from time to time during such periods when a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all after the six month anniversary of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effectiveconsummation by the IPO Issuer of the Initial Public Offering, each Majority Investor may request in writing that the Company register, IPO Issuer effect the registration under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, Act of all or any portion of their Registrable Equity Securities, and specifying the intended method of disposition thereof (each such request, a “Demand Registration”), and the IPO Issuer shall use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of all Registrable Equity Securities for which such Majority Investor has requested registration under this Section 8.10; provided, that the IPO Issuer shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate gross proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Equity Securities designated requested to be included by such Majority Investor in such Demand Registration are at least $25,000,000.
(b) At any time prior to the effective date of the Registration Statement relating to such registration, the Majority Investor who requested the registration may revoke their registration request without liability to such Majority Investor. Upon receipt , by providing a notice to the IPO Issuer revoking such request.
(c) The IPO Issuer shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with each Demand Registration, regardless of whether such Registration is effected; provided, that the participating Members holding Registrable Equity Securities shall each pay their pro rata portion of all underwriting discounts, selling commissions and stock transfer taxes applicable to the sale of Registrable Equity Securities.
(d) Subject to Section 8.11(b), if a Demand Notice from Registration involves a public offering and the Investor managing underwriter advises the IPO Issuer and the Majority Investors that, in its view, the number of Registrable Equity Securities that the Majority Investors, the Members (pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii8.11) and the IPO Issuer propose to include in such registration exceeds the largest number of Registrable Equity Securities that can be sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such Registrable Equity Securities can be sold (the “Demand Maximum Offering Size”), the Company IPO Issuer shall promptly only include in such registration Registrable Equity Securities of the Majority Investors and the Members up to the Demand Maximum Offering Size (with the number of Registrable Equity Securities of the Majority Investors and the Members included in any event within such registration reduced pro rata based on their relative number of Registrable Equity Securities requested to be included in the Demand Registration).
(e) The IPO Issuer may defer the filing (but not the preparation) of a Registration Statement, or suspend the continued use of a Registration Statement, required by this Section 8.10 for a period of up to thirty (30) days after the request to file a Registration Statement if at the time the IPO Issuer receives the request to register Registrable Equity Securities, the IPO Issuer or any of the date on its Subsidiaries are engaged in confidential negotiations or other confidential business activities, disclosure of which the Company receives would be required in such Demand Notice) file with the SECRegistration Statement (but would not be required if such Registration Statement were not filed), and the Company Board of Managers (or board of directors of the IPO Issuer) determines in good faith, after consultation with external legal counsel, that such disclosure would have a material adverse effect on the IPO Issuer or its business or on the IPO Issuer’s ability to effect a proposed material acquisition, disposition, financing, reorganization, recapitalization or similar transaction. A deferral of the filing of a Registration Statement, or the suspension of the continued use of a Registration Statement, pursuant to this Section 8.10(e), shall thereafter be promptly lifted, and the requested Registration Statement shall be filed as expeditiously as possible, in the case of a deferral, if the negotiations or other activities are disclosed or terminated. In order to defer the filing of a Registration Statement, or suspend the continued use its best efforts of a Registration Statement, pursuant to cause this Section 8.10(e), the IPO Issuer shall promptly (but in any event within five (5) days), upon determining to be declared effective seek such deferral or suspension, deliver to the Majority Investors a certificate signed by the Board of Managers (or board of directors of the IPO Issuer) stating that the IPO Issuer is deferring such filing, or suspending the continued use of a Registration Statement, pursuant to this Section 8.10(e) and a general statement of the reason for such deferral or suspension, as promptly as practicablethe case may be, and an approximation of the anticipated delay. The IPO Issuer may defer the filing, or suspend the continued use of, a registration statement on particular Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 8.10(e) no more than twice in any twelve month period; provided, that there must be an interim period of at least ninety (90) days between the appropriate form for end of one deferral or suspension period and the registration beginning of a subsequent deferral or suspension period. In the event the IPO Issuer exercises its rights under this Section 8.10(e), the IPO Issuer will, within ten (10) days following receipt by the Majority Investors of the notice of deferral or suspension, as the case may be, update the deferred or suspended Registration Statement as may be necessary to permit the Majority Investors to resume use thereof in connection with the offer and sale as shall be selected by the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Investor registering of its Registrable Equity 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 availableapplicable law.
(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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Demand Registration. (Aa) The Investor shall have the rightSubject to Section 5 hereof, by written notice (the “Demand Notice”) given to the Company, to request, if 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 any Holder shall request the Company register, in writing to register under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, Act all or any portion a part of the Registrable Securities designated held by the Investor. Upon receipt of such Holder (a "Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(iiRegistration"), 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 all reasonable efforts to cause to be filed and declared effective as promptly soon as practicable, reasonably practicable (but in no event later than the 45th day after such Holder's request is made) a registration statement statement, on the such appropriate form as the Company in its discretion shall determine, providing for the registration and sale as shall be selected by the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Investor registering of all such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution (which may be by an underwritten offering), of the total number such Holder. The Company agrees to use its reasonable efforts to keep any such registration statement continuously effective and usable for resale of Registrable Securities specified by for so long as the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”). If the Investor registering Holder whose Registrable Securities intends to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offering, it are included therein 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)request. 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 be obligated to keep each Demand Registration Statement file registration statements pursuant to this Section 2(a) until all Registrable Securities have ceased to be Registrable Securities. Each registration statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii2(a) continuously effective and usable for is hereinafter referred to as a "Demand Registration Statement."
(b) The Company agrees (i) not to effect any public or private sale, distribution or purchase of any of its securities which are the resale of same as or similar to the Registrable Securities, including a sale pursuant to Regulation D under the Securities covered thereby Act, during the 15-day period prior to, and during the 45-day period beginning on, the closing date of each underwritten offering under any Demand Registration Statement, and (ii) to use reasonable efforts to cause each holder of its securities purchased from the Company, at any time on or after the date of this Agreement (other than in a registered public offering) to agree not to effect any public sale or distribution of any such securities during such period, including a sale pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act.
(c) The Company may postpone for a reasonable period of one hundred eighty (180) days from time, not to exceed 30 days, 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 filing or the effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement shall be extended if the Board of Directors of the Company in good faith determines that (A) such registration might have a material adverse effect on any plan or proposal by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring Company with respect to such Demand Registration Statementany financing, acquisition, recapitalization, reorganization or other material transaction, or (B) the Company is in possession of material non-public information that, if publicly disclosed, could result in a material disruption of a major corporate development or transaction then pending or in progress or in other material adverse consequences to the Company.
(Cd) The Company shall If at any time any Holder of Registrable Securities to be entitled to suspend the use of any effective covered by a Demand Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(iidesires to sell Registrable Securities in an underwritten offering, such Holder shall have the right to select any nationally recognized investment banking firm(s) under to administer the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For offering, subject to the avoidance ap- proval of doubtthe Company, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) which approval shall not be exercisable until unreasonably withheld, and the Effectiveness DeadlineCompany shall enter into underwriting agreements with the underwriter(s) of such offering, which agreements shall contain such representations and warranties by the Company, and such other terms, conditions and indemnities as are at the time customarily contained in underwriting agreements for similar offerings.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (Mafco Consolidated Group Inc)
Demand Registration. (A) The Investor At any time commencing after the Closing Date, the Purchasers shall have the right, exercisable by written notice to the Company (the “"Demand Notice”) given Registration Request"), to have the Company prepare and file with the Commission, on one occasion, at the sole expense of the Company, to requestin respect of all the Shares of Common Stock purchased under this Agreement (the "Registrable Securities"), 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 so as to permit a public offering and effective, that the Company register, under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, all or any portion sale of the Registrable Securities designated by the InvestorSecurities. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor pursuant On or prior to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)each Filing Date, the Company shall promptly (prepare and in any event within thirty (30) days of the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SECCommission a "Shelf" Registration Statement covering the resale of all Registrable Securities for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Registration Statement shall be on Form S-1 or another appropriate form permitting registration of Registrable Securities for resale by the Holders in the manner or manners designated by them (including, without limitation, public or private sales and the one or more Underwritten Offerings). The Company shall thereafter (i) not permit any securities other than the Registrable Securities to be included in the Registration Statement and (ii) use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as practicablepracticable after the filing thereof, but in any event prior 120 days after the filing of such Registration Statement, and to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date which is five years after the date of this Agreement or such earlier date when all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold or may be sold pursuant to Rule 144 as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a registration statement on written opinion letter, addressed to the appropriate Holders, to such effect (the "Effectiveness Period"); provided, however, that the Company shall not be deemed --------------------- -------- ------- to have used its best efforts to keep the Registration Statement effective during the Effectiveness Period if it voluntarily takes any action that would result in the Holders not being able to sell the Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement during the Effectiveness Period, unless such action is required under applicable law or the Company has filed a post- effective amendment to the Registration Statement and the Commission has not declared it effective.
a. If the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities so elect, an offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement may be effected in the form for of an Underwritten Offering. In such event, and if the registration managing underwriters advise the Company and sale as such Holders in writing that in their opinion the amount of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold in such offering exceeds the amount of Registrable Securities which can be sold in such offering, there shall be included in such Underwritten Offering the amount of such Registrable Securities which in the opinion of such managing underwriters can be sold, and such amount shall be allocated pro rata among the --- ---- Holders proposing to sell Registrable Securities in such Underwritten Offering.
b. If any of the Registrable Securities are to be sold in an Underwritten Offering, the investment banker or investment bankers and manager or managers that will administer the offering will be selected by the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable to Holders of a majority of 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 included 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 offering and the Company shall take all reasonable steps to facilitate such distribution, including be advised in advance of the actions required pursuant to Section 3.12(c)identity of any underwriter and the general terms of the proposed offering. The managing underwriters No Holder may participate in any Underwritten Offering hereunder unless such distribution shall be acceptable Person (i) agrees to the Investor registering sell its Registrable Securities on the basis provided 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 underwriting agreements approved by the aggregate number Persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements and (ii) completes and executes all questionnaires, powers of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements and other documents required under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d)terms of such arrangements.
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Sources: Common Stock Purchase Agreement (Racom Systems Inc)
Demand Registration. (Ai) The Investor shall have At any time after the rightfirst anniversary of the issuance of the Conversion Shares, by the Holder may make a written notice demand to require the Company to Register all (and not a portion) of its Registrable Securities; provided, however, if the “Demand Notice”Conversion Shares are not issued as of October 5, 2024, the Holder may make a demand to require the Company to Register all (and not a portion) given to the Company, to request, of its Registrable Securities at any time and from time to time during such periods when a Shelf Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statements covering all after the issuance of the Investor’s Registrable Securities is or are not existing and effective, that the Company register, under and in accordance with the provisions Conversion Shares. Each such demand shall be referred to as a “Demand Registration.” The Holder shall be entitled to two (2) Demand Registrations. A Demand Registration may be for a shelf offering pursuant to Rule 415 of the Securities Act, all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated by the Investor. Upon receipt Act and/or for a underwritten public offering (“Underwritten Offering”).
(ii) The Holder’s notice of a Demand Notice from Registration shall specify the Investor pursuant number of Registrable Securities sought to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)be registered and the manner in which such securities are to be sold.
(iii) In the event that the Demand Registration is for an Underwritten Offering, the Company Holder shall promptly (select the managing Underwriter or Underwriters to administer the Underwritten Offering 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 underwriter or underwriters shall be reasonably acceptable to the Investor registering Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution Company (which may consent shall not be by an underwritten offering)unreasonably withheld, of the total number of Registrable Securities specified by the Holders in such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”conditioned or delayed). If The Company shall have no responsibility for engaging any underwriter(s) for such Underwritten Offering. In such event, the Investor registering Registrable Securities intends to distribute any Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offering, it shall promptly so advise the Company Holder and the Company shall take all reasonable steps to facilitate enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the Underwriter or Underwriters selected for such distribution, including underwriting by the actions required pursuant to Section 3.12(c)holders initiating the Demand Registration. The managing underwriters Company shall not grant any Person the right to include any securities 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 availableUnderwritten Offering.
(Biv) The Company shall use reasonable best efforts to keep each A Registration will not count as a Demand Registration until the 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 with 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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
has been declared effective and the Company has complied with all of its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto (C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend including the use Company’s maintaining effectiveness for the duration of any the Effectiveness Period (as defined below)); and the Holder has disposed of its Registrable Shares as contemplated by such effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubtprovided, however, that if, after such Registration Statement has been declared effective, the rights provided offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to this a Demand Registration is interfered with by any stop order or injunction of the SEC or any other Governmental Entity or court, the Registration Statement with respect to such Demand Registration will be deemed not to have been declared effective, unless and until, (i) such stop order or injunction is removed, rescinded or otherwise terminated, and (ii) the Holder elects to continue the offering; provided, further, that (x) if the Holder is entitled to withdraw its Demand Registration request as a result of conditions outside the Holder’s control and, if such request is withdrawn, such Demand Registration will not count as a Demand Registration and the Company will pay all expenses related to such registration subject to Section 3.12(a)(ii2.04 hereof, (y) if the Holder is entitled to withdraw its Demand Registration request other than as a result of conditions outside the Holder’s control and, if such request is withdrawn, such Demand Registration will count as a Demand Registration and the Holder will pay all expenses related to such Demand Registration request and (z) the Company shall not be exercisable obligated to file a second Registration Statement until the Effectiveness Deadlinea Registration Statement that has been filed is counted as a Demand Registration or is terminated.
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Demand Registration. (i) The Company shall:
(A) The Investor shall have as promptly as practicable (but in no event more than 120 days after the right, by written notice date hereof) (the “Demand NoticeShelf Filing Deadline”) given ), cause to be filed a registration statement pursuant to Rule 415 under the CompanySecurities Act or any similar rule that may be adopted by the Commission (the “Shelf Registration Statement”), to request, at any time and from time to time during such periods when a which Shelf Registration Statement shall provide for the registration and resale, on a continuous or Shelf Registration Statements covering delayed basis, of 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 Transfer Restricted Shares;
(and in any event within thirty (30B) days of the date on which the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with the SEC, and the Company shall thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Shelf Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act by the Commission as promptly as practicable, a registration statement on practicable (but in no event later than 180 days after the appropriate form for date hereof) (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 StatementEffectiveness Target Date”). 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.; and
(BC) The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand the Shelf Registration Statement filed pursuant continuously effective, supplemented and amended as required by the Securities Act and by the provisions of Section 5(b)(ii) hereof to the extent necessary to ensure that it conforms with the requirements of this Section 3.12(a)(ii) continuously effective Agreement and usable for the resale Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Registrable Securities covered thereby Commission promulgated thereunder as announced from time to time, for a period of one hundred eighty (180the “Effectiveness Period”) days from the date on which the SEC declares such Demand Shelf Registration Statement effective, as is declared effective by the Commission until the earlier of:
(x) the date when Investor is able to sell all such period Transfer Restricted Securities immediately without restriction pursuant to Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act; or
(y) the date when (i) all of such Transfer Restricted Securities of Investor are registered under the Shelf Registration Statement and disposed of in accordance with the Shelf Registration Statement or pursuant to Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act or any similar rule that 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 adopted by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant Commission or (ii) the Transfer Restricted Securities cease to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statement.
(C) be outstanding. The Company shall be entitled deemed not to suspend have used its reasonable best efforts to keep the use of any effective Shelf Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until effective during the Effectiveness DeadlinePeriod if it voluntarily takes any action that would result in Investor not being able to offer and sell such Transfer Restricted Securities at any time during the Effectiveness Period, unless such action is (x) required by applicable law, and (y) permitted by Section 5(b)(ii)(B) hereof.
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Sources: Stock Purchase Agreement (Hanover Capital Mortgage Holdings Inc)
Demand Registration. (A) The At any time during the five year period following the Closing Date, the Investor shall have the right, by may make a written notice request (the “"DEMAND NOTICE") for registration under the Securities Act (a "DEMAND REGISTRATION") of its Registrable Securities. The Demand Notice”) given to Notice will specify 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 number of the Investor’s shares of Registrable Securities is or are not existing proposed to be sold and effective, that will also specify the Company register, under and in accordance with the provisions intended method of the Securities Act, all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated by the Investordisposition thereof. Upon Following receipt of a Demand Notice from the Investor, the Company promptly will file a registration statement on any appropriate form which will cover the Registrable Securities that the Company has been so requested to register by the Investor. Unless the Investor shall consent in writing, no party (including the Company) other than DDR, USAA Real Estate Company ("Realco"), MS Real Estate Special Situations Inc. ("MRSE"), certain clients of Morg▇▇ ▇▇▇n▇▇▇ ▇▇▇et Management Inc. who have purchased Common Shares of the Company (such clients together with MRSE, the "Morg▇▇ ▇▇▇ities"), LaSalle Advisors Limited Partnership acting as agent for and on behalf of certain clients ("LaSalle"), or ABKB/LaSalle Securities Limited Partnership ("ABKB" and together with LaSalle, the "LaSalle Entities") shall be 4 permitted to offer securities under any such Demand Registration. The Company shall not be required to effect more than three Demand Registrations under this Section 2(b). A registration requested pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii2(b) will not be deemed to have been effected (and it shall not count as one of the three Demand Registrations) unless the Registration Statement relating thereto has become effective under the Securities Act; provided, however that if, after such Registration Statement has become effective, the offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court, such registration will be deemed not to have been effected (and it shall not count as one of the three Demand Registrations). The Investor may at any time prior to the effective date of the Registration Statement relating to such registration revoke a Demand Notice by providing a written notice to the Company (in which case such Demand Registration shall not count as one of the three Demand Registrations). If the Investor so elects, the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration shall be in the form of an Underwritten Offering. If the managing underwriter or underwriters of such offering advise the Company and the Investor in writing that in their opinion the number of shares of Registrable Securities and shares of DDR, Realco, the Morg▇▇ ▇▇▇ities or the LaSalle Entities, if any, requested to be included in such offering is sufficiently large to materially and adversely affect the success of such offering, the Company will include in such registration the aggregate number of Registrable Securities and shares of DDR, Realco, the Morg▇▇ ▇▇▇ities or the LaSalle Entities, if any, requested to be included, which in the opinion of such managing underwriter or underwriters can be sold without any such material adverse effect; provided, however, that no Registrable Securities or shares of DDR, Realco, the Morg▇▇ ▇▇▇ities or the LaSalle Entities, if any, may be excluded before all shares proposed to be sold by other parties, including the Company, have been excluded. If any Registrable Securities are excluded, such registration shall promptly (and in any event within thirty (30) days not count as one of the date on which three Demand Registrations. If the Company receives such Demand Notice) file with amount of Registrable Securities proposed to be registered hereunder are required to be excluded pursuant to this paragraph, the SEC, number of Registrable Securities of the Investor and the Company shall thereafter use its best efforts to cause number of shares of DDR, Realco, the Morg▇▇ ▇▇▇ities or the LaSalle Entities, if any, to be declared effective as promptly as practicable, a registration statement on the appropriate form for the registration and sale as included in such Registration shall be selected by the Company and as shall be reasonably acceptable reduced pro rata (according 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 or shares, as the case may be, beneficially owned by the Holders in each such Demand Notice (a “Demand Registration Statement”holder). 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 extent necessary to reduce the total amount necessary to be included in the Offering to the amount recommended by such underwritten offeringmanaging underwriter or underwriters. Any Demand Registration Statement may, at the request of the Holders submitting the Demand Notice, be a “shelf” No registration pursuant to Rule 415, if available.
(Ba request or requests referred to in this subsection 2(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 by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant deemed to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect to such Demand Registration Statementbe a Shelf Registration.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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Sources: Registration Rights Agreement (American Industrial Properties Reit Inc)
Demand Registration. (Ai) The Investor shall have If at any time following the rightLockup Termination Date and prior to the Company effecting an Underwritten Takedown Offering, the Company is no longer eligible to use an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of a written notice request from Holder to register the resale of at least a majority of the Registrable Securities then held by Holder under the Securities Act (the a “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 shall use its reasonable best efforts to register, under and in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Actthis Agreement, all or any portion of the Registrable Securities designated by that have been requested to be registered in the Investor. Upon receipt of a Demand Notice from and file a Registration Statement, on an appropriate form which the Investor Company is then eligible to use, to register the resale of such Registrable Securities, which Registration Statement shall (if specified in the Demand Notice) contemplate the ability of Holder to effect an Underwritten Offering (such registration, a “Demand Registration”); provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to effect more than one (1) Demand Registration pursuant to this Agreement; provided, further, that Holder must be in compliance with Section 3.12(a)(ii4.20 of the Merger Agreement. The Demand Notice shall specify the number of Registrable Securities proposed to be offered for sale and the intended method of distribution thereof. Holder may change the number of Registrable Securities proposed to be offered pursuant to the Demand Registration at any time prior to commencement of the offering so long as such change would not materially adversely affect the timing or success of the offering; provided, that the Company shall be entitled to reasonably delay the Demand Registration to the extent resulting from such change. Subject to Section 2.03 and with the written consent of Holder (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), the Company shall promptly (and may include 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 effected pursuant to Section 3.12(c2.01(a) or 2.01(b) any securities for its own account or for the account of holders of shares of Common Stock (other than Holder). 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.
(Bii) The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep each Demand (A) cause any Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii2.01(b)(i) continuously to be declared effective (unless it becomes effective automatically upon filing) as promptly as practicable after the filing thereof with the SEC and usable for the resale of the Registrable Securities covered thereby (B) keep such Registration Statement current and effective for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from not less than 90 days, and in any event for so long as necessary for the date on which completion of the SEC declares resale of Registrable Securities registered thereon. The Company further agrees to supplement or make amendments to each such Demand Registration Statement effective, as such period may be extended pursuant necessary to this Section 3.12(a)(ii)(B). The time keep such Registration Statement effective for the period for which referred to in clause (B) above, including (1) to respond to the comments of the SEC, if any, (2) as may be required by the registration form utilized by the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of any Demand for such Registration Statement shall be extended or by the aggregate number of days of all suspension periods pursuant to Section 3.12(d) occurring with respect instructions to such Demand Registration Statementregistration form, (3) as may be required by the Securities Act, (4) as may be required in connection with a Takedown Offering or (5) as may be reasonably requested in writing by Holder or any Underwriter and reasonably acceptable to the Company.
(C) The Company shall be entitled to suspend the use of any effective Registration Statement under this Section 3.12(a)(ii) under the circumstances set forth in Section 3.12(d).
(D) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights provided pursuant to this Section 3.12(a)(ii) shall not be exercisable until the Effectiveness Deadline.
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